Chapter 106

Ao Jingchuan kicked open the door of the cold palace. When the desolate and dilapidated scene of the cold palace appeared in front of several people, Lin Nanjie was still shocked.

I don’t know how long it has been since anyone has lived in this cold palace. It is now in an extremely dilapidated state.

Cui Wuchen searched everywhere, and finally lifted the stone cover of a well in a corner of the abandoned palace. He was very excited: "This is it!"

Ao Jingchuan looked at the well and didn't understand why Cui Wuchen was so excited: "Isn't this just an abandoned well?"

Cui Wuchen sneered: "You don't understand this. This is called a cunning rabbit has three burrows."

Lin Nanqi immediately connected the matter: "Commander Ao, didn't you say that the emperor was missing, but he never left the palace?"

Ao Jingchuan was startled: "You said, there is a tunnel leading to the outside of this palace?"

Lin Nanjie nodded.

"Go down and take a look."

Ao Jingchuan said: "Master Lin, please stay here. I will lead the people down."

Cui Wuchen said: "I also have to go down to meet my junior brother."

Lin Nan said: "I'll go with you."

Ao Jingchuan was embarrassed: "But I don't know what the situation is like down there. If something happens and you fall into a trap, I won't be able to explain to the emperor."

Lin Nanjie insisted: "I can protect myself."

"I must go."

Ao Jingchuan couldn't persuade him, so he had to go down the well first.

Lin Nanjie followed behind and went down the well. The well was dry, with only a shallow layer of rainwater at the bottom. There was indeed a passage here, but it was locked from the inside. Ao Jingchuan directly cut off the iron lock and led his men to break in.

The tunnel was dark, damp and very cold. Ao Jingchuan took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it before he could see Fangcun.

Lin Nanjie raised his hand and pointed at the tunnel wall: "Look, there are traces of someone passing by here."

Ao Jingchuan and Cui Wuchen looked at the wall and saw traces of a sharp object that had recently scraped against the wall.

"Go! Forward!"

After walking for an unknown amount of time, even Cui Wuchen was frustrated: "Why is this tunnel so long? It's cold and stuffy. Why did the imperial palace build this?"

“It seems we’ve arrived.”

Lin Nanjie saw a faint light coming from the front.

The group came out of the tunnel, confused by the scene before them.

"What is this place?" Ao Jingchuan was confused. He never knew there was such a place in the capital.

This is a circular underground space. The surrounding walls seem to have existed for a long time. There are strange patterns and incomprehensible symbols painted on them. The top is very high, like a tower, but no one knows how high it is.

There are only a few places in the capital city that have pagodas: the Buddhist pagoda in Ci'en Temple, the Sutra Pagoda in Baoguo Temple, and the Stargazing Pagoda in the south of the city. These are the only three places, but I've been to all of them. They are not abandoned places.

In other words, the palace they were in was not something that people usually knew. Not to mention that this underground palace was connected to the imperial palace, and there was such a long tunnel underground, which was simply horrifying.

Lin Nanjie said: "It looks like an underground palace."

Ao Jingchuan looked at the surrounding environment, especially the patterns and spells on the wall, and felt a creepy feeling.

"This looks like a tower, but the towers in the capital are so abrupt, it doesn't look like one anywhere else?"

Cui Wuchen suddenly said, "I just remembered something. Is there a Wuliang Temple in your capital?"

Speaking of Wuliang Temple, Ao Jingchuan had an impression: "Isn't that the place where the elixir was refined during the time of the previous emperor? The previous emperor once went to Wuliang Temple to refine elixir and seek immortality. There is indeed a tower there, but Wuliang Temple has been abandoned for a long time."

Cui Wuchen nodded: "I think so."

Lin Nanqi also said: "It seems that this is their lair. I don't know where the emperor is now."

A few people were about to split up to look for it, when suddenly a huge net dropped from the sky, caught them and hung them in mid-air.

Lin Nanjie felt dizzy and was lifted into the air at high speed. When his body stopped, he found himself hanging in the air. After being lifted up, he found that the ground of the underground palace they were in was actually a huge Tai Chi Yin Yang diagram. The Yin Yang diagram was divided into black and white halves, and in the white center, there was a stone coffin.

Lin Nanjie suddenly had a bad feeling.

Cui Wuchen and Ao Jingchuan's men were also arrested.

"Who dares to plot against the imperial guards?" Ao Jingchuan shouted into the air.

