Pine trees tend to show their resilience when they are torn apart by heavy snow in winter, and when the snow accumulates enough and heavy enough, the branches that were previously crushed by the snow will bounce upwards instead...... At this time, Wen Lie was the pine tree, and the sense of urgency and the pervasive pressure in his heart was the snow.

It's the middle of the month, but Wen Lie is still in Jingzhao Yin's mansion, it's not that he doesn't want to go home, it's just that the text at hand hasn't been finished yet. And this text must be submitted to the desk of Xu Bin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, early tomorrow morning. Although Wen Lie was already very tired, he only had to think that he would be able to get rid of this hot potato immediately, and no matter how tired he was now, he could endure it......

Just two days ago, that is, the day Wen Lie met Xi Yan on the street outside the Criminal Department, Xi Yan said something to Wen Lie lightly. After returning to Jingzhao Yin's Yamen, Wen Lie sent people to re-investigate the murder and robbery case in Shigu Lane almost non-stop.

But no one expected that when collecting evidence at the deceased's home, the official unexpectedly discovered a dark room. What's even more unexpected is what is hidden in the dark room...... When those things in the dark room were presented to Wen Lie one by one, he was a little happy in his heart while being afraid......

Thinking of these, Wen Lie's heart can be described as mixed. If this case is later revealed, he will face more than just dereliction of duty......

The moon began to sink in the west, and as the last stroke fell, Wen Lie's hanging heart also fell back to its original place. At this time, his face had long since lost the anxiety he had before, and even with some self-satisfaction in understanding the world, his eyes also became calm. Because he knew that when this text was presented to the imperial case, it was Chongdu City...... Even when the entire Da Zhao is about to set off a bloody storm.

At the same time that Wen Lie was writing hard, there was still a lone lamp lit in the Begonia Courtyard.

Xi Yan was also waiting, since he had seen Wen Lie that day, he knew what was going to happen.

is different from Wen Lie's pride in thinking that he has insight into world affairs, Xi Yan is more of a smooth strategy.

He was in the next game, and he had Kuroko firmly in his hand as early as the beginning of the game. Now that he has taken the lead, he believes that he is invincible, and when each piece lands on the chessboard according to his arrangement, he will have more certainty in his heart. But his opponent should not be ignored either, because his opponent is not Xi Qing, not the Jing family...... It's the whole court.

On the day that Wen Lie submitted the text to the Criminal Department, this originally inconspicuous murder case shocked the entire court, and what shocked the court was not the murder itself, but what was hidden behind the murder.

When the people from the Jingzhao Yin Mansion went to the deceased's home again to collect evidence that day, they accidentally found a dark room with many letters in the dark room, and the contents of these letters all pointed to a non-governmental organization, the Taiping Society.

Since the people suddenly appeared more than 20 years ago, the Great Zhao court has basically never been peaceful.

No one can say the origin of the Taiping Society, some people say that the Taiping Society was built by the remnants of the previous dynasty to restore the country, and some people say that it was established by the enemy country in the west in order to infiltrate the Great Zhao...... But in any case, the purpose of the Taiping Society was to overthrow the Great Zhao court.

Because of this, the Taiping Society has always been a thorn in the back of the Great Zhao Imperial Court, and in the more than 20 years since the establishment of the Taiping Society, no less than ten officials in the Great Zhao Imperial Court have been assassinated by them. Moreover, these officials are either feudal officials or hold secrets between the DPRK and China......

However, the Dazhao official mansion is not a vegetarian, and after organizing dozens of searches, encirclements and suppressions, the arrogance of the Taiping Society has gradually weakened. In addition, in the past ten years, the wind and rain in Dazhao have been smooth, and the people are unwilling to rebel, and the members of the Taiping Society have gradually decreased.

This time such an obvious trace was found in Chongdu City, not only was the government and the opposition in an uproar, but the emperor was even more rampant in the early dynasty, ordering Jing Zhaoyin to transfer the case to the Criminal Department, and ordered the Criminal Department to solve the case within two months and uproot the Taiping Society's power in Chongdu City.

Wen Lie breathed a sigh of relief, but Xu Bin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, suddenly sat on pins and needles again, and he couldn't stop worrying. Although he was very busy, he still found nothing after several surveys. Apart from the letters, there was no evidence in the dark room...... And the letters neither mention anyone's name nor any further plans. It seems that there are clues, but nothing can be found at all.

Faced with this almost inexplicable situation, Xu Bin was already anxious, and every day he gathered a cadre of officials from the Criminal Department together for a meeting to discuss, hoping that more people could brainstorm some solutions; On the other hand, officials were sent to visit everywhere to collect evidence, but after all, the Criminal Department was not an internal guard, and it could not break into people's homes and search for no reason. For a time, the case became even more difficult.

When such a big thing happens, the Criminal Department is naturally the first to bear the brunt, and Xi Yan naturally can't go back to his house like before. Most of the time every day, Xi Yan sits in the yamen of the Criminal Department, as a waiter of the Criminal Department, he doesn't need to do it himself, but even so, he can't leave a group of colleagues to go back to his house first.

Therefore, when Xi Yan returned to Haitang Courtyard every day, the sky must have been completely dark.

The room had already smoked a good incense of agarwood, and Xi Yan, who was originally a little tired, gradually calmed down after meditating for a while. Although he was a little tired, he still opened the book on the table.

"Those who know what the heavens do and what people do, the best!" Flipping the page, this sentence came into his eyes.

"The way of heaven is clear, but the human heart is unpredictable," Xi Yan gently kneaded the bridge of his nose between his eyes, but his tone was quite gloomy, "Even if there is a hanging mirror in the chest, you can't figure out the human heart......"

"Why did Childe say that?"

I don't know when, Xi Yun appeared in front of the table with a tea cup, and he gently put the steaming mist tea cup on the table, "But the Shigu Lane case is too tricky?" ”

"No," Xi Yan shook his head and denied, "The person who should have a headache in this matter is Xu Shangshu, not me." ”

"Then why do you say that?"

"It's nothing," Xi Yan turned his face sideways and said slowly, "It's just a momentary feeling, I just think that we are calculating with each other, in the eyes of God, could it be just a group of ants doing something meaningless?" ”

Xi Yun only said such a depressed word when he was in a depressed mood, so he smiled and said, "If you feel embarrassed, you might as well hand over the real culprit of the Shigu Lane robbery and murder case." ”

Although Xi Yun said it unintentionally, there was no doubt that these words hit Xi Yan's heart with a hammer, he sighed lightly, and then laughed and said: "How can you turn back now?" If I hand over the real murderer, how can I be left alone? ”

Just in an instant, Xi Yan regained his original composure, and the depression in his chest was also swept away. There are stars outside the window, and his eyes are as cold as stars.