What's going on here? His confidant died here with smoke, but he was holding Su Wu's jade pendant in his hand. No, this will never be done by Su Wan, so where did this jade pendant come from, and what is the conspiracy of the blade behind it...... Sikong Shaoyang's mind was in a mess, and he couldn't think rationally.

"Whoever is in the pavilion, don't move!"

A male voice broke the silence around them, and a series of footsteps approached.

Sikong Shaoyang immediately put the jade pendant in his hand into his sleeve, and had a rough guess in his heart about a series of things that happened at night.

"Is that you? Lord Commander! ”

Sikong Shaoyang raised his head, and there was a team of patrol soldiers standing in front of him, led by Wu Zheng, the deputy commander of the patrol of Shangling City.

Wu Zheng looked at the smoking corpse next to Sikong Shaoyang, puzzled and puzzled: "Lord Commander, this ......"

It was night when Dongling Xun was about to fall asleep, but he heard a rumor from Gonggong Kang next to him that Wu Zheng, the commander of the patrol, was asking to see him at the gate of his palace.

At that time, the key had already been placed in the palace, and Donglin Xun was strange, Sikong Shaoyang was not worthy of it on this day, how could he enter the palace with Wu Zheng so late to ask for a meeting.

"Announce them to the palace." Thinking about it, it must be an important matter, so Tanglin Xun put on his coat and hurried out of the dormitory and walked towards the imperial study.

"What the hell is going on?" Donglin Xun looked at Sikong Shaoyang, who was kneeling on the ground in front of him, and Wu Zheng, who was half-kneeling and saluting next to him, and was very puzzled.

Wu Zheng raised his head and told Donglin Xun about the general course of the matter: "Back to Your Majesty, tonight is the minister's duty, while patrolling, a man who looks like an ordinary person suddenly came to me and told me that there was a murder in the garden not far from Mingcui Lane in the south of the city. ”

Wu Zheng saw this scene, although he was puzzled, he also believed that it would never be Sikong Shaoyang's doing, who would have thought that Sikong Shaoyang said to him at this time: "Wu Zheng, I did it, I will go back with you." ”

Although it is natural to arrest the perpetrator, if it involves serious cases and official crimes, it will be handed over to the Criminal Department or Dali Temple, but Wu Zheng expected that there was absolutely something strange in this, and the person in front of him was the commander of the Praetorian Guard, the person in front of the emperor, not an ordinary official, so he had no choice but to take him into the palace first to ask for a meeting, and asked the emperor to show him about this matter.

"Who is the dead?" Tanglin Xun looked at the two people in front of the case quietly.

"It's the dancing girl of Jingfuju in the city, with smoke." In order to remind the emperor that the deceased was not an ordinary person, he added: "This woman is known as the first dancing girl in Dongzhao." ”

Jinglin has always understood Sikong Shaoyang as a person, so he naturally didn't believe that he would kill this Hanyan, so he turned his attention to Sikong Shaoyang, who had been silent since he came in: "Shaoyang, what do you have to say?" ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen has nothing to defend." Sikong Shaoyang blurted out.

Sikong Shaoyang's heart is clear: from the note written by pretending to be Su Wu, the killed Hanyan found in the pavilion, the jade pendant in Hanyan's hand, including Wu Zheng, who suddenly appeared...... All of this is a trap, in order to frame himself for killing Hanyan, Wu Zhengzheng, as the commander of the city defense, arrived "coincidentally", seeing that there was only Sikong Shaoyang next to the corpse, he was speechless, and the person who set up the bureau must know that he cares about Su Yan, and putting the pendant next to Hanyan's hand is to warn himself that if he resists and defends, the matter may involve Su Yan, and he has no choice but to enter the game obediently...... There are three days left for her great joy, how can she be involved in this murder?

"Oh? Then why did you kill that woman? ”

"Minister...... There was a verbal conflict with the woman, and in a fit of rage, he killed her. "He kept his head low all the time.

Sikong Shaoyang followed the emperor every day, how could the emperor not know his temperament, seeing his abnormal attitude, he knew that there must be something strange about this matter, but he didn't show anything on his face, he twisted the beeswax bracelet in his hand, and after a moment of silence, he raised his head and said: "In this case, put Sikong Shaoyang in a secret prison and wait for the fate." ”

"Your Majesty, this ......" Wu Zheng obviously didn't expect that the emperor would really detain Sikong Shaoyang, and looked at the people on the seat hesitantly, but found that there was no hesitation in his eyes, Wu Zheng had to take the order and ordered his subordinates to escort Sikong Shaoyang out of the hall.

"Wu Zheng, you stay. Kang Dehai, go to someone to pass Qiu Jingxuan into the palace. ”

Qiu Jingxuan is the Zhengqing of Dali Temple, and like Wu Zheng, he was raised and brought up when Donglin Xun was the prince, and he is an absolutely credible person around him.

Qiu Jingxuan listened to Wu Zheng tell what happened, hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, do you really think that the Lord Commander did it?" ”

"Of course it won't be Shaoyang's doing." The Emperor's gaze was bottomless.

"Forgive the minister for being stupid, then why did His Majesty put him in a secret prison?" Wu Zheng was also puzzled.

"This brings us to the point, it's a prison rather than a prison." Tanglin Xun drank the soothing soup that Gonggong Kang had just presented.

"Your Majesty means ......" Qiu Jingxuan seemed to understand something.

"I know Shao Yang as a person, if this matter was really done by him, he would have directly admitted it just now, and he didn't admit it but didn't deny it, which shows that there must be something strange in this. What's more, his later rhetoric was too far-fetched, he was not a violent and arrogant person, how could he kill a woman because of a quarrel? ”

Wu Zheng suddenly realized: "I see, I think someone told Weichen tonight that there was a murder in the pavilion, and it is not known that someone deliberately framed the commander." ”

Qiu Jingxuan also understood the emperor's intentions, "If someone really deliberately frames the commander, there will definitely be the next move, then the safest place for the adult at this time is the secret prison!" ”

Seeing that the two of them finally understood, the emperor continued: "It's not just that, no matter what purpose that person framed Shaoyang, now that Shaoyang no longer shows up, that person will definitely show his feet if he relaxes a little." It's just that Shao Yang bites to death and doesn't tell the truth, and now only by first leading out the people behind the scenes can the truth surface. ”

Wu Xuan still can't let go of one thing: "Your Majesty, this Hanyan is a famous dancing girl in the world, as soon as the news of her death came out, Weichen guessed that her admirers and the people of Jingfuju would definitely be resentful, and immediately came to ask the government to execute the murderer, then ......"

"So you must not tell Shaoyang out, only say that Hanyan was killed, the murderer is not yet known, the government is investigating with all its might, and it can be delayed for a few days. It is not necessary to let Dali Temple come forward, so as not to arouse suspicion. Tomorrow I will inform the courtiers that Shao Yang has been sent by me to his fiefdom of Lin'an County to run errands. After that, Tanglin Xun stepped down from his seat and said to the two: "You two must find out the murderer as soon as possible and find out the truth, time is pressing." ”

Seeing that the emperor had made a series of arrangements, the two of them bowed in and said in unison: "The ministers will definitely do their best to investigate, and they will also lead the lord to be innocent." ”

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