Liu Yan was indeed in the official room, and he did not sleep.

He has been degraded for many years, his parents have died, his wife has already remarried, and he returned to Beijing alone after the amnesty, and after becoming the secretary of Dali Temple, the emperor gave him a residence slave, but most of the time he lived in the official office.

Zhang Yuan scolded and broke into his residence, but was stopped by two attendants outside the door.

These two attendants are both military guards, and they are not as easy to deal with as the doormen.

"Roaring official, Zhang Yuan, although the Metropolitan Prosecutor occupies the prison of our Dali Temple, you still have a place to pretend to be one!" They shouted.

Zhang Yuan stopped his hand and snorted: "I just have a loud voice and a lot of strength, where is the roar?" ”

This guy doesn't look stupid but rude, the two attendants thought to themselves, what do you want to say, Liu Yan has already spoken, "Let him come in." ”

Zhang Yuan was let in.

"Lord Liu, it's not that I don't understand the rules, it's really hard for you to see." He said, and at a glance he saw Liu Yan sitting at the table eating, and snorted, "Adults are enjoying the beautiful ......."

He approached and saw the food on the table, and he couldn't say the words "good food and wine".

A plate of salted beans, a piece of hard cake, a bowl of water.

It's also shabby.

"That's what adults eat?" Zhang Yuan frowned and said, with a little suspicion, "Didn't you show me a look?" ”

The officials' salaries are all fixed, and most of them are not enough for a table banquet in a luxury restaurant in the capital, and of course, not all the officials live on their salaries.

Zhang Yuan knew that some officials liked to be honest and honest, and they ate and dressed simply.

But Liu Yan, your simplicity is a little too fake!

Liu Yan glanced at him: "You are also worthy?" ”

Zhang Yuan was embarrassed.

But what Liu Yan said is also true, he is a small member of the army in Jingzhao Mansion, and he is nothing in front of a minister like Liu Yan who opens his mouth to decide state affairs in front of the emperor, and he really doesn't need to make a name for himself in front of him.

"What about your penance in the middle of the night?" He muttered.

Liu Yan pinched a salted bean and put it in his mouth, and said: "This is not bitter, this is a good prescription, I almost ate the sludge and rotten rice I ate in the prison cell of the King of Jin, and someone taught me to eat like this......"

When these three words slipped by, his voice seemed to be slightly stagnant, and Zhang Yuan couldn't help but pay attention, but just when he thought that Liu Yan was going to introduce this person, Liu Yan's voice slipped again.

"Eating like this not only makes the cell bosses more worry-free and more deductible, no longer makes things difficult for me, but also nourishes my stomach, sure enough, I survived, and in the past ten years of demotion to the official, I have never had a bad stomach in the wild and evil land."

He looked at Zhang Yuan.

"Of course, this official will not invite you to taste this one, you can try it yourself when you go home."

Who wants to taste this!

What a recipe!

This Liu Yanguan's road was bumpy, he was young and enthusiastic and had just stepped into his official career, and when he wanted to show his ambitions, when he arrived at the most difficult to gain a foothold in the prince's fiefdom, he crashed headlong into the big tree of the prince, almost knocked himself to death, escaped by luck, and was demoted to the wild land of Lingnan, and he spent ten years.

It's a lot of suffering, and there's something wrong with my brain!

Zhang Yuan didn't bother with him, and he was not interested in eating these dried beans and cakes, so he stepped forward: "Lord Liu, how is the murderer of the Xiucai case on your side?" ”

Liu Yan said: "Hasn't the case been investigated and handed back to your Jingzhao Mansion?" What do you come to ask me for? ”

First Huo Lian came to the door and pointed out that Liu Xiucai's death was done by Mo Tu, and then the tenant wife also found out the news, the tenant wife pretended to be confused at first, and then heard that Liu Xiucai was dead, laughed happily, and admitted that she spent money to buy the murderer.

"What money do you have as a prisoner!" The official over there questioned.

The tenant's wife laughed maniacally, and pulled a silver button from the inner placket: "I have money, when I got married, my man gave me two silver buttons, I have always worn close to my body, this is money." Said with a little shrewdness and a little pride, "It originally cost me two buttons, I wasn't stupid, I bargained, and in the end I only spent one button....."

only spent a silver button to buy Liu Xiucai's life.

Liu Xiucai's life is only worth a silver button.

The officials who questioned were speechless.

