When the Criminal Department sent people, the main hall was already crowded, and Zuo Qing was standing at the innermost part of the crowd, negotiating with Yan Ling, the chief secretary of the Xuan Court.

It was getting twilight, but everyone had no intention of leaving, they hugged together excitedly, discussed the murder case with each other, and listened to some corner news from the Criminal Department and Xuan Ting by the way.

Until the night fell, and finally all dispersed. Suddenly only Zuo Qing, Yan Ling, and Hong Jin, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, were left in the main hall. After a while, Nangong Que hurriedly walked in from outside, and hurriedly saluted Yan Ling: "Lord Yan, as the head of the Xuan Court of the Imperial Palace, can still come here for this case under the busy schedule of official business, this official is really ashamed!" ”

Yan Ling glanced at him sideways, nodded perfunctorily, and didn't want to talk to him at all. Nangong Que was very embarrassed, he was only the left waiter of the Criminal Department, and no matter how much Dali Temple changed the leader, it would not be his turn. But he didn't expect Emperor Rong to sympathize with the grievances of Nangong's family in the murder case, and deliberately promoted him to reuse and succeeded him to the post of Dali Siqing.

However, the position of power obtained by relying on his son is somewhat unfair.

He lamented in his heart, I'm afraid he won't be able to hold up his chest again in the future!

"Recently, His Majesty has strictly investigated the corruption and crimes of officials and collected evidence from the community, and the Criminal Department has been very busy, and Dali Temple has also received a lot of complaints, right?" Zuo Qing said with a smile, relieving the embarrassment.

When Nangong Que heard this, he was very moved in his heart, and hurriedly said: "The left palm is like a god, and he has really been too busy recently, so he hurried here after finishing a thing, but he still made the two of you wait for a long time." Saying that, he sighed, "The wind is going down, and the local petty officials rely on the emperor of the sky to loot the people's fat and ointment, and kill hundreds of people. In Liangshan and Jizhou alone, there were eleven complaints, and they took advantage of His Majesty's strict handling to send them to Dali Temple. Once this kind of thing is thoroughly investigated, it will more or less always involve those above the court..."He leaned closer to Zuo Qing and lowered his voice, "Lord Mo seems to be among them!" ”

Zuo Qing pretended not to hear the name, and said with a shallow smile: "After all, we have to do things for Your Majesty, and the adults will just complain a few words to me, but don't go outside to say it, as soon as those who have a heart hear it, it will inevitably cause a storm." ”

Nangong Que felt remorse in his heart, and said yes in a loud voice.

Yan Ling looked at Zuo Qing calmly, thinking in her heart: Although this person is not in the temple, his eyes and ears are all over the three provinces and six departments, and now he has subdued the Dali Temple, and his ability should not be underestimated. Then he smiled and said: "Sure enough, you are still in charge, and you know what to say and what not to say." ”

Nangong Que let out a cold sweat and apologized again and again: "Let everyone laugh, this official just can't help but complain." However, I have always adhered to the principle of being cautious and honest, and I have never dared to do those things that I teach and receive privately! After saying that, he laughed awkwardly a few times.

Yan Ling didn't bother to look at him, and took a step away without giving face: "I saw that when you came here, you were loud and noisy, and I didn't think about being careful." From this point of view, Lord Nangong's words are not credible. ”

Nangong Que was so anxious, he knew Yan Ling's style of doing things, and he knew that he was doing things by His Majesty's side, and he was the closest person to the Son of Heaven, if this would not be explained clearly, when it reached His Majesty, how could he have a chance to explain it again! But the more anxious I was, the more my mouth stammered. In the end, it was Zuo Qing who played a round: "Lord Yan has been in the Xuanting Court for many years, and it is the best sword by His Majesty's side, this sword is more powerful than black and white impermanence, killing corrupt officials and cutting treachery, and locking your life immediately!" This sword hangs over the heads of hundreds of officials, who dares to be presumptuous? ”

Yan Ling took a few steps closer to him and asked him word by word: "Do you dare?" ”

"It's just a little ant."

He took a step closer and forced his words: "You are in charge of the affairs under the command of Lord Mo, the power is not small, don't you want to enter the court as an official and enjoy the happiness brought by the power?" ”

Seeing that the situation was tense, Nangong Que hurriedly spoke out to alleviate it: "That... Hearing that Duan Yunxuan found the body, the official immediately sent someone to collect evidence at the scene, and now it has been determined that the deceased is Duan Yunxuan's maid He Shuang, and the cause of death of the deceased has also been determined, the deceased has obvious strangulation marks on his neck, he died of suffocation, and there are no other injuries around his body, according to the humble opinion of the lower officials, this case is actually very simple, nothing more than love killing, vendetta, robbery and murder, but He Shuang has been working in the academy for three years, and has always been kind to people in Duan Yunxuan, not a person who is ostentatious and domineering, and has never had a grudge with others, so vendetta is basically impossible. And Heshuang has always been diligent and thrifty, and he has not left a surplus in the past few years, so the possibility of this robbery is also very small. It can basically be concluded that if it is not a manslaughter, then it is very likely to be a love killing. However, the sisters who got along with the deceased in Broken Cloud Xuan had all left the academy ahead of schedule, and the rest of the people who did not know her, so it was difficult to investigate from them, and the things left at the scene were all ordinary things, this... This case is quite tricky! After Nangong Que finished speaking in one breath, his face was red with tiredness, and after relieving his breath, he asked Yan Ling immediately: "I don't know what Lord Yan thinks?" ”

