[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, March 29, Shen Shi, Tsing Yi Wei Bei Anping Division, in the office of a thousand households]

After Xu Ke left the Nan'an Pingsi, he returned to his official room in the Southern Administration. When the guards saw the return of the thousands of households, they hurriedly took the exclusive "Tsing Yi Guard Armor Meal" from the house. Xu Ke hastily finished lunch, stayed in the room and thought for a while, and said in his heart, this matter has to be discussed with Brother Nangong, so he came to the official room of Nangong in Bei'anpingsi.

The guards outside the door reported that the thousand households were not in the guard. Xu Ke hurriedly asked where Qianhu went, and the guards stayed for a long time, and finally replied, Lord Qianhu and the high-ranking officials who didn't know which part of it were outside, went to Deyue Tower for dinner, and they haven't returned yet.

Xu Ke had to wait alone in Nangong's official room, and waited for half an hour, until two o'clock in the Shen hour, when he saw Nangong slowly returning to the palace without saying a word.

Nangong was silent and saw Xu Ke, and immediately said happily:

"Brother Xian, I finally saw you! Fang Cai, the two waiters of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works, as well as the two envoys of the Imperial Observatory, will definitely go to Deyue Tower with us to drink, Brother Fool sent someone to look for you for a long time, but he has always looked for you, where have you been?"

Xu Ke couldn't help frowning slightly, he said in his heart, we are the emperor's personal yamen, and we are too close to the official, this is a taboo for the Son of Heaven! He wanted to say a few words of admonition, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed back. He smiled and said:

"The little brother just went to Nan Anhei!"

"Go to Nan'an Pingsi, you still go to investigate the case?" Nangong Buyu seemed to have drunk a lot of wine today, his steps were a little slow, and there was still a great smell of alcohol between his words.

Xu Ke helped Nangong Bu to sit down on his Taishi chair, and personally brewed him a cup of strong tea from the inner room, and let Nangong take a few sips, and then told Nangong Bu Si about the process of going to Nan'an Ping Division with Zhang Muye to investigate the case, as well as what he saw in Nan Prison.

Nangong listened silently, but his face was expressionless, he just picked up the tea bowl and drank several sips of strong tea.

Xu Ke asked: "Brother Nangong, Yang Wenyuan, this guy, indulges his subordinates, rapes female criminals at will, and inflicts indiscriminate punishments, coercs and induces confessions to Mingyue, so disregard the laws of the country, vicious and cunning, I want to surrender to the emperor! Brother Nangong is willing to join me in the joint folding?"

"Brother Xian, in the case of Mingyue, the emperor has already issued a holy decree, and the holy decree makes it clear that Mingyue is the murderer. Now that the emperor has made a final decision on this case, and in two days, these people will be sent to the execution ground to be killed, so why should the virtuous brother bother to inquire about this case again? In my opinion, it is better to ...... Forget it!" Nangong said a little drunkenly.

Xu Ke argued: "Brother Nangong, you can't say that! The case is a case, and the emperor is the emperor, and just because the emperor has made a conclusion on this case, we can ignore the facts in vain and obey our will! The emperor stays in the deep palace all day long, and it is difficult for him to know the ghost ways of Yang Wenyuan's trial. Since the younger brother had already gone to his Nan'an Pingsi today and found out the entire details of his coercion and confession, the younger brother naturally wanted to avenge Mingyue and them! Moreover, even if these female prisoners had been convicted, even if they were all killed in two days, his subordinates in Nan'an Pingsi would not be able to ...... You can't just rape them, right?...... Brother Nangong, Brother Nangong!"

Xu Ke was talking endlessly about the truth in his heart, but unexpectedly, when he was talking proudly, he heard a snoring sound in the hall, and he looked up again, only to see Nangong silently leaning on the Taishi chair, and I don't know when, he had already fallen asleep.

"Ahem......" Xu Ke sighed, shook his head, and had to personally help Nangong Buyu up again, and sent him into the inner room, until Nangong Buyu was helped to the bed and lay down, and covered him with a quilt, and then quietly withdrew from the house.

Not long after Xu Ke walked away, Nangong who was lying on the bed stopped snoring without saying a word, his eyes opened, he looked at the direction of Xu Ke's departure, and let out a long sigh.

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After Xu Ke returned to his official room, he thought about it and felt that he had to ask his senior brother for help in this case.

