"Who would be so cruel to them?"

Ran Qiunian couldn't help but ask softly, although she hadn't seen such a tragic situation with her own eyes, but a chill surged up in her heart, and the tragic situation of corpses all over the courtyard of Wu Jiapo's house seemed to appear in her mind.

Xiao Yin shook his head, they also had no contact with Wu Jiapo's foundry family, and they didn't know whether the Wu family had provoked bandits who coveted the Wu Sect's inheritance this time or an enemy who had accumulated grudges for many years.

Or, Xiao Yin looked at the piece of wood that was placed in the corner of the table, the person who killed the mouth came for the same case.

In any case, this clue has come here, and it can be regarded as completely lost.

"What's next?" Ran Qiunian asked again.

Is it really like just picking up this case and putting it down gently? Ran Qiunian was unwilling. Xiao Yin also does not intend to give up.

"The death of the foundry has cut off the clues that have been traced from the materials of the arrow shaft, but if the tragedy of the Wu family's destruction was really made by the people behind the scenes in order to hinder our investigation, it also proves that the direction we had in mind was correct."

Xiao Yin's words made Ran Qiunian's heart move, but she was quickly deflated, and she looked at Xiao Yin with some puzzlement:

If so, so what? We have no clue to follow it down, and as soon as the foundry is dead, the old shopkeeper is gone, and no one knows who set the arrows and where they went. ”

"Not necessarily, didn't the treasurer of the weapons shop say that arrow shafts of special materials like this can only be customized in batches, and such a large number of iron needs must have official documents."

After hearing this, Ran Qiunian suddenly realized, and looked at Xiao Yin with a little excitement: "How can I forget, even if I can't find anything in the armory shop, there must still be an archive in the official mansion." ”

It's really another village. This news made Ran Qiunian, who was still a little depressed, finally a little better.

"Then we'll go to the government tomorrow to check the documents? When it's too late, things change, and I always feel a little uneasy. ”

Ran Qiu Nianxiu frowned slightly, and pressed her heart to be uneasy.

The night passed, the sky was bright, last night outside the city Wujiapo foundry family tragedy has spread in the city, in the uneasy crowd, a carriage passed by, slowly towards the Imperial Guard.

"My lord, I wonder why you're here?"

At this time in the past, Lord Liu of the Imperial Guard Mansion was still lying on the bed and sleeping with Mei Jiao Niang in his arms, but who knew that he was pulled out of the hibiscus tent early this morning.

It's just that he can't show his face to that person, who let this envoy from Beijing, although the official position is not as high as him, but the person he represents behind him, Lord Liu will never dare to disobey and provoke.

"Do you know what happened to Wu Jiapo last night?" The man's voice had a bit of an inscrutable smile, and the cold sweat on Lord Liu's back suddenly came down, and he really didn't know.

"It's still early, and when it's not time to deal with government affairs in the past, it's the lower officials, and the lower officials haven't checked the new files...... I wonder what adults have to say? ”

Lord Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and accompanied him to be careful.

"Okay, I won't be embarrassed by you, and I'll take out all the iron selling orders that have been approved from you in the past two years. Also, call the master who is in charge of the accounts with him. ”

The man's tone was light, and he seemed to have a good temper, but the words he said were with a bit of toughness that could not be refused.

"My lord," Lord Liu hesitated for a moment, and said after consideration, "There have been a lot of iron sales orders in the past two years, and they are all piled up in the file room at the back, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to find out all of them for a while." ”

Clinker, when the man heard this, he only glanced at Lord Liu with a smile, and he didn't say anything more, but secretly summoned the master who was in charge of the account books.

The three of them had a brief secret conversation, and they didn't know what to say, and after the man got into the carriage and left through the inconspicuous back door, Lord Liu and Master Liu looked shocked.

"My lord, someone from front of me is coming again, saying that he wants to see you."

A servant came running from outside and said to Lord Liu and Master Liu, whose faces were not very good-looking.

"Don't you see that adults are busy? The yamen had not yet opened, and told them to come back later. ”

The master reprimanded a few officials angrily, but he interrupted him when he heard Lord Liu's words: "Slow, who is coming?" ”

"He claimed to be an envoy sent by Kyosato, but he didn't look very old, and he brought a thin and weak attendant with him."

The servant scratched the back of his head and told the two adults everything he knew.

"Could it be the new champion?"

The master had heard a little about it, and knew that the champion of the current department came from the Ran family in their splendid city, and it was said that he also received an errand from the current saint to return to his hometown to investigate the case of the loss of the iron mine. It's just that why did this good man come to the Imperial Guard's Mansion?

"That Xiao Yin from Ran Mansion?" Lord Liu frowned. When this kid hadn't taken the imperial examination before, he always felt a little weird.

Several errands he secretly handled were smashed in the city, but they were still within his jurisdiction.

The strangest thing is that once in his years, he lured out the thief who repeatedly ruined his good deeds in secret, but he chased it to the end, but there was no news in the back house of the Ran family, and he folded in a Wang Hu.

