Li Jianheng had a nightmare.
He dreamed of returning to the rainy night at the Nanlin Hunting Ground, the branches were slapped sharply on his face, and he hurriedly hugged his head to dodge.
The horse under the seat galloped forward, Li Jianheng wanted to grab the reins in fear, but was thrown off the horse by Xiao Chiye who suddenly turned around with his collar.
"Ce'an save me!" Li Jianheng fell to the ground, knelt down and begged, "Ce'an, Ce'an! We are brothers, don't leave me here!"
Xiao Chiye's face was heavy amid the thunder and lightning, and he said coldly to him, "Knock unconscious and carry it away!"
Li Jianheng burst into tears, watching Chenyang approaching him, he couldn't help but move back in fear, and waved his hand and shouted: "I... I'm the emperor! How can you treat me like this?"
Li Jianheng Houmo's body touched the person. He turned his head and looked back. Seeing Emperor Xiande's stature, he held his wrist. He immediately called out, "Brother Huang, Brother Huang, save me!"
Emperor Xiande tightened his fingers, digging into Li Jianheng's flesh, coughing blood, and said in a cold voice, "He who saves you today can kill you tomorrow! Do you understand?"
Li Jianheng struggled in pain, but he couldn't break free of his arm no matter what. The rain in the sky suddenly turned into a sticky thing drop by drop, Li Jianheng touched it, and it was full of blood. He looked up, and a head rolled down in the darkness.
Li Jianheng didn't know where the strength came from, and he pushed and kicked to break free from Emperor Xiande's hands. He panted, got up in the mud, shivered, kicked people's heads, and cried to the shadows around him: "I am the emperor, I am the emperor! Who among you is going to kill me, ah?!"
"Your Majesty," someone whispered, "Your Majesty."
Li Jianheng suddenly opened his eyes, stared at Jinding absently, and muttered: "Who is going to kill me... Who is going to kill me..."
The queen mother wiped the sweat for Li Jianheng with a handkerchief, leaned over and said, "Jianheng, the queen mother is here!"
Jianheng!
Li Jianheng's grief came from it, his mother died early, and Emperor Guangcheng never looked at him directly. In all these years, no one ever called him Jianheng.
"Queen Mother..." Li Jianheng choked and shouted, "Mother!"
The queen mother turned her head slightly, as if wiping away tears, and said, "You slept all night, and Aijia is really afraid. If you still have pain at this time, you have to tell Aijia."
Li Jianheng looked at the queen mother and saw that she was still wearing the dress from last night, so he must have stayed here all night. Li Jianheng stood up immediately, and saw that the Queen Mother's temples were mixed with white silk, her eyes were reddish, and her whole person was quite haggard.
Li Jianheng felt warm. He wiped his eyes, grabbed the Queen Mother's arm, and said, "Mother is worried, I'm fine."
Hai Liangyi knelt outside, and he stayed here for the night. Hearing voices inside, he knew that Li Jianheng had woken up, and he couldn't help but feel relieved.
After a while, the palace maids entered lightly and waited on Li Jianheng to wash. The queen mother personally brought the medicine bowl and tasted it herself before feeding it to Li Jianheng.
After Li Jianheng finished drinking the medicine, his expression was still bad, but he was much better than last night. He put on his boots and walked out. Seeing Hai Liangyi still kneeling, he was greatly moved. He stepped forward to help Hai Liangyi and said, "Elder Ge, I'm fine!"
Hai Liangyi almost couldn't stand up, so Li Jianheng didn't want him to stay there any longer, and even the ministers who were kneeling outside persuaded them to retreat, leaving only Kong Qiu, Cen Yu, and Fu Linye who had been censored all night.
"What did you find out?" Li Jianheng asked impatiently, "Kong Shangshu, tell me soon."
Kong Qiu kowtowed and said, "Last night, the Ministry of Punishment conducted an overnight review, and it has now been found that the assassination eunuch's name is Guisheng, and he was sent by Fuling, a female official of the Shang Food Bureau, to serve as a test dish at the Baiguan Banquet."
"Female official?" Li Jianheng said in surprise, "Why does this female official want to harm me?"
Kong Qiu said, "The reason is unknown."
Li Jianheng said anxiously, "You checked all night, but didn't you find out!"
Kong Qiu and the other two looked at each other, he was silent for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know, Fuling knows that she can't escape the legal net, and she has already become dumb, and she will be punished."
Li Jianheng suddenly understood something, he said: "She is a female official in the palace, what is she doing with such a thing? She must be afraid of what she will say under the severe punishment, so she first made herself dumb! There must be someone behind this! "
Kong Qiu added: "Your Majesty Shengming, Wei Chen and the two colleagues of the Duchayuan also thought the same, so last night, I checked this woman and found that she still has an old mother who lives in Bijiao Lane on Donglong Street. Her family's son Although it’s small, it’s not something that a big woman can afford to buy, so Wei Chen went on to check and found that she really didn’t buy this house, but Donglong Avenue Yaxing specially gave her to live on credit.”
