Li Jingzhong kept shouting and struggled hard. From the corner of his eye, he saw a young master slowly ascending the corridor with two servants, a man and a woman, and walked up to him.
He vaguely felt that the other person looked familiar. When he took a closer look, his face changed drastically and he showed an expression as if he had seen a ghost. He was so surprised that he could hardly speak.
"You! You're not dead?!"
Xue Bai smiled politely and said, "Thank you for not killing me, right?"
Li Jingzhong's eyes rolled, and he became more and more uneasy. When he looked again, he realized that the person following Xue Bai was not an entourage, but the Wulang of the Du family. He then said: "The Wulang is also here. The old slave has met Wulang several times and has always been very respectful."
, why do we turn against each other?"
"I..."
Du Wulang was not good at verbal exchanges with others. He hesitated for a long time and then said: "But you said, where did you hide my second sister?"
"Du Erniang has since reconciled with the prince and left. How does the old slave know her whereabouts?" Li Jingzhong said: "Breaking into the prince's residence without permission and seizing the prince's servants is like treason. Please give up immediately."
If it is too late to let go of the old slave, the old slave will not be able to cover up for Wu Lang."
A few words can coax Du Wulang, but they cannot coax Xue Bai and Yang Zhao.
I saw in Chang'an this year that the prince's brother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, and senior brother had been taken away for unknown reasons. How could Yang Zhao be afraid of taking a servant?
He turned around, took a boot, threw it on the ground, and said: "Li Jingzhong, Du Wulang sued you for detaining his second sister and sending people to break into Du's house at night to commit murder. Can you plead guilty?"
Li Jingzhong saw the boots falling in front of his eyes. He was stunned for a moment, and then became furious and shouted: "What do you mean by sending people into Du's house at night to commit murder? I didn't, so you framed me?!"
As if he had been greatly wronged, he shouted again: "I asked the eunuch to take these boots off for you that day! It's even more nonsense to send people to commit murder. I didn't even know you were still alive..."
"Oh?" Xue Bai asked: "You think I'm dead, right? How did I die?"
"You!"
Li Jingzhong couldn't answer for a while, so he could only snort.
Jiao Nu looked around and saw that although You Xiaowei did not dare to go to the backyard to fetch anyone this time, he had driven all the eunuchs from the front yard over.
"The people I chased last night were not among these because of their nimble agility and extraordinary martial arts skills." Jiao Nu said, "There must be other dead soldiers hiding elsewhere."
Li Jingzhong looked stunned, with a look of disbelief in his eyes, and cursed: "What a good thief, how dare you frame me?!"
Yang Zhaocai didn't believe that he was calling Qu, so he pulled Xue Bai over and whispered: "It's best if you come to interrogate me and find the evidence. If you can't get it, this is the Prince's Court after all, so you can't go too far."
"Don't worry, Uncle Guo, I have a sense of propriety."
Xue Bai bowed and turned around to make arrangements.
He looked around, selected a veranda room, sat down in it, and asked Li Jingzhong to be brought in, and asked in a leisurely manner: "I must have found Du Erniang, and then I will know that the dead man raised by my wife is hidden there."
Where is it, right?"
"Absurd!"
Li Jingzhong panicked inexplicably and said sharply: "I don't know what you are talking about."
"You hid Du Erniang inside the city." Xue Bai spoke very slowly, his eyes like sharp knives, observing Li Jingzhong's expression, and asked: "Or outside the city?"
"You're talking nonsense!" Li Jingzhong said sharply: "The prince has reconciled with Du Erniang, and I don't know where she went."
"Outside the city, right?"
"No."
Xue Bai asked slowly: "Eastern suburb? Western suburb? Southern suburb?"
"Humph!"
Li Jingzhong gradually realized that he was testing herself, and was secretly surprised that this young man was more skillful than the ordinary old jailer. She simply turned her head away, not letting him see her ugly face, and didn't answer a word.
