King Shou touched his whole body and said regretfully: "I seem to have lost my brand..."
Chen Jian grabbed the cell fence and his voice trembled: "His Royal Highness King Shou, please don't scare me, this is about my life and fortune..."
King Shou thought for a while and said: "Let's do this. I will go back and look for it. I won't lose it. You wait here and I will tell you when I find it."
Watching King Shou leave quickly, Chen Jian leaned against the wall weakly, staring blankly at the other people in the cell talking and laughing. The atmosphere was so lively.
But the excitement is theirs, he has nothing...
Although they are in the same cell, they are different...
At the same time, in another cell, Zhou Zhong said slowly: "Back then, he and I touched the interests of the upper-class dignitaries, and strongly opposed the late emperor's award of death-free gold medals. The courtiers and the emperor could not tolerate us. He was falsely accused of collaborating with the enemy.
Although there is insufficient evidence for treason, all they need is a reason. Before he died, he entrusted Qing'er to me, asking me to save myself first, and then slowly complete our great cause. For the great cause, I can give up everything.
…”
Li Mu asked: "Is this the reason why you gave up on her?"
Zhou Zhong nodded and said: "At least, before you move to the Fulu Sect, I have no choice."
This is the reason why Li Mu has always been on guard against Zhou Zhong. This kind of person has firm goals and is extremely rational. In their eyes, family members and friends are not as important as the great cause in their hearts and can be sacrificed at any time.
Li Mu admired his forbearance and ambition, but he would not get too close to such a person.
He looked at Zhou Zhong and asked, "You finally made your choice."
Zhou Zhong looked at Li Mu and said: "This is not a choice. I believe that someone will do it for me and do it better..."
Li Mudao: "Don't look at me like that..."
Zhou Zhong said to himself: "The late emperor awarded thirteen gold medals. He tried his best to abolish it, but he was dissatisfied and died because of it? In these years, three of the thirteen gold medals for immunity from death have been used up.
?Including one piece for the Crown Princess and two pieces for the Zhou family? There are still seven pieces left. Of these seven pieces of tokens, six pieces should be used this time? The last piece? is in the hands of King Shou..."
"These things should never have existed from the beginning to the end. They should never be seen again in the future."
After saying this, he sat down against the wall, closed his eyes, and said, "Shall you go? I am very tired already? Zongzhengji Prison is a good place to sleep..."
As soon as he finished speaking, his breathing became steady and he actually fell asleep.
Li Mu slowly walked out of the prison. In the courtyard of Zongzheng Temple, King Shou and Zhang Chun were playing dice under the shade of a tree.
Shou Wang's gambling luck was always bad. There was already a lot of broken silver piled up in front of Zhang Chun. After losing another handful, Shou Wang felt in his arms and sleeves, but finally he couldn't find any silver.
Zhang Chun put away the broken silver and said, "How about we stop here today and wait until next time when the prince brings enough money?"
King Shou slapped a piece of gold cake on the table with a "pop" sound, and said: "Who are you looking down on? Continue, I will win back all the money I lost last time today!"
Zhang Chun looked at the gold cake and said in surprise: "Why does this piece of gold look so familiar..."
Li Mu looked at it from a distance and felt that this thing looked familiar. The gold cake was square in shape, except that there were no words on it, and it looked like it was carved from the same mold as the gold medal for immunity from death.
King Shou glanced at Li Mu from afar and asked, "Little Li Zi, are you coming?"
A quarter of an hour later, Li Muhuai left Zongzheng Temple with the gold cake in his arms. He planned to dissolve the thing when he went back. This thing is not light and should be enough to be made into several pieces of jewelry, one for Liu Hanyan and one for Liu Hanyan.
Give it to Li Qing, and give the other two pieces to Wanwan and Xiaobai. If there are any left, you can also give them to the Queen...
At this moment, the entire city of God was boiling over something.
Just today, the old case of Li Yi, which affects the hearts and minds of countless people, took a shocking turn.
It was Li Mu, a member of Zhongshushe, who initially suggested re-investigating the case.
He felt unfair for what happened to Mr. Li Yi back then, and wanted to reverse his case, but was rejected by the court.
Afterwards, Fu Lu from far away in Beijun sent people to force the court to take the case seriously.
On the surface, this case was re-investigated because of the Fu Lu Sect, but officials living in Beiyuan saw the leader of the Fu Lu Sect coming in and out of Li Mu's house as early as the day of Li Mu's wedding. Who was behind this matter?
, self-explanatory.
The common people don't know much about what happened later, but they generally know that the court did not find out anything about the old case, and there were also voices of opposition in the court. If there are no accidents, this matter will eventually be resolved
Let it go.
But no one expected that the case would take such a big turn.
The core figure of the old party, Zhou Zhong, the minister of punishment, who has made many contributions to the old party in the past ten years, publicly admitted in front of hundreds of officials and His Majesty in the Golden Palace that he had conspired with the old party people.
Framing Li Yi.
