Before entering Baifu, Mei Zijin heard the news that Li You came to Baifu to find Bai Haoqing.

When he got the news, Chen Shaoqing of Dali Temple couldn't help but worry that the prince would stop him, and wanted to persuade Mei Zijin to wait for Li You to leave Baifu and then arrest Bai Haoqing, so as not to clash with the prince head-on.

After all, now that the emperor is seriously ill and unconscious, the crown prince is the most powerful, if he wants to come forward to stop it, Dali Temple is helpless......

However, after listening to Chen Shaoqing's advice, Mei Zijin not only did not retreat, but also couldn't wait for a moment, and immediately led people to break into the mansion and arrest people.

Because he knew that if Li You knew that Dali Temple was going to arrest Bai Haoqing, Li You would definitely let Bai Haoqing escape and hide.

Sure enough, as he expected, if he was one step late, Li You would have fled through the back door with Bai Haoqing.

personally stopped Bai Haoqing at the gate of the courtyard, Mei Zijin's eyes fell coldly on Li You, who was blocking in front of Bai Haoqing, and indifferently stepped forward to greet him.

Li You blocked half of his body in front of Bai Haoqing, and said with a smile: "Master Hou broke in with such a big movement, what happened?"

Mei Zijin said coldly: "On the day of the assassination, the assassin ran to Yang's prisoner car, and Dali Temple has reason to suspect that Bai Xiang has something to do with this matter, so please Bai Xiang go back to Dali Temple with Ben Hou to investigate."

After that, he didn't pay attention to Li You anymore, waved his hand at Bai Haoqing, who was pale-faced, and said coldly: "Come on, take this person away!"

The official messenger of Dali Temple was about to step forward, and Li You said coldly: "Wait!"

His eyes were cold, and Li You said with a cold smile: "Master Hou has no evidence and no certificate, and he wants to arrest people based on a single sentence of 'suspicion', will it be too rash?!"

Mei Zijin had already expected him to say this, his deep eyes looked at Li You fixedly, and sneered: "How dare Dali Temple slander Bai Xiang at will? The prince can rest assured, but someone went to Dali Temple this morning to report, and on the day of the incident, at the scene of the assassination, he saw Bai Xiang appear in a sandalwood carriage. And the Yang family is Bai Xiang's favorite wife, so Dali Temple has reason to suspect that Bai Xiang is inseparable from this matter. ”

As soon as he heard that someone saw the sandalwood carriage, Li You's face turned pale, and panic flashed in his eyes-

Since someone saw the carriage and Bai Haoqing, was it true that even he was exposed? !

Thinking of this, Li You's heart was cold, and a murderous aura surged in his cold eyes.

He inadvertently moved a step to the side, completely blocking Bai Haoqing behind him, and the feeling of obstruction increased instead of retreating!

And when he said this, Mei Zijin's eyes fell on Li You's body from beginning to end, and he didn't let go of a trace of expression in his description.

Seeing that Li You's intention to block was even stronger, Mei Zijin's heart was cold, and his eyes stared at the two people in front of him coldly.

Li You, who came back from the panic, pretended to be nothing and questioned: "It's really strange, nearly ten days have passed since the assassination, and before the imperial court issued an announcement and offered a heavy reward for providing clues, but no one came out to report, why did someone suddenly appear now to report Bai Xiang - this palace is suspicious of this person's motives and purposes." If so, can the Hou Ye let the palace see this person first, and then arrest him after making sure that it is correct, so as not to wronged the good person and smear Bai Xiang's face! ”

Mei Zijin smiled coldly, "The prince doesn't know, do we have the responsibility to protect the safety of the whistleblower when we handle the case?" The reason why the whistleblower didn't show up before was because he was afraid that some evil forces would threaten his life, so he came to report it after many days——"

"And when Bai Xiang is arrested, we will arrange for the whistleblower to identify it - but Ben Hou thinks that Bai Xiang's fame is shocking to the world, and looking at the entire capital, I am afraid that no one will not know Bai Xiang, and it will be difficult to admit mistakes!"

After that, he made a gesture of invitation to Li You, who had a cold face, and said coldly: "His Royal Highness the Prince, please take a please, lest when we arrest Bai Xiang, people will mistakenly think that the prince and Bai Xiang are in a group, and tarnish the prince's name!"

Li You's hands were clenched into fists in his sleeves, almost crushed, but there was no way to stop it, after all, the assassination was personally handed over by Emperor Jin Ming to the fourth prince Li Xuan and Mei Zijin to investigate, even if it was him, he couldn't stop it.