Li Jianheng was most familiar with Donglong Street, but he heard something suspicious and said, "Since her family is an orphan and a widowed mother, there must be nothing valuable to mortgage a house."
Kong Qiu said, "That's why Wei Chen also felt suspicious, so he summoned someone from the Yaxing to ask her why the Yaxing gave her the house on credit, all for the sake of the forbidden army."
Li Jianheng said in his heart with a "boom". He felt like he was sitting on pins and needles.
Kong Qiu said: "This is a special greeting from Yuan Liu, the Sixth Grade Department of the Forbidden Army, who went to Yaxing. Although Yuan Liu and Fuling have no marriage contract, they have already had an affair."
Li Jianheng stood up suddenly and said, "Does Governor Xiao know?"
Kong Qiu knew that he had a good relationship with Xiao Chiye, and for a while he was not sure whether he wanted to protect Xiao Chiye or what, so he could only answer truthfully, "I don't know what the governor meant."
Li Jianheng stood on the spot, his expression changed a bit, and finally said: "... There are many prisoners, it is reasonable for him not to know. Don't make a statement about this beforehand, you go down, and Han Cheng and Shen Zechuan come in, I want to reward!"
* * *
Xiao Chiye stepped on the hard snow and kicked open the prison door. The jailer inside had already received the news, and hurriedly led Xiao Chiye inside.
She was only twenty-three years old when Fuling was in custody. Because of the torture, her hair was messy and she sat on the weeds without moving.
Xiao Chiye entered the cell door, and Chen Yang took off his cloak for him. He was too tall and had too much aura. As soon as he stepped in, Fu Ling was so scared that he shivered.
Xiao Chiye is actually very handsome. He has mixed feelings of frivolity and fierceness, so he can be both a slutty son and a stern Shura king. He changed his mask freely, and once he put it on, his demeanor became appropriate.
At this moment, he is the noble man passing by.
Xiao Chiye first looked at the cell, leaned slightly, looked at the narrow window, and saw the high wall of the prison outside the window. He turned his head and lowered his eyes, looking at the tuckahoe on the ground.
Fuling leaned against the wall, feeling that her eyes were filled with contempt.
"Female officer of Shangshi Bureau." Xiao Chiye said.
Fuling didn't look up, just stared at his boots.
Chen Yang brought a chair and Xiao Chiye sat down. He supported one knee, looked at Fu Ling's heart, and said, "Yuan Liu has a wife and a concubine, and he has to arrange a house for you at the risk of having his waist card removed. What kind of beauty are you? Can you coax him without even taking his life? Look up and let me see."
Poria shrank her body and ignored it.
Xiao Chiye leaned back and said, "He can be your father, and you are willing? Being a female official is not the same as being a palace maid. When you release it, you can be a serious child no matter what. Yuan Liu is a six-year-old. Pin Xiaoguan, is still a military ruffian, has no money and no power, you follow him, are you blind, or are you infatuated?"
The cell was silent.
"Yuan Liu aside, what can you use to persuade Guisheng to assassinate him? You don't have any money, so he must have been instigated by others. Your voice is hoarse, and you were the one who decided to use it as a surrogate ghost early in the morning. People like you kick when you run out. It doesn't matter to me whether you die or not, but now you want to get on my Xiao Ce'an's head, do you want to die like this?" Xiao Chiye smiled and said, "You can't, girl. "
Chen Yang turned around and nodded to the jailer behind him, only to hear the sound of the chain "crashing", and Yuan Liu, who was covered in dirt, was dragged out.
Yuan Liu crawled close to Fuling, and said sharply, "Bitch! How dare you hurt me like this!"
Fuling shivered and crawled towards the other end against the wall. Yuan Liu grabbed her ankle and said in a mournful voice, "What has I got to do with you? I treat you like this, and you repay me like this!"
Fuling was pulled to tears, she kicked Yuan Liu, and shouted hoarsely in her throat.
Yuan Liu dragged her and said, "Your old mother is seriously ill, and I was the doctor who went to see it on my back! I'll give you what you want, you coax me, and you will drag my whole family to death! You poisonous woman!"
As soon as the chain sounded, Yuan Liu, who was out of control, was grabbed by Chen Yang. He still stretched his arms out to himself, and said grimly: "I will never let you go! Even if I am a ghost, I will not let you go!"
Xiao Chiye looked at the small window from the chair, and he could really see the sky. There was no snow today, the sky was covered with pale cumulus clouds, and he turned a deaf ear to the grievances in front of him.
Yuan Liu sat on the ground and cried bitterly. He crawled to Xiao Chiye again, kowtowed and begged: "Governor, Governor! Please spare me this time! Please, I am obsessed, I am willing to be a cow and a horse to repay this. Report!"
Xiao Chiye looked at him and said, "It's not me who is holding your life, go and beg someone, and kowtow a few times for your family's old and young, it is to make up for the debt of the wife and son's happiness in the past. "
Yuan Liu then moved to Fuling again, kowtowing and begging: "You let me go! Can you let me go? This matter has nothing to do with me! I beg you! I beg you! There are eight members of my family, I don't want them all to die here!"
