There was a faint sound of the gong outside the window, reminding Yang Guangtian that it was not too early, he took the initiative to divert the topic from discussing the case with Li Jing, and asked Li Jing with a smile: "Since Zhang Zhongjian can take risks for Feng Xiaoxi, will you let Feng Xiaoxi go with Zhang Zhongjian?" This king is doing this family business for you, don't you really care? ”

Li Jing's face flushed slightly, and he hurriedly clenched his fists and replied, "The last general will not dare." The last general has not yet made it clear to the prince, Feng Xiaoxi actually left alone, and did not follow Zhang Zhongjian to go ......"

Yang Guang looked at the red-faced Li Jing as a person who had come over, knowing that he was not without thoughts and concerns about Feng Xiaoxi in his heart, he couldn't help but be quietly happy, but on the surface, he restrained his smile, turned to the topic, and asked Li Jing: "Li Jing, this king is asking you one thing now, you have to guarantee to tell the truth to this king, can you do it?" ”

Seeing that Li Jing nodded solemnly, Yang Guangfang asked him, "Did you and Liu Jushi secretly collude and plot misdeeds?" ”

Li Jingcai listened to Yang Guang ask him how to deal with his relationship with Feng Xiaoxi, and at this time, Leng Buding heard Yang Guang ask him whether he and his brother Liu Jushi had secretly colluded and plotted bad things, and naturally thought of Liu Jushi having entrusted him to match with Feng Xiaoxi, and nodded subconsciously.

"What?" Yang Guang jumped up in shock, stared at Li Jing and asked, "You and Liu Jushi have secretly done those rebellious things, and if you come here as soon as possible, this king may try to exonerate you from one or two crimes because you have contributed to the court." ”

Li Jing was stunned by Yang Guang's overly violent reaction, and quickly shook his head and argued: "Why did the prince say this." Before the last general followed the prince to leave Beijing, Liu Jushi did ask the last general to try his best to match and complete the good things he and Feng Xiaoxi, in addition, the two of us have never tried to do other things, please Wang Ye Mingjian. ”

Yang Guang took a long breath and asked again, "Is this true?" ”

"If there is half a lie, let the prince fall." Li Jing blurted out.

"That's good." Yang Guang hesitated for a while, but decided to tell Li Jing the truth, so that he could be prepared in his heart, "I believe that you will not betray the imperial court, but not long ago, your brother Liu Jushi betrayed the imperial court, absconded outside the pass, and tried his best to persuade the Turkic Khan to raise troops to attack. Because the queen mother knew that you and Liu Jushi were sworn brothers, she specially ordered Tang Guogong to escort you back to Beijing to ask questions. Therefore, early tomorrow morning, you have to go back to Beijing with Tang Guogong. ”

"Lord Wang, please rest assured, the last general has never done anything disloyal or unfilial, Li Jing is willing to follow Tang Guogong back to Beijing to meet Niangniang and find out the truth of right and wrong." From pleading to Yang Guang during the day, and being imprisoned by Li Yuan's forbidden army, Li Jing had vaguely guessed that he might be in trouble, at this time, listening to Yang Advertising to know the truth about him, and being shocked by Liu Jushi's betrayal of the imperial court, Li Jing's heart also settled down, and immediately expressed his attitude to Yang Guang.

"Good." Yang Guang stood up, patted Li Jing on the shoulder and said, "This king will also send a letter to the queen mother, persuading her to find out the truth of the matter as soon as possible and return your innocence." Besides, I don't know one thing in my heart, I want to hear your opinion first: If I recommend you to the queen mother to go to the border to assassinate Liu Jushi, can you do it? ”

Li Jing hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "If Liu Jushi really commits the crime of rebellion, the last general is willing to ask Niangniang for his life and go to the gate to get his head to report." ”

"Remember, no matter what, this king will be waiting for you to return as soon as possible in Jiangnan." Yang Guang liked Li Jing to the extreme, patted him on the shoulder, turned around and walked out of the cell.

Yang Guang returned to the dormitory that night, and wrote a letter to his mother Dugu Jialuo overnight, in which he strongly praised Li Jingsheng's capture of the bandit leader Gu Zi'er and his great contribution to the imperial court, and asked the queen mother to find out the truth as soon as possible, so that Li Jing could return to his side as soon as possible to continue to serve to pacify Jiangnan.

There was nothing to do all night, and when it was dawn the next day, Yang Guangshang was still asleep and did not wake up, and was woken up by the maid Hongxuan who was on duty outside.

"Lord Wang, Pei Duji's room has crossed the river, saying that there is something urgent to ask to see the prince."

Yang Guanghuo turned over and sat up, rubbed his eyes, and asked, "Where is Chongzhi now?" Invite him to the council chamber. ”

On the one hand, Hongxuan instructed the sergeant who came to report the news to invite Pei Yun to the conference hall, while serving Yang Guang to wash, change clothes, and clean up, and was about to invite Yang Guang to eat before leaving, but saw that Yang Guang had already strode away.

In the council hall of the Guangling Governor's Mansion, it was not only Duan Da who was ordered to escort Gu Zier and Yan Shisan yesterday who followed Pei Yun from Jiankang to see Yang Guang early in the morning, but also Qian Wuliang and Qian Wuxiao.

Yang Guang walked into the conference hall, looked up and saw the Qian brothers standing in the hall, and knew that Pei Yun had crossed the river early in the morning to see him, mostly for the affairs of eastern Zhejiang, so he asked the Qian brothers directly: "You two went to Yandang Mountain to find the whereabouts of the clansmen, what is the result?" ”

Qian Wuliang replied with a gloomy expression: "With the grace of the prince, I allowed my two brothers to rush directly from Songjiang to Yandang Mountain to find the whereabouts of the people who were kidnapped by bandits...... Dozens of the bodies of the robbers were found...... They had already been killed by the robbers......" Speaking of the sad part, Qian Wuliang couldn't help choking.

Yang Guang sighed, and was about to comfort the Qian brothers with a few words, only to see Qian Wuxian clasping his fists at himself and said: "Lord Wang, with the assistance of the local government, my two brothers explored each body one by one, and found that there was no family member of my brothers' two families, so while transporting the bodies of the murdered clansmen back to the ancestral tomb of Qiantang for burial, he asked the local government to find the whereabouts of the two families, so he stayed in Qiantang for a while until he got an exact reply from the local government, saying that the whereabouts of the two families could not be found. only then did he return to the prince to return to his life. ”

Yang Guang listened to Qian Yun's report, and also felt that something was wrong, so he set his eyes on Pei Yun, wanting to hear his judgment on this matter first.

Pei Yun comprehended, took a step forward, and arched his hand and said: "Lord Wang, according to the lower officials, only the whereabouts of the two families of Qian Wuliang and Qian Wuxiao are unknown, and life and death are unknown, there are two possibilities: the first possibility, the two families, like other kidnapped clansmen, have also been killed by the robbers, but the remains of the two families have not yet been found; The second possibility is that the robbers still hold the two families in their hands, as hostages, with a larger agenda. ”

"Qian is fine, you have followed General Liang Mo to the sea to trade with the robbers, have you ever found out that there are no kidnappers who have followed Gu Zi'er to the sea by boat to trade people and money?" Yang Guang pondered the two possibilities proposed by Pei Yun, and took the lead in asking Qian Wuxian.