Book with Emperor

Chapter 229 The events of the year
The bedroom behind him was in chaos, and the cries of Concubine Yun intertwined with King Ke's roar, making Qin Guanyue frown.

Miaomiao hurriedly worried, "But the head hurts again? How about I ask Director Wang to find the deputy Luan to carry you?"

"No, it's just that I got a little headache from the noise just now, just let me blow some air."

She insisted that she had no choice but to leave Miaomiao, but as soon as the two of them left Longquan Palace, they saw a guard rushing towards them.

"Kowtow to see the emperor."

"Excuse me, what's the matter?"

The guard looked around, stepped forward and said in a low voice, "Commander Yang said that if there is any movement in Lou Binghe, he will notify you in time."

"Not bad. What happened to Lou Binghe?"

"He... wants to see you."

Qin Guanyue paused, and then turned around to leave, "No. Keep watching, if there is any change, report it in time."

The guard hurriedly said, "He said that if you don't see him, you will never know what happened in New Moon City back then!"

Qin Guanyue froze, turned around and asked, "Say it again."

The guard swallowed, and said cautiously, "He said, if you want to know what happened in New Moon City back then, you should go see him in the prison."

"lead the way."

"Yes."

……

Compared with the prison in Dali Temple, which is dedicated to detaining serious offenders, the large prison of the Ministry of Punishment has more and more miscellaneous people, and there are even some petty criminals. With more people, the environment is naturally much worse.

Qin Guanyue rejected the servant of the Ministry of Punishment who wanted to lead the way personally, and only the guard just now entered the cell together.As soon as I entered, I smelled a musty smell with damp, mixed with a complex smell of urine and alcohol.

The bored prisoners were chatting in a daze, when they suddenly saw a beautiful woman who was either rich or expensive walking into the dark and smelly cell, they immediately leaned on the railing curiously to look around.

"Whose little lady is this? Is she here to redeem my husband?"

"It looks really good, this little face... tsk tsk!"

"Is it the guy from Lu Laosan's family? Didn't he always boast that his wife is pretty?"

"Little lady, tell brother, who are you looking for?"

A gangster was holding on to the railing, and looked at Qin Guanyue with an evil look on his face.

"Snapped!"

The guard leading the way lashed the bastard's arm with a whip, and said coldly, "Shut your mouth! This is not something you can afford!"

The gangster grinned his teeth in pain, covered his hands and shrank back, but he didn't dare to speak back.

The others were also silent, and the huge cell was eerily quiet for a moment.

As if Qin Guanyue had never heard of it, she walked through the long corridor without looking sideways, and stopped in front of the innermost cell.

In the narrow and dark cell, Lou Binghe, dressed in a coarse coat, was sitting on a stone bed with his back against the wall, his eyes slightly closed.

"Is the cell in Dali Temple different from the cell in the Ministry of Criminal Justice?" He opened his eyes and turned his head to look at the people outside the cell.

"They are all cells, there is no difference in essence."

Qin Guanyue waved the guards back, and looked at the people in the cell calmly, "I'm not interested in listening to your last words before you die, so let's get to the point quickly."

Lou Binghe lowered his head and sneered, and he was silent for a moment before opening his mouth, "Actually, it's not you I want to see, but another person. But I know she definitely doesn't want to see me, so seeing you is the same."

He looked up and asked seriously, "Is she still alive?"

Qin Guanyue asked back, "Who are you asking?"

"The person who assassinated His Majesty on the night of the imperial banquet, the embroidered girl who met in Hecheng, or...the Helan Garden in Linchuan City, is she still alive?"

"..."

Lou Binghe got off the stone bed, walked up to her, stared into her eyes through the railing, "Answer me."

"What about living, and what about dead?"

Qin Guanyue raised her eyes slightly, "You are a dying person, do you know the meaning of the answer?"

"If you say that, I know that she is not dead."

Lou Binghe closed his eyes when he heard the words, "I guessed it, you won't let her die, you are softer than me."

Qin Guanyue was a little surprised by this sentence, "I thought I was an out-and-out villain in your eyes."

