Jun You Ji Fou

On the main hall of the Hunting Palace, all the ministers are on both sides, and Wei Song, the Minister of the household department, kneels alone in the hall.

Li Yanzhen scanned for a week, and finally fell on Wei Song, and said slowly: "Just now someone reported to me that Wei Aiqing was collaborating with the enemy and treason..."

Before he finished speaking, Wei Song's stooped figure trembled suddenly, and he opened his mouth and shouted: "Your Majesty, the old minister has been wronged!"

Some of the courtiers secretly took a deep breath, the voice of discussion quietly rose, and the eyes they cast suddenly changed.

Li Yanzhen raised his hand, and the hall fell silent for a while, then he continued: "Why did you come here to talk about it all of a sudden?"

The chief guard went out and knelt down, and when he looked back, two guards pressed a man up to the hall. He asked Wei Song, "May I ask if this is someone from Wei Shangshu's mansion?"

Wei Song glanced sideways at the trembling kneeling man, and replied, "That's right, it's my attendant."

The chief guard withdrew his gaze, bent down to the superior, and handed over a letter with his hands above his head, saying respectfully: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I waited for the night patrol inside and outside the hunting palace, and saw someone acting sneaky near the residence of the Xiongnu envoy. Later, I found this person. Seeing that he was faltering in answering and hiding something in panic, he took the letter away. I dare not slander important officials of the court, why is it a crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason," he paused, and then he fell silent. Said: "Your Majesty will know after reading the contents of the letter."

The eunuch consciously got down and took the letter, opened it and handed it to Li Yanzhen.After a rough glance, Li Yanzhen frowned, didn't speak for a while, and then looked carefully.

The head of the guard straightened up and said, "Wei Shangshu stated in the letter that he could help the nine princes of the Xiongnu form an alliance and get the five cities, so as to show his heart. There are many words of being close to the Xiongnu in the letter, and he even bluntly said that he is willing to work for the Xiongnu... ..."

"Nonsense!" Wei Song interrupted his words uncontrollably, trembling all over.

There has been commotion among the crowd, whispering.

Chu Mingyun looked at Wei Song expressionlessly, and Su Shiyu frowned slightly. They could see clearly that Wei Song's face paled inch by inch following the chief guard's words, and now he was pale.

In the broken voice, someone suddenly sighed, "So that's how it is," Yue Yuxuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, looked straight at Wei Song, suddenly realizing, "Back then, Lord Wei and Lord Chu had been arguing endlessly, and they insisted on ceding land for an alliance. It’s reasonable, I thought Master Wei, as Minister of the Household Department, really cared about the people’s livelihood, and I admired him so much, I wanted to support him with all my strength. I didn’t expect..." He shook his head slowly, "It turned out that it was just to present a gift to the Huns .”

"Every word I said that day came from my heart!" Wei Songdao, "Even if the blood feud between the Xiongnu and me can be temporarily put aside for a while, how could I be collaborating with the enemy and surrendering to the Huns!"

Yue Yuxuan turned his head and sighed to himself, and stopped answering.

"Master Wei, what is written in the letter is true. I am telling the truth." The chief guard said again, "What's more, the sender of Mr. Wei's letter was arrested in the residence of the Huns?"

The guard met the head guard's gaze, and the hand on the attendant's shoulder loosened slightly.

The entourage raised his head and hurriedly lowered his head, saying: "Yes, my lord told me to deliver the letter tonight, and also told me that the content was urgent, so I had to hand it over to the prince of the Xiongnu. I didn't dare to delay, but after I passed, I found that the prince of the Xiongnu was not in the room." , just stood outside and waited. The little one was just following orders...Really, I really don’t know anything!"

The chief guard looked at Wei Song, "Does Master Wei have anything else to say?"

"I'm the one who sent him to deliver the letter overnight." Wei Song closed his eyes and turned to look at Su Shiyu, "I don't know the content of the letter."

