Lin Tingyan was sitting in the Nuan Pavilion, holding a chess piece in a daze thoughtfully. The black and white chess pieces on the chessboard occupied half, filling the entire chessboard, but he had not figured out the chess game he wanted.
Suddenly, the arrival of an uninvited guest immediately broke the peace in the Nuan Pavilion.
"Your Highness's chess playing skills are becoming more and more superb."
The mysterious man took off the cloak on his head and complimented with respect.
Hearing the voice, Lin Tingyan slowly raised his head and saw Yang Runchen. He suddenly became furious and said, "Yang Situ, you are crazy. How dare you do tampering again and again."
"Your Highness, the matter has come to this, and I have no way out."
Yang Runchen slowly sat down and looked at him quietly, with endless desolation and loneliness in his eyes.
"Did you arrange the assassin at Dongshikou just now?"
Lin Tingyan glared at him dissatisfied.
Yang Runchen's deep eyes were slightly sunken, and he continued to look at the chess game silently. After pondering for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "If Your Highness is unwilling to abandon the black chess in his hand, he will definitely let all the white chess be swallowed up. For this plan, we must use this only
The black chess piece was thrown into the white chess piece, and a way out was fought with one piece."
Lin Tingyan squeezed the sunspot in her hand tightly and rubbed it back and forth on her forehead, sighing anxiously: "Is it necessary?"
"It has to be this way."
Yang Runchen said categorically: "The current situation no longer allows us to hesitate. Du Jiuzhen was arrested for several days, and there was no news about the Tingwei Mansion. I am worried that he has confessed."
"You didn't swear to this king that all the old people in the concubine's palace are trustworthy confidants. How could he betray you?"
Lin Tingyan's charming and charming face suddenly showed a sullen look.
"After all, they are all old people who have been away for more than 20 years. Even if they still have a little respect for the imperial concubine, I am afraid that they will choose to waver in order to survive in an ignoble way."
Yang Runchen said with a gloomy expression: "With the entry of King Qinghe into the capital and the rise of King Pingning, the old minister is no longer able to dominate the situation in Jingling City. For fear of delay, there will be changes, so we can only imitate what happened back then and do nothing.
Without stopping, he stormed into the palace and forced the Empress Dowager and the Emperor to issue a Zen edict."
"King Qinghe is in the capital right now. I'm afraid that this move will make someone else's wedding dress."
Lin Tingyan showed worry on his face, still worried about what happened today: "You just killed Zhang Lu and silenced him. Why did you go to assassinate Princess Pingning? What's more, Princess Shu was traveling with her. You didn't give any advice at all."
Leave your own escape route."
"Now that things have happened, is it possible that His Highness is still lucky enough to think that he and she will be on the same journey?"
Yang Runchen scolded disapprovingly: "That woman is too smart. She should not have been allowed to enter the capital smoothly. Your Highness is too kind. Now she has found out the real culprit who murdered Zhang Lu without any effort. How terrible. If she hadn't been there as soon as possible,
Get rid of her, and sooner or later she will become a serious problem for His Highness."
"Your arrangements are really hasty."
Lin Tingyan said angrily: "Look at the kind of assassins you arranged to carry out the assassination. Some of them were captured alive. It's simply too little success and more failure than failure."
"It's the veteran who was negligent."
Yang Runchen sincerely begged: "I am willing to die for His Highness, and I will definitely help His Highness win the big position this time."
"Yang Runchen, why do I trust you again?"
Lin Tingyan shook his head disdainfully: "Back then, you asked me to bewitch King Changrong to frame Prince Ting'an, and then encouraged him to launch a palace coup. As a result, my father would rather let the Qinghe clan enter the capital than pass the throne to me and my third son.
, which caused my mother-in-law to die at the hands of the old woman from Zhaochun Palace, do you still want to make the same mistake again now?"
"Your Highness, the late Emperor was confused, but you and I are not."
