Compared with Wei Xian's fear and anxiety, Cao Lang is much calmer, he eats, sleeps, sleeps, and eats, and is not worried about his situation at all.

"Get up!" The jailer pulled his throat and woke up the drowsy Cao Lang violently: "Hurry up, someone has come to see you." ”

Cao Lang got up from the ground with a dull expression.

Someone came to see him? It's true! Someone is coming to see him!

Ever since he woke up drunk that day, he has been locked up in a prison cell, and every day he is either interrogated or interrogated, and he has not killed anyone at all!

No matter how he explained it, no one believed it!

Cao Lang brushed his unkempt hair, which had not been combed for many days, to the back of his head, straightened his already smelly clothes, and stared at the door with bright eyes.

"Originally, I was not allowed to visit, but for your sake, I allowed it this time." The jailer had a greedy smile on his face, and he held a large silver ticket in his hand: "You have to hurry up, if Lord Shaoqing knows... I can't afford it. ”

"Thank you for the reminder." Jiang Banxia took out a silver ticket from his sleeve and stuffed it into the jailer's hand.

"I can't afford to be an official." The jailer immediately took the silver ticket, and he gritted his teeth and said, "At most, I can only give you half an hour at most." ”

"Half an hour is enough."

Jiang Banxia followed behind the jailer, her eyes swept lightly, and the cells on both sides were full of criminals.

The criminals who could be locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department were all extremely vicious, and their eyes were staring at Jiang Banxia behind the jailer in the dark.

"Look at what, look!" Xu is jailer also felt the gloomy gaze of the group, and he whipped the whip on the wooden bar: "Look again, let you look good!" ”

The jailer scolded the criminals and gave them a slight look of inquiry.

Cao Lang was held in the deepest part of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, where the condemned prisoners were held.

The Ming Dynasty sentenced the death penalty very strictly, in order to prevent misjudgment, the chiefs were thinking twice, and even the case was examined by many parties, and those who could be sentenced to death were guilty of heinous felonies, so there were not many death row prisoners, and the place where the prison of the Criminal Department was used to hold the death row prisoners was often idle.

Cao Lang didn't know that he would be locked up here, but he jumped up with excitement the moment he saw Jiang Banxia.

"Little brother Jiangxia!" Cao Lang never expected that the first person to come to see him would be Jiang Xia, this subordinate who had been with him for a few days.

"Hurry up, you must leave in half an hour!" After the jailer let Jiang Banxia in, he was locked.

"Don't worry, official." Jiang Banxia replied: "It won't be delayed for too long. ”

Waiting for the jailer to walk away, Jiang Banxia put the food box in her hand on the ground, she opened the food box layer by layer, and the dishes that were still hot inside emitted bursts of aroma.

"Brother Cao has wronged you these days." Jiang Banxia put the dishes in front of Cao Lang: "The food in the prison is not very tasty, I brought you some food to make up for it." ”

Cao Lang picked up the chopsticks and said embarrassedly: "Then I'm welcome!" ”

He really can't carry it, the food in the prison is too hard to swallow, not to mention the boiled vegetables in plain water, and the rice he eats is still mixed with bran! Can't swallow it at all!

"I didn't expect you to be the first person to come to see me." Cao Lang's mouth was full, and his voice was muffled: "My mother didn't come to see me, and I don't know if she knows that I was arrested now." ”

Jiang Banxia didn't talk rashly, she made a gesture of a listener.

"I really didn't kill anyone!" Cao Lang hatefully stuffed a mouthful of food into his mouth: "I did quarrel with Sun Yaozong after I got drunk that day, but I really didn't want to kill him!" ”

Speaking of excitement, Cao Lang put down the bowl in his hand, immediately lifted his shirt and said to Jiang Banxia: "Brother Jiangxia, look, that dead fat man was definitely killed after I fainted, look at my waist and my belly!" The bruised ones that were kicked were purple and purple. ”

Cao Lang's sudden lifting of her shirt really startled Jiang Banxia, but she quickly regained her composure.

With the faint candlelight, she took a closer look at the injuries on Cao Lang's body, Sun Yaozong was more ruthless, and the bruises on Cao Lang's waist and abdomen were very terrifying, some of them were already bruised or even blackened.