If it weren't for the fact that this Xiao Zhuangyuan didn't show up in the city much in order to catch the exam, he would almost think that it was this Xiao Yin who did a good thing for him. But even if it wasn't him, it would be difficult for Lord Liu to have any thoughts of appreciating Xiao Yin.

"Lord Liu also has some impressions of him?" Master was a little surprised, didn't they, Lord Liu, have always been too lazy to pay attention to these things?

"It's just a yellow-mouthed kid."

But this young man who has not yet reached the weak crown is serious and is the supervision envoy of the emperor's seal, and as soon as he enters the court, he is an official of the sixth grade, which is half a level higher than the position of the imperial guard that he has worked hard for so many years to sit.

With such a young talent, how can he not make Lord Liu jealous.

"Go and see, come to me at this time, what is the so-called?"

Lord Liu suppressed the discoloration in his heart, raised his feet and walked forward, and received Xiao Yin and Ran Qiunian, who pretended to be an entourage, in the living room.

"Lord Xiao, why did you have time to come to me today?"

After Lord Liu stepped into the living room, he was very attentive to Xiao Yin, whose official position was bigger than his own, and he couldn't see the jealousy and rejection shown behind his back.

Xiao Yin knew that this Liu He was not a clean official, and he did a lot of corruption and perversion of the law behind his back, but this time he came for another case, so he only thought that he didn't know the true face of Liu He behind his back for the time being.

"Lord Liu, you must have heard that I am here today precisely for the case of the destruction of Wu Jiapo last night, and I want to consult some files."

Xiao Yin went straight to the point, but hid the fact that he had also been to Wujiapo last night.

"What do you mean, Lord Xiao? The Wujiapo extermination case occurred in the jurisdiction of the lower officials, so it was naturally handed over to the Imperial Guard Mansion to decide the case. Could it be that Lord Xiao can't trust the lower officials, and he can't personally intervene in this case? ”

The smile on Lord Liu's face faded a little, and he thought that Xiao Yin wanted to do that thing on his behalf, and he was a little unhappy.

"Lord Liu is too worried, I don't want to meddle in this murder case. It's just that the foundry who died in this extermination case may be involved in the loss of the Lingnan Iron Mine, so it's a routine matter to investigate. ”

The loss of Lingnan iron ore? Lord Liu's heart jumped, how could this case be investigated here? He suppressed the look of surprise in his eyes, but saw that the thin and weak little entourage behind Xiao Yin was staring at him without blinking, and subconsciously dodged.

"I see, I didn't know there was such a thing, I don't know where Lord Xiao got this clue?"

Lord Liu asked tentatively, but was asked by Xiao Yin: "Why does Lord Liu ask this, but he is also suspicious of Xiao?" ”

Hearing Xiao Yin relay what he had said to him before almost intact, Lord Liu's face was a little unbearable, but he was worthy of being immersed in officialdom for a long time, so he quickly packed up his thoughts and returned the words without leaking.

"What's the matter, Lord Xiao is really good at laughing. If this foundry is really involved in the case of the loss of the Lingnan iron mine, he may be able to find out earlier. ”

After Lord Liu finished speaking, he instructed the master to take Xiao Yin and them to check the case file, and when Xiao Yin was about to leave the living room, Lord Liu said the last sentence: "If Lord Xiao finds out something, remember to inform the lower officials first." ”

"It's nature."

After Xiao Yin finished speaking, he took Ran Qiunian and his master to the locked case file room at the back.

"This is where you are going, it stores all the files of the government in the past five years, because no one comes back to check it on weekdays, and the pile is a little messy, I'm afraid it's not easy to find."

The master removed the lock and pushed the door open, revealing a dimly lit room, with rows of shelves stacked very full, and the words of the master were printed.

"Please, two of you."

After the master said this, he left the case file room to Xiao Yin and Ran Qiunian, and turned around to the front hall.

When everyone was gone, Ran Qiunian relaxed, found a shelf with candles in the file room, and lit it with a fire breaker to light up the room.

"Great, my lord, let's start looking here, shall we?"

Ran Qiunian bit her tongue and almost blurted out the title she was used to calling on weekdays, but fortunately, she changed her words in time and did not reveal any flaws.

Although there is no one around, but the partition wall has ears, it is better to be cautious.

Xiao Yin looked at Ran Qiunian's serious face, bowed his head in agreement, and the two of them scattered in the small file room, each occupying a row of bookshelves and looking at it.

Compared to Ran Qiu Nianzai's careful reading of each file, Xiao Yin looked much more leisurely, and it didn't look like he was looking for something at all, but more like a spectator.

I took a casual look at the messy file shelves, and when I remembered it, I took one book and turned a few pages, and then put it down.

Ran Qiunian didn't notice the situation on Xiao Yin's side, and only buried his head in the bookshelf to check it, but unfortunately there were too many files here, and it was difficult to ask others to help.

It's just the two of them, to dig through the files that fill the whole room to the iron selling order that I don't know if it was written a year ago or two years ago. Big. Needle hunt for the sea.

Soon, Ran Qiunian was a little dazzled, casually dropped a flipped booklet, and when he looked up, he found that he had forgotten where he had seen before.