Dayong Nu sentenced to death

Chapter 577 Bitter tricks, punishment for leaking questions
"How did you feel during the period after entering Beijing?"

Emperor Qian Ding walked slowly, and suddenly spoke.

Su Rao followed him half a step behind, heard the words and said lightly: "Shengjing City does not close its doors at night, and its Wufu and Minfeng are abundant. It is indeed a capital city."

Emperor Gan Ding's footsteps were slightly stagnant, and he looked sideways at her, "It's you who I'm asking."

"My minister is fine."

Su Rao nodded, followed unhurriedly, and said with a smile: "Thanks to His Majesty's love, I can get what I want, and I am very grateful."

"Really?"

Emperor Qian Ding looked ahead and asked casually.

"Naturally...not all of them."

After all, this was the first real meeting between her and the emperor who ruled the world. She relied on the power he gave him, and he wanted to use her as a knife to clear the court.

No matter what kind of thoughts the two parties have, at least on the bright side, they are still friends and courteous.

After Su Rao finished speaking truthfully, Emperor Qian Ding was slightly astonished, and then said in a deep voice: "You are talking about it, why is it not complete?"

"I dare not lie to Your Majesty."

The smile in Su Rao's words faded away, she was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "Your Majesty will love you, enter the court, be sentenced to punishment, take power, end the prison, and inherit the will of your father and follow his last wish. gratitude."

After a pause, her voice changed abruptly, "But my humble minister, I can't express my grievances."

Emperor Qianding stopped suddenly.

As soon as he stopped, Su Rao also stopped.

The old eunuch not far away and the accompanying guard of honor stopped at the same time, turned their backs and did not dare to approach.

"It's hard to feel resentment."

Emperor Gan Ding carefully chewed these four words, Longmu was concentrating, and said solemnly: "You blame me?"

"Wei Chen dare not."

Su Rao stood with her head down.

"I dare not, or I won't."

Emperor Gan Ding pierced her voice, and the atmosphere between the monarch and his ministers suddenly turned cold, and it was no longer as relaxed as before. Su Rao stood silent for a moment against his pressure, and slowly raised her head: "I have something to ask Your Majesty."

Emperor Qian Ding stared at her, "Say."

"Eighteen years ago, when my father was convicted and sent to prison, did His Majesty trust him?"

The woman's expression was stubborn, her eyes were bright and sharp, revealing the determination to give everything, in the brimming water waves, Emperor Gan Ding felt in a trance that those eyes were actually a little bit hotter than the sun.

He thought about what she would ask.

Asking the Ministry of Punishment, asking about old cases, or asking about other things, but she never thought of asking "Have you ever believed it?"

This sentence seems light, but in fact it is more than a thousand weights.

She was asking about the former relationship between the monarch and his ministers, and she was asking for an answer for herself and for Su Fengyan.

"I believe it."

Emperor Gan Ding spat out two words heavily, "But when the Ministry of Punishment and Yushitai retrialed, the result is still the same. The evidence is so overwhelming that I have to do it."

"The evidence is as solid as a mountain..."

Su Rao pulled out a wry smile, and said in a mournful voice, "If the evidence is so solid, after 18 years, where did the decree Xue Ling come from?"

"That year, there was a sudden change in the court. I didn't investigate for a while, and let those young people take advantage of the loopholes."

Emperor Qian Ding looked at the man in front of him, but what he remembered in his mind was the proud young man who fought against the Confucian scholars in court more than 20 years ago and never retreated an inch.

Now that the old man passed away, his daughter appeared in front of him with the same posture.

It quietly touched his heart that had been silent for many years.

"I am ashamed of him."

Su Rao met his nostalgic and sad look, with sad eyes: "My father has been suffering from illness since he left Beijing, and all thoughts are lost. If he is not worried about this humble minister, he may go with my mother."

"He taught his ministers to conduct autopsies, deduce cases, and discuss laws. When I was young, I didn't know the value of learning these things. I only knew that every time he finished teaching, he would stand in the courtyard and look up. Only later did I know that he was looking at Shengjing. "

"I asked him if he missed Auntie, but he just smiled wryly but never answered."

