Gu Qingning originally blamed herself for being reckless and reckless, but after thinking about it, since this is already the case, it is better to take the opportunity to give Song Zhiyi this 'awakening', so that he can recognize his position and responsibilities, otherwise this time it will be up to him, and he will continue to meddle in the affairs of the Langting court in the future, so she insisted: "It's not that it's not unqualified, it's not that it shouldn't." Yang Rongan's case has already begun to be tried, and it should have been handed over to the Shilang Court, but because it involves the suspicion of the younger brother, the lower official has avoided it, and has not interfered in the adult's trial of the younger brother, and the adult is clear. The question asked by the adults is two things that are not related, and the lower officials can only answer them like this. ”

"Shouldn't it?" shouldn't it be ......" Song Zhiyi became more and more angry the more she thought about it, and even understood what she meant, "Are you saying that the department can only try the part of the case that Gu Shilang is inconvenient for you to try?

"It's not. Gu Qingning said: "It is after the approval of Si Cheng and the approval of the political affairs hall, you can only try the part that the lower officials cannot try, for example, before you passed on the trial of the younger brother, it was approved by the Si Cheng and the political affairs hall." Otherwise, only the criminal department can try the taboos in the case on behalf of the waiter, and then hand it over to the Shangshutang to the adult Your Shangshutang master book for verification, and finally the adult you seal the case. ”

Song Zhiyi was almost stunned by her, and angrily reprimanded: "How can this be reasonable!

"My lord, are you saying that the imperial court regulations are absurd, or is the system of criminal responsibility unreasonable?" Gu Qingning asked coldly.

Song Zhiyi glared at her and pointed at her: "The headquarters is saying that you are unreasonable! You are ridiculous!"

Gu Qingning's face did not change, and then he remembered to return to humility, and said politely: "Xia Guan has no qualifications to be unreasonable, no right to be ridiculous, Xia Guan is just a servant of the Criminal Department." ”

Song Zhiyi choked, he was almost tempered by her, and laughed a few times mockingly: "Haha, you are 'just' a servant of the Criminal Department, and I am still 'just' a Shangshu of the Criminal Department!"

At this time, He Luoke, who had been kneeling there, couldn't stand it anymore, and asked out loud: "Lord Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Lord Shilang of the Criminal Department, are you done arguing? Can you interrogate me for recording? If you drag it out any longer, it seems that your official office is about to be dissolved, right?"

Song Zhiyi looked at Gu Qingning, thinking that he should still focus on major matters at this time, and he couldn't just argue with her about responsibility and power, so he changed his face, turned to look at He Luoke, and said: "Neither the headquarters nor Gu Shilang can try you, so let Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department judge on his behalf, and the headquarters will listen, and Gu Shilang will avoid it!" Even though he suppressed his temper, the last sentence almost gave off his heart.

Gu Qingning still refused to retreat, Song Zhiyi almost wanted to push her out directly, she seemed to be able to see that Song Zhiyi was on the verge of collapse, so she quickly shut up, silently withdrew from the court, and waited in her waiter's mansion.

The chief secretary of the Shilang Court hurriedly went to invite Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department, and Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department rushed over, but he still felt that the atmosphere in the hall was quite weird, and he couldn't think about it much, so he could only bite the bullet and start the trial of He Luoke.

The main book of the squire Langting recorded the case in the lower seat, recorded the trial process, and then the chief writer wrote it into a confession, and signed the confession for He Luoke. Then the court trial records and confessions will be handed over to Shang Shutang for sealing, and then returned to the Shilang Court, where they will be placed together with other materials in the same case, and after the case is cleared and reviewed, these materials will be handed over to Shang Shutang, and then stamped and sent to the Criminal Records Division for filing.

The official office is so cumbersome that I won't mention it for the time being.

He Luoke took the initiative to confess to the Criminal Department that she killed Yang Rongan and accidentally left evidence, and the jade bottle accessories were indeed hers, and the original owner could testify.

