Empty White

After the winter solstice.

The mother and son in Taiji Palace are connected by heart. King Anle from Luoyang noticed something and tactfully retreated to Taiqing Palace.

He was recuperating from his injuries and hadn't been out for days. He Nu and I saw that he had accepted his fate and was obedient.

In late spring, the Queen Mother held a birthday banquet, and Prince Anle presented a longevity painting.

The king is extremely respectful, and he has countless grievances on his face. He pretends to be weak, which makes it easier to show the unforgivable evil of me and the saint.

He smiled, and I smiled with the saint, and gave him a birthday gift together.

The birthday gift presented to the Empress Dowager that year was a gold hairpin.

The hairpin, once bloody, is now golden.

Yes, it was the golden hairpin that shattered Prince Anle’s absurd dream of becoming emperor.

The Queen Mother liked it very much and asked me and the Saint to put it on her hair.

"Is it beautiful, King Anle?"

The Saint and I were standing beside Empress Dowager Feng, and we all asked the same question with a smile.

Prince Anle lowered his head and became mute. His heart was in turmoil, and he gritted his teeth but couldn't say a single good word. Empress Dowager Feng kept saying "wonderful", and Prince Anle had to say "good"...

In the Taiji Palace that day, every frown and smile was constantly beating at King Anle's rebellious heart.

He didn't want Luoyang, but insisted on Chang'an. This was the result of his scheming and rebellious behavior.

I can’t kill King Anle, and I’m so angry!

After Empress Dowager Feng’s birthday, Prince Anle was ordered to return to Luoyang, and I was also summoned to Luoyang.

I can walk, but King Anle can't.

I have never had the courage and determination to rebel with my family. As long as I don't fight for the throne, even if I make a thousand mistakes, the saints will forgive me.

Prince Anle has been coveting the throne day and night. His Majesty the Emperor will never let this traitor go.

On the second day after the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, Prince Rong of the palace, Li Jiulang, the third son of Concubine Xue, died young.

In order to show his brotherly love and respect for his younger brothers, and his benevolent heart, the sage still ordered the children of the royal family and the ladies of the imperial family to keep vigil for Prince Rong for seven days.

I am the only female marquis in Chang'an, and I am at ease with it.

Prince Rong's early death delayed my departure.

Similarly, it delayed King Anle's return.

Within seven days, Prince Ning submitted several petitions, requesting to leave the royal residence to carry his brother's coffin.

The saint’s permission.

On the day of the burial, Prince Ning entered the Taiji Palace. Jiulang loved drinking, so Li Silang brought two large jars of wine to comfort the deceased's soul.

Silang entered the palace, and Prince Anle entered Taiji Palace together.

The kings of the Li family all came to see Prince Rong off for the last time.

Before the funeral, I remember that I was in Jishan Palace, bidding farewell to Concubine Tong and Princess Zhaoyang one by one.

After Prince Rong was buried, I followed him out of Chang'an City and then went to Luoyang.

Everything is taken care of.

There may be a return date, maybe, perhaps, but not necessarily.

That day should have been my last day in Chang'an Taiji Palace.

Mr. Zhu's hasty words shattered everything I had prepared.

I bowed to the Imperial Concubine Dowager, and Eunuch Dong from the Empress Dowager's side came to find me. In front of Concubine Tong, he was extremely anxious and ignored etiquette, begging me to follow him quickly.

As I walked quickly, I asked him why.

Concubine Zhu said that Prince Ning was holding the saint hostage in Yongle Palace.

The noble lady conveyed the Empress Dowager's oral instructions, saying that my mother ordered me to go to Yongle Palace as soon as possible.

In a hurry, I was ordered to rush to Yongle Palace.

Everything that happened that day cannot be examined in detail.

Blurred, noisy, complicated, and chaotic.

Outside the Yongle Palace, people were moaning and groaning. Everyone in the Saint's bedroom retreated outside the palace.

Eunuch Zhu said left, and Eunuch Chang said right.

Li Yinyue said it was clearly the left, and Tan Jiuyue said it must be the right.

The left side is the most annoying, and the left side is the saint, said Princess Huayang Li Wanwan.

Prince Consort Shen didn't believe it.

The one on the right has the best appearance, and the one on the right is His Majesty, said Princess Anyang Li Mimi.

Prince Consort Mu refused to listen.

Prince Yu, Li Junbo, raised his voice and cursed Prince Ning for his treason. He begged Prince Ning to release the sage and Prince Anle...

King Ying holds Prince Liang, the fourth son of Concubine Xue, hostage. He wants to exchange Prince Liang's life for the safety of the Saint.

Princess Jinyang advised Prince Ning to stop immediately, while Princess Huaiyang continued to cause trouble.

I took a step forward.

Looking into the hall, I saw the saint wearing a Qiongqi mask and tied to a chair. He couldn't speak or move, and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

There was another person beside him.

