In a blink of an eye, two days passed, Yu Shu stayed at home to read and write, and studied the door of easy learning, waiting for the news of the opening of Dali Temple to try the case.

Nothing major happened in the past two days, Zhao Hui selected a reward from the palace and asked He Fangzhi to send it to Pei Jing, and the forgotten machine building sent Xia Mingming's letter, asking Yu Shu why he didn't go to her appointment, Yu Shu wrote a reply letter for Guiliu to take away, the letter did not explain, but made an appointment to meet Xia Mingming at the end of the month.

In addition, Yu Xiaoxiu met Xue Wenzhe in the academy, as Yu Shu expected, Xue Wenzhe really knew that Ji Xingxuan was imprisoned, and he didn't know where he heard that this matter was related to Yu Shu, so he caught Yu Xiaoxiu sneering and sneering, and there was disrespect for Yu Shu in his words, and as a result, Yu Xiaoxiu reported to Academician Song, and Xue Wenzhe was preached.

Yu Shu listened to Yu Xiaoxiu talk about what happened, sneered at the time, and said: "When you see him in the future, treat him as a fly, don't care." If he bothers you again, tell him that you don't want others to know that he was once sacrificed to heaven with his bare buttocks, so keep your mouth shut. ”

When he was in Yiyang City, Xue Wenzhe was arrested by a group of people to open the altar as a sacrifice, Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu were affected by him, encountered a danger, and witnessed Xue Wenzhe being picked up into a white chicken The ugly appearance was also that time when Yu Shu first met Jingchen, so his memory is still fresh.

Yu Xiaoxiu wrote down Yu Shu's words and went to the school the next day, but he didn't meet Xue Wenzhe to come to him again, so he thought he was afraid of the academician's preaching, but he didn't know that Xue Wenzhe didn't come to school at all.

Temporarily press this little thing not to mention, at dusk this day, Yu Shu finally waited for the news of the trial, Xue Rui sent Lao Cui to send her a message, the date of the trial is set for tomorrow, Xue Rui wants her to wait at home early tomorrow morning, and he will send someone to pick her up to Dali Temple. Lao Cui brought these two sentences, and he didn't say anything superfluous, which made Yu Shu very relieved, only when Xue Rui didn't remember what happened when he was drunk that day.

Turning around and telling Zhao Hui that she was going out tomorrow and asking the kitchen to boil water, with the help of kidney beans, Yu Shu, who couldn't touch the water with one hand, took a bath and went to bed early.

Just when Yu Shu was restless, in the prison in the west of Anling City, in the quiet night, the door of a cell was opened, and the jailer inserted a torch into the wall, illuminating the gloomy stone house, showing a rickety figure on the wooden bed, faintly hearing one or two weak coughs, the person on the bed heard the sound of the door opening, slowly turned half of his body, revealing a gray face, full of sickness, but Ji Huaishan, who was still in good spirits ten days ago.

"Ahem, yes, who's that?" Ji Huaishan looked at the figure at the door of the cell, not sure if someone from the official office was going to interrogate him late at night or if someone else was coming to visit him.

"Grandfather"

A man at the door let out a low cry and ran to the side of the wooden bed, kneeling down to him, the black cloak on his head slipping down, revealing a face facing the sky.

"Xuan, Xuan'er?" Ji Huaishan was startled, and sat up with his body propped up, "How, how-"

"It's His Royal Highness King Ning," Ji Xingxuan's eyes were red and he stretched out his hand to support the old man, and whispered to him: "The court will be interrogated tomorrow, and the prince will find a way to let me secretly leave the cell and come to see you."

Hearing this, Ji Huaishan hurriedly looked out of the door, looking for the figure of the Seventh Prince Liu Hao, but he couldn't see anything clearly in the black hole outside, so he asked her in a low voice: "Seven, the prince is also here?"

