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

Chapter 61 What is the purpose

Beiya.

After the embroidered envoy finished examining the last Taoist priest who was captured from the Temple of Longevity, Chun Jun took a thick file and entered the commander's study.

Chu Yan sat behind the large desk with cold eyes, turning on the lamp to review the official documents.

These days, he stayed in the yamen almost every day, and he knew nothing about what happened outside.

"How, are you recruited?"

"All recruited." Chun Jun submitted the file, "The temple owner was originally a bandit who had fallen in Qianzhou. When he first entered Beijing more than ten years ago, he accidentally discovered that there were secret passages in this temple. The reputation of holding a real person as the first Taoist doctor is a disregard for human life. He used this to threaten the real person to take him in, and then gradually replaced him, and took root in this Taoist temple."

"They used the name of "giving a son as alms" to deceive those female pilgrims who came to ask for a son, and stayed in the temple at night. They took advantage of their deep sleep in the middle of the night and sneaked in from the secret path to do unruly things. It's a matter of fame, those The victimized woman could only swallow her anger and dare not say anything, she conceived a child, and only said that it was a success in seeking a child in the temple, and the longevity temple became famous and popular..."

Chu Yan frowned, "This matter is so secret, they haven't exposed it for so many years, how did Duke Wei know about it?"

Chunjun: "Last year, the concubine raised by the Duke of Wei went to Guanzhong many times to ask for a son, and had an affair with the Taoist priest in the Guanzhong, so as to conceive an heir. The Duke of Wei was weak at the knees and valued his heirs very much. Relying on her pregnancy, Shi asked Duke Wei to take her into the mansion and make her his concubine. After the concubine gave birth to a boy, Duke Wei was overjoyed, and paid for a golden body for Sanqing, who was in the concept of longevity. The magpie from the Hou's mansion cheated on Shen Liang's life in public, and said two vague words, which Duke Wei listened to."

"The Duke of Wei became suspicious, and saw a seriously injured woman crawling out of the secret passage. His concubine's expression was not right, so he ordered someone to arrest a little Taoist priest for interrogation, and only then did he discover this shocking secret. The Duke of Wei was very angry. Killed the concubine on the spot, and was afraid of getting a lawsuit, so he simply entered the palace and told the emperor the truth face to face."

After hearing so much from him, Chu Yan focused only on the words "Magpie fraudulent corpse".

He asked indifferently: "What happened to the magpie's fraudulent corpse, and who manipulated it?"

Chunjun then explained how the magpie appeared and how it flickered away from Shen Liang.

At the end he said: "Wu Zuo has experienced the corpse, and there is no trace of damage to the joints..." Some lack of confidence, he concluded: "It should... It is a fake corpse, not man-made."

Last time about Yaoniang's case, His Royal Highness only asked him to go to Fu'an Hall to deliver the message, and didn't let him take care of anything else.

This time he specially found a foreman to examine the magpie's body carefully, and there was no trace of being manipulated.

People always have to believe the truth, right?

With a "snap", Chu Yan put the file in his hand heavily on the table.

"If you can say such a thing, it seems that you, an embroiderer, have almost done it." He said in a deep voice.

Chun Jun immediately tensed his scalp, knelt down on one knee, not daring to take a breath.

After a long time, another question came from above, "What happened to the seriously injured woman?"

"The woman's name is Cui Yuan, and she was from the ancestor of the Xuanping Hou Mansion..." Chunjun told the story of Cui Yuan again, "...if Cui Yuan hadn't crawled out of the secret passage, Duke Wei I won’t become suspicious so quickly, maybe the master of the sect could have fooled me about the secret passage. When our people went to arrest Shen Liang last time, we didn’t find anything unusual in the secret passage.”

Chu Yan rested her head on her hands, lightly tapped the center of her brows with her finger bones, showing a thoughtful expression, "Leave aside the grievances between Magpie and Shen Liang, she can report directly to the officials about the concept of longevity, and the officials will definitely not stand idly by. But why do you have to use this method to lead Wei Guogong to investigate, what is the purpose of her doing so?"

His voice was hoarse and murmured, as if he was talking to himself, or asking Chunjun.

Chun Jun was confused, and asked in contemplation: "The 'she' mentioned by His Highness refers to Miss Shen Wu—Shen Lingxi?"

Chu Yan raised his eyes, and gave him a very distant and indifferent look, with a warning in his eyes.

As if to say 'you try to mention this name in front of me'.

But Chunjun didn't understand what he meant at all, "The Taoist nun holding the corpse of the magpie should be Miss Shen. If Your Highness doesn't understand, why don't you ask Miss Shen face to face? I heard from him that Miss Shen will treat him to dinner at Heming Tower at noon tomorrow."

Chu Yan's eyes darkened, "Notice, before the case is cleared, the Embroidery Envoy, Dali Temple, and the magistrate's office will not be allowed to rest. Those who leave their posts without permission will be assessed and dealt with this year."

*
Early the next morning.

Mu Huai'an took care of himself.

He specially changed into a brocade gown with wide sleeves embroidered with gold in the color of smoke, and a white jade belt was tightly tied around his waist, and his black hair was tied up with a white jade crown. In good spirits.

Holding the fan in his hand, he arrived at the private room of the Heming Tower on time.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Shen Lingxi's eyebrows curved, and a smile on his lips came up to him.

"I don't know what Shaoqing likes to eat. I asked Xiao Er to serve all the best dishes in this building. If there are any taboos, I will ask people to take them down."

The words are rare and kind, and there is a hint of flattery.

Mu Huai'an raised his eyebrows, looked at the table, there was a table full of dishes, roughly calculated to be more than twenty taels of silver.

It really cost money.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

This is Hongmen Banquet.

He went to the table and sat down, shook the folding fan in his hand, shook it, and said solemnly: "If you have something to say, talk about it, and I will pay for this table, otherwise, I dare not eat."

The smile on Shen Lingxi's face stiffened slightly.

"It's up to you." She simply put away her flattery, and asked straight to the point: "The case of the Temple of Longevity, Shaoqing should know it well, I don't know how Dali Temple plans to close the case?"

Speaking of this, Mu Huai'an instantly regained his spirits.

"Shen Lingxi, you are really doing great things in a silent voice!" He did not hide his praise: "You just lifted such a big green hat for Wei Guogong with your hands. Do you know that he killed that aunt and ran away overnight? Go and cry in front of the emperor, saying that I have suffered a lot of grievances. Now this case will naturally have to be settled smoothly, otherwise how can I be worthy of your plan. "

Shen Lingxi looked at him strangely, "If I want to make the case of the Temple of Longevity known to everyone, I can turn to you. Since I included Wei Guogong, I wanted the court to take care of the Duke's mansion and the noble concubine. For your empress' sake, handle this case in a low-key manner."

"Why is that?" Mu Huai'an asked puzzled.

Shen Lingxi: "Shaoqing has never thought that if the news of this temple is spread, then the women who have slept in this temple in the past ten years, and the children they gave birth to, will still have a way to survive?"

　The prototype case was solved. Those women who stayed overnight were either abandoned by their husbands or committed suicide. The older children were also expelled and the younger ones were drowned.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)