In the evening, there were many more people in the cells of Jingzhao Mansion.

"Taoist priest Fang Daxu, in order to seek the prince for the Du family, wants to abscond after the defeat, but there is such a thing?!"

"Wronged! Poor Dao didn't want to be implicated by the Du family so he wanted to leave the Du house. ”

"Let me ask you again, can you see that the prince sent people to Du's house to discuss with Du Youlin about destroying the evidence?"

"Wronged!"

"Dare to quibble, go to punishment!"

“……”

But Jiwen did not enter the torture chamber, but stopped under the eaves, and stood with his hands in his hands, listening to the terrible howl while admiring the snowy scene.

When the sound in the torture room became quieter, Xin Twelve stepped forward and said, "Ah Lang, Fang Da has made a false move." But Quan Rui, the steward of the Du family, did not admit that Xue Bai was sent by the prince, and only said that he picked it up. ”

"Picked up? You pick one up and show it to me. ”

"The villain will be interrogated again."

Ji Wen was noncommittal and muttered, "According to the cheap maid's recruitment, he has given the evidence to the prince, but he has not seen the prince's reaction." ”

"We can still try to convict the Du family."

"Does it matter?" Ji Wen said: "What about killing the Du family? The point is the prince, the prince, the prince! ”

Xin Twelve hurriedly responded: "The prince sent Xue Bai to Liu Tao's house to set fire to destroy the evidence, the evidence is conclusive, the person is in the prince's courtyard, and the villain saw it with his own eyes." ”

"I'll go see the right minister, and directly send the right Xiaowei to search for it, and take it in one fell swoop! It's just a big deal......"

Ji Wen was resolute at first, but later, he used a questioning tone and asked, "Are you sure the person is still there?" ”

"The villain sent someone to keep an eye on it, and he didn't see anyone coming in or out until he went to take the Du family's sisters and brothers."

"Go and verify, and I'll be ready to meet the right minister again."

"Ah Lang, wait a minute."

Today, Xin Twelve first guarded Yongxingfang, took the Du family sisters and brothers, and immediately came back to torture Liuzhen, how is the prince's courtyard, he also has to ask again.

When he returned to the public house, his face was already a little solemn, and he saluted Ji Wen and said, "Ah Lang, it's not good, the prince's palace is in chaos for some reason, cars and horses come and go, and our people are lost." ”

"Sure enough, it's not slippery." Ji Wen scolded in a low voice, but he didn't dare to make up his mind to search the prince's courtyard, so he had to order: "Send someone to find it." ”

"The villain has been arranged." Xin Twelve said: "The villain has another way, Du Youlin's son also participates in the destruction of evidence, if he is caught in the prince's courtyard......"

Before the words were finished, the porter of Jingzhao Mansion ran into the courtyard and said, "Ji Facao, the right minister has sent someone here." ”

"Quick, please."

Jiwen didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly got up to greet him.

After taking two steps, he hurriedly turned around, found a box, took out a female clove, and put it in his mouth.

In fact, he has an extraordinary background, he is the son of the prime minister, and he was summoned by the saint in his early years, but because of the bad breath, the saint disliked, and the imperial saying "is a bad one, don't use it", almost ruined the official career, so he had to attach himself to Li Linfu. After this, whenever he sees an important person, he will take his mother's clove to cover his bad breath.

……

On this day, Jiwen also knew that she was a maid in a bearded robe, named Kyauknu.

Kyauknu is very beautiful, so she can become one of Li Linfu's attendants, she often goes out for Li Linfu to run errands, likes to wear a bearded robe, and has capable makeup.

She rode in and tied her horse, and Gynwin trotted to the front yard to greet her.

"Hard girl, take a trip, I don't know what the right minister commands?"

Jiaonu was cold and arrogant, frowned and waved his hand to keep him away from him, raised his hand to give a cross salute to Li Linfu, who was not in front of him, and said lightly: "Ah Lang asked you, how is the matter going?" ”

"Within one night and one day, the case has been clarified!" Ji Wen said loudly, "The prince once secretly ordered Liu Tao to make friends with the minister, because Liu Tao and Du Youlin had a grudge against each other, and reported the matter, and the prince ordered someone to go to Liu Mansion to destroy the evidence. ”

"What about people?"

"Girl, please, be careful of the threshold."

