"It was the law that condemned him to death. But who is it that wants him to die? ”

After asking this question, Pei Yuanhao did not speak again, but stood in front of me, looking at me with burning eyes, as if he wanted to see a hole in my body, I was panicked by such a gaze, although I had already known the answer to this question, but I couldn't say anything at this moment.

The two of them faced each other like this for a long time, and they didn't wait for my answer, Pei Yuanhao smiled faintly at the end.

He said, "Well, let me answer you." ”

“……”

"It was the law and himself who condemned him to death! If the first article of the law was not the death of the murderer, I could not have made such a judgment; If he hadn't confessed in front of everyone that he was the murderer of Princess Anguo, I would not have been able to make such a verdict! ”

“……”

"But, these are not the most important, the most important thing is the people who want him to die, the princes and princes who watched this murder happen with their own eyes and heard him confess his guilt!"

“……”

"And who are the people behind those princes and princesses-" he said, looking at me with a knife in his eyes, "You know what. ”

Although this sentence is a question, it is not that he is asking.

This question does not need to be answered by anyone at all!

Pei Yuanhao looked at my pale face, let out a long sigh, and turned around again.

He said in a deep voice: "The mouth of the world is not so easy to block; It is impossible to reproduce the incident back then! ”

I only felt like I had been punched hard in my chest, the dull pain made me almost unsteady on my feet, I staggered back two steps, and then wrapped myself around the beaded curtain on the door behind me, and the sound of the curtain made Pei Yuanhao turn his head to me, but looking at my helpless eyes, his eyes flashed, and he subconsciously walked in front of me and stretched out his hand to me, as if he wanted to grab me, but his hand reached out to me in the air, but stopped.

Because he saw me take another step back.

The hand froze in front of me.

I looked at the hand, the fingers were slender and strong, but they didn't grasp anything, just stiffened slightly, and finally, slowly drooped again.

At this moment, both of them fell silent, and I understood what he meant.

Mo Tieyi and a few of them, even if they rebelled against the court and assassinated officials, they were just some small people in the end, and their life and death would only be so concerned if Liu Li insisted on avenging his brother; But this time, Liu Qinghan's life and death implicated too many people and too many things, and it was impossible to fool them with a death row prisoner like Mo Tieyi and them.

Otherwise, Pei Yuanhao will lose his trust in those princes and princesses, and they will have a reason to rebel against him!

It's a dead end!

I raised my head and looked at him in a panic: "Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor has to kill him?" ”

"......" Pei Yuanhao was silent for a long time, and suddenly said: "It's not that I have to kill him." ”

“……”

"It's me, I have to sentence him to death!"

“……！”

I had been silent, almost desperate, as I listened to him say these words, but after a moment of silence, my heart suddenly moved—

What did he just say?!

I raised my head to look at him, but saw that Pei Yuanhao no longer looked at me, but turned around lightly and turned his back to me.

However, my ears still echoed the words he had just said.

"It's me, I have to sentence him to death!"

Not death, but death!

Although these two sentences seem to have the same result, the meaning is not the same, and it can even be said that they are very different!

I suddenly even choked my breath, and looked at him in surprise: "Your Majesty the Emperor!" ”

"......" Pei Yuanhao was still standing there motionless.

My heart was beating suddenly, my ears were buzzing on both sides, and I could barely hear my own voice, I could only rely on my instinct to lower my voice and whisper a little lower: "If I can give him a chance to live......"

"Hmph," Pei Yuanhao immediately said coldly: "However, some people don't think like that. ”

“……”

"Those people are not so easy to fool."

“……”

"I, although I don't want to watch him die, but I can't watch the situation chaos because of him!"

I immediately bit my lower lip.

"Those people" are not so easy to fool, it is impossible to take a random death row prisoner to pretend to be Liu Qinghan like they did in the past, and it is impossible to find a few people to rob the prison, because in that case, they will not give up. Once the situation deteriorates, not only Liu Qinghan's life will not be guaranteed, but Pei Yuanhao's painstaking efforts to stabilize the situation will also be broken by those with ulterior motives.

It was precisely under such a trade-off of pros and cons that he made the decision to sentence Liu Qinghan to be beheaded!

Thinking of this, he and I fell silent.

The study was very quiet, probably because he had already ordered it to go down, and I could not even hear anyone moving in the courtyard, only a very light wind blew into the almost frozen room, and dispersed the wisp of green smoke that rose from the incense burner.

Silence, in such an environment, becomes more and more cautious.

The hand I had hidden in my sleeve was still holding the death-free jade plaque.

The cold sweat made the jade plate slippery, and if I didn't use force, I could hardly grasp it, and my ten fingers tightly clasped the finely carved patterns on the jade plate, and I don't know how deep the traces have been on the skin.

Then, at this time, I spoke—

"What if, 'those people' can't afford to offend, or rather, the forces that want to win over?"

Pei Yuanhao's shoulders twitched slightly.

I looked up at him and said, "If such a force does it, it will be impossible for them to continue to make trouble, and the situation will not deteriorate." ”

“……”

"What if that's the kind of force?"

As I spoke, I clenched the jade card harder, only to feel shortness of breath, and the violent heartbeat in my chest almost made my whole body tense a little.

At this time, Pei Yuanhao slowly turned around.

His face was still pale and tired, but there was a little gleam in his bloodshot eyes, which made his whole body look as sharp as a sword about to be unsheathed.

"You're going to use 'them'?"

I bit my lower lip and nodded slightly.

"Do you know what the result is?"

“……”

"Liu Qinghan will no longer be a courtier of the imperial court."

My heart sank.

And Pei Yuanhao had a cold face and continued: "And the person who saved him is the enemy of the imperial court!" ”

“……”

"You know, what that means?"

I was silent for a long time, then nodded heavily.

This means that the cause they have worked so hard to build and the cause they have fought for will be ruined in a certain way.

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