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Li Chu hurriedly walked out of his seat, ignoring the four princes and bowing to Li Jingyao and said, "Your Majesty, what the four princes said is too funny. ”

"Oh, I'd like to hear how eloquent your mouth is!" The fourth prince laughed sideways, staring at him tightly with his hands on his chest.

Li Chu glanced at Ding Shi, turned his head and asked the fourth prince: "Let's not talk about whether this gold was stolen by someone in my mansion, let me ask the fourth prince, what is the relationship between this gold and the assassination of Wanshou Palace?" ”

"Of course it does! That's what you used to bribe the palace maid to frame me! Seeing that he was unusually calm, the fourth prince couldn't help but be a little irritable, pouted, and secretly thought in his heart that you would feel better in a while.

Li Chu pointed to the bag of gold in the hands of the fourth prince with a smile, and asked, "Then is there one less ingot of gold?" ”

Li Jingyao couldn't sit still, moved his sitting posture and looked at the fourth prince, the fourth prince frowned, and reacted quickly: "It's not less, but can you be so stupid?" It must have been you who bribed the palace maid with your own gold, and then sent someone to steal the gold in my house, and did this thing without leakage, isn't it your Song Dynasty style? ”

"The fourth prince finally said something right." Li Chu smiled faintly, met Li Jingyao's inquiring gaze, and suddenly said in an aggravated tone, "Am I that stupid?" Stupid enough to let the people in the house go directly to the market with the gold to swagger through the market, and don't even know how to take off the cloth bag outside the gold?! Since I do things so well, how could I make such a mistake that even the Fourth Princes would not make! ”

Li Chu's defense was accompanied by mockery, so that the fourth prince was speechless for a while, Li Chu's eyes flashed, and he didn't intend to give him any chance to think, and then said: "A lot of things have happened recently, but as far as I know, every case is related to the fourth prince, right?" I don't know if it's because my appearance made the fourth prince feel that his status was shaken, so he did these ridiculous things. I don't know whether this gold was stolen by the people in my mansion or the fault of the four princes, after all, the four princes' mansions are heavily guarded, but not even a fly can fly in. ”

Li Jingyao still has a trace of hesitation, but he believes that his brother will do such a thing, and several people present know it very well, so Li Chu tries his best to lead his words to the supreme right, after all, few people can resist the temptation of power.

Seeing that Li Jingyao's expression really changed, the fourth prince widened his eyes and pointed at Li Chu and said, "You fart!" What proof do you have for these words? I've got both stolen goods, that's the ironclad evidence on the caseboard, can you say that you can say this ironclad evidence?! ”

"What ironclad evidence? In good conscience, if this is ironclad evidence, then the previous one is silver. Lichu replied without hurry.

The fourth prince had a blue face, stared at Li Chu for a long time, but suddenly laughed out loud, listening to Li Chu's back hair, only to hear him laugh several times, and he didn't mean to stop.

"What are you laughing at?"

His laughter stopped abruptly, the already not shallow smile in his eyes slowly tightened, he glanced at Li Chu and Ding Shi Ding Yue behind him, and said loudly: "Then they are the matter of the three hands of Shanxi, how do you explain it?" ”

Li Jingyao, who had been listening to their arguments in silence, finally couldn't help but speak, and said in surprise: "Three hands in Shanxi? ”

"That's right! It is the three hands of Shanxi who stole the imperial tomb, and the whole Shanxi is plastered with their portraits, if the imperial brother needs it, he can transfer one or two from the criminal department now. The fourth prince couldn't hide the smugness on his face, and looked sideways at Li Chu and said, "Since they are notorious thieves, it is not difficult to steal a bag of gold from the palace, right?" Song Gongzi? ”

Ding Shi moved his shoulders and denied: "Our brothers are not thieves, we are just ordinary people who do our duty. ”

"Ordinary people?" The fourth prince stepped forward and bent down to choke his wrist and said, "The fingers are long, and they can steal things from the other party's body without the other party knowing, and this scar on the palm of the hand was caught by a person named the fifth master three years ago, and he almost didn't cut off your hand." ”

Li Chu frowned and looked at Ding Shi, seeing that he had a white face, he knew that something was wrong, and was thinking about how to phrase it, Ding Shi had already admitted: "I stole it, but it has nothing to do with my brother, he doesn't know." ”

Li Jingyao, the Fourth Prince, and Li Chu all fixed their eyes on his face, and the Fourth Prince, who understood what he meant, was overjoyed and said, "Okay, as long as you say that Li Chu instructed you to do it, I will definitely intercede for you two brothers in front of the imperial brother." ”

"This thing ......"

Ding Yue pressed his arm suddenly, his face was full of shock, he was not shocked Ding Shi did things for Lichu, just after the afterglow flickered, he understood everything.

He was shocked that Ding Shi took the initiative to admit his crimes, and even took all the crimes on himself to protect everyone around him.

Ding Shi patted his palm with his backhand, looked into Shang Lichu's eyes, took a breath and said, "I am very grateful that when our brother had no way out, it was Gongzi Li who took us in, and he never treated us badly in terms of etiquette. Although we are street rats, in the face of the country's righteousness, I will never shield and connive at anyone because of these gratitudes, and I didn't expect to be used by my son at all. ”

The fourth prince's body shook, he glanced at Li Jingyao, who was angry, and reluctantly said a sentence with a trembling voice: "You...... Tell me what happened. ”

"Five days ago, Gongzi specially called me over for lunch, and during the meal, he invited me to the Fourth Prince's Mansion to steal something. In fact, I was about to wash my hands in the golden basin, but when I thought that my son treated me well, and that it was just a bag of gold, I agreed. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions were different, the fourth prince was naturally overjoyed, Ding Yue was in disbelief, but Li Jingyao and Li Chu's expressions were almost the same, just looking at Ding Shi on the ground with cold eyes.

Because they remembered very well that five days ago, Li Chu had lunch with Li Jingyao in the palace, and Ding Shi was simply instructed by someone to frame Li Chu.

The fourth prince couldn't hide his smile, turned around and bowed and saluted, "Did the imperial brother hear it?" He's recruited them all. ”

Li Jingyao didn't answer, he didn't even blink his eyes, the fourth prince waited for a while and felt that something was wrong, raised his eyes to look at him, and reminded, "Brother Huang? ”

"Tell me, why is the gold in the bazaar?" Li Jingyao leaned sideways and asked.

The fourth prince felt that this question was not important at all, and was about to say a few words, but Ding Shi had already spoken, "I hid the gold under the floor tiles, and my sister took it out and used it if she stole it without being sensible." ”

Li Jingyao couldn't sit still at all, got up and paced two steps, turned his head to look at Li Chu and asked, "He has been talking for so long, what do you have to say?" ”

"Ding Shi, I treat you well, but you colluded with wicked people to frame me!" A trace of pain flashed across Li Chu's face, and he quickly returned to normal, and said in a weak tone, "If I really asked you to steal the gold, why did the gold hide in your room instead of me handling it myself?" You are very doting on Ding Mi, and you have never wronged her, how can you make her embarrassed enough to steal your gold? ”

Ding Shi showed a hint of panic, and glanced at the fourth prince uneasily, and the fourth prince was also disturbed by Li Chu's words, and met Ding Shi's gaze and nodded hurriedly to signal him to continue.

(To be continued.) )