Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 206: Follow me

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Li Ke cut his hands behind his back, without saying a word, walked directly to the main hall of the Governor's Mansion.

The seats in the hall are neatly arranged, and they are obviously ready to welcome Li Ke to catch the dust. Nowadays, officials large and small can only stand carefully in the hall with their hands down, and they dare not come out.

Li Ke sat in the hall with almost no expression on his face. A pair of eyes coldly swept over the people in the hall. There was a long silence, but he didn't speak.

The atmosphere in the hall is almost suffocated. Although it was the cold weather in early spring, Zhao Chong's forehead was also sweaty, and Wu Facao's legs trembled a little.

Seeing that the atmosphere is so embarrassing and stagnant, Quan Wanji took a few steps forward and came to Li Ke's side, bent over and arched his hands and whispered: "His Royal Highness, please calm down your anger... I have heard about the previous things. It’s also a misunderstanding."

"Quan Changshi, in fact, you have been worried, this king is not angry." Li Ke smiled suddenly and waved his hand relaxedly. "When I first arrived, this king can be regarded as acquaintance with you today. So, it should not be. Will you catch this king as a water ghost gang again?"

"Hehe..." The officers and generals present all squeezed out a dry laugh, and the atmosphere was a little more lively. Wu Facao and Zhao Chong became more and more nervous, and their wry smiles were worse than crying.

Li Ke was more relaxed and casual. He touched his belly and said, "Sit down, everyone. This king is really hungry. The food in prison is not something human eats. What are you waiting for? Come to the table. !"

"Your Highness, thank you for giving the seat!" All the officials let out a sigh of relief and took their seats.

Quan Wanji stood by and stared at Li Ke in a daze. He was at a loss for a while, not knowing what Li Ke meant. He thought to himself: According to His Highness's past character, today he has suffered such grievances and insults, and he should have had an uncontrollable attack of anger, and even whipped up people. What is going on now, how do you feel that he is a little unpredictable?

"Quan Changshi, you can sit down and have a banquet!" Li Ke said with a smile, and pointed to the upper seat next to his head.

Quan Wanji had to bow his hand back with a wry smile, and said, "His Royal Highness has given the seat. However, shouldn't this seat be reserved for General Qin?"

"No. He will definitely not come to the banquet today. You sit down." Li Ke waved his hand and said with a mysterious smile.

Quan Wanji smiled helplessly and shook his head, knowing that Li Ke and Qin Mubai, the best buddies, are also very clever characters. How can they conspire between them? Word or guess a clue? Well, let them go, let's see how Li Ke behaves today.

After a while, all the banquets were presented, and everyone was divided into several places to eat and drink. Li Ke was really hungry too. He didn't care if he ate half-full by himself before he had a little thought to deal with the officials and generals who were so full of them.

"Everyone, the king traveled thousands of miles from the beginning of the capital to Xiangzhou. He is not familiar with his life. From now on, he will rely on his colleagues to help him." Li Ke took a cup of wine and got up and left the table and walked into the hall. The others put down their chopsticks and sat in danger, listening sternly.

"Of all the colleagues present here, apart from Chang Shi Quan Wanji, who came with this king, and Wu Facao and Zhao Xiaowei who met in a hurry, none of the other kings know him." Li Ke said with a smile. "Why don't you take the initiative to introduce yourself? Well, start with the state official. After the long history is Sima. Where is Sima in Xiangzhou?"

"The humble position is here!" An official in a red robe hurriedly got up, walked into the hall and bowed down to Li Kezheng, and said respectfully: "The humble post Wei Xiaochen pays respects to your highness! The humble post is thirty-eight years old, Beijing Zhao Renshi, the Ming Jing in the second year of Zhenguan, has been in the post of Xiangzhou Sima for more than three years."

"Wei Sima, um, lucky to meet." Li Ke nodded with a smile, thought for a moment, and asked, "What is the relationship between Sima and Dr. Wei's family in Chang'an?"

"Return to your Highness. The ancestors of the humble ancestors were born in the Wei Clan in Guanlong, and are relatives of the Wei Clan in Changan." Wei Xiaochen replied.

