If it weren't for the clothes, no one would have recognized that the corpse that was hung on the beam, with even his head cut off, was Ma Lian, the former jailer of the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion.

This Ma Lian, Yan Suwen is impressed, about 1.76 meters tall, because he often practices martial arts, and his figure is relatively strong. When I get older, I am a little lazy, but the size of the martial artist is still there. The dried corpse, which could be suspended from the beam, was emaciated and showed obvious signs of being whipped. The head was cut off with a knife, and then the iron hook was hooked under the armpits on both sides of the deceased and hung on the beam.

When the door was pushed open, Ma Lian's body swayed in the wind, and even if it was blue and white, people couldn't help but feel a chill all over their bodies.

"Lord Xue has been investigating for so long, has he found something new?"

"Mrs. Hui's words, through the investigation of the lower officials, found that this Ma Lian did have a nephew named Ma Jue, but this Ma Jue was a polio patient, and died of an accident as early as two years ago. Ma Lian did not marry a wife before his death, nor did he leave any heirs, in addition to Ma Jue's nephew, there was also a niece who married far away. The Ma family is considered to be thin. This Ma Lian once told people that the Ma family had no descendants, and that the errand in this prison was not easy to do. Therefore, Xia Guan speculated that the Ma Jue who replaced Ma Lian and went to Jingzhao Mansion to serve as a jailer was fake, and he was the murderer of Ma Lian, but no one knew where this murderer was hiding now. The people of my Jingzhao Mansion searched in Yecheng all night, and they didn't find any trace of this person, although the city gate was opened, but the city gates everywhere were strictly investigated, not to mention that they looked a little similar to Ma Jue, that is, they were about the same height and fat and thin, and they would be stopped and interrogated carefully. ”

"Xiangye's judgment will never be wrong, this Ma Jue must still be in Yecheng. The wind is tight right now, and he won't choose to escape from the city at this time. Yan Suwen briefly examined Ma Lian's body, and then asked people to carry it aside.

"Xia Guan also thinks that he will not escape, but this Yecheng is not big, and it is not small to say that it is not small, and it is indeed not easy to find someone in the short term."

"If you want to sort out a mess, the most important thing is to find the messy head, and if you find it, you can follow the head and peel off the cocoon. Lord Xue checked all night and thought clearly about a problem. Why did this Ma Jue put himself in danger, why did he kill Ma Lian, and used Ma Lian's nephew to infiltrate the Jingzhao Mansion prison to poison Jing Chun and those others. Poisoning is enough, and such a precious poison is used, what does he want to explain? ”

"This ...... How can this subordinate be clear? ”

"Really? I thought Master Xue knew it very well. ”

"Madame is joking, this subordinate is also confused. Madame thought, this is all in prison, why can't you kill people? How cheap is this arsenic, isn't it? Why use such a valuable poison. Could it be that this Ma Jue is trying to get out of here? No, we've been looking for so long, and we still haven't found anyone. ”

"People, maybe they weren't killed by Ma Jue at all." When he said this, Xue Donglai happened to raise his head, his eyes met Yan Su's question, and he hurriedly stepped aside.

"I have a letter here, which was delivered through the courtyard wall of the Prime Minister's Mansion earlier, because there are many things, and I haven't bothered to read it. When I went out today, I talked about Ma Lian with the personal girl, and the girl hurriedly brought this letter, and I saw that the word Ma Lian was written on the cover of this letter. Lord Xue, do you want to know what is written in this letter? Do you want to know, why did a jailer who ran an errand in Jingzhao Mansion send a letter to the Prime Minister's Mansion? ”

"This, the lower officials don't know."

"This letter is indeed written by Ma Lian, but these two words on the envelope are not."

"Madame is confused."

"Since Lord Xue is confused, then we might as well explain the cause and effect of the incident clearly in front of Ma Lian's corpse. If there is something wrong with what I repeated, Lord Xue, you can correct and add it at any time. ”

"Madame, please."

"Lord Xue still remembers that Fuzhong Zuozuo once said that when he was young, he had seen someone use this flower-faced spider venom. Master Xue also knew that I was studying medicine, and I was more interested in this messy poison, so I went to find this Yuan Chengzuo later, and asked him carefully about the situation when I met the flower-faced spider venom when I was young, and as a result, I inadvertently matched a case many years ago. ”

"A case from years ago? What can make Mrs. pay attention to it must be a big case. Xue Donglai wanted to laugh, but he pulled the corners of his mouth and took back the smile that he had squeezed out with great difficulty.

"Yuan Chengzuo just looks old, his actual age is only fifty-three. The incident he said happened twenty-three years ago, when he was just thirty years old. Thirty years old, in the eyes of the fifty-three-year-old known Mandate of Heaven, is indeed young. Twenty-three years ago, when he was still the first emperor, a general surnamed Lin in the court was ordered by the first emperor to be dismissed from the army and escorted back to Yecheng because he was reported for being greedy for military rations and losing the battle at the front. It's a pity that this General Lin did not return to Yecheng, but was killed in Yiyang City, which is still hundreds of kilometers away from Yecheng, and it was the strange poisonous flower-faced spider that killed this General Lin. ”

"Madame said this, the lower officials have also heard it. But what does this have to do with the lower officials when it happened twenty-three years ago? At that time, Xia Guan was only a little older. ”

"This case that happened twenty-three years ago really has nothing to do with you, Lord Xue, but the incident that happened eight years ago has something to do with you, Lord Xue. Eight years ago, someone who claimed to be a descendant of the Lin family went to Beijing to overturn the case. This person has many personal and physical evidence, and these evidences all prove that General Lin was framed by someone.

