Hearing the word "New King", Li Bing's heart suddenly skipped a beat: Crazy! Xie Guang is completely crazy!
This was obviously his crazy behavior of jumping over the wall in order to protect himself, but he still had to drag himself, the prince, to support him.
Li Bing took a few breaths and said to himself: "You can't do it, you can't do it, you absolutely can't do it! Taifu, you mobilized your troops without authorization, and you are wrong first. It's too late to apologize to the court, so how can you really do it?" Planning to usurp the throne? If we do this, the world will never support us. If you think about it carefully, there may be a better way. We can have a good talk with the imperial capital..."
Xie Guang directly interrupted Li Bing: "Your Highness, what is there to talk about now? Once the imperial capital sends an order to deprive me of my military power and call us back to face the Holy Spirit to plead guilty, Your Highness, will you dare to go? ? At that time, won’t it be different and we still have to raise troops to fight?”
Without waiting for Li Bing's answer, Xie Guang continued: "His Highness is upright and may be willing to return to the imperial capital to accept his guilt, but unfortunately Xie does not want to be a piece of fish on the chopping board and be slaughtered by others. Therefore, this matter does not need to be discussed further. I hope that Your Highness can I understand the loyalty of the soldiers and return to Luoyi with the army to take charge of Shengtang Sheji."
After that, he bowed his hands and left the study without looking back.
As soon as Xie Guang walked away, Murong Xue quickly walked out from the side compartment. He was similar to Li Bing. He was also pale and sweating: "Your Highness, it seems that we are in big trouble this time!"
Li Bing nodded silently, and was about to say something. Suddenly, a small chamberlain ran in from outside in a panic, saying anxiously: "Your Highness, it's not good! A large group of Xuanjia troops came outside the palace, and the place was blocked." They were all surrounded! When the chief steward went to argue with them, he was slapped twice and then tied up!"
"Where are the guards?" Murong Xue asked anxiously, "Where are His Highness's guards?"
The young chamberlain replied tremblingly: "When Mr. Xie left just now, he said a few words to Mr. Huang, and then Mr. Huang led all the guards in front of the palace and left with him."
"Pah!" Li Bing slapped his palm heavily on the desk and cursed, "Damn it! Xie Guang, an old thief, actually dares to put me under house arrest!"
This was the first time Murong Xue heard curse words coming out of the prince's mouth, and she couldn't help but be slightly startled. Li Bingze turned to look at him: "Where is Shen Lie? Where has he gone?"
Murong Xue replied: "As soon as Xie Guang said that he would support you on the throne, Shen Lie hurriedly climbed out of the window and left. Before leaving, he told me that if Xie Guang decided to take a risk, His Highness would definitely become a hostage of the Xuanjia Army, so He must rush back to the imperial capital immediately, report the matter to the imperial court, and ask the emperor to issue an order to send troops to rescue His Highness."
Li Bing took a long breath and sighed: "Well, luckily I listened to your suggestion and pulled the Nilin Division in time, otherwise I wouldn't even have a chance to complain. Shen Lie is really smart. If he had left a little later, Son, I’m afraid even he will be trapped here by the Xuanjia Army.”
Murong Xue also admired Shen Lie's quick reaction, nodded, and continued: "Your Highness, for the current plan, we can only rely on Shen Lie to find a solution outside. We are under house arrest here with troops sent by Xie Guang, so we cannot act rashly."
"I'm still worried about another thing," Li Bing looked solemn: "Just now Xie Guang said that he used my name to order the mobilization of soldiers from the twelve prefectures along the river. He can do this, and I can Understood. However, he could actually mobilize the Long Sword Army to secretly return to the Central Plains, but how did he do it? Previously, I asked my uncle Cheng Kaiyang to serve as the commander of the Long Sword Army in order to keep an eye on that army. No The old man nodded, Xie Biao dares to move?"
Murong Xue's heart tightened and she frowned: "Your Highness said this, and I feel the same way. From Xie Guang's tone just now, it didn't sound like a bluff, and there was no need to bluff. I'm afraid Old Duke Cheng..."
He was about to think about what danger Cheng Kaiyang might face, when he suddenly heard a roar of people outside, and then a large group of soldiers rushed in, led by Xie Guang's general Ye Rongcheng.
Ye Rongcheng, fully armored, strode up to the two of them, bowed to Li Bing and saluted: "Your Highness, at the end of the day, on the orders of the Grand Tutor, I will arrest Murong Xue, the East Palace official. I hope you will forgive me for disturbing the Holy Master. .Come here!"
"Wait a minute!" Li Bing was furious when he heard this. He raised his hand to stop the soldiers who were about to rush up to arrest people, and shouted: "Murong Xue is an official of this palace. What crime has he committed? Without my nod, how dare you be so presumptuous? !”
Ye Rongcheng sneered and responded: "The general is only following orders and does not know anything else. Please don't interfere, lest the sons and gentlemen are rude and accidentally bump into the emperor."
Murong Xue was furious when she saw this: "Ye Rongcheng, you are so cowardly! You dare to be disrespectful to His Highness the Crown Prince. Do you want to die?" As he spoke, he stepped forward and stood in front of Crown Prince Li Bing.
