There was no one in the vicinity of Dali Temple for several miles, except for the officials, and the only living creatures were probably the weeds that grew wildly in the spring and the evergreen tree that was dying in the east.

The carriage staggered, and before it could reach the door, it was stopped.

There are two doors in Dali Temple, the main gate looks like her, at least not too scary, and there is a half secret room, only their officials can walk, after the main gate, it is the place where ordinary officials deal with documents, and then down the back, it is the place where prisoners and witnesses are held.

At this moment, the carriage that was "not good-looking" stopped near the main entrance, and the master and servant who was stopped stood in front of the stone lion that the old man killed a few days ago, and the guard standing guard looked very young, with a scar on his face, extending from the eyebrow bone to the cheekbone on the other side, with a scab, and he said with a smile: "Princess, there is an order from above, no one is allowed to visit, you better go back!" ”

"We don't go in, we just want to send something to His Highness, isn't that okay?" Retreating, Chunyu carried the food box and tried to reason with the guard, however, no matter what she said, the guard had one meaning from beginning to end: no, no, really no.

"Then, these pastries will be given to you," Li Xiang didn't expect to get in, but she had to come here, "It's ...... to bother for a long time."

Li Xiang was suddenly silenced, and the polite words of the second half of the sentence were stuck in his throat and couldn't be spit out.

"Your Excellency!" The guard heard the footsteps, saluted, and silently took half a step back, standing a little straighter than before.

At the main entrance, a man walked out while trimming his cuffs, black clothes were embroidered with dark red edges, that was the unique official robe of Dali Temple, the pace of people was brisk, but a little casual, everywhere was a little careless, hearing the movement of the guards, he raised his eyes and looked, paused, and came over.

"What's going on?" The man asked, glancing at the guards, at the master and servant, and at the guards and carriages behind them.

The guard summed it up in a succinct sentence or two, and waited quietly.

"I see, mother, you really can't go in." The man looked at the food box in Chunyu's hand again, lowered his eyes slightly, and suddenly said, "Things are okay." ”

The guard didn't let go, but now it's simple, it's just that Li Xiang doesn't want to send it, anyway, it basically can't be delivered to people in its entirety, if it weren't for the concubine asking her to enter the palace another day, she wouldn't have come here to visit.

"I'll bring things in, Niangniang will stop here, if the Seven Kings of Xiang haven't done it, Dali Temple will not kill innocents indiscriminately, and the prince will not allow it." The man saw that the master and servant didn't move, and the maid didn't let go of the food box, and added two more sentences, and at the end, she stretched out a hand.

Li Xiang looked at the hand, looked away, and held the ten fingers as white as jade, but the fingertips sank into the palm little by little.

"I'm tired of the food box, and the two of you, please go back." The man stretched out his hand for a long time and reminded him, and Chunyu handed over the food box.

"Niangniang, what else is going on?"

"No ......"

"Please." The man took the food box and directly issued an "eviction order".

A few masters and servants also quickly disappeared near Dali Temple.

The guards took turn, and the two guards hesitated for a moment, but in the end they still took a few steps forward, "My lord, the people from the Xiangqi Palace, have already gone away." ”

The man turned his head to look at the guard who was speaking, "This officer looks like a blind man?" ”

The guard choked, was stunned, and shut up, but Lord Xue, who was still in good spirits just now, was cold again.

The man walked back with the food box, passed by the courtyard, and went up the stairs a few steps, several officials in the middle hall were still consulting the documents, and there was no shortage of people who were struggling to write.

"Things from the Seven Princes' Mansion, test." The man casually threw the food box on the case, and went to the back shelf to look through a few files.

Hearing this, a few small officials put a set of strange things, a few people knocked on the buckle for a while, and almost opened the whole food box, a plate of crystal clear osmanthus cake, was also tossed to not half of the piece is relatively complete, a quarter of an hour later, put the things together, and then go to register and make a book. It's just that the plate of osmanthus cake can basically only be counted as osmanthus dregs.

"Master Xue, this thing is fine." The little official finished registering, and then turned to the man.

"Xiangqi Wangfu has been grinding for so long before anyone comes to visit, right one, you go with a few people to keep an eye on them, when you go to where and where you see someone, who has seen them, before the truth is revealed, come to report at least once a day." The man stood up and signed the order.

Finally, he carried the box of osmanthus cakes and went inside.

After going around for a while, I saw a tightly knit iron door, and the guard at the door unlocked it when he saw someone coming.

As soon as you enter, you will see a gray wall, you can't see your five fingers, you can walk more than ten steps, you can see that there is light on both sides, and there are four guards in the dark. The man opened the food box, twisted a piece of osmanthus cake that had been broken into slag, and put it in his mouth, the sweetness spread between his teeth, the man covered the food box, and a little smile gradually appeared on his handsome and cold face.

Then walk along the firelight one hundred and eighty steps, the smell of blood is getting stronger, you can vaguely hear the screams, suddenly open up, suddenly see the hall of nineteen zhang square, in addition to the firelight, there is a four-foot-wide window on one side, the window is extremely high, more than three feet.

The sun poured down through the window, but the March sun still couldn't bring a little warmth, the whole dungeon seemed to be an eternal ice cellar, this little warmth, like the hope of the people who entered here, could be seen, but it was not as good as the invisible.

The firelight flickered, and all kinds of torture instruments could be seen hanging on the walls, all of them were just phantoms, blood and water mixed with bodily fluids, and the wails that filled every inch of the land.

Most of the people in the cell are dehumanized, and even screaming and wailing are a little extravagant, curled up in the corner, no different from dead, and when they see someone coming, there is no movement, as if they don't see it, let alone cry for help and beg for mercy, like a walking corpse, unable to survive or die.

The innermost cell was a little different, there were no prisoners next to it, and there were three or four empty cells in a row.

Xue Ziyi carried the food box, came all the way, stood still in front of the door of the last cell, and put down the food box.

The people inside faced the wall, their long hair was messy, covering most of their faces, and the dark gray prison uniforms were scattered with blood stains and cracks a few inches long, and whip marks and blood scabs were faintly visible.

"Your princess sent it, your master probably can't eat it, so come over and collect it." Hearing this, the prisoner stood up with the dry grass on the ground, stumbled step by step, and finally came face to face with Xue Ziyi outside the prison door.

"No matter how reluctant you are, that is also the princess of our Xiangqi Mansion, Lord Xue, don't say Your Highness, I, do you dare to kill?" The prisoner raised the corners of his mouth and said defiantly.

"Want to die? Then think about it, before Murong Jin comes back, you won't be able to get your wish. Xue Ziyi tugged at the corners of his mouth, "You'd better hold on for a few more days, otherwise, as soon as you lose your breath, everyone will know that your Highness has absconded in fear of sin!" ”

The prisoner, who had been provoking death a moment ago, now stopped talking, and laboriously pulled the food box inside, and sat back down, facing the wall, without saying a word.