imperial psychologist

Chapter 696
In the middle of the night, the yamen servant took Bo Ling and Li Yiru to the dungeon of the state capital.

In front of the Yamen servants along the way, Li Yiru resisted not to speak.When they got down to the prison, the jailer led the two of them outside a certain cell, removed the iron locks and turned to leave, Li Yiru finally let out a long breath.

"Who are these people!" He lowered his voice, "Why are they all so dark?"

Bo Ling patted him on the shoulder, and shone the lantern in his hand on the cell door in front of him, "...let's open the door first."

In the pitch-black prison, I couldn't see anything clearly where the lantern didn't illuminate.

"Brother Mu?" Bai Ling called softly, "Are you there?"

Li Yiru heard a slight disturbance from the corner on the left front, he took the lantern in Bo Ling's hand, and slowly approached it.

When the lantern reflected a bloody face, the lantern in Li Yiru's hand fell to the ground and almost caught fire.

Bo Ling quickly leaned over and tore off the messy straw covering Mu Cheng's body. Mu Cheng was in a daze and couldn't recognize the person, but his right hand still instinctively grabbed the straw.

"Cold..." Mu Cheng blurted out a word.

Bo Ling and Li Yiru both took off their cloaks to keep out the cold, and wrapped them around Mu Cheng hurriedly.

"It's not cold anymore, it's not cold anymore," Li Yiru held Mu Cheng's hand, his voice choked up for a moment, "It won't be cold if you put on your clothes..."

Bo Ling stood up and ran out, and when he came back, he had an extra pot of hot water in his hand.

Mu Cheng also opened his eyes at this time.

"Brother Mu, drink some water." Bo Ling handed over the teapot directly. In order to prevent his hands from being unable to hold the teapot, Bo Ling kept holding the base with his hands.

Mu Cheng drank a few sips with difficulty, and was slightly relieved.

"You..." Mu Cheng frowned, his left eye was covered with scabs of blood, and only his right eye was half-opened, "Why..."

"Songqing's friend seems to be a doctor in the Chang family army," Li Yiru replied, "By their help, after we entered Tunlongpi, the Chang family army sent us to Zhuozhou...Brother Mu, you, you hurt……"

"It's all...flesh wounds..."

"There are so many flesh wounds, if they are all infected, it will be very serious." Bai Ling whispered, "Do you still have strength in your feet, Brother Mu?"

Mu Cheng glanced at Bai Ling in confusion, "Are you crazy... want to rob prison?"

Li Yiru and Bai Ling took Mucheng by one arm and carried him on their shoulders.

"It can't be robbed..." Li Yiru's voice seemed a bit labored, "I'll tell you the details when I get back."

……

In the other courtyard of the yamen, after Li Yiru and Bo Ling carried Mucheng into the house, they helped him take off his worn out clothes, and then Bo Ling cleaned up the wound bit by bit. Li Yiru talked about the period of time What happened to the two.

Mu Cheng listened quietly until he heard the conditions Cao Xun put forward to the two tonight.

"He wants you to collect for him the injustices of the states along the way?" Mu Cheng frowned, "What does he want to do?"

"It's mostly because of his own review papers," Bo Ling said softly, "With black materials from other local yamen in his hand, he will be more confident when he goes to Beijing."

"Then you agreed?"

"I promise," Bai Ling said softly, "Anyway, after leaving Zhuozhou, he can't control us. If there is any injustice along the way, there will be an additional channel for feedback. Why not do it? .”

Mu Cheng thought about it, and vaguely felt that things were not that simple, but Li Yiru had already urged, "It's late, Brother Mu, let's rest tonight."

"Third brother, let's keep watch tonight. I have to hurry tomorrow, so I'll go to rest first." Bo Ling looked at Li Yiru.

"Are you leaving tomorrow?" Mu Cheng looked up at Bai Ling.

"Yes," Li Yiru nodded, "I forgot to mention just now, General Chang promised to send Songqing all the way to Jingzhou, so tomorrow—"

"Alright." Mu Cheng whispered, "This way we can reunite sooner..."

This sentence made people feel a little embarrassed, and Bai Ling suddenly remembered what happened to Mu Cheng, so he sat down on the chair next to his bed, "By the way, I haven't asked Brother Mu if he found his sister-in-law and Where are the nieces, where are they now? Have you seen them?"

Mu Cheng shook his head.

Li Yiru was stunned for a moment, "Is there any news from Zhuozhou City? Or..."

"No news." Mu Cheng whispered.

"Why is there no news?" Li Yiru asked, "Which street or lane do you live in? Even if you move, you can always find some clues by asking your neighbors, right?"

"No..." Mu Cheng said in a low voice, "Zhuo Jing and the young girl are not natives of Zhuozhou. They, like me, came from Yuezhou..."

"what?!"

Mu Cheng lowered his gaze, half of his body was leaning on the soft pillow behind him, with a dull expression on his face.

"Master Cao told you about me, right?" Mu Cheng said softly.

"Brother Mu was wronged." Li Yiru clenched his fists, "We already know."

"But why did the eldest brother run away?" Bai Ling said softly, "And he also asked his sister-in-law and niece to take the risk of leaving alone..."

"They don't go alone." Mu Cheng replied in a low voice, "Her two elder brothers followed her on the road. These two elder brothers used to take long darts, and they know better than me what the road is like. Pass."

Yuezhou, mother and daughter, bodyguards...

Bai Ling frowned slightly on the side.

She always felt that she had heard of the group of pedestrians that Mucheng described.

"The grievances between me and the governor of Yuezhou Prefecture are really ridiculous, so let's not mention them." Mu Cheng said in a low voice.

"I went to visit the former magistrate's house on the night of the Lantern Festival. It was the official who passed the news, and the recommendation letter was also given to me by the official, saying that the Futai master thought that I was from the North, and I am currently in Vietnam. The construction period of the state government office is coming up again, and this letter of recommendation was drawn up half a year ago to let me go back to my hometown.

"The letter is the official seal of the Yamen of Yuezhou Prefecture, and my name is written on it. I have no doubts, so I went to visit Laofutai's house with wine that night-you will know the rest of it."

Even talking about this matter now, Mu Cheng's expression is still extremely annoyed.

"When I was waiting for trial in prison, Zhuo Jing came to visit," Mu Cheng said in a low voice, "The chief official went to her again and again and told him that my death date had been set outside... She was so straight that she couldn't stand it." Such an insult, saying that if I really die, she will take her daughter with me."

Mucheng explained the whole matter in a very obscure way, and Li Yiru was confused, but Bai Ling more or less understood it—this was nothing more than another case of the official of the government office coveting to catch the beautiful wife in the family, so A story of secretly planning to frame up and forcing people to submit.

Mucheng is a proud person, he doesn't even want to talk about such dirty things.

"What's your sister-in-law's last name?" Bo Ling asked suddenly.

"The surname is Wu." Mu Cheng replied, "Why, have you heard of it?"

Burling shook his head.

Is the surname Wu, then she must have thought wrong...

"I can ask the garrison in Zhuozhou tomorrow." Bo Ling replied, "the news about them here should be more informed."

"They set off half a month earlier than me. I fled to the west for a while before turning back north again, so I don't know the details of them. I just made an appointment to meet in Zhuozhou City in September. ..." Mu Cheng paused, "However, in order to avoid the pursuers, they also changed their names on the way."

"Should... the surname is 'Yan'." Mu Cheng said softly.

(End of this chapter)