Chapter 90 Interrogation

I don't know how long I slept in a daze, but I remember that I seemed to wake up a few times. Occasionally, I could hear people talking, but most of the time, the surroundings were very quiet.

When he woke up again, Chu Ran opened his eyes weakly. He stared at Cheng Chen above his head with a dull look in his eyes until a familiar and kind voice said beside him, "Wake up..."

Chu Ran slowly rolled his eyes and saw Zhao Zhongyi sitting on a chair beside his bed.

"Where is this place?"

As soon as the voice came out, Chu Ran was shocked. Why did his voice suddenly become so unpleasant?

"Where I live." said Zhao Zhongyi.

No wonder he looked so strange, it was always Zhao Zhongyi who took the initiative to look for Chu Ran. Although Chu Ran would go to see Zhao Zhongyi rarely when he had no choice, he had never actually entered Zhao Zhongyi's room.

"Why am I here?" Chu Ran struggled to sit up. He asked in confusion, "Where is the Fifth Prince? Where is he?"

Zhao Zhongyi sighed and said, "The Fifth Prince has been ordered by the Emperor to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors."

Chu Ran pursed his dry lips and slowly lowered his long black eyelashes, "It's my fault. I messed up and implicated the Fifth Prince."

Zhao Zhongyi raised his dry and wrinkled hand like orange peel and patted the back of Chu Ran's head gently, as if to comfort him.

"Tomorrow someone from the Ministry of Justice will take you away for questioning," Zhao Zhongyi said.

Chu Ran nodded.

He had expected this. Even Li Dingning was punished for this matter, so how could he be spared?

Perhaps it was because Chu Ran hung his head with a look of despair, which made people feel distressed. Zhao Zhongyi thought for a moment and comforted him: "Don't worry too much, it will all pass. You are not alone."

Chu Ran still kept his head down and hummed softly.

He was indeed not alone, at least he still had the old lady by his side. Chu Ran inexplicably thought of Li Fu again, but he thought that Li Fu would probably ignore him and he was about to cut off all ties with him.

The next morning, someone from the Ministry of Justice came to pick up the person.

Chu Ran followed the people from the Ministry of Justice out of the palace. On the way to the palace gate, a young eunuch suddenly ran over and said that he had something to say to Chu Ran.

The young eunuch stood on tiptoe, got close to Chu Ran's ear, and whispered something.

Chu Ran's eyes lit up for a moment, and then he looked at the little eunuch. He trembled his lips, but in the end he just smiled happily at the little eunuch.

"I understand." Chu Ran said with a smile.

After coming out of the palace, Chu Ran was taken directly to the Ministry of Justice prison.

Chu Ran didn't know many officials from the previous dynasty, but he had met the man in front of him a few times. This man was a senior official in the Ministry of Justice, and his surname was Yu. However, Chu Ran only knew his identity and appearance, and knew nothing about his character.

Chu Ran was taken out of the palace in a daze, and then taken into the prison of the Ministry of Justice in a daze, and finally pressed on a stool.

Mr. Yu was sitting at the desk. He first asked Chu Ran some questions about his own identity, and Chu Ran answered truthfully.

Afterwards, Mr. Yu kept nagging and asking some other questions. Chu Ran had just woken up and his mind was not yet fully clear. He was asked so many questions. Although they were all useless nonsense, Chu Ran felt more and more dizzy after listening to them.

Later on, the questions the other party asked made Chu Ran more and more confused.

"After my investigation, I learned that the reason why the pagoda collapsed overnight was because some of the civilian craftsmen who were recruited later secretly cut corners and tampered with the work. As for how they tampered, I have signed the testimony here, you can take a look."

The testimony was brought to Chu Ran. Chu Ran took a quick look at it, but before he could read it clearly, he heard Lord Yu continue, "The other party admitted that he did this because of the instructions of Eunuch Chu. Do you admit it, Eunuch Chu?"

Chu Ran looked at the testimony and signature in front of him. The densely packed black words on them seemed to have double images in his eyes. Chu Ran placed his hands on the armrests, pinching his palms with his fingernails, trying his best to stay awake.

"I don't know what you are talking about." Chu Ran said, "I don't know those craftsmen at all, and I don't know that they cut corners. This matter has nothing to do with me."

"It's written in black and white, and there's a red seal. What you mean, eunuch, is that those people framed you? But that's not right. They also said that the money ended up in your pocket. I've already ordered people to check your residence in the palace, and indeed found a large amount of gold, silver, and jewelry. How much is Eunuch Chu's monthly salary? How could you have so many gold, silver, and treasures..."

He started talking a lot again. Chu Ran tried to interrupt him several times, but was ruthlessly interrupted every time. Chu Ran was already dizzy, and after being interrogated for so long, he became even more dizzy.

But even so, he kept shaking his head to deny, "That was my savings over the years. I'm not greedy. It has nothing to do with me. I know nothing... Besides, I'm just a little eunuch. I don't have the courage to do such a thing..."

"I believe that what you said is from the heart, so what Eunuch Chu meant is that there is someone behind you? I heard that Eunuch Chu and the Prince of Dingbei have a deep love affair, could it be that the Prince ordered you to do so?"