Rebellious officials bow their heads

Every time the death of the first emperor was mentioned, many ministers commented with emotion, but at this time it was mentioned suddenly, and it was related to the national teacher, which immediately caused an uproar.

Qing Ci stood still, with a motionless expression on his face, "Dare to ask Ji Shoufu, the evidence of this case has also been found out, and it has been handed over to Dali Temple?"

"This case is very important to the late emperor, and Dali Temple can't handle it properly, so I beg your majesty to allow the confrontation in court." Ji Han turned around and bowed his hands to the high-ranking emperor.

Xie Linze nodded.

A Minister of the Ministry of War came out of the courtiers who were discussing a lot, and he said coldly to Ji Han: "The case of the first emperor was all because of He Jifeng's treason and defection to the enemy. Love, have something to do with Master Guoshi?"

Xu Yan lowered his eyelids and turned the ring on his finger, not looking at the dignitaries of the dynasty, and his voice sounded faintly: "Back then, He Jifeng's actions in mobilizing the soldiers under his command were really big, which happened to cover up some unknown tricks underneath, but no matter the time, How long in the past, as long as there is a trace of doubt, it should be thoroughly investigated to the end, this is the confession of a courtier to the late emperor."

The courtiers looked at each other in bewilderment, some looked vaguely at the high seat with probing eyes, and some fell on Qing Ci. This scene in the court hall today can be said to be a rare sight. Not only Xuanhe Emperor came to the court, Jim Mu The two families joined forces, and even the national teacher stood on the temple, and there was an undercurrent surging between these four directions.

Qing Ci said: "In that case, please ask Ji Shoufu to produce evidence to prove what doubts there are in this conclusive case, and what does it have to do with me?"

Xu Yan looked at him and smiled coldly, "You're not worried at all? Do you think the evidence from that year has been wiped out?"

Qingci narrowed his eyes slightly.

Ji Han clapped his hands, and His Highness immediately had a guard bring in an old woman.

Qing Ci watched the cowardly woman walking in the hall timidly, her usual indifferent expression changed, and her slender brows gradually frowned.

There are several huge dragon beams and pillars on the left and right to support this resplendent palace. The top of the palace is exquisitely carved with mountains and rocks. , Dead silence spread around the crowd, and another guard circulated a letter to the courtiers.

Originally, the woman's words involved many things, so Xu Yan and the others ordered the woman to hide some of them, and pointed all the blame at the national teacher.

After this morning's court meeting, the whole city began to be in turmoil, and a storm was about to come. The news that the national teacher poisoned the late emperor and caused his death spread all over the streets and alleys. Knowing that, the common people are naturally shocked by this, and more people think that this is pure rumor.

The court only uncovered a corner of the case and listed the evidence, but the matter was so important that it shocked the court and the public, and Qingci's status was special, so he did not go to prison for a trial like ordinary people, but announced that three joint trials would be held in three days.

This incident has caused more and more fluctuations. Since the collapse of Linghe Tower, the believers of the national teacher among the people have been damaged. There were mixed reputations overnight, if he couldn't find a chance to make a comeback, then Qingci would only have a dead end.

During this period of time, what Xie Linze and Xu Yan had to do was to find out one by one the chaotic forces attached to Qingci's command, and then remove them.

In the Taixuan Hall, the light gauze flutters, the soothing incense slowly spreads in the golden niche, a few geese are inserted in the blue-glazed plum vase by the window, and countless melodies are piled up in front of the table, Xie Linze sits sideways on the felt with his arms propped on the table On the other side, with eyes closed, he listened to Xu Yan's recitation.

Seeing him reaching out to pinch the center of his eyebrows, Xu Yan put down the unfolded memorial, got up and gently rubbed the man's temples.

"I was caught off guard this time, and I will make all the preparations when the Qing Ci is heard in the third meeting." Under the palm of the other party, the pain in the depths of Xie Linze's mind gradually subsided.

"Well, I'm already planning with Mu He to get rid of the people in the Ministry of War." Xu Yan asked, "Do you want to go to sleep for a while?"

