When Xie Zheng turned around and walked out of the court, Xiao Daocheng had no intention of driving back to the palace, and the people of the third division were naturally not allowed to leave, the four of them were still sitting on the seat, discussing Gu Xun's case, and they still waited until Xie Zheng walked out of the court before they opened their mouths.

And Xie Zheng also noticed that he walked out of the court, and on the way to the gate of the Imperial Governor's Office, he also secretly glanced back, only to see that Xiao Daocheng's brows had been twisted into the shape of "Chuan", and he didn't see anything else, and he didn't hear anything.

Xie Zheng walked outside the gate of the mansion and saw that Gu Lushi was still kneeling in front of her, and she was still kowtowing at this time, and a small pool of blood had flowed in front of her knees.

At this time, Gu Lushi saw Xie Zheng come out, so he raised his head and looked at her again, in that look, there was only pleading and praying, Xie Zheng only glanced at her, and walked straight over, and when he walked down the steps, about a zhang away from his shoulder, he suddenly heard Gu Lu's hoarse voice, she choked up and called: "County Lord......"

Xie Zheng stopped when he heard this, turned around to look at Gu Lu's family, but unexpectedly, where did this old woman who was over fifty years old get her strength, and in the blink of an eye, she flew from the steps in front of the mansion and rushed to Xie Zheng, who was about two feet away from her.

She pounced suddenly, and Xie Zheng was also startled, Yuzhi also hurriedly pulled Xie Zheng back a small step, and Gu Lushi was lying at Xie Zheng's feet at this time, crawling and kneeling in pain, holding the sun-scorched slate with both hands, looking up at Xie Zheng, and said: "County Lord, the old body does not ask the county lord to save Zi Geng, but only asks the county lord to intercede for the old body, and allows the old man to go to Tingwei Prison to see him......"

Xie Zheng lowered his eyes and looked at her condescendingly, and only said coldly: "I can't be the master of this matter, but I believe that Mrs. Gu will be able to see him soon." ”

When she said this, it was already an extremely obvious hint to Gu Lu's family, but she never said whether she would say goodbye at home or on the execution ground.

Gu Lushi thought that Xie Zheng would not save Gu Xun, but Xie Zheng was very indifferent in his words, so she misunderstood Xie Zheng's meaning, she thought that Xie Zheng was saying that she could meet Gu Xun for the last time when he went to the execution ground.

"Yuzhi, let's go," Xie Zheng said, and then Yuzhi helped him to sit on his shoulder, and then left.

And Gu Lushi was still kneeling here, watching Xie Zheng sit on his shoulder and walk away slowly, his eyes became more and more blurry, maybe she hadn't eaten for a long time, or maybe she couldn't kneel for a long time, crying bitterly, plus such stimulation, her eyes were dark, and she suddenly fell unconscious.

At this time, Xie Zheng and his party had not gone far, Yuzhi inadvertently glanced back, and saw that Gu Lu's fell to the ground, so he said to Xie Zheng: "Lady, that Mrs. Gu is faint." ”

Xie Zheng said indifferently: "Don't care about her, I think I'm so happy." ”

"Lady, even if Gu Xun is innocent, you want to save him, the slave can be understood, lady, you don't want to kill the innocent by mistake, but Mrs. Gu ...... The slave doesn't understand, why don't you tell the truth to Your Majesty, are you afraid that if Mrs. Gu goes to prison, Gu Xun will be implicated? ”

Xie Zheng took a deep breath and only said, "I don't understand ...... either"

Yes, even she herself doesn't understand, maybe it's really as Yuzhi said, she doesn't want Gu Xun to be implicated by Mrs. Gu, or perhaps, it's because of some things she has experienced that she hates Zhu Lian and hates being beheaded all over the house......

"The sin is not as good as the parents, the disaster is not as good as the wife and children, no one wants to be implicated for no reason, you and I are open-minded, who doesn't know the truth of 'one person does things and one person is responsible'? But this truth, "Qi Law" does not recognize it, the court lieutenant does not recognize it, and the court will not recognize it! As Xie Zheng spoke, he looked sideways at Yuzhi, clearly unsatisfied.

