At night, Jing Chen followed Da Ti Dian to the palace position in the Nine Palaces of Si Tian Prison, and only the personal guards who were inseparable from Da Ti Dian were with him.

They searched for a way through a labyrinthine garden, entered a secret passage from a tea room, and came to the secret room where Xu Li was being held.

This is a private dungeon in the prison, with little space, separated by iron bars on the left and right sides into two cages, one empty and the other with a person sitting.

There were torches in the chamber, no guards were visible, and on one of the empty walls of the cell hung several whips of different thicknesses, with barbs, which looked like torture instruments, and in the corner of the wall there was a charcoal stove that seemed to be used for soldering iron.

Jing Chen looked at the person in the cage, the other party had obviously suffered some hardships before, he was wearing a blood-stained prison clothes, his hair was messily tied behind his head, revealing a gray face, there were bruises on his forehead and the corners of his eyes, he sat on the wooden bed with his body bent, looking at the person at the end of the iron bar.

Jingchen carefully confirmed that it was the man he saw in his dream.

"Look if it's him." Big question.

Jingchen nodded at first, and then realized that something was wrong - they arrested this person with his portrait, and tortured people to extract confessions before he could be identified by his client.

This reminded him of an old thing, about a year ago, Yu Shu took him with amnesia into Beijing, and Emperor Zhaoqing posted the emperor's list to find someone, because someone reported Yu Shu, she was tied up to Si Tianjian for interrogation, and it was the same at that time, and a finger was broken indiscriminately.

"He's been tortured," Jingchen looked at the man who made him feel strange. State a fact, and then ask, "Did he confess anything?" ”

"No," he said, standing with his hands behind his back, staring at the suspect on the other end, "he said he didn't know anything. ”

"I really don't know anything! What do you want me to hire? At this time, Xu Li in the cage suddenly became excited, he leaned on his knees and shouted outside.

Da Ti pointed at Jingchen and asked him, "Do you recognize who he is?" ”

Xu Li glanced at Jingchen and said in a deep voice: "He is the orphan of Yunhua Yizi and Princess Luyue. Daozi Jingchen. I am the head of the Xue family. Coming and going, how many royal relatives and nobles are there in this Anling City that I don't recognize? ”

Da Tidian shook his head and asked, "Where were you last May?" ”

"You've asked me many times. In May last year, I was sent to Yiyang County by my family. I didn't stay for a few days before returning to Beijing. Xu Li looked forbearing.

"What are you going to do in Yiyang?"

Xu Li hesitated for a moment. Only then did he tell the truth: "The eldest son of my family has already reached the age when he should marry a wife, and the lord heard that a young lady of the Yiyang Ji family had a vision and was rich and noble. So he sent me to Yiyang to discuss marriage with the Ji family. ”

Jingchen listened and knew that the Yiyang Ji family in his mouth was the Ji family that Yu Shu had been in before.

"Is that all? Isn't there anything else you want to do? ”

"No," Xu Li said categorically.

Da Tidian frowned slightly, he had interrogated the other party before, Xu Li's answer was consistent, and he changed others, maybe he thought he was dead toothed and hard-mouthed, loyal to the Lord, but he was clear - what he said was the truth.

This is puzzling.

"Did you see him on your way back to Beijing?" Da Ti pointed at Jing Chen, wanting to verify it again.

Xu Li shook his head: "I haven't seen it." ”

The big mention fell silent.

Jingchen knew that he had a great insight to distinguish the true from the false, so he didn't interject, but when he saw Xu Li denying it, he said loudly: "But I've seen you." ”

Xu Li looked at him in confusion, his expression not as if he was fake.

Jingchen reminded him expressionlessly: "In a carriage, I heard you talking, and your people drugged me, which caused me to lose my memory and become a mute. ”

Hearing this, Xu Li's face was full of absurdity, as if Jingchen was talking about a fantasy, which made him unbelievable.

"You must have mistaken someone."

After a stick of incense, Jing Chen followed Da Tidian out of the secret room and walked in the uninhabited garden, Da Tidian pointed to a gazebo, and sat down with Jing Chen to talk.

"You've seen people, do you remember anything?"

Jingchen shook his head. After having a nightmare that night, Zhu Qingjue changed the prescription for him, and then he slept for two days in a row, and never dreamed of him being kidnapped again.

Da Ti dotted his wide sleeved robe, his body swayed back and forth slightly, his eyes closed, and he looked thoughtful.

Jingchen couldn't see what he was thinking, thinking of Yu Shu's entrustment, he secretly thought about it, and then took the initiative to ask, "Shibo, what do you think?" My distress in the south, will it have anything to do with the Xue family? ”

Da Tidian narrowed his eyes and glanced at him, and said, "Do you know the female student who was thrown into the well in the Taishi Shuyuan during the Water and Land Conference?" ”

"Well, it was the young lady of the Zhan family in Jiangxi who was killed, and she was also my student."

"This case has been handled in Dali Temple, the murderer is cunning, and he is very deeply hidden, and the case has not been solved until now. The saint asked me to investigate secretly, and I also found some clues, suspected of being a traitor in the Taishi Library, and there was a person who was very suspicious, that is, an old slave who worked in the library building, known as Lao Qintou. ”

Jingchen heard the clues about the murder and his expression changed. He didn't stay in the Taishi Library for a long time, but he often went in and out of several library buildings, and he had a vague impression of the miscellaneous Uncle Qin.

"Just after the wanted emperor list was posted, and the head of the Xue family was arrested, that old Qin Tou suddenly disappeared."

The big mention points out this point in a profound way.

Jingchen understood the meaning of his words, if the whole thing had nothing to do with the Xue family, then why did that Qin Bo disappear as soon as Xu Ligang was arrested?

Isn't he a thief with a weak heart?

"Old Qin Tou should be the killer who was ambushed in the Taishi Academy, maybe another murder case that framed you before was also done by him, so I couldn't help it, I haven't touched him, and now that the person is gone, I can't be sure if the murderer was sent by the Xue family."

Although the big mention point is an ambiguous statement, it is clearly affirmed that Jing Chen's murder must be related to the Xue family.

Jingchen was silent, but he was distressed in his heart, how to tell Yu Shu when he turned around.

"So what's next?" He asked, "Xu Li refuses to confess, and I can't remember the details." ”

The big mention point was still swaying lightly, his eyes closed, and he didn't answer, and after a while, he sat upright, and a faint coldness burst out of his eyes, and he said in a low voice:

"Major events related to the peace of the world should be blamed rather than let go."

Jing Chen was a little chilled by his eyes, lowered his eyes, and stopped talking.

"Let's go, it's late at night."

Da Tidian stood up, waved his sleeves to brush the dust, and rode down the stairs in the sprinkling moonlight, Jing Chen followed behind him, adding a lot of thoughts. (To be continued......)

PS: (I didn't eat dinner well, at 11 o'clock, the fruit mother gave the pork rib noodles, it was so fragrant, I couldn't help but eat a small pot, just lying down to rest, my cat ran to my bed, probably smelled the fragrance in my mouth, kept leaning into my face, tried to bite my mouth, was ruthlessly waved away many times, sadly ran to the windowsill. ）