Sima Bi returned to the Jin capital, but the crown prince was still in Cangzhou.

Nearly 300,000 troops of the Northern Army shrank on all fronts and held the city. However, the focus of the defense was no longer on the borders, but on the various mountain passes south of Hebei Province and the Taihang Mountains. Hundreds of thousands of Jin troops gathered, but it didn't seem to be the armies of other countries.

The situation became more tense with the eastward advance of the 40,000 Northwest Army in mid-March, and a civil war was about to break out. In mid-March, 10,000 cavalry, 25,000 infantry, and 5,000 Northwest Modao troops marched to Taiyuan and continued eastward. At this time, Xie Yi, the commander of the Northwest Army, took hundreds of cavalry to Taiyuan in person to preside over the overall situation.

Everyone in Jindu who knew about this was terrified, trembling every day, for fear that there would be a fight when.

Under the strict control of Ti Cai, the people who knew about this matter were limited to the Beijing officials, and the Beijing officials were also limited to the court officials, and some of these court officials were tight-lipped about their families, allowing their families to watch them panic all day long, and they were anxious, but they did not dare to confide the truth.

Except for those court officials, basically not many people know that Sima Bi returned to the court. Among the court officials who knew that Sima Bi had returned to the court, there were even fewer people who knew the attitude of Emperor Jin.

On March 18, Sima Bi returned to the Tiqi Division from the palace where he had lived for six days, and then was accompanied by Xie Shence to the Imperial Prison, where he met Sima Yu and the three Sima brothers.

Naturally, the people met separately one by one, and the place of meeting was not in the interrogation room, but in a secret room of the Ti Knights.

Sima Yu was still dressed in a snow-white Confucian shirt, and his expression was a little haggard.

In fact, Sima Yu himself didn't know what was going on, and he didn't know how many days he had been locked up here. He knew that he had been captured by Tiqi. Ti Cai cleverly timed his capture, avoiding the vast majority of people and causing no commotion. It's just one or two I met along the way, like Yue Buqun, and he also teased him that Lord Admiral actually used Tiqi to invite people for drinking, which was too face-saving and so on.

Sima Yu naturally knew that this place was the edict of Ti Qisi. He knew it was because he had been here.

That was more than 20 years ago.

Sima Yu didn't know what the Jin Emperor had arrested him for - of course, it would not be Xie Shence who wanted to arrest him, in fact, if the Ti Cai did not have the Jin Emperor's edict or holy decree, he had no right to arrest any official above the fifth rank - so he did not have any superfluous words when he arrived at the imperial prison, and he wrote many poems silently when he was in a hurry. The edict also had enough food and drink, so there was nothing wrong with his mental and physical body, but he was slightly pale and emaciated because he had not seen the sun for a long time.

Sima Yu was taken blindfolded to a secret room, and then saw Sima Bi on the other side of the iron window.

"Brother."

Sima Bi respectfully saluted the thin Sima Yu, and stretched to the ground.

Sima Yu straightened his shirt, smiled slightly, and said, "Yutai."

Yutai is the character of Sima Bi. Sima Yu called like this from when Sima Bi had a table.

Sima Bi said through the iron window: "This time my brother has been affected, is it Yutai's, when the matter is clear, my brother will definitely be innocent." ”

Sima Yu shook his head: "How are Shan'er, Tan'er, and Jin'er doing now?" ”

"It's not clear."

"Confused." Sima Yu reprimanded: "If you are not filial, you don't go to see your son, but you come to see me first, what is the reason?" ”

Sima Bi suddenly said, "What my brother said is true. ”

Xie Shence was taken aback.

Obediently, the legend says that Sima Bi obeyed Sima Yu's words, and it seems to be true. Sima Yu scolded Sima Bi like a child, but Sima Bi admitted his mistake without raising his head.

Sima Yu sighed, looked at Xie Shence, and then said, "Since Feng Zhi can let you see as a brother, then you must be able to meet their three brothers." I don't know much about this. But since it was because of you, you left Cangzhou and returned to Jindu at this time, and my family was imprisoned, so it can only be a major military crime. You don't commit treason, that's clear to my brother. But since you're back, and Your Majesty has allowed you to see me, it means that things are still turning around. The family does not have a close relationship with you, and the letters are left in a secret compartment in the study for the brothers, and if necessary, you can let Feng Zhi take it from you. There is no trouble here, you don't have to worry, you can deal with your affairs with peace of mind. ”

Sima Bi nodded again and said, "Yes, Yutai remembers." What else does my brother have to say? ”

Sima Yu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "It's not a farewell last word, what can be left for later." ”

Sima Bi responded again, and then Sima Yu said to Xie Shence: "Fengzhi, I have something to trust. That tavern, if it's convenient, take care of it. If it's inconvenient, please take care of it. It's hard work. ”

Xie Shence bowed and said, "Do your best." ”

Sima Yu nodded, then got up and motioned for Ti Qi to blindfold him, and then was taken out.

After Sima Yu went out, Xie Shence found that Sima Bi's docile eyes instantly became angry. However, this is in the Tiqi Division, Xie Shence will not be afraid of Sima Bi even if he faces him face to face with his bare hands, and he will not turn around and flee in a hurry like last time.

