I feel at ease

On the second day, Qian Shaohai handed Jiang Xian over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for trial according to his order.

He was escorted by the palace guards to the Ministry of Punishment. On the way, he met several robbers with strong martial arts skills and rescued Jiang Xian.King Jing was furious, and the guards of the palace and the governor of the capital turned the capital upside down, but Jiang Xian and the robbers were not caught.Several escort guards were beaten to death, but it didn't help.

Emperor Wu Shun rubbed his eyebrows, glanced at Xiao Jing who was sitting safely at the bottom, and said angrily: "You have made such a big fuss, are those censors blind?"

Xiao Jingdao: "It wasn't done by my younger brother, please let the emperor know, if my younger brother intends to cover up, what method is not good enough, so that everyone will know about it?"

Emperor Wu Shun gritted his teeth and pointed at Xiao Jing, "Others don't know, so it's so hard that I don't know you? Jiang broke the law first, and if you uphold it, it will definitely break the rules of your palace, and you want to protect him." Let him not dare to act recklessly and blame you from now on, outsiders will not be able to take advantage of your pretentiousness, so you can kill three birds with one stone, Xiao Jing, you are really daring!"

King Jing got up and knelt down on the ground to worship, and said calmly: "Your Majesty, Jiang Xian killed Yang Jiye because of a prostitute's daughter. Misfortune. Jiang Xian...... It can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people. Although the ministers have always treated the first □□ servants generously, they can kill people to pay for their lives. Committing such a crime has hurt the face of the palace, which has attracted criticism. How can I protect him? Please learn from the emperor."

Emperor Wu Shun stared at him coldly for a long while, then finally sighed and said: "Forget it, since that's the case, you are doing your best to him, and I don't bother to care about it anymore. The palace is not well supervised, and I will punish you to think about it behind closed doors for a month, and don't think about it anywhere else." go."

King Jing refused to accept, so he wanted to say more, Emperor Wushun waved his hand and said: "Get out of here, I am annoyed when I see you now, you think Yang Jiye's old man is so easy to dismiss!"

King Jing had no choice but to shake the corner of his clothes, thanking the Lord for his kindness.

On this day, Fang Cheng'an took out the scrolls from each room and spread them out to dry, cleaned up the dust, and actually sorted out many books that Xiao Jing read with him in those years. Everyone has their own opinions. The words and graffiti from the past brought him into that carefree state in an instant. He wrote each book, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly.

Wei Congzhi stepped into Wen'an Pavilion before King Jing, and was taken aback for a moment when he saw his appearance.But for a moment he lowered his eyes and waited, Fang Chengan was also alarmed immediately, stood up straight in a hurry, but saw Xiao Jing hurried in, took a seat in the meeting hall, and shouted: "Drag in!"

Just as Fang Chengan was taken aback, two of Xiao Jing's guards grabbed his shoulders and elbows one after the other and pressed him down, dragged his entire back into the meeting hall, and then ruthlessly pressed Fang Chengan to kneel on the floor , before letting go and retreating.

Xiao Jing grabbed Cheng An's cold tea on the table, took a sip, and said emotionally, "Ask!"

Wei Congzhi took a deep breath and said, "Wei Qi, let me ask you, on the seventh day of June last year, you were on duty for three days, where did you go?"

Fang Chengan couldn't help raising his head and glanced at Wei Congzhi, but seeing Wei Congzhi's face was expressionless, he said in a low voice, "Go back to my lord, I went to a place called Wangyuan Township."

Wei Congzhi asked again, "What are you doing there?"

Fang Cheng'an said: "The villain met a Jianghu master in the past. He lived in Wangyuan Township for a while, so he went to visit him."

Xiao Jing's cheeks moved slightly, as if pulling a sneer, and it seemed that he didn't even smile, Wei Congzhi asked again: "Then let me ask you again, on the seventeenth day of last month, the day Jiang Xian was taken away by robbers, did you go again?" where?"

Fang Chengan knew that his mind had been impetuous recently, and his actions showed his flaws, so he still bowed his head and replied, "I have been sleeping less at night recently, so I went to the pharmacy on Shuncheng Street to buy some sleeping herbs." Wei Congzhi continued: "Then why did someone see you?" Following the soldiers who escorted Jiang Xian?"

