I don't know how long it took, Jiang Yun woke people up from their sleep, he opened his eyes, the carriage had stopped, Qu Dan was in front of him, and there was a touch of amazement on his expressionless face. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"You can really sleep."

"What time is it?" Jiang Yun touched his face, sat up with his feet resting, and lifted the curtain to take a look. "It's dark?"

"Get out of the car, we'll rest here for the night, and we'll go tomorrow morning."

Jiang Yun jumped out of the car with her, and when she looked around, she found that she had arrived in a small village, and the carriage was parked at the mouth of the fence in front of the three thatched houses. The wooden door of the grass hut in the middle opened, and in the company of Zhong Hui, a middle-aged couple walked out, their hair was a little disheveled, but not gray, and their waists were quite straight, but their extremely haggard complexions made them look much older than their actual age.

"Uncle, auntie, this Lord Jiang is the latest member of the criminal department appointed by the imperial court, if nothing else, Xiaoyu's case should be handled by him, if you have anything to say, you can talk to him directly."

The middle-aged couple glanced at each other, knelt down at the same time, kowtowed and said, "The grass people have seen Master Jiang." ”

"Hurry up, two of you." Jiang Yun stretched out his hand to help. "If you have something to say, don't do it."

His face was dazed, but his heart was bright, these two should be the parents of the victim, the two girls of Wuzong brought him here, could it be that they wanted to play the favor card?

Qu Dan helped the two of them up and said lightly: "Let's go into the house and talk." ”

After entering the house, several people sat down around the shabby wooden table, and the middle-aged woman went to the kitchen next door to bring out a few dishes of home-cooked side dishes and put them on the table one by one. What to say about these dishes, some of them are cold, almost no meat, and there are not even the most common eggs in home-cooked dishes, but they are green and green, and they are quite refreshing to look at.

"Lord Jiang, the grass people's surname is Tang Mingzhou, the ancestors are all poor peasants for three generations, and there is only one daughter under his knees, named Tang Xiaoyu, who is the most ordinary family in the Great Zhou." After the dishes were served, Tang Zhou opened his mouth and muttered: "It was said that it was good to live a plain life, but the little girl likes martial arts, and she is fortunate to enter Lingyun Pavilion and become a famous disciple, and she only needs to hone for two years to officially get started." The little woman is upright, and the miscellaneous and trivial things in the division will rush to do, so she often goes down the mountain and goes in and out of the capital to purchase. ”

Speaking of this, Tang Zhou's voice gradually snorted. "Just last month, the little girl was arrested on the outskirts of the capital, and then... Then he was humiliated to death, the court not only refused to admit his mistake, but even threw out an innocuous scapegoat in a vain attempt to expose it. ”

Jiang Yuncai pinched his chopsticks, put them down again when he heard this, and sighed: "The villain in the mouth of the old man, but when His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun?" ”

"On the surface, it was His Royal Highness Taisun, and he also admitted it himself." Tang Zhou's eyes shone with hatred, and he said in a deep voice: "In fact, the person who violated the little girl is not the grandson, but the king!" ”

"Dingwang? Which one again? Jiang Yun was stunned, could it be that there was still a secret in this matter?

"You are also an official, and you have never heard of King Ding?" Qu Dan looked at him with a strange expression, and explained: "The grandson's name is Ji Qiyun, and he has a younger brother named Ji Qilong, who was also born by the crown prince and the princess back then, and he is one year younger than the grandson. When the emperor canonized Taisun as the crown prince, he incidentally named Ji Qilong as the king of Ding, and like King Wu of Jinling, he was a first-class prince. ”

That's not a small deal, Jiang Yun said suspiciously: "You mean, the grandson is carrying the black pot for others?" ”

"It's a black cauldron, but he willingly took it." Qu Dan replied lightly: "We have already investigated, and it was indeed the grandson who took the initiative to talk to Xiaoyu that day, but he didn't see any good face, and then gave up." On the contrary, when the king saw this, he ordered the guards to rob Xiaoyu away. After the incident, the grandson felt that he was an elder brother and had the responsibility to take care of his brother, and coupled with his identity, he blocked it without any scruples. ”

"Does Your Majesty know about this?"

"Should know." Qu Dan thought for a while and said, "Since my Lingyun Pavilion intervened, this case has become a big one. The grandson was imprisoned, and it was impossible not to tell the emperor about it. But this matter is already deadlocked, even if the emperor wants the grandson to change his confession, it is too late, otherwise wouldn't it make the world laugh? What's more, the emperor has always loved these two grandsons, and he should want to wait and find a solution that has the best of both worlds. ”

"And what do you want me to do?" Jiang Yun smiled bitterly: "Kill the grandson? Or kill the king? The official might as well say it clearly, it's useless. No matter how it is judged, the emperor will not let these two people have an accident, I understand this person, his face is more important than anything else. It's a trivial matter to give up a grandson, but once he admits it, the face of the Great Zhou royal family is lost, and he will not allow this kind of thing to happen. As long as the official shows the slightest attitude towards punishment, he will immediately remove the official and replace him with a different person, until the trial is satisfactory to him. ”

As soon as these words came out, Tang Zhou's face suddenly turned pale. "Could it be that in this world, no one can redress the little girl's grievances?"

