Placid Chang'an

A few days later, Xiao Yuanchen's case was settled.As early as the day before, when Xiao Yuanchen was tried in the yamen for the case of horse abuse, he had already aroused public anger, and later he deliberately took revenge and killed the orphans and widows.The little emperor ordered severe punishment to appease the anger of the people, and he was scheduled to be executed after autumn.

At the same time, news came from Longyou Road that the King of Beiliang had left for Beijing, and he would hand over the military power of the Beiliang Army without any accidents, and took Xiao Yuanchen to find a small place in the south to be an idle prince for the elderly.

As the weather turned cold, Su Cen leaned against the window and looked at the clouds in the sky, and couldn't help but sigh, Xiao Yuanchen's fate was ultimately his own fault, but I don't know how much Li Shi played a role in it.

There is a saying in "Customs and Customs": "The long official's horse is fat, the viewer is quick to see it, and the rider is happy with his words, and he will drive him endlessly until he dies."As soon as Xiao Yuanchen entered the capital, Li Shi took him to Xingqing Palace, superficially cared for him, but in fact he had given him a slow dose of poison.He indulged Xiao Yuanchen's arrogance, domineering and reckless behavior, and ran amok in Chang'an City. It was only a matter of time before he got into trouble.Even the meeting at Huxinting should have been deliberately arranged. What Xiao Yuanchen wanted was obvious to all, but Li Shi refused to touch him. Sending Su Cen out at this time would naturally intensify Xiao Yuanchen's anger, and anger would It is the best adjuvant for trouble.

He had planned it from the beginning of the morning, planned a strategy, and decided to win thousands of miles. He only needed to pay a little favor, and someone would naturally give him the right to control the Beiliang Army.

Su Cen looked up at the sky, neither sad nor happy.Li Shi is also the regent, weighing the world, he shouldn't have any scruples in front of the country, and the love of his children is probably the most insignificant point.

He didn't know how to define the relationship between the two of them, and what Li Shi took him for, but he wouldn't be so stupid as to take what he said on the bed seriously.What's more, Li Shi is such a self-disciplined person, he has never made any promises, and only said "It's not Su Daji, it's Su Qin", which refers to the courtesy of the monarch and his ministers, not the love in bed.

Therefore, every time Li Shi called him, he would go there willingly, and every time he left, he would never have any wrong thoughts.

What he asked for was nothing more than a person who obeyed his heart without regret.

Xiao Yuanchen settled the case, and the corpses of the mother and son can naturally be returned to their original nationality and buried in the soil.

Dali Temple has an ice cellar for storing corpses, which is built underground in the backyard of Dali Temple to prevent corpses from decomposing and losing evidence on the corpses in midsummer.

After getting out of the office, Su Cen came to the backyard with a bucket and walked slowly down the stone steps.There was no one in the ice cellar for a long time, the footsteps echoed back and forth on the hollow stone wall, and with the creaking of the door, the cold air rushed towards the face.

The corpses of the mother and child were parked in the middle of the ice cellar. Even though it had been many days, Su Cen still felt a dull pain in his chest, like a punch hitting his heart hard.

The only victims in this case were the two most innocent people.He didn't dare to think about how desperate the mother and son would be when they looked at the deep ditch above their heads that night. He didn't dare to think about what the child was thinking at the last moment holding two pennies in his hand, and he didn't dare to think about the mother and son. People on Huangquanlu know how disappointed he must be that he can't do justice for them.

Su Cen took a deep breath, stepped forward slowly, knelt down in front of the two corpses, and knocked earnestly three times.

He owed them an explanation, and Da Zhou owed their mother and son an explanation.

Su Cen got up after the long kowtow, carried a bucket, and wiped the mud off the two of them.

Due to being parked in the ice cellar for several days, the corpse showed a cold bluish-white color. Apart from the whip marks drawn by Xiao Yuanchen, the two also had multiple blunt injuries, which became more obvious after the corpse was refrigerated.

It was inconvenient for him to deal with the clothes on the woman's body, so he could only wipe her face clean, and then fetched a wooden comb to tidy her messy hair.

Suddenly, Su Cen paused, and slowly frowned.

Gently peeling off the hair on the top of the head, a depression appeared on the skull.

