Xia Wenxuan's determination to save Chu Tiankuo has been made. However, she didn't want her father to die.

What should she do to defuse this crisis?

Xia Wenxuan trembled uncontrollably, and her heart suddenly rose to her throat. At that moment, she saw the pained expression on her father's pale face.

Her voice was weak: "My head is good...... Halo ......"

After saying that, he fell to the ground with a thud.

Oops, the moment she landed, she felt that it hurt all over her body. It's just that the pain in the body is not as good as the pain in the heart.

"Miss!" Sun Shan screamed in fright.

Seeing Xia Wenxuan fainting, Chu Tiankuo was stunned and let go of the hand that was blocking Xiangye.

Xiang Ye rushed towards his daughter Xia Wenxuan with lightning speed.

The people watching outside the hall were amazed when they saw this scene.

Duan Zisheng hurriedly ordered the few female officials in the hall: "Quickly, carry the witness down the hall!" ”

"Wait!" Xiangye hurriedly stopped: "She is the daughter of the old man, and she should be brought back to the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

Yanxiang was very enthusiastic, and shouted urgently: "It's all this time, what are you arguing about!" It's important to save people, so let's take it down and go to the doctor first. ”

Xiangye's attitude was resolute: "No, the old man wants to take her back to the Prime Minister's Mansion!" ”

He is not stupid, he handed over his daughter Xia Wenxuan to them, maybe they all used some tricks to trick her. Now, he will never give them the opportunity to touch his daughter.

Duan Zisheng was shocked, and shouted sternly: "Someone! Help the witness Xia Wenxuan down and ask Miss Lan for treatment. ”

Xiangye protects the calf: "The old man is here, who dares!" As he spoke, he opened his arms and stopped the female officer who was approaching Xia Wenxuan.

Seeing this, the ecological degree of the joke hardened: "Come on, control Xiangye!" ”

What people never expected was that almost at the same time as Lord Duan's words fell, four officials immediately received the order and pressed Xiangye forward.

It's probably because these officials have long been unpleasant to the face, so let's wait for this moment to do it. Although Xiangye is above 10,000 people under one person, he has supreme power. However, at this moment, the official errand of Dali Temple, where will Xiangye be put in his eyes? They obeyed the orders of Duan Zisheng of Dali Temple, as long as their Lord Duan gave an order, they did not hesitate to arrest people.

In Dali Temple, as long as the law is violated, it is a relative of the emperor, or the prime minister and the crown prince, and they have to accept the punishment of the law.

There is no distinction between high and low. In front of the royal law, everyone is equal and never favoritism.

Xiangye was controlled, and his baby daughter fainted, he was a little flustered and lost his sense of proportion, and he actually shouted loudly.

Several female officials knew the current affairs, and without waiting for Lord Duan's further instructions, they took the initiative to help Xia Wenxuan and take her down. Yanxiang and Lu Cai'er hurriedly followed for two days.

Xiangye saw his daughter being taken away, and his heart became angry. He scolded and scolded, and he didn't choose what to say: "Duan Zisheng, you are despicable, you are shameless!" How dare you forcibly take away the old man's daughter! This account, the old man will definitely settle it with you. ”

As for Sun Shan, his legs were weak, and he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground, unable to say anything. Niu Kelian was not present, if he was present to see Sun Shan's cowardice, he would definitely be in a happy mood.

After scolding Duan Zisheng, Xiangye yelled at the official who held him down: "Let go of the old man!" You bullying paws! The old man wants to go to the emperor to sue you! ”

His voice became louder and louder, and his confidence became more and more sufficient, almost pulling his throat: "Don't think that the old man doesn't know." Do you think you can do whatever you want with the support of the prince? In this court, it is still a place of reason. ”

The people outside the hall seemed to understand a little when they heard Xiang Ye say this. It turned out that it was just Lord Duan who favored the prince and oppressed Xiangye. A dignified prime minister, being held down by the officials like this, is really undignified, and it looks miserable.

In the crowd, there was a sympathetic voice shouting: "Let go of Xiangye and punish the prince severely!" ”

The mood seemed to be contagious, and the voice coaxed together, and immediately got a large response. Soon, the rhythm was crooked again, and the voices of complaining for Xiangye were endless.

Xiucai met Bing, and he couldn't explain it clearly. Duan Zisheng really had a headache, and when he met this group of people who didn't know what was right or wrong, he really had no tricks.

Seeing Duan Zisheng's confusion, the prefect Fang Hongyi took the initiative to ask for instructions: "Lord Duan, it's better for me to explain to the people." He volunteered to help Duan Zisheng share his worries.

Duan Zisheng had no other solution, so he nodded and agreed: "Then it's hard for you." ”

Fang Hongyi got up and walked to the door of the public hall.

"Lord Fang is here." The crowd finally had a different voice.

Facing countless pairs of eyes looking at him, Fang Hongyi spoke majestically: "Be quiet, everyone listen to me!" “

The people nodded obediently, and the surroundings were very quiet.

