Penal Department Prison——
A dark cell with no daylight. Only a small lamp on the table gathered a halo of light, but it was still a drop in the bucket and did not help.
On the bed beside him, Qu Yi was sitting cross-legged in plain white clothes. Although his hair was messy, his face was still solemn.
Not long after, the cell door was opened from the outside, and a police official held a lantern to guide the way. A person behind him walked in, cupped his hands at Qu Yi and said with a smile: "Shi Yi, are you okay staying here?"
Quyi, the word is appropriate.
Qu Yi did not look at the person, but only recognized his voice, and knew that the person coming was Gu Silan, the minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.
"Brother Gu can come to see me, which is a blessing."
Gu Silan smiled when he heard this, ordered his entourage to put the food and wine on the table, and sent them out.
"Shi Yi has done something earth-shattering, how can I not come to congratulate him?"
Qu Yi stood up, wiped his hands on his clothes, and then sat in front of Gu Silan and took the wine glass from him: "I am a felon on death row, how can I bring trouble to myself?"
Gu Silan smiled and said: "Whether it is a blessing or a disaster, I still don't know. What's more, I can come here now, how can I be in trouble?"
With that said, the two clinked glasses and took a sip.
Gu Silan took the pot and poured wine, and then said: "The Holy One has decreed that you should be investigated and convicted strictly. He also named Li Taiyue to try the case in person."
Hearing this, Qu Yi smiled bitterly and said, "It's me who harmed Wen Wei, causing him to bear the infamy of asking for an official position and harming his friends."
"It's not enough to get a bad name," Gu Silan said, "It would be very sad if all the hard work he had done to reform the reform was wasted because of you."
Qu Yi stood up and said: "I am worthy of the people of the world, and even more worthy of the Holy One. The only thing I can do now is death."
"I'm afraid it's not that simple," Gu Silan said with a slight frown: "Such a big thing happened, but there was no movement from the censor's desk, and there was no instruction from the cabinet. Even the censor of Youdu, who personally sent you to prison, did not Impeach again.”
Qu Yi remained silent, drank the wine in the cup, and asked: "I've drank the wine and talked about it. Should I tell you the purpose of my visit?"
Gu Silan nodded, took out a hosta from his sleeve, put it on the table, and said, "Someone asked me to give this to you."
Qu Yi picked it up and looked at it, and was immediately stunned. This is exactly the hairpin worn by the eldest daughter Qu Zhiyun!
Seeing his expression, Gu Silan guessed a bit, and then stood up and said: "I am just a person entrusted by others to pass on things to others. The matter is over, I will take my leave!"
After saying this, Gu Silan turned and left.
Qu Yi was still sitting at the table, his eyes were dull, and he was holding the hosta tightly in his fist, almost breaking it...
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In front of Taiyue Mansion's Yamen, several officers caught a fallen swordsman and escorted him inside.
The downtrodden swordsman kept shouting: "You have arrested the wrong person. I draw my sword to help when there is injustice!"
"I didn't mean to break anything in the store. It must be because the boss didn't explain it clearly to you."
"How could you arrest me alone? Why don't you also arrest that domineering bastard!"
A group of people came to the gate pushing and shoving, and it happened that Ye Ling was also escorted here.
When the fallen swordsman saw it was Ye Ling, he smiled and said, "Ye Zi, how come you were caught by them too?"
Ye Ling looked for fame and saw someone else, it was Qin Xiao.
Ye Ling said helplessly: "They arrest people indiscriminately, and there is nothing I can do about it."
Qin Xiao said angrily: "Sure enough, in the world, crows are as black as crows, toads have big beaks, and domestic sparrows have smiling beaks. There are no good birds among officials!"
The official on the side yelled: "If you dare to slander my master again, see how I teach you a lesson!"
Qin Xiao didn't want to suffer the immediate loss, so he stopped talking.
The two were escorted to the lobby, but Song Zheng was not seen. It was said that he was invited to a banquet and was not in the government office.
The master then walked out and said: "Put them in prison first, and then we can deal with them when the master comes back."
"yes!"
After opening the cell door, Ye Ling and Qin Xiao were escorted in and locked behind the cell door.
Qin Xiao sat down on the haystack and said, "Oh, this hero has a really bad fate. As expected, God will not let anyone who achieves great things have an easy life."
"If heaven is about to bring great events to a person, he must first suffer from his mental and mental difficulties, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and deplete his body, which will benefit him beyond what he can do."
From the cell next to him, Master Jiu's voice came out leisurely. Qin Xiao stood up, ran to the wall and said with a smile: "Old man, why are you here?"
Xu Guoyi said: "It's brother Qin Xiao, how come you become a hero and become a prisoner?"
Qin Xiao curled his lips and said, "That's because the treacherous officials were in power and the good people were arrested by mistake!"
Ye Ling heard the voices coming from Master Jiu and Xu Guo, so he walked to the wall and said, "Master Jiu, Brother Xu, you are indeed here."
"Brother Ye?" Xu Guo asked in shock, "How come you were caught here too?"
Ye Ling said: "I was caught here on purpose to find out your whereabouts."
Xu Guo sighed softly: "If you say so, it will implicate you."
Qin Xiao didn't know why and asked: "Have you broken the law?"
Wang Shu suddenly laughed and said: "Like you, I must have been arrested by mistake. Brother Ye Ling, is there any way to get us out?"
Ye Ling said: "Don't worry, Taiyue Palace Yin Song Zheng is not here now. When he comes back to interrogate us, I will have a way to clarify the injustice!"
"That's good!"
"It's so noisy that I can't even get a good night's sleep!" As he spoke, a very unhappy voice came from the corner of the cell.
