I feel at ease

Although Fang Cheng'an's case was not a public trial, because of his special status, everyone in the court knew about it.The Ministry of Criminal Justice did not dare to be negligent, and due to the passage of time, it was difficult to find witnesses and physical evidence, so it took a lot of effort.

At the end of spring, under the lobby of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, a prisoner who was repatriated from exile in the Northwest was kneeling.

The court trial was changed to the Minister of Criminal Affairs who presided over the trial. He first interrogated Fang Cheng'an, but this person was always vague. Although he still knelt down in the hall as a criminal, the adults did not dare to embarrass him.The felon in exile has white whiskers, but he can't tell his age.

The Minister of the Ministry of Punishment asked, "Who is in the hall?"

The man said: "The criminal Liang Zicheng."

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment asked again: "Liang Zicheng, I ask you, when King Gong conspired against him, what was your position?"

Liang Zicheng said: "Return to your lord, the criminal was a soldier of the capital's prison gate guard."

"The 27th year of Enlightenment, the second day of July, where are you?"

"On the first day, the criminal worked in the Zhihuamen, and there was a change in the palace, so he was temporarily transferred to the imperial guard camp... Following the chief, he went out of the city to chase him. On the second day of July, he arrived in Weichuan, the upper reaches of the Chanhe River."

"Who are you chasing?"

Liang Zicheng prostrated himself and said in a low voice: "At that time, the urging was urgent, and the villain had to draw a portrait. I didn't know the identity of the other party. Later, I found out that he was the current Prince Jing...and...and the big Prince."

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice asked again: "But who else?"

Liang Zicheng said: "There is another person who was the attendant of King Jing at that time, and his name is Fang Cheng'an."

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment said sternly, "Why do you remember it so clearly?"

"My lord, because that day was the only thing the criminal saw in his life, it is really hard to forget, so I remember it very clearly. We found the traces of the prince and Fang Chengan in the Weichuan border, and we are going to search the mountains..."

On the second day of July, Fang Cheng'an waited for Xiao Jing to fall asleep, took the son's swaddling clothes, carefully covered the entrance of the cave, checked the outside of the cave repeatedly, sighed slightly, turned and left.

He never told Xiao Jing that because his son was young, he didn't dare to steal medicinal herbs for cooking, so he ran a long way to find a family with a baby, and begged that family to cook some medicinal juice for the baby.Then begged for some milk, gave some silver, and left in a hurry.

When the male owner of the household thought he had run away, he hurried down the mountain to report. He had just returned home from the bottom of the mountain.

Fang Cheng'an chased after the male master, killed him, buried him hastily, and then rushed back to the cave to settle Xiao Jing and his son.

He knew that it was not easy to stay here for a long time, but his son was ill and Xiao Jing was anxious, he was afraid that something would happen if he was in a hurry to go on the road.

It was his first time to kill someone, and after killing someone, he felt anxious and sad, and he tried to calm down to comfort Xiao Jing.Now that he returned to this family, he knew that since the male lead of his family dared to inform, Prince Gong's men must have searched the vicinity.

As soon as Fang Chengan arrived at the fence, he heard a woman's scream from inside. He flew through the window, drew out his sword and stabbed with it. There was a sneak attack from behind, but the person who had blocked his sword had already exclaimed: "Mr. Fang!"

The people behind quickly retreated, Fang Chengan also stopped, glanced at the woman lying on the ground, and said coldly: "Who are you?"

The two people knelt down and worshiped: "Mr. Fang, we are the guards of the government. The princess sent me to accompany the fifth prince and the eldest son. I went out of the city to cover my eyes and ears. I failed to keep up with you and followed Prince Gong. People and horses searched separately. Heaven has eyes, let me two finally find you, Mr. Fang."

Fang Cheng'an was stunned, the man had already taken out a token and handed it to Fang Cheng'an, saying: "My lord, this is the token of the princess, please check it out, the villain is called Jiang Xian."

The other person also clasped his fists and said, "Little man Xu Yuan!"

Fang Chengan took it slowly and looked carefully.He asked the two people to stand up and said, "Why did you kill this woman?"

Jiang Xiandao: "We found this place and lied that the spies in Beijing were searching for the fugitives. The woman said it herself. When she heard that his man had gone down the mountain to inform the police, the two of us ended up with her. I was about to go down the mountain to block a road .”

Fang Cheng'an nodded, he wanted to come back to borrow the baby, Li Daitao froze, but he didn't know how to deal with the mother, but he didn't want to be killed by Jiang Xian and Xu Yuan.

Prince Gong's people are close at hand, only half a hill away from Xiao Jing's hiding place.In just a few breaths, he had already made a decision.If we divert the rebels here and make them go the other way, Xiao Jing and his son may be able to survive, and now with the help of Jiang Xian and Xu Yuan, there is a better chance of winning.

Fang Cheng'an said: "The two of you rushed to Kaifu quickly, and asked someone to search the mountain to rescue them." These two people had a token of the princess, but the world is impermanent. hiding place.

