Cui Geng's temporary mansion.

Li Xian's face was full of anxiety, and he said, "Cui Aiqing, hurry up and save the children of the Lonely King." ”

Empress Wei was also teary-eyed at this time, and said: "In the past, there were many places in this palace that offended Cui Cha, and here, I will not compensate you." But, no matter what, you have to save Run'er and Hui'er, without them, what's the point of living in this palace? ”

As soon as Wu Zetian's will arrived, these two were completely dumbfounded, they didn't have the courage to persuade Wu Zetian to take back their fate, so they had to hold the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and secretly came to Cui Geng, who often created miracles in the impossible.

Cui Geng couldn't help it, he clearly remembered that in history, these three were indeed killed by Wu Zetian's staff. If you want them to live, there is no historical experience to refer to, what can be done?

His mind was racing, and he forced himself to calm down and said: "Don't worry, you two first, to be honest, Your Majesty is resolute and arbitrary." If we hope to convince her with a whim, it is completely impossible. ”

Li Xiandao: "Then what do you say?" ”

"For today's plan, we can only understand Your Majesty's reasoning, move with affection, and find Your Majesty's most trusted person to intercede, so that we can turn around."

"The most trusted person?" Li Xian groaned: "Among the ministers of the DPRK and China, Di Xiang is counted as one, and there are ......."

Empress Wei blurted out and said, "Wu Sansi! ”

When Cui Geng heard this, his face was not very respectful, and he said, "Weichen thinks that Your Majesty trusts Wu Sansi. However, to say that Wu Sansi really thinks about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it is a big joke in the world. ”

Empress Wei said unconvinced: "Why do you say that about King Liang? He ......"

"He has a lot of sweet things to say to you!" Cui Gengqiang endured it, so he didn't say the five words "got into your bed", and said in a deep voice: "This matter is related to the safety of King Shao and Princess Yongtai, anyway, this is Weichen's opinion." Whether you listen to it or not depends on what you mean, Princess. ”

"I ......"

Cui Geng's past exploits were too scary, and Empress Wei really didn't dare to take risks, and said, "Okay, don't think about martial arts." But others...... It's gone. ”

Wu Zetian uses people, he likes to change them like a marquee, if you want to say that you absolutely trust, except for Cui Geng, you really can't find anyone else among the courtiers except Di Renjie.

Cui Geng thought for a moment and said, "Then start from other directions, and Weichen can still think of three people." ”

"What? Do you have three people? Empress Wei folded his fingers and calculated: "Shangguan Wan'er counts one, and Gao Lishi can also count one, so who is the third person?" ”

"Xue Aocao."

Li Xian blurted out and said, "Donkey-sized licensed? ”

Cui Geng smiled bitterly: "Uh...... It's this person.

I think that at the beginning, Cui Geng once helped Wu Sansi rob a beautiful boy into the palace, and this person was Xue Aocao.

His crotch ~ is very majestic, and he was once very favored by Wu Zetian. But later, when Erzhang entered the palace, Xue Aocao only had this one strength, so he was not very popular. However, Wu Zetian had nothing to do and asked him for snacks or something, Xue Aocao was the most favored male concubine except for the two brothers.

Xue Aocao is famous for his crotch ~ things, but the relationship between him and Cui Geng is far from being widely known.

After hearing Cui Geng say that he only had a one-sided relationship with Xue Aocao, he hesitated even more, and said in confusion: "The lonely king heard that this Xue Aocao is very duty-bound and never causes trouble. With your friendship with him, can you really let him speak for this king? ”

Cui Geng nodded and said, "There should be no problem." ”

"Then the lonely king is going to invite Di Xiang out of the mountain, you quickly enter the palace to find Xue Aocao."

"As it should be."

Cui Geng took Wei Shifang and met Princess Taiping first. Then, pretending to be two eunuchs, together with Princess Taiping, entered the palace.

First of all, they found Shangguan Wan'er and asked her to cooperate with Gao Lishi and find a way to delay a little.

Colliers is an upright person, and he doesn't need to bother to talk about it.

Then, it's time to persuade Xue Aocao.

Ruyi Palace.

"Master Cui? Didn't you go to Kennando? When did you come back? Cui Geng returned to his original appearance, and Xue Aocao was stunned.

Cui Geng sighed and said; "Now that the prince is in danger, I ran back secretly."

Then, he explained what had happened.

To be honest, what kind of character is this Xue Aocao, Cui Geng is only judging according to the records of later generations, and today is really a bit reckless.

It's very simple, and there are many kinds of accounts.

