Chapter 536

In the early morning, the Zhongnan mountain, shrouded in the summer morning glow, is covered with clouds and mist, with butterflies dancing and cranes singing. The bells of several Taoist temples are melodious, and Sanskrit chants are sung in Buddhist temples.

It's like a fairyland.

Li Ke's face was covered with a disordered beard, a star hole hat, a patched short skirt, and a pair of white blue cloth trousers. The legs of the trousers were rolled up to the knees, revealing half of his legs covered with dust.

At the moment, sitting in an ox cart, with a sweat towel and a polished wood knife in his hand, he was a woodcutter cutting wood in the morning.

In front of him, Zhao Chong also dressed up like this. He was holding a black buffalo pulling a cart, waving a hemp whip in his hand. He walked leisurely while singing woodcutting songs in a heavy voice.

Li Ke sat on the ox cart and looked at Zhao Chong. He couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

In the past few days after he got out of danger in Anding County, he has been following Zhao Chong, passing through the state and county along the way, doing all kinds of disguises. Li Ke even played the role of a woman once. It's hard to tell whether she is true or not.

Just arrived at Guannei. Zhao Chong took many of these clothes in an unpredictable way. They dressed as Zhongnan woodcutters and drove up the mountain in an ox cart.

Along the way, Zhao Chong went to any mountain, sang any song, and pretended to be what he looked like. He even imitated the dialects of many places. At the age of ten, he began to travel with his father. At the age of sixteen, he began to lead the green forest bandits along Jingxiang waterway. It has been more than twenty years. His alertness, tact, insight and all kinds of wonderful means. Let Li Ke greatly surprised.

"Brother Zhao, it's a pity that you don't make great use of such talents." Li Ke sat on the ox cart and said with a smile.

"I said, brother Li, what I'm doing now is a big deal? Ha ha Zhao Chong burst out laughing, and his powerful voice startled the birds in the forest.

Li Ke saw that the mountains were quiet and there was no one left or right, so he asked in a low voice, "why do we go to Zhongnan mountain?"

"Don't ask. You'll find out later. " Zhao Chong warily threw back a sentence and continued to sing his folk song.

Li Ke no longer said much. He sat on the ox cart and followed Zhao Chong all the way.

Along the way, Zhao Chong did not answer any questions from Li Ke. Just repeat one point: "don't worry, I will definitely not harm you.".

Li Ke thought that if he did harm to me, I would have been dead. Put this life is picked up, just trust him!

In this way, they disguised themselves and sneaked all the way from Jingzhou anding to Zhongnan mountain, which is only one step away from Chang'an.

Looking far away, you can see the statue of Yaoer girl on the top of Zhongnan mountain. Li Ke can't help but think of Qin mubai again. He says in secret: along the way, I've heard rumors from the market that Qin mubai wants to fight back I don't believe this kind of thing. However, if such rumors spread to the court, what should we do?

Zhao Chong actually split two loads of firewood on the mountain and put them on the ox cart. Then he turned back in the middle of the mountain and walked through the dense forest and onto a rugged mountain path.

After walking for about an hour, the ox cart finally stopped in front of a very desolate and dilapidated Taoist temple. Zhao Chong came forward and patted the door. A moment later, a Taoist came out. When he saw Zhao Chong, he said, "Lao Zhao has sent firewood again. Please come in."

"Here we are." Zhao Chong turned back to Li Ke with a smile, "hurry up, take the ox cart in, unload the firewood and get the reward."

"OK, brother Zhao." With a smile, Li Ke jumps out of the ox cart and leads the ox cart with Zhao Chong into the Taoist temple to the back yard.

"Your Highness, it's safe here at last." Zhao Chong dusted his body and bowed to Li Ke, "please follow me."

"Good." Li Ke nodded, secretly expecting that it was time to solve many mysteries!

Zhao Chong leads Li Ke to walk through the Taoist temple for several steps and enter a secluded single room. Room furnishings are quite simple, a few futons a bed couch, a case a niche table a few tea, that's all.

"It's a hard journey. Your highness is here to have a rest for two days." Zhao Chong said.

Li Ke looked around, and there was no one else, nor any remarkable discovery. So he asked, "what are you not going to say to me? Or who should I meet? "

Zhao Chong said with a smile, "don't worry, you will know what you should know sooner or later; the person who should see you will come to see you sooner or later. It's hard to get rid of it just now. Why should your highness be anxious? "

"Not bad." Li Ke didn't say much. He sat down on the couch and said, "I'm really tired. I'll have a good sleep."

"Your Highness has a rest. Zhao will come out to do something and come back immediately. Three meals a day are served by a caddie. " Zhao Chong said, "please don't walk around or leave the Taoist temple. Remember."

"Don't worry."

