Li Chengxun, who was weak, still looked around the crowd majestically, and expressed his dissatisfaction with one mouth: "This early in the morning, why is it so noisy, I am not feeling well today, and you courtiers are not considerate, what is there to do?" ”

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He was attracted by the prime minister's voice, and asked with a displeased face, "Oh! The prime minister is not mourning in Jinling, why didn't he return to Chang'an privately after being summoned? ”

Chu Yilian explained: "Your Majesty, it is because the minister received a secret letter that someone infiltrated the palace in the name of a royal painter and tried to murder the Holy Body. ”

"Your Majesty, according to the minister, it is clear that the Prime Minister has the wrong intention of privately recruiting soldiers to return to Beijing in the name of hoeing and rape. Dare to ask the prime minister, where is the secret letter? Jing Guogong also threw away the last bit of warmth he had in front of the prime minister at this moment, and asked sharply.

Chu Yilian had already been prepared, and said calmly unhurriedly: "In the case of Xie Zhaorong's poisoning, I noticed that this Chu Changgeng behaved strangely, neither yin nor yang, but because there was no evidence, he secretly sent someone to investigate, and sure enough, I found out that this person was a woman disguised as a man with ill intentions.

"Your Majesty, the minister was worried about the safety of the saint, so he returned to Beijing without permission in a hurry, and he came to confess his guilt today. The secret letter was sent by the courtier's daughter Xueyu, and she was suddenly in trouble because of this, and she has not returned yet. If you can't kill this demon girl, you won't be blind to death. ”

Speaking of excitement, he knelt down with his clothes, kowtowed and cried, "When she was arrested yesterday, she lied that she was the young daughter of the minister, confusing the public and slandering the minister. The little girl Yunxi died in the fire of Chu Mansion when she was ten years old, all because of the concubine Bai of the minister, who suddenly became mad and set fire, how could the dead be resurrected, it is clear that someone is secretly making trouble, Your Majesty. ”

Maybe there was too much content in his words, which made it difficult for Li Chengxun to digest for a while. He was slightly stunned when he heard this, but he asked an inconsequential question in half a voice: "Chu Changgeng, this name sounds quite familiar, a salute." ”

Zhao Yili bowed and replied properly: "Your Majesty, you have forgotten, this Chu Changgeng is a painter of the painting academy, and His Majesty once commended his paintings, and specially allowed him to wear a gauze hat to join the company." ”

Li Chengxun nodded, without too much surprise and surprise, and asked casually: "Oh, yes, yes." I've had a lot of worse memory lately. Kneel down and sin girl, what enmity do you have with the prime minister, why do you want to frame the prime minister, and who instructed you? ”

Chu Yunxi, who was summoned, lowered his head and walked to the front of the imperial steps, knelt down and saluted again, and replied with a solemn gaze: "Your Majesty, the courtiers have gone through a lot of hardships and tread the waves and the sea, all in order to be able to kneel in front of the saint today to plead their feelings, although they have no regrets in death. The courtier's surname is Chu Xiaozi Yunxi, and she is indeed Chu Yilian's young daughter, but she is not the daughter of the prime minister. ”

"I'm confused." Lee Seung-hoon asked suspiciously.

The prime minister took the opportunity to interject, "Your Majesty, this woman is obviously a crazy woman, please deal with it as soon as possible, don't let her nonsense blaspheme the Holy Hearing." ”

Jing Guogong also replied unhurriedly: "Why should the prime minister be anxious, crazy or not, Your Majesty has his own decision." ”

Li Chengxun was not disturbed by the two, and continued the topic just now and asked, "Tell me what you mean by this?" ”

Chu Yunxi folded his hands and kowtowed: "The courtiers want to denounce the three major cases, all of which have a lot to do with the prime minister. One of them is that the prime minister instructed the current Jiangzhou Assassin King Shen to swallow up the disaster relief silver and frame Yang Miao, the previous Jiangzhou Assassin Shi, so that Yang Miao's family was killed. ”

She knelt up straight, took out a few letters from her sleeves and said, "There are letters between the prime minister and Wang Shen as evidence. Several of them are also stamped with the private seal of the prime minister, please read it to the Holy Emperor. This is still when Qing Chun packed up her baggage, she carried it in her clothes, and she saw it tucked into her sleeve, and it happened to be able to send it to the emperor by hand today.