Ye Ling and Qin Xiao looked for their name and went out, but saw among a pile of straw, a middle-aged man in prison uniform with disheveled hair slowly sat up, took a sip of water from the wooden bucket next to him, and then looked over. , said: "You disturbed my sleep as soon as you came in. It's really annoying."
Qin Xiao was very displeased when he heard this. He took a step forward and said, "We are all prisoners, how can you be higher than us? How can you still sleep after being imprisoned? It's really heartless."
The middle-aged man rolled his eyes at him: "Don't sleep? What can you do if you don't sleep? If you can let me out without sleeping, I won't sleep for a year!"
Qin Xiao felt that what he said made some sense, so he made a bed with a pile of straw, lay down on it and said, "In that case, I'll take a nap, since I have nothing to do anyway."
Qin Xiao seemed to be really tired. After a while, he snored and fell into a deep sleep.
The middle-aged man shrugged helplessly and said, "I really can't sleep this time."
Ye Ling sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes and said nothing. He is now an official of the imperial court. As long as he meets Song Zheng and shows his official seal, he can naturally save them. This is why he was captured on purpose.
There is no daylight in the prison all year round, so it is difficult to distinguish between day and night, and only an oil lamp is used to obtain light.
I don't know how much time passed, but Ye Ling's mind suddenly moved, and he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the prison door warily.
Only two muffled sounds were heard, and then the cell door was opened, and a dozen men in black hurriedly walked in.
Ye Ling's face darkened. These people were all monks, and they had cultivated in the Qingyou Realm.
After these men in black walked in, they searched the cells one by one, as if they were looking for someone.
"Are you here to rob the prison?"
Just when Ye Ling was wondering, someone had already come in front of him and looked inside. However, Qin Xiao and the middle-aged man were lying in the haystack sleeping and were not discovered.
After they searched around, they didn't find the person they were looking for.
At this time, I heard the footsteps and shouts of a large group of people outside the cell: "There is movement over there in the cell, call someone over quickly!"
If they were discovered by the police officers, they would have lost all their efforts. A leader thought for a moment and then ordered everyone to destroy all the cell doors and let the prisoners escape.
As soon as the door opened, all the prisoners ran away desperately, and the prison was in chaos for a while. The police officers at the door didn't know why, so they had to quickly catch the escaped prisoners, but no one came inside.
A commotion woke up Qin Xiao and the middle-aged man who were sleeping.
The middle-aged man said angrily: "This is the second time today that you disturbed my sleep. It happened again and again, but not again and again!"
Qin Xiao rubbed his eyes and said, "It wasn't me this time, I was woken up too."
Then, a figure stood at the door of the cell. When he saw the middle-aged man, his eyes immediately changed. He gathered his spiritual power and smashed the door into pieces with one palm.
Ye Ling almost instantly pulled Qin Xiao to the side of the wall and looked at the visitor warily.
On the contrary, the middle-aged man had a calm look on his face, stood up slowly, and said in a deep voice: "I thought they had forgotten about me. I didn't expect that it would take so long before they sent someone to take my life."
The man in black sneered: "Since you already know our intention, let me send you on your way!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of spiritual power shot out from the palm of the man in black, and the palm print fell with the strong wind.
Unexpectedly, a figure stood in front of the middle-aged man, a rusty iron sword was bounced away, and the man vomited blood and hit the wall, almost dying.
The man in black raised his eyebrows and shouted: "You are seeking death!"
Qin Xiao covered his chest, fell against the wall, and said: "With... this hero here... I can't just watch you... hurt people's lives!"
Ye Ling stood aside with an indifferent expression and had no intention of taking action. After all, it was difficult for him to deal with these Qingyou Realm monks with confidence.
The middle-aged man glanced at Qin Xiao and said bitterly: "It's a pity that I can no longer seek justice for the people of Luzhou! Even if I die, I still hate it!"
"Luzhou!"
"Let's hit the road!"
The man in black's robes danced around him, and he struck out with another palm. His spiritual power overflowed, and his palm prints fell almost solidly.
But the next second, a cold light flashed, and a wooden sword fell head-on, splitting the palm print from the middle.
Then, Ye Ling rushed forward and slashed with his wooden sword, landing on the chest of the man in black. As if the man in black was seriously injured, he was knocked out and hit the wall.
Ye Ling stood with a sword in his hand. The wooden sword in his hand used to be a Xuan-level Taoist weapon, and it was nourished by Ye Ling's kendo edge. Even though Ye Ling has lost his cultivation now, he can use this sword to catch someone by surprise. Still able to unleash amazing combat power.
The sudden blow caused the other men in black to freeze on the spot, and then surrounded Ye Ling.
Ye Ling's eyes were sharp, and after scanning everyone, he shouted: "If you don't want to die, get out of here!"
The leading man in black stood up from the ground, covering his chest and said: "I didn't expect someone to take the first step, but if I can't take this person's life today, he will die as well!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud noise at the door, and then a man in red clothes flashed into the prison. The man stood with a sword in his hand and shouted: "Who are you waiting for? You came to rob the prison, why don't you just surrender quickly!"
The person who came was none other than the Taiyue Mansion guard, Ji Changfeng.
Then, a coercion enveloped the entire prison, and Song Zheng's voice echoed in the air: "You are so audacious. If you are not captured without restraint, I will not let you go mercilessly!"
Seeing that nothing could be done, these men in black gritted their teeth, and the poison sacs left in their mouths immediately exploded, followed by several shrill screams, and all of them died from the poison within a few breaths.
Immediately afterwards, these venoms continued to corrode the body's clothes. Within a moment, they were all turned into dust, and no bones remained!
Ye Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief, put away the wooden sword, then turned to look at the middle-aged man and asked: "Who are you?"
The middle-aged man cupped his hands at him and said, "I'm Hong Zhen!"
