"Daddy!" The stone walked closer, called softly, and secretly observed his father, his temples as white as snow, and his gray beard grew a few inches.

Li Shanchang sat motionless, his appearance no different from any previous stone accident. Shi relaxed slightly, he knew how to deal with such a Li Shanchang.

"Daddy." The stone began to be coquettish, and he would not stop until Li Shanchang's heart softened, "I miss you and my mother during this time, and I can't eat well or sleep well." Dad, you see I've lost weight. This is really not as good as at home, and I will never leave my father and mother in the future. I'll do whatever my dad tells me to do. By the way, I've read a lot of books......"

"Have you read the book?" Li Shanchang turned his head suddenly, and he couldn't be reserved anymore for this strange news.

The stone smiled, and everything was under his control.

"yes, I read a wall of books!"

"A wall? You kid is lying again! Recite the Book of Songs to me. ”

"I didn't read the Book of Songs, I read medical books such as the Yellow Emperor's Neijing, Shennong's Materia Medica, and Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases."

"What are you going to do? When Langzhong? Li Shanchang straightened his face, feeling that the surprise had been disappointed.

"Hehe, Dad, let me see how you've been doing lately?" The stone stretched out its hand, and a man burst in behind him and hit him a few times on the hand.

"Stone, do you still know to come back? Where have you been in these two months? How many times have my mother cried, I can't eat well, I can't sleep well, don't you want my mother to live? Mrs. Li was teary-eyed and wept with joy, and her hand holding the stone refused to let go.

"Mother, I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again." The stone hugged Mrs. Li tightly, remembering that when he was suffering, what he missed most was Mrs. Li's warm embrace.

"I've suffered a lot outside, you see you've lost weight." Mrs. Li touched the face of the stone, and there were words in her mouth, as if she was cursing the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods who made his son suffer.

"Mother, I've learned a lot of things outside, and I'm much more sensible than before."

"Stone, you can't run away without saying a word like this."

"No, mother, don't worry! You go back to your room first, and I'll come to your room to talk to you later. ”

Mrs. Li held the hand of the stone and refused to let go.

"You go to your mother's room and stay with her now!" Li Shanchang's voice is full of emotion, and he no longer expects his son's progress, he only hopes that he will make your wife happy.

"Not now, Dad, I have something important to tell you."

"What's more important than being with your mother?"

"More than 200 lives!"

"Stone, you ......" Mrs. Li collapsed on top of the stone with her legs limp.

"Mother, I, I'm fine, there is a people in the valley waiting for me to save their lives!" The stone held Mrs. Li and gently stroked her back.

"Are you alright?" Mrs. Li was so angry that she seemed to have witnessed the scene of a river of blood.

"I'm really fine, I'm here to ask my father to save the lives of those people. Mother, I want to help you go back to the room! ”

After appeasing Mrs. Li, Shi hurried to Li Shanchang's study, and recounted what had happened in Honesty Valley for more than a month, without saying a word about his suffering.

"Dad, I beg you to go into the palace to meet the emperor and save the lives of the people of Honesty Valley.!"

"The decree has been made, and there is no way to undo it." Li Shanchang shook his head wistfully. He knows Zhu Yuanzhang very well, and he knows how to measure.

"Dad, the Wu family is guilty, and the people are not guilty! The law of the Ming calendar punishes the guilty, so how can even the innocent be punished together? ”

"Whether you are guilty or not, this is the emperor's decision. Now the emperor trusts Jinyiwei the most, and the cases they find out, others dare not move, and they can't do it. ”

"Jinyiwei must also follow the calendar in handling cases, and cannot kill innocents indiscriminately!"

"Captain Jinyi Wei is vigorous and resolute, and the speed of their handling of cases is not as fast as that of the Criminal Department, and it will take half a year to carry out the execution in the first trial, second trial, and third trial. The cases they uncover will bring the offender to justice within a few days. Even if the emperor was gracious and issued another holy decree, the captain of the Jinyi Guard would have already taken their heads. You can't do it, so why force it. ”

"Since childhood, my father taught to do good and eliminate evil, and to uphold justice, and the child remembered it in his heart. Now that the people of the Valley of Honesty need me, how can I ignore more than 200 lives. Dad, I'm going to give it a try anyway, please take me into the palace to meet the emperor immediately. ”

"You ......" Li Shanchang stood up, "why can't you listen to your father?" If you are a saint, not only will you not be able to achieve your wish, but you may also anger the emperor! ”

"Dad also said that it may only anger the emperor, and the child is willing to take a risk!" The stone fell to his knees.

Li Shanchang paced in the room, and the firm belief of the stone made him see that when he first joined the rebel army, he had ideals and ambitions, and was not afraid of power and moved forward bravely.

Following Zhu Yuanzhang's bloody struggle for decades, he finally achieved fame and realized his ideals. But at the same time, he also remembered Zhu Yuanzhang's ruthless face, which extinguished the blood in his heart.

When he exterminated the Yuan soldiers and fought against Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, how many of his comrades and close friends died on the battlefield, and he resolutely used his wisdom and courage to avenge them.

