Chapter Fifty-Six: And the Confession
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Everyone hurriedly carried Long Zixi's body aside, and saw Yin Qiu in an official uniform and led a group of people to break in.
Among them, there are indeed Yang Pu, Ji Gang and the head of the Tianshan Sword Sect.
General Cookie hurriedly greeted him:
"I don't know if the adults have arrived, and I hope to beg for forgiveness. Presumably, adults have also seen the announcement, and my son Hongde is out hunting. I don't know what kind of business the lord has to do when he comes to our mansion? ”
That Yin Qiu was triumphant, ignoring the cookies, but he shook at the princess:
"Xiaguan has seen the princess! No, I should have seen the crown princess! Ha ha! ”
The princess wiped away her tears:
"Lord Yin, this time you have won a big victory! When it comes to scheming and evil, you are really better than your old son Yin Jifu! ”
Yin Qiu smiled:
"Thank you, Crown Princess, for the compliment! Not to mention who wins and who loses, the lower officials are acting according to the order, and they can't say it, so they have to ask everyone to kneel down and listen to the holy decree! ”
The people did not speak, but no one knelt.
But although Baodi was under the rule of King Xuan, he never completely obeyed King Xuan's orders.
Coupled with such a big change, everyone knows that Yin Qiu will have no good intentions here, how can he kneel?
It's all secretly added attention.
Yin Qiu didn't care, and waved his hand back.
An official stood up, took out a piece of cloth, and unfolded it:
"In recent years, there has been a famine, and there are many people.
According to the divination, it was all caused by the fact that the demon baby was not extinguished.
"In order to eradicate the demons and return the world to peace, Yin Qiu, the doctor of the Ministry of War, will investigate and deal with the demon abyss, and he will get rid of it.
"The officials and people of the state capitals must cooperate with each other and there must be no mistakes.
"Whoever disobeys and disobeys will be guilty of the same crime as the demons, and shall be killed."
When everyone heard this, they couldn't imagine that King Xuan valued Yin Qiu so much and gave him the right to kill.
The princess sneered:
"That being the case, I don't know what Lord Yin wants?"
Yin Qiu smiled:
"What else can the lower officials do? It's just the life of that demon baby.
"There is another thing, according to investigation, Long Zixi, the brother of the demon baby, protected the demon baby with all his might, and colluded with the bandits to cause chaos, so he was arrested and investigated according to the holy will!"
The princess smiled wryly:
"If so. Lord Yin is enough to make a difference! ”
As he spoke, he glanced back at Long Zixi and the child's corpses, and tears fell again.
As soon as Yin Qiu signaled, Yang Pu stepped forward, leaned down to look at Long Zixi, looked at it for a long time, and nodded at Yin Qiu.
I went to see the dead child, it was indeed a baby girl who was more than a year old, but I didn't know if it was Chen Du's child.
Yang Pu returned to Yin Qiu's side and whispered something.
Yin Qiu was about to speak, when he suddenly heard another cry from upstairs.
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But he said that Yin Qiu hadn't spoken yet, and he had already seen Zhuo Erli stumbling downstairs, crying and shouting:
"Princess! Princess! Miss Zhuo Mei, she, she ...... Suicide! ”
Then, with tears in their eyes, several slaves and maids carried Zhuo Ermei down and placed her next to Long Zixi.
I saw a dagger stuck in Zhuo Ermei's chest, and the blood had already stained the front chest red.
The princess could not help herself with her misery, and said in a trembling voice:
"Yin, Lord Yin, you...... Are you satisfied? ”
Yin Qiu pointed at the child on the ground with his hand, and said with a cold face:
"This is the baby girl?"
The princess nodded bitterly:
"This kid is miserable! I was going to transfer her out, but before I could do it, she died of the cold! ”
Yin Qiu still didn't believe it:
"This baby girl, is it really that demon baby?"
The princess was in a trance, and just shook her head:
"Whether it's true or not, I don't know.
"I've told you everything.
"That child was hidden by me in a place called Maliu Village in Wujiling, eighty miles away from here, and the family who adopted her was surnamed Hu, which was actually the original Jida.
"Lord Yin has great powers, are you afraid that you won't be able to find out?"
Yin Qiu nodded, suddenly remembered something, and rolled his eyes:
"By the way, in this case, the 'jade-faced spicy hand' is you, the crown princess?"
The princess nodded:
"Not bad."
Yin Qiu's body trembled:
"Then, the matter of changing the baby must also be done by the crown princess?"
The princess nodded again:
"Now that it's happened, why hide it from you? Of course I did it. Come, if you want revenge. ”
The Yin Qiuhua tiger bit his head and stared at the princess, obviously extremely angry.
But soon, Yin Qiu smiled again:
"The princess is the crown princess and the prince of the ministers. The so-called, the king told the minister to die, and the minister did not dare not die. What is a baby girl? It's her life! How dare a minister have the idea of revenge? ”
When the princess heard him say this, she knew that he was just talking, and with the character of Yin's father and son, how could she not try to take revenge?
