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"Brother...Brother..."

"Brother...Brother...Brother..."

The cold and clear voice in the darkness, like the voice of a goddess, pierced into his heart through the thick fog.

The extreme hunger caused Han Qing to convulse with stomach pains, and woke up uncomfortably, her eyelashes, which were longer than the average woman's, fluttered open.

In front of him was a dark and cold prison, from which the sunlight could not penetrate.

"Brother..." A familiar voice called out sadly.

Han Qing looked up and found that Yan'er was leaning against the cell door not far away, looking at him with concern through the bars.

She was wearing a dirty prison uniform, her face was haggard, her cheeks were swollen and fresh, she had just been abused.

"Where is this place?" Han Qing wanted to rub his head, which was about to split from the pain, and found that his limbs were bound by iron chains as thick as three fingers, ruthlessly bound on the cross iron frame.

"This is Muyun's palace prison." Mo Xiangli lowered his head and said sadly.

"Prison?" Han Qing glanced around, only the two of them were imprisoned here, and the size of the cell was not very large.It is estimated that this is just a place to temporarily close the criminal palace or the concubine.

Han Qing recalled in bewilderment, he clearly remembered that he managed to escape from Murong Bai in the cave, and why he was in the prison when he woke up.This is dreaming!

"Yan'er, why did you go into the cell? Who beat you?" Han Qing endured the headache, looked far away, and asked with concern.

"Brother, I'm too stupid. I was framed and tricked, and I'm sorry for implicating you in jail." Mo Xiangli lowered his head and apologized for his stupidity.

"How do you say it?" Han Qing asked with a frown, bearing back the pain in his stomach.

"It's Concubine Rong. She sent someone to sneak into my room and stole the poison bottle I put in my pillow. They didn't know the real water and thought it was an ordinary potion, so they poured out the real water and filled it with another poison, and then reported to the emperor. , sent someone to arrest me.

Then the emperor sent General Murong Bai to arrest you.

I found something strange later on, except that the bottle was replaced with another kind of poison, and Concubine Rong had no evidence when she arrested me. She cheated me and admitted it. I'm sorry, I was too stupid. "

Mo Xiangli cried and said.

"Yan'er, don't cry, it's none of your business, even if you didn't do it, she would put this dirty hat on your head, I'm the one who made you hurt." Han Qing looked at Han Yan and cried With red eyes, he said distressedly.

"Brother, it was Yan'er who made a mistake. She fell in love with someone she shouldn't. In the next life, Yan'er will fulfill the promise we made when we were young and be your bride."

Mo Xiangli thought that the emperor treated her like a stranger except for the interrogation once, and thought that his brother was also imprisoned by him, so he just stopped crying and started to set off again.

"Yan'er, have two court ladies come to save you?" Han Qing asked, remembering the chess pieces she had laid in the palace.

"Yes, they were found when they rescued me the day before yesterday, and they committed suicide in public, woohoo." Mo Xiangli couldn't help crying louder when he thought of those two who died because of her innocence.

"Have Bei Hanjing and the others been arrested?" Han Qing asked again.

"I don't... have heard... the news that they were arrested..." Mo Xiangli said out of breath.

This is a little luck in misfortune.

"Yan'er, don't cry, my brother won't let you die." Han Qing said with a gentle smile as she watched Han Yan curl up on the ground like she was when she was a child, hugging her knees and crying pitifully.

"?" Mo Xiangli raised his head when he heard the words, as if he couldn't believe it.

Han Qing analyzed confidently, not like a down-and-out prisoner at all: "Not only you will not die, but I will not die, and Emperor Muyun has to confess us both as treasures."

"Why, the emperor didn't kill us, but confessed us." Mo Xiangli still didn't believe it, there were still two strings of teardrops in his beautiful eyes, but the crying stopped.

"You, do as I say..."

Mo Xiangli's eyes became brighter and brighter following Han Qing's words. Why is she not as smart as her brother!

As soon as the two of them finished speaking, they heard footsteps approaching outside, and Han Qing hurriedly pretended to remain in a coma.

Mo Xiangli also continued to cry, as if the two had never communicated.

Those who came were the emperor, Yan Zijin, Li Junye, Murong Bai, and several ministers of humerus.

"Tanlang...no" "Your Majesty, Li'er has something to say." Seeing Xiao Jingyu coming, Mo Xiangli excitedly grabbed the pole of the cell door, stood up eagerly and said.

Seeing Mo Xiangli's ugly appearance, Xiao Jingyu frowned slightly. He had always known that the palace was dark, and if he didn't care, it meant that she could be bullied by default.

"If you have anything to say, you can say it directly." Xiao Jingyu said coldly in front of everyone with his hands behind his back, as if the love and affection in Hong Luan's tent before were just a fleeting cloud, and Mo Xiangli felt that his heart had been crushed by him. The ruthless indifference hurts badly.

"Li'er, you didn't poison you, someone framed me up." Mo Xiangli tightly squeezed the thin lever of the door, his hands turned white from exertion, and said, looking directly at Xiao Jingyu's beautiful phoenix eyes.

"Didn't you admit it yourself that morning?" Xiao Jingyu looked away, pursed his lips, and there was a trace of impatience between his brows.

"Li'er, because the Sima family has a clue, I have to admit it unjustly." Mo Xiangli complained aggrievedly.

The people present began to attach great importance to it. It was related to the Sima family.

"What's the reason?" Xiao Jingyu looked at it squarely and asked solemnly.

Mo Xiangli glanced at the people present, with a timid expression on his face, Xiao Jingyu said, "You just say it's okay."