Zhao Yili took it from her hand and presented it to the saint.

The prime minister snorted, flicked his sleeves and asked, "Ha!" Where do these letters come from? ”

Lee Seung-hoon looked at the contents of the letter as he raised his eyes and glanced at the two.

Chu Yunxi said: "It was taken from the secret room of the minister's study when the courtiers visited the Prime Minister's Mansion at night. ”

The prime minister sneered: "It's nonsense, there has never been a secret room in the minister's study. Since you have entered the study of the Prime Minister's Mansion in private, it is not impossible to forge a letter and then stamp it with Chu's private seal. ”

His words made Lee Seung-hoon, who was buried in letters, nod again and again and agreed: "Hmm." What the prime minister said is quite reasonable, since you can enter and leave the prime minister's mansion privately, it is not uncommon to find someone to forge letters and seal privately. What is this second great sin? ”

Chu Yunxi was slightly startled, and knew that the prime minister had discovered the stolen things of the Prime Minister's Mansion last night, so he seized on her loophole to enter the Prime Minister's Mansion privately, and wanted to put all the sins on her. Good plan, she didn't refute or explain, but just followed the emperor's question: "This second crime is that the prime minister plotted to kill the little daughter's uncle Bai Biao, and sculpted his body in the pure Yangzi clay statue in the secret room of the Prime Minister's Mansion. ”

This kind of cruel method was so cruel that everyone present did not feel cold, and even Li Chengxun asked with a little trembling: "There is such a sensational thing?" ”

"Do you have credentials?" An official watching from the sidelines couldn't help but ask.

"Yes!" Chu Yunxi replied categorically, "I have taken out my uncle's bones from the Prime Minister's Mansion, as well as a dark iron purple gold knife worn behind the clay statue. As we all know, what the Pure Yang Ancestor wears behind him is a sword, not a heavy sword. This knife is now in the south of the city where the people live in the house, the saint can send someone to get it, this knife is made of Xuantie, and from the hands of Luo Gang, a famous knife maker in the Western Regions, this is the only one in the world, and there is no possibility of forgery. Moreover, my uncle is unusually tall, nine feet tall, which is quite consistent with the bones in the clay sculpture, and there are many unrotten fragments of Shu brocade in the air-dried mud, which are also the clothes that my uncle usually wears. ”

The prime minister continued to respond with that trick, and responded to all changes unchanged: "If you are really a female thief, that Bai Biao is indeed the wife and uncle of Weichen, and he is also a close friend of the minister." Before he traveled, he had sent this knife to Yu Chen, who had been carefully kept and stored in the study, and I don't know when it was stolen by this woman, and she made up such a bizarre thing to frame Wei Chen. And there is only one Buddha hall connected to the minister's study, and the one in it is dedicated to Guanyin, not the pure yang master at all. ”

Li Chengxun heard a familiar name again, and muttered to himself: "Is this Bai Biao the madman who was worshiped by Hanlin more than ten years ago?" ”

Zhao Yili is like a magical prompting tool, always reminding him in time when his brain memory is suddenly disordered: "Yes, Your Majesty." His painting skills are superb, but his temperament is sparse and not rude, and His Majesty once gave him back the money. ”

Li Chengxun tapped his forehead, revealing a tired look: "Oh, I remember." I'm really old, and there are some things that are close at hand, but I can't even remember them. You continue. ”

Chu Yunxi folded his hands in front of his abdomen, bowed down and said, "The big crime on the third day is that the prime minister murdered my biological father Chu Yilian and replaced him, and it has been thirteen years now. also forced to kill the Bai family, who knew the inside story, that is, the biological mother of the little girl, Your Majesty. ”

Li Chengxun's brain nerves, which were already a little confused, were completely entangled, he squinted his eyes, thinking that he had misunderstood just now, and asked suspiciously: "What, you said that the prime minister is fake?" ”

mentioned the murder of his father, Chu Yunxi's tone was a little shaky: "Exactly." My father had already been killed. A few adults who have been friends with my father for many years, please think about what my father's temperament used to be, what is the current situation, and whether his personality suddenly changed thirteen years ago. That's because my father's true identity has long been reversed.

