Will Ming

Chapter 830 Third Will

When it was late at night and the lights were on, the Beiya in the Military Audit Department was so quiet that you could almost hear the drop of a needle. 【.There are only two black robes guarding the small courtyard outside the big stall, standing still like two stone statues.It was also dark in the yard, except for a lamp in the study.

Xie Yingdeng, the head of the military inspection department, sat reading under the lamp with a calm expression.

He seemed not at all worried about today's big action in Chang'an City, the lights were flickering, not making faint crackling noises.

Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan's [-] elite riders appeared outside Chang'an City in the morning, and about [-] high court officials arrived at Beiya half an hour later.An hour later, all the black robes from the Beiya came out.Five full hours have passed, and Chang'an City has long been shrouded in darkness.

The courtyard just tens of meters away from Xie Yingdeng's small courtyard was brightly lit, and this courtyard was much larger than Xie Yingdeng's.Many chairs were added to the living room, and the room was full of officials in purple court clothes.According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, only officials of the fourth rank and above can wear purple official uniforms.If ordinary people came to this room, the minister of the minister would probably startle the boss, and if they saw several dignitaries wearing the costumes of the princes, they would be even more excited.

Sitting in the innermost are several elderly veterans, including Liu Zhenghui who has retired from the court.But as if they had discussed it, the few of them who retreated were also wearing court clothes.

It looks very grand.

Yu Shinan took a sip of slightly cold tea, and subconsciously sighed to Liu Zhenghui in a low voice: "Beiya's yard is so deep."

Liu Zhenghui nodded and said, "It's really deep, I can't hear the sound of murder."

Yu Shinan nodded, and after being silent for a while, he couldn't help but said: "Actually, you should persuade him."

Liu Zhenghui shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Persuasion? Some people always feel that they don't get enough, so there is no end to it. With a copper coin in their hand, they think that it is not enough to buy a white flour steamed bun. After ten One copper coin, and thinking that it is not enough to buy a pot of wine. With one hundred copper coins, you will think that you can’t even play with a brothel woman. When you have had enough of playing with the brothel women in the city, then think..."

Yu Shinan couldn't help waving his hands and said, "Too vulgar."

Liu Zhenghui shook his head and smiled: "Although vulgar, but the meaning is very clear. It's my luck that he didn't come to me. I can't pretend to be stupid when he comes to me. You also know that it is a mistake to pretend to be stupid at this time." .But there is only so much I can do, and I will explain when His Royal Highness King Yan returns. How can I manage so much? Besides... can I persuade you?"

Yu Shinan hummed, and couldn't help but look outside: "I don't know... when will it end."

"It's over long ago."

Liu Zhenghui said solemnly: "From the moment Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan brought their troops back to the city, this matter has already ended."

Yu Shinan was startled, then nodded.

The Daming Palace is not far from the original Miyagi City. Although the two buildings are next to each other, if you walk around, you can't walk to the place in more than half an hour.And to get to the imperial city which is further south from Miyagi, it will take at least half an hour more.

In the deepest part of the imperial city, there is an inconspicuous small courtyard, which is full of weeds.

The gate of the courtyard was open, but there were a dozen guards in bright red robes standing at the gate.They are Tiqi from the Military Inspection Department, not the black robes who guarded here before.There were two people kneeling at the door of the room in the small courtyard, a eunuch and a court lady.The eunuch was so frightened that his face turned pale and his body couldn't help trembling, but the vulgar maid looked indifferent.

The door of the room was also open, and the faint light from inside shone on the maid's face.If you look carefully, you will find that there is an admirable determination in her brows.

Shengtu Xiaohua, one of the six major stalls of the Military Inspection Department, walked into the door, and said nothing after seeing the simple layout of the room.His eyes finally landed on the unremarkable little bench, then walked over to the door of the house, with his back to the moonlight, Shengtu Xiaohua sat down slowly.

After the emperor Li Chengde came out of the alienation, he glanced at Shengtu Xiaohua, and then nodded slightly as a greeting.

"It's time?"

he asks.

