After the secret conversation in the prison that night, Fu Qiu returned to the palace full of thoughts. Dongzi sat beside him. He leaned his head on Dongzi's shoulder and asked him: "What are you thinking?"

Dongzi patted his head and didn't speak.

Fu Qiu said anxiously: "Your father resigned from office and returned to the farm, you can't follow him!"

The corners of Dongzi's mouth curled up, and he gently kissed Fu Qiu's forehead.

Fu Qiu felt relieved, hugged Dongzi's neck, and hung on his body like a monkey. When the carriage jolted, Fu Qiu was hugged by Dongzi. He knew that Dongzi was also preoccupied.

Yuan Guangping stayed in prison for two days. He didn't rush out and didn't say anything. He also said that these two days were the most pleasant and clean days in his life. He had served Dachu for 30 years. Yuan Guangping endured the humiliation. Spare no effort to generate heat and shine, and finally don't want to mess around anymore.

Yuan Guangping, the official and right-hand minister, has no seal or reward.

"When the moon is full, it will lose, and when the water is full, it will overflow." At that time, the faint light leaking in from the skylight dyed his beard and hair white.

Both Fu Qiu and Dong Zi could not understand more clearly that for Da Chu to be stable, it was necessary to find a force to contend with the Yuan family.But now Yuan Guangping doesn't want to play anymore, he wants to sue his old age and return to his hometown, then the Fang family will be the next one. Wei Kun is greedy for power, so naturally he is always watching how to eat the Fang family. If the foreign ministers collude, Since Fu Qiu has no heirs, wouldn't he be a puppet emperor?

The carriage swayed lazily, and Fu Qiu fell asleep on Dongzi's lap.

Dongzi's eyes were heavy, his little finger hooked Fu Qiu's ear hair behind his ears, he lowered his head and kissed his side face, before leaving for a long time.

After daybreak, Fu Qiu ordered the three divisions to interrogate, and ordered seven days to investigate the case of the death of Duke Rui's daughter.

At the same time, Yuan Guangping's residence sent his resignation letter. It turned out that Yuan Guangping didn't want to go into seclusion because of this case, but that he had planned this early in the morning.

In the Chengyuan Hall, Fu Qiu's vermilion pen hangs above the fold, unable to put down the pen for a long time.

He glanced at Dongzi who was accompanying him, raised his hand, wrote down his pen, and brought it up again. Fu Qiu shook his head and sighed, put down his pen, rolled up his sleeves and said helplessly, "I still don't want to let your father go back. I have to find a way to keep him alive again." Sold your life for me for a few years."

Dongzi bent one leg, tucked his knees in a daze, and said to himself blankly, "He's old."

"If you let your father go, I will have no one to use." Fu Qiu said.

"Press it first, after Enke, let him choose a few people, and then play."

Fu Qiu hugged Dongzi with great joy and kissed him hard.

Dongzi's face was red, he wiped his face with his sleeves, exhaled, opened the window of Chengyuan Hall, looked at the sky, and stood motionless in front of the window.

Fu Qiu looked over, panicked in his heart, hugged him by the waist, dragged him back to the front of the dragon case, and said incoherently in a hurry: "You are not allowed to give up the pick..."

Dongzi let out a deep laugh, took Fu Qiu into his arms, stroked his hair, stroked his back, and kissed the top of his hair lightly.

"I do not know."

"Close the window." Fu Qiu huddled under the quilt boredly, pinching a volume of books, just in time to see the founding emperor of Chu and the queen. A legendary love story buried in the same mausoleum.

Dongzi sat on a piece of animal skin beside the bed, got up and closed the window, picked up the yellow cat, put it on his crossed legs, and continued to sharpen a small wooden sword.

Fu Qiu glanced at him.

"Why? For whom?"

Changed a file to smooth the surface and blow off the sawdust. Dongzi said, "It's for the prince."

Fu Qiu laughed, and rushed over to try it out, "The prince thinks it's too small, he can only pretend to be a playboy, he can't fight the enemy, it's boring."

Dongzi pulled his robe and wiped his hands clean, took the wooden sword, put it on the yellow cat's upturned stomach hair, climbed onto the bed, pressed Fu Qiu down, and sniffed his neck.

Fu Qiu was afraid of itches, turned over laughing and screaming, and shouted: "My book, hey, don't lose the book, it's the only copy I managed to find from outside the palace..."

Dongzi kissed his forehead and bridge of nose, and Fu Qiu's nose was hot, looking at Dongzi's handsome face, he sighed comfortably.

"very nice."

"What's the matter?" Dongzi kicked off his shoes, put his legs on Fu Qiu's, and lay down with him.

"That's fine." Fu Qiu smiled, "It would be great if I could transform into a fat boy for nothing."

"..."

Fu Qiu touched Dongzi's belly with his hands, and said longingly, "It would be great if there was one here."

Dongzi glanced at him and kissed his lips. Fu Qiu's cheeks were flushed, and he stared at Dongzi intently.Dongzi's throat moved, and he leaned over and kissed again.

"Why do I like you so much? In the next life, you should be a girl." Fu Qiu sighed, "If you were a girl, we might be like the first emperor and his queen. Live in the same bed and die in the same hole."

