Notices are similar to modern newspapers, but only in the rudiments of newspapers. And only policies, decrees and major events are published in the notice.

For example, in the notice in front of me, the first record is that the emperor asked Dali Sicheng, Langzhong of the Criminal Department, and Zhixi Tuishi to form three divisions to go to Luyang County to try the murder of Zhou Zhongcai and the corruption case of Wang Da and others. Subsequently, it was recorded that under the action of impeaching Luyang County every day, not only did all counties and counties begin to check the account books of their own prefectures and the private virtues of their subordinates, but also the provinces and ministries in the capital were no exception.

In addition, there are also two cases of Zhidan Shi Yushi alone criticizing her for not having female morality, trampling on ethics, participating in court politics indiscriminately, and being from a humble background.

Finally, there are a few pieces of information that are inconsequential to other counties.

After Chen Chaoyan carefully read the message criticizing her twice, he put the notice aside and asked about the Qu family's old case again.

Xie Xuan clasped his hand and tapped on the chair, rather gloating: "How does it feel that the princess was impeached like this by the imperial history before she entered Beijing?" ”

Chen Chaoyan looked at him and smiled: "Before entering Beijing, you have to send some people to the Criminal Department or the Dali Temple Prison, so as not to have a body to steal from Lingyou." ”

Xie Xuan chuckled, and there was a faint light flowing under his eyes. This time, without waiting for her to ask, she took the initiative to talk about the old case of the Qu family, "The case of the Qu family is a bit complicated. Twenty years have passed since Qu Wensheng committed the crime. In the past 20 years, the results of several re-examinations have also been consistent. This time he settled in the Qu house, but because the Qu family and Qi Wu could still have some relationship, they used this case as a reason to investigate his whereabouts. ”

After speaking, he motioned for Wenmo to give her the case file.

The case took place twenty-one years ago.

Twenty-one years ago, on April 13, Qu Wensheng and a few friends he had made in Dongyin County had finished eating and drinking in Liuxian Ju, and it was already dark, and after saying goodbye to a few friends, he quietly went to Widow Zhou's house on Huainan Street in a carriage alone. After being rejected because he wanted to do a good thing with the Zhou widow, he was embarrassed and killed the Zhou widow.

Widow Zhou's brother-in-law came back from the field, recognized the carriage parked in the dark corner of the courtyard, and after having a bad heart, he rushed to the house and found that Qu Wensheng was riding on Widow Zhou and was committing murder, and then ran to the county government to complain.

After on-site investigation, Widow Zhou was stabbed eleven times, all in the chest and abdomen.

The evidence was Qu Wensheng's bloodstains and the dagger he was holding.

There are also testimonies from the subordinates who swept Qu Wensheng's study, and the obscene clothes, trousers and belly pockets of Zhou's widow who have disappeared in recent months from Qu Wensheng's study.

There were four witnesses, one was the coachman who drove him to the widow Zhou's house, and the driver was a member of the Qu family. He testified that Qu Wensheng had ordered him to carry him to the house of the widow of Zhou; The three were friends with whom he had dinner that night. Friends unanimously admitted that Qu Wensheng often mentioned the widow of Zhou to them, and his words were often covetous. At the banquet that day, there were many thoughts about stealing incense.

There are human and physical evidence, and the scene was still arrested, and the rape failed and he was angry and killed, so the case was quickly solved, and Qu Wensheng was quickly escorted to Luyang County after being beheaded by the law. In Luyang County, the old lady Qu, who finally came back to her senses, asked for a new trial, but the result of the trial was no different from that of Dongyin County. Qu Wensheng was escorted to the capital, and the case was also handed over to the Criminal Department.

The Great Wei Decree stipulates: rape, imprisonment for two years. Intentional homicide shall be punished by beheading.

The two crimes are punished together, even if the old lady Qu is a member of the Ministry of Works, at most, he can only protect his life from the official, so that his sentence will be changed from beheading to 3,000 li of exile.

This is naturally not the result that Old Lady Qu wants.

