"Don't make any noise."

"I'm going to argue. Why is she okay?" Wang Wan'er made a scene.

The lady had no choice but to coax her, "Be good, I'll tell you in detail."

The mother and daughter squeezed to the back and whispered.

Song Bushi followed King Heng to the innermost prison, which was an independent cell.

Prime Minister Zhao was imprisoned inside, his hands and feet were locked with iron chains and his body was tied to a wooden stake.

He looked like he had been interrogated, with injuries on his body and disheveled hair.

But he was full of arrogance and looked down on King Heng. When he saw him coming, he just turned his face away and closed his eyes.

A guard opened the door, and Prince Heng walked over with Song Bushi by his hand and asked him, "Prime Minister Zhao, you colluded with the Japanese pirates to rebel, do you admit your guilt?"

Prime Minister Zhao was very stubborn. He closed his eyes and did not answer, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.

Song Bushi shouted, "Are you mute? Don't think that if you don't speak, there will be no evidence to convict you. The emperor has already issued an order to punish all nine clans, and no one in your family will survive."

The muscles on Prime Minister Zhao's face trembled violently for a few times, and finally he opened his eyes.

She slowly turned her head and gave King Heng a meaningful smile.

He said, "Your Highness Prince Heng, how about we make a deal?"

Song Bushi looked at the old fox and said worriedly, "Don't trade with him, don't be fooled."

Prime Minister Zhao looked at King Heng confidently, and King Heng asked, "Tell me, what other chips do you have to trade!"

Prime Minister Zhao laughed, "Of course there is, and you are the only one who can take this bargaining chip."

He narrowed his eyes and said, "Okay, then I'll listen to it."

Prime Minister Zhao thought for a while and whispered, "Do you want to know the truth about your parents' death? If you can give me a way out, I can tell you all the truth. It's definitely not a loss!"

Prince Heng looked at him silently. It was common knowledge that his father died on the battlefield and his mother followed his father.

Is there some unknown secret behind this?

"What do you mean?"

Prime Minister Zhao took a deep breath and recalled, "Back then, I had some friendship with your father. Everyone knows how powerful he is."

"With his strength, how could he die so easily?"

"Besides, the difference in strength in that battle was so huge that it was impossible for him to lose. However, not only did he lose miserably, he also lost his life. Don't you find it strange?"

He frowned and stared at him. Prime Minister Zhao said, "Let me go, and I will tell you all the truth. Then you will know who your real enemy is. Otherwise, you will be foolish like your father and be used by him..."

As he said this, a poisonous needle flew over and pierced his chest.

Prime Minister Zhao had a painful expression on his face. Prince Heng turned around and saw a dark shadow flash past the prison door.

He chased outside, but couldn't find anyone, so he had to return.

He grabbed the dying Prime Minister Zhao and asked, "Please tell me clearly what happened?"

Prime Minister Zhao vomited blood loudly. The needle was poisonous and his face quickly turned black.

He couldn't speak clearly, but he still gritted his teeth and said the last words, "Save...save Ziqing...inside the mansion...in the dark room!"

After saying this, he died completely.

Song Bushi didn't hear clearly, so he asked King Heng, "What did he say at the end?"

Prince Heng let go of the dead Prime Minister Zhao and took two steps back.

"He asked us to rescue Ziqing, saying that she was in a dark room in the mansion."

Song Bushi was surprised. "He was actually thinking about Ziqing at the last moment?"

"Damn it, you didn't get to the point!"

Song Bushi advised, "You can slowly investigate your parents' affairs. It seems to be true. Someone doesn't want the truth to be exposed, so he killed them at the critical moment. There are not many people who have this ability."

His face changed drastically and his fists clenched so hard that they made a clattering sound. That can’t be true?

It shouldn't be what he thought...

"Let's save Ziqing first." Song Bushi pulled him out. When he came out, he looked very unhappy.

When he passed by Wang Wan'er's cell, Wang Wan'er grabbed his sleeve.

She cried and begged, "Your Highness Prince Heng, you know how much I love you, you can't just ignore me..."

He heartlessly shook off her hand and let her cry for help without even a glance at her.

After walking out of the prison, he immediately rushed to Prime Minister Zhao's house.

There was a seal on the gate and someone was guarding it, not letting anyone get close.

But when Prince Heng arrived, the guards immediately tore off the seal.

This was Song Bushi’s second time entering the Prime Minister’s Mansion, and he still remembered the shock he felt the first time.

This time, all I saw was depression, ruin and desolation.

Who could have thought that someone standing at the top would fall into hell overnight.

The dark room was the one in the study. Song Bushi had been there before and opened it smoothly.

The two of them slowly went down to the bottom and saw Zhao Ziqing chained in a corner, unconscious.

"Miss Ziqing!"

Song Bushi rushed forward and checked her breathing and heartbeat immediately.

"Great, she's still alive."

**

The Japanese pirate envoys came to see the emperor, who held a grand banquet for his ministers.

As the principal wife of Prince Heng, Song Bushi attended a state banquet with him for the first time!

The emperor sat on the dragon throne, looking down at his ministers.

He said loudly, "Yesterday, Yu'er wiped out thousands of Japanese slaves. Today, the Japanese envoys asked for peace. What do you think, my dear ministers?"

Everyone made suggestions, some said that since the other party asked for peace, there was no need to pursue the matter.

Peace is the most important thing to calm the crisis.

Some people hold opposing views, believing that the Japanese are just making excuses.

If we don't teach them a lesson, there will be endless troubles in the future.

The emperor let them do whatever they wanted until the situation got a little out of control.

Then he coughed and said, "Okay, I understand what you all mean. Let's see their sincerity first and summon the Japanese to the palace!"

The eunuch shouted loudly, "Summon the Japanese envoy to the court!"

Song Bushi looked outside the hall and saw a short man walking towards him.

She whispered to King Heng, "Are all the Japanese so short?"

“They’re basically this short!”

When the Japanese slaves walked into the hall, Song Bushi felt more intuitively how short they were, like dwarfs.

The Japanese envoys also felt the pressure and saluted the emperor respectfully.

In broken Chinese, he said, "Huang Shang... the bowl is broken... the bowl is broken..."

"Flat body."

All the ministers tried to hold back their laughter, and the emperor looked down on them.

It’s just that they are willing to take the initiative to seek peace and are willing to pay tribute every year in the future, which is always a good thing.

"Is the King of Wa really willing to pay tribute every year?"

The messenger prostrated himself on the ground, "Hi!"

The messenger shouted outside, and another group of people came in, carrying boxes of different sizes.

Everyone was guessing what the treasure was and they were all curious.

The emperor smiled widely, twisting his beard and asking, "What good stuff is this? Open it and show it to me!"

The Japanese envoy quickly ordered people to open the box, and instantly, a fishy smell spread.

The whole hall was filled with a foul stench. Everyone covered their noses and stretched their heads to look.

The boxes contained not jewels but boxes of salted fish...

The Japanese envoys excitedly introduced how to eat these salted fish and exaggeratedly described their deliciousness.

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