In the afternoon of the same day, Di Guangyuan came to the Imperial Study again and asked to see Her Majesty.
The exquisite and delicious dishes sent by the Imperial Kitchen at noon made His Majesty’s dragon heart happy, Wu Zetian had already regained her composure, and when she heard Di Guangyuan’s request to see her, she immediately summoned the young man.
After Di Guangyuan went back, he obviously thought deeply about how to behave in front of Her Majesty. As soon as he saw Her Majesty, he knelt down with a ‘plop’ and told about his father’s grievances with tears in his eyes.
Wu Zetian frowned when she heard this, and after reading the letter handed by Di Guangyuan, she immediately sent someone to investigate.
The second part of the plot was successfully completed.
Immediately after, because the person she sent was afraid of Lai Junchen, this investigation ended without a problem, but brought back a ‘Dying Letter’, which was said to have been written by Di Renjie.
Wu Zetian was puzzled as to why Di Renjie’s son brought his own bloodstained letter, and Di Renjie once again confessed to the crime? So, she personally summoned Di Renjie.
Only then did Di Renjie explain the reason—— If he didn’t not admit his guilt, he would be tortured to death. He only pleaded guilty temporarily, and after saving his life, he tried to find a way to appeal his grievances.
When Wu Zetian learned that he had been wronged, he ordered him to be exempted from the death penalty and demoted him to Pengze Country as a county magistrate.
Hearing this news, Yue Xingwen and the others, who were guarding outside the palace, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Qin Miao said, “So far, it has gone well, we have intervened in the development of part of the plot, so that Di-daren can get out of prison smoothly. However, before he reached Pengze County, he was still in danger.”
Qin Lu said, “Pengze County, I remember that it’s in Jiangxi, Luoyang is in Henan, the distance between the two places should be more than 800 kilometers. According to the speed of the ancients riding horses… It’s going to take a few months to get there, right?”
Yue Xingwen waited for a while, and didn’t find the library’s settlement points, so he said, “It seems that the task is not yet complete, we have to find a way to escort him to Pengze County to take up his post.”
Xu Yishen said, “Xin Yan, Ke Shaobin and the others can’t leave, I can go with you.”
Yue Xingwen shook his head and said, “Senior brother Xu, you also stay in Luoyang, in case the situation changes, we can also deliver the news in time. The six of us are enough for the task of protecting Di-daren.”
Xu Yishen thought about it carefully, Xingwen’s words also made sense. The news of several people in the palace needed him to pass on, if he left, in case there was a change, Ke Shaobin and the others would not be able to respond immediately.
Moreover, to protect Di Renjie, Xingwen and the other five people were indeed enough.
After everyone discussed, they set off the next day and followed Di Renjie on the road.
The journey from Luoyang to Pengze County was long, Di Renjie traveled lightly, only brought two packages, and walked slowly forward in a carriage.
Soon after leaving Luoyang, he noticed that someone was following him.
Di Renjie asked the coachman to stop, turned around and looked, but saw that there was not a single figure on the official road.
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Those black-clothes men were all strong in martial arts, holding bright curved weapons in their hands, and when they saw his carriage, they rushed over without saying a word.
Before Di Renjie could hide, he saw a bright light flash, and he was blind again, unable to see anything. He only felt the wind whistling in his ears, mixed with the screams of several people, and when he opened his eyes again, there was nothing in front of him, as if everything just now was just his hallucination.
Di Renjie rubbed his eyes, remembering the scene in prison back then—— It was the same light, he couldn’t see anything.
He looked around suspiciously.
There was no one around, Di Renjie was silent for a moment, and had to continue his journey.
A few days later, he passed by a small town, where a few orphans were begging everywhere, kneeling in front of him and begging him for food, and he used the silver taels he carried with him to buy a basket of steamed buns for several children.
When he turned around, he found that the bag of money was missing from his body.
The housekeeper said, “Daren, it must have been stolen by those little beggars!”
Di Renjie said, “Let’s look for it.”
It was no good going on the road without any money, so Di Renjie got out of the carriage with the housekeeper and looked around. However, the children of this town ran so fast that they disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye, and they couldn’t find the little beggars at all.
In desperation, Di Renjie had no choice but to return to the carriage.
As soon as he sat down, he felt something resting under his buttocks, and he got up to see his money bag, sitting nicely under the cushion of his seat.
Di Renjie was puzzled. “I clearly looked here just now, right?”
The housekeeper scratched his head. “Maybe you didn’t look carefully enough? It turned out that the money bag had fallen on the carriage, and I thought it had been stolen by those children.”
Di Renjie smiled and didn’t say another word.
The two continued on their way. That night, there was a sudden rainstorm, the wheels fell into the mud, and it was impossible to move. Di Renjie was drenched in the rain for a long time, infected with wind chill, and rested at the post station for a few days, with a high fever that did not subside.
In a daze, he heard a girl helping the housekeeper to boil the medicine, and the antipyretic medicine was very bitter, and the other party thoughtfully stuffed him with a piece of sweet candied fruit. When he was sick, he always felt bitter and sweet in his mouth, and his brain was drowsy.