Fortunately, the case was handed over to the Criminal Department, and there was still room for maneuver. As long as Qu Wensheng accuses him of being framed, then there is still room to find out the truth. Mrs. Qu has been an official in Beijing for decades, and he always has some connections, so after quickly sending a few letters and asking someone to help take care of one or two, he is also ready to leave for Beijing. It's just that before he made the trip, he was already sick and in a hurry, his condition suddenly worsened, and he was bedridden.

The capital can't go, but people can't help it.

Mrs. Qu insisted, and sent a few more letters to the capital, to the effect that he asked someone to maneuver around, so that the Criminal Department would dismiss the case from Luyang County and let Luyang County retry it. In addition, Mrs. Qu also instructed her grandson, that is, Qu Wensheng's son Qu Qiyuan, to serve as a military officer in Luyang County, so as to maneuver.

Previously, Qu Qiyuan had been hesitating whether to take up a temporary post in Luyang County, or continue to study and take the imperial examination again.

It's just that Qu Qiyuan has just been going to Luyang County for less than a month, and the appointment documents of the Ministry have not yet been issued to Luyang County, so he committed suicide in a canyon five miles away from Changze Mountain.

More than a month after committing suicide, the body was found by a passing hunter. At the time of discovery, the body was decomposed, leaving almost no skeleton remaining. After an on-site investigation and a letter of authorship as evidence, it was determined that he committed suicide.

And on the third day after his bones were brought back, the news that the Criminal Department rejected Qu Wensheng's case and let Luyang County retry it came.

However, in just a few months, he was hit twice in a row, and Mrs. Qu couldn't hold it anymore. Less than a month after Qu Wensheng was re-escorted back to Luyang County, he went. Less than a month later, Mrs. Qu followed.

The prosperous composer of Khotan is like a lonely boat floating in an instant, and it can capsize with a little wind and waves.

And this storm did not make them wait long.

Three months after Mrs. Qu's death, the Luyang County Government once again closed the coffin and concluded that Qu Wensheng had failed to rape him, and killed him in anger!

The Qu family just walked and scattered, and decayed at the speed of the black flying rabbit.

In the end, only Qu Qiyuan's wife Xiao Qu and her son Qu An, who was only thirteen years old at the time, remained here, and insisted on running around to overturn the case for Gonggong Qu Wensheng and Xianggong Qu Qiyuan.

However, to this day, what was the verdict at the time of the crime is still the same.

Chen Chaoyan read the case twice carefully and carefully before putting it down. After taking two sips of tea and easing her emotions, she raised her eyes to look at Xie Xuan, "The prince just said that Qi Wu and the Qu family can have something to do with each other. I don't know what kind of relationship it is? ”

Xie Xuan glanced at the case file in her hand, "Qi Wu and Qu Qiyuan are good friends. In the second year after the Qu family returned to Dongyin County, Qu Wensheng was in distress when he and his friends went hunting in the area of Shanyin South Town, Changze, and were rescued by Qi Wu. Qu Qiyuan was ordered to go to Qi Wu's house to thank him, and learned that he was studying in the county, and slowly became friends. After becoming a friend, Qu Qiyuan not only took him to live in Qu Mansion, but also let him stay in Qu Mansion and listen to the lectures of Wu Yong, a scholar invited by the old lady Qu for a lot of money. ”

"What does Qi Wu's family do?" Chen Chaoyan asked.

"Qi Wu's grandfather is an elder in Jiangpu Township." Xie Xuanwo entered the rattan chair, and his tone was lazy.

"Qu Wensheng is in distress, is it an accident or is it calculated?" Chen Chaoyan asked again.

Xie Xuan looked at her: "I can let Qu Qiyuan go to Qi Wu's house to thank you, whether it is calculated or not, but in the eyes of the Qu family, it must be an accident." ”

That's right, too.

Chen Chaoyan nodded, and then looked at the basic information about Qi Wu on the light screen silently.

