"Come on! Hahahaha, I am a hero, how can I be humiliated by you and Xiaoxiao!"
In the deep prison, Hou Junji laughed wildly, and his desolate and tragic laughter filled the entire prison!
In the past two days, his ferocity has completely subdued the other prisoners in the prison! Even when the iron door was opened, the usual sounds of howling ghosts and wolves were not heard.
"Hou Shangshu?"
Suddenly, Hou Junji, who was laughing wildly, heard a familiar voice. The slightly surprised voice made him stunned, and then he looked up in disbelief.
At this moment, outside the cell!
A familiar young man was looking at him with extremely complicated eyes.
"Xiao Hou?!"
Seeing this young man, Hou Junji felt his head pounding! It seemed like the whole world was quickly moving away from him!
Naturally, he would not think that Xiao Han also committed a crime, so he was imprisoned here!
And if he hadn't committed any crime, then there seemed to be only one reason for coming here: coming for him!
"Xiao Hou! His Majesty asked you to come? Your Majesty is finally willing to see me, right!" His straight body quickly softened. At this moment, Hou Junji could no longer care about the gap between him and Xiao Han. , grabbed the railing and burst into tears!
"Hou Shangshu."
Outside, Xiao Han looked at Hou Junji, who was almost in human form, and sighed softly.
Although he hated Hou Junji before, but seeing that the once iron-clad man was now being tortured to such an extent, even as an enemy, he couldn't help but feel pity in his heart!
When he thought about it, if Hou Junji really had a plan to die, he should have been dragged to the Meridian Gate and yelled that he was determined to kill the thief, but he had no way to save himself! To have his head chopped off violently with a knife, instead of being humiliated by those pickled goods in this prison!
"Hou Shangshu, let's go, His Majesty wants to see you."
With a slight sigh, Xiao Han turned around and walked out. Whether it was the embarrassed Hou Junji in front of him or the dark prison, he felt depressed and uncomfortable all over.
The sound of the door opening sounded behind me. I saw someone actually going out, and the sounds of other prisoners crying and howling sounded again!
But Xiao Han vaguely heard: among the noisy sounds, there seemed to be one or two groans and roars of the jailer.
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In the imperial palace, in the royal study.
Li Shimin sat behind a huge desk and looked at the memorial in his hand expressionlessly.
"Your Majesty, I have found out that this matter was caused by a person named Mr. Gu Liang! This person was a staff member of Hou Shangshu. After being sent to Qinling, he took the opportunity to steal the information and firearms from the Firearms Research Institute!
The explosion in Qinling this time was all because I learned that the institute was about to be transferred to the Ministry of Industry, so I jumped over the wall and wanted to move everything out quickly, but I didn't expect it to cause an explosion! "
Xiao Han, who was standing on one side, held up his hands and slowly told Li Shimin the news he had found out in the past few days. Then he began to look at his nose, nose and heart, and acted as a sculpture there.
"Dong...dong...dong..."
After listening to what Xiao Han said, Li Shimin closed his eyes slightly and tapped his fingers on the desk, making a dull sound, which was particularly uncomfortable.
"Where is this Mr. Gu Liang? Is he dead?" After a long time, Li Shimin slowly asked.
Xiao Han smiled bitterly when he heard this, stepped out of the queue again and said: "We don't know yet, but Wei Chen has informed all the checkpoints in Qinling. Once this person is found, he will be arrested immediately!"
"Um……"
Li Shimin nodded slowly, stared at Xiao Han and said, "This person is Hou Junji's staff. Could he be doing this under Hou Junji's instruction?"
"Probably, no." Xiao Han actually didn't want to answer this question from the bottom of his heart, but under Li Shimin's intimidating eyes, he could only say: "According to Wei Chen's verification, Hou Junji has never been in contact with him since he was imprisoned. Outsiders, there is no way to talk about the appointment! Furthermore, the escorts hired by Mr. Gu Liang did not come from Hou Junji's house, but from Shuzhong!"
"Sichuan?" Li Shimin exclaimed, frowning slightly. He knew what Xiao Han meant. No one would go all the way and hire several escorts from Shu just to transport stolen firearms to Qinling Mountains!
If these people are not hired, it can only mean that they, like Mr. Gu Liang, are insiders of this matter! Hou Junji is from Guanzhong, has never been to Shuzhong, and has no contact with the people there.
"This Mr. Gu Liang you are talking about is from Shu?" Thinking of this, Li Shimin asked.
"My lord, I don't know." Xiao Han still shook his head and replied in a low voice: "The origin of Mr. Gu Liang is mysterious, and he has always been unwilling to interact with others. Even the people in Hou Junji's house don't know his true origin! "
"Don't even the people in Hou Junji's house know?" Li Shimin pondered for a moment, finally closed the memorial in front of him, and said tiredly: "Let Hou Junji come in, I want to ask him face to face!!"
"Here! Xuan, Lord Hou, come to the palace!"
The ghostly chamberlain came out of nowhere and shouted something in a high-pitched voice outside the palace.
With his shouting, the door of the study hall was opened. Hou Junji, who had been kneeling at the door for a long time, got up with difficulty and moved in step by step.
In the study room, Li Shimin was shocked when he saw Hou Junji's miserable appearance. Just as he was about to get up, he thought of something and sat down slowly, looking at the crumbling Hou Junji below with complex and dark eyes.
The man in front of him was once his right-hand man and the best person in his palace of Prince Qin! On the road to establishing the Tang Dynasty, he charged forward and made great contributions!
Later, when the Tang Dynasty was established, he fought for power with his eldest brother!
Faced with countless temptations thrown by his eldest brother as the prince, he still stood firmly on his side and played a vital role in that shocking change!
It stands to reason that such a person should be in the same boat as him on the road ahead, and continue to write a good story about the emperor and his ministers, which will be passed down to future generations!
But who would have thought that brothers who had shared weal and woe would gradually become strangers once they became wealthy.
For status, he attached himself to the Shandong clan! I endured it myself!
For the sake of power, he squeezed out ministers! I can’t bear it myself!
But now, he has revealed a huge trap! How can I bear this? Let the courtiers endure it, let the people of the world endure it!
"Hou Junji..."
"I know the crime! I shouldn't have been blindfolded. I was wrong!"
Staring coldly at Hou Junji who was kneeling on the ground, Li Shimin only said one sentence, but Hou Junji was already lying on the ground crying!
When Li Shimin saw this, he couldn't help but feel a little pain in his heart! The words are on my lips, but I can't say them!
Perhaps, as long as they are not hard-hearted, no one will be indifferent if they see their former life-and-death brothers become like this!
