Qiu Yizhi followed Zheng Hua, the king of Heluo, to a room that was decorated like a study, and replied: "Now that everything is burning, I am at a loss, and I am about to ask the prince, but is there any way to keep my father-in-law safe." ”

Zheng Hua listened, unfolded and closed the folding fan in his hand, and then opened and closed it again, and said after a long time: "Now my second brother is being imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, and he is waiting for the trial of the three halls to wait for the decision of the saint." Childe's light and clever words, can you save your father-in-law? ”

Qiu Yizhi arched his hand again and said: "I also know that this matter is difficult to climb to the sky, but my father-in-law has the grace to raise me, and I will recreate it with grace." Below, the body is broken to pieces, and the righteous father must be rescued. ”

Zheng Hua said faintly: "I'm afraid that the son will not be able to save the second brother, but he will take his life to go in." Childe is the righteous son of my second brother Moth, although there is a father-son relationship, but after all, it is not on the famous brand, so why bother? ”

Qiu Yizhi didn't have the slightest intention of helping himself in his words, and sighed in disappointment and said: "Since the prince has the difficulties of the prince, then he will not be reluctant." Please forgive me for my disrespectful sin, and I will accompany you in this room. With that, he turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait. Do you really want to save your father? Zheng Hua asked.

When Qiu Yizhi heard this, he didn't turn around, but only turned his head and replied: "I know that this is a mantis arm blocking the car, but I don't want to block it, but I don't know that this car has accumulated a lot of weight and is vulnerable to a blow?" ”

"Good! You can say that again! Zheng Hua exclaimed, "Childe is really loyal and filial to my second brother!" The two sons of this king should have half the ambition of a son, and this king will wake up laughing when he dreams. ”

When Qiu Yizhi heard Zheng Hua say this, he was overjoyed, turned around and bowed: "Is there any way for the prince to save my father-in-law, and ask the prince to teach me!" ”

Zheng Hua waved his hand and said: "This king is a person who is idle and wild, where can he have the ability to save people from the prison of the Criminal Department?" However, the emperor appointed this king to go with the two Shangshu lords of the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Rites to interrogate the second brother, and the prince can deign to pretend to be my servant and go with me. This king is not talented, or he can let the son say a few words to the second brother. ”

When Qiu Yizhi heard this, he was overjoyed, and he didn't have time to consider whether Zheng Hua, the king of Heluo, was making a plan to invite the king into the urn, so he accepted it with his mouth full of promises, and asked: "I don't know when the prince will set off, so I can prepare for it." ”

Zheng Hua replied: "This is a special purpose, and I want this king to go to the criminal department now." Childe's dress looks simple, and there is nothing to be proud of pretending to be my little servant, so let's follow this king. ”

The prison of the Criminal Department is located in the northwest of Luoyang City, not far from the Heluo Palace. Zheng Hua sat in a brisk sedan chair, and was already in front of the prison door after only one meal.

Qiu Yizhi followed closely behind the sedan chair, and his two eyes observed the terrain inside and outside the prison without blinking.

I saw that this prison was built at the corner of the city to prevent the Qin criminals from breaking through the wall and escaping, so they made use of the two city walls on the west and north sides of Luoyang City, and built them at the corner of the city, with tall and solid city walls on both sides. The city walls were deliberately strengthened, and from time to time there were soldiers patrolling with spears. On the east and south sides of the prison, a radius of five or six zhang was specially vacated in the capital, where every inch of land was valuable, so that the soldiers set up in the police building in the prison could observe the surrounding situation at a glance.

Qiu Yi observed carefully, while quickly calculating the way to rescue Zheng Rong, but heard the official who guarded the door of the prison say to Zheng Hua: "Lord Wang, there is an order from above, only you are allowed to enter alone." ”

Zheng Hua unfolded his fan and shook it, "What?" When did you come out with so many rules in the prison of the Criminal Department? ”

The official Zuo Shili said: "In normal times, it would be okay for the prince to bring a hundred people in. But today...... The reason for this is that the prince also knows, and please be considerate of the villain......"

