At the beginning of the day, the beginning of the day.

In winter, the sun rises late, and it is not yet dawn, but the long night is finally over.

Xue Bai rushed from Daozheng Fang to Pingkang Fang, ready to face Li Linfu.

On the way, he also met the right Xiaowei with the right minister's hand to summon him back to restore his life, he didn't know if Li Linfu blamed him for giving orders everywhere in the name of the right minister's mansion, and he was faintly uneasy.

Because of the extraneous branches of the Xin Twelfth Festival, he has done too much tonight, and he has done too much wrong.

If you can't pass this hurdle in the future, no matter how good you do before, it's useless; But as long as you can win Li Linfu's trust, even if there are some omissions, it doesn't hurt.

In this Tang Dynasty, everything lies in the "heart of one person".

Xue Bai wasn't sure, he wasn't sure if the veterans of Longyou would be able to escape the hunt; There is no guarantee that all those who know will be silenced.

Although the gambling house was destroyed, the gambling game continued.

~~

The right prime minister's mansion is in front of you, the side door is open, and the front door is heavily guarded.

Xue Bai turned over and dismounted, and the worried words that Du Yan had said suddenly echoed in his ears.

Li Linfu had a lot of enmities, worried about the assassin day and night, and moved his bed several times every night to prevent a great enemy, although his family did not know where he was staying. Such people, if they suspect that you may be the son of an enemy, will die without a place to bury. ”

Hearing it before, he thought that Donggong might have considered assassinating Li Linfu before he knew this, but at this time, he gradually felt a lot of tightness in his chest.

Seeing Li Linfu, it felt dozens of times more dangerous than killing people under the search of the sixteen guards of the Southern Ya.

……

The atmosphere was solemn, the porter had no expression on his face, he didn't say much to Xue Bai, and his demeanor was cautious, leading everyone in.

Xue Bai glanced at the porter, and thought in his heart that Xin Twelve had told him that he was an official slave, which was probably fine, but there were too many unknowns to be sure.

He, Wang Zhun, Li Xiu, Jia Chang and others were taken to the second courtyard, and each entered the room, and everyone waited alone.

Li Linfu actually summoned people for questioning one by one, and did not give them the opportunity to cover up each other or help block the conversation. In this way, Xue Bai's means of guiding others to speak cannot be used.

In this way, there are two levels today, and I met Li Linfu alone, and then there will be a confrontation, and I have to pass both levels to be safe.

The purpose of the one-on-one interview is to lay a foundation of trust, to see who can win more trust from Li Linfu between him and Jiwen; The confrontation is to attack each other, so that the other party loses Li Linfu's trust.

Xue Bai knew that he was more trustworthy in terms of ability, but what was worse was loyalty.

After waiting for nearly a quarter of an hour, someone pushed the door open and came in. is not the delicate and lovely little maid before, but the cold-faced female envoy in a bearded robe beside Li Linfu.

"Xue Bai, Ah Lang summoned you, go."

Xue Bai got up, followed without saying a word, and entered the council hall in the west courtyard.

There are no small windows on the wall, only the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion stand on both sides with swords, and the murderous atmosphere is awe-inspiring. There is no screen in the hall, a bamboo curtain hangs there, the candlelight outside the curtain is bright, the candlelight inside the curtain is dim, Li Linfu doesn't even show his figure, but he can see the expressions of others through the gap in the curtain.

This arrangement should be because Li Linfu was suspicious of his subordinates, for fear of being assassinated, in short, it made people feel gloomy.

"I've seen the right phase."

Xue Bai bowed, choked on his throat with a thousand quibbles, and finally showed a look of indignation on his face against the curtain, and complained angrily.

"Right Minister, I finally found out, and I was all mistaken by Ji Wen!"

If you want to frame Ji Wen, in fact, remind two sentences silently, let the superior consider it for himself, it is called Gao Ming, which is too inferior.

But he considered whether it was better for a young man not to always be too old and angry tonight, or to be more faithful to speak outright about his unhappiness.

"Go on." Li Linfu said lightly.

Xue Bai suddenly felt the pressure.

Li Linfu asked, so that he could judge what the other party knew, and then see the move.

Let him say it himself, but it is easy to make mistakes.

