Lu Yan helped Zhao Jia, who was about to be planted, and then said: "Uncle Zhao, you are a smart person, I asked people to vacate some of the cells of the Imperial Prison before I left Beijing, if you don't tell me now, you will go to Jinyiwei's Qianhu tomorrow to say!" ”

At noon in September, the sun was shining, but Zhao Jia seemed to be falling into an ice cave. He knew that Jinyiwei was coming, thinking that there was a high top when the sky fell, and he had the governor of Yangzhou, the prefect, the envoy, the governor, and even the governor, so he couldn't take his turn to catch the head.

But I didn't expect that this Blood Yama turned out to be Lu Yan, and it was really who the heavens spared! "You know that your uncle and I have always been timid, after your father's tragic death, I was worried all day long, I was afraid of getting involved in this case, even when your family suffered a catastrophe, I didn't dare to come forward, no one dared to touch this case!"

Lu Yan sneered, "I didn't dare to come out, I'm afraid that Uncle Zhao, you have a ghost in your heart, right?" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Jia's body weakened and he almost knelt on the ground, did Lu Yan want to tear his face with him?

However, Lu Yan didn't seem to have such a plan, and said in a slow tone: "What happened back then, Uncle Zhao, you couldn't help yourself, I just want to know if my father told you anything six years ago?" ”

Hearing Lu Yan say the word "involuntarily", Zhao Jia was so moved that he was about to cry, and hurriedly said: "Virtuous nephew, thank you for your understanding, uncle, I was also forced to be helpless at that time!" Your father is dead, even if you are charged with a poor case, your father is guilty of the entire Yangzhou officialdom, if you two can settle down, can the prefect still treat you badly? You guys are like that, no one can get off the stage, even if I want to protect it, I can't protect it! ”

Lu Yan has seen too much smoke and miasma in officialdom in the past six years, and if that matter is put to the present, it should not be like six years ago when he doesn't care about it.

Life! Only if you can't see through it can you perceive the beauty, his father has been frank and unrestrained all his life, and he doesn't care about the slightest villainous behavior, and he is famous all over the world for dying in the line of duty and being held accountable for failing to handle the case.

Every word he read from the sage books taught him how to be a gentleman, so he thought that studying was to establish a heart for heaven and earth, and even more wishful thinking that entering the imperial examination was to establish a life for the people. It wasn't until his family was ruined that he could see the faces of those officials who had read the books of the sages. He entered the Jinyi Guard, stepped on the bones of those officials who were full of benevolence and morality, and finally lived himself into the most disgusting appearance at the beginning!

In the past, he always didn't like Zhao Jia, a timid and fearful person, but when he entered the officialdom, he found that this kind of person lived longer. "Uncle Zhao, let's get to the point, if I had the heart to catch up with you, those bad debts back then would not have passed so easily!"

Zhao Jia stopped, hesitated, and said: "When your father was still alive, I heard him say that this case is not as simple as it seems, and it may have been done by officials and bandits!" I knew the depth of the water at the time, so I got out, but I didn't expect your father to be killed! ”

Hearing the words "collusion between officials and bandits", Lu Yan's eyelids lifted.

Zhao Jia continued: "The batch of military salaries was lost on the way to the anti-Japanese front line, and the officers and soldiers who escorted the military salaries were all Hu Zongxian's people. ”

"It seems that Uncle Zhao doesn't know a lot!"

"Hey! I also pondered indiscriminately when I couldn't sleep at night, but Yan Song fell, Hu Zongxian was dismissed, and a large number of Jiangnan officialdom fell, even if it was the collusion of officials and bandits, I was afraid that I would get retribution, I dare to say this, if I had been killed two years ago, I wouldn't have said it! Yan Song's father and son were corrupt and took bribes, especially Yan Shifan, to the point of lawlessness, presumably this matter has nothing to do with him! As we all know, this Yan Song is Hu Zongxian's backstage in the imperial court, so even if Hu Zongxian knocks out his front teeth and swallows blood, he must suppress this case! ”

What Zhao Jia said is conclusive, and even most of the officialdom thinks so, maybe even Hu Zongxian thinks that Yan Shifan did it!

But Lu Yan did not find the slightest clue to this case in the unspeakable crimes of the Yan family's father and son.

Yan Song's father and son have indeed committed a lot of evil deeds, Yan Shifan's evil deeds in the early years were still low-key, and the more he went on, the more lawless he became, the 100,000 taels of military salary, since he could be pulled out of the household department, he would naturally be able to pull back to his Yan Mansion in a fraction of a lot, and there was no need to play such a drama of robbing military salaries halfway.

During his contemplation, the storyteller in the teahouse changed his person and said: "Hundreds of little demons have become officers and soldiers, and they have swept out of the county seat along the way......"

Lu Yan's attention was attracted to the past, this is a ghost story: the weasel demon killed the county order on the road, took the county order document to go to the post, and finally replaced the officers and soldiers in the county government with demons, singing red faces during the day and black faces at night, doing evil and harming the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the city.

In the end, they stared at a treasure from the neighboring country to pay tribute, and bought off the general who escorted the treasure, they pretended to be officers and soldiers, crossed their own territory to the neighboring county, and pretended to meet robbers, and killed other officers and soldiers, so that they could get the treasure, but also would not set themselves on fire, and finally the weasel demon also wanted to cross the river and tear down the bridge, kill the general he bought, and swallow the treasure alone. The black-hearted general saw through the weasel's nature, so he planned to eat black, and he hid the treasure first, and escaped in the chaos.

The plot twists and turns are bizarre, although it is an absurd and uninhibited ghost story, which is also mixed with all kinds of fragrant and glamorous episodes, but the part of robbing treasures coincides with his own investigation in some details!

Lu Yan felt strange in his heart and muttered, "How can this storyteller know this?" ”

Zhao Jia hurriedly said: "This is your new book called "The Legend of the Evil Demon", the rumor is on fire, this storyteller is a businessman, and he actually took out this book of words!" ”

As soon as he said this, Lu Yan became interested and asked, "Who wrote this book?" Where to find him? ”

"The person who wrote this book is called Zhu Yixiang, and he is also a scholar, three years ago, he rushed to this place with a big flood, and asked him if he couldn't remember anything, and he was less than twenty years old, so he relied on writing fragrant words, drawing spring/palace pictures to earn some silver to barely make ends meet, and he was addicted to alcohol, and he drank every day! It's very easy to find him, you go to the big and small Goolan brothels in Yangzhou City and ask him, and you can be sure that there is him! ”

An hour later, Lu Yan really found Zhuyi Lane in the Twilight Pavilion.

Emperor Tai/Zu of the Ming Dynasty forbade officials to prostitute themselves, so the male prostitutes blatantly started to open the business, and this twilight pavilion is the Nanfeng pavilion.