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Chapter 135 Dishonesty

In a daze, Li Xia seemed to see the little girl sitting on the swing in Zaoyuan.

Yulu news records Qiantang... Who is her inscription of lovesickness?Of course he does.

He said "I don't linger in my heart" many times in my heart. Although he really didn't linger in my bosom, he still knew it.

"You are a champion, you are a champion..."

A loud question interrupted Li Xia's contemplation.

"Li Xia, did Mrs. Zhang fill this in for you?"

"I do not know."

"You don't know? It was found from your baggage, and there is your handwriting on it, don't you know?"

Xiao Tailai snorted softly, handed out the paper in his hand to pass around, shook his head, and said with emotion: "It's a good love, it's a good pair to leave others. You regard Nangui as a prisoner, and she guards the empty window and looks forward to it alone." You have returned early... Oh, collaborating with the enemy and treason!"

Li Xia didn't answer.

Xiao Tailai turned to Zhao Yun, bowed his hands solemnly, and said: "Your Majesty, I think the case is already clear, so there is no need to ask any more. Li Xia mentioned Zhang Rou's daughter only briefly in mentioning Zhang Rou's daughter and escaped in Weishan, which is too much. It's easier. Surrounded by thousands of people, but he can escape? Legendary stories don't dare to make up such nonsense!

The facts must be as Bai Mao said, Li Xia was captured by Zhang Rou in Weishan, and because of his talent and appearance, he became Zhang Rou's son-in-law.He and Zhang's daughter wrote lyrics with eyebrow pencils, all on this paper.Afterwards, Li Xia wanted to make contributions to the Northerners and return to Da Song as a spy. Zhang's daughter also wrote a poem on this love note, asking Li Xia to take him with her, reminding him to go back safely... For proof! "

A loud and loud shout also exploded in the hall.

"That's right, what Li Xia said is absurd and impossible, but what Bai Mao said fits perfectly and has a lot of evidence."

"When Li Xia went north, he often acted alone, throwing away Lin, Liu and others, saying that he was protecting everyone's safety, but in fact he took the opportunity to cooperate with the enemy."

"I also don't believe Li Xia's so-called slipping on the cableway, hiding in disguise, and escaping by feigning death."

"Li Xia is dishonest, and I also noticed that he has too much to hide..."

Zhao Yun's face darkened.

The word "dishonesty" seemed ordinary, but it hit his heart at once.

The reason why Zhao Yun killed Yu Jie, the rest of the evidence may not be important, the key lies in... the tone of the words is not careful.

It's about attitude, and the attitude toward the king is about loyalty.

This is the most important duty of a courtier.

Li Xiazhi's performance did not show loyalty from the beginning to the end...

Following Zhao Yun's change of face, all the officials in the palace guessed what would happen to Li Xia.

They have figured out the thoughts of the officials, and they couldn't help expressing their opinions one after another.

"Your Majesty, I beg you to kill the rebels and emulate you with respect!"

"The minister agrees..."

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Jia Sidao is still playing with the crickets.

He is in no hurry.

Uncle Xie Fang thought that Jia Sidao wanted to use Tian Kui's case as an opportunity, yes, but not entirely.

Today's imperial questioning involved Tian Kui and Yu Jie, but it was just an introduction.

If you can succeed, it doesn't matter if you lose, it's just that one more Li Xia and Nie Zhongyou died.

In the coming day, when news of the Southwest War comes, Yu Jie's case must be overturned.

At that time, Li Xia and Nie Zhongyou, who died today, can still become one of the evidences to bring down Uncle Xie Fang.

If the officials refuse to admit that they killed Yu Jie by mistake, they can only wait until the Southwest is defeated, and then the officials will no longer want to admit it, so they can only admit it;
Uncle Xie Fang thinks he has escaped this catastrophe, but the fact is that every time he covers up the evil consequences of killing Yu Jie, the evil consequences will only get bigger and bigger, and sooner or later he will not be able to escape;
Li Xia guessed that he was just a pawn during the trip to the north, but he didn't guess that he was still just a pawn when the imperial prelude was right today.

A cricket is a cricket, so what if it can bite?Regardless of whether the cricket wins or loses, the bet on the scene is won by the owner...

Thinking of this, Jia Sidao raised his head.

His gaze fell from the cricket to Li Xia, with a hint of apology in his eyes.

"Go to hell, you will be unjustly killed by Uncle Xie Fang, but it doesn't matter, I will reverse the case for you soon..."

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Nie Zhongyou also raised his head and looked at Cheng Yuanfeng.

Cheng Yuanfeng was also looking at him, his old eyes were red, but his eyes were full of disappointment.

Nie Zhongyou opened his mouth, and only made a vague, slight sound.

But no matter what he said, it was impossible for anyone to believe him.

Can the captives return safely?
Who believes?

There were no imperial guards to listen to Nie Zhongyou's words, and there were only shouts in the hall asking for an order to kill him.

"Nie Zhongyou colluded with the enemy and rebelled, I beg Your Majesty to kill him."

"..."

Finally, Nie Zhongyou lowered his head in frustration, revealing the humiliating brand on the back of his neck.

He remembered what Zhang Hongdao had said to him.

"I believe in your integrity, but Zhao Song doesn't believe it. If you get branded on this, even if you escape back to the Song Dynasty, you will only be ruined. If you don't believe me, you can try..."

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Zhao Yun put down his wine glass, intending to decree to execute the two treacherous collaborators.

He felt that Li Xia was a very outstanding young man, and it was not surprising that Zhang Rou recruited him as his son-in-law.

