Moreover, what Shen Xingyue said is not true at all, he has thousands of ways to get himself out, whether the people above can find out whether they are willing to give him innocence or not will not affect him.

Although he was secretly out of the palace, he never thought that he would entrust everything to others to be responsible for, and he was fully prepared as early as when he left.

Xiao Shunzi and Liu Xiu didn't know, and they were also anxious for him in their hearts, so when the whole city came down, the most calm was Yu Liyuan himself.

After entering the yamen, the four of them were placed in the lobby, and the people behind also went to call the city lord out.

The city lord is a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wearing an official uniform, and he is very majestic.

He sat in the lobby and frowned at the four people in the audience: "You four teamed up to kill him?" ”

The soldier who brought the four of them back next to him also hurriedly said the reason, and the city lord's frowning brow eased a little.

"Bring the plaintiff in." The lord of the city commanded the people below.

After a while, a shabby woman went up to the lobby crying, and after kowtowing to the lord of the city, she said in a weeping voice: "My husband likes to drink, and often stays in the tavern, but he never stays overnight. ”

"He didn't come back the night before, and I felt bad all the time. Yesterday there was no one to see during the day, so I had no choice but to report to the official, who knew that this morning, someone informed me that I came to see only his body. I beg the lord of the city to be the master of the people's women and return my husband to an innocent body. The woman choked up, and when she turned her gaze to the four, she also resented, apparently having recognized them as the murderers of her husband.

"Yang never returned home at the tavern that night, and met you early the next morning and had a quarrel with you. After parting, did you meet him again? After listening to the woman's words, the city lord asked a few more people.

Yu Liyuan and Shen Xingyue both shook their heads, and Liu Xiu and Xiao Shunzi also stood in place, not saying a word, because the two of them didn't know who that person was at all, let alone anything to say again.

"If you hadn't met him, how could he have died in the alley? My husband didn't have any arguments with anyone else, except for you. The woman immediately questioned the two of them, but was reprimanded by the city lord.

The lord of this city was more upright than they thought, and he did not listen to the words of his family and judged them guilty.

"Did he have any enemies in the past, we just came here, so we won't kill him because of a little dispute." Yu Liyuan asked in a deep voice.

The lord of the city turned his gaze to the woman, but the woman frowned: "The family is a matter of husband and wife, and I don't know who he is with, only the situation of a few of his friends. ”

"There are still doubts in this case, and conclusions cannot be drawn presumptuously. Yang, you go back to prepare for the future, as for you, you are also a suspect in this case, and you will stay in the yamen during this time, and there will be officers and soldiers watching at all times, and there can be no other changes. Wait until the truth is clarified, do you have any objections? The city lord swept down.

Although the woman was unwilling, she also knew that there was no evidence now, and no matter how much she said, she couldn't change the outcome, so she still agreed.

Yu Liyuan and they don't know what to say, living in the yamen is much better than living in a prison.

When the woman left, Yu Liyuan and Shen Xingyue were also rearranged into a courtyard, just in the corner of the yamen, and there were also a few officers and soldiers guarding outside.

"Do we need to spend money to eat and live here?" Shen Xingyue's first problem after moving in was this.

They are suspects, of course, they can't be allowed to eat and drink for nothing, and the four of them have to pay silver for their own living.

Of course, it's okay not to pay the money, just go to the prison to live, you can live in it casually, and you don't accept money.

Of course, the four of them didn't want to live in prison, so after paying five taels of silver, they stayed with Shi Shiran.

"I haven't lived in the yamen yet." Shen Xingyue touched this, touched that, and only felt very novel.

Yu Liyuan suddenly felt helpless and shook his head. He felt that the living environment here in the yamen was much worse than the inn, and if he could, he hoped that Shen Xingyue could return to the inn to live, and it would be good for him to live here. Anyway, the suspect is him alone, not Shen Xingyue.

But when he said this idea, he was directly rejected by Shen Xingyue.

"We are husband and wife, how can there be any reason to leave you alone to suffer here, besides, there is food and shelter here, where is the difference?" Shen Xingyue was reluctant to leave, but felt very novel about such a day.

Since he couldn't persuade Shen Xingyue, Yu Liyuan's mind was also activated, he couldn't let Shen Xingyue live in such a place, it would be too wronged for him.

After rummaging through his luggage for a while, he took out a token and asked the officers and soldiers outside to give it to the city lord.

In order to ensure that the officers and soldiers would be willing to help him, he also stuffed an extra ten taels of silver.

At this time, the officers and soldiers also ran out in a hurry, and after a while, the city lord came.

Unlike before, the city lord had already changed into his regular clothes, and he was also extremely surprised when he saw Yu Liyuan.

"This token ......" he handed the token back to Yu Liyuan, and stopped talking.

"I came here to hide my identity, I don't want others to know, so when your people brought me over, I didn't say anything, you can make do with it, the environment here is really not good, my wife is delicate and frail, she may not be able to stand it, and I have to tell you my identity." What Yu Liyuan gave him was a token representing Qincha, and these city lords knew each other.

He also thought that if he encountered any unsolvable trouble, he could take out this token, at least the situation would not be worse.

The court also has its own way of identifying these tokens, so the city lord also believes that this token is real, and he is even more convinced of Yu Liyuan's identity.

"If the adults don't think it's good here, the lower official can order someone to send you out now." After the city lord confirmed his identity, he didn't believe that he would deign to kill a useless man, so he directly tore off the suspect label on Yu Liyuan's body.

Yu Liyuan shook his head and was not ready to leave. This made the city lord confused: "What do you mean? ”

He asked cautiously, and at the same time observed Yu Liyuan's face, for fear that Yu Liyuan was dissatisfied with him because of this matter.

But he still thought too much, and Yu Liyuan just said: "Since I came here to hide my identity, I don't need to be given any special treatment." I just want to discuss with you this time, can I personally investigate this case? ”