Chapter 320 You Killed Him
Chapter 320 You Killed Him
Just when Gao Lian was executed by Zhao Du'an in the painting.
Outside the Ministry of Justice prison, a carriage escorted by imperial guards on horseback holding torches drove in from the palace and stopped outside the eerie building.
Mo Chou lifted the curtain of the carriage, stepped down, and without any hesitation, led a group of people behind her into the prison.
"Miss Mo?!" Because of Wang Chusheng's sudden death, several officials who were urgently assigned to the prison to take charge of things were shocked and came out to greet her: "Why did you come here? Does His Majesty have any instructions?"
Mo Chou was too lazy to pay attention to them. The female official had a murderous look on her face and said in a cold voice, "I want to interrogate Gao Lian."
"This..." The assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice who was present was stunned.
"Interrogate him alone. Take me to his cell and no outsiders are allowed to approach." Mo Chou ignored the other party's reaction and continued.
The assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice said immediately: "Please, I will personally take the young lady there. Don't worry, she is in good condition."
Mo Chou glanced at him and said, "I said, no outsiders are allowed to get close."
The expression of the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice froze, but Mo Chou ignored this important figure and directly asked the jailer to lead the way, and then led a group of imperial guards to storm into the prison.
"Your Excellency, Minister, is Mo Zhaorong going to..." A person in charge nearby was nervous and uneasy. A witness had died tonight, and they were afraid that His Majesty would punish them.
"Don't worry, don't ask! Just do your job!" The assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice reprimanded, staring at the latter: "If you don't want to die."
Beads of sweat instantly appeared on the forehead of the head of the Ministry of Justice.
The former waved his hand to drive away the officials who had gathered around him, turned his head and took a deep look at the prison, his expression solemn, and he let out a deep breath.
Outsiders don't know, but he knows clearly that after the Xuanmen coup, the empress cleaned up the rebels in the palace. This unknown female official was involved in many deaths.
……
"Mo Zhaorong, the person is right in front, being held in solitary confinement." Inside the prison, the jailer smiled obsequiously and led a group of people through the corridor.
Pointing to a cell door in front of him, he said, "This is it."
Then, he opened his voice and shouted: "Offending the official Gao Lian? Why don't you quickly welcome the Heavenly Official!"
There was silence.
Mochou felt uneasy and walked over quickly. The imperial guards behind her pushed the jailer to the side and gathered at the door in the light of torches.
Inside the cell, Gao Lian was seen sitting cross-legged with his back to everyone like a monk, with his head lowered and motionless.
"Something's wrong!"
Mo Chou's eyes narrowed: "Open the door!"
Next to him, a guard drew his sword and cut the cell chain, then stepped in and pushed with the back of his sword.
As soon as he was touched, Gao Lian's body fell limp to the ground. His expression was serene and he died very peacefully, with no signs of injury.
"Dead!" The imperial guard sniffed his breath and said in horror.
Mo Chou was stunned, and a look of surprise appeared on her cold face.
"There are words on the ground!"
As torches filled the cell, Mo Chou looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a short confession written in blood on the ground in front of the corpse.
Mo Chou stared at the scene in a daze, his expression becoming extremely strange.
Is it okay if she is dead before she even starts? Who finished the job first?
"Leave half of the men to seal off the scene, and the rest follow me out!" Mo Chou suddenly gave the order, turned around and hurried out.
……
……
"That's fine. You don't have to send me home. Just leave me here."
Two blocks away from the Ministry of Justice, on a quiet street.
Jin Jian pulled Zhao Duan and gently fell to the ground in an "invisible" state.
"Oh." The female priestess was an obedient person who preferred to be lazy. She was very happy to hear that she didn't have to take the trouble to send people back.
"Don't you want to send me back?" Zhao Duan saw her excitement and asked softly.
"Yeah!" Jin Jian nodded vigorously. The girl was very frank and honest. She said confidently, "It's very tiring to lead people flying."
As he spoke, he pretended to be tired and exhaled heavily to make his statement more convincing.
Then she stared at him with her big, expectant eyes, blinking - thanks to the crystal glasses, she evolved from Jin Jian with "dull eyes" to Jin Jian with "eyes that can speak".
For example, at this moment, there seemed to be two big words written in my eyes:
Bill, please!
"..." Zhao Duan sighed, took out a silver note from his sleeve and stuffed it over to the latter. The latter then smiled, lowered his head happily, and carefully put the silver note into his purse.
"I'm telling you, this money is not given for nothing. You have to learn to forget what happened tonight and don't tell anyone. Got it?" Zhao Duan warned. Jin Jian put the banknote away and looked up blankly: "What happened tonight?"
"...Very good, let's go back."
"Oh."
Jin Jian turned into a bunch of starlight and disappeared.
Zhao Duan was the only one left on the deserted street. He shook his head. After cooperating with Jin Jian so many times, he could say that he was very happy and relieved.
Although this girl looks confused, she is actually very smart and a reliable teammate.