Thinking of this, Li You's eyes were gloomy and he stared at Mei Zijin coldly, but the next moment he smiled indifferently like nothing and said, "In this way, this palace will not delay the Hou Ye's case here."

After that, he turned back to Bai Haoqing, who was dead and silent, and said: "Bai Xiang rest assured, but this palace believes that this matter has nothing to do with Bai Xiang - even if Bai Xiang passed by the scene in a car that day, this palace is more willing to believe that it was Bai Xiang who missed the old love and went to see his wife on the last ride, but was mistaken for something to do with the assassin, is this palace right?"

Listening to Li You's reminder of his way to get rid of his crimes, Bai Haoqing's eyes flashed slightly, but there was no gratitude on his face, but he looked at Li You very calmly, hooked his lips and sneered: "Thank you for your understanding." It's just that the old man is now out of power, no matter whether he is friend or foe, he can trample on the old man at will, making the old man's teeth cold. In this way, the old man can't see people's hearts clearly, and he can't distinguish between friend and foe—"

"If there is no one to help the old man and save the old man from the predicament, the old man can only give up everything and ask for self-protection!"

Bai Haoqing's words were clear, but they made Li You's soles feel cold-

He didn't expect that now, instead of worrying that he would fall into the hands of the Four Princes and Mei Zijin, Bai Haoqing still remembered the fact that he had renounced Bai Lingxuan just now, and hated him for breaking his promise to him.

It is enough to see that Bai Haoqing's trust in him has collapsed.

And the last sentence of 'give up everything and ask for self-preservation' is even more naked threaten him, if he can't let him get out of the assassination case, he will let go of the previous alliance between the two, confess that he is the mastermind, so as to save himself!

There was a murderous aura flashing from his eyes, Li You smiled indifferently on his face, and said slowly: "Bai Xiang rest assured, the Qing person is self-purifying, this palace believes that Bai Xiang will be fine - within three days, if Dali Temple can't come up with accurate evidence to convict Xiang Ye, this palace will personally go to Dali Temple to ask for an explanation for Xiang Ye, and will personally pick Xiang Ye out."

The latter sentence was said to Mei Zijin.

According to the law of the Great Jin Dynasty, if the arrested suspect cannot find an empirical witness within three days, the suspect must indeed be acquitted and leave.

After that, Li You didn't stop any longer, turned around and brushed his robe away......

After Li You left, the officials of Dali Temple immediately stepped forward to tie up Bai Haoqing and escorted him out.

Bai Haoqing looked at Mei Zijin with a cold face with a pale face, his lips moved, and he finally pleaded: "Master Hou, the old man is willing to go to Dali Ye with Master Hou to assist in handling the case, can Master Hou go to the old man's body to bind him and save some face for the old man......"

Mei Zijin's heart was as cold as bones, thinking of the nameless and Sanshi who almost died, as well as the nameless brother who died in the assassination and the secret guard of the Hou Mansion, Mei Zijin couldn't wait to personally slash the wicked person in front of him, how could he save face for him!?

He stared fixedly at Bai Haoqing, who was pale, and said coldly: "Bai Xiang has to get used to it." In the future, Bai Xiang will be paraded through the streets with shackles, and he is more likely to go to the guillotine and behead in front of the whole capital - his head will be lost, what is the use of saving face? ! ”

Hearing this, Bai Haoqing's whole body trembled violently, and he looked at Mei Zijin in disbelief, not guessing how much evidence he had in his hands, but he felt that his whole body was cold, and his face was like ashes......

When Bai Haoqing was escorted out of the Evergreen Academy, he bumped into the ladies of the Bai Mansion head-on, but the leader was Bai Lingxuan, the daughter of the Bai Mansion who came in full makeup!

It turned out that when she heard that the prince was coming to Bai Mansion in person, Bai Lingxuan was very excited, and immediately dressed up and rushed to Bai Haoqing's Evergreen Courtyard, wanting to 'meet' the prince. But I didn't think sincerely, just halfway there, but I heard about my father's arrest.

There was no time to change into a beautiful dress that was carefully dressed, Bai Lingxuan rushed over with the other ladies of the Bai Mansion who heard the news.

At this time, watching her father being tied up and being escorted with a gray face, it was a dazzling irony with her delicate and bright dress!

"Father, what's wrong with you...... Why do you want to arrest my father? ”

Bai Haoqing was arrested, but it was Bai Lingxuan who was most flustered, because she knew that if something happened to her father, her marriage with the prince would have to be ruined again.

If this is the case, she will not be able to marry the man she admires, and this life will be ruined......