Zheng Hua nodded slightly and said, "I know the difficulties of doing things below you. However, this king has been weak since he was a child, and if he does not have someone around to serve him, I am afraid it will be inconvenient......" he said, pointing to the way of Qiu Yi behind him, "In this case, I will take him in alone." ”

The official was very conscientious, and although he didn't say anything in his mouth, his face showed a difficult color.

When Zheng Hua saw his appearance, his face suddenly tensed, and he said, "What? Isn't that okay too? Go and call out those who are above you, and the king himself will speak to him. ”

Seeing that the prince of Heluo was angry, the official Zuo was a little scared, and hurriedly apologized: "The prince, please calm your anger." It's just that if you bring a personal servant in, it must not matter much, and the villain will take the liberty of calling the shots here. Lord Wang, please take care of yourself. With that, he got out of the way and let Zheng Hua and Qiu Yizhi walk in.

As soon as he entered the prison, a sour and rotten gas rushed to his face, so smoked that Zheng Hua couldn't help but open the folding fan to cover his mouth and nose.

Just as Zheng Hua was carefully gasping, he saw a cell head flashing out of nowhere, and he was not too dirty, so he knelt on the ground dyed by blood, dust, and rough prison rice of unknown color, and kowtowed three times in succession and said: "The little one has asked the prince to say goodbye, and please ask the prince to go here." ”

Zheng Hua finally got used to the turbid air in the prison and said, "You can lead the way before you get up." Another day, I will talk to Yuwen Shangshu of your Criminal Department, this prison is too filthy, and I don't know how to clean it up every three or five times. ”

The cell boss smiled and didn't answer, only led Zheng Hua and Qiu Yizhi to the depths of the prison. As she walked, she carefully examined the inside of the prison - it turned out that all the cells in the prison were connected by a winding serpentine passage, and there were no other forks. Therefore, no matter which cell the prisoner escapes, there are only two options: forward and backward - moving forward will face the interception of countless prison guards and soldiers, and retreating is a dead end - I think that the person who designed this prison in the first place was also scheming.

Qiu Yizhi followed Zheng Hua and walked in this prison for half an hour, passing through countless iron gates, and seeing many depressed, bored, and flesh-wrenching prisoners in the prison, he walked all the way to the deepest part of the cell.

The room in the deepest part of the prison was very spacious and clean, with several palm-sized air windows on the walls, which made the air in the room slightly fresher.

Qiu Yizhi followed Zheng Hua into this room, and saw that there were already two officials sitting in the room, and they were all high-ranking officials wearing clothes and colors. When the two of them saw the arrival of Zheng Hua, the king of Heluo, they got up at the same time to greet him, and after bowing to him, they shouted: "Shi Liangzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Yu Wenguan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, have seen the prince!" ”

Zheng Hua was very easy-going, and said with a slight smile: "The two adults are the pillars of the court, and this king is the first idle person in the world, how can he be worthy of the two of them?" Please get up, two adults. ”

Shi Liangzhi and Yuwenguan listened to Zheng Hua's words, glanced at each other, stood up at the same time, and gently patted the dust on their bodies. I only heard Shi Liangzhi say: "There is a decree in the saint that we will try the crime of Zheng Rong, the king of Youyan, how to deal with it, and ask the prince to show it." ”

Zheng Hua unfolded the folding fan, shook it lightly, and said: "This king does not understand the law of punishment and does not ask for sin, and the saint called me, I'm afraid it is just for me to sit on the throne." In my opinion, it is still the chief judge of the two, and the king will listen quietly on the sidelines. As he spoke, he walked to the case and sat down on the chair in the middle. When Shi Liangzhi and Yuwenguan heard this, they sat on both sides of Zheng Hua separately.