She hadn't met Qi Wu yet, so there was no image of him displayed on the basic information page. However, through the confessions of Wang Da and others and the employment materials kept by the county guard, his life has been recorded in great detail.

Qi Wu was born in the year of Xin Chou, and failed in the township test in the year of Renshen; Yihai year township test, become a lifter; C-sub annual meeting test, failed. Later, Wu Yin entered Luyang County and joined the army as a recorder. He was thirty-eight years old when he entered Luyang County.

After Chen Chaoyan glanced at it quickly, his eyes were fixed on the words 'Bingzi annual meeting test, failed', and asked Xie Xuandao: "Qu Qiyuan won the top three hundred and ninety-seven results, which year did he take the exam?" ”

Xie Xuan looked at her movements in front of her, and said casually, "Bingzi Nian." ”

Chen Chaoyan looked at him, "The exam that you participated in with Qi Wu?" ”

Xie Xuan nodded, "This is the second time he has participated in the exam, and the first time he failed the list because he had a bad stomach before the exam." When he fell off the list, Qi Wu went to the capital with him as a companion. ”

"Interesting." Chen Chaoyan hooked the corners of his mouth, and after quickly glancing at Qi Wu's basic information, he asked again, "How did Qi Wu enter Luyang County?" ”

Xie Xuan looked at the light spot in her eyes, "Although Old Lady Qu resigned from his official position to recuperate, he did not cut off contact with the capital. After learning about the vacancy of Luyang County's military staff from the original colleague's letter, the first thing that came to mind was to let Qu Wensheng go over to take up his post. But Qu Wensheng has always been unaccustomed to the attitude of courtesy in the officialdom, and it is such a small position, so he naturally can't look down on it. Old lady Qu couldn't force him, so he had to turn his head and let Qu Qiyuan go. Qu Qiyuan didn't want to go either, he wanted to continue his studies and take the imperial examination again. ”

"But the Qu family is a family that has only started since the old lady Qu, if he has three long and two short, the Qu family will be unsustainable. With this reason, although Qu Qiyuan reluctantly responded to the suspension of his post, he must have a lot of resentment in his heart, and he had to find a friend such as Qi Wu to vent. ”

"Qi Wu's grandfather is just an old man, and his connections are limited to Dongyin County, so naturally he can't get these officialdom news. After unintentionally getting the vacancy of Luyang County to participate in the military from Qu Qiyuan's mouth, he immediately went to Luyang County to find out the truth and truth, and did everything possible to get acquainted with Zheng Youwei, the county guard at that time. ”

"After Qu Qiyuan committed suicide and the post of recording and participating in the military became vacant again, under Zheng Youwei's active campaign, he justifiably accepted this post."

These secrets are not recorded on the light screen.

Chen Chaoyan couldn't help but be curious: "Why did Zheng Youwei run for him?" ”

Xie Xuanyan smiled and said: "Because he saved Mrs. Zheng, who went to Guanyin Temple to pray for blessings and encountered robbers on the way back." ”

Chen Chaoyan sighed: "Always just right to save people in need, he can really save people." ”

Xie Xuan glanced at her with a smile: "It's really not true, after twenty years, there is no way to investigate." ”

It is indeed impossible to find out. Chen Chaoyan looked at the case file, digested the information obtained, and after sorting it out, he asked him: "I heard Miss He say that Taiyin County can have today, all thanks to Old Lady Qu?" ”

Xie Xuan nodded, "Sort of." ”

"Old lady Qu was able to build such a big house in Taiyin County, and he was able to get his colleagues in the past to inform Luyang County of the vacancy of the military in a timely manner, and also made such a great contribution to Taiyin County, and after Qu Wensheng's accident, he was helped by connections in Beijing, which shows that he is not only thoughtful and proper, but also has a great sense of the overall situation. The Qu family has such a character to support, and logically speaking, the family style cannot be bad. Chen Chaoyan said slowly, "And in fact, putting aside the case, Qu Wensheng and Qu Qiyuan were both extremely well educated by him. ”

"If you are brought up very well, how can you commit a crime?" Xie Xuan asked.