Jiang Xian and Xu Yuan were taken aback for a moment, and each of them worshiped: "What is Mr. Fang going to do?"

Fang Cheng'an walked into the room, wrapped the little baby of this family in the swaddling clothes of the eldest son, hugged him in his arms, and said with a smile: "I'm chasing soldiers, I'll go and lead them away."

Jiang Xian and Xu Yuan looked at each other, as if they had guessed what Fang Chengan was thinking, they suddenly knelt down together and said, "Mr. Fang, think twice!"

Fang Cheng'an said: "Now that the fire is imminent, I can't take care of it anymore. The pursuers will definitely go up the mountain. If we don't split up, we won't survive."

Xu Yuan said: "My lord, the princess ordered us not only to protect the fifth prince and the eldest son, but also to protect you with all our strength. Now you want to hold back the pursuers by yourself, it is really inappropriate!"

Fang Cheng'an said: "It's three or four hundred miles away from the mansion, and it will take a whole day to go back and forth. If you are lucky, you can intercept the Kaifu soldiers and guards halfway to help, at least seven or eight hours, as many as. Difficult to calculate." Could not help but sigh, and said: "The fifth prince and the eldest son are still safe now, if I delay the pursuit for a few hours, there will be more chances of winning..."

Jiang Xian was about to accept the order with his fists folded, Xu Yuan said in a low voice, "I will act with you, and I need a little help."

Fang Cheng took a steady look at him, lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "That's fine, if you have made up your mind, you can pretend to be the fifth prince and come with me."

Jiang first turned over the mountain stream to rescue the soldiers. Fang Chengan held the baby and hid in a valley at the entrance of the downhill road with Xu Yuan. In just two sticks of incense, two or three hundred people came from the jungle along the road. Fang Chengan smiled wryly, thinking that these people It came so fast.

When the chasing soldiers reached the dense forest on the left road, they heard a child crying in the distance, everyone fell silent, the general waved lightly, and the soldiers slowly dispersed and hid.

Fang Cheng'an waited until the surroundings were quiet, leaned out to watch, hugged the child on a steep slope, covered it with a forest, and sneaked away to the distance. Xu Yuan hid his face under the scarf and followed behind him.

Suddenly the sound of sword and sword footsteps approached loudly, Fang Chengan expected his whereabouts to be revealed, and said to Xu Yuan, "Run separately, run up the mountain, if you can escape, don't worry about me!" Xu Yuan nodded, and the two resorted to twelve tricks Flee desperately.

Seeing that the two soldiers were divided into two groups, the general had no choice but to part ways with his hands. The mountain was full of noise and shouts of killing one after another.

Fang Cheng'an's martial arts skills are outstanding, and he ran for dozens of miles on this journey, pulling the pursuers into a long line, the martial arts experts in front pursued closely, and the people behind wanted to take shortcuts to encircle him.Due to the limited number of troops dispersed, Fang Cheng'an fled around like a fish in a stream.

It was already dark, and it was even more difficult to chase people at night. Fang Chengan ran and hid, but he took the child with him and sometimes cried, and he couldn't get rid of the pursuers.For fear of accidentally injuring the crown prince, everyone dared not shoot arrows, but Fang Chengan still received two crossbows, and some blood flowed from his back intermittently.

That night, there were torches all over the mountain, shouts and shouts all around, Fang Cheng'an was forced to a cliff and finally stopped.

He never stopped on this journey, and only took a long breath when he came here. Everyone saw him as dusty and bloodstained, but his eyes were shining brightly under the firelight, and he couldn't hide his finely carved jade figure.He held the baby in his arms and patted it lightly. The baby was comforted and stopped arguing.

Everyone had never seen him before, and they really didn't expect him to be so young and so good-looking.

A general whispered a few words to the people around him, and shouted: "Fang Cheng'an, your father and brother are still serving the emperor, so why are you obsessed with your obsession? If you hand over your son, the emperor will spare your life."

Fang Cheng'an didn't answer, when someone came to report, the general said again: "Fang Cheng'an, your accomplice has been arrested, he is not the fifth prince, where is the fifth prince?"

Fang Cheng'an lowered his head slightly, wrapped his swaddling clothes tightly, and there was no joy or anger on his handsome face. Seeing that he was unresponsive, and his face was uncertain, the general turned around and talked with the people around him in a low voice, and said: "You don't answer, and you don't." It doesn't matter, your partner will tell the whereabouts of the fifth prince, if you are willing to hand over the prince today, I will let you live."

Fang Chengan kissed the little face of the baby in his arms, put it gently on the ground behind him, and drew out his sword.He has a handsome face, and at this moment, reflecting the torches of the chasing soldiers, he smiled slightly, like a bright moon in his arms, which made the general stunned for a moment, but he heard him say: "Princess Qin said when she handed over her son to me, no one can threaten you with this." King Qin, if there is no other choice, I would rather be broken than broken!"