Zhao Chong left. Li Ke is lying on the bed with his head resting on his arms. Looking at the old gray roof, he feels worried. He doesn't know what happened to Yin Yang? And the guards, most of them, are dying. As expected, the news had already reached Chang'an. Now I don't see people in my life, and I don't see corpses in my death. What should my father and his mother and his concubine do? What kind of chaos will be on the court?Li Ke, if you really want to enter Chang'an City, at least you can let your parents down. But if you can't bear it, you'll make big plans. Now he knows little about the outside world, and he is in danger. Let's listen to Zhao Chong!

The next evening, Zhao Chong just came back, still dressed as a woodcutter.

As soon as Zhao Chong entered the room, Li Ke asked him, "what's the situation in Chang'an?"

"Chang'an?" Zhao Chong sat down with a smile, poured tea and said, "I didn't go to Chang'an."

"And where did you go?"

"Go to my master and report your death." Zhao Chong said with a strange smile.

"What?" Li Ke was surprised.

"Think about it, your highness. I've been ordered to kill you. Don't I have to give an explanation to my master now?" Zhao Chong said with a smile.

"Then your master Have you ever believed it? "

"If you believe it, believe it; if you don't believe it, believe it." Zhao Chong is playing with the teacup.

"I'm curious..."

"Just want to know, who is my master?"

"Not bad."

Zhao rushed to the table where Li Ke was sitting and sat down. "It's a long story. Zhao, there is more than one master. "

"How many are there?"

"Not too much, just three or four!"

“……” Li Ke was stunned and speechless.

"Ha ha!" Zhao Chong laughed and said, "as the saying goes, good birds choose trees, and good officials choose masters. Although Zhao is not a good person, he also understands this truth. Therefore, although I have many masters, only one is really worthy of Zhao's loyalty. "

Li Ke's eyes were very clear. "You don't want to say that man Is it my father

"Tut! Or is your highness smart? " Zhao Chong caressed his hand and laughed, nodded, "that's right. One of my masters is your father, the emperor of today. But I've only seen two sides of him from the beginning to the end. After all, one is a death row prisoner who should have been executed, and the other is the real dragon emperor. Whether I want to see him or he wants to see me. It's not convenient. "

"What about your other master?" Li Ke asked, "can you tell me?"

"Yes Zhao Chong said with an indifferent smile, "anyway, sooner or later, he will let his highness know the truth. But before I tell you these things, Zhao has a request. "

"Go ahead, please."

"If his royal highness succeeds, Zhao does not expect you to repay him. But please let Zhao have a free life. " Zhao Chong said.

Li Ke frowned and nodded: "I promise you."

"Your Highness, please." Zhao Chong said with a smile, "people who can become close friends with Qin mubai should also be trustworthy. Well, now Zhao knows everything and says everything. Your highness, please ask

Li Ke took a deep breath and said, "I want to know who sent you to kill me?"

"Doctor censor. Wei Ting Zhao Chong said, "he is one of my masters. And my immediate Savior. "

"Wei Ting? Wei Xiaochen Is there a connection between the two? " Li Ke was surprised and said, "if you remember correctly, Wei Ting is still the father-in-law of Li you, king of Qi. When he was involved in the rebellion, Li you was dismissed from office. Later, with the help of the fourth younger brother, the king of Wei, he returned to the imperial court and took charge of the imperial censor. He didn't save you when he was in the way of doctor censor, did he

"Not bad."

"But at that time, the water ghost case was long gone. Li you rebelled! Time is wrong! "

Zhao Chong smiles, "Your Highness is so careless. Forget that all death row prisoners are executed after autumn? Moreover, the Xiangzhou Water Ghost case involved nearly 60% of the officials in the Jingxiang area, and was also related to the Wei and Du families in Chang'an. The court did not know how many people were active in such a big case. After more than three months of trial, the case was still not completely closed. That is, during this period, Zhao suddenly became a sweet cake. Except for Wei Ting, the censor doctor who wanted to save his nephew. There are also many people who have evil intentions to calculate Zhao, or to save Zhao's life, or to kill Zhao as soon as possible

"Who are they?" Li Ke frowned and asked.

Zhao Chong said with a smile: "Zhao has long ignored life and death. It doesn't matter if he dies. But seeing that so many people are so interested in Zhao, Zhao wants to live a few more days. So, Zhao has worked for three masters, the first is Wei Ting. He is the censor doctor, and Zhao was interrogated by Dali temple and the censor station. I've been in jail in both places. Wei Ting said that he could use the golden cicada to get rid of the shell to save my life, but the premise is that I should conceal and retract some of Wei Xiaochen's criminal evidence, so as to relieve Wei Xiaochen of his crime. "

"You agreed?"

"It's not just a promise, it's a fact." Zhao Chong said with a smile, "because Zhao knows that no matter what proof Zhao makes, Wei Xiaochen and Du Chengyuan will surely die. Because there are bigger people than Wei Ting. They must die

"Who is it?"