There was no one in the underground palace, and the net seemed to appear out of nowhere, which was quite creepy.

Soon, a slender and familiar figure walked out from the darkness, and a pale-faced man slowly stood in front of them.

After seeing the man's face clearly, Lin Nan couldn't help but shout out his name: "Li Si? Why are you here?"

Lin Nanjie kindly asked, "I haven't seen you for a few days. Is my cat not causing trouble at your house?"

When Li Chengsi saw Lin Nanjie's harmless face, his cheeks twitched habitually. When he heard him mention cats, he even smelled a faint fishy smell on his body.

He gnashed his teeth and said, "You should be thankful that the little beast you raised didn't continue to commit evil, otherwise I would have made sure he died without a burial place."

Lin Nanjie's eyes widened: "It's just a cat, why are you so angry, brother Li? It would be bad if you get angry and hurt yourself."

[He was already seriously ill, and he still got angry about these things every day. I'm afraid this illness was caused by anger.]

Li Chengsi's fists creaked as he clenched them, and the anger in his heart rose again.

"Don't be too proud too soon, or you'll cry later."

Lin Nanjie asked: "Are you going to arrest us? What exactly do you want to do?"

Li Chengsi ignored Lin Nanjie and walked to the sarcophagus in the center of the underground palace. His eyes showed a twisted and eager light. His pale and sickly fingers stroked the intricate and bizarre patterns on the sarcophagus, and he kept muttering: "Li Chenghuan, Li Chenghuan, you are really my good brother. You actually persuaded my father to pass the throne to you when he was dying, and even wanted to let the imperial guards hunt me down. It's a pity that you planned everything, but you didn't expect that I would find a scapegoat for myself and escape from the cold palace."

"Now that I'm back, the throne should be returned to its rightful owner. You've been sitting on it for a few years for nothing, you must have enjoyed it. But unfortunately, everyone has their own destiny, and what doesn't belong to you will not belong to you in the end."

Li Chengsi's servants presented the dragon robe and crown and helped Li Chengsi put them on.

Li Chengsi, wearing a bright yellow dragon robe and a crown that belonged to an emperor, stood in the center of the underground palace and laughed loudly, "This world of Daqi will eventually belong to me, Li Chengsi!"

Lin Nanqi and Ao Jingchuan looked at the stone coffin in the underground palace in disbelief. Li Chengqian was in the stone coffin? Isn't that in imminent danger?

Lin Nanjie's heart suddenly became anxious.

[Your Majesty, Your Majesty, can you hear me? Wake up! ]

Li Chengsi heard Lin Nanjie's heartbeat, turned around and looked at him straight: "Don't call him, he can't hear."

Lin Nanjie's face turned pale: "What did you say?"

Li Chengsi's eyes showed a playful expression: "You are really an interesting person. You never thought that I could hear what you were thinking. Judging from your reaction, my good brother must have heard it too."

Lin Nanjie looked at him in disbelief.

Li Chengsi could actually hear his heartbeat. Was this some kind of royal-exclusive golden finger?

Lin Nanjie licked his lips: "So what else did you hear?"

Li Chengsi's expression was unpredictable: "What do you think?"

Lin Nanjie's mind was running uncontrollably:

[You won't turn pale like a vampire when you hear me and Li Chenghuan arguing, right? ]

[No wonder I always thought you looked a little weird. It doesn't look like your real appearance. Is it because you can't show it to people?]

[Even if I die, I want to be a clear-headed ghost. ]

Thinking of this, Lin Nanjie bravely asked, "Aren't you tired of wearing a mask every day?"

Li Chengsi sneered and took off his mask, revealing a strange yet somewhat familiar face. His complexion became even more sickly and pale, with long eyebrows slanting into his temples, and below them were a pair of gloomy and sinister eyes.

Lin Nanjie stared at his face and was stunned for a moment: [He looks a bit like Li Chenghuan, they are indeed brothers.]

Who knew that this sentence would anger Li Chengsi: "I am the eldest son of the royal family. Even if there is a resemblance, he is more like me!"

Ao Jingchuan and Cui Wuchen were completely confused. Why did Li Chengsi suddenly start talking to himself as if he had gone crazy?

Even Cui Wujiu, who had just walked out, was shocked. He saw Li Chengsi talking to himself in front of Lin Nanjie, as if he had seen a ghost.

"My Lord, the ceremony can begin."

Lin Nanjie, Ao Jingchuan and Cui Wuchen looked at each other.