Besides, this young man has an air of arrogance, I'm afraid he really wants to do something earth-shattering...

Suddenly, Li Xia said: "There are so many loopholes in what Bai Mao said, didn't you find it?"

"Your words are full of loopholes." Xiao Tailai said, "Bai Mao's words are much more careful than yours, and there are supporting evidence."

Li Xia said: "Since it was Bai Mao who gave evidence that I and Nie Zhongyou were in collusion, why did you arrest Lin Zi and Liu Jinsuo before Nie Zhongyou and I returned?"

"We didn't catch it..."

Liu Jinsuo: "It was Prime Minister Zuo who captured us!"

Xiao Tailai didn't want to bring the topic to the party struggle between Prime Minister Zuo and Ding Daquan, so as not to be taken advantage of by Li Xia, so he said flatly: "Li Xia, the evidence is solid, don't argue."

"Evidence? That piece of poetry doesn't explain anything."

"It can show that you are married to the Zhang family."

"Who knows if it's really Zhang's daughter's handwriting, maybe it was Xiao Yushi who filled it in?"

"Zhuzi! Stop spitting blood, will this old man frame you?!"

Li Xia stopped looking at him, and said to Zhao Yun who was on the imperial couch, "Your Majesty, may I ask Bai Mao a few more questions?"

"allow."

"Bai Mao, you said that Nie Zhongyou brought you back to prove that he was rescued from prison by you?"

Bai Mao replied: "Yes."

Li Xia asked again: "Why did he want to prove it?"

"Because... because he was caught by the northerners."

Li Xia said: "But I rebelled with him, didn't I? Since I rebelled with him, as long as I don't tell, who would suspect that he was captured by the Beiren? I can say that he escaped with me."

Bai Mao suddenly lost the fluency of speaking just now and became stuttering.

"He, he, he... he was caught, Lin Zi and the others also knew about it."

"I rebelled with Nie Zhongyou. Wouldn't it be easier to seal the mouths of Lin Zi and Liu Jinsuo? Why bring you along?"

"I, I, I...you think that I am collaborating with the enemy and treason like you...but I am different..."

Li Xia said: "We don't think so, because your mother is still in Song Dynasty."

Bai Mao was taken aback for a moment, and said, "You, you, me, me, me..."

"Are you stuttering? Because those remarks just now were made up?"

"No."

Li Xia said: "Nie Zhongyou was able to bring you back. There is only one explanation. He was really saved by you. Because of the grace of saving his life, he took you with him, but he couldn't trust you, so he left you outside Lin'an City, right? ?”

"No, that's what I said." Bai Mao said: "He is treason."

Li Xia said: "Nie Zhongyou didn't rebel, and you even rescued him when he was seriously injured and still awake."

"No," Bai Mao said loudly, "He obviously..."

Li Xia interrupted Bai Mao and said, "Because when I saw Nie Zhongyou in the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, he didn't have that brand on the back of his neck..."

"You're talking nonsense! He was branded early!"

Bai Mao was very angry, because he knew that Li Xia was talking nonsense. He had seen the brand on Nie Zhongyou's neck in Bozhou City, and Li Xia was talking nonsense with his eyes open.

"It must have been branded two days ago." Li Xia said again.

"You bullshit!"

Li Xia suddenly struggled with a hand, pointed at Bai Mao, and shouted: "Am I talking nonsense, new injuries or old injuries, you can tell at a glance."

He struggled to free his hand, but the guards held it down again.

Bai Mao was taken aback suddenly.

He saw Li Xia wearing a ring on his hand.

It was not a valuable thing, but it was given to his mother when he stole something for the first time.

As a celebration of his graduation...

Bai Mao didn't speak anymore, but his eyes were full of bewilderment.

However, Li Xia turned to Nie Zhongyou and asked, "Nie Zhongyou, when I saw you at the Right Prime Minister's Mansion that day, there was clearly no brand on the back of your neck, who branded it for you?"

Nie Zhongyou slowly raised his head and opened his mouth.

Li Xia said again: "Why did they ruin your throat?"

A guard stepped forward and listened to Nie Zhongyou for a while.

"He said...the people from Sanya branded it on him last night..."

"Nonsense!" Xiao Tailai flicked his sleeves, extremely disdainful.

Wu Yan came out again and said: "Your Majesty, Li Xia is right. You can tell whether the burn is new or old."

"look carefully."

"Yes."

A servant took up a candle and went forward.

"Your Majesty, it's a new wound, and the mark is still red. It seems that medicine has been used, and it needs to be made into an old wound..."

"Nonsense." Xiao Tailai was furious, and said, "I have clearly seen..."

He looked at it, and his expression suddenly changed.

Because he had seen it a long time ago, he didn't take a closer look at it just now, but now he saw that the brand mark on the back of Nie Zhongyou's neck was not only a fresh red scar, but also a lot thicker.

"Someone branded it again. It's rough, it's rough, it must be covered. What I saw the day before yesterday was not like this..."

Wu Yan said: "He has been locked up in San Ya, who can burn him?"

"You!" Xiao Tailai said, "It's you..."

Wu Yan sneered, turned around and ignored Xiao Tailai.

"Your Majesty!" Cheng Yuanfeng stood up suddenly, and said, "I would like to be a guarantor for Nie Zhongyou. He is definitely not a rebel. I implore Your Majesty to search the three offices. If you can find the branding iron, you will be able to restore Nie Zhongyou and Li Xia's innocence." ..."

Uncle Xie Fang suddenly turned his head to look at Cheng Yuanfeng, his eyes burst out with shock and anger.

He finally changed his face...

(End of this chapter)