Then, Fang Hongyi explained everything that happened in the hall, including what Xia Wenxuan said before she fainted, and told the people truthfully.

If these are the words, from the mouths of others, the people will be skeptical. However, when the words came out of Lord Fang's mouth, it was different. The people believed and stopped making trouble. Their prejudice against the crown prince disappeared, and they had a prejudice against Xiangye.

Unexpectedly, Fang Hongyi stepped out and easily dealt with those people. Duan Zisheng smiled bitterly, he knew that this would be fine, and it would have been good to let Fang Hongyi come forward to solve it earlier.

The commotion outside the hall was brought under control.

In the hall, Xiangye still didn't care about making trouble again.

Xiangye was so angry that his hair stood upside down: "Duan Zisheng, let go of the old man!" Why do you treat the old man like this! He finally understood that these officials were acting according to Duan Zisheng's orders, and it was useless for him to shout at those officials to cut their throats. He can only sprinkle his resentment on Duan Zisheng.

Duan Zisheng looked at Xiang Ye's pale face and felt that Xiang Ye had a trace of pathetic. Xiangye's insult to him just now, he didn't care about Xiangye.

His face sank slightly, but then he laughed: "Xiangye, you shouldn't have heard Xia Wenxuan's words just now, right?" It doesn't matter if you don't hear it clearly, I'll tell you again. ”

How could it be that I didn't hear clearly? No wonder Duan Zisheng dared to do this to him. Xiangye stiffened, only to feel the wind behind him, and a layer of cold sweat.

The joke doesn't mind repeating it again: "According to Xia Wenxuan's latest testimony, you and Ji Zheng have long colluded. She could prove that the blood book was real. In this way, I don't know if Xiangye can hear clearly? ”

Xiangye hated embarrassment, pretended not to have such a thing, and denied it to death: "How is this possible!" How could the old man's daughter say that! Duan Zisheng, you spew people with blood! You can't solve the case well, just fabricate rumors like this, you are not worthy of being the secretary of Dali Temple. ”

Duan Zisheng was not angry, but chuckled. He ignored Xiang Ye's sophistry, and was reasonable: "Xia Yuanhai, according to Xia Wenxuan's testimony, you are already suspected of murdering the crown prince Chu Tiankuo. This official will temporarily put you in prison, and wait for Xia Wenxuan to wake up, and then open the court for interrogation. “

Duan Zisheng didn't give Xiang Ye the slightest chance to argue, and shouted: "Come on, remove Xiang Ye's official uniform!" ”

Regardless of Xiangye's struggles to resist, the two officials quickly took off Xiangye's coat with their hands and feet.

"Lord Duan, what should you do with this Sun Shan?" One of the officials asked a lot of questions.

Duan Zisheng showed no mercy: "Sun Shan and Xiangye were imprisoned together." ”

At this moment, Niu Kelian was not present, and if he was present to see this scene, he would be emotional. Fortunately, he abandoned evil and returned to righteousness and broke away from Xiangye, otherwise Sun Shan's fate would be his fate.

At this moment, Yanxiang was not present, and if she was present, she would definitely rejoice when she saw this scene. Xiangye, who is full of evil, has finally been cleaned up.

It's just that at this time, Xiangye is still unwilling, and he released cruel words angrily: "Duan Zisheng!" The old man and you are incompatible! You wait! ”

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and he is not alarmist. Even if the emperor wants to deal with him, he has to find a good time, Duan Zisheng dares to treat him like this. He won't give the joke good fruit to eat. He believed that his daughter would only say something when she was confused, and that she would keep her mouth shut when she woke up.

Duan Zisheng wants to cure his sins, dream.

No matter how Xiang Ye threatened, Duan Zisheng was unmoved. He wasn't intimidated, he could see it a lot. When some executives and elites fall from power, they will struggle. They didn't cry when they saw the coffin, they were still arrogant, and they thought they would be fine.

is a very typical example like Xiang Ye, and he doesn't know it when he dies.

Duan Zisheng's voice was crisp and unobtrusive: "Take both of them down and temporarily detain them in prison." ”

Duan Zisheng at this time, and Duan Zisheng, who was hesitant and didn't know how to judge Chu Tiankuo before, are really like two people.

No matter how Xiang Ye resisted, it was useless, no one obeyed his orders, this is Dali Temple and not Xiangfu. He was very unwilling, and was forcibly dragged down by the officials, no different from the treatment of ordinary suspects.

He screamed and cursed almost all the time, and the scene looked as tragic as killing a pig. This is very different from Xiang Ye's usual image and style of doing things.

However, this is also a reversal that is too fast, which is unacceptable to Xiangye for a while. Obviously, when he heard that Duan Zisheng sentenced Chu Tiankuo and Chi Le to life imprisonment, he was happy for a while, and everything suddenly changed dramatically.

It's like dreaming, waking up in a dream. Sadly, it's not a dream, it's real.

To say that Xiangye is not flustered, it is a lie. He didn't calculate that his daughter would turn the gun on himself. He was both heartbroken and remorseful, and he truly regretted that he was not at the beginning. In fact, he didn't have much confidence in his daughter, and he had a sense of foreboding. He was afraid that his daughter would really give everything for Chu Tiankuo, including his life.

