Li Xiao was locked under the deck of the rear ship, in a cabin that was originally piled up on the ship's debris.

Because it is not used as a cabin, the cabin has no windows. It is half-sealed and is under the deck of the ship, so it is wet and dull. However, after experiencing life and death, Li Xiao was almost exhausted, and he still lie on the two wooden boards he had temporarily put together and slept very soundly.

It was not until he woke up from hunger that he realized that he was no longer the young master of Chang'an City, but a poor man who escaped from death but became a prisoner.

Thinking of his experience, he couldn't help but start to cry.

As the crying sounded, the door was pushed open, and an ordinary face appeared in his sight. Li Xiao knew this face, the guy who was directing people to bring him to Ye Chang.

"hehe."

Seeing that he was just crying and nothing else, Bian Ping laughed twice, then shrank his head back, and the door closed again with a slam.

"What's wrong?" asked the guards who were guarding him.

"It was that boy crying. I heard that he was a high-ranking official in Chang'an, Shaoqing... he was much bigger than our lord's official position. I didn't expect it to be such a person."

"Compare him with our lord, Brother Bian, you're saying this incorrectly."

"Yes, yes, I'm talking a little bit, it's time to slap your mouth, haha"

Bian Ping really slapped his face lightly, and the guard laughed and tickled, not knowing whether it was for Li Xiao or for Bian Ping's virtue.

"What do you think our lord will deal with this guy?" the guard asked again after a while.

"How to deal with it? Of course it depends on himself. With what he did, it is not an exaggeration for our lord to kill him ten times to kill his whole family, but our lord has always been kind, as long as he..."

Li Xiao was a little unreal when he heard what he said later. He moved his heart, stopped sobbing, and pressed his ears on the door panel, wanting to know what Bian Ping would say. But the other party seemed to have finished speaking, leaving only a string of intermittent laughter.

Li Xiao became anxious again. If he said that he started crying for his own experience, and his worries now were for his own future.

Although I have gotten rid of the assassin now, it seems that it is not much better to fall into Ye Chang's hands than being grabbed by the assassin. The only difference is death quickly and death delayed.

Do you mean you have only one way out?

While he was thinking, the door was suddenly pushed open again. Because he was pressed against the door, he was almost knocked over by the door. When he looked up, he saw Ye Chang appearing in front of him with a gentle expression.

"Ye Ye Ye Ye, Sima, please spare me, I am just a little man who relies on my father's sacredness. Ye Sima spare me."

"I can spare you, but I'm afraid that others will not spare you. Li Xiao, you said that if I put you on the shore at this time, how many days can you live?"

Li Xiao shook suddenly, and his eyes showed a look of fear.

"I want to kill you, but I don't want to take this charge to others." After Ye Chang finished speaking, he signaled behind him: "Give it to him."

One person walked into the cabin sideways and placed a food basket in front of Li Xiao. The smell of the food basket came from the food basket, which was the smell of the food. Li Xiao suddenly felt that there was a hand in his belly and couldn't wait to grab all the food in the food basket.

He didn't care about his image and etiquette. He opened the food basket and it was just a common place, but he ate very deliciously. Ye Chang watched him eat voraciously, without saying a word, but when he was choking, he asked someone to bring water.

Filling her stomach with the shortest time in her life, Li Xiao took a breath, then knelt down in front of Ye Chang, and leaned down deeply: "I only ask for mercy, I am willing to serve Ye Sima."

"How can you serve me?" Ye Chang shook his head, his voice still very gentle: "Thesis, I already have a Confucian scholar who is proficient in official documents under the curtain. On martial arts, there are warriors who are inappropriate in front of me. What can you do to serve me?"

"I...I..."

Li Xiao was so angry that he couldn't find out where he could serve Ye Chang.

"I heard you suspect that the assassin is from the prince?" After hanging him for a while, Ye Chang asked again.

Li Xiao didn't think much, but just gritted his teeth: "The assassin was not sent by Ye Sima, then... it was only sent by the people around the prince."

Ye Chang was very interested, and he had no good feelings for Li Heng. In fact, with Wei Jian's downfall, he vaguely felt that he and Li Heng were afraid of being in harmony. If Li Heng inherited Li Longji's throne, his only choice was to escape far away.

It is precisely because of this that he was eager to establish a foundation in Liaodong, hoping to send his sister-in-law and nephew to Liaodong.

"How can I see it?"

"The prince himself is not involved in this matter, but Zhang Pei is an extremely sinister person." Li Xiao racked his brains desperately to find something that could make him survive. Although he was stupid, he also had his cleverness. He suddenly remembered something and then took Zhang Pei out.

