Chapter 12 (6)

After a while of silence, Wu Zetian said: "Huaiying, I hate the case of Yingshan Villa. I always feel that Zhang Changzong's memorial was not explained very clearly. I want to hear you explain the causes and consequences of this case in detail."

Di Renjie replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, the old minister must speak out. Just before the old minister tells you, please ask Your Majesty to answer one of the old minister's questions."

"Okay, ask."

"The old minister wants to know what his Majesty wants Zhang Changzong to get from Heying Villa?"

Wu Zetian's expression frightened, pondered for a while, then sighed: "Huaiying, do you still remember the conversation between you and my king and minister before you left Shendu?"

"What is your Majesty referring to?"

"I remember you said to me at that time: 'Birth, old age, sickness and death are the number of days, and the supreme glory is human power. It is really unwise to use human power to fight against the number of days."

Di Renjie was shocked: "Your Majesty, do you want to get it from Heying Villa..."

Wu Zetian shook her head: "Huaiying, I have learned a lesson from Heying Villa, so don't ask questions again."

Di Renjie bowed deeply to the ground: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

"I have answered your question, Huaiying, can you say it?"

Di Renjie sighed and slowly told: "Your Majesty, the life of Fan Qixin, the old minister will not describe it in detail. I believe Your Majesty has already understood it very clearly. Fan Qixin has had close contact with foreign people for a long time. Several years ago, he met a business group from Dashi. He had a bad relationship with one of the women and gave birth to a daughter. This daughter is Lu Yanran. Fan Qixin did not want this to be known to others, so he raised Lu Yanran in the name of adopting orphans and adopted him as a female apprentice. Lu Yanran had a good relationship with Di Jinghui and helped Fan Qixin cultivate foreign medicinal materials. His research was very special.

The special environment of Henying Villa is also very suitable for cultivating plants and trees that require special temperature conditions. Lao Chen once saw a strange red flower there, called Rice Pot Flower, which is a flower species from Dashi. Through this flower, the strange medicine "Die Yejia" can be extracted. According to Lao Chen's speculation, this flower was also brought to Fan Qixin by Lu Yanran's mother. Later, Fan Qixin himself used Rice Pot Flower as raw material to make a drug, which was the strange medicine that Di Jinghui and Lu Yanran gave to the Taoists in Lan Yu Temple. The cave in Lan Yu Temple is actually where Fan Qixin practiced in the mountains."

"So that's the case. But I heard that the efficacy of this strange medicine is terrible?"

"Yes, the strange medicine caused the death of the Lan Yuguan Taoist people, and Fan Qixin did not have a good prescription for rescue. This incident was investigated by Fan Tai, the subordinate of Chen Songtao, which triggered a series of incidents in Lan Yuguan."

"Well, I already understand this. So, how did Feng Danqing kill Fan Qixin?"

"Please let your majesty and old ministers come one by one. Chen Songtao has always coveted the rare medicinal materials of Heying Villa and was unavailable, so he sent Fan Tai to Heying Villa. However, Fan Tai did not understand medical skills and pharmacology, and Yin Qian had not gained much for several years. Three years ago, Feng Danqing came to Heying Villa with similar purposes, and captured Fan Qixin with her beauty and charm, and became the hostess of Heying Villa. She did obtain some formulas of strange medicine from Fan Qixin. However, Fan Qixin did not really trust her, which can be seen from Feng Danqing's ignorance of Lan Yuguan. More than a month ago, Feng Danqing was threatened by Fan Qixin and poisoned Fan Qixin in helplessness. He wanted to pretend to be the saying of becoming a Taoist and ascend to the immortal to hide the truth, but

Her crime was witnessed by Fan Tai. Fan Tai and Chen Songtao conspired to Fan Gui, the gardener of the villa, to report to the official. The purpose was to prevent Feng Danqing from escaping the blame easily, so as to seize Feng Danqing's handle and wait for an opportunity for him to plan. At this moment, the old minister sent a famous post to Henying Villa. Feng Danqing was panicked and had to ask Fan Tai for help. Fan Tai guided her to make a poisonous plan to frame Di Jinghui, and replace Fan Qixin's body with the body of an unknown old man. This not only added a layer of means to Chen Songtao's plan to frame Di Jinghui, but also completely controlled Feng Danqing in their hands. At the same time, Chen Songtao deliberately entrusted the old minister to investigate the cause of Fan Qixin's death. This plan is a coincidence and not poisonous."

Wu Zetian smiled and said, "Well, it's a pity that they met Di Huaiying."

