Start with detective Li Yuanfang

Chapter 36
Deep in the inner prison.

Li Yan was making tea again.

He came to interrogate Li Niang every three days, and it almost became a habit.

Similarly, Liniang is also used to the tea he brewed, sipping it slowly, savoring the sweetness carefully, showing a contented expression.

Only this time, after drinking tea by herself, her gaze flickered as she looked at Li Yan's complacent posture across the way.

After a while, she asked, "Is Brother Fu buried?"

Li Yan nodded: "It's buried. An Zhongjing ordered someone to preside over the funeral and repair the tomb. Brother Fu is right. This Alang is very sympathetic to the people among the nobles!"

There was a half-smile on Liniang's face: "Brother Fu misjudged me, the husband and wife get along day and night, but they don't know the true face of the person next to them, do you mean that?"

Li Yan glanced at her angrily: "I'm not a yin and yang person, so you don't have to interpret my words too much."

Liniang was a little embarrassed when she heard the words: "I'm sorry, I was overthinking..."

"It's okay."

Li Yan didn't care, and focused on the tea.

He was tortured enough by the tea soup before, and he felt very happy when he drank clear tea.

But gradually, I felt that this kind of tea was still earthy and sour, and it was definitely not enough to promote it.

The best solution to this problem is naturally to start with the tea itself.

But he didn't have the ability of the tea sage Lu Yu, so he had to settle for the next best thing and look for seasoning ingredients.

Things like orange peel, honey, and even a little pepper.

These days, after Li Yan tasted it to the people around him, he gradually got favorable comments, which shows that this way of thinking is still correct.

The road has to be taken step by step, first transform tea from medicinal to beverage, and then enhance its status.

Li Yan's attention was mainly on the tea, but out of the corner of his eye, he also noticed that Liniang's expression was quite complicated, and he hesitated to speak several times.

"It's almost done."

Li Yan was secretly happy, knowing that Liniang was about to confess.

Counting the time, nearly a month has passed since Liniang was imprisoned in the inner prison.

For the outside world, it was just a normal month, but for the people involved, it was like a year.

On the one hand, he hoped that Liniang would quickly confess and uproot the intelligence network behind her.

At the same time, he was afraid that the information Liniang gave was outdated, and those Tibetan spies had already moved away.

But no matter what, as long as Liniang speaks, it can cause huge damage to Tubo's spy network in Liangzhou.

Due to the limited background of the times, it is very difficult for spies to create an identity suitable for stealing intelligence. It will take at least two to three years of hard work to achieve initial results.

In this way, even if the other party ran away and was forced to give up his identity, it would be a big loss.

What's more, people around the spy can draw portraits of them, record their living habits, and continue to arrest them. If they want to lurk in other places in the future, the difficulty will be doubled.

Hence, Li Yan waited silently and deliberately extended the interrogation time.

But this time, Liniang still didn't make up her mind, but Xiao Ling's cautious voice came from outside: "Li Wuwei, the time is up..."

Knowing the news that haste makes waste, Li Yan pretended not to notice the change in Liniang's expression, got up gracefully, and walked out.

Liniang's expression was uncertain, and after a long time she sighed leisurely.

After leaving the cell, Li Yan found that Xiao Ling did not leave immediately, but came up to greet him, and said in a low voice, "Brother Yuanfang, I have something to ask!"

Li Yandao: "Don't dare to do it, please tell Xiao Wuwei."

Xiao Ling cut to the chase: "Qiu Shenji is gone. I wonder if brother Yuanfang can share some of the credit for interrogating Liniang with me. I, Xiao Shi, will definitely thank you!"

Li Yandao: "I'm afraid it's not something I can decide."

"I understand, but if brother Yuanfang can ask Qiu Geling, he will not refuse!"

Xiao Ling's tone was even pleading: "I, Mrs. Xiao, are very sincere, and there must be rewards!"

Li Yan sighed: "Sorry!"

It's not a matter of sincerity, Xiao Ling's interests are obviously not the same as Qiu Ying's, and it's best not to be in the same team as a person.

What's more, once the benefits are received, the nature will change completely, so Li Yan is very firm: "Xiao Wuwei doesn't need to say more."

Xiao Ling couldn't hide his disappointment, and said with a dry smile, "Then... I was the one who was abrupt!"

Li Yan has seen that Qiu Shenji's achievements are more than failures, and he is afraid that he will vent his anger on Liniang later: "Don't interrogate me these few days. I will come back in three days and I will interrogate with Xiao Wuwei. If Liniang can speak, it will be natural." It will not lose your share of credit."

"You... Good! Good! Today I finally understood Li Wuwei's overbearing!"

Xiao Ling's face changed several times, but he didn't believe it at all. He turned from embarrassment to anger, and left with a wave of his sleeves.

Li Yan looked at his aggrieved back, but he was not angry, but just shook his head.

This person doesn't look capable, but he works very hard, and spends most of his time with Liniang every day.

This kind of exhausting offensive can be said to have no credit, but also hard work. Liniang's attitude towards Li Yan is gradually softening, and there is more or less this contrast.

It's a pity that Qiu Ying would not recognize this kind of credit. Qiu Shenji was imprisoned in the post house, so he wanted to fight for Qiu Shenji's credit. How could it be possible to share the benefits with Xiao Ling.

