Chapter 39: Fake Death
"Accommodating? Lord Qin, just by virtue of your words, I must be accommodating? What kind of accommodation is that,"
Yuan Chongxing's fingers slowly rubbed the rim of the cup, and his chubby face trembled slightly with each word, not because he was afraid of Qin Fu, but if it was really as he said, there was the prince behind him, and he had to think about it.
Qin Fu's hooked nose turned up slightly with the chuckle on the corner of his mouth, as if he saw Yuan Chongxing's concern, his fingers slowly poked into his arms, took out a letter, put it on the table and handed it to Yuan Chongxing.
"On the day that Lord Yuan was promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department, the palace was still coming and congratulating, and I had time to gather, hoping that Lord Yuan's official career would rise step by step."
Yuan Chongxing unfolded the envelope and looked at the small characters on it at a glance, his face was slightly solemn, and there was some slight anger. The crown prince Nanxu is congratulating on the surface, but in fact he is threatening him, and the deep meaning is that you have just taken office as the secretary of the Criminal Department, don't make mistakes, cooperate with me, and your official career will be unimpeded in the future.
The content of Prince Nanxu's letter is not much, and there is no problem on the surface, even if he holds this letter with the seal of the prince and plays the emperor, it will not help, and he will be bitten by the prince's faction.
Yuan Chongxing exhaled slightly, folded the envelope again and put it in his arms, raised his eyes to look at Qin Fu with a sinister face, and said helplessly:
"Lord Qin, it's not easy to walk at night, so I won't send it."
Hearing this, the corners of Qin Fu's mouth rose, and he chuckled a few times, and after getting the answer in his heart, he got up and put on the thick black cloak and hat again, walked out of the door lightly, and soon disappeared into the thick night.
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Yufu
You Qingyun sat on the couch in the secret room, suddenly his right hand clenched his left chest, his expression was slightly distorted and he spit out a mouthful of blood, and the beads of sweat on his forehead also followed his bowing movements, falling a few drops.
"I'm still in a hurry."
You Qingyun wiped the blood stains left on the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, he had been sitting in the secret room for a day and a night, if he couldn't heal or Vientiane would take a step closer, Xie Feng might become a waste, and exhaled again, calming down his anxious heart.
You Qingyun closed his eyes again, cleared away distracting thoughts, calmed his anxiety, and re-operated the eight veins of Qi Tendon in the way of Vientiane Decision, when his internal force was running to Tan Zhong's acupoint again, he still encountered Yuan Xingyu's internal force, although eighty percent of the internal force was slowly healing his injuries, but due to the large amount, the time would take longer.
But time waits for no one, he wants to pioneer the internal force of removing the tendons and veins to all the acupuncture points, so as to find an opportunity to break through, but because of the eagerness, the tendons and veins can't bear it, and there is a scene of vomiting blood before.
"Since it can't be expelled..."
You Qingyun pondered for a moment and decided to change the way to accelerate the fusion of the two internal forces.
Jingzhao Mansion Yin
Soon there was a news in the house, the house was patronized by Jiang Yang thieves, lost a lot of important things, people were not caught, disappeared, at that time Jingzhao Mansion Yin Mansion soldiers moved very much, resulting in the people on the street to know.
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Inside the East Palace
Prince Nanxu held the jade cup, looked at the opposite Yu Yan and drank it all, and said with a smile:
"This Yuan Chongxing is a little smart, not only to avoid offending me, but also to save his life. After all, the seal letter of the palace is not so easy to take, although the content is fine, but the time of the letter is too sensitive, and the father and emperor sometimes do not need evidence. ”
Yu Yan's eyes flashed slightly when he heard this, and he said leisurely:
"Your Highness, in that case, can the plan for suspended death continue?"
Prince Nanxu looked at the deserted East Palace, nodded, was confined by his father for three months, except for food needs, there were no extra maids and servants, and he couldn't see outsiders, so it was a little cool.
After Yu Yan was answered, he bowed and bowed and withdrew from the main hall of the East Palace.
In the room of Wu's mansion, the long black hair like a spring slid between the snow-white fingers, a coiled bun, the jade hairpin was loosely hairpinned, and then a branch of gold was inserted, the long beads trembled and drooped, swaying between the temples, the eyebrows were not described, and the skin was white and greasy without powder.
The bright yellow Luo skirt is dressed, and the emerald ribbon is tied around the waist, which suddenly shows the graceful figure, wandering in front of the mirror, and all kinds of styles are alive.
She stood in the center of the room, staring at her subordinates and asked eagerly:
"Everything can be arranged?"
Seeing that his subordinates nodded, he was relieved when he was affirmed, this person was the wife of Wu Zhang, Wu Mansion. Since Wu Che was arrested, he has been exhausted, but he has already planned to act at least to save his son's life.
In the Yin prison of Jingzhao Mansion, there was still a day before Wu Che was executed, and before that, the cell boss suddenly stuffed a prisoner into Wu Che's cell, an old man with gray hair and mud.
Wu Che watched the old man enter the cell, grinned at him with a mouthful of yellow teeth, and smiled weirdly, he hurriedly retreated to the corner of the wall, crying and calling for a change of cell. I thought that he must be an enemy of the past, and I came to vent my anger when I saw that he was not far from death, but unfortunately the cell boss ignored him and left.
Not long after, the night before Wu Che was beheaded, the news of Wu Che's murder came from the prison, and the murderer was the old man, and after killing Wu Che, he also committed suicide in fear of crime.
Chen Wenyuan was furious when he heard the news, and investigated the people guarding the cell one by one, but found nothing. The prisoner was sentenced to be beheaded but did not have a perfect ending, and the death sentence was made without a pulse, so the case was correct, so he could only go back to Beijing and let His Majesty be judged.