"No need, let's sort out the movements of these people first." Xie Linze opened his eyes, picked up a booklet and opened it.

"Don't bother reading your eyesight, I'd better read it to you." Xu Yan took it from him and paused, "What I'm worried about now is that we will join hands to let Qingci eat such a big meal." Unfortunately, he will take care of your illness."

"With you by my side, he can't do anything." Xie Linze leaned against the desk and smiled at him.

Xu Yan nodded, and said again: "You haven't had a good rest recently, just leave the matter to me, don't worry."

"I understand, it's just that you also know Qingci's tricks..." Xie Linze sighed slightly, feeling a little tired, and opened his arms, "Forget it, sleep for a while, and call me up in half an hour."

Xu Yan took advantage of the situation to hug him, put him on the bed and covered him with a quilt.

"It's hot, just bring a blanket." Xie Linze wanted to lift the quilt but was stopped by him, "What's wrong?"

"It's getting colder every day these days, and you'll catch a cold if you don't have a cover." Xu Yan stuffed his hands into the quilt.

Xie Linze raised the corner of his mouth, "Why didn't you say it was cold when you took off my clothes last night?"

Xu Yan pressed closer to him, and said in a low voice, "Would you like to try again to see if it's cold?"

Xie Linze turned over and turned his back to him, "Sleeping."

There was silence behind him for a while, thinking that Xu Yan should go back to read the memorial, Xie Linze completely relaxed his mind, his consciousness gradually became blurred, and suddenly a cold hand was pressed to the back of his neck, "Hiss!"

He was so stimulated that he wanted to sit up but was held down by Xu Yan and couldn't get up, "Didn't you tell me to rest? Didn't you tell me to sleep?"

"Let, you sleep yours."

Xie Linze looked at the man above, "What exactly do you want to do?"

"I'm tired of reading the memorials." At this point, Xu Yan couldn't help scolding, as if he was very annoyed by those memorials, "This group of literati talk in a roundabout way, and they have to make a long speech to solve the problem. .”

Xie Linze smiled and rolled his eyes, "This is the case when you are an official. You will often deal with them as a cabinet minister, and you will suffer if you go straight."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Xu Yan chuckled, lowered his head and kissed his temples.

From this angle, it can be seen that there is a red mark full of lust on the man's collarbone, which is half-covered by the skirt, which is left by repeated biting at first glance.

Xie Linze saw the other person's deep eyes from a close distance, and immediately understood what Xu Yan was thinking, and pushed his face away, "Don't think about it."

"why not?"

"I just helped you last night, and you..." Xie Linze couldn't help but slowly lowered his voice when he thought of the scene where Xu Yan forced him to call 'Yan'er' last night before letting him go, completely losing the initiative go down.

The atmosphere in the dormitory was a little charming, Xu Yan's eyes gradually darkened, full of meaning, "What about me?"

Xie Linze pulled the quilt over his head to isolate the other party, but soon Xu Yan's hand came in from underneath.

"It's endless, isn't it?" Xie Linze was forced by him to poke his head out again, and pulled out the cool hand that was attached to his waist, "You were not like this before, do you remember how well-behaved you used to be?"

"Yeah, didn't this fall on you?" Xu Yan's voice sounded like a sigh, and he looked at the man with a slight smile.

Xie Linze looked at him panting for a while, then suddenly stretched out his feet very quickly, kicking the defenseless Xu Yan off the bed.

Xu Yan fell to the floor with a thump, and when he stood up again after a moment of stunned, the man had already moved away from the bed, and was lying on the other side of the curtain wrapped in a quilt.

Xu Yanyan exerted his strength, grabbed the quilt and pulled it to this side, and Xie Linze on it also moved over.

The two looked at each other.

"Xu Yan, I've decided not to go to bed anymore, let's read the memorial."

Xu Yan tucked up his quilt, and didn't make any more trouble, "Don't think about it, you go to sleep, I'm going to sort out the memorial."

Xie Linze couldn't help looking at him suspiciously.

Xu Yan: "Honestly."

He sat beside the man, and waited for Xie Linze to fall asleep and breathe steadily before returning to the case. He planned to kill Qingci directly if the trial failed in the third session.