"I once looked up the genealogy of the Chu clan in the study of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and I think there should also be a copy in the ancestral house of Jinling. It is recorded that my father Chu Yilian once had a younger brother named Chu Xiaolian. The two were born only one stick of incense apart, and there is no doubt that they should be twins who look similar. Later, due to the war, he was lost on the way to escape, his whereabouts are unknown, and his life and death are unknown. Therefore, the courtiers boldly speculated that maybe he was not dead, and when he learned one day that he was the brother of the important minister of the court, and he looked alike, would he secretly have bad intentions and wanted to replace him.

"And before I dug up a pair of bones under the pear blossom dead tree in the ruins of the burned Chu Mansion, the bones were also hidden in the people's daughter's house, and then asked someone to check her age at the time of death, height and body shape are completely consistent with my father thirteen years ago, how can there be such a coincidence in the world. And the courtiers vaguely remember that because my biological mother likes pear blossoms, my father told my mother before the feast that he had asked Jiang Nei, who is good at cultivating flowers and plants, for a good pear blossom sapling a few days ago, and he just sent it before today's banquet, and he hurried to get it. As a result, there was an assassination incident, and I think that my father was killed at that time, and the assassin incident was just made up by Chu Xiaolian to cover people's ears. It so happened that the dead tree grew from between the finger bones of the bones, and when they buried my father's body, they buried the sapling in his hand in the earth, and I was sorry that I had played under the pear tree when I was young, and I did not know that my father had died under the tree. ”

Li Chengxun pursed his lips, and a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. He curled his stiff fingers and asked hesitantly, "Then why are you sure that the prime minister killed this person?"

"Because the wound on the corpse is consistent with the cut of the dagger blade of a dagger hidden by the prime minister in the secret room, the dagger is not an ordinary style, but a triangular pyramid, which is extremely rare."

The prime minister refuted contemptuously: "It's the secret room that hides the knife again, and the dagger again." How many false physical evidence you have placed in my Chu Mansion these days is just your one-sided words. ”

Li Chengxun leaned on the back of the chair, thought carefully for a while, then lowered his head and flipped through the letter in his hand, and hesitated: "Well, yes, the physical evidence you said is all dead things, and there is no witness." And your inferences are just your speculations, even if you really check these things in the Prime Minister's Mansion, it cannot be ruled out that you placed them in advance. ”

Chu Yunxi looked sideways, bravely looked directly at the prime minister's hypocritical face, and made a killer move: "But the saint, the prime minister may have made an emergency plan in advance and destroyed these physical evidence, but the evidence of the prime minister's crime is not the only one. If the prime minister activates the secret room mechanism and blows it up, it will be three hundred taels of silver here. Even if the prime minister can slander these physical evidences as set up by the little girl, but are the corpses that were killed by Chu Xiaolian and buried under the secret room for Chu Xiaolian also placed by the little girl in advance? ”

The prime minister obviously didn't expect this, panicked, so he calmed down and counterattacked: "When the prime minister's mansion was built, there was a collapse, and the bodies of many workers who were stoned to death could only be buried directly in the mansion because it was difficult to excavate. ”

Chu Yunxi smiled slightly, and said: "If you want to eliminate hundreds of workers in one fell swoop, if you want to kill them, you can either strangle them, or kill them by slashing or poisoning, and the saint can send someone to dig up a few bones to verify the cause of death, and you can know who is lying." ”

