Chapter 1060 1061 [If the sky is sentimental, the sky will also grow old] (9)

Yongrenfang, Shen Zhai.

Although the rebel offensive outside the city in the east was not as fierce as in the West City and South City, the mansions of the powerful in various quarters had lost their former grace and grace. Countless dignitaries stayed up all night, worried about their own safety and the future of their families.

Only the Shen Mansion was peaceful, and the noisy sounds of fighting seemed to be isolated from the outside.

In the study room in the front yard, Silent Cloud was sitting on the Taishi chair, with his hands clasped in front of his lower abdomen, looking at the middle-aged man who had moved a chair and sitting by the door, and said with a half-smile: "You are going to keep guarding me like this all the time. The study door? Brother Sidao, I don’t know that you have a hobby of being a jailer. If I had known that, I should have invited you to join the Tai Pavilion to take charge of the Li Department."

The middle-aged man was holding a volume of miscellaneous books in his hand, and he was reading it with interest. When he heard this, he said without raising his head: "I promised my daughter, I must let you live without any harm."

Silent Cloud joked: "So the way you protect me is to keep me in this study as a prisoner?"

Mr. Xi turned his head and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter whether it's the study or the bedroom. All I have to do is temporarily separate you from the crows in Taishitai Pavilion."

Silent Cloud shook his head slightly and said, "Do you think I will really be used by Wang Pingzhang?"

Mr. Xi stood up and walked to the bookshelf, put the miscellaneous books back to their original place, then sat down opposite Silent Cloud, and said seriously: "Whether you are seeking skin from a tiger or taking advantage of each other, if something goes wrong with the emperor, you, as the Taishi Can Zuo Lingchen of Taige still leave Daliang alive? No matter whether the successor is Liu Xian or not, he will pin the crime of regicide on you and Wang Pingzhang."

Silent Cloud said calmly: "What Wang Pingzhang wants is earth-shaking. If Liu Zhi can succeed this time, he must rely on the Wang family to check and balance the forces in the army. As for whether the new monarch will take over the power or the Wang family will dominate the government in a few years, it depends on their own abilities. They are fighting openly and secretly, and now they must stand closely together."

Silent Cloud said: "It's too late."

Mr. Xi said in a deep voice: "I'm just worried...that's all. It's useless to talk about it now."

Silent Cloud said gently: "Life is a long road of ups and downs, and being able to get to know the two of you, Shen feels that this trip is worthwhile."

Just as Mr. Xi was about to speak, a sharp light suddenly shone in his eyes, and he turned to look at the door.

He raised the cup at his hand and said slowly: "Although the charge of regicide will definitely fall on Wang Pingzhang, as Brother Xi said, the new king will definitely not let me go. That's all, after all, I and I Your Majesty has known each other for more than twenty years, and after all, we have some feelings of monarch-subject love in our hearts. Now that he has taken the first step, I can't live in an ignoble way. Therefore, there is no need for you to persuade me or to rescue me. I have made up my mind."

After a while, Mr. Xi said in a low tone: "As for that incident back then, I think we need to investigate again."

Gu Liang said softly: "Brother Shen planned this matter carefully. I just used a chess piece buried in the palace, which is better than nothing."

Mr. Xi and Gu Liang also picked up their wine glasses and looked at his calm and calm expression. Their eyes were complicated and sentimental.

Silent Cloud looked into his eyes calmly and said: "Wende was killed by Wang Pingzhang, so I will not let him continue to live, but do you really think that His Majesty had no knowledge of that accident? You and I both know that, Your Majesty His thoughts are so careful, if he really had a clear conscience, he would not have avoided my gaze when he ordered Lin He to be executed."

The morning air was refreshing. He took a few deep breaths greedily, and a slightly unfamiliar picture suddenly appeared in his eyes.

Silent Cloud still maintained a calm posture, looking at Mr. Xi with some confusion and said: "You seem to not want to see anything happen in the palace."

Mr. Xi said: "I don't care about the emperor's life or death, but I have told you before that once something happens to the emperor, no matter which prince succeeds to the throne, he will not let you, the spy leader, go. For now, let's put aside the differences between the emperor and the courtiers. He said, if I don't kill you, the new king will definitely not be able to win over the civil and military hearts of the entire dynasty."

