People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1693: Retribution is coming, the long song ends

Empress Wu stood on the golden steps, her black robe with golden phoenix threads gently spread out, her cold gaze falling on Ye Wanwan who was walking forward step by step.

She only knew that her surname was Zheng, but Empress Wu had no idea what her full name was, and she didn't need to know.

Because Empress Wu had never thought that this maid, whom she usually didn't even look at, would come to kill her today.

Empress Wu raised her hand slightly, wanting to pull out the dagger from between her chest and abdomen, but she was afraid that the wound would get bigger.

At this time, Ye Wanwan was already holding the white silk and walking step by step up the golden steps, step by step to the opposite side of Empress Wu.

Looking at Empress Wu holding the hilt of the knife with both hands, Ye Wanwan raised the white silk with a cold expression.

However, at the moment when the white silk blocked Ye Wanwan's vision, Empress Wu suddenly loosened her hand holding the hilt of the knife and grabbed Ye Wanwan's throat directly.

His eyes were so fierce that it looked as if he wanted to tear Ye Wanwan's throat apart.

But at this moment, Empress Wu discovered that the white silk suddenly flew upwards.

She lowered her eyes and suddenly discovered that Ye Wanwan had already thrown the white silk upwards with both hands and grabbed forward with her ten fingers.

In the blink of an eye, the ten fingers of Ye Wanwan's hands and Empress Wu's hands were tightly clasped together.

Empress Wu's face was full of surprise, disbelief, and even a hint of absurdity, but then her face was filled with a grim smile.

In an instant, a powerful force rushed from her hand directly into Ye Wanwan's palm.

Empress Wu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although Empress Wu had no ability to kill on the battlefield, the power in her body was terrifyingly strong due to the supply of natural treasures over the years.

She didn't believe that the little girl in front of her could resist her... Suddenly, Empress Wu's face changed drastically.

Because no matter how powerful the force was that surged into Ye Wanwan's body, she did not retreat at all.

What's more, at this moment, Empress Wu felt that her hands were being locked even more tightly by Ye Wanwan.

Suddenly, a familiar wave came from Ye Wanwan's body, and Empress Wu's face suddenly changed: "You..."

Before Empress Wu finished her words, the white silk in mid-air fell again, blocking her sight.

At this moment, two somewhat dry hands grabbed the two sides of the white silk and pulled it back with force. In the blink of an eye, they had strangled Empress Wu's neck.

Xu Lu, Junior Eunuch Xu Lu.

At the moment when the white silk was strangling Empress Wu's neck, Xu Lu's body suddenly flipped over, and at the same time he turned his back to Empress Wu, the white silk was completely strangled to death.

Push harder, push harder.

Xu Lu used all his strength to pull the white silk to both sides, and Empress Wu's neck instantly caved in deeply.

Empress Wu suddenly felt her breathing stagnate.

At this moment, Ye Wanwan suddenly flew up and kicked directly at the dagger on Empress Wu's chest.

The dagger suddenly penetrated deeper into Empress Wu's body.

The intense pain caused Empress Wu to lose all her strength for a moment.

Ye Wanwan's eyes became fierce, and her hands instantly became cold. She grabbed Empress Wu's ten fingers and suddenly twisted them back. At the same time, she pulled her to her side and whispered in her ear clearly, "Witch, on behalf of my mother, I want you to live in agony in the eighteenth level of hell."

Empress Wu wanted to turn her head to look at Ye Wanwan in disbelief. She had never imagined that Ye Wanwan was actually Chen Shuozhen's daughter.

I let Chen Shuozhen's daughter get close to me...

But how did she get into the Zheng family...

Yes, the King of Donghai, the Crown Princess Zheng...

Suddenly, Empress Wu felt pain in her neck. A powerful force pulled her neck back. For a moment, Empress Wu could even hear the sound of her neck breaking.

It was at this time that Xu Lu's voice rang in her ears: "Empress, the Emperor is waiting for you in the underworld..."

Empress Wu's mind was already a little fuzzy, but she suddenly came to her senses.