But after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the brothers who had lived and died with him died one by one in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang.

At first, he also resisted, he took countless twists and turns, and even risked his own life.

However, what he wanted to grasp was still lost, and with his firmness and conviction was gone.

Now he is just a dying old man, Zhu Yuanzhang treats him well, and he sits on the position of prime minister. Why would he repeat the mistakes of the past and put himself, his son, and the entire Prime Minister's Mansion in danger?

In the Fengtian Palace, Li Shanchang and Shi waited anxiously for Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to arrive.

The hopeful gaze of the stone finally ignited the spark that had been extinguished in Li Shanchang's heart for many years.

He didn't want his son to lose his vision of life when he was in his prime, after all, he had it before, and he knew that fearless fighting spirit and firm belief could not be exchanged for anything.

"The emperor has arrived!" The eunuch recital. Li Shanchang and Shi immediately knelt on the ground and bowed. Zhu Yuanzhang walked into the hall, looking refreshed and alive.

"Prime Minister Li Cheng, please get up." Zhu Yuanzhang said, he glanced at the stone beside Li Shanchang, "What's the urgency?" ”

"Your Majesty, a few days ago, Jinyiwei found out that Wu Pingzheng was an impostor, the Wu family and the honest valley bullied the king, and the emperor ordered the execution of more than 200 people in the whole valley, which is really hidden."

Li Shanchang trembled, always reminding himself that he couldn't miss a word of what he should say, and he couldn't mention a word of what he shouldn't say.

"What's the secret?"

"This matter is the Wu family's deception of the emperor, and the rest of the people don't know about it......"

"Jinyiwei has been identified!" Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his eyebrows and opened the fold in front of him, "The people in the valley knew about it and didn't report it, not only did they help the Wu family deceive Wu Pingzheng and impersonate him, it's really hateful!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted, and Li Shanchang's words disturbed his originally good mood.

He didn't understand how Li Shanchang, who had followed him for decades, was so ignorant of his temperament that he even had to meddle in the cases investigated by Jinyiwei.

Li Shanchang closed his mouth, Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction to this incident was worse than he expected, and he began to think about how to say what to say next would be more beneficial to them.

Shi Shi was anxious on the side, although he had just observed his words and feelings, he had already understood Zhu Yuanzhang's displeasure, but he couldn't take it into account, and in his heart, the lives of the people of the Honest Valley were worthy of his anger Long Wei.

"Your Majesty, the minister has lived in the Valley of Honesty for more than two months, and after witnessing everything that happened, the people in the valley were indeed wronged. The Wu family is guilty, but the other people in the valley are not guilty, and I hope that the emperor will order a thorough investigation! ”

The stone was unhurried, and the tension in his heart was forced into a corner by the divine mission.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyes and glanced at the stone: "Newborn calf, hum!" Who are you? ”

"The minister should die, this is the minister's unscrupulous son, please ask the emperor Haihan for offense!" Li Shanchang's body trembled slightly, and he already had a premonition that the recklessness of the stone would suffer an unprecedented disaster.

"Jinyi Wei is my cronies, I can't believe what they are investigating, who else can I send to investigate?" After Zhu Yuanzhang shocked the father and son in front of him in turn with his majestic eyes, he lowered his head and reviewed the folds.

Li Shanchang knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's mind could not be changed, so he turned his head to look at the stone and signaled him not to continue.

"Jinyiwei has always been selfless, fair and strict, and the ministers are too worried! Minister, now take your leave! ”

The stone clutched his fist tightly, and his palms were covered with sweat.

He understood the hint that Li Shanchang gave him, but he finally met the emperor, how could he give up easily?

More than 200 lives, their laughter and kindness are about to be wiped out, what could be more desperate?

The stone looked at Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang's eyebrows were frowned, his eyes were sharp, and although he did not speak, he had a suffocating courage.

Li Shanchang's words did not eliminate his anger, if he added fuel to the fire at this time, I am afraid that the axe would also fall on his neck.

The stone bit his lip, blood oozing from his tooth marks. Only the man in front of him was the only one who could save more than 200 people of the Honest Valley, and he had to let go.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to guarantee the innocence of the people of Honest Valley with his life, if not, the minister will be at the disposal of the emperor!"

As soon as Shishi's words fell, Li Shanchang raised his arms and hit him on the head and face: "Rebel! Shut up! He bowed and lay on the ground, "Your Majesty, the dog has a pure temperament, but he is not deeply involved in the world, and he does not know the general situation, and he asks the emperor to forgive him!" The minister must teach him a good lesson when he goes back! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say a word, still looking at the music in his hand, and his face, which was much longer than ordinary people, was stretched longer.

The air slowly squirms.

The huge Fengtian Temple is like a vast ocean, in which stones and Li Shanchang are thrown away, and Zhu Yuanzhang on the shore is separated by insurmountable stormy waves.

Li Shanchang's old and weak legs and arms were pressed to the ground, barely able to support his thin bones.

The stone silently prayed to the Bodhisattva to let the emperor be gracious.