In the capital city of Chu, there was a lively scene in Jingfu. The news that His Majesty had pacified the north and south of the Yangtze River made the people all over the city happy.
Of course, most of the people who had fled from war-torn places were willing to stay in this prosperous capital city and continue to settle. However, there were still some people who were busy shopping and packing their luggage to return to their hometown. They were so busy that they would naturally Some important things and important people were forgotten, including the fact that Li Congjia, the last emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was imprisoned in Zhongjing Mansion.
On the Dongcheng Street of Zhongjing Mansion, Li Congjia sat in an inconspicuous carriage with a pale face, eyes closed, and his body swaying with the carriage.
After revisiting his old place and entering Zhongjing Mansion, Li Congjia naturally felt the excitement and bustle of this emerging capital. He had felt this atmosphere since he entered the city, so he couldn't help but look out from the gap between the sealed car windows.
He saw groups of brightly dressed and bustling people on the street, and he saw densely packed shops with bustling businesses on both sides of the street. The smell of food and snacks wafting from the store makes people drool.
However, the more Li Congjia looked at these scenes, the more frustrated he became. There is only a carriage board separating him from the people on the street outside, but there is a free and prosperous world outside, but he is a prisoner.
How he wanted to roar loudly and tell those people outside: I am your emperor! I am your master! How can you laugh to yourselves when no one comes to save me? But Li Congjia knew that doing so was in vain. The people of Langzhou City were no longer his subjects, or had never been his subjects, because the Chu region had never recognized the Yangzhou court.
And now Li Congjia is no longer an emperor, he is just a lamb to be slaughtered.
Li Congjia has been imprisoned in the palace since that day when he experienced a shocking incident in Yangzhou City. No one came to see him, and he could see no one.
Every day and night, he could only curse the people he hated one by one in front of the empty room, but he soon discovered that there were too many people he wanted to curse. The list of Zhang Wenbiao, Zhang Jie, Li Hongji, Li Yuan, Zhou Zong, etc. was so long that he really couldn't scold him.
He wanted to commit suicide but couldn't make up his mind. Although the house was emptied, there were still ways to commit suicide if he wanted to. He could hit a corner or hang himself, but he really didn't have the courage.
A few days later, the first person he saw was Li Yuan, and the first thing Li Yuan said when he saw him was: "Pack up your things, I'm going to take you to Zhongjing Mansion, oh, it's Langzhou, You’ve been there once too.”
The image of being under house arrest in Langzhou in the past suddenly appeared in Li Congjia's mind. Today is different from the past. He was the prince of the country at the time, but now he is the king of the country. He knew the consequences very well, so he couldn't help begging and crying, He even went crazy and threatened Li Yuan, begging Li Yuan to spare him. Suddenly, he had an idea and persuaded Li Yuan to let him go with the blood of the same clan. He would live in seclusion in the mountains and not care about worldly affairs.
Li Yuan just kept looking at him coldly without saying a word.
From Li Yuan's cold expression, Li Congjia shut up. He knew that with Li Yuan, he had no breakthrough at all. There were too many old and new hatreds to count, but he still refused to give up and finally stepped on the westward carriage with trepidation. Maybe Li Yuan would forgive him then. Maybe I still have a chance? After all, Li Yuan is his uncle!
Li Congjia has completely lost his IQ. Anyone with a little common sense knows that Li Congjia's life and death are actually destined. However, Li Yuan did not deal with Li Congjia in Yangzhou. The reason why he wanted to take him back to Zhongjing Mansion was naturally for another reason. The intention is because there is a huge blood debt that must be repaid eventually.
The carriage was escorted by more than a hundred Chu army guards and cavalry and arrived at an inconspicuous large courtyard in Zhongjing Mansion. The iron bars outside the carriage rattled, the black curtain was pulled open, and dazzling light shone through the gaps in the carriage. The cold air and bright light made Li Congjia curl up and cover his eyes with his hands.
"Come on down, what are you waiting for?" A merciless roar rang in his ears, and an ordinary guard scolded the Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty who once sat on the throne in front of him with a stern face.
Li Congjia wanted to yell angrily
Say: I am the emperor, do you want to die? But he suddenly realized that it was ridiculous and ridiculous to say such things now.
He hunched over, like a prisoner who was used to being scolded and beaten, and slowly got out of the carriage with no expression. The scenery around him was very familiar. Li Congjia's heart suddenly became cold. This was the room for him. The post house that left behind terrible memories was the place where he was once placed under house arrest by Li Yuan for several months.
