In the imperial study, Lai Junchen stood with his hands down with an uneasy expression, he had just returned to Luoyang, and he didn't have time to rest, so he immediately rushed to see Wu Zetian.

At this time, he was very nervous, Yang Pei was dead, and he really couldn't come up with more evidence, so he could only use the false confession drawn by Yang Pei to report to Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian sat behind the imperial case, carefully looking at the long list of confessions, she didn't have any expression on her face, and she could see that she was not satisfied with Lai Junchen's confession.

"Who killed Yang Pei, and did the murderer catch him?" Wu Zetian asked coldly.

"Back to Your Majesty, the murderer was hiding in an inn, Wechen searched the inn afterwards, and tortured the innkeeper, but they didn't know anything, Wechen was incompetent, and he really didn't know who killed Yang Pei. ”

"You've disappointed me"

Wu Zetian threw the confession on the table, and said very dissatisfied: "Based on this confession, without any other evidence, what do you want me to do, arrest people according to the list?

Wu Zetian stood up and paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, looking very irritable, Lai Junchen was not considerate of the holy will at all, and he was still so important to him.

"Don't you understand?"

Wu Zetian glared at Lai Junchen angrily and said: "This is not as simple as arresting a minister, this is dealing with the entire imperial family, I need conclusive evidence, evidence of their plot to rebel, and even evidence of grabbing their private army, not a confession can solve the problem."

Lai Junchen was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, and he hurriedly said in panic: "Weichen understands." ”

Wu Zetian returned the confession to him, "Go ahead, I will give you another two months to find out a little eyebrows, if you still can't find out, then don't blame me for not being emotional." ”

"It's Weichen who retired. ”

Lai Junchen slowly retreated, Wu Zetian walked to the window, looking at the sunset, her heart was really troubled, Lai Junchen really disappointed her, even a little Yang Pei couldn't keep it, could he really find out the big case of Xingtang Society?

Lai Junchen came out of the palace, and as soon as the cold wind blew, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and then he realized that he had a cold sweat.

The last time he secretly reported to the Holy Lord about the Xingtang Society, the Holy Lord didn't say much, but only allowed him to arrest Yang Pei and find out the clues of the Xingtang Society.

But he didn't realize the importance that the saint attached to this matter at the time, and he still used the confessions of witnesses as a breakthrough as before, and then arrested the relevant criminals, tortured them, and forced the criminals to confess, which he tried repeatedly.

Unexpectedly, this time it didn't work, the saint actually asked him for conclusive evidence, and he finally realized that he was doing a shocking case, if this big case succeeded, all the Li royal family was wiped out, and the Tang Dynasty was about to change the dynasty, if this big case failed, I am afraid that he would be a scapegoat when he came to Junchen.

Lai Junchen only felt a trembling in his strands, and walked towards the outside of the palace with one foot deep and one foot shallow, his mind was blank, and cold sweat flowed down his back, he didn't know where to start with this shocking case?

Lai Junchen returned to his Imperial History Observatory, he had just sat down in his seat, and two henchmen, Liu Guangye and Wang Dazhen, walked in together, "Zhongcheng is back"

"Well, has something happened lately?" asked Lai Junchen casually.

Liu Guangye and Wang Dazhen glanced at each other, but they didn't dare to say anything, Lai Junchen immediately felt something, frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

Liu Guangye trembled and said: "Two days ago, King Liang impeached Zhongcheng, didn't Zhongcheng know about it?"

Wu Sansi publicly impeached himself, Lai Junchen had already heard about it, of course he knew what the reason for Wu Sansi's impeachment was there, it should be a retaliatory measure for Wan Guojun to be killed by himself, Lai Junchen didn't take it too seriously, and today the saint didn't mention the impeachment at all, which means that this matter has been suppressed.

"Is there anything else going on besides that?"

"Nothing else. ”

Lai Junchen thought for a while and asked the two of them: "If I want to investigate a big case, but I don't have evidence in my hand, where do you say I should start?"

Liu Guangye and Wang Dazhen both have rich experience in handling cases, and when they heard that Junchen actually said this kind of layman's language, they couldn't help laughing, "Did Zhongcheng forget to weave the book?"

Lai Junchen slapped his forehead heavily, and secretly scolded himself for being confused, isn't the Luo weaving book he has worked so hard to make all these years just come in handy?

The so-called Luo weaving book is that Lai Junchen collected all kinds of official handles collected over the years, compiled several volumes of thick case records, when the case is needed, he will shake out these handles one by one, and use both soft and hard methods to force the officials on trial to admit their guilt, which is one of Lai Junchen's most valuable weapons.

The general hatred of the officials for Lai Junchen is also related to the handles he has mastered.

That night, Lai Junchen took Liu Guangye and Wang Dazhen to sit in the secret room and carefully read the contents of the Luo weaving book, and under the light, the three of them were engrossed in reading the materials one by one.

At this time, Lai Junchen was suddenly attracted by an inconspicuous piece of information, he looked at it carefully three times, and then looked up at the roof and pondered for a moment, he slapped the table heavily, unable to suppress the excitement in his patience, and smiled at the other two: "Don't look for it anymore, I have found it." ”

There are dozens of green buildings near Luoyang South City, among which Lijinglou is one of the most famous Qinglou, and three of the top ten famous prostitutes in Luoyang are listed in Lijinglou.

