Li Yi and Yiqing were standing on the top floor of the Star Picking Tower, drinking each other's glasses, overlooking the street scene of Chang'an, when they suddenly heard the shopkeeper come to report, saying that someone was going upstairs to meet him, and he frowned slightly, and his heart was very unhappy, so he asked:

"Who is it? I want to see this king at this time!"

The shopkeeper heard that Li Yi's tone was not good, and he immediately said in fear: "Go back...... Back to the prince, I know that person as a child, he is Shen ...... of Tsing Yiwei Shen Dudu ......"

"Shen Huan, what did he do when he came to see me?" Li Yi couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

Yiqing saw that Li Yi had something to do, so he immediately said: "Brother Li is busy with official business, Shen Dudu must have something urgent to find you at this time, Yiqing should go first!"

Li Yi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's okay! the girl can stay here and enjoy the scenery, and I will meet Shen Huan when I go down, the girl can rest assured, I will come back in a while!"

After saying that, Li Yi hurriedly went downstairs, leaving Yiqing alone, standing alone on the top floor of the Star Picking Tower.

Yiqing stood alone in the wind beside the fence on the top floor, she raised her wine glass and took a shallow sip, at this time, she faced a bustling street scene under her feet, her eyes crossed the many pavilions in the distance, but inadvertently looked at the northwest direction of Chang'an, where there is a Liquan Fang, there is a mansion in the workshop, which is exactly the mansion where Xu Ke lives.

Somehow, on this sunny afternoon, once she was alone in the tall building, she suddenly thought of the "sick wood" that she had scolded countless times......

Not long ago, Xu Ke also took her to drink in this restaurant, and the two of them could only sit on the second floor at that time, which was still the treatment that Xu Ke got by taking out his outdated waist card to trick Xiao Er. And at this moment, Zhao Wang Li Yi took her directly to the top floor of the Star Picking Tower, Yiqing knew in his heart that there were only a handful of people who could have such treatment in the entire Chang'an City.

However, in Yiqing's heart, she still can't forget the feeling of drinking and chatting happily with the "sick wood" in the restaurant, that feeling in her heart, like a dingdong mountain spring flowing between her ankles, and like a warm breeze passing by the sideburns, it is so unforgettable, every time she thinks about it, her heart always can't help but tremble slightly:

"Ahem! At this time, I don't know what the sick wood is doing?" Yiqing craned his neck, drank the wine in the cup, and sighed silently.

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Almost at the same time, in the official room of the Qianhu Nangong of the North Anping Division of Tsing Yi Wei, there were two people sitting facing each other, one was Nangong Buyu, the chief official of the Beianping Division, and the other was Xu Ke, the new Sipin Inspector of the Thousand Households. I saw Nangong silently put the tea cup in his hand in front of the table, sighed heavily, and said to Xu Ke who was sitting beside him:

Now that you have been appointed by the emperor and promoted to the post of inspecting a thousand households in Tsing Yi at a young age, this is the emperor's trust in you, and it is also a golden opportunity for the virtuous brother, and in the future, the future of the virtuous brother will be unlimited! I am really happy for you to be an elder brother! But you should never have offended Shen Dudu as soon as you took office! Who is Shen Dudu? He has been in charge of Tsing Yi Wei for 20 years, and he is deeply respected by the emperor. As an inspector of thousands of households, according to my senior cadre system, you should have been the right-hand man of Shen Dudu, how could you embarrass your immediate boss as soon as you took office? Moreover, in front of King Zhao and all the ministers, you ...... in front of King Zhao and all the ministers."

Xu Ke drank the Huayu tea in his hand, and after listening to Nangong babbling a lot, he just smiled lightly and said:

"Brother Nangong, I know that Shen Huan is a big celebrity in front of the emperor. I heard that in addition to Gao Liangshi, the chief administrator of the inner court, the emperor trusted Shen Huan, the governor of Tsing Yi, the most. This person is not only strong in martial arts, but also has deep cunning, and is really an extremely difficult person to deal with......"

"Then you still let him not get off the stage in public? You know, this person's mind is not very good, he has always been the best at holding grudges!" Nangong was silent and heard that Xu Ke also agreed with his own opinion, and he couldn't help but fall down.

Xu Ke smiled and said: "Brother Nangong, just because this person is extremely difficult to deal with, and he loves to hold grudges the most, because I want to embarrass him in front of everyone today!"

