Chang Suian's confession was delivered to the palace as early as noon.

After the person has confessed his guilt, the next step is to hand it over to the three divisions to determine the punishment.

Those who hurt people's lives should be beheaded according to the law of Dasheng.

Dasheng has a month of imprisonment, and prisoners are not allowed to be executed before the autumn harvest in September, but today is the last day of September, if it is really punished by beheading, then the sentence is just around the corner.

Therefore, in the afternoon, in the Xuanzheng Palace, Wei Shuyi admonished about this matter: "...... Now that General Chang is rebelling outside, if his son dies here, he is afraid that his loyalty will be hurt and the battle situation will be unfavorable, so the ministers are brave and hope that the saint will think twice!"

Previously, they had tried to protect Chang Sui'an, but now that they had "confessed" their sins, it was almost impossible to get rid of their crimes, so they could only try to intercede in a roundabout way to save Chang Sui'an's life.

"Your Majesty, what Wei Shilang said is true." In Su Rili, Mrs. Chu rarely echoed Wei Shuyi's words, but at this time, he also said: "General Chang has worked hard and made great achievements, and only this son under his knees will continue the incense, if he loses this son, it will be equivalent to cutting off the bloodline...... Doesn't this chill the hearts of all the generals?"

In his opinion, it is just dross, but at this time, the situation is special, so he should fight poison with poison.

The old lady said, her tone becoming more and more painful: "...... What's more, now that the whereabouts of the little girl in the Chang family are unknown, life and death are uncertain, if something really goes wrong, when General Chang Da, who is wounded in battle, returns to Beijing in the coming day, what kind of face will this Manchu dynasty have?"

"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

There are not a few people who echo it.

But rebuttals abound.

"According to what you say, could it be that the girl of the eldest grandson's family can only die in vain, and the murderer will not be held responsible?"

"He has already been guilty, and if he cannot be punished according to the law without discrimination, how can he serve the public? Where is the prestige of the law?"

There were no officials of the eldest grandson clan in these voices, and the eldest grandson had not been in court for many days because he was sick.

But there is no need for Changsun Yuan to come forward, and there is no shortage of voices on his behalf or through it to put pressure on various places.

Looking at the courtiers who were still arguing, the Holy Book Emperor did not make a clear statement for a while.

It's come to this point, where is that girl?

I really suffered an accident, and I really ...... Isn't it her Chongyue?

……

"Father, now that it has been determined that the murderer is Mingjin, why don't you immediately explain this?"

In the eldest grandson's mansion, the eldest grandson Lin also knew about Chang Sui'an's confession, and asked his father anxiously at the moment.

Eldest Sun Yan said, "Now the evidence is insufficient, and the time has not come."

"But father, if this continues, then Chang Jialangjun's life will be in danger!"

The eldest grandson Yan looked at his son: "Ah Lian, you should understand that the person who wronged the Chang family Langjun was never our eldest grandson's family, but the Ming family, a saint - one day, the world will know all this."

"But...... Do you want to watch Chang Jialangjun die unjustly like this?" Although the thirteen-year-old boy is undecided, his mind is not ignorant, and his vision is not narrow...... What if General Chang turned against Xu Zhengye and rebelled against the imperial court with those rebels?"

Changsun Yan: "In this battle of Yangzhou, it is not the imperial court that will be opposed, but the Empress Ming who claims to be the emperor unjustly...... They want to support the crown prince and support the orthodox bloodline of the Li family, so what is the word "rebellion"?"

The eldest grandson was stunned.

After a moment, he lowered his voice and asked, "Father...... So is Xu Zhengye's army related to our eldest grandson's family? Grandfather, is he an insider?"

Or ...... Co-conspirators?

"You are still young now, your heart is impetuous, and you don't need to worry too much about some important matters for the time being, and everything in the family is arranged by your grandfather. Your sister-in-law's eucalyptus, when the time is right, your grandfather and I will surely get this justice back."

The eldest grandson Yan didn't want to say more to his son: "Go back, tomorrow to sacrifice Kong, you go with the people of the clan."

"Yes."

The eldest grandson walked out of the study alone, and his mood was extremely dull.

Therefore, Xu Zhengye's grandfather knew about the army

Is it? Did my grandfather use this to put pressure on the empress? Like those precedents of military advice?

Now, I watched Chang Jialangjun unjustly die...... Was it part of my grandfather's plan?