The tenant wife was supposed to be escorted into Beijing, but the tenant wife died that night after laughing madly, and after checking it, either he killed or took poison, or his body had withered, and the only string left after the great joy and sorrow was broken, and he died.

Even if the causes and consequences of Liu Xiucai's case are clear, the Liu family was unwilling, but a group of officials in the capital first accused Liu Xiucai of bad morality, which shows that he can not be virtuous only based on his knowledge, and he did not realize that he could not be virtuous.

There was a lot of commotion for a while.

In order to avoid being implicated too widely, under the pressure of all parties, the Liu family died down, and Dali Temple handed over the case back to Jingzhao Mansion, and the case owner and murderer died, and the case was closed.

"What's the end of this?" Zhang Yuandao, "Is the tenant's wife a murderer?" But it's also a victim. ”

"In other cases, she may have been the victim, but in this case, she was the murderer." Liu Yan said, glancing at Zhang Yuan, "As a judicial officer, you join the army, you can't be reasonable and clear that there is no distinction between the law." ”

Zhang Yuan sneered.

"She is at most an accomplice, the one who really kills, and the one who tempted her to become a murderer is the ink disciple."

"Now, the scholars are afraid that they will delay the entrance examination, and the officials are afraid that they will be involved, so they turn a blind eye to the murderer and rush to do things."

"What's more infuriating? There is a legend in the restaurant and tea shop about the case of an anonymous strangulation of Xiucai, and this murderer has become a chivalrous hero! ”

He said to come here to see Liu Yan.

"Lord Liu, do you think that this murderer is a chivalrous and heroic act, not only should he not be punished, but he should be rewarded, right?"

Liu Yan said: "The state has national laws, family rules, lynching, murder, and lawbreakers, what kind of heroic deeds are it." ”

Zhang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief: "Sure enough, Lord Liu still enforces the law impartially. ”

"I have been victimized by the law, so I know the pain." Liu Yan said, putting the last bite of the cake in his mouth.

The harm of the law refers to the fact that he was oppressed by the power of the King of Jin back then, Zhang Yuan touched his nose and stepped forward: "Then, Lord Liu must also join me to continue to track down the murderer, right?" ”

Liu Yan drank the water from the cup and shook his head: "That's not in my hands, it has nothing to do with me." ”

This guy! Zhang Yuan glared again: "Are your Dali Temple so laissez-faire murderers?" ”

Liu Yan put down the teacup and said: "Our Dali Temple is only in charge of the things that belong to us, Zhang Yuan, I will say again, this case has been transferred to Jingzhao Mansion, you should go to find someone, don't come to my Dali Temple to make noise." ”

Zhang Yuan gritted his teeth and took a few deep breaths: "Liu Yan, everyone says that you are iron-faced and selfless, I thought you would not sit idly by." ”

Liu Yan smiled: "I'm not iron-faced and selfless, I used to think that I should be iron-faced and selfless, but then someone taught me a truth, that is, do what you can." ”

Do what you can? Zhang Yuan thought, what? If you weigh it as a trouble, won't it?

This is the truth that he learned by being taught a lesson after arresting King Jin's brother-in-law back then, and then wasting ten years?

"Count me out of sight." Zhang Yuan said that he wanted to throw off his sleeves and stop, "In this case, you can show me the case files of the tenant family you checked in Qingzhou before." ”

The tenant's wife admitted that she had bought the murderer, and the murderer must have been someone who had dealt with the tenant's wife, and he must have left traces.

If you don't check, he will continue to check!

He would not sit idly by and let the Mo disciples lynch the law.

Liu Yan hummed: "This is within the ability of this official, I can show it to you." Speaking of this, he shook his head again, "You can't see anything, the ink disciples are extremely secretive, they have their own secret whispers and private messages, and it is difficult for the outside world to snoop." ”

It's really a joke, isn't it hard to do it?

"Thank you, sir." Zhang Yuan raised his hand: "I will do my best." ”

Liu Yan smiled, not caring that this sentence was sarcastic, and he said that he did what he could.

"However, you can go and ask the Governor." He went on to say, "When the King of Jin rebelled, the Mo family giant led hundreds of Mo disciples to help. ”

In the end, they all died at the hands of Hodudu.

Liu Yan lowered his head and saw that there was still a salted bean on the plate.

"Don't waste food."

There seemed to be a voice in my ear that said.

Liu Yan reached out and pinched the salted beans and put them in his mouth.