If you know today, why bother in the first place. At the beginning, he shouldn't have let Chu Tiankuo go with the kindness of a woman. At the beginning, his daughter threatened him to let Chu Tiankuo go with her own life, but he loved his daughter too much, so he would be soft-hearted for a while.

Now, for the sake of Chu Tiankuo, his daughter did not hesitate to kill him, and did not hesitate to accompany the entire Prime Minister's Mansion to the funeral. If that were the case, he shouldn't have had such a daughter.

What retribution! O iniquity!

In the court, Duan Zisheng changed the verdict: "Due to the new witnesses and testimony in this case, there have been new changes in the case, and the results of the previous trial are invalid." Currently, the witness is in a coma. Wait for the witnesses to wake up before continuing the trial. When the time comes, Dali Temple will notify. ”

After saying this, he vigorously patted the shocked wood: "Retreat!" ”

This time, instead of making noise or dissatisfaction, the people accepted it calmly and left on their own.

After a few moments, the crowd slowly dispersed.

Chu Tiankuo stood in place and raised his eyes and glanced at the sky outside the yamen.

The thick cloudy clouds had dispersed, and the sunlight was pouring down from the sky through the clouds.

The people in the hall, such as Shui Mai and Dongfang Hong, they were all relieved.

"There is no way out of the mountains and rivers, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village." It is really appropriate to use this poem to describe everything that happened in the hall just now.

It's just that Duan Zisheng didn't really relax. Xia Wenxuan only revealed a little clue, and I don't know if she would be willing to confide everything when she woke up again after fainting?

After getting out of the court, Duan Zisheng hurriedly went to the guest room to inquire about the situation.

And they followed.

Chu Tiankuo, Chi Le, and Fang Hongyi were still taken back to the prison by the officials.

In the first year of Xingde, Hong Gaode proclaimed himself emperor, established the Great Western Kingdom, and set the capital of Fengcheng. In the early days of the establishment of the regime, the surrounding countries were eyeing the Great Western Kingdom and provoked wars for no reason. Before the expedition, Xu Guifei, the mother of Xigong, was 8 months pregnant. The emperor proposed an edict, if the prince was born, he would be named Hong Chengye, and the prince would be established, and if he was born a princess, he would be crowned Princess Changyu.

After Emperor Hong left the palace, Queen Xia made a plan to let Xu Guifei slip the fetus, who knows, the sky did not fulfill her wish, and the fetus in Xu Guifei's womb was born, and it actually survived.

"Your Majesty has already doted on Concubine Xu, and now, she has given birth to a prince again, and I see that our master and queen throne will not be able to be kept."

"Isn't it? Listening to the palace maid in the West Palace, the prince was born white and fat, very cute, his face resembled His Majesty, there was a righteousness between his eyebrows, and he must be a good emperor when he grows up. ”

This is the little palace maid in the queen's palace whispering in private.

Even if they don't talk about it, the Empress Xia knows that if she doesn't try to get rid of the prince, I'm afraid that life won't be better in the future.

She immediately summoned her elder brother Xiangye and Chu Xiang, the head of the imperial guard, to discuss countermeasures. They plotted to burn down the West Palace, which was carried out by General Chu.

At the critical moment, General Chu gave up the idea of harming the prince and exchanged his own son for the prince's exit from the palace.

Xu Guifei cried and cried, turned her heart sideways, picked up the hairpin, and used the tip of the hairpin to tattoo the word "heaven" on the prince's left shoulder. The stab is in the child's body, the pain is in the mother's heart, and after the stabbing is finished, Xu Guifei's painful liver and intestines are broken. She trembled and hung a jade pendant on the crown prince, which was given by the emperor himself, and there is only one in the world today.

Concubine Xu Guifei kowtowed to Chu Xiang, and said with tears in her eyes, "General Chu, please accept my three bows, your great kindness and great virtue, this palace will repay it in the next life." ”

"Niangniang, you can't help it, please get up ...... quickly" As he spoke, he heard footsteps outside, General Chu picked up the prince and hurriedly fled through the side door.

Xu Guifei fainted.

The person who came was the imperial doctor Feng Nanyang. Legend has it that this person was originally a man in the rivers and lakes, and his nickname was the fortune teller. He can pinch and calculate, not only has excellent medical skills, but also has extraordinary martial arts. He took away General Chu's son, performed light skills, shuttled freely in the palace, easily got rid of the pursuit of the palace guards, and left the city safely.

After Xia, he ordered people to burn down the West Palace, and Xu Guifei and a cadre were buried in the fire. During the inventory of the body, it was found that the body of a baby was missing. Plus General Chu Xiang's whereabouts are unknown. Empress Xia and Xiangye concluded that the prince was most likely taken away by Chu Xiang. So, Empress Xia secretly sent people to hunt down and kill General Chu Xiang.

In the fourth year of Xingde, the emperor returned triumphantly.

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