"There is no good or evil among courts and countries. I want to kill you not because of good or evil, but because I know you will never be truly loyal to His Majesty."

He looked at her with dark eyes, "I have met many people, and I have killed many people. Some people, the first time I saw them, I knew that I couldn't keep them. It would be a disaster if I kept them."

"I knew from the first moment I saw you that you would not pledge your allegiance to anyone."

Not long after Ning Zhao succeeded to the throne, Lou Binghe was sent by him to pick up Gong Yue who came from Fuyun Mountain.However, when he arrived at Zhengyang Gate, it was not Gong Yue who came out of the carriage, but a young girl in her early ten years.

The girl was dressed in a white dress with silver trim, and she had a good appearance, but for a person like him, her appearance was the most inconspicuous advantage.So he thought she was just a maid brought by Gong Yue until he saw the girl's eyes.

The eyes of a young girl who was not deeply involved in the world were unusually calm when she looked at the majestic and beautiful palace in front of her, so quiet that it was almost indifferent.

The girl seemed to be sizing up a huge monster, evaluating how she could make this huge monster fall apart indifferently.

That was the look he was very familiar with. Back then when his people were trampled under the horseshoes of the Xiangwei royal family, he looked at the gate of Linchuan City like this.

It was the calmness and indifference after making preparations to see death as home, and it was the deep-seated hatred and anger hidden in the bottom of my heart.

When he was really surprised by the identity of the girl in front of him, Gong Yue's calm voice sounded in the carriage, "Guanyue, but Ah Zhao is here?"

Only then did the girl lower her eyes to look at him, as if she couldn't feel the killing spirit in his body, she said lightly, "Qin Tianjian's disciple Qin Guanyue, who are you?"

Lou Binghe combined the indifferent face in his memory with the person in front of him, and said mockingly, "Over the years, your purpose has never changed, it is to avenge His Majesty."

"Not only him, but the entire royal family."

Qin Guanyue suddenly took a step forward, approached him inside the railing, curled the corners of her mouth, and said softly, "Just now, I grabbed his youngest son in front of him, but no one dared to stop him, including you, Lou Binghe. .”

A trace of hostility flashed across Lou Binghe's face, and he clasped the railing with both hands, "Qin Guanyue—"

Qin Guanyue was not timid in the slightest, and looked back calmly, "I came here for what happened in New Moon City back then, and I don't have time to listen to your memories of bitterness and sweetness."

Lou Binghe let go of the railing and gradually regained his composure, "Just answer two more questions for me, and I'll tell you what you want to know."

"Say."

"Where did you hide Sun Chu?"

This was the most puzzling part of the whole incident. After Qin Guanyue was sent to Dali Temple, he looked for Sun Chu, but he searched the whole city and found no one, not even a corpse, so he could only think that Sun Chu Chu was dead, and Qin Guanyue had disposed of the body. He never expected that someone would appear in the hall, as the ironclad evidence that he ambush Qin Guanyue on the night of the imperial banquet.

"In a place you don't know." Qin Guanyue continued, "The second question."

Lou Binghe sneered, but didn't pursue further.

After a moment of silence, he asked, "He Lanyuan, how has she been doing these years?"

"Helan Court..."

Qin Guanyue repeated the name with a drawn-out tone, and said in a leisurely tone, "Is it the woman who was abandoned by you at the wedding banquet, and then the Daxi soldiers you led slaughtered her whole family? I have heard of it."

"She lived a very miserable life. She survived by chance after her whole family was killed, but she left her hometown after learning that Linchuan was cut off to Daxi. After being tricked into being sold to a brothel, and after desperately escaping, she chose to jump off a cliff in desperation."

"Probably dead."

"..."

Lou Binghe listened silently, his long disheveled hair covered his face, his expression could not be seen clearly against the sunlight, and Qin Guanyue was not interested in watching.

"After asking, it's time to talk about what happened in New Moon City back then."

Qin Guanyue's eyes were cold, "Where did the plague come from, why did the prefect Xiao Deng die, and why did it become evidence against Yue Qingli's embezzlement of disaster relief money five years later?"

(End of this chapter)