In the fifth year of Taihe, September Xinyou, Hai Zheng two quarters.

Chengdu Mansion, the festival of the embassy.

After Li Deyu sat down on the chair, he glanced at him with a serious expression and said, "This time I called the princes to come to the Shuaifu, for the sake of killing the fox." ”

Whispers erupted from the seats.

"Shhh...... It's a pity that this kid died...... Wang Jian was halfway through his words, and then asked as if he had just realized it...... Gong Li, our family remembers, hasn't the matter of Ling Fox been condemned as suicide? Why did you say that you were killed? ”

Li Deyu seemed to have expected someone to ask like this, although he looked directly at Wang Jianyan with his eyes, his words seemed to be said to everyone present: "Then dare to ask Wang Jianjun, if Ling Hu is really condemned to suicide, doesn't my father-in-law feel that many things can't be explained?" ”

"This is also true," Liu Zhan pondered and spoke, and said slowly while thinking: "If Ling Hu Mu has already decided to kill himself, and only poison his own tea, why do you want to poison Li Gong's tea like a snake?" After that, he won the cup in time. He did it...... Was it really to kill himself? ”

Wei Rong thought for a moment and interjected from the side: "Then if that's the case, will it be...... Ling Hulu did not commit suicide, but really plotted to assassinate Li Gong in order to die together...... But at the last moment, he regretted it and drank the poison alone? ”

"Yes and no," Li Deyu listened quietly, slowly got up from the chair, slowly lowered his hand, and said carefully: "Ling Fox is forced by people, this person conspires to be on the banquet, poisons me, and causes a big chaos in Xichuan, and this person can successfully blame Ling Fox to reap the benefits...... But I don't want it to backfire, so that the fox is locked in my shogunate, loyal, although forced by others, but unwilling to do this injustice, so there is the scene of Yanning Tower......"

When Li Deyu said this, a layer of pathos in his eyes was forcibly endured by him, and then his eyes turned and he cast a fierce gaze on a person present.

“…… Am I right, Li Zhi Li Envoy? ”

As soon as this meaningful remark came out, Li Zhi quickly became the focus of everyone present for a while, and the whole audience was startled at first, but immediately looked different.

The tooth soldier raised his eyebrows slightly, Li Huaishen raised the corners of his lips, Wei Rong, Liu Zhan and the other officials present showed doubts, while Wang Jianyan and the adjutant of the military embassy were all pretending to be surprised, as if they were watching a play.

Li Deyu, who was standing a few years after the Jieshuai case, looked at Li Zhi with a look of anger and displeasure in questioning the lower officials.

In this short moment, Li Zhi's expression gradually cast a shadow, and his mood was extremely complicated. He was about to refute, but it suddenly occurred to him that Li Deyu was just asking if he was right or not, and did not make it clear that Li Zhi was the mastermind behind the scenes.

"Planting selfishness is ...... If the truth is really as Li Gong said, it is extremely self-consistent. However, now there is no basis for what he says, and there is a lack of evidence......" Li Zhi put on an ignorant look, and said with bad intentions: "Presumably Li Gong said so, he has sufficient human and material evidence to support him?" ”

Who knew that Li Deyu smiled heartily, "Ling Hu has already drunk and died, and there is no witness." ”

"Hehe," Li Zhi also laughed, "Isn't Li Jiedu ......?"

“…… However, "Li Deyu suddenly became serious, interrupted Li Zhi's words, and changed the conversation: "After being personally inspected by Cao Cuibo, the poison that Ling Hu took was the poison of Yunshan Poison ......"

Liu Zhan, who knew a little about toxicology, exclaimed: "This ...... This poison is not produced by Xichuan! ”

"Exactly!" Li Deyu's eyes were like a sword, he looked at Li Zhi, and said leisurely: "Ling Hu is only the secretary of the official residence and the eighth grade, and he only travels between his residence and the Shuaifu on weekdays, but he can get this poison from Nanzhao Lingnan, doesn't the envoy feel bizarre?" ”

Li Zhi knew that it was only a matter of time before this poison was detected, and since the original intention was to assassinate the Jiedu, he chose the most toxic and fastest Yunshan poison. At that time, whether it is tested or not, the purpose has been achieved. Even if the test is out, Li Deyu is dead, and the Xichuan Li Party is a plate of loose sand. Li Zhi was the envoy of the festival, and the festival commander died violently, and he was the temporary leader of the festival. It just echoes the inside and outside of the "Bird City", and takes advantage of the situation to take over the power vacuum caused by the death of Jiedu, who will care how Li Deyu died at that time? Presumably, there is only an understatement in the history books: "In September Gengshen, Xichuan Jiedu made Li Deyu die of a violent illness, and Li Zhi was supported to follow the system, and he stayed behind Xichuan".

However, Li Zhi never calculated that Ling Hulu would rather commit suicide than assassinate Li Deyu. He committed suicide, and drank in public at the banquet, which shook greatly. Therefore, the Yunshan poison, which is extremely fast-acting, extremely toxic, and easy to test, has become Li Zhi's most difficult weakness today.