Li Hong, Li Hong.

Xu Lu was the Junior Eunuch of the Eastern Palace when Li Hong was the crown prince, but he was never conspicuous, so Empress Wu did not purge him after Li Hong's death.

But Empress Wu never imagined that Li Hong’s death was still remembered by some people.

There was actually not much mystery about Li Hong's death, and Empress Wu did not poison him at all. All she needed to do was to throw more complicated, false and wrongful cases that were more likely to cause people's emotions, as well as similar official decrees, onto Li Hong's desk.

Given his temper, it would be strange if he didn't correct these things day and night.

It was also because of this that Li Hong's health completely collapsed.

In the end, Li Hong died.

Because Empress Wu did this, no one could find any signs of poisoning on Li Hong's body.

Even Li Zhi, who actually knew the cause of Li Hong's death, couldn't say much.

An emperor who fails to deal with these matters is an unqualified emperor.

Li Hong is so kind.

So he died.

But now, Xu Lu, still thinking of him, saw Empress Wu off on her final journey.

With a "click", Empress Wu's neck was finally completely strangled by the white silk.

Xu Lu pulled from behind and Ye Wanwan pulled from the front.

With the combined efforts of the two, Empress Wu's mind finally fell into complete darkness.

At the moment when she was about to fall, Ye Wanwan's hoarse voice rang in her ears again: "Prince Peng said that he would have Queen Wang buried in Qianling Mausoleum later!"

In an instant, Empress Wu suddenly opened her eyes.

Open your eyes tightly, open your eyes, open your eyes...

……

After a long time, Ye Wanwan finally struggled to free Wu Hou's ten fingers, and placed her right hand on her heart, feeling it for a long time.

Empress Wu's heart no longer beat.

"She's dead."

With just one word, Xu Lu finally let go of Bai Ling helplessly.

Although they had sensed that Empress Wu was dead before, they still did not dare to let go, for they were really afraid that she would suddenly come back to life. Xu Lu gently turned sideways, and Empress Wu's remains fell stiffly to the ground with a "bang".

Xu Lu raised his head, looked at Shangguan Wan'er, and nodded gently: "She is dead."

"She's dead!" Shangguan Wan'er chewed on these two words with a smile and tears, and the portraits of her father and grandfather appeared involuntarily in her mind.

Only the two of them, out of all the male members of the family, only Shangguan Wan'er's father and grandfather had their portraits left.

Apart from taking care of her mother, Shangguan Wan'er, who was still in her infancy, had no memory of her other family members at all.

But nonetheless, they were her father and grandfather.

From childhood to adulthood, Shangguan Wan'er, whether it was her mother or other people around her, even outsiders, used various words to make her remember her life experience deeply.

Especially, her name was Shangguan Wan'er, and she had always been called Shangguan, so she could never forget it, until...

"She has been indulging in evil and persecuting loyal and good people..." Shangguan Wan'er murmured a sentence about her family from "An Edict to Punish Wu Zhao on Behalf of Prince Peng Xuan".

To Li Xuan, her Shangguan family was a loyal and honest family.

……

Ye Wanwan withdrew her gaze with some pity and looked at Xu Lu.

At this time, Xu Lu had come to Su Liangsi again and began to search.

Xu Lu searched Su Liangsi and the black-clad death guards carefully. In the end, Xu Lu frowned slightly.

He raised his head, looked at Ye Wanwan and shook his head slightly.

The thing is not there.

The copy of Emperor Gaozong's last will was not with Su Liangsi or the black-clad guards.

Not only Empress Wu wanted to get a copy of the will, but Li Xuan also wanted to get it.

"It should be on Wei Yuanzhong. We'll go find him later." Ye Wanwan bent down, ripped off a jade pendant from Empress Wu's body, then turned around and walked down the golden steps.

Walking in front of Shangguan Wan'er, Ye Wanwan extended her hand and said softly, "Cousin, it's time for us to go."

Shangguan Wan'er looked up in a daze. After seeing Ye Wanwan clearly, especially the bloodstain on the chest of Ye Wanwan's white palace dress, she suddenly came to her senses.