Ignoring him at the moment, he went over to look at Zhuo Ermei again, and said with tears in his eyes:
"Sister, you only have a hard life! It's my sister who is incompetent and can't protect you! ”
Yin Qiu smiled again:
"Please also ask the princess to mourn! Even so, there is another thing, the lower official wants to take the heads of the two of him back to Beijing to restore the order! ”
When Qin Shijie heard this, he shouted loudly:
"You bullshit, don't be rampant! People are dead, and their heads are too deceitful! Are you really afraid that you won't make it? ”
As he spoke, he drew his steel knife.
When Brother Fang and the others saw it, they also pulled out their knives and looked at Yin Qiu coldly.
Yin Qiu's side is also with knives and guns in hand, ready to fight.
Yin Qiu looked at the princess:
"Princess, no, princess, do you want to rebel? Don't forget, we are all ministers of King Xuan, if Shen Hou is here, he can't be so presumptuous, right? ”
The princess shook her head:
"Lord Yin, why do you want to do anything? I don't want to ask for help in my life, so I'll beg you once today, and leave them a whole corpse, how about it? ”
Actually, that Yin Qiu doesn't necessarily have to be the head of Long Zixi and the child.
He said this just to see how the princesses reacted.
If they happily hand over the two heads, the identity of the deceased would be highly doubtful.
Hearing the princess begging him today, he couldn't help but hesitate for a moment.
At this moment, someone shouted:
"Bao Jun returns home!"
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After a while, Bao Hongde and Hua Dining led thirty or fifty soldiers into the house.
Needless to say, someone had already made a brief report to Baojun.
When Hua Dining saw the corpses of Long Zixi and Zhuo Ermei, he already fell to the ground, shouting "Brother! Brother!" While crying loudly.
After a long while, Bao Hongde's face sank:
"Lord Yin, you also know that although I am under the rule of King Xuan, I am in charge of many things.
"Today's matter has come to this, the widow sees that your revenge has been avenged, and your duty has been fulfilled, which is enough to restore your life, why rush to kill everything?
"The widow is here to repair a book, and since he has reported the matter to King Xuan, he will excuse you, and King Xuan will not blame you if he wants to come.
"If not, these soldiers of the widow are not very good-tempered, and they are really going to fall out, but I am afraid that it will be bad for the adults!"
Yin Qiu looked at Bao Hongde, then at the princess, and smiled:
"Praise the Emperor Shengming! In fact, the lower officials are just acting on orders, and there is no reason to have any grievances with Baojun and the crown princess? Since the praise of the king said so, the matter will be stopped, and the next official will retire. ”
The princess had already stopped crying at this time, and when she saw Yin Qiu and the others wanting to leave, she waved her hand:
"Wait! I lost this time in a daze, and I was unwilling. Dare to ask Lord Yin for a lesson or two? ”
Yin Fairway:
"The crown princess asked, dare not tell the truth?"
Princess Says:
"Good. Let me ask you, how do you see through my tricks? ”
Yin Fairway:
"It stands to reason that the crown princess is very thoughtful, and it is inevitable that people will not be fooled. However, there are also clever people on the side of the lower officials, and it is not difficult to see through them. ”
The princess shook her head:
"I'm afraid not. Even if you see through this plan, how will you know my whereabouts of the second way?
According to them, no one was followed along the way.
"And you seem to have been prepared for the ambush in the valley.
"Alas, I didn't expect to ruin the life of my brother Xi."
As he spoke, he glanced at Long Zixi's corpse again, and his eyes were red again.
Yin Qiu smiled:
"In the opinion of the crown princess, how is that?"
The princess sighed lightly:
"Of course, someone left a sign along the road, and you don't need to follow it, just follow the sign, that is.
"And to do that, we need to plant spies around us!
"Yes and no?"
Yin Qiu was quite proud:
"The princess of the capital is smart, and that's true. Now that the words have been clarified, I don't know who the princess knows who that person is? ”
The princess looked back at the few people on her side, and said softly:
"I never imagined that someone would betray us. But just now, when Yang Pu Yang Daxia checked Long Zixi's corpse, I found clues. ”
Everyone didn't know what clues the princess had found, and they were all confused.
The princess said slowly to Yang Pu:
"Yang Daxia, when you checked Long Zixi's corpse just now, who did you peek at? Why look at him? ”
Yang Pu "snorted":
"The old man didn't look at anyone!"
The princess did not speak, but turned to look at the people on her side.
Suddenly, Lu Yixiang grabbed Zhuo Erli, put the sharp knife against her waist, and shouted:
"No one is allowed to move! Otherwise, I'll kill her! ”
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Everyone was taken aback, could it be that Lu Yixiang was a spy?
But I couldn't believe it anyway.
Third Brother Fang suddenly remembered that before Lu Zidan died, he had mentioned the word Lu Yixiang to Long Zixi, and Zidan did not call him the eldest brother, but called him by his name, which clearly had a deep meaning, but unfortunately he swallowed his breath before he finished speaking.
It's just that no one thought about it at the time.
Now it seems that it is clear that Lu Zidan knows the truth, but unfortunately he didn't have time to tell Long Zixi!
