chapter 29 – a pair of hard-boiled brothers

Su Yan could now realize what it was like to be looked at by everyone and pointed at by a thousand people.

Wang Shangshu these words, like a hand uncovered was deliberately covered up the arrow box, exposed inside the quenched venom sharp edge to. What’s even better is that this hand is completely upright, innocent and ironclad.

Facing the questioning, contemptuous and even gloating gazes thrown by the courtiers, Su Yan sidled over to look at the other hard-luck brother and found that His Highness King Yu, who was also deeply mired in the mire, was still in his old age, and even teasingly raised his eyebrows at him.

Well, this absurd and debauched prince at least had one more advantage, not being shocked by changes and having a strong psychological quality. Su Yan thought to himself, maybe King Yu, relying on the identity of the son of heaven s cellular brother, as long as he does not commit ten evil felonies, he will be able to get away with it, and he has become a scapegoat …… who is being held in the shitter What kind of joke is this?

Su Yan pan out a elegant smile, long standing, will be the Wei Jin master of the pretense of learning a full ten, negative hand banked: “Shangshu adults, this so-called evidence is too many loopholes, can not be said to be conclusive two words. I want to self-defense, I do not know to give me the opportunity to clarify the truth?”

Wang Ti Rui said, “The prisoner in the public hall still has the right to defend himself, Su Zhenma is only suspected, naturally he can.”

His words helped Su Yan temporarily block the mouths of the others who wanted to drop stones.

“I would like to ask Mr. Renju to come and inquire.”

Emperor Jinglong nodded and sent someone to summon Shang Pu.

Shang Pu is over fifty years old, the self-proclaimed Lianzhou painting obsessed, early in the year just from the civil drafted into the palace, a hand of painting even in the talent of the Academy is also outstanding.

Su Yan saw this person, we know that “painting idiot” two words deservedly, this brother probably only painting in his heart, no concept of the world of people, is a Chen Jingrun type of characters. Because he came, even the imperial etiquette can not care, jumped to the steps to blow dust on the painting paper, deploring the call: “Erdnase the mother of God, which made the painting to pounce on the West to the sea of a sloppy, which are into the sprinkle of it? You see, you see, there is a footprint thief!”

I don’t know which official in the crowd didn’t hold back, snorted a laugh, and hurriedly lowered his head to purse his lips again.

Su Yan coughed lightly and walked to Shang Pu’s side, arching his hand and asking, “My name is Su Yan, the Sijing Bureau’s washer horse. This ‘Shooting Willow Winning Picture’, may I ask where Mr. Lianzhou was when he made the painting?”

Shang Pu holding the painting got up, only then remembered to salute the face of the Holy Spirit, busy kneeling down again, heard the emperor said: “Free, Qing just answer is.”

So he answered Su Yan, “That attic thief.” Saying that, he turned and pointed in the general direction.

Su Yan glanced briefly and nodded, “Indeed, you can see the Shooting Willow Field and the eastern auxiliary building of the Dragon Virtue Hall. May I ask if this location, was it picked by the gentleman himself?”

Shang Pu said: “I originally chose the corridor bridge, see can be wide, but there is a guards notify the amount, go to the attic thieves paintings, said it looks like tables and chairs and benches are set up.”

“Which guard, sir, do you remember? Can you identify it?”

Shang Pu thought and thought, shook his head: “Pocket wear the same child’s clothes, do not have the impression.”

“Thank you, Mr. Renju.”

Su Yan turned to Wang Tirei and said: “I think Mr. Shangshu also found something strange. Mr. Lianzhou previously selected the painting location is the corridor bridge, from that angle could not see the Ye Langzhong fell to the building, someone will lead him to the attic, in order to let the murderer’s figure into the painting. What is the purpose of this move? If the guard was the murderer’s gang, why did he reveal his evil deeds? If he wasn’t, why didn’t he report it to the police to stop the murder if he knew it was going to happen?”

Wang Tirei mused, “There is indeed something suspicious, but it may also be a coincidence.”

Su Yan asked Shang Pu again, “Will Mr. Lianzhou misread or draw the wrong clothes? After all, there are many characters in the scene, and their attire varies.”

Shang Pu was questioned the professionalism, obviously upset: “Er will not draw wrong, decades of skill, do not seem to be practiced in vain?”