Thinking of this, Bai Lingxuan was so flustered that her whole body trembled, swept away her previous timidity, and stopped in front of Mei Zijin, and said in a trembling voice: "Why did Master Hou do this to his father, what did he do wrong......

Mei Zijin didn't look at Bai Lingxuan, and said coldly: "Get out of the way!"

Calmed by Mei Zijin's fierce momentum, Bai Lingwei's whole body trembled, and her body involuntarily moved away from the side of the road.

But in her mouth, she was unwilling to shout to Bai Haoqing: "Father, don't be afraid, the daughter went to beg the prince to save her father." The prince must have a way to help his father......"

Looking at her daughter's elaborate dress, how could Bai Haoqing not understand that she was dressed up carefully to see the crown prince Li You, he couldn't help but feel sour, and said to Mei Zijin in front of him with a hard voice: "Can Master Hou let the old man say a few words to the little girl's family?"

Mei Zijin hesitated for a moment, and finally raised his hand with a cold face to let the people holding him stop temporarily.

Seeing this, the only two remaining aunts and Bai Lingxuan in the Bai Mansion, along with a group of servants, pounced on them, knelt in front of Bai Haoqing, and cried in a panic.

Bai Hao's clear eyes swept over everyone one by one, and finally fell on the eldest son Bai Lingjie.

"Jer, during the time my father is away, you will be the head of the family. Take good care of everyone and protect the Bai family - rest assured, my father will be back soon. ”

Bai Lingjie was stunned when he saw his father being arrested, but after hearing Bai Haoqing's words, his heart settled down again, and even when his father handed over the entire Bai family to him and made him the head of the family, he was faintly happy and excited.

Bai Haoqing then looked at Bai Lingxuan, sighed heavily and finally spoke: "And you...... There is no need to go to the prince to save his father. The emperor is seriously ill, the prince is busy with affairs, and I am afraid that the marriage with you will have to be put on hold......"

Hearing this, Bai Lingxuan's pretty face faded in an instant, but she understood the meaning of Bai Haoqing's words.

Prince...... Does the prince not want her?

She suddenly thought that Prince Fang Cai was here, and if he wanted to save his father, Fang Cai could come forward.

However, he left silently, so the result speaks for itself......

Thinking of this, Bai Lingxuan was like facing a cold abyss, her body was weak and she couldn't stand steadily, she stumbled and collapsed to the ground, her face was like ashes, and all the strength of her body was drained, and she could only watch her father being escorted away with tears......

Sure enough, Bai Haoqing was arrested, and the road was full of people watching the excitement.

And when I heard that he was the one who sent someone to assassinate and rob the prisoner that day, there was a lot of discussion.

Among the onlookers, Li You's carriage, which had just left Baifu, was also silently mixed in the crowd.

On the carriage, Li You lifted the corner of the curtain and looked at Mei Zijin and Bai Haoqing walking in the middle of the street with cold eyes.

Gao Ming followed by his side, feeling the murderous aura on his body, and couldn't help but worry: "Your Highness, what should I do about this matter-do you want to go to Dali Temple to kill him, lest he confess to His Highness?"

Li You's mind kept thinking about what Bai Haoqing said to him at the end, as well as the previous sentence 'rabbit dead dog cooking'.

He clearly remembered that Bai Haoqing had said that he didn't want this allusion to happen to him, and he wouldn't allow it to happen to him.

In this way, does it show that he has a force in his hands that he doesn't know, or is he ready to make the decision to break the net with him?!

Thinking of this, Li You's murderous aura was even stronger, but he said coldly on his face: "Bai Haoqing is different from Wang Zhongren. He has been an official in the court for many years, has many henchmen, and is scheming, and even the palace may not be able to calculate him. If it angers him, it will only make him break with the palace - perhaps, this is exactly what Mei Zijin and Li Xuan want to see. ”

"And Bengong can't figure out how many clues and evidence of the assassination case are in the hands of Mei Zijin and Li Xuan, in case they just want to take Bai Haoqing and force Bengong to appear, wouldn't they throw themselves into the net......"

"Moreover, they will also strengthen their precautions, and they will definitely not let Bai Haoqing die easily in the cell of Dali Temple, so this move is inappropriate."

After listening to Li You's analysis, Gao Ming couldn't help but get anxious, and said in a deep voice: "Could it be that His Royal Highness really wants to save Bai Haoqing?"

