Chengtianmen south about Li Xu far and near, there is a north-south direction of the street and lane, the name is called "Guanchengfang", it is the place of the government office of the "three law divisions" of this dynasty, the criminal department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple are arranged in order from north to south. The courtyard of the criminal department sits in the west and faces east, occupies nearly half of the place of "Guanchengfang", the southwest corner of the compound is built with a wall that is more than more than zhang high, there is a door in the middle of the wall, there is a piece of pure white jade about two feet long and about one foot high on the lintel, and there are two strong big characters on the book: prison, here is the commonly known prison of the criminal department. The prison is divided into two parts, the part near the compound is used for the office of the jailers, and the remote part is used for the prisoners. The two parts are separated by two heavy iron gates, and a small door is opened on the iron gate, which is used as a passage for ordinary entry and exit.

Chen Wenqi entered the compound of the Criminal Department under the leadership of He Qiaoxin, and the two of them did not pause, and walked straight to the closed and relatively wide prison gate under the wall. The eight prison guards with knives guarding the gate saw that it was the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, and one of the prison guards quickly opened a gap in the gate, just enough for two people to enter.

The "Prison" in charge of the prison greeted him, and before he could speak, He Qiaoxin said, "Lead the way ahead", and the Prison Commander led the two to a room not far from the iron gate, and raised his chin towards the two prison guards with knives at the door. The two prison guards understood, one left and one right, and pushed the door open.

He Qiaoxin was about to invite Chen Wenqi in, and suddenly asked in surprise, "What about Wu Lihan?"

"Oh, Ullihan is gone?" The two guards suddenly became nervous, raised their legs and were about to enter the house to investigate.

Chen Wenqi put his hands out, grabbed the two prison guards, and said, "Don't go in." Lord He, Ulihan's body was originally placed in this room?"

He Qiaoxin was shocked, nodded and said, "Yes, just put it in this house." Why is it gone?" He Qiaoxin turned his head and asked the two prison guards, "After the official left, he ordered the two of you to guard here, during this period, did anyone go in?"

"Back to my lord, no. ”

Chen Wenqi let go of the prison guard and said to He Qiaoxin: "Lord He, let's go in and have a look." ”

Chen Wenqi asked the prison guard and the two prison guards to stay outside the door, and he and He Qiaoxin cautiously entered the house and carefully inspected along the wall.

There was nothing in the room except an old pine plank with two benches in the middle. On the wall opposite the door, there was a small window, and two windows were wide open. Chen Wenqi stretched out his head and saw a narrow alley outside the window, with few people.

Chen Wenqi frowned tightly and questioned: "Lord He, this ......"

He Qiaoxin was anxious and annoyed, and explained: "Since the opening of the Criminal Department Prison, there have only been a few cases of sudden death of prisoners in custody in the past few decades, so there is no separate morgue in the Criminal Department Prison. Since the cell has no windows, it is difficult for the smell to dissipate, and if a prisoner dies, the house is used as a temporary mortuary. How do you know that the dead man's body was also stolen?"

"Are you sure someone stole Ulihan's body?"

He Qiaoxin heard Chen Wenqi's questioning, so he pointed to the window and said: "The window is wide open, which is enough to prove that someone stole Wu Lihan's body from here." ”

"Why can't you guess that it was Wu Lihan who cheated to death and escaped from this window when no one was around?" Chen Wenqi asked rhetorically.

"Fake death?" He Qiaoxin paused, took a breath of cool air, and then shook his head and said, "Impossible." You see, there are clearly two people's footprints on this windowsill, and it must be two people who responded inside and outside and carried Ulhan's body away. Besides, how can he be resurrected if he has been examined and determined that Ulhan is dead?"

There were many footprints in the room, but they were concentrated on the side from the door to the middle plank, which should be the footprints of the jailer, and on the side near the window, especially on the edge of the window, there were indeed only two different footprints, which should not have been left by the jailer.

However, why did someone want to steal Wu Lihan's body, and what was the use of stealing it? This is what Chen Wenqi is puzzled about. Once again, he scrutinized every corner of the house, hoping to find clues that would help solve the doubt, but the room was unobstructed, and nothing but footprints were found.

