The twilight is sinking in the west, and the sky is about to fall into the night.

Prime Minister Liuli was urgently summoned into the palace by a holy decree, and before he knew what happened in the palace, the news of the emperor's assassination in the middle of the night spread far and wide, drifting into the mansions of the major officials in the capital like the wind, disturbing the backwater of the capital that had been silent for many days.

Just when all the grounded ministers in the court secretly speculated about how the emperor would use this assassination, Prime Minister Liuli, who had only been in the palace for half an hour, hurried out of the palace with a thousand royal guards, and searched the mansions of major officials in the court on the grounds of the emperor's assassination, regardless of rank, without exception.

This night is destined to be a sleepless night.

The sound of the torch burning is like a fuse buried deep in everyone's heart, and every time it sounds, it gives the illusion that death is imminent.

Therefore, before the night was halfway through, some officials were taken into prison one after another. When Shangshu of the Criminal Department received the news and brought people from the Criminal Department to pick up people, nearly half of the hundreds of mansions had been raided. For a while, the street, which should have been quiet and quiet and empty, was suddenly crowded with people, and from time to time there were a few clatters of iron chains, and if you listened carefully, you could hear the faint cries mixed with it.

All night, as if they were in the midst of a dire situation, the people of the city pricked up their ears and listened carefully to the movement outside, but they did not dare to look at it, and their hearts were both happy and sorrowful.

In the last year of the reign of the first emperor, the imperial power fell and the ministers became bigger, because the officials did not think that the people were the masters, but took pleasure in bullying the people. In order to expand their own power, some unscrupulous ministers began to form gangs in the DPRK and China, privately accepted bribes from wealthy businessmen, and installed their own people in various large and small counties, and levied taxes on the local people on the grounds of the state to force good people to become prostitutes. After the new emperor succeeded to the throne and granted amnesty to the world, some ministers tried to test the new emperor's temperament, and also selected beauties from all over the country to enter the capital on the grounds of beauty pageants, but in the end, those beauties were sent to the mansions of major officials.

Therefore, the people complained bitterly, and did not hesitate to walk thousands of miles to the capital to sue the emperor, but they just entered the city and lost their lives for no reason. After coming and going, Su Yitong's people's hearts gradually lost, and those ministers who held power became more and more unbridled and did not take the new emperor seriously, therefore, looking at the court, except for Prime Minister Liuli, who is known as honest and honest, the rest are all people who are scolded by the people after dinner.

Therefore, at this moment, those people who have been persecuted by the official authority are all sincerely praying in their hearts, hoping that the Holy God will have the discernment to uproot the corrupt officials in the DPRK and the Central Government together.

At dawn, the streets of the capital, which had been noisy all night, finally returned to quiet. Some curious people couldn't resist the throbbing in their hearts and ran out to see the situation, only to see that the streets covered with morning fog were empty.

Liuli stayed up all night, and took the royal guards to raid all the mansions of the officials in the capital, and by the time all the raids were completed, the prison of the Criminal Department was already overcrowded.

Because Su Yitong had been prepared, the interrogation went exceptionally smoothly, and the Shangshu of the Criminal Department made a group of officials who were confiscated honestly confess their guilt without much effort.

When it was dawn, Shangshu of the Criminal Department took the sorted confession book, and took the waiter of the Criminal Department and several innocent officials into the palace to report the matter to Su Yitong. And Liuli was because Su Yitong remembered that he was busy all night last night, so he sent the palace people early in the morning to tell him that he could go back to the house to make up for sleep, and there was no need to enter the palace to meet him.

The speed of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department was far faster than Su Yitong imagined, so when Su Yitong saw the Shangshu of the Criminal Department leading several officials who she looked at into the Jardine Palace, she couldn't help but squint, carefully looked at a few people, got up and walked to the soft couch behind the screen to lie down, and then instructed the palace people to prepare the soft couch coffee table in front of the screen.

"The ministers visit my emperor, my emperor ......"

As soon as Shangshu and a few others entered the hall, they knelt down in a hurry and bowed to Su Yitong behind the screen.

"Don't ......" Su Yitong hurriedly waved his hand to stop the cumbersome movements of several people, and said impatiently: "What to worship early in the morning, and not to worship the Buddha, sit down, the business is important, and the rest will be talked about later." ”

"But the ceremony can't be wasted, Your Majesty." Shangshu of the Criminal Department and several ministers looked at each other in a half-kneeling posture, completely unexpecting Su Yitong to speak so well.

"What's useless or not, haven't you said it all, it's important to get down to business." Su Yitong frowned and said, "Oops! Sit down, don't talk like a little old man. ”

After that, she instructed the palace people to bring tea and pour it for a few people one by one, and directly entered the theme with a few people without delaying the hour.

As soon as Liuli returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mohe hurriedly greeted him, and said with an ugly face: "Son, our people have been uprooted by Su Yitong and sent to the prison of the Criminal Department. ”

"I know." Liuli nodded lightly, and walked around the Mohe River to the study.