Li Ke looked at Wei Xiaochen carefully, and couldn't help being a little surprised: "It turns out that Wei Sima came from such a famous family, it's really disrespectful!"

"Don't dare, don't dare!" There was a smile on Wei Xiaochen's face, faintly proud of impenetrable, and hurriedly said, "His Royal Highness bears the royal blood of two dynasties, and it is truly precious!"

Li Ke nodded and motioned to Wei Xiaochen to sit back, and they had seen each other.

Datang pays attention to family origin, while Chang'an Webster is a typical famous family.

Next, someone came out and introduced himself to Li Ke. In this current environment, you don't need to guess or know that he should be the highest rank among the officials present. Unsurprisingly, this Kong Wu's powerful face but somewhat literate man was one of Qin Mubai's deputy, Du Chengyuan, the captain of Xiangzhou Mansion Guoyi.

Coincidentally, this person is actually a Jingzhao person, and he was born in the Du family of Guanlongshi at the same time as Wei Xiaochen, and he is also a clan relative to the founding prime minister Du Ruhui!

There is a saying in later generations, "Weidou in the south of the city, go to the sky and five feet." It is no more appropriate to use this to describe the full gate of Changan Wechsler and Du's.

Wei family and Du family are both old and famous families of the Tang Dynasty. The prosperous family has a lot of talents. Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, there have been more prime ministers and generals, and they have many marriages with the royal family and other famous families. Also very densely intertwined. Nowadays, the Wei family and the Du family can be said to be infinitely beautiful in Chang'an, because Li Shimin adopted a daughter of Webster as a concubine, and the Du family is a pillar of Du Ruhui.

Li Ke never expected that in a small Xiangzhou, the nephews of the Weidu family were officials here! If it were not for his own prince who had come in person and replaced him as an ordinary official, Wei Xiaochen and Du Chengyuan might not have taken him seriously!

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At this moment, in prison.

Qin Mubai asked the prisoners to invite Chen Yan to the innermost cell, which is the iron prison where the prisoners threatened to lock him and Li Ke in.

Face to face, Qin Mubai could hardly recognize Chen Yan for a while.

The heroic heroine of the past is now stinking with her disheveled head, her face is pale as paper, her shackles and cuffs bit her, so ear-piercing.

"Why are you looking at me like this?" Chen Yan's mouth moved slightly, and she said with a smile, "You are not the expression that old friends should have when they meet again."

"You sit down first." Qin Mubai said to the door again, "Heizi, let the prisoner untie the shackles."

"No need." Chen Yan said lightly, "The prisoner just prepared to solve it for me, I refused."

"Why?" Qin Mubai asked in surprise.

"Because I killed someone, I was a death row prisoner." Chen Yan still said indifferently, "The murderer deserves to die. Since you are an official, the less you can abuse your official power to destroy Wang Fashen."

Qin Mubai was speechless for a while, and frowned.

"I'll be very happy to see you again." Chen Yan smiled slightly, raised her hands to make the shackles bite, and said, "Unfortunately, I am already a prisoner under the order and cannot be with you. Toast and drink."

"Tell me, what is going on?" Qin Mubai asked.

Chen Yan smiled slightly to herself, and said, "Is it necessary? I killed 17 people in a row. It is indeed an indisputable fact. The crime is to be blamed. Even the emperor will be forgiven to me. I know you You have the heart to save me, but can you cover your mouth? Didn’t you get angry in the end? I am guilty of my crime and don’t want to hurt you."

"Then treat it as a friend for small talk, you should always be able to tell me, why did you kill those seventeen people?" Qin Mubai asked.

Chen Yan was silent for a moment and nodded: "Since you want to listen so much, then okay..."

It turned out that after Chen Yan stayed in Jiangzhou for a while, she planned to take a boat back to her hometown in Jiangnan to do some things. That night, it was passing near Xiangzhou Baguidu. Suddenly the sound of screaming and fighting over the river surface, a boat caught fire not far away.

