female catcher

Chapter 222 I want to go back
When Xia Chu entered the imperial study room, Su Zhen was standing behind the Longshu case in a trance, holding a memorial in his hand, with an extremely ugly expression on his face.

Xia Chu calmed down, strode forward, put the tea on the table, and called out to the emperor.Hearing Xia Chu's voice, Su Zhen turned his head slightly startled, and forced a smile, "Why are you here? The injury is still not healed." He put the memorial together and put it aside, took a sip of tea, "First Go back, I'll see you when I'm all right, now..."

"Your Majesty, I was in the ear room just now, and I heard Master Yao's words." Xia Chu said.

Su Zhen looked at her pale face, turned around and put down the teacup, lowered his eyes and said, "Don't worry about court affairs."

Xia Chu turned in front of Su Zhen, bit her lips lightly, and asked in a deep voice: "I just ask, does the emperor believe it?" She nodded emphatically.

Su Zhen didn't speak.Xia Chu said again: "Does the emperor believe those charges? Are you suspicious of your lord?"

"At the beginning of summer..."

"I don't believe a word of Lord Yao's accusations, and neither does the emperor." Xia Chu shook his head firmly, "I know your lord, and your majesty should know you better. He is definitely not that kind of person, absolutely not!"

Su Zhen was silent for a while, "Xia Chu, you don't understand, you don't know what happened..."

"I don't need to know!" Xia Chu couldn't help raising his voice, tears rushed into his eyes, he endured it forcefully, his heart rising and falling, staring at Su Zhen and said: "What colluding with rebels to assassinate officials is completely farting ! The emperor has to believe such nonsense!"

"At the beginning of Xia!" Su Zhen frowned, and his voice was cold, "You let me believe in him, but now you are doubting me? You don't believe that he is a traitor, but you suspect that I am a loyal and traitorous monarch yes?!"

"It's not the emperor! If it's not why you want to lock up your lord!" Xia Chu said loudly.

"Do you think I am willing?" Su Zhen bullied Xia Chu's shoulder further, "Jiang Xiyuan has been my classmate for ten years, and we have a close relationship. He helped me get a position and help me in the world. I can rest assured that he is the only one in the civil and military affairs of the court. Entrust. Do you think I am willing to put him in prison? Do you think I am willing to do what I have done as the emperor!"

Xia Chu's shoulders were numb from his pinching, this was the first time she saw Su Zhen get angry, his face was so cold that it made people stand coldly.She looked at the red threads in Su Zhen's eyes, and felt extremely scared, extremely frightened.

It's not because he's afraid of Su Zhen like this, but because he's afraid that even Su Zhen looks like this.He is the emperor, if even he is so helpless, what should my lord do?For those crimes, only one is enough for death.

Xia Chu couldn't hold back a cry, raised his hand to cover his eyes, choked up his sobs.Su Zhen let go of her shoulders, stroked her cheek lightly, "Go back."

"No." Xia Chu wiped his eyes vigorously, and said to Su Zhen unquestionably, "I want to know. I want to know what happened to your lord."

"Don't worry about it." Su Zhen walked aside and called An Liang loudly, "Take her back."

An Liang stepped forward with some hesitation, and said to Xia Chu: "Servant Xia Dian, go back first. I know you care about Master Jiang, but the fact of the court is beyond our control."

"This is not about the court!" Xia Chu pushed away An Liang who came forward, and chased after Su Zhen, "I don't know how many entanglements there are in the court, and I don't know how much this matter has to do with it. I I only know that Master Jiang, who has given me so much, rescued me from danger and cared for me the most, is in trouble! Let me stand by and watch..." She paused, and said word by word: "It's better to let me die."

"Servant Xia Dian..." An Liang panicked, stepped forward and pulled her, "Don't say such nonsense, don't talk nonsense."

"Your Majesty!" Xia Chu threw off An Liang's hand and knelt on the ground with a bang, looked up at Su Zhen, "You are the Emperor, I kneel to you, but I kneel to you not because you are the Emperor, but because I beg you ..."

Tears rolled down Xia Chu, but he looked at Su Zhen without blinking, and said in a hoarse voice: "I don't know how much I can understand, but I must know; I don't know how much I can do, but I Something must be done. Your Majesty, I beg you..."

Su Zhen was silent for a long time, closed his eyes, bent down and pulled Xia Chu up from the ground, and hugged her into his arms.Xia Chu heard a slow and long sigh in his ear, and after a while, Su Zhen said to An Liang: "Bring that memorial..."

An Liang took the memorial and handed it to Su Zhen. Su Zhen weighed it in his hand and said to Xia Chu, "Look."

Xia Chu hurriedly wiped away tears and took it, and opened the memorial.

The memorial was submitted by Yao Zhiyuan, and it contained what An Liang said about Hong Jing just now.According to the memorial, Na Hong was found in the Planting Flower Pavilion in Shengpingfang, southern Jing. His appearance and body were consistent with the assailant reported by Gu Chizhang, and he had a knife wound on his right shoulder.

Hong Jing speaks Qingcheng County accent, and has confessed to be the leader of the rebel army, who was secretly arranged by Jiang Xiyuan to enter Beijing and hide in the planting flower hall.According to the confession, the Jiang family reached a consensus with him in private before going to quell the chaos. He let the Jiang family win this battle in order to regain the emperor's reuse. He cleans up and becomes an official, and his career is smooth.

This is one matter, but another matter is related to the serial killings of officials in Beijing, Hong Jing also admitted that he did it under Jiang Xiyuan's behest.