Wu Zuo said that people die from severe head injuries, so it is not unusual to have wounds on the head, but what is strange is that the location of the wound is in the middle of the top of the head, Baihui Point.

If a person falls from a height, it is not uncommon for the front head or the back of the head to land on the ground, but how can the fall hit the center of the head?

Su Cen put down the comb, and hurried to the child's body, wiped it between his hands, and his heart felt cold.

One person can still be an accident, but two people are like this, so what?

Xiao Yuanchen?

If it is said that Xiao Yuanchen whipped the two people and forced them down the gutter, he would believe it.But chasing people down to death is not something that pampered little prince can do.What's more, although the Baihui acupoint is the most important point, it is protected by the skull after all, so it is not so easy to get injured.However, the wounds on the two corpses were neat, there was no trace of secondary injury, and the area around the scalp was clean, free of dirt and stone debris.This means that it was a heavy blow that killed two people, and even the skulls of the two were crushed with two fingers instead of stones.

He didn't believe that Xiao Yuanchen had such a trick.

So... the mother and son didn't die at the hands of Xiao Yuanchen, but someone arrived later to blame Xiao Yuanchen?So what is the reason for this person to do this?If you don't like Xiao Yuanchen, you can teach him a lesson or even take his life with such skill, but this person has adopted such a method, and why?

Who benefits from Xiao Yuanchen's imprisonment?And who has the skill to do such a thing?

Su Cen's fingertips trembled, his knuckles became stiff and retracted, and gradually turned pale. His body squatted on the spot without strength, and the chill gradually spread, until he shivered in the blue sky.

If it was him... what should he do?

The door of the ice cellar was slammed open, Su Cen turned around in astonishment, dazzled by the slanting sunlight outside the door, it took him a while to see who was coming.

"Xiao Sun?"

"Master Su, I have found you," Xiao Sun obviously breathed a sigh of relief, but he stood in front of the door and dared not come down, scratching his head and said anxiously: "Master Su, let's go."

"What's wrong?" Su Cen frowned.

"Master Zhang asked me to come to you, and told you to find a place to hide." There were corpses parked in the ice cellar, and Xiao Sun was standing at the junction of light and dark, anxious like an ant on a hot pot, obviously wanting to I didn't dare to come down, so I could only do it in a hurry.

Su Cen stood up on the ground. The ground was cold and sitting for a long time. When he got up, he felt a tingling pain in his legs, and he staggered and almost fell to the ground.

Xiao Sun gritted his teeth, gave it all up, rushed into the darkness, and gave Su Cen a hand.

Immediately afterwards, there was a scream of ghosts and wolves in the ice cellar. Xiao Sun jumped three feet away in one step as if he had been stung by a bee, and pushed Su Cen to the ground along the way.

"Su, Su, Master Su... Are you a human or a ghost?!"

Those hands were so cold that they didn't look like the hands of a living person at all.

"..." Su Cen resisted the dull pain all over his body and got up again, frowning: "Don't care if I'm a human or a ghost, what happened?"

Xiao Sun shivered and pointed outside, "You, you, if you are a ghost, you will be fine. If you are still alive... Bei, Bei, the king of Beiliang is here."

"King of Beiliang?" Su Cen was taken aback suddenly, "Xiao Yan?!"

In the end, it was Su Cen who dragged Xiao Sun out of the ice cellar.

Seeing that people can stand under the sun, Xiao Sun finally believed that Lord Su is alive, and pulled Su Cen to the back door, "Master Zhang said, let you go through the back door quickly, and he will hold you back in front."

Su Cen frowned and hesitated: "What should you do if I leave?"

Xiao Sun pushed the man towards the door with great effort, "Xiao Yuanchen was interrogated by you, and Xiao Yan is obviously here for you, not to mention who is Mr. Zhang, so that he can take advantage of him?"

No one else in Dali Temple intervened in this case, so Xiao Yan would really only vent his anger on him, Su Cen bit his lip, a good guy doesn't suffer from immediate losses, so we can talk about it later if we have anything to say.

As soon as the courtyard door was opened, there was a slap, and Su Cen took a few steps back, clutching his arms, and saw a man walking in slowly with a whip, squinting his eyes and looking around, "Who is Su Cen?"