The news of Wu Che's killing in the prison was boiling in Shangjing, Yuan Chongxing heard more detailed information from his subordinates, and after verification, Wu Che's neck did have traces of strangulation, his ten fingers had struggles and the murderer's bloodstains, his face was pale, his eyes were prominent, and there was no pulse to determine death.
"The night before he was beheaded, he was strangled to death?"
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In front of the Imperial Palace
All the civil and military officials in Shangjing served more than nine grades, and looked forward to the Japanese Dynasty; Its civil and military attachés are above the fifth rank and supervise officials such as the Imperial History, the Outer Lang, and the Taichang Doctor, and participate in the court every day.
At this time, the hundred officials in the Taihe Hall went to the court as recorded in the "Miscellaneous Records of the Ming Emperor": "The five drums are at the beginning, the fire is full of doors, and the desire to go to the court, and the Xuan cover is like a city."
When the emperor Nan Tianyi was sitting on the dragon chair, majestic and dignified, like a heavenly dragon hovering over the Longhua Palace, the civil and military officials stood in two rows step by step.
"Your Majesty, Weichen was ordered to verify that the trial of the Wanhualou murder case has been completed, and Wu Che is indeed the murderer, but he was soon killed by the prisoner in prison because of his personal vendetta."
At this time, Yuan Chongxing, the secretary of the criminal department who was standing in the row of civil officials, slowly walked out and bowed to the emperor and said back, Nan Tianyi looked at Wu Zhang, the left governor of the Zhengsanpin Inspectorate, with an angry face.
Wu Zhang's legs were weak and trembling, and he knelt under His Royal Highness, tears and tears, and kowtowed again and again to plead guilty:
"Your Majesty! It was the old minister who taught his son that he had no way to commit such a heinous crime, please ask Your Majesty to punish the crime. ”
Emperor Nan Tianyi's eyes were like torches looking at Wu Zhang to plead guilty, and then he said sharply:
"Then you will be demoted by three levels and fined for three years, and I will allow you to restrain and send you to the funeral."
"Thank God!" Wu Zhang was grateful, and knelt down to thank him.
"Wu Zhang, I hope that Er and other officials should keep this matter in mind and don't do it again."
All the civil and military officials saluted in response.
In the Wu Mansion in the capital city, a piece of white clothes and vegetarians, everyone in the house knelt on the mourning hall, Wu Zhang returned to the mansion, and immediately arranged the coffin of the mourning hall. On the same day, he reined in and planned to send the funeral, and some dignitaries and nobles in the city also entered the palace to mourn, and the death case was eliminated, after all, the official position of the person was there, and it was not easy to offend.
Yuan Chongxing knew the news of Wu Che's death when he knew that they might just want to fake his death, so he immediately returned to the court to get rid of the case after closing the case, and after the next court, he looked for a suitable height to look at the situation in the Wu Mansion, but from the morning to the sunset when it was gradually swallowed up by the night, he didn't see the person's strange appearance, so he planned to go back to rest, but he didn't see what he wanted to see but saw another scene.
I saw that the coffin in the middle of the mourning hall was pushed open, Wu Che, who was lying in it during the day, actually straightened up and sat in the coffin, only Wu Zhang and his wife were guarding the mourning hall, Wu Zhang hurriedly walked to the door left and right to check that no one was there and closed the door.
"Wu Che really faked his death, could it be the acupuncture method of sealing the acupoint and holding his breath."
At this moment, two people flew up to the roof of the mourning hall softly, and what no one in the Wu Mansion noticed was that on the roof of the Wu Mansion, a man and a woman appeared, it was Luo Feiyun and the maid Xilan.
"To get away with fake death, this Wu Zhang is really bold."
Xi Lan behind Luo Feiyun sighed angrily.
Luo Feiyun suddenly turned his head to look at the person standing in the attic a hundred meters away, he probably looked a little familiar, and when he got closer, he flew up to the attic lightly, Luo Feiyun stepped forward and saluted with palpitations and said:
"Luo Feiyun has seen Lord Yuan, why is your Lord here?"
"Isn't Lord Luo also here? I feel a little strange about this, so I want to prove it or two. ”
The three of them sat around the table, Yuan Chongxing replied kindly, Luo Feiyun looked a little surprised, thinking that the court should not be underestimated.
"Lord Yuan, how did it turn out, you must have seen it, do you have any advice?"
"I don't dare to give advice, since the Heavenly Supervision Department is intervening at this time, it is naturally not the turn of the old man to participate, I have already withdrawn from this case, so I will not bother Lord Luo."
Yuan Chongxing waved his hand again and again, and after explaining, he hugged his fists and left.
"This Lord Yuan of the Criminal Department is shrewd."
Luo Feiyun took a sip of the teacup, and said with a smile:
"There are people who can exist above the court, and there is one who is a simple and stupid person, Wu Zhang dares to do this, it is conceivable behind it, Yuan Chongxing can do this step without colluding with the same stream It is already very good."
Not long after, a few moments later that night, the officers and soldiers of the Yin Mansion of Jingzhao Mansion once again suddenly sent troops to surround the Wu Mansion. Chen Wenyuan received the secret letter that Wu Che was still alive that night, and was stunned on the spot, if it wasn't for the big seal of the Heavenly Supervisor Division on it, he would not believe that Wu Zhang dared to bully the monarch anyway.
After being surprised, he immediately led the troops to break into the Wu Mansion, and caught Wu Che who was still sitting in the mourning hall to rest on the spot, and the three of them looked at the officers and soldiers of the state capital in shock, Wu Zhang felt powerless to return to the sky, and sat on the ground, and the crime of bullying the king should be punished by the nine clans!