Your Highness asked me to pay him back his honor

Yunzhou City is an ancient city, and the prison has been used for nearly a hundred years since it was left over from the previous dynasty.

The prison is quiet and the watchtower is high and narrow.Layers of cold blue-striped stones penetrate into the dead silence and darkness where the roof cannot be seen. Between the gloomy stone slabs, only the slow dripping of water can be heard.

Under the dim wind lamp, King Xiang was sitting in the depths of the cell of Dizihao. When he heard footsteps outside the door, he opened his eyes.

He squinted his eyes, as if carefully identifying the figure outside the door for a while, his expression remained calm, and he even showed some faint smiles: "So it's you."

The jailer opened the cell door, bowed and waited aside, waiting for Xiao Shuo to enter the cell.

After Xiao Shuo's death, the Shuofang army on duty had already closed up neatly, and once again surrounded the cell tightly.

"Are you here to kill me?"

King Xiang raised his eyes, looked at Xiao Shuo carefully, and said, "Or...you come here to beat me every inch of my body, and blow my bones to ashes?"

Xiao Shuo ignored his questioning, walked to the side, and took a closer look at the instruments of torture.

Spine stick, nail board, barbed wire, golden whip, cannonball, apricot blossom rain.

The ancient instruments of torture that can crush a person's ambition inch by inch, and strip people's skin to kill them, are all placed aside.

"You can use these things as much as you want."

King Xiang looked over with his gaze, and his expression was full of interest: "The winner is the king, and the loser is Kou. Now that the king has lost, I am willing to bet and admit defeat..."

Xiao Shuo leaned over and picked up the cowhide whip that had been twisted with gold threads.

"This thing is wrapped in cotton cloth, and it hits a person with [-]% force, which is enough to shatter the muscles, bones, and meridians."

King Xiang said: "Yun Lang has suffered. Has he ever told you? It doesn't hurt the flesh, a whip and a mouthful of blood can make people pass out from pain."

Behind Xiao Shuo, Lian Sheng's eyes burst out with a bitter chill, firmly nailed to him.

King Xiang didn't seem to notice it at all, and continued to talk: "The leather glove was worn by the executioner's hand, with iron sand falling inside and blunt nails on the outside, Yun Lang also suffered it."

King Xiang was unhurried: "Hanging a person up, with his back against the wall, and pressing his chest and lungs with the force of iron sand, can make a person exhale his last breath."

The chill in Lian Sheng's eyes turned into a near-substantial murderous aura. He took a step forward, and the waist knife came out of its sheath with a clang.

"Tie Jiaguan is the best to suffer." King Xiang said, "Water punishment is more difficult than this. People are tied upside down on a chair, covered with cloth and watered continuously, and the cycle repeats... People who suffer this kind of punishment, ten thousand One or eight of them will go crazy in the middle, and even if the rest survive, they will not be able to escape the daily nightmare and terror."

Lian Sheng couldn't listen anymore anyway, and shouted sharply: "Enough!"

King Xiang pressed the cold blade to his neck, glanced down, and then looked at Xiao Shuo: "Is it really enough?"

Lian Sheng almost wanted to slash him with a knife, his face was livid, and his arms were stretched and his veins were exposed: "Stop talking sweet words here! Now you are a mortal person, no matter how much you talk—"

"Xiao Shuo."

King Xiang said: "He is right. This king is already a mortal man."

Stunned for a moment, Lian Sheng stared at King Xiang who was still sitting calmly, and frowned tightly.

Xiao Shuo put down the golden whip in his hand, turned around, and his eyes fell on King Xiang.

King Xiang said slowly: "Your parents all died in this king's plan."

"With the intelligence of the two of you, you should have already realized that the current emperor is just holding a knife, and this king is the one holding the knife."

"He can overthrow your father's faction, and he can borrow all the power of this king, and he can bear all the power of this king."

"You and Yunlang, the losses and regrets along the way are all from the hands of this king."

"Now this king allows you to take revenge, and the debts from the past are up to you to collect."

King Xiang looked into his eyes: "Your parents' blood debt, Shuofang Army's blood debt, Yun Lang's blood debt... You have worked hard to plan these years, and now you can finally feel proud."

King Xiang's extremely hoarse and old voice sounded slowly in the dungeon like some kind of bewitching voice: "What are you still afraid of?"

"Your Highness!"

Lian Sheng really didn't want to hear another sentence, his eyes were bloodshot, and he shouted in a hoarse voice: "Let this subordinate come down! Tell this old dog to taste the taste of these things! Look at him still talking nonsense here—"

Xiao Shuo raised his hand, stopped his winning streak, and looked at King Xiang: "Afraid?"

"Isn't it? If you have no fear in your heart, why don't you dare to attack this king?"

King Xiang said: "Aren't you all these years for this moment?"

King Xiang examined him and narrowed his eyes: "Or are you still figuring it out? Is there anything you can't figure out, this king can help you out..."

"No need." Xiao Shuo said, "You have solved it just now."

King Xiang stopped talking and frowned slightly for the first time: "What?"

Xiao Shuo motioned Lian Sheng to withdraw his saber, and said slowly, "Marquis of Zhenyuan."

