The first case occurred in the house of Lord Mo Sangtian, who supervised the Imperial History.

It was the night of July 9, and everyone in Tianfu had already rested and fallen asleep.

When Mo first entered the child, the two maids who had waited for the old lady to fall asleep had also finished washing and were lying on the bed to sleep. Just when the two of them were half awake and half asleep, they suddenly heard a voice outside the door calling for them to go. The two of them put on their clothes, got out of bed in a trance, and went to the door. The two of them walk like butterflies, gently ying, stepping on the ground but like walking in the clouds.

The small room where the two lived was next to the old lady's bedroom, and the door led directly to a small room where the old lady lived in her daily life.

When they opened the door, they saw that the small hall had suddenly become much empty, and there was no lamp, and there was a brazier burning in the middle, and the fire was burning very strongly, and there were people with torches.

When I looked at it again, I saw that the old man and the lady were kneeling on the ground, but the whole hall was transformed into a public hall, and there was a figure wearing an official uniform and a green face and fangs sitting on the public hall. In a trance, I heard an angry shout: "Ahh

The two of them were shocked and saw clearly that the ghost king sitting behind the desk was clearly the ghost king in hell - King Yama, exactly the same as the one on the mural in the temple.

On the left and right of the king of Yama stood the judges, the master bookkeepers, and black and white impermanence from the underworld, and a group of ghost soldiers stood on both sides with torches, putting on a vicious posture, as if they were interrogating Lord Tian Mo Sangtian.

The two of them knelt down beside the old lady, only to see that Lord Tian had been tortured many times, covered in blood and unkempt hair.

The two of them were surprised in their hearts, but this body seemed to be no longer their own, and they couldn't scream, they couldn't even be afraid, they were blindly drowsy, and they experienced the situation in front of them in a trance.

The judge took a step forward and asked on behalf of the king of Yama what his surname was, and where he lived. The two replied. Later, it seemed that I asked something again, but I couldn't remember anything.

Everything in front of me is like in a dream, the voice of the ghosts sounds like it, but it doesn't seem to be there when you think about it, and the lights and images in front of you are also weird, if there is nothing.

The judge asked a few questions, and after the two of them were gone, they kept kneeling. The Yama judges continued to interrogate Lord Tian Mo Sangtian.

The interrogation was extremely long and repetitive. The king of Yama and the judge questioned him repeatedly, and they seemed to be very dissatisfied with Lord Tian's answer, and they kept using red-hot irons, clamping sticks, bamboo sticks, leather whips and other torture instruments to apply all over Lord Tian's body, and the screams were endless.

I don't know how long it took. They fell asleep.

The next morning, when the two woke up, they looked around and saw each other sleeping in their own beds, and they were very surprised, and told each other about the events of last night, but they didn't know if it was a dream or a reality.

After the two washed and dressed, they went to the old lady's room suspiciously, and found that the old man and the lady were asleep, and the old man snored as usual.

The two maids wanted to tell the old lady about the night correctly, but they really didn't know how to speak.

In the next few days, Tian Mosang and his wife were depressed, and the two of them were even more difficult to ask anything, but they talked a lot in private with the same family Ding mother-in-law, and the family Ding mother-in-law next to him said that night but did not hear the slightest sound, and the two maids thought in their hearts that it was really a strange dream at the same time that night. It's just that strange things are weird, and it's naturally difficult to let go, so I still go around talking to the same people.

The fourth day after the incident, that is, on the 12th of July. Tian Mosang and his wife did not wake up from their sleep. The housekeeper of the Tian family saw that the lord and his wife died in a sleep, thinking that the person died naturally when he was old, and he didn't think about it elsewhere, so he reported the case of death and cancellation of his registration to the right Jinwuwei office.

Jin Wuwei in this Chang'an City, there are many matters involved, moving in and out, losing people, and natural deaths must be registered, not to mention that Tian Mosang is an official of the imperial court, and after his death, he must report to Jin Wuwei to be registered and deregistered, and report to the imperial court and various ministries to deal with the aftermath.

The little official who went to run an errand first inspected the bodies of Tian Mosang and his wife, which were non-toxic and non-injured, and found out that it was a natural death. In the middle, the mouthy family told the little official about the strange dream of the two maids, but the little official thought it was nonsense and didn't take it to heart.

It's just that this matter also spread, and the streets and alleys knew about it for a while.

If it weren't for the second case, the deaths of Tian Mosang and his wife would probably never have been suspected.