So, he spent an hour writing another letter with a pen, writing down how Yang Wenyuan indulged his subordinates, how he abused female prisoners, how he punished indiscriminately, and how he coerced and induced confessions.

As soon as the time came, he left Tsing Yiwei and went straight to King Zhao's mansion.

However, after he entered the Zhao Palace, the chief steward Ma Yun told him that the prince was not in the palace.

Xu Ke asked where King Zhao went, and Ma Yun also stood for a long time before saying that the prince had gone to King Zhao's courtyard in the south of the city, where a girl lived who seemed to be from Shushan, called ...... "Yiqing".

Xu Ke sighed, had to enter the palace study, and then waited for Li Yi to return.

Ma Yun had been instructed by Li Yi before, so that if he saw Xu Ke, he could take the other party in without a report. Therefore, although Li Yi was not in the palace at this time, Ma Yun also entertained Xu Ke very attentively. He brewed a pot of "Huayu" famous tea for Xu Ke, and saw that it was already three o'clock in the unitary hour, and he was afraid that Xu Ke would be hungry, so he sent Xu Ke six plates of pastries from all over the Qianguo.

Xu Ke drank warm tea, ate all kinds of expensive pastries, and waited for more than half an hour, until the time came, and then waited until Li Yishanshan was late.

As soon as Li Yi entered the palace, Ma Yun told him that Xu Ke had been waiting in the study for a long time. He didn't care about washing his face, so he hurriedly walked into his study, and when he saw Xu Ke, he immediately apologized:

"Senior brother, I've kept you waiting! Senior brother has something to do today, and I'm delayed!hahaha......"

Xu Ke looked at Li Yi's expression full of spring breeze, and knew that he must have had dinner with Yiqing today, and he didn't break it at the moment, so he went straight to the point:

"Senior brother, I came here tonight without illness, but there is one thing I want my brother to help!"

"Okay, junior brother, you haven't eaten yet, senior brother will ask someone to prepare a table of dishes for you first, let's eat while chatting!"

Xu Ke suddenly waved his hand to shirk it, his heart at the moment was full of Mingyue and the case, however, he couldn't help Li Yi's repeated enthusiastic invitations, so he had to follow Li Yi and sit down in the front hall of King Zhao's mansion.

Before long, Ma Yun, the head manager, filled the front hall with a table of exquisite dishes, and brought Xu Ke two pots of 30-year-old "Fenyang Drunk", and then bowed down.

Li Yi filled Xu Ke's wine glass with his own hands, he raised the wine glass, touched a basin with Xu Ke, and said with a smile:

"Senior brother, I know that you love to drink Fenyang, and you have prepared ten jars of Fenyang wine in the mansion with special orders, since you are here today, our senior brother will be drunk before resting!"

"Senior brother's good intentions, I am grateful for being free from illness!" Xu Ke picked up the wine glass, tilted his neck and drank it all.

The wine is fragrant, the dishes are beautiful, the front hall is wide, the small courtyard is quiet, Xu Ke at this time is indeed a little hungry in his stomach, so the two of them sat in the spacious front hall, smelling the fragrance of flowers and plants from the front yard, and ate wine and food together.

Li Yi has obviously used dinner, this meal is just to accompany him, he doesn't use chopsticks much, but he doesn't drink less wine, he and Xu Ke have a left and right glass, and in a moment, the two pots of "Fenyang drunk" have been "settled"......

Li Yi ordered Ma Yun to simply let people move a whole jar of Fenyang, when Ma Yun patted the mud seal of the wine jar, the entire front hall was suddenly filled with a rich aroma of wine, Xu Ke smelled it hard, and suddenly felt a sigh in his heart.

At the moment, Xu Ke was not polite, he asked Ma Yun to remove the wine glass and replace it with two large bowls. He personally lifted the jar, filled two large bowls of wine, and took the bowl with both hands, like a cow's drink, and drank a large bowl of liquor in one go!

"Okay!" Li Yi couldn't help but be drunk, he was originally a large amount, how could he show weakness at this time? He then also picked up a large bowl of wine in front of him, tilted his neck, and drank it all up.

After the two of them finished drinking, they both wiped the wine juice from their mouths, and looked up to the sky and laughed.

Next, Xu Ke was also like Li Yi, rarely picking up vegetables and blindly drinking.

