Outside the palace, it has been surrounded by the vigilance of the internal guards, and the palace is full of officials and officials of the imperial history platform, although no one has restricted the prince's freedom, but the prince has long been closed in the palace, and even three meals a day are sent in by people, and he will never go out a step.
He was waiting in horror for his mother's fate.
The prince is the prince, and the prince has his own political palace, which is specially used to meet the ministers of the East Palace, and the court secretary will also be here when he sees the prince.
Li Dan still lived here when he was the emperor, and Wu Youji and others were here to use both soft and hard work, forcing him to be inferior to Wu Zetian.
Now, this place is regarded as his court by Lai Junchen.
On the top of the "public hall", Lai Junchen sat majestically, and there were more than ten attendants kneeling in the hall, all of whom were the prince's cronies and attendants.
Lai Junchen asked the judge Wang Deshou to read out aloud the charges of the crown prince and the confessions of the attendants around the crown princess Liu and the side concubine Dou, and then said loudly: "The prince's crime may be hidden from anyone, but it is absolutely impossible to hide it from those of you who are waiting by his side.
It stands to reason that as the prince's attendant, if the prince rebels, you will also be beheaded, but according to my Great Zhou law, if you commit a crime involving rebellion, you can be reduced by one degree if you sue you, then you don't have to die.
This is your only chance to live, now, you can take the arch."
More than a dozen attendants knelt in the hall and were silent.
Lai Junchen waited quietly for a moment, and said with a dumb smile: "Okay, no one recruits that, this official can only be tortured."
An attendant plucked up his courage and defended: "Come to Zhongcheng, the prince has never had the slightest trace."
Lai Junchen slapped the startled wood and shouted: "Come on, each person will be punished with twenty sticks."
This is the Tai Palace, Lai Junchen can't bring all the strange torture instruments in the Yushi Terrace, and he himself is not clean at the moment, although he is eager to make meritorious service and relieve his crisis, at this time he is also more afraid of the truth, so he only uses the cane.
But even if it is only a cane, it is not easy to bear.
More than a dozen chamberlains were pushed to the ground, crackling and slapping the board, a scream suddenly sounded in the political hall, Lai Junchen's eyes slowly moved on the faces of the chamberlains, he didn't believe that these eunuchs who had no eggs were so backbone, and none of them were willing to recruit.
The crown prince Li Dan pretended to be calm in the first two days to show that he was open-minded, but with the arrival of Junchen into the palace to ask about the case, he finally couldn't hold his breath, and he closed himself in the prince's bedroom for the past two days, and he didn't even go out of the door, his heart was panicked, and his mouth was full of blisters.
He wanted to pray, to ask his ancestors to bless him, but he didn't even dare to kneel down and pray now, for fear that it would be taken as one of his curses against the Empress.
At this time, he couldn't care about grieving for the Liu family and the Dou family who had just died, and it was difficult for him to save his own life.
"Prince" Lan Fei'er quietly flashed into the dormitory and called softly.
"Get Out" Li Dan was furious, and he didn't save face at all because Miss Lan Fei'er had become his pillow person.
Lan Fei'er was startled, her beautiful big eyes quickly overflowed with tears of grievance, she flattened her mouth, and sobbed: "Prince, someone from Princess Taiping's mansion wants to see you." ” "What" Li Dan hurriedly ran out from behind the screen and said in surprise: "It was the mother emperor who asked Ling Yue to send someone."
Lan Fei'er shook her head and said in a low voice: "Princess Taiping was worried when she heard that the prince was trapped, but this princess palace has been surrounded by groups, and her people can't come in, so it took a lot of trouble to ask Shangguan to wait for the system, and only then did she get the tacit approval of the internal guards."
Prince, you can't stay long, you" "No, no, no, I won't see you" Li Dan was shocked, and said repeatedly: "Drive him away, hurry him away, if the mother emperor's people know about it, it will trouble this peace, it's too unusual, isn't this causing trouble to Lone, drive him away quickly" Lan Fei'er looked at him silently, looking at the son of the Son of Heaven, the prince of the Great Zhou who had been the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, her eyes were full of disappointment.
Anyway, this prince will be her man in the future, who doesn't want their man to be a man who stands up to the sky, but he, if he wasn't born in the emperor's family, what is he Li Dan didn't see the disappointment and disdain in Lan Fei'er's eyes at all in his panic, and when he saw her standing still, Li Dan was even more angry, but he didn't dare to raise his voice, so he could only let out a low roar from his throat: "What are you still standing for, even you want to harm me, go quickly" Lan Fei'er silently turned around and walked out of the hall.
Li Dan scurried around the hall like a frightened bird, and suddenly, he chased out quickly, and at the moment when Lan Fei'er was about to step out of the dormitory, he grabbed her arm and asked in a trembling voice: "Have the people sent by Taiping been discovered by the people from Yushitai?"
Lan Fei'er said: "He pretended to be a eunuch in the palace who delivered food to the people of Yushitai, but the people of Yushitai were not suspicious, but because of this, he couldn't stay for a long time, and he had to leave after packing up the food box, so he said that he could only see the prince for a while."
Li Dan grabbed his hair fiercely, struggling in his heart.
He was only thirty years old, but his hair was already gray, like an old man on the verge of death.
Li Dan gritted his teeth and struggled for a long time, and suddenly said, "Bring him to see me, quickly" Lan Fei'er happily agreed and walked out quickly.
Soon, Li Yi, dressed in a set of eunuch palace clothes, appeared in front of Li Dan.
