Chapter 702: last pawn
Chapter 702 The Last Piece
Late at night, Beibin Wangfu
Lin Tingyan is sitting in the warm pavilion, holding a chess piece thoughtfully in a daze. The black and white chess pieces on the chessboard account for half of them, filling the entire chessboard, and he has not studied the chess game he wanted.
Suddenly, the arrival of an uninvited guest immediately broke the peace in the warm cabinet.
"Your Highness's chess skills are becoming more and more superb."
The mysterious man took off the cloak on his head and complimented him with respect.
Hearing the voice, Lin Tingyan raised his head slowly, and seeing that it was Yang Runchen, he immediately flew into a rage and said, "Yang Situ, you are crazy, how dare you commit treason again and again."
"Your Highness, this is the end of the matter, and there is no way out for this old man."
Yang Runchen sat down slowly and looked at him quietly, with endless desolation and loneliness in his eyes.
"Did you arrange the assassin at Dongshikou just now?"
Lin Tingyan glared at him dissatisfied.
Yang Runchen's deep eyes were slightly sunken, and he continued to look at the chess game silently. After pondering for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "If Your Highness is not willing to discard the black chess in his hand, he will definitely let the white chess swallow them all. For the present plan, we should use the only black chess. The black chess pieces are thrown into the white chess pieces, fighting for a way out with one piece."
Lin Tingyan squeezed the sunspot in his hand and rubbed it back and forth between his forehead, and sighed anxiously: "Must it be like this?"
"It has to be."
Yang Runchen said categorically: "The current situation does not allow us to hesitate any longer. Then Du Jiuzhen was arrested for several days, and there is still no news from Tingwei's Mansion. The old minister is worried that he has already confessed."
"Didn't you swear to this king that the old people in the mother and concubine's palace are all trustworthy confidantes, how could he betray you?"
Lin Tingyan's charming face suddenly became sullen.
"After all, they are old people who have been away for more than 20 years. Even if they still have the slightest awe of the imperial concubine, I am afraid that they will choose to waver in order to survive."
Yang Runchen said with a sad expression: "With the entry of King Qinghe into Beijing and the rise of King Napingning, the old minister is no longer able to dominate the situation in Jingling City. For fear of delay, there will be changes. The only thing we can do is to imitate what happened in the past and do one without doing the other. He went on and on, broke into the palace, and forced the empress dowager and the emperor to issue a Zen edict."
"Right now King Qinghe is in Beijing, I'm afraid this move will make a wedding dress for others."
Lin Tingyan showed worry, and he was still brooding over what happened to him today: "It's fine for you to kill Zhang Lu to silence him, why are you going to assassinate Princess Pingning, not to mention that Princess Shu is walking with her, you don't give it to me at all. Leave your own way."
"Up to now, is it possible that His Highness is still lucky and thinks that he and she will be fellow travelers?"
Yang Runchen reprimanded disapprovingly: "That woman is too smart, she shouldn't have been allowed to enter the capital smoothly, but His Highness is too kind, now she has found out the real culprit who murdered Zhang Lu without any effort, what is to be feared, if not sooner Getting rid of her will sooner or later become a serious problem for His Highness."
"You arranged it sloppily."
Lin Tingyan said angrily: "Look at what kind of assassins you arranged for the assassination. Someone was captured alive. It's more than a failure."
"The old minister was negligent."
Yang Runchen sincerely begged: "The old minister is willing to break his body and bones for His Highness, this time he will definitely help His Highness win the big position."
"Yang Runchen, why does this king trust you again?"
Lin Tingyan shook his head disdainfully: "Back then you let me bewitch King Changrong to frame Prince Ting'an, and then encouraged him to launch a palace coup. As a result, my father would rather let the Qinghe clan enter Beijing than pass on the throne to me and the third son. , causing my mother and concubine to be doomed to death by the old woman of Zhaochun Palace, do you still want to repeat the same mistakes now?"
