044. Night Party

The trial procedure is scheduled for tomorrow, but the case is already clear, the testimonies and witnesses are all available, and once Zhang Haicheng arrives in Beijing, the matter will be settled.

Tomorrow should be the day when the innocent will be vindicated.

But Rong Se had no interest in cooking and didn't even want to. So Liang Shenyu had Liu Bo's cooking in the kitchen for dinner.

Although it was taught by Rong Se himself, the taste is different and Liang Shenyu could tell the difference at the first bite.

"Where is your prince?" Liang Shenyu asked after putting down his chopsticks.

Xiao Si, who was delivering the meal, shook his head and said, "After Lord Lu left, the prince went back to his bedroom and never came out again."

"Lord Lu?"

"It's Lord Lu Shangqian from the Ministry of Justice."

Liang Shenyu said "Oh" and almost understood.

Although Lu Shangqian was neutral, he was a civil servant after all, so he naturally looked down on the regent who came from a poor family and wanted to seize power and usurp the throne.

I'm afraid I said something unpleasant and offended the rabbit.

"Do you know what they said?" Liang Shenyu asked.

The boy shook his head again.

Liang Shenyu seemed to be thinking about something and waved his hand to let him leave.

As night fell, the sky became overcast. At first there was a drizzle, and then the rain began to hit the window frames, making a clanging sound.

Rong Se was not sleeping soundly. In a trance, he thought he was in his original home. He wanted to get up to close the window, but he opened his eyes in a daze. Before he even got into bed, he saw a clear figure sitting behind the layers of curtains.

For a moment, their eyes met through the curtain.

The sound of rain outside the window woke Rongse up suddenly.

"Marquis Dingbei." Rong Se said softly.

The sitting posture seemed too familiar, tall and elegant, not to mention I had seen it once before.

Exactly the same.

After a moment, the man moved. He walked closer and the curtains were suddenly opened.

Rong Se saw him clearly in the dim light and realized that Liang Shenyu was wet all over, with his dripping hair casually tied into a bun, the strands of hair in front of his forehead slightly curled, and water droplets sliding down his cheeks.

He came in the rain.

"What are you doing..." Rong Se was stunned for a moment, and when he met Liang Shenyu's gloomy eyes, he forgot what he was going to say.

Liang Shenyu didn't care at all that he was wet. He just stood there condescendingly, his eyes filled with gloomy emotions. He reached out and casually wiped the water droplets on his face, then spoke.

"Why didn't you make dinner today?"

Rong Se choked up. He vaguely sensed that Liang Shenyu was in a bad mood at the moment, so he sat on the couch helplessly and said softly: "I'm tired today. Just to ask this question? It's still raining outside."

Liang Shenyu thought for a moment, lowered his eyes, and said truthfully: "Did Lu Shangqian provoke you?"

Rong Se couldn't keep up with his train of thought, and paused for a moment before saying, "Not really."

"What did he say?"

"… probably saying that there was insufficient evidence and asking me not to pursue Rong Xu any further."

Liang Shenyu thought for a moment and asked, "Are you so angry that you don't even cook because of this?"

Rong Se couldn't believe it, and asked back with a smile: "Then you came to ask me in the rain just to make a living?"

"No." Liang Shenyu looked down at Rong Se without hesitation, and stopped talking. The wild and gloomy look between his brows was no longer concealed.

The words "Then why?" that Rong Se hadn't uttered yet were stuck in his throat. He was originally looking at Liang Shenyu, but at this moment he suddenly wanted to retreat and turned his face away first.

The next moment, the man's cold fingertips landed on the back of his neck and pinched it lightly.

Rong Se shuddered and raised his head suddenly trying to break free.

"Liang Shenyu!"

Liang Shenyu suddenly leaned down and pressed his forehead against his. Unspeakable emotions surged in his eyes, but he still restrained himself, slightly pursed his lips, and remained silent.

Rong Se was not used to being suppressed like this, and was frightened by Liang Shenyu's eyes. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "What are you crazy about?"

Liang Shenyu finally spoke, "It's not for the sake of eating."

The breath was warm, completely different from the cool fingertips on the back of his neck, and fell on Rong Se's eyelashes.

As a man, even though Rong Se was inexperienced, he understood the look in Liang Shenyu's eyes.

He wanted to kiss him.

After realizing this, Rong Se just felt it was ridiculous, but he couldn't think too much at this moment. He instinctively put his hand on Liang Shenyu's shoulder to stop him from getting closer, but his hand felt wet and cold.

Just as she was about to push him away, she heard Liang Shenyu groaning slightly. She suddenly remembered the injuries on Liang Shenyu's body and forcibly retracted her strength.

"Liang Shenyu." Rong Se tried to control his trembling voice, "...Don't go crazy in the middle of the night. You don't want your injury to heal, right? Why are you running outside in such heavy rain?"

After a moment's stalemate, Rong Se heard a faint sigh from Liang Shenyu, and the hand behind his neck loosened as he wished. Liang Shenyu also stood up and took a half step back.

The suffocating atmosphere finally relaxed a lot.

Rong Se exhaled slowly, not daring to look at Liang Shenyu again. He felt like he had nowhere to stay in his own territory. After racking his brain for a long time, he finally managed to say, "Go back to your room."

Liang Shenyu didn't move.

"It's raining."

Rong Se was about to laugh in anger, "You came here in the rain, so you can't go back?"