As for the motive, she said that it was all because she was jealous of Jiang Xiange, and wanted to sneak into Yang's mansion and kill her when Jiang Xiange was injured, but she didn't expect Yang Rongan to be there that night, she accidentally woke up Yang Rongan, in order to prevent Yang Rongan from calling for help, she accidentally killed Yang Rongan, all of which had nothing to do with Gu Qinghuan.

It seems smooth and can be established, but there are many details that need to be verified. Besides, Song Zhiyi didn't want this case to pass so easily, he wanted to use this to kill the prestige of the Gu family, and at the same time, he also had his own reasons-

After Yang Rong'an died, the twin sons found the jade bottle, and they asked that it was Gu Qinghuan's thing, knowing that their husband's death was related to the Gu family, and they didn't dare to directly expose this matter, not to mention that they knew that Gu Qingning was the squire of the Criminal Department, and, most importantly, Yang Longxing also had an accident, and the Yang family was in danger, so they could only find other backers. They thought of Gu Qingning's boss, Song Zhiyi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, they thought that Shangshu was older than Shilang, and they inquired that this Song Zhiyi was not a party of the Gu family, so they found Song Zhiyi in private......

There is no doubt that they dedicated themselves to Song Zhiyi, and promised that after the truth of the case was found out that Gu Qinghuan was convicted, they would leave the Yang family and be Song Zhiyi's outer room.

"Take her down, take her to prison, and convict her when everything is verified. After confirming with Song Zhiyi, Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department announced.

He Luoke was escorted to the prison of the Criminal Department by the Yacha, Gu Qingning learned of this result and ran out of the public room, but she had already withdrawn from the court, she caught up with He Luoke, and asked her in a hurry: "Why are you so stupid? Can't you wait any longer? Qinghuan will be fine, don't you be too stubborn, okay?"

He Luoke's face was cold, but there was a deep and unfathomable color in her eyes, showing her paranoia, "You can wait, I can't wait." ”

She looked at Gu Qingning and said, "Sister, can I call you sister?"

Gu Qingning's heart was slightly touched, and his attitude towards He Luoke changed, "Of course, you married my younger brother, of course you can call me sister......"

He Luoke pursed her lips and smiled, nodded and said, "Well, sister, I have always believed in you...... I hope you can always be as powerful as you were when you argued with your Lord Shangshu over the division of power and responsibility, and try your best to get rid of suspicion for Qinghuan...... I believe you ......"

She was imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, Gu Qingning took care of the jailer to take care of her, and then went to Gu Qinghuan's Shangshu Mansion to find him and tell him about it.

This was the first time Gu Qingning came to this small home between him and He Luoke, Gu Qinghuan was surprised, and when she told him about He Luoke, he was even more shocked, and he seemed to understand something......

The two sisters and brothers talked for a while, and it soon got dark, Gu Qinghuan went to the prison of the Criminal Department to see He Luoke, Gu Qingning went to Gu's mansion, saw Gu Qingxuan, and they discussed how to solve the current predicament.

"Father, I have already investigated clearly, found the evidence, and accused Qinghuan, it was Yang Rongan's concubine, the pair of twin sisters, they deliberately bypassed me, found Song Zhiyi, and made a deal with Song Zhiyi, Song Zhiyi seems to have the intention to deal with us, and now the twin sisters are protected by Song Zhiyi, as a witness, and the jade bottle is also kept in Song Zhiyi's Shangshu Hall, so the most important thing is to start with Song Zhiyi, and let him give up the investigation first......" Gu Qingning said.

Gu Qingxuan pondered for a while, and said: "Song Zhiyi has a prince behind his back, he is afraid that his hostility to us is probably the meaning of the king of Jin, now that the prince has just made a move, and in the critical period of political reform, it is too early to start fighting with him on the bright side, we can only stabilize Song Zhiyi first and let him stand on our side......"