“Then the second loophole will be here.” Su Yan took the scroll and pointed at the back of the suspected murderer, “Lords, please look, the belt that this person is wearing is the same as that of the official before lunch, it is a cloth belt, only a piece of belt is set in front. You see this painting on the back, the belt is solid color. But at lunch time in the forest in the middle of shooting, belt accidentally lost, looking all over the missing, only had to change a spare leather belt, so far is still tied on the body.”

The people heard have bet their eyes to his waist, see really is a hard leather belt, before and after inlaid with a circle of silver flower belt, and the painting of the belt is far from.

“If it is true that I went to the auxiliary building and stabbed Bone-setter Ye, and then returned to the Willow Shooting Ground, how could I have time to return to the palace to change my belt in just half a quarter of an hour? There is only one conclusion to be drawn from this–

The suspect had planned to frame me, so he wore a belt of the same color and pattern as mine inside his robe. When I returned to the temple to look for a new belt, the suspect tricked Ye Langzhong, who had returned from the Jingxian, into going up to the auxiliary building, took off his robe, seized the sword and wounded him, and then pocketed the blood with his robe and took it away together with the murder weapon. He hung the unconscious Ye Langzhong on the fence, slipped and fell and frightened Your Highness, causing her to give birth prematurely, and deliberately buried the murder weapon in a mound of earth for the searcher to unearth and frame His Highness, the King of Yu.

At the same time, he had someone disguise himself as a guard and induced Mr. Lianzhou to inadvertently record the scene before the murder, in a vain attempt to rely on the courtyard painting to sit me down.

This person is so cruel heart, so poisonous chain scheme, in order to trap my official and His Highness King Yu to death, not hesitate to implicate your people, in vain of the safety of the Empress Mother and the dragon’s fetus, it is really hateful! It’s just that man’s plan is not as good as heaven’s plan, he didn’t expect me to change my belt for some reason, which revealed the cracks.”

After finishing in one breath, Su Yan walked to the imperial court and solemnly knelt down, hands on the ground, kowtowed and said, “I have been wronged and aggrieved, please do something for me, Your Majesty!”

He knelt for a long time, a curve of his spine slightly arched, the remnant of the moon like a bleak and clear, Emperor Jinglong lowered his eyes and looked at, silent for a moment, asked, “Wang Shangshu may still have something to say?”

Wang Ti Rui arched his hand and said, “The old minister thought that the belt was indeed a great breach. However, in order to clarify the truth, the old minister would also like to ask Su Zuima to prove one last thing.”

“What is it?”

“He said that before the crime, he went to the temple to change the spare belt, can there be witnesses? If there are no witnesses, then his suspicions still cannot be fully cleared.”

Su Yan’s heart jumped.

He has a witness, but a witness who can’t see the light of day.

Shen Qi, the thousandth member of the Jinyiwei.

If Shen Qi was exposed, it would inevitably involve the matter of Feng An Marquis Wei Jun forcing a courtesan to rape him, and also the matter of Commander Feng going to the evil and colluding with Wei Jun and ordering someone to take care of the aftermath of his evil deeds.

Snake hit seven inches, hit not hit seven inches, the snake is not dead, but was eaten. Forced to rape the court lady is a big crime, but there is no real evidence, even if the court lady to find, face to face confrontation, it is hard to guarantee that the girl will not be because of shame or fear, do not dare to identify the Marquis Feng An. And Wei Guifei newborn son, it is the time of the fire cooking oil, if she intervened for Wei Joon to say, nine times out of ten can for him to get off the charge.

Shen Qi, will be regarded as a traitor, Feng went to the evil means of how insidious and cruel, where will let him go, for fear that even death is not good death!

In order to clean himself this one suspicion, then to take Shen Qi a life, this kind of thing, Su Yan can not do it. What’s more, Qianhu also saved his life from the court cane, although this person …… is a sexual assault, but ……

Who owes and who pays back, how to count, for a time, Su Yan is also a little confused.

Seeing his delayed voice, the Emperor slightly frowned his distant mountain-like cultivated eyebrows, seeming to be a bit hesitant.

And in the ranks of the brocade guards behind Feng de-wicked, Shen Qi looked at the long kneeling Su Yan, his face expressionless. Five fingers clutching the hilt of the knife, tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened, stretched into a bloodless wax white, bone joints from the thin green skin under the prongs out, like a reluctant to fall into the net of the kingpin bird, due to the survival instinct and struggling desperately.