The calculation of interests behind this is circled layer by layer, and together it has become what my father called a "big event...... Is the life and death of the young man who was wronged and injured by him with an inkstone a trivial matter that no one cares about?

No, at least the other party's family must care, in the eyes of the family, it is a big deal, just like he lost his sister-in-law......

After the eldest grandson hesitated repeatedly, he still came to the dungeon of Dali Temple and asked to see Chang Sui'an.

Thinking of the little boy's blatant smashing and wounding of the prisoner that day, the jailer didn't dare to make his own decisions, but he didn't dare to offend the eldest grandson's family, so he went to ask Han Shaoqing for advice.

Han Shaoqing agreed, but only asked the jailer to convey his intentions, and asked Lang Jun of the eldest grandson family not to make Dali Temple difficult.

Of course, this is just a scene of exoneration after the fact, he is not afraid of the retaliation of the eldest grandson's family, and he can even be happy to see it.

After the jailer opened the cell door, the eldest grandson saw Chang Sui'an.

The young man's tone was cold: "I want to say a few words to him alone."

Although he felt that the prisoner could not say anything now, the jailer still responded, but he did not dare to leave too far.

"Everyday?"

"Wake up."

The eldest grandson squatted down and pushed the unconscious young man, and when he saw that the person was slow to react, he couldn't help frowning.

He subconsciously looked at the other party's forehead, but he couldn't see the traces of his smashing that day, not that he smashed it lightly, but that the other party's injuries were too many to distinguish at all.

But he soon discovered that the most serious wound on the other party's body was the wound on his shoulder, which was still bleeding.

He had heard about Chang Sui'an's punishment, but he didn't expect it to be so much a heavy sentence......

Avoiding the jailer's gaze, the eldest grandson took out the wound medicine he had brought, and poured all of it on the wound, while pressing with his palm to stop the bleeding.

It was about a lot of pain, Chang Suian frowned lightly, and a low voice came out of his mouth.

"What did you say?"

The eldest grandson leaned closer to listen.

The young man with gray and chapped lips struggled to make a dream-like voice: "Ning, Ning......"

The eldest grandson heard it this time.

After a moment, he whispered in the other party's ear, "Don't worry, Chang Niangzi is safe. She asked me to come here, and she said, "You must hold on, and nothing will happen."

Hearing this, Chang Sui'an's frowning eyebrows slowly loosened, and after a while, a faint word sounded: "Good ......"

After a moment, he said, "Thank you......

He was conscious at the moment, and he couldn't tell who it was, but he was still grateful and thankful.

The eldest grandson was stunned for a moment, then turned his head away, and suddenly his eyes were red.

It wasn't until the wounds under his hands stopped bleeding that he removed his hands, took out the pills for healing internal injuries, and stuffed them into Chang Sui'an's mouth.

"I'm sorry."

The young man was ashamed and blamed himself: "That's all I can do, I hope you will hold on."

After the eldest grandson left, the jailer who put the food took advantage of the cell head to send the eldest grandson Langjun and hurriedly went to the cell to check on Chang Suian's situation.

Seeing that Chang Sui'an's wound had stopped bleeding, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Chang Lang-kun, let's eat some......

He took out a bowl of vegetable porridge and fed it to Chang Sui'an with a spoon.

There is also medicine to heal injuries in the porridge, which is Yao Yi's order.

"When the villain and Daddy were young, they received the life-saving kindness of General Chang and His Royal Highness the First Prince in the war......" Seeing that Chang Suian couldn't eat, the jailer's voice choked: "The villain believes that General Chang's Lang Jun can't do anything to kill, and the villain knows that you are wronged."

"You have to live to have a chance to clear your name......

A tear slipped out of the corner of Chang Sui'an's closed eye.

The jailer tried to feed another spoonful, and Chang Suian swallowed it.

The jailer quickly finished feeding the bowl of porridge.

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The teenager opened his mouth again.

"......" The jailer looked at the empty porridge bowl, a little confused.

Tomorrow, he'll have a big bowl!

……

At the same moment, Qiao Yang, the priest of the country, was preparing for tomorrow's ceremony of sacrificing Confucius.

The first day of October in the calendar year to worship the Confucian Temple is a major event for the top and bottom of the country.

