Zhao Yi froze in place.

Song Ningjiu was on the top, hugged the door frame and accosted Bai Jiaojiao: "County Lord, it's early." ”

Bai Jiaojiao cracked the corners of her mouth with difficulty: "Early, early, right?!" ”

"Morning what!" Zhao Yi said to Bai Jiaojiao, "Why haven't you rested so late?" ”

Bai Jiaojiao pointed at Song Ning, wanting to say that she couldn't sleep if Song Ning didn't come back.

But Zhao Yi showed the kindness of his elders again, and taught earnestly: "You are still young, don't go to bed late so as not to grow tall." ”

"I—I'm not small." Bai Jiaojiao was stunned, "I've grown enough." ”

Zhao Yi frowned: "I'm only a teenager, of course I can grow taller, and if you read more books, you won't talk nonsense." ”

"I can't sleep, so I'm going to read more."

Song Ning didn't understand anything, and echoed: "It's still long, go to sleep, go and go." ”

"Oh." Bai Jiaojiao looked at Zhao Yi and then at Song Ning, pondered for a moment, and said to herself while putting the curtain down, "Why is it so strange, why do you want to knock on your husband's head?" ”

"I—I'm thinking too much, right?"

She must have been overthinking.

The prince is very concerned about his husband now.

Bai Jiaojiao untied herself and went to sleep.

Zhao Yi glared at Song Ning with disgust, brushed his sleeves out of the yard, and said as he walked: "What about the lamp, it's so dark." ”

There wasn't a single star.

Song Ning, who was holding the door, was dragged back by the autumn mood in the house.

Qiu Yi waited for her to wash up, and said to her: "Miss, you drink so much as soon as you drink, you should make a fuss and have a headache in a while." ”

"Can't you ask for a hangover pill with Ma Daochang next time?"

Song Ning waved his hand: "Drinking is because you are happy, what is the meaning of eating hangover pills." ”

"I'll eat this next time when I'm drinking with someone else."

The next day, Song Ning's head hurt unexpectedly, and he drank two bowls of soup and slept for a while before going to the yamen.

Song Yuanshi was refreshed and sorting out the copywriting, and when he saw someone who was late, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Happy when you drink, are you still happy when you sober up?" ”

"The prince didn't come?" Song Ning didn't see Zhao Yi.

Song Yuanshi said: "The prince drank a lot last night." I shouldn't have much to do today, maybe I want to rest. ”

He said and gave her the honey water he had brewed on the table: "Drink some to nourish your stomach." ”

Song Ning drank it with a cup in his hand.

"I also know that alcohol is not good, and you can't control it." Song Yuanshi bent down to look at her, "Is it better?" ”

Song Ning returned the cup to him and said, "It's much better, thank you." ”

"Ugh." Song Yuanshi sighed, took the cup away, and took back a letter and handed it to her.

Song Ning took it in her hand and put on two envelopes, and she knew that it was written to her by Zhao Chi.

didn't say anything else, said that it was good to catch quickly, let her take care of King Qi.

also praised her for doing things very well, and she was very happy in several cases in a row.

Song Ning casually burned the letter.

Song Yuanshi looked at her.

"Song Yanxu didn't write to you recently to ask you about your current situation?" Song Ning asked Song Yuanshi.

Song Yuanshi replied: "I asked, I told the truth." He asked her, "Do you want to read the letter?" ”

Song Ning doesn't care.

"No, I'm not interested in him." As she spoke, she sat down, and Song Yuanshi said with a smile, "What I wrote is probably the same as what you wrote to the saint." ”

"It looks like a letter, but it's just a statement."

What is written in the letter is information that can be obtained by casual inquiry.

He wrote to Song Yanxu, just to express his attitude and position.

"I understand." Song Ning looked at him, "Actually, you really don't need thirty years, I can go and talk to Song Yanxu, I am confident that he will cancel the contract you signed with him." ”

Song Yuanshi didn't stop, paused when he heard the words, and looked at her: "What do you use as a bargaining chip?" ”

"With his head, no, there are still 100,000 taels of mine." Song Ning said, "There is always a way." ”

After the contract ended, Song Yuanshi, who was in his thirties, went to take the exam again and started all over again......

It's so unfair to him.

"No, I don't. I don't have any great ambitions. Song Ning continued to write, "It's good to be like this now." ”

Song Ning didn't believe it.

"Really." Song Yuanshi said with a smile, "I'm quite satisfied with my current life, you do your job well, don't worry about me." ”

Song Ning sighed and sighed, "What a good Mr. Yuan." ”

Song Yuanshi stared at her and chuckled.

Song Ning didn't dwell on the topic of Fang Cai anymore, Song Yuanshi's affairs, she believed that he had his own arrangements and plans.

