Chongzong didn't say much and walked straight into Li Luoyan's house. Li Luoyan raised her eyebrows and was about to speak. Xu Zizhen quickly pulled her and followed her in. The old eunuch closed the door and lowered his eyebrows.
Stand inside the door.
The three of them came to the deepest part of the house. Chongzong had no expression on his face. Li Luoyan could no longer hold back and said coldly with a stern face: "What on earth do you want to see me for?"
Chongzong paused, turned around slowly, looked into her eyes and sighed softly: "Luo'er, are you still blaming me?"
This sigh contained helplessness and regret. Even an outsider like Xu Zizhen could clearly hear it, but Li Luoyan still had a sinking face and said coldly: "What's the use of telling me this? My mother is already dead."
I was executed by your own hands and will never come back to life again. Can you pay me back?"
Chongzong was silent for a long time and then slowly said: "There are some things you don't understand. Even though I knew your mother was innocent at the time, I had to do this."
Li Luoyan said angrily: "I have to do this? You are the emperor. If you don't want to do something, who else in the world can force you to do it? Stop doing this hypocrisy!"
Xu Zizhen vaguely smelled a strange meaning and shouted: "Luo'er, calm down and listen to the emperor first."
Li Luoyan took a deep breath, clenched his fists tightly, but still closed his mouth as he was told. Chongzong nodded to Xu Zizhen and suddenly asked: "Luo'er, is this Xu Zhuang your lover?"
"You..." Li Luoyan was not careful that he would ask such a question, and her pretty face turned red immediately. She didn't know how to answer for a while, but soon she nodded firmly, "Yes!"
Chongzong did not pursue this question any further. Instead, he changed his tone and pointed at Li Meng and said, "Is this Li Sheng's son?"
Li Luoyan couldn't help but snorted again: "You have found out so clearly, why do you come to ask me again?"
Chongzong didn't answer, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said calmly: "Luo'er, let me ask you, if someone asked you to kill your brother, otherwise he would kill your lover, what would you do?"
Li Luoyan couldn't help but be stunned, and then said angrily: "Do you think I am as spineless as you? I will kill others if they tell me to?"
Chongzong shook his head and turned to look at Li Meng: "Xiao Meng, how about I just follow Luo'er and call you like this? I ask you, if you knew about this, and you knew that Uncle Xu of yours was absolutely
What should you do if you can't escape from that person's grasp?"
Li Meng glared: "What else can we do? Just fight with that person!"
Chongzong smiled: "Then if you can't fight him no matter what, and if you die you can save the lives of your Uncle Xu and your sister, what will you choose?"
Li Meng was stunned for a moment, but quickly replied in a deep voice: "If I really can't beat that man, but as long as Uncle Xu and my sister can live, then I will die!"
As soon as these words came out, Li Luoyan couldn't help but said angrily: "Xiao Meng, what are you talking about?"
Xu Zizhen was moved for a while, but then a thought flashed through his mind, and he said in silence: "I know!"
A flash of approval flashed in Chongzong's eyes, but Li Luoyan looked blank. Li Meng also wondered: "Uncle, what do you know?"
Xu Zizhen looked at Chongzong and asked: "The emperor means that that person threatened you back then, and also threatened Duan Hou. If she doesn't die, then Luo'er will die, right?"
Chongzong looked at Xu Zizhen with more and more admiration, nodded and said: "Xu Zhuangshi is indeed very witty, and he hit the nail on the head."
Xu Zizhen thought for a while and continued: "The person threatening you should be Empress Xiao or someone from the Xiao family, but the person standing behind them must be San Juetang, right?"
Chongzong did not speak again this time, but nodded again.
Xu Zizhen said slowly: "I heard the meaning of the emperor's words. It was not you who executed Duanhou back then, but... you committed suicide for the sake of the emperor and Luo'er!"
Chongzong's eyes when he looked at Xu Zizhen had completely changed from approval to admiration, but when he mentioned Duan Hou's death, there was still a look of sadness in his eyes that was difficult to conceal.
Li Luoyan screamed: "Impossible! You lied to me again! You are the emperor, how could you be coerced? Do you still think I am a three-year-old child?"
Chongzong exclaimed: "Do you know that the world will meet?"
Xu Zizhen was stunned, what would happen if there was a world here?
I only heard Chongzong continue to say: "You are right, I am the emperor, how can I be easily coerced by others? I have personally trained a group of dead soldiers, and it can be said that all of them are so skilled that they are not afraid of death, but
That year was when we were at war with the Song Dynasty in the Great Xia Dynasty. In order to boost morale, I personally went on a military expedition. As a result, the people in the country got wind of it from nowhere and sent many good soldiers to assassinate me and all the important officials in the court."
His voice gradually became lower, with an obvious hatred: "The situation that time was extremely dangerous, and the world was really amazing. Although I escaped by luck in the end, the group of dead soldiers I trained left to protect me.
And there were almost all casualties, that is, after I returned to the palace... Xiao Ji took that opportunity to attack."
Xu Zizhen interrupted: "Then Empress Xiao saw the opportunity and came to you to force her to marry you?"
Chongzong nodded: "Exactly!" He paused, and an angry light shot out from his eyes, "Do you think I am willing to succumb to that bitch Xiao Ba? If I didn't have any good people around me at that time, why would I have to compromise like this?
?What’s more, I already wanted to fight to the death, but..."
When he said this, his voice couldn't help but choked up: "But Duan Hou took the initiative for me and Luo'er..."
Chongzong was indeed showing his true feelings and had no intention of lying at all. Xu Zizhen no longer knew what to say and sighed. He was deeply moved by Duanhou's emotion of sacrificing his life to protect his daughter. He also sighed by Chongzong's helplessness at that time. Li Luoyan was even more moved.
He had already burst into tears and looked at Chongzong with tearful eyes: "Is what you said true?"
"If I tell a lie, I will be struck by thunder!" Chongzong said loudly with a solemn expression. He looked at Li Meng and said, "At that time, there were several guards around me, but the only one I could trust was Li Meng.
It's just your father Li Sheng, so he asked your father to take Luo'er out of the palace during the chaos. It's just that time was urgent and I didn't have time to explain the reason clearly to your father. As a result, over the years... Alas! You have misunderstood me more and more.
deep."
At this point, he looked at Li Luoyan, his eyes full of doting, perhaps because blood is thicker than water. Li Luoyan looked into Chongzong's eyes, and suddenly his whole body was shocked, and he instantly understood the helplessness and misery he felt back then.
, I couldn’t help but burst into tears.
Xu Zizhen patted her shoulder lightly, sighed, and turned to look at Chongzong: "Now that the truth is out, why does the emperor come to us now? It can't be as simple as explaining this matter, right?
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Chongzong was silent for a moment and said slowly: "Sanjue Hall has suddenly become quiet recently. I'm worried that they are planning something big again. To avoid hurting Luo'er, I hope... Xu Zhuangshi, you take Luo'er and leave here first.