Qi Xiangsi saw Qi Henian in the prison of the Criminal Department, and he was much haggard compared to the one who came to the palace that day.

The only thing that hasn't changed is the smile that Qi Xiangxi will never forget after ten years, the first time I saw it in Qi's house, when I killed my father, when I confronted each other in the hall, and now.

Qi Henian seemed a little surprised to see her, and after his expression flashed, he quickly had a sudden thought, but he seemed to have this thought in his disbelief, and only looked at her with a smile: "Don't come unharmed, nephew." ”

Qi Xiangsi stood outside the cell, holding the cell door with his hand and replied lightly: "Lord Qi is sick. ”

"The virtuous nephew is worried." Qi Henian didn't seem to be too worried about the current bad situation, sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, looking at Qi Xiangsi very kindly.

But what's the point of circling around at this time, she didn't come here to be polite.

"Qi Henian, where are the two ink treasures that my grandfather hid, Master Yu?"

"The things of the Qi family, it's interesting for my nephew to ask me."

"If you don't say it, I can also look for the booklet that the Qi family searched after it was sealed, who you gave it to, what you sold, and what your wife and children spent, you can always find it."

Qi Henian raised his head slightly, and reacted to the four words that the Qi family was sealed, Qi Xiangsi smiled at him: "What, do you still expect King Zhao to save you?" At this time, he can't protect himself, I'm afraid he can't remember you. ”

The smile on Qi Henian's face turned: "Your grandfather only gave me the medicine tripod back then, but he didn't give these to me, if you want to find it, I'm afraid you have to go back to Nanxian County and go to the ancestral house of the Qi family." ”

Unexpectedly, he didn't admit it, and Qi Xiangsi was not annoyed, so he took out a bag from his arms and threw it at him: "Master Qi was born with a good memory, so he must not forget this." ”

Inside the bag is a rusty brand, although the front is mottled, the back of a fierce tiger is very clear, the spike on the brand has long been rotten, as if it has been left in a place for a long time, sticky hands are full of rust smell.

Qi Henian naturally will not forget, this is Ah Hai's token, Ah Hai died in Nanxian three years ago, but the token on his body was gone, at that time he still suspected the cause of death of the two people, now think about it, and the time when she went to Huizhou is in line.

"People are dead, this rotten nature doesn't mean anything, but there are always alive, Nanhuai thieves are rampant, the imperial court wants to get rid of them is not a day or two, it just so happens that the Dutong Lord stationed in Nanhuai captured a group of wild roads, no more, no less than fifteen people, everyone has such a brand, these people seem to be fierce but can't withstand torture, and they will be clean all the things they have done over the years, coincidentally, there is just a case of the Qi family."

Qi Xiangsi paused, and his smile became brighter and brighter: "What's more, the people from the Criminal Department followed the clues and checked down, and found out that the person who gave these brands to those thieves was the son of Lord Qi, in other words, it was the second young master of the Qi family who instructed these people to make trouble in Nanhuai." ”

Qi Henian's hand holding the sign tightened, and his face remained unchanged: "Nonsense, how can Yanbo have anything to do with this time." ”

"How can it be irrelevant, the things that those thieves looted were handed over to the second young master of Qi, and what they got was only silver taels, through their identification, the jade pendant on the second young master of Qi was what they robbed, the old lady of the Cao family had a big birthday earlier, and the congratulatory gifts sent by the Qi Mansion also included the things they robbed, not to mention the stolen goods, and dared to give them away blatantly, Lord Qi said that he had nothing to do with this time, I am afraid that he could not convince people."

"How can Mrs. Qi not know how many pounds and taels of her son is, but over the years, the Qi family has added so many things of unknown origin, but she has never asked her son, whether he is really stupid or pretending to be stupid, with Mrs. Qi's ability to take charge of the feed, this kind of trick should not be able to deceive her, in other words, Mrs. Qi's suspicion is not small."

Planting blame.

No one in this world knows the origin of these people better than Qi Henian, but it is also a good strategy to move him and bias his wife and son.

Qi Henian's smile faded, and his tone was extremely casual: "You are a woman, all the way from Nanxian to Kyoto City, I underestimate you, but it's a pity that I couldn't stop your brothers and sisters that day, otherwise you can reunite early." ”

"Why are you willing to kill me, the main hall wants to protect me in front of the emperor, don't you just follow the mantra and cultivation method passed down by my grandfather." Qi Xiangsi snorted, if he wasn't greedy enough, she really wouldn't be alive now, maybe she would have been killed when she was pulled down from the palace that day, but how could he give up in Qi Henian, he still had to rely on the medicine tripod to rely on those rare medicine recipes to make himself go to the next level, without the first emperor and King Zhao, how could the glory and wealth be abandoned.

"It's wrong for the virtuous nephew to say this, it's a pity if these things die out, in addition to practicing medicine to save people, it is more important to spread these out, and the more people who know, can save more people." Qi He looked at the sign in his hand young, "When I came back this time, I also took the time to go to the Fan family, and it happened that the Fan family had a happy event, and the daughter-in-law of the Fan family was pregnant, and I heard that they were still twins." ”

, Qi Xiangsi smiled and said: "Speaking of which, I haven't congratulated Lord Qi yet, and I will soon be a grandfather, but I don't know if the Qi family is like this now, and the second young lady is still pregnant." ”

The cell was quiet, Qi Xiangsi was not afraid of him threatening the Fan family, he Qi He was fast, and he could beat her to the Qi family, other people's lives were not important, and the Qi family in the daughter-in-law's belly was very important.

