Chapter 90: Imprisonment
In the wee hours of the morning, the sky was overcast and the land was soaked by the spring rain.
Lou Zhan waited outside the palace gate early, looking sluggish.
The canopy was separated by a white mist, and the obscured light could not be seen clearly.
Until the palace gate opened, Lou Zhan stepped forward.
"Your Majesty, General Lou Zhan asks to see you." The little eunuch knelt outside the temple gate and said loudly.
The old emperor had just woken up, and when he heard this, he paused and said casually: "Let him wait." ”
The little eunuch led Lou Zhan to the side hall.
After waiting for a long time, the little eunuch got the news and led him to the imperial study.
The emperor was already waiting there.
Lou Zhan knelt on the ground, holding something in both hands, without saying a word, and even looked sluggish, like a marionette.
When the emperor saw that he had taken out something, he asked the little eunuch to hand it over, took it in his hand, and asked, "What is this?" ”
Lou Zhan just hung his head and didn't answer.
The emperor opened it casually and looked at it, and it turned out to be an account book, but there was no word on it. At the end, he was stunned by a line of words. The Emperor stood up abruptly and slapped the account book on the table with a gloomy expression, obviously a precursor to anger. Yet he didn't say anything.
Finally, sit in a chair and quickly draft a message.
When Lou Zhan and Wang Gonggong went to the Taishi Mansion with the holy decree and dozens of soldiers, the people in the Taishi Mansion panicked.
The porter went in to report, and the Taishi hurried to the door, followed by Bai Wenyun. When the father and son saw the man on the horse, they were stunned.
At this time, the prince looked at the Taishi like a death row prisoner, and then waved his hand to let the officers and soldiers go in to search despite Lou Zhan being here.
Lou Zhan was silent.
Bai Wenyun wanted to go to the backyard to tell her little sister, but she was caught, pressed her shoulder, and turned her head to see that her father was also restrained by two soldiers, and she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart.
Bai Fengyi's face was very calm, he was still coming, one wrong step, one wrong step! He closed his eyes and looked away, not wanting to see the face of the man on the horse.
Lou Zhan was silent and didn't say a word, his expression was slightly distorted, but no one noticed that something was wrong with him, and even the prince next to him only thought that Lou Zhan couldn't bear it.
Wang Gonggong smiled and said, "General, I heard that you and your wife have a deep relationship?" ”
He seemed to be tempting in saying this.
Lou Zhan raised his eyelids, and his distorted eyes were exposed to the eyes of the prince, a little frightened.
With just one glance, the prince shivered down his spine, shivered, and closed his mouth.
The people who went in to search quickly brought out all the people in the house, and Bai Yirong was also brought out, but there were Ying'er and Yan'er beside her to protect her, and those soldiers could only follow her.
Bai Yirong saw the person sitting on the horse at a glance, as well as her father and brother.
"Father! Elder brother! ”
At first glance, seeing the two of them forced to kneel on the ground, Bai Yirong's heart seemed to have been slapped hard.
The two turned around and saw the panicked Bai Yirong.
"Yirong ......"
"Little sister!" Bai Wenyun wanted to get up, but he was controlled, the struggle was useless, and he was so angry that the blue tendons on his forehead jumped.
Bai Yirong was forced to kneel to the side, and Ying'er and Yan'er beside her looked flustered, hoping that their former uncle would take pity on their young lady, but Lou Zhan didn't even give a look.
"Miss, what should I do......" Ying'er gently pulled Bai Yirong.
Bai Yirong shook her head, gritting her teeth to prevent herself from crying.
The people in the house were all arrested, and none of them escaped.
Until everyone was gathered, the prince took out the holy decree and read it out.
The crime is - collusion with traitors and intent to rebel!
Bai Fengyi fell to the ground, hiding all the expressions on his face.
The prince waved his hand: "Take it away!" ”
The people of the Taishi Mansion were escorted and walked up to the Imperial City Street. The people watched curiously, pointing and pointing.
Ying'er and Yan'er desperately protected Bai Yirong and didn't let others see her appearance.
It was a terrible gloom, and after a while, it rained.
Bai Yirong only felt that she had lost her strength, just like the gray sky above her head, pale and cold.
More than 100 people from the Taishi Mansion were escorted to Dali Temple. Taishi Bai Fengyi was held in solitary confinement.
Bai Yirong was locked up with Ying'er and Yan'er.
The dungeon was dark and damp, and there was only hay on the ground.
Bai Yirong sat on the hay in a daze, her mood was very complicated.
Things changed so quickly that she didn't have time to face it, and she didn't know how to face it. What is she going to do?
On the other side, Bai Wenyun also sat there in a daze, and Wuyu followed beside him.
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The Taishi's Mansion was confiscated, and everything was moved out, packed in wooden boxes, and sealed. The vermilion gate was also locked, sealed, and noticed.
When the officers and soldiers carried all the things away, the onlookers couldn't hold back their curiosity and came to see the words and notices on the seal.
Everyone quickly understood and shook their heads.
The light rain continued, and the extremely gloomy sky made people panic.
A group of people came to the gate of the Taishi's Mansion, and a group of people left, and all kinds of umbrellas gathered in one place, and then spread out one after another, like plum blossoms in full bloom and withering.
However, a layer of gloom over the imperial city quickly dissipated.
In the prison, Bai Yirong was in a daze, and her pale little face was a little thinner. Seven days have passed since I was imprisoned.
In the past seven days, whether it was day or night, she was in fear, for fear that the emperor would behead everyone in the Taishi Mansion.
What the Taishi committed was a great crime of rebellion.
Since ancient times, rebellion has been a taboo for the emperors of all dynasties, no matter what, as long as they are implicated, they cannot escape the danger of being exterminated.
Decapitation, it is a matter of time.
She wondered if her father had rebelled. If it is true, then she admits it, and if not, then she hopes to fight for the opportunity to clear her name.
However, Bai Fengyi was held in solitary confinement. She had no way of knowing about it.
At some point, the door of the cell opened. Bai Yirong looked at the skylight and found that it was almost noon, and it was time for the person who delivered the meal.
The night she entered the cell, the prison guard brought food, but she did not move, and the next day, she endured it, until the third day, when she was weak, and under the persuasion of Ying'er and Yan'er, she barely ate.
And now, she doesn't dislike the food here anymore. It's a day to live, she thought.
However, it was not a prison guard who came in, but Lou Zhan.
When he walked in front of Bai Yirong, he saw the light of the sky shining on her pure little face, which was extremely pale.
His heart trembled instantly.
"Rong'er." He spoke.
Hearing the familiar call, Bai Yirong almost immediately, got up and ran to the iron railing, looking at him through the gap in the iron railing.
"Is that you?" She asked.
"It's me." He replied.
"Why?"
"I'm sorry." Lou Zhan put this sentence very lightly, as if he was afraid of scaring her. Ever since he took the medicine, he felt very confused, as if some memories had been lost by him, and he couldn't remember it no matter how much he thought about it.
When he got up this morning, it was the housekeeper who told him all this, and he rushed here and actually saw her.
He couldn't remember when he had done it, but everyone had told him that he had done it. It was he who exposed the evidence of the Taishi's rebellion, and it was he who raided the Taishi's house and sent him to prison.
He was even a little dazed, but Bai Yirong was really locked up here!
"What are you sorry for? I'm so satisfied that you can come and see me. Bai Yirong lowered her eyes and hid the despair in her eyes.
Lou Zhan trembled, things had come to this point, she actually ...... Didn't suspect him?