Shen Leng left Beijing, naturally there could be no wind and waves without showing it, the reason why it seemed to be calm was only because someone could press the wind and waves, people are not gods, no one can press the waves in the real sea, that is the heavenly power of the gods, but people sometimes have divine power, such as Your Majesty.

No matter how big the wind and waves in the court are, when His Majesty wants to press down, his hand falls on the wind and waves, and the wind and waves are calm.

Tingwei's Mansion.

The emperor walked into the torture room, followed by a large number of court captains, the emperor of the court palace came a few times, but the emperor of the torture room entered for the first time.

Not for anything else, just because of Ye Liuyun and Han Zhaozhi.

The truth-bearer was nailed to the wall of the torture room, this is the most basic courtesy of the Tingwei Mansion, Han Zhaozhi taught them to be fair, fairness can not favor one over the other, and you can't hang it when someone else comes, and you don't hang it, how bad it is.

Maybe even the true path holder didn't expect that he would be able to see the emperor again, so he was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly.

"It's nice to have someone who cares."

He said six words.

The Emperor sat down and carefully looked at the face of the true Taoist, and was somewhat impressed.

"Are you Zhen Xuanyuan's son?"

"Your Majesty also knows my father's name."

"I've heard about it before, and then I forgot about it."

Zhen Kill Shang was stunned for a moment, and smiled bitterly: "Yes, how can Your Majesty care?" No matter how famous the person in the rivers and lakes is, in the eyes of His Majesty, he is no different from a peddler's pawn, not long ago I also mentioned that no matter how great the people in the rivers and lakes are, they must be submissive in front of the important ministers of the court, in fact, why should they be important ministers of the court, just if an official sent by the imperial court goes to any of the rivers and lakes, even the master of the door must be careful to greet him...... So I kept thinking that maybe my dad was on the wrong path. ”

The Emperor glanced at him.

Zhen Kill Shang continued: "My father once made a living in the Jiazi camp, although he was just a small knife and pen officer, but I think that with his ability, he will also achieve something in the future, so that he will not die in Chang'an and be charged with crimes. ”

"You mean to say he's pathetic?"

The emperor asked.

Zhen Killing Shang looked into the emperor's eyes: "Isn't it?" ”

The emperor got up: "Killed." ”

Qianban Nie Ye, who followed up, lowered his head: "Your Majesty, this person can ask again, his father Zhen Xuanyuan used to work in the Jiazi camp in Gyeonggi Province, maybe he can find out more." ”

"No, you don't."

The emperor walked out: "In the future, if you involve Mu Zhaotong's people, if you catch one and kill the other, you don't need to interrogate anything, you will die anyway." ”

He walked to the door and glanced back at Zhen Killing Shang: "I am not interested in hearing why your father made a mistake, nor am I interested in knowing the story before a person makes a mistake, and I am not interested in knowing why you made a mistake and your story, if you say pity or not, don't forget cause and effect, I am the Emperor of Daning, but I have no right to write forgiveness into the law, a capital crime is a capital crime, nothing that happened before a capital crime can affect the outcome of your capital crime, and you have nothing to forgive." ”

After saying this, the emperor stepped out of the door, and there was a person hanging in another torture room next door, named Qing Cang, who was cut off by a sword from the tea master.

Watching the emperor walk out of the room, Zhen Killing Shang suddenly laughed, he thought it was really ironic.

The emperor said that I was the emperor of Daning, but I had no right to write forgiveness into the law of Daning.

Zhen Kill Shang couldn't help but wonder why the emperor came to see him? Later, I figured out that the emperor didn't come to see him to look at him, but just to see what the person who injured Ye Liuyun looked like, or to see how a person should die.

Zhen Kill Shang lowered his head and muttered to himself again.

"It's nice to have someone who cares."

The next torture chamber.

The emperor looked at Qing Cang, who couldn't even move, and said a few words to Zhen Kill Shang, but he didn't have any desire to understand Qing Cang.

"Ling Chi."

With two words, the emperor stepped out the door.

Qing Cang's body trembled violently, and the fear in his eyes began to spread out of his eyes.

Ling Chi!

Zhen killed Shang just deserves to die, and Qing Cang is not just damned, he is not doing evil alone, but also influencing his next generation of people to continue to do evil, if Zhen killing Shang is the crime of killing the head, then he is the crime of Ling Chi.

Gyeonggi-do, Cheong-gun.

There is a lake thirty miles outside the county, not small, boating for half a day will not feel bored, the lake water is clear, the surrounding mountain scenery is also good, there is a small scale waterfall in the mountain, the downflow is quite a bit imposing, all say that the water in this mountain is cool and sweet, walking in the mountain for a long time will be thirsty, do not say that the mountain spring water, even if it is a sip of water that you carry is also cool and sweet, the name of this mountain jumps, the name of the lake is in the dodder.

Mu Zhaotong sat on a big rock fishing, wearing a hat on his head and a coat on his body to block the splashing water.

He didn't catch any fish, the current in this place is a little fast, the fish can't find anything to eat here, and the falling waterfall water may also make them dizzy, saying that when the water is clear, there are no fish, not that the fish do not come, but when the water is clear, there is no food, why should the fish come.

Qingxian is about two hundred and ten miles away from Fangcheng County, where Mu Zhaotong hid before, this place is a famous place to play in the southeast of Chang'an City, there are a lot of people in summer, the canyon of the first line of the sky is extremely cool, but there are only a few places where tourists can go, most of the places are still wild mountains.

