Chapter 74

In short, there were all kinds of talk.

"His Majesty has arrived!"

With a loud shout, the exhausted Li Er walked slowly into the great hall.

Another night without sleep.

Li Er now had no heart to attend the morning court.

He planned to handle a few tasks casually and then hurry to continue searching for the whereabouts of Zhangsun Wugou and Changle.

The Taiji Palace was silent.

No one spoke, and no one made a sound.

A death-like feeling made people feel a bit breathless.

"Never mind, since there is nothing, then dismiss the court."

Li Er waved his hand and stood up, preparing to leave.

"Your Majesty!"

A eunuch ran into the great hall in a panic, breaking the silence of the Taiji Palace.

Everyone focused their eyes on him in an instant.

"What is it?"

Li Er's eyes suddenly brightened, feeling a bit afraid in his heart.

At this very moment.

What he feared most was bad news.

"Liang Duke Fang Xuanling requests an audience outside the hall."

The eunuch replied.

Once these words were spoken, whispers immediately appeared in the Taiji Palace.

"Isn't Liang Duke ill? Why has he suddenly come to court?"

"Yes!"

"What is going on?"

Li Er frowned and said somewhat displeased: "If he requests an audience, let him have it; why be so panicked?"

"Your Majesty, Liang Duke is not alone, he also..."

The eunuch stammered, his face full of difficulty.

"What is going on? Speak quickly!"

Li Er was already a bit impatient.

He was in no mood to play riddles here.

"He is also carrying a coffin!"

The eunuch gritted his teeth and replied.

The Taiji Palace was suddenly in an uproar.

What?

Bringing a coffin to court?

What kind of trick is this?

Everyone was puzzled.

No one knew what Fang Xuanling meant.

"Let him in!"

Li Er frowned tightly, suppressing the anger in his heart, and sat back on the throne.

It was only because Fang Xuanling had such great face.

If it were anyone else, daring to bring a coffin to the Taiji Palace, they would probably have been torn apart by five horses long ago!

Soon.

Fang Xuanling walked into the great hall.

Behind him, several servants carried a coffin and also walked in.

"Xuanling, have you gone mad? What place is this? How can you act so recklessly?"

"Yes! Liang Duke, you have been keeping to yourself these days; do you really not know that a major event has happened in the imperial court?"

"Xuanling, you must not add to the Emperor's troubles."

Some high officials who were on good terms with Fang Xuanling whispered their advice.

It was outrageous!

At this critical moment, why are you still causing trouble?

"Xuanling, what is going on with you?"

Looking at the coffin behind Fang Xuanling, Li Er felt an indescribable annoyance in his heart.

His wife and daughter were missing and their fate unknown, and his closest minister was actually causing such a scene in public.

Annoying!

Truly annoying!

"Your Majesty, your subject has committed a monstrous crime, knowing that it is too late to repent, and now nothing can redeem my sin; I ask Your Majesty to grant me death to pay for the lives of the Empress and the Princess."

Fang Xuanling knelt directly on the ground, closing his eyes in despair.

Once this sentence was spoken, the entire Taiji Palace exploded.

What does that mean?

Pay for the lives of the Empress and the Princess?

Could it be that Fang Xuanling knows the whereabouts of the Empress and the Princess?

Li Er's eyes widened like lanterns, his roar echoing throughout the Taiji Palace.

"Fang Xuanling!!!"

"I have known you for over ten years, sharing thoughts and treating you as a confidant. If you still consider me your lord, tell me everything you know." Li Er believed that Fang Xuanling must know something, otherwise he would not have come to the Taiji Palace with the determination to die.

"Your Majesty, your subject deserves to die!"

"Tibet has long ceased to exist! When your subject was an envoy to Tibet, the rebel Qin Mu had already led 200,000 troops to capture the Tibetan capital Lhasa, declaring himself emperor, changing the national title to Qin, and swearing not to coexist with the Great Tang."

"Subsequently, Qin Mu ordered people to impersonate the Tibetan envoy group, using Lu Dongzan as the envoy, just to get the marriage princess in Changancheng. And the rebel Qin Mu himself also mixed into the envoy group, secretly manipulating everything."

"Your subject estimates that the Empress and the Princess must have been kidnapped by Qin Mu; otherwise, the Tibetan envoy group could not have left the capital so hurriedly!"

After Fang Xuanling finished speaking, it was like a powerful bomb that completely exploded in the entire Taiji Palace!