The second case occurred on July 24 at the home of Yu Wenlei, the right feather Lin Wei Zhonglang Jiang.

Yuwenlei and his wife, along with their son and daughter-in-law, died in their sleep overnight.

After receiving the report, Han Dang, the envoy of the right street, personally went to Yuwenlei's mansion, because he died four times in one night, so Han Dang brought Jin Wuwei's servants to go at that time.

Under inspection, the four corpses showed no signs of poison, and the deceased's expression was serene, as if he had died in his sleep.

Han Dang has been in this Chang'an City for more than half his life, and he has been a right-street envoy for more than ten years, and he has seen a lot, although he can't see the clues at the moment, he faintly feels that this matter is not trivial. He invited the old lady and the young master and the young lady's close maids and others to inquire.

After asking, the same strange thing happened in this Yuwen Mansion as in Tian Fuzhong, and on the night of three days ago, there were also Yama Judge and a group of Yin Cao servants who came to judge this Yuwen Lei and his son. Because Yuwenlei and Tian Mosang have a very close personal relationship, and the subordinates of the two families also have a lot of contacts, and they already know what happened to the Tian family. Therefore, while telling Han Dang about his own affairs, he was also somewhat involved in the affairs of the Tian family.

Yu Wenlei and his son Yu Wenying each have two close maids, and they both sleep in the wing room next to the master. King Yama interrogated Yuwenlei and his son at night, and the old and young ladies and four maids were also on the side. There is almost no difference in what the four maids said, they all said that when they were half awake and half asleep, they heard someone calling, so they got up, and when they walked into the hall, they also saw that the king of Yama brought a group of Yin Cao officials to interrogate the old master and the young master, and continued to torture them. When I woke up, it was like a dream.

Xian Yuyan is a delicious and meat-loving person, born without believing in cause and effect ghosts and gods. It's just that in these two cases, a few corpses can't be seen at all, and I think the strange thing is still in this group of Yama ghost pawns, so I told Guo Yu in great detail to see if he can come up with anything from it.

"In today's case, is there also a strange thing about King Yama's night trial? Brother Xian Yu concluded that these cases were implicated. After listening to this, Guo Yu couldn't help asking.

"This, the person who came to report the case did not mention it, but only said the murder case, but the person who came to report the case was the housekeeper of General Zuo Qianniuwei, Xu Qiuchi, and General Xu's mansion!

Hearing Xian Yuyan say this, Guo Yu probably understood a little bit in his heart.

Supervising the imperial history, although it is only an eight-rank official position, has the power and responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, which can be described as a small authority.

The right feather Lin Wei Zhonglang general, under the fourth grade, assumes the important responsibility of guarding the safety of the royal family and the imperial city.

General Zuo Qianniuwei, from Sanpin, is the direct commander of the emperor's personal guard Qianniu Bei.

This series of mysteries all point to the important ministers of the Li Tang Dynasty, which is indeed easy to reminisce.

Xu Qiuchi's mansion is in Changle Fang. The group arrived quickly.

There was already a small servant waiting in front of the house, and when he saw that it was the envoy of Zuojie who brought people, he didn't know how to go, so he directly invited everyone to go. Xian Yuyan took Qi Zuo and Guo Yu to go, and the rest stayed in the gatehouse to wait.

There are four entrances in the Xu Mansion, and the case occurred in the small garden outside Xu Qiuchi's bedroom, located in the third entrance of the Xu Mansion.

As soon as I entered the porch of the third entrance, I could hear someone talking inside, and the tone and content did not look like the family of the Xu Mansion.

"Huh—why is Brother Dugu here?" a girl's sweet voice.

"A few eunuchs have died, come and see!" replied a man in a silent and cold voice, and there seemed to be infinite resentment in his voice.

"Oh, how do you speak? Dugu Shaoqing, you have to pay more attention to what you say. Our family is also running errands for the emperor, even if you are a relative of the emperor, don't you have to look at the emperor's face!" An arrogant young man interjected in a weird way, he should be a little eunuch.

The girl was about to have a seizure, but she stopped, she should have been dissuaded. The little eunuch was also reprimanded and stopped talking.

There was silence in the courtyard.

The little eunuch who had been scolded just now seemed to be waiting to find someone to play prestige and regain face for himself, when he saw Xian Yuyan and Guo Yu and others coming, he shook off the dust, and choked Xian Yuyan head-on: "Oh, the left street makes a big shelf! What's the matter, next time, our family will send the car from the palace to pick you up, I want you to come a little earlier, don't be tired of you!"