Ji Xingxuan nodded, "The prince is waiting outside, it's inconvenient for him to come in this place, don't look for it, let's discuss and discuss how to answer tomorrow when we go to court." ”

Ji Huaishan retracted his gaze, didn't see Liu Hao, his eyes flashed with disappointment, coughed twice, looked up at his granddaughter kneeling by the low bed, and by the light of the fire on the wall, he saw the worry, anxiety and a little fear on her face, which made him blame himself very much, he stretched out his hand that trembled slightly due to illness, touched the top of her head, and said slowly:

"I knew that today, I shouldn't have taken the risk of stealing the problem at that time, and I was blinded by the bastard of wolf ambition and let you make a deal with her with the disaster stone, so that the disaster was planted. Good boy, ahem, this time it was grandfather who hurt you,"

Ji Xingxuan clenched the old man's other hand, tears rolled in his eyes, shook his head, held back his choked throat, and pulled a smile at him: "Don't say such frustrating words, the prince said, as long as they can't produce physical evidence, no matter whether he is a Taoist or someone to testify, Dali Temple can't easily convict us, didn't you burn that exam paper a long time ago, and Sun Er's answer sheet is also self-explanatory, as for the traitors who wronged us and conspired to kill the emperor, it is even more impossible to convict." My father came to see me the day before yesterday, and said that he had entrusted someone to go to Dali Temple to take care of it. ”

Ji Huaishan's palm stopped on her hair, looked at her, closed his dim eyes, and couldn't bear to tell her the news that his close friend Zhao Zhixue told him when he came to visit the prison yesterday - Si Tianjian found seven or eight identical papers from this year's Great Yan Examination Astrology Subject.

His charge of favoritism and fraud has been implemented, and he will be stripped of his official position at the lightest, and his precious granddaughter, who has excellent qualifications, will ruin her good future because of cheating, and will not be allowed to enter the Dayan exam for life.

"Star Swirl, you heard what your grandfather said," Ji Huaishan cheered up, patted Ji Xingxuan's shoulder, and lowered his voice to advise: "This matter is not without a turnaround, tomorrow in the court, no matter how they ask, you will insist that you don't know, and grandfather will not admit to stealing the question, our grandfather and grandson are innocent, do you remember?"

Ji Xingxuan was in prison for several days, tortured and tortured, and his arrogance had already been smoothed out, at this time it must be the six gods without a master, listening to Ji Huaishan's words, he just nodded vigorously and firmly held his dry palm.

The grandfather and grandson whispered a few more words, and the jailer outside the door urged, after all, Ji Xingxuan was a felony involved in the murder of the imperial family, so he sneaked to another cell, if he was discovered, the jailer would lose his job that day.

Ji Xingxuan was reluctantly taken away by the jailer, the cell door was closed again, and the stone room fell into darkness again, and only after a long time did he hear a deep sigh.

"Xuan'er, don't blame your grandfather."

Ji Xingxuan was taken by the jailer, passed through a clip, and saw Liu Hao waiting in front of the iron fence, she lowered her head and walked up, raised her hand and bowed: "Thank you, Lord Wang."

"What do you want to thank me," Liu Hao lightly held her wrist with one hand, looked at her with pity, and said: "You have suffered in prison these days, rest assured that this king knows that you have been wronged and will seek justice for you."

Ji Xingxuan raised his head, glanced at him gratefully, and pulled his wrist out of his hand without a trace, and said softly, "Lord Wang, if Star Swirl has another day, he will definitely take it as a reward."

"This king doesn't need you to repay," Liu Hao lowered his head and approached her, his raised hand fell lightly on her shoulder, and said softly: "As long as you don't avoid me in the future."

Ji Xingxuan smiled bitterly and lowered his eyes without answering.

Seeing her like this, Liu Hao didn't force her to admit anything, and patted her on the shoulder, "Let's go, I'll send you back and go again." ”

Ji Xingxuan didn't refuse, he sent her to the door of the cell, watched her enter the cell, locked the cell door before she walked under the only window in the room, looked up at a small piece of stars in the sky, raised one hand to her chest and pinched the silent words in her mouth.

