The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort - 155. Vinegar King Xiao Shao

In the imperial study room, the emperor looked solemn and looked at the young man in front of him: “I don’t know Mr. Liu, when did you become so concerned about the affairs of Princess Hong’an?”

“The ministers do everything within themselves, not to mention that there are a lot of doubts about this matter. You might as well wait. The people of the Criminal Ministry will investigate for a while, and the trial will convince the people of the world.” Liu Min is neither humble nor overbearing. This young man has always refused to help. Forming a faction, although it is an upstart, has made a lot of achievements in the dynasty. For the first time facing the emperor’s questioning eyes, his eyes are still open and unhurried.

With a “pop”, a booklet fell heavily on Liu Min, and the emperor said with a calm face, “I’m asking you, when did you become so concerned about the affairs of Princess Hongan!”

The monarch of a country has eyes and ears in the palace, and it is inevitable to hear some wind on weekdays. At this moment, the emperor is already unhappy with Liu Min. It’s just that Liu Min still stood straight, even his face didn’t change a bit, and he still whispered: “The matter of a minister who is a minister has nothing to do with selfishness.”

Li Gonggong glanced at the opposite person. The young man was bright and graceful, and he was born gentle, but in his bones was the stubbornness and arrogance of the literati. This man was originally cultivated by the emperor specially for the future of Dajin, but now he is stunned. The emperor’s Ni Lin also looked like he would not give up until he reached his goal. Li Gonggong contemplated that General Zhao had already visited this afternoon, and the Queen Mother Yide also spoke. Although Xiao Shao did not speak, he would not stand idly by because of his temperament. Now even Liu Min, the magistrate, is a magistrate. It’s all said and done, Princess Hong’an, the daughter of the Jiang family, is really not an ordinary person. It’s just that Liu Min’s remark was that it was because the emperor was not happy to know that it would add fuel to the fire, and it was really not a good countermeasure.

The emperor stared at Liu Min coldly for a long while, and suddenly slapped the table fiercely: “It’s not about selfishness! Since all of you are interceding for Hongan, how about a few more days of grace? Okay, I want to see. Look, what more evidence can you show! Get out!”

The emperor Longyan was furious, and Liu Min just bowed in a low voice and retired. Grandpa Li lightly said: “Your Majesty, don’t worry too much. What Mrs. Liu said is not unreasonable. I’m afraid this matter is strange, so I’m afraid. Those who are willing to use it to make a fuss, no matter how many days of grace can be allowed.”

“Are you confused if you are me?” The emperor looked at the folder on the table with a bit of hatred for iron and steel: “I just don’t understand, why one or two of them have been poisoned by Jiang Ruan, is it really a wicked girl?”

After Liu Min left the imperial study room, he went out of the palace and went all the way to the prison where prisoners were held by the Ministry of Justice. The head of the cell was taken aback when he saw him, and then some hurriedly got up to greet him: “I wonder if Master Taifu is here, what can I do? ”

“I’m here to meet someone.” Liu Min frowned slightly. After being in officialdom for a few years, he was still not used to such flattering people. Even so, he took out a silver ingot from his sleeve and handed it to the cell boss. inside.

The head of the cell was flattered and took it. Xindao originally rumored that Chaozhong is clean and does not mess with dust, and the Taifu who pretends to be cleansed into the bones is nothing more than that. You still know how to do things up and down in this officialdom, so why bother to look upright. Show it to others. However, even though I thought so in my heart, I still had to be very respectful on the face, saying: “It’s easy to talk about it. If you have anything to do with Master Taifu, just talk to the young man directly. As long as it is convenient, the young man must be powerful. And for.” After that, he asked, “Who does Master Taifu want to look at?”

“Princess Hong’an.” Liu Min said.

Jiang Ruan is in the innermost part of the prison. That is the place where the executed prisoners are held. Although the sentence has not yet been determined, almost everyone believes that she is in the doomsday and killed the princess of a country. There is no reason to retreat. However, because of Xiao Shao or Zhao Guang’s management, at least the jailers in these prisons did not embarrass her too much.

When Liu Min walked to the innermost point, he saw Jiang Ruan sitting on the ground leaning against the wall at a glance. He didn’t know what he was thinking, but he didn’t see the embarrassed panic because of his appearance. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then laughed at himself again. He had known that she was not an ordinary woman, and the scene of an ordinary woman being imprisoned and crying and making noise would not happen to her.

