Chapter Twenty-Three: Buried in the Dark Alleys in the Night (1)

The lantern burned incessantly, emitting wisps of green smoke, and the green smoke rose upward, as if when the human soul soared into the sky, the remaining body turned to ashes, and the smell of corpses was rotting and rotting everywhere. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chu Yunxi put down the letter in her hand with infinite sadness, no matter how paralyzed she imagined the beauty of this world, she had to face the reality at this moment, and the reality was so bloody and ugly without a trace of concealment. She suddenly felt so tired that she even wanted to burn this place to ashes, blow it into ruins, and bury it with the heart of this dark person.

She sat cross-legged silently for a while, and calmly put the letter written by Wang Shen to the prime minister into her arms. She didn't dare to take all the letters with her, but she picked out the other two from the letters and stuffed them into her sleeves. The case involved happened to take place during her tenure in Chang'an, and she probably knew something inside, which was convenient for exposing. Then he put the dagger back into the stone box, along with the other letters. She closed the lid of the box and pressed it down so hard that it automatically locked back into the ground. She covered the futon, stretched out her legs, felt that the time was almost up, and got up and left the secret room.

Since she had already walked through it, when she returned, she was much more bold, and she was not as careful as when she came, and hurried back the way she came.

It took less than half the time to ascend the steps from the corridor, and she twisted the circular bulge on the wall a few times, and the door fell rapidly, and she leaped out of it with the strength of her feet like a cheetah. In a split second, the door was closed, and from the inside of the room, it was no more than a wall.

She quickly regained the shape of what had been moved in the room from memory, then extinguished the fire and walked to the door. She inserted two fingers into the crack of the door, bent her joints, hooked the door like an eagle's claw and gently pushed it open, trying not to make a sound, and when the door was halfway open, she dodged and turned out, just as the moon rose and the clouds dispersed, and a quiet and cold light shone on the snow-white walls of the room, and the walls were as smooth as mirrors reflecting the beams of light onto the bookshelf opposite.

The bright traction made her involuntarily cast a glance at the bookshelf, and she was stunned, gasping and frowning. Push the door that was about to close and jump back into the house.

She looked all the way down the shelf, and at a glance she saw the book wrapped in red silk satin, because all the books on the shelf were spine-out, but this one was placed in reverse. She clearly remembered that when she first entered the study, she had carefully looked at the bookshelves, and she could be sure that the books on the shelves were all being placed here, could it be that Jia Heng forgot to put the books back when she was searching for them, she pulled out the books and turned the front of the books over.

She didn't rush to insert the book into the bookshelf, but opened the book by a ghost, at that moment it seemed that the god of fate was wrapped in silk threads in her hand and pulled her to open the book "Chu Family Genealogy", she hurriedly read a few pages and then turned directly to the back pages, she was looking for.

Fortunately, her cold father did not erase her existence in the end, and her name still appeared in the "Chu Family Genealogy". But when she reached out and touched the cold word early death under her name, she couldn't help but feel a little suddenly separated from the world: it turned out that Chu Yunxi had already died in the fire seven years ago, and she was just a wisp of wandering soul in this world. It turned out that in the eyes of her relatives, she was like a broken morning dew that had long since ceased to exist.

She sighed, her eyes slightly moist. Her gaze was upward, and in the genealogy on that page, there was the same fate as her, the third brother Chu Yunchao, whom she had never met, and ......

The dull drum outside suddenly sounded, like an alarm bell ringing Chu Yunxi, who was immersed in sadness. She suddenly realized that she was in a dangerous situation, that she could be captured at any moment, and that this was not a good place to mourn her tragic fate, and she didn't have time to close the book and put it away with the spine facing outward. Quietly go out, lock the door, avoid the guards patrolling the courtyard, and smoothly climb over the wall.

When she got home, she took off her face towel, took a few deep breaths, took three cups of teacup, changed out of her sweaty clothes, and put the three important letters that were soaked with sweat in a ventilated place to dry. She quickly cleaned up some of the items on the desk, then opened the bedside closet, and pulled out a heavy package from the innermost part, which she placed on the table and opened. Revealing the bones of a dead man with white flowers inside.

It was the dead man's skeleton she had dug out from under the pear blossom tree, and she had found the deceased's breastbone in the broken mess of bones, and then closed the notch in her nightwalking suit, and sure enough, she could now almost conclude that the man had died under the sharp blade of the chamber dagger.