Suddenly there was a hasty knock on the door of the hall, Xu Yan went to open the door, made a gesture of silence, and led the attendants to the corridor to talk.

The attendant only walked a few steps away, and he couldn't wait to say anxiously: "My lord, something is wrong, the woman who testified died in the other courtyard of Qinghe Palace!"

"How could it be?" Xu Yan asked in astonishment, "Aren't the people from the three major battalions guarding Qinghe Palace firmly?"

"The next check is that he was fatally cut with a knife in his throat. Someone has been sent to inform General Mu."

Xu Yan frowned deeply, countless thoughts flashed in his mind, "Take me to see."

There are indeed battalion guards inside and outside the Qinghe Palace, patrolling in turn. The other courtyard in the huge palace only occupies a small corner. He walked through the Chaoshou verandah. The dead body fell on the table, with a dazed look on his face, it seemed that the murderer struck very quickly and took the woman's life before she could react.

Standing opposite the corpse, Xu Yan clenched his fingers. They lost the most important witness, which meant that the plan of the three trials was overthrown, and they had to start a new plan. He was meditating when an attendant walked by, holding a box , "Master Ji, General Mu asked me to hand over the documents collected from the Ministry of War to you."

Xu Yan was still immersed in his thoughts, without looking at him, he just raised his hand to take it, and the guard retreated.

It took him a long time to settle down, and glanced out the window, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it seemed that it would rain soon, he turned and went back, walked on the dimly lit corridor of the other dean, opened the box casually, He glanced at it, but this one made him froze, and the blood all over his body became cold in an instant.

I saw that the box was not a document from the Ministry of War at all, but a shattered red and white jade—the mother Gu who could save Xie Linze!

He turned his head abruptly, looking at the guards following him.

Facing his gaze, the guards were puzzled and shuddered, and they froze in place and did not dare to move.

It took Xu Yan a while to find his own voice, "Where did the attendant who delivered the box just now go?"

The guards looked at each other in bewilderment, "Who are you talking about?"

"Did someone send the casket into the Qinghe Hall?"

Xu Yan gritted his teeth, his eyes were bloodshot, and his rationality was stretched into a precarious string, he yelled frantically and repeated a sentence - kill Qingci!

"Send a message to let Zhou Yuan enter the palace." After leaving these words, he rushed towards Taixuan Hall without looking back.

Stepping into the gate of the palace, everything was the same as when Xu Yan left. Xie Linze was still lying quietly on the bed. He approached and called, "Linze?"

The man was still immersed in his sleep and didn't respond. Xu Yan sat down on the edge of the couch, reached out and hugged him up to face him, "Linze, wake up."

Xie Linze's head drooped weakly, and a stream of blood flowed out from his nose.

Xu Yan's heart stopped beating suddenly. At this moment, the light outside the window flickered on and off due to the lightning in the sky, and at the same time, there was a deafening thunder from a distance.

The spot of light streaked across the man's face, Xu Yan watched him slowly open his eyes, his high-hanging heart fell back into the distance, and his stiff limbs gradually became numb.

Xie Linze was woken up by the thunder. When he opened his eyes, his pupils were still sleepy. After concentrating his gaze, he saw Xu Yan in front of him, rubbed his eyelids, and said in a hazy voice, "What's wrong?"

The other party did not reply.

Xie Linze stared at him, and gradually realized something was wrong, "Xu Yan?"

While talking, he felt wet under his nose, so he wiped it away casually, looked at the blood, and laughed, "It's not a big deal, it's just a little angry."

Xie Linze saw that Xu Yan was still like a wooden man who had lost his soul, so he also stretched out his arms to hug him, "Yan'er, what happened?"

As soon as the words fell, the other party slammed him tightly, as if trying to rub into his flesh and blood, his voice was extremely dry, as if confirming his existence, he called: "Linze..."

Xie Linze felt the abnormality of the other party's emotions, and stepped back to see his expression, but Xu Yan seemed to know what he meant, and he didn't have any strength to relax, his face was buried on his shoulder.