Time flies, but the warmth does not change.

At the behest of Yao Duran, Taichang Temple tortured Lord Ling. Facing the testimony of Han Song beside him, and facing this punishment of not being able to survive and not being able to die, within a few days, Lord Ling's psychological defense finally collapsed, and he confessed!

The truth finally came out, it turned out that Lord Ling really ordered Han Song to steal a hundred arrows from the Duan family, and then used them to shoot the favorite concubine, so after a check, the Duan family naturally confessed. In addition, he also mastered the handle of Liu Wei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and used it to coerce Liu Wei to torture the Duan family to extract a confession, so as to end the case as soon as possible and no longer cause extraneous trouble.

Taichang Temple asked him the reason for assassinating the imperial concubine, and Lord Ling gritted his teeth and said: "She looks down on my Ling family, not only blocking my little girl's way into the palace, but also teaming up with the Xiao family, let me go, if our family is the enemy of the Xiao family again, she will be the first to spare!" Scold! Such a stumbling block, why don't I get rid of her?! ”

In the end, Lord Ling offered to see Huo Jingcheng, and voluntarily told a secret so that he could use it to redeem his crimes.

In this way, Lord Ling, who was scarred, was brought into the Emperor Phoenix Palace.

"Your Majesty! The old minister is willing to tell the truth about the death of the old man, I just ask you to open the net and let go of the old minister's family! There is no regret that the old minister is dead! ”

As soon as Huo Jingcheng heard that it was about the death of the national father, his face was full of solemnity: "Say!" ”

Lord Ling lowered his head and was silent, obviously asking Huo Jingcheng for a promise.

Huo Jingcheng said without hesitation: "Yes!" I spare your family! ”

Lord Ling was relieved, and finally opened his mouth to tell a truth, and this truth was restored like this.

On the day when Huo Jingcheng ordered Xiao Jianzhang to be arrested and imprisoned, after Liu Wei left the imperial study, he hurriedly left the palace to visit the Xiao Mansion and had a secret conversation with Lord Guozhang.

Liu Wei: "Lord Guozhang, your Xiao family is in danger!" ”

Guozhang: "What? What do you mean by that? ”

Liu Wei: "Alas, His Majesty has already ordered Lord Xiao to be imprisoned!" In addition, His Majesty also instructed our three divisions to ask us to detain the false evidence of Concubine Chen's assassination case to your Xiao family! Alas, in order to support Concubine Chen, Your Majesty is already going to eliminate your Xiao family, and then abolish the queen! Xiaguan dared to tell you the truth today, what to do in the future, Lord Guozhang should prepare early. But the lower officials kindly told him, and he hoped that the lord of the country would swallow it in his stomach, but don't bury people with his backhand. ”

Guozhang was shocked in his heart, thinking about it, he lost confidence in his emperor's son-in-law for the first time! After all, it can be seen that the emperor's son-in-law is about to spoil that concubine to heaven! It is said that the hero is sad to pass the beauty pass, what a wise person Ren is, as long as he is blinded by love, it is also half the wisdom! Then it is possible that the emperor's son-in-law has a long love affair and a heroic shortness of breath, and he was coaxed by Concubine Chen to do something confused!

Not long after Liu Wei left, news came from Xiao Jianzhang's other mansion that Xiao Jianzhang was really in prison!

In this way, Lord Guozhang was deceived by Liu Wei, and he thought about it for a while, and when he saw that his son was really in prison, he immediately burned his heart, his anger and blood were reversed, and he suddenly suffered a stroke and fainted, and died!

And when Qin An arrived, it was naturally late! Huo Jingcheng asked Qin An to come and convey the words that reassured Lord Guozhang, and he couldn't hear them anymore.

The world is impermanent, providence makes people, and the fall of the Xiao family has kicked off from this moment.

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"Your Majesty, that's all there is to it, in fact, Liu Wei also had a holiday with the Xiao family! He took advantage of the opportunity for you to send Xiao Xiang to prison to lie and attack Lord Guozhang, or, if Lord Guozhang believed it, he naturally wanted to have an opinion with you, didn't he just annoy you? Unexpectedly, Lord Guozhang died so violently! ”

After listening to what Lord Ling said, Huo Jingcheng's eyes were full of anger, and he immediately coughed angrily.

"Ling Qishan!! You and Liu Wei are in cahoots at all! Now that Liu Wei has died in Taichang Temple, you actually bite out this matter and want to atone for the crime?! Why did you go earlier?! Come! Give me an immediate kill of Ling Qishan!! Ahem......"

Lord Ling burst into tears and said, "Wechen is willing to die to apologize!" But I beg Your Majesty to do what he says and let my family go! ”

Qin An had already called the guards and dragged Ling Qishan out.

"Your Majesty—please let me go—Your Majesty!!"

......

Lord Ling assassinated the favorite concubine, blamed the Duan family, confessed his guilt in person, the evidence was conclusive, he was beheaded on the same day, and his family members were all exiled, only Ling Chuimeng had already left the cabinet, and he was still the side room of the important ministers of the court, so he was not implicated, and the case finally came to an end.

And the Duan family, all of them were acquitted!

Only then did everyone suddenly realize that the imperial concubine had long been suspicious of the Ling family, so she protected the Duan family's transfer case, and at the same time, she had also sent someone to secretly investigate the Ling family. Lord Ling is the culprit!

As for Liu Wei, the secretary of the criminal department who colluded with Lord Ling, he also died in Taichang Temple, and was still destroyed by Huo Jingcheng.

After Lord Duan returned to the house, he took a bath and changed his clothes, and even ignored the injuries on his body, and immediately entered the palace to thank him.