Li Bing grabbed Murong Xue and told him with his eyes to stop talking and to deal with Ye Rongcheng by himself. Then, Li Bing turned to everyone and said: "Go back and tell the Taifu what you said. If you still want me to cooperate, don't bother Murong Xue anymore. The trouble is about to happen, and I can't be left alone. Murong If there are any shortcomings in Xue..."
He stopped talking, glanced at the menacing Xuanjia Army, and then said to Ye Rongcheng word for word: "I will start a hunger strike until I die!"
Ye Rongcheng was slightly stunned. He did not expect that the majestic Crown Prince would actually make such a sacrifice for Murong Xue.
After waiting for a moment, he suddenly smiled sinisterly and said: "Your Highness, you don't have to be like this. The general is a soldier, and the only words in his eyes and heart are orders. If I can't take Murong Xue away today, I will I can only go to see the Taifu with my head held high."
After saying that, Ye Rongcheng waved his hands fiercely at the soldiers: "Get it for me!"
Li Bing's eyes widened with anger. He directly picked up the tea cup on the desk and threw it at a Xuanjia soldier who was rushing at the front. At the same time, he raised his leg and kicked to the side, knocking down another soldier approaching from the side.
Immediately afterwards, he pulled Murong Xue behind him, held a small gold paper cutting knife on the desk, put it against his neck, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Ye Rongcheng, you bastard! I'm going to do this today If you are forced to death here, all nine members of your Ye family, young and old, will die! And all of you, all of you, will destroy your family and exterminate your clan! Kill without mercy!"
The words "Kill without mercy" came from the mouth of the royal prince, and he was born with a thunderous power. No one dared to doubt its effectiveness. Seeing Li Bing's appearance like a mad tiger, all the Xuanjia soldiers were frightened and didn't know what to do for a moment.
Ye Rongcheng frowned and gritted his back molars. The scene before him was really beyond his expectation.
I have seen ministers risking their lives to protect the king, but I have never seen his mother-in-law king risking his life to protect his ministers!
With Ye Rongcheng's martial arts skills, he was certainly able to seize the small broken knife from the prince's hand and even subdue Murong Xue.
However, Ye Rongcheng knew the character of His Highness the Crown Prince very well and knew that Li Bing could do anything as long as he had a stubborn temper. Because Murong Xue really wanted to force the prince to death on the spot, thus affecting the grand master's plan, he, Ye Rongcheng, could not afford to die no matter how many times.
After hesitating for a moment, Ye Rongcheng waved his hand to signal his men to take a few steps back, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, please calm down. The general does not have to arrest Murong Xue, or he can take your words to the Grand Tutor, but The premise is that you are safe and sound. If His Highness' dragon body is injured, Murong Xue will definitely not survive the next day, are you right?"
After that, he glared at Murong Xue fiercely and ordered the deputy general to lead a team of soldiers to surround the entire study, while he prepared to lead the rest of the people back temporarily.
Seeing Ye Rongcheng was about to leave, Li Bing suddenly had a thought in his mind and called out to stop him. Then he changed the golden knife from his right hand to his left hand, and used the tip of the knife to cut the pad of the index finger of his right hand. In a blink of an eye, bright red blood flowed lightly Drain lightly.
Ignoring the pain, Li Bing pulled a piece of yellow silk from the table and quickly wrote on it with the freshness of his fingers: From now on, Murong Xue and I are one, sharing life and death together, and will never leave.
After writing, he threw it directly to Ye Rongcheng: "Take it! Show it to Xie Guang!"
Not long after Ye Rongcheng took the people away, he suddenly turned back. He first looked at Murong Xue with deep meaning, then cupped his hands to Li Bing and said, "Your Highness, the Master has something to say. The edict just now can be regarded as the first edict of the new emperor of the Holy Tang Dynasty, and it is extremely precious. The Taifu will definitely treasure it. In addition, the Taifu Sir hopes that His Highness will take the country and the country as his thoughts, take care of the people of the world, take care of the dragon body, and never let down the support of all the soldiers. I will retire at the end."
After that, he ordered to lift the siege of the Imperial Study Room and left with the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army.
As soon as the group of black crows disappeared, Murong Xue immediately raised her robe and prostrated, kneeling in front of Li Bing, with tears in her eyes: "Your Highness, I failed to protect you, and you suffered the humiliation of being trapped. The crime deserves death! Now, His Highness is threatening death to protect the humble life of this humble minister, I..."
Murong Xue was speechless for a moment, crying so much that she didn't know what to say. Li Bingze secretly breathed a sigh of relief, wrapped his fingers in a silk handkerchief, and said with a bitter smile: "Come on, get up quickly. I didn't do this just now. I have no choice but to play bachelor with them and force each other to death. Murong Xue, now we are like grasshoppers tied to the same rope. Only by keeping you can I have someone to rely on. You and I will live and die together and we will never leave. Don’t give up!”
"Your Highness!" Murong Xue burst into tears and fell to the ground, sobbing softly.
Li Bing saw this, and his nose also felt sore, and he quickly reached out to help him. However, he didn't know that the thrilling scene just now, whether it was an expression of true feelings or an expedient solution in a crisis, the eight bloody characters of "We will live and die together, never leave" have been deeply imprinted in Murong Xue's heart. .
