The Department of Punishment was brightly lit, and as soon as You Miao entered, the waiter of the Department of Punishment immediately greeted him.
"Master You."
Everyone knew that he would definitely come, and You Miao stopped talking and asked, "Where's Li Zhifeng?"
"In the backyard hall, I'm drinking with Lord Shang Shu."
You Miao said in his heart that you, I'm so busy that my eyes are darkened. You are drinking with Lin Luoyang here, and when you see Li Zhifeng, you want to punch him. However, when he turned around the corridor and saw Li Zhifeng, his nose was sore and his heart was blocked. Thousands of words were stuck in his heart, but he couldn't say anything.
Li Zhifeng, dressed in military uniform, was still sitting in front of the stone table in the garden in the backyard of the Ministry of Punishment, pressing his knees with one hand and holding a wine glass in the other. When he heard footsteps, he said, "He's here, I'm leaving."
Lin Luoyang got up to see each other, You Miao's eyes were red, and without avoiding anyone, he rushed forward and threw himself in Li Zhifeng's arms.
Under the moonlight, You Miao and Li Zhifeng hugged each other tightly, no one said a word, as if the hug had already made each other's feelings clear.
Lin Luoyang was embarrassed to stand beside him, saying something, it's not, it's not good not to say anything.
You Miao buried her head in front of Li Zhifeng's shoulder for a long time, and finally Fang took a deep breath, threw the hand letter to Lin Luoyang, and said, "I'll take it away."
Lin Luoyang nodded and said, "Wait for the general."
Li Zhifeng nodded and came out hand in hand with You Miao, You Miao couldn't help but took his big hand again and sniffed it, it was the familiar scent of the skin. The beloved stopped the expedition, and now he has finally returned home for more than a year. Just outside the gate of the Punishment Department, Li Zhifeng took You Miao into his arms again, hugged him tightly, and said, "I miss you."
You Miao rubbed him frantically, took off his helmet and threw it aside, kissed his neck, rubbed his face against his neck, Li Zhifeng smelled of sweat, but that feeling made You Miao extremely comfortable and extremely safe.
Li Zhifeng said: "Go see the third one first, I have something to ask him."
"Nothing to ask." You Miao said coldly, "I gave up on him completely."
Li Zhifeng smiled lightly and said, "Are you mad at him?"
Only then did You Miao think of the cause and effect, but after finally waiting for Li Zhifeng to come back, he didn't want to say anything else, at least put it on for a few days, and then said: "I don't want to talk about state affairs, just go home and live first, I really don't want to do this mess again for a moment. Packed up for him... um..."
As he was talking, Li Zhifeng kissed again, entangled with You Miao's fiery lips and tongue. You Miao was so kissed that he could not wait to peel off Li Zhifeng's armor on the street and come with him once. But just as he was in a hurry to go back, a carriage stopped at the gate of the Ministry of Punishment.
The curtain was lifted inside, but it was Zhao Chao's voice.
"Get in the car." Zhao Chao said.
Li Zhifeng said, "I have something to ask you."
Zhao Chao said impatiently, "I'll give you an explanation, I'll talk about it first."
You Miao sighed, not expecting that Zhao Chao was chasing so closely, but since he agreed to let Li Zhifeng out, and he also agreed to resign, nothing else would change, so he had to get into the car with Li Zhifeng for the time being.
In the car, You Miao said, "What do you have to say?"
Zhao Chao whispered: "Let you see something, and you will know when it arrives."
You Miao was suddenly alert, what could it be that Zhao Chao came to look for him at this time? Shouldn't they be deceived into jail? But it shouldn't be. If it's going to be bad for him, there's no need to wait until Li Zhifeng arrives before starting. Just now in the imperial garden, he must have grabbed You Miao first.
Li Zhifeng looked at You Miao with inquiring eyes, and You Miao shook his head easily, telling Li Zhifeng not to act rashly.
Zhao Chao's car took them into the palace.
After getting off the car, Zhao Chao walked into the mourning hall and instructed the outside: "Watch, no one is allowed in."
You Miao and Li Zhifeng entered, and at that moment, You Miao's heart jumped violently.
Zhao Chao's tone was as calm as a dead man, and whispered to Li Zhifeng: "Second brother, do me a favor and open the coffin..."
The lights in the mourning hall were dim, and the shadows of the three people were reflected behind the gauze curtain. A strange gloomy wind rushed through, and cold sweat broke out from behind You Miao.
The first coffin was pushed open, and inside was the Emperor Taishang Zhao Fu. Zhao Hao had been in the north for many years, and he had dried up and looked like a humanoid, with scars on his hands, a night pearl in his mouth, and jade on his forehead. Before his death, Zhao Ming seemed to have coughed violently once, which should be asthma. Those who couldn't catch their breath before death would turn dark blue on their faces and look terrifying.
What does Zhao Chao want to prove? You Miao's heart pounded, Zhao Chao wanted to prove that he didn't kill his father? Judging from this appearance, Zhao Hao was indeed dead.
The lid of the second coffin was pushed open, and the crown prince's body was covered with white cloth, revealing his scarred ankles, which were swollen and had teeth marks bitten by snakes. You Miao could see that the ankle was broken once, obviously being tortured by the Tartars. But this doesn't mean anything, it can only be said that the prince was bitten by a snake before he died. However, murder cannot be ruled out.
