Chapter 558 Think Before Answering

A series of questions were asked calmly from Rong Yu's mouth, with a pressing tone, which was a very rare phenomenon.

It is enough to represent the displeasure hidden under the calm face at this time.

The imperial study became increasingly quiet.

If Xie Jin was still interested in joking with Chu Nanyi in a somewhat relaxed tone before, now he was completely in no mood to joke at all.

His most fatal mistake was not losing the jade seal or neglecting his duties, but despising the lives of others.

Xie Jin lowered his eyes slightly and landed on the richly patterned carpet in the royal study. His usual cynical expression was completely restrained.

He couldn't answer any of these questions.

This has never happened before.

Even if he can't claim to know everything about the world, Xie Jin definitely has many more holes in his chest than the average person, and he has more information than others.

The reason why he knew nothing was because he never thought about understanding the situation of these guards from beginning to end.

"Except for Xie Jin, everyone else should step aside." Rong Yu slowly raised his eyes, looking past the imperial case and landing on Xie Jin's lowered eyebrows. His voice was indifferent, "Commander Yang will arrive later, let him wait outside. ”

The three chamberlains, with cold sweat on their foreheads, were relieved and cautiously stood up and retreated.

Xuanyuan Chen was silent for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but the atmosphere was too depressing at this time, and it was obviously not the time for him to speak.

Xuanyuan Chen also retreated.

Rong Yu flipped through the memorial on the case casually. Since the Queen and the Regent were not in court, if the civil and military officials had something to report, they would submit it in the same way as a memorial. Xie Jin and Xuanyuan Chen, who were on duty in the imperial study, were responsible for reading it - with At their current level, they only have the right to inspect and screen them.

Sort out the excerpts that are just nonsense and the excerpts that are all nonsense, and mark the excerpts submitted by the officials into grades according to the criteria of priority: urgent matters that need to be decided, important matters, generally important matters, and not too important and not urgent. Decision matters...

Urgent matters that require urgent decision-making are presented to the Prime Minister at the meeting, and the Prime Minister and the adults in the cabinet discuss and make decisions together.

Xie Shoufu has full authority to decide matters concerning the military department.

After the decision is made, the eunuch who holds the seal will be responsible for stamping the seal. Only after these procedures are completed can the matter be considered completed without any confusion.

Rong Yu took a quick look and found that the memorials on the case were all presented today. Most of the things before today had been completed and there was nothing to present.

Putting down the memorial, Rong Yu said in an indifferent tone: "You don't know how to answer these questions I asked?"

"Reporting to your lord," Xie Jin couldn't help but light three sticks of incense for himself in his heart, "I have neglected to understand, please punish me lord."

"Lack of understanding?" Rong Yu's eyes were cold, "So you don't know who they are, and you didn't go to ask about it personally after you paid attention to the blond hair?"

Xie Jin furrowed his brows carefully, and said in a fairly steady tone, "Yes."

"Why didn't you ask?" Rong Yu's voice was tainted with a hint of coldness, "Do you think the lives of a few guards are worthless and not worthy of your concern at all?"

Xie Jin's fingertips trembled.

He wanted to deny it.

But he found that he couldn't refute it.

He indeed never cared about a few human lives. The death of those guards only meant dereliction of duty to him, and the rest...

He didn't have any other ideas.

"They are imperial guards. If you die while guarding the palace or escorting a chariot, I will not hold you responsible, because that is a risk that exists within the scope of their duties." Rong Yu's voice was calm and showed no emotion or anger, "Just like a soldier losing his life The battlefield is also a risk they will face at any time within the scope of their duties, but tell me, should these guards have died? "

Xie Jin was silent for a moment, then quickly said: "That shouldn't be the case."

Because the assassination was not a real assassination, those few guards died because of their own people's calculations.

Being stabbed by one of his own people, he died unjustly.

The most unfair thing is that that clumsy scene should never have happened.

"If you were in the Imperial Study Room at that time, would they have died?"

In fact, Xie Jin would rather Rong Yu convict him directly than say "questioning" like a master's words to his students. The pressure increased step by step, and for the first time in his life, he experienced the feeling of being overwhelmed by Mount Tai.

"No," he said, "If I had been in the imperial study room, nothing would have happened."

Seeing that he admitted simply, Rong Yu didn't press any further. He leaned back slightly and said in a more casual voice: "So the responsibility lies with you."

"yes."

"But when the assassination in the imperial study happened, you were recuperating in the mansion. This was an accident that no one expected." Rong Yu put one hand on his forehead, as if to find an excuse for Xie Jin to escape responsibility, "The one who assassinated you Has the murderer been caught? "

Xie Jin's heart skipped a beat, and he already had a premonition of what Rong Yu was going to ask next, so he could only answer: "Caught."

"What identity?"

"Charlatan killer."

The sweet-natured ninth master of the Xie family has no thoughts at all at the moment. He just answers whatever he asks. He seems to have completely lost all the comments people made about him in the past.

"Where is the killer?"

Xie Jin pursed his thin lips and said, "He has committed suicide by taking poison."

"Who is the mastermind behind this?"

"Su Lanyu."

Rong Yu narrowed her eyes and tapped the armrest of the chair with her fingertips: "For the last question, please think about it before you answer it."

Xie Jin couldn't help but hold his breath, and then slowly exhaled: "My Lord has something to ask, and I will never dare to hide anything."

"When the assassin tried to assassinate you, with your skills, you couldn't avoid it?"

It was indeed a fatal question.

Xie Jin wanted to smile bitterly, but he couldn't.

"If you were not as skilled as others, and you really couldn't defeat the assassination and were poisoned, then all the things that happened inside and outside the imperial study - including the injuries of Xuanyuan Chen and the eunuch holding the seal, the loss of the jade seal, and the five lives, I would not blame you."

Xie Jin moved his fingers slightly.

At this moment, he clearly felt the coldness of his palm, without any temperature.

As long as he admitted that he was not as skilled as others and that the assassination and poisoning were not his wish, then all the mistakes could be written off and he didn't have to bear any responsibility.

Because he was also a victim.

But Xie Jin knew that his skills could easily avoid the assassination.

Poisoning could also be avoided.

However, if he admitted it, Rong Yu's meaning was already very clear. The jade seal was lost, Xuanyuan Chen and the eunuch holding the seal were stabbed, and the five lives... Even the reasons for the stabbing and poisoning had to be explained together.

The consequences will never be easy.

So Rong Yu asked him to think it over before answering.

If this happened to someone else, he might have admitted that his skills were inferior to others. The master personally gave him a chance to be pardoned. Who would be stupid enough not to seize it?

But Xie Jin's pride did not allow it.

He even knew that Rong Yu actually understood everything clearly, and what he wanted was Xie Jin's attitude.