Su Shiyu looked at him puzzledly, and the chief guard also looked at him in confusion, and asked, "Since Master Wei wrote the letter, how could Master Wei not know the contents?"

"Lord Su!" Wei Song's withered hands tightly clenched the embroidered blanket on the hall, with veins showing, "Now that things are going on, you still don't plan to speak!"

Chu Mingyun frowned, saw that Su Shiyu was also stunned for a moment, and asked, "What does Master Wei mean?"

"Aren't you the one who asked me to deliver the letter tonight?" Wei Song said in a hoarse voice, "It was you who asked me to convey something important, and it was you who asked me to deliver it tonight, and it was you... who asked me to keep it secret." ah!"

His heart was full of horror, the hall was silent for a while, his lingering voice was hoarse, and he slammed into the huge hall.

Chu Mingyun was stunned for a moment, and suddenly recalled the hurried footsteps outside the courtyard, the stopped figure in white shirt, Su Shiyu's face turned around under the dim light, the eyes that avoided his sight while smiling, and... the mask Put down that completely unfamiliar face.

The light in his eyes fluctuated, dim and unclear.

Su Shiyu frowned, but his tone was flat: "But I never asked Mr. Wei to send a letter."

"Master Su...does he really refuse to admit it?" Wei Song stared at Su Shiyu and said.

Before Su Shiyu could speak, Lu Shi, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, couldn't help but want to ease the tense atmosphere, and said with a smile: "Master Wei, don't worry, since you said you met Master Su tonight, why don't you think about what time it is. Maybe I remembered it wrong?"

"Xu Shi three quarters."

Lu Shi's expression became extremely ugly when he heard this, and he hesitated: "...Master Wei, are you sure it's Xu time?"

"It will never be wrong." Wei Song said firmly.

The smile on Lu Shi's face froze, and gradually faded. He hesitated for a long time, and said in a low voice: "Master Su is in the room at Xushi, and I personally sent it to the Ministry of Punishment to report the conclusion."

Wei Song suddenly looked up, unable to believe it.

Lu Shi met his gaze and was heartbroken.

"...Lu Shi?" Wei Song's voice trembled, "You and I have known each other for many years, but you don't believe me anymore?"

"Of course I believe you," Lu Shi gritted his teeth, "but no matter whether it's my accompanying officials or Tiancha Gong'e, they all saw with their own eyes that Mr. Su never left."

Wei Song was almost unsteady on his knees, barely supporting himself tremblingly, "Master Su...Master Su..."

"Enough." Li Yanzhen couldn't bear it anymore, and sighed, "I believe that Su Aiqing will never have any intention of treason, so no one needs to say anything."

Chu Mingyun glanced at Li Yanzhen meaningfully.

Wei Song in the hall raised his head slowly, his movements seemed to have exhausted all his strength, his old face was tear-stained in a blink of an eye, "Your Majesty believes in Lord Su, won't you believe in the old minister?"

Li Yanzhen looked troubled and didn't answer.

"Thirty-seven years!" Wei Song said sadly, "Since the old minister became an official, he has assisted three generations of emperors in the past 37 years. He dared not betray the king and forget the people! Thirteen years ago, the Huns were in war and the famine was raging. He did not hesitate to sell all his family property; after his Majesty became the throne, natural disasters continued in the past few years, and the old minister worked hard to support him. Before the hardships and hardships, there was no sign of retreating, so why should the old minister treason now, Your Majesty!"

There was no sound in the hall.

Xu Yin, the servant of the military department in the remote place, lowered his voice, and said to the people beside him: "Look at the current situation, it seems that the Soviet Party is going to fight among themselves?"

Most of the people in the Chu Party watched with cold eyes, and the people around him smiled coldly, but did not speak bluntly.

After being silent for a long while, Li Yanzhen turned over the letter in her hand, and facing all the important officials in the hall, "I understand what Aiqing said. It's just that this letter...is indeed Wei Aiqing's handwriting."