Yan Ling snorted coldly and complained: "At first, I wondered why even a dead maid had to move our Xuanting people, but now I understand, it turns out that the Criminal Department is incompetent, and so is Dali Temple!" ”

Nangong Que didn't dare to choke, and turned his eyes for help to Zuo Qing. Zuo Qing felt both amused and helpless about his incompetence, shook his head, and said: "What Lord Yan said is right, the Criminal Department and Dali Temple have repeatedly solved strange cases over the years, but they must not ruin their reputation because of Lord Nangong." ”

Nangong Que looked at him in disbelief, but then realized Zuo Qing's intentions. In general, in this case, as the person being questioned, no matter how you explain it, it is a quibble in the eyes of the questioner, Nangong Que, who has been an official for many years, knows this very well, so he closed his mouth, followed Zuo Qing's criticism, and nodded in annoyance and shame.

Zuo Qing continued: "But this case is indeed tricky, it has been several hours since the case happened, and it is still clueless. He looked at Yan Ling worriedly, "Your Majesty originally wanted to use the competition to recruit relatives to stabilize the relationship with neighboring countries, but I didn't expect such a murder to happen, there are many important people in the conference, and they will leave for China in a few days, if the case cannot be solved in a short time, and the people from various countries spread this matter, I am afraid it will threaten the reputation of Rong Guo!" Therefore, His Majesty can only use the power of the Xuan Court to assist the Criminal Department and Dali Temple in arresting the murderer. ”

"The Lord in charge has unique opinions, which coincide with the official," Yan Ling's explanation to him was very useful, "Then go on, and ask Lord Nangong and Lord Hong to work together with the official to bring the murderer to justice." ”

Nangong Que and Hong Jin immediately agreed, and Nangong Que secretly looked at Zuo Qing and shook his head at him with emotion.

Leaving Broken Cloud Xuan, Yan Sheng chased him out and whispered beside him: "Yan Ling asked me to bring you a sentence, 'The Mo Party has many eyes and ears, and it is inconvenient to communicate, but everything is as usual, but if it is important, please feel free to inform me, Ling will help at all costs', my lord rest assured, when Yan Ling told me, no one was present. ”

"He's careful, he is against me on the surface, so that no one would have thought that the dignified court would have an intersection with me,"

Zuo Qing had expected that Yan Ling would take this opportunity to meet with him, so he left Yansheng as a microphone, and when Yansheng asked what he needed to reply, Zuo Qing didn't have anything to say, the usefulness of Xuanting, he had to put it at a critical juncture.

On the second day of the case of Broken Yunxuan's hidden body, there has been no progress in the case, Zuo Qing blocked the entire academy in order to cooperate with the investigation, prohibiting anyone from entering and leaving, and at the same time detained all the subordinates of Broken Yunxuan pending trial.

Su Yan didn't care about this matter, after all, it was none of his business, but everyone was talking about the corpse hiding case, and he had no intention of learning the lesson. Su Yan had no choice but to simply move the case to the classroom, using this case as an example to teach some knowledge of self-protection and acting as a person.

Ran Ying has been absent-minded, after the whole class, everyone was full of interest, but she drooped her face, if the absent-minded person was replaced by Chang Sun Yue, presumably Su Yan would ask a few words with concern, but Ran Ying was different, as soon as she was quiet, the whole school was quiet, Su Yan only looked at her curiously, and then stopped paying attention.

If Su Yan can let go of the prejudice and estrangement in the past at this time, maybe there will be no accident in the future.

At night, there was a dead silence in the courtyard, which seemed to be affected by Broken Cloud Xuan, and every corner of the entire academy was full of weirdness.

A black shadow crept out of bed and quietly left the Yewu Garden, he probed around from time to time, on the long and dark curved bridge, like a ghost, wandering in the direction of Broken Cloud Xuan.

On the next day, the clouds were low and the west wind was biting. Xilou specially cooked a bowl of osmanthus soup, and sent it all the way to the Yanshan Courtyard, Su Yan looked at the things in his hand, and said in his heart: If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything, you will either be a traitor or a thief! However, Xilou leisurely turned the spoon, swirled in the soup, and told her about solving the case, which was the case of Broken Yunxuan's hidden corpse!

The murderer's purpose was very direct, that is, to take the maid's life. But He Shuang has no relatives and no reason, and he doesn't do evil to others, why was he killed and took his life.

The most fatal thing is that the situation on the day of the competition was extremely chaotic, and many people from the rivers and lakes, the royal family, and the royal family were mixed together, if the murderer was mixed in the crowd, it would be difficult to lock the target, and it was very likely that he had taken advantage of the chaos to leave in the crowd!

