"Why did he suffer such a serious injury, it was Luo Yu who beat him?" Mu Liancheng looked at Du Yan and asked knowingly.

Before Du Yan could speak, Jiang Tianba preemptively said: "It was they who tortured me to extract a confession, beat me to death, and beat me like this!" ”

"Shut up!" Mu Liancheng scolded solemnly, "You caused everything, and now you still have the face to shout here, don't you know what's wrong?" ”

Jiang Tianba is a person who eats soft and does not eat hard, even if he was beaten and bruised all over his body, he still refused to be soft at all, he was originally aggrieved, counting on justice in front of Mu Liancheng, but he was scolded by splitting his head and covering his face as soon as he came, and he was even more resentful.

"I didn't kill anyone, what's wrong? These people have wronged me! ”

Mu Liancheng slapped the table with his right hand, and Huo Ran stood up.

"Let's not talk about whether you killed Luo Yu or not, just because you provoked other brothers to make trouble in the army, it was enough to drive you out of the Shangchun camp!"

"Isn't it the fault that hundreds of soldiers were seriously injured in yesterday's riot, and that there are still people hovering on the brink of life and death?"

"I ......" Although Jiang Tianba is irritable and occasionally arrogant, he is not an unreasonable person, and he is also guilty of affecting other people's affairs yesterday, "Although yesterday's incident was not instigated by me, but it was caused by me, I am willing to bear this responsibility, but Luo Yu was not killed by me, even if you kill me, I will not admit it!" ”

"You ......" Du Yan moved, wanting to teach Jiang Tianba a lesson, but because of Mu Liancheng's presence, he sat back again.

Mu Liancheng glanced at him, and then asked Jiang Tianba: "You keep saying that you are wronged, but you have poison hidden under your pillow, how can you explain this?" ”

"The poison is not mine, and I don't understand why it is here with me, His Royal Highness the Prince, I am not lying!" Jiang Tianba explained excitedly.

"I did have a conflict with Luo Yu that day and beat him, but we reconciled that night, and Luo Yu also forgave me, why did I poison him with arsenic-frost again?"

Hearing this, Mu Liancheng raised his eyebrows and asked in a deep voice: "You said that you reconciled with Luo Yu?" That was when you talked to Luo Yu alone that night? ”

"Yes." Jiang Tianba bowed his head, "That day, I beat him to vomit blood, and I felt guilty, so I went to him to apologize, because you can't drink alcohol in the army, so I had to replace wine with water to make amends to him." ”

"Luo Yu is also a cheerful person, he saw that I was sincere, so he shook hands with me and made peace! Now that the contradiction is eliminated, there is no need for me to kill him at all! ”

Du Yan refuted sharply: "That water was drunk before you shook hands with him, or if the poison was in the water, I don't know." ”

Jiang Tianba also immediately retorted: "I also drank the water, and I still used the same kettle, why didn't I get poisoned?" ”

"Who can prove you drank? Who can prove that you are truly reconciled? It's just your words. ”

"Why doesn't anyone prove it? At that time, Luo Mazi and Liu Si were on the side, you will know as soon as you ask them! ”

Du Yan shook his head and said solemnly: "They are close to you, so they will naturally shield you." ”

"You, you're clearly biting me!" Jiang Tian was so angry that he almost jumped up, but he was helplessly pressed by the soldier on the shoulder, unable to move.

Mu Liancheng thought to himself, if Jiang Tianba was telling the truth, then Luo Yu must have met other people after reconciling with him, and it was almost bedtime at that time, and the only people who were most likely to contact him were the soldiers who lived in the same tent as him, and maybe Luo Yu would talk to them about something.

Why don't you find it and ask first?

"Let's take Jiang Tianba down first."

"His Royal Highness the Prince, you must be the master for me!" Jiang Tianba shouted and was forcibly dragged away.

Mu Liancheng immediately asked people to bring the other five people who lived with Luo Yu over.

Under questioning, these people all shook their heads, indicating that they had not heard Luo Yu mention the reconciliation.

"When he went back, wasn't there anything wrong?"

One of them replied: "As usual, I went back to the tent and fell asleep, and I didn't see any difference, Luo Yu has a short temperament, and most people can't get along with him, so Zhu Gan has a better relationship with him, and few of us dare not talk to him." ”

Mu Liancheng glanced around at a few people.

"Who is Zhu Gan?"

Everyone pointed to the little soldier standing at the end of the right-hand side.

The little soldier looked up timidly and said slowly: "Back to Your Highness, Luo Yu talked to me before going to bed that night, and also mentioned the matter of going to see Jiang Tianba before. ”

"I remember that he seemed to be in a good mood at the time, and praised Jiang Tianba for being responsible, saying that he was a person worth befriending, although he didn't say it explicitly, but it seemed that he had turned into a war with him."

With a "bang", Du Yan asked angrily: "If there is such a thing, why didn't you report it to me earlier?" ”

Zhu Gan shrank his neck in fright, and said tremblingly: "I heard that poison was found in Jiang Tianba, and the general locked him up again, thinking that he was undoubtedly a murderer, so I didn't think much about it, so I ......"

Mu Liancheng let out a slight sneer, there is indeed an article here.