After hearing this, Yuzhi nodded meaningfully and responded, "The slave understands." ”

After she finished speaking, she thought about it for a while, and then asked, "Well...... Lady, what should I do with that lady of the Gu family? Now although His Majesty promised the lady to retry the case, if the lady of the Gu family cannot be traced, the case will become a headless case, and Gu Xun's side may not be able to release it. ”

"So I'll have to trouble you about this matter," Xie Zheng smiled at Yuzhi, and when Yuzhi saw her like this, she immediately understood, so she said, "The lady can tell you." ”

Xie Zheng looked at the trilogy in front of him with his head raised on his shoulders, and thought to himself that since there were outsiders here, his speech would naturally be a little more subtle, so he hinted a little and said: "That Mrs. Gu Shi, if she is still in Jiankang, she will definitely stay in the inn, with her financial resources, you only need to go to the Jinling Inn on Xuanwu and Zhuque Second Street to have a look, or, go to the Fulai Inn on Yujie, these inns are still heroic in Jiankang, you go and investigate." ”

After she said that, she gave Yuzhi another look, and Yuzhi understood, and responded: "The slave understands, the slave will go." ”

After Yuzhi finished speaking, he immediately turned around and turned back to the direction of Xuanwu Street.

Not long after this group left, there was already movement on the side of the Imperial Commander's Office, Xiao Daocheng drove back to the palace, and the third division followed him and walked to the outside of the palace, and the four of them almost saw Gu Lu who fainted on the ground almost at the same time.

Li Rong was worried in his heart, lest Xiao Daocheng open his mouth at this time to mention that Gu Lu's family and him Li Rong were in-laws, and then he would be angry with him.

Xiao Daocheng walked down the steps at the entrance of the mansion, stopped to look at Gu Lu in front of him, and asked, "Who is this?" ”

The official guarding the door approached, walked behind Xiao Daocheng, and said, "Back to Your Majesty, this is the mother of the left servant, Mrs. Gu." ”

"Mrs. Gu?" Xiao Daocheng looked at Gu Lu's family and thought, "Now that the Gu family, isn't it still grounded?" How did she get here? ”

Qu Ping stood on the side behind Xiao Daocheng, and when he saw the situation, he said to the officer: "What are you doing in a daze?" Why don't you hurry up and send someone back home! ”

"Yes, yes," the officials replied again and again, then turned around and waved to the brother who was still guarding the door, and motioned for someone to carry him together, and when the two officials carried Gu Lu's family away, Xiao Daocheng looked at the direction in which the person was going, and suddenly asked: "Li Rong, this Gu family, has you been married to your Li family?" ”

Li Rong stood behind him and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, I have been married." "Naturally, I got married, didn't you give you a marriage?

"Well," Xiao Daocheng actually nodded, this is really unpredictable, Li Rong was afraid of getting into trouble, and hurriedly thought about breaking up the relationship with the Gu family, so he immediately said: "However, the Gu family has demoted the little girl to a concubine, and now, Weichen can no longer climb the Gu family." ”

Xiao Daocheng listened, thought about it for a while, and said to Li Rong as if he had a point: "If this is the case, then this Gu family is also reasonable," Xiao Daocheng knew in his heart that if it wasn't for this incident, how could the Gu family demote the daughter of the Li family to a concubine, and now doing this, obviously not wanting the Li family to be implicated.

Li Rong didn't seem to understand, and responded in a daze: "Yes." ”

"I've returned to the palace, so go back to each of you," Xiao Daocheng said, and then walked quickly to the chariot that stopped at the door of the government office, and returned to the palace.

The three divisions also knelt and kowtowed, and said in unison: "Congratulations to Your Majesty." ”

It wasn't until Xiao Daocheng walked a little farther away that the three of them stood up, and Li Rong and Captain Sili said goodbye to Zheng Hui together, and then went back to their homes.

Huan Ling took the Li family back to the Li family, originally thinking that he would go back to the house as soon as he was done, but he couldn't stand his aunt, who was born in the Langya Yan family, was too hospitable, so he had to leave him in the house to drink tea and talk.

