All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 20
Beiya is the yamen of the embroidered clothes envoy.

But all the criminals who entered the Beiya, ranging from the prime minister to the chief assistant, down to the ninth-rank officials, from civil officials to military generals and soldiers, none of them survived.

Not only will people die, but even relatives will be punished.

It is a place that everyone in Dazhou fears.

That gambling shop and Shen Ling's brothers from the Tian family specialize in the business of killing people for others, and they have several murder cases on their backs, and there is exactly one murder case that is related to the case that the embroiderer is currently investigating.

They came out of the gambling house during the day, and they didn't go to the buyer's house until dusk. When the two sides were meeting, they were directly taken away by the embroidered clothes.

They knew the prestige of the Beiya and the Embroidered Clothes Envoy, and they didn't even go through the torture tools, so they told all the deeds they had done in the past like pouring beans.

Chun Jun took the dossier and presented it to Chu Yan with a strange look on his face.

"What?" Chu Yan took the file, looked at it at a glance, his brows turned cold, "there are several cases here, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the prefect of the capital, and all of them have been closed. But the two murderers can still be in broad daylight. Going to the gambling house to squander, this magistrate's office is very good!"

Chunjun: "Zhao Cheng is Zhao Guifei's uncle and Cui Shoufu's brother-in-law. He has been in the prefect for five years. Every year, Cui Shoufu and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have to greet each other to pass the examination. The official department can't do anything about it. This time, he was unlucky and hit us."

"On these two people, there are three cases that were hastily closed, and I don't know how many others." Chu Yan said coldly: "Let Sheng Xie arrest people overnight, and we must thoroughly investigate the murder cases he has handled in the past five years. Whether there are any mistakes or omissions, once it is checked, the person does not need to stay. Let the Ministry of Officials draw up a suitable candidate to fill the vacancy."

Chun Jun agreed.

"It's a coincidence that those two people just killed one person a few days ago. He was the steward of the Xuanping Hou Mansion, and his name was Liu Si." Chun Jun looked mysterious, "The body was taken out of the well in the Hou Mansion yesterday. I personally brought Yachai and Wu Zuo to the door, but Xuan Pinghou kicked me out. Now this case is in the hands of Dali Temple Shaoqing Mu Huai'an, and it is being investigated."

Chu Yan was a little surprised, "Shen Ji has a good face, and he would rather keep this kind of thing under wraps than let others know about it. Didn't Zhao Cheng, such a fool, just suit his appetite, why did he get thrown out?"

"It's strange here!" Chun Jun hadn't encountered anything that made him feel strange for a long time, and there was a little excitement on his face.

"Your Highness doesn't know that the scholar who gambled with the brothers of the Tian family today is actually a woman disguised as a man. Her name is Shen Lingxi, and she is the prostitute daughter of Xuan Pinghou. Take it back to the mansion, she is the one who found the body."

Chunjun then told what Shen Lingxi had done in Xuanpinghou's mansion disguised as a Taoist nun.

Chu Yan thought of her every move in the gambling house during the day.

Especially after the Tian family brothers lost the bet, she smiled with crooked eyebrows...

"It seems that she has known for a long time that the brothers of the Tian family are the real culprits, so she deliberately provoked them in the gambling house." Chu Yan asked thoughtfully: "Did you find any suspicious people at the scene when those two brothers were arrested? "

Chunjun shook his head, "The place where the buyer lives is very remote, and there are no other people."

That's not the point!
Seeing his master dragging his words away, Chun Jun hurriedly moved closer, and said excitedly: "Your Highness, do you still remember that you asked me to give a copy of "Zhou Lu Shu Yi" to the maid who manipulated the corpse on the day of Li Tanhua's wedding?" ?”

Chu Yan's indifferent brows raised slightly.

As soon as Chun Jun clapped his hands, the corners of his mouth almost reached behind his ears, "Yes! That's right! It's for her!"

*
In the middle of the night, because of Yaoniang's funeral, Wangxian Village, which had been bustling all day long, finally quieted down.

Liu Si hurried back from the capital, and told Shen Lingxi what he saw during the day.

"I know the person who joined the brothers of the Tian family. His name is Feng Qi. He is Xi Que, the eldest maid in the ancestor's house. He is a righteous brother outside. We are all from Hongwu County, and the ancestor's ancestral home is also in Hongwu County. Feng Qi There are a few acres of poor property in the family, idle around all day, not doing business, I have never had any enmity with him, why did he want to kill me?"

This is the second time Shen Lingxi has heard the name "Magpie" today.

It's the people in the ancestor's house again.

"Your wife combed the ancestor's hair, is there any trouble with the magpie?" Shen Lingxi asked.

"Then how can it be!" Liu Si replied without thinking, "Magpie is the big maid in front of our ancestors. Usually, we servants are too late to curry favor, so how dare we offend you. What's more, We are all from the same village, and our ancestral graves are next to each other, so my wife and magpies have a very good relationship!"

Shen Lingxi pondered for a while, "According to what you said, Feng Qi may not be able to afford the 'Thousand Gold Fragrance', and he has no motive to buy it to kill you. Only by meeting Magpie or Feng Qi right now can we know the reason."

"Both Feng Qi and Tian's brothers were arrested by the Embroidery Envoy and taken into the Beiya, I'm afraid I won't see you again." Liu Si scratched his head in doubt, "Originally I planned to follow up in the Beiya, but I don't know. Why, after entering the door, I was ejected by a wave of evil spirit."

When Shen Lingxi heard this, she didn't think it was too strange.

Everything in the world has a definite number, mutual generation and mutual restraint, and cause and effect.

"Since that's the case, you should stay away from those embroidered envoys and the Beiya in the future."

Shen Lingxi patted the purse on his waist, "Let's go, take advantage of the dead of night, go to your mourning hall, give the money you earned today to your wife and children, and talk to them, so as to comfort you, I'm afraid it won't happen in the future chance."

Liu Si's expression darkened, and he smiled wryly, "I'm just a wisp of dead soul now, how can they see me."

"They can't see you, as long as I can see you." Shen Lingxi smiled.

Liu Si's mourning hall is in the East Wing of Fu'an Hall.

Two years ago, when the Fu'an Hall was rebuilt into an ice cellar, Shen Lingxi ordered two ice platforms to be built in the east and west rooms, which were specially used for storing coffins in midsummer.

Liu Si's body was discovered in a hurry, and the coffin was not ready yet.

Now it is covered with a white cloth, lying on the ice platform.

At this moment, his wife and a pair of children, dressed in sackcloth and filial piety, knelt down in front of his dead body with mournful expressions.

Shen Lingxi changed into a Taoist robe that she only wore when offering sacrifices, and walked into the mourning hall.

The family of three immediately recognized that she was the fifth girl of the Hou Mansion who found Liu Si's body.

The three of them wanted to kneel and kowtow to Shen Lingxi gratefully, but Shen Lingxi stopped them.

"I came here late at night just because I figured out that I have some chance with you, so I will do a little bit of Taoism to help you meet Liu Si for the last time. Only you know what happened tonight, don't tell others."

The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, wondering what she meant by her words.

Shen Lingxi didn't explain too much, walked up to Liu Si's corpse, read a scripture about offering sacrifices seriously, lowered her eyes pretending to be deep, put her hand into the white cloth, and twirled a few filaments that had been prepared.

But in the blink of an eye, the three saw Liu Si's body, and suddenly sat up from the ice bed...

And this scene happened to fall into the eyes of the man who just walked into the courtyard of Fu'an Hall, wearing a moon-white Taoist robe and dressed as a Confucian scholar...

(End of this chapter)