When he said this, everyone felt terrified, Qin Wangfei was so ruthless, I don't know what Qin Wang will do in the future.

With the sword in his hand, Fang Cheng'an glanced at the dark mountain in the distance, and said with a sneer, "Even after chasing for so long, if you want to do it, do it!"

The soldier said angrily: "Fang Cheng'an, you really don't repent, then don't blame us for not giving you a chance!"

Before the words were finished, everyone rushed forward, Fang Chengan's sword rose with them, like a butterfly piercing a flower, the sword never missed, stabbing several people in an instant.But someone took the opportunity to snatch the baby behind him, Fang Cheng'an didn't show mercy, he turned around and slashed away.But in a short while, there was another knife wind slashing behind him, Fang Chengan dodged based on his perception, and thrust his sword at the person in front of him, swept the sword flower around him, and forced several people back.

But the man suddenly said: "You and the fifth prince have always been inseparable from the mound, and the mound is always inseparable from the scale. Now that the prince is in your hands, how can the fifth prince stay away?"

Fang Cheng'an smiled coldly, and did not answer. His subordinates chopped even harder. He was surrounded and killed by many people. There were arrows and guns inside, and the blood all over his body reflected his stunning face. The official said again: "Fang Cheng'an, if you hand in your arms and surrender now, I can still save your life!"

But the other person said: "With the affection between the fifth prince and you, I will never hand over the prince to you and escape alone. I guess this is just your blindfold. The baby behind you is not the prince!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Chengan was slightly distracted, and was shot into the shoulder blade again.He was seriously injured, blood spilled from the corners of his lips, he looked at the man in a blink of an eye, and sneered with disdain: "I remembered who you are, but I didn't know, you are Prince Gong's lackey!"

The man seemed to be very angry, and shouted: "We have fallen into this man's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain, you don't have to show mercy!"

Fang Cheng'an was forced to take a few steps back, but he still sneered: "A man with a powerful ear, a fox pretending to be a tiger, is just ridiculous!"

That person was Fang Heng, the attendant whom King Yijun brought to entertain Xiao Jing that day. He was originally a distant relative of the Fang family, who had nowhere to join the Fang family in Beijing, but met Fang Chengan in the palace of Yijun Prince. See, ridiculed by Xiao Jing.

Fang Youting took refuge in the prince's party, and Fang Heng attached himself to the prince under the banner of Fang's family.

The prince wholeheartedly wanted to get Fang Cheng'an, but he hadn't even looked at Fang Heng. If he hadn't known the fifth prince and Fang Cheng'an this time, he wouldn't have been able to get the hard work of tracking and retreating thousands of miles away.

Now that Fang Cheng'an is right in front of him, it is the time for him to be arrogant.Hearing Fang Cheng'an's bad words, he was beyond anger, and roared: "Fang Cheng'an, your death date has come, what's the use of Cheng's tongue for a while, and what are you, you are not what the Fang family wants to give to the prince A plaything!" As he spoke, he took advantage of the crowd to force Fang Cheng'an to the edge of the cliff and slashed at Fang Cheng'an's face, Fang Cheng'an was held up by several people with swords. In a daze, seeing the knife across his cheek, he didn't feel any pain for a moment, but he sneered, and said slowly: "The sky has dawned, the fifth prince has moved the King of Qin to rescue the soldiers, and they will arrive immediately, so you are all in vain. Probably the whole army will have to be wiped out, and Fang Cheng'an deserves to die!"

Before everyone could wake up from his words, Fang Cheng'an said again: "The baby behind me, I killed his parents who wanted to tell the truth, and now he has to accompany me to die. It can be seen that those who are not upright will not end well. But you still have to hurt innocent children!" At the end, he used all his strength to break through the swords of the crowd, and stretched out his hand as if to grab the swaddling baby, but the crowd forced him up again, but he suddenly jumped backwards violently, falling towards the cliff like a fallen leaf go.

Everyone was stunned, looking at the abyss under the cliff, not knowing what to do.

The general stepped forward to pick up the baby, looked at it for a long time and handed it to his subordinates, saying: "If it is not the eldest son, his family members died due to informants, this child should be returned to the villagers."

Fang Heng was still angry, and said viciously: "No, since this is the child we snatched from Fang Cheng'an, wearing the crown prince's swaddling clothes, of course we have to take it back and let the crown prince examine it."

The general frowned and said: "The fifth prince is missing. Since Fang Chengan has accomplices, it is estimated that the fifth prince is indispensable. Now that he has delayed for so long, the fifth prince may have escaped."

Fang Heng said coldly: "Why is the fifth prince willing to leave him here alone?"

The general said: "Fang Cheng'an has fallen off the cliff, but the Fifth Prince has not appeared. If he hadn't escaped, it would be difficult for us to catch him? If it is true as Fang Cheng'an said, King Qin's army is approaching, we can't sit still and wait for death."

Fang Heng's face changed several times, and finally he said: "Let's go!"