SFS Chapter 289 Save your life
Chapter 289 Save your life
When Bei Jing first arrived, people who recognized her gathered around her.
"Prince, Qin'er and you are good friends, and you are the most beloved by His Majesty. You must save your cousin!"
"Please let us in to see him. We can't even enter this prison. Please let us in."
Bei Jingchu shook her head slightly.
"Sorry, aunt, I don't have the right."
"Instead of waiting here, it is better to go to the palace and ask Aye for his warrant."
Princess Guangde shut up and said, "I... His Majesty is angry, and I am a little afraid."
"you......"
Bei Jingchu had already gone to face Zhou Huanjiu.
Bei Jinruo glanced at the door of the cell and took a deep breath.
"Let's go into the palace!"
Zhou Huanjiu pulled her and asked anxiously, "What's going on?"
"Princess Xianning is already above everyone else, why is she suddenly charged with treason?"
"Chu Chu, was someone falsely accusing me?"
"I was just about to go to the East Palace to see you. Let's go find evidence and clear the princess' name!"
"We can't let Bei Qin be implicated."
Bei Jingchu didn't dare to look at her expectant eyes and let her good friend down.
When she spoke out, she realized her voice was so low and hoarse: "I...I have read the evidence and testimony."
“There are no loopholes.”
She raised her head and looked into her eyes. Her chest felt stuffy and she said helplessly, "It's not a frame-up."
"It was a long-planned attempt to connect with the foreign enemy."
"Even the gunpowder recipe you developed was resold to fill her private vault."
Zhou Huanjiu almost fell down, and Bei Jingchu took her into his arms.
But her body was so weak that she had to struggle to lift it up.
She knew how hard it was for her to accept the news. The treasure she had learned to develop for Dai Viet was taken away by her fiancé's mother and sold to the enemy country.
Zhou Huanjiu grabbed her hand tightly, as if grabbing the last straw, and asked expectantly: "If it is true, the death of the princess is not a pity."
"But we all know what kind of person Bei Qin is."
"Although he is a bit thick-skinned and not a very moral person, he does have a bottom line and will never do anything to collaborate with the enemy."
"I know I'm stupid, but I'm pretty good at judging people."
"He..." Zhou Huanjiu started to cry.
"He won't."
Bei Jingchu didn't know whether she was comforting her or herself: "I know, I know, I will ask clearly."
“I don’t think he will either.”
She went in directly, but was stopped by the guard at the door: "Stop! This is a restricted area of the Dali Temple, you are not allowed to trespass!"
Haoyue took out the East Palace token and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here to interrogate the wanted criminal. Please get out of the way immediately."
The guard glanced at the token, but apparently couldn't tell it.
He threw away the token and called for his men to arrest them: "Catch these people pretending to be the prince!"
"Tsk, you're using fake goods to pretend to be a noble again."
"Do you think we are fools? If you are really the prince, why didn't those officials accompany you?"
Bei Jingchu didn't want to cause trouble, so he took a step back and said, "Then I'll have someone urge the Dali Temple Minister to come quickly."
But it was useless, the intention was misinterpreted again.
"You're pretending pretty well."
"You want to escape? No way."
"You'd better surrender obediently. If you dare to pretend to be a noble, you must be prepared to be caught."
Seeing that a conflict was inevitable, the Dali Temple Minister arrived and shouted from a distance: "How dare you! Stop!"
"How dare you offend the crown prince!"
The scene that was about to break out suddenly calmed down.
The Dali Temple Chief Justice came to apologize, and the guards who had been so arrogant just now knelt on the ground and dared not look up.
But their fear could be seen from their trembling bodies.
"Nothing happened. It proves that the Dali Temple Prison is well guarded."
"You performed your duties as usual, but your eyesight was a little off. However, you performed your duties faithfully, and I will reward you with ten ounces of gold each."
Bei Jingchu didn't have time to listen to their thanks as she hurried inside.
Passing by the torture chamber, a strong smell of blood could be smelled. The Dali Temple official led the way quickly in front, explaining, "We just interrogated a prisoner, and the smell was a bit strong."
"Your Highness is fumigated. Let's walk faster."
Bei Jingchu turned her head slightly, and saw bloody pieces of flesh hanging on the torture instruments that had not yet been cleaned.
She was relieved to see someone.
Fortunately, he was not punished.
Yes, the case has already been decided. Unless Bei Qin has a personal grudge against the people in Tianlao, there is no need to torture him.
"Your Highness, we have arrived."
The person who was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed opened his eyes.
The Dali Temple official asked, "Your Highness, do you want to interrogate the prisoner?"
"Please open the door. I have something to ask him."
The Dali Temple official bowed and confessed his crime: "Your Highness is a noble man, you cannot be in the same room with prisoners. I'm sorry that I can't obey your order."
Bei Jingchu didn't argue with him any more and sent him out.
"Shu Qing, go out and have a rest. You don't have to wait for me."
Fortunately, he didn't say much this time and left.
Bei Qin looked calm, just like usual, except that he had changed into prisoner uniform and did not wear an official hat or a scholar's hat.
Bei Jingchu got straight to the point: "Do you know about the matter of Xianning's sister? How much do you know?"
"So what if you know, so what if you don't know?"
"At this point, it's all the same outcome."
"..."
Bei Jingchu didn't say anything, just looked at him.
He compromised, just as sometimes she insisted on his coming up with strange ideas.
"I do not know."
"After I moved to the Princess's Mansion in Xianning, life there was different from what I had imagined."
“It’s all very strange, but very happy.”
“So those weird parts, I ignored them.”
"Because compared to my childhood, all this seems like an absurd dream."
"If I had known what my mother had done earlier, if I had helped her, I wouldn't have been discovered so easily, and I wouldn't have exposed myself by such a stupid method, and I could have achieved my goal just the same."
That's the truth, so Bei Jingchu believed that he didn't know it before, but she was not sure which side he would stand on after he knew it.
She stepped forward, grasped the railing, and squatted down to look at him at eye level.
"Cousin, brother, please listen to me."
"You are not the biological son of Princess Xianning. If you claim to be Princess Guangde again, there is still a chance of recovery."
Bei Qin suddenly laughed, as if he was laughing at his own ignorant and naive child.
"Your Highness... At first, His Majesty was so kind to you that you had a false impression of him."
"He's not a man who values kinship, he's just a loving father."
"He can even be an unkind father when necessary."
"He won't hold back, don't be stupid."
As he spoke, he even became serious, and repeatedly reminded: "Don't beg him, don't ask for anything."
"Just come and see me, and take me off of you."
"I am the son of a traitor. You can only hate me after you know this. You are clean, calm and rational."
Bei Jingchu didn't understand: "Not really, Father, because I want to protect you, you suspect that I am also a traitor."
"I am already the crown prince, why am I rebelling?"
Bei Qin looked distressed: "His Majesty will not doubt you because of this, but it will be bad for you after all."
After a long while, he let out a long sigh: "Forget it, say sorry for Jiujiu on my behalf."