Chapter 111: Things Have Changed
Xie Tingzhou got on the carriage first. When he bent down to get in, he straightened up again and turned around and said, "Since it's getting late, why don't you get on?"
Chen Yu followed reluctantly and got into the carriage, only to see Xie Tingzhou raise his hand and throw a set of clothes over her head.
Shen Yu quickly caught it, and was startled when she saw what was in his hand, and immediately looked up at his face.
Xie Tingzhou turned his face slightly to the other side, leaving only a cold profile to Chen Yu.
She looked at the jailer's clothes in her hand and finally understood where his words "When will you learn to trust me" came from.
He was not there to stop her. He had already arranged everything for her and paved a safer and smoother road.
Xie Tingzhou couldn't explain what he felt at the moment. He thought that after so long, she had been trying to trust him, but she still chose to fight alone.
Chen Yu stroked the jailer's clothes with her fingers, and from the rough material she felt the softness in Xie Tingzhou's heart.
He has helped her so much along the way and it is difficult to express all her gratitude in just one word: thank you.
She opened her mouth, but suddenly didn't know what to say.
After a while, Xie Tingzhou said, "Change first, we're almost at the Dali Temple."
Shen Yu came back to her senses. She was thin and small, so she put on the jailer's clothes, which made her look much more sturdy.
The carriage was too ostentatious and stopped before reaching the Dali Temple.
Xie Tingzhou said calmly: "I'll wait for you here, come out early."
Chen Yu: "Okay, one and a half hours, oh no, I'll be out in one hour at most."
Xie Tingzhou nodded slightly, and when she was about to lift the curtain to go out, he suddenly grabbed her hand.
Chen Yu suddenly turned around and looked at her wrist, "What's wrong?"
"We'll talk when you come back." Xie Tingzhou said gently.
Chen Yu didn't know what he was going to talk about, but her heart couldn't help but start to get nervous.
Xie Tingzhou pinched her wrist gently and said, "Don't be afraid. Everything has been arranged inside. Just follow them in."
Shen Yu nodded, got out of the carriage and looked back again, "Then... I'm leaving."
Xie Tingzhou's lips curled into a smile, "Well, go ahead."
Go forward and you will find yourself near Guanghua Gate.
Chen Yu followed the jailer who came to meet her and showed her badge in front of the yamen. However, Chen Yu could not help but look back at the palace alley and the darkness.
The carriage has
Although she could no longer see, she felt as if there was a pair of eyes silently watching her.
After being reborn, she felt confident for the first time.
It was the time for the prison guards to take turns on duty, and the guard at the door checked the badge and let the person in.
The Dali Temple really did send more people, with one person every three steps and one guard every five steps, making the Dali Temple as impregnable as a rock.
If she decided to visit at night, it would be difficult to see Ge Liangji without alerting the guards.
Once we entered the Dali Temple Prison, the guards inside were much more lax. I guess they thought that with the security outside being so bad, not even a fly could fly in.
The prison warden took Shen Yu to the door of a cell and whispered, "Please forgive me, brother, we can only go here. The key to the cell door is in our master's hands."
Chen Yu nodded and said, "Thank you for your help."
Ge Liangji didn't sleep.
Tomorrow at noon would be the day his head would fall off. He leaned against the wall and thought that his life was not too bad, except that he had a setback at the last minute.
Hearing the voices at the door, Ge Liangji asked: "Who else wants to take my life at this time?"
Chen Yu looked at the man in prison, "I'm not here to take your life."
Ge Liangji tugged at his clothes and said, "Then you are here to ask for the truth."
“No.”
"What is that?" Ge Liangji asked curiously.
"I'll know once you see it."
Ge Liangji glanced towards the prison door, but the light was dim and he couldn't see the person clearly.
The man took a torch from the wall and slowly approached, and the face finally appeared in the light.
Ge Liangji rubbed his eyes, his expression suddenly changed, "You, you are Chen Yu! But haven't you already..."
"Just treat me as if I were dead."
In fact, she and Ge Liangji had not met many times. They had only run into each other two or three times when he met Shen Zhongan, so they were not familiar with each other.
Chen Yu put the torch back and said, "I came here today to get an answer for my father and brother. I want to ask you on his behalf, why did you do this?"
Ge Liangji lowered his head and said nothing.
Chen Yu said: "My father is a true military commander, with a straightforward personality and he won't flatter others. He considers his friends to be sincere friends. Obviously, he has made a sincere friend, but you haven't."
Ge Liangji lowered his head and said nothing.
Chen Yu added: "I can't let them die in vain."
Ge Liangji suddenly raised his head
, whispered: "Ayu, I remember your father called you like this, a dying man's words are good, listen to me, don't investigate this case anymore, if you continue to investigate it, you will be killed."
"I've died once." Chen Yu said calmly, "Death is not that scary, but having a guilty conscience is scary."
"Why are you as stubborn as your father?" Ge Liangji shook his head and said, "Isn't it better to live a good life?"
Chen Yu said: "I also want to ask you, can you rest in peace if you die without a clear conscience?"
Ge Liangji looked much older. Although he was only in his fifties, he looked like he was in his seventies or eighties.
"No one else, I said it in my confession book, I did everything."
"Do you think I will believe it?" Chen Yu asked, "Do you think my father will believe it? In fact, I met Liang Jianfang before he died. He told me that there were other spies in the army and they didn't know each other. But you said that he was the one who colluded with the Xijue people. You are clearly lying."
"Please tell me, Uncle Ge." Chen Yu grabbed the cell door, "I beg you to tell me."
Ge Liangji looked at her, his expression was moved for a moment, and he didn't know what he was thinking about, but he shook his head and said, "I can't say too much, or rather, I don't know as much as you think."
"There are three plans in total. One is to collude with the Western Jue, and the other is for food and fodder. I didn't expect that the first two plans were resolved by you. Closing the city gates is the last resort, because once Shen Zhongan returns to the capital, he will have 100,000 soldiers. It is impossible to stop this matter without a thorough investigation, and they can't let him investigate."
Chen Yu held onto the wooden railing tightly, "What kind of hatred could make them do such a cruel thing?"
Ge Liangji shook his head, "Maybe you were going in the wrong direction from the beginning? Maybe the reason for killing Shen Zhongan in the first place was not something else, but some people wanted to protect themselves."
Chen Yu was stunned, but she didn't have much time to think, Ge Liangji continued: "I used my life and a secret to save the lives of more than a thousand people in the Ge family, it was worth it. I can't say anything more. When I go to the underworld, I will apologize to your father."
"But how can you guarantee that the other party will not go back on their words after you die?"
Ge Liangji suddenly smiled, "I left a life-saving talisman for the children. Even if I die, as long as the life-saving talisman is still there, they dare not move rashly."
Just as Chen Yu wanted to ask more, the voice of the warden suddenly came from the other end of the cell.
"I'm sleepy. It would be nice to have a burning knife at this time."
Chen Yu frowned. This was a secret signal agreed upon by the warden in advance, indicating that the situation had changed.
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