Chapter 72 Report to Yuan Qingyi
Lu Liang woke up suddenly and looked intently in the light of the fire. He was surprised to find a prisoner being escorted into the corridor.
With disheveled hair and a prison uniform, the jailer escorted him outside his cell, opened the door, and pushed him hard:
"Get in!"
The prisoner said nothing, and with a clang, the officer left.
Lu Liang keenly noticed that those police officers were very strange and he had never seen them before.
and……
Given his status, it is unusual for him to be in prison without being convicted.
Logically speaking, prisoners should never be allowed to live in the same room with themselves.
"Who are you? What crime have you committed?" Lu Liang asked cautiously.
The disheveled prisoner ignored him and just raised his head, with a frightening look on his long and thin scarred face:
"Are you Lu Liang?"
Deng Deng... Lu Liang, a scholar, took two steps back and tried to calm down:
"You..."
The next second, the prisoner suddenly jumped forward, struck his knee with an elbow, and the anklet he was holding made a clanging sound.
He slammed Lu Liang's whole body against the wall, and locked his throat with his jagged hands: "The minister asked me to tell the censor that you have been working for him for many years and know too much. Rather than tell him in case, If you don’t say anything that shouldn’t be said, it’s better to be loyal to the Pei family in the end... I’ll send you on your way.”
Ho ho... Lu Liang's throat was locked, his face flushed, and he was gradually suffocating. His eyes widened when he heard these words.
Pei Kaizhi wants to be silenced!
He was afraid that I would be dissatisfied, rebel, and seek refuge with Yuan Li...
That's right, Siniang, that bitch, made no secret of it and got involved with someone named Zhao. How could she have done this without the old thief's instruction?
Lu Liang struggled violently!
However, he is just a scholar, how can he break free?
No matter how hard he tried to thrash, he still felt dizzy and his consciousness gradually blurred.
The other party really wanted to kill me and never held back.
On the verge of death, his mind suddenly became clear. Lu Liang's kicking right foot suddenly hooked the prisoner's "shackles", and his left foot and whole body were pressed against the wall.
Kick him hard!
"Crash!" The prisoner's legs were unstable, he stumbled and fell to the ground.
Lu Liang took the opportunity to break free, gasping for breath, and threw himself to the railing, shouting heartbreakingly:
"Zhao Duan! Zhao Duan! Someone is coming!"
…
At the end of the corridor, in a cubicle.
The banquet was half over, and the table was mostly empty of old wine. The head of the Criminal Department and others were drunk and waved their hands:
"Your Majesty, I can't eat any more. If I drink wine again, I'll... make trouble..."
Strangely enough, at first, they could only shirk it and ate a few bowls, but they didn't realize that the "aged wine" was extremely strong.
Pei Siniang, who was wearing a bright red wedding dress and was present at the banquet, also held her chin in her hands, her face hot and unbearable: "I can't stand it either... Hey, it seems like someone is calling you."
At the table.
Zhao Duan's eyes were clear, his mouth was smiling, and the martial arts energy in his body was pumping vigorously, expelling the anesthetic in the wine from his pores.
If I had this magical skill in my previous life, I would be invincible in blocking the leader's drink... Zhao Duan sighed with emotion and said: "Maybe Zhu Kui is back with the hangover soup. I'll go take a look."
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Inside the prison.
When Zhao Duan arrived "in a hurry", the prisoner had been knocked unconscious by Zhu Kui, who had arrived one step ahead.
"What's going on?" Zhao Duan was stunned.
Lu Liang, whose green clothes were messy and one of his boots was missing, was sitting in a miserable state leaning against the wall, coughing, and his neck was red from being strangled.
"Sir, someone sent him a death row prisoner to silence him." Zhu Kui answered knowingly.
Lu Liang, who had come around the gate of hell and struggled to save his life, stared at him with red eyes and a hoarse voice:
"Pei Kaizhi wants to kill me, you must protect me and take me away from the Criminal Department."
Lu Liang had no doubts because the killer really didn't hold back.
What's more important is that this is the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, Pei Kaizhi's territory, and the old father-in-law can indeed do this kind of thing.
Weng and son-in-law know each other too well.
"He wants to kill you?"
Zhao Duan was startled, then laughed and said:
"Wouldn't that be better? Why should I save you?"
Lu Liang's eyes were fierce:
"I have evidence of Pei Kaizhi's interference in the results of the imperial examination. He thought he did it perfectly, but he didn't know that I had secretly obtained the evidence. You can send me to see Mr. Yuan in exchange for a great achievement. Aren't you tempted?"