"In the afternoon, I reported to the right minister that the dead man in the East Palace may be in Wang Weld's house or Yang Shenjin's house, and I need to cheat Wu Kangcheng, so I went to Jingzhao Mansion."

Xue Bai sorted out his thoughts and spoke with a nonsense sentence to make sure that nothing went wrong.

After that, he felt Li Linfu's aura and continued to speak.

"I deceived Wu Kangcheng, and I was eighty percent sure that the dead soldiers of the East Palace were hiding in Wang Weld's house. But for some reason, Ji Facao sent people to trap me in Jingzhao Mansion, even if Kyauknu showed the identity of the right minister's envoy, those officials refused to let me go, so bold. ”

He had calmed down, and deliberately betrayed some careful thinking with the words "I don't know why", waiting for Li Linfu to question him, "Don't you really know?" ”

But there was no sound behind the curtain.

Xue Bai had a sense of emptiness when he punched the air.

He hesitated, thinking for the last time about going to Xuanyangfang to save Du Cheng and hiding it, and at the same time realized the first mistake he made - using Han Chaozong to leave Jingzhao Mansion in advance.

According to the original plan, he only needed to wait in Jingzhao Mansion for Li Linfu to summon him. But at this time, I can only believe in Han Chaozong's character, and I only hope that Li Bai's words "don't need to be sealed as the marquis of ten thousand households, but I hope to know Han Jingzhou" is true.

After a moment of silence, Xue Bai was about to speak, when someone outside the hall suddenly spoke loudly and relieved him.

"Yu Youxiang, it's clear, the murderer was killed from Xuanyang Fang to Pingkang Fang, and then from Pingkang Fang to Dongshi Street, and then to Daozheng Fang!"

Xue Bai thought to himself, it seems that there is no slave in the Ji family of Xuanyang Fang to identify him.

There was a hint of luck in his heart, but he was nervous, and he admitted directly: "Right Minister, I broke into Xuanyangfang Jiwen Mansion. ”

The atmosphere in the hall froze.

"You dare to go to the official residence to kill people?" Li Linfu finally opened his mouth, and his tone was calm.

"Murder?" Xue Bai was stunned for a moment, and said hurriedly: "I didn't kill anyone, Ji Wen trapped me at that time, and tied up my eldest sister, thinking that he must have threatened me afterwards, so that he could successfully grab the credit." I'm just going to his other house to snatch my eldest sister back! ”

Li Linfu was silent.

Xue Bai said anxiously: "Right Prime Minister Mingjian, I just heard Du Erniang say that the eldest sister was kidnapped, and hurriedly took someone to snatch it back." At that time, the servants of the Ji family's other house were very surprised to see me coming. I angrily scolded them, I and Ji Wen are both right ministers, so it is not too much to fight for merit, so I took the eldest sister away. Without the command of the right minister, how dare I touch the subordinates of the right minister? I still understand this. ”

The reason why he let the Tian brothers kill people was because Xin Twelve and those people identified him as the son of Xue Rust and thought that he was dead, so they were unscrupulous. At that time, Du Cheng couldn't be saved without a knife.

Xue Bai must jump out of this frame of thinking, he is not the son of Xue Rust who will die, he has never heard of this matter, he is a loyal right minister!

Why did Na Jiwen take Du Cheng? I don't know, that's Jiwen's problem, maybe he wants to fight for merit, maybe he is sick. Not to be outdone, Xue Bai went to snatch it back, and worked under the right minister's door, and it was the most normal situation to not see blood.

Li Linfu was still silent, and motioned to the maidservant to ask: "The nine slaves who died in Xuanyangfang's other house were killed by a pair of young men and women with two armored guards, who are you and not?" ”

The tone of the first half of the sentence was stiff, and she obviously read it out from the news.

"This testimony!" Xue Bai was surprised and confused, "It does sound too much like what I did, when I took Du Erniang and the Tian brothers to snatch people back." But we didn't kill nine people, why did they say that? Why? ”

He waited for a while before throwing out his conclusion, giving Li Linfu time to guess for himself.

"Right Minister, I really didn't kill anyone, this matter must have been done by the dead man of the East Palace...... No, he just wanted to frame me, didn't Ji Wen do it on purpose? Why did he do that? ”

"Presumptuous!"

