When Sejong was walking on the way to the cell in the east of Dali Temple, Ji Li whispered to Sejong, "Holy Lord, why did the An woman choose to go at night to buy a slave?" ”

"One of her princesses' daughters wants to save a few dollars to buy a sin slave," Sejong said, "Put it on you, are you embarrassed to go in broad daylight?" ”

Ji Li hurriedly said, "It's still the saint who is wise." ”

"Do you have an opinion about Ann's girl?" Sejong suddenly asked Jili.

A question scared Geely into a tremble, did he dislike An Jinxiu, a woman who was already married, or a concubine, why did the emperor worry about him? As the most loyal servant by Sejong's side, Geely will not think that Sejong has used the wrong mind, but will only think that Ahn Jinxiu has done something wrong. When Geely thinks of An Jinxiu now, he will wonder if there is any way to make Sejong forget about An Jinxiu, a woman.

Fang Cai Jili really thought, if only the two fugitives could be found in An Jinxiu's carriage, so that Sejong would definitely kill An Jinxiu, and once An Jinxiu died, wouldn't everyone be alive and well? Ji Li peeked at Sejong and said with a smile, "How dare the slave be disrespectful to Miss An Er?" Minions don't dare. ”

"For the last time," Sejong said coldly.

If it weren't for walking on the road, Geely would kneel down and apologize. Sejong told him one last time, and Ji Li understood that what Sejong meant was that if he dared to plot against An Jinxiu again, his life would be gone.

Soon after, the cell in the east city of Dali Temple appeared in front of Sejong and his party, and Wei Xisheng, the secretary of Dali Temple, greeted Sejong's horse.

At this time, the open fire in the cell had been extinguished, but black smoke was still billowing everywhere, and a choking smell of burnt flesh filled the air, making it impossible to breathe smoothly.

Sejong dismounted and walked through the gate, turning a blind eye to the tragic situation that followed the fire in his cell. "What about Wang Yuan's second son?" Sejong walked briskly as he asked the Dali Temple Qing who was following behind him.

"It's a dereliction of duty," Dali Siqing said with a bitter face, "Wang Yuan's second son committed suicide in the cell." ”

Sejong stopped suddenly, "Dead? ”

Dali Siqing knelt on the ground, he didn't know what Shizong wanted to know from Wang's body today, after Wang Yuan's second son was imprisoned, it was the guards of Da Nei who came to interrogate Wang's second son, and they were not able to interfere at all. Today's prison was burned, the two sons of the Wang family committed suicide, and two of the nine Wang dead escaped from the prison, Wei Xisheng felt that his life could not be saved.

Sejong kicked his important minister to the ground and asked, "Where is the corpse?" ”

Immediately, a servant stepped forward, trembling with his legs trembling, and led Shizong and his party to look at the corpses that had been collected by them.

In a small courtyard of the prison, 36 corpses were lined up on the ground.

The official led Sejong to the two corpses side by side, and stammered, "Holy Lord, this, this is, this is the corpse of the second son of the Wang family, the corpse." ”

The corpse in front of him had not been burned by the fire, the scars on his body looked like he had been tortured before his death, his tongue sticked out of his lips, his eyes were wide open, and the two corpses looked like they were dead.

"Holy Lord," a large internal guard said to Sejong after seeing these two corpses, "This is the corpse of Wang Yuan's second son." ”

Sejong looked at the two corpses in front of him and didn't speak, his face was cold, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Ji Li led a few Ouchi guards to look at all the corpses in the courtyard, and came back and said to Sejong, "Holy Lord, the servants have counted them, and there are only seven corpses of the dead soldiers of the Wang Family's Branded Tiger Seal. ”

"Wei Xisheng," Sejong called out to Dali Siqing.

"Your Minister," Wei Xisheng stood behind Sejong.

"You take someone to arrest," Shizong said, "At this time, they can't escape from the city, I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death, and if you can't catch these two prisoners, just go to the fold of resignation." ”

Wei Xisheng hurriedly left with a team of officials from Dali Temple.

As soon as Wei Xisheng walked with the front foot, a little eunuch ran in from outside the courtyard and whispered a few words to Jili.

Ji Li hurriedly walked behind Sejong and said, "Holy Lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highnesses the Princes have arrived, just outside the gate of the cell. ”

Sejong said coldly, "Let them in." ”

Ji Li turned around and said loudly to the little eunuch: "Holy Lord, Your Highness, come in." ”

After a while, led by the crown prince, except for the six princes who had always been in poor health, the five princes, who had already reached adulthood and led errands in the court, walked into this cross-courtyard with corpses together.

Sejong looked back at his sons and said, "You also came to see the corpses?" ”

As soon as the princes heard that Sejong's tone was not good, they all immediately knelt down.

Geely hurriedly gestured and beckoned everyone else in the courtyard to go out.

In the blink of an eye, there were only six royal fathers and sons left, as well as thirty-six corpses on the ground.

"Prince," Sejong did not let his sons get up, and asked the prince, "why do you say Wang Yuan deserves to die?" ”

The prince's forehead touched the ground and he didn't dare to speak, Wang Yuan's third daughter was his side concubine, if he was not the prince, then he would also be counted among the nine clans that Wang Yuan wanted to kill.

