Early the next morning.

Su Chen'an himself was still intoxicated with the ease of killing Xi Chuyu with his own hands, and he went to the court in a happy mood.

These days, in order to prevent people in the court from slandering him because of his maternal grandfather Jiang Kuo, the fifth prince has always chosen to call himself sick at home.

Now, Xi Chuyu, a confidant, has completely died.

In Su Chen'an's opinion, he doesn't need to worry about anything anymore.

As a result, Su Chen'an also rarely appeared in the court.

"Today's court discussion, the five princes are also here, so the lonely people of the province have sent someone to your palace to invite you to come."

His Majesty looked at Su Chen'an standing in the hall, and there was displeasure rising in his eyebrows and eyes, but his words were still ordinary.

"Father, the son has been recuperating in the palace for many days due to illness, and his illness has improved a little today, so he will come to the court, I don't know what the father is looking for the son?"

Su Chen'an didn't expect that as soon as he appeared in the court, His Majesty would mention him.

These days, he has been saying that he is sick in bed, and his father has not mentioned him in the big and small affairs in the court, so why did he suddenly mention him today?

At this moment, Su Chen'an had a bad premonition.

However, he thought about it, these days, he has not appeared in the palace, and Xi Chuyu was also killed by him in the prison, and now, there is nothing else to control him.

Therefore, Su Chen'an really put his mind at ease.

"Since the fifth prince Su Chen'an doesn't know about this, and he is away from the sky, you will make it clear for Gu Tong."

His Majesty glanced at Su Chen'an, and then spoke to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on the side.

As soon as Su Chen'an heard that this matter was related to Su Lixiao, his brows immediately furrowed, he and Su Lixiao had already been resolved endlessly, and there was no way to continue to maintain the apparent peace in this court.

Therefore, Su Chen'an knows, but if he opens his mouth, then the things in his mouth are definitely not a good thing.

Su Chen'an thought that it would be better to strike first, so he hurriedly spoke.

"Father, I have some misunderstandings with the crown prince and brother, if His Royal Highness the crown prince says something unpleasant for a while, I hope that my father can deal with it impartially!"

Su Chen'an was worried that Su Lixiao would blame him for some unwarranted things, so he took the lead in showing his innocence to His Majesty.

"Su Chen'an, this hall hasn't opened his mouth yet, but you are here to say that what I said is not to be heard?"

Su Lixiao looked at Su Chen'an's obvious panic, and retorted with a sneer.

"You and I are siblings, Fifth Emperor Brother, don't just button my hat to the Imperial Brother casually, this palace has always loved my siblings!"

Shu Lixiao deliberately yin and yang strange qidao.

「……！」

Listening to Su Lixiao's extremely hypocritical words, he didn't believe a word, because Su Chen'an knew that Su Lixiao's hatred for him had already made them have no other solution than to die.

"Okay, you brothers don't behave like this on top of this hall, right and wrong, you naturally know it in your heart, you just need to say it straight for a while, if you are really innocent, you will naturally not wronged you!"

His Majesty looked at the obviously shaken Shuchen'an, and there was a little more darkness in his eyes.

"Prince, bring the man who beat the drum today."

As soon as the three words of Dengwen Drum came out, the military generals of the court were surprised.

Originally, the laws of this world were not to punish doctors, but in order to restrain the officials in the court and the children of the royal family, the ancestors of the royal family set up a Dengwen drum in front of this imperial tower.

This is to give the lowly people a chance to express their grievances.

And usually the people who beat the drum, the object of their complaint is usually the important ministers of the court or the children of the royal family.

Today, His Majesty suddenly mentioned that the Five Princes were in peace, so it seems that the person who beat the drum should want to sue His Royal Highness the Five Princes.

「……！

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When Su Chen'an heard the news, his expression was also stunned.

He originally thought that Su Lixiao would find trouble with him in the affairs of the court and find fault with him, but now, he never expected that Su Lixiao would find someone to knock on the drum!

As soon as the drum sounds, His Majesty will definitely investigate the matter clearly for the sake of the world.

Su Chen'an was always on guard against the civil and military ministers in the court, and in the end, he didn't expect that Su Lixiao would find a flat-headed common man to harm him!

"Brother Prince, Brother Prince, Brother has been sick in bed for a long time, if the person found by Brother Huang wants to slander Brother Brother for doing something sorry for the court and sorry for his father, Brother Chen will not admit it."

Su Chen'an looked at Su Lixiao on the side, and there was something in his words.

"Fifth Emperor Brother, don't worry, Brother will never wronged you!"

Su Lixiao looked at Su Chen'an's expression and said with a smile.

Then, he asked Ming Xiu, who had been waiting outside the hall and beating the drum, to call in.

"Who is kneeling Your Highness?"

His Majesty saw Ming Xiu walking into the main hall, his brows furrowed, and he asked for the exit.

"Back to Your Majesty, Caomin Mingxiu, people from Lixian."

Ming Xiu knelt on the hall, neither humble nor arrogant, and answered slowly.

"Ming Xiu, look at you like a literati?"

His Majesty looked at Ming Xiu, who was kneeling in the hall, and asked casually.

"Yes, Your Majesty's eyes are like torches, and I can't hide anything from you, Caomin Mingxiu is indeed a literati."