"Your Highness, the first emperor was confused, but you and I are not."
Yang Runchen said earnestly: "The empress dowager hates the imperial concubine, even if the first prince successfully ascended the throne, can he give you a way to survive, the current King Qinghe is even more cruel, if he steals the throne, he will definitely kill the first emperor's lineage Needless to say, the shabby household in Pingning Prefecture, how could his envious nature tolerate his patricide living in the world?"
After looking at him intently for a long time, Yang Runchen continued: "The only person His Royal Highness can trust in this world is the old minister, and the old minister will not harm you."
"Yang Runchen, why do you spare no effort to help this king?"
Lin Tingyan has been unable to figure out the whole story.
He asked this question more than once. By now, Yang Runchen knew that he could no longer hide it from him, so he could only blurt out the pain in his heart: "Because the old minister failed your mother and concubine, the old minister failed the noble concubine, and the old minister hurt you." If you lose her, the veteran will not be redeemed if he dies a hundred times."
"how do I say this?"
Lin Tingyan looked at him in astonishment.
Yang Runchen thought for a long time, and finally said: "I was ordered to go to the North Kingdom, and I fell in love with your mother and concubine at first sight. The noble concubine's family was in decline, and she was framed by her stepmother and almost died in the North Kingdom. The old minister promised to bring her to the Dahe Empire and marry her. As a wife, she promised her prosperity and wealth, but who knew that the late emperor fell in love with the noble concubine, and the old minister was obsessed with ghosts, so he handed over the noble concubine to His Majesty, and let her be slandered as a demon concubine and persecuted to death. The old minister is still heartbroken and can't wait Go to **** with her."
"Oh, so that's the case, I'm afraid it wasn't handing over, but you offered it to your father for the sake of power, right?"
Lin Tingyan looked at him with disdain.
Yang Runchen lowered his head with a guilty conscience, and was at the end of his words, as if he had acquiesced in this matter.
Lin Tingyan kept sneering: "It's no wonder that I don't want to see me as a son since the concubine was born. I also heard the palace people in Weilan Palace say that she often cursed Sir Situ in the palace. I thought Sir Situ offended the concubine mother." It made her feel resentful, but she didn't expect the root cause to be here."
Staring resentfully at the ashamed Yang Runchen, Lin Tingyan sneered mockingly: "What I have never figured out is why Master Situ is willing to support such a treacherous villain like Wu Enrong. It turns out that you are the same as dogs, no wonder there is a feeling of sympathy for each other. And promised him his daughter as his wife."
"The past has become cloudless, even if His Highness hates me and scolds me, it will not help. The veteran knows that time is running out, and the only thing he can do now is to help His Highness fulfill his ambition."
Yang Runchen knelt down and begged again: "Please make a quick decision, Your Highness."
"Put away your hypocrisy."
Lin Tingyan lifted the chessboard angrily, and the sound of "squeaking" chess pieces kept hitting the ground with crisp sounds, which scared Yang Runchen to hold his breath and dare not exhale.
"Back then, you asked me to separate my brotherhood, causing fratricide, and my father escaped into Buddhism. Now you want me to persecute my nephew and my aunt who has raised me for many years. You really want to force me into a demon that cannot be tolerated by this world. head?"
Lin Tingyan bent down, his eyes were blazing, thinking of the evil things he induced himself to do these years, he felt extremely angry.
"In the royal family, how can there be brotherhood, father-son love?"
Yang Runchen plucked up his courage and asked: "Even if Your Highness cares about your brothers and parents, will they tolerate His Highness? See how they treat you?"
Lin Tingyan was at a loss for words.
"For so many years, we have tried our best to persuade His Majesty to take the elixir. Seeing that the great event is about to come true, His Highness is willing to let others hand over the position that is at your fingertips?"
These words stopped Lin Tingyan directly.
Big guy?
How could he give up the big position he dreamed of to others.
(end of this chapter)