Chapter 144 [Admission of Guilt]

Ye Junyi and Jin Ruyu have discussed again and again, it is most appropriate to open up the joints through the Zhou Mansion, and the palace can talk to Li Zhaoyi and the queen through the Zhou girl who has been named his wife, and the relationship between Zhou Yingchun and Li Chengxiang can be said to be inextricably linked with the Yasukuni Marquis's Mansion, which can be said to be both prosperous and lossy.

Early the next morning, Ye Junyi went to visit Xu Ziqian in prison. Xu Ziqian's case is still being heard, and with the special "care" of King Rui, no one is allowed to visit the prison. But one of the officials who presided over the trial this time happened to be King Beijing. It should be that the queen is also a not simple character, at this time the emperor is lying unconscious, life and death are unpredictable, and she wants to monopolize the government at this time, since Xu Ziqian and King Rui don't want to offend. In order to prevent King Rui's people from favoritism or the execution of Xu Ziqian in prison, the interrogation and detention of people were all important ministers in the court, and each side had powerful cadres to contain each other. And the person on King Rui's side, needless to say, should be Yungong Qiu, since Xu Ziqian was overthrown, he is the Zuodu Governor Yushi, and he presided over the case with King Beijing.

Ye Junyi begged to the door of Princess Beijing, and King Beijing obeyed his wife, thinking that it would not be a big deal to let her go in to visit the prison, so he personally took Ye Junyi there.

Ye Junyi himself has been in this prison, and now that he thinks about it, he is just dirty, his life is almost poor, and his range of activities is not very large. Ye Junyi thought in his heart, in fact, these are not big things, and he will endure it. Besides, last time, when Ye Junyi was in prison, he hadn't visited the prison yet, and now he was carrying a food box, which contained a lot of delicious food, this guy should be luckier than himself.

She was following King Beijing, and she was comforting herself like this. However, as the two walked through the large cell, where many prisoners were held, and walked into a small dark and narrow passageway, a noisy footsteps sounded on the opposite side.

King Beijing obviously didn't expect that there would be someone, so he was stunned and stood there. Ye Junyi looked through the tall back of King Beijing, and saw a pair of people walking straight towards them on the opposite side, Ye Junyi's head banged, and the food box slipped out of his hand - the two people in front of this team were not King Rui and Yungong feud, who were they?

I saw that there was an obvious dredging on King Rui's face, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and he saw Ye Junyi and the others, and he did not stop. As he walked, an evil smile appeared on his face, and the thumb of his left hand tested the blood from the corner of his mouth, and then put it in his mouth and licked it deliciously.

Ye Junyi's stomach began to twitch again, and he began to stand a little unsteadily.

King Rui walked to Ye Junyi's side and stopped, King Beijing, a man who seemed to be rude and ugly, quietly blocked his body in front of Ye Junyi, and looked at King Rui aggressively.

King Rui glanced at King Beijing disdainfully, a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes, and then turned his head to look at Ye Junyi, showing an obscene smile, the index finger that had just been put in his mouth was slowly taken out, put it on his lips and kissed it gently, his hand slowly stretched out to Ye Junyi, and he pouted and blew on his mouth, and then turned around and left. Yun Gong Qiu Yan followed behind, passing by her, his two sleeves were rolled up high, his hands were still dripping, his robe was tied to the waistband of his trousers, and his body was splashed with water stains. When he passed by her, Ye Junyi smelled the thick smell of blood on his body!

Ye Junyi saw that King Rui and his party were gradually walking away, and suddenly let go of their footsteps and ran forward, at the end of this passage, there were two tall servants with long knives guarding, and when they saw someone running, they immediately showed their long knives.

"Stop!" King Beijing chased after him, and hurriedly stopped the two servants, stopped Ye Junyi and said, "Madame, don't panic, no matter how bold King Rui is, at most, let Hou Ye eat some bitterness, this place is heavily guarded, and Madame should follow Xiao Wang's side." ”

Ye Junyi's hands and feet trembled, just thinking about how to see Xu Ziqian earlier, and when he heard this, King Jing followed him.

The two officials opened the door at the signal of King Jing, and several equally tall officials were sitting around a table, and when they saw King Jing coming, they quickly stood up again.

The cell was cramped and dark, smelling of blood, with several torches stuck in the walls. In the light of the fire, behind the innermost iron gate, a hanging head was faintly visible hanging on a wooden cross.

"Xu Ziqian!"

Ye Junyi couldn't hold back any longer, threw herself on the iron gate and cried loudly, although she had all kinds of mental preparations, in the face of Xu Ziqian's current situation, and now when she saw him hanging there in blood, she still couldn't accept it.

