"Cao Qin, this official has gone to see your godfather Cao Dudu."

A hint of discoloration flashed in Cao Qin's eyes, he raised his head slightly, and looked at Meng Yan with some surprise, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

"Cao Dudu is very disappointed in what you have done over the years, he is no longer willing to recognize you as a righteous son, and he also expelled you from the Cao family!"

"What?" When Cao Qin heard this, it was like a thunderbolt from the sky, his biggest reliance was Cao Jixiang, and now even Cao Jixiang had to cut off relations with him, then he would die.

"You don't believe it, think I'm fooling you?"

"Master Meng, you don't have to say anything, I won't say it." Cao Qin said, "Let's use torture!" ”

"I'm afraid that my torture here is not as good as your Dongchang, if you are willing to try some, this official can also fulfill you." Meng Yan smiled slightly.

"My lord, with the evidence we have, it is enough to sentence Cao Qin to death!"

"yes, got it."

"Do you hear voices outside?"

"What?"

"Listen carefully, listen carefully!" Meng Yan pointed to the outside of the iron window.

Cao Qin was a little confused, what did Meng Yan want to say to him?

"All of them outside are complaining with pleadings, and the person they want to sue is none other than you, Lord Cao Qincao."

"Sue me, what do I have to sue?"

"Yes, how many innocent people have you killed and how many people have been ruined because of you over the years, how can they not hate you?"

"So what?"

"Now that you have been imprisoned, Grandpa Cao has cut ties with you again. What do you say will happen to the relatives of these people when they get the news? Meng Yan sneered, "If I throw you out, I'm afraid these people will be able to swallow you alive." ”

Cao Qin's face changed drastically.

"Do you want to give it a try, this scene of eating a living person has never been seen before?" Meng Yan said with a smile.

Cao Qin shuddered, this is much more cruel than eighteen kinds of torture.

"You, can you really do it?"

"Why not?" Meng Yan said, "Cao Qin tried to escape from prison, but was hacked to death by the people who rushed to complain, and was eaten by him. Escalate it like this. The imperial court should not investigate the crimes of this official, right? ”

"You, you're terrible!"

"This official likes to work with smart people, Cao Qin, if you are a smart person. The officer may also keep you with a whole corpse. Your family will not be held accountable. If not, you know the laws of the court? ”

Cao Qin was frightened: "No, don't! ”

He knows it well. Once he is convicted, it is light to raid his house, and it is his family, especially a large number of his wives and children, who will be assigned to the teaching department.

What kind of place is the Teaching Workshop Division, that as the East Factory Punishment Thousand Households, he couldn't be clearer.

When women and children arrive at the Jiaofang Division, they are not born like this, and their appearance is certain, and they may be able to be distributed to slaves, and those who are a little worse are assigned to the border gates, as official prostitutes, it is inhumane.

Especially children, it is miserable, the times are slaves, and they will never be able to turn over.

"You think about it, whether to say it or not, this official will give you a night to think about it." Meng Yan Road.

"Take it down!"

"My lord, will Cao Qin speak?"

"Do you think Cao Qin is afraid of death?" Meng Yan asked rhetorically.

"Looks like a tough guy?"

"No, he is so arrogant because he has a backstage, and now I sue him, Cao Jixiang doesn't care if he lives or dies, so can he still be hard?"

"The question is, will Cao Qin believe it?"

"If you are caught, and the other party sues you, I abandoned you, and asked you to tell my secret, do you believe it?"

"My lord, Tianxing will never betray my lord!"

"I mean, if you believe what the other person says?" Meng Yan said with a smile.

"Tianxing definitely doesn't believe that adults will abandon it!"

"But Cao Qin doesn't believe it, because he and Cao Jixiang are both selfish people, selfish people don't believe in others, he would rather believe in himself." Meng Yan explained.

"Tianxing understands." Lin Tianxing said, "My lord, can this method also be used on Bai Jiao's family?" ”

"She can't do it, her relationship with Empress Dowager Sun is different from the relationship between Cao Qin and Cao Jixiang." Meng Yan shook his head.

"Why?"

"You will understand in the future, I have been staring at Cao Qin for the past two days, and I can't let him eat, and anyone who visits the prison must be approved by this official, understand?"

"Understood."

"Your Excellency, Your Majesty......"

"Old Fan, what's the matter?" Seeing Fan Xiping, who was out of breath, Meng Yan asked with some surprise.

"My lord, have you found the person who taught Bai Shaoqing to visit the prison?"

"You found it?" When Meng Yan heard this, he was taken aback, Jiao Lanrong is fine, this guy should get the news, the most important thing is to hide it, how can it be so easy to be found.

"Where?"

"The corpse, Yongding Hanoi, is frozen in ice." Fan Xiping Road.

"Let's go, let's see!" Meng Yan immediately understood that this was murder.

"My lord, it's getting late, tomorrow, right?" Lin Tianxing reminded.

"Yes, my lord, the standard sent someone to send the body to Yizhuang, send someone to guard it, and it will be okay to go tomorrow."

"Okay, go back today and have a good rest, and tomorrow morning, we will go to Yizhuang outside the city." Meng Yan nodded.