Dongzi caressed Fu Qiu's forehead lazily with his fingers.

"You are a woman."

After a long while, Fu Qiufang heard Dongzi speak, and said with a smile: "If you dare to resist the order, I will punish you." He turned over.

The vigilant yellow cat pricked up its ears, straightened up, walked vigorously up the window sill, squatted down, and lazily "meowed" towards the shaking bed.

Fu Qiu was woken up in Dongzi's private courtyard in the middle of the night, and a eunuch shouted loudly, "The big thing is not good," and scrambled to open the door of Dongzi's room.

At that time, the chief executive and the emperor were still hugging each other in the same bed.

Dongzi let go of Fu Qiu and put his coat on him. Fu Qiu sat on the side of the bed dizzy with his head bowed, his ears deafened from time to time, and ordered the eunuch who reported the message to say it again.

"Master Yuan died suddenly in the Imperial Prison. The imperial physician has confirmed his death. Lord Chen Yuqing is seeking an audience at the Chengyuan Hall."

Fu Qiu glanced at Dong Zi, he had already fastened his robe belt, Fu Qiu said: "You go to the Imperial Prison first, and I will come later."

Dongzi didn't have time to put on his hat, so he went straight to the prison.

Fu Qiu climbed onto the sedan chair with his shoes on, and was carried to the Chengyuan Hall. After putting on the dragon robe on the sedan chair, his mind was buzzing.The north wind hung on his face like a knife, and the pain in the back of his head made his eyes turn white.

Dongzi's biological father died in prison, what happened? It was such a coincidence that he died suddenly.Who can have such great power to stretch his hand into the prison.

When Fu Qiu arrived at the Chengyuan Palace, Chen Yuqing, who was in charge of investigating the case of Duke Rui, was exhausted. When he saw the emperor, he immediately bowed down.

"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister died suddenly. Does the case of Duke Rui still need to be investigated?"

Fu Qiu said irritably, "How could the Prime Minister die so suddenly?"

"I don't know either... After receiving the news, I immediately went to the Imperial Prison. Just in case, I called Imperial Physician Feng to go with him. Lord Yuan is indeed dead. The cause of death is unknown, and I have ordered him to conduct an examination. Imperial Physician Feng is also staying at the sent to prison."

"Follow me immediately." Fu Qiucai stayed in the Chengyuan Hall for a cup of tea, and immediately followed Chen Yuqing out of the palace to the Imperial Prison. He asked Chen Yuqing on the way, but Chen Yuqing didn't know anything, even the symptoms.

Half an hour later, Fu Qiu in the dragon robe followed Chen Yuqing to the prison. Unlike what he saw in the evening, he was lying in a stone room, covered from the neck down with a white cloth, and Dongzi was holding a long sword, blocking Yuan Guangping's body.

Wu Zuo put his hands in front of him, shaking them constantly, and was about to cry.

"Father-in-law, my subordinates are also acting according to orders. Prime Minister Yuan is dead, so Mr. Yuan must die clearly. Let your subordinates take a look..."

Dongzi flashed his sword and said in a cold voice, "Wait until the emperor comes to make a decision."

Chen Yuqing said: "The sage is here."

At this time, everyone saw Fu Qiu and let him in. Fu Qiu approached and looked at Dong Zi. Dong Zi immediately put away his long sword. Fu Qiu saw Dong Zi's eyes were red and bloodshot, and his lips moved. He moved, as if he had something to say to himself, but he didn't say it.

Yuan Guangping, who was lying quietly on the stone bed, was indeed stiff. His skin was cold to the touch, and the flesh on his hands was slack, and he no longer had the elasticity of a living person.

Fu Qiu said to Dongzi: "I asked Wu Zuo to take a look." He looked at Dongzi with a questioning look, his voice was not loud, and he was almost careful to pay attention to Dongzi's reaction.

"Yeah." Dongzi nodded.

When Wu Zuo performed the autopsy, he stood behind the man, his eyes closely following Wu Zuo's every move.He opened Yuan Guangping's mouth, wiped Yuan Guangping's mouth with a damp cloth, and examined Yuan Guangping's eyes, ears, and nails with a silver needle.

Fu Qiu stood side by side with Dongzi, hooked Dongzi's hand with his fingers, and held his hand.

Chen Yuqing was sweating profusely and lowered his head slightly. When Fu Qiu called his name, he was almost out of his wits, and hurriedly said, "Please show me, Your Majesty."

"Is there any clue about the case of Duke Rui's daughter?" Fu Qiu's voice sounded a little displeased.

"Mr. Rui's daughter hanged herself. I have already interrogated her personal maid. The maid's confession was completely different, so I ordered her to be imprisoned first. There has been no further interrogation. However, this woman tried to retract her confession. I am afraid there is a big mystery behind it." .” Chen Yuqing replied while wiping the sweat from her forehead due to nervousness.

"Interrogate this woman carefully." Fu Qiu's eyes were fixed on Wu Zuo, and before he could speak, Wu Zuo knelt down with a "boom", threw his hands on the ground, and kowtowed like garlic.