"Lord He, whether it is a fraud or a corpse, please send someone to inform the Yulin avant-garde Huyanda to calm the envoy, and be sure to guard the city gate and carefully check the people who leave the city and what they carry. ”

Chen Wenqi said while standing up and preparing to leave the house, before turning around, he subconsciously glanced at the wooden board, and suddenly saw that the color of the board was different, and he hurriedly took a closer look, and saw that there was half an inch of length, red and green things embedded in the seams. Chen Wenqi borrowed a saber from a prison guard, and carefully picked out the thing with the tip of the knife along the gap, and when he looked closely, it was half a leaf, and a small grass-like stem remained on the handle of the leaf.

It's strange, how do herbaceous plants grow leaves?

Chen Wenqi and He Qiaoxin watched it for a long time, but they didn't know what it was?

Chen Wenqi carefully collected half of the "leaf" and walked out of the room with He Qiaoxin. He Qiaoxin beckoned, and the servant who had been waiting outside ran over in small steps, bowed in front of He Qiaoxin, and waited for He Qiaoxin's question.

"Are you just a puppet?" asked not He Qiaoxin, but Chen Wenqi.

He didn't know Chen Wenqi, and when he heard his question, he hesitated and didn't answer.

He Qiaoxin said: "This is General Chen, what does he ask you, you answer truthfully." ”

"Yes, sir. He replied, turned around and said, "Back to General Chen, the small one is the one who is a servant." ”

"Tell me about the survey. ”

"The younger one is Chenzheng who is beginning to investigate the body of Ullihan. According to the temperature of the corpse, the time of death should be at the beginning of the end of the hour, but the small one searched his whole body, and did not find any bruises or large wounds, there was no bleeding from the mouth and nose, the pupils were not dilated or narrowed, and the color of the lips was normal. Thus, the factors of poisoning, acute illness and death from external blows were excluded. That is, the cause of death is not ...... Bright. He said carefully.

"Are there any conditions that can cause a quick death without seeing any changes on the outside of the body?"

"This ...... , I have been doing this for more than ten years and have never encountered this kind of case. It stands to reason that any kind of illness can cause death has certain signs, and of course it cannot be ruled out that this possibility is what General Chen said. Therefore...... Therefore......" When he said this, he stopped saying this, and secretly glanced at He Qiaoxin.

"If there is anything to say, what is the official doing?" He Qiaoxin said angrily.

Therefore, the little one proposed an autopsy examination, but he ...... "snorted, with a look of indardarity to speak."

"What's so bad about this?" He Qiaoxin glared, turned to Chen Wenqi and said, "Yes, he asked for an autopsy of Wu Lihan's body. But this matter is big or small, and I dare not specialize, so I did not agree. ”

Chen Wenqi nodded to show understanding, after all, Ulihan is a general of Mongolia, and without the consent of the little prince or Ulihan's family, he rashly opened his abdominal cavity for fear of greater trouble.

Chen Wenqi thought for a while, and then asked Qi Zuo: "You said that Wu Lihan died at the end of the Mao period, and the time of your investigation is Chenzheng, which means that there is at most one hour in between." Did Ullihan have no signs of life at all when you surveyed, such as breath and pulse?"

"I don't have any breath and I don't have a ...... pulse No. ”

It can be seen that he has a clear identification of the breath, but he is a little hesitant about the pulse.

"If there is, there is, if there is not, there is none, how can you add the word 'also'?" Chen Wenqi said in an accentuated tone.

He was a little flustered, and stammered: "When the little one was taking the pulse, it seemed that there was a moment when he felt his pulse move slightly, and the time was extremely short, so it should be a small illusion." ”

"Just a moment?"

"It's just a moment, and it's so light and fast that it's almost imperceptible. I think it's an illusion. This time, he replied very simply.

Chen Wenqi's heart moved, but then he shook his head.

He Qiaoxin saw that his expression was different, and asked, "General Chen, what did you think?"

Chen Wenqi did not hide it, and said: "Listening to what he said, I suddenly remembered that the master had mentioned to me a kung fu called 'Turtle Breath Gong', and when this kung fu is cultivated to the extreme, people can freely enter the state of true concentration." ”

"What kind of state is that?"