At that time, she vaguely felt that this person's death was strange, nine times out of ten it was related to the prime minister, and now she proved that she was really expected, and she really didn't know whether it was joy or sadness.

But it's not enough to know this, maybe this dead man is still involved in some earth-shattering case. She didn't know anything about this person, and all she could do was investigate the case on the pile of bones in front of her. It's a pity that although she read several medical monographs when she was a child, and learned some medical principles with Lin Yueyuan and Lin Risheng, she didn't know anything about autopsy. She couldn't take the liberty of carrying a bag of bones to the city. She scratched her head, thinking about it, only Tuo Shi Jiaheng asked Lin Yueyuan out to ask her for help. She was born in a family of Xinglin, and she likes to specialize in some strange poisons, maybe she also has some involvement in the examination of corpses.

She hid the white bones, and took advantage of the anger she had just suppressed in the secret room of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and angrily picked up the pen and wrote down the truth of the two cases of Jiangzhou's engulfment of disaster relief silver. She knew in her heart that with the prime minister's many years of operation in the court, trying to uproot him with just this small corruption case was simply a grasshopper shaking a tree, even if the truth of the remaining cases was reported to the emperor, it might not be useful. But at least, she wrote heavily and firmly, at least let the eldest brother's grievances be revealed, and at least let the emperor know that Yang Miao is by no means a corrupt official who is greedy for wealth and nobility, but a clean and good official who is honest and good for the people. If all this she did could prompt the Emperor to decide to retry the case, then she would have no complaints even if she died because of it.

In fact, this is not her selfishness, she even writes with a kind of expectation of killing, she hopes to be able to use her own blood and her life in exchange for the rehabilitation of her eldest brother. If so, she would have been able to flee to her mother without having to see the day her father was in the law. If she could, she would be willing to use her heart's blood to atone for her father's crimes.

She picked up the written love letter, picked it up and read it through, folded it satisfactorily and put it into Wang Shen's letter. Now that the evidence has been obtained, the next step is how to present it to the Holy Lord. And she already had a plan in mind.

Although she is also subordinate to the Hanlin Academy, she is like those who are good at writing, medicine, gambling and other skills to prepare for Zhao and send the ministers who have no rank and no rank, but she is just a slave who is to please the masters, and she has almost no political status. But the Hanlin Academy is an extremely sacred place in the eyes of the scholars of the past dynasties, and what they yearn for for is to one day be able to excel in Hanlin, of course, the reason why the Hanlin Academy can be so attractive to them is naturally not because they are waiting for the edict, but because of the Hanlin Bachelors.

Hanlin bachelors work in the Hanlin Academy, is the imperial examination of the eight classics of the imperial examination, they are often in charge of the system, into the inner court, the answer table is the emperor's henchmen, more importantly, although they are not high in rank but have a great future, the Hanlin Chengzhi who leads the Hanlin bachelor is actually the default prime minister candidate, Chu Yilian once served as a special secretary for the emperor to draft the edict.

According to what she has seen in the palace these days, if a piece of music in this dynasty is like for the emperor to see, it is generally necessary for the Chayan Division to summarize the music sent from all over the place, and then hand it over to the emperor from the Inner Servant Province, and then pass it from the Inner Service Province to the Hanlin Yuan envoy who is served by the eunuch, and then it can be handed over to the Hanlin Academy, (1) The Hanlin scholars will attach the draft handling opinions to the music book, and return it to the emperor according to the process of the first time, and after the emperor's imperial review agrees, it can finally be sent to the six parts for verification and distribution, if the emperor is not satisfied, he must do it againuntil the emperor was satisfied.

Therefore, in order for this letter to appear accurately in front of the emperor's imperial case without verification, she can only start with the third ring, which means that she must mix the letter with the letter she wrote in a transcript that has been drafted by the Hanlin scholars. If there is a transcript that the prime minister and his party do not want the emperor to see, then after the two checkpoints of the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Internal Servants, since they can come to the emperor's front of the transcript, it is safe to think about it, and the Hanlin Yuan can only give advice on how to deal with it according to these transcripts, so there should be no need to check it again later, and then the letter can successfully enter the imperial study of the Yuanxin Palace.

She pondered the idea upside down many times, but still felt that there was a loophole, after all, in order to succeed, it was necessary to ensure that all of the above links could not be wrong. But the world is unpredictable, no matter how careful the plan is, there will always be all kinds of accidents, as the so-called plan is in people, success is in heaven, and all she can do is to do her best and obey the destiny of heaven.