It s not guilty, he thought, it s just a dewy affair …… No, it s not even an affair, it s a shaved head.

After ten years of hard work to climb up to this position, it’s not worth giving up all your previous efforts or even losing your life for a pastime.

It’s just a pastime.

But where did this cone of pain come from?

It’s ridiculous that a nightmarish rakshasa, who is hated by all, can actually hurt, and actually has a heart!

He closed his eyes tightly, and his feet took an involuntary step forward–the

Emperor Jinglong stared at the back of Su Yan’s snow-white neck, a smattering of raven-winged green silk, which the ebony veil could not hide, lovingly ambled around his neck, as if it was also humming and pouting.

I am aggrieved.

I know.

But using imperial power to suppress moral opinion and forcefully exonerate you is not good for you.

Please, Your Majesty, do this for me!

…… just. The emperor s eyes showed a helpless color, but his eyebrows stretched out, and he lightly opened his lips –

“I’ll do this testimony for him, little master!” A clear and exuberant teenager’s voice rang out like thunder.

The crowd looked at the sound, only to see the Prince Zhu He Lin walked quickly, Zhu red robe line clouds and water roll, followed by a few upside down trotting chamberlain.

Zhu Hailin raised his voice and said, “Qinghe rode in the same car with Lone, and his spare clothing accessories were also placed in Lone’s hall, and after he lost his belt, he came to look for the chamberlain, Fubo, in order to avoid losing his manners in front of the king.”

Fubao then answered, “Your Majesty, Your Excellencies, it was indeed the slave girl who greeted Lord Su, and it was also the slave girl who changed Lord Su’s belt into a new one.”

“In that case, does Minister Wang have any more questions? All of you present have other words to say?” Zhu he Lin eyes in the stern color, swept through Wang Ti Rui, and swept down the steps of the ministers, childish still face, actually vaguely show a few points of eagle look at the phase of the wolf.

Wang Ti Rui vibrated his sleeves, and said: “I am impartial, and Su Zaima have no personal grudges, not to mention the intention of coercion, but also His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to see clearly. Since the human evidence and material evidence are all complete, Su Zaima should be innocent.”

King Yu laughed lightly, “There is still the Lone King, and Minister Wang can’t be thick-skinned.”

Wang Ti Rui snorted coldly, seemingly unable to look at this king with the mannerism of a Langjun leader and a prodigal son’s class leader.

Yu Wang, because of his notoriety among the civil ministers, had long been accustomed to seeing the stinking faces of the purists, and did not take it personally, arching his hand towards the emperor, “Since the suspicion is cleared, my brother will leave. By the way, when the case is cleared up, the real culprits fall into the net, but also begged the emperor brother will hook fish intestines will be given back to my brother.” Words and then Shi Shi Ran left.

Emperor Jinglong didn’t bother with him, but only asked Lan Xi, “Can all the heads be counted?”

Lan Xi bowed and offered the list, “The count is done, excluding His Highness King Yu and Servant Su, there were seven others who were not present at the time.”

At this moment twilight falls, next to the palace people busy lamps lit, the emperor took the list to see, Wei Joon is also among them, the corner of the mouth imperceptibly downward pressure.

“Academy Envoy Wang, can Your Highness rise and return to the palace?”

Wang Chunfu reported, “The Queen is weak after giving birth, it is best to stay in bed for two or three days before returning to the palace is more appropriate.”

The emperor nodded: ”Then I will accompany your consort to stay in the East Garden for a few days. Coinciding with the Dragon Boat Festival, the ministers do not have to go to court, three days off. And these seven people will be settled in the east side of the Hongqing Hall and the south side of the Chongqi Hall, with people to take good care of, shall not be neglected, to be tomorrow dawn, and then investigate in detail. Yu Wang also stayed, live in the middle Chonghua Hall. The rest of the royal ministers, escorted back to the city by the brocade guards.”

Lan Xi led the order and went to make arrangements.

Su Yan has not been ordered by the emperor, still kneeling on the ground, this moment is wondering, is the emperor forgot about him, should we quietly get up, mixed into the team back to the city.

However, he saw Emperor Jinglong pacing in front of him, helping him up with his own hands and faintly saying, “You also stay with the seven of them.”

Su Yan was slightly stunned, suddenly realized that his arm was pinched by the emperor, as if he meant it, and his heart suddenly realized: “I obeyed the order.”