He was originally a eunuch, and he was on an errand in the palace before Princess Taiping got married, so it was naturally not difficult to pretend to be a eunuch.
Li Dan looked him up and down a few times, and said suspiciously: "You are a peaceful person" Li Yi took out something from his arms, Li Dan snatched it up, and hurriedly opened it, but it was a jade plate, a jade plate that the imperial court canonized Li Lingyue as a princess.
Li Dan gasped, grabbed the jade book nervously, and asked anxiously: "Taiping sent you to see Gu, what do you want to say?"
Li Yi said: "Prince, the slave and maid can't stay for a long time, so please ask the prince to listen carefully to every word that the slave and maid say."
If the prince does what the princess says, there may be a glimmer of life, and if the prince continues to wait like this, then the prince will die."
Li Dan's face became more and more pale, he seemed to have a malaria, and he trembled all over: "Okay, you say, you say it quickly" "No one has hired yet?"
Lai Junchen put his hands behind his back and paced slowly on the main hall, and every time he said a word, his voice produced an echo effect on the empty hall, which made Lai Junchen feel a sense of intoxication.
"Don't say it's good, you dogs who don't see the coffin and don't shed tears come to kill people, and use torture" The deacons who had just retired from the punishment rod came up with a different hand, which was five small round wooden sticks, and each of them was wrapped with a tough and powerful string on it, and the five fingers of the person were inserted into it, and the two ends could be firmly clamped with force.
Lai Junchen stood in front of an inner servant who was lying on the ground, two strands of flesh and blood blurred, and was moaning in pain, and said gloomily: "This official has a way to kill you, and this official has more time If you confess obediently, you don't have to suffer from this flesh and skin, and you can avoid death, otherwise."
He had just noticed from the tortured chamberlain that there were three people who could not bear the pain, and they were crying the loudest, and this chamberlain in front of him was one of them.
While he was talking to the chamberlain, he looked coldly at the other, and the man was trembling at the sight of his face.
The chamberlain's lips twitched, as if to say something, but in the end he lowered his head and said nothing.
Lai Junchen smiled faintly, like a cold wind, gently brushing his face, and the smile quickly changed from an upward curve to a downward sink, turning into a cold expression.
Lai Junfo gently spit out two words in his mouth: "Continue to torture" "Prince" Several chamberlains and palace ladies who were in charge of sprinkling and sweeping the courtyard were working tremblingly, when they suddenly saw a person running out of the prince's bedroom, wearing a white coat and a pair of bare feet, splitting his head and scattering, like a madman, and couldn't help but stand in surprise.
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After taking a closer look, they recognized that the person was the current crown prince Li Dan, and they couldn't help but be even more surprised.
Li Dan's eyes were straight, and he didn't pay attention to them, but just ran towards the palace gate barefoot.
"Prince, please stop" At the palace gate, Lan Yiqing suddenly flashed out and stepped forward with a sword in one hand.
Li Dan shouted: "You dare to stop this palace This palace is the prince today, this palace wants to see the emperor, who dares to stop the orphan" Lan Yiqing raised her delicate eyebrows slightly, and leaned back, lest Li Dan's spit squirt onto her face.
Lan Yiqing said very politely: "Weichen guards the palace gate here by the emperor's will, no one is allowed to enter or leave without the emperor's will, and I still ask the prince to forgive the sin."
When Li Dan heard this, he suddenly burst into tears: "I want to see the emperor, I want to see my mother and let me out" Lan Yiqing waved his hand, and the two internal guards snatched out of the door, grabbed Li Dan and walked back, Li Dan shouted: "You can't stop me, I want to see the emperor, I want to see my mother, my mother, my mother, Dan'er wants to see you."
The two guards threw Li Dan into the gate and threw it away, Li Dan staggered to a stand, and said sadly: "Okay, you don't allow me to see my mother, then I will die to you, come to someone, take the white silk" At this time, Gao Ying rushed over when she heard the news, listened to Lan Yiqing's brief introduction, and quickly flashed into the door, and said to Li Dan: "Prince, we are also acting on orders, and I also ask the prince not to embarrass his ministers."
In this way, if the prince has anything to say, please inform Weichen, and the minister will report to the emperor on behalf of the prince, so how about it" "I don't have anything to say" Li Dan covered his face and cried and collapsed to the ground, and said with tears in his eyes: "Li Dan just wants to beg the mother to abolish my position in the East Palace and demote me to a commoner, Li Dan has nothing else to ask for, but to be a cloth and a white body, and from then on he will end up in the mountains and forests, and beg his mother to be fulfilled."
After Li Dan said that, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed in the direction of the Vientiane Shrine.
At this time, in a side hall of the Tai Palace, a little eunuch said to An Jinzang, the musician of Taichang Temple: "Are you really willing to do this?"
An Jinzang tearfully sang the "Huangtai Melon Speech" of the former prince Li Xian in front of Li Dan two days ago, and was ordered by Li Dan to beat the board, and has been recuperating here since then.
Listening to the words of the little eunuch, An Jinzang got up excitedly and said: "I am willing to be a certain puppeteer, if I can exchange this cheap life for the safety of the prince, even if it is a sea of swords and fires, I am willing to go."
The little eunuch said, "Well, then, you will" He lowered his voice and said a few words, with a very feminine sweet smile on his face: "After this is done, your parents, brothers, and family will have that noble person to take good care of them, and that noble person will be alive for a long time, and your family will definitely have no worries about food and clothing."
With that, he pulled out a shiny dagger from his boot and sent it to An Jinzang with both hands.
To be continued: