Placid Chang'an

Su Cen frowned after regaining consciousness, looked around, and after making sure that there was no one around, he pulled him up and said in a low voice, "Why haven't you left yet?"

Cui Hao tightly wrapped Su Cen's arms with both hands, "Miss Liu..."

Su Cen, who was caught, gritted her teeth secretly, raised her chin and nodded in the direction of the door, "Go in and talk."

After entering the house and bolting the door, and telling Ah Fu to close the door to thank the guests, Su Cen was relieved, and turned to look at Cui Hao, "Didn't you already leave?"

It is a felony for an official to go back to the capital privately, and the detainee will be implicated as well. Cui Hao himself doesn't care. For such a famous and powerless official in the Barbarian Land, he will be lost if he loses it, but it's not good to implicate Su Cen. Neng said guiltily, "Don't worry, no one will see me."

Su Cen was really not afraid of being implicated, but combined with today's events, he was a little uncertain about the relationship between Cui Hao and Liu Zhen, and how much he knew about Liu Zhen.

After hesitating for a while, he said, "Go into the room and talk."

After entering the room and taking a seat, Cui Hao asked before Su Cen could ask, "Did something happen to Prime Minister Liu?"

However, Su Cen was a bit off-centered, and asked emphatically, "Where's Lingci?"

After being taken aback for a moment, Cui Hao realized that Su Cen was thinking about him, because he was afraid that if he went back to Beijing privately and his mother would be found out, he lowered his head and replied, "Don't worry, I have arranged her in a safe place, and no one will be able to find her. "

Only then did Su Cen feel relieved, and then he squinted his eyes, "I heard you called Liu Xiang-Zhong Pei just now?"

Only people who are close to each other call each other by "Biaozi". Even though Liu Jue and Cui Hao are mutual aides, but the difference in class is too great, Cui Hao already has the intention of offending by calling him this way.But people seem to be sincere, so Su Cen asked straight to the point, "What's your relationship with Liu Xiang?"

Only then did Cui Hao realize that he had just blurted out in a hurry, hesitated for a moment, and realized that he was here to ask Su Cen for help, and if he was not sincere enough, he could be kicked out at any time.Only then did he tilt his head, and said vaguely: "What is the relationship between you and King Ning, and what is the relationship between me and Zhong Pei."

Su Cen suddenly understood.

No wonder Cui Hao beat up the person who spoke ill of Liu Yu at the moon sacrifice ceremony, no wonder he argued for Liu Yu in the court hall, and no wonder Liu Yu, as the prime minister of a dynasty, condescended to go outside the city gate Send Cui Hao.

And as soon as Cui Hao left, Liu Zhen went to Dali Temple to surrender.

Judging by Cui Hao's current state, he probably doesn't know about Liu Zhen, Su Cen asked, "How do you know something happened to Liu Xiang?"

"Did something really happen to him?!" Cui Hao's knuckles twitched together stiffly, "I knew he was lying to me, if not, if not..."

If not, how could he have the heart to let him go so far away? If he really wanted to stay in court, how could he not even have such a little real power?

"He went to Dali Temple." Su Cen raised his eyes and gave Cui Hao a serious look, "He said that he killed Tian Pingzhi."

"Impossible!" Cui Hao stood up from his seat.

Su Cen's eyes moved slightly, "Do you know Tian Pingzhi?"

Cui Hao took two steps back and forth in the room, "He, he admired Zhong Pei before, so I know him."

"How do you know that he admires Liu Xiang?"

"He wrote a poem to Zhong Pei, and I translated it." Cui Hao lowered his head and hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I took the poem and asked Zhong Pei who Tian Pingzhi was, and it took him a long time before he told me. I, the one named Tian Pingzhi, is dead."

Su Cen said: "'Wan Lai Qi opened the startled Luan Pei, the thoroughfare of Kyushu came up from the sky,' is that song?"

Cui Hao looked at Su Cen in shock, "How do you know?"

Su Cen smiled lightly, and asked without answering: "You said he admired Liu Xiang, but what about Liu Xiang?"

"No Zhongpei!" Cui Hao bit his lower lip hard, "Before he met me, he never knew...that he could have sex with men, and it was... that he could only have sex with men. He married wives and took concubines Don't you think it's strange? When he met Tian Pingzhi, he didn't understand anything at all, and he could only avoid Tian Pingzhi's bold love until I took that poem to find him. It's only after seeing him that he wants to understand Tian Pingzhi's thoughts."

"He has always kept that poem as a relic of his friend, and he blamed me when he saw that I was wrinkled." Cui Hao pursed his lips lightly, "He confronted you a few times in the court, and that was only because Everyone is their own master, but it is absolutely impossible for him to kill someone!"

"He admitted it himself," Su Cen looked up at Cui Hao, "The confession is detailed and the details are worthy of scrutiny, it doesn't seem like a fake."

"Impossible!" Cui Hao glared angrily, "He, he... Tian Pingzhi would go to the tribute courtyard to pay homage to him every year when Tian Pingzhi worshiped him. He couldn't possibly kill him!"

Su Cen felt sad, it turned out to be worship.

Would a murderer still pay homage to the victim's grave every year?

It was only later that Liu Yu understood Tian Pingzhi's intentions, so it was not out of love. He handed in a blank paper in the exam, so it should not be for fame, and from Cui Hao's words, he could not feel Liu Yu's hatred for Tian Pingzhi. More like guilt and apology.

This also confirmed his previous conjecture that Liu Zhen may be a knife, but someone else is holding the knife.

Just as he was in a trance, he heard a bang, and when he looked up, he saw Cui Hao knelt down in front of him. Just as he was about to stop him, Cui Haoyan said sincerely: "Zhong Pei must have been used by someone, I beg you, Let me meet him, what do you want to know, I will help you to ask."