Where is the door of the Ti Cavalry Division so easy to enter, if you don't put some poison on you, how can you rest assured that you will be in the same room?

Next up is Sima Shan.

After Sima Shan, who was shouting, was carried by two horsemen to the opposite side of the iron window and held down, and after removing the black cloth from his eyes, Sima Shan saw his father Sima Bi.

Sima Shan was stunned, as if he hadn't figured out the situation, and said in surprise: "Father, father, why are you here?" You—You're coming in too? They"

Sima Shan couldn't go on, because he found that Sima Bi still had majestic armor on his body, and Xie Shence was standing behind Sima Bi.

After realizing that he was wrong, Sima Shan suddenly shouted: "Father, save me!" Get me out! They arrested our whole family, father! My brothers and my mother have been arrested, uncle, uncle, I don't know if it's or not, father, help me out, it's so scary here, no one can see anyone."

Sima Shan is already about to be thirty years old, the eldest of Sima Bi's three sons, and he should be the most calm one, but Clinker is crying like a child for help at this time.

The anger in Sima Bi's eyes had long since disappeared, replaced by coldness.

"Waste."

Sima Bi squeezed out two words from between his teeth. This son's performance is too despicable, especially when he is so cowardly in the presence of outsiders, which makes his face disgraced.

After Sima Bi said two words, he watched coldly and no longer paid attention to Sima Shan. Seeing this, Xie Shence waved his hand and motioned for Tiqi to take Sima Shan down.

When Sima Shan was about to be taken away, he suddenly jumped up like crazy and wanted to run away, so he was knocked unconscious by a horseman who cut the back of the neck with a palm knife and was carried out.

Then there was Sima Hibiscus, Sima Hibiscus was not as excited as Sima Shan, but just wiped his tears and said about his life in prison, telling Sima Bi not to worry, and then asking Sima Bi to find a way to save the family.

Sima Bi's face looked better, after all, Sima Jin's performance at this time was barely passable, and his clothes were much cleaner than Sima Shan's just now.

But Sima Bi still didn't say anything.

After that, it's Sima Tan.

Sima Tan was the calmest of the three, and the calmness made Sima Bi a little surprised. Clean clothes, clean face, except for the fact that the beard has grown long and has been deliberately gathered neatly by him, Sima Tan is like a nobody.

I wasn't surprised to see Sima Bi, as if I usually met, and said "I've seen my father" and then stopped making a sound.

The father and son were relatively speechless, and Xie Shence was a little bored to watch.

Finally, when Xie Shence couldn't help but ask someone to take Sima Tan away, Sima Bi spoke: "Everything you do for your father, naturally you have to bear for your father, you don't have to worry." ”

Sima Tan shook his head and said, "That's not what the child meant, the child just doesn't understand some things very well." ”

"You say."

So Sima Tan thought for a while and said, "What's going on with the sixth battalion of the rangers?" ”

"What's going on in Hejian Mansion?"

"What's going on in Dingzhou?"

"What's the matter with the eight hundred horse bandits?"

"Father, what's the matter with you?"

As Sima Tan threw out one question after another, Sima Bi's face lost his mind for a moment, and then he regained his calm, as if nothing had happened.

"It's not a big deal to be a father, it's good to be a father."

Sima Tan answered all the questions in one sentence.

So Sima Tan was silent. Soon Sima Tan was set up by the horseman, and before being blinded by Mengshan, Sima Tan said to Sima Bi: "Father, I know." ”

In this "I know", even Xie Shence heard indifference.

It seems that there is still some effect in the end.

Sima Bi squinted his eyes slightly, and then watched Sima Tan leave.

"Alright, General, we can go out." Xie Shence said to Sima Bi.

Sima Bi glanced at Xie Shence, and then asked, "You told him everything?" ”

Sima Bi's meaning Xie Shence was clear, he was asking Sima Tan what he asked, whether Xie Shence told him.

Xie Shence smiled: "Of course not, how could I be so boring." ”

Of course, it wasn't Xie Shence who told Sima Tan, but Sima Tan knew that these things were indeed Xie Shence's hands and feet, and it was Xie Shence who "conveyed" some "relay" to Sima Tan through Fu Lai's mouth. Of course, the matter of the horse bandits asked by Sima Tan was inadvertently "eavesdropped" by Fu Lai.

After letting Fu Lai know this information intentionally or unintentionally, Xie Shence didn't do any more, and of course, the facts have proved that there is no need to do anything more.

Fu Lai did not disappoint Xie Shence, he told Sima Tan everything he knew and the doubts in his heart. And when Sima Tan fell into confusion and doubts, it happened that King Qi's duet made Sima Tan's family go to the edict of Ti Qisi. After entering the edict, Sima Tan quickly figured out some of these things. And for some conjectures, he still needs evidence. So he asked those questions.

And Sima Bi's answer confirmed his conjecture.

Xie Shence said that he didn't do that, Sima Bi naturally didn't believe it, but both of them knew that verbal admission or not could not change the facts.

As long as you know the truth, what does it matter if you admit it or not? It's not a lawsuit.

At that moment, Sima Bi smiled lightly, then got up and walked out.