“The princess,” he shouted.

Jiang Ruan returned to his senses, looked up to see him, a trace of stunned eyes flashed in his eyes, and then smiled: “Tao Fu Liu.”

Liu Min squatted down in front of the prison and stared at her through the fence. Looking around in this cell, although the conditions are simple but not to the point of harshness, it is completely different from the scenes seen in other cells along the way. Jiang Ruan’s clothes were in good condition, and he didn’t suffer much. Someone should have arranged these for her.

“Tao Fu Liu, come here, what’s the matter?” Jiang Ruan asked when he saw that he was looking inside without saying anything.

Liu Min glanced at her: “I… come to see you.” After a pause, he said: “Are you okay?”

The affection flowed in the young man’s eyes, even if he tried to conceal it, he still inadvertently leaked three points. Jiang Ruan himself is a good at observing words and looks, frowning slightly, and then smiling: “I’m fine, too much trouble. .”

She was always so polite, but she took a distance of thousands of miles away. Liu Min felt a little bitter, thinking about today’s affairs, and said sternly: “I believe you, Princess Heyi was not killed by you.”

Liu Min felt that although Jiang Ruan looked like a cold person, he was very kind in his selfishness, otherwise he would not have helped him when he saw Princess Heyi bullying the thirteenth prince.

“Naturally I didn’t kill her,” Jiang Ruan looked at her: “I don’t have to kill her.”

Hearing Jiang Ruan’s words, Liu Min’s expression brightened again, and he said: “Don’t worry, I will definitely try to rescue you.”

Jiang Ruan was slightly surprised. Although he helped Liu Min in the past to pave the way for him one day in the future, the Taifu now behaves contrary to her original intention. Such sincere feelings are undoubtedly a kind of pressure on her.

“Thank you Liu Taifu.” Jiang Ruan pondered: “But I have my own opinion on this matter. One day things will come to an end, and Liu Taifu needn’t be too concerned.”

The disappointed look in Liu Min’s eyes was swept away: “You are not making me a friend.” Before Jiang Ruan could speak, he said again: “You helped me in the first place, and now I should be paying back. I am myself. I want to help you, you don’t have to say much, the old sayings, the grace of dripping water will repay you, you gave me such a great kindness at the beginning, and my destiny was changed because of you. If I, I don’t repay, then I will Who is Mincheng?”

After a long silence, Jiang Ruan shook his head and said: “Tao Fu Liu is sincere and sincere, and I am willing to be sincere, but at this time I do have an idea. It is not good for Tai Fu to help him rashly. If I have trouble in the future, I will ask Liu again. Taifu shot, then Taifu Liu shouldn’t refuse.”

“It’s impossible for me to refuse.” Liu Min hurriedly said. Under the faint light, Jiang Ruan’s eyes were as bright as water, and his facial features were more beautiful and flawless. With a move in his heart, he blurted out what he had always wanted to say without checking for a while: “You, would you like me to protect you?”

Jiang Ruan looked at him in amazement.

Liu Minqingjun’s face seemed to be slightly flushed. It was the first time to say these words to a girl. There was no trace of arrogance and arrogance in his eyes, all clumsy shyness: “I, I have admired the princess for a long time. Now the princess. The Lord is struggling in the court. This incident shows that there are not a few people in the court who want to frame the princess. If the princess continues to do this, it will be impossible to guard against. If the princess can marry into another family at this time, there will be a layer of protection. Liu Min is not talented. Although he has no great achievements, he still wants to protect the princess’s life. I will do my best in my life to protect the princess and not let the princess be wronged at all.”

Jiang Ruan looked at him, what was the ending of Liu Min in the last life, and she didn’t see until the end. If she wanted to use Liu Min’s talents, if she couldn’t use it for Xuanli, she should not escape death. It’s just that in the previous life, she had seen him go from desolate to ascendant, and his fate was mixed. In the end, giving this upright young man a chance to prosper, step by step lotus, finally lived up to his life’s ambitions.

However, two people who had no intersection in the previous life met accidentally in this life. She just wanted to use him, but she unwittingly won the sincerity of others.