"'Ignorance is spiritual, but man is determined.'" Those who enter the true state have no breath in their hearts, only a trace of gnosis in the hollow hole in the umbilicus, which does not move for a long time, like a dead person. Chen Wenqi recalled what the master said back then, "However, the absence of the breath of the heart is just a legend, and the latent breath must be slowed down for a certain time." What I just said is a bit like a scene when you are taking a breath. ”

"So, Ulihan is indeed cheating on death?" He Qiaoxin asked.

"No, I heard that this kung fu is only occasionally practiced by martial arts people in the Central Plains, and the Tatars are afraid that they have never heard of it. ”

"That ......"

Chen Wenqi waved his hand, not letting He Qiaoxin continue to ask, he said to Qi Zuo: "Zun Jia Shicai said, 'No bruises or large wounds were found', what does this mean?

"Yes. It was a wound the size of a grain of rice, like an abrasion, and it was just as deep as the skin. However, it seems to be a new creation, and there is a slight redness around the wound, but it will definitely not kill you. He said in the affirmative.

Chen Wenqi did not comment, only said lightly: "Okay, there is nothing to ask for the time being." If you think about it again, please report it immediately if you think of a new situation. Lord He, let's go and see the prison where Ullihan is being held?"

"Let's go. ”

He Qiaoxin motioned for Tong Zuo and the others to stay where they were, and asked the head of the prison to lead the way, and came to the cell where Wu Lihan was held with Chen Wenqi.

Because Ulihan was a captured general of the Mongol state, he was treated leniently. said that he was treated leniently, but he was only held in solitary confinement, and the floor bunk was replaced with a high bunk, and a few more piers were added to allow him to eat "decently". Nothing else.

The bedding on the bed was neatly folded, and the low mounds were placed a few times, and it was evident that the place had been surveyed at least once after Ullihan's death.

Chen Wenqi did not hesitate, still entered the first scene that had not yet been investigated, holding a candle in his hand and carefully surveying. Of course, the Criminal Department's handling of the case was by no means in vain, and the result of the investigation was naturally nothing.

Chen Wenqi did not give up, summoned two jailers, and ordered them to remove the elevated planks and move them outside the prison hall along with two benches, small tables and low piers. In the dim candlelight, it was suddenly discovered that the ground where the four legs of the bench had been placed was clearly different from the other three. At the touch of the tentacles, the ground here is obviously much more fluffy.

Chen Wenqi secretly screamed "luck", asked the prison to find a dagger, slowly brushed away the floating soil along the fluffy place, and sure enough, he dug out a few irregular bamboo pieces. After some splicing, it turned out to be a bamboo tube with a lid and a bottom, and there was a milky white mark the size of a small fingernail on the bottom, which seemed to be some kind of juice that had been air-dried.

Chen Wenqi's heart moved, and he hurriedly opened his ten fingers to check the front and back, and saw that his hands were not wounded, and his heart was put down.

He tore off a piece of cloth from the futon, carefully wrapped those bamboo pieces, and then said to He Qiaoxin: "Lord He, please check who has been in contact with Wulihan in the past two days. ”

Although He Qiaoxin had many questions, he believed that Chen Wenqi had a reason to do so, so he took the prison to investigate in person. After a while, he brought five jailers who were in contact with Wu Lihan within two days to Chen Wenqi.

The interrogation went more smoothly than expected. Although all five of them were cramped and uneasy, most of them were quite calm, and only one had a twinkling eye and a damp forehead. Chen Wenqi pointed at him and said, "You come with me." ”

The jailer bent his knees and said, "It's not me, I didn't bring anything for him." ”

Chen Wenqi smiled dumbly, pointed at the other people and said to He Qiaoxin: "Lord He, you tell them to get busy." Let's talk to him. ”

After the people left, Chen Wenqi asked the jailer who was kneeling on the ground, "What's your name?"

"Feng Liu. The adults, the little ones really didn't bring anything for him. ”

"Feng Liu—"

"The little ones are in. ”

"Did I say you helped bring him something?" said Chen Wenqi smiled.

"I didn't ...... Didn't you say that? Lord Xie, Lord Xie, you really didn't say that the little ones brought him things. Feng Liu said happily.

"Then how do you know I'm going to ask who brought him something?" Chen Wenqi's tone became stern.

"This ...... This ......," Feng Liu was speechless.

Chen Wenqi opened the cloth bag, put the bamboo pieces into a bamboo tube, held it up in front of Feng Liu's eyes and asked, "Do you know this thing?"

