The man sitting in the chair, with his hands behind the chair and his head down, looked a little weird.

Qiu Xiaobei walked in slowly, observing the people in the chair.

At first glance, she looks like a woman, her skeleton is small, and she is thin, but she is wearing men's clothes, her hair is a little messy, and her hair is scattered in front of her, covering her eyes and half of her face.

It wasn't until she walked up to the man and brushed his hair that she realized that he was unconscious with his eyes closed.

She secretly said "not good", and there was a "snap" behind her, Qiu Xiaobei quickly turned around, and the door was closed.

immediately walked to the door and patted the door: "Lord Zhang? What do you mean by that? Lord Zhang? ”

"Master Bei, this gift I gave you, just accept it, hahaha......"

Qiu Xiaobei's eyes widened, and when Zhang Wenzhong outside the door said this, she had a premonition that someone was approaching behind her, and just as she wanted to turn around, a knife hit her on the back of the neck.

The pain hit, she squeezed out a "grass" from her mouth, and the person lay on the door, slowly sliding to the ground.

When she fell to the ground, she held the jade given to her by Fan Shenxi on her chest, and in her gradually darkened sight, there were several pairs of feet walking over......

……

When I woke up again, I saw a place with even worse lighting.

Qiu Xiaobei sat up, the pain from the back of her neck made her involuntarily "hiss", and covered her neck with one hand.

Even though she was shrinking as much as possible not to let herself be hurt, it still hurt when the knife came down.

When the pain subsided, she twisted her neck before standing up.

There were some still damp straws under her, and rats scurried around the corner, and then they came out and screamed twice, and rats raised in really evil places were more vicious than ordinary rats.

One wall, the other three are fences, trapping people inside and unable to get out, and finally opposite is the same "room" as her, either deathly silence or a terrible cry erupting somewhere.

In addition, this is not lost to the Yin Qi of the Inner Court Division, which is enough to make Qiu Xiaobei uncertain.

She was taken to prison.

In the inner court, she only stayed for one meal in an ordinary dirty cell, and then she was interrogated, and then she was put into the fifth floor by Lord Zhang for personal gain, the fifth floor environment is good, the sanitary conditions are very qualified, and she is well fed and sheltered except for being plagued by yin qi and resentful spirits.

It's like here, the rat doesn't talk about it, and it still emits an unbearable stench, and she almost committed morning sickness after a long time.

She took out a pill from the fake skin hidden in her wrist and took it, and the hand did not let go, but stroked her face, as she thought, the tentacles were strange.

When she woke up, she felt that her face was wrong, like something was pasted, and she was still a little uncomfortable.

Now touching it, she was sure she was wearing a human skin mask.

The workmanship of this human skin mask is very rough, Qiu Xiaobei is very disgusted, and his face is uncomfortable when he wears it.

She tried to peel it off, but after several attempts, she had to give up for the time being.

She found that she couldn't peel off this human skin mask, and if she wanted to forcibly tear it off, her own face would have to be torn to a bloody blur, and she was really ruthless to wear this human skin mask.

Do you want her to take the place of another person until she dies?

There is still a way to tear it off, after applying a potion, the potion will not be difficult for her, she can match it, the problem is, she has no materials now, what is not in her hand, how to get it?

I don't know, when she appears in front of Fan Shenxi like this, he can recognize himself?

Ignoring this face for the time being, she looked around again, and found that her clothes had been changed!

She was a little frightened, grabbed the collar and saw that the underwear was still her own, so it was just that the outer clothes had been replaced, she studied it, and remembered that the clothes she was wearing at the moment were the clothes of the unconscious man sitting on the chair she saw before she was knocked unconscious.

She realizes that because her real gender is a woman, she is very close to the body shape of a man who is born with a small frame and a thin appearance.

His brows furrowed, from the human skin mask to the clothes on his body, as long as he was not a stupid person, he could guess what was going on.

Even if there would be no mirror, she probably knew that her current face must be the appearance of that man.

Qiu Xiaobei is not a person who sits still, after some thought, she walked to the fence near the aisle, looked at the opposite side, and then looked left and right, there were people locked up inside, only vaguely saw that most of them were lying on the straw, and the specific situation could not be known.

But Becky knew that they were all alive.

"Hey, are you all right?"

Well, this way of greeting is a bit stupid, no one pays attention to her, and it is quite embarrassing for her to burst out in a place that was as quiet as death.

Qiu Xiaobei touched his nose, but continued to shout: "Can you tell me, what kind of place is this, why am I here?" ”

"Why are you locking me up here, let me out, there are still people waiting for me at home."

I don't know how angry Her Highness will be if she doesn't return to the palace in time, but don't tear down the East Palace.

However, Wei Qing must be unlucky, it is estimated that everyone thinks that she slipped out of the palace because of the three county lords, and His Royal Highness likes to be angry the most.

