After rebirth, I became the villain's Mr.

David's Ancestral Temple was in the suburbs of Jingluo. In order not to delay the sacrificial ceremony the next morning, Wei Ronghe and his officials set off one day earlier and stayed at the palace near the Ancestral Temple at night.

Offering sacrifices to the Taimiao is so solemn and solemn, and the rules are naturally not ordinary.Wei Ronghe had already fasted for two days before coming to Taimiao, and tonight they will bathe and burn incense in the palace, recite Buddhist scriptures one night, and quietly wait for the next day.

At three quarters of the ugly hour, the accompanying ministers had already fallen asleep, the guards in the palace were falling asleep, Wei Rong and the old eunuch beside him also kept dozing off.

At this time, a black shadow sneaked into the palace in the dark night, gradually approaching the bedroom where Wei Rongyu was staying.Not long after, he came to Wei Rongyu's window, looked around, and saw that the guards outside were all squinting their eyes and secretly sleeping, and there was only Wei Rongyu and an old eunuch in the room, without hesitation, he took out his gun With a sharp knife, he climbed through the window and entered, and his skill was barely considered neat.

The old eunuch was in a daze, when he heard a commotion, he opened his eyes and saw that there was a man in black with a knife in front of the window.The old eunuch shouted: "There are assassins!" By the way, he stood up and stood in front of Wei Ronghe, ready to take the knife for his master.

The man in black was yelled at by the old eunuch, so he hurried to stab him with a knife.

However, the old eunuch beat Wei Rong and the guard to death, the man in black stabbed him several times but failed to succeed, and at this moment, a lot of guards outside the door had already come in, and they made this martial arts value Zero of the assassins was captured alive.

Tao Jiusi heard the shouts of beating and killing outside, and shouted "there are assassins" everywhere, without even putting on a coat, he ran all the way to the front of Wei Rongyu's hall.

He remembered that Wei Rongyu was indeed assassinated in his previous life, but it was obviously 46 years ago.At that time Wei Rongyu had just been established as the crown prince, Wei Wuyue took him on a tour in Jingluo City, not long after leaving the palace, an assassin appeared, and it was Tao Jiusi who blocked the knife for Wei Rongyu.

However, this time of rebirth, the assassination was brought forward a year.

Tao Jiusi knew that his arrival changed many things, and because he was with Wei Chengxue, most of the things he had never experienced in his previous life.

Although the experience of the previous life has given him many advantages, he can judge people's good and evil, and knows the general trend, but it is inevitable that there will be more and more differences in the future.

Tao Jiu thought about it, and then arrived at Wei Rongyu's bedroom. Many courtiers who lived nearby had arrived first, and there was a lot of discussion there, while Wei Rongyu stood on the steps in panic.

Wei Rongyu looked in the direction of Tao Jiusi's wing for a long time, and finally saw Tao Jiusi running out of breath. The panic and anxiety just now were a little less, and he eagerly called out to the crowd: "Jiu...Master Tao!"

When Tao Jiusi heard the shout, he subconsciously wanted to go inside, but the imperial guards stretched out their arms, blocking his way, and said, "My lord, Lord Xia ordered all officials not to approach His Highness."

Tao Jiusi had no choice but to back away silently, wondering who made him so transparent all his life.

Tao Jiusi stood in the crowd and recalled that the assassination in his previous life was done by the Dongqi faction to create chaos for David, so who will be behind the assassination this time?

While meditating, Dali Temple Minister Qian Yu strode forward and said loudly: "Master Xia, don't worry, since the old man is here, I will definitely get to the bottom of the trial."

Minister of Criminal Affairs Yang Hanmi said: "Lord Qian has always defended the third prince, so if you come to interrogate him, who knows what will happen."

Qian Yu stared, and shouted: "Master Yang, what does this mean? Could it be that the third prince did this assassination of brothers?"

Yang Han shrugged his shoulders: "Master Qian said this himself, it's really self-explanatory."

Seeing the two quarreling, Xia Muping hurriedly walked over from Wei Rongyu's side, and said: "Don't worry, my lords, you can make your own decision when your Majesty comes down."

Yang Handao: "Master Xia, as the minister of the Ministry of Rites, you are fully responsible for the ancestor worship. The Jingluo Imperial Palace is far away. If you hurry up, you will not arrive until tomorrow. Who knows what will happen during this period? In my opinion, why wait for your Majesty to come?" , all the officials are here, and most of the people from the Third Division have come, Mr. Xia might as well organize a joint trial, and wouldn’t it be better for His Majesty to directly report the cause and effect when he comes down?"

Xia Muping thought that what Yang Han said made some sense. The joint trial of the three divisions would not favor anyone or wrong him, so he said decisively: "My lords, Xia will choose one from the accompanying officials of Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment. Let me inform the Metropolitan Procuratorate and ask them to choose someone to preside over the three trials, what do you two think?"

Yang Han nodded with a smile and said, "That's very good."

Qian Yu snorted through his nostrils, noncommittal.

Xia Muping entrusted Sun Zhongming, the censor of the right capital, to preside over the trial, and selected Zhu Shunli, the head of the criminal department, and Xiang Rusheng, the prime minister of Dali Temple, to attend the trial together. He, the second prince, the other four ministers, and the minister of Dali Temple attended the trial.The rest of the officials with insufficient qualifications were confined in the Guanghua Hall of the Xinggong Palace and were not allowed to go out.

Tao Jiusi was also among these dozens of court officials. He and Xia Kaiyan entered the Guanghua Palace, picked from left to right, and finally found an open space. The mix is ​​really low-key.

