The morning light is approaching, and the heavy and melodious sound above the imperial city of the capital, and the scorching warm sun envelops this majestic city. At the same time, it will also awaken the officials in the deep courtyard.

When Xu Chu heard the urging of the maid outside the door, the sky was already dark. She suddenly thought that when she sent herself back to the room yesterday, Xiao Qinglang seemed to have reminded her that she would have to wait outside the palace gate at the beginning of the day, waiting to enter the palace.

Immediately, she subconsciously looked at the hourglass in the corner, but saw that it had been more than a quarter of the hour. In this way, she didn't need the maid outside to call her, she had already come to her senses.

Because it was late, she didn't have time to clean up, so after a simple wash, she hurriedly pulled up her hair. If you don't apply powder, you will naturally not wear gold and silver hairpins, but just a wooden hairpin and a few hairbands. If it weren't for the fact that today's women don't let her hair go, she is afraid that she would have cut her hair short a long time ago.

However, at this time, she is so simple to take care of, although she lacks the beauty and brightness of a woman, she is a little more cool and heroic. Of course, the benevolent see the wise and the wise see the wise, perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, her dress is still too shabby.

When she went out, she saw Xiao Qinglang, who was dressed in court clothes, standing with his hands in his hands, waiting outside the door. Seeing her come out, he stepped forward, first helped her straighten the somewhat crooked wooden hairpin, and then said: "Go to the court first, and I'll take you to eat something after the court." If nothing else, today I will ask you to give you permission to investigate the case for the female examiner......"

The sedan chair was originally regulated, but Xiao Qinglang was worried that she would be bored in the imperial city, so she specially asked someone to drive the carriage and take Xu Chu to the palace gate together.

Because she was still white and had not been summoned by the emperor, the carriage was ordered to stop by the guards when it arrived outside the east gate of the palace.

Xiao Qinglang opened the sedan chair and got down, and whispered to her: "Wait a minute, there are scripts and various files in the car, and there are some snacks specially prepared by the palace cook." If you find it boring in the carriage, take a walk around the neighborhood and move your muscles. ”

Probably a little uneasy, he added: "If you want to leave the carriage, you must be followed by a guard, and you must not go far alone." ”

At this time, he was dressed in court clothes, and he was dignified. It is far from the usual appearance of a fairy, but it really has a bit of the iron-faced appearance of a jade-faced Yama.

Xu Chu saw that he was still not at ease, so he said, "You just have to go, I'll wait in the carriage." ”

Civil and military officials came one after another, most of them were sedan chairs, and most of them were horses.

A group of officials saw Xiao Qinglang standing on the side of the carriage, looking up and saying something to the people in the carriage, and there was a white and slender hand on the carriage. It's just that maybe it's not properly maintained, but people can still see some deep and shallow scars on the back of the hand.

The crowd was uncertain. The civil officials are quite reserved, but the military attachés' eyes are much naked, and they don't all send a signal to each other, I'm afraid that everyone can't understand the situation.

It's a pity that I can't see what the people in the carriage look like, whether they are men or women......

Xiao Qinglang dragged Wei Shang out of Xu Chu's hand and put it down, and then swept his gaze over the officials who had seen it without any warmth.

Those officials were glanced at by him, and their hearts suddenly cooled, and cold sweat broke out. How can I forget, this is not something they can easily speculate, if he remembers it, I am afraid that the old bottom will be lifted to the slightest.

It is difficult to say that the officials who can stand here, even if they are loved by the people, have never made mistakes......

Thinking of this, everyone who was guessing at each other just now instantly wilted, and waited for the palace door to open with low eyebrows. It was as if the person who had just looked at the carriage with eager eyes was not them.

Xiao Qinglang stood at the head of the hundred officials with his sleeves closed, silent.

In the summer, the morning is already dawning, the morning light is gorgeous, bright like a brocade, and the solemn and majestic imperial city is set off more and more solemn.

Until the king of Qi galloped and dismounted and walked towards him.

"Is there anything about the case?" King Qi asked in a low voice.

It's not that he is urging in a hurry, if it is just because of the seventeen countries joining forces to harass the northern frontier, he will not be worried, not to mention that he and the imperial brother have already been completely prepared, just to say that the defense line built by the Great Zhou soldiers in a hundred years is by no means so easy to break through.

It's just that he couldn't stand his daughter's pleading and obsession, and his wife wiped his tears all night after knowing that Junjun Ma Hua had no illness, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

Before he was fifteen years old, he was sent to the territory by his father to practice, and when the princess gave birth to two sons-in-law, he never had time to return to Beijing. Until the defeat of the Northern Xinjiang Imperial Court and the triumphant return, it happened that the princess had a tire gas due to trivial matters. On the day he entered Beijing, the princess gave birth to the only county lord, and since then she has become the pearl of his palm, his brother and brother, and his two sons.

Xu felt that he owed the princess and his daughter a lot, so he had always been very fond of the two. Now, even if the two of them didn't cry and wipe away their tears, their red and swollen eyes were about to kill him.