"You don't have to worry about that." Qu Dan appeased Tang Zhou for a few words, and said to Jiang Yun: "Since I, Lingyun Pavilion, have come forward, I can't help him emperor Hu Lai in this matter!" The Wenhua Palace has already made its attitude clear, and they are determined to uphold the laws set by Taizu. Senior sister in charge has said first, if the emperor ignores the law and uses imperial power to rashly interfere in the trial, then I, Lingyun Pavilion, will remove an emperor! ”

“。。。” Look, look! What do you mean by? That's it. The emperor said that he would change it, and if someone else said it, Jiang Yun really didn't believe it, but if the sect master of the Martial Sect said it, it was difficult to believe it or not.

Protecting the country and Wuzong is really not in vain, people only care about protecting the country and killing an emperor, these people are estimated to not frown, and they can definitely do it.

Jiang Yun didn't squeak, other people's awesomeness is someone else's business, and it has nothing to do with him. If he treats other people's awesome as his own, then he is a comic. Wu Zong's permission to force the emperor to make concessions does not mean that the emperor after the concession will not settle accounts with Jiang Yunqiu.

After all, imperial power is imperial power, even if it is subject to certain restrictions, it is not something that Jiang Yun can fight against as a small official from the fifth grade, the old emperor has thousands of ways to clean him up when others can't find fault with him, what can Wuzong do at that time? It's not himself who is unlucky, Jiang Yun won't do this kind of stupid thing.

"In this case, the official will definitely judge impartially, everyone rest assured, eat and eat."

This is the most tasteless meal Jiang Yun has eaten in his life, and the bad food is secondary, mainly because he is preoccupied. Looking at Tang Zhou, who was smiling but sighing from time to time, and the woman who was secretly crying in and out of the kitchen, Jiang Yun admitted that he was indeed moved by compassion.

Without a sense of justice, he will not choose to join the police, after Ji Yu's incident, he once advised himself that he would never act rashly in the future, and never cause trouble for himself if he thought about it again and again. But the way of the world is like this, forcing his reason and conscience to fight again.

After the meal, Tang Zhou confessed and helped the woman clean up, while Zhong Hui went to the hut on the left side and packed up the bed to prepare for the night.

"You come with me." Qu Dan stood up and led Jiang Yun to the hut on the right.

Lighting the candle, through the dim light, Jiang Yun immediately saw a figure lying on the bed.

"What is this?"

"Light rain." Qu Dan looked at him and said lightly: "I specially used some methods to save her, just so that you can take a look, tomorrow after we leave, she should be buried in the ground." ”

What is there to look at in the dead, Jiang Yunqiang smiled: "No need. ”

"Let's see." Qu Dan insisted.

Jiang Yun reluctantly stepped forward, lifted the corner of the white cloth covering the corpse, and with just one glance, the whole person was stunned. Where is this like a corpse that has been dead for more than a month? It's not much different from falling asleep, his complexion is fair, moist and full, and there is no corpse spot on the skin exposed outside his clothes, which completely maintains Tang Xiaoyu's appearance before his death.

Bad bamboo shoots are good, this is Jiang Yun's reaction at first sight. It's a pity for this girl.

In terms of appearance, she is not particularly beautiful, but it is these not outstanding facial features that are matched together, but it reveals a sense of enchantment, she closes her eyes, but Jiang Yun can imagine how seductive she can be after opening her eyes. This is a woman who makes a man think of a bed at a glance.

Jiang Yun has seen many beauties, but none of them have grown up like this.

"There are some places that I can't show you." Qu Dan stepped forward, grabbed Tang Xiaoyu's right hand, and rolled up her sleeve, suddenly revealing a bloody arm full of wounds, the wound was dark red, the blood stains had dried, and hideous openings appeared in front of Jiang Yun. "Do you think she really just used too much medicine and died of poisoning?"

"What exactly is the cause of death?"

"At the beginning, I had already checked it, and said that it was indeed in line with the symptoms of poisoning, and we did not find a fatal wound on Xiaoyu's body, and now the only thing that is uncertain is whether the medicine Xiaoyu took was used before or after the fact."

Hearing this, Jiang Yun's face immediately sank. Beforehand? Afterwards? It doesn't sound like much of a difference, but that's where the case comes in. If it is beforehand, at best, it is only rape and accidental homicide, and the crime is reduced by one degree. If it is after the fact, it is intentional homicide to kill people, which is rape and murder, and the crime is increased by one degree.

How to judge depends on this.