Yao Zhiyuan said that Gu Chizhang talked to him about his suspicions on the night of the attack, guessing that this series of murders was related to a memorial from Sun Youliang, who was sent by the former Sun Youliang in Tengshi County of the Jiang family. Gu Chizhang had seen it when he arrived at the Zhongshu Province, but it was nowhere to be seen.

The memorial stated that the food that the Jiang family ate when they led the army to quell the chaos was forcibly taken from the people, while the food and salaries allocated by the Ministry of Household Affairs were unknown, and there were tens of thousands of taels.In addition, officials in Qingcheng County were supposed to be dismissed according to their will, but the Jiang family changed the names of those who benefited them and kept them in office, which is actually selling officials in disguise.

Gu Chizhang felt that this matter was of great importance, but it involved the very popular Jiang family, and now that the memorial disappeared and there was no real evidence, he privately sought out people familiar with the household department and the official department, and wanted to check the bottom line through them.

After Sun Youliang was killed, Gu Chizhang didn't pay much attention to it. After the people from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Officials died, Gu Chizhang got in touch with the memorial. He was worried that he would be the next one, so he took his bodyguards with him. Save your life.Therefore, there is an opportunity to reveal this matter, to expose the Jiang family's shocking crimes, and to show their disobedience.

Xia Chu read the memorial written in neat lowercase over and over again, and the cold limbs penetrated into his heart.She slowly squeezed the memorial together in her hand, looked at Su Zhen but was speechless.

"Understood?" Su Zhen asked her, and seeing her silent, he said again: "Hong Jing was escorted to the palace today, and confessed the above in person in front of all the officials; although Sun Youliang's memorial is gone, there is Zhongshu Sheng The receipt of the document is recorded. At the beginning of Xia Xia, everything submitted by Yao Zhiyuan is correct, this is not a day or two of preparation."

"The emperor knows who did it?"

"It's not anyone, but a force in the court. What they want to target is not Jiang Xiyuan, but me, the emperor."

Su Zhen sneered, and said to her in detail: "This is a situation that has been prepared since the beginning of the rebellion, or from the beginning of the rebellion, and even the rebellion itself was provoked by them. When I faced the rebellion There are only two choices, to be gentle or to send troops, and the ones I will send must be the people I trust. Whoever goes, this matter of Hong Jing will fall on whose head."

"This is the first, and the memorial is the second. Jiang Xiyuan and I joined hands to attack the party of powerful ministers, and now they are drawing their salary from the bottom of the pot. If Jiang Xiyuan is convicted, then the charges against officials investigated by him will not be credible. All the previous actions It's all in vain."

"Since the emperor knows that this is a conspiracy, let's not let them succeed." Xia Chu said urgently, "You are the emperor, so who can do anything if you don't convict me!"

"What you can think of, I can think of it too. They want it even more." Su Zhen gritted his teeth, "Qingcheng County rebelled, and the words of the uprising were that I 'killed my brothers and parents, I am not the son of God'." His expression was surprisingly calm, but also surprisingly cold, "Now that Jiang Xiyuan is colluding with the rebels, if I insist on letting him go, it means that I agree with this sentence and point out that I am not in the right position."

At the beginning of Xia, it felt like a thunderbolt, and there was a buzzing in his head, and he couldn't help taking a step back.

"Even if I send someone else to quell the chaos, if this happens, I will have to kill the heroes unjustly; for the memorial, Jiang Xiyuan will inevitably be involved, and he will remove my humerus." Su Zhen took the memorial from her hand Come back, "Do you understand? If they can do this, they can do anything. You can't control it, and I can't let you take risks."

Xia Chu lowered his head and stared at the cold gold bricks under his feet. He was silent for a long time. When he raised his head again, his eyes were clear, "It's not a dead end."

Su Zhen nodded, "It's not a dead end, I know."

"Although this case is huge, the bigger the case, the more people are involved, and the more people there are, the more loopholes there will be. There is no perfect crime in this world. If you want to investigate it, you can definitely find it out! The charges seem horrible. People, but as long as it is proven that Mr. Jiang did not order the murder, then all these accusations and evidences will be completely invalid."

"At the beginning of Xia, this is not an ordinary case."

"This is indeed not an ordinary case. It involves my friends—my lord, and the emperor." Xia Chu said solemnly, "If the emperor can send someone to investigate, it won't be so anxious. Right?"

Su Zhen was silent for a moment, then nodded, "The Shihua House is Jiang Xiyuan's property, not many people know about it, and it's obvious that someone has got wind of what Jiang Xiyuan did in private. I can delay it for a while, but I absolutely can't. The wrong people are used, otherwise, it is tantamount to helping them fill the loopholes, and there is no turning around."

"I still say the same thing, does the emperor trust Mr. Jiang?"

Su Zhen stared at her, silently, "I believe."

Xia Chu nodded, and asked again: "Does the Emperor believe me?"

"letter."

"Maybe there are people who can investigate cases better than me, but they may not be trustworthy; there may be people who are trustworthy, but they may not be able to investigate cases. There may be people who can investigate cases and be trusted, but they are not hidden from me. And no one I believe more firmly than I in Mr. Jiang's innocence, and more urgently want to clear up his grievances."

Xia Chu raised his hand to remove the hairpin on his head, pulled the bun off and threw it on the ground, tossed his short hair, put his knees on the ground, looked at Su Zhen and said loudly: "I am the head catcher of Xijing, and I am still the head catcher of Xijing." .Captain Xia Chu is just on vacation, now, she wants to go back. I swear to clean up the case and never die!"

(End of this chapter)