"Father has an idea?" she asked.

Gu Qingxuan said: "I have eyebrows, I think, he has just arrived at the Criminal Department, he has not done anything yet, and there is no fault, we can't move him from the Criminal Department, he is a scholar, then we will find flaws from the Academy......"

"That's right!" Gu Qingning suddenly thought of something critical, and showed joy: "Father, I remember that Luoke's grandfather, Mr. Zhao Xingyuan, is the first chief bachelor of the Imperial Academy, I have seen him at Qinghuan's wedding banquet...... I think, father, you can go and talk to Mr. Zhao......"

That night, Gu Qingxuan found his in-laws, General He, and was introduced by him to visit General He's father-in-law, Zhao Xingyuan. Zhao Xingyuan is more than seventy years old, but he is physically fit and mentally strong, although he has always disliked his son-in-law General He, who can only play with knives and guns, and he also does not like Gu Qingxuan, who is in the limelight and is good at playing with power, but when he heard that his granddaughter was in prison, he suddenly became anxious and wholeheartedly provided them with the information they wanted, Gu Qingxuan and the old gentleman sighed all night, and they had a total in their hearts, and after returning home, they made an idea with Gu Qingning.

The next day, the current chief bachelor of the bachelor's mansion recommended Song Zhiyi to concurrently serve as the deputy chief bachelor, and cited Song Zhiyi's compilation of the Wenzhi martial arts collection for the royal family three years ago, in order to promote the great merit of the royal family in the name of the past dynasties, the emperor allowed to play, and also rewarded Song Zhiyi a lot. Song Zhiyi was overjoyed, for him who was born in a literati, the position of deputy chief bachelor of the bachelor's mansion was more valuable than the position of the secretary of the criminal department.

However, before he was happy for two days, Gu Qingning went to Shangshutang to look for him, and also brought some manuscripts written by Gu Qinghuan.

These manuscripts list the sentences of the articles of the literati of the former dynasty that Song Zhiyi plagiarized and appropriated when he presided over the compilation three years ago, as well as a collection of eulogies written by him under the pretense of others.

These are all stupid things that Song Zhiyi did in order to sell his reputation back then, and his colleagues in the former bachelor's mansion helped him cover it, thinking that no one would pursue it anymore, and he didn't want to be picked up one by one now.

It was Zhao Xingyuan who provided him with such a suspicion of negligence, and it was Gu Qinghuan who was suspended at home who went to the bachelor's mansion to communicate with the current chief bachelor of imperial literature, retrieved those old materials, and buried himself in extracting the admission certificate day and night.

He is well-read, has a lot of classic essays, how deep his memory is, others have to do things for ten days and a half months, he can do it in one day and one night, and the words are true, and the paragraphs have a real source, even Zhao Xingyuan said that it is very feasible to complete such evidence collection, and Gu Qinghuan did it.

"But...... It's just a transcription and appropriation of some words and phrases, what's the obstacle? Gu Shilang, haven't you heard of 'a big copy of the world's articles'? There are all references to each other, reference and imitation...... How can the matter of the literati be called plagiarism?" At this time, he was still quibbling.

"I know, but Your Majesty shouldn't want to know that so many articles praising the merits and virtues of the former emperor are actually plagiarizing the praise made by the civil officials of the previous dynasty for the former emperor...... What do you think, Lord Shangshu?"

Gu Qingning smiled and continued: "We just know in our hearts that we can be in the same vein as the previous dynasty, and there is no need to let Your Majesty know, right? Besides, Lord Shangshu, you don't want Your Majesty to know that the vice president he just appointed is a person who has no real talent and can only pick up people's teeth and wisdom to 'borrow' from his predecessors, right?"

"If this matter leaks out, how should you get involved in the Bachelor's Mansion, how should you deal with your protégé, how should you deal with the people of the world?"

