A few days of misty snow have solidified the real Chang'an City. In the dark room in the corner of the Tingwei's mansion, the sound of whipping was heard every day, and the voice of cruel grievances was shouted every day. It had been about half a month since Zhao Xiangguang's incident, and Tingwei did not draw any evidence from Guan Xiang's mouth that Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, was involved in the assassination of the emperor. The interrogation in Tingwei's mansion could not achieve any of the results that the emperor wanted, and the jailers slowly felt that Guan Gao was indeed wronged, and the prison warden presented Zhang Tingwei with the sentence record of today's interrogation of Guan Gao, Zhang Tingwei sighed and shook his head after seeing it, and he really admired Guan Gao in his heart, and he had long heard that Zhao Guo's Guan Xiang was a benevolent and narrow character. Zhang Tingwei came to the prison without saying a word, and looking at Guan Xiang, who had been beaten all over his body, Zhang Tingwei ordered someone to bring hot water, and instructed the warden to remove the iron chains on his body. Zhang Tingwei personally helped up Guan Gao on the torture rack, the prison warden took advantage of the hot water to wring the cloth towel in the water and handed it to Zhang Tingwei, Zhang Tingwei took the cloth, looked at Guan Gao with pity and sorrow, and wiped the blood on Guan Gao's face with a towel cloth in one hand, the blood on his face has dried out, some cracks have been scarred, and some new cracks are gushing blood. Guan Gao's clothes were completely torn, and the flesh and blood were already blurred in the rags. Guan Gao's expression was sluggish, and he stared at Zhang Tingwei weakly with dull eyes, as if it weren't for Zhang Tingwei by his side, he might fall down at any time. In Zhang Tingwei's opinion, Guan Xiang only had one breath left, Guan Gao's eyes were weakly open, and the corners of his mouth became dry and cracked due to not drinking water or eating for a long time, Zhang Tingwei immediately ordered the prison warden to bring food and tea.

Guan Gaoyi saw the tea, his eyes immediately brightened, and he wanted to get up, but he collapsed on Tingwei with an empty body, and pointed to the tea weakly with one hand. Zhang Tingwei helped Guan Gao to personally serve Guan Gao to drink tea, drank dozens of cups in succession, Guan Gao was like walking in the desert for a long time, and when he touched the water, he drank it violently with all his strength. Zhang Tingwei stroked his back and told him to drink slowly.

"Guanxiang, Zhang asked you at the end, the matter of King Zhao ......" Zhang Tingwei took advantage of the situation to ask.

"Bang-" sounded, Guan Gao's face darkened instantly, and the unfinished tea in his mouth fell to the ground angrily along with the teapot, Zhang Tingwei beside him was startled by his sudden move, stood up from Guan Gao's side, and looked at Guan Gao in puzzlement.

"Get out!" ran through the high and low heads, gritted his teeth sullenly and squeezed out a word.

Zhang Tingwei glanced at the warden beside him in confusion, and the warden immediately became angry at Guan Gao, pointing at Guan Gao and scolding, "You old man, Zhang Tingwei respects you, but I didn't expect you to be so ignorant ......"

Zhang Tingwei stopped the warden, signaled him not to say more, and squatted down to look at Guan Gao's tired and bloodstained face, and said to Guan Gao calmly, "Guan Xiang, do you know that the emperor has arrested all your and King Zhao's family members and sent them to Chang'an, just in the women's prison not far ahead, if you still refuse to tell the truth, Zhang is afraid that the emperor is about to order the execution of unrelated family members, you still have wives and children, why don't you want to think about them?" ”

Guan Gao's heart was moved at this time, his fingers pinched tightly, his eyes were slightly red but there were no tears, and he bowed his head silently for a long time.