What ceremony?

Cui Wuchen frowned and said to Cui Wugou, "Brother, don't go astray. I see that the former crown prince is a person who is terminally ill and beyond cure. Are you going to use the evil magic of reversing yin and yang for him?"

Cui Wugui walked in front of Cui Wuchen with a sinister look on his face: "Brother, you still understand me."

Cui Wuchen thought his junior fellow apprentice was simply crazy.

"There is no such thing as a way to reverse yin and yang in this world. Why do you have to go against the will of heaven?"

Cui Wu Gou sneered: "The winner is the king, the loser is the enemy. If I succeed, I will be second to none and above ten thousand people, and my name will go down in history. But you can only die miserably in this underground palace."

Cui Wuchen was heartbroken and said, "Have you forgotten your master's teachings?"

Speaking of his master, Cui Wujiu's expression became even more sinister: "My master is biased and asked me to be expelled from the sect. Today I want to let him see who is better!"

"You are possessed and unreasonable! Put down your butcher knife as soon as possible, there is still a chance to turn back!"

Cui Wu Gou sneered, "You are almost dead and yet you are still trying to persuade me. Instead of spending this time, you should think about how to arrange your own funeral."

Li Chengsi urged impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense and hold the ceremony."

Lin Nanjie asked Cui Wuchen in a low voice: "What kind of consciousness is it?"

Cui Wuchen looked at the two people below who were obsessed with magic and sighed: "My master has a book that records some magic techniques. Among them is a magic technique that reverses yin and yang. It is to place two people who are born from the same origin in the yin and yang formation, reverse black and white, reverse yin and yang, and exchange lives."

林楠績皺了皺眉：“真有這樣的術法？”

崔無塵也說不出個所以然來：“沒見人用過，你問我，我問誰去。”

說着，崔無塵欲言又止地看着林楠績：“其實吧，老兒本來是不信這世間有什麽陰陽逆轉之術的，只是看見你，倒是不由地懷疑了。”

敖敬川聽得一頭霧水：“什麽東西？”

就在這時，不知道崔無垢念了什麽咒語，地宮忽然間地動山搖起來，地面上的太陰陰陽圖竟然快速轉動。

這陣法轉得林楠績想吐，敖敬川和崔無塵的臉色也很是難看。

崔無塵一邊轉，一邊嚎叫：“太快了，太快了！老頭子禁不起這麽轉啊！”

林楠績也被轉得七葷八素的，仍然感到不可置信：“這世間竟然真有陰陽逆轉之術，真的可以将活人的陽壽嫁接到将死之人身上嗎？”

崔無塵邊轉邊嘔，上氣不接下氣道：“別問了，我也沒試過！”

林楠績倒是聽說過用至親之人的血液換血延長壽命的說法，确實延長了壽命，甚至可以延續青春，可那也是在現代高端醫療極度發達的情況下才出現的個例，這古代的陰陽五行竟然也有此效果？

他的唯物主義觀搖搖欲墜。

眼下李承銑被關在石棺裏，看不見人，林楠績心中焦急，卻也沒有辦法。

不行，不能這樣下去。

他得博一把。

慌亂轉動間，他沖着敖敬川喊道：“敖統領，可否砍斷我上面的繩索？”

敖敬川被網住，難以動彈，掙紮着抽出腰間的佩刀：“我盡力一試！”

幾人在空中晃動，本就難以施展，敖敬川飛了九牛二虎之力，終于砍斷繩索，林楠績重重墜地。

他連忙掙脫身上的網，往石棺的方向跑去，好不容易碰到的石棺，卻發現這石棺極其的重，他廢了很大力氣，也只将棺材蓋推開一角。

就在這時，陣法停了。

李承禩睜開眼睛，站了起來，低頭看着自己的雙手，雙眼急切地看向崔無垢：“崔先生，成了嗎？”

就在這時，林楠績終于将棺材蓋推開，崔無垢正要上前阻止，忽然看見棺材裏面，瞬間整個人臉色慘白。

林楠績看着空空如也的棺椁，也露出愕然的神情。

棺材裏的人，是錦衣。

面色慘白，沒有生息地躺在冰冷的石棺裏。

林楠績忽然明白了什麽，趁着兩人不備，悄悄後退了幾步。

李承禩不敢相信地跑到棺材邊，看見棺材裏的錦衣後，整個人像是被打了一記悶棍，不敢相信自己看到的景象。

“人呢？這怎麽可能！”