Early the next morning, Meng Yan took Lin Tianxing, Fan Xiping, Qi Zuo Getong and the second squad of the Treasury Brigade to Yizhuang outside the city.

"Sir, please come in!" The guards of Yizhuang saw Meng Yan and the others dressed in brocade robes, and hurriedly led them into Yizhuang.

"Your Excellency!" Fan Xiping's two inspectors who stayed in Yizhuang hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"What about the corpses?"

"Inside, sir, please!"

"Lao Ge, let's start!" Meng Yan walked in, and a corpse was lying on the door panel, covered with a white cloth, and it had not yet converged.

Ge Tong stepped forward and dressed neatly: "Idle people, wait, please go out and wait." ”

Ge Tong said after a busy moment: "My lord, after the preliminary test of lowly duties. The deceased was strangled to death and then dumped. ”

"Old Fan, where was the body found?" Meng Yan beckoned Fan Xiping in and asked.

"Lord Huiyu, it's not far from Yizhuang, and I'll take you there!"

"Lao Ge stayed, shipped the corpse, and brought it back for detailed examination!" Meng Yan ordered you, "The others will follow me to the scene!" ”

A group of seven or eight people came to the river where the body was found.

The grass along the river had been trampled so messy that it was difficult to find any clues to footprints or axle marks.

If this is in the next generation, people will understand a little bit of the Fa. As long as the importance of protecting the site. And in this era, the common people don't understand these at all.

"Call the official for the person who found the body!"

A local landlord led a man in his forties over and said he had found a body on the river.

"The grass people knock to see the master!"

"Get up and talk back!"

"Thank you, sir!"

"Tell the official about the process of your discovery of the body, and you should be detailed. Do you understand? Meng Yan asked.

"The grass people understand!" The man said. "It's noon. After eating lunch, the grass people thought about coming out for a stroll and walking. Walking to the river......"

"How far is this from the nearest village nearby?"

"Master, there are three or four miles of land, and the ones by the river are all sandy and alkaline land, and they can't grow crops, and no one comes, and it's freezing on this day, and no one comes, if it weren't for the second child of the Liu family who likes to hang out on weekdays......"

"String the door, the string to the wilderness?"

"This ......"

"The official doesn't care about personal affairs, from here to the nearest official road, you can take the carriage, how to go, guide the official to go through?" Meng Yan waved his hand.

"Yes, yes, sir, this way!" Di Bao hurriedly led Meng Yan up the river.

"My lord, there are a lot of footprints here?"

"Master, we often walk this road, so it's normal to have footprints!" Jibao explained.

Just when the big guy was extremely disappointed, Meng Yan squatted down and carefully checked the footprints on the ground: "Dibao, what shoes do the people in your village wear?" ”

"It's these mesh shoes!" Dibao lifted his feet.

"Does anyone wear boots?"

"We poor farmers, can we afford to wear boots?" Jibao said self-deprecatingly.

"You see, this is obviously the shoe print of the boot, and it is also the kind of thin-soled boots worn by the eunuchs in the palace, and the shoe prints are extended!" Meng Yan ordered.

"Whoa!"

"There are also rut marks on the ground, the ruts of your ox carts are different from the rut marks of the horse-drawn carts, and the spacing and depth are also different, Di Bao, take out the ox carts, donkey carts and horse-drawn carts in your whole village, let's compare!"

"Yes, sir!"

Soon, the wagons, ox carts, and donkey carts of the village were brought out.

"You don't need to look at these cars, I haven't been out in the past few days, the following ones, carefully compare, are there any of the same marks?"

"My lord, you are really god, these cars have rut marks!"

"Tianxing, ask me in detail when these cars went out, where they went, what things they pulled, and when did they come back?"

"Whoa!"

A moment later, Lin Tianxing returned.

"My lord, I have asked, but there is no suspicion." Lin Tianxing explained.

"Is there a set of rut marks left?"

"Yes!"

"This is coming, this is walking, no more than an hour before and after, Tianxing, you see, what is the contrast between the depth of this rut mark before and after?"

"My lord, that doesn't seem like a big difference?"

"It's not big, that's because the road is icy, and the truth of ice must be very hard, but after all, the weight of the carriage is less than one person, that is, hundreds of catties, so there are still subtle differences in the rut marks before and after, especially in the soft soil." Meng Yan explained.

"Rub the rut prints down, and enter Beijing from here, which door is the closest?" Meng Yan asked.

"Xuanwumen!"

"Check the Xuanwumen who went out the evening before yesterday, and entered the same carriage in Beijing early the next morning!" Meng Yan Road.

"It's not easy to check, is it?"

"I don't know, this carriage must have gone out in the evening when the city gate was closed, and returned to the capital the next morning, asking the soldiers guarding the city, they might give us some clues."

"Whoa."

Meng Yan knew that if he investigated, he would definitely find out in the palace, but if he didn't investigate, wouldn't he be suing those people, and he knew who was going to poison Bai Jiao's family?

Whether it is Cao Qin or Empress Dowager Sun, there is a motive for killing, if it is really found on Empress Dowager Sun, what should he do?

This is a tricky question.

Now he still has to pretend that he doesn't know anything, does he have to pretend to be deaf and dumb this time? (To be continued......)