This has come to this, so let's push the boat!

Li Deyu has no physical evidence. Doubt, and in the end, can only be doubt......

"Hehe, what Gong Li said is right...... Zhi Bucai, although not as extensive as Li Gong, but also read the "Neijing", Li Zhi also slowly got up from the seat, and talked eloquently, "which has a saying about this poison: 'The first appearance of Yunshan mulberry wood, born in the Lingnan boundary, its fang people taste this poison smeared on the arrows, and die when they see blood, so it is also called seeing blood to seal their throats. If it was really poisonous, then Li Gong suspected that there was someone behind Ling Hulu, and thought it was ...... It's also reasonable. ”

For Li Zhi's composure, everyone present reacted differently.

Li Deyu quietly listened to Li Zhi's complacent exposition, and he couldn't help but admire it in his heart. However, his face was unfazed, and he did not say anything other than a slight nod at the end.

And although Li Zhi was a little drumming in his heart for Li Deyu's performance as if he was in control, he still had a steady smile on his expression.

"Can the envoy Li know, why did Wen Rao ask the envoy again and again?"

Even the tooth soldiers could hear what Jiedu meant by this. It was up to Li Deyu to thoroughly find out that the mastermind behind his suspicion was Li Zhi.

The hall suddenly fell into a short silence, and everyone felt that between Li Deyu and Li Zhi, there seemed to be a dignified and suffocating sense of oppression.

"Zhi knows that Li Jiedu is suspicious, and it is Zhi who instigated Ling Hulu." Li Zhi's expression was calm, his tone was quite relaxed, but he quickly thought about countermeasures in his mind, "However, if it is really Zhi who instructed Ling Hulu, why does Zhi dare to come here to argue with Li Jiedu at this moment?" ”

Li Zhi paused, and glanced at Wang Jianyan, "Regardless of this for the time being, Li Gong's inferences are just inferences in the final analysis. Besides, Li Jiedu has just made it clear that there is neither evidence nor physical evidence, and speculating is not like what you will do...... Wang Jianjun is here, and Zhi also wants to remind Li Jiedu that he should not be honest ......"

"Who said...... No more physical evidence? ”

Li Zhi's eyes flashed with a hint of panic, and he squinted his eyes as Li Deyu took out a stack of letter paper documents from his sleeve cage as if he had prepared in advance, and then slowly walked forward, standing five steps away from Li Zhi.

"'Send a bag with the letter, there is Yunshan poison in it, a few drops can turn your eyes to the sky, your body is shivering, you don't know if you are drunk, your eyes are red, your mouth is vomiting blood, and you will die when your eyes are closed...... It can be placed in the tea and wine of Li Deyu in the Jiannan Xichuan Festival'" Li Deyu finished reading, and in the uproar of the audience, he faced Li Zhi and said softly: "This is a secret letter written to Ling Hu, presumably from the hands of Li Zhi." ”

Li Zhi's brain was buzzing. What Li Deyu just said is indeed what he said in the letter, how did he know the content of the letterhead? However, the secret letter written by Ling Huxuan's cousin Ling Huxuan has already been burned by Ling Huxuan, and this will never be wrong. In that case, no matter what, Li Deyu has no physical evidence, so he is just blackmailing himself here to trick himself into taking the bait.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi thought that he had seen through Li Deyu's tricks, and couldn't help snickering in his heart, but his tone was extremely innocent, and he looked around the hall and exclaimed: "Who made this rumor?!" ”

After a while, Li Zhi made up his mind again, "I have been working in Xichuan for more than five years, and I have always been conscientious, and I have been promoted from the secretary of Bapinzhang to the envoy of the festival, and I have served as the three envoys of the festival, Duan Wenchang, Duan Taiwei, Du Yuanying, Guo Zhao, and Guo Situ, and they have never had a ......." ”

Li Deyu defended himself with Li Zhi's clever words, but his face was not wavering, but he silently raised the letter paper in his hand and showed it to Li Zhi head-on, with a deep and powerful voice: "What? Could it be that Li Zhi's envoy couldn't even recognize his own handwriting? ”

Li Zhi didn't think so when he heard this, but his eyes saw that the words on the letter paper in the hand of the Jiedu envoy seemed to be ...... It's really my own handwriting.

Wait a minute...... Li Zhi was a little panicked in his heart. What's going on?

It wasn't until Li Zhi noticed that a corner of the letter paper had been torn off that he suddenly realized.

He's been tricked!

I thought of what the soldiers guarding in front of Chongming Fang said at that time, "I want to open the door again......", and the corner of the secret letter found in the brazier. It turned out that the secret letter was not burned, but in order to dispel Li Zhi's doubts, he deliberately sent someone to leave an insignificant corner in the brazier to make Li Zhi think that the secret letter had been destroyed and the physical evidence did not exist, so he relaxed his vigilance.

Careless!