Fang Cheng'an said: "Shuncheng Street is between the Wang's Mansion and the Ministry of Punishment. The villain bought herbs and accidentally saw the presence of the palace's secret guards. For some reason, he followed him for a while... The adults know it, and the villain does too. He was born as a secret guard, so he is naturally more sensitive to the actions of the secret guards in the mansion."

Wei Congzhi still wanted to ask, but Xiao Jing had already interrupted him: "If you ask him like that, he will definitely not admit it, Wei Qi, let me ask you, what is your relationship with the Fang family?"

Fang Cheng'an crawled on the ground and froze his body, and said for a long while: "It doesn't matter to my lord..."

King Jing said: "It doesn't matter... You worked so hard to come to the palace, and you almost risked your life just to inquire about Fang's news, and Mr. Jiang, you have no personal relationship with him, why are you still thinking of replacing him?" Did the king go and rob him?"

Fang Cheng'an hurriedly said: "I dare not!"

King Jing said coldly: "As soon as I ask you, you just say it doesn't matter. If you don't know which Fang family this king is asking, you can answer so freely?"

Fang Cheng'an sighed: "Your Majesty, this servant has served as a secret guard for three years, and was ordered to investigate the whereabouts of the old Fang family in the case of Prince Gong. Apart from this Fang family, this servant can't think of anything else."

King Jing saw this man with treacherous eyebrows and mouse eyes, and was so angry that he stretched out his foot and was about to kick him over, but Wei Congzhi slightly stopped him and said, "My lord, calm down. Wei Qi, you still dare to quibble, what you have done has already been investigated by the palace." Ming, it’s better to be honest.”

Fang Chengan calmed down for a moment, and thought over and over where he was not cautious enough. Judging from the battle of the questioning, he might not be able to explain it rationally. Finally, he bent down even lower and said in a low voice: "My lord... The slave is accepted by others. So entrusted, there is indeed something to hide, but I beg the prince to listen to the slave, and then convict him."

Xiao Jing was extremely irritable at the moment, tried his best to suppress his emotions and said in a cold voice: "Say!"

Fang Cheng'an said in a low voice: "The ancestor of the slave borrowed Fengxiang, and the year after King Gong conspired against him, the uncle of the slave, Yuan Shantong, and the brother of General Manager Wei were still officials in Kaifu. The prince knows that the emperor was still the king of Qin... With Kaifu as the boundary with Prince Gong, each holds half of the country. But Fengxiang is under the control of King Gong, and the slave and his parents are implicated, so they leave their ancestral home and plan to flee to Kaifu to join Shishu..." Fang Chengan said King Jing and Wei Congzhi knew this part before. They planned to bypass Yingchang and go to Kaifu, but they were intercepted and killed by Fang Heng's men on the way.Fang Cheng'an clarified this paragraph with a few words, and said: "The whole family of the slave was in distress on the spot. Originally, the life of the slave was not safe, but I was saved by one person...that person hid me in a hunt by a hunter. In the cave, I escaped their pursuit and saved my life."

Xiao Jing rubbed his fingers against the teacup, but he didn't say anything to interrupt. A needle could be heard in the meeting hall, and Fang Chengan took a breath and continued: "The two of us hid in the hunting cave for a whole day. I thank him, So I asked his name, he refused to tell me at first, but later he told me that his name is Fang Chengan...At that time, the slave didn't know who Fang Chengan was, but he felt that this person had an unusual temperament and appearance, As soon as he heard the words, he knew that he was a member of the official family in Beijing. The slave thought that he must have escaped because of King Gong's treason, so he couldn't bear to ask more questions. The slave's legs and feet were seriously injured. He took him to a hut on the mountain and raised him. It took more than a month to go to the ground... But because the injury was too severe, it was inconvenient in the end, so the servant asked him to take the servant to Kaifu, after several persuasion, he listened to the truth, he said he was Jing The third son of Fang Ze, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the Fang family has conspired against Prince Gong. He was originally a servant of the fifth prince, and escaped from the capital with the fifth prince. So...so I found an opportunity to part ways with the Fifth Prince...Now, there is no turning back..."