With one hand on the ground, Shangguan Wan'er stood up with some effort. Looking at Empress Wu lying on the golden steps and the white silk still wrapped around her neck, Shangguan Wan'er couldn't help but ask, "Is she really dead?"

“Yes!” Ye Wanwan turned around and looked at the blood flowing down the golden steps. She nodded slightly and said, “The neck was strangled and the blade pierced into the heart. The blood was all over the floor. The breathing stopped and the heart stopped beating. If this is not death, then what is death?”

"Yeah!" Shangguan Wan'er nodded slightly, and a beautiful smile finally bloomed on her face.

"Let's go. It will be dawn in two or three hours." Ye Wanwan held Shangguan Wan'er's arm and whispered, "We still have a lot of things to do tonight."

“Then we don’t have to worry about anything here?” Shangguan Wan’er turned sideways and looked at Ye Wanwan.

Ye Wanwan nodded firmly and said, "That's it. Someone will help us understand the rest later."

Shangguan Wan'er immediately understood that it was Li Xuan.

"Let's go. The prince consort and his men have already protected the heir. It's time for us to go over there too." Shangguan Wan'er sighed softly, and couldn't help but look towards the east, saying softly, "Poor Di Renjie!"

Ye Wanwan didn't say much. She supported the injured Shangguan Wan'er and left the Zhenguan Hall with Qiu Huan.

The night wind gently blew up the curtains around us.

On the golden steps, Empress Wu lay there quietly, looking upwards with unwilling eyes.

It seems as if you can penetrate the roof of the temple above and see the sky outside.

Above the Zhenguan Hall, in the endless night, there seemed to be a bright yellow figure wearing a black nine-dragon nine-chapter dragon robe and a twelve-tassel white jade headdress appearing there.

He leaned down gently, then pulled up, took away Empress Wu's soul, and then disappeared into the endless night sky.

……

Under the same night sky, Li Xuan looked in the direction of Zhenguan Palace and sighed softly: "The late emperor!"

Empress Wu died.

Since Li Zhi's death, everything Wu Zetian had done, and even before Li Zhi's death, was settled.

What kind of posthumous title should Empress Wu be given, and how should her life be judged?

Li Xuan could imagine what a fierce argument that would be.

Especially, there is Princess Taiping.

The only child of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu is still alive.

Li Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly and his gaze fell on Qianyang Palace.

Although Wu Zetian changed the Tang Dynasty into the Zhou Dynasty, she was still the mother of Li Dan and Li Xian, and the grandmother of Li Chongjun, Li Chengqi and Li Guangren.

Especially with Princess Taiping around, things won't end so easily.

Li Xuan said that he would not let Empress Wu be buried in Qianling Mausoleum, but where would be the most appropriate place for her to be buried?

The Wei family, the Zheng family, the ministers in the court, the princes of the royal family, and even the Dou family and the Pei family would be let off easily.

Princess Taiping might have to fight against many enemies alone.

Li Xuan took a deep breath and his face became solemn. He also had a copy of the late emperor's will.

It originally fell on Su Liangsi, but where is it now?
If it falls into the hands of the wrong person, it will also be a big threat to Li Xuan.

Going further is never easy.

Common people, scholars, officials, academic elites, aristocratic families, relatives by marriage, and even royal family members, there is no telling how many people would stand in front of Li Xuan.

Li Xuan raised his head, his eyes finally falling in the direction of Xuanwu Gate, and said softly: "Mobilize 1,000 Right Guard Cavalry. Now, we will go to Xuanwu Gate, and don't alarm anyone inside or outside."

"Yes!" Li Lang bowed solemnly.

At this moment, the stars in the sky above Xuanwu Gate suddenly burst into brilliant light.

Although the Emperor Star has not returned to its place, the stars are already shining terrifyingly.

"It's a good omen!" Li Lang looked up and saw it, and couldn't help but utter a few words in his mind.

Li Xuan turned around suddenly and stared at Li Lang.

(End of this chapter)