Qiu Yizhi was on the side, but he could understand it - Zheng Hua simply pushed his responsibility away with just two sentences, but he had the intention of personally appointing the two chief judges, and really pinched the real power - he really admired this inconspicuous prince, so he hurriedly walked a few steps and stood behind Zheng Hua respectfully.

Shi Liangzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, saw that everyone was in place, picked up the shocking wood and slapped it several cases, and said loudly: "Bring people to commit crimes!" ”

After a short time, four jailers were seen walking into the room with a very tall man with a few strands of beautiful hair on his face.

Qiu Yizhi looked through the not very bright light in the room, and looked fixedly, this person was indeed his father-in-law, Youyan Wang Zheng Rong. I saw that he looked good, but his expression was slightly tired and haggard, his hands and feet were shackled, and every step made the sound of "Ding Lingdang".

When everyone looked Zheng Rong up and down, Zheng Rong's sharp eyes also scanned the "judges" in front of him, and only stopped on Qiu Yizhi's face until the end. Zheng Rong was shocked for a moment when he saw that his son of the moth was actually here, and he knew that with Qiu Yizhi's intelligence and courage, it was extremely rare to see himself here, so a smile flashed across the corner of his mouth, and he nodded slightly at him.

Zheng Hua sat in front of Qiu Yizhi, saw the second brother nodding towards him, and thought he was greeting himself, so he hurriedly got up and bowed his hand, and said to the criminal department Shangshu beside him: "Lord Yuwen, there is a way that is not a doctor." My second brother has not yet been tried for the crime, and he is still the son of the first emperor, the younger brother of Emperor Daxing, and the uncle of the current saint. ”

Yuwenguan hadn't replied yet, but Shi Liangzhi on the other side said, "Lord Wang, this is what the lower official meant." There are nearly 20 leading troops under the command of the prince Youyan, and there are many fierce generals and outlaws under his command, if the guard is loose, he escapes, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain to the emperor. ”

Zheng Hua played with the folding fan in his hand very casually, looked directly at Shi Liangzhi and said, "This king sees that my second brother is about to take this opportunity to show his heart to the saint, and he has no intention of escaping. Otherwise, how could Master Shi invite my second brother here so easily? ”

Shi Liangzhi listened to Zheng Hua's words, and really remembered that in the unsuccessful trapping process half a day ago, if it weren't for the Youyan King, who has now become a prisoner, to order the warriors under his command to retreat, maybe he would have become the unjust soul of the army. I had to let Zheng Hua, the king of Heluo, order: "Come on, why don't you remove the handcuffs and shackles for the prince of Youyan and pour tea from the seat?" ”

The four jailers listened to the order, and seeing that Yu Wenguan, the head of the Criminal Department, had no objections, they each took out the keys from their bodies, opened the torture instruments hanging on Zheng Rong's body one by one, and brought a seat for Zheng Rong to sit down.

Among Zheng Rong's four brothers, he has the best relationship with Zheng Yong, the emperor of Daxing, and the worst relationship with Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, and he is not estranged from the third brother Zheng Hua, the king of Heluo, but also not intimate. After he became a fan of Youyan, he had less contact, and only exchanged letters politely during festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Lantern Festival every year. However, at this time of great calamity, Zheng Hua was able to speak for himself without avoiding suspicion, although it was just a gesture, it was enough to make Zheng Rong very grateful, I saw him rubbing his wrist that was oppressed by the iron chain and was a little red, and said with emotion: "You and my brother have not seen each other for several years, and they are already things and people, isn't it embarrassing?" ”

When Zheng Hua heard this, he actually chanted two lines of poetry: "Who first saw the moon on the riverside, and when did the river moon shine at the beginning of the year?" This change in everything is unpredictable, although the second brother is currently in the prison of the Criminal Department, but after all, he is still the son of the dragon and the grandson of the phoenix, as long as he can save the sacred heart, he is still the world-famous Youyan King! ”