Fang Cheng fell on the ground, even after talking so much, his figure did not flicker, Xiao Jing didn't say anything, he paused for a moment and continued: "I can't persuade you, so I thought that the injury is not healed anyway, and the two of us will stay to take care of each other. The mountains and wild ridges are considered a good place to hide from the world in troubled times. But not long after, the man left a little silver and disappeared. Later, Prince Gong fled to Taiyuan. I miss Fang Cheng'an, and I am not in a hurry to find Uncle Shi, I stay in the hut in the mountain and wait for him... Until the next year, Fang Cheng'an actually came back again, but at that time he was already terminally ill, talking about him, saying His father and brother were condemned to death, Fang's crimes against the three clans, he is also a person who deserves to die, so living like this is meaningless."

The teacup slammed, Fang Chengan stopped and looked up at Xiao Jing, he couldn't see Xiao Jing's face clearly, but heard a voice whispering: "You said...he died? "

Fang Cheng'an bowed his head and said: "Yes! Before Fang Cheng'an died, he asked the servant to help collect the corpses if his parents and brothers were beheaded, but the prince will take care of everything that the servant got later... Fang Cheng'an's nephew Fang Zhengxing didn't have a tomb, so he wanted to inquire about it... The slave has been in the palace for three years, and he has no intention of rebelling against each other. He just wants to repay his benefactor, so I ask you to learn from him."

Fang Chengan's words were mixed with truth and falsehood, and he secretly thought about Xiao Jing's reaction, but he lay on the ground for a long time, there was no sound from above, he didn't dare to raise his head, and finally heard Xiao Jing ask again: "What disease did he die of?" of?"

Fang Cheng'an said: "Yes... tuberculosis."

Xiao Jing sneered and said, "You're talking nonsense..."

Fang Chengan's heart tightened, but he heard Xiao Jing yell again: "You are talking nonsense!" Before he raised his head, there was a soft sound of the teacup, and something hit his head heavily, with such force that he was completely spoiled. Stumbling, Fang Chengan's head buzzed from the blow, and warm liquid flowed down his cheeks.

Wei Congzhi and the guards in the room knelt on the ground and shouted: "My lord, calm down!"

Xiao Jing put his hand on the desk, glared at Fang Cheng'an, gasped and said: "Drag him out, drag him out and beat him, if he is still talking nonsense, cut off his tongue!"

Fang Chengan was caught by the guards and quickly shouted: "Your Majesty, please calm down, this slave is telling the truth. To this slave, Fang Chengan is a lifesaver and a person whom he admires. How could this slave have the heart to speak nonsense about him!"

Hearing what he said, Xiao Jing laughed angrily, "You deserve too..."

Fang Chengan was still pressed down on the ground, and hurriedly said: "I know I am not worthy, and I dare not think about it, but my lord...Fang Cheng'an is arrogant, because he has the disease, he doesn't even want to show the slave's face. See, I don't allow slaves to ask for help... A villain can only do everything according to his wishes, and dare not disobey."

Xiao Jing was stunned for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "Where did you bury him?"

Fang Chengan gasped and said, "Your Majesty also knows that tuberculosis requires burning his body. Fang Chengan has nothing to love... let the servants... let the servants turn him into dust and sprinkle him in the air." Mountain stream!"

The meeting hall fell silent for a while, only Fang Chengan's low panting was heard, Xiao Jing said in a low voice: "Take him out, I don't want to see him again..."

Wei Congzhi knelt on one side and hurriedly said: "My lord, please calm down. Although Wei Qi deserves to die, he is the person Fang Shidu entrusted to him at the end of his life. If Wei Qi dies...you will never find Fang Shidu again." It's gone!"

Xiao Jing glanced sideways at Wei Congzhi, laughed lowly, and said slowly, "Why did I look for him? He left me at a critical moment...and died so silently , He deserves it!" When he said the last few words, he felt like gnashing his teeth, Wei Congzhi didn't even dare to lift his head, and just said in a low voice: "My lord, calm down..."

After listening to his words, Fang Chengan felt a little more relaxed. Although he was relaxed, his heart seemed to be empty again, and he was dragged out of the meeting hall by the guards with his face covered in blood.

He didn't dare to look at Xiao Jing, and he didn't hear what the man said to Wei Congzhi. He only felt that the square court was still blue and sunny, and it was so hot that smoke was rising above his head, but he felt very dark in front of him, even more so. Be in a trance for a while.

In a blink of an eye, the meeting hall became quiet, and no one tied him up, rod him, punished him, or killed him. He just lay on the ground alone, and after a while his head didn't feel so dizzy, he got up and went back to his residence.