Ning Gu

Chapter 107

Chongque opened towards the hall, and the owl kissed on the blue tiles on the roof, listening to the shouts of civil and military officials in the hall under the eaves.The old eunuch in the inner hall spoke solemnly, saying the old saying "If you have a book to play, you can't leave the court without a book".

In the silence of the hall, Shang Shulang, who was wearing a third-grade court uniform, came out of the queue, held the imperial wat with his hands together, took two steps forward, knelt down and asked for the salute, and then said: "Minister, there is an instruction."

Zhao Zuo cast his gaze down the steps, and the civil and military officials of the dynasty were looking at the past with him.Xian Zhi stood at the head of the team, turned around when he heard the words, glanced around, and saw that most of the officials were puzzled, and there were a couple of dignified faces, but there was only one person - his grandfather Liang Ce, Liang Ce's brows came from Shang Shulang. It was locked from the beginning of the sound.

Shang Shulang, who was wearing court clothes, kowtowed again, and then took a discount, and asked the eunuch to hand over Zhao Zuo's table in front of everyone.

"I apologize."

When the three words were spoken, there were discussions, and there were one or two gasps in the middle, but it was not really heard in the bustling room.

In Fufeng's court hall, leaves are connected to branches, and branches are connected to roots. Few of them are clean people who can sit alone in the respect pavilion. It is said that when a tree is planted, it will tire the leaf itself.Thinking of this, Xianzhi couldn't help curling the corners of his lips.

"Master Han, what is the crime?"

The eunuch brought the zhezi, Zhao Zuo raised his hand and pressed the zhezi on the table, he didn't flip it over in a hurry, and looked at the people below the jade steps expressionlessly.

Han Chao raised his eyes, faced the person sitting in the upper hall, and continued sincerely and neither humble nor overbearing: "Yesterday, the fire in the Waiguo Lu left area was actually handed over to the Criminal Department of the lower official in the early hours of the previous night. But because the lower official I did it personally and concealed some details, so that what you heard yesterday was not the truth. I had a deep dream last night, and I felt ashamed in my heart. I can see thanks... I am afraid of the lower officials. No matter how difficult it is to sleep, I regret it. It is now In the morning, re-summarize the details of the case on the memorial, and first submit it to the Shengting; as for the detailed files, I have ordered people to send them to Dali Temple and Yushi Zhongcheng official residence."

After Han Chao finished speaking, he raised his hand to take off his official hat, put it on the ground, and kowtowed again to plead guilty.When the sound fell, the hall was so quiet that one could almost hear the ruffling of clothes being blown by the wind.Zhao Zuo's eyes were dark, and he stared at the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty for a long time. When his eyes swept away, the people of the Manchu Dynasty were in a panic.

"Liang Xiang." Zhao Zuo leaned back, his voice was a little lazy and familiar.

"The veteran is here." Hearing this, Liang Ce bowed while holding his wat, and stood out.

"What do you think?"

Liang Ce stood upright, glanced at the kneeling man beside him, but Shang Shulang didn't raise his head, causing Liang Ce to close his eyes, coughed lightly, and said, "Old minister, I think that although Master Han has such The heart of repentance should indeed be considered; but as far as the matter is concerned, Mr. Han's ethos of taking advantage of his position should not be encouraged. Besides, since the case of the fire in Luzuo has been handed over to the other two departments, it will wait for the joint trial of the third division. After the results come out, what do you think the emperor will do with Mr. Han?"

Zhao Zuo kept staring at Liang Ce and never left again. Hearing Liang Ce's plan of leisurely arrival, he really got his wish.Zhao Zuo winked at Xianzhi, and then said: "So, according to the regulations of our dynasty, Han Chao will be taken into custody as a boss of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and his position as Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs will be suspended, and he will be temporarily replaced by the Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. After the case is over, we will deal with it. As for the observation, it is still forbidden, if the result is as Han Chao said." Zhao Zuo paused, and then solemnly said, "A prince who breaks the law should be guilty of the same crime as the common people. The widow will never Appease."

Hearing this, Han Chao breathed a sigh of relief, got up and met the jailer who was waiting to be taken into custody, and then followed the jailer to where he should go.

After retiring from the court, Xianzhi followed the two ministers appointed by Emperor Zuo and personally sent Han Chao to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

There are not many people in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, unlike Dali Temple, as long as they are petty and bad things, they usually live in the prison of Dali Temple.And most of the prisons in the Ministry of Criminal Justice are locked up big shots who are waiting to be executed after the fall.

"My lords." Seeing the jailer leading Han Chao into the room, Xianzhi hurriedly bowed to the other two ministers.

