"Get in!"

The jailer pushed the shackled man into the cell. Under the effect of inertia, the man lay on the ground and gnawed on a mouthful of dirt. In the corner of the prison, there were some straws that I didn't know when I had put in, and under the straw, a few rats looked at the newcomer with their small eyes.

"I'm going to change it, there's rats in this cell."

"A different room? You think you're coming to the guest house. The jailer snorted coldly, closed the door of the cell, and locked it with an iron chain: "I warn you, stay for me honestly." If you dare to make trouble, be careful with the whip in your hand. ”

"I said, change it for me!" The man got up from the ground and spat out the dirt from his mouth.

"Change it, change it for you, and I'll change it for you when you die. You, a murderer and a condemned prisoner, are all dying, what are you arrogant about? Do you know words? When I came in, I couldn't read what was written on the door. It's death row, the kind that comes in standing and goes out sideways. ”

"I'm not going to die." The man looked at the jailer: "I tell you, I can't die. ”

"You think you're a god. Bah, nine out of ten of these people are the same as you said, but unfortunately, without one exception, all of them are dead. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about with a dead man, let's go, let's go drinking."

"Drink, let's go drink."

"Stop, you stop me!" The man banged the cell door, but all he could do was the squeak of a mouse. He turned, sat down on the ground, and silently wrapped his hand around his knee.

He had a Han name called Xia Zhongshang, and he also had a Tibetan name called Qiangba.

In the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”

The salt-soaked leather whip struck an old man with white hair, and the clothes on the old man's body had been torn by the whip, and the whip marks were superimposed and staggered, and every place was shocking. The old man's name is Xia Hai, and he is the father of Xia Dongqing, the former waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

Three months ago, when the crown prince passed his birthday, the Tibetans sent envoys to pay tribute to a number of treasures, among which the most precious dzi was missing. Xia Dongqing, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites in charge of receiving the mission, became the top suspect. The officials sent people to Xia Mansion to arrest Xia Dongqing, but the result was that Xia Dongqing had never returned to Xia Mansion since receiving the Tibetan mission.

The Xia Mansion has always thought that Xia Dongqing is busy with the affairs of the court and can't care about going home, while the officials of the Ministry of Officials think that Xia Dongqing is fleeing in fear of crime, and the Xia Mansion is all covering up. Overnight, the Xia Mansion changed from an official mansion to a criminal minister's mansion, and dozens of people from the Xia family were all arrested and imprisoned.

If you can't ask, you will be beaten, and if you don't confess, you will continue to fight.

Xia Dongqing's father, Xia Hai, is also a literati, where can he withstand this kind of beating, he was covered in blood and fainted a long time ago, but he still muttered the word wronged.

"Did he tell Xia Dongqing's whereabouts?"

The official Shangshu entered the dark cell and asked the two jailers in a cold voice.

"Back to the adult's words, this old thing has a very hard mouth, no matter how he beats it, he says that he is wronged, saying that his son Xia Dongqing is not that kind of person, and he insists that his son has not come back since he went out to receive the mission." The two jailers were panting, and it seemed that the execution was also a hard work.

"I don't believe that I can't pry open this old thing's mouth, wake him up, and continue to beat." Shangshu frowned: "The prince has already sent people to ask a few times, if we can't find the whereabouts of Xia Dongqing and can't find the lost dzi, we have to stay in the prison like this Xia Hai." ”

Wow!

A basin of cold water poured on Xia Hai's body, and he slammed his spirit and slowly opened his eyes.

"Cheng Da, Cheng Da is wronged. My son Xia Dongqing really didn't go back to the house. ”

"Did you really not go back to the house, or did you go back, but you covered it up."

"No, it's really not, if he had replied, how could I not say. Cheng, you and my son Xia Dongqing are colleagues, you should know what my son is like. Our Xia family, except for my son Xia Dongqing, is all here, do you think he may ignore the whole family, dozens of people up and down, for the sake of a dzi? ”

"You ask me, I ask who to go." The official Shangshu flicked down his sleeves: "This person knows the face but doesn't know the heart, in the past, I saw that Xia Dongqing was also a person who knew etiquette and rules, who would have thought that he was a greedy person." ”

"My son Xia Dongqing is not that kind of person!" Hearing the words of the official Shangshu, Xia Hai's eyes turned red, and he roared: "My son, not that kind of person!" ”

"Then tell me, where is your son Xia Dongqing now? As long as he shows up, as long as he makes his whereabouts clear, I am willing to protect your Xia family from the prince, to the emperor, and to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. But what about Xia Dongqing, can you find him? ”

"I don't know, I really don't know, everything I say is the truth."

"Xia Hai, it's not that the official doesn't give you a chance, it's that you don't say it yourself. Come on, bring Xia Dongqing's son over. ”

"Chengyun, what exactly do you want to do?" Xia Hai roared, and kept spitting out blood from his mouth: "He's just a child, he's just a child who doesn't understand anything." What are you doing with him? What are you doing with him? ”

"Xia Hai, I'll give you one last chance, if you don't tell us the whereabouts of your son Xia Dongqing, we will beat you to death in front of your grandson Xia Zhongshang. Or, in front of you, beat your grandchildren to death. ”

"Chengyun, you will be retributed, you will definitely be retributed!"