He remembered that Ye Chang had a grudge with Zhang Pei, and then he thought that the big reason why he disliked Ye Chang was also due to Zhang Pei. It was Zhang Pei who once mentioned in front of him that Ye Chang was frivolous and should not be valued. Then he slandered Ye Chang in front of his father...

As for the root cause of Zhang Pei and Ye Chang's disagreement, at this time, he actually remembered it. It seemed that Ye Chang swept his face at the party of Princess Yuzhen.

"Zhang Pei?"

"Yes, yes, it's Zhang Pei. This person is the most conceited. On the surface, he flattered the saints, but in fact he was a party with Wei Jian, Huangfu Weiming and others. He often gathered in private, thinking that the saint favored Li Linfu, which was not a blessing for the country... They instigated their father to fight with Li Linfu, and also sowed their relationship with Ye Sima. When they said that Ye Sima was mean, they said that they were talking about it."

At this time, Li Xiao had to hold on to the straw, so he splashed a lot of attacking words on Zhang Pei. He was actually a stupid person, but he was blind and violent, and he didn't know that he was talking nonsense, but he was close to the truth.

"Why did he do this?" Ye Chang was not deceived by his words.

"One is because he thought he should be the prime minister, but he was just a minister, and he had long been dissatisfied; secondly, because... because the spring and autumn are so high that he wants to be a hero of the dragon."

Li Xiao's words are not nonsense. Not only Zhang Pei, but also his father Li Shizhi, all realized that Li Longji was getting older and could not stay on the throne forever. Whether it was for himself or for the wealth of his descendants, he needed to make long-term plans. However, Li Longji was old and did not die, and he was very strict with power. He would rather entrust power to a powerful minister like Li Linfu than hand over power to the crown prince Li Heng, and even monitor Li Heng openly and secretly. Beware of suspicion, and almost uncovered, which made Li Shizhi and others very worried.

Ye Chang was then reminded of Jiang Mei's evaluation of Prince Li Heng: It's quite similar to his father

Li Longji made friends with many people at the beginning, so he launched two coups to eliminate Wei Hou and Princess Taiping, and had close friends in his hands. If Li Heng was quite similar to his father, how could he not follow the example?

However, Li Longji's suspicion about Li Heng is far greater than Li Dan's guard against Li Longji, so Li Heng must make two sides, one side is a filial son, Kuan and the other side is a future hero.

"Do you know what kind of person is in the prince's hands?" Ye Chang thought of this and suddenly felt a little cold.

"Wei Jian, Wang Zhongsi, Huangfu Weiming... These people are all people in the hands of the prince, and Zhang Pei, who is openly keeping a distance from the prince, but in fact he secretly colluded with the inner prisoner around the prince. What the prince is not good for me to say to my father is conveyed by him."

Ye Chang suddenly remembered again that when he saw him off at Baqiao, Li Xiao once said "to wait for the prince", but Li Shizhi stopped him in time. He mentioned this and asked, "What did you want to say at that time?"

Li Xiao's face changed and hesitated a little.

Ye Chang sighed: "Do you think I'm asking for me? I'm asking you if I don't know what the plan is there, how can I judge who sent the assassin?"

"I...I want to say that I have to bear the treasure when the prince is in charge, and you... are all going to die..." Li Xiao's voice lowered.

"Oh? What plans does the prince have not?"

Li Xiao hesitated for a while, then whispered: "It turned out that there was one person who Huangfu Weiming and Wang Zhongsi were in charge of military power. His father and Wei Jian were prime ministers. As long as Li Linfu was removed,... he would ask the saint to be the emperor."

When he spoke out this plan, Ye Chang sighed.

Lee Longji

Ye Chang was almost certain that this plan did not completely hide it from Li Longji. At least, Li Longji realized that this plan might exist with his keenness developed by years of political struggle.

So Li Longji used Li Linfu, Li Linfu used Ye Chang, Lu Qi, and captured Wei Jian, Huangfu Weiming, Wang Zhongsi and others in one go. These people were the backbone of the power of Prince Li Heng, and they were dealt with, which meant that Li Heng had lost the ability to threaten Li Longji.

As for why Li Longji didn't even stolen Li Heng... Maybe it was because he was old and did not have the courage he had before, or maybe it was because the case of the Three Commoners gave him a little regret, so he was not so cruel.

