In the dim secret passage, Yun Qing stopped outside the cell door, the front was faintly dark, and she went back to the entrance and took a candlestick to illuminate it.

The cell was empty, and Yun Qing saw at a glance the person sitting motionless on the wooden bed.

The man was extremely thin, the size of a child of seven or eight years old when he was huddled together, and he looked as if he were weak, and from time to time he coughed inhibitedly.

There was no one around, and the only prisoner was still trapped under the iron rope, Yun Qing's fear eased slightly, coughed dryly, and asked out loud: "Who are you?" ”

The man coughed several times before he slowly raised his head.

Yun Qing moved the candlestick forward, and the face slowly met her gaze.

The old Long Zhong's face was full of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, a pair of shriveled lips, and blood stains on the corners of his mouth.

However, even so, when he looks at you, he still has an affinity that makes people feel good at a glance.

“…… Sun Ping? Yun Qing looked at him in surprise.

"Your Highness." Sun Ping tugged at the corners of his lips, his expression couldn't tell whether he was happy or unhappy, and said, "It's good that you can come back alive." ”

At first glance, this sounds like an insult.

However, the experience of knowing each other for many years told Yun Qing that he was really glad that he could come back alive.

"If you hurt me, why do you expect me to come back alive?" Yun Qing's expression was not ridiculed, but only pure confusion: "Joining forces with Prince Cheng to assassinate me, should you not admit it?" ”

"The sins committed by the old slave cannot be atonemented by death." Sun Ping looked at the little girl opposite with trembling hands: "Your Royal Highness, the first emperor treats the slave well, it is the slave who has the heart of a wolf and a dog and a dog who will take revenge, even if the slave dies ten thousand times, he can't wash away the crime he has done, you resent the slave, and you want to crush the slave to ashes, and the slave has no complaints at all." He said to Yun Qing again and again, "However, before the slave died, he still wanted to talk to His Highness about his heart, and the slave begged His Highness to listen to the slave." ”

Yun Qingbo nodded calmly and said indifferently: "Okay, you can say it." ”

Sun Ping moved his lips, "Your Highness, the slave got married before entering the palace, and once had a child...... It's a daughter, if there was no accident back then, she would be a wonderful age like Your Highness......"

Yun Qing looked at him and said nothing.

"To put it mildly, the minions have always taken care of His Highness as if they were their own children, and the minions have not lost the things you have given to the minions as if they were treasures, even if it is a small kite."

Yun Qing twisted his eyebrows and looked at the direction of the time, worried that leaving later would arouse the suspicion of the guards, so he urged and asked, "What exactly do you want to say?" ”

"In this life, a slave swords when he is sober, and when he is stupid, he harms people who really treat slaves well, he has achieved nothing, he has implicated good people, and he should have died a long time ago......" He smiled bitterly, "Your Highness, the slave deserves to die for his crimes, and if he can see you for the last time, he will die without regrets." He endured the severe pain on his body and crawled in front of Yun Qing, and kowtowed to her three times in a row: "Your Highness, if there is an afterlife, the old slave will serve you as a slave again." His voice gradually lowered: "Old slave Sun Ping, I wish His Highness peace and security, wealth and auspiciousness." ”

The last word was spat out, and his voice seemed to have lost his voice, and he lay on the ground without making a sound.

Yun Qing noticed a slight mistake, and solemnly called: "Sun Ping? ”

Sun Ping lay on the ground and did not give any response.

On the ground where he knelt, a thin stream of blood slowly flowed out, and under the dim candle flame, it looked like water at first glance.

Yun Qing bit his lip, looked at Sun Ping, who was kneeling in front of him, for a moment, turned around and walked away quickly.

When approaching the entrance, there was a sound of hurried footsteps in front of him, Yun Qing was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and then simply slowed down his pace and waited for the man to approach.

Yun Jingmo walked towards this side against the light, and when he saw her figure around the corner, he paused abruptly and stood in place looking at her.

Yun Qing walked up to him and asked him inexplicably: "Now that Qingyun is not here, no one knows that I have been here, are you going to kill me?" ”

Yun Jingmo's eyes shattered into a faint desolation.

He shook his head: "You think too much, I told you a long time ago when Sun Ping was imprisoned, there is nothing to hide from you about this matter." ”

"In that case, why did you rush here when you found out that I might be here?" Yun Qing stared at his face motionlessly: "It's not clear who instructed Sun Ping to you, his crime is not impossible to tell the world, you can hand him over to the Criminal Department, to Dali Temple, and to the ministers for trial, but you didn't, you imprisoned him in the darkest and least known secret prison in the imperial study, and tortured him to the fullest, Yun Jingmo, can you tell me, why is this?" ”

Since she returned to China, she has always adhered to her duties, and her title has been even more watertight, and after the two reunited, this is the first time she has called his name so seriously.

Yun Jingmo didn't know whether he should be happy or uncomfortable, he smiled and said, "He is one of the sinners who murdered the first emperor, Qing'er, I thought you would expect him to die." ”

Yunqing: "I think he died under the sanction of national law, not your death penalty, I hope he can tell the truth and tell the truth, instead of dying so unexplained." ”

"He's dead?" Yun Jingmo was surprised.

Sun Ping has been tortured since he entered this prison, and he has never been in extreme pain so many times, but Yun Qing only appeared for a while and he lost his life.

If Yun Qing hadn't killed him with his own hands, it would only mean that he had secretly hidden the poison of his own self-cutting, and he would have ended his life after seeing Yun Qing.

Yun Qing will not kill people before finding out the truth, so it can only mean that Sun Ping hid the poison himself.

This old thing still has some backbone, Yun Jingmo thought secretly.

Yun Qing took two deep breaths, crossed Yun Jingmo, and walked out of the secret passage quickly.

Yun Jingmo followed her out quickly, and explained to her on the way: "I want to ask the truth about his murder of the first emperor, the less people know about these things, the better, I don't want the cause of his death to be discussed many years after the death of the first emperor, this is also a kind of respect for the deceased, what do you think?" ”

"I think finding out the truth behind it is the greatest respect for my father." Yun Qing brushed away his hand to stop him, and raised his eyes with endless coldness: "Your Majesty is really different from before when you became an emperor, Sun Ping's disposition, Prince Cheng's illness, and a style of acting that is very different from the past, I can't understand all of them, can Your Majesty tell me that Your Majesty has become too fast, or Yun Qing can't see the true face of His Majesty at all?" ”。

"You just need to know that no matter what I become, I won't do anything to hurt you."