Li Zhi sweated down, it turned out that he had summoned everyone to come this time, and he really invited Li Zhi to enter the urn!

Li Zhi panicked, but unconsciously in his heart, he was already angry......

His anger is not that he was tricked by Li Deyu, but that he has been operating in Xichuan for several years, and his roots are deep, and he seems to be defeated by such small carving skills!

"If you want to add sin, why should you do it?" Li Zhi pretended to be calm, took a deep breath and said, "Gong Li, I really didn't expect that as a dignified envoy, he would listen to partial beliefs and accept treacherous and evil rumors. Besides, if the public present looked closely, this letter was far from Zhi's handwriting, and besides, the payment was not in my name, how could it be made by Zhi? This kind of slander has been witnessed by all the people present, and it is really difficult for Zhi to accept! ”

Often when a person is flustered, flaws will follow.

"Oh?" Li Deyu's mustache on his upper lip turned up a little, and he said loudly: "How does the envoy know that the letter paper has been signed in the end?" ”

Li Zhideng, who realized that he was speechless, froze in place, the expression on his face and his half-open mouth were full of breath.

However, it is worthy of Li Zhi, even in an extremely unfavorable situation, he can quickly adjust his expression, regroup, and immediately return to his calm appearance.

Li Deyu really lives up to his name. In this way, this late-night debate was not a temptation, but a decisive battle! And Li Deyu is probably far more difficult to deal with than Yang Zong, Li Huaishen and others. Li Zhi was secretly sure that the more difficult it was to deal with, the less he could get angry and disturb his mind.

"This is just speculation, who writes a letter without leaving a deposit?" Li Zhi said coldly, his face was quite disapproving, and he deliberately spoke very slowly, wanting to naturally cover up Fang Cai's gaffe.

To Li Zhi's surprise, Li Deyu did not hold on to Li Zhi's flaws, but changed the topic.

Of course, Li Zhizhi dared to argue with Wen Rao in court, and flatly denied it, because the envoy thought that Wen Rao's festival would not last long. But if I tell the envoy here, when it comes to framing, does the envoy really think that I don't know anything about the confession you sent to Chang'an? To tell you the truth, the confession on which I relied has long since become a piece of waste paper! ”

Everyone present didn't know what to do, but Li Zhi tilted his head slightly, wondering whether he was thinking about whether Li Deyu was bluffing, or wondering how Li Deyu got the confession.

But no matter what, even Li Deyu admitted afterwards that the final winner was a person who was not in the hall at the moment.

It was when the confrontation in the hall was at its most intense, and Li Zhi, with his sober and calm mind, always grasped the weakness of Li Deyu and no one to testify. Even if Li Deyu had a letter in his hand instructing Ling Hu to poison him, the signature was Ling Hu's cousin Ling Hu Xuan after all, and the evidence was not established.

Just when everyone thought that the matter was about to end, a man hurried in from outside the front hall. The look of calm made it unclear for a moment whether this person had just arrived, or had already been listening to the debate in this hall for a long time.

Zhang Yijun, who had not appeared all day, was dressed in the cloth clothes of the people, with a soft towel wrapped around his head, and his steps were light, and he walked from the direction of the pavilion road and appeared in front of everyone in the hall.

"Your Excellency is ......?"

Li Zhi stared at the person with both eyes, and even though he looked through his memory, he still couldn't recognize who this person was.

"Oh, in Xia Jingzhao Zhang Yijun," Zhang Yijun raised his slender chin slightly, and bowed to Li Zhi, "I thought that the envoy had already met me, and I was disrespectful." ”

Li Zhi remembered this name clearly, he never thought that he would be in the same room as the Victorian Hidden Pile today. Li Zhi felt a little flustered in his heart again, and Zhang Yijun's appearance disrupted his planned response methods.

And the last straw that overwhelmed Li Zhi was behind Zhang Yijun.

"It's late, there is a lot of trouble, and I ask you to forgive your sins!"

Li Zhi was stunned, Li Deyu showed his face, and Zhang Yi smiled.

Xue ...... Xue Yuanxian?! ”

Everyone was surprised, Xue Yuansheng had previously reported to the Jiedu envoy to pay taxes, and the next day he heard that he had returned to Hanzhou, how could he suddenly appear in Chengdu Shuaifu at this moment?

And Xue Yuansheng didn't care about greetings, he didn't delay at all, in the whispers of everyone, quietly walked up to Li Zhi, gave a slight salute, and said: "Li Zhizhi still don't struggle, Xue did write a letter to the 'Forbidden Friends' as the envoy wished, but ...... But it was written for Li Jiedu, not an envoy. The confession of the envoy is no longer useful......"

In just a few words, Li Zhi's thoughts were confused and his breathing was stagnant.

Losing all the games?

And Xue Yuan's quiet words were as cold as ice blades, and he didn't mean to let Li Zhi go at all.

"Confession of the conspiracy to make false accusations...... Xue had already secretly informed Li Jiedu, of course, including...... The fact that you are robbing the secret pile and plotting against the wrong! ”