Beiya.

After the embroidered envoy finished reviewing the last Taoist priest who was caught from the concept of eternal life, Chunjun took the thick file and entered the commander's study.

Chu Yan sat coldly behind the wide bookcase, picking up the lamp to review the official documents.

These days, he stayed in the yamen almost every day, and he didn't know anything about what was happening outside.

"How, have you recruited them all?"

"All of them have been recruited." Chunjun presented the dossier, "The master of the temple was originally a bandit who had fallen through the grass in Qianzhou, and when he first entered Beijing more than ten years ago, he accidentally discovered that there was a secret road in this temple. He used this to coerce a real person to take him in, and then gradually took his place and took root in this Taoist temple. ”

In the name of "giving alms", they coaxed the female pilgrims who came to ask for children to stay overnight in the temple. In the middle of the night, while he was asleep, he sneaked in through the secret passage and did evil things. It's a matter of fame, those victimized women can only swallow their anger, dare not make a noise, conceive an heir, and only say that they are seeking a child in the view, and the concept of immortality is also famous, and the incense is prosperous......"

Chu Yan frowned, "This matter is so secret, they haven't exposed it for so many years, how did Wei Guogong know?" ”

Chunjun: "Last year, the outer room of the Weiguo Gong raised by the public went to Guanzhong many times to seek a child, and had a relationship with the Taoist priest in Guanzhong, so as to conceive an heir. Wei Guogong was thin on his knees and attached great importance to his heirs, so the outer room relied on her pregnancy and asked Wei Guogong to take her into the house and raise her to be an aunt. After the aunt gave birth to a boy, Wei Guogong was overjoyed, and paid for the golden body of Sanqing of the concept of immortality, which coincided with the magpie corpse of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, and beheaded Shen Liang's lifeline in public, and also said two words that were unknown and listened to by Wei Guogong. ”

Wei Guogong was suspicious, and saw a seriously injured woman crawling out of the secret passage, and his concubine's expression was wrong, so he ordered someone to detain a little Taoist priest for interrogation, and then discovered this shocking secret. Wei Guo was very angry, killed the concubine on the spot, and was afraid of getting into a lawsuit, so he simply entered the palace and told the emperor the truth in person. ”

Chu Yan heard him say so much, and his attention was only on the words "magpie deceitful corpse".

He asked lightly: "What's going on with the magpie's corpse, and who controls it?" ”

Chunjun talked about how the magpie appeared and how to Huo Huo and the process of getting rid of Shen Liang.

In the end, he said: "I have experienced the corpse, and no traces of destruction have been found in the joints...... and some confidence is concluded: "It should be ...... It's a corpse, not man-made. ”

Last time in Yao Niang's case, His Royal Highness just asked him to go to Fu'an Hall to pass the word, and didn't let him care about anything else.

This time, he specially looked for a work and carefully examined the body of the magpie, and there was no trace of manipulation.

People always have to believe the facts, don't they?

With a "snap", Chu Yan put the file in his hand on the table.

"If you can say this kind of thing, I see that you are almost done as an embroiderer." He said in a deep voice.

Chunjun immediately tensed his scalp, knelt on one knee, and didn't dare to breathe.

After a long time, the head came to ask again, "What happened to the seriously injured woman?" ”

"That woman's name is Cui Kite, and she was originally the ...... of the ancestor of Xuanping Hou Mansion" Chun Jun told the matter of Cui Kite again, "...... If it weren't for the emerald kite crawling out of the secret passage, Wei Guogong would not have become suspicious so quickly, maybe the matter of the secret passage would have been fooled by the viewer. Last time, when our people went to arrest Shen Liang, they didn't find anything unusual in the secret passage. ”

Chu Yan supported his head with his hands, his finger bones tapped lightly on his eyebrows, revealing a thoughtful look, "Putting aside the grievances between the magpie and Shen Liang, the matter of the Immortal Concept, she can obviously report directly to the official, and the government will definitely not stand idly by, but why does she have to use this way to lead the Duke of Wei to investigate, what is the purpose of her doing this?" ”

He muttered in a low voice, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was asking Chunjun.

Chunjun was confused, and asked thoughtfully: "The 'she' in His Highness's mouth refers to Shen Wu's girl-Shen Lingxi?" ”

Chu Yan raised his eyes and looked at him very detached and indifferent, with a warning in his eyes.

It's like saying, 'You can try this name again in front of me.'"

But Chunjun didn't understand what he meant at all, "The Dao aunt who is holding the magpie's body should be Miss Shen." If Your Highness can't figure it out, why don't you ask Miss Shen in person? Today, I met Mu Shaoqing in the Immortal Temple, and I heard him say that Miss Shen will invite him to dinner at Heming Tower at noon tomorrow. ”

Chu Yan's eyes were slightly gloomy, "Inform me that before this case is cleared, the embroidered clothes envoy, Dali Temple and the prefect's yamen are all not allowed to rest, and those who leave their posts without permission will be demoted in the assessment this year." ”

*

Early the next morning.

Mu Huai'an took a good look at himself.

specially changed into a fire-colored embroidered gold wide-sleeved brocade robe, a white jade belt was tightly tied around his waist, and his black hair was tied up with a white jade crown.

With a fan in his hand, he arrived at the private room of the Heming Tower on time.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Shen Lingxi's eyebrows and eyes crooked, and the corners of his lips smiled to greet him.

"I don't know what Shaoqing likes to eat, I asked Xiao Er to serve all the best dishes in this building, if there is a taboo, I will let people take it down."

The words are rare and cordial, and there is a faint hint of flattery.

Mu Huai'an raised his eyebrows and looked at the table, a table full of dishes was distributed, and he roughly calculated more than 20 taels of silver.

It's really a bloody investment.

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

This is the Hongmen Feast.

He walked to the table and sat down, shook off the folding fan in his hand, shook it, and said seriously: "If you have something, just talk about it, I will pay for this table, otherwise, I won't dare to eat." ”

The smile on Shen Lingxi's face stiffened slightly.

"Whatever you want." She simply put away her flattering appearance and asked straight to the point: "Shaoqing should know the case of Changshengguan, I don't know how Dali Temple plans to close the case?" ”

Speaking of this, Mu Huai'an instantly came to his senses.

"Shen Lingxi, you are really muffled to do big things!" He made no secret of his praise: "Just do it, and lift such a big green hat for Wei Guogong, do you know that he killed that aunt, and ran to the emperor overnight to cry, saying that he had suffered a lot of grievances." Now this case naturally has to be concluded in a beautiful way, otherwise how can it be worthy of your plan. ”

Shen Lingxi looked at him strangely, "If I want to make the case of the Immortal View known to everyone, I can find you." Since I included Wei Guogong, I just thought that the imperial court could take into account the face of the Guogong Mansion and the noble concubine Niangniang, and handle this case in a low-key manner. ”

"Why is that?" Mu Huaian asked puzzled.

Shen Lingxi: "Shaoqing never thought that if the things in this view were spread out, would the women who had slept in this view in the past ten years, and the children they gave birth to, still have a way to live?" ”

The prototype case was solved, and the women who stayed overnight were either abandoned by their husbands' families or committed suicide, and the children were also expelled and the younger ones drowned.

(End of chapter)