She said it so reasonably, I can't believe it.

I set my sights on Zhao Cheng.

"Lord Zhao, do you have anything to explain?"

Zhao Cheng knelt down in front of me with a thud and shouted that he was wronged.

"The Prime Minister is aware of it, since he took office as a Tongzhi in Tuzhou, he has always been law-abiding and loyal to his duties, and he has never met any woman in the middle of the night, and he has never leaked military information. I don't know who sent the spy from that woman, she is stirring up a relationship between the lowly and the adult, her heart is sinister, and her heart can be punished!"

"My lord, what the woman said is true, and the woman implores the adult to send Xiaoyu's cousin to come and confront you." Song Xiao heard Zhao Cheng deny it, for fear that I would listen to Zhao Cheng's words, so he hurriedly spoke.

Zhao Cheng was angry, originally he was worried that she was Song Liang's sister, and everything he said and did was restrained, but now he couldn't care so much, and scolded, "You Diao Min who didn't know where to run out, don't want to talk here, this official doesn't have a goddaughter at all." You are a little woman, you dare to slander the court officials, what a bold man! The official ......"

Zhao Cheng was still about to scold, but I raised my hand to stop it.

"Lord Zhao is so powerful, he is a little timid."

"My lord......" Zhao Cheng was speechless.

I didn't look at him, but said to Wang Jie, "You go, send someone to bring the witnesses." ”

Wang Jie received the order, and after inquiring about the inn where Song Xiao was staying, he left the hall.

"Lord Zhao, please get up." I said lightly, "She is a person who avenges her grievances, kneeling is kneeling, Lord Zhao is the master of the Zhao Mansion, and she is just a guest of Lord Zhao, how can she ever stand Lord Zhao's long kneeling ceremony?" ”

Zhao Cheng saw the sharp color in my eyes, knowing that no matter how much he said, it would only get darker and darker, so he had no choice but to get up.

I said to the officials, "Today was supposed to be the official's dust-washing feast, but when this situation suddenly occurs, this banquet probably can't continue, so let's end here today." It's getting late, so please come back. ”

When they got up, I stood up. The adults said goodbye to me and Zhao Cheng respectively, and then looked at each other and left one after another.

"Isn't Vice Lieutenant Ge leaving?" I said to Ge Jun, who had been sitting there all this time.

Outside the city gate, he was so proud, but he didn't say a word when he entered the Zhao Mansion, and the gap between before and after was really eye-opening.

Ge Jun picked up the wine jar and poured a glass, and then drank it all.

I looked at him strangely, but Ge Jun put down the wine cup and said to me, "If the last general heard correctly, it seems that the emperor only said that he wanted the prime minister to quell the rebellion, and did not ask the lord to do anything else, right?" What are you doing now? Investigating the case? ”

They were waiting for me here.

I sat back in my seat and poured a glass of wine as Ge Jun did, but I didn't.

"Deputy Lieutenant Ge is questioning his true appearance?"

Ge Jun stared at the cup that I had poured full of horse wine, and his eyes darkened.

"The last general will not dare."

I said, "Since the lieutenant has stayed, let's try this case together." ”

Ge Jun didn't speak.

Ignore me? He ignored me?

What a big dog guts!

I wanted to have a seizure, but at this time Wang Jie came with witnesses.

"The people's daughter meets the prime minister."

"Slave maid to meet the Prime Minister."

Two teen or sixteen-year-old girls knelt down in front of the hall.

"Xiaoyu." Song Xiao looked up at the person.

One of the girls in a green dress exclaimed when she saw Song Xiao, she crawled to Song Xiao's side, and tears flowed down her cheeks.

"Miss, how did you become like this? Who could bear to beat you? Who is it?"

"I'm fine." Song Xiao comforted: "These are just skin injuries. ”

"Ahem." I coughed twice, "The person who hit her is the real person." ”

Zhao Cheng looked at me, I didn't see it.

Xiaoyu's body stiffened, and she looked at me sitting on the main seat in front of the hall with some fear.

Seeing this, Song Xiao immediately pushed Xiaoyu behind her.

"The maid has no words, please don't blame the adults."

Really, I look horrible?

I coughed lightly again in embarrassment.

"You're Xiaoyu's cousin?" I asked the woman in yellow kneeling beside Xiaoyu.

The woman said, "Yes, the folk girl is Xiaoyu's distant cousin." ”

"What's your name?"

"People's girl, Shang Xiaoqiu."

"You used to have a lot of contact with Xiaoyu?"

Shang Xiaoqiu replied, "Although we are distant relatives, we found the owner in the same place, and the prefect's mansion and the Zhao mansion are not too far apart, and we are sisters and relatives, so there are many exchanges." ”

"When did you enter the Zhao Mansion and when did you leave?"

"The Minnu entered the mansion on the 8th of the peach month ten years ago, and left on the 19th of the good month this year."

"Xiaoyu said, you told her that Lord Zhao once went out of the house in the middle of the night to have a private meeting with a woman, but is there such a thing?"

Shang Xiaoqiu nodded, "Yes, the folk girl said it to Xiaoyu." ”

"You also told her that the woman once called Lord Zhao her father-in-law?"

"Yes."

"Then, you will also tell Xiaoyu about hearing that Lord Zhao conspired with that woman and wanted to leak military secrets?"

"Yes, the folk girl said it."