Zhang Tingwei sat next to Guan Gao again and continued, "Zhang has always respected you as a person, and he didn't want to get such a field and such a cruel punishment today, so he didn't dare to go against the emperor's will. If it weren't for King Zhao's order, how dare you assassinate His Majesty the Emperor? Now that you are blindly protecting King Zhao, you can know that you have lost the life of your entire family for King Zhao. Zhang Tingwei sighed for Guan Gao as he spoke, and felt worthless for Guan Gao to protect King Zhao and lose his family's life, and said, "If Guan Xiang still refuses to tell the truth this time, the emperor is really going to issue a death order, a few days ago, the emperor was furious about your affairs and wanted to kill your son and daughter, if it wasn't for Zhang's several twists and turns, I am afraid that your family is no longer in the world at this time." ”

Guan Gao raised his head neatly at this time, looked at Zhang Tingwei's face with dull eyes, and said after a long time, "Since Mr. respects Guan Mou as a person, if Guan Mou confesses to King Zhao, wouldn't Mr. despise Guan Mou?" Why is it difficult to live in the heart of a loyal servant? Turning his gaze to the small window in the corner of the darkroom, he looked at the flying snow and continued, "Now I don't have any nostalgia, just to get out of the world. Life in the world is based on faith and righteousness, even if the people of a certain family have no life, they can not be treacherous, Guan will not bite King Zhao, since ancient times, the food of the king, the matter of loyalty, Guan is the Su of the king of Zhao, and he must be loyal to the king of Zhao. Mr. is the emperor's minister, you and I are both ministers and each is its own master, but Guan Mou has never changed his words, if Mr. is angry, Guan Mou can bear torture, come on. Guan Gao closed his eyes and opened his arms to be tortured.

Zhang Tingwei sighed again, got up and took two steps back and bowed his hand deeply to Guan Gao, "Zhang admires Guan Xiang." Then he went out, stopped again when he reached the door, and then turned back and told the warden not to torture him privately.

Guan Gao shouted at Zhang Tingwei, "King Zhao is wronged, if Mr. is narrow in his bones, please speak to the emperor, everything is done by Guan Mou." Zhang Tingwei nodded deeply to Guan Gao and went out.

Zhang Tingwei presented the trial of Guan Gao and others in the past few days to Emperor Liu Bang. Liu Bang has received such a report many times, he has never been so moved today, listening to Zhang Tingwei explain all kinds of admirable behaviors of Guan Gao, even if his body is whipped and rotten, even if his body has no place to be pierced, he will not change his original mouth, and he will definitely put aside the relationship with King Zhao back then.

“…… Guan Gao has nothing but a breath of air. Zhang Tingwei arched his hand and said to the emperor, "Guan Xiang said that the king of food is the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, and the Su of the king of Zhao should be loyal to the king of Zhao." Guan Gao always refused to confess to King Zhao, saying that King Zhao was indeed innocent, and King Zhao did not know what happened back then, and everything was done by himself, Zhao Wu and others......" Zhang Tingwei stopped talking and glanced at the emperor cautiously. Liu Bang just met Zhang Tingwei's cautious eyes, his eyes were squinted but could flash bursts of majesty, Zhang Tingwei glanced at the emperor and bent his waist lower, and continued, "They think that the emperor is arrogant and rude to King Zhao, but he is not an elder, they assassinated the emperor, and King Zhao really didn't know." Zhang Tingwei said cautiously as he glanced up at the emperor's expression.

Liu Bang's expression was as if he suddenly realized, and he said sincerely, "How many strong men are there in ancient and modern times?" Guan Gao is really a strong man. ”

Zhang Tingwei opened his mouth in disbelief, and the emperor was not angry with the words and behaviors that made Zhang Tingwei stunned for a long time, "What does the emperor ......mean?"

"I admit that he is a true strong man, it does not mean that King Zhao is really innocent, Guan Gao has a strong sense of principle and loyalty, King Zhao is very likely to be preserved by Guan Gao's thoughts, he knows that Guan Gao will not betray him." Liu Bang paced leisurely behind his hands in the hall, "Who among the officials in Chang'an has the best relationship with Guan Gao, and if you probe Guan Gao's style with personal feelings, you may be able to ask what the situation is." ”

Zhang Tingwei couldn't help but be a little disappointed, it turned out that the emperor still didn't want to get to the bottom of this matter. Out of the hall, Zhang Tingwei looked up to the sky and sighed, the sky was blue and snowy. The emperor will never allow any changes in the princes and kings, and once discovered, the ground will shake like a mountain, and the matter of King Zhao is the best verification.