The heavens set sail from the courtyard

Chapter 1271 Murder Case
Fan Xian and Teng Zijing tracked the group of people who kidnapped Fan Ruoruo and Fan Siche to the outskirts of Beijing and found the house.

Teng Zijing pushed open the gate carefully and slowly, holding a hidden weapon in his hand.

"Huh?" Teng Zijing found something wrong and pushed open the gate. What came into his sight was a field of corpses.

"Ruoruo, Fan Siche." When Fan Xian saw the corpse, he was shocked and ran into the yard quickly. Teng Zijing tried to stop him but failed.

Fan Xian searched among the corpses and didn't see his brothers and sisters, so he felt relieved.

"Is this the second son of Prime Minister Lin?" Teng Zijing discovered Lin Gong.

Fan Xian's attention was drawn to Lin Gong's horrified face. He asked uncertainly, "It seems he cut his own throat?"

Teng Zijing carefully examined Lin Gong's body and became more and more confused.

Judging from the traces at the scene, the deaths of Lin Gong and his gang were indeed very strange.

Fan Xian heard something at this time and turned to look at the gate.

Groups of soldiers suddenly rushed into the courtyard and surrounded Fan Xian and Teng Zijing.

"They are from the Inspection Institute." Teng Zijing said to Fan Xian.

Fan Xian took out the Inspection Institute's badge and said loudly: "He's one of us."

Zhu Ge, the chief of the First Division of the Inspection Institute, walked in and first saw the badge in Fan Xian's hand, and then he saw Lin Gong's body.

"How dare you, Fan Xian, to murder Prime Minister Lin." Zhu Ge ordered his men to tie up Fan Xian without further ado.

"Director Zhu, please look carefully. This is the badge of the Chief of the Inspection Institute." Teng Zijing said in panic.

"The Commissioner cannot kill Prime Minister Lin's son." Zhu Ge said with a dark face: "Fan Xian, you must come back with me to the Inspection Institute to await trial."

Fan Xian said speechlessly: "When we arrived, Lin Gong was already dead."

Zhu Ge snorted coldly: "Go tell Minister Lin about these things!"

Teng Zijing wanted to launch a hidden weapon to give Fan Xian a chance to escape, but was stopped by Fan Xian.

"If I really ran away, I wouldn't be able to explain myself even if I was right." Fan Xian said calmly.

Teng Zijing was very anxious. He knew what the prison of the Inspection Institute was. If he went there, he would be punished no matter he was guilty or not.

"Master Zhu, I can go with you, but can you let Teng Zijing go?" Fan Xian asked Zhu Ge.

"Teng Zijing is an accomplice and according to the law he should be thrown into jail." Zhu Ge said coldly.

Fan Xian said calmly: "Then I'll trouble Lord Zhu to go to my house and let him know that I won't be home for dinner tonight."

As suspects in the murder of Lin Gong, Teng Zijing and Fan Xian were imprisoned in the prison of the Inspection Institute. Zhu Ge did not do anything out of line. After all, Fan Xian was the son of Marquis Sinan. If he really ruined him, Zhu Ge would have no way to explain to Fan Jian.

But Teng Zijing was not so lucky!

The news of Lin Gong's death reached Prime Minister Lin as soon as possible. He just couldn't believe that someone in Kyoto dared to kill his son.

But when Minister Lin saw his son's body, he had to believe it.

It is a tragedy for an old person to see his young son die, not to mention that Lin Xiang already has two sons and one daughter, of whom the eldest son is mentally retarded and the third daughter is an illegitimate child. He has always trained Lin Gong as his heir, so their relationship is naturally special.

Now that his own son is gone, Prime Minister Lin is of course furious and vows to make the murderer die a miserable death.

When Zhu Ge told him that Fan Xian was imprisoned, Prime Minister Lin's first reaction was not to kill Fan Xian, but to go to the palace to meet the emperor.

When Prime Minister Lin ran to the palace to see Emperor Qing, he indeed saw Fan Jian.

"Your Majesty, the chief of the Inspection Institute has detained my son Fan Xian without reason. Please make the decision, Your Majesty." Fan Jian knelt in front of Emperor Qing and said.

"Why did Zhu Ge detain Fan Xian?" Emperor Qing's voice came from behind the screen.

"Your Majesty." Prime Minister Lin knelt down beside Fan Jian and said with tears in his eyes: "Fan Xian killed my own son. His crime is unforgivable. Your Majesty, please order a severe punishment."

"Your Majesty, please be wise. Fan Xian has no grudge against Lin Gong, and they have never met each other. How could he kill him? Someone must have framed him." Fan Jian said loudly.

"Humph! When my son died, Fan Xian was at the scene, and he was caught red-handed. How dare you, Fan Jian, try to defend yourself?" Prime Minister Lin said angrily.