話音剛落，從地宮的四面八方傳來铠甲碰撞和腳步重重踩在地面的聲音，崔無垢警惕地看向四周：“這是怎麽回事？”

緊接着，李承禩在地宮守着的人全部被沖破，身穿铠甲的士兵從四個方向的入口闖進來，為首的人，正是華衡。

林楠績驚醒地喊出聲：“舅舅！”

華衡帶人迅速将這裏包圍，并将李承禩和崔無垢拿下。

崔無塵被人放下來，蹦跶到崔無垢面前，朗聲大笑：“師弟啊師弟，到底是誰的死期快要到了？”

李承禩被這突如其來的變故打得措手不及，頭上的冠冕都歪了，極其惱怒：“這是怎麽回事？”

崔無垢站到他身側：“這不可能，我分明提前在城中部署，此刻京城應該被控制住了才對！”

就在這時，李承銑走了出來：“李承禩，你的伎倆拙劣之極，該不會以為我看不出來？”

李承禩一看見李承銑，便雙目赤紅：“李承銑！”

李承銑冷冷地看着他：“當年父皇昏聩，抛下朝政，一心想要修煉成仙，聽信術士的蠱惑，求仙問藥，損害龍體，置百姓于水深火熱之中。你非但不加阻止，反而大力搜羅術士，鬧得民不聊生，如今還想反撲，且去問問這天下人答應不答應！”

李承禩雙目赤紅：“你這分明是狡辯，我是父皇的長子，生下來就立了太子，可卻遲遲不傳位于我，你又怎知我的處境！這皇位本就名正言順的屬于我，是你陰謀篡位，害了父皇，還想加害于我。名不正言不順的是你！”

李承禩面容冷靜：“父皇傳位于我，有當朝的馮閣老和王文鶴作證，你再信口雌黃，也不能颠倒黑白。”

“況且你所謂的逆轉陰陽根本是無稽之談，此前借大夫給你看病之際，已經探清楚了你患病的虛實，你的身子即使我不動你，也支撐不了多久。”

“李承禩，認清事實吧。”

李承禩看着李承銑，忽然仰天大笑：“即便如此，那又如何，等你百年之後，這大齊的江山，還是屬于我的血脈！”

這話一出，所有人都愣住了，不知道李承禩是什麽意思。

就在李承禩要被押走的時候，走過李承銑身邊的時候，突然低聲笑了。

林楠績看着李承禩被押走的背影，忽然在心裏來了一句：【可是，小太子李敬榆并非你的血脈。】

【真要說起來，小太子應該算是你的幺弟，他是先帝的遺腹子。】

李承禩難以置信地轉過頭來，看着林楠績，神情激動：“不可能，絕不可能！”

李承銑嗤笑一聲，涼涼地看着李承禩：“他說的沒錯。”

李承禩突然癫狂起來，一會兒哭一會兒笑，口中一直在說着：“怎麽可能，你們騙我！你們騙我！”

在場的人面面相觑，不知道李承禩怎麽就瘋了。

不過眼下始作俑者被抓住了，一切塵埃落定。

***

暴雨過去，整個京城像是被水洗過一般鮮亮。

今日是中秋佳節，整個京城都散發着團圓美滿的氣息，太後宮裏擺了家宴，長公主帶着陸乘風早早就在慈寧宮陪着太後說話。陸乘風嘴甜，将太後哄得樂不可支。

李雲鸾旁敲側擊地問：“聽說母後前段時間将林楠績訓斥了一頓？”

太後臉色有些不自在：“确有此事。”

李雲鸾給太後捶着肩膀：“女兒覺得林大人倒是十分不錯，心底善良，願意為百姓做事。”

太後聽着察覺出不對勁來了，忽然轉頭看她：“怎麽，你也知道？”

李雲鸾讪讪地笑了：“不光女兒知道。”

太後：？

“朝中的幾位大人也都知道。”

太後“啧”了一聲：“你們這樣搞的，倒顯得我少見多怪了。”

李承銑和林楠績料理完前朝的事情，回到後宮一起走進慈寧宮。

太後見林楠績進來還有些許的不自在，不過還是說道：“都坐吧，在哀家這裏，不用拘束。”