As soon as Xia Kaiyan sat down on the cold brick, she raised her head and sighed: "Thinking about it this way, it's a good thing that Brother Fang didn't come."

Fang Zongqi, Du Qingyao, and Yao Wangze all stayed in the yamen on duty this time.

Tao Jiusi nodded, frowned and said, "What happened tonight is a bit weird, I always feel that something is wrong."

Xia Kaiyan turned her head and said in a low voice: "I also have this feeling, an assassin entangled with the second prince for a while, not only the second prince was unharmed, but even the eunuch beside him was still in good spirits."

Tao Jiusi was thinking hard, and Xia Kaiyan also had a sad face: "My father is in charge of the sacrifice, but such a thing happened, I'm afraid it's a mud bodhisattva crossing the river."

The two fell silent, both frowning and full of thoughts.

At this juncture, the old eunuch who had just been waiting beside Wei Rong and sent a message: "Which one is Lord Tao Jiusitao, and who is Lord Xia Kaiyan Xia?"

Tao Jiusi and Xia Kaiyan glanced at each other, and stepped out without knowing it.

Seeing the two of them, the old eunuch gestured for them to speak outside.

Tao Jiusi and Xia Kaiyan had no choice but to follow out.

The old eunuch said solemnly: "The Second Highness said that the adults in charge of the Ministry of Punishment's handwriting were so poorly written that he could not decipher them. He also said that the two lords wrote good handwriting, so he sent the villains to ask the adults to record one or two."

Xia Kaiyan thought secretly: "What kind of excuse is this made up by His Highness the Second Highness?"

Tao Jiusi: "..."

The two of them followed the old eunuch to a side hall that was temporarily used as a lobby, and saw several adults staring at them, as if they saw some rare birds and beasts.

Tao Jiusi smiled slightly, saluted Wei Rongyu and the adults in a proper manner, then ignored the large number of gazes, and sat sideways with Xia Kaiyan, ready to take a pen to record.

Sun Zhongming slapped the gavel and said sharply: "Who is kneeling down, please report the name."

Tao Jiusi looked up, and saw that the man in black, who was heavily tied up, was kneeling under the hall. This man had a dark complexion and was quite strong.

Seeing that the suspect was silent, Sun Zhongming asked again: "Who is kneeling, please report the name quickly, or you will be punished!"

The man raised his eyes slowly, and said hoarsely: "If you want to kill, then kill, why ask so many questions!"

Sun Zhongming's pressure suddenly doubled, the prisoners in the hall rarely cooperated, and the second prince in the hall was staring at him again.

Zhu Shunli got up suddenly, walked down the steps, walked around the prisoner, pinched and touched him, feeling very strange, then he calmly said: "Your face and hands are very dark, but your body is very white, which means that you have been working outdoors all year round. , the tan is sun-dried; the hands are calloused without knowing martial arts, and the arms are also very strong. They should make a living by relying on physical strength. They are probably either farmers or hard workers; .”

The man in black moved for a moment, but remained silent.

Zhu Shunli asked someone to bring the knife, looked at it for a while, and said: "This is a good knife, at least it costs five liang of silver. You definitely can't afford it, so someone gave you this knife and ordered you to assassinate the two men." Prince."

The man in black simply closed his eyes.

Sun Zhongming did not have the patience that Zhu Shunli had, so he slapped the gavel and said, "Take twenty big boards first, and see if he is still stubborn."

The first rank of the official rank crushed people to death, not to mention that he was a senior official of the second rank, Zhu Shunli had no choice but to return to his seat.

This is not a yamen, and there are no yamen servants, so the forbidden soldiers came to beat the [-] boards in person. The forbidden soldiers had never worked in the yamen, and they didn't know the technique of playing the boards. Can't bear to look at it, and concentrate on the file.

But after the bloody twenties, the man in black was sweating from the pain, and still refused to confide a word.

Sun Zhongming suddenly felt a pain in his back, thinking that after this visit, the second prince must be dissatisfied with my ability to work.

In this way, several instruments of torture were used, and Zhu Shunli and Xiang Rusheng were asked several times in turn, but this man was still a stubborn rock, so stubborn that he didn't speak.

When he was at a loss, Wei Wuyue and Du Guifei arrived.

Tao Jiusi was surprised how he arrived so quickly.

It turned out that Concubine Du Gui had a nightmare as soon as she fell asleep tonight. She dreamed that her son was lying on the ground covered in blood, and he was weakly calling for concubine mother to save me.After Concubine Du Gui woke up, the Emperor rushed to the palace, wanting to see with her own eyes whether her son was safe, but unexpectedly met someone sent by Xia Muping to report the letter on the way. In a hurry, Wei Wuyue and Concubine Du Gui rushed to the battle with light clothes and hurried Come here.

As soon as Concubine Du Gui entered the palace gate, she roared angrily and rushed towards the man in black, looking like she wished she could tear it apart with her hands.

Concubine Du Gui was stopped by Wei Wuyue, but she scolded plausibly: "Assassinate the second prince, you are impatient! Who ordered you, tell me quickly! If you don't say anything, I will pull your tendons and peel your skin!"

Tao Jiusi shuddered, thinking that Concubine Du Gui was in a hurry to get angry, and even lost her usual grace and generosity.

Wei Wuyue saw that his beloved wife lost her temper in a hurry, so she hurriedly ordered everyone to rest for a while, and the trial will be held later.

The left and right imperial guards were about to drag the man in black down, but the black man moved his mouth, spat out a mouthful of blood, and said in a trembling voice: "Wei Wuyue! I think you deserve to die too!"