General Lin was not greedy for military rations, but he didn't see military rations at all. At that time, the war ahead was urgent, and the first emperor ordered the Hubu Shangshu Fangtai to raise military rations. But this Fang Tai is a faint official who can only pat himself on the back and can't do things. He was unable to raise the military rations he had accumulated in front of him within the time limit given by the emperor, so he came up with a vicious plan. He mixed hay with the grain, saying that he had already raised it, and when the military rations were sent to General Lin, and when General Lin was responsible for the inspection, he asked the adjutant general who had been bribed in advance to deceive General Lin elsewhere, and when the handover procedures were completed, when General Lin noticed that something was wrong, he beat him up, and the charge of losing the military rations was all on General Lin's head. Worried that after General Lin returned to Yecheng, things would change, and this Hubu Shangshu actually spent a lot of money to let his henchmen buy a highly poisonous flower-faced spider.

This ordinary poison is too easy to detect. There are few people who know about the flower-faced spider, and even fewer people have seen it, and the symptoms after poisoning are also different from those of ordinary poisoned people, and it is difficult to detect them by ordinary behavior. As a result, General Lin went from being killed to committing suicide, and the Lin clan was also involved, and there was no shortage of raids, confiscations, and exiles. ”

"If Madame doesn't mention these old things, the lower officials really don't know."

"I don't know, I don't believe it, Lord Xue's father didn't mention these things to Lord Xue. Yes, Lord Xue did walk to the position of Jingzhao Mansion Yin step by step, but if there is no one behind him to help, according to Lord Xue's qualifications, I am afraid that it will be difficult to sit firmly in this position. At that time, the head of the household department had already become the uncle of the country, and his youngest daughter entered the palace as a concubine soon after the incident, and was deeply favored by the first emperor. This concubine is also lucky, after entering the palace, she only gave birth to a daughter, not a son, so she was not involved in the dispute between the dragon heirs many years ago. Now, she is enjoying her life as a concubine. The henchman who was poisoned by the Hubu Shangshu faction back then happened to be surnamed Xue, and he happened to be your father, Lord Xue. ”

Xue Donglai's face changed suddenly.

"Eight years ago, the household was still alive, and the concubine was not a concubine, but a concubine in the palace. The reversal of the case by the descendants of the Lin family is equivalent to overturning all the people who are sitting on the boat of Hubu Shangshu. You will never allow such a thing to happen. The pleadings of this reversal were handed to Jingzhao Mansion first, but unfortunately the descendants of the Lin family don't know, and they don't know that you, Lord Xue, are also the people of the former household department. Her coming to surrender is equivalent to throwing herself into a net. This case did not spread at all, and this descendant of the Lin family died quietly in the prison of Jingzhao Mansion. ”

Xue Donglai didn't say anything, but his face was gloomy and scary.

"This Ma Lian didn't marry a wife or have children, because he liked men, and he haunted places every day where ordinary people would never go. Just eight years ago, when the descendants of the Lin family went to Beijing to overturn the case, Ma Lian recognized a righteous son. said that he was a righteous son, but in fact, he was one of his good looks. This person is the Ma Jue who infiltrated Jingzhao Mansion. ”

"No way, absolutely impossible."

"Nothing is impossible in this world." Yan Suwen shook the letter in his hand: "The descendants of the Lin family who died in Jingzhao Mansion are actually not the real descendants of the Lin family, she is the nurse of the Lin family, and she is responsible for taking care of the little son of the Lin family." This little boy is not on the family tree, because his mother is General Lin's outer room, and he has not had time to bring it back to the Lin family to meet his ancestors, and he has not been recorded in the family tree. This outer room really loved General Lin, and when he learned that General Lin was dead, he entrusted his young son to the nurse, and he himself took poison and went with General Lin. When the child grew up, the nurse told the Lin family about it, and the child began to investigate at the age of sixteen, and it took many years to investigate the whole matter.

He knew that it was not easy to overturn the case, and Yecheng might still have people who committed the crime together back then, after discussing with the nurse, the nurse shouted grievances to attract everyone's attention, and he lurked in the shadows, observing the movements of every suspicious character in Yecheng. After learning that the nurse was taken into the Jingzhao Mansion prison and there was no news, he deliberately approached Ma Lian and used Ma Lian's status in the Jingzhao Mansion prison to find out the news of the nurse. ”

After speaking, Yan Suwen glanced at Xue Donglai deeply: "According to the age of the nurse, Lord Xue will definitely not recognize her as a descendant of the Lin family, so Lord Xue, you must have tortured her, and forced her to ask about the whereabouts of the real descendants of the Lin family." It's a pity, Lord Xue, you got nothing. ”