李承銑在皇宮消失的事，太後也是後來才知道的，能夠回來已經是萬幸。在聽說林楠績不顧安危進入地宮想要救人以後，太後心裏那點阻礙的心思也就徹底煙消雲散了。

不管怎麽說，能平安回來就好。

宮裏的中秋家宴是在禦花園中的萬壽閣擺的，滿滿當當的一桌子美味佳肴，看得人食指大動。皓月當空，萬裏無雲，明亮的月亮将皎潔的月輝灑向京城大地，一派祥和。

李承銑拉着林楠績站起來，端起酒杯，朝太後敬酒：“母後，兒臣和皇後敬您一杯。”

林楠績舉着酒杯，心中有些忐忑：“微臣敬太後娘娘。”

太後嘆了一口氣：“還叫太後娘娘，生分了。”

林楠績和李承銑對視一眼，眼中泛起笑意：“母後。”

太後臉上露出笑容，舉起酒杯：“你們這杯酒，哀家應下了，往後你們是一國之君和一國之後，攜手共治，讓大齊百姓安居樂業。”

林楠績和李承銑都在對方眼中看見動容和喜悅，齊聲應下：“謹遵母後教誨。”

李敬榆小孩裝大人，跟着說道：“孫兒也要敬祖母一杯，祝祖母福如東海壽比南山，以後孫兒也要向父皇一樣，守護大齊百姓。”

“好，好！”

中秋之夜，萬壽亭內，其樂融融。

***

中秋晚宴散了，嶺南盡吃了吃多了些酒有點暈暈乎乎的被李成賢挽着走出慈寧宮，他看着天上的月亮，眯着雙眼忽然說道：“想去月亮上瞧瞧。”

李成縣也有喝醉了，聽了丁燃氣的話，進而認真地思考片刻，然後鄭重點頭：“好，那就去月亮上看看。”

緊接着，周圍的宮女太監一陣驚呼聲中，李承賢拿着嶺南街的腰越上最近的屋頂，然後在皇宮屋頂上一路疾馳飄飄欲仙仿佛仙人僵屍。嶺南記看着腳下的華麗工程在腳下請說腳下，睜大的雙眼贊嘆不已，然後他們出了皇宮外面中秋家宴全寫了，全都萬籁俱寂。

中秋晚宴散了，林楠績吃多了些酒，有些暈暈乎乎的，被李承銑扶着走出慈寧宮。他看着天上的月亮，眯着雙眼，忽然說道：“想去月亮上瞧瞧。”

李承銑也有些喝醉了，聽了林楠績的話，竟然認真地思考片刻，然後鄭重點頭：“好，那就去月亮上看看。”

Then, amid the exclamations of the surrounding palace maids and eunuchs, Li Chenghuan held Lin Nanjie's waist and climbed up to the nearest rooftop, then sped along the high eaves of the imperial palace, like an immortal floating out of the dust, and went out of the palace. Lin Nanjie's magnificent palace passed by under his feet, and he opened his eyes wide and admired it endlessly.

After leaving the palace, the vast capital city was completely silent.

The cool breeze blew, Lin Nanjie hugged Li Chenghuan's neck, enjoying the night breeze.

Then, they stopped at a house and sat down. Li Chenghuan took out a flute from his arms.

Lin Nanqi's drunkenness was somewhat blown away by the wind. Looking at the white jade flute in his hand, he asked, "Your Majesty can also play the flute?"

Li Chengqian: "I know a little bit. I played it for fun when I was young."

He put the flute to his lips and blew out a melodious sound.

Lin Nanqi rested her head on his shoulder, listening to the beautiful sound of Han Zong's flute in the night wind. Their black hair intertwined, there was no better moment in the world than this.

After Li Chenghuan finished playing a piece of music, he looked at Lin Nanjie's jade-like face and lowered his head to kiss his pale thin lips.

Both of them were filled with emotion, and the kiss became deeper and deeper. Lin Nanjie's hands clung to Li Chenghuan's shoulders.

He asked dazedly, "Do you want to go to my house?"

Li Chenghuan did not answer, he just wanted to deepen the kiss.

At this moment, a dart hit them, and a loud roar came from the courtyard below: "Where did you come from? How dare you act wild on my roof?"

Upon hearing this loud and familiar voice, Li Chenghuan and Lin Nanjie were awakened from their drunkenness.

Uncle...Uncle!

[Why did you end up on my uncle's roof? ]

[What should I do if I am caught by my uncle? 】

Li Chenghuan felt both innocent and regretful. He just stopped anywhere, but who knew he would stop in Washington, and in the house he had recently been awarded. This was simply shooting himself in the foot.

The two looked at each other.

“Run!”