"My second master, that is Your good fourth brother, his Royal Highness the king of Wei. " Zhao Chong laughed more and more meaningfully, and said, "in the view of the king of Wei, Wei Xiaochen and Du Chengyuan are very small roles. But these two people are linked with Wei Ting and many of his ministers. I don't know how many people spoke to the king of Wei, hoping that the sooner they died, the better. The king of Wei didn't want to be involved, so Wei and Du were sure to die. At the same time, Zhao is just a bandit leader in the green forest, who is not deeply linked with the government. Therefore, Zhao's life and death is less concerned. However, the king of Wei hoped that I could continue to live. Why, your highness? "Li Ke frowned. "I once heard Qin mubai say that the king of Wei used to secretly pull a cage and ride Zhang Tong with one arm. His intention was to ask him to disclose some "secret criminal evidence" of Qin mubai and I in Xiangzhou to falsely accuse us. Zhang Tong was also very loyal. He refused and fled. Is that why the king of Wei wanted to save you? "

"To be more specific, he wants me to reveal your criminal evidence and the secret of Yangdi mausoleum." Zhao Chong laughed again. "In fact, caozhong in Xihe River is the mausoleum of emperor Yang. I didn't know it before. But I'm pushing the boat with the current, so I can live a life. "

"So it is..." Li Ke suddenly nodded, "in this way, even if Wei Ting wants to break his promise not to save you, it will not hinder the face of the king of Wei, so he has to save you. Even if he wants to kill you afterwards. I dare not offend the king of Wei for this

"That's right." Zhao Chong said with a smile, "Wei Ting and the king of Wei, each of them has his own fate. Zhao Chong is just in the middle of their struggle to survive. In fact, all this is a coincidence. If your father had not come to inquire about the case in person and told me that you and Qin mubai found the tomb of emperor Yang in the Xihe trough and found the imperial seal, Zhao Chong would not have had such a plan in mind. When the king of Wei sent someone to meet me secretly. At the beginning, I just let me bite back and falsely accuse you and Qin mubai. At that time, Zhao would not agree, and even if he agreed, this false accusation could not start, because Zhao did not know anything about you. However, at that time, I told the king of Wei that in addition to the imperial seal, there was also a big secret treasure in the mausoleum of emperor Yang. In addition to the wealth of gold and silver, there is also the Imperial Dragon Spirit handed down from generation to generation! And these. Is you and Qin mubai did not find, can not find, only Zhao know! ——In this way, Zhao survived. It has been three years since he was ordered by the king of Wei to recruit Greenwood heroes to search for the treasure here. "

"Old four, mind skill is so bad! Even if there is imperial dragon spirit, it shouldn't belong to him! " Li Ke hit the table with a little angry punch.

"I also know that the king of Wei is not a good man. So I quickly sold him out. " Zhao Chong laughs very amusingly. He said, "just before the execution in the autumn, his majesty personally came to inspect the prisoners as usual, and I saw him for the second time. In fact, the first time his majesty came to see me, I found that he intended to forgive me. The reason, I think, is that I helped him find the imperial seal indirectly. He was very happy and loved his family. But at that time, because of the justice of the law, he could not open that mouth. But this time he came to patrol, Zhao knew that it was my last chance to survive. I will tell you all about Wei Ting and the king of Wei without reservation Your highness should be able to think of the result of the matter. "

"After the event, my father made a plan, and let Wei Ting take the golden cicada out of the shell and save your life?" Li Ke was surprised. "Since then, you have become father's emperor's ambush in Wei Ting and Wei Wang."

"Your Highness, but you are really wise!" Zhao Chong laughs, "that's right. On weekdays, Zhao is Wei Ting's eagle dog paw; secretly, Zhao recruits Greenwood heroes to help the Wei king find treasure, and occasionally does some activities such as coercion, kidnapping and killing. In fact, Zhao is the confidant of the emperor, lurking in the side of Wei Ting and the king of Wei, the key time. He will fight back - just like today, Zhao Chong saves the king of Wu! "

"So it is..." Li Ke took a deep breath and finally realized. Suddenly he was surprised and said, "did you tell my father about your saving me in advance?"

"No Zhao Chong shook his head. "First of all, it's too late to pay back. Second, the emperor said that he would never see me again. Just ask me to help him in secret. I will not expose myself unless there is a great event or his will. "

"Then my father and mother really don't know anything about it. Aren't they worried?" Li Ke's thick eyebrows are locked and his face is full of sadness.

"Your Highness, don't you want to ask, who sent me to kill you?" Zhao chongdao.

"Isn't it Wei Ting and the king of Wei?" Li Ke is a little confused.

"Oh --" Zhao Chong laughed strangely, "if I say it, you won't believe it. In fact, it is Wei Ting who wants to kill you, but it is the king of Wei who wants to save you

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