He single-handedly sent several of the masterminds of the case to Zongzheng Temple.
Among these people, there are six ministers, two ministers, and two ministers. This is the most influential and widely involved case in the DPRK over the years. This is just the mastermind. If the convicts are included, the DPRK still doesn’t know that he is going to be arrested.
How many people are involved?
However, why Zhou Zhong did this has become a mystery in people's minds?
"This Zhou Zhong, could it be that he is insane? Not only is he seeking death, but he is also trying to get his accomplices. I can't figure it out. I really can't figure it out..."
"Yeah, what do you think he wants?"
"Could it be that something went wrong in the practice, and the inner demon invaded, causing the person to go crazy?"
"In my opinion, it may be due to uneven distribution of benefits and internal strife..."
…
Everyone in the entire divine city, in the streets and alleys, in wine shops and teahouses, was talking about this matter. No matter how much they thought about it, they could never imagine that those who framed Li Yi back then were not discovered by the court, but instead were killed because of internal strife...
As for why Zhou Zhong did this, there are different opinions. Some said that he was invaded by inner demons, some said that he suffered from heart failure, and some said that it was due to internal strife in the old party. In a restaurant somewhere, an old man could no longer listen.
, knocked the wine bowl heavily on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Have you forgotten that more than ten years ago, in addition to Li Qingtian, there was also Zhou Qingtian in the Capital of Gods!"
"What Li Qingtian and Zhou Qingtian?"
"Fourteen years ago, I was only five years old. I was still playing in the mud and didn't know anything."
"Old man, what are you talking about?"
The young people in the restaurant had doubts on their faces, and a few of them who were already in their thirties seemed to have thought of something, and their expressions were suddenly enlightened.
More than ten years ago, during the reign of the late emperor, it was the darkest period in the capital of God in their memories.
At that time, when the powerful killed someone, they only needed to pay a fine of silver.
At that time, it was not uncommon for powerful people to rob and abduct civilian women on the streets.
At that time, the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were corrupt and the administration was chaotic, and the people suffered greatly. The people of the capital city would rather go around two more streets than pass by the official gate.
Even in that dark time, there is still light in the city of God.
At that time, Li Yi, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was responsible for rectifying corrupt officials and perverting the law, and was responsible for the Qingming Dynasty. Zhou Zhong, the doctor of the Ministry of Punishments, took the initiative to redress the grievances of the people. The two strongly remonstrated with the late emperor to abolish the surrogate silver law and prevent him from issuing gold medals to avoid death...
At that time, they were two of the few rays of light in the hearts of the people in the city of God, and they were known as the Blue Sky among the people.
However, this situation did not last long.
Later, Li Yi, the official minister, was accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and his whole family was killed.
The people of Shendu at that time found it difficult to accept this result.
How could Li Shilang be a treacherous official who collaborated with the enemy and treason?
What made it even harder for the people to accept was that Zhou Zhong, a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment, was one of the officials who accused him.
How much they once admired Zhou Zhong, but how much they hated him later.
After the death of Li Shilang, Zhou Zhong quickly turned to the old party and became a lackey of the old party. A few years later, he was promoted to the position of minister of the Ministry of Justice. Over the years, he has shielded many people from the old party and helped the old party.
Fighting dissidents and fighting new factions soon became the core of the old party.
For more than ten years, the people who were grateful to Li Yi had to spit when passing by the Ministry of Justice to relieve their hatred.
However, no one expected that more than ten years later, it would be Zhou Zhong who would stand up in the court without hesitation and reverse Li Yi's case.
Someone finally recalled it and said in disbelief: "Could it be that Mr. Zhou has endured humiliation and hardship for the past fourteen years just to wait for today?"
"Yes, yes, otherwise, it would be completely unexplainable why he would give up the power he has gained..."
"Have we been wrongly blaming Mr. Zhou for so many years?"
"Master Li and Master Zhou are brothers with different surnames. Master Zhou must have known that Master Li could not be saved, so he went undercover in the old party to gain their trust, wait for the opportunity, reverse the case for Master Li, and give those people a fatal blow...
"
"For fourteen years, he has been scolded by us for fourteen years!"
"How wronged he has been through these years..."
The truth of what happened back then has been revealed, and many people are filled with regret, and their respect for Zhou Zhong in their hearts is greater than before.
When Li Mansion and Li Mu used Samadhi True Fire to burn the gold cake, they discovered that the thing was just coated with a layer of gold powder on the surface. The inside was so black that it looked like iron but not iron. No one knew what it was.
Li Mu then threw it in the Hutian space. King Shou actually used a gold-plated fake to deceive him. If he bets with him again in the future, he would have to be more cautious...
at the same time.
In Zongzheng Temple.
King Shou sighed, walked to the cell, looked at Chen Jian with an apologetic look, and said, "Shilang Chen, I'm so sorry. I've searched everywhere but can't find the gold medal for immunity from death. It should be real."
If you lose it, you can go with peace of mind. Every year on the anniversary of your death, I will have people burn more paper money for you..."