Eternal Brotherhood Episode 2 Recap
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After Di Lin learned of Yang Minghua's countermeasure, he immediately called Si Te Lin to discuss. He was curious why Yang Minghua would entrust this interrogation of Zichuan Xiu to the Privy Council, because Privy Council Chief Xiao Long gained great popular support through his fairness, thus it circulated among the people that the military's heart was with Ge Yingxing and the people's heart was with Xiao Long.
But whether Yang Minghua had a fallback plan was unknown, and the two of them also had no better plan, could only wait and see how things developed. In fact, Xiao Long had long been in cahoots with Yang Minghua. Xiao Long asked Yang Minghua about ways to deal with Zichuan Xiu. After Yang Minghua's guidance, Xiao Long suddenly understood. Zichuan Xiu was known as the Flower of Yuanzhou, and was famous far and wide for his eloquence.
Luo Minghai was worried he would be eloquent during the trial and might influence the outcome of the trial. Yang Minghua said lightly, "Then don't let him speak. " Luo Minghai immediately understood Yang Minghua's intention. Yang Minghua seemed not to trust Di Lin, so he had Luo Minghai personally arrange this matter. Luo Minghai sent people from the Commander's Office to the prison to interrogate Zichuan Xiu and took Zichuan Xiu away under the pretext of an imperial interrogation.
Zichuan Xiu noticed the route was wrong and understood these people's intention. On the way, he exposed a few people, and the two sides immediately started fighting. Although Zichuan Xiu knocked them down, he himself was also injured. He stopped a carriage and threatened the driver to take him away to escape. Unexpectedly, the other person was Zichuan Ning.
Zichuan Ning took Zichuan Xiu to a separate villa, carefully helped him clean his wounds, and then asked him for a gift. Zichuan Xiu made excuses to evade. Zichuan Ning simply said directly that he should marry her as the gift. Zichuan Xiu immediately took out a stone, claiming it was a strange moonstone from Yuanzhou. Zichuan Ning loved it and couldn't put it down.
Zichuan Xiu couldn't bear to deceive her, so he told her this was just a stone he picked up casually and told Zichuan Ning not to treat it as a treasure. But Zichuan Ning didn't mind; as long as it was something Zichuan Xiu gave her, she would treat it as a real moonstone. Upon learning that Yang Minghua had already made a move against Zichuan Xiu, Di Lin and Si Te Lin called him to discuss countermeasures together.
The best method now was to have Zichuan Xiu leave the Imperial Capital, but Zichuan Xiu flatly refused, afraid that leaving like this would affect Ge Yingxing. The three of them argued incessantly. In the end, it was Lin Xiujia who came forward and used a trick to drug Zichuan Xiu before they stopped. At the Privy Council trial site, Luo Minghai listed Zichuan Xiu's crimes. Then a prison guard witness attended and also carried in a disfigured corpse.
The body shape was roughly the same as Zichuan Xiu's. The prison guard claimed Zichuan Xiu wanted to escape from prison, and after being discovered, committed suicide by taking poison. Si Te Lin also came to observe the trial. Zichuan Xiu had not left; he appeared at the trial site, pointing out that Luo Minghai had gone to great lengths to frame him with the charge of colluding with the enemy.
Luo Minghai then produced what Bai Chuan had provided regarding Zichuan Xiu's daily activity trajectory and called Bai Chuan to the scene as a witness. Xiao Long uncharacteristically listed Zichuan Xiu's eight major crimes and judged him guilty of treason and colluding with the enemy. Bai Chuan defended Zichuan Xiu. Xiao Long directly designated her as being in the ranks of colluding with the enemy, with the same guilt as Zichuan Xiu, to be immediately beheaded.
Upon learning that Zichuan Xiu was in crisis, Zichuan Ning jumped out the window to find Zichuan Canxing, begging him to step in and save him. Zichuan Canxing, being astute and protecting himself, said that even if he came forward, he couldn't save Zichuan Xiu; at most, it would only delay for a few hours. Even so, Zichuan Ning forcefully dragged him to the trial site.
Zichuan Canxing said that he would not change the verdict; he just wanted to have a farewell meal with Zichuan Xiu. Xiao Long and Luo Minghai had to give him this face. Although facing the outcome of being beheaded, Zichuan Xiu ate heartily. Zichuan Ning prepared tools for prison escape for him, but Zichuan Xiu didn't want to implicate the two of them. After the meal, Zichuan Ning still refused to leave.
Zichuan Canxing said that her being here was what made Zichuan Xiu worried, and only then did he take her away. On the other side, Di Lin and Si Te Lin were discussing the method of raiding the execution ground. Si Te Lin was afraid that Di Lin would be exposed because of this, so he took on the task of raiding the execution ground. They agreed that no matter what, they must rescue Zichuan Xiu.
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