The ceremony was held in the Confucian Temple, headed by the teachers and students of the Guozijian Temple, the main priest of the sacrificial wine, and the officials of the court and the central government participated in the sacrifice and accompanied the worship, and many great Confucian literati also went there.

"Daddy......" Qiao Yubai came back from outside.

"It's all arranged?" Qiao asked in a low voice.

Qiao Yubai nodded with a straight face: "Daddy, don't worry."

Then he said, "Master Infinite has someone bring something, and he is in the courtyard at this moment."

Joe sacrificial wine immediately went to see it.

A large box unloaded from the mule cart was placed in the courtyard, Qiao Saijiu stepped forward to open it himself, and a young monk around ten years old stood up, folded his hands and recited "Amitabha".

Qiao Xijiu was taken aback: "...... How is it a person?"

He hurriedly asked the little monk, "Where is the crane I want?"

What is the matter at such a juncture? Can't you tell the difference between a human and a crane?

"Amitabha, when the little monk arrives, the crane arrives."

The little monk took off the piccolo on his waist, put it to his lips and blew it, the flute sounded, and a white crane flew over.

The white crane landed beside the little monk, and the little monk put down the piccolo.

Qiao Yang was surprised, and hurriedly waved his hands: "Disrespectful and disrespectful......

Cranes and gods all have auspicious and auspicious meanings, one year, when the saint was in the spring festival of Dayun Temple, there were cranes to peach branches, hovering above the altar for a long time and never left, this matter is widely spread.

But Qiao Yang knew that the crane was endlessly raised, and this crane was good at dancing and knowing how to listen to people's orders.

But he only learned today that the crane monk in Dayun Temple was actually a ten-year-old little monk.

……

It was night, and there was a sudden knock on the door, which suddenly woke up Frost, who had been sleeping unsteadily: "...... Who?!"

Outside, the servant's voice was heard, "The prince has sent Miss Frost to serve!"

Frost subconsciously hugged the quilt tightly, and responded in a trembling voice: "I...... I'm going to get up and get dressed!"

"Hurry up, don't keep the prince waiting!"

Frost hurriedly got up from the bed and lit the lamp, hurriedly dressed and sat down in front of the dresser, she wanted to draw her eyebrows, but when she saw the face full of scabs and scars in the mirror, her eyes suddenly turned red.

But she didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly painted her eyebrows and applied powder and rouge, but she couldn't cover those scars at all, but it looked weird and ridiculous.

Is she going to use this face to meet that crazy son?

At such an hour, he suddenly asked her to serve, but he was afraid that he was stimulated by something...... I don't know what terrible torture awaits her!

For a while, fear, humiliation, and hatred that he didn't dare to face it made Frost completely collapse, and he fell in front of the mirror and cried.

But no one came to comfort her.

The servant took the word and went away.

Although she is only a roommate, when she was originally favored, there were always little maids around her to serve diligently, but now that she is in such a situation, those little maids dare not come to her anymore, for fear of being implicated by her.

There were two other houses in this courtyard, but they both died, one committed suicide and the other was beaten to death.

The courtyard at night was as silent as death, and the frost gradually stopped crying.

In a short time, the apricot trees in the courtyard were hung with satin, and the frost stepped on the drum bench.

Committing suicide and being killed, she chose the former.

The drum stool was kicked open, and the woman's body hung in the air with a painful expression.

The next moment, someone suddenly appeared, hugged her body, and rescued her.

Sitting on the ground, Yushuang coughed for a while, full of tears, and when she saw someone, she couldn't help but be stunned: "...... How are you?"

In front of her was a middle-aged woman, dressed as a servant, because of her rough appearance

Because of her ugliness, she was called an ugly woman by many people in the house.

But he has a good embroidery skill, with this good skill in the Ming family for more than ten years of embroidery.

Woman: "Is Miss Frost really willing to die like this?"

"You can see the way I look now...... Frost laughed self-deprecatingly, "I used to laugh at and humiliate your appearance, and now it can be regarded as retribution."

She used to rely on this face to win the favor of the world, so there was no one in her eyes, but in the end, it was this face that killed her.

The ugly woman didn't see the slightest resentment, but sighed, "My daughter is your age."

Hearing this gentle and loving words, tears suddenly welled up in Frost's eyes.

She also has a mother, but her mother died, if it weren't for that, she would not have been sold into the Ming family as a slave by her father.

