When she learned the news, the acting princess and her entourage had already crossed the Xinzhong Bridge and were on their way back.

"Xu Siyuan, alas, I left the palace today, I had already asked her to go along, but she remembered that her family wanted to stay in the forbidden place, and she didn't want this evil thing to happen!"

After listening to the informant's story, Princess Dai sighed suddenly, she didn't expect that the criminal department would use Xu's family as a threat.

"Those torturers in the outer court really don't know whether they are alive or dead, and they have already made the forbidden place unsafe, and they even dare to attack His Royal Highness's attendants!"

When Wei Tuan'er heard this, he was also angry, and said to the princess: "This evil thing is not only the safety of Xu Siyuan, but the criminal department is doing this way, it is related to the dignity of His Royal Highness!" Please return to the palace as soon as possible and complain to Your Majesty about the madness of the torturers! ”

Wei Tuan'er was so angry, quite a little sad that the rabbit died and the fox died, in the past time, she also heard that some of her old friends in the palace were arraigned and mutilated by the torturers, and she was already quite dissatisfied in her heart, but because she was worried that she might cause trouble for His Highness, she kept pressing. At this time, I heard that the Criminal Division had attacked the people around His Royal Highness the Acting King, and I was shocked and angry in my heart.

The seriousness of this matter, the princess knew much more than Wei Tuan'er, and after hearing this, she shook her head and said: "It will take more than an hour to return to the palace here, and it will take more than an hour to travel quickly, and the mage in the palace is involved. If you appeal to Your Majesty, I am afraid that it will be too late......"

As she spoke, Zheng Wenyin raised her hand and said, "Change careers and enter the palace through the end gate." Mrs. Wei, you got off the car halfway, went to visit Her Royal Highness the princess, and begged the princess to enter the palace to face the saint. ”

Wei Tuan'er was a little puzzled when she heard this: "It's just a female official of the palace, and Her Royal Highness the princess is afraid that it will be difficult to move......

"It's not to rescue Xu Siyuan, it's to ask Her Royal Highness the Princess to speak for me! I want to go to the Lijingmen Inner Push Court in person and enter the trial with Xu Siyuan in the same case! ”

Zheng Wenyin knew that there was only one Xu family, of course, it was not worth Princess Taiping to come forward, only when the situation was big could Princess Taiping and even His Majesty the Holy Emperor personally intervene, and at the same time, she did not forget to tell Wei Tuan'er: "If it is just the criminal department doing things, it will be simpler." But if Master Xue is really involved, Lady Wei, you must remember not to leave Her Royal Highness the princess to act alone, if you are also involved, I can't explain it to Your Highness! ”

On the other side, Tang Lingshu said: "I am walking with the princess, if the prisoner makes things difficult for the princess, I can take care of it!" ”

"No need, Tang Niangzi, you go with Wei Niangzi, return to Renzhi Courtyard immediately after entering the palace, appease the good lady and sister-in-law, remember the rules I told you before."

Zheng Wenyin said to Tang Lingshu with a serious expression, although the tone was not heavy, but it exuded an undeniable momentum.

Soon, the group arrived near Duanmen, Tang Lingshu and Wei Tuan'er turned into another carriage, crossed the Tianjin Bridge and went to the palace of Princess Taiping. Princess Zheng continued to move forward in the original car, entered the imperial city from the right gate, and then got off the car and went straight to the Lijing Gate.

At this time, in the yatang of the Lijingmen Inner Push Courtyard, Lai Junchen stood cautiously on the left side of the case, looking at Xue Huaiyi sitting in the hall, there was a bitter look between his eyebrows and eyes, and he arched his hand and said: "Master Xue, the Xu family of the forbidden middle Siyuan has been arrested and entered the push courtyard, what should I do next, and ask Master Xue to teach." ”

Xue Huaiyi's eyelids turned after hearing this, and he sneered: "You are the official sitting in the court, and you want to ask me how to judge the case?" I don't know how to clean up a palace slave, what's the use of the court pulling you? ”

When Lai Junchen heard this, although his face was respectful, he had already cursed Xue Huaiyi in his heart.