Liang Shenyu lowered his eyes and immediately withdrew his aggressiveness. "It wasn't raining so hard when I came here."

Well-founded.

Rong Se didn't even think of how to refute him. He was stunned for a moment, then realized what Liang Shenyu meant. He jumped off the couch and said in disbelief, "It's not enough for you to stay in the palace, you also want to sleep in my room?"

Liang Shenyu acquiesced.

Without waiting for Liang Shenyu's answer, Rong Se refused to speak: "Marquis Dingbei, stop dreaming, clean yourself up, change the medicine, and go back to sleep."

Seeing that he refused so bluntly, Liang Shenyu uttered a muffled "hmm" but still did not move.

Seemingly reluctant.

Rong Se felt dizzy.

How did things get to this point?

Something is wrong. Nothing is right.

Even his own reaction just now was not right. He should have thrown a punch. Whether he could have won or not was another matter, but he would have definitely punched him.

But he just stopped Liang Shenyu lightly.

Not daring to think too deeply, Rong Se closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he had calmed down and did not allow anyone to argue: "Get out."

Perhaps knowing that it was impossible for him to stay overnight, Liang Shenyu looked at Rong Se deeply.

Rong Se was horrified by this look. After a short confrontation in the dim light, Rong Se was the first to give in. His tone softened, "Stop making trouble."

In the end, Liang Shenyu was not able to stay as he wished. When the rain subsided a little, he was asked to leave the bedroom by the Regent King. Before leaving, he stood under the eaves and turned around and said, "I will go to the court tomorrow."

Having said that, he didn't even take an umbrella and just walked calmly into the night rain.

Only the shadow of Xiaose

Rong Se was stunned for a long time.

He admitted that the moment Liang Shenyu turned around, he wanted to take back what he had said. Surprised at his own thought, he stood at the door for a long time, letting his thoughts become tangled and he couldn't make sense of them.

He had too many doubts. He thought that his butterfly wings were enough to flap the plot, but he didn't expect that the protagonist would be flapped towards him in this way.

Love?

Rongse had never seen everlasting love, but only couples who quarreled over trivial matters, or husbands who drank and gambled and abused their wives, or men and women who lost their minds because of love. In short, no one could live a comfortable life.

He knew that there might be love in this world that supports each other, but for him, it might be better for them to forget each other.

A person is more comfortable.

Rongse closed the door to keep the wind and rain out.

This wasn't the only door that closed.

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The next day, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple held a joint trial of the unjust cases of thirteen households in Jizhou. When Rongse went out to the yamen, Liang Shenyu followed him out. In contrast to his own luxurious black robe, he was still wearing a warm-colored brocade robe. He looked much more normal and even smiled at him gently.

It was as if nothing happened last night.

Rong Se understood this as he was not awake in the middle of the night and his mind was now normal, so he took a step back.

Okay.

That's right.

Rong Se nodded to him politely, and just as he got on the carriage, he saw Liang Shenyu was about to follow.

"What are you doing?" Rong Se frowned. "Recover from your injuries. Why are you running out?"

He is considerate after all.

Liang Shenyu smiled softly: "Didn't I say last night that I would go to the trial?"

Rong Se: “…”

He thought they had tacitly agreed to pretend nothing had happened, but why did this person bring up what happened last night so naturally?

"You..." Rong Se was speechless.

But Liang Shenyu had already got on the carriage naturally.

Along the way, Rong Se said nothing, had a cold face, and tried to use cold violence.

Liang Shenyu pretended not to see it at all.

No one paid attention to Rong Se's indifference, and he just sulked.

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The Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, the Minister of the Supreme Court, and Yu Qingzhou, the Supervisory Temple Secretary, jointly conducted the trial. Going to court was just a formality. After all, Zhang Haicheng's confession was crystal clear and even had his own fingerprints on it.

However, Zhang Haicheng still changed his confession in court. He lay half dead in the court, and kept saying that it was Dingbei Hou who tortured him into confessing, and he had no choice but to sign.

Marquis Dingbei was in the court, unmoved, watching Zhang Haicheng cry out for injustice with cold eyes.

It was not until Zhu Lanshan was brought to court in handcuffs that Zhang Haicheng suddenly fell silent.

His backer was Zhu Lanshan. Now that Zhu Lanshan was arrested, it was useless for him to change his confession. Zhang Haicheng finally felt hopeless. The former Minister of Finance had now become a prisoner. It was obvious that this big tree had fallen long ago.

Conviction then became inevitable.

Zhu Lanshan was greedy for money and instigated Zhang Haicheng to kill innocent people and rob money. He then covered up the crime afterwards. The evidence of his crime was solid, and the two of them were in high positions of power and protected each other. The crimes they committed over the years were too numerous to list, and they could not escape death.

Lu Shangqian originally wanted to execute them later, but Rong Se naturally didn't want them to live for a few more days, so he decided on the spot: "Parade them through the streets and behead them in public."

Mr. Lu humbly agreed. As for the officials of the Ministry of Justice who were involved, and even the other officials implicated by Zhu Lanshan, those who were transferred or retired would not be able to escape accountability. In short, no one who deserved to be exiled or beheaded would be able to escape.

An old case from fifteen years ago was finally redressed in the world, and the person who died unjustly was finally able to keep his innocence in the world.

Only then did Rong Se finally put his worries to rest.

Looking at the two Yun brothers again, they just smiled faintly.

Initially, it was to defuse the mine for myself, but now, my mood is subtly different.