"It's really embarrassing that the Minister of Commerce has fallen into this situation today."
"The original prime minister came to visit the old man, didn't he make a special trip to pity the old man?"
"You and I are officials in the same dynasty, just come and see them off."
"So generous? In the past, I was really old and looked away, thinking that this end was all thanks to the original Prime Minister."
"If it wasn't for Shang Xiang to go astray, how could I have the opportunity to sit here and discuss with Shang Xiang... I can't live by my own sins, so how can I be gifted by others."
"Of course there is, although it's not you."
"Oh?"
"Forget it, the old man has been a country all his life, and He Cheng wants to have today's fruit."
"The mistake is that the prime minister accepted such a disciple back then."
"It's not wrong, it's not wrong. Zhong An's ambition is in the world, and now he is considered an old and proud student, so he can't be wrong."
After Shang Xu said this, Jiang also heard him smile cheerfully.
After a while, Yuanzhi continued: "Since it's a foregone conclusion, today I'm here to say goodbye to Shang Xiang and have a drink, can you show me your face?"
The two seemed to have touched a cup, and after a while he said again, "Dazzling seven or eight years have passed, and you have finally become my defeat."
"How do you say this? The old man lost, not to you. You know that."
"If it wasn't for you, how could I have such a great opportunity."
"It's not and it's not." Shang Xu said, "No matter what, I would like to thank the original Prime Minister for sending me off today."
"You're welcome."
Not long after saying this, Yuanzhi came out of the cell, Jiang also lowered his head and followed another jailer to lock the door with a pretense. He glanced at Shang Xu quietly, and saw that Shang Xu was slowly eating the food that Yuanzhi brought, not at all like he was worried that he would be executed tomorrow.
After Yuan Zhi left, the prison head didn't come to talk to Jiang Ye again, and Jiang Ye naturally took over the post of guarding Shang Xu. It's a pity that no one came to visit until midnight, so Cen Lixuan's calculations seemed to be superfluous. But Jiang also waited earnestly. Before the moment of execution, things might change.
He wanted to open his mouth to ask if the kit was in Shang Xu's hands, but he was not the only one in charge of it, and it was a bit of extravagance. He had been secretly waiting for an opportunity to talk to Shang Xu.
In the second half of the night, the moaning prisoners in the prison also stopped a lot. Shang Xu turned his back to Jiang Ye, knelt on the ground, and the moonlight came in from the skylight, which happened to shine on him.
Jiang also guarded for a day, and in the second half of the night, he couldn't help but feel a little tired, so he leaned against the nearby wall and stood dozing off.
Wei Lin had come to Tianjing a long time ago, but he never let Jiang know. It wasn't until he saw him sleepily closing his eyes that Wei Lin quietly walked over to him and stared at his face for a while.
He had said before that if there was any change, he would immediately send someone to tell him, so when Yuanzhi came to visit the prison, he received the news and rushed to the prison immediately.
Wei Lin and Jiang also stood side by side. After a while, Jiang Ye was probably really asleep, he turned to the side a little, and then he fell down weightlessly. Wei Lin's eyes were fast and he caught him quickly. Jiang also leaned on Wei Lin's body and still didn't wake up.
Quietly in the Heavenly Prison, Wei Lin could only hear Jiang Ye's breathing so close at hand, with a wonderful power that suddenly softened his whole heart. It seemed that just listening to his breathing gave him great satisfaction.
until the silence is broken.
The footsteps of two people suddenly sounded in the aisle, Wei Lin didn't even think about it, he dragged Jiang Ye and ran to the backlit corner of the prison to squat down. Jiang Yeben was still in a daze, and was awakened by this movement, and when he raised his eyelids, he saw Wei Lin was very close to him. But he immediately realized that someone was there, and let Wei Lin pull him to hide.
The sound of two footsteps stopped at the door of Shang Xu's cell, and the cell head pressed his throat and said, "This is it."
Jiang Yexin said, I'm afraid this is the main person Cen Lixuan wants him to investigate.
If an ordinary person came to visit the prison and found some connections to find a way to come in and visit Shang Xu, he would come during the day like a childish person. I dared to come to the prison in the middle of the night, presumably because I didn't want others to know that I had been there.
The head of the cell is naturally used to seeing people coming to visit felons, and he has also collected a lot of money from this, and he doesn't care what the purpose of the person is.
Jiang Ye and Wei Lin were huddled together, not daring to move, for fear of stunning snakes, especially since Wei Lin was still wearing the armor of the Imperial Guard.
The head of the prison called Shang Xu, Shang Xu glanced back, hurriedly got up from the ground, and ran to the edge of the prison door: "Lin Chong, you!"
"teacher… "
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Ye and Wei Lin were shocked and widened their eyes.
"Didn't you already..." The word "dead" was not spoken by Shang Xu, but he could hear a little choked up in his voice.
The man said, "If he hadn't escaped by feigning death, the student would have already died in Huangquan, but it's a pity that he killed the teacher!"
"It's good to live, it's good to live."
In fact, the voices of the two of them were very low, but it was unusually quiet in the prison, which made it convenient for Wei Jiang and the two to hear the conversation clearly.
Jiang Ye couldn't help but want to go out to see what happened when he heard this. Wei Lin held him tightly in his arms, and said in his ear: "Don't startle the snake!" Jiang Ye then resisted the urge and followed up with him. He continued to watch together.
"Since you are alive, don't get involved in these things." Shang Xu said, "It was the fault of the old man. The so-called peace in the world is just an idiot's dream."
"Why did the teacher say such a thing?"