Although there were many outsiders who ridiculed him for being afraid of the acting king, which made him a little dissatisfied, he still remembered what it was like for the acting king's horsewhip to be strangled around his neck, and he also made up his mind not to provoke the acting king rashly.

Even Liang Wangwu thought several times to ask him to falsely accuse the acting king's followers, but before there was conclusive evidence to introduce the acting king into a major crime, he pretended not to see such hints, and in the process of pushing the case, he carefully told the party members to avoid personnel related to the acting king.

But this time, it was Xue Huaiyi who came to the Inner Push Courtyard in person, and it was a few days in a row, so that Lai Junchen had no way to avoid it, so he could only arrest the female official of Renzhi Yuan into the Criminal Division.

As for what Xue Huaiyi wanted to achieve, Lai Junchen really couldn't guess, so he asked. Do you really think that with the confession of a female official in the ban, you can bring substantial harm to the acting king? If it were really that simple, he would be able to convict the emperor of rebellion 800 times a day!

If you want to engage a powerful person of this level as the acting king, you can either directly force the army to punish him, and if you want to fabricate a major crime through criminal means, the first thing to do is to sort out the personnel who really support the acting king in the intricate relationship between the characters, and cut off these strong branches first, and then you can get rid of them happily.

Even if it is interrogated from the mouth of this female official, the acting king intends to rebel, and if Junchen dares to ask, someone must be willing to believe it! It is not clear how many people can be implicated in the safety of the acting king, and Lai Junchen really can't figure out what Xue Huaiyi is trying to do.

But things have come to this point, and Lai Junchen has no choice but to ask people to bring the Xu family to the court. Seeing that the female official was escorted to the hall, Xue Huaiyi gave Lai Junchen more face, got up to give up the main seat, and sat down on the side seat, and looked at the female official with fierce eyes.

"The criminal Si Yuan Xu, since he has been admitted to the push court, he should also know that the big crime is inevitable. Tell the truth about the crime you are involved in, dare to conceal a little, all kinds of torture weapons are not fictitious! ”

After Lai Junchen sat down in the case, he quickly entered the state, and while shooting the case angrily and intimidating the Xu family, he motioned to the prisoners in the hall to list all kinds of torture instruments one by one. There were many types of torture instruments, and there was a thick accumulation of blood, and there were even many skin and hair fragments left behind, which made people shudder when they looked at it.

This is also the method that Lai Junchen usually uses to push the case, and many people who are not strong-minded often do not confess after seeing these arranged torture instruments.

However, today's questioning is still a little different from usual, in the past, when Junchen interrogated the criminals, most of them already had a vision of the outcome they wanted to achieve, but they just forced people to admit it. But today, he didn't know what Xue Huaiyi wanted to ask, so he could only ask in a vague tone.

When he saw those legendary torture instruments that could give people endless pain in front of him, Xu's eyes flashed a trace of fear for a while, but he still took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "This concubine also wants to ask about the imperial history, the concubine lives in the palace and has nothing to do with the outside world, I don't know what happened?" The criminal magistrate took the lead, but did not tell him explicitly. Concubine Wei Dao Zuo occasionally heard gossip, if the concubine is not punished, the family will be in a big disaster! ”

"Diao woman, now that you have entered here, you think you can easily get out!"

Before Lai Junchen could answer, Xue Huaiyi couldn't help but roar angrily: "I know that you are acting as the king in the past, and you will know the secret of the resurrection of the king!" I searched for the ancient books in the pavilion before, but they have all been hidden, what privacy is there? Did the acting king survive because of the evil law? Come quickly, spare you from death! ”

Xu's expression was originally frightened, but after hearing Xue Huaiyi's question, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

And this scene of the change in expression, naturally Lai Junchen took it into his eyes, and at the same time, he glanced at Xue Huaiyi a little depressedly, I am most afraid that people who are stupid and unaware will not know how to converge, do you want to ask, or do you want to give people a message? Doesn't such a question increase people's desire to resist?

