Chapter 96

"The bandits inside the pass have grown too powerful; they've broken into Chang'an. We don't have a single soldier left inside the Great Ming's pass. What should be done?"

Su Qiao's corner of the mouth twitched slightly.

"I... I don't know."

Through these recent questions from Zhu Yuanzhang,

Su Qiao also roughly figured it out.

This old Zhu is probably finding a few people in the palace to play around with simulating the fate of the Great Ming for no reason.

However, this has nothing to do with Su Qiao.

It's hard enough to get a sentence of execution after autumn.

I said, if by chance I establish merit and you reduce my sentence to Indefinite, what then?!

Your old Zhu has such a strange temper.

I dare not cause trouble anymore.

I'm quite satisfied just waiting obediently to be sent off after autumn.

Zhu Yuanzhang stared fiercely at Su Qiao, gritting his teeth, wishing he could push Su Qiao out to be beheaded right now.

But on the other side, Zhu Youjian was already at the point where fire was burning his eyebrows.

After all, the Jiangshan of the Zhu family is a bit more important.

Zhu Yuanzhang stared fiercely at Su Qiao, gritting his teeth and said,

"You better really not know!"

Having said that, Zhu Yuanzhang walked out of the Imperial Prison on his own.

Only Su Qiao, who was dazed in the Imperial Prison, and a crowd of prisoners remained.

Little did they know.

At this moment, when the various criminal officials looked at Su Qiao, their faces were already full of starry eyes.

Since the founding of the Great Ming,

the only person who could speak to Your Majesty like this was Su Qiao!

The last person who confronted Zhu Yuanzhang was still Crown Prince Yiwen.

But even Crown Prince Yiwen would run after confronting him; several times he angered old Zhu so much that he chased out of the Imperial Palace with a sword in hand.

"Your Majesty, he... he just left?"

"Damn it, my lord Su, you are my idol!"

"Is this the 666 that my lord Su talked about?!"

"Stop with all that useless stuff, my lord Su, how exactly is the fourth young lady of the Liu family so unfortunate?"

"No good, I can't figure this out; I won't be able to sleep tonight."

"..."

85, Su Qiao: I am pretending not to know!

Su Qiao glanced at the crowd in front of him and was about to speak.

Jiang Huan walked in from outside the Imperial Prison with a gloomy face.

"Su Qiao! You are rashly discussing your superior!"

After Su Qiao pondered for a moment, he then looked at Jiang Huan seriously and asked,

"My lord Jiang, how does the Great Ming law punish rashly discussing a superior?"

"Exposure in the marketplace."

Su Qiao nodded thoughtfully and said,

"Hmm, I am indeed rashly discussing my superior."

Jiang Huan: "..."

Just as Jiang Huan was speechless, Su Qiao looked at Jiang Huan with a wicked smile and asked,

"Doesn't Commander Jiang wonder how the fourth young lady of the Liu family is so unfortunate?"

Jiang Huan said decisively,

"This Commander is not curious! Stop talking nonsense!"

Su Qiao looked at Jiang Huan helplessly and said with a bitter smile,

"Alright then, Commander Jiang, continue interrogating me. What do you want to ask?"

The corner of Jiang Huan's mouth twitched slightly.

You know I'm here to interrogate, but you don't have to be like this.

Jiang Huan coughed awkwardly twice and asked in a low voice,

"Ahem, my lord Su, you are making it impossible for this Commander to continue asking."

Su Qiao looked at Jiang Huan with an expression of disdain and said contemptuously,

"Sigh, Commander Jiang, this is all you'll ever be in your life; you'll never get to eat four dishes in your life."

"You!"

Su Qiao helplessly shrugged his shoulders, looking at Jiang Huan as if he were an idiot.

Jiang Huan almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

I am the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard!

The direct superior of the Imperial Prison!

You speak to me like this?!

Su Qiao didn't notice at all that after seeing Su Qiao, the surrounding criminal officials immediately revealed expressions of shock and admiration.

Being an orphan is just awesome!

Unlike them, who still have to worry about their own nine clans.

If I didn't have a nine clans.

I'd probably be teasing Jiang Huan together with Su Qiao right now.

Su Qiao sat on the straw pile by himself.

He picked up a bowl of water in front of him and sighed,

"Commandant Jiang, if you had asked properly, maybe I'd have told you in a good mood."

Hearing this, Jiang Huan immediately became furious, glaring at Su Qiao and scolding,

"You brat, do you really think I dare not kill..."

Before the words finished, Jiang Huan finally realized what Su Qiao was saying.

"Wait, do you truly have a method to deal with the bandits inside the pass without deploying a single soldier?"

Su Qiao snorted coldly,

"Is that so hard?"

In an instant, the entire Imperial Prison fell into a deathly silence.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang, crouching outside the prison and leaning against the wall root, was already so angry his teeth ached.

"See? I told you this brat has a method!"

"He just simply doesn't take us seriously!"

Inside the Imperial Prison, Jiang Huan stared at Su Qiao with wide eyes and open mouth.

"You, wait, Your Majesty just asked you, why didn't you say anything~!"

Su Qiao clicked his tongue and said,

"Your Majesty, isn't it best if I really didn't know?"

Jiang Huan nodded numbly.

"Right, and then?"

"I pretended not to know."

A deathly silence filled both inside and outside the Imperial Prison.

Whether prisoners or guards, almost everyone stood frozen in place.

The crowd didn't even know what words to use to describe Su Qiao.

Immense courage?

Astonishingly divine?!