The princess is soft!The sick villain is crazy

Chapter 49 Interrogation
The criminal prison is a prison in the palace, only the heinous people will be imprisoned here, and basically they will never return.He was sent directly to the prison without interrogation, and Emperor Yong had obviously moved his heart towards Zhang Sheng.

Playing with the token given to him by Emperor Yong, Li Mingji followed the forbidden soldiers and walked into the prison.

The forbidden soldiers whispered a few words to the jailer guarding the gate, and the jailer's expression immediately became respectful, and he lowered his eyebrows and said, "Li Yuhou, please."

This is a dark and narrow corridor.

There was the sound of dripping water all around, and the unpleasant smell of rancidity and blood penetrated into the tip of his nose. Even the forbidden soldiers who came in with Li Mingji shivered from the cold breath, but the young man in front of him looked pale. Calm, without even frowning.

The jailer was also secretly surprised. Those who enter the prison for the first time will be more or less frightened. With such a heart, it is no wonder that Emperor Yong appreciates it.

Walking out of the corridor, the road under your feet becomes wider.Iron bars separated the area, and in the cell at the end, Zhang Sheng was stripped of his clothes, wearing a white prison uniform, and curled up on the straw.

Hearing footsteps, he thought it was Emperor Yong, opened his eyes and staggered to his feet: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty! I have something to say!"

"What does Commander Zhang want to say?"

The young man's voice was gentle, Zhang Sheng raised his head suddenly, and saw Li Mingji's face.

He gritted his teeth and said, "It's you...!"

If it wasn't for this ignorant guard standing in front of Princess Huaxi, he would have taken the head of Princess Huaxi already!

Li Mingji didn't look at him, turned his head to look at the jailer, and raised his cold white fingers: "Put him there."

That is the emptiest place in the prison.

The blood on the floor had long since dried up, the iron chains on the wooden frame were stained with rust, and the hideous instruments of torture were lined up like a sentence of death.

The jailer got an order, and with the guards on the left and right, picked up Zhang Sheng and tied him to a wooden frame.

Zhang Sheng sneered: "A loyal person forgets his life in honor of the king, forgets his family in favor of the country, and resigns straightly, so why should he fear death? Wait for Lizi, don't try to coerce this general!" [1]

"Ming Ji is only following orders, so how can you talk about coercion?" Li Mingji smiled slightly, "Ming Ji has no intention of taking Commander Zhang's life, Commander Zhang is serious."

He glanced casually over the instruments of torture.

"Following orders?" Zhang Sheng's smile was even more mocking, "It's a pity that your flattery is in the wrong place. In the eyes of Princess Huaxi, you are just a more useful dog! She doesn't like you at all!"

The scolding was harsh, but the smile on Li Mingji's lips remained unchanged, and he picked up a long whip.

In the previous life, when Xiao Sui entered the capital, Zhang Sheng opened the city gate.Before Emperor Yong's family could react, they were surrounded by the imperial guards led by Zhang Sheng, losing the critical opportunity to win.

The little princess and Emperor Yong's family were imprisoned separately in the prison. Li Mingji didn't know what the little princess had experienced in the prison. He only knew that after he rescued the little princess, the little princess used to cry even after drinking medicine. , During the long-distance bumpy ride, I didn't say a word and slept deeply.

She became sensitive, suspicious, cautious, and would collapse from time to time, and her eyes no longer had the domineering look of the past.

Now that Zhang Sheng has fallen into his hands, he will naturally settle the matter with him one by one.

Just start with these instruments of torture.

What Li Mingji is best at is making life worse than death.

"Speaking of which, Ming Ji wants to ask Commander Zhang for advice on something," Li Mingji said, "The princess has no grievances with Commander Zhang, why does Commander Zhang target the princess so often?"

"No grievances or enmities?" Zhang Sheng laughed, his eyes were burning with fire, "Princess Yongning has long been married as a woman, and His Majesty bestowed a marriage on the eldest princess, bestowing the title of Shu Jing in an exceptional way, and has already given many preferential treatment to Qin Yanghou's family. But she was not satisfied, and forced her to die to let His Majesty raise Princess Huaxi!"

"Since your Majesty came to the throne, you have accepted advice with humility, benevolence and self-cultivation. You should have become a generation of Mingjun, but you have made an exception for Princess Yongning's family several times, renamed Xingguo Temple as Ning'an Temple, and favored Princess Huaxi, ignoring etiquette and human relations. , to shake the hearts of the ministers. If Princess Huaxi is not eliminated for a day, it will definitely lead to a catastrophe!"

"I grew up with Your Majesty. We studied lessons together and discussed important affairs of our family and country. In order to assist His Majesty, I would have given up on becoming an official, willing to become a servant, and never marry for life. Taizu ruled the country, and His Majesty shouldered the responsibility of carrying on the past and ushering in the future. Stuck by my niece? The Empress Dowager helped His Majesty ascend the throne, she must understand my hard work..."

Not to marry for the sake of the great cause of the Yong Dynasty?He would put a high hat on himself.Li Mingji smiled, playing with the long whip in his hand, and said: "Commander Zhang is so great, I hope you will keep this heart when you are tortured."

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Shu Yao didn't dream in the second half of the night, she slept very peacefully, surrounded by a reassuring fragrance.

When she woke up, Shu Yao yawned and called Pine Needle in: "Where's Li Mingji?"

"Li Langjun left last night, saying he was going to Yanshou Palace, but he hasn't come back yet."

Pine Needle felt sour, usually the princess would call her first when she opened her eyes, but after a while, she was replaced.

"I haven't come back yet..."

Shu Yao muttered.

After washing up, she went to the front hall to have breakfast.Just as he was about to go to Yanshou Palace to find out what happened, Li Mingji stepped over the threshold and entered Huaxi Palace.

"Why did you just come back!"

As Shu Yao spoke, she rushed towards him, and when she got closer, her eyebrows frowned, "Why do you smell like blood? Let me see."

She was preconceived and always felt that if she was not by Li Mingji's side, someone would definitely bully him.Li Mingji would bear it again, maybe he had a new injury, but he didn't tell him.

"I went to see Zhang Sheng in the prison," Li Mingji did not hide it, "Princess, it's not my blood."

During the interrogation of Zhang Sheng last night, the jailers and guards watched his slender jade-like fingers soaked in blood, but his face remained the same as before, without blinking his eyes.Although Li Mingji didn't close his eyes all night, there was no trace of fatigue on Li Mingji's face.

Thinking of Zhang Sheng, Shu Yao frowned in disgust. It wasn't enough to hurt her, she actually wanted to hurt her grandmother!I don't know how my grandmother's body is now.

Li Mingji seemed to be able to read her mind, "The princess doesn't need to worry. The subordinates have just returned from the Longevity Palace. The Empress Dowager's condition has improved, and the imperial physicians are also studying ways to cure the disease."

The problem really lies in the "cold spring flower".

Interrogated Zhang Sheng last night, Zhang Sheng only said that he got it by accident, Hanchunhua is cold in nature, can damage people's spleen and stomach, just like the disease of liver and stomach stagnation and heat, as for the method of detoxification, he does not know.

However, Li Mingji already had an idea in mind.

Shu Yao finally had a smile on her face, she propped her chin and looked at Li Mingji for a while, then grabbed his sleeve, "Come here, follow the Princess to take a bath in the hot spring pool."

She's going to clean him up.

Pine needles and Chunrui stare with big eyes:? ?

Why did the relationship between the Princess and Li Mingji undergo some incomprehensible changes overnight?
　[1] Adapted from (Eastern Han) Ma Rong's "Zhong Jing".

　　
　
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