"Another point, Xia Guan is also kind enough to remind you that the affairs of literati are copied and faked, and you can feel that it doesn't matter, but when he becomes an official and wants to become a decent person, then any small mistake he made in the past may be dug up, and if he is not careful, he can cut off a person's career and future, and even, shorten a person's life. ”

"What do you want me to do?" Song Zhiyi compromised.

In the evening, the light in the public house became darker, Gu Qingning found the fire fold on the shelf, picked up a lamp and candle on his public desk, lit it, and led the room to light.

With a gentle breath and effortlessness, the light went out, and a dim was still dim.

"It's May in the blink of an eye, and I can feel the heat. Lord Shangshu, the weather is dry, be careful of the candles. ”

That night, a fire broke out in a small inn in the south of Chang'an City, and the fire was started from the room of the two women.

According to those who had seen them, they had the same beautiful faces, one flamboyant, the other gentle, and they were dressed brightly, and they wore women's buns, as if they were waiting for someone, and as if they were preparing to leave.

Most of the others in the store escaped the fire, but they were the only ones who couldn't escape.

There were two more charred corpses in the mass graves in the southern suburbs, and no one could tell how beautiful they had been, and no one knew who they had been waiting for in this world......

……

He and Gu Qingning stood in front of the stove in the courtyard, and threw several testimonies and confessions that Gu Qingning brought out from the Criminal Department with Shang Shuyin into the furnace along with the manuscripts he had completed overnight, and the red flames came out one by one, like countless blooming summer flowers.

"And this, give it back to you. Gu Qingning took out the jade bottle accessory that contained the small pill.

He looked at the thing that almost cost his life, and instead of immediately putting it on his waist as before, he took it in his hand and played with it back and forth.

"Song Zhiyi sentenced Yang Rongan's death to suicide, your suspicion has been lifted, Luoke's surrender is determined to be the wrong case for her husband, you can go back to the court to be an official, she can go home...... Originally, I was supposed to wait for the official document to be finalized tomorrow before I could release her, but who made your sister a waiter in the Criminal Department, for personal gain, I will open up the net for you, and you can get her back now. ”

Gu Qingning talked to him, he didn't seem to pay attention, and after a while, he nodded, got into the carriage with Gu Qingning, and drove to the official office of the Criminal Department.

In the car, he looked at the little jade bottle, and finally spoke: "Actually, this is the ...... she left at the murder scene"

"What?" Gu Qingning wondered.

Gu Qinghuan held it in the palm of his hand, feeling its roundness and coldness, as well as the pain when squeezing with the bones of his hand, as if telling a very ordinary little joke: "That day, I didn't wear this jade bottle, I remember it clearly, this small bottle was placed at home, I didn't take the medicine, she must have seen it, so she was anxious that I wouldn't go home so late, so she went to the government office to find me...... He followed me to the Yang Mansion and witnessed me killing...... Then, she left the jade bottle outside the door for people to discover......"

"She deliberately framed you?" Gu Qingning felt incredible.

Gu Qinghuan shook his head: "No, she just wants to surrender on my behalf...... As it is now, everyone thinks she is willing to die for me...... Actually, she really wants to, but she just wants to let me know in this way, let me know how much she loves me......"

"Ridiculous, what if we fail? What if we don't get you back?"

He said: "After seeing me kill someone, she thought about it, and she didn't plan to live......"

Gu Qingning couldn't figure it out, "How can she be like this?

"But she loves me, sister, I married a silly girl who really loves me......"

He poured out a few pills from the jade bottle, swallowed them, they were sweet, a little bitter without medicine, and tied the jade bottle around his waist.

At dusk that day, he took He Luoke from the prison and took her by the hand to take her home.

They walked forward on Chang'an Avenue, standing side by side, and under the reflection of the sunset, she turned her head and asked him, "Have you all passed?"

He smiled and nodded, reaching out to help her straighten her windswept sideburns: "It's all over." ”