Although the promised two-month deadline was approaching in a blink of an eye, Fang Zhongjin and Ji Changan became unhurried.

But as the old saying goes: When a person sits at home, disaster comes from heaven.

After Fang Zhongjin and the two of them stopped monitoring Xia Yuanji, Lord Xia made a big disaster.

On this day, the capital was like an oil pot that had been blown up. Everyone rumored that the new waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Lord Xia Yuan Jixia, had stoned someone to death with a blue brick on the street.

And he stoned to death a helpless woman.

What's more, the woman was still carrying an infant baby in her arms at the time.

With so much news mixed together, Xia Yuanji became the target of public criticism for a while.

The women and children in the capital hate it even more, and they wish they wanted to eat their flesh and sleep on their skins.

Xia Yuanji was immediately imprisoned by the six doors in charge of the case.

Even so, the people in the capital were still very dissatisfied with such a result.

Some people righteously pointed out that if the murderers in the streets could not be executed in time, those scoundrels would follow the same example.

It won't take long for the capital to become a land outside the law.

No matter how angry people from the outside world were, Six Doors couldn't really rush to finish the case. Because Xia Yuanji is a talent personally recruited by Emperor Zhu Di.

Originally, Zhu Di wanted him to polish in the capital for a while, so he was sent to take up important positions.

Now that the important position has not been held, the person has advanced to prison. Many of Zhu Di's plans also failed.

Zhu Di, who couldn't swallow this breath, ordered the six doors to be thoroughly investigated, even if it was a murder on the street, it was necessary to come up with a cause and effect.

But the bitter lord has long since died in the streets. The baby in her arms is not yet able to speak.

And Xia Yuanji was more like a fool, and he was stunned all day long without saying a word.

At this moment, Ji Chang'an, who was still hiding in the Jinyi Guard's yamen to enjoy his leisure, finally couldn't help but ask Fang Zhongjing: "The matter has become so big, should we do it?"

Fang Zhongjin smiled on the ground and said, "It's still early." ”

Out of the emperor's reliance on Xia Yuanji, the six doors did not dare to torture him.

As for asking the people around him, those who might have witnessed the beginning and the end said that Xia Yuanji suddenly went berserk and killed someone. I don't know why.

But after Natsuharayoshi's reputation in Kyochu turned into a murderous ghost. These people changed their views and pointed out that Xia Yuanji's eyes were blood-red at that time, and his mouth was "ho-ho".

If these people hadn't dodged in time, they might have been the next to die in vain.

If the Six Doors closed the case according to their testimony, Xia Yuanji would have changed from a murderer to a murderer.

Such a thing is extremely difficult to do, and there is no way for the six doors to do it, so they can only truthfully present these testimonies to Zhu Di and wait for the emperor to send them.

And Zhu Di looked at these confessions in the palace with a frown, and in the end, he could only ask the prince to go to the prison to visit Xia Yuanji instead of him.

Zhu Di's identity is different in the end, and it is extremely ominous to go to the prison with the respect of the true dragon son of heaven.

Even if the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not object, those people in the celebrant would resist to the death.

Although the crown prince is also a descendant of the true dragon, if he does not succeed to the throne, there are not so many taboos.

Outsiders don't know what the prince negotiated with Xia Yuanji in prison.

Anyway, the next day, the murder suspect was willing to speak, and Chen said that he couldn't remember the cause and effect at that time. By the time he came to his senses, he was already dead.

This is a common method used by officials in handling cases. If some people commit a capital crime, they can often be punished for a serious crime by pretending to be crazy and stupid.

The six doors are also familiar with the way, since they have obtained a confession and are in line with the royal will, they are ready to sentence Lord Xia as a murderer.

Such a crime will not be immediately executed, but only a long time in prison.

Many people were very dissatisfied with this, believing that if such a murderer went unpunished and returned to the court after a few days, this law would be really rotten.

Of course, such discussions are just secretly spread in the teahouses and restaurants in the capital.

Most of the people in the court had some eyes and kept silent about it.

But who would have expected that the situation would take a second turn.

One day, suddenly, a woman asked her husband to accompany her to the six doors to claim the baby in swaddling clothes.

He also said that the baby was stolen a few days ago.

They searched for a long time like crazy, and if they hadn't seen the portrait of the dead woman or the person who had stolen the baby that day, they might have died as a child.

The woman could even point out a red birthmark on the baby's body.

He also took out some handkerchiefs, shoes and socks, which were made of the same fabric as the baby's swaddling clothes.

This is really a twist and turn. When the man of the six doors took out the baby and gave it to the woman.

She really cried and laughed, and a fist of love could never be pretended.

The news instantly spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital. The previous murder of a senior official in the street was sensational enough.

Now it seems that there is an inside story. All of a sudden, this matter became a topic of conversation after dinner.

Ji Changan, who was still nested in the Jinyi Guard Yamen and didn't go out much, really couldn't help it.

He found another opportunity and quietly asked Fang Zhongjin, "Are you waiting for this change?"

In Ji Chang's peace of mind, Fang Zhongjin has long been a master of clever calculations.

He could calculate in advance that things would turn around, and that wasn't impossible.

Fang Zhongjin smiled and said, "Wait a little longer, the matter is not over yet." ”

Ji Changan patiently continued to observe from the side.

Sure enough, as the situation changed, more clues were unearthed by the six doors.

It turned out that the woman who was beaten to death by Xia Yuanji on the street was a habitual offender who stole other people's babies.

When the first woman wanted to return her own son. More and more people are identifying the woman as having seen her child before it was lost.

The people of the Six Doors found many children's swaddling clothes and socks in the house of the female thief who stole the baby in time.

The garments are different in old and new, in different materials, and even in embroidery. Apparently plucked from a different baby.

It's just that no one can know where these babies are now.

It seems that this dead girl is really a habitual thief who steals babies.

As the situation changed, so did the direction of the wind in the government and the opposition. Some imperial histories pointed out that Lord Natsuhara Yoshixia may have discovered that there was something wrong with the female thief at that time, so he went up to interrogate him.

Later, the female thief was afraid that she would expose her identity, so she had an argument with Lord Xia.

In the push with Lord Xia, the female thief accidentally knocked on the green brick and smashed her head.

And the people who had already changed their confessions before actually reversed their previous words.

In their mouths, Lord Xia has become a righteous and awe-inspiring martial arts master.

At a glance, he saw through the disguise of the baby thief, and corrected her between three moves and two styles.

Even when the female thief was kicked in the center and fell to the ground, Lord Xia still caught the baby steadily.

Even the baby who couldn't even speak was "giggling" at Lord Xia in everyone's description, as if he was grateful to Lord Xia for his rescue.

In short, it is a chivalrous and tender scene.

Three or five days after the retrial, Liumen was really released from prison on the grounds that Xia Yuanji was righteous and brave.

It's just that he cut the official position of the servant of the ministry and stayed in the capital to check.

In this way, it can be said that everyone is happy.

And when Ji Changan heard the news, he was even more speechless.

In the end, he asked Fang Zhongjin, "Is this the ending you are waiting for?"

Fang Zhongjin still said steadily: "That's right, this is the ending I was waiting for." ”

Ji Changan asked again: "Then you have been waiting in the yamen for so many days, can you see what is boring?"

Fang Zhongjin smiled indifferently: "I can see a lot, the identity of the person behind the scenes, I already have eyebrows." ”