"No...... I don't know. The dampness on Feng Liu's head instantly condensed into beads of sweat and ran down his cheeks.

He Qiaoxin said angrily: "Feng Liu, this official is not as patient as General Chen, you better not be lucky." ”

"My lord, I said, I said. Feng Liu hurriedly said, "Yesterday evening......

Yesterday evening, Feng Liu finished cleaning up the tableware, thinking that he hadn't changed his underwear for a few days, so he asked the prison for two hours off and went home to take a shower and change clothes. As soon as I entered the house, I suddenly heard a noise behind me, and when I turned around, an old man who was not tall followed in.

"You...... Why did you come in? Don't you see that there is no fire in my house? Feng Liu scolded.

"Boom...... I'm bringing you money. ”

"Give me the silver, and keep the flowers for yourself. Go, go. Where did Feng Liu believe it, and stretched out his hand to push the old man out of the door.

Under the push, the old man not only did not retreat, but took two steps forward, took out a silver ingot from his bosom and threw it on the table, and then took out a bamboo tube and put it next to the silver, and said:

"The old man knows that you are a jailer in the prison of the Criminal Department, and you are responsible for delivering food to prisoners. Tomorrow morning you will take this bamboo tube and give it to the Mongolian general named Ulhan, and the ingots will be yours. ”

Feng Liu shook his head like a rattle, and refused without hesitation: "No, no, it is forbidden to bring anything to the prisoner in prison." If I find out, my life will be lost. ”

The old man's face sank, and he said viciously: "If you don't die earlier, and your aunt and baby will also be buried with you." Seeing that Feng Liu's face turned pale with fright, he slowed down his tone again, "What's more, this bamboo tube is just a bowl of chicken soup, and it's not poison, what are you afraid of?"

After the old man finished speaking, he took the bamboo tube in his hand, poured out some soup on the tea bowl on the table, reached out and grabbed the flower cat under the table, poured all the soup into the mouth of the flower cat, and said to Feng Liu: "If your flower cat dies tomorrow morning, you will smash this bamboo tube, and the silver will still belong to you; This should be okay, right?"

Feng Liu saw that it was an ordinary bowl of chicken soup, and thought that it would be okay to take him to drink it, so he nodded and agreed to him.

The old man didn't seem to be at ease, and threatened: "You'd better not play with your heart's eyes." Tomorrow, I'll wait here for you to reply, otherwise......" The old man grabbed the corner of the table with his hand, and before he could exert himself, the corner of the table had become crumbs.

Feng Liu hurriedly said, "Don't dare, don't dare, I'll definitely bring it in." ”

"Who knows...... Who knows......" Speaking of this, Feng Liu kowtowed to He Qiaoxin a few times, and said with a crying voice: "My lord, the little one is really unintentional, I beg the adult to spare my life." ”

He Qiaoxin shouted: "Get up, General Chen hasn't finished asking yet." ”

"Feng Liu, tell me about the old man's age, figure, appearance, and accent. ”

Feng Liu thought for a while and said: "That person is about seventy years old, five short stature, deep sunken eyes, protruding chin, hoarse voice, and his voice is like ......" Feng Liu glanced at He Qiaoxin and didn't continue.

"What do you think this official is doing? He Qiaoxin shouted.

"It's a bit like Ho's accent, but it's not very similar either. Feng Liu said timidly.

"What else?" asked Chen Wenqi nervously, remembering someone.

The little finger of the old man's right hand seemed to ...... It seems to be a little shorter. ”

Chen Wenqi's heart tightened, sure enough, it was him? Chen Wenqi shook his head vigorously, his mind was abnormally lucid, not in a dream.

No, he had obviously been killed by his master and uncle, and he buried him with his own hands, how could it be him?

However, the characteristics of the old man described by Feng Liu were clearly him. And the cut off of the little finger of his right hand was injured by the master in Xiqiao Mountain that year. Could it be ......

Chen Wenqi didn't dare to think about it, on a cold winter day, he was the same as Feng Liu, with a slight sweat on his head.

He Qiaoxin saw that Chen Wenqi's expression was different, and he walked up to him and asked, "General Chen, what's the matter?"

Chen Wenqi forced his mood, pulled He Qiaoxin out a few steps, and said in a low voice: "Lord He, this matter is a bit eyebrow-raising, let's find a place to talk?"

