One touch and one silence

"Only one hand was cut off. That's how merciful Xiao Qi was!"

"Shaoqing Yuan, this is not a simple theft. You dare to hurt the prince. This is a serious crime!"

"Humph!"

"I have to go and see who is so bold as to attack Xiao Qi!"

Yuan Wuqing then realized that this lord was much more cruel than the seventh prince.

Yuan Wuqing, who originally wanted to say a few good words to the Taoist priest, suddenly shut up.

I also thought of the Seventh Prince who was recently recognized as the legitimate son by the Queen Mother.

I don't think this matter will end well.

Yuan Wuqing didn't know how this person treated the Seventh Prince when he was in the Taoist temple. According to the law, it was good enough that Chen Liu's nine clans were not held accountable.

Yuan Wuqing led the Crown Prince to the prison. When Chen Liu in the prison heard the arrival, he began to pretend. He sat on the bed with a pale face, looking pitiful, and wailed in pain from time to time.

As soon as he saw that the person who came was the Shaoqing Lord who had some pity on him, he ran over and clung to the wooden door and began to cry out for justice: "Shaoqing Lord, I am innocent! I just saw that my fellow disciples had no food, so I went to the Seventh Prince to get some. I know I am wrong, but it doesn't mean I should have my hand chopped off!"

"We are all brothers, why are we so estranged from each other? Why is it so?"

"My Lord Shaoqing!" Chen Liu looked particularly pitiful as he said this with tears in his eyes.

Yuan Wuqing didn't say anything at this time because he discovered something. When he first came in, this person was wailing in pain.

He looked sick, but when he walked towards me, his feet were very steady.

I'm afraid this person is acting pitiful in front of him.

"Are you Chen Liu?"

The prince looked at the man named Chen Liu, who looked to be about forty years old, with a long goat beard and blood stains on his clothes, probably from his body. The prince saw through the man's true nature at a glance.

"That's right Taoist!"

"Who are you?" Chen Liu looked at the two adults in front of him in a flattering manner.

I have to say that Chen Liu's eyesight is pretty good.

"I heard that you broke into the Seventh Prince's room and stole a mahogany box from him?"

Chen Liu looked at the person who was asking him the question. Based on his many years of experience, this person probably held a similar official position to the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple.

He thought about how when he was brought here by the secret guards, the guards told him to take people to rob the Seventh Prince's food and a box, but did not tell him what was in the box.

Besides, the journey is so long that I don't think anyone would waste manpower and resources just to investigate what's inside a box.

Chen Liu's eyes turned and he replied, "To answer this official's question, the Taoist priest just thought that the box was nice and wanted to borrow it to play with it."

"Ha! Playing?" Nan Chen snorted coldly, his tone was particularly sarcastic.

"I guess you do this kind of thing all the time! As the saying goes, taking something without asking is considered stealing. Do you know that the mahogany box was given to His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince by me and my father? There are two hundred thousand taels of silver in it."

"Play with it?"

"I have never seen anyone playing with a 200,000 tael note!"

The prince's tone was extremely sarcastic.

When Chen Liu heard this, he realized that what he said was exposed on the spot. "Gu?" Isn't this a special title for the prince?

Chen Liu's face turned pale, knowing that he had hit a wall this time. He was really scared this time, and instantly collapsed to the ground. He admitted his fault with a trembling voice: "It's... I was bewitched, and... please forgive me, Your Highness."

"You should be thankful that Xiao Qi only wants you to stay in prison for life and keep you alive, otherwise..."

Nan Chen suddenly exuded a strong murderous aura, causing Chen Liu to crawl backwards in fear.

The prince then looked at the people around him and said, "Shaoqing Yuan, do you know how to deal with this matter? I don't want to see this person have too much comfort. There is no such thing as the most tiring and difficult work. Let him go. Isn't he clever? I will make his cleverness useless. Remember not to die. I want to see him live well."

"Hmph! I don't know what it means!"

Nanchen was really angry. From this incident, plus the few words he heard before, one could imagine how miserable Xiaoqi's life was in the mountains.

He could imagine it without asking or investigating.

Yuan Shaoqing bowed his head in shame and accepted it.

He was a little too presumptuous in this matter and almost misunderstood His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince.

He had been an official for more than five years, and he almost fell into trouble because of this.

"Mr. Yuan, you should stop being so kind-hearted sometimes. Don't be soft-hearted just because someone is pitiful. Otherwise, you don't deserve to be in this position!" The prince scolded and left.

Yuan Shaoqing was extremely ashamed. Looking at Chen Liu lying on the ground, Yuan Wuqing had a very unpleasant face. He angrily shook his sleeves and left with the prince.

The two soon arrived at the lowest cell block, which was usually where death row prisoners were held.

The reason why Xue Yan was imprisoned here was because he was judged to have martial arts skills, and they were not ordinary ones, so he was placed in a place where dead balls were imprisoned.

The two men walked to the deepest cell. Because it was too dark, someone lit an oil lamp.

"Your Highness, this was sent in by His Highness the Seventh Prince."

Yuan Wuqing introduced Xue Yan in the dungeon to the prince. The prince looked at Xue Yan in the dungeon with interest, and then asked: "What is your name? Where do you live? Why are you at the foot of Yandang Mountain outside Beijing?"

"Who are you?" Xue Yan had actually heard it just now. This person was the crown prince, and the one who brought him in was His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince.

The man raised a mocking smile and looked at the two people in front of him.

Trash who took advantage of others' misfortune, otherwise they would think they could catch him? It was simply a pipe dream.

But then again, the seventh prince did arouse some interest in him.

This life-saving grace must be repaid, right? Otherwise, wouldn’t these killers be ungrateful?

Xue Yan's eyes suddenly became murderous. He casually picked up the teacup on the table and took a leisurely sip.

It was also because of this incident that he raised his head and let Nanchen see his face.

Nanchen inexplicably felt that this person was familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was.

"Master Yuan, does this person look familiar to you?" Nan Chen asked Yuan Shaoqing beside him in a low voice with some uncertainty.

Yuan Wuqing pondered for a moment before answering His Royal Highness, "To be honest, when I first saw this person, I felt that he looked strangely familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him before, so I asked a doctor to treat him."

What he said was indeed true. When the secret guards dragged the half-dead person to the Dali Temple in the beginning, although he had never dealt with the Seventh Prince, he knew the other princes to some extent.

At first he thought it was another prince who disliked someone and wanted to send that person to be locked up for a few days. This kind of thing had happened before.

When his subordinates took off the mask of this person, he felt for a moment that this person looked very familiar, but he just couldn't remember who he was.

"Well! Send someone to check this person's identity, and send someone to the East Palace after finding out."

After saying this, Nan Chen left. While walking, this person's face was in his mind.

And what about Yuan Wuqing's previous words? Why did Xiaoqi insist on telling him?

What does it have to do with him?

After thinking it over, he decided to find someone to ask Xiao Qi. When he thought of the scene of Xiao Qi vomiting blood last time, he paused. Forget it, he decided to leave it to the people below to investigate.

It's just a matter of time.