"Your Majesty, the laws of heaven are clear and unmiscuous. If you do evil things, you will die. Doing evil things will always cost you."

"It's OK. Huaiying, I have one last question."

"Yes, your Majesty, may I ask."

There was a bright light flashing in Wu Zetian's eyes. She stared at Di Renjie and asked word by word: "Why did Feng Danqing have to kill Fan Qixin? Is Fan Qixin's threatening her related to Zhang Changzong?"

Di Renjie was silent for a long time before looking up and said, "Your Majesty, do you want to hear the truth or lies?"

Wu Zetian smiled faintly: "Huaiying, say whatever you want. All I want is an answer. When you answer this question, you can calm down and discuss the way to deal with Di Jinghui and Li Yuanfang."

In a solemn silence, Wu Zetian and Di Renjie looked at each other deeply, and they all understood in their hearts that the fate of the people they each care about the most was about to be decided.

Luoyang, Dali Temple.

Di Jinghui sat upright in the prison robes, looking ahead, watching his old father slowly walk up. When Di Renjie stepped into the prison, he stood up, called "Dad", and then knelt down in front of Di Renjie on both knees.

Di Renjie hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hands, gently held his son's shoulder, looked at Di Jinghui's raised face lovingly, and said with a smile: "I've lost a little bit, but my complexion is not bad." As he said that, he pulled Di Jinghui up, and the two sat face to face on the bench in the prison.

After pinching Di Jinghui's prison uniform, Di Renjie asked softly: "Is this clothes enough? Are you cold to sleep at night?" Di Jinghui hurriedly said: "Enough, enough. Dad, I'm not cold..." Seeing Di Renjie nodding at him with concern, Di Jinghui suddenly blushed and lowered his head with shame. After a long time of stuttering, he said in a very low voice: "Dad, my son has made you worry. I'm sorry." Di Renjie shook his head and smiled: "You three brothers have made me worry the most since you were young, and I didn't expect it to be like this until today. I will be even more worried when you set out tomorrow morning."

Di Jinghui called out again, "Dad" and then fell silent. After a while, he said, "Dad, do you know about the place where my son is going to serve the sentence? I have never heard of it before."

Di Renjie nodded and said, "Well, it's called Yibotai. It's an unknown small place. It faces the desert and is backed by Jinshan. It's at the junction of the Turks and the Great Zhou Dynasty. It's a very remote and remote place. You have to be prepared to suffer." After a pause, he looked at Di Jinghui and smiled and said, "You have been pampering since childhood. Now you're going to suffer a little."

Di Jinghui smiled bitterly: "Son deserves the sin, and he deserves it no matter how much suffering he suffers."

Di Renjie looked at Di Jinghui's bitter appearance and said meaningfully: "After that being said, I'm not very worried about having Yuan Fang go with you."

Di Jinghui was shocked: "What? Li Yuanfang went with me? Why? He, he is not your guard captain?"

Di Renjie sighed softly: "Yuan Fang offended Zhang Changzong, and the emperor has demoted him to the Zhechong School Captain and sent him to the governor's office of Shatuozhou to guard the border. Yibotai is under the rule of the governor's office of Shatuozhou, so he just happened to escort you all the way to Liu."

Di Jinghui was still confused: "But Dad, have you been retired? Then who will be your chief guard?"

Di Renjie said: "The emperor has appointed a new guard captain for me. You know him, that is General Chen Huai and Chen."

Di Jinghui frowned and said, "How could this happen? Dad, why didn't you help Li Yuanfang talk? It would be too unfair to treat him like this."

Di Renjie nodded and smiled: "Jinghui, why? You have also started to speak for Yuan Fang?"

Di Jinghui muttered, "Dad, I just think it will be disappointing for you to do this."

Di Renjie sighed: "I don't care about other people's opinions. But Yuan Fang's opinions, Jinghui, from tomorrow, you will have to spend time with Yuan Fang day and night. You have enough time to talk to him about the opinions on this matter."

Di Jinghui lowered his head and said nothing. Di Renjie looked at him silently for a long time, then gently patted his shoulder, stood up, and said, "Jinghui, I'm going back now. I won't go to see you tomorrow. The road ahead is so difficult. You should take care of it... Let me write often to let me know if you are good." After that, he turned around and walked out.

Di Jinghui jumped up from the bench, stared at his father's back, walked a few steps, and choked and said, "Dad, take care of yourself." Di Renjie stopped stepping, but did not look back, and finally left the prison steadily.
Chapter completed!