Seeing this, the two ministers were flattered and took two steps forward to help: "Your Highness Xinling, you are so polite. What is this, Your Highness?"

"Master Han used to be Guanzhi's teacher, and he can be regarded as half of Xianzhi's teacher. I wonder if I can borrow a cup of tea with the two adults so that Xianzhi can ask the teacher one last gift."

Envy's eyes slowly turned to the prisoner, his eyebrows softened a little, and tears filled his eyes, which softened the hearts of the two ministers for a moment, nodded hurriedly, and waited in a quiet place.

Seeing the two leading the jailer for a long time, Xianzhi pushed his hand on the wooden prison door. He raised his eyes to look at the man standing upright in the prison, and a little sunlight came through the high window. , so that the man's back looks like a gentleman.

But a hypocrite like Fufeng is not uncommon, he laughed enviously.He closed his eyes and sneered and pushed the door open, the man turned around and sighed after hearing the sound.

"I didn't expect it to be His Highness Xinling."

"It's me." Xianzhi bent down to enter, and did not avoid Han Chao's pun.

Han Chao did sneer: "Mr. Liang is indeed far-sighted."

"Looking forward," Xianzhi raised his eyebrows, and after chewing the four words on his lips, curled his lips indifferently, "His vision won't last long."

After talking about Xianzhi and walking a few steps, Han Chao looked suspicious and asked, "Master Xinling..."

"Could it be that you don't like Liang Xianghao so much?" Xianzhi took his words, and tiptoed a pebble on the ground, "I grew up with Xie Xiang, my lord forgot?"

The stone under his feet is still firm, so it can only be more painful, which makes Xianzhi frowned, kicks the stone away, and continues: "Speaking of thanking Xiang, Xianzhi is curious about something, please enlighten me. "

Seeing Han Chao's questioning eyes, he envied him and said, "When the civil and military officials in Fufeng forced Mr. Xie to death, Mr. Han was among them. Today, because of Mr. Xie's dream, he confessed the crime of exile. ?”

"So the Lord Xinling is now going to settle old scores with the guilty minister?"

"Old debts?" Xian Zhi pursed his lips and shook his head, "Master Han, in the time of a cup of tea, there are too many old debts to settle. Why don't we open the skylight and speak honestly?"

Xian Zhi's bright eyes came to him, which made Han Chao's words flicker: "The guilty minister doesn't understand the meaning of Xinling Mausoleum Lord."

"At the beginning, Mr. Han accepted the intention of thanking Prime Minister, so he wrote the letter with all the officials?" Han Chao couldn't help trembling when Xian Zhi asked this. The secret he had hidden for several years was suddenly revealed by humanity. Surprised.

"Don't be surprised, Mr. Han. There are many ministers who have done this, and there are also many who have received the favor of Mr. Xie. I will not be embarrassed by this matter. But I remember that Mr. Xie once asked Mr. Xie to discipline him for him. Don't let him go astray. But these five years..." Xianzhi hesitated to speak.

"What does Lord Xinling want to ask?"

"Ask your lord whose idea it was for today's actions," Xian Zhi stepped closer, and his voice softened, "Or, I wonder if your lord can tell Xian Zhi that what was sent to Lord Han's house yesterday will be sent to Lord Han today. Who is the person who wrote the letter of guilt?"

After Xianzhi's voice fell, there was as expected a silence. Han Chao kept silent, but Xianzhi had no time for him to be silent.

"My lord, it's better to answer earlier. I heard that there are other caves in your lord's mansion. I don't think your lord should want his mansion to be exposed by Zhaoxing's people."

Han Chao met Shang Xianzhi's eyes sharply and threateningly.He had been with Xie Wuling for a few years earlier, and he had seen what it meant for Zhaoxing people to enter the mansion.Without exception, after Xie Wuling's attempts to communicate were ineffective, those few high-ranking officials told the Zhaoxing people who entered the mansion to peel off their skins, but any hat that could be held could not be escaped, and in the end they could not be overthrown. Those who are dead will be executed after the fall.

He has experienced it himself, and he has also seen those people's remorse with his own eyes.Famous festivals of life and death, no one in Fufeng's civil servants can ignore them.It is also because of this too much emphasis that Fufeng has so many incidents.

"This person, Lord Xinling still needs to ask me?"

"Need." Xian Zhi responded, "Because Mr. Sang Luo died in Juheng Garden, but someone sent you a letter just a few days ago."

"Wait," Han Chao thought about this sentence and asked, "You mean, that person is... Sang Luo?"

"Master Han doesn't know him, and still works for him?" Han Chao's question made Xianzhi laugh, "Master Han, there is not much left for this cup of tea, I still hope you can tell everything. There are endless words, and there is no way to hide."