Shengtu Xiaohua sat on the small bench where the emperor used to sit in the sky every day, and she was silent for a while and replied: "The time is not supposed to come, I should come after a while. But your majesty also knows that everything is not static, Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow."

"But luckily..."

Shengtu Xiaohua said seriously: "Your Majesty doesn't often show up in front of people, so you can still hide it for a while."

Li Chengde sat upright on the chair and straightened his clothes.I don't know if it was intentional, but he was wearing the emperor's bright yellow dragon robe.After Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, became emperor, he changed the emperor's dragon robe from black to bright yellow. Although it was a little less majestic, it was a little more dignified.

"What I want to know is whether you were the first to come to me or the last to come to me."

Shengtu Xiaohua replied seriously: "I only come here after nightfall, of course this is the last place."

Li Chengde glanced outside the door, pointed to the Ti knight soldiers and asked, "Where are the black robes guarding outside before? Have you killed them all?"

Shengtu Xiaohua nodded and said, "I have to kill."

Li Chengde hummed and said: "It's a pity... They are all conscientious people. It's not that I never thought of using them, but I didn't buy any of them."

"Because Your Majesty, your capital is not thick enough."

Shengtu Xiaohua smiled and said: "Since Your Majesty already understands, please hurry up. I have to rush to Bei Ya to return to my life."

"Return?"

Li Chengde asked: "Aren't you the acting head of the Military Inspection Department? Why do you need to report to others?"

Shengtu Xiaohua said: "Come to this small courtyard and you really can't keep your Majesty's source of news. I was indeed the deputy head of the Military Inspection Department before, but the head of Xie had already returned to Chang'an city more than a month ago. , I will go back and report back, of course I will return to the big stall."

"No wonder."

Li Chengde nodded, and then asked Shengtu Xiaohua: "I choose the way myself?"

Shengtu Xiaohua nodded to show respect for him.

Li Chengde smiled, took out a pill from his cuff and put it in front of his eyes: "Then take the poison. I have never been very courageous, so I always fear swords and guns. As for the hanging beam, it is too painful. So I still take the poison." Well, and the corpse will be better."

Li Chengde squeezed the pill and frowned slightly, then stuffed it into his mouth, took a sip from the teacup, washed the pill down, and said to Shengtu Xiaohua, "I knew that today would come, so I always have this thing ready."

"Your Majesty has a heart."

Shengtu Xiaohua stood up, but did not leave.

About 5 minutes later, Li Chengde's face turned blue, and his body began to tremble involuntarily. He couldn't sit still anymore, and his body struggled and fell to the ground. After convulsing for a while, he stopped moving.

The maid kneeling by the door let out a sigh of relief, and touched the pill hidden in her cuff.

Shengtu Xiaohua walked out of the room slowly, turned her head and glanced at the lifeless emperor who had fallen on the ground and shook her head: "Come here, take the second secret made Zhu Yanhong and pour it in. It's this time, how can you be stingy with that?" A bottle of poison? Although a bottle of Zhu Yanhong is worth at least ten taels of gold on the black market and there is no market for it, but our military inspection office is never out of stock."

With a plop, the maid slowly fell limp to the ground.

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Jiu'an Street

The innermost house is brightly lit, but I don't know why the lights shake violently.It was as if there were countless will-o'-the-wisps floating back and forth in that small house.None of the people living nearby dared to come out to investigate, because this street has been sealed off by the government since the daytime.

The innermost house is the Hou Mansion.

The Hou Mansion is not the mansion of Lord Hou, but the home of Hou Junji, the servant of the Ministry of War.

The reason why a large number of black robes have not left here all day is because although this yard is not big, it needs to be searched carefully.Including every corner, even the beams.Hou Junji's study was the most important part of the search, although nothing of value was found in this room since the morning.

A team leader in black robes took a look at Hou Junji who was standing in the yard with his hands behind his back, and couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "Since it's already today, why should Mr. Hou hide anything for others? There must be a lot of letters between you, and... you should also have a list in your hand."