"Oh...... Why is this?" Nangong asked silently.

Xu Ke said: "First, this person's methods of acting are really hateful! Obviously, he has a villain's heart, and he prefers to pretend to be a humble gentleman...... Such a traitorous and loyal man, as soon as I saw his face, I couldn't help but vomit. Today in the council hall, I can't imagine that among so many people, he is the only one who thinks that the culprit of the case is a demon, but I, Xu Ke, am upright, how can I stand on the same position as such a villain?"

Nangong was silent and said unconsciously: "It turns out that today Shen Dudu said that the culprit of the case was a demon, but it angered the virtuous brother. ”

Xu Ke said: "This is only one of them, and the other is the second, this Shen Huan has been in charge of Tsing Yi Wei for twenty years, and the entire yamen is full of his cronies." Since we have the emperor's trust, we can't let this kind of person sit in Tsing Yi Wei, and let him be embarrassed in public today, just to let him know that he is restrained! This Tsing Yi Wei is my big Qian's Tsing Yi Wei, but not his Shen Huan's Tsing Yi Wei! Besides, Brother Nangong, you must know that you and I are two thousand households in Tsing Yi Wei, with you and I joining forces, why be afraid of Shen Huan's house!"

Nangong nodded silently, and sighed: "Okay, the words of the virtuous brother are not unreasonable, with today's situation, I am afraid that even if you and I are bent to curry favor, Shen Dudu will only regard us as enemies." Now that the enemy and the enemy have become invincible, I will simply fight with him!"

In fact, Nangong was silent, how could he know that Xu Ke's hostility towards Shen Huan was not only from Shen Huan's various actions in this world, but also the reason why Shen Huan repeatedly wanted to put him to death in the Jiazi Twelve Lines Wheel of Life. Although Xu Ke has left the fate line of the past, but all the past, after all, he feels the same way, and when he saw Shen Huan in the council hall this morning, the hatred in Xu Ke's heart was immediately as unstoppable as the surging river......

Speaking of Shen Huan, if I hadn't seen all kinds of treacherous deeds with my own eyes, it would be hard to believe that this person was so vicious! I remember meeting Brother Wang in Hangzhou at that time, and he told me that after I came to the capital, I must find Shen Dudu and report all kinds of illegal deeds of Hangzhou City Water Fentang to Shen Dudu. It's a pity that a hero like Brother Wang was also deceived by Shen Huan, and he even regarded him as a great good person!"

Nangong was silent and immediately said: "Do you mean Wang Meng, the chief Baihu of the Bei'an Ping Division in the past? He was originally Shen Huan's cronies, so it is naturally reasonable for you to come to the capital to report to Shen Huan." Moreover, he is also a general of the abolished prince Li Ren, who was ordered to go south last year, it is said that he actually got Li Ren's secret order to go to Jiangnan to do a big thing......" After a pause, Nangong was silent and asked:

"Brother Xian, I heard you talk about your experience in Hangzhou at that time, are you really sure that Wang Meng was beaten to death by the master of the Hangzhou Water Dividing Hall at that time?"

"This ......" Xu Ke couldn't help but muttered for a while, after more than half a year of tempering, at this time his mind was already very different from that year, he thought for a while, and immediately said: "I was knocked unconscious by Fang Wenzhao on the Lingxian Terrace in Linping, and when I woke up the next day, I disappeared from Brother Wang, and I searched everywhere and did not find Brother Wang's body." At that time, my mind was groggy and I was worried that the people of the Fang family would chase after me, so I did not search the surrounding villages in detail, but fled north in a hurry. Now that I think about it again, Brother Wang was beaten off the cliff by Fang Wenzhao's heavy hand at that time, but whether he is dead or alive cannot be determined......"

Nangong was silent and thought for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "Forget it, Wang Meng's life and death are unknown, and we won't know for a while." Moreover, now that the crown prince Li Ren has been deposed, Wang Mengru's heart is no better if he knows about it! Let's leave him alone for now...... Brother Xian, you went to Chang'an County with King Zhao today, have you found some clues about the case?"