"Your Majesty has decreed that Li Congjia should be brought in for questioning."
"Your Majesty has a decree to escort Li Congjia inside!"
The sudden shouts startled Li Congjia. He followed the sound and saw that on the corridor in front of the post hall, there were several old chamberlains standing on the corridor shouting orders. Their voices were hoarse and unpleasant, like ghosts demanding their lives.
"Let's go? Someone is waiting for you inside." One of the guards shouted.
Li Congjia slowly arranged his clothes and moved his numb legs and feet.
"Fuck, hurry up!" One of the guards suddenly stretched out his foot and kicked Li Congjia on the butt.
Li Congjia stumbled forward and almost fell to the ground. When he turned around, Li Congjia glared angrily.
"What's going on? You dare to stare? I'm going to give you a big mouth." The guard also stared at Li Congjia with squinty eyes, his palms straightened, as if he was going to slap him.
Li Congjia didn't dare to be stubborn. Even though there was all kinds of anger in his heart, he could only give in. Although he was once the emperor, even Zhang Wenbiao, who was good at dictatorship, did not dare to do any excessive disrespect in front of him, but now, in front of a Chu army soldier, he could only give in and be kicked. But the butt dared not say even half a word.
A long corridor leads to the front of the hall. The door at the end of the hall is open, and it is dark inside, like a huge mouth trying to swallow people. Li Congjia walked closer step by step, climbed the steps, and then entered the huge mouth.
In the hall of the post house, the light is dim and obscure, and the atmosphere is empty and stuffy. Li Congjia originally wondered why Li Yuan would choose to interrogate him in this poor place, but when he stepped into the hall, he was surprised to find that there were no bustling Chu officials. Except for a lone figure sitting quietly on the main seat, there was only Several chamberlains stood quietly beside the main seat.
Li Congjia entered the hall. He raised his head and cast his eyes on the familiar figure sitting on the main seat. Then his mind went blank and he almost stumbled to the ground, as if his soul was scared out of the Tianling Gai.
"Mother, Queen Mother!" Li Congjia shouted with trembling teeth.
On the main seat, the former Empress Zhong of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was quietly brought back to Zhongjing Mansion by Li Yuan from Suzhou, was silent, looking at her sixth son Li Congjia from a distance. The muscles on her face had long lost their enviable luster. Now it is shaking and wrinkled constantly.
"Mother!" Li Congjia shouted loudly and started running staggeringly. He ran under the main seat, suddenly fell to the ground, and crawled up the wooden steps of the main seat, like a disgusting and wriggling earthworm, trying his best to Climb to the main seat.
The two chamberlains moved. Mrs. Zhong held back her emotions and waved her hands expressionlessly.
Li Congjia finally crawled to Mrs. Zhong's feet, hugged Mrs. Zhong's calf, and burst into tears.
"Queen Mother! Queen Mother! My son is unfilial and he is guilty. Please forgive me, Queen Mother! Queen Mother!"
Mrs. Zhong's eyes were already red. At this moment, her dark eyebrows moved slightly. She looked down at Li Congjia who was crying loudly at his feet. Finally, he said in a hoarse voice: "Lao Liu, you are here."
"Yes, Liu Lang is here. Queen Mother, it's your Liu Lang!" Li Congjia burst into tears and had a lot of snot and tears, which almost wet the hem of Zhong's skirt, just like in the old days in Jinling.
Zhong nodded, suddenly tightened his expression, gritted his teeth, raised his feet, and kicked Li Congjia on the head with all his strength. Li Congjia was caught off guard, and his body was kicked sideways, and Gululu rolled down the wooden steps.
"Beast! You, you still have the nerve to come to see me, how could I give birth to such an unfaithful, unfilial, and beast-like thing like you?! You don't even let your three young brothers go, and your sister. Fang Yi, I was almost killed by you too!
Your father, your biological father, was so angry that you died in Suzhou! The emperor of your generation was forced to die in a foreign country by you, and his coffin could not be returned.
! Now that the Tang Dynasty has fallen, didn't you usurp and become the emperor? Why don't you die for the country? ! You still have the nerve to cry in front of me? !
Damn thing! Damn thing! The sky has no eyes, why doesn't it rain down thunder to kill you and let you, a beast, be shattered into pieces! "Ms. Zhong stood up tremblingly, pointed at Li Congjia and scolded him while crying.
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