In an instant, Wu Dingyuan broke away without hesitation, pulled out a decorative sword in the chaos, pressed it on his neck and pulled hard. However, the severe pain he expected did not come; instead, the hand holding the knife instantly lost consciousness, and the knife fell to the ground with a clang.
But someone with quick eyesight and quick hands pinched his arm from behind and poked the veins on his back with his parallel fingers. In an instant, half of Wu Dingyuan's body was paralyzed; he could only helplessly be pushed down to the muddy ground. Wu Dingyuan struggled to raise his head, and then he saw a sinister face.
He immediately recognized the other party's identity; Black Eagle, a well-known master from Huanglong Mansion; he was also an abandoned disciple of the Tianchi Sword Sect who studied under a famous sect, and was famous for his ability to cut the pulse and the Shadow Sword. Because he committed a serious crime and was purged from his family, Shaojun secretly sheltered him under his command and used him as a pawn.
Behind Black Vulture, there was also a group of various people in strange costumes; they were obviously strange people who had survived with Li Lingwen on business. When Wu Dingyuan was filled with despair, Li Lingwen finally came to his senses and smiled with a ferocious anger on his face:
"It turns out that there is still a traitor like you who cheats on the inside and outside... Where is the young gentleman! Come here, peel off his skin for me inch by inch and dip it into a wine barrel; make sure to reveal every bit and every bit of what you know. ..." However, someone rushed over and said, "Young Master has appeared."
"What!" Li Lingwen couldn't help but said in shock: "Quickly tell me, where is it?" "On the gatehouse of the vestibule..." The person who came was a subordinate officer in blue robes, and he was out of breath. He responded: "It's already surrounded, and everyone is rushing to get over."
"How come it's in the vestibule?" Li Lingwen couldn't help but frowning after hearing this: "Are those people in charge of the sentry just a loser?" But what he was more worried about was that it was so easy to get rid of the uncertainties in the other two routes. The men and horses tried to be excluded; now they were given the reins again.
Despite this, Li Lingwen still suppressed his anxious mood and tried to keep his face as calm as usual. He raised his feet and led the crowd to run outside. However, before he had gone far, he ran into another subordinate who hurriedly came to report the news.
"Chang Shi is in trouble!" he screamed in a change of color. Then, he was slapped hard on the face by Li Lingwen, and he couldn't help but stop abruptly and turned sideways. Li Lingwen then scolded him, hating that iron was not made of steel: "Why are you panicking? It's not like the sky is falling. Have you confirmed it, Young Master?"
"Yes! Chang Shi's teachings are right." This subordinate, who was a few years older than him, immediately responded with bated breath, and hesitated again and again: "Young Master is upstairs at the front gate of Nandingxing Gate. , but...but, he started confessing the crime on the spot in full view of everyone."
"What!" At this moment, Li Ling, who could no longer remain calm and composed, asked, and even his tone of voice changed. However, the next moment he showed an expression of indignation and sadness: "This is unreasonable, it must be the thief who coerced the young master and devised an insidious means to trap him!"
"As the saying goes, if the Lord humiliates his ministers and dies, what are you guys waiting for!" Then, he shouted loudly to the left and right: "I should be stabbed to death, even if my body is broken into pieces, I have to rescue the young master; if there is someone, Anyway, can there be someone in the palace who can take care of himself alone?"
After his encouragement and incitement, as well as his promises and inducements, the remaining guards and the relevant people involved in the collaborative search regained their spirits and poured into the vestibule of Xingyuan. Along the way, they were surprisingly unblocked.
They rushed all the way to the school grounds in the front courtyard; while the Jinglue Army representing the Dudu Mansion and the Unity Soldiers from Lulong Mansion, with various banners, had already surrounded the Dingxing Gate here. After meeting the palace officials headed by Li Lingwen, they also retreated like the tide of the sea.
However, when Li Lingwen walked through, he could vaguely feel the burning eyes from the generals and officials present. There are both profound meaning and gloating, as well as vague pity and sympathy; and even sporadic doubts, vigilance and fear.
However, Li Lingwen ignored these meaningful glances, and at first sight he saw Shaojun kneeling on the edge of the protruding part of the city battlements with disheveled hair under the brightly illuminated city lights; he was dumbfounded and his eyes were blank. The god was saying something loudly, causing a faint buzzing sound.
Although he did not hear clearly what Shaojun was saying, Li Lingwen still felt a deep sense of something bad and a sense of crisis; the next moment, he did not hesitate to shout, trying to interrupt the other person's self-narration: "Shaojun, don't be afraid , I am here, veteran, and no one can forcefully accuse you of wrongdoing."
At the same time, he also saw several corpses lying on the ground under the city wall, with their faces mutilated beyond recognition. It was obvious that before this, someone had tried to rush to the city tower to rescue them, but they had already suffered the consequences on the spot. Then he glanced at the followers around him, but Black Eagle and the others had already disappeared.