She casually took out the last file left yesterday that she hadn't finished reading and then flipped through it, and then was stunned for a moment: "This is a case from three years ago?" ”

Song Yuanshi helped her look at the time above: "The twenty-first year of Tianquan is the case three years ago. ”

"What's wrong?" He asked.

Song Ning read the file from the beginning again, and said, "Why do I look at this case so familiarly?" ”

"Familiar, could it be because you've seen it before?"

Song Ning shook his head: "I remembered the content of the case." ”

She got up and went to the file room in the back to find the same case as this one.

After a while, Song Yuanshi watched her come back with two files.

"Three?" Song Yuanshi looked at her strangely, "Are they all the same cases, serial murders?" ”

Song Ning shook his head: "It doesn't seem to be." ”

She spread the three together, Song Yuanshi also came over and watched with her, Shen Wenyu said to her while going up the steps: "Someone came to report to the official...... What's wrong? ”

He stood behind him and looked at the dossier.

"Isn't this closed?" Shen Wenyu glanced at it, the three files were all closed cases, "Do you see anything?" ”

Song Yuanshi shook his head after reading it and said, "There's no problem, I didn't see it." ”

As he spoke, he sat back.

Song Ning didn't speak, and asked Shen Wenyu: "Who reported to the official?" ”

"In Sizi Hutong, two brothers in a family fought because of their separation, and the younger brother threw a brick across the wall, which happened to hit the elder brother's head, smashed and bled out, and the two brothers had a lot of trouble. His family came to report to the official. ”

Song Ning raised his eyebrows and looked at him and smiled: "This seems to be the first neighborhood dispute that came to us to report to the official." ”

"Yes, so I didn't go directly, but came to talk to you."

"Bring Ma Liu and Wu Xian, they are better at these things than you." Song Ning smiled and said, "Go ahead, it's finally open." ”

When someone comes to report a dispute between the officials and neighbors, it means that the people are really beginning to accept them, and in the minds of the people, there is no longer only Longxingda.

It's a very good start.

"Then I'll go, and if I can't do it, I'll come back to you." Shen Wenyu was also in a good mood.

Shen Wen ran into Zhao Yi on the remaining steps, and Zhao Yi asked, "Is there a case?" ”

"Yes." Shen Wenyu told the case again, and Zhao Yi bowed, "Go ahead." ”

As he spoke, he came in and saw that Song Ning was still reading the file, so he sat down opposite her and asked, "Don't have a headache today?" ”

"It hurts, that wine is really not as white as autumn dew." Song Ning looked at Zhao Yi, "The prince has come to see these three cases." ”

Song Yuanshi stopped and looked at Song Ning.

"Well, I'll see." Zhao Yi took three cases and glanced at them in a general way, "Different years, different murderers, and closed cases in different locations, what is there to see?" ”

"In this case of 16 years of Tianquan and 9 years ago, the murderer has already been released from prison when the amnesty was granted this year."

Song Ning patted the dossier: "Look! ”

Zhao Yi was slapped on the table by her, and she couldn't hold back what she wanted to say, and responded: "Oh." ”

Quietly began to read the dossier.

After reading the three copies, his brows twisted.

Song Ning asked him, "Do you see anything?" ”

"What do you want to ask? Do you think there are any connections and similarities between these three cases? ”

Song Ning nodded.

"There is something in common, the gender, age, and death of the deceased in the three cases are similar."

But it's just the same.

The first is the sixteenth year of Tianquan, nine years ago, the deceased Mao Runqing, aged thirty, rolled down the mountain and fell to his death when he was chopping wood in the purple clouds. The deceased was found on the fourth day of September, but the body had already begun to decompose, and the estimated time of death was around mid-August.

The murderer was arrested on September 12 of that year, and it was Mao Bingjun, the brother of the deceased Mao Runqing.

There is a confession of Mao Bingjun in the file, he admitted that the two had a dispute over the ridge at that time, and in the process of his excitement, he pushed Mao Runqing down and rolled off the cliff, and the cause of death was a trauma to the occipital bone of the brain.

Because Mao Bingjun had a good attitude in admitting his guilt and included accidents, he was sentenced to beheading on duty. During the autumn trial of that year, the third division read that the circumstances were less serious and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

This year, the new emperor ascended the throne and pardoned some people, and Mao Bingjun was among them.

The second case is the 19th year of Tianquan, the deceased is 30-year-old Zhang Rong, on the morning of August 11, he was found dead in the chicken coop in his backyard, the cause of death was a blow to the back of the head, and the murderer was Yu Changmin who came to his house to steal chickens, and someone saw Yu Changmin come out of Zhang Rong's house with their own eyes.

Yu Changmin also confessed. was judged to be executed that year, and the heavy responsibility for this case lies in the fact that Changmin was a thief and a habitual offender.

Therefore, when sentencing, it was directly executed, and even the autumn trial of the three divisions was not commuted, and it was directly cut in the autumn of that year.