I don't know how long it took, she suddenly put down her hand, stiffened and turned her head, sat on the wooden bed, hugged the damp quilt, and slowly shrunk into a ball in the corner of the bed, a ray of moonlight shone on her figure, and it could be vaguely seen that she was trembling.

In the fourteenth year of Zhaoqing, on the twenty-third day of the first month, the day is cloudy, and it is appropriate to collect, tailor, enroll, and meet friends.

Yu Shu deliberately changed into a brand-new Hu skirt today, wiped clean boots, added a sheepskin shoulder outside when it was cold, wore a pair of soft leather wristbands and hung a piece of jade Fushan Xiangyu on his neck, tied his hair in braids, revealing a clean face, full of energy, not like he was going to go to court to be a witness, but like he was going to ride a horse out of the court to play.

Lao Cui drove the carriage to the door of Zhao Hui's house on time, Yu Shu went to the upper room to say hello to Zhao Hui, and then took the car away, no one in the family knew that she was going to see the Ji family for trial today.

Knowing that it would rain in the afternoon, Yu Shu did not forget to take an umbrella when she went out, on the way she sat at the door of the car and chatted with Lao Cui, and learned that Xue Rui was busy for two days and did not go home because of official business, and only went back to the house last night to sleep, and went to Dali Temple early this morning to complete the case, as the co-subordinate official of this case, to participate in the trial.

Yu Shu had been invited to drink tea twice by Dali Temple before this, recognized the gate, and reported his name after getting off the bus, and was led in by the official in front of the door, and did not go directly to the court, but first took it to the side hall where the witnesses rested and waited.

The trial of Dali Temple is unusual for the county government, and the style is extremely strict, first, the people are not allowed to watch, and second, they must come according to the process, and the witness will be called out when he comes out.

is also a witness, when Yu Shu arrived, Jingchen had not yet come, except for the two guards who guarded the door, she sat alone in the house, and there was no tea and pastime here, so she put her hands in front of her abdomen and closed her eyes to recuperate.

"Daozi, you sit inside and wait for a while, the lower official will go to the lobby first, and then send someone to invite you later—come on, go make a good pot of tea and send it."

As soon as Yu Shu heard the sound of talking outside the door, he opened his eyes, and turned his head to see Jingchen being sent to the door by two officials from Dali Temple, followed by two palace guards, standing in front of the door with knives.

"Jingchen, you're here." Yu Shu shouted at him with a smile, didn't stand up, just sat and greeted him, she didn't see him for a few days, she knew that it was inconvenient for him to come out if he lived in the palace, and he couldn't go to him, it was rare to see him, of course she was very happy.

"Xiaoyu," Jing Chen sat down next to Yu Shu, looked at her complexion, and asked with concern, "Are your fingers better?"

"I still take the medicine every day, but I can't move," Yu Shu stretched out his left hand to him.

Jingchen looked at it, took out a boxy wooden box from his sleeve and handed it to her: "This is the bone renewal ointment I told you last time, after you go back, let He Langzhong help you with the medicine, use it in the morning, don't break it once every three days."

Yu Shu took it and opened it, first smelled a bittersweet smell, and then looked at the shape of the red and blackened ointment, which was obviously the same as the box that the Nine Emperor Prince asked Xue Rui to give her not long ago, but this box was obviously just made and the taste was stronger, she smiled secretly and didn't say it.

"I forgot about it when you did." Yu Shu played with the finely made wooden box and said casually.

"Originally, I was going to send it to you the day before yesterday," Jingchen explained to her: "It's just that my junior sister suddenly fell ill, and I went out of the palace to see her, so I was two days late."

Hearing this, Yu Shu raised his eyebrows, and his smile gradually converged.