In the imperial study, Lord Duan knelt heavily on the ground, and said in a sonorous tone: "Imperial Concubine Niangniang, thank you for your great grace!" You have a clear eye to distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and saved the life of Weichen from Liu Wei's hands, and protected the Duan Mansion from top to bottom! This grace is greater than the sky, thank you! ”

Yao Duran was also relieved in his heart, and said: "Lord Duan, get up quickly, this palace eats the king's luck, and he has to do things that are loyal to the king, and strive to be loyal and good, so as to live up to the king's grace." ”

Master Duan knocked three times before he raised his head: "Niangniang!" You are a virtuous concubine! From now on, in the court, if anyone says that you are not virtuous, Weichen will be the first to not follow! ”

Yao Duran smiled lightly, at this moment, she finally understood that it was such a wonderful taste to calm people's hearts. No wonder that person not only wants to calm the mountains and seas, but also wants to calm people's hearts.

The festive atmosphere of the New Year's Festival has long been taken away by Empress Duanxian, and after a few days, the first month of January has finally been counted, and February is coming.

Huo Jingcheng's health gradually improved, and soon, something happened that made him happy. lived up to his expectations, Shen Linfeng was finally rescued by Mei Lan Zhuju to Nanqian.

Shen Linfeng was still handsome, but he was not much embarrassed, and as soon as he entered the palace, he went straight to the Emperor Huang Palace.

"Brother Huo!! My wishful wife, brother-in-law!! As he spoke, the man had already rushed to the edge of the bed, put his head on his head, and pillowed on Huo Jingcheng's chest.

Huo Jingcheng swept away his sadness, and at this time, Long Yan was happy, pushed him away and sat up, looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "Brother Shen, my hard-working and unfortunate brother-in-law." ”“

"Haha-" The two looked at each other and smiled.

One has just lost his father, the other has just lost his wife, and the two of them have the same illness and pity each other! So, the two went out of the palace to gamble together......

The casino is like a battlefield, two people sit at a table, arrogant, spend a lot of money, the more you gamble, the more happy.

"Brother-in-law! Hurry up, get the money, brother loses! ”

"My brother is settling accounts, and you owe me 1,500 taels for this loan?"

"Okay, okay! When I come back and I will work for you, I will deduct it from my money. ”

"Take it, this time you are allowed to use your housekeeping skills to gamble."

When Shen Linfeng heard this, he received a hint and knew that he agreed with him to gamble, and then, sure enough, he won a big win and swept the table.

This bet was waged into the night, and the spectators began to rush people, saying that it was time to close.

The two of them felt unhappy, and Huo Jingcheng asked: "Isn't this casino closed as soon as the time came, and those who voluntarily stayed in it could stay all night?" ”

The people watching the scene were also helpless, and said with a bitter face: "The prince doesn't know, this night is quiet, the all-night gambling is big, the neighboring residents are disgusted with their dreams, and finally I don't know how to make a fuss, no, the imperial concubine Niangniang does not allow us to disturb the people anymore, so I personally issued an order, and the casinos will be closed as soon as they arrive!" ”

"Huh??" Huo Jingcheng was unexpected.

Shen Linfeng laughed: "Brother-in-law, you also have today?" on the head by a woman! ”

"Oops!" When the people watching heard this, they were like facing a great enemy: "This son, the imperial concubine is the imperial concubine, what kind of woman, how dare you not use honorifics?" This imperial concubine is His Majesty's beloved concubine, you can pay attention to the name! ”

Shen Linfeng smiled: "Haha, it's okay, it's okay." ”

Huo Jingcheng put down the dice cup, got up and said: "This order is very good, it is all for the sake of the people, what an imperial concubine, haha-go!" ”

The two left the gambling house and went out into the street, and the night was dark, and everything was falling silent. Huo Jingcheng led him to the Tianxia Residence for a stroll, intending to spend the night there.

And when Shen Linfeng came to Xindi, he was naturally very interested: "Brother Huo! Let's go to the Qinglou for the night! A few more glasses of wine! Let me see how you Nangan women behave! ”

Huo Jingcheng smiled: "Don't go, that place is dirty, and you still spend the night?" If you miss a woman, when you go to the world, I will ask you to find two. ”

Shen Linfeng said: "One for one person? ”

Huo Jingcheng said: "How can it be enough? Both are yours. ”

Shen Linfeng said: "What about you?" ”

Huo Jingcheng said: "I resolutely don't." ”

Shen Linfeng said: "Haha, find you a perfect girl." ”

Huo Jingcheng said: "Don't, I have a bunch of harems, why bother looking for them?" Besides, I can't be responsible for touching someone, but isn't it for the sake of Jun Yiyi, and the concubine for a hundred years? ”

"Okay, then I don't want it, I'll just have a long talk with you tonight!"

After arriving at Tianxiaju, the two of them stayed in the Dongtian Courtyard, served wine and food from the back kitchen nearby, and the two sat cross-legged opposite each other and drank each other.

Huo Jingcheng got straight to the point and said, "What's going on with you in Dongjing?" ”

Shen Linfeng brows his worries, and sighed solemnly: "Alas, the third child bought off the eunuch next to his father, and when his father was ill, he was naturally overjoyed if he was established, and if it was not him, the edict would be destroyed by the eunuch, and then he controlled his father." Alas, to put it bluntly, our father was angry with the third child. ”

Huo Jingcheng said: "But in the end, there is no edict, and I also know that the third edict failed." As soon as Emperor Jing collapsed, the third child rose up and seized the throne, and you were all defeated one by one? ”

Shen Linfeng said: "Isn't it? The third child was premeditated, despicable, and secretly ran a lot of ways, alas, don't mention it! Defeat is defeat! Like you said, I didn't have that life. ”

Huo Jingcheng had a drink with him and asked, "Then what are your plans next?" ”