Shi Siming does not recognize friends, only recognizes reality.

If reality tells him that his friend is suspected, with Shi Siming's character, he will not care about the so-called "friendship" at all. If he is suspected, he will be arrested and tortured. If it is found in the end that he has arrested the wrong person, his friend has become a dead person.

Friend, it doesn't matter, just find a new friend. As for the dead friend you caught by mistake, well, as long as your mood is stable after death.

When it comes to interests and futures, my own father can kill him, let alone a mere friend.

In this way, Feng Yu was taken to Pinlu Jiefu Prison.

When a suspect is imprisoned, he is given a slap on the wrist as usual, regardless of whether he is innocent or not. The jailer first whips Feng Yu with a whip soaked in salt water, and then cuts his flesh to pieces, and then uses a stick as thick as his arm to hit him hard on the back.

These are broad-based torture methods, and the more sophisticated ones are to come, such as piercing fingers with bamboo sticks, cutting skin and flesh with daggers, etc.

Feng Yu was struck dozens of times with a whip and fell into a semi-conscious state. It was not until night that a civil servant from the Jiefu entered the prison and tortured Feng Yu according to Shi Siming's instructions.

Under the attentive laughter of the jailer, the clerk entered the prison and sat behind the table in the torture room. Looking at Feng Yu who was tortured into a human shape by the torture instruments, the clerk frowned and was disgusted with Feng Yu's appearance.

After sitting for a long time stroking his beard slowly, the clerk ordered Feng Yu to wake up.

A bucket of cold water was poured down on his head, and Feng Yu shuddered. When he woke up leisurely, he saw the civil servant sitting in front of him. Feng Yu's mouth tightened and he began to cry loudly. The cry became louder and finally turned into a howl.

"What crime have I committed? Why are you arresting me? I am friends with you, General Shi..."

After receiving Shi Siming's instructions, the civil servant knew what to ask, so he slowly said: "Feng Yu, around midnight last night, where were you? What did you do? Tell the truth, General Shi knows everything you did.

"

Feng Yu cried loudly: "Last night I drank with General Shi in the brothel. Later, General Shi and I were both drunk and slept in the elegant pavilion of the brothel. General Shi slept in the same room with me. Didn't he know? What happened to General Shi?"

Am I involved?"

Seeing Feng Yu crying unjustly, the clerk frowned, something was wrong.

Looking at Feng Yu's appearance, he clearly looked like he had been wronged. Normally, truly guilty people would not act so greedy for life and fear of death, but at this moment, Feng Yu looked like an ordinary little person who was completely unaware and very scared.

Could it be that General Shi made a mistake?

"Feng Yu, don't take any chances anymore. What you have done has already happened and you can't hide it. Let me remind you, did you steal General Shi's badge?"

Feng Yu was stunned for a moment, then filled with grief and anger: "What waist badge? Why did I steal his waist badge? Last night I was drunk with him, fell asleep together, and never left the door. What does General Shi's waist badge have to do with me?"

What? Sir, who have I offended? Why do you want to kill me unjustly?"

The clerk's face was a bit ugly. The young man in front of him didn't know anything about it. He didn't seem to be a hero who could handle the situation. Looking at the wronged look on his face, it was obvious that he really didn't know anything about this matter.

After hesitating for a moment, the clerk was about to let the jailer continue the torture. The jailer suddenly handed over a letter with a smile and said in a low voice: "This letter was found from Feng Yu's arms. The paint is intact and no one has touched it.

Please take a look at it."

The clerk took the letter and carefully checked the paint. He found that there was no sign of damage, so he opened the paint and took out the letter. Under the dim light in the prison, the clerk read the letter carefully.

Judging from the title, the letter was written by Feng Yu to his family elders. It seemed that he didn't have time to send it out and kept it in his arms. After reading the letter, the clerk let out a sigh of relief, his expression becoming more and more hesitant.

There is no trace of suspicion in this letter, and the content of the letter can be said to be very touching.

Feng Yu said in the letter that he had made a good friend in Yingzhou, a military general named Shi Siming. General Shi was a reasonable man, and he got along well with Feng Yu when talking to him. He was also bold and generous in his actions, and he was informal.

Xiaojie is a friend worth making.

This friend now encountered a little trouble, and his superiors urged him to prepare grain. Feng Yu asked his family in the letter if he could mobilize the funds at home to purchase more than 20,000 dan of grain from Henan Road and Shannan Road as soon as possible and transport it to Yingzhou City.

To relieve General Shi's worries.

After the clerk read the letter, to be honest, he was a little touched. He was moved by the sincere friendship between Feng Yu and General Shi, and he felt very sad that Feng Yu was unfortunately involved in a major case and was imprisoned and tortured.

"It's too dark, what a pity!" The literary official shook his head secretly. A friendship like a world-famous romance encountered twists and misunderstandings, and the boat of friendship capsized at every turn. It was indeed too dark.

"Shi Siming is really not a human being. He has a bad heart and a dog's lungs." The clerk slandered in his heart again, and then looked at the letter and saw that it was signed the day before yesterday, that is, before he and Shi Siming got drunk last night.

Although no real evidence of Feng Yu's innocence could be found, officials subjectively believed that Feng Yu had been wrongly accused.

The civil servants sighed secretly, but Feng Yu was unaware of it and was still crying loudly, his cries filled with grievances that he had nowhere to complain about.

"Keep him locked up for now. I'll go ask General Shi for instructions." The clerk ordered the jailer, took the letter, and left in a hurry.