The officials followed King Jing's instructions to open the iron gate and let Ye Junyi enter. Looking closer, Xu Ziqian was even more miserable, covered with blood marks that had been whipped, drenched in blood, and his long hair hung upside down, dripping with water, and blood, covering his face.

Ye Junyi carefully parted his hair, revealing that peerless face, she tried to remove the blood stains on it with her sleeve, her hand gently rubbed her long-lost face, and whispered softly: "Xu Ziqian, I'm here." ”

"You fool," Xu Ziqian lowered his head and made a difficult sound, "Hurry, go quickly." Ziyang, take her away. ”

Ye Junyi sobbed, rubbing his forehead against his face, trying to warm his cold bones with his faint temperature, and muttered in a low voice: "Xu Ziqian, you are sorry for me." You slept with other women, you scolded me, you pushed me, you killed our children, you're sorry for me. So you can't die, you can't die, you have to compensate me, you have to compensate me for my losses. ”

"Let's go, let's go!" Xu Ziqian let out a low roar from his mouth, and a line of water involuntarily flowed out of his eyes. Ye Junyi raised his head, puffed the water into his mouth one by one, and continued to murmur: "Don't push me away again, don't sell me to others again." You are sorry for me, even if it is death, we have to go together, and when we go to the palace of Hades, you still have to compensate me for my losses, which you owe me, so you have to compensate me. ”

"How can you be so stupid?" Xu Ziqian hugged her face tightly and let out a painful snort, "I'm going to die, and I can't even protect you, don't you know?" Go, go, I deserve you like this. Go as far as you can. ”

"Plead guilty to embezzlement." Ye Junyi took the opportunity to whisper in his ear, King Jing and the officials outside couldn't hear clearly, but the two of them were still muttering love words, "The queen and Prime Minister Li Cheng have promised to save their lives." Stay out and figure later. I'm waiting for you. ”

"You're stupid......."

Ye Junyi, who had achieved his goal, pulled away from Xu Ziqian, opened the food box, and began to feed him.

"Madam," King Jing said outside, "it's okay, it's too long, and Xiao Wang can't explain it." ”

Ye Junyi nodded lightly at King Jing, kissed Xu Ziqian's forehead and said, "Remember, I'm waiting for you." ”

Xu Ziqian is a tough person, if Ye Junyi didn't come, he probably wouldn't admit what he hadn't done, after being here for a long time, without the end of the above trial, I am afraid that his life would have been taken by King Rui. Therefore, Ye Junyi must come to this trip. As soon as I saw her, when I heard her voice, everything in this world - glory, wealth, reputation and status, everything became empty, and my eyes and hearts were full of her. He thought, maybe as long as he can live with this woman, it will be a mediocre life, and he will have no regrets for a lifetime.

Early the next morning, the empress, who had been in charge for the time being, encountered a very difficult situation: the ministers of the court and the central government were divided into two factions and engaged in a fierce quarrel. On the one hand, he believes that Xu Ziqian of the Yasukuni Mansion is in a high position, he cannot clean himself, he is corrupt and perverts the law, and he has already confessed, so he should be punished with capital punishment to show his example. On the other hand, he thinks that Xu Ziqian has always been law-abiding, and this incident must have been beaten into a trick, because a minister had already gone to see it, and Xu Ziqian was scarred all over his body and had no skin. Moreover, even if there is a corruption incident, seeing that the Marquis of Yasukuni has made indelible contributions to the imperial court, he should be punished lightly. And most of the ministers of the capital thought that seeing the scars on Xu Ziqian's body was very likely to be a trick.

The Confucian scholars of Guozijian and Gongshengyuan all knelt outside the palace and begged for their lives, believing that the Marquis of Yasukuni should be a trick, and some Confucian scholars came up with some evidence to prove that the manipulator behind the previous Yellow River corruption case was actually King Rui, and that King Rui had robbed the people's daughters among the people.

The empress thought that this matter was also extremely tricky, and then Prime Minister Li Cheng, who was in the neutral faction, stood up and took a fair way - since the Marquis of Yasukuni had admitted the fact of corruption, this was an indelible fact, and he should be punished, dealt with in accordance with the law, dismissed from office, and exiled to Dengzhou.

This kind of punishment is not severe, in fact, the corruption case is just such a verdict, but Ruiwang and his party are bent on condemning Xu Ziqian to death. In this way, King Rui and his party saw that Xu Ziqian was already exiled, and in a place like Dengzhou, it was possible that they would never be able to return to the capital, which was equivalent to completely disposing of Xu Ziqian. On Xu Ziqian's side, seeing that Xu Ziqian's life was finally saved, and the wonderful thing is that he had not yet copied his home, so he was also satisfied.