"Lian, you can't help but look down on this king too much." The palace curtain sneered, "The palace guards are all martyrs of my Zhuchun clan since their ancestors, and they are only afraid that they are more noble than you, how can they be easily bought by this king!" ”

"You are so brazen in front of the Son of Heaven for such a quibble!" I took a sip at the palace curtain, turned my head and said sincerely to the emperor, "Father, if the son and son have half a lie tonight, they are willing to accept the punishment of Ling Chi, and after death, they will fall into hell and never be reborn!" If you don't believe it, you can summon all the guards of the Yuanwu Hall and the Yuanwu Hall to come over and confront each other along the road in turn, and the son doesn't believe that Prince Huan can really buy all these people! It is his hands and eyes that reach the sky, and the sons also ask His Majesty to issue an order to ask all the palace maids and eunuchs who passed through the Yuanwu Hall to this place before a stick of incense, if one of them says that he has seen half of the guards, the sons are willing to ambush them! ”

Seeing that I was sincere, the palace curtain couldn't help but walk to the emperor's side and hurriedly said: "Father, don't listen to this demon girl's nonsense!" If we really want to ask people so aggressively, wouldn't it alarm half of the people in the palace, and then how will the face of our royal family remain! ”

"Erchen will also marry His Royal Highness the Prince, and he will also take care of the royal family's face! But father, where is face more important than the truth, and where is it more important than the innocence of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his sons! Prince Huan is camping step by step tonight, and what he seeks can be imagined, and he also asks his father to see it! ”

"-Father, do you still want to listen to this demon girl to confuse the crowd here? The murder weapons she used to kill her mouth were all found by her sons! The palace curtain pointed abruptly to a bloodstained steel whip on the ground at some point, "It's Erchen who called you tonight, if Erchen is the one with bad intentions, wouldn't he dig his own grave!" ”

Yu Yue suddenly got up and picked up the steel whip and presented it. Reflecting the firelight, I saw the blood stains on the whip that had dried up into black and red, and I immediately understood the meaning of the sword, and I couldn't help but feel a little more confident in my heart.

"Why did you call me here?"

The emperor suddenly spoke, and the palace curtain was stunned for a moment: "... Father? ”

"In the middle of the night, if there is no palace to tell you that someone will come, how dare you call me to come?"

"Father, father, you have misunderstood your son-in-law, your son-rein-"

"Even if you were like a god, you expected Lian to come tonight. Wei'er, you don't have the ability to let this murderer tell the truth, but why did you ask me to come here? ”

"Father's forgiveness! It was the reckless behavior of the sons and daughters who disturbed the rest of their fathers. Gong Wei said in a panic, "It's really that the guards guarding the room saw Lian's coming, and they were afraid of being killed, so they rushed to the nearest Erchen Palace from here." Erchen was afraid that the Lian clan would kill this murderer, and he couldn't make up his mind, so he bothered you! ”

"The guards were afraid that they would be killed by me, so they ran to your palace to ask for help?" I sneered, "And this steel whip, it's clear that you put it here early in the morning to frame me, Father, you just look at the whip—"

"Enough!"

The emperor snorted, I don't know why, but I don't dare to say it again. The palace curtain was so anxious that his face turned red in front of the emperor, but he didn't know what to say for a while. The emperor ignored us and slowly moved in front of the pyrotechnic master.

"West Market Lane 6th Road, Huaihua Street, No. 36."

When the pyrotechnic master heard the emperor's words, his body suddenly began to twitch violently. He wanted to get up, but he really lost too much blood, so he could only lie on the ground in pain, looking at the condescending emperor with fearful eyes.

"I know that my son hasn't found a way to get you to speak, because I have already found this way." The emperor's voice was not sharp, but it was chilling. It seems that the white marble carved with dragon patterns is covered with a thick layer of ice. "That's your home, right?"

"Father... You? ”

"In order to avoid many long nights, when each of you returns to the palace tonight, I will ask someone to go out and find out the address of his house." The emperor lowered his head again and said ruthlessly to the craftsman, "This is your last chance, if you don't tell the mastermind behind the scenes, I will bring your family into the palace and skin and cramp in front of you one by one!" ”

The pyrotechnic master's breathing became extremely violent, and he looked at the emperor with his pus and blood eyes, as if he wanted to cry, but only let out a strange and miserable cry from his throat. After a long time, he suddenly shouted: "Five princes! The grass people can't get rid of the thief father and brother for you, and the grass people can't stand you! This is death as an atonement! ”

As he spoke, he slammed his head against the wall. Everyone was already stunned by his words, and when they came back to their senses, they were already dripping with blood all over the ground.

I trembled and couldn't say a word. Slowly turning my head to look at the palace curtain, I was surprised to find that his expression was the same as mine. But I saw the dying craftsman lying on the ground, already breathing less and exhaling, and his terrible red eyes slowly scanned everyone in the room, and finally settled on me.

