Emperor Xingyuan stood still in front of Kou Tianming, carefully looked at the other party, and couldn't get in touch with the person in his impression.

In fact, Kou Tianming, as a courtier, was vague in the memory of Emperor Xingyuan. Not to mention that it has been seven or eight years since the news of Kou Tianming's death came, even before, the pair of monarchs and ministers had not met many times.

"Duan Wensong, Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple."

Of course, Emperor Xingyuan would not believe it just by listening to the book of the Ministry of Rites saying that the person in front of him was Kou Tianming.

Soon Duan Shaoqing arrived.

All the officials and nobles of this day's turmoil know that Duan Shaoqing is no exception, and with his identity, he is not qualified to appear here.

Duan Shaoqing pondered how such an earth-shattering scene could summon him to a small Taifu Temple Shaoqing to enter the palace to meet him, and when he received the complicated gaze of the civil and military ministers, his legs and stomach trembled.

What's wrong? Among the rebels were his relatives?

No, his family is not a big family, it is an ordinary cultivator, and he came to the capital to settle down because of his imperial examination.

"Duan Wensong, the young secretary of the Imperial Servant Temple, has seen Your Majesty." Duan Shaoqing knelt down at the people on the throne.

Emperor Xingyuan ordered him to be flat, and pointed at Kou Tianming: "Duan Shaoqing, do you know this person?"

Duan Shaoqing followed Emperor Xingyuan's line of sight, and his pupils trembled: "Your Majesty—"

After blurting out, he reacted that something was wrong, and suddenly looked up at the person on the dragon chair.

Emperor!

The other one—he brushed his head and looked at the tied man again, rubbing his eyes.

Emperor Xingyuan sat on the dragon chair with a serious face, watching Duan Shaoqing turn his head back and forth like a rattle, and the green tendons on his forehead jumped.

In the past twenty years, the ministers have not been staring at him for as long as this day, and they are really fed up!

"Duan Shaoqing."

Hearing Emperor Xingyuan shout, Duan Shaoqing calmed down: "The minister is here."

"Let's take a closer look if this person is your sister-in-law, Kou Tianming."

"This can't be, Chen's sister-in-law has passed away a long time ago-" Duan Shaoqing realized that it was not a joke, and glanced at Kou Tianming.

Take another look.

He approached the tied man step by step, looked up and down for a cup of tea, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration and stretched out his hand to block the other party's mouth and nose.

Only comparing his eyebrows, Duan Shaoqing was shocked: "Are you really Pingxi?"

Pingxi is Kou Tianming's character.

After Kou Tianming was restrained, he looked dead and silent, and at this time, looking at Duan Shaoqing, his eyes finally changed: "Uncle."

Duan Shaoqing was so frightened that he retreated again and again, and bumped into the Hubu Shangshu.

Tobe Shangshu put one hand against his back: "Young man, calm down."

Duan Shaoqing stopped, covering his heart with a look of disbelief: "Brother-in-law, aren't you already-"

Emperor Xingyuan summoned Duan Shaoqing not to let him reminisce, and asked lightly, "Can you confirm it?"

Duan Shaoqing hurriedly knelt down: "Back to Your Majesty, this person is indeed the minister's sister-in-law Kou Tianming."

"You never thought he resembled me?"

Duan Shaoqing hurriedly shook his head: "The minister never dared to think about this."

Emperor Xingyuan twisted his eyebrows: "I don't want to listen to these vain things now."

Duan Shaoqing paused, and said honestly: "The minister has been immersed in studying, and when my sister got married, she was watching politics in the sixth ministry and couldn't return to her hometown...... The Kou family and Chen's family were not in the same city, and later Chen's family moved to the capital, and it wasn't until the nomination of the brother-in-law Xingbang that he also came to the capital, and there were more opportunities to meet. At that time, my brother-in-law had a beard, and the minister had almost no chance to see the holy face up close, so I really couldn't think of going together......