At the end, Xue Bai asked: "You really don't want to say it?"
"What a thief!" Li Jingzhong cursed: "Do you know that the more rampant you are today, the worse your consequences will be tomorrow?"
Xue Bai actually didn't force him, and just kept writing and drawing with his pen and ink for a while, then said: "Drag him down and take the next one with him."
Yang Zhao waved his hand, and a right guard dragged Li Jingzhong down.
"What a thief, kill me if you can." Li Jingzhong cursed.
"There's no rush." Xue Bai said, "There's a chance."
"Little beast..."
Li Jingzhong still cursed with hatred, but he knew very well in his heart that although these traitors were arrogant, they really did not dare to attack the prince's people.
But there was only one thing that puzzled him - who sent him to Du's house to silence him last night? It's a pity that he couldn't really get rid of the scourge of Xue Bai.
After being dragged to another veranda, Li Jingzhong looked through the window at the eunuchs who were being brought in for interrogation, and another worry arose in his heart.
Two of them did go with him to settle Du Liangdi. If Li Linfu found her, it would be quite detrimental to the prince.
It was said at that time that Du Liangdi and Concubine Wei should be allowed to become nuns and move to the palace. However, the prince was soft-hearted, which ended up causing disaster.
Then he thought that the situation was not too bad. There were many eunuchs here, but only two people knew about Du Liangdi's whereabouts. The right guard did not dare to use torture. It was impossible to distinguish the insiders from the crowd in a short period of time, so why not talk about anything else. Time passed little by little, and Li Jingzhong was sometimes worried and sometimes optimistic.
Finally, Xue Bai questioned all the eunuchs, and Du Wulang shouted excitedly: "Okay, I'll pick up the second sister!"
Li Jingzhong couldn't help being surprised. Seeing Du Wulang running across the corridor, he tried his best to look out the window, but he couldn't see the expressions of the eunuchs standing on the gravel, and he felt very uneasy.
The skylight gradually dimmed while waiting uneasily.
I don’t know how long it took, but finally there were shouts and questions from the front yard.
"Who dares to be so presumptuous here?!"
Hearing this voice, Li Jingzhong immediately knew who was coming.
"King Guangping!"
He immediately shouted and rushed out of the veranda at all costs.
Perhaps he was intimidated by the emperor's grandson's momentum, so the right guards no longer dared to stop him and allowed him to run into the court.
Three young men entered the Prince's Courtyard proudly.
The first man was dressed in rich clothes and had a graceful demeanor. Although he was angry and shouting, his face did not have a cruel look. He still had an elegant appearance and a good appearance. This man was the eldest son of the crown prince, Li Chu, King of Guangping. p>
Li Chu was twenty years old at the time and was in his prime, without his father's cautious and rickety attitude.
Because he had been favored by the saint since he was a child, when he was only three days old, the saint personally went to the house of the Ten Kings and gave him a golden basin to hold a baptism banquet for him.
On that day, the saint carefully supported Li Chu's little body with his hands, and said with great joy: "There are three sons in this hall, how happy it is!"
But in fact, Li Heng was not the prince at that time. In other words, Li Heng became the prince because of the eldest son's favor.
At this time, there were two other people behind Li Chu, but they were Li Dan, the second son of Li Heng, and Li Tan, the third son.
Li Dan was seventeen years old at the time, slightly fat, and stared at You Xiaowei and others with an angry face.
Li Tan was fifteen years old at the time. He was born with a majestic appearance, and his demeanor was not inferior to that of his elder brother, and he was even more heroic. He was wearing a military robe and a sword on his waist. He looked around at the scene in the courtyard, frowning slightly, but
Still keeping calm.
"King Guangping, King Nanyang, King Jianning! The traitorous hawks and dogs are here again!"
Li Jingzhong shouted while running, staggered and fell to the ground, but got up on his hands and knees, and rushed to the three emperors and grandsons before kneeling on the ground.