However, Xue Huaiyi's question also revealed a lot of information, about the resurrection of the acting king in the old years, although Lai Junchen had heard of it, but he didn't know it well. After all, this is an absolute forbidden secret, and he doesn't know much about Xue Huaiyi's meaning, so Lai Junchen naturally can't know it in detail.

But this also pointed out to Lai Junchen a way of thinking about attacking the acting king, and the reason why he avoided the acting king a lot before, one was naturally because he was afraid of the tyranny and cruelty of the acting king, and the other was because the acting king's foreign dynasty members had become entangled in the situation, and they had mastered such an important national plan as Cao Yun.

Even if he wanted to weave and cut off the wings of the acting king through criminal cases, but these people had their own affairs, and His Majesty the Holy Emperor would not allow him to wantonly slander and disturb the national plan. If you want to harm the king through prison, the difficulty is even more difficult than that of the group of Tang family ministers behind the emperor's heir.

But if you can directly attach the ghosts, gods and demons to the acting king, even if you still can't defeat the acting king for a while, you will definitely plant a seed of alienation in the heart of His Majesty the Holy Emperor. After all, believers in this kind of thing are obsessed with themselves, and it is not the personnel who are terrifying, but the human heart.

"Come on, punish this slut!"

Xue Huaiyi interrupted Lai Junchen's train of thought with a loud shout, although Lai Junchen was a little unhappy in his heart, but he did not stop it. Once there is a dispute between the people who push the case, it will undoubtedly increase the criminal's luck and stubbornness.

However, Lai Junchen still gave a hint to the torturers, asking them to start with light punishment first. After all, he didn't know what hole cards Xue Huaiyi had in his hand, and whether he could really hurt the acting king.

So there is a little way out in his heart, even if he can't harm the acting king, he will have an excuse to shirk in the future, it was Xue Huaiyi who forced him to do this, not that he deliberately wanted to target the acting king.

Xu Shi was directly thrown to the ground, and then all kinds of whips and rods beckoned to him, and the torture hall was soon filled with his screams.

Xue Huaiyi also got up from the seat and paced to the front hall to continue to ask, asking many details, such as the specific situation before and after the death of the acting king, but although Xu screamed again and again, he still only shook his head frequently and refused to answer.

Soon after, Xu, who had been beaten to a bloody pulp, fainted with a wail.

Xue Huaiyi was even more dissatisfied when he saw this, and pointed at Lai Junchen and said angrily: "You are also a world-famous prisoner, but the torture skills are not as good as my old Suo Hu'er!" ”

Lai Junchen stood up from the seat with a smile, and while comforting Xue Huaiyi, he ordered someone to wake up the fainting Xu family, intending to continue the torture.

When the Xu family woke up, Xue Huaiyi personally grabbed the iron whip, gritted his teeth and whipped it, and asked angrily. Seeing that his methods were so brutal, Lai Junchen couldn't help but worry: "These tortures are laborious, and let the torturers inflict them. If he didn't kill him, he would have no clue what Master Xue asked. ”

"The king killed me in the White Horse Temple, and there are hundreds of disciples, what is it if I kill an old slave of him!"

Xue Huaiyi was even more angry when he heard this, and counted Xu Shi several times, and roared angrily in his mouth.

At this time, someone from the outer hall hurriedly walked in and said: "Master Xue, come to the imperial history, the acting princess is inviting in outside the tui courtyard." ”

When the bruised Xu heard this, a force seemed to be injected into his body, and he howled bitterly: "The princess save me, save my life......"

Lai Junchen glared at the prisoner hatefully, turned to look at Xue Huaiyi with an embarrassed face, and said astringently: "Ask Master Xue, how to deal with the humble position?" The acting king almost killed me in the city in the old years, and now the princess is coming to the hospital, if I refuse to see it, I am afraid that I will have a deeper grudge! ”

"You stopped the princess in the outer court, and I personally went in to interrogate this slut! A mere palace slave, if he didn't know the secret, how could he let the princess rush to save him! ”

Before he finished speaking, there was already a noise in the front hall, and several people turned their heads to look, only to see that the acting princess Zheng was coming proudly. Although the surrounding torturers were obstructing, no one dared to touch the skirt of the princess's clothes.