He only said these three words, and King Xiang's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes fell on this frighteningly young opponent.

"Marquis of Zhenyuan... the Yun family."

Xiao Shuo walked slowly to the lamp and looked at him: "Today I finally understand how he was brought under your command."

The light in King Xiang's eyes shrank sharply, and he raised his head in astonishment, his gaze almost fixed on his eyes.

Everyone knows that the innocence of King Duan was wronged, and it was all due to Zhenyuan Hou Yunxi's plot to frame him.Therefore, the whole family of the Yun family copied and beheaded, and they deserved their crimes.

If you know more about the inside story, you will know that Zhenyuan Hou and his family are definitely not the mastermind. Zhenyuan Hou took refuge in the former sixth prince and today's ninety-five-year-old emperor. Come out the scapegoat.

Later, Prince Xiang's Mansion started to take action, and more secret secrets that were not known to the public were unraveled.It turned out that the three envoys and the ministers of the Dali Temple were the hidden posts of King Xiang. It turned out that many of the emperor's most trusted servants were secretly placed by King Xiang's faction.Therefore, everyone in the palace is in danger, and would rather kill by mistake than let it go. No matter how high or low the official is, they have to ask the bottom line and check again and again.

……

But no one has ever asked again, who is the Marquis of Zhenyuan.

King Duan was rehabilitated, Zhenyuan Hou Yun attacked and beheaded, and the Yun family was destroyed.The former empress mourned too much and died of a serious illness. The first emperor was seriously ill, and transferred the government to the virtuous king, acting as the director of the court and supervising the country.

Yunlang risked his life to save Prince Duan's mansion but failed, instead he was implicated by his family and fled into the mountains.

The old case back then, at this point, seemed to have been completely settled.

"Yun Lang is here to explain to me that the evidence he left behind is not only pointing to the family of the Marquis of Zhenyuan."

Xiao Shuo looked at King Xiang: "But the former Minister of Dali Temple annihilated all the other evidence, leaving only the Yun family's crimes. When I knew that Dali Temple belonged, I had doubts about it."

King Xiang stared at him, remained silent for a moment, then said in a rustling voice, "What are you suspicious of?"

"Duan Wang's Mansion is not the only one suffering from the bloody case in the past."

Xiao Shuo said slowly: "There is also General Yun Hui, Yun Lang."

King Xiang's eyes shrank slightly, and he clenched his right hand slightly.

"To this day, not only inside and outside the court, but even Yun Lang himself still thinks that he intervened too late and the rescue was too late."

Xiao Shuo looked at King Xiang and said, "But if Marquis Zhenyuan is the pawn you set up, you will destroy the father and Yunlang from the very beginning."

King Xiang laughed, "What's the difference?"

"It's different." Xiao Shuo said, "To this day, in his dreams, he still dare not see his father, queen, mother and concubine."

Yun Lang's heart was heavy, and the two of them walked forward step by step. Finally, what happened back then was no longer the crux of the serious illness in Yun Lang's heart, and when he looked back, he was able to let go of it.

But the major general who single-handedly dared to challenge the enemy general in front of the army, even in his dream, did not dare to kowtow to his father and mother and concubine to say hello.

The coldness in Xiao Shuo's eyes gradually condensed and turned into substance, and then he sank deeper into the ice pool of ink: "You hide in the dark to stir up the situation, and you keep using swords to kill people. The most proud method is not to seek power, but to play with people's hearts."

King Xiang still sat still, but his breath had changed.

"When you were looking for a dynasty, the current emperor is only the sixth prince. There are previous emperors and empresses who taught by example, and the father didn't intend to be a big man at that time. The rest of the emperor's uncles are meek, so there shouldn't be any troubles later."

Xiao Shuo: "You sent Yang Xianyou to stir up his ambition, step by step, making him more jealous and suspicious, and his attacks became more and more ruthless and cruel, gradually using everything to the extreme."

"Zhenyuan Hou Yunxi was originally just a mediocre aptitude. The former empress Zhiyun was the patriarch of the clan, and he disciplined the clan members severely. There shouldn't be such a scum."

Xiao Shuo said: "You first lead them to learn how to play with human life and take life and death."

"Life or death is addictive."

Xiao Shuo said: "It's like... using these tortures to torture people to death."

King Xiang told him to puncture his thoughts completely, and his breath became stagnant.

"In the beginning, maybe it was for revenge, for the purpose of killing rape, killing the person who deserved to be killed." Xiao Shuo said, "But slowly, you will start to miss the moment when these instruments of torture tore people apart and crushed them, and the pleasure of manipulating people's lives. "

"This kind of feeling of using torture to wantonly play with human life, once you get used to it, people will have the illusion that this should be their own power. When this illusion fills people's hearts, it will turn people into evil spirits."

Xiao Shuo said in a slow voice: "You designed it painstakingly, and you didn't hesitate to involve yourself in it, leading me to torture you to vent your anger, and what you want is nothing more than this."

Xiao Shuo: "You want to seduce me with yourself, and turn me into an evil ghost, and sink into the endless hell."

