Placid Chang'an

Dali Temple Prison

Just as it was time for lunch, the jailer carried the rice bucket to share the food between the cells. When he walked to the two innermost cells, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and asked the people around him, "When did you live in this room?"

The jailer next to him was also a bit puzzled. He looked at the person in the cell, and saw that the person was lying in the corner with his head hanging down, disheveled and sluggish. He couldn't help but shook his head, "Maybe some adult caught him in?" , Don’t worry about it, quickly divide these up, and we can go to see Mr. Su interrogate the prisoners.”

As soon as he heard Mr. Su's trial, the jailer before him became energetic in an instant, ignored the extra person, and hurriedly finished his meal and left.

As soon as the person left, the person in the corner who pretended to be sleeping slowly raised his head, his eyes were as clear as expected, and he smiled at the person next door, "Zhong Pei, am I pretending to look like this?"

"Look for the crime yourself," Liu Zhen snorted softly, walked to the front of the prison door and picked up the distributed prison meal, sat down against the bar and ate slowly.

"The food in Dali Temple is quite rich," Cui Hao sat down next to Liu Zhen with a bowl in his hand, "There's still meat, look."

Liu Yu silently picked the cabbage leaves in the bowl, turning a deaf ear to everything around her.

"Zhong Pei, look at me."

Showing weakness and feeling aggrieved, Liu Yu finally turned around helplessly. Cui Hao had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and put a chopstick in his mouth and put it in Liu Yu's bowl.

Liu Zhen lowered his head, staring blankly at the sliced ​​meat that appeared out of nowhere in the bowl, not knowing how to set down the chopsticks for a while.

In the final analysis, it was himself who was awkward. He neither had the heart to drive people away, nor did he want others to see him in his worst state.So in the final analysis, he was angry with himself, blaming himself for not being up to date, unable to be heartless and unable to let go of his figure, which is why he is so stuck and uncomfortable.

"Eat, eat quickly," Cui Hao gestured to Liu Jue with a bowl, buried his head in two mouthfuls of rice and said, "Don't worry about me, my family used to be poor, and the children of poor families were easy to feed, so eating these is good It's gone."

Liu Zhen ate the piece of meat silently, chewed and swallowed it carefully, and then said softly: "I used to be a child of a poor family."

Cui Hao was taken aback for a moment, then was overjoyed that Liu Yu finally agreed to talk to him, and then said with a smile: "That's different. After all, you are used to living a good life in Chang'an City, so you must not be used to eating these things at first."

After a while, he buried his head in a smile, and said softly: "In my eyes, you are the Bodhisattva with golden branches and jade leaves. I am willing to put you on the tip of my heart and hold you. I don't want to see you suffering and suffering. Once you wronged me It’s painful to scratch my heart, it’s even more uncomfortable than being wronged myself.”

Liu Zhen laughed out loud, "It's still Tanhua, what are you talking about, it doesn't make sense."

Cui Hao also laughed: "Naturally, I can't compare to your No. [-] Scholar."

When mentioning the No. [-] Scholar, Liu Yu's eyes darkened, but he hid it for a moment, "Sweet words, those who don't know think I've given you some kind of ecstasy soup."

Cui Hao lowered his head and said in a low voice, seriously: "Then I have been poisoned for a long time, and there is no cure."

While eating, there was a wailing not far away, Liu Zhen ate with his chopsticks, and the vegetable leaves he had just picked up fell back into the bowl.

"It's probably Su Cen who is trying the case," Cui Hao looked out, "I heard that he captured that Liuzhi back. As long as he confesses, it will prove that you were coerced."

Liu Yu nodded, picked up the vegetable leaves that had fallen before and ate them, and then said softly, "Su Cen is quite powerful."

There was no movement on Cui Hao's side, and when Liu Zhen looked over, he saw the small resentful eyes staring straight at him, extremely wronged.

Liu Yu smiled, and comforted a child, "You are also amazing."

"That means he's not as good as Su Cen."

Liu Zhen couldn't help it, so he could only smile and said: "Okay, okay, you are better than him, let's go."

Su Cen frowned, and slapped his hand heavily on the case table, "Bold slave, what crime should I have for framing the late emperor!"

"I didn't, I didn't!" The little eunuch was already scared out of his wits, took two steps on his knees and kowtowed at Su Cen twice, tearfully said: "Everything I said is true, not a single lie!"