On the second day when Su Cen went to the office, a black-clothed guard followed behind him. He covered his head with a hood and lowered his head very low, as if strangers should not approach him.But it is precisely because of this that it is even more eye-catching.

Su Cen was followed all the way back to the guard's room. He just closed the door and couldn't help sighing. Why did he agree to let this person follow him to Dali Temple?

I saw that the hood was taken off, revealing a handsome side face, frowning slightly, it was Cui Hao.

"Why don't you go see Zhong Pei?" Cui Hao asked anxiously.

"Be safe and don't be impatient," Su Cen sat down and made a pot of tea for himself, "It's the time to go to the Yamen, there are many people outside, you have to wait for them to settle down before I can take you there. Remember what I told you?"

Cui Hao nodded, "Don't worry, I won't let anyone find me, I will help you find out who is behind the scenes."

Su Cen said: "Liu Xiang is now determined to die, and insists that he is the murderer. First of all, you have to let him have the desire to live."

Cui Hao pursed his lips, and his fingertips sank deeply into his palm, begging for death...he had the courage to die, why didn't he have the courage to walk with him.

He had already heard a lot of gossip on the way here. When he was the prime minister, he was a role model for poor officials in the world. Once he was defeated, he became a street mouse that everyone shouted and beat.Zhong Pei usually attaches great importance to reputation, if he hears it, how sad he will be.

After drinking a pot of tea, Su Cen slowly got up, and said to Cui Hao, "Let me tell you first, we in Dali Temple have committed crimes to the world but not jailed, so the conditions in the cells are not very good, you have to be mentally prepared."

After avoiding Shangya, the Dali Temple was much quieter, so Su Cen led Cui Hao to the temporary cell in Dali Temple.Cui Hao wanted to fly to Liu Zhen immediately, but the closer he got, the heavier his footsteps became.

As soon as he entered the prison door, a chill came over his face, full of dampness mixed with a vague stench, cold and dark, like a place where the sun would never shine.

What Su Cen said is true. The cells in Dali Temple are all prisoners awaiting trial whose cases have not been concluded. It is not uncommon for more than a dozen people to be crammed into a small cell that is several feet square.

Fortunately, just after autumn, the weather has turned cooler, and the smell is not as strong as in summer.A group of criminals were cut off, but there was no such thing as a duplication of people.

Even so, Cui Hao still couldn't help frowning. How could his Zhong Pei, such an out-of-this-world person, live in such a place?

"Zhong Pei doesn't know how to kill," Cui Hao said softly, "He usually doesn't even dare to kill a chicken, how could he dare to kill?"

As soon as the words fell, the jailer in the prison exclaimed, "Xiang Liu has killed someone!"

Su Cen paused for a moment, and was dazed for a while, only to feel a gust of wind blowing past him, and a figure leaped past him and rushed forward.

Seeing the back clearly, Su Cen stomped her feet and hurriedly chased after him, cursing inwardly while chasing, what she just said just fell on deaf ears, not worrying at all!

Fortunately, Cui Hao stopped in the end. When Su Cen chased him, he saw Cui Hao froze in place, a few steps away from Liu Jue's cell, but his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he could no longer move. .

Su Cen looked at the scene in front of him, the cell was in a mess, Liu Zhen was pressed to the ground by several yamen servants, and was still struggling, while a gray-haired figure in the next cell was hunched over, coughing desperately.

Su Cen frowned and asked the prison head beside him: "What's going on?"

"Master Su," the head of the prison said angrily, "You guys don't know what happened. We followed your order to bring Zhang He to justice. We just arrested him this morning. When we turned our heads, the two of them Just started fighting."

"It's probably biting each other," the head of the prison said in a low voice, "Didn't you see Liu Xiangfang's posture, biting his ears and strangling his neck, not to mention any image, the fierce look in his eyes is scary Yes, it seems that I will not stop until Zhang He is strangled to death."

Su Cen glanced at the head of the prison coldly, "Who told you to lock the two together?"

The head of the prison, Xianqin, sniffed his nose and defended in a low voice, "Isn't this not together?"

It was indeed two prison cells. If there were no barriers in between, Zhang He would probably have passed away by now.

Su Cen frowned and said, "Send them away."

The head of the prison said yes, and immediately ordered to accept it and start to do it.Su Cen raised his hand when Zhang He, who was still alive, was dragged away, and carefully released the guards who were holding Liu Zhen, and carefully backed out when he saw that the man had finally stopped going crazy.

Su Cen looked down at the person lying on the ground, with disheveled temple hair, disheveled clothes, and blood on his lips from when he bit his badge just now—he didn't look like a master.

"Why did you kill him?" Su Cen asked with downcast eyes.

Liu Yu seemed to have exhausted his strength just now, so he tilted his head and smiled, "Why does Mr. Su like to ask why so much? I don't like him, so I will kill him if I want to."

"You want to avenge Tian Pingzhi." Su Cen hit the nail on the head.

Liu Zhen stopped smiling, and the line of her lips was gradually pursed, reflecting the blood-red glare on her lips even more.

"You obviously have feelings for Tian Pingzhi, and you care about him, that's why you hit Zhang He, who buried Tian Pingzhi in the unscrupulous pit." Su Cen narrowed his eyes lightly, "You hate the one who killed Tian Pingzhi." People, why do you have to admit that you are the murderer of Tian Pingzhi? What is more important than life?"

"Yes...cough cough..." Liu Zhen slowly sat up leaning against the bar, his eyes drooping slightly, and said softly: "Yes."

The jailers who changed the cells took care of it and gradually retreated. A dark figure stepped forward in the dark, and took off his hood when he came to the cell door. He held the bar with his hands and his voice gradually trembled, "Zhongpei..."