Bai Chengze opened his mouth at this time and said, "Father, I heard that Wang Yuan has been privately organizing an army in the past few years, and now my father has convicted Wang Yuan of copying and beheading the nine clans, and my son thinks that Wang Yuan's private formation of an army must be true." ”

The crown prince hurriedly kowtowed to Shizong and said, "Father Emperor Mingjian, the sons don't know Wang Yuan's crimes, if the sons know that this person is so bold, the sons will definitely kill him!" ”

Sejong ignored the crown prince, looked at Bai Chengze and said, "Where did you hear about it?" ”

Bai Chengze said very frankly, "Erchen listened to the officials of the Criminal Department say that Wang Yuan's family has hundreds of dead soldiers, and Erchen thinks that even if the Wang family is a big family and needs to raise dead soldiers to guard, but raising hundreds of dead soldiers is not to protect the homeland, but his heart can be punished!" ”

Bai Chengzhou, the eldest prince behind the crown prince, answered: "Hundreds of dead soldiers, this is still a number on the bright side that can be found by the Criminal Department, and I don't know how many martial artists Wang Yuan, a sinner, has raised." ”

Sejong looked at the prince again and said, "Prince, what do you say?" ”

"Wang Yuan should be killed!" The crown prince looked up at Sejong, his forehead was already black, "Father, the son is willing to behead the entire family of Wang Yuan." ”

"I thought you liked Wang Yuan's daughter very much."

The prince was busy and kowtowed, "That's just a woman, there is no shortage of women around Erchen, not to mention how a woman is as important as my Bai family's country?" Father, the son really doesn't know Wang Yuan's crime, and the son asks the father to know the emperor! ”

Bai Chenglu, the second prince who was a fellow of Bai Chengze's mother, said at this time, "Father, this prison fire and Wang Yuan's second son committed suicide, and the sons think that it must be thoroughly investigated. The prison of Dali Temple is the most tightly guarded cell of my prayer shun, and the dead soldiers of the Wang family really have such a great ability to cause chaos in the prison of Dali Temple? ”

No one spoke in the courtyard for a long time, Bai Chenglu's words were actually saying that the dead soldiers of the Wang family were answered in prison, although they did not say it explicitly, but the spearhead of the second prince was directed at the prince.

After a long silence, Sejong asked the prince, "Do you want to take over this matter?" ”

The prince's voice was already choked, and he said, "Father, the matter of Wang Yuan should be avoided by the ministers. ”

The eldest prince immediately said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has just asked for an order to oversee Wang Yuan's entire family." ”

Bai Chengze was a good person again at this time, and said, "Big brother, I think His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked for a decree to behead him, also because he hated Wang Yuan, a sinner. ”

"Fifth brother," the eldest prince glanced back at Bai Chengze, who was kneeling behind him, "You really think about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." ”

Bai Chengze lowered his head and avoided the disdainful eyes of the eldest prince.

Sejong looked at his five sons, and suddenly laughed, although he was laughing, his voice was cold, "You are all my good sons, I will tell you again, this country is mine, I am not dead, what are you making trouble?!" ”

The five princes saw that Sejong was angry, and they all touched the ground with their foreheads, and said to Sejong, "Erchen doesn't dare." ”

"I'll definitely look into tonight's affairs! Fourth, you go and do it," Sejong called the name of Bai Chengyun, the only fourth prince who had not spoken until now, "Let Wei Xisheng help you check, Wang Yuan's matter, even if he dies, it will not be over!" After saying this, Sejong hurriedly flicked the sleeves of his robe and walked out of the courtyard.

The five princes waited until Sejong was gone, and then they got up from the ground and knelt in front of the corpses in the courtyard until now, and the princes' hearts were not very comfortable.

The eldest prince snorted coldly at the crown prince, "I really don't know if Wang Yuan is worth losing the lives of the whole clan." ”

The crown prince didn't have the strength to quarrel with his eldest brother at this time, but just glanced at the eldest prince.

The fourth prince, Bai Chengyun, glanced at Bai Chengze, saluted the prince, and then left first.

Bai Chengze asked the prince softly, "His Royal Highness the prince, do you want to go with your courtiers?" ”

The prince shook his head.

"Hmph," the eldest prince snorted coldly and turned to leave.

Bai Chenglu and Bai Chengze, two siblings, also left side by side after saluting the prince.

The prince stood alone in the courtyard full of corpses, as if he had lost his soul. The weather in May was not cold, and there had just been a fire in the cell, and the air seemed to be scorching, but the prince felt cold, cold to the bone.

Sejong hurried back to the palace in a rage, and saw Empress Xiang waiting there at the door of the imperial study.

"Holy Lord," the queen saw Sejong coming, and saluted when she was busy.

"Interceded for your son?" Sejong asked coldly.

The queen smiled and said, "The prince didn't make a mistake, what does the concubine want to say for him?" ”

Seeing his queen's calm face, Sejong's anger in his heart was even stronger, "It's not early, the queen should go and rest," said Sejong and walked into the imperial study without looking at the queen again.