In order to survive, Lu Liang had no choice. He closed his eyes: You forced me.
It's done... Zhao Duan clenched his fists in his sleeves, trying his best to suppress the excitement in his heart.
He was right in his bet. How could it be that Lu Liang, who had been disobedient for so long, really didn't take any countermeasures against his father-in-law after so many years?
The reason why he went to great lengths to direct all this was to drive a wedge between Weng's son-in-law and make both parties completely at odds.
Everyone thought that he was just taking revenge on Lu Liang.
But little did he know that his real purpose was never here. "Zhu Kui!"
Zhao Duan said in a deep voice, "Take him and follow me!"
The two set off immediately. When they returned to the corridor, they saw the charming lady rushing out, hooking Zhao Duan, and chuckled:
"Your Majesty, I'm tired..."
Later, the head of the Criminal Department and other jailers also stood up and said alertly: "Hey, where are you going? Ah, what's wrong with Lu Yushi..."
Zhao Duan's face was expressionless, and Wu Fu discharged with one palm, billowing air waves, roaring mountains and tsunami.
When the people fell on their backs, he had already broken out of the prison with Lu Liang.
"Something is wrong!"
The head of the Criminal Department covered his chest and coughed violently. When he got up, he was mostly awake from the wine and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Glancing at the drunk jailer and the lady in red sleeping soundly on the ground, I vaguely realized that I had fallen into a trap.
"Oops!"
Not daring to delay, he staggered out and went to report to the Minister.
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Under night.
The streets were deserted, and two horses were galloping.
As soon as the leader mounted the horse, Zhao Duan tied Lu Liang sideways on the horse and told Zhu Kui beside him: "Go and call someone. If someone comes to chase you, try your best to stop him and hold him back."
"yes!"
Zhu Kui turned his horse and ran to one side.
Zhao Duan rode his horse and whipped his whip and rushed to Yuan Li's residence as quickly as possible. As long as he entered the "Yuan Mansion", his great achievement would be considered successful.
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Yuan Mansion, at night, the majestic mansion is brightly lit.
In the inner hall of the back house.
A group of "Qingliu Party" officials were gathering together to discuss important matters in secret.
Sitting at the head table, wearing a sky-blue cloud-patterned double-breasted robe and an official hat, Yuan Li, elegant and handsome, with deep eyes, looked at his nose and nose, and listened to the discussions and arguments of the officials below him, just like an old monk in meditation.
What everyone was discussing was the beheading plan for "Pei Kaizhi".
"Mr. Yuan, please make up your mind." Finally, an official said.
Eyes one after another also gathered around.
Yuan Li seemed to wake up from a nap and said, "What are you planning?"
One person said: "Now everything is ready, all we need is the east wind. We have also found a few opportunities, but they are not safe. We are arguing endlessly, and you have to finalize it."
"yes."
"Please let Mr. Yuan decide!"
The Qingliu Party courtiers spoke one after another.
Yuan Li sighed softly, reached out a hand from his broad sleeves, and picked up the "plans" on the table, which were all grounds for launching an impeachment against Pei Kaizhi.
However, the next moment, he handed several documents to the lamp and let the flames lick and burn them, turning them into ashes.
"this……"
The ministers were shocked and heard Yuan Li's disappointed tone:
"Pei Kaizhi is one of the pillars of the 'Li Party', and the involvement behind it is complicated. If this beheading is slightly wrong, it will be difficult to find such a good opportunity. There is no room for fooling around. Although these are barely usable, they are not enough!!
If the knife is not good enough, it will be a disaster if the head is not killed. What I want is evidence that can kill you with one blow. "
The ministers are bitter:
"What Mr. Yuan said is true, but Pei Kaizhi has been in business for many years and has always been cautious. Where is the evidence of what he did? And he did it in a hurry. There is really nothing he can do."
Yuan Li was silent and sighed in his heart.
How could he not know?
The beheading of Pei Kaizhi was another sharp move the empress made on the court since she came to the throne. He had solved 99 of the 100 difficulties.
But it happened to be stuck on the only remaining "knife edge".
The opportunity to take action is fleeting and cannot be delayed for too long, but the "east wind" has not yet appeared. How can he not be worried?
The room was silent and oppressive.
Suddenly, there were footsteps outside the door. It was a servant of the Yuan family:
"Master, Zhao Duan wants to see you!"
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