“I…” Jiang Ruan was about to speak, but only heard a familiar and deserted voice from the front, which seemed to be slightly unhappy.

“She doesn’t need your protection, because she is mine.”

The familiar figure walked out from the dark, and the corners of the pure black robe swayed, and some golden magnificence was also born in the dark. Xiao Shao walked to the front of the prison door, glanced at Liu Min and then at Jiang Ruan, and passed the basket in his hand through the small window: “The dim sum made by the chef of the palace, and some clothes, it’s cold at night, don’t take it anymore. Wind chill.”

He seemed to be a little unhappy, his tone of voice was hard, and the behaviors and the things he handed were all telling the meaning of the relationship between her and Jiang Ruan. Liu Min had just been shocked by Xiao Shao’s words, “She is my person”. At this moment, when he saw his actions, his face suddenly changed.

Jin San silently rolled his eyes behind, and the master’s jealousy was really too great. Jin Si turned around and said that Mrs. Liu went to the Imperial Study and went to the prison of the Ministry of Justice. Xiao Shao rushed forward without stopping. , This action is simply going to kill people. If she were Taifu Liu, she would have beaten Xiao Shao with a fist. Of course, she could not beat Xiao Shao, and Liu Min could not beat a weak scholar who had no power to hold a chicken.

Mrs. Liu, who was a gentleman, really stood up and watched Xiao Shao frowning and said, “Prince Xiao, please take some responsibility when you speak.” ?”

“A Ruan.” Xiao Shao didn’t even look at Liu Min, but at Jiang Ruan in the prison, and said in a soft tone that he had never seen before: “The public trial is three days later, you can rest assured.”

Jiang Ruan, who yelled “A Ruan” straightforwardly, had some gazes that couldn’t turn around. It took a moment for him to come back to his senses, but she didn’t know that her stupefied behavior fell in Liu Min’s eyes by acquiescence and thought of Xiao Shao. The name she and her each other has already become such a close appearance, and Liu Mindeng’s face turned pale at the time. Seeing his face, Jiang Ruan moved in his heart, and then smiled at Xiao Shao: “Well, I am not afraid of you with you.”

Jin San looked at Mrs. Liu with sympathy. It was obvious that Mrs. Liu was hurt by the blatant show of affection of these two people. If Xiao Shao’s words had already dealt a fatal blow to Liu Min, Jiang Ruan’s smiley reply at the moment was another slap in the face.

Liu Min moved his lips and squeezed a few words out of his mouth with difficulty: “So, the princess, Liu Min will leave first.” He hurriedly left without looking back, but the back figure revealed no matter how he looked at it. It’s a bit sad.

Jiang Ruan stared at Liu Min’s back, and Xiao Shao stepped up to her and blocked her sight. Jiang Ruan raised her head and Xiao Shao looked down at her and said, “Don’t look, he’s gone.”

“…” Jiang Ruan glared at him. Xiao Shao has become more and more abnormal recently, as if she has changed a person. Sometimes she wonders if this is the cold, calm and precocious young prince in the world, watching her. Come, Xiao Shao’s behavior is obviously naive, naive?

She took a deep breath: “Xiao Shao, what on earth are you doing?”

“If I don’t come, you will become Mrs. Tai Fu.” Xiao Shao reminded.

“…”

Jin San couldn’t help groaning again in the darkness. What the young master said was a melancholy, and he should also teach Steward Lin to take a look. When he introduced it, he understood what the legendary man in love is. Brainless!

“I won’t enter Taifu’s Mansion.” Jiang Ruan said: “If you really marry him, his career will come to an end.”

“You think about him everywhere, it’s no wonder he misunderstood.” Xiao Damei was reluctant.

“You came here uninvited today. Didn’t you also make him misunderstand?” Jiang Ruan said: “He will not misunderstand him again in the future.”

Xiao Shao frowned, he was born beautiful and heroic, such a frown became more and more handsome under the lights, and there was still a two-point sense of abstinence, and his thin lips were tightly pressed. After all, it was because of Liu. Min’s affairs are full of grievances. It is not the first time that Liu Min has met Jiang Ruan. How can he be reconciled in his heart. Only Jiang Ruan said so, he lowered his eyes and said indifferently: “Well, you don’t want to see him again in the future.”