Xu Ke has been fond of drinking since he was a child, and when he was a teenager, it was still difficult to find a mouthful of satisfying food, let alone drinking.

Later, he entered the Hangzhou Fenshui Hall to do chores, and Fang Shuhu, the second hall master of the Fang family, treated him very closely, and saw that he liked to drink, so he often rewarded him with one or two pots of "Qiantang Chun" in Hangzhou Mansion or "Daughter Red" in Shaoxing Mansion. Whenever he gets wine, he opens his mouth to drink bitterly, and he rarely gets drunk, so everyone who knows him has to praise him to his face that "the wine fairy has come to the world"!

Now, some of the friends he knew when he was a teenager are no longer alive, and some don't know where they are, only this glass of wine is still his best friend!

He was in a hurry to come to King Zhao's Mansion tonight, originally wanting to report Mingyue's grievances to his senior brother, and by the way, let his senior brother help him go to the palace to avenge his grievances. However, at this time, he saw that his senior brother treated him so enthusiastically, and was deeply attracted by the "Fenyang drunk" in front of him for thirty years......

So, these two people drank a bowl of good wine, and they didn't know how many bowls of good wine they drank, and they both felt that they were very enjoyable. Li Yi was already a little drunk and didn't feel slightly drunk, he suddenly remembered Xu Ke's words at the beginning, so he put down the wine bowl and asked:

"No disease, didn't you just say that you want to ask me for help if you have something? What is the matter? Hurry up!"

Xu Ke suddenly remembered why he came tonight, this time he almost forgot about this serious matter. He hurriedly tapped his forehead, sorted out his thoughts, and said:

"Senior brother, do you know about King Han's case?"

"My sixth brother?"

"Yes, the emperor said that King Han was killed by Mingyue, but I went to Yang Wenyuan today to review the case, and only then did I find that King Han was not killed by Mingyue at all!"

"That'...... How did my sixth brother die?"

"Senior brother, I'll tell you the truth, your sixth brother actually committed suicide!"

"Why did he commit suicide? Moreover, he went to Cuiyun Tower to commit suicide?"

"Because, this Cuiyun Building was originally opened by your sixth brother! Senior brother, you didn't expect that one of the most prosperous brothels in Chang'an City turned out to be the property of your sixth brother's family!" Xu Ke couldn't help but be a little drunk when he spoke at this time, tonight's cattle drink, he had actually drunk a lot, and he was still famous in Chang'an for thirty years Chen "Fenyang drunk".

"Senior brother, I heard it a little confused, do you mean that my sixth brother felt ashamed because he opened a brothel, so he ran to the brothel and committed suicide?" So ......" Li Yi touched his chin, and said in a drunken state: "After he committed suicide in the brothel, isn't it equivalent to telling the whole world that this brothel has nothing to do with him King Han?...... "Huaheng Academy."

"Oh, senior brother...... Xu Ke hurriedly waved his hand and explained: "He ran to Cuiyun Tower, he didn't plan to commit suicide, but after he saw 'Jiaojiao', because of his greed for pleasure for a while, he demanded excessively, and he died with Yuanyang!"

"Jiaojiao, who is Jiaojiao?"

"Jiaojiao, it's Mao Jiaojiao!"

"Mao Jiaojiao, you mean, that cat demon?"

"That's right! It's Mao Jiaojiao, who calls herself 'and the alloy fairy'!"

When Li Yi heard Xu Ke's words of "cat demon", he suddenly woke up for half a minute, he thought for a while, and then said:

"So, my sixth brother died at the hands of the cat demon?"

"Senior brother, that's what I said, but don't you think that your sixth brother is more like he doesn't want to live anymore?"

Li Yi heard that Xu Ke was quite disrespectful to his sixth brother in his words, and he felt a little unhappy in his heart, but he didn't have a seizure, and then he asked:

"No disease, you hurry up and tell me in detail what happened that night!"

So, Xu Ke straightened out his thoughts, and then he heard what he heard, about the night of March 26, Han King Li Zuo came to Cuiyun Tower late at night, and forcibly wanted to have fun with Mao Jiaojiao, under Mao Jiaojiao's repeated persuasion, Wu Zi refused to stop his blind greed, and in the end, he fell into the experience of Jingyuan being lost and his soul returning to the underworld, and in the Zhao Wangfu, he and Li Yibei presented it again.