"call……"
Exhaling, Zhao Duan walked on the quiet and deserted street, turned his head and looked back in the direction of the Ministry of Justice prison, recalling the scene of Gao Lian's death in his mind.
"Does this count as putting my knowledge into practice?" He used complaints to ease the heaviness after killing someone, and walked towards the imperial yamen in front.
He planned to stay overnight at the yamen on the pretext of gathering information, but when he had just walked out for a quarter of an hour and arrived at a crossroads, he suddenly stopped.
At the crossroads under the moonlight, there was a familiar carriage with the emblem of the imperial palace parked.
Next to the car were several guards holding torches, who seemed to be waiting for him.
The car curtain was lifted, and with the excellent night vision of the Divine Chapter Realm, he clearly saw the face of Big Ice Tuozi that said "It's you".
inside the carriage.
When the thick curtains were lowered, Zhao Duan clearly heard the imperial guards near the carriage, and even the coachman, all tacitly move away, leaving a sufficient distance and guarding the surrounding intersections.
He looked across and saw Mochou lighting a small lamp for lighting inside the car and putting away the flint.
The orange-yellow halo spread out, illuminating the faces of the two people.
"Why are you here?"
The two of them said this in unison.
Then they looked at each other and fell silent.
Zhao Duan chuckled and made a gesture of invitation, ladies first.
Mo Chou looked at him coldly and said, "Don't tell me that I heard about Wang Chusheng's death and went to the imperial court to check the situation."
Zhao Duan was shocked: "Zhao Rong is extremely intelligent, Zhao admires her very much."
Mo Chou sneered, as if to say, "You take me for a fool?" "You go to the government office relying only on your two legs?"
Energy conservation and emission reduction is not possible, doesn't riding a horse consume fodder? Zhao Duan was not convinced and retorted: "Miss Mo left the palace so late, instead of going to the Ministry of Justice to check the situation, she stopped me. You won't specially take me to the palace to sleep with you, right?"
Mr. Zhao has a good grasp of different people's weaknesses and is used to exploiting them. For example, he would use dirty jokes to make the princess retreat step by step.
The mention of the empress at this moment immediately broke Mo Chou's composure. She said gloomily, "I just came from the prison of the Ministry of Justice. Gao Lian is dead. You must have killed him."
Zhao Duan remained silent.
She actually agreed... Mo Chou was stunned. Even though she had guessed it, she couldn't help but widen her eyes at this moment: "How dare you?!"
How dare you?!
Zhao Duan smiled and said, "As a minister, isn't it my duty to share the worries of His Majesty? A smart minister should get things done without His Majesty asking."
He said with a slightly sarcastic tone: "Mo Zhaorong left the palace at night. Isn't it to kill people and silence them?"
Mo Chou was stunned for a moment, anger welling up on her face: "What are you talking about? How could I?"
"No?" Zhao Duan sneered, "But if it's not the case, then it's strange. How come you just happened to see Gao Lian die? What a coincidence. Besides, your acting skills are a bit poor. When people's thoughts are exposed, they often use anger to cover it up. Your expression has already exposed it."
Mo Chou, whose mind was successfully revealed, took a deep breath. She knew that she had never had any advantage in the many confrontations in the past, so she did not argue with him and said with a straight face, "How could you..."
"How would I know? Or, why would I think so?"
Zhao Duan sighed softly, leaned back on the soft cushion in the carriage, and said quietly:
"Because Your Majesty needs Gao Lian to die, wasn't this obvious from the beginning?
When Chen Hong and I went out, I heard him say that in all dynasties, whenever an imperial envoy was sent out to do business and investigate a case, the first thing he had to do was not to investigate the case, but to first understand the emperor's mind.
Just like when the previous emperor was alive, there was a case of cheating in the imperial examination. The previous emperor sent four waves of imperial envoys to investigate the case, which took more than a year. Why? It was not because it was difficult to investigate, but because the previous emperor was not satisfied with the conclusions of the case submitted by the first three waves of people...
Haha, I've gone off topic. Anyway, when Censor Chen told me this, I understood that he was hinting that Your Majesty needed a major case to serve as a warning to others, as the saying goes, "One strike is enough to prevent a hundred blows from coming..."
The most difficult thing to deal with in the implementation of the new policy is the interests of the families represented by the Jiangnan gentry, and Gao Lian, as expected, became the focus of this game."
He said helplessly: "So, when I arrived at Taicang Prefecture, I mobilized troops with great fanfare and pretended to conduct a thorough investigation. I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate that Gao Lian is really the backer behind the scenes. Ha, if he is not, it would be my turn to have a headache and find someone to bear this great crime.
If it were the late emperor, he would probably be brought back to the capital and either convicted directly or pretend that nothing happened, but the situation Your Majesty is facing is more complicated.
Your Majesty needs to be a magnanimous and wise ruler to win the hearts of the people and defeat the accusation of the rebels that you have gained the country in an illegitimate way. Therefore, she cannot act arbitrarily and can only go through the joint trial of the three courts. "
Zhao Duan had a blank expression on his face: "But obviously, some people don't want Your Majesty to be a wise ruler."
(End of this chapter)