Li Chu quickly stepped forward to help him up and said in a deep voice: "Li Gong got up and said that since Xiao Wang is here, no one can cause trouble here."
Li Tanze said loudly: "Who brought the people here? Just come out and see them."
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Yang Zhao glanced outside the door, his expression changed, and he said to Xue Bai: "It's troublesome. It's okay to offend the prince, but it's troublesome to offend those emperors and grandsons."
Xue Bai's expression remained unchanged, still sitting there, not knowing what he was waiting for.
Yang Zhao felt like he had a sore under his buttocks. He couldn't sit still no matter what. He stood up and walked a few steps before finally saying: "No, I have to leave. Otherwise, if they bear a grudge, disaster will be in front of me."
"This is not the first time that Uncle Guo has dealt with Li Heng. Why should we be afraid?"
"It's different, big difference. The saint hates the prince, but he likes the emperor's grandson. To embarrass them in person is like embarrassing the saint."
Xue Bai looked out the window and looked at the sky, as if he couldn't understand, so he turned back.
Yang Zhao could not hold back his anger for a long time. He hurried out of the veranda and rushed to the three emperors and grandchildren to apologize.
Xue Bai then stood up and walked through the corridor calmly.
When Li Chu saw him, he immediately ignored Yang Zhao, turned around and asked, "Who are you?"
"Xue Bai."
"What official position is it?!"
"No official, no position." Xue Bai responded calmly: "But Zeng Xiang helped the prince, but was framed and killed, so he had no choice but to become a witness."
"You're talking nonsense!"
Li Jingzhong immediately screamed and pointed at Xue Bai: "The traitorous lackey of the party, so shameless!"
Xue Bai ignored him and calmly faced the scrutinizing gazes of the three emperors and grandsons.
Li Chu's eyes showed surprise and suspicion, Li Dan's anger became deeper and deeper, and Li Tan looked thoughtful.
Yang Zhao couldn't stand such a confrontational atmosphere, so he gently pulled Xue Bai, but failed to pull him.
At this moment, Du Wulang was heard shouting outside the hospital: "Found it!"
Xue Bai then raised his hands in a cross-hand salute and said: "Today, I cooperated with the government in investigating the case and interrogated several eunuchs. Now that I have found evidence, I take my leave."
After that, he just walked out the door.
Yang Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly apologized to the three emperors' grandsons, and hurriedly waved You Xiaowei to withdraw from the Prince's Courtyard.
Li Jingzhong's eyes were shocked, and he stamped his feet and whispered to Li Chu: "King Guangping, this person broke into the prince's residence without permission and is complicit in conspiracy. He must be captured."
Li Chu turned around and looked around, hesitating.
Li Tan leaned into his eldest brother's ear and said: "The more you do, the more mistakes you make, that's it."
"Yeah."
Seeing this situation, Li Jingzhong became more and more anxious, and without caring about etiquette, he hurried to the backyard again, hurriedly boarded a small pavilion, looked around, and saw a baggage cart parked in the alley outside the door. The curtain on the carriage was lifted, and a woman in rich makeup was seen sitting in it. Although she was a little thinner, from a distance, she looked like Du Liangdi.
"What's going on?!"
This surprise was no small matter. Li Jingzhong quickly covered his mouth and turned around to look around. He saw someone rushing in front of Yang Zhao and reporting something. Yang Zhao laughed and looked extremely happy.
"It's over..."
Li Jingzhong finally lost his sense of proportion.
He knew that it didn't matter what kind of humiliation he received today, as long as he couldn't touch the crown prince's foundation, sooner or later he would be able to feel proud.
But the two dead soldiers guarding Du Liangdi must not fall into Li Linfu's hands.
"Quick."
Li Jingzhong hurriedly went down to the pavilion, summoned one of his most trusted young eunuchs, and gave instructions in a low voice.