Well, that's good.

"Xiao Jie, send the three of them back." I give the order.

"Yes."

"Wait, my lord, my brother's business......"

Song Xiao was a little confused when he saw that I just asked two words and let them leave.

"Don't worry, Benxiang will never wronged an innocent person." I promised, and motioned for Wang Jie to take them away.

Song Xiao wanted to say something, but when she saw that although I was looking at them with a smile, there was a cold attitude in my eyes that could not be questioned, and she swallowed the words in her mouth.

She was helped up by Xiaoyu, and then left with Wang Jie with Shang Xiaoqiu.

Now there are only Ge Jun, Zhao Cheng and I left in the hall, and the cold and lonely atmosphere is really a taste of loneliness in the middle of the night compared to the goose feathers and heavy snow outside.

"Lord Zhao, I've been on the road for a day, and now I'm very tired, so I'll go back to the mansion first." I'm right to Zhao Chengdao.

Zhao Cheng's face was not very good, but he still symbolically kept me.

"The night is cold and the snow is deep, so you should stay in the room, right?"

I stood up and put the cup of wine that was poured but undrunk into Zhao Cheng's hand.

"Although Lord Zhao is subordinate to Song Liang, he can also see that Lord Zhao's ability is indeed comparable to Song Liang."

Zhao Cheng looked at the full wine in his hand, and couldn't help shaking his hand, and the wine slid down the edge of the wine cup and fell into the palm of his hand, cold and cold.

It turned out that it was really late at night, and this warm wine was so cold to the bone.

"Will Lieutenant Ge come along? I don't know if I have the honor to ask Deputy Lieutenant Ge to send this minister to the government? ”

Ge Jun walked up to me, "Prime Minister, please." ”

I followed his words and walked out, and Ge Jun followed behind me.

I sat in the carriage for half an hour, and when I arrived at the gate of the palace, Wang Jie was already waiting for me. I got out of the carriage and said to Ge Jun, "Thank you, Vice Lieutenant Ge." ”

Ge Jun squinted at me for a while, he saw that I was calm and easy-going, and he didn't know what to think in his heart, so he just said "The last general will retire", and rode away.

"Why is the master so indulgent to him?"

I walked to the guest room in the ya, "He is a good general, and he will be used in the future." ”

"But he's Pei Lao's person." Wang Jie reminded.

I laughed, "So what? ”

Under the whole world, on the shore of the land, as long as she wants, even the person who sits on the dragon chair is just a chess piece on her chessboard, a child who lets her fall.

"Song Xiao's affairs are all done?"

"Yes, the subordinates have sent people to surround the inn where they are staying, except for the shopkeeper and Xiao Er, the back kitchen, and all the rest of the people in the inn have been invited out."

"Well, that's good."

Although I praised him, Wang Jie was not very happy, he opened the door of the guest room and let me in, and then looked at me worriedly.

"The master has just suffered from the wind and cold, and his health is not well, you should not drink that glass of spirits."

"Sun Hu told you?" I sat down in front of the bookcase.

Wang Jie admitted, "Yes, my subordinates received a letter from Sun Hu the day before, saying that you were seriously injured, and you were feeling cold, and your body was very weak. ”

I'm funny" He said it was too exaggerated, and I wasn't a delicate girl. The man is ambitious in all directions, what is the point of being injured? ”

Wang Jie looked dark, and he said, "Master, if you pinch your palm again, you will bleed." ”

He still saw it.

I let out a sigh and let go of my left hand, which had been hidden in my sleeve, and the fuchsia nails in my palm were imprinted in the yellowish light.

"Master......"

I raised my hand to stop him.

"This Zhao Tongzhi is very cunning, he must have gotten the news that I am sick outside Tuzhou City." Otherwise, how could he be willing to take out a jar of horse-beating wine to entertain me?

I felt the wound crack and hurt, I felt chills and shivers, I felt dizzy, the smell of alcohol was spicy, I wanted to vomit, I didn't want to speak, I didn't even want to hear their noise, but what could I do? Since I chose this path, I planned to die on this path in the future.

The nerves that had been strained loosened and I slumped on the back of my chair.

"Tell Dr. Wang that I drank some strong wine tonight, and he asked him to decoction some medicine."

Wang Jie didn't say anything, and immediately walked out of the room.

"Ahem, ahem...... cough cough cough ......"

I clutched my chest and coughed so hard that my heart and lungs hurt.

In a daze, I kept thinking about the scene in the Zhao Mansion just now, and I always felt that things were developing a little strangely, but where was the strangeness, to be honest, I didn't expect it yet.

Song Liang, Song Xiao, Xiaoyu, Shang Xiaoqiu, Zhao Cheng...... Tuzhou rebellion, Gu Yuancheng ......

Ah, no, headache!

When Wang Jie walked into the guest room with Dr. Wang and the decoctioned medicine, the thin and tired young man had already fallen asleep on the bookcase.

The next day, it was sunny.

It is rare to have good weather without snow, so I got up early in the morning and took Wang Jie straight into the cell.

"I've already said what I need to say, and I don't have anything else to say." In the interrogation room of the cell, Song Liang sat across from me in coarse linen clothes, his messy hair and dirty face all illustrating the hard life he had lived here.

"Governor Song, don't be so uncooperative, everyone is a colleague and serves the emperor, so naturally the prime minister will not wronged you."