Xiao Ling obviously saw this, and hoped to find a breakthrough in Li Yan, promising to make a lot of money, but he was still disappointed.

The root cause is the Lanling Xiao clan's weakness.

"The family background is declining, and the ability is not top-notch. Others eat meat, and they won't even give you soup. This is the rule of the general environment, and I can't fight against it..."

Li Yan sighed a little, walked out of the palace, and saw a group of people waiting in front of him for a long time.

The leader was Tang Wu, the noble servant of the An family, who handed over the invitation card with a smile on his face: "My husband will start the match tomorrow, please Captain Li to show you his face."

An Zhongjing had greeted him a few days ago, and the polo match was going to be held next, and he, the polo player who had won a big victory over Tubo, would be invited to drive the polo player for a bit of traffic.

Li Yan was also happy to earn his fame. Since it was a win-win situation, he readily agreed: "I will definitely go to the appointment."

On the other side, Xiao Ling, who left angrily, happened to see this scene, his face became even more distorted, he got on his horse, and went straight to Xishi.

Several hours later, in a living room of Zuixiang Building, Xiao Ling was as drunk as mud, and kept muttering: "I, the Xiao family, are the emperor's clan! The emperor's clan! A mere farm slave, how dare you insult me!"

In a daze, he seemed to feel that the orchid beside him had changed, replaced by a person in a black robe, who whispered something in his ear: "Your troubles all come from Qiu Ying, Qiu Ying Once you die, everything will be solved."

He was in a daze, didn't hear clearly at all, slapped his hands and said: "Go away, my slave, what is your background, and you are worthy of whispering beside me?"

The man in black smiled: "You have been interrogating Liniang these days, haven't you been looking for me, I came in person, why did you refuse?"

Xiao Ling shook his head, suddenly startled, most of the wine woke up suddenly, his eyes widened, and he looked at that person: "Are you Liniang's upline?"

But he was already drunk and hazy, and with the wide black cloak covering everything above his mouth, he couldn't see any features at all.

"Catch me, the Tibetan spy network in Liangzhou can be wiped out by the inner guards, tsk tsk, what a great contribution!"

The man in black smiled bitterly: "But does that have anything to do with you? When it comes to merit and deeds, even Qiu Ying's nephew is more outstanding than you, let alone Li Yuanfang!"

Xiao Ling turned pale with shock, angry and frightened: "Are you among the inner guards?"

"It's easy to buy a few inspectors. Compared with the previous generations of cabinet leaders, Qiu Ying's control is far behind."

The man in black said: "He thought he came to Liangzhou to arrest us, but in fact we deliberately leaked the news to lure him to Liangzhou. Many people don't want the inner guard to grow again, understand?"

Xiao Ling was cold all over, and shook his head again and again: "If you really have such great powers, then how could Liniang be arrested?"

Anti-punishment.

The man in black was silent for a moment before slowly saying: "It was an accident, but it doesn't affect the overall situation..."

As he said that, the man in black took out a list: "Give this list to Liniang, let her tell these people, after Qiu Ying dies, you can dismantle Liangzhou's 'secret spy network', how about it?! "

Xiao Ling looked at the list and trembled all over: "You want me to betray Datang?"

The man in black leaned over and hugged him affectionately: "No, I want you to rise to the top and become the new leader of the inner guard!"

Xiao Ling bit her lips tightly, and finally shook her head: "You do it, I don't want to be a traitor and hurt my clan!"

"A very wise choice, um, on the premise that you don't know me..."

The man in black said: "In order to express my sincerity, let you take a look at who I am!"

As he spoke, he reached out and lifted the cloak.

"How could it be...it's you!"

Xiao Ling stared blankly, even rubbed his eyes, and moaned: "How could you! How dare you!"

"Now you don't have to worry about it. I have your handle, and you have mine. This is the basis of cooperation!"

The man in black put on his hood again: "Because of the Tubo ambassador case, Qiu Shenji was detained in the Liangzhou Posthouse. As long as you nod your head, there will be no one around Qiu Ying!"

Xiao Ling's complexion changed, and he asked a name that suddenly made him afraid: "What about Li Yuanfang?"

The man in black smiled, gnashing his teeth in a rare way:
"Don't worry, we'll take care of him!"

……

The situation in Liangzhou gradually became tense.

You can often see yamen servants coming and going on the street, and even bad people search the street.

Obviously, County Magistrate Cui is working hard to investigate the case and hunt down the murderer, but with little success, he is very anxious.

On the other side, it is still singing and dancing.

Such as the noble polo field.

Li Yan sat in the middle of the first row, his rightful place.

On the left is An Zhongjing, and on the right is Jia Sibo, watching the polo players gallop on the field.

Of course, this is an internal game within the Liangzhou team, one is An's team and the other is Jia's team.

Regarding the victory or defeat, everyone is obviously not as persistent as they were when they played against Tubo. They felt that they were second in the game and first in friendship.

Li Yan was also really involved in it, feeling the excitement and excitement of the sport of Juju, clapping and applauding from time to time.

However, halfway through the game, a group of people suddenly came outside the court.

The leader, Kang Meng, was full of excitement:
"We want to see Lieutenant Li, the mystery of the secret room where the Tubo ambassador was killed is broken!"

(End of this chapter)