With the last strength of his life, he raised his finger to my face and said in a trembling voice, "Labor... For me, tell her to put the house... The house was redeemed, and some silver money was exchanged......... While you're young, find another good family with innocence. In this life... I can't live with her in this life, but don't... Don't wait for me to come home any longer......"

Before he could finish his sentence, his eyes rolled up, and he died of exhaustion.

"Father!"

I had never seen such an excited look from the palace curtain, but the emperor did not pay attention to him, and only stared at me who was standing there completely helpless. After a long time, Fang said in a trembling voice: "Take her down for me and put her in prison!" ”

After that, no matter how I tried to defend myself, the emperor didn't say a word. Two guards grabbed my arms on the left and the right, and without saying a word, they led me to the palace prison not far from the palace gate. This inner prison is not like the pyrotechnic master, not only is it heavily guarded, but even the partitions between the cells are made of raw steel, and at first glance it is known that it is used to imprison heavy prisoners.

Miyahata, on the other hand, was shoved into the cell next to me an hour after I came in.

It was late at night, and my mind had gradually calmed away from the shock of the pyrotechnic master's accusation against Miyahata and the inexplicable instructions given to me before he died. But the moment I saw his face, I was sleepy again, and I stood up from the dry and cold straw.

"Is it true?" I waited for the guards who were holding him to leave before I spoke, "Is it really you from that pyrotechnic master?" ”

He was silent for a long time before turning his head to look at my face.

"What do you say? What do you think—"

"—not." Without thinking about it, I blurted out, "Then why?" ”

"What, why?"

"Why are you locked up here by the emperor and don't know how to defend yourself? Why did that master suck you up? ”

"How do you know I'm not defending myself?"

He looked at me fixedly, and there seemed to be a little spark in his eyes. After a long time, the spark seemed to be extinguished, and he turned back with some chagrin and sat down on the ground covered with fine straw. "I really didn't say anything. That man poured dirty water on me with his own life, and my father was already convinced that he would not listen to anything I said. As for why he bit me...... I don't understand it either. ”

"The emperor has already taken his family, so if he dares to bite you, he must have the certainty that he will not be easily overturned by you." The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became, "Now that even I'm in, who can expect it?" ”

I was so anxious that I swirled around in the small space of the prison like an ant on a hot pot, but Miyahata only grabbed three or two of the longest straws on the ground and played with them, and it was not until I said the last sentence that he looked up at me, and there was a look of anticipation on his face.

"If you hadn't been implicated, would you have found a way to save me?"

"You... When is it? I gave him a glaring glance and continued to circle in vain, "It's strange to say, if the craftsman is bent on harming you, he should also point to you, why did he drag me into the water?" ”

"Will you?" He didn't care about my anxiety at all, and still didn't hesitate to ask, "If you were out tonight, would you find a way to help me get out of trouble?" ”

A fire sparked in my heart, and I glared at him angrily, but I bumped into him head-on, as if he was overflowing with the bright eyes of the galaxy. I was a little stunned—I hadn't seen that starlight in his eyes for a long time.

"Yes!" I shouted angrily, "If you are innocent, I will not sit idly by." But now that you and I are both locked up here by the emperor, what's the use of talking all this nonsense! ”

Looking at my swollen face, Miyahata laughed out loud for some reason. He smiled so heartily that he seemed to forget that he was in prison at the moment.

After a long time, seeing the strange and resentful gaze I stared at his face, he barely managed to suppress his smile: "Oops... Ok ok. I'm just thinking, maybe this time, someone else's goal isn't me. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Do you want to..."Miyahata stood up and pressed his face against the steel pillar separating me from his cell, "This pyrotechnic master was originally invited by the eldest brother to surprise his father's birthday. If something happens, everyone is naturally the most suspicious of the big brother. ”

"Aren't you talking nonsense!"

"So in front of the Qing Palace, he was still according to the plan, and he kept asking the eldest brother for help." Miyahata was still idly fiddling with the few haysticks in his hand, and he was a little cuter than a big boy. "But you broke into the palace late at night, this was something he didn't plan. And he also realized at that time that maybe the eldest brother would not be difficult to deal with, if he could cut off your arm first, Donggong would be equivalent to losing both a smart and intelligent military advisor and a brave and resourceful striker. ”

"You mean, his target tonight was me—" I said slowly, "and what is the reason for him to frame you?" ”

Even if he denounced with his life, a mere civilian, and only a confession, he knew that all this could not shake his father's trust in the East Palace. And in the opposite way, in order to make his words more credible, he picked a prince whose father was the most alienated and distrusted. ”

Miyahata's tone was relaxed, as if he was discussing with me what to eat tomorrow morning: "After all, at the time of the incident, I was the only one who was not in the Keiji Palace." ”