Thinking about it like this, she is actually a little refreshing?

patting his face, Qiu Xiaobei spit on himself, when is it, still thinking about making his rival unhappy, staying here is the most unhappy.

Alas...... She tried her best to hold on to a sad look, and she must not raise the corners of her mouth because she thought of Wei Qing being punished by His Royal Highness.

"Don't shout, if you shout badly, no one will give you an answer."

The voice, coming from the cell on the left, seemed to be an old man.

She walked to the cell on the left, and through a row of fences, she saw a man sitting against the wall, with a disheveled hair and half of his hair gray, and she could vaguely tell that he was indeed not young.

"Hello, uncle, what kind of place is this?"

"Uncle? Hehehe, I didn't expect that I had become an old man, hehehehe......"

Qiu Xiaobei looked at him worriedly, feeling that his mental state didn't seem to be very good, she paused and asked carefully, "You, are you okay?" ”

"Is it good...... Hehehe......" The man laughed for a while, and after waiting for a while, he became normal again: "Little brother, don't shout, save some effort, when you enter here, don't think about going out again." ”

Qiu Xiaobei was shocked: "Why? ”

"Because, this is the secret prison of the Criminal Department!"

……

"Missing?"

Fan Shen stared at the guard kneeling in front of him, his face did not change, and his voice was soft, like a casual question.

But the temperature in the entire study room dropped to the lowest in an instant, and the guards knelt on the ground and shivered.

After Gonggong Pei left the palace alone, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent two guards to find Gonggong Pei outside the palace and protect her.

When they arrived at Zhang's house, they told Grandpa Pei that he had already left, they didn't believe it, and searched inside and out, but they didn't see Grandpa Pei.

I searched around the neighborhood again, and looked around the places where Grandpa Pei might go, but there was no figure of Grandpa Pei.

The two of them have just been transferred to the prince's side recently, and they are only responsible for the periphery of the guards, and they were finally assigned the task by His Royal Highness today, although they are only protecting a father-in-law, but they are done, and they are showing their faces to His Highness.

At first, they didn't think much of this errand, but ...... But they had already messed things up before they even started, something they never expected.

Seeing that it was getting dark, they had no choice but to go back to the palace first to report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Before that, they were still holding on to the mentality of luck, thinking that they were just a father-in-law, and the prince might not punish them.

But now, feeling the terrible pressure, their minds went blank, and they couldn't even say a word to defend themselves except fear.

"Okay, it's really good, I can't even look at my father-in-law. Remember what you said when you entered the East Palace, first-class talents? ”

"Your Highness, Your Highness," one of the guards tried to defend himself, "and when the two of them rushed over, Gonggong Pei was already ......"

"Why, depending on the person, do you want this palace to hold it in your hands?" Fan Shenxi's handsome face completely cooled, "Drag it down, fight, just keep your breath." ”

"Your Highness spare your life, Your Highness spare your life......"

Father-in-law Li gestured to the outside world, and the prince's guards came in and dragged the two guards who were begging for mercy down, and soon there was no sound.

"Your Highness, is Xiaobeizi okay?" Gonggong Li asked worriedly.

Everyone has a good relationship now, so naturally they don't want her to have any problems, not to mention that she is still pregnant with Liujia, and she will have a big deal with a slight fall like a porcelain doll.

Who knew that as soon as he asked this, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince suddenly turned his eyes sideways, Gonggong Li lowered his head late, and saw that His Royal Highness's eyes were red, his heart beat violently a few times, and he didn't dare to move with his body bent and bent.

He even felt that the prince would drag him down with him and beat him with a cane.

But Fan Shenxi controlled himself, he closed his eyes, and he really wanted to catch the slave who didn't know the height of the sky, and beat him a few times.

He silently and silently went back and forth before he suppressed the anger that wanted to kill, and said, "She'll be fine." ”

A calm sentence is to answer Grandpa Li, but also to tell himself.

His little beizi is smart and clever, and he will definitely be fine, and he will definitely be able to come back safely.

But when she comes back, he must teach her a good lesson, so that she can learn a lesson thoroughly, and dare not leave his side again.

When Gonggong Li heard the prince say this, he could only nod his head and reassure: "Yes, Xiaobeizi is so clever, maybe she loves to play, that's why she ...... Believe, she will be back soon. ”

He saw that His Highness was still angry, so he changed the subject: "Your Highness, you specially sent those two guards out of the palace to protect Xiaobeizi, won't it let people know that you have a fancy for her?" ”

His Royal Highness has always hidden Xiaobeizi tightly, and he didn't even give her a single credit for the black madness, how could this be so fanfare.