Fuling wept and did not look at him.
Yuan Liu burst into tears, he was really scared, he kowtowed his head and said, "Fu Ling... One night husband and wife a hundred days of grace... Although we haven't become husband and wife, our friendship over the years is still there! I beg you! , don't fall on me! I'll be your son and grandson in the next life! You let me go! I want to honor your old mother in that house, how can you..." He almost whimpered, and continued to say intermittently, " How can you take it... to kill my family! Do you still have the heart!"
Fuling said something in a painfully hoarse voice, she also kowtowed to Yuan Liu, her mouth moved, clearly sorry.
Yuan Liu walked forward on his knees and hugged Fuling's body, blood dripping from his forehead, he said sadly: "I don't want you to kowtow! I want you to explain things clearly! I don't want to die... Fuling! Don't hurt me..."
Seeing this, Xiao Chiye said, "If you plan to assassinate, you will never be beheaded. You can die if you want. Pity your mother. The old man is still tortured at her age. Do you know where the imperial prison is? If she falls into Jin Yiwei's hands, she will be fine with skinning and cramping."
Poria looked up and wept.
Xiao Chiye said, "Didn't your master tell you? I'm going to let this case go unsolved quickly. If it drags on for a day, I will be punished. You will suffer, he will suffer, and your mother will suffer too. I'm happy, everyone will say goodbye."
Fu Ling choked at him with hatred.
Xiao Chiye didn't move, just looked at her and said, "Didn't you say you have to look at the owner when you beat a dog? If you bite me, Xiao Ce'an, everyone will suffer together. I want to beat you to the point where your skin will be ripped apart. I can't stand it. Chen Yang, drag her mother up."
Chen Yang responded and retreated to the prison door.
Fu Ling suddenly shouted, her throat was broken, like a desperate animal cries, she rushed towards Xiao Chiye, threw herself on the ground, and scribbled words with her fingers.
Xiao Chiye bowed his head, looked at it for a moment, and said, "Give her a pen and paper, I want black and white."
* * *
Fuling was taken to Hua by Chenyang, and only Xiao Chiye and Yuan Liu were left in the cell. Seeing that Xiao Chiye was leaving, Yuan Liu immediately grabbed the corner of Xiao Chiye's robe.
"President, Governor!" Yuan Liu said, "I'm fine... Can I..."
Xiao Chiye put on a big cloak, turned around and said, "When did you take up the post of breaking things?"
Yuan Liu hurriedly drew his fingers and replied, "The third year after the Governor's tenure."
Xiao Chiye said, "You're following me."
Yuan Liu nodded in a panic and said, "I am the Governor's man!"
Xiao Chiye hadn't slept all night. He was a little annoyed at the moment. He held the knife and pushed the scabbard away from Yuan Liu's hand, saying, "My people don't have such a big face, so I can ask Dong Longya to pay on credit. All the real estate you enter must be reported. If you don’t report it, besides this house, you also have fields outside the city. The sixth-grade decision is not bad, but who is raising you, don’t you know?”
Yuan Liu's tears and snot came out together. He let out a mournful voice and said, "I was deceived by others, so I shouldn't be greedy for that, Governor, Governor! But I didn't betray the Imperial Army..."
Xiao Chiye raised his aching neck slightly, didn't look at him again, and said, "How old is your son?"
"Four... four years old."
"I raised it for you." Xiao Chiye said expressionlessly, "After this case is over, you will end it yourself."
As soon as the cell door closed, Yuan Liu slumped to the ground.
Xiao Chiye walked in the dark and damp prison, listening to the crying behind him, and took the confession from Chen Yang. Just as he stepped out of the gate of the prison, he saw Gu Jin ushered in hurriedly.
"Master," Gu Jin said, "Poria's mother is dead."
Chen Yang frowned and said, "Fortunately, the master did not enter the palace this morning, otherwise Fuling would have no scruples, and this confession would not be available."
"A stack of paper," Xiao Chiye flipped through the confession by the light, "Fuling has never even seen the other party's face, and based on this alone, no one can get in."
Chen Yang said, "Anyway, we've left the Imperial Army behind. Master, do you want to enter the palace and present it to the emperor?"
Xiao Chiye glanced at him and asked, "Why should the Imperial Army be left behind?"
Chen Yang and Gu Jin were both stunned.
Xiao Chiye sneered, and said, "Since it's a trapped beast, it has to look like it's being besieged. They are so anxious to pour the dirty water up, it's not enough, not only do I have to be next to the dirty water, I also have to be in the mud Roll in a circle, the darker the better. Dirty on me, complete their iron wall, and let them be able to cover the sky with one hand. They can even step on the governor of the forbidden army so easily. When the emperor recovers, he will If you should be suspicious, you should be afraid. The party is over, and whoever wants to be a new party will be courting death.”