"Don't dare to hide it, that person has always written a note to contact me. I always thought he was Zhao Xingxie's subordinate, since the day I entered Fufeng Land, he has been there."

"How dare you identify Zhaoxing's person based on a small note?"

"It's not based on a small note. At first, I got the same statement as Xiaojian from Mr. Xie. Besides, that person lives in the tower of Xie's mansion. Every time I see him, he is standing upstairs. A dark place. Even if the Xie Mansion was later sealed off and became a forbidden area, he could live there. He said he missed the old days, and his people went in and out of the Xie Mansion without being stopped. By the will of the Holy One."

"Xie Mansion Tower?"

"Yes."

Xian Zhi pursed her lips, after all it was still dark under the lamp, and Sang Luo took advantage of the loophole.But according to what Han Chao just said, there should be more than one loophole for Sang Luo to take advantage of.

"The lord just said that you have received this kind of note since you arrived in Fufeng. Do you still remember what it said?"

Han Chao thought about it carefully, spit out the word "Zhouyue" intermittently, and after thinking about it for a while, he spelled out the five words on the note in his mind: "Invitation to Pillowyue."

And these five words entered Xianzhi's ears, which made Xianzhi feel like being struck by lightning. It turned out that it was him and Xie Wuling who were wrong for the past few years.

Back then, Eunuch Fu had contacted the boy who sent the invitation in private, but he didn't know why, so Zhao Zuo decided to make the boy disappear in Fufeng.

It was precisely because this matter was fruitless that his master Xie Wuling turned his doubts to the country of Qi that had mentioned him.

If there wasn't this gap, Xie Wuling might have stopped Lu Shencheng when he begged Emperor Hui to marry him into the country of Qi, at least like Changle and Xuancheng, and he could wait for the future; .

But not Ruruo, Xie Wuling finally sought skin from the tiger, after all, he hurt others and himself.

I really don't know whether it is Xie Wuling's cleverness that was mistaken by his cleverness, or whether it is this Sang Luo's scheming that is more serious.

Xianzhi bid farewell to Han Chao, left the prison of the Ministry of Justice, exchanged greetings with the two adults expressionlessly for a while, and then parted ways. He came to the Orchid Wine Shop in the east of the city, went up to the second floor, and found a window-facing place. The seat sat for a while.

Looking out from the second floor of Orchid Restaurant is the tower of Xie Mansion.It is not too high, but it can be regarded as an outstanding tower among all the bungalows.

At that time, Xie Wuling was still there, and it was New Year's Eve, when fireworks were exploding in the sky in Fufeng and Kongming lanterns were being raised, he and Lu Qi would be taken up to the tower by Xie Wuling.Standing on the tower at that time, one could see the prosperity of Fufeng's hundreds of households like a chess siege, as well as the hustle and bustle of the market in the east of the city.

At that time, he was behind the railing of the tower and watched the cups and drinks in the orchid wine shop, but today he is in the orchid wine shop, looking at the tower where people are drinking tea.

"Do you know whose tower this is?"

Two villagers at the next table began chattering, and it was heard in Xianzhi's ears, and the tone did not sound like a local.Xianzhi looked over and saw that the two were looking at the tower outside the window, chatting endlessly.

One person said that the tower was the famous old mansion of the courtiers, while the other admired the tower completely, and commented that it should be the place with the widest view in the east of the city.If His Majesty hadn't sealed the Xie Mansion, he really wanted to stand there and have a look.

Xianzhi became interested, and continued to listen to the human voice: "However, it's strange to say that I just walked past the gate of Xie Mansion, and I feel that the whole Xie Mansion is deserted, and the grass is almost as tall as half a person, but this tower looks like But not wild."

"If you're popular, it's natural." Xianzhi thought of Han Chao's remarks, and indeed agreed with the statement that the tower is not a shortage.

Because Sangluo settled here, so this place is not deserted.

"What?" The person at the next table heard Xian Zhi's words, but he couldn't hear them clearly because of the noisy environment, so he asked.

"It's nothing," Xianzhi smiled, got up and put the silver on the table, and went straight to Xie's mansion without staying any longer.

But he and the guards around him walked around Xie's mansion twice, but they couldn't find the way that Han Chao said he could enter the mansion.

With no other choice, Xianzhi called Zhaoxing's hidden guards who were everywhere behind him, and asked them to help.But even Zhaoxing's hidden guard, it took him half a day to find the wrong way.

Really biased.

At the back of the street, there is a door, which is painted to look like a wall, and the "wall" seems to open when you push the "wall".Xianzhi pushed open the door and walked into the "wall".

When Xianzhi closed the "wall", a gust of wind was born, rushing straight towards his door.