Lu Mingfeng has always been a tidy person, with a neatly trimmed beard and a long beard that reaches right up to his Adam's apple.
Now, his beard is thick and dense, his hair has not been washed for many days, his face is unkempt, stained with dead grass, and he has a strong smell of sweat and a damp, cold musty smell.
Li Ju looked at him as if he were looking at a stranger.
Lu Mingfeng, who had not waited for Li Ju to speak, didn't know why, but he was sure that if he raised his head and looked into the emperor's eyes at this time, he would definitely get something bad.
So Lu Mingfeng just knelt on one knee, motionless, with his head lowered.
Time passed slowly, and Lu Mingfeng's legs began to feel painful and numb.
Because there were chains tied between his feet, his kneeling posture was very cramped.
Finally, he shook his body, and the iron chain rubbed sharply.
Lu Mingfeng finally raised his head. When he saw the emperor's eyes, he was always as calm as him, but this was the first time he was so shocked.
The light from the oil lamp was dim and dim, making the emperor's aging face look even more sinister and cold.
And with his gaze, Lu Mingfeng, who has seen countless people and is proficient in people's hearts, could see two words at a glance: hatred.
Your Majesty, do you hate him?
Lu Mingfeng whispered: "Your Majesty..."
"Lu Mingfeng," Li Jue said, "how many years have you been with me?"
Lu Mingfeng clenched his palms and said, "Twenty-nine years."
"It's no different from thirty years ago," Li Zhi smiled coldly, "It is said that General Tianrong Wei is inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. His power is not even comparable to that of princes, princes, prime ministers and ministers. I say this every year
You can hear it, but I turn a deaf ear to it, never care about it, and have no scruples about it.”
The emperor would not have such a name for no reason. Lu Mingfeng is a smart man. The heart in his chest became colder by the second. He clasped his hands and said, "I am humbled by this. Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty!"
"Lon En?" Li Jue looked at him with disdain, and walked slowly towards the oil lamp with his hands behind his hands, "Yes, in the past two months, I have been wondering why you are so powerful and so favored.
Follow me well? I can't figure it out."
Lu Mingfeng said sadly: "But Your Majesty, I have never had second thoughts in my humble position!"
Li Ju didn't speak anymore. He stretched out his fingers and tapped the old table gum, very slowly, very slowly, with a slow and steady rhythm.
Lu Mingfeng was panic-stricken and knelt over: "Your Majesty, someone is deliberately trying to instigate our monarchs and ministers in an attempt to use your hands to get rid of me! I know that I am in an important position and I have offended millions of people. If this person hates me, then just do it."
I'm afraid, if you get rid of me, you will have to deal with your Majesty."
Li Jue's eyes hardened, and he suddenly turned around and pointed: "Lu Mingfeng, who do you think you are!"
Lu Mingfeng was startled, and then he realized that he had said the wrong thing.
This emperor hates being blackmailed the most!
"I have the Jinwu Guards, the Forbidden Army, the Yi Guards, and the Yulin Guards! Outside the palace, there is the Guangning Army marching, and there are my Li family's cavalry! What do you think you are? If you get rid of you, are you going to deal with me? Without you,
I can’t survive, can I!”
Lu Mingfeng hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, forgive me! This is not what I meant by humble position!"
"How do you explain the Chongtiantai incident?" Li Ju said angrily.
Lu Mingfeng frowned and raised his eyebrows to look at him, wondering what he was referring to.
"Tianrong Guard rarely has anything difficult to investigate, but you haven't given me an explanation for the major rooftop disaster right under the capital's nose!"
Lu Mingfeng was still puzzled.
The disaster of worshiping heaven on the Chongtiantai is certainly serious, but after so many years, it is already an old matter, so why would the emperor suddenly turn over this book?
"Lu Mingfeng, you really deserve to die!!!" Li Ju shouted violently.
"Your Majesty, the matter of Chongtiantai is indeed difficult to investigate!"
"How can it be so difficult to check?" Li Ju took a step forward and glared at him, "How could thousands of birds, thousands of rats, and hundreds of cages appear out of thin air? Whenever something happens, there will be traces. Shuoyou followed the vines and followed them.
Why is it so difficult to check! I see, it’s not that it’s difficult to check, it’s that it’s not checked! Why not check, because I don’t want to check myself!”
The word "self-examination" made Lu Mingfeng's eyes widen in shock.
Thinking of the book in Bao Chengle's hand that the man sent by Lou Chunping mentioned, Lu Mingfeng hurriedly raised his hands and clasped his fists: "Your Majesty, what did Bao Chengle say to Your Majesty!?"
Li Ju didn't answer and looked at him with the same cold eyes as before.
It was obvious that Li Ju's sudden anger was gradually calming down, but it made Lu Mingfeng's hair stand on end.
After a long time, Li Ju said sadly: "Lu Mingfeng, you have a close relationship with those people in the northwest."
"Your Majesty said so, but it still has to do with Mountain View City?"
"Mountain View City," Li Jue smiled, "I have all your receipts from Mountain View City with black and white writing on them."
"Your Majesty, I have already said that I am using Master Zhi's hand to defeat Shen Lie's spirit!"
"Shen Lie's spirit?" Li Ju frowned and became angry again, "Lu Mingfeng, you still dare to talk nonsense here! What value does Mountain View City have to Shen Lie? Shen Lie abandoned the city long ago and went to the northwest.
Where are you suppressing bandits in the northwest? Are you trying to beat his spirit? I think you are both yin and yang, joining forces with the branch master to plot the mines of Mountain View City and the wealth of Mountain View City! You will come back to bully me again!"
Lu Mingfeng swallowed hard: "Your Majesty, these are the things Bao Chengle investigated?"
"These? I have more here! Lu Mingfeng, you deserve to die!" Li Ju almost shouted through gritted teeth.
For the first time, Lu Mingfeng truly understood what it meant to be unable to argue with anyone.
He stared blankly at the emperor whose face and muscles were distorted by anger, feeling that the emperor he had loyal to for nearly thirty years at the risk of his life was so unfamiliar.
For a long time, Lu Mingfeng murmured: "Your Majesty, I have never been disloyal to you in this humble position..."
Li Ju looked at him disgustedly: "You must have never had a trace of loyalty!"
"Your Majesty!!" Lu Mingfeng's lips trembled, "Why do you say such words!"
But he saw Li Ju suddenly take out an object from his sleeve and hit him on the head.
Lu Mingfeng was in grief, and for a moment he couldn't stop himself. The object hit him directly on the bridge of his nose. The pain made his eyes darken and tears rolled down his face.
The object had sharp edges and corners. When Lu Mingfeng came over slowly, he saw that it was a bunch of keys.
He picked it up with both hands, and one of the strange-looking keys suddenly awakened his memory that was about to disappear.
Lu Mingfeng was surprised: "This key..."
"You are indeed no stranger." Li Ju wanted to vomit.
"It's the keys to those cages!" Lu Mingfeng raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, when we filled the keyhole with glue soup, the solidified white glue was exactly the shape of the key. I am certainly familiar with it!"
After a pause, Lu Mingfeng said again: "Your Majesty, if someone wants to use the key to frame a humble position, it is really easy!"
"Really?" Li Ju sneered, "I sent people to the Ministry of Industry, and also sent people to ask Wei Yan and Xu Huazhi. Everyone said that the general outline shape of this key is common in the northwest! So, during the investigation back then,
When there was a disaster on the rooftop, why didn't you tell me that this key was related to the northwest?"