Su Cen's face was stern, and he couldn't see any clues from his face, and then said: "Then let me ask you, what kind of grievances did the late emperor have with Tian Pingzhi, why did he kill an official who was rushing for the exam for no reason?"

The little eunuch was stunned for a moment, and said timidly: "I don't know, I really don't know, I'm just a slave, and I follow the master's arrangement. How can the master tell us servants what's going on?"

Su Cen lowered his eyes, tapped his knuckles on the table, and suddenly raised his eyes after a while, "Continue to torture."

The blood-stained scorpion was put back on the ten fingers again, and the little eunuch was scared out of his wits immediately, and the words were already panicked, "It's Tian Pingzhi! It's Tian Pingzhi who offended the late emperor for some reason. Kill him. But Emperor Taizong was critically ill at the time, and it was related to the succession of the throne. At this juncture, the first emperor could not do anything blatantly, so he let me handle this matter!"

After finishing speaking, he raised his bloody hand above his head, "I swear to God, if I tell a lie, I will be hit with thunder! Believe me, my lord, I really didn't lie!"

Su Cen was persuasive: "But one of Tian Ping's scholars, how could he offend the late Emperor?"

"It seems... It seems that Tian Pingzhi somehow touched Long Yan when the late emperor had a private visit..." The little eunuch still had a scorpion in his hand, and he had already racked his brains to think about it, "The rest I really want I don’t know, the first emperor didn’t take anyone with him when he went out, the first emperor has already collapsed, Tian Pingzhi is also dead, I’m afraid no one knows what happened back then.”

A private visit in a micro-service without taking anyone with you must be to do something important or meet someone important. Uncle Tian once said that Tian Pingzhi was murdered and silenced because he saw something he shouldn't have seen. What is this thing that shouldn't be seen referring to?

Su Cen thought for a moment, recalling what Liu Zhen said before, trying to find Little Six but found nothing, and then asked: "Where have you been all these years? Why can't you be found in the palace?"

"I was guarding the spirit of the late emperor in Zhaoling," Little Six thought for a while and added: "I was supervising the construction of Zhaoling before, and I took care of cleaning it up after it was built. After the death of the late emperor, I continued to guard the spirit. That matter Afterwards, the late emperor sent me away, and I have been staying in Zhaoling all these years, I thought I would spend my whole life in Zhaoling, but unexpectedly, I came back again."

Su Cen suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Who asked you to come back?"

"Is it the Queen Mother?" The eunuch was somewhat uncertain, "A man in black brought me back with the Queen Mother's token, but the Queen Mother hasn't summoned me since I came back, I'm still wondering, Why don't you arrange things for me when I come back, how come there are idlers in the palace?"

Su Cen recalled the scene when Mrs. Chu came back yesterday, a little surprised, a little stunned, although he quickly hid it, but he was still caught by him.And since the Empress Dowager Chu intends to help Xiaoliuzi hide it, why would she go so far as to transfer him back from Zhaoling?

"The man in black holding the Queen Mother's token?" Su Cen frowned, "Are you sure the token is real?"

"The phoenix seal of the official scriptures, there is still a fake," Xiao Liuzi couldn't help being stunned after finishing speaking, "You mean, someone faked the Queen Mother's order and transferred me back? Who is this bastard?!"

He stayed well in Zhaoling, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and the wind and the rain were like the rain, what bastard made him come back to suffer these unreasonable disasters? !

Xiao Liuzi leaned forward, causing the injury on his hand, and immediately grinned again in pain.

"I have to ask you." Su Cen looked down, "You have seen the man in black, what is his height? What does he look like? What are his characteristics?"

This time, Xiao Liuzi actively cooperated without Su Cen's questioning. He frowned and thought about it carefully, and replied: "He is quite young, and he looks good...but he always sneers meanly, and looks like he deserves to be beaten." look."

Su Cen suddenly stood up from his seat: "Song Fan!"

Song Fan represented Lu Xun and the secret door. How could he have forgotten that he was inextricably connected with the secret door in this matter.From Tian Pingzhi's murder back then, to instigating old man Tian to kill, and now there are always people leading him away in secret, the secret door has been running through it all the time, and has never been absent.

There seems to be no intersection between Tian Pingzhi and the first emperor, and between Li Shi. If the secret door is pulled in, everything will be connected.

The gaps between the piles of piles have finally been filled.

"Put him in prison first." Su Cen got up and walked out of the prison. "Without my order, no one is allowed to interrogate witnesses related to this case."