From the perspective of identity, Wang Yutian, who died quietly, is just an ordinary 'middle class'. Don't look at the Renhe pawnshop he works for, which is also the private property of Chen Qichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War; But the source of this small shop, and the operating income are very clear! It can even be said that in Lord Chen's memory, whether there is such a thing or not, it is unknown.

Moreover, Shen Gui had clearly arranged for others to report the case to the Fengjing Mansion, and after that, there were indeed three officials, the land protection, the arrest of Kuai, and the servant, who came forward to deal with the matter. They filled out the corpse sheet in public, checked the 'crime scene', and briefly interrogated the neighbors around the 'Renhe pawnshop' about the specific situation on the night of the incident. Of course, until this step, it is still the regular process of handling cases in Beiyan Yamen, and there is nothing strange about it.

However, in the past day, Shen Gui's people have not found any detailed files related to the 'Renhe Pawnshop Murder Case' in the study of the government office. At least at this point, it doesn't make sense at all! Because if the file is unintentionally lost, then Lord Luo Yuanluo, as the prefect of Yanjing, should immediately submit a written 'loss report' official letter to the Criminal Department, and then he should be temporarily suspended from his post to avoid suspicion, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will send another official to deal with the matter of Lord Luo's 'missing case' first.

But now it seems that this Wang Yutian's murder case seems to have disappeared without a trace like a warm spring turning snow......

You must know that the complexity and perfection of the criminal law system of the Northern Yan Dynasty is by no means comparable to the Youbei Third Road of the Caotai team! Even Zhou Chang'an, who is the fourth prince, wants to completely cover up a human life case that happened in Yanjing City in such a complex and complete system, which is almost impossible!

So, who has the ability and the reason and position to cover up this murder?

Shen Gui saw that Zhou Chang'an's brows were furrowed, and he didn't speak after half an hour, so he had no choice but to ask:

"Brother Baili, then do you know anything about this Yanjing prefect Luo Yuanqi?"

Zhou Changan, who had already thought of the 'dead end', was now interrupted by Shen Gui's words, so he had to explain to him the origin of Luo Yuanqi:

"Actually, the foolish brother has some impressions of this Luo Yuan Luo Qianxi. According to the classics of the Ministry of Officials: Luo Yuan is now two out of forty, and he is a person from Shuoping City, Sanjin Road, and Shanyin County. When he was twenty years old, he landed in the township test, and married his wife Wei the following year. Mrs. Wei was originally a Qing dynasty official seller, and she was the remnant of the Dayan nobles of the previous dynasty. ”

If anything else, Shen Gui may not know much about it; But the blessing of His Majesty Tuo Xingping, Yan Qinghong, if it is the 'market price' of the redemption of the top fireworks woman, the Qing people, Shen Gui can still estimate that it is not far from ten. However, since Lord Luo has the ability to help the Qing people 'comb their hair', then why did they fall to the point of pawning leather jackets in the winter?

"Oh? If according to Brother Baili, this Lord Luo Yuanluo should be a son with a huge wealth? ”

Zhou Changan shook his head with a smile:

"Quite the opposite! Now this Lord Luo Yuanluo is a famous poor ghost master in Yanjing City! ”

"Oh? That's very interesting, Shen listened to it. ”

It turns out that although the ancestor of Lord Luo is not a wealthy gentleman, at least in Shuoping's hometown, he is also a 'middle class' with houses and fields. After Luo Yuan reached the age of 20, he was recommended to participate in the imperial examination of the Northern Yan Dynasty. Therefore, he and a group of classmates and friends rushed to Jinyang City, the capital of Sanjin Province, to take the exam.

It was also in a Qingyin Pavilion in Jinyang City that he met the aristocratic relics of the previous dynasty - Mr. Water Candle. Yes, this is just a cliché story of a talented and beautiful woman who has feelings for each other; But the reality of this relationship between the two is far more cruel than the charming story.

As early as when Luo Yuan was nineteen years old, after Luo's father left him a rich enough family fortune, he fell seriously ill and died; So now this young man Luo, who has just turned weak and crowned, has become the master of the Luo family. When he just came out of the examination room after taking the township exam, he immediately rushed back to Shuoping City, pawned all the ancestral acres of his family, and did not even leave the big green mule used for daily travel! He spent all the money he pawned on the redemption of 'Mr. Water Candle'!

It's a pity that Luo Yuan finally fell to Sun Shan in the township test list that year......

Perhaps it was the 'power of love' that caused Luo Yuanluo Qianxi, who was 'fighting the imperial examination again' three years later, was pinned on by Emperor Tianyou with the excellent results of the first place in the township examination and the first place in the general examination. However, in the official clothes issued by the Ministry of Rites, he also wore the 'Hundred Family Clothes' sewn by 'Mr. Water Candle' himself, and participated in the final Zijin Palace Examination. It is precisely because of his undressing in the palace and the charge of 'insulting the Golden Palace' that this Luo Yuan Luo Qianxi missed the opportunity to 'connect the three yuan' for the first time since the Northern Yan Dynasty!

In this way, it seems that this Luo couple is a bit similar to the Gu couple in Jincheng; But this Lord Luo Yuanluo is the foundation of the serious 800 Beiyan two list of Jinshi, and he almost won three yuan in a row, becoming a model for scholars in the world! and Lord Gu's 'swaying' half bottle of water, by no means on the same level.