Mohe hurriedly followed, and said eagerly: "Then what should we do next?" ”

Ten years of layout before today's situation, if you leave it alone, won't all years of hard work be in vain? Thinking of this, Mohe was even more anxious, but seeing that Liuli looked calm and not flustered, he asked, "Do you want your subordinates to bring someone ......?"

"No, you don't." Without waiting for Mohe to finish speaking, Liuli interrupted him and explained: "When the palace helped them enter the court as officials, it was said that the palace allowed them to be prosperous and rich, and they helped me mess up the Su family's world, but there is one thing, they must obey my orders." ”

"Now, they don't keep their promises, thinking that they can control the life and death of one party by virtue of the power in their hands, but they can't blame the palace. What's more, the palace warned them at the beginning, even if Su Yitong is useless, but there are still Feng Feiyi sitting in the court, and they need to be careful again and again before acting. But they didn't listen to Bengong's warning, so now for them, this ending can only be said to be self-inflicted, and what does Bengong have to do with it? ”

"But......" Mohe stopped talking, and after a while, he said: "Son, you also put a lot of effort into helping them enter the court as officials, and you should really be willing to ......."

"Those who have become outcasts have nothing to give up." Liuli continued to walk towards the study, and said, "Mohe, you have been following this palace for so many years, don't you still know the temperament of this palace?" ”

"Childe." Mohe's eyelids jumped, then he stopped his steps, and admitted his mistake: "Subordinate ......"

"Hongu knows what you're thinking." While talking, the two had already come to the door of the study, Liuli stopped pushing the door in, turned to look at Mohe, and said, "But there are some things that should be given up when it is time to give up." Mohe, you have to remember that there are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies in this world. For example, Su Yitong and I, although we are now in hostility, fighting openly and secretly, we hate to let each other die. But who can guarantee that one day we won't be grasshoppers on the same line?! "It's just a bunch of inconsequential people, who, according to the agreement, have promised them years of glory and wealth, and as a price, it is time for them to pay for their promises, but the price is more important than they imagined.

"Childe means that you and Su Yitong ......" Mohe looked at Liuli with wide eyes in disbelief, "Is it possible to become friends?" ”

"Who's to say it isn't!" With a chuckle, Liuli said no more, turned around and reached out to push the door into the study.

"But you ......" Mohe quickly followed, still in the shock just now, unable to come back to his senses. He has been with Childe for many years, and he knows best how Childe acts. But now, Childe told him that maybe one day in the future, he would become friends with the son of his father's enemy, which made him not shocked. I think that in order to push Su Yitong to death, the original prince gambled with the lives of the people of a city and the lives of his royal brother and sister-in-law. But now his words don't dare to make him agree.

Mohe's face changed and changed, and his eyes looked at Liuli's every move steadily, as if he wanted to see a flaw in his calm expression, from head to foot, and then from foot to head.

"What's wrong?" Sensing his gaze, Liuli couldn't help but chuckle, closed the book she had just opened, and said with a smile: "What are you doing looking at this palace?" ”

"No ......" Mohe suddenly came back to his senses, shook his head, and said, "Mohe just thinks that Gongzi is different from before." ”

"Oh?" Ruri raised an eyebrow and looked at him amusedly. "What's the difference?"

"My subordinates don't know." Mohe continued to shake his head. "Anyway, I just feel that Childe is different from before, it seems to have a human touch, but it doesn't seem to have it."

"Nonsense." Pretending to be annoyed, glaring at him, the glass face returned to its usual gentle appearance. "Instead of discussing this with the palace here, why don't you send someone to inquire, what did the criminal department Shangshu interrogate?"

"What Childe said is that his subordinates will send someone to inquire." Mohe suddenly patted his head and suddenly came to his senses.

"Hmm." Liuli nodded, "By the way, that day, I and Yang'er may have exposed flaws in the Yihe Palace, which made Su Yitong see the clues." Mohe, you will go out of the city later, let the secret guards hiding outside the city immediately set off to find the whereabouts of your father-in-law, and after finding it, tell him that Su Yitong has become suspicious of him and must not enter the capital again. ”

"What!" Mohe was startled, and the steps he had just taken were retracted, and he said worriedly: "That son, ...... you?"

"I'm fine." Liuli said: "Since Su Yitong brought the royal brother's daughter to her side, I think she must have known her life experience. Now that she knows, sooner or later she will use the daughter of the royal brother as a game to lead me to appear. ”

"That ......"

I accidentally bumped into it that day, and Xu is face showed a little astonishment, which made Su Yitong catch the loophole and see some clues, and at that time, Yang'er spoke too quickly...... Presumably, with Su Yitong's intelligence, he will doubt me and my father-in-law. Liuli couldn't help but fall into contemplation as she spoke, but she accidentally fell into the trap set by Su Yitong and couldn't break free. I really didn't expect that the young man who would only hide behind him when he was scared back then has now become a real dragon, and the city is so deep that I am afraid that it is not far behind him.