Yang Guang said goodbye to his eldest brother Yang Yong, and as soon as he came out of the Splendid Palace, he walked towards the main gate of Daxing Palace.

After he went back to his house yesterday and listened to Zhang Heng's report, after a night of thinking, he came up with a bold countermeasure to test his mind as soon as possible, and now he was going out of the palace to arrange it to Zhang Heng.

Zhang Heng listened to Yang Guang's proposal in the Jin Palace, and felt that it was feasible, so he immediately ordered people to make various arrangements.

Five days later, Sima Luo, the former queen of the dynasty who had lived and practiced in Qizhou Tiantai Temple for nearly a year, returned to Wanshanni Temple in Chang'an, accompanied by her senior sister Lichen.

As the master of the two, Shi Tai suddenly saw that Sima Luo and Lichen had returned to Chang'an without the permission of the imperial court, so he naturally asked the two of them in person about the reason.

As a result, Lichen replied: "It was the newly appointed Yongzhou Don't Drive Zhang Heng who sent someone to invite Senior Sister Yuan and me to return to Chang'an." It is said that the Daxing Palace was haunted some time ago, and the evil ghosts were looking for the troubles of the former dynasty and the old ministers, and Zhang Beijia was worried that one person lived outside the capital, and would invite evil ghosts to seek revenge, so he asked me to accompany her to return to Chang'an for a while, and then send me back to Tiantai Temple after catching the evil ghost. ”

Xinyi listened to Chen's reply, and felt both shocked and funny: it was ridiculous that for such a far-fetched reason, as his own daughter, Lichen couldn't tell the truth from the false, and willingly accompanied Sima Luo back to Chang'an; What is shocking is that the newly appointed Yongzhou driver Zhang Heng is said to also hold the post of the head of the Jin Dynasty, he is clearly instructed by the Jin King Yang Guang, so he invited Sima Luo back from Tiantai Temple, Yang Guang asked Sima Luo to return to Wanshanni Temple to live, what is the idea?

In the Wanshanni Temple, Xin Yi was still suspicious of the sudden return of Sima Luo and Lichen, but in the palace of the King of Jin, Yang Guang did not expect that Zhang Heng sent someone to invite Sima Luo to return to Chang'an with his daughter Lichen, and would meet Xue Shixiong and Zhang Xutuo halfway through and return together.

After receiving Zhang Heng's report, Yang Guang immediately left the palace and returned to the Jin Palace, and urgently reported that Xue Shixiong and Zhang Xutuo came to the main hall to meet each other.

After the three of them met, and saw with their own eyes that although Zhang Xutuo had lost a lot of weight, but the spirit of the whole body was still there, Yang Guang's heart that had been concerned about him finally let go, turned to Xue Shixiong and asked, "Where did you find Zhang Xutuo?" ”

Xue Shixiong smiled and clenched his fists and replied: "Back to the prince, I know that before Zhang Xutuo joined the hussar camp beside the prince, he had always been on an errand under the command of Tang Guogong, and was deeply appreciated and respected by Tang Guogong, so I guessed that Zhang Xutuo was chased and killed after escaping from prison, and there was nowhere to go, and most of them would go to Qizhou to defect to Tang Gong, so the day after he made a military order with the prince, he first rushed to Qizhou to find him, and he really found him in Qizhou Assassin's Mansion. It's just that Tang Gong was worried about Zhang Xutuo's safety, and at first refused to let the two of us return to Chang'an to see the prince, until I took out a copy of the military order I carried close to me to confirm that I was indeed entrusted by the prince to find Zhang Xutuo's whereabouts, and Tang Gong reluctantly let him go. ”

Yang Guang listened to Xue Shixiong's words, slapped his thigh with regret, and shouted at Zhang Xutuo: "Why didn't I expect you to go to Qizhou to join your cousin?" If you knew this was the case, why bother sending people around to find you! ”

Seeing that Zhang Xutuo was just smiling at himself, Yang Guang's heart softened, and he hurriedly asked with concern: "You have suffered a lot these days, do you know in your heart who harmed you?" How did he get rid of their encirclement and interception and flee to Qizhou to join his cousin? ”