He was also wearing the same mask and was also tied to a chair.

Although I am deaf, my nose is still intact.

The wine that Prince Ning offered to his brother was not wine, but kerosene.

He used wine as an excuse to bring kerosene into the palace.

The saint is surrounded by deadly hostility.

Prince Ning held the fire starter in his hand, and as soon as the kerosene caught fire, the three people in the Yongle Hall were immediately set on fire, and no one survived.

He wants to kill the king and his master, and he wants to die together with them.

"The one on the left is the saint's feet," said Li Jiaojiao.

"The one on the right is the saint's hand." Li Jiaojiao said.

Princess Shouyang was wavering, speaking left and right.

Minister Wang said that the one on the left was the saint's clothes, and General Cui said that the one on the right was the saint's jade.

That day, King Anle bid farewell to the saint.

The Prince of Qi was plotting a rebellion, and there were still some rebels hiding in the court. Prince Ning knew their names and came to tell them in order to make up for his mistakes. The three of them gathered in the Yongle Palace, which gave Prince Ning an opportunity.

Prince Ning holds the saint's life in his hands. If he lets go, the Yongle Palace will be engulfed in flames.

Things have come to this point, and there is no point in investigating further. Prince Ning has the emperor in his hands, and the whole world must obey his orders.

Prince Ning held the emperor hostage, threatened the world, and threatened the empress dowager.

The king confused the sage with King Anle. He asked someone to choose, and he asked Queen Dowager Feng to choose.

Son and nephew.

Saints and kings.

He asked people to bring bows and arrows and to draw the bows and put arrows on them.

You can only choose one between the sage and the king of peace and happiness.

Under Qiongqi, one person will be killed by a bow and arrow, and die in front of Empress Dowager Feng.

If he did not choose, Prince Ning would start a fire and burn the Yongle Palace and perish together with them.

The Li family cannot distinguish between the saint and King Anle.

Princess Leyang's face was covered with tears.

Princess Danyang summoned Consort Feng. When I arrived, Consort Feng, the most favored of the six imperial concubines, was outside the Yongle Palace, kowtowed and muttered, saying, "I don't know the saint, I don't know the saint..."

Left, right, to save or not to save, to kill or not to kill.

It was a matter of life and death, so the noise should have been deafening. Even though I was deaf, I could hear the panicked crying.

If a sage has no son, a country will have no heir.

If Your Majesty dies, Prince Ning will be guilty of a serious crime and will have no chance of succeeding to the throne.

King Wei was the eldest, and he tried his best to stop it. He wished that the Yongle Palace, along with all the people in it, would be destroyed in the sea of ​​fire.

The King of Yue was the heir, and his whole body was limp. He stood up and fell down again and again.

King Shu said left, and King Heng said right.

They are all willing to sacrifice their lives to save the saint's life.

It is clear who is loyal and who is treacherous.

Prince Li, the Queen Mother doesn't trust anyone.

The bow and arrow were originally in the hands of Li Junming, King Guangcheng.

King Guangcheng bowed and apologized with tears in his eyes, saying that he really did not know the king.

He presented the bow and arrow to the Empress Dowager of Xingqing Palace.

Prince Ning urged him several times in the palace, saying that if he didn't take action, he would kill the king and his brother immediately.

Everyone present had their own concerns, each for themselves, and each with their own ulterior motives.

The person beside him, the people around him, his confidants, his followers, his brothers, his sisters, none of them recognized Li Junqing?

The wrongful killing of a saint will cause chaos in the world.

Anle was shot to death, and Luoyang was furious.

Everyone was afraid of the worst. They were just afraid of accidentally hurting the saint or taking responsibility for killing King Anle.

The bow was given to me by the Empress Dowager, and the arrow is also in my hand, handed to me by Empress Dowager Feng herself.

The Queen Mother gave a solemn order and the mother begged to save her daughter.

Clothes are clothes, jade is jade, objects are objects, and people are people.

I cannot recognize King Anle, but I know the saint. Even if the crane slave turns into ashes and bones, I can recognize him.

Even if he wears a Taoist robe, he is still a saint; even if he wears a dragon robe, he is still a commoner.

In my life, I have only seen King Anle, whose heart is higher than the sky and whose character is lower than grass.

He is a wicked villain, a scoundrel and a thief. He used me as bait and he deserves to die.

"left……"

Liyang said.

"right……"

Yuyang Road.

"The person on the left is wearing the shoes of a saint..."

Yunyang called.

"The person on the right is wearing His Majesty's belt..."

Puyang shouted.

"The saint is on the left..."

Qinyang was anxious.

"Your Majesty is on the right..."

Nanyang cried.

The sounds of identification and arguing came one after another.

That time, my arrow was not aimed at Li Junqing.

Hold the bow and shoot the arrow.

An arrow pierced the heart.

While everyone was in a state of panic, I killed Prince Anle from the Eastern Capital Luoyang with a single arrow...