These days, if martial law is imposed in Shuicheng, the Criminal Department has already sifted through the roster of martial arts competitions and recruiting relatives one by one, but it is also in vain.

Su Yan suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked: "Those who recruit relatives in the competition must be registered?" ”

Xilou said "yes". Su Yan was full of suspicions, always feeling that there was a string that seemed to be broken, and he never had a clue, so he asked again: "Is there a clue on the roster?" ”

Xilou shook his head, also very disappointed.

Su Yan said: "In fact, the Criminal Department is completely wasting time, and the murderer is not a fool, how can he let his name be registered, the Criminal Department will definitely check, check and ask, the murderer is weak-hearted, and the incident will happen sooner or later." I think, you go and suggest to Zuo Qing that if you want to check, you can check what is not on the roster, such as the subordinates of the academy, students, and gentlemen, even the officials present are more suspicious than the people on the list, if this can't be found, most of them are haunted. After saying that, I shuddered all over, and felt that the temperature around me had dropped a little.

Xilou said: "Your words are not unreasonable, but according to the investigation conclusion of the Criminal Department, vendetta and robbery are not possible, and now everyone has no clue, and this case is most likely a headless public case." ”

Su Yan sneered: "I think it's the Criminal Department's intention to cover up, you are just the head of the Wan Dynasty Room, and you definitely don't know these inside stories." ”

Xilou smiled indifferently, "Now it's not a question of covering up or not covering, now it's Your Majesty's decree that the murderer must be investigated within five days. ”

Su Yan was surprised: "What about Xuanting?" ”

"Xuanting is the most important institution around Your Majesty, and its credibility is higher than that of Murphy for Your Majesty, how can Your Majesty be convicted, and it is not the Criminal Department and Zuo Qing who are unlucky at that time, Zuo Qing will step down, and our good days should come to an end." Although Xilou's words were serious, his face was calm and clear, as if he didn't care that he would lose his position one day, could it be that he was sure of it? In this way, the West Building is a little suspicious.

However, he has always looked down on fame and fortune, and he doesn't care at all, so he has this attitude.

Su Yan smiled secretly, feeling that his idea was too weird.

Xilou said again: "However, I arrested a person last night, not the murderer, but it has a great relationship with this murder case, but this little girl has a strict mouth, and she doesn't tell the reason for her life or death, and the criminal department has nothing to do, and has been handed over to Xuanting for interrogation." He pouted, and then said, "Oh, he's a student of your Shuyoutang, and it's like he's called... Ranbaby. ”

With a bang, the bowl in Xilou's hand was knocked to the ground by Su Yan, who suddenly jumped up.

"Who are you talking about? Babies?! ”

"I knew you were going to do that, so I put her at the end. You don't have to worry, Zuo Qing has been following up on this case and won't let her have anything to do, not to mention that Ran Ying is the niece of Princess Zhao, and Xuan Ting doesn't dare to touch her. ”

Su Yan didn't think so, if Ran Ying was just the daughter of an ordinary family in Rong Guo, as long as she didn't participate in the killing, she would be fine, but it was because she was the niece of Princess Zhao that she was terrible! Now that she thinks about it, she always thinks this case is very strange. There has never been murder, arson, rape, and looting in the academy, how could it happen so coincidentally during the competition to recruit relatives? At that time, everyone from all countries was there, and in full view of everyone, Ran Ying was arrested again the next day, this is not to tell the world that Princess Zhao's niece killed someone! If someone fanned the flames and wantonly spread rumors, it was very likely that Ran Ying would be rumored to be a fine work sent by Zhao Guo, and once it reached this point, it would not be as simple as killing people. If King Zhao makes a bad move, the ministers of Rong will definitely ask for an explanation, and then it may eventually turn into a fight between countries.

Don't... Could it be that this was just an excuse for Emperor Rong to annex Zhao?

Su Yan was horrified in his heart, when did his ideas become so unrealistic! At the beginning of the Ruoshui War, Emperor Rong could obviously annex all countries and achieve unification, but he did not do so, and still retained the rights of various countries, and this decision was indeed clever. After all, although Rong Guo had the ability to fight at that time, he did not have the energy to manage, and Emperor Rong's method not only solved the war, but also convinced the kings and was willing to be a vassal at the feet of Emperor Rong. Decades have passed, and all of them are living in peace, except for the neighboring countries that are far away, which are still hostile.

That being the case, how could Emperor Rong go back on his word and break the peace! In this way, he not only lost credibility, but also gained more than he lost.

At this time, Xilou stared at her worriedly, "What are you thinking?" Now that the people of Shu Youtang are panicking, you must go back to preside over the overall situation. ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Now that Ranying has been arrested, those who don't know must regard her as a murderer, so Shu Youtang will not escape everyone's slander. As he spoke, he suddenly had an idea, "By the way, can you help me meet Ranying?" ”

"What do you want to do?"

She said slyly, "Good thing! ”