Situ Yizheng's death was like a boulder, weighing many people out of breath, but Xi Yan was obviously not within the scope of those many people. Every day, he can still enjoy the fun of the four seasons in the Begonia Courtyard.

But the murder of Situ Yizheng was too shocking, and killing people in the royal hunting ground not only violated national law, but also angered Tianwei. Not only did the emperor order the internal guards to participate in the investigation, but even Situ He put pressure on the criminal department from time to time. However, even though the Criminal Department and the internal security department have jointly investigated for more than half a month, the case is still clueless.

Although Xi Yan served in the Criminal Department, the murder of Situ Yizheng was not under his control. As the son-in-law of the Xi family and the murderer of this case, the pressure from Situ He and the emperor was even lighter in his eyes. Every day, he can still walk back to his house leisurely, and when he left the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment today, Xi Yan raised his eyes and saw Wen Lie not far away.

"Lord Wen," Xi Yan smiled and walked over, "I didn't expect to see Lord Wen here...... It was a real surprise. ”

Wen Lie also saw Xi Yan and hurriedly bowed his hand: "Young Master Xi, how can it be said that it is an unexpected joy?" "Although he Wen Lie is the Jing Zhaoyin of the third grade, but in Chongdu City, the officials of the third rank are a lot of them, even if he, the third rank official, has to lower his stature when facing these clan children whose official positions are slightly lower than his.

"Oh?" Xi Yan seemed to be a little surprised, raised his eyebrows and said, "Isn't Lord Wen busy handling cases these days?" Or is the case closed? ”

"Handle the case? What case? Wen Lie was indeed a little confused at this time, he came this time to transfer some files to the Criminal Department, and there was no backlog of cases in his hands. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly remembered that the burglary and robbery case more than a month ago was not over. But thinking about this, he still couldn't figure it out, this case didn't matter at all, and it stands to reason that a person with Xi Yan's identity wouldn't know about it at all.

Just as he was thinking about it, Xi Yan took the initiative to solve his doubts.

"It's the case in Shigu Lane more than a month ago," Xi Yan saw his suspicious face, and asked again, "Isn't it a criminal case?" ”

"It's not, there was indeed a murder in Shigu Lane," Wen Lie was suspicious in his heart, but he still asked very measuredly, "But...... Childe is in the inner city, but how did he know about the outer city? ”

Xi Yan smiled with relief, "It's not like I saw it with my own eyes, it was Qi An who told me." ”

"Qi Gongzi?" Wen Lie was even more shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "How did he know?" ”

"I don't know about this," Xi Yan said with a smile on his face, "but he has always liked to wander around Shifang Street, and I don't know what news he heard there." ”

Wen Lie thought about it carefully, and found that Shifang Street was indeed next door to Shigu Lane, and Qi An's wandering was also well known, so he had no doubts in his heart, even if he had a lot of complaints about Qi An in his heart, he didn't dare to declare it.

"But Qi An is an interesting person," Xi Yan saw Wen Lie fall into thought, and said, "It stands to reason that this matter should not be spread outside, but I don't know what kind of nerves he has. Don't talk about me, even Jing Yuan and they are shocked......"

"How so?" Wen Lie was struck by lightning for a while, Jing Yuan is now a book, since there is him at the banquet, there will naturally be officials from several other departments...... Not to mention that the Xi Yan in front of him is second only to the squire of the Criminal Department......

Wen Lie was stunned for a while, and only after a while did he say, "Although this case has little impact, it still belongs to the secret of my Jingzhao Yin Yamen at this time, and it should not be spread according to the rules." No matter how noble the identity of Prince Qi is, he shouldn't announce this case......"

Wen Lie said this magnificently, but it was not this one that annoyed him, but another reason. Although the clues in this case are clear, the murderer has not been traced for several days, and no crime has been committed again. Wen Lie wanted to let it become a headless public case, but in the end, it was not done. But now that this case is suddenly known by so many officials, he has to work this small case, otherwise the matter will be turned over during the year-end official assessment...... I'm afraid he's going to do it.

Thinking of this, cold sweat was oozing from the tip of Wen Lie's nose......

Xi Yan seemed to sense his nervousness, and wrote lightly: "However, Lord Wen is good at criminal names, and this case should not be difficult to handle." ”

"It's not difficult," Wen Lie turned his face sideways, quietly raised his hand to wipe away the beads of sweat on the tip of his nose, turned around and said, "But before this case is solved, it is still the secret of my Jingzhao Yamen, and I also ask Xi Gongzi not to spread it again, and I also bother Xi Gongzi to inform Qi Gongzi, please don't spread it again." ”

"Don't worry," Xi Yan waved his hand very casually, "This matter will not spread anywhere." Xu Shangshu already knows about this, so why do you have to stick to those stereotypes? ”

"Xu Shangshu?" Wen Lie almost lost his voice, and for a moment he felt like he was facing a great enemy, "How did he know?" "Xu Bin is the secretary of the Criminal Department, if he also knows about this...... Wen Lie only felt that his head was as big as a bucket at this time.

Xi Yan said "oh" and said: "This inner city is not big, and the yamen of the various ministries are not far apart, although it will not spread ten or ten hundreds, but there should always be more than ten people who know about it now......

A dozen people didn't seem like much, but Wen Lie deeply understood the energy behind these people. Although they will not focus on this case, if any of them suddenly think of this case in the future, they will ask casually......

"But you don't have to worry," Xi Yan said in a timely manner "comforting" him, "There is a murder in the capital, and that should be the reason why the Praetorian Guard Jin Wuwei is not effective in maintaining law and order in the capital, no matter how you can't blame it, right?" ”

As soon as Xi Yan said this, Wen Lie remembered one more thing, although the murder case was due to Jin Wuwei's ineffective position. But since the murder case has been transferred to Jingzhao Yin Mansion for investigation, it is not Jin Wuwei's business...... He originally thought that he could shirk his responsibility, but at this time, he was ridiculed, and he found that this would not work.

Thinking about this, a layer of fine and dense beads of sweat oozed from Wen Lie's forehead...... I hurriedly gave my leave.

Seeing that Wen Lie was almost trotting all the way away, Xi Yan couldn't hold back his face anymore, and turned around and showed a rather smug smile.

He didn't want to come, but the speed of Wen Lie's investigation was too slow, if he didn't put some pressure on him...... I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up with my plans.

And those words that I just told Wen Lie...... Most of them are simply non-existent. The reason why he dared to tell him so grandly was because Xi Yan had already made up his mind, and Wen Lie would not and did not dare to confirm it.