Chapter 688： confrontation

The entire Chongsheng Temple was under martial law. Gao's army had surrounded the Chongsheng Temple. Qi Haoran also mixed in the crowd to look at the majestic temple of the Chongsheng Temple. Now even ordinary people know that the Gao Clan wanted to take the Duan Clan. Instead.

Of course, the Gao Clan also had a very good reason to arrest the murderers of the prince—the queen and the eldest princess.

Regardless of whether people believe it or not, Gao found a very righteous and noble reason to rebel.

The prince of Dali is the emperor's nephew and the cousin of the eldest princess. He has been brought into the palace for upbringing since he was a child. In the eldest princess and Zhu, that is, last year, the emperor officially named him the prince. , Before the prince's funeral, General Gao led his soldiers to storm the palace, asking the emperor to hand over the eldest princess and the queen who murdered the prince.

The eldest princess disappeared, the emperor and the queen took refuge in the Chongsheng Temple under the protection of the guards, and the Gao family swore to seek justice for the prince, but ordinary people knew that this was just an excuse for the Gao family.

There is no queen's argument in Dali. The eldest princess and the prince grew up together. They have always had a good relationship and no entanglement of interests. Why did the eldest princess harm the prince?

However, Mr. Gao had human and material evidence in his hands. There were letters from the eldest princess who colluded with the guards around the prince, and confessions from the killer who was assigned by the eldest princess to murder the prince. The situation is stalemate, and the two sides sent people to identify the authenticity, but they couldn't tell the reason, because these can be faked.

Now that the Gao clan is surrounding the Chongsheng Temple to ask the emperor to hand over the empress, the emperor naturally cannot agree, even if all the ministers kneel on the ground, the emperor still stubbornly does not say a word, and resolutely does not let anyone take the empress away.

It's not that he has a lot of affection for the queen, but that he knows that capturing the queen is just an excuse for them. If he hands the queen over, Gao's next target will be him and the eldest princess.

The daughter is the emperor's bottom line, and the Gao family has already touched his line. The two sides are in an endless ending. He can only try to delay the time so that his daughter has more time to escape. The queen is a tool for delaying time. Too.

The Queen    obviously knows this, so for the safety of her daughter, she has been careful to save her life these days, hoping to delay it a little longer.

When the emperor staggered in with a cane, what he saw was the empress kneeling devoutly to the Buddha. He looked up at the Bodhisattva who was merciful and compassionate, and sighed slightly.

The Queen heard the movement and turned around quickly, "Your Majesty, what did the master host say, are the elders willing to see us?"

The emperor shook his head slightly, "The elders are getting old, and they can't retreat. The host handed them a letter, but it's hard to ask now."

Queen's eyes were slightly red, and she said, "Yes, this is Duan's country."

The emperor sighed and shook his head slightly.

The Duan family has always been the ruler of Dali. When Dali was an independent country, the Duan family was the emperor. When Dali was a prefecture, the Duan family was the king of Zhennan who was entrusted to the imperial court. The last time Dali came out from Dazhou was his father. At that time, their brothers were already fighting for the title of King Zhennan. When his father separated Dali as an independent country, the fight became more intense.

When he finally ascended the throne, his father became one of the few Dali emperors and Zhennan kings who did not enter the Chongsheng Temple to be ordained, because he only abdicated for five days and died of illness.

The Duan family has always lived a long life, especially King Zhennan who is willing to enter the Chongsheng Temple to practice cultivation. For example, his grandfather and great grandfather are still alive today. His grandfather is 87 years old this year, and his great grandfather is 103 years old. still built.

But it seems to be God's retribution for fleeing to fight for the throne with blood on his hands. His brothers died in the struggle, affecting their children. In the end, when he became emperor, only the younger son of his second brother was alive, and he, I have only one daughter in my life.

It is precisely because of this that he has been exercising benevolent governance over the years, reducing and exempting taxes many times, just to accumulate more merit, so that the only two remaining bloodlines can grow up safely.

He has already chosen to abdicate to the crown prince at the age of fifty-five, but who knew that such a thing would happen suddenly?

The emperor felt that this was really the retribution of his youth. He didn't know if the elders thought the same way, so he refused to come out to see him. In fact, as long as the elders were willing to come forward, with the merits of the network accumulated by their ancestors, Gao was the Can't resist him.

But the monks are outside the world. Even if there have been several incidents in the history of Chongsheng Temple that helped the Duan clan to set things right, he was not sure that Chongsheng Temple would be willing to stand up for him. After all, his daughter was in Chongsheng. The temple was sent away.

Chongsheng Temple has the duty to protect Duan's bloodline, but because the eldest princess is a daughter, not a son, Chongsheng Temple would not do her best to protect her. The emperor was very annoyed, and naturally didn't like those elders who had never come forward. and expectations.

The couple knelt in front of the Buddha hand in hand, earnestly praying for the safety and happiness of their daughter...

At this time, Qi Haoran, who wanted to sneak into Chongsheng Temple, was staring at the person in his hands with a blue face, and ordered Fei Bai with a blue face, "Go and find out who this person is."

Feibai heard someone coming this way, and he responded anxiously: "Master, let's go quickly, or it will be too late."

Qi Haoran nodded, stretched out his hand and was about to throw the person in his hand away. After thinking about it, he was not cruel enough to run away with him. Even if they were all good, everyone was chased hard, especially Qi Haoran's hand. He also brought an injured and comatose person. He wanted to throw the person away several times, but he felt that the possibility of escape was quite high, and he didn't want to take a life on his back. Qi Haoran just carried the person like this. into a ruined temple.

Feibai came over from behind, sweating profusely, and said, "Master, the man has been thrown away."

Qi Haoran then dropped the man in his hands and instructed his subordinates, "Treat his wounds and ask him where he is when he wakes up."

"Feibai, take someone to Chongsheng Temple tomorrow to see how their defenses have changed. We have to find time to sneak into the temple."

"Master, this time we alerted the guards, it would be too difficult and dangerous to get in any more."

Qi Haoran said: "Try again, if it doesn't work, we will withdraw."

He originally went with the attitude of giving it a try. It would be nice if he could see the emperor of Dali, and he would regret not seeing him. The people of the sanctuary attracted guards.

They had to retreat temporarily.

Qi Haoran ordered to come over to see the person who had been wrapped into a zongzi, and asked, "How is it, will he die?"

The bodyguard who bandaged the wounded man wiped his sweat and said, "Master Hui, he should not die. Although this person has many injuries, they are not fatal. The person fainted because of excessive blood loss. Now that the bleeding has stopped, give He should be able to wake up by pouring some blood supplements."