The third case is three years ago in the twenty-first year of Tianquan, the deceased Chu Xingfei, 27 years old, was found dead in his yard by his wife on the morning of the seventh day of the eighth month, this case is relatively complicated, the suspect was first determined to be his wife Chu Zhang, but because the way to kill is a stalagmite hit the back of the head, the stalagmite weighs about 13 catties, with the thin Chu Zhang's single, it should not be the turn to get up.

And that night, Chu Xingfei's parents could also testify that there was no conflict between their daughter-in-law and son.

Subsequently, the yamen cooperated with Long Xingda and found a young man in the same village who was herding cattle, named Chu Han, nineteen years old. He had a fight three days ago over the fact that the cow trampled on the ridge, Chu Xingfei broke Chu Han's head with a stick, and Chu Han took revenge on him with a grudge.

Chu Han confessed after being arrested.

Chu Han was sentenced to be executed, but did not wait for the autumn trial, was imprisoned for a month, and died of illness in prison on September 15.

Zhao Yi said again: "What's more, all three people died of injuries to the back of their heads, and they died around mid-August. ”

Only in the second case, the deceased rolled off the cliff, and it was found in September, but the body was already decomposed, and according to the temperature at that time, it would have to be more than ten days before it could rot.

After Zhao Yi finished speaking, he asked Song Ning: "Am I right?" ”

"Well, including these."

Song Yuanshi thought of something and said: "The three cases are all three years apart, and they are all committed in August. Sounds a little quirky. ”

"Yes." Song Ning said.

"However, the case is closed." Song Yuan Shi said.

Song Ning flipped for a while,

"You're going to overturn the case?" Zhao Yi asked her.

Song Ning waved his hand: "There is no beginning or tail, I don't check, and I don't have the ability." ”

The three cases that have been closed have not been reported by the bitter master, and there is no beginning or end to verify the case of overturning the three former incumbent county orders and the review of several Shangfeng yamen.

She doesn't have that initiative.

She said as she put away the three files and sent them to the file room.

Yan Feng came in from the door and said, "Master, Kunning Palace has sent you a letter." ”

"Letter again?" Zhao Yi couldn't imagine what the Queen Mother would say in the letter, and when she finished reading a letter, she showed such an expression.

Song Ning came back from the file room, saw him reading the letter, and asked, "The letter from the Queen Mother?" ”

"How do you know it's the Queen Mother?"

"I'll know with my fingers." Song Ning said happily, but he knew very well in his heart, who else in this world except the Queen Mother wrote to him?

There can't be.

That's it.

"I'm going back to the capital, do you need to greet your father? I can do it for you! ”

Your greetings? Are you sure it wasn't my father who hit me? Song Ning nodded: "Then there is Lord Lao." ”

"You're welcome." Zhao Yi received the letter and left.

Song Ning waved his hand behind him: "Lord Wang, have a smooth journey, stay a few more days." ”

Zhao Yi copied the wooden stick on the wall and threw it at her: "Itchy!" ”

Song Ning laughed.

"Don't mess with him, like two children." Song Yuanshi looked at her helplessly, "Speak well." ”

Song Ning sat down excitedly and asked, "You say, what did the Queen Mother call him back for?" ”

"Impeachment in the DPRK." Song Yuan Shi said.

Song Ning shook his head: "You don't know the Queen Mother, she, like the prince, doesn't care about other people's feelings." ”

Impeachment, that's the anger of the people venting. When others are angry, it has nothing to do with them.

"What's that for?" Song Yuanshi asked.

Song Ning shook his head, took a pen and paper and prepared to write down his experience in reading the dossier in the past two days, when the pony came, stood at the door and said, "Lord Song, Lord Zheng, please go to the morning meeting." ”

"Did you say anything?" Song Ning didn't look back.

The pony didn't dare to say anything about her, and replied honestly: "Say that the seeds are not good this spring, and now we need to remedy it, please brainstorm for everyone." ”

Song Ning looked at the pony in surprise: "The seed is not good?" Didn't it come from the imperial court? ”

"It's from the imperial court, and it may not be good, it's been more than half a month since it was sown, and some places haven't sprouted yet, and some of the better ones have grown a little."

Song Ning and Song Yuanshi glanced at each other, and the two got up and went to the main hall together.

Before I got to the door, I heard the person inside say: "This matter is the responsibility of Lord Sun, he is responsible for distributing seeds, he doesn't review it, do you blame us?" ”

"Yes. Master Sun, your ability to do things is too poor. ”

"Yes. To remove him from his post is also to remove Lord Sun, and it has nothing to do with us. ”

Sun Weili stood in the middle with a red face, helpless.

At this moment, a voice at the door said loudly: "You can't do anything, but it's first-class to shirk responsibility." ”

Everyone looked at Song Ning who came in in surprise.

Song Ning went up, brought Sun Weili to his side, and looked at everyone with a sneer: "Come, say what you just said in front of the official." ”