"And you have a lot of fame?"

His Majesty looked at Ming Xiu, and felt that the other party was bookish, he heard that someone had knocked on the drum, and thought that the other party would be a desperate flat-headed people, but he didn't expect this Ming Xiu to be so calm and relaxed, not in a hurry.

"At the age of fifteen, the grass people became the lifters of Lixian, and later, the grass people wanted to participate in the imperial examination, but they were secretly blocked by His Royal Highness the Fifth Emperor of the dynasty, and they have not gained fame for many years."

Ming Xiu looked at the five princes on the side, and said word by word.

"Bastard, people like you want to cling to slander the main temple?"

When the fifth prince heard the words from Ming Xiu's mouth, he said angrily.

"This prince is a nobleman of the heavens, you have never heard of this *** grass people, as for the name of Lixian, this hall has never heard of it, and now you are talking nonsense in this court, making a lot of nonsense, are you not afraid that your little life will be ruined in your nonsense?"

There are countless evil things that Su Chen'an has done.

He dared to kill the palace people who bullied him in the palace at the beginning, but now facing a little literati he had bullied, Su Chen'an couldn't remember it at all.

Ming Xiu's words did not evoke his memory many years ago, he only felt that the person in front of him was specially come to slander him after being bought by Su Lixiao.

"Brother Crown Prince, you are already the prince now, and your brother doesn't dare to compete with you for anything, why do you want to let this Ming Xiu fabricate some trumped-up charges and detain me here?"

Su Chen'an poured out all the anger in his chest at Su Lixiao on the side.

"Your Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, Caomin Mingxiu is a literati, not an ordinary ordinary person, I know that there is a price to pay for beating the Dengwen drum, so I will not regard my life and safety as child's play."

Ming Xiu saw that the fifth prince had already forgotten about him, and retorted with a sneer.

"In our dynasty, whenever *** and royal nobles commit evil, the common people can beat the drums to tell Your Majesty about their grievances, but if they are finally found to be falsely accused, they will pay the price of blood."

"Your Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, do you think I, a grass people, would deliberately let me easily cut off one of my lives in order to slander you?"

Ming Xiu's words were loud.

It is true that the drum is never easy to beat, because everyone who beats it must pay the price of losing his life.

Of course the people can***.

But in order to prevent the people from abusing this authority, the court also issued another directive.

That is, if the people make false accusations, after the matter is clarified, the person who sues the official will pay with his own life.

"You're ......!"

Su Chen'an didn't expect this Ming Xiu to be so bold that he dared to say such things to him in front of everyone.

"Ming Xiu, since you know how powerful this place is, this hall wants to see how you can reverse black and white here!"

Su Chen'an didn't believe that a mere literati could bring down him as a prince, so he looked at Ming Xiu standing in the hall without fear.

"Your Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, what the grass people said is true, and there is both human and material evidence."

Ming Xiu saw the arrogance of the fifth prince, with hatred in his eyebrows, and after a while, he calmed down before he continued to speak.

"Five years ago, His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, on the orders of His Majesty, went to Lixian County as the chief examiner of the examination.

"At that time, it coincided with the spring day in Lixian County, and there were many people coming and going in the market, so in order to attract more people, I chose to make some guessing puzzles, and His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince visited me on the same day, and he walked to my stall on the spring day, and was interested in the guessing puzzles I came up, so he stopped and stopped."

The incident five years ago, Ming Xiu is still vivid, and he doesn't dare to forget it for a moment.

If it were possible, he hoped from the bottom of his heart that he hadn't seen him five years ago.

But there is no regret medicine in this world at all, even if he is unwilling, he still collides with Su Chen'an.

"What did the Five Princes do to you that day?"

His Majesty in the palace looked at the Su Chen'an on the side, and his face changed greatly, so he opened his mouth to ask Ming Xiudao.

"Back to Your Majesty, that day, when the fifth prince saw the guessing puzzle in front of my stall, he wanted to show his talent in front of a woman, so he mentioned his pen and ink and wrote his own puzzle behind each guessing puzzle, but, more than ten puzzles, the fifth prince only solved half of them correctly."

"The grass people didn't know his identity at the time, so they corrected the puzzles he guessed incorrectly, thinking that my actions annoyed him and made him lose face in front of the woman he liked, so I was hated like this."

Ming Xiu smiled bitterly and explained to His Majesty in the hall everything that happened that day.

"Caomin thought that more things were better than less, and he also apologized to His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, but His Royal Highness did not accept my apology at all, and he directly asked the county order of Li County to expel me from the examination room, and ordered that I was not allowed to participate in any of the exams in Li County."

"The grass people originally thought that the people would not fight with the officials, so they wanted to take their parents away from the land of right and wrong, but the fifth prince felt that it only limited the qualifications of the grass people for the exam, so he asked the county magistrate of Li County to find someone to beat and expel the grass people all the time."

"In the end, the grass people's parents were overwhelmed and passed away in grief, and the grass people could only survive in the deep mountains!"

When Ming Xiu thought of the past, he couldn't help but feel sad.

"Today, the grass people finally have the opportunity to tell Your Majesty the grievances in my heart, and ask Your Majesty to make decisions for me!"

Ming Xiu knelt directly on the main hall, bowed to His Majesty on the throne, and asked His Majesty to return him justice.