Li You didn't reply to Gao Ming's words, but said coldly with a gloomy face: "Three days have passed in the ten-day period, but things are progressing too slowly, especially those who hate the most, and they have not solved it in the end - now they have arrested Bai Haoqing." It seems that they are going to do it before the palace. ”

But Bai Haoqing is not so easy to deal with. As soon as the three-day period is over, if Mei Zijin and them can't produce evidence, Bai Haoqing will be fine, and then we can ask them about their guilt in turn. So, don't panic about this matter, and be calm. ”

Gao Ming remembered one more thing, a chill surged in his heart, and he cautiously looked at Li You's expression, and said carefully: "Your Highness, my subordinates just got the news that the person who sent to confirm that the assassin of the corpse that day was back, and said that it was ...... It is said that the number of corpses collected in Dali Temple is one less than the number of people mentioned in the notice of Dali Temple......"

"And this person seems to be nameless!"

Shocked when he heard this, Li You's complexion changed rapidly, becoming more and more cold, almost dripping water.

The next moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "I knew that he wasn't dead—Bengong clearly ordered him to be kept alive, and those people didn't dare to disobey Bengong's orders!"

Gao Ming was puzzled: "My subordinates don't understand, since he didn't die, why did Dali Temple put his list on the death list?"

Li You thought of the previous speculation about the relationship between Nameless and Mei Zijin, his eyes flashed with cold light, and he said coldly: "All this must have been done by Mei Zijin and Shui Qingqing - Shui Qingqing knew that the palace would not let go of Nameless, and Mei Zijin deliberately added his name to the death list in order to protect him, so that the palace thought he was dead, so as to let him go." Oh, it's ridiculous, it's impossible for this palace to let someone who threatens the life of this palace stay in the world! ”

Looking at the chill in Li You's eyes, Gao Ming's scalp was numb, and he hesitated: "Does Your Highness mean that Nameless was hidden by Mei Zijin and Shui Qingqing?"

Li You smiled coldly and said, "Didn't you say before that Mei Zijin has been ordering people to find the girl who was with Nameless in the capital recently, presumably because she was entrusted by Nameless to find her and take her back to the Hou Mansion - so as expected, Nameless must have gone back to the Hou Mansion with them."

Gao Ming said ruthlessly: "My subordinates sent someone to the Hou Mansion to kill him!"

Li You smiled proudly and said coldly: "No." The current defense of the Hou Mansion is only afraid that you will not be able to break in. Moreover, he had only one brother who had died before, and they were all obsessed with the palace. And this time, his brothers are all wiped out, and he will definitely come to the door again to seek revenge on Hongu. So, we don't need to go to him, he'll send it to the door himself! ”

Gao Ming said: "Your Highness let go, the defense of His Highness and the East Palace, his subordinates must bring people to be on duty day and night, and they will not relax for a moment."

Li You thought of something in his heart in an instant, and smiled more and more proudly: "This palace has thought of a way to deal with them - you send someone to follow Mei Zijin, you must catch that woman before them." Let's go back to the palace! ”

After thinking of the way to deal with Mei Zijin and Nameless, Li You was in a good mood, and the carriage drove away......

After Mei Zijin escorted Bai Haoqing back to Dali Temple, he did not interrogate him immediately, but threw him into the prison without saying a word.

The more he was like this, the more panicked Bai Haoqing became, the more he couldn't figure out what Mei Zijin was thinking, and he couldn't guess how much evidence they were holding in their hands.

There are many questions in his heart, but Bai Haoqing, who is old and treacherous, knows that he can't take the initiative to open his mouth at this time, and the tighter his mouth, the better.

In the gloomy prison, the cold wind and frozen bones in the winter are even more biting, Bai Haoqing, who suffers from rheumatism, as soon as he enters it, but for a moment, he already feels uncomfortable all over his body, and the bones in his whole body are sore.

Think about it, over the years, he has been pampered, has been carefully taking care of his body, although the pain of rheumatism attacks from time to time, but with the care of drugs and the prosperity of life, it is much lessened, and it is rare to have pain twice a year.

Now that he has entered here, the wind is cold and damp, but he is the nemesis of rheumatic people, which makes Bai Haoqing uncomfortable.

Mei Zijin stood outside the prison door, looking coldly at Bai Haoqing, who was standing with his knees hunched and struggling, his eyes were cold.

After a while, an official sent over to pay a respectful message to Mei Zijin: "Master Hou, everything is ready, please Lord Hou move!"

Mei Zijin nodded and said coldly: "Take Bai Xiang with you!"

With that, he walked towards the darker and colder depths of the prison, but finally stopped at the door of the innermost torture chamber.

Compared with the outer cells, the torture chamber was even more damp and gloomy, and there was blood dripping on the ground, the pungent smell of blood, and the smell of rot made people almost nauseous.

And the surrounding walls, on the ground, are full of all kinds of terrifying torture instruments, any one of which is terrifying.

