Although the folk customs of the Tang Empire are strong, Chang'an City is the most important place, and countless military camps of the court and the government are scattered among them, and dignitaries and nobles live in it...... On weekdays, of course, law and order is extremely good.

In addition to the fact that a few corpses will be produced in a life-and-death duel with a cut palm, there are very few cases of unnatural deaths in Chang'an City, of course, like the killing that passed through the palace in the palace that night in the Chunfeng Pavilion naturally does not include it.

Therefore, when the murder on the shore of Nancheng Lake occurred, the Chang'an Mansion in the early morning suddenly became nervous, and the new judicial officer squatted in the coroner's room with his servants and did not dare to go out, and the head of the duty team ran between the markets with more than 100 officials sweating profusely, and the face of the current Chang'an Mansion Yin Shangguan Yangyu, who had just gotten up, was extremely ugly.

"My lord, the murderer must be a veteran, and he scattered around the murder site to investigate, but did not find any clues, but found a piece of clothing in the side alley of Suzaku Street, which is estimated to have been dropped by the murderer. ”

The criminal officer in charge of the investigation of major and important cases respectfully handed over the tattered coat and another piece of cloth in his hand, and said: "If it weren't for the ineffective handling of the subordinates, the Yulin Army and they would have lost it. ”

Shangguan Yangyu took the tattered coat, and then took the piece of cloth and looked at the morning light that came in from outside the hall, his triangular eyes were about to turn into two soybeans, but he couldn't see the reason, and asked in a dumb voice: "Let the old man in the division check this dress, if the clothing can't find clues, focus on needlework."

"This dress is the ready-to-wear of the Lan Embroidery Workshop, someone has already knocked on the door before, this style and size of the ready-to-wear was produced a few years ago, I don't know how many pieces have been sold, this one is obviously old, so ......" The subordinate looked up at the look on the adult's face, and said cautiously: "Neither needlework nor clothing can be checked." ”

Shangguan Yangyu gently stroked the sparse beard under his chin, without the slightest expression on his face, and said indifferently: "The imperial court raises us officials just to do things, so if it's not easy to investigate, won't you check it?"

The subordinate hesitated for a moment and then stepped forward and said in a low voice: "My lord, this coat left by the murderer was cut by the sword blade with countless cuts, but the partial life was not stained with a trace of blood, according to the judgment of the subordinates, there are only two possibilities. ”

Say. Shangguan Yuyang was impatient with his slow temperament and said angrily.

"The first possibility is that the murderer is wearing a very high-grade soft armor, but looking at the cracks on this clothes, especially the location of certain cracks, even the best soft armor in the empire cannot prevent that. ”

The subordinate glanced at him again, and his voice was lowered: "Then there is only the second possibility~~ This murderer is a strong man at the peak of martial arts, ordinary blades and even flying swords can only cut through his coat at all, but they can't penetrate his protective vitality layer at all, so naturally there will be no bloodshed." ”

Hearing the words of the peak powerhouse of martial arts, Shangguan Yangyu's fingers stroking his beard suddenly stiffened, and his eyes when he looked at his subordinates instantly became cold...... A martial arts powerhouse who can resist the flying sword of a sword master with his talisman alone, what kind of fierce role does it have to be, and there are not a few such strong people in the entire empire.

"Nonsense!" Shangguan Yangyu stared coldly into the eyes of his subordinates, and said in a cold voice: "My Tang Dynasty martial arts peak powerhouse is those four meritorious generals, not to mention that these four generals have been ordered by the emperor to be stationed on the frontier for many years, even if they are now in Chang'an City, do you want to say that the dignified generals will commit murders?"

The subordinate bowed down again and again, indicating that he did not mean to.

"If it's a martial arts peak powerhouse from a foreign country...... More unlikely. ”

Shangguan Yangyu's face was gloomy and he said: "As soon as these people enter Chang'an City, the imperial court will closely monitor them, if they dare to make a slight move, aren't they afraid that the national teacher will directly suppress them!"

This is also impossible, that is impossible, then what is possible? The subordinate cried bitterly in his heart, raised his head and looked at the adult with expectant eyes, thinking to himself that you have to show us the way.

"According to the regular procedure, the lakeside murder case will be filed first, and then you will work hard to investigate the case and strive to solve the case as soon as possible. ”

Shangguan Yangyu said slowly, the hidden meaning in these words is very clear, the so-called striving to solve the case as soon as possible, the focus is on fighting, even if you can't solve the case as soon as possible, as long as no one asks from the top of the court, then no one will care.

Looking at the subordinates who led the order to retreat, Shangguan Yangyu shook his head, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the sweat off his face vigorously, and his reddish rosacea nose was suddenly wiped a little redder.

Hearing that the real murderer of the murder was most likely a strong man at the peak of martial arts, the new Lord Yin of Chang'an Mansion had the intention of retreating, because he knew that this matter must be very troublesome.

As a high-ranking official of the Tang Empire, although Shangguan Yangyu said that his temperament was despicable, he was not even responsible for this, but he knew that if this murder case was involved in a wide range of cases, it would not be a problem that Chang'an Mansion could solve alone, and if other ministries and officials did not take action, it would mean that someone in the court did not want to make this matter into trouble.

"Your Majesty is immense.

He waved his hands and bowed respectfully to the north, his ugly face was full of gratitude: "Raise the lower official from the judicial army to the Chang'an Mansion Yin, Your Majesty loves the lower official Dade, how dare the lower official cause trouble?"

There is an old tower made of yellow bricks in the south city, the tower body is damaged, and there are green vines entwined in the middle, it seems that it may collapse at any time, but so many years have passed, the old tower still stands between the small temples, seeing others rise tall buildings, others rise low buildings, others rise green buildings, silent and peaceful. Every spring, there are countless geese returning from the south, before the geese go to Shiyang Lake in Gushan County to spend the summer, they will always fly through Chang'an City, and then hover around this old tower for many days, when the wild geese shadow covers the sky, the birds sing bursts, the scene is magnificent.

No one knows why these flying high heavens, night-berstling geese on the waterside will appear in the lively Chang'an City, will be so interested in this old tower, but after a long time, they are used to seeing it, and in recent years, the scene of ten thousand geese flying has become another scenic spot for the people of Chang'an to enjoy spring, and the old tower also has a name: Ten Thousand Wild Goose Pagoda.

Today's Ten Thousand Wild Goose Pagoda tower lives a monk, and the green lamp Buddha statue in the shrine, accompanied by the scriptures and books on the table, rarely go down the tower, and rarely meet with the good Zen women in the back garden.

This monk calls himself Huangyang, and he is the royal brother of the Tang Dynasty.

Today he welcomed a guest of the same honorable status.

Li Qingshan, the national teacher of the Tang Dynasty, looked at the monk copying the scriptures at the table and said, "Last night...... Suzaku woke up. ”

The Huangyang monk didn't raise his head, and replied calmly: "The divine objects left by the saints of the previous generation have their own true meaning between movement and stillness, where can we know that ordinary people who are still trapped in the red dust know that Brother Qingshan Dao should bother himself?"