"You are slanderous! You are slanderous! Mr. Shen, please check clearly. I really don't know this person!" Ji Xiaoquan became excited.
"As the Minister of Justice, let me ask you, what is the crime for hiring a murderer to assassinate an official of the imperial court?" Shen Li asked.
"Should... ask... behead." Ji Xiaoquan answered hesitantly.
"Hmph! Mr. Ji, did you hire this person to murder me?" Shen Lizheng said and pulled out the knife again.
"No such thing! No such thing! Master Shen, don't listen to this person's lies!" Ji Xiaoquan hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed and said.
"The Prime Minister will come to you early in the morning to question you. I'll give you two enough time to make up lies. I'll see what kind of lies you can hide from the Prime Minister!" Shen Li turned around and left the room.
"Lock up these two people separately to prevent them from colluding in confession!" Shen Li said to Cui Jiao and the servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion who were waiting at the door.
"Sima Lang! I beg you, brother, please help me quickly. You and I have been officials in the same court for many years, so please show some mercy!" Ji Xiaoquan begged Sima Lang.
"This..." Sima Lang hesitated.
At this time Cui Jiao and a servant came in, and they started to tie up Ji Xiaoquan with a rope.
"Sima Lang! Sima Lang! Don't you care about any human kindness at all? We had a drink together before and visited Baihua Tower! Have you forgotten all about it? And..." Ji Xiaoquan struggled and said to Sima Lang A burst of verbal output.
Sima Lang said nothing.
After Cui Jiao and his servant tied up Ji Xiaoquan, Cui Jiao saw that this man talked too much, so he took off his socks and stuffed them directly into Ji Xiaoquan's mouth.
"Well……"
"Say less!" Cui Jiao said.
Cui Jiao and the servant took Ji Xiaoquan and ran away.
Shen Li returned to the room and was about to rest when the Ring Spirit spoke.
"Master, your spirit beast will hatch out of its shell in the next day or two. You have to prepare some food for it."
"Okay, I read in the book that adult griffons eat meat and fish, and occasionally fruits. Young ones can just be fed minced meat. Meat is not easy to buy," Shen Li said.
"Master, this spiritual beast of yours may not be a gryphon. You will know when it comes out of its shell," the Ring Spirit said.
Shen Li was a little excited when he heard what the Ring Spirit said: "I spent 99,000 points in exchange for this egg. The Qingyun Sect can't be so deceptive. If it hadn't been for a blue and yellow griffon when it hatched, I would have Go back and return it!”
Early in the morning, Shen Li accompanied Yin Ziping to interrogate Ji Xiaoquan and Wang Gang, the Minister of Punishment.
When Yin Ziping saw the two of them, he sat down on the chair and showed no signs of anger. Ji Xiaoquan and Wang Gang were kneeling on the ground, with their heads lowered, and their bodies were trembling involuntarily.
"I'm not as kind as Shen Li. I prefer searching for souls directly." Yin Ziping said without any fluctuation.
"Sir, I hired Ji Xiaoquan to commit the murder. He hired more than just me!" Wang Gang said.
"Is that so? Minister Ji?" Yin Ziping asked.
"I am reporting to the Prime Minister that I am confused for a moment. As long as the Prime Minister can spare Guan's life, I am willing to offer jewelry, spiritual stones, incense cars, and beautiful women." Ji Xiaoquan said.
Yin Ziping looked at Shen Li, and Shen Li also looked at Yin Ziping.
"Junior Brother Shen, please don't listen to this man's nonsense. Your Senior Brother, I have always been upright, acted impartially, and have never received a bribe." Yin Ziping was the first to speak.
"Shen Li believes in senior brother's character!" Shen Li saluted and said.
"Ji Xiaoquan! Tell me quickly, why did you hire a murderer to assassinate Shen Li?" Yin Ziping's voice was slightly angry.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I was really confused for a moment! The second prince promised me that if he could ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, he would give me a huge benefit. He asked me to contact assassins to kill the envoy and the prince of Qingyun Sect! What I said, sentence This sentence is true! Please, Prime Minister, please tell me clearly!"
Ji Xiaoquan knew Yin Ziping's personality and methods, so he had no choice but to tell the truth.
"I'm sorry you don't dare to hide it," Yin Ziping said.
"Prime Minister, I beg you to spare my life! I was really confused for a moment. Please give me a chance. I will give you all my treasures..." Ji Xiaoquan crawled over and pulled Yin Ziping's hand. Trousers, he said while crying.
"Noisy!"
Yin Ziping raised his foot and kicked Ji Xiaoquan three or four meters away. Ji Xiaoquan fainted instantly.
"Junior Brother Shen, I have to go to the morning court. What do you think of promoting Feng Geng to be the Minister of Punishment?" Yin Ziping stood up and said.
"Okay, okay, but I don't know how he checked out the matter I gave him yesterday." Shen Li said.
"Okay, you can ask these two people again and see if you can ask anything else. I'll leave first." After Yin Ziping finished speaking, he opened the door and left.
"Wang Gang, are you from the Qinglian Sect? If you don't tell me, I really asked the Prime Minister to search your soul. I heard that people whose souls are searched will become idiots." Shen Li asked Wang Gang.
"Sir, when the Qinglian Sect was destroyed, I was just a child. If you decide, then forget it." Wang Gang said.
"Is there anyone else in your Qinglian Sect? You can rest assured that I have only joined the Qingyun Sect a few days ago and I have no grudge against your Qinglian Sect." Shen Li said.
"I was only eight years old when the Qingyun Sect besieged the Qinglian Sect. It was my senior brother who took me to escape. I came here all the way and stayed incognito for more than twenty years. In that battle, almost all the elders and backbones of the Qinglian Sect were wiped out. Most of the people who came out were ordinary disciples, and those of us who escaped were also scared, hiding in various places, and generally living a very difficult life." Wang Gang recalled.
"No wonder you are a bodyguard in the Chamber of Commerce because of your late Jindan cultivation! Do you know why the Qingyun Sect destroyed your Qinglian Sect? Tell me." Shen Li asked curiously.
"Maybe the Qinglian Sect has an evil technique. I can't remember the name. Anyway, it uses female immortal cultivators as furnaces to improve the cultivation of male immortal cultivators. The Qinglian Sect has always prohibited its disciples from practicing this technique. No one has practiced this technique for hundreds of years. Who would have thought that the leader of this generation actually practiced this technique and even captured a female disciple of the Qingyun Sect to be used as a furnace. The matter was not hidden, and the leader of the Qingyun Sect was Now that you have learned about this, you already know the result." Wang Gang said.
"Then you are also at a huge loss. You actually faced such a leader. Did your damn leader die in that battle?" Shen Li asked.
"I heard that he was not dead but was captured alive by the Qingyun Sect. I don't know what happened next. I probably have to be sentenced to death." Wang Gang said.
"You are all innocent. You can only blame that beast leader for implicating the entire sect." Shen Li said.
"That's true, but the Qingyun Sect didn't kill all our Qinglian Sect like the legend said, and there were quite a few ordinary disciples who ran away." Wang Gang recalled.