Chen Yan was originally a chivalrous man who walked the rivers and lakes, and immediately jumped on the boat and swam over, ready to save people. It turned out that there were people fighting on that boat, and it was almost over. Seventeen black-clothed assassins have killed the full ship and all the treasures and goods on the ship, and are preparing to escape. Chen Yan's appearance surprised the other party, and immediately killed them.

At the time, she was anxious to save people, and she didn't even think about running away, so she fought hard. After the fierce battle, all 17 opponents were killed by her sword. At this time, the fire on the ship was getting bigger and bigger. Chen Yan searched the ship, but she didn't find a living. Only then did she know that this turned out to be a salt owl ship that smuggled salt-in other words, she accidentally intervened in the battle between the salt owls!

At this moment, several official ships approached and blocked Chen Yan tightly.

Previously, the ship that Chen Yan took had escaped from Shili Waterway. The scene was raging and there were dozens of corpses. No one witnessed to defend her. She didn't have a lot of affection for the people of the government, and now she knew that she was hard to argue with, so she dived decisively and prepared to escape. Moreover, the officer army was fully prepared and hooked her out of the water with a deep-water crossbow spear, and a large net caught her.

Later she was thrown into a death row without interrogation and held alone. From the beginning to the end, there was not even a cell that dared to approach her, and not half of them dared to talk to her. Therefore, Chen Yan still has no idea what kind of people she killed.

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When Chen Yan was talking, Qin Mubai was looking at her, and saw the scars left by her iron hooks, claws, spears and swords, such as shoulders, pipa bones, etc., and some scars were already festering. It is almost sticky with the clothes and cannot be separated.

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Chen Yan finished speaking and smiled slightly: "This is the story. I know that I am not killing a good person, but no matter the good person or the bad person, after all, I should die, right?"

"You weren't like this before." Qin Mubai wrinkled his brows and said, "You have been walking in the rivers and lakes for so many years. It is definitely not the first time you have killed."

"Yes." Chen Yan stood up and walked slowly for two steps, turned her back and murmured, "After the Jiangzhou case, I vowed not to try the law with my own body, and I am going to retreat to my hometown and make a A commoner woman. Because since then I have understood that there are still sentiment, reason, and law in this world. It is true that you do not need to use killing and swords to solve all problems. You and the prince let me understand that not all officials are They are the faint and greedy..."

"Then you don't need to be a ghost substitute." Qin Mubai said.

Chen Yan was startled slightly, turned around and said in confusion: "What do you mean by this?"

"You just killed a group of people who deserve to be killed, what's the crime?" Qin Mubai picked up the corner of his mouth lightly and said softly, "If I didn't expect it to be bad, you should have killed Xihecao. The water ghosts. These people have no control over the river surface, and even the officials, food, and salt dare to attack. They are the real prisoners of death!"

"So what?" Chen Yan smiled disappointedly, "I'm just a civilian, I don't have the right to execute them, do I?"

"I said you have it, then you have it." Qin Mubai smiled mysteriously, "I can't say that you are an emissary sent by someone from Qin in advance to investigate the case of Xihecao water ghosts. Is it?"

"This..." Chen Yan's eyes lit up, and she still shook her head. "That's not right? You haven't taken office to Xiangzhou Prefecture. How can you send a secret envoy to investigate the Xihe Caoshui ghost? Isn't this a lie? Deceive yourself?"

"Heh! Logically speaking, it is indeed unreasonable." Qin Mubai smiled, "However, many things in this officialdom are often unreasonable and reasonable. Because my official is bigger than them, I said What, that’s what. Besides, the Xihecao water ghost is so infamous that everyone is condemned. Even if others understand that I deliberately found an excuse to excuse you, they have no nonsense to talk about. So, no matter what. It is tenable in terms of affection, justice and law."

"..." Chen Yan was silent for a while.

"Chen Yan, I must save you out." Qin Mubai said firmly.

"Hope, I won't trouble you..." Chen Yan frowned, staring into Qin Mubai's eyes, and said solemnly.

"Don't worry." Qin Mubai smiled relaxed and confident, "If I can't settle this little thing, then it's really a idiot——Go with me, now!"