In the Baowen Pavilion, Queen Liu is feeding Zhao Xu medicine, she is now seven months pregnant, with a big belly, and still insists on feeding Zhao Xu medicine in person, perhaps, this is what she made up for Zhao Xu in life, before, she never thought of doing something to be sorry for Zhao Xu, but that night in order to save her life, she did it; In any case, when facing Zhao Xu, she inevitably felt a little ashamed in her heart.

Zhao Xu didn't know this, and seeing her like this, he only felt that this queen was not wrong.

"Official, the concubine heard that the northwest has won another big victory, right?"

"Well, during the ninth year of Yuan You, the Western Xia repeatedly violated the border, causing the lives of the northwest to be ruined. When I sent Yang Yi to Huanzhou, I didn't think I was wrong, this time I annihilated the 50,000 troops of the Western Xia and killed the Western Xia general Meile, Yang Yi made a great contribution! When the good news came, Zhao Xu was in a good mood and couldn't help but say a few more words.

"Congratulations to the official! Congratulations to the official family! Empress Liu lost no time in flattering and said, "The official family has been in power for less than two years, and has achieved a great victory in Hebei and Northwest China, and the new domestic policy is changing with each passing day. ”

Zhao Xu smiled, knowing that Empress Liu was flattering, he still felt very happy, objectively speaking, the achievements he has achieved in the past two years are indeed the heights that many emperors have not been able to reach in their lifetimes, as long as the new policy of the country can continue, the title of a Ming Jun through the ages really can't run.

Empress Liu accurately grasped Zhao Xu's emotions, and then said: "The official family, now it seems that whether it is the great victory in Hebei, the great victory in the northwest, or the new domestic policy, Yang Yi has played a great role in it. The concubine begs you one thing! ”

"Hehe, if the queen has anything to say, as long as it's not too excessive, I will promise you."

"Thank you, official." Empress Liu's face was overjoyed, and she said with beautiful eyes: "I don't ask for much for the concubine, if the concubine will give birth to the prince in the future, I only ask the official family to let Yang Yi be the teacher of the concubine." ”

"Queen, are you a little worried!"

"The concubine hopes that her son will become a dragon, no matter how much she thinks about it, the concubine only hopes that this child will be like the official family in the future, wise and martial! Establish immortal feats, don't you worship a capable person as a teacher? Official, you just promise to be a concubine! ”

Empress Liu was coquettish, and her peerless enchantment was revealed, Zhao Xu was already in a good mood, and couldn't help laughing: "But it's a trivial matter, I promise you that Yang Yi is a champion, Wen Taowu is overlooked, and this kid will worship him as a teacher in the future, although he is younger, others are not good at saying anything." ”

"Thank you, official! Thank you, official! ”

The two were talking, and there was a sudden commotion outside the hall, and Zhao Xu's brows had just furrowed, when he saw Liu Ying come in with a palace maid.

The palace maid's face turned pale, and she bowed down in panic and said: "Official, it's not good, it's not good, it's not good, the eldest princess of Kang Guo is gone!" ”

Zhao Xu raised his eyebrows and asked in a deep voice, "Say, what's going on?" ”

The palace maid hurriedly poured beans and said: "The maid accompanied the eldest princess to the Great Xiangguo Temple today to incense, the lord of the long country said that he would recite the Buddha alone in the main hall, let the maid and others withdraw from the main hall and wait for the marquis, the maid and others did not dare to disobey the order, and they could exit the hall, and the maid waited outside the hall for a long time and did not see the eldest princess come out, so she quietly went to the door to look, but there was no trace of the eldest princess, and the maid and others searched for the entire Xiangguo Temple......"

"Enough! How long have you been waiting outside the temple? ”

"Go back to the official's house, big ...... About two hours! ”

"Did any suspicious people approach the main hall in the meantime?"

"Back to the official's house, there should be no, there are guards guarding the front hall, and the idle people can't get close to the ......"

"What's unusual about the eldest princess in the past two days?"

"Back to the official's house, no, but ...... This morning, the maid saw that the eldest princess seemed to have secretly cried......"

Hearing this, Zhao Xu's heart relaxed a little, since the last time she interceded for Yang Yi, she was grounded for half a year by the Queen Mother, and only had the opportunity to leave the palace a few days ago, it is said that no one has eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall and dared to take the princess captive, but all this is just speculation.

"Liu Jin! Don't send someone to look for it, I won't find your head. ”

After Liu Ying left the palace, Queen Liu saw that Zhao Xu was angry, so she persuaded in a good voice: "The official family is angry, the dragon body is important, the eldest princess of Kang Guo has always been naughty, will she deliberately tease everyone, and she will show up later......"

"The queen doesn't know, Kang Guo is naughty, but she has always known the severity, she won't mess around with such things, alas!"

"Official, this is ......" Hearing Zhao Xu's sigh, Empress Liu asked with some puzzlement.

Zhao Xu was a little speechless, he now suspects that the eldest princess of Kang Guo was not taken captive, but ran away by herself, what is it or someone who makes this girl do such a reckless thing, Zhao Xu can guess a few points in his heart, no matter what kind of discussion will be caused by the outside world knowing in advance, a princess who needs to be taken care of by someone else, runs outside alone, in case there is a mistake, how can this be done.

"Jiao Shou, go on, this matter must not be publicized for the time being, if there are any rumors outside the palace, I will ask you, and also, send someone to focus on the westward search, we must find the eldest princess of Kang as soon as possible, do you hear clearly!"

"Slaves obey!"