Almost seventeen or eighteen years ago, Mu Zhaotong arranged for someone to build a courtyard in this place, he ordered to go down, and the people who handled it tossed and turned several times, where could the original craftsman know that it was a residence for the scholars of the dynasty, but Mu Zhaotong did not come once after this place was built, this was not the place he prepared for his own pleasure and vacation, but the tomb he prepared for himself.

This place is really beautiful.

The climate in spring is just right outside the mountains, the mountains are cool, Mu Zhaotong is already old and more afraid of the mountain cold, so the clothes he wears are a little bloated, and then put on a coat and a hat, don't say that no one will find out here, even if someone sees who can guess that this fishing old man will be Mu Ge Lao, who once dominated the world.

"Grandpa, it's time to eat."

A young man shouted in the distance.

"Got it."

Mu Zhaotong agreed, looked at his empty fish basket, and a little guilt appeared on his face, and said that he would come out to catch two fish to satisfy the child's hunger, but he came out to patronize and nap for half a day, and he couldn't help but nap when he was old.

He got up with his rod and basket, and the boy had jumped over the rocks to support him.

"Grandpa, slow down."

"Okay."

Mu Zhaotong's eyes lit up when he saw this young man, and he couldn't help but think of his only son Mu Xiaofeng, this child has a handsome face and clean eyes, he has lived in seclusion with his mother in the mountains all the year round and has not been in contact with the outside world, and it is like a white paper that has not been infected, so Mu Zhaotong's guilt is even stronger, he is a pen, what he will write on this blank paper, and this will affect the future of this child.

"What did your mother cook?"

"There are no vegetables in the mountains, the front yard and the back yard can plant anything where the mother has planted, but the climate in the mountain is cold so it didn't grow anything, at noon the mother went to pick some mountain mushrooms, stewed a family chicken, and made soup, yesterday I asked someone to buy some tofu from the mountain, fried sauce and tofu together and grunted for half an hour."

Mu Zhaotong felt that he was a little greedy, and he couldn't stop salivating at the corners of his mouth.

"It's a pity that I couldn't catch a fish, otherwise I would have let your mother steam and eat."

Mu Zhaotong took the young man's hand and walked down, crossed the creek and entered a forest, it is strange to say, this is actually a piece of pecan, because no one has ever come, the pecan tree grows very freely, when he first came, Mu Zhaotong specially saw the walnuts picked by the two of them a few years ago, and the rare ones are not ordinary, if they are taken to the cultural and entertainment shops in Chang'an City, each of them can be sold at a good price.

It's a pity that no one will have such a mind even if it is only a few hundred miles away from Chang'an, in the eyes of the mountain people, this pecan is not useful, the walnut shell is too thick, and the walnut kernel inside is not enough to stuff the teeth.

"Grandpa, my mother said that you were a scholar of the court?"

"Well, yes."

"Is the bachelor big?"

"It's huge."

Mu Zhaotong said as he walked: "A very good minister. ”

The young man snorted, and there was a bit of brilliance in his eyes: "From then on, I will also be a university scholar, and I will also be a supreme minister." ”

"Nothing good."

Mu Zhaotong shook his head, the young man couldn't understand the disappointment and loneliness in Mu Zhaotong's tone, and he couldn't understand the sadness and determination in Mu Zhaotong's eyes, he only knew that this old man was his mother and his savior, and his mother said that if it wasn't for the old man who sent someone to protect them, they would have died a long time ago.

The mountain is cold and lonely, I don't know the cold and heat, and naturally I don't understand life and death, the young man just remembers the kindness according to his mother's instructions, and the mother told him that the great grace should be remembered forever, and the mother also told him that if possible, I hope he will not go out of this mountain and this courtyard for the rest of his life, and repay the kindness? Although it is important to repay kindness, it is better to save your life.

So his mother never told him about the prosperity outside the mountain, only that the years inside the mountain were quiet.

The young man helped Mu Zhaotong into the courtyard, the scale is small but exquisite, the small bridge and flowing water can wash the mood, entering this small courtyard seems to have entered another world, outside the hustle and bustle, is the peach blossom source.

When his mother saw Mu Zhaotong, there was an unconcealable fear in her eyes, the woman had been living in this mountain with her son for more than ten years, and she was used to these two people being the days of the whole world, Mu Zhaotong's arrival made her afraid, and when she saw Mu Zhaotong, she couldn't help but think of her husband and her eldest son.

"I walked all the way back from the waterfall and suddenly realized something."

Mu Zhaotong looked at the woman: "This is my yard and my home, but you two have lived into your world, and it is ...... me who conflicted."

The woman hurriedly bowed: "Don't say that, elder, we ......"

Before she finished her words, Mu Zhaotong waved her hand: "Eat and eat, can you ask someone to go down the mountain to buy some pork tomorrow?" I want to eat dumplings, pork and cabbage, if you can, buy some peanuts and rice, add a pot of old wine, and I'll leave after eating tomorrow afternoon, I'll leave it for you here. ”

The woman's face changed: "Elder Ge, where are you going?" Where can you go? ”

"Don't underestimate me."

Mu Zhaotong looked at the young man who went to serve the meal: "The cunning rabbit is still three caves, and I am a university scholar, but I am suddenly a little afraid to look at his eyes, if he is pulled from this mountain to the world under the mountain, it is a crime, it is a sin, it is regarded as me accumulating virtue for myself, and I can end up with a whole corpse when I die in the future, I will not harm him, let him be simple." ”

The woman knelt down with a plop: "Thank you, Elder Ge." ”

"But there are some things that I can bear, but you may not be able to."

Mu Zhaotong glanced at the woman: "Your eldest son...... He's dead. ”