Empress Xiang couldn't enter the imperial study without a purpose, so she had to stand quietly in front of the door for a while, and then took the palace people back to the middle palace.

Sejong sat in the inner room of the imperial study, and in a fit of anger, he smashed all the folds on the imperial book case to the ground. It is not Wang Yuan who is privately organizing an army in the court, but a group of people who are doing this thing to destroy the nine clans, but except for Wang Yuan, who has exposed his feet, the other Shizong has not been able to find out now.

Ji Li brought tea to Sejong at this time, and he didn't dare to ask when he saw the twists and turns of a place.

"I ordered Ouchi to also go and find out the whereabouts of the two dead soldiers," Sejong said to Gilly, "I want to live." ”

"The minion obeys," Gilly hurriedly took the order.

Sejong said that he wanted to behead Wang Yuan, in fact, Wang Yuan had already been tortured and died in prison, Wang Yuan's family had no idea what Wang Yuan had done, the two dead soldiers who escaped were Wang Yuan's personal guards, and they were still the ones who trained other dead soldiers of the Wang family on weekdays, and Sejong could only hope to ask for answers from these two dead soldiers.

The lotus incense picture under the moon hung squarely on the wall, and after a busy day, the physically and mentally exhausted Sejong looked at this embroidery and asked himself, who in this world is his interpretation flower, forgetting worries grass?

Emperor Sejong and his princes went to the cell of Dali Temple at night, and the people of Kyoto City could not have known about it, and as soon as they woke up, they heard that there was an incident in Dongcheng Prison last night about the escape of Wang's criminal slaves, and two important criminals of Wang's family escaped from the prison alive.

For a while, the streets and alleys of Kyoto City, as far as the eye can see, are all the criminal officials who search for fugitives, and the lives of the people of Kyoto City are invisibly tense, and the rumors about the two fugitives of the Wang family soon spread all over the city, saying everything, and in the end, the words of the two fugitives who are carrying demon laws are all arranged by people.

The Shangguan family, located in the south of Kyoto, still looks like they are living their lives as usual on the surface, so people can't see that something is wrong.

An Yuanzhi ran to the West City Gate early in the morning to take a look, and when he came back, he said to An Jinxiu, who was staying in the ear room, "Sister, the city gate is really not closed, but there are hundreds of officers and soldiers guarding in front of the gate, how can we send them out of the city?" ”

The two dead men in the ear room were lying on two wooden beds, the wounds on their bodies were medicated and carefully bandaged, and An Jinxiu boiled them ginseng soup to replenish qi, and the complexion of the two dead men was much better than last night.

After listening to An Yuanzhi's words, one of the dead soldiers named Yuanyi said, "Let's find a way to get out of the city by ourselves." ”

An Yuanzhi pointed to Yuanyi's left shoulder and said, "All men who go out of the city today have to check their shoulders, you have this brand on your body, what can you think of to get out of the city?" ”

Yuan Yi and the dead man named Yuan Wei glanced at each other, and suddenly reached out and grabbed his left shoulder.

An Jinxiu and An Yuanzhi, who were in the house, didn't have time to stop them, and watched these two people tear off the piece of meat on their shoulders.

After Yuan Yi took a few breaths of cold air, he asked An Yuanzhi, "Is this okay?" ”

An Yuanzhi had never seen anyone treat him so fiercely, and Fifth Young Master An was stunned on the spot, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

An Jinxiu didn't have a big reaction, she owed a lot of blood debts in her previous life, and she had seen too much of the bloody scenes, seeing that half of the blood was flowing from these two people's bodies, An Jinxiu sighed, got up and said to An Yuanzhi, "Medicating them and bandaging their wounds." ”

"I'll come," An Yuanzhi didn't let An Jinxiu do it, he didn't know anything last night, he could only watch An Jinxiu take Ziyuan to deal with the injuries of these two people, and after watching all night, An Yuanzhi also learned a lot.

Shangguan Rui ran in at this time, and when he entered the door, he said, "Why does it smell of blood again, and their wounds are cracked again?" ”

An Yuanzhi hurriedly turned around and beckoned Shangguan Rui and said, "They are injured again, come over and help me." ”

When Shangguan Rui saw these two people who were rescued from the prison by his sister-in-law last night, he was scared half to death, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, so he could only listen to An Jinxiu's instructions in a daze, and help on the side. It wasn't until An Jinxiu finished the affairs of the two dead soldiers and told Shangguan Rui about his plans that Shangguan Rui was still stunned for a long time before he figured it out.

Helping An Yuanzhi to give medicine to the two dead soldiers, Shangguan Rui said to An Jinxiu, "Sister-in-law, what should we do next?" Shangguan Rui doesn't know if these two people can be used by their family, and he doesn't know how big the ability of these two dead men is, he only knows that his sister-in-law has done the matter now, and they can't turn back, either they don't want to try their best to save these two people, or kill these two people. Seeing that his sister-in-law and An Yuanzhi mean that they must save the lives of these two people, then Shangguan Rui can only do his best to save the lives of these two people.

An Jinxiu said at this time, "Without the brand, you can't hide your identity, this injury is a new injury at first glance, and you will still be suspected." ”

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