"The value of the performance is not necessarily valued, and the person who follows is not necessarily protected, and there may be surveillance." Fan Shenxi's eyes were cold, "Since someone has exposed Xiao Beizi's identity as a fine worker, this palace must always do something." ”

The two guards searched for the whereabouts of Gonggong Pei so vigorously today, and everyone who should know must have known it, and they must have thought that he was suspicious of Xiaobeizi's identity, so he secretly supervised the investigation under the protection of him, which can also show that he is not sure about Xiaobeizi's identity.

Thinking of this, he still couldn't get over that breath, and said: "Take a good look at Wei Qing for this palace, before Xiaobeizi comes back, this palace doesn't want to see her very good." ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

……

"What's going on? Didn't you say that it was foolproof, why did the palace guards come to him? ”

In the main house of the Zhang family, the lights reflected the two shadows inside, and the woman pointed to the man and scolded: "I said that I shouldn't choose him, he is the father-in-law next to the prince, isn't choosing him to cause trouble?" ”

"Madam, I can't help it, this Grandpa Pei is very tight, he can know about me for no reason, maybe after coming to our house, he can also know about you and your father, you say, how can I keep him? The best thing to do is to shut him up forever. ”

"You also said that it was all a good thing you did, look at the person you married before."

"Yes, yes, it's all my husband's fault, isn't it that I haven't met you yet."

The man's shadow hugged the woman's shadow and coaxed her, and the woman hummed to remove the stubble first.

The man continued: "I chose this Gonggong Pei because he didn't want the people in the East Palace to know his ability, and I think about it, who of those princes would leave such an evil crooked way by his side, in case he gets a witchcraft one day, wouldn't he kill himself?"

So when he goes out of the palace to see me, he will be very careful not to let the people in the palace know, so that even if he disappears, who else will suspect me? When the time comes, let your father arrange it and give her the identity of an adult, didn't the Sixth Division of the Inner Six Division just find out a lot of adult spies recently, just say that he was afraid that he would also be found out so he fled, then His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hated him to death, would you still think that he would stay in the criminal department? ”

"But now, everyone in the palace has found us!"

The man's shadow walked back and forth, and at the end, he thought of something, turned back to the woman and said, "No, no, this matter is not so serious, think about it, why did someone in the palace come to him immediately after we sent him away?" A father-in-law, how could the prince send guards to protect him? I think that this father-in-law Pei either has a problem with his identity, or that he is a demon and that the prince knows about it, so he sent someone to watch it. ”

"So what?"

"So we don't know anything," the man smirked, "this Grandpa Pei just used our house as a pedal to attract the attention of others, afraid that his identity would be discovered, so he took the opportunity to escape." ”

Probably thinking it made sense, the woman's shadow nodded.

The man instructed: "Madam, remember, it was my father-in-law who came suddenly, and we just entertained us a little, and after that, we didn't know anything." ”

"I know, I'm not stupid, I won't say anything."

"That's fine, but I have to bother Madame to remind your father that there are many sleepless nights and dreams, so it would be better to execute her sooner."

……

"The secret prison of the criminal department?" Qiu Xiaobei repeated these four words, "The Criminal Department, is it still a secret prison?" ”

The voice of the person in the cell on the left was hoarse and old: "Ordinary cells are the ones you know, and the so-called dark parts, locked up, are all innocent people. ”

The man's face turned towards Qiu Xiaobei, and from the gap in his hair, he could feel his strong resentful gaze that was completely different from the surface of "Calm": "People like you, who don't even understand how they got in and why they were caught, and once they are caught, there are only two ways." ”

"W-What?"

"Die or die, be imprisoned here indefinitely!"

"Why?" Qiu Xiaobei clutched the fence tightly with both hands, "Since he is innocent, why do he ......?"

"To make money, of course."

The man in the cell on the right also spoke, probably not speaking for a long time, and his voice was equally hoarse.

When he said this, he didn't rush to explain anything to Qiu Xiaobei, but said to the person in the cell on the left: "Old Zuo, what's wrong with you today, I haven't seen you talk so much before." ”

The man in the cell on the left who happened to be called Lao Zuo glanced at Qiu Xiaobei and said, "Probably, he has an eye on me." ”

The right side smiled like asthma: "What's the use of having eyes, if you have an indefinite sentence, you can still see it and don't want to see it, if you ...... Hehe, it's just a passing cloud, it's better not to look at it. ”

Qiu Xiaobei looked left and right, unable to hold back and asked, "What are you talking about?" What the hell is this...... What the hell is going on? ”

Because she was afraid, her voice was full of tears.

"You know, stand-ins?" Lao Zuo felt that since he had already spoken just now, he would simply get to the end.

"Stand-in?"

"Yes," interjected the one on the right, "the Criminal Department, in today's Dafan Dynasty, is the most impartial and selfless, do you know why?" ”

Qiu Xiaobei shook his head, where is the criminal department just and selfless?