"I'm sure it's not you." Jiang Banxia opened his mouth and asked, "Did you see the person who killed Sun Yaozong at that time?" ”

"Hey, I want to see, I'm still sitting here?" Cao Lang said helplessly: "I can't argue now, because I don't have any impression of what happened that night." ”

Jiang Banxia added a little more food to Cao Lang, and she continued to chat with him according to Cao Lang's words.

Half an hour passed very quickly, and when the jailer came to urge, Cao Lang reluctantly said goodbye to Jiang Banxia: "Brother Jiangxia, you must help me tell my mother, I was wronged!" Let my mother go into the palace and beg my sister to save me! ”

"Brother Cao, don't worry."

Jiang Banxia left the prison of the Criminal Department under Cao Lang's reluctant gaze.

*

"How?" Phila sat at the table, and he came to inquire on the progress of the matter on behalf of the Overseer.

"Cao Lang has no memory of what happened that night." Jiang Banxia sat opposite Fila, with a cup of tea in her hand, and two tea leaves were tumbling in the turquoise tea soup.

They sat in the corner of the teahouse, and the storyteller on the stage was spitting at the mouth, telling the story of General Huaiyuan's great destruction of the Jurchens.

"Since Taizu unified Huayi, the first emperor Shunde succeeded to the throne, the whole world was Haiqing Heyan, and the Northeast barbarian Jurchen clan disturbed my border......"

"He is talking about the fourteenth year of Shunde, when General Huaiyuan was still a teenager, and he led the troops to make great achievements." Fila took a sip of tea from the cup and exclaimed, "At that time, the scenery was unique. ”

The storyteller on the stage was shocked: "The situation is critical, I saw a young man stand up, the young man held a spear and rode a treasure horse, and the Jurchen head man went back and forth, and he was not up or down..."

"Although I am afraid of him today, I haven't reached the point of touching him yet." Fila spoke: "It is not proper for you to move his son. ”

"I used to be afraid of Cao Bingye, but now I don't have to," Jiang Banxia's eyebrows raised slightly, and the corners of her mouth smiled: "Today's heirs are not abundant and the prince is young, although he is in the prime of life, he still has worries, after all, how can the tiger sleep soundly on the side of the couch." ”

Jiang Banxia's tone paused: "Today will clear all the obstacles for the prince, although Cao Bingye has not reached the point of being a master, but he has stepped on the bottom line of today's bottom line again and again, this is a rare opportunity, as long as Cao Bingye moves slightly...... There is no need to make it clear. ”

Fei Le frowned slightly, the cup was tightly squeezed in the palm of his hand, Jiang Banxia's analysis was not wrong, Lord Cao had said the same thing, but was this really an opportunity?

"I'm a gambler." Jiang Banxia drank the tea in the cup in one gulp: "As long as there is an opportunity, I will definitely seize it, even if..."

Fei Le looked at the girl in front of her, her black hair was tightly tied up by the hairnet and revealed a smooth forehead, the girl had a decent smile on her face, Qing Lingling's eyes were full of smiles, but her mouth said chilling words: "If it was a godfather, he would definitely do more than me, maybe he would cut Cao Lang's tongue at that time, so that he could no longer speak, or maybe let him become a waste forever." ”

His gaze swept over Jiang Banxia's slender fingers, and absurd thoughts spread in Fei Le's mind, and he pretended to ask casually, "Are you planning to do the same today?" If Cao Lang said some unfavorable news, he would cut out his tongue? Let him be a waste? ”

"Of course, no." Jiang Banxia's face was full of smiles, and she said word by word: "I will let him die quietly in the prison of the Criminal Department, and he will never be able to open his mouth again." ”

Fei Le was silent, and then he suddenly laughed, Lord Cao's vision was really right, although Jiang Banxia was a woman, she was a person who could achieve great things, and many people had never understood the matter of checks and balances in the court for a lifetime, but she found the key with just a few words.

"Why don't you seize the opportunity?" Jiang Banxia raised the teacup to make a toast: "Take this to soar." ”

He raised the teacup and touched Jiang Banxia slightly: "I want to do what I want." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the meaning was all in plain sight.