The two of them were talking and swords, and they were at a stalemate, and an inner attendant outside the hall suddenly entered the hall and replied: "Enlighten the saint, the middle book ordered Liu Yun to take Shangguan Xueyu to ask to see him outside the hall." ”

Li Chengxun was having a headache by the two, and when he heard that Shangguan Xueyu was found by Liu Yun, he sat up straight, and said with great joy: "Xuan." It just so happened that the prime minister's daughter was rescued by Liu Aiqing, if she was really robbed by this woman, then the case could be finalized. ”

Chu Yunxi was sweating profusely, but he didn't expect the prime minister's sword to go sideways and make such a strange move, which in turn turned her into an army. It's just that she didn't know that the prime minister was also very surprised in her heart, Liu Yun had always been very unpopular with him, but at this moment she was standing on the same front as Shangguan Xueyu, could she be honest with him?

After the two of them knelt down and saluted, Li Chengxun couldn't wait to ask Shangguan Xueyu, why she disappeared yesterday, how she was rescued by Liu Yun, and whether the person who robbed her was Chu Yunxi or the killer she sent?

The prime minister kept glancing at her as soon as she entered the door, but unfortunately she never gave him any response. However, he is not worried, with her intelligence, she will naturally adapt to the situation.

But she opened her mouth as if she gave him a heavy punch: "Back to the saint, the courtiers were not robbed yesterday, and the courtiers have been at home all the time." I don't know who made the rumor that the courtiers were taken prisoner? ”

There were a few slight sneers from the crowd below, and the prime minister was as embarrassed as if he had slapped himself in public.

Li Chengxun also frowned slightly, and asked, "Then what are you doing today, could it be that you are here to prove that the prime minister framed this woman?" ”

Shangguan Xueyu's clothes today are quite simple, not as glamorous and colorful as in the past, and her makeup is a little messy, and even Chu Yunxi will dress up seriously for such a grand matter, but she looks hasty and hurried. But the thoughtfulness of her etiquette and the solemnity of her demeanor are very in place. She got rid of the charm of the past, but answered the emperor's question in a serious and serious tone with the posture of a dignified aristocratic lady: "Qi Sheng, the courtiers want to sue one person today, and respectfully ask the Holy Judge." ”

The atmosphere in the main hall immediately became treacherous, and everyone waited with bated breath for her to report the name of that person, and even Chu Yunxi felt that his heart was about to jump out of his throat.

Shangguan Xueyu's face was tense, every word seemed to use a thousand catties, and every time the lip flap was closed, it seemed to be able to beat the prime minister to bleed: "The courtiers accused the prime minister of plotting to murder Lord Chu for more than ten years, and under the pretense of Lord Chu, she stole the dragon and turned the phoenix, deceived the superiors and subordinates, embezzled and accepted bribes, and murdered Zhongliang. If this person is not removed, the country and society will be in danger. The physical evidence is complete, and the courtiers are human witnesses, please make a clear judgment from the saints. ”

As soon as these words came out, the situation in the temple was in chaos. The prime minister's eyes erupted with anger, his steps were disordered, and he pointed at her and roared loudly: "You rebellious girl who eats inside and out, who instructed you to frame the old man?" You are in cahoots with this girl, and even your father is going to betray you, what are your plans? ”

He glanced at His Highness's crowd, and saw the disdain and gloating eyes, and his anger prevailed. Goodbye upright, upright, awe-inspiring Liu Yun, angry, crazy tugging on his shirt and shaking: "You poured ecstasy on him, so that she talked nonsense in the palace today, and she didn't even want her parents and ancestors, didn't you?" ”

Liu Yun's face showed a look of annoyance, pushed away the prime minister, dressed in a neat garment, and said coldly: "The prime minister is inevitably out of manners, the saint is here, why did he say such rude words." ”

"The prime minister step down!" Li Chengxun shouted angrily, and the guards on both sides of the imperial staircase clenched the steel blades in their hands and entered a state of alert.

The prime minister took two steps back hatefully, forcibly suppressed his anger and turned to Shangguan Xueyu and asked, "I understand, did your mother ask you to harm me?" ”