Li Linfu scolded.

Xue Bai hurriedly saluted, but his heartstrings relaxed slightly.

This first big omission, he can't make up for it, then he won't make up for it. It wasn't power that he wanted to demonstrate, but faithfulness. Only faithfulness is the key, and everything else is minutiae.

Then tell the truth, with sincerity and openness, he won Li Linfu's trust, not too much, as long as he is more credible than Jiwen, he can transfer that suspicion.

Therefore, there must be a living Ji Wen to bear this burden, and if he is alive, it is possible for him to arrange the servants and slaves of the Ji family to commit perjury, and then cause all kinds of conjectures.

"Go on."

"After snatching out the eldest mother, I rushed to the right minister's mansion, and I heard that Ji Wen took someone to Changle Fang Yang's house to get the thief, and I hesitated for a while if I made a mistake, so I went over to see, in fact, it was also a heart to fight for merit......"

Xue Bai then only hid the matter of contacting the dead man in the East Palace, and carefully described how he ran all night and how he tried to save the big basket that Ji Wen poked out.

Compared with the death of a few slaves in the Ji family's house, Ji Wen let the dead soldiers of the East Palace kill people and escape is the most critical and serious mistake, and he wants Li Linfu to always focus on the right thing.

After he described in detail what he saw and heard in the secret gambling house of Daozheng Fang, he made a final summary.

"Right Prime Minister, I thought that the East Palace sent two groups of dead soldiers to intercept and kill Ji Wen, Ji Xiang father and son, respectively, or to take revenge on Ji Wen."

He buried a lot of words and let Li Linfu think about it for himself.

For example, he said that Donggong took revenge on Jiwen. It's all wrong, what are you retaliating against?

Then why do you want to kill if you find it wrong?

Extinguish the mouth?

~~

Xue Bai's solo statement has ended.

If according to the original plan, there were not so many mistakes, maybe Li Linfu had encouraged him a few words, promised to marry a daughter, and then blamed Ji Wen for his affairs, and he settled down in Datang from then on.

But it was quiet behind the curtain.

Just when Xue Bai began to suspect that he couldn't even pass the first level, Li Linfu finally opened his mouth.

"Go down and wait."

"Whoa."

Xue Bai returned to his room and sat alone, unable to inquire about news or talk to others.

The sixteenth guard of Nanya is still searching for those Longyou veterans, and I don't know what the result is.

Xue Bai could only deduce in his mind the situation in which Li Linfu asked everyone separately.

What Yang Zhao will say, what Wang Zhun will say, and Ji Wen will definitely bite the matter of Xuanyangfang's other house, and will shirk the responsibility to him.

What's even more disturbing is that if someone in the know is missed and Jiwen gets a briefing, or if Jiwen can guess that it is related to his background through Xin XII's death, then the situation can be clearly understood.

Regardless of the likelihood of such a thing, he hated the feeling that his fate was decided by someone else.

Xue Bai had to tell himself to be calm, as long as Li Linfu believed in his loyalty, he would not have to be afraid of Ji Wen in the next face-to-face confrontation.

Thinking back to Fang Cai's one-on-one meeting, he felt that he had performed well. And Jiwen has been passive, there is no time to sort out the whole picture, it is difficult to do better than him.

……

Time flies slowly, and it's torturous.

Birdsong sounded outside the window, and then the morning light gradually began to glow on the window paper.

Finally.

The door was pushed open, and someone stood in the morning light, still the envoy, not the sword-wielding guard, indicating that Gwen had not been able to bite him to death in the individual report.

Xue Bai walked towards the lobby.

He suddenly remembered that when he was in charge of a case for the first time in his previous life, he was so angry that he couldn't sleep because of a villain, and he was determined to send the other party in.

At that time, he used the law as a weapon and was upright.

Now, what he is studying is dirty power and people's hearts, and he is trying to survive.

But in this life-and-death game, he just wants to win that cool official and survive.

"Boom."

In the distance, the morning drum of Chang'an sounded.

Xue Bai's waist was straight, his steps were calm, and he became more and more calm. Confronted in the court, it was once the battlefield he was most familiar with.