Yang Runchen said sincerely: "The Empress Dowager is jealous of the imperial concubine. Even if the former crown prince successfully ascends the throne, can he give you mother and son a way to survive? Today's King Qinghe is even more cruel and ruthless. If he steals the throne, he will definitely drive out the entire line of the late emperor."
, Needless to say, Pingning Prefecture’s broken-down household, how can his hatred of evil be tolerated by an enemy who killed his father to live in the world? "
After looking at him intently for a long time, Yang Runchen continued: "The only person your Highness can trust in this world is the old minister. The old minister will not harm you."
"Yang Runchen, why do you spare no effort to help me?"
Lin Tingyan has never been able to figure out the whole story.
He asked this question more than once. At this point, Yang Runchen knew that he could no longer hide it, so he had to blurt out the pain in his heart: "Because it is the old minister who has failed your mother and concubine. It is the old minister who has failed the noble concubine. The old minister has harmed the noble concubine.
Without her, I will never redeem myself until I die."
"how do I say this?"
Lin Tingyan looked at him in astonishment.
Yang Runchen thought about it for a long time, and finally said: "Back then I was ordered to go to the Northern Kingdom, and I fell in love with your mother and concubine at first sight. The imperial concubine's family was in decline, and she was framed by her stepmother and almost died in the Northern Kingdom. The old minister promised to bring her to the Dahe Empire and marry her.
As a wife, she was promised glory and wealth, but the late emperor fell in love with the imperial concubine. The old minister was also obsessed with it, so he gave the imperial concubine to his majesty. He also allowed her to be slandered as a demon concubine and persecuted to death. The old minister is still heartbroken and can't wait to die.
Go to hell with her."
"Ha, I see, I'm afraid it's not a surrender, but you took the initiative to give it to your father for the sake of power, right?"
Lin Tingyan looked at him with contempt.
Yang Runchen lowered his head with a guilty conscience, unable to explain clearly, so he acquiesced to this matter.
Lin Tingyan kept sneering: "No wonder the mother-in-law doesn't want to see my son since she gave birth to me. I also heard from the palace servants in Weilan Palace that she often cursed Lord Situ in the palace. I thought that Lord Situ had offended the mother-in-law.
That made her feel resentful, but she didn't expect the root knot to be here."
Staring at the ashamed Yang Runchen with resentment, Lin Tingyan said with a mocking smile: "What I have never understood is why Lord Situ is willing to support evil villains like Wu Enrong. It turns out that you are the same species. No wonder you feel sympathy for each other.
He also promised his daughter to him as his wife."
"The past has faded away. Even if His Highness hates me and scolds me, it will not help. I know that my time is short. The only thing I can do now is to help His Highness fulfill his ambition."
Yang Runchen knelt down and begged again: "Please make a decision quickly, Your Highness."
"Put away your hypocrisy."
Lin Tingyan lifted up the chessboard angrily, and the chess pieces fell to the ground with a crisp sound, which frightened Yang Runchen to hold his breath and did not dare to exhale.
"Back then, you asked me to alienate our brotherhood and cause fratricide. My father fled into Buddhism. Now you want me to persecute my nephew and my aunt who raised me for many years. You really want to force me to become a monster that cannot be tolerated in this world.
Head?"
Lin Tingyan bent down, his eyes blazing with fire. Thinking of the evil things he had induced him to do over the years, he felt even more furious.
"In the royal family, how can there be any sense of brotherhood or father-son love?"
Yang Runchen summoned up the courage to ask: "Even if His Highness cares about his brothers and parents, will they tolerate His Highness? See how they treat you?"
Lin Tingyan was speechless immediately.
"For so many years, we have tried our best to persuade His Majesty to seek immortality and take elixirs. Seeing that great things are about to happen, His Highness is willing to give up the great position that is within easy reach to others?"
These words directly stopped Lin Tingyan.
Big seat?
How could he give up the big position he dreamed of to others again?