Chapter 60: People who don't do it for themselves
A few moments!
Li Zaigu took Pei Qian into Ganlu Hall to meet Li Er.
Pei Qian's right hand had already applied medicine, but he still couldn't move.
When Pei Qian saw Li Er, he hurriedly knelt down and called Sheng'an.
"Pei Qian, why did you kneel down?" Li Er glanced at Pei Qian sideways, and was powerful without being angry.
"Report to Your Majesty, I am guilty!" Pei Qian said tremblingly.
"Oh? What's your fault?" Li Er pretended to be confused.
"My...My..." Pei Qian couldn't say what he was guilty of.
"Speak up if you have something to say." Li Er and said kindly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Pei Qian stood up carefully.
He lowered his head, not daring to look at Li Er, nor to look at others.
The heart was beating very fast.
He was even more afraid to tell others about Li Zaigu's "transformation".
On the one hand, Li Zaigu warned him that if he dared to tell anyone about what happened in the unfinished room, he would die without a place to bury him;
On the other hand, he considered that even if he told others, others might not believe that such a strange thing had happened. Maybe he would suspect that he had hysteria.
Li Er did not speak, and the others did not speak, and the hall suddenly became extremely quiet.
The needle is so quiet that it sounds.
Such a quiet hall made Pei Qian even more panicked.
Li Zaigu felt strange, why didn’t everyone speak out? Didn’t he just say that he would interrogate Pei Ji?
Before he could figure out the situation, Li Zaigu had to remain silent.
Not long after, Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui hurried into the hall.
"See Your Majesty!" Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui bowed to Li Er together.
"No gift!" Li Er squeezed out a smile and said.
"What's the important thing about your Majesty urgently summoning me to the palace?" Xiao Yu asked cautiously.
Li Er put away a smile, pointed to Pei Qian who was standing beside him, and said to Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui: "Do you know this person?"
Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui's eyes immediately moved to Pei Qian and looked up and down.
Isn’t this person Pei Ji’s nephew? Why is it here?
Pei Ji was a senior official of the court. He knew each other and had contacts in private. The three of them naturally knew Pei Qian.
"I know you!" Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui responded.
"Yes, this person is the nephew of Zuo Pushe now." Li Er became serious. "I have summoned the three Qing families to come to ask the three Qing families to interrogate Pei Qian with me."
Interrogating Pei Qian? What did he do? Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui couldn't help but wonder.
Pei Qian heard that he was going to interrogate him, and his body trembled involuntarily.
"Your Majesty, what did Pei Qian do?" Xiao Yu asked again.
"I don't know whether he committed a crime, but his uncle Pei Ji committed a crime." Li Er said in a deep voice.
"Has Zuo Pushe committed a crime?" Xiao Yu was both surprised and confused.
Wei Ting and Wang Gui looked at each other and looked at Li Er in confusion.
"After interrogating Pei Qian, the families of all the ministers knew it clearly." Li Erdao.
Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui's faces changed slightly and they looked at each other.
Pei Qian's body trembled even harder.
When Li Zaigu heard this, his eyes turned and could guess the purpose of Li Er's move.
"Pei Qian!" Li Er turned to Pei Qian and said aloud.
"I... I am here!" Pei Qian hurriedly took a step forward and bowed.
"Tell the ministers present again what your uncle Pei Ji committed."
"After...by the order!"
He had no other choice, so he could only choose to betray Pei Ji.
He knew that the bloody book he had written was already in Li Er's hand, and even if he turned over his confession, no one would believe it.
What's more, he has already betrayed his uncle. Even if he succeeds in replacing his confession, if he pursues the matter he has betrayed him, he may not let him go.
Rather than doing this, it is better to do it all the time.
He knew in his heart that before Li Er ascended the throne, his uncle supported the former crown prince Li Jiancheng and had a lot of words to Li Er. After Li Er ascended the throne, his uncle even joined forces with other ministers, giving Li Er a lot of constraints, which made some of Li Er's new policies impossible to carry out.
In other words, after Li Er ascended the throne, he always wanted to find an opportunity to suppress Pei Ji.
If he defeated his uncle for Li Er, Li Er would definitely let him go. Maybe he would make a contribution to it.
As long as your uncle is really removed by Li Er, you don’t have to worry about being retaliated. There is another reason. If you turn your confession and say that the content of the blood letter is fake, Li Er will deal with him with the crime of deceiving the emperor, and he may die even more miserably.
In fact, in addition to the above reasons, the more important reason is that Li Zaigu.
In Pei Qian's eyes, Li Zaigu is a devil!
A devil who can take his life at any time!
He didn't want to die like this at a young age.
Death may not be the worst.
The worst thing is that life is worse than death!
If a man does not care for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth!
This sentence suddenly appeared in Pei Qian's mind.
So Pei Qian re-speaks what he had said to Li Zaigu before to the people present.
After hearing this, Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui changed their faces and their eyes were full of surprise.
"Pei Qian, is what you said true?" Wang Gui couldn't help but question Pei Qian, "You must know that if what you say is not true, it is the crime of deceiving the king! You have to think it clearly!"
Pei Qian glanced at Wang Gui, then looked at Li Er and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, everything I say is true!"
"Do you dare to confront Zuo Pushe?" Wang Gui said in a deep voice.
"I..." Pei Qian was worried.
"Of course Pei Qian dared to confront Pei Ji in front of him." Li Zaigu said on behalf of Pei Qian.
Everyone's eyes all fell on Li Zaigu's face.
Xiao Yu, Wei Ting and Wang Gui's dissatisfied eyes were still a little confused.
They had already noticed Li Zaigu, but the emperor did not introduce him, so they were embarrassed to ask who Li Zaigu was.
"Who are you? Why are you interrupting?" Wang Gui stared at Li Zaigu and said unhappy.
"I am just a minister who is loyal to Your Majesty and to the Tang Dynasty." Li Zaigu said with his head held high.
Wang Gui frowned immediately, not knowing how to refute.
Li Zaigu's response was completely unsightly, making Wang Gui unable to pick on the tricks.
"As for why you ask me why I interrupt, then I want to ask you, why did you question Pei Qian without His Majesty's permission? You are disrespectful to Your Majesty!" Li Zaigu continued to say lightly.
Wang Gui's lips moved, but after thinking about it carefully, he was not reasonable. Instead, what the young man said had to pay attention to.
If Your Majesty blames you, you can really give yourself a crime of being disrespectful to Your Majesty.
"Your Majesty, the King of Shizhong is not disrespectful to Your Majesty. But what Pei Qian said is really incredible. The King of Shizhong is also asking Pei Qian for his sake. He is in a hurry to question him." Xiao Yu hurriedly spoke for Wang Gui.
"Your Majesty, I also think that the King of the King did not intentionally disrespect your Majesty." Wei Ting also spoke for Wang Gui.
Fang Xuanling and several other ministers looked at each other tacitly, as if saying that Li Zaigu was really brave enough to dare to speak rudely to the old minister in front of His Majesty!
What is even more admirable is that Li Zaigu's refutation of Wang Gui's words made Wang Gui unable to refute, and he might even be convicted for his words.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Zaigu made a sound, he took Wang Gui and his army!
Chapter completed!