Xia Huai felt that he had only approved a few twists and turns, and the voice of the little eunuch came in from outside the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, someone brought it to you, and now you are waiting in the front hall."

"yes, got it." The sky outside the house was indeed a little dark, Xia Huai took the oil lamp closer, and continued to flip through the book in front of him

"Your Majesty, do you want to go over now?" The little eunuch was a little unsure of what the emperor meant.

"Let him wait a while, I'll finish reading this note."

In the hall of the front hall, an old slave in a rag shirt was tied with hemp rope by the guards, and he knelt on the ground and shivered.

Just as he was about to make a fire and prepare dinner, a group of guards dressed in armor and holding long knives suddenly broke into the house, tied themselves up and took them to the palace without explanation, and said that the emperor wanted to see him.

The old slave looked left and right, this battle, which emperor wants to see himself, this is clearly to cause his own sin!

"Hey, hey, master, when will this emperor come?" Why can't you give it a treat? The old slave waited a little bitterly, and looked to the side flatteringly.

The guards on the side glanced at him and said disdainfully: "You just shut up and wait, is the emperor what you want to see?" ”

The old slave muttered in his heart, isn't the emperor going to see me?

But the old slave didn't dare to say this, so he could only close his mouth and stop talking.

"The emperor has arrived!" The eunuch's sharp voice pierced the silence of the entire front hall, and finally before it was completely dark, the old slave saw the emperor who can only be seen in a small picture book, and sure enough, he was still a real person with more majesty and aura.

The old slave watched the emperor come from the inner hall and sit on the dragon chair, and couldn't help but sigh: This pomp, this dress, magnificent!

"Grass people Zhang San visited the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live." Zhang San saw that the emperor had already sat down, and hurriedly kowtowed to greet the emperor.

"Your name is Zhang San?"

"It's the grass people." Zhang San maintained a kneeling posture, and the emperor didn't say that he could get up, and he didn't dare to raise his head to speak.

"You're the one you buried?"

When he heard what Xia Huai said, Zhang San knew what the emperor would say again.

"Little ...... The little ones are also the ones who are instructed by others to bury them. ”

"Raise your head and talk to me about it, if I know you're lying, you know what will happen, right?"

"Yes, yes, how dare the little one deceive the emperor, the little one must tell the emperor everything he knows." After hearing the emperor's words, Zhang San could finally raise his head, "That day, the little one just went up the mountain to chop firewood and returned home, and found that there was one more person in the house, that person claimed to be the third prince Xia Chi, he put the knife on the small one's neck, and threatened the little one and said that after dark, go to find a place in the woods under the Taiwei Mountain, dig a pit, if you don't go, you will have a small life." Where have the three princes seen in the small rural area, and they are still holding knives, and the little one who was afraid at the time had to do it! Then he left, I don't know where he went, after dark, the little one could only dig the pit according to what the third prince said, and soon after, the little one saw a carriage coming here, and a person came down from above, it was the third prince who threatened me during the day, he carried a sack, threw it into the pit, and let the small one bury it, and the little one was afraid, so he could only do it, at that time, the little one really didn't know that this was His Royal Highness Xia Yuan, if he knew, the little one would not do it if he was really killed! ”

"Are you sure that the third prince did it alone from beginning to end?" Xia Huai still asked this doubt.

"It's true, please ask the emperor for mercy." Zhang San tried to squeeze out his tears to make himself seem more scared.

"For the sake of telling the truth, I can spare you from dying, but the living sin is inescapable, so pull it down."

"Thank the emperor for not killing him." Zhang San hurriedly kowtowed to the emperor.

Behind a screen behind the dragon chair, Xia Chi was covered by the guards, his eyes were split, he never thought that this old slave had been bought by Xia Yi, and now he could only silently keep tears, it was really nonsense!

What kind of knife threats, I haven't experienced anything of these things, this is obviously Xia Yi's planting! Father, can't you see it!

He wanted to break free from the shackles of the guards and go to reason with Zhang San, but he was helpless and was beaten to death by the guards and couldn't move.