Zhang Xutuo restrained his smile, nodded, and replied: "The last general naturally understands that they want to kill people and destroy their mouths, so after escaping from the Jingzhao Yamen, he deliberately set up a maze array for them outside the west gate of Chang'an, and ran out of Chang'an City for forty or fifty miles to the west, discarding some torn clothes from time to time along the way, making them mistakenly think that I went all the way to the west, and then turned around and headed north, rushing to Qizhou to join Tang Gong. ”

Zhang Heng sat aside, and suddenly asked Zhang Xutuo with a gloomy face: "You had Su Shangshu secretly taking care of you in the prison of Jingzhao Mansion that day, why didn't you wait for the prince to return to Beijing, and then escaped from prison without authorization?" ”

Zhang Xutuo's face turned red, and he replied with an embarrassed expression: "Now that I think about it, it seems that I have fallen for a traitor." I remember the day before I escaped from prison, I overheard a secret conversation between the jailer who was guarding me and another unidentified person, saying that he was going to kill me in his cell the next night. I was desperate to survive, so I escaped from prison the next day and escaped. Before I could run out of Chang'an City, I was chased and killed by no less than three people one after another, and I almost lost my life...... They are all confused for a while, and the prince is asked to punish him. ”

Yang Guangzheng was about to speak, Wen Yan comforted Zhang Xutuo a few words, but when he turned his head, he suddenly saw Zhang Heng constantly glaring at him, so he changed his tone and asked him: "Jianping, do you have anything else to ask?" ”

"The two of you are going back to Chang'an, there is a lot of fatigue along the way, I have ordered someone to prepare a fragrant soup and delicious wine and food for the two of you in the palace, you two will temporarily rest in the palace tonight, and only after recovering your spirit tomorrow will you come to talk back to the prince, how about it?" Zhang Heng forced a smile on his face, and ordered Zhang Xutuo and Xue Shixiong to be humane.

Yang Guangyin thought that Zhang Heng specially invited him to go out of the palace and return to the house to see Zhang Xutuo, but inexplicably after he met Zhang Xutuo, he just said a few words and asked him to step back and rest, and was about to open his mouth to ask him the reason, but he saw that Zhang Xutuo, who had an honest personality, hugged his fists and asked him to retire.

In desperation, Yang Guang had to wait for Zhang Xutuo and Xue Shixiong to leave the main hall, and then asked Zhang Hengdao: "Jianping, what do you mean by this?" ”

Zhang Heng lifted his robe, stood up, bowed to Yang Guang and said: "Please forgive me, just for Your Majesty to have a clear decree, once the escaped prisoner Zhang Xutuo is arrested, he must be put on death row, and he will be sentenced to death on a certain day." The lower officials couldn't bear to see him put on death row as soon as he returned to Chang'an, so he invited the prince out of the palace to meet him, left him in the palace to eat, drink, bathe, and rest for one night, and tomorrow he will be admitted to prison by holy decree. ”

Yang Guang couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, "snapped" a few cases beside him, stood up, pointed at Zhang Heng's nose, and asked: "Father has such an edict, why didn't you explain it to me earlier?" Zhang Xutuo is obviously a meritorious general, don't you want to ask your father to forgive him? ”

Zhang Heng was full of grievances, but it was inconvenient to say it to Yang Guangming, so he lowered his head and replied: "Please believe in the lower officials, I have done my best." However, the emperor decided that Zhang Xutuo escaped from prison from Jingzhao Yamen and committed an unforgivable felony similar to complicity and treason, and not killing was not enough to warn others...... Xia Guan wanted to wait until the prince was sent in the palace, and then show it to the prince, but he didn't expect Zhang Xutuo to return suddenly......"

"You don't have to say any more. Now follow me into the palace to see the driver, and say that you can't ask your father to kill Zhang Xutuo. Yang Guang unceremoniously interrupted Zhang Heng's words, and angrily pulled out his legs and rushed out of the hall.