"On the day my father died tragically, I collected the bones, sorted out his old things at home, and found a copybook he wrote for me to trace when I was a child."

Su Rao raised her eyes to meet Emperor Qian Ding's gaze, and said in a low voice, "The first sentence he taught me to write was 'If the country lives and dies for the benefit of the country, don't we avoid it because of misfortunes and blessings'."

"And the second sentence is 'Hai Yan He Qing Si Haiping'."

Emperor Qianding's expression was shaken, his lips parted for a while, but he didn't say a word.

"The truth and innocence that he has waited for for 18 years has become the reason for those people with ulterior motives to brandish their knives and slaughter him. Dare to ask Your Majesty, shouldn't my humble minister complain?"

It was quiet all around.

Only Su Rao punished her heart with every word and knocked on the ground with her voice.

Emperor Qian Ding looked up and closed his eyes, pondered for a long time, and finally sighed in the dead silence: "Suqing's death is the pain of the court, it is the pain of me, you should complain."

Su Rao's throat rolled, swallowing full of astringency.

Then he took a deep breath, raised his robe and knelt down, kowtowed and said: "I offend Tian Yan, the crime is unforgivable, please forgive me."

"You are outspoken, I am very relieved, there is no crime."

Emperor Qian Ding personally helped her up, and said sadly: "Yesterday's mistake is irreversible, but fortunately there is still you. If Su Qing's legacy can be carried on by younger generations, I think he can rest in peace under the nine springs."

"In the future, you can free your hands and feet to do things, and I will support you."

The water in Su Rao's eyes shone slightly, she bowed her head and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

Emperor Qianding Laohuai looked at her with satisfaction, nodded, turned around and continued to walk forward, the moment he turned around, Su Rao gently wiped away the wetness from the corners of his eyes with his fingers, covered by his sleeves, the corners of his lips were slightly twitching. The visible warp immediately returned to normal.

She followed in the footsteps of Emperor Qian Ding.

When the people behind heard the movement, they also followed, and a group of people went to the Zhaoyang Hall in a mighty manner.

Seeing Emperor Qianding, the forbidden army knelt down and paid homage.

"Be flat."

The old eunuch walked quickly to the front and opened the door for him. Emperor Gan Ding and Su Rao walked in quickly, and saw a group of people lying crookedly on the white jade bricks in the hall.

There are internal prisons, maidservants, and guardsmen.

The smell of blood rushed to his nose.

Emperor Qianding's brows furrowed slightly, at this moment Yan Yun came up to him, bowed his head and said, "I see Your Majesty."

His peripheral vision swept over Su Rao without any trace, and there was a slight strangeness.

"How did the investigation go?"

"Already recruited."

Yan Yun replied unhurriedly: "Bingbi eunuch Zhou Li received a thousand taels of gold from Taizong Zhengqing Qiu Fengxiang, and at about the first moment of Shenshi the day before the palace examination, he transcribed the examination questions drawn by His Majesty and handed them over to the imperial guards. Guo Luo, Guo Luo took advantage of the shift to leave the palace, sneaked into the Qiu Mansion secretly, and gave things to Qiu Fengxiang."

"The confession and witnesses are all there, and His Majesty can interrogate him at any time."

Yan Yun glanced back, and someone immediately brought things forward. Emperor Qianding took the testimony and read it, and was furious, "This Qiu Fengxiang, dare to put his hand into my imperial study, his annual salary is less than 200 taels, where did you get a thousand taels of gold as a bribe?"

"My decree is that Taizong Zhengqing Qiu Fengxiang bribed the internal officials, leaked the title and falsified, in vain of heaven's favor, ordered the imperial army to confiscate his family property, and everyone in the mansion arrested him and sent him to prison, waiting to be dealt with."

"The eunuch Zhou Li of Bingbi and the guard Guo Luo of the Imperial Army will be executed immediately!"

(End of this chapter)