It was not until this moment that Nangong was silent and talked about the topic of his secret conversation with Xu Ke in the official room today. It turned out that this morning, Zhao Wang Li Yi presided over the first case analysis meeting of the Beijing trial team in the Tsing Yi Wei Hall, although all the people who came were capable people in the capital to try the case and solve the case, but everyone discussed for half an hour, and even the obvious fact that "the culprit of the case is the devil is the devil's man", but they still had to argue there endlessly. Li Yi was annoyed to hear it, and it happened that at this time, Zhou Beiju, the commander of Chang'an County, suddenly came, bringing a new major discovery of the case, Li Yi took the opportunity to end the meeting in a hurry, and under the pretext of meeting the injured young man in person, he got up and left the meeting hall.

At that time, headed by Shen Huan, the governor of Tsing Yiwei, followed by Nangong Bushu, as well as Cheng Kezhong, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and Dai Zhou, the Zhengqing of Dali Temple, these people came out one after another, and they all followed Li Yi to Chang'an County Ya to check on the injured together. Li Yi immediately waved his hand to stop everyone, he only let two people go with him, one is Cheng Wanli, the chief manager of the forbidden army, and the other is his junior brother Xu Ke, even the Jingzhao Mansion Yin Zhong Xingming, (Speaking of which, it was the Jingzhao Mansion Yin who hurried to report the case to him today) Li Yi did not let him follow.

Nangong Buyu is a thousand households in the Anping Division of Tsing Yi Wei Bei, reviewing the major cases in the capital and cooperating with the protection of Gyeonggi, which was originally his duty, and this time he heard that Li Yi, the king of Zhao, was personally in command and vowed to capture the culprit of this strange case in the capital, Nangong Buyu was naturally eager to try. No, there was a new major breakthrough in the case, the injured young man had seen the culprit of the case with his own eyes, such an important clue, but Zhao Wang Li Yi did not let him follow. After Nangong returned to the official room without saying a word, he was inevitably a little disappointed in his heart.

Two hours later, hearing that Xu Ke had returned from the investigation of the case by the Chang'an County Ya and King Zhao, Nangong couldn't wait to pull Xu Ke into his official room without saying a word. Since Xu Ke stepped out of the Divine King Pavilion, he and Xu Ke have met alone for the first time, and at this time I heard that Xu Ke has been exalted by a guilty body, and he has been supertended by the Son of Heaven, and he has suddenly risen to the Tsing Yi Guard to inspect thousands of households overnight, and at the same time, Xu Ke has also become a disciple of the Tianzimen of the Divine King Pavilion, Nangong Buyu is of course sincerely happy for Xu Ke.

However, the first sentence he said when he saw Xu Ke was that Xu Ke was ruthlessly counted, in Nangong's silent heart, the entire Tsing Yiwei and even the entire capital, anyone can provoke it, but this Shen Dudu can never be offended.

Naturally, Xu Ke just laughed at Nangong's words of care. While drinking the fragrant "Flower Rain", he recalled the various past experiences with the "Nangong Buyu" there in the 12-line life wheel of Jiazi. In that fate line, "Nangong Bu Silent" became the "Tsing Yi Demon King", and finally committed suicide, and his body was escorted to Chang'an East City to be slaughtered in public, such an ending is not tragic. Now, Xu Ke is sitting in Nangong's office, and he is overjoyed to see this colleague and friend sitting in front of him unharmed.

Xu Ke slowly took a sip of the famous tea of "Flower Rain", and said leisurely: "Today, I am waiting in Chang'an County, but I have made a great discovery! Brother Nangong, do you know that the culprit of this case is actually a woman!"

"The culprit in this case is actually a woman, didn't Brother Xian say that the murderer is a demon?" Nangong was silent and immediately wondered.

"Brother Nangong, how do you know that a woman is not a demon? I heard that the demons in this world are ever-changing and omnipresent, and the culprit in this case is a banshee!" Xu Ke said with a smile.

"Is it? The reason for this, the virtuous brother quickly explained it for the foolish brother......" Nangong urged silently.

"Okay, good, Brother Nangong, don't be in a hurry, and listen to the little brother slowly......" Xu Ke put down the teacup, and followed Zhao Wang Li Yi to Chang'an County Yazhi to see what he saw, and told Nangong silently one by one......

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[Author's digression]: Not only Nangong silently met Xu Ke's old friend, very happy, I also have a feeling of reunion with my old friend after a long absence, from today on, resume a daily update, although the number of words is not much, but it will always persist until the end......