There was a drum of grievances in the front hall, Yang Yi had to hand over the prescription to Ma Hanqing, the inspector, and let him personally go to catch the medicine, before the implementation of the errand law, officials had many servants such as Yaqian to drive, and these people did not need to pay salaries; After the implementation of the errand service law, these are gone, officials want to call people, but can only take money to hire workers, the Great Song Dynasty officials live in luxury, which requires a lot of manpower to provide services for him, and now these people have to pay out of their own pockets, which is the main reason why most officials opposed the errand service law at the beginning.

Yang Yi came to the front hall dressed neatly, this is the first time he has tried a case since he came to Huanzhou, Xiao Yi was afraid that he would be late, so he also came out, state-level governance office, ordinary cases do not need to be tried in person by Zhizhou, generally by the manager to join the army, record the army or pass the judgment to try, only major cases involving human life, only need Zhizhou to personally raise the court to ask the case.

"Ascension!"

"Mighty ......"

After the two classes of officials shouted Tang Wei, Yang Yi ordered the plaintiff to be taken, and soon the officials brought a little girl of eleven or twelve years old to the court, the little girl was covered with mud, and she was frightened by the Tang Wei of the government officer, and her face was full of frightened expressions.

When Yang Yi saw that the plaintiff was a poor little girl, he couldn't help but be stunned, and asked in a relaxed tone as much as possible: "Little girl, don't be afraid, what's your name?" Who's the people? If you have any grievances, let's go with them! ”

The little girl pounced and knelt down, and cried whining: "Lord Zhizhou, the people's daughter's name is Li Xi'er, the family lives in Lijia Village outside the West Gate, the father was killed by gangsters, and the mother was accused of adultery with others, and was imprisoned in the Governor's Hospital, the people's daughter has a great grievance, and the Lord Zhizhou is the master of the people's daughter......"

The little girl cried endlessly, poignantly, Yang Yi didn't stop drinking, turned to Xiao Yi and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Since it was a homicide case, it was natural to report it to him, the governor, but now that everyone is in the Governor's Yuan, he, the governor, has nothing to do with this matter, so it is inevitable that he will have doubts.

Xiao Yi replied: "A few days ago, there was indeed a case in Lijia Village outside the West Gate, but the whereabouts of the party Li Qi were unknown, and the body was not found, so the case was not handled as a homicide, and the adults were busy with the war, so it was delayed. ”

"Nope! Lord Zhizhou, my father's body has been found, in a forest outside the city, Lord Zhizhou, please be the master of the people's daughter! ”

The little girl kept kowtowing, seeing that Yang Yi couldn't bear it, she walked down the hall and said, "You mean that your father's body has just been found, right?" ”

"Yes, sir!"

"That's it, you take the official to see it first!"

Yang Yi rushed outside the city with the servants and the pestle, and came to a forest called Jianziling, where Li Qi's body was found, and at this time there were already some people watching the excitement.

Li Qi's body was originally buried in the ground, but because it was buried very shallowly, the corpse decomposed and emitted a foul smell, Li Xi'er because of the disappearance of her father, her mother was imprisoned, these days she has been trying to find her father's whereabouts, so that she can clear her mother's grievances, and after hearing someone say that there is a foul smell in the forest, Li Xi'er actually ran over, gritted her teeth and dug away the floating mud, and finally found Li Qi's body, so she rushed into the city to beat the drum and sound the grievances.

Although the body was highly decomposed, based on the characteristics of height and clothing, it can be determined that the deceased was Li Qi, and after careful examination by pestle, Li Qi was struck on the head with a blunt object, and his skull was cracked and died.

Although Yang Yi didn't have much experience in solving the case, he still knew the importance of the crime scene, and he carefully checked it in the forest, but because more than 20 days had passed, and it was rainy this season, it was difficult to find any useful clues, and even whether this forest was the first scene of the crime could not be determined.

Yang Yi had no choice but to let people take Li Qi's body back to the mortuary in the state first, and then transfer the file of Yuan Huang, who had joined the army before the manager, to investigate the case.

Yuan Huang's record of this case is very detailed, and the facts of the case are probably like this: Li Qi of Lijia Village married his wife Huang, Huang was gentle and virtuous, and the couple got along very well, but over the years, Huang only gave birth to a daughter Li Xi'er, Li Qi has been counting on a son to inherit the incense, so he gradually became dissatisfied with Huang, and over time, he often spoke evil words, and even added fists and feet.

Huang was often beaten and scolded by Li Qi for no reason, and a neighbor named Li Ping looked at the door, and was very sympathetic to Huang's plight, so he often came to dissuade Li Qi.

Li Qi was angry that he was nosy, and once even Song Ping was injured, Song Ping didn't care about it, but Huang felt indebted to Song Ping, and afterwards she took advantage of Li Qi's absence to secretly bring some gifts to visit the injured Song Ping, but was just bumped into by Li Qi when he went home.

Li Qi once again punched and kicked the two, and scolded the Huang family for not keeping women's morals, this matter is well known to everyone in the village, if this time Li Ping and Huang and some wrongs, then the next thing is a little unusual, some neighbors confirmed that Song Ping and Huang have been seen whispering in the woods, and even this year's Lantern Festival, some people have seen the two of them watching the lights together in the city.

On the first day of April this year, Li Qi disappeared suddenly, and after the trial of Yuan Huang, the manager of the army, thought that it might be that Huang and Li Ping had an adulterous affair and murdered Li Qi together, but because Li Qi's body was not found, the murder charge was not established.

Li Ping and Huang refused to admit that there was an adultery between the two, and even denied that Li Qi's disappearance had anything to do with them, and refused to draw the detention, so the case dragged on.

(To be continued)