Now that this tea has been drunk almost a pot, Huan Ling has long been unable to sit still, and after drinking it, he got up to say goodbye, and said: "Uncle, there are still some things in Boyu's family, and it is not good to bother you anymore, you see...... It's better for Boyu to say goodbye this time and visit you another day. ”

"Eh, Boyu, don't be in a hurry to leave, my aunt still has something to tell you here," Yan said, pulling Huan Ling to sit down, she said: "Boyu, look, your cousin Yuanniang, was bullied in the Gu family, and now she has been torn off from their family, now that she is back, the family will have to kiss her again, you are his cousin, and you have a good relationship with her, so ah, my aunt thought, instead of going out to find someone to talk to the matchmaker, it is better to entrust her directly to you, you are a cousin, I won't treat her badly anyway, you see? ”

Huan Ling was stunned before she finished listening, but she waited for her to finish before she replied with a smile: "Uncle, are you joking?" ”

"What are you talking about......" Yan glanced at Huan Ling with a sneer, and said: "Although Yuan Niang is not my biological child, she has been raised by my side since she was a child, and I treat her as my own, can I not worry about her marriage?" ”

Li is the eldest daughter of the Li family, but she lost her mother at a young age, and now the Yan family, which was originally a side room, was helped by Li Rong as a stepwife.

Huan Ling smiled and said, "Uncle, Yuan Niang is my cousin, I am her cousin, how can the two of us be together." ”

"What's wrong with my cousin? Wouldn't it be better to kiss and kiss? Yan said, poured another cup of tea for Huan Ling, and then said with a smile: "I, I still like you child, so I want you to be my son-in-law." ”

"Uncle, this is not appropriate," Huan Ling said, a little anxious, at this time Li Rong came back from outside, Yan saw it, so he greeted him with a smile, and did not forget to say to Huan Ling: "Your uncle is back, I asked him to talk to you." ”

Yan walked up to Li Rong and asked, "Lord Lang, you came back just in time, I just happened to have something to tell you." ”

"Let's go back, I have something to ask Boyu," Li Rong crossed the Yan family and walked straight towards the living room, and at that time, Huan Ling had also gotten up to greet him, saluted Li Rong, and called: "Uncle is back, what is the result of the triage of the three divisions?" ”

"Speaking of the triage of the three divisions, I was about to ask you," Li Rong pulled Huan Ling to sit down in front of the guest seat, and then asked: "Did you ask the county lord of Hengyang to intercede for Gu Xun?" ”

Huan Ling was stunned, and asked with a surprised face: "What?" ”

Li Rong was also suspicious, and asked: "Didn't you ask the county lord of Hengyang to intercede for Gu Xun?" ”

Huan Ling avoided answering, but also asked: "Uncle did you say that Deyin went to the Imperial Lieutenant Office to intercede for Gu Xun?" ”

Li Rong didn't answer, but asked, "Don't you know about this?" ”

"I don't know......" Huan Ling spread his hands with a puzzled expression, and Li Rong immediately said: "I thought you invited the county lord of Hengyang to go." ”

She ...... What did you say when you went to the Imperial Authority? But Mrs. Gu? Huan Ling's words were slightly tentative, and Li Rong replied: "It's Mrs. Gu, the county lord said that it was actually Mrs. Gu who sent someone to assassinate her, and she came to Jiankang to seek revenge for her old grudge in Huiji four years ago." ”

"Mrs. Gu?" Huan Ling was a little confused at first, but then after thinking about it, he also knew that Xie Zheng had compiled it to exonerate Gu Xun, and he immediately asked, "Then Your Majesty believes it?" ”

Li Rong smiled: "What the county lord of Hengyang said, Your Majesty naturally believed it, but it was just a process, saying that this matter needs to be verified, so Gu Xun will be temporarily detained and allowed to be retried later." ”

When Huan Ling heard this, he took a deep breath and hurriedly said, "Uncle and aunt, I have to go back in advance, and I will come back to visit your second elder again." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, without waiting for Li Rong and Yan to agree, he turned his head and left, Yan stood beside Li Rong, and when he heard this, he pulled his sleeve and asked, "Eh, does this mean that Gu Xun is fine?" ”

Li Rong pondered: "It should be nothing." ”

Yan asked again: "Then what should we do with Yuan Niang?" Do you still want her to go back home? ”

"Let's let her go back," Li Rong said after some careful consideration, and then instructed Yan: "You go and talk to her and tell her to go back." ”

Yan didn't go out, but said: "But our Yuan Niang is now a concubine in his family, you can't let her go to the Gu family to be wronged!" ”

"Today, Your Majesty also said that the Gu family is reasonable, and if their family is really reasonable, they will naturally straighten out Yuan Niang," Li Rong said so, but he had no confidence in his heart.