"Unexpectedly, the sixth brother died like this!" After knowing the truth, Li Yi couldn't help but sigh and blame himself:

"Ahem! It's all my fault, I didn't catch the cat demon as soon as possible, but I indulged her to hide in Cuiyun Tower and harm people, but I didn't expect to kill the sixth brother because of this!"

"You can't say that!" Xu Ke immediately retorted:

"Senior brother, although Mao Jiaojiao has been hiding in Cuiyun Building for more than ten days, she has never killed anyone. It's because your sixth brother is blindly greedy for pleasure and excessively demanding that he cost him his life. If your sixth brother knows how to exercise a little restraint and listens to Mao Jiaojiao's advice, why would he die on the spot? Speaking of which, it is just that King Han himself does not want to live, and you can't put all the blame on Mao Jiaojiao! You can't blame yourself for no reason!"

Li Yi glanced at Xu Ke, his eyes were not without blame, and he said:

"Senior brother, I know you don't like my sixth brother, but after all, he is my own brother, when I was a child, we grew up together, and now he is dead, can you say a few bad things about him?"

Xu Ke was speechless for a while, he thought to himself that King Han was dead after all, humane, the dead are the greatest, I was in front of his own brother, it was not like that, it was really a little unusual, at the moment, he had to be silent.

I saw Li Yi raise his eyes and look out the window, at this time there was no moonlight outside the window, and there was a dark night all around, Li Yi shook his head, his face was full of shame, and he only heard him sigh:

"Hey...... Sixth brother, the third brother can't stand you! If the third brother can rush to Cuiyun Tower earlier and get rid of that cat demon, why would you end up with a spirit lost and died!"

It is no wonder that Li Yi felt so guilty in his heart, speaking of which, Xu Ke informed him and Nangong at noon on March 26 in Deyue Tower, saying that the cat demon was hiding in Cuiyun Tower at the moment. At that time, if he heard the news and moved, he immediately went to Cuiyun Tower to catch the cat demon, which was equivalent to saving Li Zuo's life. However, at that time, Li Yi, who could have thought that only half a day later, on the night of the same day, Li Zuo would die suddenly in Cuiyun Tower.

Speaking of which, Li Yi never dreamed that Cuiyun Building, the famous number one brothel in Chang'an City, was opened by his sixth brother. If he had known the secret earlier, he might have done it that day.

However, right now, his sixth brother has died in the hands of the cat demon, and no matter how guilty he is, it is useless to regret it. Li Yi's thoughts returned to the current palace, and he immediately asked Xu Ke:

"No disease, then...... You came here tonight to ask me to help you avenge Mingyue?"

Xu Ke immediately said: "Exactly, senior brother, no matter how King Han died, it has nothing to do with the Mingyue girl, the emperor listened to what Yang Wenyuan and Shen Huan said, and actually sentenced Mingyue to a sentence of 'Ling Chi execution', which is really unfair to Mingyue girl, I implore my brother to explain the case to the emperor and avenge Mingyue!"

"This ......" Li Yi pondered for a moment and said, "It's a little difficult!"

He had already known about the several decrees issued by his father, the emperor the day before. What kind of person his father was, and what kind of temper his father was, how could Li Yi not know in his heart? Since his father had already made a final decision on the case, and now let him suddenly overturn the case, how could this be done?

"What's the matter, brother, is it difficult to do?"

"No disease, if we want to overturn the case for Mingyue again, we will inevitably push the murderer of the case to Mao Jiaojiao's head! However, if the murderer of the case is designated as a cat demon, if this matter spreads, the entire Chang'an City will be panicked again! You also know that today's Chang'an City has finally regained its peace......

"However, King Han obviously committed suicide!"

Li Yi glanced at Xu Ke with helpless eyes again, he didn't know whether to blame Xu Ke or argue with Xu Ke, he thought about it, and patiently explained:

"Senior brother, if your senior brother wants to go to the Daming Palace to avenge Mingyue, no matter what, you can't say that my sixth brother committed suicide!"

"Why is that?"

"My sixth brother, as a prince of great cadres, ran to a brothel in the middle of the night, and in order to commit suicide, he actually killed himself with a girl from a young mansion! Do you think that my father can accept such a reason? If this matter spreads, where will you put the face of the imperial court of the great Qian?"