Thinking of this, isn't he a little anxious?

When the civil and military officials saw him ask about the case, they also looked over, and the officials of the Three Law Divisions, who had some friendship with him, directly surrounded him and wanted to listen carefully.

Xiao Qinglang raised his hand and said with a cold face: "I haven't started to investigate yet, so naturally I can't say whether I have eyebrows." It's just that the three law divisions are incompetent, so I can only find someone else to help. ”

King Qi was stunned for a moment, and instantly remembered his daughter's tearful begging for him. I heard her daughter say that there is a woman beside her third uncle who is very popular with him, and her temperament and ability can compete with her third uncle. More importantly, she can examine corpses that ordinary people can't see, and she can investigate cases that others can't.

He was superficially interested in the matter, but in fact he scoffed.

According to his guess, there was probably a woman who was used to drilling camps, and she noticed her daughter's preference for post-mortem investigations, so she approached her daughter as she liked.

After all, the daughter's water in the autopsy and investigation is not enough for even half a bottle of water, so if someone really wants to fool her, I am afraid that it is also easy.

As for what she said, if she was very compatible with the third brother, King Qi didn't feel anything. He had heard the royal brother say that the third brother had asked him for many things under the pretense of public welfare, and if he was not mistaken, it was all for the woman.

At that time, the imperial brother and the queen mother also joked about this. But he didn't think so, after all, a woman who has not yet left the cabinet can follow an unmarried prince. If you say that it sounds good, it is for the convenience of investigating the case, but if you say it is ugly, it may be an ulterior motive.

Moreover, the temperament of his third brother, who doesn't know in Da Zhou. is not close to women, iron-faced and selfless, and has never made a move when he is rumored to have a habit of breaking sleeves. As for the queen mother's move with the emperor to give marriage, she will shirk the past with a cold face every time.

He can move a woman's heart, but he is afraid that the stones can bloom.

But now, looking at his third brother's affectionate appearance, he is a little uncertain.

Putting this aside, in his cognition, the third brother has always had a clear distinction between public and private, and he would never deliberately mention a female servant because of his personal feelings. The only explanation for that is that his confirmation is comparable to that of the woman in the matter of the feud.

Thinking of this, he asked again: "I heard that when you were investigating several major cases in Yunzhou City and Jinzhou City, you once brought a female servant to work?" ”

Xiao Qinglang raised his eyebrows, nodded smoothly and said, "It's not to help, but to ask her." ”

"There is still someone in the world who can make you look up to you so highly, didn't you deliberately point it out?"

"If she comes to examine the six dead bodies, I'm afraid that all the inquisitors of the Three Law Divisions will have their faces gone. If the second brother is interested, he can watch it with me later......"

King Qi's face remained unchanged, and he patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Then I'll wait and see......"

As soon as these words came out, some officials who were pricking up their ears to inquire about the news had a plan in their hearts. In other words, the two princes reached a consensus and planned to let a female servant intervene in the case.

Although this is incredible, it has no effect on them when you think about it. But if you forcibly oppose the blocking, you may be remembered by the two princes.

There are even more officials of the Three Law Divisions who secretly pondered in their hearts, if the woman intervened and could not solve the case in the end, then the saint would blame him, and they would have something to say.

Just when everyone was thinking about it, the hour had come.

The summons sounded one after another from inside the palace gate, and then the hundreds of officials waiting outside the palace gate stood on the left and right in an orderly manner according to their official positions.

After a while, the palace door was opened from the inside, and two rows of attendants lined up left and right to welcome him, and then he saw the summoned father-in-law walk out of the door and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, go to court." ”

In the affairs of the court, the royal momentum is always overwhelming, even if they are accustomed to seeing flashy high-ranking officials and dignitaries, at this time walking in the spectacular and quiet imperial city, the atmosphere does not dare to breathe. Not to mention, there will be small talk in groups like outside the palace gate.

There was silence in the hall, and the quiet pin drop could be heard. Only Liu Deming's difficult sentence "There is a book to play, nothing to retreat from the dynasty" constantly echoes in the hearts of everyone.

It's not that they have nothing to do, but at the juncture of several lives, and under the protection of the post house and the guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the envoys died tragically with a series of murders, who would dare to take some trivial things to displease the saints?

"Ladies and gentlemen, but there is really nothing to play?" Above his head, the emperor's cold and piercing words sounded.

After a while, I saw the Inspectorate take a step forward in the imperial history. The two of them did not write for the case, but impeached Hua Xiangzong for committing murder in the palace, killing the princess and hindering diplomatic relations.

The accusations of one crime after another have provoked many officials to echo them. Naturally, the officials who had prepared for the impeachment in advance also took the opportunity to hand over the folds, as if they were afraid that they would lose the opportunity to come out.

The corners of the emperor's mouth hooked up a grim and mocking smile, and he slammed the excerpts of the impeachment of the prime minister on the imperial case.