Hou Junji looked back at the night sky, and couldn't help laughing: "You also said, there is no need to play dumb anymore. But because of this, I have nothing to say, to handle my case... Could it be Still need evidence? Although I must die, if the lord is benevolent and righteous, my old family will still leave roots for me. Since I have a future, how can I not consider future generations?"

The regiment leader of the Military Inspection Office shook his head and said nothing.

An hour later, Hou Junji was escorted to the Beiya of the Military Audit Department.

It's in Xie Yingdeng's small yard.

Xie Yingdeng saw the manacled Hou Junji enter the room, put down the book in his hand and made a gesture of invitation.Hou Junji did not refuse, and sat down on the stool opposite Xie Yingdeng.

"The big stall has come back long ago?"

Hou Junji asked.

"It's been more than a month."

Xie Yingdeng smiled and said: "The reason why Lord Hou was invited is because the people below reported that they did not find anything useful from Lord Hou's mansion."

"You come to ask, is it more useful than theirs?"

Hou Junji couldn't help but sneered slightly, with a look of disdain on his brows.

"I don't ask."

Xie Yingdeng picked up a stack of papers from the table and handed them to Hou Junji, saying, "I want to give you this."

Hou Junji frowned slightly, but still couldn't help being curious and took the few pieces of paper over.Just sweeping casually, his face suddenly turned a little pale.

Xie Yingdeng saw the change in his face, smiled and said: "Actually, I don't need any criminal evidence from your house, because it is really unnecessary. Your list is probably more detailed than what you remember in your heart. This It's a roster of several famous families in Longxi. You don't know many of them, and you haven't even heard of their names. Moreover, [-]% of these people have nothing to do with your case, and many of them don't even know who you are. "

"But because of you, I'm afraid these names will disappear from this world starting tonight. It's all because of you... There are quite a few teenagers who haven't tied their hair yet, and there are also old people with gray hair."

"Why?"

Hou Junji couldn't help trembling and said.

"It's not just that."

Xie Yingdeng picked up another stack of thicker paper, gestured and said: "There are thousands of names here, and they are the family members of the generals you have dealt with with the army. Those whose names are marked with a red pen are all men, regardless of their size. Put to death. The ones whose names are not marked are women, and they will all be sent to the frontier as slaves."

He handed the top piece of paper to Hou Junji: "This is the list of your family, have you missed anyone?"

"You can't do this!"

Hou Junji stood up abruptly, with uncontrollable panic in his eyes: "Even if I committed a serious crime, my lord once said that if I made a mistake, the crime would not be as good as my relatives! Back then I made countless contributions to the Yan Yun Army , this is the will of the lord to reward me!"

Xie Yingdeng looked at Hou Junji with pitiful eyes and said seriously: "You are such an idiot, how can you succeed in plotting rebellion?"

Hou Junji's expression was suffocated, and then he wailed and fell down limply.

Xie Yingdeng knelt down beside him slowly, and whispered into Hou Junji's ear, "Before I came back, my lord specifically told me that if you really have the heart to repent and realize your mistakes, you can leave your youngest son."

"Really?"

Hou Junji sat up straight abruptly, his eyes full of hope.

Xie Yingdeng smiled, pointed to the pen, ink and white paper on the table and said: "How do you do it, I dare not disobey my lord's orders. But if you are not sure, what can I do?"

"I wrote."

Hou Junji stood up, walked over quickly and picked up a pen to write on the white paper while asking: "Did the lord confess this sentence?"

Xie Yingdeng nodded and said, "Of course I won't lie to you, and I won't tamper with the Lord's will."

A trace of shame appeared on Hou Junji's face, he picked up his pen and quickly wrote down dozens of names on the white paper.Then he wrote his name, bit his finger and pressed the fingerprint.

"My youngest son is still young and doesn't know anything..."

He said to Xie Yingdeng.

Xie Yingdeng hummed: "Of course I will obey what the Lord has done."

Hou Junji let out a long sigh of relief, folded his fists and bowed: "Thank you."

Xie Yingdeng waved his hand with a smile and said, "But later I persuaded the lord not to leave a curse behind, and the lord immediately withdrew his will."

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