Bai Haoqing, who was escorted over, saw the scene in front of him, even if he was as calm as him, he couldn't help but shudder, gritted his teeth and said calmly: "What is Master Hou doing with the old man here?!" There is no evidence in Dali Temple to prove that the old man is related to the assassination, you can't torture the old man in vain in the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty......"

Mei Zijin looked at him indifferently and said coldly: "Bai Xiang rest assured, although Ben Hou is eager to cut Bai Xiang with a thousand knives, but ...... As you yourself said, Benhou won't let you die so easily until you are condemned—"

"That'...... So what do you ask the old man to do here? ”

The cold wind passed through the hall, and there was a whimper in the extremely cold torture room, which involuntarily made the creeps.

Bai Haoqing just wanted to leave here as soon as possible, now his bones were not only sore and uncomfortable, but his heart was also pounding, and he always felt that something bad was about to happen.

Mei Zijin hooked her lips and smiled coldly, and said slowly: "Ben Hou asked Bai Xiang to come over, so that Bai Xiang could see how Bai Lingwei, the most distressed Bai family daughter you had ever been, was tortured by heavy punishment!"

The whole body was shocked, Bai Haoqing looked at Mei Zijin with a complicated expression, his voice was surprised with a hint of panic, and he said in a trembling voice: "You guys...... Did you catch her? ”

"Caught!"

Mei Zijin said coldly: "That day, she openly led the assassins at the assassination scene and committed murder against the county lord of Guanqing, which was obvious to everyone, so later Dali Temple has been chasing her, and she was finally arrested yesterday - presumably as soon as she is tortured, she will confess!"

Cold sweat trickled down, and Bai Haoqing's whole body was quickly soaked in cold sweat, and his face was already pale.

Gritting his teeth to suppress the panic in his heart, Bai Haoqing said hatefully: "Since the Hou Ye knows that she led someone to rob the prisoner and assassinate the car, why do you still arrest the old man-I ask you to release me immediately, otherwise, even if you sue the emperor in the future, the old man will not let you go."

Looking at Bai Haoqing's anxious appearance, Mei Zijin was even more sure of the guess in his heart, his deep eyes stared at him indifferently, and said coldly: "Bai Xiang doesn't care about his daughter at all?" Or, does Bai Xiang not care about the final fate of his chess piece at all? ”

Bai Haoqing's whole body was shocked, his eyes looked at Mei Zijin in horror, and he said quibblingly without thinking about it: "Hou Yexiu wants to spew blood, what Bai Lingwei did has nothing to do with the old man, everything is caused by her wanting to save her mother and hating Shui Qingqing, and she has nothing to do with the old man...... You don't want to slander me! ”

Mei Zijin said: "But Bai Lingwei didn't say that. She said that the Assassin is your man, and she is nothing more than your scapegoat. And Ben Hou doesn't believe that she, a woman in the house, has the ability and financial resources to summon the top assassins to work for her—so, one of your fathers and daughters must be lying. ”

Hearing this, Bai Haoqing panicked!

But Bai Haoqing had made up his mind from the beginning to let Bai Lingwei be the scapegoat between him and the crown prince, and he also guessed that Mei Zijin would suspect the origin of the assassin, so he had already thought of planting dirty words.

He struggled for a long time as an embarrassment and pain, and after a while, he sighed helplessly and said: "That's it, now the old man will tell the truth."

"The assassin case was indeed committed by the unfilial girl. It was she who spent a lot of money to hire a murderer to kill people. ”

There was a flash of light in Mei Zijin's eyes, and he said coldly: "But as far as Ben Hou knows, the Bai family doesn't have a huge amount of money to hire a murderer - her money came from this?"

"It was her mother, the slut of the Yang family, who gave her ......"

In order to exonerate himself, Bai Haoqing said in a loud voice: "When the Yang family went to visit her daughter in the nunnery for the last time before confessing to the crime, he stole the seal of the house and gave it to her. Bai Lingwei took the seal and took out the silver stored in the money village in the Bai Mansion, which was 100,000 taels of silver, presumably, she was the killer hired with this 100,000 taels of silver......"

"If Master Hou doesn't believe it, you can go to the money village to check! The money was taken two days before the assassination - all, everything was done by the unfilial girl, and it had nothing to do with the old man......"

"Bai Haoqing, you have suffered a thousand cuts...... You are going to be framed even for your own daughter, and you will not die well. ”

Before Bai Haoxiang's words fell, a sad and desperate female voice suddenly sounded in the cell next to the torture room, but it was the Yang family who had been locked up in Dali Temple for a long time......