He Qiaoxin ordered Feng Liu to be imprisoned and sent to him later. Then he and Chen Wenqi returned to their own study in the compound of the Criminal Department.

As soon as he sat down, He Qiaoxin asked impatiently:

"General Chen, what the hell is going on?"

"Lord He, it is speculated that Ulihan was rescued. ”

"Help, you said that Wu Lihan is not dead?" He Qiaoxin asked with wide eyes and stunned.

Chen Wenqi nodded and said, "Yes, he didn't die, he faked his death." Then he was rescued. ”

"Who? Who has such great magical powers?" He Qiaoxin asked in surprise.

"Lingnan old monster, now he is the national teacher of Mongolia. ”

He Qiaoxin opened his mouth, paused again, and then said: "General Chen, this matter is too weird, the lower officials are confused, don't let me ask you to answer, you can analyze it completely." ”

Chen Wenqi took the tea bowl handed over by He Qiaoxin, took a sip of tea, and said: "Wu Lihan died violently without warning, and he couldn't find out the cause of death, so it is worth scrutinizing; Therefore, I wonder if it could be that Ulhan has been in prison for a long time and wants to get out by deceitful death? ”

As he spoke, Chen Wenqi took out the half of the leaf from his arms, put it on the bookcase, and continued: "Later, I found it in the crack of the board, and I was even more puzzled. Let's say it's a leaf, and its petioles are clearly connected to grass stems. What is this, and does it have anything to do with Ulhan's 'death'? It wasn't until I dug up the bamboo tube in the prison cell and saw the milky white stain in the bottom of the bamboo tube that I remembered something?"

"What's that?"

"The Poison King. ”

"The Poison King?"

"Yes, Poison King. When the master passed on my detoxification secrets, he once said that if you talk about the most poisonous people in the world, it is not the broken intestine grass, the crane top red, nor the wine, the mandala, but the 'blood to seal the throat', the martial arts people are commonly known as arrow poison wood. This wood secretes milky white sap, which is extremely poisonous, and if humans and animals come into contact with it, their muscles will immediately relax, the blood will coagulate, the pulse will slow down, and finally the heart will stop beating and die, the whole process is only a snap of a finger. When I saw that milky white mark, I almost guessed that this was the Poison King's 'Blood Seal Throat', and from this I thought of the half of the leaf, which was the only nemesis of the Blood Seal Throat - the red-backed bamboo pole grass. But the strange thing is that the blood seal throat only grows in Leizhou Mansion in Guangdong, and it is extremely rare, how can it appear in the capital? When Feng Liu said that the old man's physical appearance, especially his accent, was a bit like that of Lord He, I instantly knew who he was, and all the confusion before became natural and not surprising. However, there are still two ...... below"

"Wait. He Qiaoxin interrupted Chen Wenqi, "Since seeing that the blood seal his throat is so powerful, how can Wu Lihan use it to save his life? Why did General Chen conclude that he was rescued by the Lingnan old monster?"

"That's one of those things that still doesn't matter below. Seeing that the blood sealing their throats is extremely poisonous, how dare they use it to cheat death?"

"Therefore, Ulhan will definitely die, and it is absolutely impossible to survive. He Qiaoxin asserted.

"No, Ullihan is definitely not dead. First, as you said, the footprints of two people left on this windowsill are proof that the Lingnan old monster has no helpers here; second, if Wu Lihan is dead, how to deal with his corpse is a problem for our dynasty, and the Lingnan old monster does not need to bring his body back to the desert. ”

He Qiaoxin nodded and shook his head, and said, "This second article is still reasonable, but the first one is a bit arbitrary, how can General Chen conclude that the Lingnan old monster has no helpers?"

"That's the second thing that I don't understand. Almost a month ago, the master and apprentice and the Lingnan old monster met unexpectedly in Daqi Mountain, the two sides fought fiercely for a long time, his six apprentices died three times and were captured, and the Lingnan old monster was also hit by the master and the uncle, and died on the spot. He was buried with his three apprentices with his own hands, and it was said that there was no possibility of resurrection, but he reappeared in the capital. To tell you the truth, I will still be suspicious of the letter until now. ”

"I hope that the city gate guarded by Huyanda will be captured, and everything will be clear by then. He Qiaoxin said to himself.