When Qin Shijie saw it, he scolded loudly:
"Good dog thief! No wonder you insisted on letting us take the path that day, let us go to the road, you turned out to be a real spy! ”
Lv Yixiang said:
"Hmph, I originally deceived that dragon to go west according to Lord Yin's intentions. Who knows, he wants to divide the army into two ways, and he doesn't let me go with him on the way, and I can't be very persistent, so I caught a few of you incompetent! ”
Third Brother Fang glanced at Yin Qiu:
"You have made two preparations, if you can't catch Brother Long halfway, you will use the corpse to trick Brother Long to the death of Dao Gorge, yes or no?"
Yin Qiu smiled proudly:
"Exactly. However, this two-handed preparation was the idea of Wei Can, a subordinate of the Western Regions Immortals. It's a pity, huh! ”
The princess sighed:
"Lu Yixiang, after Er Nai is loyal and good, is he worthy of his ancestors for doing this unrighteous thing?"
Lv Yixiang is colorful:
"It is precisely because I am loyal and good that I want to follow the example of my ancestors who are loyal to the king and patriotic. Lord Yin is the important minister of the country, and I serve him, which is to return to the right path and inherit the will of my ancestors! ”
Qin Shijie scolded:
"Dog thief! Hugh would have said it so high-soundingly. You just covet the glory and riches! ”
Lu Yixiang sneered:
"A man is a man, and who doesn't want to be a man on that man? For the sake of glory and wealth, what sin is there? ”
The queen shook her head and said:
"Brother Zixi, Brother Bo Yuntian, treats your brother very kindly, and recognizes your father as your father-in-law, you are like the righteous brother, and now you have caused him and Zhuo Ermei to die, are you not a little ashamed?"
Lu Yixiang "snorted":
"Although Long Zixi treated my brother well, I later learned that he was a national rebel.
"There is another one, and it was later discovered that he has a great relationship with Na Shen Hou, but my Lu family is not on good terms with Na Shen family, how can I follow him again?
"It's a pity that Lu Zidan is still obsessed until he dies!
"Hmph, I didn't mean to kill Long Zixi, it was his own fate, who is to blame? How can I be ashamed? ”
As he spoke, he grabbed Zhuo Erli and slowly retreated to Yin Qiu's side.
It turned out that what Lu Yixiang said to Long Zixi when he was in the Shen Kingdom was half true and half false.
Really, Lu Zidan did take the first step, and Lu Yixiang came later.
What is fake is that he did not catch up with Lu Zidan, but ran into Yin Qiu and his gang.
He learned some information about Long Zixi from Yin Qiu, and as he said, he changed his mind and decided to take refuge in Yin Qiu, and came to Nanshenguo with Yin Qiu.
Later, he found that Lu Zidan was with the immortals of the Western Regions, so he thought that Lu Zidan must have taken refuge in the immortals of the Western Regions, but he didn't know that Lu Zidan had taken refuge under a pseudonym, intending to find the art of war.
I thought: That immortal in the Western Regions is the enemy who killed his father, how can Zidan take refuge in him? hated Lu Zidan for this.
He pretended to be injured and went to see Long Zixi, but he was instructed by Yin Qiu, so he naturally wanted to lure Long Zixi to Daoxia.
As for his saying that Lu Zidan colluded with the Rong people to kill his father, it was purely framed, it was nothing more than to arouse Long Zixi's resentment and get rid of Lu Zidan by Long Zixi's hand.
Although everyone hated Lu Yixiang, they also felt that in his position, King Xuan was orthodox at that time, and it didn't seem to make sense.
Seeing that he did not hesitate to suffer a knife wound today in order to prevent exposure, and he was not afraid of danger, he can be regarded as a man.
They didn't say anything anymore, just thinking about how to save Zhuo Erli.
The princess looked at Lu Yixiang, and then at Long Zixi and Zhuo Ermei lying on the ground, and couldn't help but feel sad again, and her mood was very bad. Shaking his head and saying:
"Lu Yixiang, everyone has their own ambitions, and they are reluctant.
"Long Zixi, Zhuo Ermei, and the child are all dead, and I am disheartened and don't want anything else.
"You let Zhuo Erli go, go with Master Yin!"
Lv Yixiang said loudly:
"Lord Yin, your subordinates only listen to your orders!"
Yin Qiu thought for a while and said:
"Let her go."
Lv Yixiang said:
"Yes!"
With a push of his left hand, Zhuo Erli was pushed over, and everyone hurriedly caught it, glaring angrily.
Yin Qiu saw that the matter had come to this, and it was really delusional to insist on taking Long Zixi's head, so it was better to accept it when he saw it.
So, he praised Hongde and the princess with a hand:
"Baojun, the crown princess, today's matter is over, this time the lower official has really retired!"
Bao Hongde arched his hand:
"I'm not far away!"
Seeing Yin Qiu leading his subordinates, he slowly retreated, and after a while, the sound of horses' hooves came from afar.
Here, everyone gathered around Long Zixi and Zhuo Ermei again, and there was a burst of weeping.
Hua Dining hugged Long Zixi, and his heart was like a knife:
"Brother, brother! Is it true that I will never see you again in this life? ”