"In order to let the Xue family dispel the idea of invading the Sui country, they sent you and Zhong An to secretly make a plan... Now it seems that after all, it is the old man's mistake, even if the two countries are not at war, there will still be people sacrificed for power. Peace in the world, What a fool's dream."
"teacher… "
"It's not advisable to stay here for a long time, you'd better go."
The man seemed to have taken out something and handed it to Shang Xu: "This is the teacher's favorite wine. The students are incompetent and cannot save the teacher from the shackles."
"It doesn't matter, it's a foregone conclusion, it's a good thing to get drunk."
After speaking, Shang Xu drank the wine that the man handed in.
The two said a few more words, and he didn't leave until the head of the prison came to urge him.
When the footsteps disappeared completely, Jiang also got up from the corner immediately, and Wei Lin followed.
"Is that Guo Linchong?" Wei Lin said, "Is Guo Linchong dead?"
"Impossible, that's what I saw with my own eyes!" Jiang also looked solemn.
This matter is too strange, Guo Linchong was killed half a month ago, how could he appear in the prison and say goodbye to Shang Xu? Jiang also thought about it, and always felt that the answer to the matter was about to come out, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.
Wei Lin suddenly said, "Could it be... the master of disguise you said?"
"Yes, it must be him!" Jiang also said, shoving Wei Lin twice, "Follow me quickly! It must be him!"
Wei Lin hesitated for a moment, looked at Jiang Ye's serious eyes, turned his head and chased out.
If it was really Six Fingers who pretended to be Guo Linchong to visit Shang Xu, and brought wine for Shang Xu to drink, then the purpose was really too obvious - he wanted to kill people.
Jiang also thought of this, hurriedly rushed to the cell where Shang Xu was, and shouted inside: "Shang Xu!"
His shout attracted a lot of people. Several prison guards who were dozing off were woken up and looked at him and muttered dissatisfiedly.
Jiang Ye didn't seem to hear it, and looked at the people inside eagerly. Hearing the shouting, Shang Xu walked to the fence in a daze and asked, "What's the matter?"
Seeing that Shang Xu didn't seem to be doing anything, Jiang also sighed. He didn't know why he felt so much more at ease, but it seemed like an unconscious action. As long as it was what the Six Fingers did, it was definitely not a good thing, so Jiang couldn't let him succeed.
Jiang also thought about it, and approached Shang Xu and whispered: "That person is not Deputy General Guo, I saw Deputy General Guo being killed with my own eyes, that person can never be Guo Linchong!"
"Who are you?" Shang Xu looked at Jiang Ye suspiciously.
Jiang Ye said again: "I am a deputy general of Guo, and I know that both the minister of business and deputy general Guo were framed!"
"You're Guo Wu..." Shang Xu still wanted to say something, but his voice suddenly stopped before he finished speaking, and when he spoke again, there was only a small neighing like a beast.
Jiang also guessed right, there was medicine in the wine, not to take Shang Xu's life, but to be poisonous and dumb, so that he could not speak.
In the current situation, Shang Xu naturally understood that Jiang Ye's words were true. He grabbed his throat and struggled for a while, trying to speak, but he couldn't even make a neigh.
In a few hours, Shang Xu was about to be pushed out for questioning.
Jiang Ye quickly asked, "Have you ever seen that sack, that is the sack that Deputy Guo will take from the thief."
Shang Xu shook his head.
Jiang also continued to tell what he knew: "Someone wanted to kill the eldest prince and wanted to put the blame on Xue Changfeng. Deputy General Guo got the evidence, so he was silenced. If my guess is correct, it is the person just now. "
After Shang Xu heard this, his face was full of shock.
He didn't know why Guo Linchong died, but looking at Xue Changfeng's behavior, it was very likely that he was killed for the Xue family's guilt. .
After thinking for a moment, Shang Xu raised his finger and pointed to the saber on Jiang Ye's waist.
"Do you want a knife?"
Shang Xu nodded.
Jiang also looked around. He had already tried to keep his voice low to talk to Shang Xu, and the prisoners who had been woken up earlier were dozing off in a daze. He crouched down, took out the dagger from his boot, and handed it to Shang Xu.
I saw Shang Xu took the knife, his other hand first swept away the straw on the ground, and then opened a hole in the palm of his hand.
Jiang was also startled by this action, almost screamed, and then saw Shang Xu's fingers stained with blood, and wrote on the ground:
Yanluo Pavilion, Yunniang.
The meaning of this is obvious. The news from the frontier, obviously before Shang Xu was imprisoned, had not reached Shang Xu's ears, because no one thought that Guo Linchong would be killed the next day. Since the kiln house knows the news, the words that Shang Xu wrote on the ground means that Jiang Ye will go to Yanluo Pavilion to find this Yun Niang, and then he will be able to get the news and the kit.
Jiang also hurriedly asked: "How can I tell her that you asked me to go?"
Shang Xu hurriedly groped in his underwear, the blood on his hands was all over his chest, and it took a long time to find a small and delicate earring and hand it to Jiang Ye.
Jiang also took it, and without looking carefully, he put it into his sleeve and said, "If I can find evidence, I will definitely return the innocence to the Minister of Commerce and Deputy General Guo."
Shang Xu nodded and returned the dagger to Jiang Ye. Jiang also bowed his hands and turned away. Shang Xu smeared the blood in the palm of his hand on the words he just wrote, and carefully covered it with straw.
The token is an ear pendant, and Jiang Ye never expected that Shang Xu would still be in love with Sister Yao when he was nearly sixty years old. There is no need to elaborate on this entanglement, Jiang can also think of one or two.