Yan lowered his head and said with embarrassment: "But my eyelids are always jumping, and I always feel that something is going to happen to the Gu family...... For this, I just said goodbye to Boyu, I think about it, instead of letting Yuan Niang go back home, it is better to give her to Boyu, Boyu, this child, I am relieved, Yuan Niang married him, I am more down-to-earth. ”

"Are you fooling around, ...... are you" Li Rong glanced at her and said bluntly: "The two of them are cousins, what are they like together?" What's more, Bo Yu still has people hidden in his heart. ”

Li Ei said and laughed, and when Yan heard this, he started talking again, and pulled Li Ei and asked, "Who?" ”

"I won't tell you," Li Rong smiled, Yan glanced at him, immediately let go of his hand, and said, "If you don't say it, don't sleep in my room that night." ”

Li Rong didn't eat her set, but smiled: "It's good to sleep in the study, it's cool." ”

When Yan heard this, he turned around and patted him on the shoulder angrily, Li Rong took advantage of the situation to hug her, and then said with a smile: "I told you, it is the county lord of Hengyang." ”

"Lord Hengyang? That's amazing, eh, does my eldest sister know? ”

"I must know, otherwise she won't force me to kiss Boyu?"

"So how did I hear that...... The eldest sister set a door for Boyu, and the other party is a girl from the Xue family in Hedong, and it seems that she is still the cousin of Princess Linchuan......"

"Why haven't I heard of it, besides, what kind of Hedong Xue girl, how can she compare to the lord of Hengyang?"

"Well, that's right."

Huan Ling returned to the Hou Mansion in a huff, ran to Yazhuyuan, and when he walked into Xie Zheng's house, he still had a straight face.

And Xie Zheng was sitting on the bed drinking tea leisurely, looking at his posture, he also guessed why, but he pretended not to know, "What's wrong with the county marquis?" ”

Huan Ling held back his anger and wanted to have a seizure, but when he saw Xie Zheng, he didn't dare to lose his temper with her, first, he was afraid that she would be angry and hurt herself, and second, he ...... He really didn't dare, he was only most afraid that Xie Zheng would throw his face with him.

"I heard that you went to the Imperial Lieutenant Office to intercede for Gu Xun?" Huan Ling walked to the side of the bed and sat down on the stool, and then only listened to Xie Zheng's reply: "That's not a plea, it's a confession, Gu Xun is innocent, and he doesn't need me to intercede." ”

"Yes, Gu Xun is not guilty, what about Mrs. Gu?" The more Huan Ling spoke, the more annoyed he became, and then said, "Mrs. Gu has harmed you like this, and she is not guilty?" ”

"I exonerated the Gu family, because I don't want to be implicated in this matter, if Mrs. Gu is convicted in this case, the Gu family will definitely be beheaded, the county marquis, you also know the unjust case four years ago, Shen Yuzhi led people to wash the Great Sima Mansion in blood, in addition to me, how many innocents did they kill in vain? No one wants to see a river of blood......"

Xie Zhengxiao is affectionate and reasonable, Huan Ling is really convinced, but some people are innocent, and some people are extremely evil, Huan Ling asked: "Do you just let Mrs. Gu go?" ”

"I have my own plans."

Xie Zheng looked at Huan Ling sideways, and saw that he was still worried, so he asked with a smile: "Do you still have something to ask me?" ”

Huan Ling took her hand, rubbed it on his cheek, and said coquettishly: "I want to ask, but I don't dare to ask, for fear of annoying others, and then I will lose my face." ”

Xie Zheng glanced at him, and immediately withdrew his hand when he heard the words, and said, "If you don't dare to ask, then you don't need to ask." ”

The hand she just pulled out was grabbed by Huan Ling and held it in her hand, the two looked at each other, Huan Ling finally opened her mouth and asked, "Do you still have a lingering affection for Gu Xun?" ”

Xie Zheng was silent for a while, and said frankly: "I have never been merciless to him, but I am just a little grateful because he often goes to my grave." ”

"Really?" Huan Ling's eyes lit up, but he was also suspicious.

Xie Zheng withdrew his hand again, and only said, "Don't believe it." ”

Huan Ling grabbed her hand back again, rubbed her cheek, and said affectionately, "I believe it." ”