Chapter 25: Yan Tingzhong
Everyone also saw the white shadow clearly by the light of the fire fold.
It turned out that this person was Amin of the Jurchen faction who was in charge of receiving Di Xue and others!
"Why are you pretending to be a ghost here?"
After Di Xue asked Amin, she cried and knelt on the ground: "Master Di, the little girl wants to avenge her grievances!" ”
It turned out that Amin's real name was Yan Min, and she was the daughter of Yan Tingzhong, the former secretary of the Criminal Department, and she was only six or seven years old twenty years ago.
Although Yan Tingzhong is the secretary of the Criminal Department, Yu Lu is not high in Yuanjing, and he has been a commoner for several generations.
So he could only live a simple life in Yuanjing, and the money he saved was used to buy a property for Yan Min and her mother in the suburbs of Dingbei.
Yan Min's life was quite happy when he was a child, until twenty years ago.
At that time, she went to play in the streets, and saw that the Jurchen sect was accepting disciples, so she wanted to try it too.
However, the Jurchen sect master saw that she was not like a child from a poor family, so he did not accept her.
Yan Min didn't give up, so he secretly followed behind the Jurchen faction, and he didn't know how long he followed, and the sky gradually darkened.
That's when she remembered to go home.
But when she walked some distance from home, she saw in the distance that the front of the house was full of people, and there were many people in armor.
Yan Min saw her mother tied up and taken to the prison car, she cried and cried to find her mother, but a person hugged her from behind and covered her mouth tightly.
It was precisely because of the man's actions that she survived.
Although Yan Min didn't know why this was happening, she vaguely felt that her parents would not come back.
And the man who saved her brought her to the Jurchen faction, and the man said a lot to the head of the Jurchen faction, and Yan Min was left behind.
The head of the Jurchen sect took care of her personally, and then the man told Yan Min what had happened.
Her father, Yan Tingzhong and others, was killed for dereliction of duty and was connected to the three clans, and the man was the jailer guarding his father and others.
Yan Tingzhong believes that there is no problem with the deployment of the criminal department, and there should not be an incident in which all the files are stolen.
However, he had lost the trust of the emperor, and the daily punishment made him have no way to defend himself.
So Yan Tingzhong and all the officials involved left a letter of plead in prison clothes.
They wrote everything on the day of the crime and the days before, hoping that one day the truth would be made public.
The person who wrote today was beheaded, so the next person continued to write.
Before Yan Tingzhong was killed, he handed over the densely written prison uniform to the jailer.
The jailer could not bear it, so he agreed to bring it to their descendants.
Dingbei was recently, so the jailer came first, maybe God couldn't bear it, so he saved Yan Min.
Yan Min lost everything on this night, but she believed that with her father's character, it was impossible to slack off on her duties.
So as she grew up, she made up the story of the Yan family's daughter and Yan's mansion and hid the puzzle in it.
Day after day, she hoped that someone would unravel her grievances and help her father clear his name.
It wasn't until she saw Di Xue understand the meaning of wronging in the song that she felt that her father's case might take a turn for the better.
So she told the story and attracted Di Xue and others to come, and Di Xue took every step Yan Min's heart was full of mixed tastes.
In the end, when Di Xue said that the eighteen people in the criminal department were wronged, she could no longer control her emotions, and her heartache and incomprehension over the years all exploded, which was also the first time she cried out after learning about her father.
Di Xue listened to Yan Min's narration, and her heart couldn't be calm.
"Master Di, this is the love letter written by my father and others back then, and my handwriting is a little blurry due to my age, so I also copied a copy."
Di Xue took the love letter in Yan Min's hand, looking at the blood stains and dense handwriting on her clothes, the weight on her hand was very heavy.
After reading it, Di Xue used her own understanding to tell everyone what happened twenty years ago.
In the thirty-second year of Renwu, Emperor Renwu was nearly sixty years old, and many things were beyond his strength.
So after he lost his eldest son, who became the prince, he was particularly attentive to his grandson Chu Yun, which also filled Chu Yun's fatherless childhood in disguise.
It's just that Emperor Renwu is bent on removing all obstacles for Chu Yun's succession, and he can't tolerate a little sand in his eyes.
The government and the opposition were even more cautious, but at this moment, Chu Yun's succession caused controversy.
The former prince's late wife committed suicide and left a bloody letter, claiming that Chu Yun's half-brother Chu Xun's biological mother was also the crown princess Lu.
Chu Xun, who was originally a concubine who had no chance to take the throne, sparked a discussion overnight.
According to the blood book, when the late lady and the crown princess gave birth together, she gave birth to a daughter, so she bought the princess to replace the princess's son.
And the girl died not long after she was born, which has always been a pain in the heart of the crown princess.
However, to a certain extent, this incident made Chu Yun's succession less justifiable.
However, Emperor Renwu said that he had caught the murderer in the palace, and this person was the one who killed Mrs. Wan and forced her to write a blood letter.
The murderer was malicious and tried to shake the national capital of the Eastern Wu State, and Emperor Renwu sent him to the Criminal Department and beheaded him three days later.
So two days before the theft of the Criminal Department, Li Yong took Chu Xun to the Criminal Department to meet his mother's murderer.
Chu Xun was like a lost soul at that time, and he was taken by Li Yong to visit the criminal department and left.
Chu Xun's life experience also became a point of discussion among the people for a time, but four days later, a more sensational thing appeared.
The criminal department was actually stolen!
On the night of the crime, only the people on duty were left in the criminal department.
Yan Tingzhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, is interrogating the murderer of Mrs. Wan in the interrogation room.
However, I heard someone shouting that the front hall of the criminal department was on fire.
So everyone in the Criminal Department hurriedly went to the front hall to put out the fire, but Yan Tingzhong was worried that someone would take advantage of the chaos to infiltrate the Criminal Department.
So I hurried back to the backyard, but heard a strange noise in the room where the file was kept.
Hurriedly went over to check and unlocked the door of the room.
Then the door was pushed open, and there was a scene that they couldn't figure out before they died.
All the files in the room disappeared, and the room was empty.
And the time when everyone in the criminal department was transferred away, came over to check the interval of less than half a stick of incense.
What method was used to make all the thousands of dossiers disappear!
After all, everyone in the criminal department couldn't figure it out.
Then came the monstrous wrath of Emperor Renwu, and the criminal department and others were condemned and executed.
Di Xue finished speaking, and then looked at the 18 neat names at the end of Chen Qing's letter.
Maybe the emperor wants to re-investigate the case, but even if Chu Yun doesn't want to investigate, Di Xue already knows it at this moment, so he won't sit idly by.
So Di Xue responded to the matter and took away the love letter and Yan Min's transcription.
There are many details in this, and the writing habits of the eighteen people are different from what they see, so Di Xue still needs time to sort out the details.
However, Di Xue was also very curious about how the dossier disappeared in the half-burnt incense!
"Is the fire just a fire?" Zhou Huai said.
Di Xue nodded: "I'm afraid yes, but I'm more curious, what is the purpose of stealing the criminal department's files?" What is the use of these dossiers? ”