Chen Wenqi reminded: "Don't think too optimistically. I think the old monsters in Lingnan are trying to save people, and they must have thought of a way to get out in advance, maybe they have left the capital at this moment and are on their way back to the desert. Lord He should hurry up and meet the emperor and deal with it as soon as possible. ”

When He Qiaoxin heard this, he smiled bitterly and said, "Alas, it's time to go to see the emperor." I don't know if this is a bad or a good thing. ”

Chen Wenqi hurriedly relieved: "Master He doesn't have to be so pessimistic, Lingnan old monster who is also you, even the old masters and uncles have been deceived by him." Besides, Ullihan was supposed to be sent back, but now that he has run away by himself, wouldn't it be easy?"

"Having said that, what if the little prince wants someone?" He Qiaoxin was still worried.

"It's easy. Yes, the imperial court said earlier that Ulhan and the others would wait for your tributary mission to come to the peace talks and bring them back to their own countries. But after such a long time, I didn't see any movement from you, and they were homesick and homesick, and the court couldn't bear it, so they let them go. ”

But is there a better way to do it?

He Qiaoxin nodded thoughtfully, sent Chen Wenqi out of the Criminal Department, and then hurried to see the emperor.

......

Chen Wenqi's guess was right, it was the Lingnan old monster who rescued Wu Lihan......

Chen Wenqi and Shen Lingshan combined their swords and killed several of their apprentices beyond the power to parry, and the more powerful Yang Xianyu and Liu Mufeng were ready to attack at any time. The old monster in Lingnan knew that there was no chance to escape today, so he secretly bit the tip of his tongue, pounced on Shen and Chen Erxiao with a mouthful of blood, and took advantage of the palm wind of Yang Xianyu and Liu Mufeng to attack, opened his mouth and spurted blood, and carried the turtle breath Dafa to the ground and cheated to death.

After a long time, the old monster in Lingnan "made a decision", only to feel that there was darkness in front of him, and his body was full of dirt, and he thought that he had been buried. He listened intently for a moment, there was silence outside, only the occasional crow chirping, and concluded that Yang Xianyu and the others had left, so he used his divine skills to break through the ground.

The old monster of Lingnan is full of hatred and vows to find an opportunity to take revenge. But he knew that although the rivers and lakes were big, there was no place for him, and the imperial court would definitely not give up arresting him. If you want to take revenge, you must also borrow the little prince. Ulhan is the little prince's confidant, and if he can be brought back to Mongolia, he may be able to reconcile with the little prince.

After making up his mind, the Lingnan old monster came to the capital and prepared to rescue Wu Lihan. However, the prison of the Criminal Department is very tightly guarded, and there is no chance to start. After a few days, I was at a loss, thinking that I had taken the risk of cheating my life to save my life, but now I was desperate. When he was desperate, there was a sudden flash of lightning, and he cheated to death?

Lingnan old monsters are overjoyed.

In order to "make the best use of things", he began to study the minimum limit of this thing to cause death, and I don't know how many innocent lives were buried. However, the "research" of the Lingnan old monster has gained a lot: not only does he know the minimum lethality of "seeing blood and sealing his throat", but he also discovers the amount of "fake death" that can make people enter the "true certainty".

The old monster of Lingnan found a piece of Nan bamboo, processed it into a double-bottomed bamboo tube, hid the juice of "seeing blood and sealing the throat" and a note with the method of use written on it at the bottom of the clip, and coerced Feng Liu to take it to prison. The next day, the old monster of Lingnan came to Feng Liu's house early and waited for the news brought by Feng Liu. When Feng Liu told him the "news of Wu Lihan's death" in a panic, the old Lingnan monster quickly went around to the small alley, pushed open the window of the "Chen corpse room" (he had already found out the location of the "Chen corpse room" in the prison of the Criminal Department in advance and made a secret note), used a red-backed bamboo pole to relieve the poison of "seeing blood and sealing his throat", helped Wu Lihan to turn over the small window, and slipped out of the capital unconsciously according to the pre-planned route.

When Chen Wenqi and He Qiaoxin were analyzing the case in the study of the Criminal Department, the two Lingnan old monsters and Wu Lihan, who were dressed in disguise, were rushing to the "Lu Palace" of the Tatar Khan's court.