The immortal of the Tang Dynasty, but the game starts at Xuanwu Gate?

Looking at Chen Huai'an, who had an innocent and slightly relieved expression and was putting on an act, everyone felt like a million grass mud horses were galloping through their minds.

"Did you show off to the King of Hell?"

Li Shimin laughed in exasperation: "Today I want to see just how you're going to put on such a show for the King of Hell!"

"Give it to me!!"

With a roar, he punched Chen Huai'an in the face.

Both of them widened their eyes simultaneously.

"Holy crap, don't slap me in the face!"

"Damn it, they're shameless! What are you all standing there for?"

Wei Zheng was eager to try, and seeing that Li Shimin had already made a move, he flew up and delivered a Leo Flying Kick.

Du Ruhui and the others couldn't sit still any longer. They were furious and started punching!

"Wait, wait a minute!"

Chen Huai'an was horrified: "Don't hit my face! Don't hit my face!"

"Oh dear..."

"I fought back! I really fought back..."

The backyard was in chaos, and Feng Zhidai was secretly tempted to go up and give it a couple of whacks.

After all, this guy had caused his younger sister to cry all the time and lose a lot of weight, so he felt he needed to get revenge.

However, when he saw that Cheng Chumo and his two brothers were anxiously waiting outside but couldn't squeeze in, Feng Zhidai hesitated for a moment and finally gave up the idea.

"Damn it, this kid dares to fight back! Beat him up!"

"Ah!!! He hit me too..."

Instantly, screams, curses, shouts, and pleas for mercy all mingled together.

Feng Zhidai, Li Junxian, and Zhang Anan looked at each other, not daring to step forward to stop the fight.

"..."

After an unknown amount of time, Li Shimin emerged, panting heavily. He was utterly exhausted; his hands, feet, and back ached.

Wei Zheng and the others were also getting tired. It wasn't just that they were exhausted, but more importantly, they had ganged up on Chen Huai'an, yet the kid was completely unharmed, while they were in excruciating pain.

Most importantly... Chen Huai'an fought back, and each of them sustained at least some injuries.

"Huh? You're not playing anymore?"

Chen Huai'an lay on the ground, peeked out, got up, and slowly tidied his appearance.

"You...you..." Wei Zheng was furious, one of his eyes was blackened from being punched, while Chen Huai'an's clothes were slightly dirty.

Who could stand this?

Li Shimin sat on a bench, furious: "You are deceiving the emperor!"

"I refuse to believe your head is harder than a guillotine!"

"How did I deceive the emperor?" Chen Huai'an naturally refused to admit it. "I've already told you, I really ate poisoned food. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't."

"I woke up to find the outside world in complete chaos, and I didn't dare to live like this anymore."

"And what about that letter? You even had that scoundrel Wang Bai deliver a letter to me!" Li Shimin was furious, feeling that his sincere feelings had been deceived.

"Didn't I tell you?" Chen Huai'an's expression was somewhat unnatural. "I really thought I was going to die, but who knew I didn't."

"Then what about closing the door?" Wei Zheng retorted. "You even had your maid tell us that no one should come to worship for the first three days."

"What's going on now?"

"Did I ask Yunyan to say that?" Chen Huai'an looked completely innocent. "Why don't you think about it carefully? Did either Wang Bai or Yunyan really say anything about me being dead, or anything like 'paying respects'?"

Wei Zheng was speechless. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that Yunyan hadn't actually said anything about worship; she had said that no one was allowed to come.

The same applies to Li Shimin.

He also remembered that Wang Bai always remained silent whenever he asked Wang Bai such a question.

They have never given a direct answer; everything they've made up is just their own imagination.

After figuring this out, everyone became even angrier.

So they all fell for the trap.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Chen Huai'an saw their unfriendly expressions and quickly said, "Let me explain again. At first, I really didn't have this idea. It's just that I later found that dying once seems pretty good."

"At least we were originally only dealing with the Zheng family, but now we've also included the Lu family. All sorts of difficult-to-implement systems can be put into practice with this opportunity."

"Both sides suffered heavy losses, and with so many positions vacated, His Majesty can further strengthen centralized power."

"You all made a fortune, but I'm the only one. Now the whole world knows I'm dead, and I don't know how I'm supposed to live."

"I didn't say anything."

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin felt there was some truth to it, but he was still indignant: "Then you could have simply told me, and I would have considered you dead, wouldn't that have been better?"

"But what did you do? You even fooled me."

"Yes!" Du Ruhui said sternly, "This is deceiving the emperor, Chen Huai'an, do you know your crime?"

"I know, I know, I know." Chen Huai'an said with a smile, "I know my crime, I know my crime."

Li Shimin: "..."

He was so angry that his teeth ached. Shouldn't Chen Huai'an be kneeling down and crying, begging for his forgiveness?

What's with that smiling face?

Even though he was the one who was blaming, it seems like he ended up getting what the other party wanted instead.

Li Shimin was very unhappy, extremely unhappy.

Changsun Wuji naturally understood what both sides were planning.

Kill Chen Huai'an?

Of course not.

discipline?

Of course!

The reason was clear, but judging from Li Shimin's expression, he was very unhappy.

So now is not the time to talk about this, Changsun Wuji immediately changed the subject.

"Now that Mr. Chen's death has been announced, how can we explain this to the people?"

"His Majesty has even decided on a posthumous title; the whole world knows it."

Speaking of this, Chen Huai'an also felt a headache coming on.

Fang Xuanling pondered for a moment and said, "How about we tell the truth and say that thanks to Heaven's mercy, Mr. Chen was not poisoned and is now recuperating at his residence?"

Du Ruhui retorted, "What about the posthumous title?"

"The posthumous title has already been decided, and it's been published in the court gazette. What are we going to do?"

Li Shimin let out a sigh of relief and glared at Chen Huai'an with annoyance: "Has there ever been a similar event or precedent in history?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Zheng immediately looked up and replied, "Your Majesty, there is a precedent."

"Who?"

"Li Ling, grandson of Li Guang of the Han Dynasty!" Wei Zheng became inexplicably excited. "In the second year of Tianhan, Li Ling led 5,000 infantrymen deep into Xiongnu territory. He was surrounded by 80,000 Xiongnu cavalry at Junji Mountain. After eight days and nights of bloody battle, he ran out of arrows and food."

When the news reached Chang'an, Emperor Wu of Han thought Li Ling had died in battle and posthumously honored him. However, not long after, Emperor Wu learned that Li Ling was not dead. He was furious and killed Li Ling's entire family. Even Sima Qian, who spoke up for Li Ling, was castrated.

Li Shimin: "..."

Chen Huai'an: "..."

"..."