After a while, Gu Ziqi cleaned up his mood and sighed: "Back then, the teacher's family was sentenced for the Jindan case, but unfortunately the brother was far away in Yungui, and the official whispered lightly, which is really worthy of the teacher!"

Qin Gu said, "So, as soon as you return to Jingshi, you immediately start investigating the case?"

Gu Ziqi shook his head with a wry smile and said: "The old man did not dare to blatantly investigate after returning to Beijing, and it is not easy for the emperor to retract the confession in the case set by the emperor. It's just that the brother knows the teacher's character best, so he concluded that there is definitely an inside story in this case. can only quietly look for clues in the dark. Because the Jindan case involved a wide range of people, it was difficult to carry out the investigation, and those who knew more or less about everything were kept silent and could not avoid it. The files of the Criminal Department have not been retrieved and reviewed, and after a few months, there has been almost no progress. ”

Mei said proudly: "Then why was the case suddenly overturned later?"

Gu Ziqi smiled bitterly: "It's strange to say, my brother is still confused." ”

Qin Gu was puzzled: "The adults don't know the inside story?"

Gu Ziqi said: "I know, it's just that the process of knowing is a little too weird." ”

"Weird?"

"yes, it's really bizarre. I didn't have a clue at the time, so I was going to give up on the investigation. But one night, the first emperor suddenly summoned me in private in the side hall and personally asked me to investigate the Jindan case that year. Although my brother couldn't understand at the time, why the first emperor wanted to investigate the case he had set, and why he didn't use Shangshu, but let my brother do this thing, now that I think about it, it may be because of my identity. ”

Mei Aoran snorted coldly: "Didn't Xiao Ge Lao be beheaded by the order of the emperor? How could he break his word, isn't this a slap in the face?"

Gu Ziqi shook his head and said, "The old man doesn't understand it very well until now, but with the emperor's secret support, this matter is not much easier." However, what I didn't expect was that my brother had a secret order, and there was still no progress in the investigation. ”

"That'...... How did you find the evidence in the end?"

When Mei asked proudly, Gu Ziqi was silent, but Qin Gu looked at Mo Langyue, only to see him holding a simple wooden spoon in his hand, carefully fiddling with the tumbling meat in the pot.

Gu Ziqi was silent for a while before he said: "Brother still can't figure out who helped me! Strange to say, I woke up in the middle of the night that night and found a thick stack of letters on the desk. I took it for a look, but it was for my brother. The letter contains a detailed account of the Jindan case, as well as the confessions of individual witnesses. Unexpectedly, this case also involved the prince, important ministers of the court, eunuchs, and so on. The brother was terrified when he saw it, and returned to the emperor the next morning. At that time, the emperor was trembling with anger after reading the case, and he didn't speak for a long time, and finally sent his brother to verify them one by one. But the strange thing is that three days later, the first emperor suddenly made a decree, saying that the immortal dreamed of killing Yunyun by mistake...... In the end, he exonerated his teacher and Master Yun and others on far-fetched grounds, and then did not investigate the matter further. ”

Mei sneered proudly: "This is obviously a mistakenly killing, and it is a mistakenly killing, but I can let the emperor Lao'er beat himself in the mouth, there are not a few times in the past, I think there must be an inside story that we don't know about!"

Gu Ziqi shook his head, sighed again, and said, "Things have changed, it doesn't matter if there is an inside story or not. ”

Mei Aoran may just be guessing, but when he heard Qin Gu's ears, his heart moved, and he looked at Mo Langyue again, but saw that he was still fiddling with the meat in the pot intently, as if he hadn't listened to what they had just said.

Qin Gu sighed in his heart and said, "Brother Lang, is the meat cooked?"

"Ah...... That's it!"

Seeing that Mo Langyue was obviously absent-minded, Qin Gu didn't say anything, so he nodded and said to everyone: "It's not very safe here, the big guy will eat some food to cushion his stomach first, and then we will change places." ”

After resting for a long time, Gu Ziqi had already relieved himself, and he saw that this simple and abnormal little hole really couldn't stay overnight, so he said, "Where are we going?"

Qin Gu said: "Not far from here, there is a manor called Guiyunzhuang, which is a residence of the god operator, so let's go there to take refuge." ”

Mei Aoran was overjoyed when she heard this, and said, "Brother Qingzhou said that the god operator is that god who likes to tell stories and tell fortunes, how can he live here?"

Qin Gu said with a smile: "Luo Shen Stick has always lived in a fixed place, but the younger brother just knows that he has lived here for the past few days, and I can be regarded as leaking his whereabouts for him, and I don't know if the old God Stick will find me to settle the account after he finds out!" Qin Gu said that he was worried and afraid, but he looked calm, and with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he was not afraid of the old god stick in his mouth at all.

After the big guy filled his stomach, Qin Gu found two men's cotton clothes from the baggage he carried with him and asked Gu Ziqi and Gu Yanjin to change into them. Gu Yanxi understood it when she saw it, and she also took the burden from Peng Yi's hand, took out a dark women's dress and handed it to her mother.

A few people cleaned up a little, and then they came out of the hole. At this time, the sky was dark, the heavy snow stopped at some point, the wind was much lighter, and there was a dim and dim full moon in the night. Everyone rode the moon and stepped on the snow, and there was nothing to say all the way.

It is not far from Huilaizhuang, but the rugged mountain road and the heavy snow closure make it even more difficult to walk. It is said that in such weather, there should be few pedestrians on such a remote and rugged road, but Mo Langyue found that this road has been trampled by many people, and in addition to the footprints, there are horse hoof prints and traces of wheels rolling on the snow. Who is it that does not forget to ride in a carriage on such a narrow path?

Mo Langyue thought while observing the terrain, and her pace slowed down, and she gradually fell behind a considerable distance. Suddenly, a cold wind blew, and the sound of the wind was faintly mixed with other sounds. Mo Langyue's heart moved, so she stopped and listened, as if she ...... It seems to be the sound of something hissing.

Mo Langyue pondered for a moment, then raised her voice and said to Qin Gu in front of her: "Uncle Qin, you go first, and Langyue will come later......"

After hearing Qin Gu's response from afar, Mo Langyue followed the voice and left.

When Mo Langyue walked for a short time, she found the source of the sound in a recess of a mountain. It turned out to be a horse lying on its side, neighing in pain. Because the heavy snow had just passed, the moonlight was dim and unclear, but Mo Langyue still saw that the horse's coat was gray and lacklustre, and there were large dark scars on his abdomen.

The white horse raised his head and neighed when he saw Mo Langyue, and then he hung his head weakly, staring at him with only one eye. Mo Yinyue lifted the hem of her clothes, squatted down and reached out to touch the horse's neck, and then carefully observed the horse, but sighed after a while. Hopeless of coming to its owner's rescue, he abandoned it here. Mo Langyue wanted to leave, but this bad white horse had a pair of bright eyes, soft and mournful, staring straight at Mo Langyue, as if he was pleading silently.

Looking at such humanized eyes, Mo Langyue couldn't bear to turn around and leave no matter what. He lowered his head and thought about it, then reached out and took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a pill from it, and then said to the white horse: "I don't know if I can save you alive, so I can only try it, this Suli Pill is Uncle Qin's treasure, it is said to be able to strengthen muscles and bones and treat internal injuries, I don't know if it will be useful to you? ”

Mo Langyue sighed lightly as she spoke, copied a handful of snow and melted it in the palm of her hand, and then crushed and melted the pill, and when the pill was completely dissolved in water, Mo Langyue moved the horse's head and poured the medicine into it. After doing these things, Mo Langyue got up and patted the snow on her clothes, turned around and left.