"You all eat and drink well, I'm going to change..."

Li Jue used changing clothes as an excuse to slip away, then secretly left the palace and went to the Goguryeo prison.

By this time, Pyongyang had long been taken over by the Tang army, and the prisons and city gates were all staffed by Tang soldiers.

Therefore, as soon as Li Jue appeared, the guards of the prison came up to greet him.

"This humble servant greets the eldest grandson!"

"Is the eldest grandson here to visit General Cheng?"

"yes!"

"How is General Cheng?"

"It's alright... You'll see once you go in and take a look."

The guards readily opened the prison door for Li Jue, and as he entered, he was immediately hit by a pungent, fishy stench.

Why is the environment here so bad?

"The eldest grandson is already a good thing; when we first took over, it was truly awful..."

"To put it simply, we opened the cell door and let it smell for three days before we dared to send someone in to clean it!"

"And then, guess what happened when we were cleaning?"

"What's wrong?"

"We carried out more than three hundred corpses, and at least a thousand skeletons and bones!"

"hiss……"

Even though Li Jue was a man of great experience, he was still taken aback when he heard these words.

Yeon Gaesomun was so ruthless that he killed so many people in Pyongyang?

It seems that Aweng's idea was right. This person must not be allowed to live. Before the army withdraws from Pyongyang, this person must be killed!

Li Jue forced himself to endure the nausea and followed the guards to a relatively spacious and clean prison cell.

At this moment, Cheng Yaojin was shirtless, wearing only a pair of short trousers, and lying sprawled out on the meadow, sleeping.

Around him, three braziers were lined up, making the entire cell extremely hot.

"It seems General Cheng didn't suffer too much!"

"Your Highness is absolutely right!"

"Aside from punishing General Cheng on the first day, His Majesty seems to have forgotten about him afterward. Not only did he not send anyone to carry out the punishment, but he also did not send anyone to interrogate him. He simply locked General Cheng up here and did not allow him to go out."

"I see..."

Upon hearing this, Li Jue basically understood. It turned out that Li Er also knew that Cheng Yaojin was innocent, but for some unknown reason, he still kept Cheng Yaojin in prison.

Upon realizing this, Li Jue immediately stepped forward, grabbed Cheng Yaojin's arm, and shook him awake.

"General Cheng!"

"ah?"

"The eldest grandson?"

"Eldest grandson, what brings you here? His Majesty wouldn't have sent you here to..."

Li Jue shook his head upon hearing this.

"No!"

"His Majesty was indeed angry with me, but not to the point of locking me in such a stinking cell!"

Cheng Yaojin chuckled upon hearing this.

"right!"

"No matter what, you are His Majesty's own grandson, unlike me... I'm just a surrendered general..."