From Zhang Wenzhong's original wife Mrs. Zhu after his death, she knew about the Criminal Department, and she knew very well that this place had nothing to do with fairness and selflessness.

But she realized that this might be the public's perception, and quickly nodded again: "Listen, I've heard of it." ”

"That's because, no matter who the criminal is, whether it is a small citizen in the market or a high-ranking official, as long as he makes a mistake, he must be punished, and as long as he kills someone, he must pay for his life."

Qiu Xiaobei said "wow" without being distracted: "It's not easy for the criminal department Shangshu to still put him in the position of Shangshu, sitting so firmly." ”

The man in the right prison laughed: "No wonder Lao Zuo thinks you have eyes, I think you are interesting." But no, if Shangshu of the Criminal Department is really so fair and selfless, how can he not be retaliated against if he has dealt with so many people in powerful families? ”

Qiu Xiaobei's brows furrowed: "So, is there anything wrong with these high-ranking prisoners who have been disposed of?" ”

The right prisoner paused, and then spit out the word, biting very hard:

"Yes!"

"As long as you have money, as long as you have money," Lao Zuo's voice was hoarse as if he had crawled out of hell, "you can fish out the people you want to save." ”

"Are you acquitted if you have money?"

"What does it matter to us if it's just like this?"

The hair in front of Lao Zuo's eyes couldn't stop the resentment in his eyes: "They will find someone who is about the same size as the prisoner, has no background in Kyoto, and has no family, let him replace the prisoner, because there is no family, and friends will not look for long, because there is no background, no one will investigate whether an insignificant person is missing or not." ”

"And then," said the man in the right cell, gritting his teeth, "according to the sins committed by the prisoners, either they will be executed or they will be locked up here forever and ever, and no one will know your real name until they die!" ”

The prisoner on the right glanced at Lao Zuo: "Lao Zuo is not from Kyoto, he went to Kyoto back then, but he passed through Kyoto and wanted to buy a beautiful bracelet for her in this big city, but he was arrested for no reason." ”

Speaking of this, he didn't know whether it was for Lao Zuo or for himself, and his throat was so sad that his throat was blocked: "I don't know how long his wife has been waiting for him in his hometown, and now, what." Is it to think that he is dead, otherwise, why, why not go home! ”

"Don't say it, don't say it!" Lao Zuo hissed and shouted, covering his face with dirty hands.

Even if he has been in this prison for several years, day after day, he thinks that his heart is dead, he thinks that he can talk very calmly, who knows that just a little touch, his heart hurts like tearing, which is why he is becoming more and more silent, many of the same "stand-ins" come and go, he has been enthusiastic from the beginning, to the numbness later, it has been a long time, and he does not talk to the new "stand-in".

Somehow today, seeing this newcomer shouting there, he wanted to help her, and the feeling came inexplicably and with an irresistible impulse, like in the underworld, there was a god pulling her.

Qiu Xiaobei understood it.

She slowly fell back to the ground, her eyes straightened: "So, I, I was also chosen, in place of a prisoner with a background?" ”

The person in the right prison shook his head and asked, "Little brother, how did you get to Kyoto?" ”

"I, I'm the ...... of Kyoto"

Before Qiu Xiaobei finished speaking, he heard the sound of chains pulling from the general cell door outside, and then "babble", and the general cell door opened.

"It's not good, this time is not the time to deliver food, so ......" The people in the cell left and right all looked at Qiu Xiaobei.

Needless to say, two jailers came to Qiu Xiaobei's cell door, and after opening the cell door and coming in, without saying a word, they put the chain around Qiu Xiaobei's neck, pulled her up, and dragged her out.

"What for?" Qiu Xiaobei shouted in panic, "Where are you going to take me, what are you going to do, let go of me, let go of me!" ”

"What are you yelling about, yelling again, be careful of the flesh and skin." The jailer who didn't pull the chain pushed behind Qiu Xiaobei, "A prisoner who is about to be executed, how many words." ”

"What a prisoner, I'm not, I'm not!"

Qiu Xiaobei screamed and tried to break free from the chains, playing a terrified innocent victim vividly, until the jailer drew her saber, she didn't dare to shout again because she was afraid.

The people in the left and right cells all stood up, but because of their weak bodies, they felt unwell when they stood up, and soon sat down again, and they could only hold on to the fence and look at Qiu Xiaobei worriedly, but ...... They are powerless in the end, and things like this have happened more than once like today, and it stands to reason that they have long been numb.

But today, perhaps because I talked to her, I felt unspeakable reluctance in my heart, saying that I was reluctant to give up such a stranger, and more importantly, it was the pain that I had suppressed in my heart for many years.

That little bit of drowning represents the light of hope.

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