How could this man be so domineering! Jiang Ruan was frustrated, and he picked up the things he had just handed in. It was really some food and clothing, but the reserves were all fine. In fact, Xiao Shao also sent someone to take care of it these few days, and the life in prison was not much worse than in the mansion. He couldn’t help but recall that he was imprisoned in the previous life, but it was extremely torturing. Things, straight to teach people tortured out of shape.

Unable to help her, Xiao Shao saw her doing this, so she stretched out her hand and tapped on her head gently: “Concentrate.”

Jiang Ruan is not used to such intimate actions. Don’t start: “Tian Zhu should have told you about this. I already have opinions. You don’t need to intervene.”

“I know.” Xiao Shao whispered: “Just let go and do it, everything is mine.”

The words are reassuring, Jiang Ruan bowed his head: “Thank you.”

Xiao Shao said: “If you can ask me for help, I will actually be happier.” Tianzhu is right. Jiang Ruan is used to solving everything by himself, and he doesn’t easily ask for help from others. It is to ask for help, but also to take advantage of each other’s businessmen, and will not receive favors in vain. In fact, she isolates herself from others, she puts an end to all the kindness and affection she may receive.

Xiao Shao looked at her thoughtfully. He couldn’t find Jiang Ruan’s secret, and Jiang Ruan would not take the initiative to say it, but it was very difficult for a person to shut his heart in. Since Jiang Ruan is now his person, Xiao Shao hopes that Jiang Ruan will not have the idea of fighting alone in any matter, at least the Jinying Palace still has the comprehensive ability to protect her. He Xiao Shao’s people can only be protected by him alone.

“No,” Jiang Ruan really refused him: “The back house is a women’s battlefield. Like my elder brother, he is invincible on the battlefield. I naturally have my own way. I can stand in this deep palace back house. A place of defeat.”

Xiao Shao stretched out her hand, and finally pressed her shoulder, and said, “I always stand by your side.”

Wu Ming, the oldest person in the palace, sighed deeply at the corpse of Princess Hong’an. Then he took off the cloth cover on his hand and wiped the sweat on his forehead: “Go back to your lord, this and Yi The princess was stabbed in the abdomen, and died of excessive blood loss, and Shi Chen was right with the Fourth Royal Highness.”

Master Ting Wei Luo, who is in charge of the Criminal Department, looked down and thought for a while, and told the people around him: “You go and write the results of the test on the case, and I will go to the scene again with the remaining few.”

The emperor has given the death order, and the trial will be opened three days later. This time, this time is not an ordinary case. The case of Hong’an Princess seems to be just a murder case seen by the royal family. In fact, it involves many forces behind it, and an accidental judgment is wrong. , Causing an imbalance of power between North Korea and China, and him are endless disasters.

Moreover, in the case of Hong’an Princess, there are the emperor, concubine Shu, and the fourth prince on one side, and the Queen Mother Yide, Zhao Guang, and Xiao Shao on the other. On the other side, he cannot afford to offend him. When he thinks of being caught in the middle, he is embarrassed. I couldn’t help sighing, thinking heavily in my heart.

At the Eighth Prince’s Mansion, Xuan Li was playing with the white porcelain wine glass in his hand, gently shaking the glass of fine wine, and smiling: “How is it going?”

The people underneath hurriedly and respectfully returned: “Your Highness, everything has been done, and the work has also been checked. There is no problem.”

Xuan Li has been in the palace for many years to grasp the direction of the wind, and he is not completely incapable. Every place has his own people more or less. It is not impossible for the body of the Lord Heyi to move some hands and feet in it, and it is even a breeze with him. As long as you use some tricks to hide things from you, no one will believe his words. After the autopsy is completed, it is the physical evidence. With the witness of Xuan Lang, it is easy to determine the crime.

The most intolerable thing in the world is to ask but not to ask, but to ask for the position he likes, and one day he will get it. People he likes can’t ask for it, but it’s just a woman. If they ask for it, they just abandon it and kill it. Non-toxic and not a husband, since Xiao Shao wanted to rob him, he might as well destroy Jiang Ruan.

But somehow, there was a slight anxiety in Xuan Li’s heart. This feeling was so subtle that he almost had to ignore it. He calmed down and tried to make himself ignore the strange feeling, and slowly clenched his hands. Take a sip of the wine cup.

“I’m sorry, sheriff.”