"......" Xu Ke was silent. But he was stubborn in his heart, but this, after all, is the truth!

Li Yi then said: "Besides, I don't agree with what you said, my sixth brother committed suicide and died! Although the sixth brother blindly seeks pleasure, that Mao Jiaojiao is a cat demon after all, and what she was originally good at is the art of seducing men! In that situation, my sixth brother may have been bewitched by the cat demon, and he had the heart to stop, but he couldn't stop? Moreover, in the end, what would have happened if it weren't for the cat demon? Harmony Dafa', what my sixth brother met was an ordinary girl, no matter how much my sixth brother tried to be happy, he would not be ruined by Yuanyang and killed?!"

"But......" Xu Ke had the heart to argue with Li Yiqiang again, he wanted to say: "But why did Mao Jiaojiao practice the 'Harmony Dafa' with so many men, and didn't kill them, but killed your sixth brother alone?"

Li Yi picked up the wine bowl again, drank the remaining residual wine, he stood up, and walked back and forth in the front hall for a few steps.

Xu Ke couldn't help but get up and said loudly: "Senior brother, since you are so embarrassed, then forget it! Tonight, I will go to the Daming Palace by myself, and I will explain this truth to the emperor clearly!"

"King Han obviously committed suicide, Mao Jiaojiao was at most unintentional to harm others, as for the Mingyue girl, she was even more innocent, no matter what, it would not be Mingyue's turn to die......" Xu Ke said, and turned around to leave.

"You're back!" Li Yi called out loudly.

Seeing that Xu Ke had no intention of turning back, Li Yi had no choice but to shake his figure, and came to Xu Ke's side, he grabbed Xu Ke's arm, and forcibly pulled Xu Ke back to the front hall, and helped Xu Ke sit down, then nodded helplessly and agreed:

"Okay! I agreed to this matter, for the sake of you, 'Mingyue', I will enter the palace in a while and plead with my father!"

"Thank you, senior brother!" Xu Ke stood up, bowed to Li Yi, and thanked him earnestly.

"Then again, what benefits did this 'Mingyue' girl give you? As for letting you run for her like this?" Li Yi said with some jokes: "You won't be ...... Some of them like her, right?"

Xu Kewu said with a straight face: "I just can't see innocent people die, and moreover, I have to die under such a cruel punishment!"

Li Yi nodded and sighed, "Ahem...... This time, the punishment of the father emperor is really a little heavier, except for giving Mingyue a 'Ling Chi', the rest of the more than 100 people have to die with it! God has the virtue of a good life, although the father feels sorry for the sixth brother, but he can't kill people at will like this, I should have persuaded the father to ......"

At this point, there is no need to say much about the rest, Xu Ke saw that Li Yi was about to enter the palace immediately, so he immediately took out the copy of the recital he had already written from his arms and handed it to Li Yi.

"Senior brother, I impeached Yang Wenyuan's house for this performance, so please hand it over to the emperor as well!"

Li Yi unfolded the fold, glanced at it a few times, and asked:

"What is this written about?"

So, Xu Ke told Li Yi what he saw in the Tsing Yi Wei Nan Prison, the tragic situation of those Qinglou women after they were raped and abused, and how Yang Wenyuan was fearless.

Li Yi put the fold in his arms, nodded at Xu Ke, patted Xu Ke's shoulder again, and said with a smile:

"What a patrol of a thousand households! worthy of being my junior brother, he has only been in office for a short month, and he dares to go against your governor, and he is the first to check the thousand households of the Nan'an Ping Division!"

Li Yi picked up the sea bowl on the table, only to find that his bowl was empty, he simply picked up Xu Ke's big sea bowl again, drank the residual wine inside, and then said:

"Senior brother, don't worry, in the future, you can check whichever you want, no matter what, I, as a senior brother, will always help you!"

"Thank you, brother!"

Xu Ke slammed to the ground again, and his eyes couldn't help but moisten slightly. He looked at the senior brother in front of him, at this time, he was cleaning up slightly, and he was about to enter the palace in the middle of the night, running around for the things he had entrusted him with, and he was both grateful and guilty in his heart. Somehow, at this time, he actually felt that the senior brother in front of him, although he had known him for less than two months, seemed to have been one of his closest relatives for a long time......