Qi Henian's eyes turned grim for a moment, and after a flash, they returned to their original state: "You don't have to take your angry words seriously, and you won't do such a law-breaking thing if you think of a virtuous nephew." ”

"Lord Qi has been raised, I am not a kind and benevolent person, and I don't care about this law, since I dare to say it, I dare to do it, you lead someone to kill the thirty-two members of my Qi family, and it is not too much for me to compensate your wife, son, and grandson."

Qi Xiangsi looked at him after finishing speaking, but the smile on Qi Henian's face became more and more sincere: "What the virtuous nephew said is extremely true, but the emperor Shengming will always return the child to a clean slate, if I die in prison, the arrangement of the virtuous nephew will be in vain, why don't we make a deal." ”

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On March 12, the new emperor ascended the throne, and on March 15, the first emperor was funeral.

The cause of the death of Concubine Xian was related to Concubine De, and after the funeral of the first emperor, Concubine De was sent to the imperial tomb and shaved her hair; And King Zhao, because of his repeated attempts to kill King Yu, and also masterminded several cases of officials being killed, was demoted to Yuliao, and his descendants were not allowed to return to Kyoto City and were not allowed to be officials.

In order to win the hearts of the people, and also to show his benevolence, some officials who were accompliced by King Zhao were not punished so severely.

On 17 March, the Criminal Department retried the case of the Qi family in Nanxian County, Yongzhou eight years ago, and the mastermind Qi Henian confessed to the case of that year and confessed some things that had been stolen from the Qi family.

The Qi family was greatly damaged because of this.

On March 18, the new emperor issued a general amnesty, exempting the world from capital crimes and exile, halving the prison sentence and releasing minor crimes.

On April 29, the procession escorting the exiled convicts to Xihe reached Yongzhou and rested for a while at a tea post near the official road.

A team of more than 40 people, 15 officers and 30 criminals, set out from Kyoto Castle, each of them in shackles and connected in series, and could not be untied except for free, and it was difficult to escape.

These people are the death row prisoners when the world was amnesty, and they didn't show their fierce appearance after a long journey, and they asked the officers and soldiers to ask for water to drink after sitting down, and what they got was a whip, and Qi Henian, who was sitting outside, was also beaten, and his thin prison clothes were torn through by the whip, and a bloody stain on his arm suddenly burst out, but he didn't say anything, just shrank inward, and looked at the tea post with his dry and peeled lips, he also wanted to drink water, but now is not the time.

The rest of the officers and soldiers went to the tea post to drink tea, and they were not willing to do this kind of drudgery of escorting the prisoners, and naturally, it would not be much better for these prisoners.

"Amnesty to the world, it's us who suffer, these people are not responsible for human murder, and it is cheaper for them to be exiled to Xihe."

"You don't understand that." One of the officers and soldiers who had escorted the exiled prisoners earlier laughed, "When they get to Xihe, they will feel that it is better to die on the execution ground." ”

The rest of them were really puzzled, no matter how much it was better than death, but the officers and soldiers didn't think so: "Do you know how many people die in Xihe every year, the court exiled them, they all died of exhaustion in the mine in less than three years, they have to pay silver to find someone to work, and they have to pay money for the dead. You say, isn't it better to be directly beheaded and killed? ”

"Tsk." After taking a sip of herbal tea, these words eliminated a lot of grievances among the officers and soldiers, "I haven't stopped halfway, it's still troublesome to die of thirst, go, feed them some water." ”

After paying for the tea, he asked the people in the tea post to ask for a wooden barrel, and several officers and soldiers went to the well behind the tea post to fetch a few buckets of water for these prisoners to drink.

Qi Henian drank very slowly, but those officers and soldiers would not wait for him, and he was still like drinking tea after everyone else had drunk it, so he snatched the spoon and splashed the rest of the water on his face, and scolded: "Hurry up, you still can't be a big man." ”

Qi Henian wiped the water stains on his face, a haze flashed under his eyes, and after standing up, he stood up and stood behind the previous prisoner without saying a word.

The officers and men snorted and led them on to the official road in the direction of the West River, which was a two-day walk from the next populated place, and they had to spend the night in the field.

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When it was getting dark, they passed through a forest, where the officers and men at the head advocated a night's rest, and they leaned under a nearby tree, and several prisoners shouted for them to unshackle and make it easier.

The rest of the officers and soldiers lit a fire to take care of it, and two officers and soldiers escorted a prisoner to the forest for convenience, so they came and went more than ten times, and it was dark.

The surroundings were very quiet, and a prisoner sitting next to Qi Henian began to feel sleepy, his head tilted towards Qi Henian, and after a while, such a sleepiness spread, and those prisoners leaned together and showed sleepiness.

Even the two officers and soldiers beside the fire began to yawn and get sleepy, which would not happen in normal times, and Qi Henian, who was slightly drowsy, suddenly became vigilant.

His worries were not wrong, after a stick of incense, all the prisoners fell asleep, it is better to say that they fell asleep than to fall into a drowsy, they couldn't wake up, these officers and soldiers also fell to the ground, although Qi Henian did not faint, his consciousness had begun to blur, and there was a problem with the water he drank in the tea house during the day!

Not long after, there was a rustle of footsteps in the woods.

Qi Henian could see someone appear around them, but he couldn't see their appearance clearly, until the shackles on his body were savagely cut off, and a black cloth covered his head, and Qi Henian lost consciousness. 166 Reading Network