"Okay." You Miao backed down and said, "I believe it wasn't your arrangement."
"That's not what I want to say." Zhao Chao said solemnly, and then lifted the white cloth to reveal the prince's face.
You Miao was stunned for a moment.
Zhao Chao asked Li Zhifeng, "Are you sure it's this person who you brought back?"
Li Zhifeng frowned slightly and nodded.
You Miao was completely dumbfounded, the prince was lost! This is not the prince!
Although his face was full of wind and frost, his face was convulsed and distorted due to snake venom before he died, and the corpse even had his eyes open, but that eyebrow, that face, skin color, facial features, were not the prince! Who dropped the prince's bag? !
Next, You Miao thought of another more terrifying question - where did the real prince go? !
"No." You Miao said, "How could this happen?"
Li Zhifeng asked in surprise, "What's the problem?"
Zhao Chao closed the lid of the coffin and said, "This man is not my brother. Are you sure that the Tartars handed over them? Think carefully, when have you seen him."
Li Zhifeng said: "Your hand letter told me not to ask about this matter. Xie Quan arranged it all. When I was in the Tartar military camp, I never met their people."
"Xie Quan said that my father took my brother here in a carriage." Zhao Chao said, "Have they met along the way?"
"Why haven't we met?" Li Zhifeng said, "They are together every day, in a carriage."
You Miao couldn't stand it anymore, and said hurriedly: "Wait, this is too..."
The three were silent and stood in the mourning hall.
In a short moment, You Miao thought of the inside story, and she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart.
You Miao: "This is arranged by your royal father."
Zhao Chao nodded and said: "I also suspected at first that the Tartars detained my brother and sent an unimportant person to pretend to be the prince. But it is easy to find that as long as he comes back, he will be exposed, and He Motie will not be exposed. Will do such a boring thing. The second brother also said that since my father and the impostor stay in the carriage every day, they must have negotiated. "
You Miao took a deep breath and said, "Yes, he... expected everything."
Zhao Chao said sadly: "I've done all the calculations, but in the end, it's still a chess move, maybe it's destined, Li Zhifeng hasn't seen my brother and can't recognize him. Xie Quan has not seen him either. Send them both. Picking up people is the biggest problem. It would be much easier if you or Li Yan went in person."
You Miao shook her head and said, "Not necessarily. Since your father wants to deceive you, he must have made careful arrangements, or let the prince pretend to be sick and not see anyone, so that he can deceive everyone."
Zhao Chao said: "On the way back, they were indeed pretending to be sick, telling the whole army that they had a cold. I won't hide it from you. It was indeed Li Yan who asked Xie Quan to do it. Xie Quan is now in prison for the crime of ineffective supervision."
"Who else knows about this?" You Miao asked.
Zhao Chao said: "You, me, second brother, Li Yan."
You Miao understood, it was no wonder that when the coffin was opened, the crown prince was covered with a white cloth. Li Yanxian had already calculated that the ministers would request an autopsy, so he acted first.
"It won't be the bag that Li Yan dropped." You Miao said: "The time is not right."
"Firstly, the time doesn't match, and secondly, it's unnecessary." Zhao Chao said: "I don't even believe Li Yan, but Xie Quan did it."
"You asked him to put the poisonous snake into the carriage?" Li Zhifeng asked.
Zhao Chao nodded.
Li Zhifeng said again, "Where's your royal father?"
Zhao Chao said: "Xie Quan's hand strangled him. Before he died, he was very calm and knew that he would die."
Li Zhifeng looked at Zhao Chao with a complicated expression.
"You are not a good thing." Li Zhifeng said.
"Yes." Zhao Chao nodded and said, "You all think that my sin is extremely sinful and that God cannot tolerate it. But have you ever thought, if these things go wrong, who will be the worst outcome?!"
Zhao Chao gasped and said, "All of you, including You Miao, want to protect me, I know that, but you all want to be comprehensive, how can everything be comprehensive? You can guarantee that after my brother is in the position of Zen, he will not What will happen to me?"
With a crisp sound, You Miao slapped Zhao Chao mercilessly.
"So what?!" You Miao said: "If you can't do everything comprehensively, you have to cut the grass and root out to avoid future troubles? Even at the expense of your own father and brother?" Don't you want to kill the nine clans first to avoid any mutation?! Where has your courage gone?!"
"Everything in the world can't be comprehensive." You Miao said coldly: "This is true, but there is an incomprehensible response. Brother Nie leads the army to fight, which time is it expected? I will go to war for you to reform the law, which time will it be? Is it comprehensive? If you don’t want to take risks, how can you achieve great achievements and stabilize the country?! Everything has to wait for Zhouquan to do everything, your court, your country has no idea what it will be like!”
"A brave person can take responsibility, and this responsibility also includes all the consequences and changes. Only cowards are afraid of everything, fearful, and dare not face danger. When you led your troops to go to Korea, you still have courage. Now that you have been an emperor for a few years, I have always been afraid that someone will covet your throne, and I don't even know where to throw that bit of courage."
You Miao was trembling with anger and looked at Zhao Chao.
"Yes." Zhao Chao nodded and said: "I am indeed a coward. I am afraid, I always feel uneasy. It is not right for me to get the name of the throne. I am afraid that someone will kill me at any time and overthrow me... That's it."