Emperor Xingyuan looked at Kou Tianming again: "Kou Tianming, you are also a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and you eat the king, but you are in the same stream with the people who harm you, just to be a puppet?"

Facing Emperor Xingyuan's questioning, Kou Tianming's eyes were fixed and he looked at one person.

Emperor Xingyuan then looked over and found that Kou Tianming was staring at Xin Yu.

The hatred in his eyes puzzled Emperor Xingyuan: "Kou Tianming, you didn't answer what I asked you, but what are you doing looking at Xin Yu like this?"

"I want to avenge Qingqing...

..."Kou Tianming muttered.

He said so lightly that Emperor Xingyuan didn't hear clearly: "What?"

"I want to avenge Qingqing! In order to replace Qingqing's identity, she killed Qingqing!" Kou Tianming stared at Xin Yu, his eyes wanting to choose someone to devour.

Emperor Xingyuan looked at Kou Tianming's eyes with a strange look: "Kou Tianming, who said this to you?"

He asked, in fact, everyone thought of it, except for the person who imprisoned Kou Tianming, who else could there be?

Hubu Shangshu shook his head and sighed: "Kou Tianming, you are confused, those people designed you to fall into the water and imprison you, you still believe their words?"

Kou Tianming looked at the household book in a daze.

Hubu Shangshu sighed again: "Ling Ai fell off a cliff while climbing and playing, whether it was an accident or something, it has nothing to do with Miss Xin, I don't believe you asked Duan Shaoqing."

Kou Tianming looked at Duan Shaoqing.

Duan Shaoqing's heart was a little weak, and his eyes flashed: "Yu Shangshu is right. At that time, Qingqing fell off a cliff, and the family went to look for it everywhere, Wen Bai found Miss Xin recuperating from her injuries in a small mountain village, and took her home by mistake for Qingqing...... It's no wonder Wen Bai, you see how similar Miss Xin is to Qingqing!"

Kou Tianming was stunned for a long time, and kept repeating: "That's not what they said, that's not what they said......

Emperor Xingyuan looked at Kou Tianming, who was in a state of mind, and vented his emotions expressionlessly, and he couldn't sympathize with him at all.

"Kou Tianming, you've already discovered that you look alike with me, right?" When Kou Tianming gradually fell silent, Emperor Xingyuan asked.

Kou Tianming raised his head slightly and looked at Emperor Xingyuan.

Such a direct gaze was rare and offensive to Emperor Xingyuan, but he didn't care about it now, it was more of curiosity.

The atmosphere in the hall froze, and I don't know how long it took for Kou Tianming to finally speak: "Yes...... That year, the criminal had not yet passed the examination, and once he went out and met His Majesty."

"Meet me?" Emperor Xingyuan was stunned.

Kou Tianming fell into memory: "At that time, His Majesty was light and simple, as if he was looking for someone. The criminal was surprised to find that he looked similar to His Majesty, and when he heard the guards call you 'Your Majesty', he went home and fell sick......

Anyone in his right mind is not happy to find that he looks like today.

"After that, the sinner deliberately grew a beard, indulged in eating, and tanned his skin......

In Great Xia, men generally do not begin to grow beards until they are in their thirties, mainly on the upper lip and chin, and they will be trimmed beautifully, rather than with two cheeks and a big beard.

Emperor Xingyuan listened to Kou Tianming's narration, and his expression changed.

Needless to ask, he already knew what year Kou Tianming met him.

That year, Xinxin left the palace, he was unwilling, did not accept, and personally took his relatives and guards to leave Beijing to find someone. It's a pity that in the end, we didn't return, and when we met again, we were separated by a coffin, and heaven and man were separated forever.

Emperor Xingyuan's mood suddenly fell, and he ordered a thorough investigation of this force led by the Ministry of Rites, and those who should be imprisoned in the edict should be imprisoned, and those who should go home should go home.

By this time it was already dark.

"Changle Hou, send Ayu back for me."