"May I ask Master Jijiu what's important?" As soon as Si Ye closed the door, he turned to talk to Xia Yuanlong.
"Wan Wangye said that Mr. Wei is the most respected by the people. If they see the official sedan of the wine sacrificer, they will rush to block the way first, fearing that they will miss the journey along the way. Therefore, I asked the wine minister to discuss with you and want to change the sedan chair. "
"Oh," Si Ye's face suddenly relaxed, "I thought it was a big deal. It's just a change. Tell Master Jijiu, please don't worry!"
"Since Si Ye fully agreed, I'll be fine. It's inconvenient for me to stay in prison any longer. I'll take my leave." Xia Yuanlong then walked out the door.
However, Si Ye quickly followed him, grabbed his body, and showed a sinister smile. "Don't you have to bring something with you when you come..."
"Huh?" Xia Yuanlong didn't know what he meant at first, but he suddenly woke up after a moment: "Oh, I'm sorry that Yuanlong has never been an official and doesn't understand the rules..." He took out about three taels of broken silver from his bag and presented it to him. If Si Ye is killed, Si Ye will allow him to escape.
There, Wei Huai finished his lunch and went out. He saw a servant coming over and said, "As you ordered, Si Ye's sedan chair has been carried at the door."
"My order?" Wei Huai turned to look at Yang Huaisheng and saw him nodding affirmatively.
"Yes, Mr. Xia said..."
"I...I remembered, I forgot, forgot..." Wei Huai hurriedly explained, but fortunately, the slave didn't notice anything strange, and supported Wei Huai as usual, tied up the curtains, and let him Sit in; the two men carry it before setting off.
Because Si Ye was in the Imperial College, not far from the capital, he ate later than Wei Huai. He had just changed into his official uniform and came to the sedan chair. When he saw that this official sedan had a tin roof and blue curtains, which was much higher than his own sedan, he was naturally delighted. He looked at it slowly for a long time and thought to himself: I too have entered this sedan!
He sat on the sedan chair happily, shouted: "It's safe!" and then walked towards the palace gate unsteadily.
Si Ye was sitting on the sedan with nothing to do, so he held a book and read it in his hand. On the way, he heard the people shouting and blocking the way, but did not respond, so he walked to the palace gate without realizing it. After crossing the moat, he did not get off the sedan, and was carried straight to the palace. Meridian Gate.
Several groups of officers and soldiers were lined up in front of the Meridian Gate. Suddenly, a few nervous-looking men were among them. They looked at the official sedans coming gradually from a distance and whispered: "The people from the Imperial College are here." Most of the officers and soldiers knew about it and allowed them to discuss it without making a sound.
The sedan is leaning against the red wall of the Meridian Gate. When several people saw the bearer reaching out to lift the curtain, they slowly moved forward. "The sedan has a tin roof and blue curtains. This must be a sedan for offering wine!" the leader explained. Several men nodded silently.
Si Ye stretched out his feet first; the assassins were already crouching just a few steps away from him, ready to move. Si Ye's head popped out again, and this time they didn't hesitate at all. They immediately picked up the guy, grabbed his body, and stabbed him viciously in the chest.
"Arrest people quickly! Arrest people quickly!" The bearer turned around and wiped his face with blood. He was so frightened that he hesitated for a long time and hurriedly called on the officers and soldiers to arrest the people.
When the officers and soldiers heard people shouting, they had to intervene. They subdued a group of assassins to the ground and counted their number. There were five people in total.
"Since we have killed Jijiu Weihuai, then we will die here! It doesn't matter!" the leader laughed.
"Bullshit sacrificial wine! This is Lord Si Ye!"
Several people looked at the body lying in a pool of blood in panic, and then looked at each other without saying a word.
"You have to... you have to ask him who sent him!" The bearer hid under the wall, shuddered and said.
Although the soldiers didn't want to press for questioning, they were under the eyes of others after all, so they had to ask as usual: "Who sent you all?"
Seeing that they had killed the wrong person, they didn't bother to hide it for the Lu family anymore, and simply dragged others into the water to lighten their own crime. Naidao: "The local Lu Mansion sent us to kill Wei Huai. Unfortunately, we were tricked!"
The officers and soldiers all took a deep breath.
"What's going on in front? Why don't you leave?" Wei Huai opened the sedan curtain, poked his head out and asked the sedan bearer.
"I heard that there was a murder at the Meridian Gate. Si Ye... seemed to have been killed."
"Then..." Wei Huai shuddered and hurriedly closed the curtains, closed his eyes and lay back on his seat. "Xia Renying, Xia Renying... why didn't you tell me earlier!" He gritted his teeth and said to himself.
"Being...arrested?"
Lu Liang turned around and asked Wan Heshun, "Has he been killed?"
"No." Wan Heshun said with a bitter smile.
"Oh my God!" Lu Liang seemed to have been hit hard by someone from behind. He immediately fell to the ground and screamed in pain.
"Calm down first. This is the palace." Wan Heshun knocked on the table and reminded.
Lu Liang got up in panic, dusted off his clothes, bowed and said, "Please forgive me for being rude..."
"It's nothing. If this happened to me, I might be even more angry. Just don't forget the rules." Wan Heshun opened his famous 'kind' smile again.
"Please, the prince, please save our Lu family! This matter is not trivial. Seeing that my brother is an old acquaintance and colleague of yours, you must save us!" Lu Liang tried his best to plead, but Wan Heshun still remained Sitting like a mountain, unmoved, only his eyebrows jumped slightly.
"I'll give you an idea and you can do it yourself."
"Okay, okay, I will never disturb the peace of the prince!" Lu Liang's eyes lit up.
"Finding a scapegoat... is not difficult for the Lu family, right? You just say that there is a servant who has a grudge against Wei, and then you have to deal with it from top to bottom for the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and all unreasonable things can be solved. What are you afraid of? What?" Wan Heshun took a cup of tea and took a sip calmly.
"Thank you to the prince for your advice! I will tell the palace to take the money..." After Lu Liang said this, he looked at Wan Heshun's face and said, "Of course the prince's share is indispensable..."
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Xia Yuanlong approached Wei and Yang with a stack of files. Wei Huai was leisurely leaning on a lounge chair in the courtyard of the academy, drinking tea. When he saw him coming, he immediately sat up and asked, "Have you really brought the file?"
"Master Jijiu, you really don't want to see me." Xia Yuanlong smiled and put the file down, opened the cover, and threw it into Wei Huai's hand.
Wei Huai gently blew on the paper and spread the file flat.
"What do you mean by this?" Yang Huaisheng came up and asked.
"I went to the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and said that Mr. Wei wanted to borrow the file to read. But they were so frightened that their faces turned pale, for fear of offending him, so they obediently handed over the file without saying a word." After that, the two of them turned around. Everyone laughed.
"How could such a thing happen? You must have made it up, Renying." Wei Huai also smiled. But when he saw the beginning of the dossier, he suddenly looked serious:
"Look, you can be so ignorant of the facts!"
The three of them gathered together and stared at the black and white writing on the paper.