The arrogant little eunuch caught a glimpse of Guo Yu at a glance, looked up and down, and exclaimed: "Tut-tut, isn't this the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, the sixth son of Guo Ziyi's family." This is not an ordinary homicide case, and no one is allowed to watch it casually. What's the matter—"

Guo Hua saw the waist card hanging on the waist of the little eunuch, and saw that it was someone in the prosecutor's hall. The Prosecutor's Office was founded by Li Fuguo, the powerful eunuch of the current dynasty, to monitor hundreds of officials and visit the privacy of civil and military ministers.

Guo Hua was still smiling, but he was a little bored in his heart, the eunuchs in this prosecutor's hall were really hateful, and he even knew his own appearance, and he knew that he had no official rank in the court, but he was just a loose person, and he was a bully.

The little eunuch was still noisy, and someone behind him whipped a whisk of dust on his buttocks, and he sighed in pain, and when he looked back, he shrank his neck and took two steps back in pain. This time, I really didn't say anything.

The beater was also a eunuch, dressed in a crimson robe, noble and gorgeous. What is especially amazing is that the eunuch is very handsome and chic, different from the ordinary eunuch who is obscure and soft.

Guo Yu knew him. He is the deputy head of the prosecutor's office, Yu Nuohai, although he is a eunuch and an errand boy under Li Fuguo, he is a cheerful person, and at several banquets, the two have drank. Guo Yu couldn't help laughing loudly: "Hahaha, Xiaoyu, it's you!

Yu Nuohai's voice was also very light, he looked at Guo Yu and said loudly: "Guo Gongzi, my subordinates are not sensible, don't take it to heart." I'm ashamed to say it. The three people who died this time were from our prosecutor's office. He died in Lord Xu's house again, so he came to investigate! Guo Gongzi, this is to accompany Brother Xianyu, right?"

"Well, yes, come and help Brother Xian Yu come over and have a look. Guo Yu didn't hide it, but he was shocked, but he didn't expect that it was someone from the prosecutor's hall who died this time, which was strange.

Xian Yuyan saw that the two of them finished speaking, and also came over to say hello. Although he is not familiar with it, he also knows Yu Nuohai, and Guo Hua once pulled them to drink together.

The woman who spoke before turned out to be Xue Shanggong of the Shanggong Bureau, Xue Yiliu. I saw that her skin was like mutton fat, young and beautiful, although she seemed to deliberately modify the bridge of her eyebrows, eyes and nose when she put on makeup, she could not hide the charm of a woman from the Western Regions on her face.

Shanggong Bureau, is the Tang Chengsui system, set up in the harem to manage the affairs of the palace of the female official, Shanggong Bureau has two Shanggong people, is the fifth rank, jurisdiction of the Shanggong Bureau in the Si Yan, the secretary, the Si Zheng, the Si Yan four divisions.

The person who is called Brother Dugu and Dugu Shaoqing is Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Dugu Huan. However, anyone who has seen Dugu Huan will be sure at a glance that his parents have the wrong name.

This Dugu Huan, tall, good-looking, not thick or thin lips, straight nose bridge, two sword eyebrows flying obliquely into the sideburns, but a pair of eyes are extremely lonely, always full of melancholy and incomprehensible sadness and pride.

Guo Hua also came over to meet Xue Yiliu and Dugu Huan.

Although this Xue Shanggong is a female official of the fifth grade, after all, she is an official of the inner palace, and this time she is also here to inquire about this case? Could it be that there are also people in the palace who care about this case?

Guo Hua couldn't help but think about it when he saw that Xue Yiliu was also there, but at this moment, Xue Shanggong's mind seemed to be all on Dugu Huan's body, and a pair of bright eyes only fell on Dugu Huan alone, and his eyes were full of love. Even when Guo Hua greeted her, she only responded vaguely.

Dugu Huan recognized Guo Hua, and when he saw him coming over to talk, he nodded arrogantly, and whispered: "Guo Gongzi" is considered to be polite.

Although this Dugu Huan is only the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, he is not a high-ranking power, but he is the son of Princess Xincheng and Dugu Ming. is above the officialdom, and everyone has no choice but to settle for his cold and arrogant temperament.

Yu Nuohai saw that everyone was coming, so he beckoned everyone to start thinking about the case.