Feng Yu suddenly stopped crying, and then cried even louder.

…………

Outside Chang'an, at the Huaqing Palace in Lishan Mountain, a horse was galloping on the official road, riding to the foot of Lishan Mountain. The knight dismounted and walked up the mountain in a hurry.

Three hours later, Li Longji saw two memorials in the Huaqing Palace.

One is from Pei Zhounan, the censor of the Anxi Protectorate, and the other is from Bian Lingcheng, the supervisor of the Anxi Festival.

Both memorials report the same thing, but their expressions and tones are completely different.

After reading the memorial, Li Longji looked gloomy and uncertain, then finally slammed the table and got up angrily.

"Gu Qing, Zhu Zi, you dare to kill our general, what are your intentions!"

Gao Lishi, who was standing by the side, saw Long Yan furious and couldn't help but remained as silent as a cicada, daring not to say a word.

Li Longji was so angry that he paced back and forth in the hall, murmuring: "Lawless, lawless! I gave you a town of military power, is this how you repay me? What are Pei Zhounan and Bian Lingcheng doing?

?Be punished!"

Gao Lishi saw that Li Longji was trembling with anger, so he bravely persuaded: "Your Majesty, calm down and take care of the dragon body."

"Sooner or later I will be angry to death by these rebellious ministers!" Li Longji became even more angry.

After pacing back and forth for a few steps, Li Longji paused, turned around and stared at Gao Lishi, breathing heavily: "Do you know what Gu Qing did in Anxi?"

"I don't know, old slave."

Li Longji pointed to the memorial on the desk and said angrily: "He, he actually killed the captain I sent to Anxi. The captain heard that someone in the army in Anxi made bad remarks about you, so he took several people for questioning.

Gu Qing, a bastard, actually killed the school captain!"

"Ha! How brave. Is Anxi now Gu Qing's world instead of my territory? Is he the local emperor of Anxi? The generals under his command slandered you, but he not only ignored him, but also killed them.

Wei Yiping's army, Gu Qing, Gu Qing! This man must be secretly rebellious, how can I tolerate him!"

Gao Lishi's eyelids twitched and he suddenly became nervous.

Li Longji's words were a bit harsh. It was fine to say that Gu Qing was ignorant of good and bad, but to say that he was "hiddenly rebellious" was... too much. A young man in his twenties had only been running Anxi for two years.

How could He De dare to rebel if there were so many people? An Lushan, the biggest henchman of the Tang Dynasty, had been operating in the three towns for more than ten years before he became the threat he is now.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. Gu Qing... is indeed such a bastard. He kept getting into trouble when he was in Chang'an. Unexpectedly, he still didn't change his behavior after going to Anxi. This guy is really a headache. Your Majesty knows his character, why should you bother with this bastard?"

Angry?" Gao Lishi gently advised.

These words of consolation were very skillful. First, he scolded Gu Qing from Li Longji's point of view, but at the same time, he downgraded Gu Qing's nature to "causing trouble" without leaving any trace.

"Getting into trouble" and "rebellion" are completely different in nature. Gao Lishi's words were like a shower of rain, quickly extinguishing Li Longji's anger.

The furious Li Longji was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then blinked in confusion.

"Causing trouble?" Li Longji frowned and muttered to himself.

Gao Lishi also looked puzzled: "Isn't he causing trouble? Your Majesty should know this son's virtue. He didn't let your Majesty worry about it when he was in Chang'an. He even dared to kill the governor. Killing a school captain in Anxi is not right.

It’s nothing to him, right?”

Li Longji hummed. At this time, he had calmed down a lot. He turned around and picked up the memorials of Pei Zhounan and Bian Lingcheng. He read back and forth between the two memorials several times, his expression falling into deep thought.

Bian Lingcheng's memorial was quite radical. He didn't say a good word about Gu Qing. He described Gu Qing's killing of the school captain as a long-planned incident. However, Pei Zhounan's memorial made the cause and effect very clear. School captain Chen Shufeng broke into the camp.

The soldiers of the Anxi Army were forcibly captured and tortured, killing one general and seriously injuring two other generals.

The Anxi Army was extremely angry after hearing the news. The whole camp unanimously demanded that Chen Shufeng be killed, which almost caused a mutiny. In order to appease the soldiers and prevent the situation from getting worse, Gu Qing followed the wishes of the entire army and killed Chen Shufeng and several accomplices in public.

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Two completely different statements about the same thing, who is true and who is false?

Li Longji thought for a long time and said slowly: "Well, getting into trouble... Oh, is it getting into trouble?"

Gao Lishi bowed and said, "I'm making random guesses. Your Majesty, please forgive me."

Gao Lishi did not exonerate Gu Qing, but the situation in the palace and court over the years forced him to speak for Gu Qing.

In the harem, the relationship between Gao Lishi and Yang Guifei is quite congenial. After all, she is the only woman Li Longji loves. For Gao Lishi, Yang Guifei is the mistress of the family, and Gao Lishi is the housekeeper. The housekeeper naturally treats the mistress more.

It’s just a matter of flattery, not to mention that Concubine Yang’s brother is now the Right Chancellor of the imperial court, and the Yang family is the head of the family both inside and outside. Gao Lishi is a discerning and smart character, so he naturally knows how to take sides.

Concubine Yang had always regarded Gu Qing as her own brother, so in Gao Lishi's eyes, Gu Qing was actually the emperor's brother-in-law, but he had no real blood relationship with Concubine Yang.
Chapter completed!