"Please look, Your Majesty, the silver needle has turned black, Mr. Yuan is poisoned..."

The worst result made Fu Qiu's eyes go black for a while, he couldn't stand firmly on his feet, he was supported by Dongzi, he stabilized his voice, and asked, "How did you get poisoned?"

"My subordinates have detected poisonous substance from Mr. Yuan's nasal cavity and throat mucus. They think it's caused by poisonous smoke or something. You can tell if you call the prison guards and ask them." Wu Zuo reported.

The prison guards were forced to kneel on the ground, too frightened to raise their heads, and repeated their grievances.

Fu Qiu signaled, and the guard held the guard's shoulders left and right, making him straighten his upper body.

"I ask you, who came to the prison in the evening."

"No... no one..."

"The crime of deceiving the emperor is enough to implicate the nine clans. You'd better think clearly before answering me." Fu Qiu touched the ring and narrowed his eyes.

"Really... villains dare not lie, since the emperor and... yes, this father-in-law." The guard glanced at Dongzi hurriedly, his eyes were wide open, his whole body was shaking, his arms were in great pain from being grabbed by the guards, but he didn't dare to groan speak out.

"After the emperor and the father-in-law left, the little one went to the outside to guard. Even a fly could not be let in in the imperial prison. The villain thought, Mr. Yuan is a veteran minister who has no power to restrain a chicken, so he doesn't have to wait all the time. They are all guarding, not to mention that the right minister may not really be guilty... The villain is also afraid of being too strict. In the future, Mr. Yuan will be restored to his post, and the villain will not be able to bear the crime. Since Mr. Yuan was imprisoned, the villain has always responded to requests , Never dared to be disrespectful, Your Majesty is clearly aware! The villain is really wronged..." The guard's arms were twisted and rattled, his brows were tightened in pain, and half of his face was pressed against the dusty ground.

Fu Qiu got up and paced back and forth in the prison where Yuan Guangping had been, and stopped on a square projection, remembering that when he and Dongzi came, Yuan Guangping had been looking at the square projection on the ground.

Fu Qiu raised his head, facing the small window on the wall, he pointed and asked the prison guard, "Where is the outside?"

"It's also a cell over there. The ministers of the court and the central government are being imprisoned. Mr. Yuan is locked here because of a special account. No one is locked up there, it's an empty room."

Dongzi, who was standing behind Fu Qiu, had already run out, reached the door, grabbed a jailer, and lifted him by the collar, the jailer was lifted three inches off the ground, and screamed in horror.

Dongzi let go.

The jailer sat on the ground and stepped back a few steps. Seeing the emperor coming out from behind, he was so distressed that he knelt on the ground and dared not speak.

"In the secret room where the Right Prime Minister is imprisoned, show me which cell the upper window faces."

The jailer hurriedly got up on his hands, stooped, lit a cowhide lantern, and led the way.After walking for half a moment in the winding dark alley, two rows of cells spread out in front of my eyes.The jailer went to one of the cell doors, took out the candles in the lanterns, and stuck them in the sockets on the wall.

White light illuminates the empty cell, which smells musty.

"Did anyone come here last night?"

The jailer hesitated for a moment, touched the fingers of his left hand with his right hand, lowered his head and said, "No one came here last night, and these two rows of cells have been vacant for the past month."

The corners of Fu Qiu's mouth curled up, and he sneered, "Since that's the case, then the poison that the right minister was poisoned must be the hand of the prison guards. Otherwise, who else would have the opportunity to poison the cell where the right minister lives?"

The jailer's eyes were wide open, his nose fluttered, and he knelt down on the ground, his whole body was like a puddle of mud. After a moment of daze, he rushed forward to hug Fu Qiu's leg, but was kicked away by the guard.

He lay on the ground, his voice was extremely flustered, "Your Majesty, spare your life. It was definitely not the actions of the little people. Even if you lend a hundred courage to the little people, we don't have the courage to murder the right minister."

The jailer wanted to kowtow again, but his chin was lifted up by the toe of Fu Qiu's boot, and he asked, "Then tell me, besides Zhen and Director Yuan, who else came to the prison last night?"

The jailer looked around in a panic, and when his eyes stopped on Chen Yuqing's face, Chen Yuqing clearly heard the sound of the weapon being unsheathed, and quickly backed away, his voice stuck in his throat, almost screaming.

The jailer looked at Fu Qiu's court boots with a weeping face, and cried: "Yes... yes... an attendant in Fang Taifu's house said that Master Fang's jade pendant was lost, and I don't know if it was left behind when he was in prison. The younger one showed him."

"You watched him come in and watched him look for something?" Fu Qiu asked.

"Yes!"

"If half of the sentence is not true..."

Sen Han's blade rested on the back of the jailer's neck, and the murderous aura seeped into his spine, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "No...no...he said he would look for it slowly, so he gave the little one five taels of gold and sent him out to guard I'm just looking for something, and now there are no prisoners in the prison..."

"Just...just go out..." The jailer felt a hot current between the two.

A faint foul smell permeated the prison, and the jailer was so frightened that he peed.

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