Xia Hai said, his eyes bulged, and he was killed.

At that time, Xia Zhongshang was only four years old, but he always remembered the tragic death of his grandfather.

thought that he would die in the prison like his grandfather, but he didn't expect a dramatic scene to appear. The lost dzi was found, and it turned out that it was taken to play with by a favored side concubine in the prince's mansion, and his father Xia Dongqing was not missing, not escaped, but had been caught by the soldiers of the prince's mansion as early as when the dzi was "lost", and has been imprisoned in the prison of the prince's mansion. When Dzi was found, his grievances were revealed, and his father was released, he was already tortured and dying.

His grandfather died in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. Mother, because she couldn't stand the blow, went crazy. His father, although he was sent home, did not survive a few days. The Xia Mansion, which was originally good, was gone because of a mistake in the Prince's Mansion and a joke by the side concubine in the Prince's Mansion.

After the incident, the crown prince only symbolically apologized, and the court only symbolically reinstated his father Xia Dongqing.

Official reinstatement?

My father is dead, and what is the use of reinstatement of officials, but it is just for outsiders to see.

The Xia family was defeated overnight, and those who were still alive were also dismissed. The young Xia Zhongshang was picked up by his aunt and spent his childhood and youth in a strange place. In his midnight dreams, he could always see his grandfather's bulging, blood-red eyes, his mother's dead eyes, and his father's expression, which was not even resentful.

He wanted revenge, revenge for his grandfather, revenge for his father and mother.

But life is not a story, if there is no one to help, he is just a down-and-out scholar who is struggling to survive among the people. Just when he felt that there was no hope for revenge, a man appeared. That is, from that day on, he took off the clothes of the Tang Dynasty and changed into the clothes of the Tubo people. He changed his name and became the shopkeeper of the Tibetan incense shop in Luoyang City. He took advantage of some of his father's connections before his death, and sent some confidential information he learned to Tibet and to that person's ears in a steady stream.

He was a spy, the nose, eyes and ears that the Tibetans placed in Luoyang.

Of course, he didn't just be a spy in a fool's mind, in the second year when he became the shopkeeper of the Tibetan incense shop, the former prince concubine who killed the whole family of Xia Mansion died and died worse than his grandfather. As for the straw bale prince, of course he didn't plan to let it go, but the time had not yet come, and he hadn't found the right opportunity to kill him.

Those people promised, and the day the promise was fulfilled would be the time for his Xia family to take revenge. He had been waiting, waiting for the day when the Tibetan mission would enter the city.

They planned everything, but they didn't expect that Dorjee to be self-defeating.

According to that person's plan, Dorjee, Zhu'er, and her husband, and now Li Han, a member of the Ministry of Rites, are all people they deliberately put on the bright side. Whether the plan succeeds or not, they will be thrown out to be scapegoated for themselves.

But Dorjee, that stupid man, would think of eloping with Zhu'er. The two of them even had an argument in the inn, and by mistake, Zhu'er mistakenly stabbed the Tibetan knife to herself. Dorjee thought that Zhu'er would die, so he also took poison. The last days are coming, but they are ruined by these two fools. He was angry, rushed directly to the room, threw Dorjee, who had taken poison and was leaning against the window, downstairs, and then covered Zhu'er's mouth and stabbed the Tibetan knife a few inches harder.

As Pearl struggled, she ripped the pearl necklace around her neck. Fearing that he would be discovered, he picked up the pearls, strung them back together, and put them back on the beads.

There was a death in the inn, and someone had to come out to take the blame. When he was leaving, he stepped on a pearl that he hadn't seen before, so he picked it up casually, and when he passed through the courtyard, he put the pearl on Dorjee's body.

When the fisherman stated the case, he said that he was awakened by the sound.

That voice was made by Xia Zhongshang, he went to the backyard to find Lu Shuang, who was still with Ma San at the time, and asked Lu Shuang to guide Ma San to the scene of the crime. After that, some of them were deliberately designed, and some of them were really just coincidences.

No murder weapon was found at the scene of Zhu'er's murder, and after an inquest, it was pointed out that the murder weapon that killed Zhu'er may have been a hidden knife.

The Tibetan knife that killed Zhu'er was the one that was just dropped by Xia Zhongshang in the Tibetan incense shop.

The Tibetan knife was not only stained with Zhu'er's blood, but also with Lu Shuang's blood.

The combination of stolen goods can be regarded as a confirmation of his crime of murder.

This is probably what people often say, Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky.

In the Ruyi rouge shop, Xing Ruyi pinched the two pearls and asked Chang Tai: "Will that Xia Zhongshang be sentenced to death?" ”

Chang Tai looked up at her, but did not answer.