Originally, Ye Chang thought that the so-called princely party was just something that Li Linfu guessed. Now he got from Li Xiao that this small group does exist and has had activities. From this point of view, he always thought that the person playing chess outside the board was Li Longji and Li Linfu, but he was actually wrong. The real person playing chess was Li Longji and Li Heng, the father and son of Li Linfu, who was Li Linfu, who was just a chess piece, but this chess piece was also thinking about how to get rid of the chess player.

This is politics.

"So, it is really possible that the person who assassinated you and tried to blame me for being blamed... Zhang Pei is quite suspicious." Ye Chang pondered for a long time, then laughed: "If I save your life... are you willing to obey my order?"

"I hope that those who are born with me and those who live with me, those who live with me, I am willing to serve Ye Gong if I can survive.

Bian Ping next to him tickled gently, saying that he was worthy of being the prime minister and a high-ranking official of the court. He was indeed at the professional level when flattering others. He was considered to be a good move, but he only dared to call Ye Chang the lord, but not "Ye Gong". He was only in his early twenties and was called "Ye Gong"...

Just when Ye Chang interrogated Li Xiao, the Shangyang Palace was already in chaos.

Each eunuch and palace maids were all frightened. The eunuchs and female officials in charge were not as domineering as they used to be, and they all looked like earth.

"Have you not found it yet?" asked a female official.

"No, I searched everywhere in the ditch, the pond... The Empress is really, really..."

"What should I do? I've only been here for two days, and this happened..."

"If you want to see people alive, you want to see corpses when you die, otherwise how should you explain to the saint? We are no longer lucky people in Shangyang Palace. If the saint blames you and I, how can you and I do whatever you want?"

Amid the talk of talking, there was no conclusion. After a long debate, everyone was tired and began another round of silence.

At this time, with the sound of rapid footsteps, a soldier broke in. His expression was a little unnatural and he was still dripping with water: "I found this in the Imperial Gate Iron Bar of the Yugou Water Gate leading to the valley water."

He grabbed a silk ribbon in his hand, but it was hung from Concubine Mei. The passage Bian Ping made was small at that time and was in the water. When Concubine Mei held her breath and crawled out, she pulled down the silk ribbon on her body.

"Is this the one on the empress?" Everyone's eyes were all turned to a palace maid kneeling beside him.

This is Xuezhi, the palace maid of Concubine Mei. Since she was serving Concubine Mei personally, she knew what was around Concubine Mei. She carefully identified for a while, then cried and said, "Where is the Empress's Empress?"

The soldier hesitated for a moment and said, "The iron railing is at its bottom and a small exit is found."

"What"

The eunuchs who were originally sitting there immediately stood up together, and their faces changed drastically.

"You mean, can you get out of the exit alone?" a eunuch asked sharply.

The sergeant looked at Xuezhi and said, "As long as you are not too fat, you can get through..."

"My lady..." Everyone's expressions changed drastically. Could it be that Concubine Mei escaped?

Concubine Mei was inscribed into the cold palace, nominally the lord of Shangyang Palace, but these palace maids and eunuchs were still responsible for surveillance. If Concubine Mei escaped and fell into the people, they would definitely die without a place to bury them.

"Where is that memorial?" After a long time, someone said.

"That is, the deceased deeds of the Queen to the saint, the snow branches, you take them out."

"How can we read the Empress's memorial?" Xuezhi said tremblingly.

"It's time, if you want to die, just hand over the secrets." A eunuch walked over and scolded fiercely.

They had called the memorial a "remaining note" and no one raised any objections, and it was these internal officials and female officials who reached a certain tacit understanding.

Xuezhi could not resist them, so she could only hand over the memorial. This was actually a letter, which was found on Mei Fei's couch. I don't know when Mei Fei wrote it. The letter was not sealed, and a eunuch took it apart, and everyone came to see it regardless of whether they could read or not.

But it was a suicide note, which only said that she was guilty of the heavens and could not see the saint again. She felt sad and had no intention of living, so she could only commit suicide. At the end of the suicide note, Li Longji asked her to release her palace maid from the palace for several years of kindness and betroth a good family.

After receiving this letter, everyone was relieved.

"Empress is strong-willed" someone whimpered.

"That's the extreme, the saint will definitely be sad... But our Shangyang Palace has been disrepair for a long time, and even the iron railing of the Water Gate is rusted, so we must apologize to the saint."

The soldier who came to report had a strange expression. He was about to say that the iron railing was not rusted, but it seemed like someone saw it open. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he stared at him with more than ten pairs of ruthless eyes.
Chapter completed!