In the evening, Lijinglou began to hold the lamp, the lights were swaying, the laughter was noisy, the beauty was like jade, the spring guests were like weaving, the dignitaries and wealthy businessmen from Luoyang poured into the Lijinglou to have fun.

At this time, a carriage stopped not far from the gate, and a young man in a brocade robe and a black hat came out of the carriage, his face was full of anger, he pressed the long sword in his waist, and then he rushed angrily towards the gate of Lijinglou accompanied by several strong domestic servants.

The old bustard, who was greeting the guests at the door, had vicious eyes, and saw the young man from afar, the old bustard's face changed, and he hurriedly pulled a prostitute and whispered a few words to her, and the prostitute turned around and ran towards the inner courtyard.

"Yo, isn't this Li Gongzi, why do you have time to come here tonight?" the old bustard greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Get out" The young man pushed the bustard away, broke into the gate, and walked straight to the backyard.

The old bustard was flustered, chased after him and said, "Childe, listen to my explanation."

"I'll listen to you explain a fart"

The young man grabbed the old bustard's head and yelled at her: "I'm about to redeem myself for Ruyan, you dare to let her pick up customers, I have to demolish your thief shop today."

The young man slapped the old bustard to the ground, and ran angrily towards the inner courtyard.

This young man's name is Su Shan, is the third son of Shangshu Su of the Ministry of Works, he fell in love with Luo Ruyan, a famous prostitute in Lijinglou, decided to redeem her, and wanted to marry her as a concubine, under the pressure of Su Shan, Lijinglou had to pick up Luo Ruyan's brand, Luo Ruyan was ready to redeem his mother.

Unexpectedly, just now Su Shan received a maid sent by Luo Ruyan for help, a wealthy businessman from Bashu spent two hundred yuan, and she was forced by Lijinglou to have sex with this rich businessman.

Su Shan was furious, Luo Ruyan was about to be his concubine, and there was a businessman who wanted to bully her, so he ate the heart of a bear and a leopard, and he immediately led several servants to Lijinglou to rob people.

"Guard the door, no one is allowed to come in"

Su Shan commanded the servant, then rushed into the small courtyard where Luo Ruyan lived with his sword, only to see that there was a light in the main room, he kicked open the door, and a table of wine and food was placed in the room, only to see a black, fat and strong man holding the disheveled Luo Ruyan and forcibly pouring wine.

Su Shan was so angry that he roared, drew his sword and rushed into the room, kicked over the table, the dishes were shattered, and Luo Ruyan screamed in fright, stumbling and fleeing, the black fat merchant saw that the situation was not good, turned around and rushed out, but was stabbed in the left waist by Su Shan's sword, he screamed and fell to the ground.

At this time, Su Shan had already killed the red eye, and stabbed the black fat man's vest with a fierce sword, and the man screamed miserably and fell to the ground without moving.

Su Shan slowly sobered up in anger, and was a little panicked in his heart, he kicked the black fat man hard, and scolded stiffly: "A little bullshit businessman, dare to touch my woman?"

He also knew that he couldn't stay here for a long time, so he grabbed Luo Ruyan's hand, "Let's go"

The two of them left the courtyard quickly and ran outside, but as soon as they left the courtyard, they saw dozens of officials rushing over, and the person was Zhang Shao, the county lieutenant of Luoyang, and dozens of officials surrounded Su Shan and his servants, Su Shan was furious and shouted: "County Lieutenant Zhang, what are you doing here?"

Zhang Shao sneered, waved his hand, and several officials rushed away, and came back after a while to report: "Qiyu County Lieutenant, the merchant has lost his breath." ”

Su Shan was so frightened that a cold sweat broke out on his back, he knew that he was in trouble, he was flustered for a while, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "I want to go back first, you can go to my father if there is anything"

Zhang Shao snorted coldly, "Do you want to kill people in broad daylight, do you want to leave? What's the matter, let your father come to the county government and take it away."

The officials rushed up, pressed Su Shan and his servants to the ground, tied them with ropes, and "let go of me" Su Shan struggled desperately, he was anxious and angry, and shouted: "You are bold, my father will not spare you"

"Take Away"

The officials forcibly took Su Shan and his servants away, because of the murder of Lijinglou, all the guests were persuaded to leave, and the prostitutes were not allowed to leave the room, at this time night had fallen, Lijinglou became deserted, and there was no figure in sight, at this time, Lai Junchen came to the scene of the murder surrounded by more than a dozen subordinates.

Lai Junchen asked all his men to wait outside, and he walked into the room alone, only to see the fat black man who had been announced killed sitting on the couch, shirtless, and two black warriors were giving him medicine to heal his wounds.

This black fat man was dressed as Dazhen Qiao, the king of the Imperial Palace, and when he saw Junchen coming in, he immediately complained: "Why don't you find someone else to do this, I almost died at the hands of that bastard." ”

Lai Junchen said apologetically: "I didn't expect him to be really ruthless, I'm sorry"

Wang Dazhen waved his hand and said: "But it's worth getting a little injured, this person is simple-minded, and he is very suitable for Zhongcheng's plan." ”

Lai Junchen smiled proudly: "I have long been a good breakthrough in Su, but he has such a son, this is really God help me."