"Li'er, in fact, we are brothers and sisters with Beihan's son-in-law, Han Qing. When I was a child, my elder brother was kidnapped. We met each other at the banquet that day, but at that time, one of us was Muyun's concubine, and the other was Beihan's son-in-law. This relationship makes us afraid to speak out.

On the night of the second watch on the seventh day of March, when my brother and I agreed to meet in the back garden, we were spotted by Lu He, the maid following Concubine Rong, so Concubine Rong found me and threatened me in private.

If I dare to be disobedient, if I tell about the private meeting with my elder brother, it will also cause the Sima family to destroy Li'er's family, and let our family die without a place to bury, even the maidservant is no exception.

Before the emperor favored me, Concubine Rong knew that she was very angry. She came to teach Lier's maid, Ah Huan, trampled on her foot and insulted us as dogs. Aunt Zhang Jin witnessed it with her own eyes, and she was the one who healed Ah Huan.

I didn't expect that her heart is so vicious now that she dared to poison the current emperor.Let Li'er and his brother be blamed for poisoning, and also distort the brother-sister relationship between Li'er and his brother.

The Sima family's plan to kill two birds with one stone is really terrifying.

Li'er wanted to tell the truth of the matter, but Concubine Ronggui used lynching in private to force Li'er not to tell the truth, saying that half of Muyun's country belonged to the Sima family.

If I am obedient and accept the crime obediently, I will be let out of the palace safely in the end.

It wasn't until seeing her brother being arrested today that she realized that Concubine Rong Gui had lied to Li'er, and she was extremely anxious to tell the whole truth. "

"Gao Sheng quickly went to investigate whether the Mo family had lost a child when they were young." Xiao Jingyu looked solemn. If the truth was as Mo Xiangli said, then the Sima family was trying to murder the emperor and usurp the throne.

"What evidence do you have to prove that what you said is true?" Yan Zijin shook his fan and asked step by step.

"On the seventh day of March, at the second watch, that Luhe followed me and eavesdropped on my conversation with my brother, and was bumped into by a soldier patrolling the garden.

Afterwards, the purse of the green lotus fell to the ground. I picked it up and saw that it was filled with herbs and a round stone, and then put it back where it was.

The next day, I saw the light green purse on her waist, which was exactly the same as the one Li'er picked up last night.

Later, Concubine Rong came to talk to me, and Aunt Zhang Jin also knew about it. "

"Come on, bring up the guards who patrol the back garden on the seventh and second watch of March, and call Zhang Jin and Lu He over." Xiao Jingyu ordered.

Less than a quarter of an hour.

The guards, Lu He, and Zhang Jin all came.

Xiao Jingyu and the others sat down to interrogate the guards and Luhe separately.

Xiao Jingyu personally interrogated Luhe, and said: "On the seventh day of March, I will ask you where you are on that day."

Lu He glanced at the emperor, shrunk her neck and replied: "The servant is serving the empress in the Ronghua Pavilion."

"But this purse?" Pointing to the green purse on Lu He's waist, the emperor turned his head and asked Mo Xiangli who was sitting sideways in a low voice.

"Yes." Mo Xiangli insisted.

"Green lotus, present the purse at your waist." The emperor pointed to her waist and said.

Luhe hesitated to hand in the purse, Gao Sheng opened the purse, and sure enough there was a stone inside.

In the next room, Yan Zijin sat down, waved his fan, interrogated Zhang Jin and said, "Zhang Jin, let me ask you, on the evening of the seventh day of March, Meimei can go out, if so, please tell me the time."

"Returning to Prime Minister, Mei Mei would go for a walk in the back garden around [-] o'clock in the past few days, and usually come back in half an hour. On the seventh day of the seventh day, it was half a quarter of an hour later than usual." Zhang Jin replied very carefully.

"At the end of the eighth day of March, did Concubine Rong look for Mei Meiren?"

"Go back to Prime Minister, yes, Mei Mei went to Ronghua Pavilion for about a quarter of an hour."

"Did Concubine Rong trample on the maid's hand?" Yan Zijin asked about the details.

"Slave, I saw with my own eyes that Concubine Rong stepped on the hand of the maid Hua Xihuan under the pear tree at the entrance of the Mei Pavilion, and dislocated her hand. Afterwards, the slave gave medical treatment, and the slave took medicine for the maid Ah Huan." Zhang Jin replied, and wrote silently A prescription was given, which was consistent with the record left by the medicine grabbing.

On the other side, Li Junye took a sip of tea and asked the same question to twenty guards.

"Go back to Prime Minister, the servants are patrolling the back garden area." Twenty guards replied in unison.

"Then when you patrolled the rockery, did you encounter anything different from the past?" Li Junye's eyes were on the expressions of the guards.

"It's nothing serious." The guards would reply.

"That night, in the back garden of the second watch, did you meet a court lady who behaved strangely, please point it out if there is one." A row of people held portraits in their hands, and asked them to identify them one by one, without allowing them to exchange a word with each other .

Several guards came forward to identify each other separately, and they all recognized Lu He. The leading guard replied: "Return to the Prime Minister, the slave once saw this woman sneaking around on the fake paper, and even went forward to question her. I have a big ambition, so I am deeply impressed."

After all the interrogations were over, all the witnesses were brought up. The testimony of Zhang Jin and the guards all proved that what Mo Xiangli said about the time and place was true, except for Lu He.

"Bold Luhe, how dare you lie in front of me, come and take the big board." After hearing the report, the emperor slapped the table and said angrily.

"Slave is wronged..." Lu He cried out, and after a few boards, she immediately admitted honestly that what she said was false, and the truth was ordered by Concubine Rong to monitor Mo Xiangli.

"What did you hear in the rockery that night?" the emperor asked condescendingly, and Mo Xiangli who was beside him was a little nervous.