And there are other rumors among the people: it is said that this Lord Luo was originally just a mediocre talent with blunt qualifications; But since he 'made a desperate bet' and redeemed 'Mr. Water Candle' from the land of fireworks, under her tutelage, it only took two years of hard work to set foot on the purple gold ceremony that made all the saint disciples fascinated! From this point of view, the person who won the four-rank official body for Luo Yuan may not be the manifestation of the Wendao sage; It's the great power of 'Mr. Water Candle', a 'virtuous helper'!

However, no matter what the rumors are, this Lord Luo has a typical literati bone who 'dares to fight against the water and treats money like dung'! Only such a person can make a 'pawn jacket in winter' be reasonable!

"If it's really as Brother Baili said, then this Lord Luo is a first-class loyal and upright person, and he is also the future minister of your Northern Yan Dynasty!"

When Zhou Changan heard Shen Gui's praise for Luo Yuan, he also nodded again and again, and asked him with great interest:

"You are also a person who responds to all calls and leans towards the government and the opposition in Youbei! Could it be that your position as the prefect of the capital is not used to sharpen the future auxiliary ministers of the imperial court? ”

If you don't ask, you can know what a desperate thing it is to want to be a parent official at the feet of the Son of Heaven! Anyone who lives in the capital of a country is either a noble gentry or a relative of the emperor; Coupled with the constraints and constraints of various powerful yamen, the mutual crushing of various factions, and the struggles and games that occur openly and secretly, for the 'nominal' prefect of the capital, it is a life-and-death test that gambles on the future and life!

Whoever can survive this kind of purgatory will not be a mediocre person?

And this Lord Luo Yuanluo, when he was twenty-three years old, had been 'demoted' to Tanhua by Emperor Tianyou, and he also put him under his nose, just to sharpen his literati arrogance and youthful spirit!

Today's Luo Yuan is in his early forties. But now that the nineteen-year-old Beijing official has come down, Lord Luo has been in the position of the four-grade prefect, and has come and gone more than a dozen times! Of course, this is not the result of Emperor Tianyou's deliberate suppression; It's because every once in a while, this Lord Luo will make some small mistakes that are harmless, but inevitably have a 'suspicion of dereliction of duty'......

This kind of behavior of 'exposing his shortcomings', in the eyes of Emperor Tianyou and Zhou Chang'an, is nothing more than a means of self-preservation for him Luo Yuan as a courtier, and the so-called 'wisdom of the court'.

Therefore, when the fourth prince Zhou Changan explained to Shen Gui, he also more or less brought his views on the entire murder case: he believed that the 'loss' of Wang Yutian's file by the Luo Governor was clearly a 'small mistake' he deliberately made in order to protect himself!

But this statement obviously can't convince Shen Gui! So after he left the Anping Palace, he went straight to the Yanjing Mansion.

Frankly speaking, although Wang Yutian had driven the carriage for Li Xuanyu for eighteen years, he also gave Shen Gui a legendary 'Zhenguo artifact'. But in the final analysis, Shen Gui and him are only 'one-sided relationship', and they are far from the intimacy of 'going to the soup and fire' to avenge him.

But if Shen Gui intervened in this matter before, it was only out of curiosity and complicated feelings for Li Xuanyu; Then the 'little spark' that finally ignited his anger was the old and young people who Wang Yutian had placed outside the city in advance, including the little grandson who had just learned to speak, and the seven people were slaughtered overnight.

This move, how different from a brute!

If the other party is a person in the rivers and lakes, then at least we must pay attention to a 'matter of the rivers and lakes', killing people to pay for their lives, and repaying debts should not cause trouble to Wang Yutian's family at all; if the other party is an official person, then it should not be done in secret. With their 'almost heavenly' sphere of influence, it is possible to 'smear' a crime of killing Wang Yutian, and such a filthy and obscene assassination method should not be adopted at all.

However, if you act according to the procedures of the Northern Yan law, there is a congenital 'deficiency': the so-called 'joint sitting system' has long become a thing of the past. That is to say, if these people are not from the rivers and lakes, then more than twenty years ago; From the moment they sent Feng Lianshan, they didn't plan to leave any way for Wang Yutian's family to live! This is also a possibility for them to take assassination methods!

When Shen Gui stood under the plaque of 'Fengjing Mansion' personally mentioned by Emperor Tianyou's imperial pen and carefully looked at the two watchman soap officials standing next to the stone lion, he became even more curious about this Luo Zhifu who 'scattered thousands of gold for a red face'.

The two soap class officials are not only neatly dressed and full of energy; Just by looking at the curvature of their muscles and the center of gravity of their bodies when standing, you know that they must have been carefully trained by experts!

Generally speaking, this kind of soap class officials who are responsible for watching the hall and running errands are all 'supernumerary personnel' recruited from the local area by the prefects with their own official salaries; their backgrounds are generally very low; the 'original occupations' they were engaged in before were either ruffians or thieves who did not enter the 'Jianghu Gate' at all.

As the so-called 'seeing the subtleties and knowing things', this Lord Luo was able to train two young officials from the market to such a strong and brave level, which also proved Zhou Chang'an's comment on him from the side: This Luo Zhifu is neither a sour Confucian nor a moral gentleman, but a pillar of the country with real materials and hard work!