When Lai Junchen saw this scene, his face changed again, and he didn't care about asking Xue Huaiyi again, so he hurriedly walked out.

The princess walked to the front of the hall, lowered her head and glanced at Xu Shi, who was lying on the ground and had become a bloody man, her pupils shrank slightly, she turned her eyes to look at Lai Junchen and said in a deep voice: "Although the Knowing and Punishment Division recruited the people of the palace of the hospital, although I don't know what crime is asked, but the punishment is so heavy, I think it is not light." I am afraid that what the subordinate said is not enough to enter the case as evidence, so I specially entered here with Xu Siyuan. If the imperial history feels that my supply is still insufficient, after His Royal Highness returns to the capital, he can also be tried! ”

"The princess is serious, how dare she ...... her humble position"

Before Lai Junchen finished speaking, he suddenly heard a loud drink behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Xue Huaiyi grabbing a wooden staff and smashing it on Xu's head.

"No one fears the king, but I am not! Just a palace slave, I'm waiting for the king to come to me for my life! ”

Xue Huaiyi smashed Xu to death with a cane, threw away the wooden staff in his hand, and walked out of the yatang of the courtyard with his head held high.

At this time, the princess's attachés also rushed in, and hurriedly stepped forward to support the princess with a pale face and a shaky body, and when they saw the Xu family who died tragically in the torture hall, they all showed shock.

Lai Junchen also didn't expect Xue Huaiyi to come to such a hand, so he stayed where he was for a while, and only after a while did he turn his head and said to the princess: "As the princess can see, lowly and lowly is also subservient to power, and I have to ......."

The princess didn't answer him, but walked into the hall surrounded by the attachés, and looked down at Xu's bloody corpse, tears already rolling out.

Some palace people held back tears and wanted to drag the princess out, but the princess took root under her feet and did not move at all, just looked back at the Junchen and said in a condensed voice: "Power? My family has it! Please come to the imperial history and continue to ask, since people do not exist, they must always leave an innocent posterity! If there is no truth about the crime of punishment and death, I will never come out of court! ”

Lai Junchen simply hated Xue Huaiyi at this time, bowed his head to avoid the gaze of the acting princess, and did not dare to take this matter into account, but said in a low voice: "Xu Siyuan entered the case and questioned and tortured, none of which was out of despicable duty. This matter can be testified by all the people in the hall, and the princess is poor and lowly in her position, and she is really unable to sue her. Where the torture hall is located, there are many sins and filths, and the princess respects her body, so it is really not suitable to stay for a long time. ”

"The corpse is here, I only ask you, guilty or innocent?"

"Humble ......"

As soon as Lai Junchen was about to speak, the princess broke off again: "Guilty or not?" ”

Being asked like this, Lai Junchen felt that he couldn't deal with it, so he turned his head and said to Ya Zuo: "Come on, quickly clean up the yatang, His Majesty the Holy Emperor's appointment is a matter of great importance, and there must be no delay, and new things will be pushed immediately." ”

After saying that, he withdrew outside, intending to enter the side hall for a while.

However, the princess sat bent over in the hall, and clenched Xu's blood-drenched arm in her hand, ignoring the blood staining her shirt and skirt.

When Lai Junchen saw this scene, he also paused, turned around and said deeply: "Master Xue is arrogant and fierce, and the princess has also seen it with her own eyes. This Xu Siyuan really didn't die in a criminal case, and he was also ...... He did not know his crimes, nor did he punish them. This matter is indeed dereliction of duty, and I deeply regret that Xu Siyuan died in vain. ”

When the princess heard this, she stood up from the ground with the help of the palace people, and said sadly: "Take Xu Siyuan, enter the palace, and face the saint!" ”