But I'm afraid even Wang Pingzhang wouldn't have thought that even Gu Liang would get involved.

He turned to look at Gu Liang and sighed: "You have completely excluded Brother Yue this time. Have you ever thought about how the emperor will react once he dies?"

A few breaths later, a middle-aged man with shoulders as broad as mountains walked in calmly and said calmly: "I'm passing by here, come in and ask for a cup of tea."

Mr. Xi sighed: "In this case, you shouldn't continue."

Mr. Xi shook his head and said: "This joke is not funny. You should be commanding the battle on the city wall at this moment."

Based on his understanding of Silent Cloud, he naturally knew that the other party was walking on the edge of a cliff. On the one hand, he concealed some key information from Wang Pingzhang, and on the other hand, he helped him plan the regicide.

Mr. Xi was silent.

He paused and said leisurely: "Actually, in essence, His Majesty and Wang Pingzhang are the same kind of people."

Mr. Xi's eyes narrowed.

Then he drank the wine in one gulp.

Although the tone is soft, it is like the turbulence of wind and thunder.

When Pei Zhen was forced to fake his death to escape, Mr. Xi's reaction was the most direct and straightforward. He kept his name and stayed away from the court. Even Mo Haoli couldn't ask him to come out.

After a while, Gu Liang and Mr. Xi left the study, and Silent Cloud walked to the table by the window and sat down.

Gu Liang sat down diagonally across from the two of them and said calmly: "Pei Yue led the army to attack the central army position in the south camp. Luo Huanzhang has withdrawn his troops. The situation in the east city is stable. The inner gate of the west city has been broken. Wang Pingzhang and Liu Zhi are personally in charge of the formation. We have sent the heavy-armored infantry of the Western Camp to attack the palace. I should go to rescue you at this time. However, I would like to come and sit with Brother Shen for a while."

Mr. Xi looked at him steadily and asked, "What about you?"

Just now Silent Cloud said it was too late, but Gu Liang suddenly appeared again at this moment. It was obvious that Wang Pingzhang still dared to enter the city after withdrawing his troops from the southern camp because he had already received assistance from Silent Cloud.

Ordinarily, he should be happy to see the outcome of what Shen and Gu planned today, instead of the solemn look on his face now.

Silent Cloud smiled meaningfully and said: "I just made some secret conveniences to hide Wang Pingzhang's plan from the palace. Otherwise, it would not be enough to strengthen his confidence in rebellion. Of course, I did not tell him anything related to His Majesty. It's a secret, because this person is suspicious by nature, and if he acts too eagerly, it will make him wary."

Mr. Xi looked at the two of them in turn, and after a long time he said with a complex expression: "I never thought you would join forces."

Silent Cloud shook his head and said: "That's not necessary. When Concubine De committed suicide the day before yesterday, I had already figured out the whole story. When Wen De died at the hands of a disciple of Wu Xun, we always suspected that it was His Majesty's doing, but we ignored it. The identity of the murderer. It is easy to know that Wang Pingzhang is in charge of the military power and uses Wu Xun's relatives to plan an accident. If he didn't have some evil intentions in his heart, how could he have impatiently stuffed Qi Hui and others into him the year after Wende's death? Tai Pavilion.”

Silent Cloud stood up and walked to the table, poured a glass of wine for each of them, and said with a smile: "When a person lives in this world, he must learn to accept some things. Besides, I have made a lot of preparations in the past few months, and I can't implicate Pei Yue." On the body."

Gu Liang stared at him and said, "He is still young and doesn't understand how kings and ministers should get along with each other."

It was many, many years ago that an ambitious young scholar braved the hardships and walked out of the Shiwan Mountains of Yuzhou, traveled all over the world, and finally stood under the majestic city gate of Kyoto with warm and firm eyes.

That year, he was nineteen years old, thirty years ago.

"Looking back to the desolate place where I came from, there was no wind or rain or sunshine when I returned."

Silent Cloud murmured to himself, then poured the wine, looked at the clear liquor in the glass, and said leisurely: "Good words."
Chapter completed!