In despair, helplessness and cold, Frost suddenly hugged the only woman in front of her who could give her a trace of warmth.

The woman patted her on the back.

Frost cried about what happened to her.

"Poor child...... "I may show you a way out, but I wonder if you will do it?"

"How can I survive?" Frost muttered in a hoarse voice, "My only way to survive, I'm afraid ......."

I'm afraid that only by letting the person who made her worse than dead die, can she have a way to live.

The woman took her shoulders and nodded to her.

Facing those eyes, Frost was suddenly shocked, shook his head and said, "No, I don't dare to ......."

"It's not for you to do it, you might as well listen to me first." The woman's voice was infinitely reassuring, and she slowly calmed down.

……

Mingjin, who smelled of alcohol, had already waited impatiently, and as soon as he walked into his bedroom, he choked his neck.

After an unbearable insult, he threw the man to the ground, raised his hand and grabbed a porcelain vase and smashed it over.

Frost crawled away in fright.

The porcelain vase shattered beside her, and the broken porcelain splattered.

"How dare you hide?" Ming Jin squatted down in front of her, grabbed her hair bun, picked up a piece of broken porcelain with his other hand, and tried her face little by little: "Let me see where the punishment is......

As he spoke, his hand paused, but it stayed at the corner of his eyes.

He suddenly asked with great interest, "Why don't you gouge out one of your eyes?"

Frost shook her head and struggled, "The son of the world spares his life!"

Ming Jin used his hand to pull her deflected head back.

"The servant treats the son of the world with sincerity, and the person who harms the son of the world is not the servant!" Frost closed her eyes in fear and cried, "It was that lady of the Chang family who hurt you...... You should seek revenge on her!"

Ming Jin's face suddenly sank: "What did you say?"

"Slave...... The servant also heard it from the lady by chance!"

Ming Jin stared at her tightly, "What did you hear?"

"The maid heard from Madame that she had found out that the reason why the horse of the prince on the horse farm that day suddenly went out of control was that Chang Sui Ning did something!"

Ming Jin's eyes were extremely cold.

"No wonder......" he seemed to figure something out, "no wonder the horse was able to be subdued by her later!"

He should have thought of it a long time ago!

"This ***...... It's hurt me so far!"

"I will slash her with a thousand swords with my own hands!"

"I heard that *** is missing...... I'm going to get her out!"

Frost's eyes dodged.

Ming Jin looked in the eye and grabbed the back of her neck: "What, do you know her whereabouts?!"

Frost didn't dare to answer for a while.

"You just said that...... You heard my mother say this, how did you hear that? You overheard, right?" Ming Jin stared at her for a moment: "Tell me, is that *** missing thing related to my mother!"

He is not a fool, yesterday Mingluo suddenly returned, and his words were testing whether he knew his mother's whereabouts.

Mother is gone, that*** too

Missing, could it be a coincidence?

「…… Yes, the maid overheard Madame Liao's confession about Mama Liao's hiring of a murderer that day......" Frost said in a trembling voice: "After the matter is done, I will take the lady to the courtyard where Mrs. will marry!"

Ming Jin: "It's done? That Chang Sui Ning is dead or alive now!"

Frost cried and shook her head: "The maid only heard that, and then I don't know......

Ming looked at her steadily: "You ***, you shouldn't be lying to me, trying to escape with this, right?"

"How dare you, a servant!"

Ming Jin suddenly smiled: "Whether it's true or not, I'll know when I go......

Anyway, it was his mother's place, and it didn't hurt him to go there.

"But you have to be with this son." He dragged the frost to his feet: "If you dare to lie to me, if I can't see that *** there, then I will cut you and feed you to the dog!"

……

Ming Jin was also grounded, but by the middle of the night, by the time the other servants in the courtyard noticed, he was gone.

But even so, he couldn't get out, and the back door of the Ming Mansion was guarded day and night.

It's just that the moment before Ming Jin went out, the two of them were taken down by the ugly woman in a coma.

Soon, Ming Jin got into the carriage smoothly, and it was his personal servant who drove the car, and he never dared to disobey him for half a point.

In the carriage, at Mingjin's request, Frost tried to make tea for him as calmly as he always did.

Taking advantage of Ming's unpreparedness, she secretly spilled a small packet of medicinal powder into the teapot.

"The ...... of the Prince"

When the temperature of the tea is suitable, the cream will hand over the tea cup.