For example, it is definitely not very reliable to say that Xue Aocao is the reincarnation of the Heavenly God Donkey. However, in this unreliable, is the description of his character reliable? It's hard to say.

There is also an account that Xue Aocao later became an immortal. It is definitely unreliable to say that he became an immortal. But the previous narrative is very similar to that, is there any basis for it?

All kinds of legends are strange, although most people say that Xue Aocao is a righteous man and a gentleman, but who can guarantee that the description of that small number must be wrong?

If it weren't for the fact that today's situation was really urgent, Cui Geng would really not be in this risk. Therefore, after finishing speaking, a layer of fine cold sweat had oozed from his forehead, and he said, "Brother Xue, if you really don't want to wade into this muddy water, I will never force it." ”

"What did Master Cui say about this?" Xue Aocao said: "Although Xue is useless, he also knows the word loyalty. Since I have received great grace from Your Majesty and enjoyed wealth, I should be loyal to Your Majesty. She wants to kill her grandson and granddaughter today, if I don't stop her, is it still a person? ”

"Okay, then how are you going to advise Your Majesty?"

Xue Aocao sold a pass and said, "The secret of heaven cannot be revealed, but I have to prepare first." ”

If you don't say it, don't say it, Cui Geng didn't have time to grind his teeth with him, so he quickly returned to the appearance of a eunuch and went out of the palace with Princess Taiping.

Then, he pretended to be Cui Ying and went to the palace to meet the driver.

After such a long time of tossing, Cui Geng's request to see Wu Zetian again was no longer abrupt. Without it, at this time, the ministers outside the palace who asked for an audience were already crowded outside the palace gate. To put it mildly, it's not so neat on weekdays.

There is no way, Wu Zetian wants to kill his grandchildren, as a minister, at this time, according to feudal morality, if he does not persuade him, he is disloyal. Therefore, not to mention Cui Geng, the Shangshu Zuo Shilang, is also among the newcomer Prime Minister Yang Zaisi, who has always flattered Erzhang.

"Your Majesty has a decree to announce that all the ministers will see you in Hanyuan Palace!"

"Yes!"

The courtiers answered, and the fish rushed in.

I entered the palace, but I saw that Her Majesty's face was sinking like water, and she had been waiting for a long time.

In the middle of the main hall, Shangguan Wan'er and Gao Lishi knelt on the ground, their expressions were aggrieved, and blood was dripping on their foreheads. Looking at that posture, if it weren't for the two eunuchs supporting them, these two would have died a long time ago.

Oh no!

The ministers secretly gasped, knelt on the ground and said, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"Excuse me."

"Long live thanks!"

Wendong Wuxi, stand in shifts.

Wu Zetian's old face flashed a hideous smile, and he said gloomily: "That's good, it's good enough, my Da Zhou is really a dynasty." The people around me are not bad, this Gao Lishi and Shangguan Wan'er are going to die. You say...... With so many people opposing it, if I insist on doing it, isn't it, just a faint king? ”

This is too difficult to accept, the ministers looked at each other, and had to kneel down again, saying, "The ministers don't dare!" ”

Wu Zetian was scathing and said, "Don't dare? Don't you dare to say? Still don't dare to think so? Hmph, no matter what you think, I have made up my mind today, Li Xianhui, the princess of Yongtai, Li Chongrun, the king of Shao, and Wu Yanji, the king of Wei, are rebellious and rude, and they are guilty of disobedience, and they are about to ...... Rod! ”

"Your Majesty is gracious!" The ministers fell to their knees again.

Wu Zetian has been in power for more than 20 years, and he has long developed the habit of being calm and calm in the face of all affairs. With such a mean tone today, it is obvious that the anger in my heart has reached the extreme.

Next, according to her rules, the next step should be to kill.

Wu Zetian didn't even raise his eyelids, waved his hand, and said; "Execution!"

"Whoa!"

The warriors outside the hall didn't dare to do that, so they knocked down the three golden branches and jade leaves, raised the torture stick, and said, "Several, bear with it, just take a situation." The small hands are neat and tidy, and you will definitely be able to climb the ...... early Bliss! ”

Syllable!

A stick goes down, bloody and heavy, but it doesn't hurt much.

Syllable!

The two sticks went down, and the three of them let out a miserable scream in unison.

Syllable!

Three sticks went down, his clothes were torn, and blood was gushing.

In fact, this is already to reduce their pain as much as possible, and then it is time for the fourth stick: to hit the top of the head! If you smash this down, the three of them will definitely die!

But at this moment, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps, and a young man wearing only a pair of shorts and carrying a ghost-headed knife walked a few steps closer to him, and said, "Leave people under the stick!" ”