After working hard all night, Hou Junji was taken to the dungeon of Dali Temple. It was already dawning. Di Renjie lay down tiredly without even taking off his official uniform.

Li Junxian came to the Daming Palace and reported to Li Er, "Your Majesty, Hou Junji has been taken into Dali Temple."

"Have Di Renjie tried?" Li Er asked in a deep voice.

"Go back to Your Majesty." Wang Qin whispered, "Di Renjie just took the person into the dungeon, but he has not been interrogated yet."

"I understand." Li Er walked out of the Daming Palace in the early morning and breathed fresh air and said, "Tell me what I said, no one can judge Hou Junji without my will."

"Your Majesty!" said Li Junxian, "Hou Junji hopes that Your Majesty can let his family go."

Li Er sighed, "Let his family go."

"Yes!" Wang Qin nodded and ordered the eunuchs around him to make arrangements.

Hou Junji was imprisoned and there were many discussions in the court. Gu Qing stood in the court and the court officials did not mention this matter at all. Hou Junji incited the kings to fight at the city to rebel. No one dared to discuss it when it involved the kings and princes.

The court meeting still started talking about the imperial examination as the core. Gu Qing avoided many complicated matters. For many trivial matters that need not be mentioned, six ministries dealt with by themselves. Li Chengqian did not come to court, and the throne was empty, and Gu Qing was standing alone before the throne.

Di Renjie slept for two hours and then continued to be busy with the things in front of him.

After receiving the words from the eunuch of the Daming Palace, Di Renjie came to the dungeon to watch the down-and-out Hou Junji.

"Are you here to ridicule me?" Hou Junji said tiredly sitting in the corner of the wall.

"Open the prison door." Di Renjie ordered the minor officials around him to put a bowl of ginger soup in front of Hou Junji, "Take a sip and drive away the cold."

Hou Junji stared at Di Renjie without any action.

"Your Majesty has sent someone to deliver the message." Di Renjie sighed and said, "Your Majesty let your family go, your family will not be even sitting."

A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and Hou Junji spoke, "Is it the Majesty of the Daming Palace or the Ganlu Palace."

"The one from the Daming Palace." Di Renjie said very plainly, "I can't make decisions about some things, but Your Majesty doesn't want to be a cold person. Your Majesty will not kill your family. However, because of your actions, your family can no longer stay in Chang'an."

Hou Junji lowered his head and looked at the bowl of ginger soup under his feet.

"Look at yourself." Di Renjie said, "Your children are now being beaten in Chang'an, and your wife and daughter are being pointed at by people in Chang'an. They live to such a state of life thanks to you!"

"Di Renjie, stop talking, kill me." Hou Junji covered his face, as if crying.

"I can't kill you." Di Renjie said, "Your Majesty won't let me judge you. If you want to die, beg your Majesty."

"Your Majesty..." Hou Junji's tone trembled.

"What you do for your own ambitions, because of your own impulse, is the one you are closest to. Have you ever thought about your family when you do those things? Overestimate yourself! The prison door will be open, and you go to the Daming Palace to apologize!" Di Renjie said to Hou Junji, "Hou Junji, you are also a general galloping on the battlefield. Since you are a man, do what a man should do. Don't let me, Di Renjie, look down on you."

Hou Junji remained silent until Di Renjie left. He opened his red eyes and walked out of the cell step by step. The officers and soldiers here did not stop him. He walked out of Dali Temple but still no one stopped him. He had no face to face his family. When he walked out of the city gate, no one came to stop him.

Tears remained on his tired face, Hou Junji walked towards the Daming Palace step by step, stepping on the land barefoot, and the shackles would always make sounds as he moved his feet.

He came to the Daming Palace in his prison uniform. Hou Junji knelt down with a thud and said loudly: "Your Majesty! I am here to apologize!"

There was no movement in the Ming Palace, and Li Junxian looked at this scene coldly.

Wang Qin came to Li Er's side, "Your Majesty Hou Junji knelt outside the Daming Palace to apologize."

"I understand." Li Er's pen in his hand was still practicing calligraphy without stopping.

Hou Junji kowtowed again and again, "Your Majesty! Hou Junji is here to apologize!"

The Daming Palace is still as quiet.

"Your Majesty! Hou Junji is here to apologize." Hou Junji kept kowtowing until bleeding from his forehead.

"General, do you want us to drive him away?" a soldier asked Li Junxian.

"Let him kneel and wait for His Majesty's order." Li Junxian said, "If His Majesty has no words to come out, let him kneel to death here."

The soldier was so scared that he was so excited that he knelt down here and couldn't speak for a while.

"Your Majesty!" Hou Junji still shouted loudly with tears in his eyes, "Hou Junji is here to apologize!"

With a clear sound of kowtows, the soldiers standing on the city heard it, no one knew why Hou Junji incited the kings to rebel, and no one knew why Hou Junji embarked on this path of no return.

Li Er came step by step with a cane and stood in front of Hou Junji.

"Your Majesty, I, Hou Junji, came to apologize." Hou Junji's consciousness had long been blurred until he saw the crutches and the familiar and old face in front of him. Hou Junji grinned and fainted on the spot.

"Bring him in." Li Er walked back with a cane.

Wang Qin immediately called a few eunuchs to drag the man into the Daming Palace.

When Hou Junji woke up, he saw Li Erchima said, "I'd like to ask Your Majesty to give me a crime."

"It is not an exaggeration to kill your nine clans for your sins." Li Er said, "You have a lot of contributions to this Tang Dynasty. You are the same as Yuchi Gong, Qin Qiong, Niu Jinda and others. They are all good, why do you do this?"

"I feel that I have no choice." Hou Junji said, "Your Majesty! If I don't do much of the prince's actions back then, Gu Qing will definitely abandon him. The prince asked Pei Xingjian to come to the Ministry of War. I can see that he, the Minister of War, has done his best. At the beginning, why is a boy who is still young and stinky can step on me, but now I think about the world that there is no medicine for regret."

"It's over here, there's nothing much to say." Hou Junji knelt down from the bed and kowtowed again, "I only want to die! I'll ask Your Majesty to give me a crime."

Li Er turned around in disappointment, "Wang Qin."

"I understand." Wang Qin bowed and said.

Gu Qing sat at home and heard the news that Hou Junji was secretly executed by Li Er. He did not behead and did not announce Hou Junji's crimes. At this age, Li Er did not want the old kings from Chang'an to be upset, nor did he want too many people to know the news.
Chapter completed!