Lian Sheng turned his head and clenched the handle of the knife tightly, his face pale with deep lingering fear.

King Xiang looked at Xiao Shuo, his eyes widened slightly, the shell that had always been calm gradually shattered, and his chest began to heave.

"Since you were captured, you already knew that there was no way out."

Xiao Shuo: "But you hate."

King Xiang sat for a long time, then said in a rustling voice, "Shouldn't I hate you?"

"The foundation I have painstakingly planned for you will be destroyed overnight. The throne that was originally within your reach has finally fallen into your hands, and all previous efforts have been wasted."

King Xiang laughed, "Could it be that I can't hate?"

Even the last revenge of sacrificing his life was completely exposed. He looked a little crazy at this time, and he calmed down when he stopped: "Is it wrong to use everything to the extreme? Is it wrong to play with people's hearts? They I have already had these thoughts in my heart, but this king just gave them an introduction and gave them a chance to vent, so can others be blamed?"

King Xiang sternly said: "Without the two of you obstructing this, this country should have been in my king's pocket by now!"

Several jailers startled him, rushed in and held him firmly.

"Kill me! If you lose, you will be a prisoner. It is only natural to plan to fight for that seat. Who is not fighting for life? Who can sin against this king?!"

King Xiang roared, almost pounced on him, but was locked back: "Come on, kill me and avenge your father, mother and concubine!"

Xiao Shuojing looked at him for a while, then shook his head.

King Xiang's eyes widened, the mask he had been holding on to was finally completely shattered, his eyes showed a hint of despair: "You... want to take me back to the capital, and make the emperor humiliate you?"

"The fight for the throne is a fight for life." Xiao Shuo said, "It's just right and proper."

Xiao Shuo said calmly: "It is not the emperor who will bring you back to Beijing to try and convict you, but Dali Temple Minister and Kaifeng Yin."

King Xiang's pupils shrank sharply, and hissed, "Xiao Shuo! How dare you?!"

These two people were both under the tent of Prince Xiang's mansion in the past, so how could King Xiang not know.He has already made up his mind that if he wins, he will rule the world, and if he loses, he will die peacefully. It is a hero who can stir up this chaos, but now asking him to go back and be tried and convicted by those two traitors is tantamount to condemning him for all these years. It's nothing more than an absurd joke.

King Xiang stared at the young junior in front of him, he never imagined that this person could humiliate him like this, biting his tongue down hard.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Lian Sheng rushed over like an arrow and took his chin off.

The blood on King Xiang's face had completely faded, he gasped heavily in his throat, he couldn't speak anymore, his eyes were almost bleeding.

"I didn't intend to humiliate you."

Xiao Shuo said: "Your crime is not seeking the dynasty, but stealing the country. The soldiers and civilians in the northern border were raided by the Xixia Jin people, and if one person was killed or injured, you owe a blood debt."

King Xiang called Lian Sheng to restrain him, his eyes were about to split, and he uttered the word "death" inarticulately.

"It's a capital crime, beheaded."

Xiao Shuo said: "Therefore, before returning to Beijing, this king will bend the law for personal gain and protect your life."

It was the first time that King Xiang heard him call me the king, his pupils trembled, and he turned around stiffly.

Xiao Shuo's expression was calm, he usually stood with his hands behind his back, he didn't see the bloodthirsty hatred, his eyes were cold and piercing, but he had the power to piercing gold and cracking stones.

Lian Sheng let go, King Xiang was still in severe pain between his cheeks, dripping with cold sweat, and reluctantly said: "What do you want..."

"Zhenyuan Hou Yunxi is your man."

Xiao Shuo said: "You acted in the Prince's Mansion for coercion and blackmail, and there are records to prove it."

King Xiang's chest rose and fell, his eyes trembled, and he said in a low voice, "Dali Temple..."

"The one in the Yuying Pavilion of Dali Temple was burned down, but there should be a backup in the Xiangyang Prince's Mansion."

Xiao Shuo said: "If not, then you can write it yourself."

King Xiang was tightly restrained, and he couldn't even seek death, so that he was depressed by Boundless Lengyi, and lowered his eyes: "What's the use of this..."

"It's useful." Xiao Shuo said, "In the past, General Yunhui was pardoned and reinstated, but he just got rid of the crime of being implicated as a clan."

King Xiang hoarsely said, "Is this not enough?"

Xiao Shuo: "Not enough."

King Xiang rolled his eyes with difficulty, raised his head with difficulty, and looked at the figure in front of him.

"The truth? No one cares anymore." King Xiang gasped, and murmured in a low voice, "Yunlang...can't be destroyed. People trust him, and he himself...will never ask for the truth..."

Xiao Shuo said, "I beg."

King Xiang trembled, his eyes finally turned ashen, and he shut his mouth.

"The world owes him everything." Xiao Shuo said, "I'll ask for everything."

"I will reward him with ice and snow with the bright moon."

Xiao Shuo: "He is innocent, I will pay him back."

The author has something to say: I finally wrote this sentence out.

This is the final and initial explanation of "Your Highness asked me to return him innocent".They will always be clean and innocent young people.