This sentence was spoken very lightly, like a sigh, falling silently, but in Wei Song's ears, it was like a thunderclap, splitting his head, leaving his mind blank.

After a long time, Wei Song suddenly walked up to His Majesty. He slowly raised his head and looked directly at Li Yanzhen. Tears streamed down his face, but his tone calmed down. recognize."

"Chen Wei Song has been in office for 37 years, from the beginning to the end, there has never been a single moment of favoritism, let alone a single moment of disobedience--I hope your Majesty will learn from you!"

Wei Song suddenly bent down and kowtowed, his wrinkled forehead hit the jade steps.

There was a muffled sound, and under the messy white hair, dark red blood slowly spread.

Li Yanzhen was stunned, something was stuck in her throat, unable to speak.

Chu Mingyun turned his eyes away, and inadvertently saw Lu Shi's eyes wide open, trembling all over.

Su Shiyu closed his eyes and was speechless, and suddenly remembered Chu Mingyun's inexplicable question earlier——

"Is there anyone staring at your face all the time?"

The hand hidden in the sleeve tightened slightly.

The commander of the forbidden army followed Chu Mingyun into the house in fear.

This lord has always been extremely moody, but at this moment his expression is indifferent, which makes the leader even more frightened.

Chu Mingyun turned around and sat down alone, the commander followed up with a step, but stepped on something soft under his feet.He looked down, then took two steps back abruptly, glanced at Chu Mingyun who was leaning on the chair, and then at the corpse on the ground, staring blankly and unable to recover.

"Wei Song is dead." Chu Mingyun said suddenly, without any emotion.

"This subordinate has heard about it." The commander responded, "My lord, this corpse is..."

Chu Mingyun glanced casually, and Su Bai lightly tapped on the armrest, "Look carefully at the soles of his boots."

According to the words, the commander squatted down and looked down. There were a few white flowers mixed with wet mud and dust along the edge, "This is..." The commander carefully identified, "Tumu flower?"

"The eyes are good." Chu Mingyun chuckled, "When I stopped this man outside the courtyard, he was facing Su Shiyu's face. Although I have burned the mask, you can always recognize this outfit right?"

The commander answered yes again and again, sweating all over his forehead.How could he deliberately recognize it, he almost thought that the censor had been killed in that panicked look just now.

"Then you should know who Wei Song was entrusted to deliver the message," Chu Mingyun said slowly, "and you should also guess where he stepped on this tea flower."

Only the southern foot is full of forests.

The commander knelt down in panic, "My lord..."

"It's because I didn't clearly write the defenses for you, so I let people enter the Hunting Palace from the south foot?"

"No, of course not," the commander climbed forward anxiously, "It's the subordinate, it's the subordinate who was lazy, and didn't change the guards as you ordered, it's all the fault of the subordinate, the subordinate thought that for many years..."

"I can't enforce the order, the guard is negligent." Chu Mingyun interrupted him, "Can you get away with the death of the Minister of the Household Department?"

"Please forgive me, my lord! This subordinate is dereliction of duty, and this subordinate knows his mistake!" The commander hugged Chu Mingyun's leg regardless, his face turned pale, "This subordinate is willing to go through fire and water for your lord, and swears allegiance to the death. The imperial army is in your pocket Things! I beg your lord to hold your hand high, and don't tell your Majesty!"

Chu Mingyun frowned, "Let go."

The commander hurriedly let go of his hands and kowtowed again and again, "Please forgive me! Wei Shangshu is a high-ranking official. Once His Majesty finds out, his subordinates must have no way out..."

"Okay," Chu Mingyun said impatiently, "If I plan to kill you, can you still be here?"

The commander suddenly understood, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"Thank you sir." He bowed down in a very respectful manner, resting his forehead on the tip of Chu Mingyun's shoe, "My lord's grace of life, I will never forget it."

"Oh—?" Chu Mingyun turned his head to look at him, with a smile at the end.

"My lord, don't worry, from now on, both I and the imperial army will be under your control, my lord."