Originally, it was just a trivial matter of two people having a quarrel, but someone wanted to take the opportunity to drive Jiang Tianba and others out of the barracks, so they brutally killed Luo Yu and blamed Jiang Tianba for it.

The person who can do this must be one of the people in the barracks.

Judging from the behavior of Fang Cai Du Yan, Mu Liancheng thinks that he is very suspicious.

But what motive? Is it just because they don't want to see these bandit-born people?

This matter has to be investigated from the beginning.

"Alright, you all go down."

The soldiers left with doubts, and Mu Liancheng called Luo Mazi and Liu Si over again to ask them, and the confessions they got were no different from what Jiang Tianba said.

"General, you have also seen that there are still many doubts in this case that have not been solved and need to be further investigated, so this palace proposes to temporarily detain Jiang Tianba in the Shangchun prison camp, and then decide how to deal with it after finding out the truth, what do you think?"

Du Yan, who was full of gloom, lowered his eyes and said: "Since His Royal Highness opened the golden mouth, the minister does not dare to have any objections." ”

It was getting late today, and Mu Liancheng was injured again, and after some inquiry, he was really a little in good spirits, thinking that the case was not urgent, so he went back to the prince's mansion first, and planned to start a detailed investigation tomorrow.

But what I didn't expect was that after only such a night's delay, the situation changed dramatically.

In the early morning of the next day, nearly one-third of the ministers impeached Mu Liancheng and directly accused him of harboring the murderer Jiang Tianba, and the emperor Long Yan was furious.

Mu Liancheng did not go to the court because he was injured, and he didn't know that such a change had happened, and he originally planned to go to the Shangchun camp, but he was summoned into the palace as soon as he arrived at the door.

In the side hall of the imperial study, Zhu Gan, Luo Mazi and Liu Si knelt on the ground, Du Yan stood aside with his head down, and there was another seemingly unrelated person standing beside him-Mu Beituo.

Mu Zun at the top looked angry.

Sure enough, all this is related to Mu Beituo.

Mu Liancheng walked over slowly, bowed down and greeted: "The son of the emperor sees his father!" I don't know why my father urgently summoned his sons? ”

"What's the matter? Look at the good things you've done! Mu Zun didn't say a word, and threw a pile of folds in front of him.

Mu Liancheng leaned over and picked up a few copies and took a cursory look, and said with a change of color: "Father, the son is acting impartially, and he doesn't have the slightest intention of shielding anyone, please ask my father to learn from it." ”

Mu Beituo chuckled and said: "Prince, you really lie and don't blush at all, you use your identity to oppress people, and try your best to hide the truth about Jiang Tianba's murder, and you don't allow the general to report it, which is also called impartiality?" ”

"Last night, if General Du hadn't come to me for help, I would have reported it to my father again, and now everyone is still in the dark by you."

It turned out that Du Yan and Mu Beituo had already colluded!

Mu Liancheng couldn't help but feel annoyed that he hadn't noticed it earlier!

"Could it be that General Du held a grudge against the palace yesterday and blamed you a few words, so he came to slander the palace with empty mouths and white teeth?"

"His Royal Highness is still obsessed when he arrives in front of the emperor?" Du Yan showed a look of regret, "The emperor is wise, how can he only listen to the words of the minister?" There are three more witnesses here who have already come forward to testify against His Highness! ”

These three were all people who provided favorable testimony to Jiang Tianba in the barracks yesterday, but today they have become Mu Beituo's lackeys.

Okay, it's really good, this Mu Beituo really has the means!

"Okay, I'd like to hear it, how did you testify against me?"

"Zhu Gan, you clearly said yesterday that Luo Yu told you before he died that he and Jiang Tianba had turned their rivalry into jade silk, yes or no?"

Zhu Qian shrunk his neck, not daring to raise his head, still looking timid.

"There is no such thing, the night before Luo Yu died, he fell asleep very early, and he never spoke to me, the reason why I said that yesterday was because I was afraid of the majesty of His Highness, and I didn't dare to disobey your wishes, I couldn't help it."

Hearing this, Mu Zun's face was gloomy, and Mu Beituo next to him became more and more proud.

Mu Liancheng looked at Luo Mazi and Liu Si again.

"What about you? And why do you want to slander this palace? ”

Luo Mazi put on a frightened look and hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, Your Highness, we didn't mean to confess to you, it's just that Tianwei is in front, we don't dare to lie." ”

Liu Si nodded and agreed: "Yes, although we want to be generals and live a majestic, glorious and rich life, we also have to have a life." ”

"What general?"

"Your Highness, before you sent us into the barracks, you told Jiang Tianba and the three of us that you want us to lead the original brothers to establish a good relationship in it, control the entire Shangchun camp, and promise to wait for you to succeed as emperor in the future, and make us generals, don't you forget it?"

Luo Mazi and Liu Si's calibers are surprisingly consistent.

"It's nonsense, how could this palace have said something similar to you?"

Although Mu Liancheng immediately denied it, the emperor had already been occupied by suspicion, and he believed that he had bad intentions, and he was resentful for a while.

"I trust you so much that I handed over the hundreds of people from Zhao'an to you for placement, and that's how you settled them? I still think that you are really for the country and the people, but you don't know that you are paving the way for yourself, are you so looking forward to my death? ”