Li Lingwen finally let out a sigh of relief. Just like the coercion, inducement and profit he came all the way; as the saying goes, it is a matter of eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor. These strange people relied on the protection of the royal palace to escape the pursuit of officials, and enjoyed wealth, privileges and support for many years;
If you cannot show corresponding value in this crisis, once the master Shaojun is good or bad, there is no need to continue to support and protect him; instead, you have to bear the corresponding anger and accountability, then you are not in Jinghua Newspaper and Xinjing Newspaper, it is as simple as publishing a suspension.
And the echoing voices nearby were overwhelming, disrupting and drowning one after another. While Shaojun was making a confession, he regained his energy and noticed a hooded figure standing behind Shaojun. Wu Dingyuan once described the same thing: he couldn't help but said sharply:
"Wuna, the traitor who caused the rebellion, still won't let me go. If I reveal who's behind it, I'll give you another one..."
"Okay..." However, a clear answer suddenly came from the top of the wall: I saw the opponent leaping up the city wall and suddenly kicked him down one by one. The young master, who was as dull as a puppet, just threw forward into the air, and fell heavily. Going down to the tower, there were exclamations and screams:
"Young Master!!!" Li Lingwen was stunned and hissed: "How dare you, thief!"
"Why don't you dare!" The other party wrote nonchalantly: "It was you who told me to let go!" The next moment, Shaojun, who was about to hit the wall, was carried back to the tower. But due to this delay, Shaojun's ongoing confession was naturally interrupted.
"You..." Li Lingwen, who was suddenly furious and almost fainted from anger, suddenly calmed down as if he had fallen into an ice cellar; because a subordinate who squeezed through the crowd spoke in a few short words. The crimes that Shaojun had confessed before.
These few confessions alone were enough to convict Shaojun and even implicat the entire Yanshan Palace. For example, he once led a team to annihilate a small group. The robber catchers from the Criminal Department's Four Elephants Team sent by Jingcheng to pursue the escaped robbers ambushed and killed the bounty hunter sent by Jinghua Society.
He sent people to overturn the chartered boat of an old censor who was returning to his hometown in transit; most of the people were drowned in the Cao River. It was just because I heard that the other party's granddaughter was beautiful and was about to go home to fulfill the engagement she had made since she was a child. Also, the accidental death of the previous royal family leader was not a real accident;
Instead, the mount's saddle was tampered with, causing the mount to suddenly get frightened and rush out of the cliff during a hunting trip; and then, in full view of everyone, both the man and the horse were thrown into a ball of rotten flesh. There was also a secretary in Lulong Mansion who joined the army. He was attacked by strange beasts because he refused Shaojun's invitation many times.
Not all corpses have the opportunity to be thrown into animal pens for disposal; instead, they are buried nearby or thrown into rivers and sink to the bottom; this leaves clues. Some special relics left by the victims were collected in Shaojun's treasure room as souvenirs and trophies in a certain sense.
Therefore, as long as you are willing to search carefully, there is a high probability that you will be able to find corresponding evidence and clues; in other words, the relatives of the parties who are still alive in the world will definitely not let go of these clues and possibilities easily. At this moment, Li Lingwen suddenly understood those previous glances.
But then, under the great sense of crisis, he put all the weakness and wavering aside. Because, once only one of these crimes is verified, Shaojun is a blood descendant of the Tian family and has the imperial edict left by the late emperor. No matter what the punishment is, there will never be real fear for his life.
However, the people who belonged to the palace, including him, could not escape the charges of "covering and colluding", "collaborating with others to commit evil" and "inciting and instigating" the master; they became victims of the short-tailed survival of the Yanshan Palace family. But if Shaojun can be rescued in the end, everything can still be saved.
Only after being bitten to death and the other party using cruel means to coerce and bully Shaojun and make him confess his guilt against his will, then we can try to cover up and remedy these crimes secretly, or even make exchanges and compromises. . For example, clearing evidence or arranging the person to blame.
After all, this kind of method of sneaking in directly to kill, and then kidnapping the young master of the palace, and forcing people to confess under severe torture. Of course, it caught everyone in the Yanshan Palace by surprise; but it would also attract the attention of those high-ranking and prominent people. The family is wary and fearful, and even shares the same hatred with the enemy.
In an instant, Li Lingwen calculated the huge gains and losses in his mind to the limit on the spot, and then showed a decisive expression to a certain figure in the crowd. After all, he has been involved in most events in the palace over the years; how could he not have someone who is devoted to him?
"Young Master, all the old ministers are incompetent..." At this moment, Li Lingwen showed a sad and solemn expression, and choked with tears and said loudly: "After you fall into the hands of a thief, you will be confused and have many false accusations. Charge: I am so ashamed and terrified!"
As Li Lingwen burst into tears in front of everyone, he tried his best to put aside his angry behavior. Some snake-like figures also quietly clung to the shadows of the walls on both sides of the gate tower, climbed up the edge of the tower silently, and suddenly swooped out from the blind corner of the opponent's field of vision...
(End of chapter)
