Chapter 20 Yes, it’s her

Author: Bai Xiaoyuan

Chapter 20 Yes, it’s her

Beiya is the yamen of Xiuyishi.

All the criminals who entered Bei Ya, ranging from the prime minister to the ninth-rank petty official, from civil servants to military commanders and soldiers, none of them could come out alive.

Not only will people not survive, but their relatives will also be killed.

It is a place that everyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty fears.

The Tian brothers, who were at odds with Shen Lingxi in the gambling shop, specialized in the business of killing people for others. They had several murder cases on their backs, and one of them happened to be related to the case that Xiu Yi was investigating.

They came out of the gambling house during the day and waited until dusk before going to the buyer's house. When they met, they were immediately taken away in a pot by the embroidered man.

They knew the reputation of Beiya and Xiuyishi. They didn't even go through the torture instruments before they poured out the beans and told them all the crimes they had done in the past.

Chunjun took the file and presented it to Chu Yan, looking a little strange.

"What?" Chu Yan took the file and read it at a glance, his eyebrows suddenly turned cold, "There are several cases here, all under the jurisdiction of the prefect of the capital, and they have all been closed. But the two murderers can still be found in broad daylight. Go to the gambling house and squander money, the prefect's Yamen is so good!"

Chunjun: "Zhao Cheng is the uncle of Imperial Concubine Zhao and the brother-in-law of Cui Shoufu. He has been in the position of prefect for five years. Every year, Cui Shoufu has to say hello to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to pass the assessment. There is nothing the staff can do. This time, he is unlucky and will fall into our hands."

"Only for these two people, there are three cases that have been hastily closed, and I don't know how many others there are." Chu Yanhan ordered in a cold voice: "Let Shengxie arrest people overnight, and make sure to thoroughly investigate the murder cases he has handled in the past five years. If there are any errors or omissions, once verified, the person does not need to be retained. Let the Ministry of Personnel prepare a suitable candidate to fill the vacancy."

Chunjun responded.

"It's a coincidence that those two people just killed someone a few days ago. He was the steward of the Xuanping Hou Mansion, named Liu Si." Chunjun looked mysterious, "The body was found in the well of the Hou Mansion yesterday. Zhao Chengzeng I personally brought the yamen and the clerk to the door, but they were kicked out by Marquis Xuanping. Now the case is in the hands of Dali Temple Shaoqing Mu Huaian, who is currently investigating."

Chu Yan was a little surprised, "Shen Ji is so proud of his face that he would rather keep this kind of thing a secret than let anyone know about it. If a fool like Zhao Cheng is not right for him, why did he expose it?"

"The strange thing is here!" Chunjun also hadn't encountered anything strange for a long time, and there was a hint of excitement on his face.

"Your Highness does not know that the scholar who bet with the Tian brothers today is actually a woman disguised as a man. Her name is Shen Lingxi, and she is the legitimate daughter of Marquis Xuanping who lives abroad. She was adopted by Old Shen of the coffin shop when she was a child. She was adopted by the coffin shop the day before yesterday. When he was taken back to the house, she was the one who discovered the body."

Chunjun then recounted what he found out about what Shen Lingxi did in Xuanpinghou Mansion while pretending to be a Taoist nun.

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

Especially after the Tian brothers lost their bet, her crooked eyebrows and smile...

"It seems that she has known for a long time that the Tian brothers are the real murderers, so she deliberately provoked them in the gambling house." Chu Yan asked thoughtfully: "When the two brothers were arrested, were there any suspicious people at the scene? "

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

This is not the point!

Seeing that his master was going too far, Chunjun hurriedly came closer and said with excitement: "Your Highness, you still remember that the day before yesterday, you asked me to send a copy of "Zhou Lv Shu Yi" to the maid who controlled Li Tanhua's body on the day of his wedding. ?”

Chu Yan's cold eyebrows raised slightly.

Chunjun clapped her hands and grinned almost behind her ears, "Yes! That's right! I just gave it to her!"

*

Late at night, Wangxian Village, which had been bustling for a day, finally became quiet because of Yao Niang's incident.

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

"I know the person who is in contact with the Tian brothers. His name is Feng Qi. He is the adopted brother of Xique, the maid in our ancestor's house. We are both from Hongwu County, and our ancestor's ancestral home is also in Hongwu County. Feng Qi We have a few acres of poor yield at home, and we are idle all day long, not doing anything serious. I have never had any enmity with him, so why would he want to harm me?"

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

They are the people in the ancestral house again.

"Your wife combs the hair of our ancestors, does she have any issues with magpies?" Shen Lingxi asked.

"How can that be possible?" Liu Si replied without thinking, "The magpie is the maidservant of our ancestors. Normally, we servants would have no time to curry favor, so how could we dare to offend him? What's more, We are from the same village, and our ancestral graves are next to each other. My mother-in-law has a great relationship with the magpies!"

Shen Lingxi pondered for a few breaths, "According to what you said, Feng Qi may not be able to afford the 'Thousand Gold Incense', and he has no motive to pay to kill you. Only by meeting Magpie or Feng Qi can we know the reason."

"Both Feng Qi and the Tian brothers were captured by the embroidery envoys and taken to Beiya. I'm afraid the girl won't be able to see them." Liu Si scratched his head in confusion, "Originally, I planned to follow Beiya to have a look, but I don't know. Why, after I entered the door and walked not far, I was ejected by an evil spirit."

When Shen Lingxi heard this, he didn't think it was that strange.

All things in the world have a certain number, they are mutually reinforcing and interfering, and they also have cause and effect.

"In that case, you just need to stay away from those embroidered clothes envoys and Bei Yamen in the future."

Shen Lingxi patted the purse on her waist, "Let's go, in 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 that you can feel relieved. I'm afraid it won't be like this in the future. opportunity.”

Liu Si's expression darkened and he smiled bitterly, "I am just a ghost now, how can they see me."

"They can't see you, as long as I can see you." Shen Lingxi said with a smile.

Liu Si's mourning hall is in the east wing of Fu'an Hall.

When Fu'an Hall renovated the ice cellar two years ago, Shen Lingxi had two ice platforms built in the east and west wings respectively, specifically for the coffin storage in midsummer.

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

Now he is covered with a white cloth and lying on the ice platform.

At this moment, his wife and a pair of children, wearing sackcloth and wearing mourning, were kneeling in front of his body with sad expressions.

Shen Lingxi changed into a Taoist robe that she only wore during ritual ceremonies and walked into the mourning hall.

The family of three immediately recognized her as the fifth girl from the Hou family who found Liu Si's body.

The three of them were full of gratitude and wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Shen Lingxi, 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 used some Taoist techniques to help you meet Liu Si for the last time. Only you will know what happened tonight, don't tell anyone else."

The three of them looked at each other, wondering what she meant by this.

Shen Lingxi did not explain much, walked up to Liu Si's body, and read a scripture about the ritual ceremony in a serious manner. She lowered her eyes pretending to be profound, put her hand into the white cloth, and twisted a few thin threads that had been prepared.

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

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