Ji Wen welcomed the slave into the public office and took out a few pieces of paper from the case.

"This is Liu Tao's confession, which records the list of ministers he bribed, as well as the gifts exchanged; This is the confession of Du's maidservant, who identified the prince as sending a person who was Xue Bai to burn down the study of the Liu Mansion with Liu Du......"

But Kyauknu didn't like to listen to Ji Wen's noise, raised his hand to interrupt him, and said, "What about you?!" ”

"The prince is hidden, but as long as the Du family is convicted, the prince can be traced."

"It's useless, its crimes have all been done privately by Liu Tao and the Du family, and it has nothing to do with the prince."

"This ...... Why? ”

Kyauknu said coldly: "Because the prince has reconciled with the second mother of the Du family. ”

"What?!"

Ji Wen was stunned, raised his eyebrows, rolled his eyes around, and muttered: "What a means, the gecko broke its tail again, and it was clean." ”

"You're too slow to react."

"Givin knows wrong."

"Two things." Kyaunu's tone was arrogant, and he said: "One, you cooperate with Luo Xizao, and whoever has friends with Liu Tao will be taken down and interrogated severely, and Ah Lang wants the world to know what it is like to support the prince." ”

"Whoa."

"Second, the prince sent people to burn Liu Tao's study, and more conclusive evidence must be found, which is far from enough at the moment."

"Whoa." Ji Wen hurriedly crossed his hand and saluted, and said: "There is a way to search, I just want to ask the right minister, but I need to mobilize the right guard......"

After hearing this, Kyauknu nodded and said, "Wait until I go back to Ah Lang." ”

"Hard girl rushing."

Ji Wen personally went to the gate of Jingzhao Mansion and watched Mei Ji's horse fly away.

He returned to the public office, picked up the long list that Liu Tao had confessed again, and read it softly, as if Hades had called him.

"Beihai Taishou Li Yong, Zichuan Taishou Pei Dunfu, author Lang Wang Zeng, and Xu Zheng, the champion of the Guiyou Branch, ......"

These people may be obsessed with calligraphy, they may be accompanying their families, they may be working hard for their official duties, but in short, they will definitely not feel that they have done anything wrong.

But Givin didn't think they were wronged at all.

Making friends you shouldn't have made is a great sin of being arrested and sentenced to death and being exiled!

At the beginning of the year, countless people involved in Wei Jian's case were killed, and before the year passed, he had another opportunity to rejuvenate the unjust prison.

"Ha, the ghost is blocking the road, Lord Yama is going to work hard this year."

His smile was a little hideous, and his eyes lit up with excitement.

~~

On the outskirts of Chang'an, a fire burned in the ruined temple.

"The fire is lit." Qinglan turned around and shouted.

She shivered with cold, huddled by the fire and rubbed herself to keep warm.

After a while, Xue Bai came in with a handful of firewood, shook off the snowflakes on his body, and when he saw Qinglan's appearance, he took off the fox fur on his body, sat down next to Qinglan, and wrapped each other in the fox fur.

This was Du Goro's clothes, and he changed them before going to the prince's courtyard to hide people's eyes.

Qinglan trembled in shock, but she didn't dodge.

She didn't dare to make a sound, and cautiously peeked at Xue Bai's side face.

Xue Bai seemed to feel her gaze and said, "I'm so hungry." ”

Qinglan said: "I only ate it at noon, and you have eaten a lot." ”

"I only ate it at noon." Xue Bai repeated in a low voice, shaking his head slightly.

Qinglan asked: "Even the prince is unwilling to save the Du family, is the Du family really finished?" ”

Xue Bai didn't answer, staring at the bonfire in a daze.

Qinglan knew that he was actually helpless, what could two slaves and maids do about such a big thing?

Thinking of the fate of the Du family, she couldn't help but blush, and silently shed tears.

After crying hard, she wiped her tears with the back of her hand and said, "My family's surname is Huangfu, and I was also a scholar. When I was six years old, my grandfather was involved in the abolition of the prince case and was killed by a rod, and the whole family was not a slave, and I was an official slave just like you. ”

"Waste Prince?" Xue Bai asked, "Have you already abolished a prince?" ”

He looked up and thought about it, and finally remembered something, his lips moved, and he said to himself silently: "Yes, he seems to have killed three sons." ”

Qing Lan only heard his previous question, and responded, "Hmm." ”

"What about the specifics?"