Di Renjie rubbed his forehead and said with a smile, “In the past few days, has someone helped you boil medicine?”
The housekeeper said, “There is a girl surnamed Qin, she said that her sister is also sick and happens to live nearby, and when she goes to buy medicine every day, she helps us bring it back by the way, and boil it for me.”
Di Renjie asked, “Then does Miss Qin know my identity?”
The housekeeper said, “I don’t know, I just told her that we are doing business from other places.”
Di Renjie looked out the window. “I’ve had some strange dreams along the way.”
The housekeeper asked him suspiciously, “What did daren dream about?”
Di Renjie said, “There are some immortals who know magical powers that are helping me get out of the trap, and every time they appear, there is a ray of light.”
The housekeeper smiled and said, “Daren, that was good karma for you, and good fortune comes to you!”
Di Renjie didn’t say much, just looked out the window thoughtfully.
Jiangzhou had three countries, namely Pengchen, Xunyang, and Pengze. After a long journey of several months, Di Renjie finally came to Pengze County.
However, before entering the boundaries of Pengze County, he was ambushed again.
This time the ambush was silent, someone ambushed on the road to Pengze County, pulled up a longbow, and shot directly at his horse. The carriage instantly lost control, Di Renjie was thrown out, thrown to the ground and almost vomited blood.
A dense rain of arrows followed from the forest, almost shooting Di Renjie into a hedgehog!
Di Renjie hurriedly hid behind the stone, and the next moment, he suddenly heard someone not far away holding a book and reciting the sentence ‘to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains’, and those sharp arrows disappeared in an instant.
Di Renjie got up, patted the dust on his body, and said with a smile, “All of you, won’t you come out to meet?”
Yue Xingwen and the others looked at each other.
Qin Miao said, “Di-daren is a detective in history, he has long been aware of our existence, anyway, it’s Pengze County in front of him, it should be okay to see him, right?”
Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and said, “Okay.”
Everyone walked forward quickly, and Yue Xingwen politely bowed, “Is Di-daren injured?”
Di Renjie said, “All the way, but are you protecting me secretly?”
Yue Xingwen coughed lightly. “That’s right. Several of our brothers and sisters have received the favor of Di-daren, this time, I heard that Di-daren was appointed as the magistrate of Pengze County, we happened to be coming to Jiangzhou, and as we were on the same route as you, we followed you along the way, thinking that, if you were in trouble, we could be of some help.”
Di Renjie looked at Yue Xingwen carefully, suddenly smiled, and said, “I remember, before in Shendu, it was also you guys who came into the cell overnight and handed me the brush.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Di-daren has good eyesight.”
Di Renjie looked at them meaningfully. “I once convicted an unsolved case four years ago, Zhang Jian, is a vicious thug who kills his father and murders.”
Qin Lu was wondering what he meant by saying this suddenly, but the next moment, Qin Miao lowered her head in embarrassment and said, “You have already seen through us?”
When he was in prison, in order to convince him, Qin Miao casually made up an excuse, saying that Di-daren had helped his father clear his grievances and was kind to them. Di Renjie asked, are you Zhang Jian’s children?
It turned out that as early as that time, Di Renjie laid a language trap for them.
Zhang Jian had no grievances at all, he was a murderer, and he had already been beheaded by Di Renjie according to the law.
Yue Xingwen said curiously, “Since daren has known that we have been trailing you for a long time, and also knows that we have been faking our identities, why did you not expose us along the way?”
Di Renjie said, “You have no intention of hurting me, so I naturally don’t need to startle the snake.” He pointed to the landmark of ‘Pengze County’ in front of him and said with a smile, “Thank you for escorting me here.”
Di Renjie turned around and walked towards Pengze County.
Yue Xingwen and the others looked at his back and then looked at each other.
There were some things that couldn’t be explained, for example, why did they have a bright light as soon as they appeared, and Di Renjie was once blind for a short time? Those jailers might think that they were hallucinating, but Di Renjie was an extremely perceptive person, and he would not let go of any clues when dealing with cases…
He didn’t classify these as hallucinations. But it was really difficult to explain, so he chose not to ask. Since these people were secretly helping him, why didn’t he take advantage of the situation and use the power of these people to survive?
Just like when he pleaded guilty in prison. Only by being alive could he see the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
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[Dreaming Back to the Great Tang Dynasty’s ‘Xuanwu Gate Incident’ completed, score 90 points]
[Dreaming Back to the Great Tang Dynasty’s ‘Emperor Zetian’ completed, score 90 points]
[Dreaming Back to the Great Tang Dynasty’s ‘Di Renjie’s Unjust Case’ completed, score 86 points]
[Final Score 88 points]
[Credit: 4, Points: 352]
[Group C points bonus x 1.5 times. The final point is 528 points]
[Note: The system has detected that all the credits of the C-183 Research Group have reached more than 93 credits, becoming the first team in the library with more than 90 credits]
[Please return to the library to receive the ‘Outstanding Student Scholarship Package’]
I wonder if 4 points were deducted because the NPC saw through them?🤔 Thanks for the chapter!
Oh oh, finance support
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ooooh a scholarship package?