"The world is secretive, and I don't know the specifics." Qinglan shook her head and said, "I'm lucky, I was bought back to the Du family by my lady not long after, and my lady treated me kindly......"

Thinking of the bits and pieces of the past nine years, she choked up again and sobbed.

"I've been looking forward to repaying the lady's kindness, but I didn't expect the Du family to be involved in such a big case again, you say, was it me?"

"You don't have to take the blame on yourself." Xue Bai said: "It can only prove that there are too many innocent people involved in this kind of thing." ”

Qinglan was comforted and felt much better.

Xue Bai sighed slightly, and said to himself: "The heart of one person, the heart of tens of millions." ”

Qing Lan didn't understand, she felt that the wind was still very cold, and she unconsciously pasted her warm body, and soon realized that something was wrong, and bit her lip astringently.

Outside the temple, the snow fluttered, and the two people by the bonfire hugged each other to keep warm, and it was dark behind them.

Qing Lan gradually had other things on her mind, her eyes lowered slightly, and she asked in a low voice, "If we really can't save the Du family, what should we do?" ”

"I'm still thinking."

Qinglan buried her head and said hesitantly: "We have offended the prince, maybe we should find a place to hide our names, well, men and women weave ......."

"I don't, and I don't intend to, plow the land."

"I mean," Qinglan groaned, "we maybe, maybe...... Bonding ......"

"Why?"

"Today you saved me, I will ......"

"It doesn't make sense." Xue Bai's tone was gentle, with some joking, and said: "The little girl is greedy, knowing that I saved your life, you don't mention repaying it, but you still want me as a person." ”

Qing Lan blinked a few times to confirm that she had heard correctly, and then couldn't help but hurriedly say, "I mean...... I just want to repay ......."

"It's a joke." Xue Bai turned his head to look at the bonfire again, and said seriously: "I don't want to run away, I don't want to hide incognito." ”

"But we offended the prince......"

"Only the prince wants to kill us, not the entire government wants to kill us."

Seeing that he was calm, Qinglan was stunned and said, "If you don't run away, I, I, am also joking." ”

The two of them stopped talking about it.

Qing Lan was a little annoyed for a while, thinking that this disciple was hugging her, but she said such things. But after thinking about it, it seems really unreasonable that he saved his life, but he used it to coerce him to like himself?

She couldn't help but feel very low, thinking that Xue Bai just didn't look down on her, and then she couldn't help but think that she was also very beautiful.

My mind twists and turns, and I don't know where to go.

"Tell me about the world." Xue Bai said: "I don't remember well, two days ago, Du Wulang introduced me to the customs, but something happened. ”

"Okay." Qing Lan groaned, "Where to start? ”

"Say whatever comes to mind? When I was a foreigner. ”

Qing Lan supported her chin with her fingers, thought for a while, and said, "I was born in the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan. That year, the saint invited hundreds of officials to stay for a drink in the Calyx Xianghui Building, and my grandfather also went. The saint likes to sprinkle money upstairs for hundreds of officials, and Grandpa had just been promoted to a fifth-grade official at that time, and picked up a few golden Kaiyuan Tongbao and placed them at home, I saw them when I was a child. A-Niang said that he was so happy when he came back, I was born to give me the name 'calyx', and said that I had a good life, throughout the ages, born in the most prosperous Kaiyuan years since ancient times......"

She cried again as she spoke, and in the end, she wiped her tears and said: "But Grandpa is not wrong, now is really the most prosperous year since ancient times, and even the daughter of a criminal official like me has never starved." ”

Xue Bai was silent for a long time, and then responded: "It's prosperous to the top." ”

It's getting darker.

The ruined temple was also quiet.

Qinglan sat there with her knees crossed, her chin propped up on her knees, thinking that she should also sleep, but should she lie down and hug him in the wild on such a cold day? Or do you sit and sleep?

In the end, she decided that as long as Xue Bai didn't move, she wouldn't move.

"Is that Chang'an City over there?"

Qinglan looked up, and through the wind and snow, she saw the bright light on the horizon.

Even in Chang'an City, which was under curfew, the firelight lit up half of the night.

She had never seen the night of Chang'an from this angle, and she was stupid for a while, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's so beautiful, right?" ”

Xue Bai said: "Yes, such a prosperous Tang Dynasty ......"