Fan Jian said calmly: "Prime Minister Lin, I know you lost your son in your old age and are extremely sad, but we cannot wrongly accuse a good person. Does being at the scene make you a criminal? Fan Xian just happened to be there."

"Fan Jian." Lin Xiang said angrily, "You are confusing right and wrong."

The two important court officials were about to quarrel, and Emperor Qing, who was hiding behind the screen, finally could not sit still anymore.

"Have you had enough of the quarrel?" Emperor Qing shouted, and Fan Jian and Lin Xiang lowered their heads at the same time.

At this time, Eunuch Hou came in and said to Emperor Qing: "Your Majesty, the director of the Inspection Institute, Mr. Chen, wants to see you." Emperor Qing finally came out from behind the screen and said in a dignified manner: "Let Chen Pingping in!"

Eunuch Hou took the order and left, quickly pushing Chen Pingping into the hall in a wheelchair.

When Chen Pingping came in and saw Fan Jian and Lin Xiang kneeling, his eyes moved slightly, and then he bowed to Emperor Qing and said: "Your Majesty, there are many suspicious points in Lin Gong's death. Please order the Inspection Institute to conduct a thorough investigation."

Prime Minister Lin said anxiously: "Your Majesty, Fan Xian is the director of the Inspection Bureau. If the murder case is investigated by the Inspection Bureau, it will inevitably be suspected of private communication."

Emperor Qing asked Chen Pingping, who was sitting in a wheelchair, with a stern face: "Minister Lin is worried that you are protecting Fan Xian."

Chen Pingping said sternly: "The Inspection Office has always been selfless. Although Fan Xian is the director, if he really kills someone, I, Chen Pingping, as the director, will never condone it.

As for Prime Minister Lin's worry, it is unnecessary. After all, Fan Xian was captured by a chief. If the Inspection Bureau really protected him, they would have released him long ago. Why bother with this unnecessary effort? "

Emperor Qing turned to Prime Minister Lin and said, "Did you hear that?"

Prime Minister Lin said bitterly: "It's all up to your Majesty."

Emperor Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Chen Pingping, I give you ten days to give an explanation to Prime Minister Lin. If you fail to catch the real culprit within the time limit, then Fan Xian will pay for Lin Gong's life."

Fan Jian was shocked and wanted to speak again, but he saw Emperor Qing's cold eyes.

"Fan Xian's presence at the scene is indeed suspicious."

Fan Jian remained silent.

"Your Majesty, the Yuan-Mongol envoys have arrived in Kyoto and are now being received by Minister Guo. Would you like to meet them?" Chen Pingping changed the subject.

Emperor Qing said with a hint of meaning, "The Yuan-Mongol envoys just arrived today, and Prime Minister Lin's son was murdered. How come all these things happened at the same time?"

Prime Minister Lin was shocked. He realized that Emperor Qing wanted to pin the blame of Lin Gong's murder on the Yuan-Mongol envoys.

As a veteran in officialdom, Prime Minister Lin realized that Emperor Qing was secretly protecting Fan Xian.

Lin Xiang gritted his teeth and decided to sacrifice the rook to save the king.

"Your Majesty, it is inappropriate for Fan Xian to have an engagement with Wan'er now that he is a suspect in the murder of Lin Gong." Prime Minister Lin said in embarrassment.

Emperor Qing glanced at Prime Minister Lin, then looked at Fan Jian, and said, "Let's talk about the engagement after Chen Pingping finds out the truth in ten days."

Prime Minister Lin was still a little unwilling, but Emperor Qing said, "Prime Minister Lin, I know you are sad and angry about losing your son in your old age. I will grant you ten days' leave to handle the funeral. I will let the Minister of Rites Guo Youzhi take full charge of welcoming the Yuan and Mongolian envoys."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration." Prime Minister Lin said with a broken heart.

"I'm tired, you all may leave!" Emperor Qing shook his sleeves and walked back to the inner hall.

Fan Jian slowly stood up and wanted to help Lin Xiang, but was pushed away by the other party.

Prime Minister Lin snorted coldly and strode out of the hall.

Fan Jian didn't care and went to push Chen Pingping's wheelchair.

"Can you find out the truth about Lin Gong's death?" Fan Jian pushed Chen Pingping out of the palace.

"Don't worry! His Majesty intends to push the blame onto the Yuan-Mongol envoys. I will just go with the flow and Fan Xian will be home soon." Chen Pingping said sinisterly.

Fan Jian said with a straight face, "Fan Xian is in your prison at the Inspection Institute. Nothing will go wrong, right?"

Chen Pingping assured: "I will let Shadow stay by his side at all times, and no one can hurt Fan Xian." Chen Pingping assured.

Fan Jian asked: "Who killed Lin Gong? Was it Wu Zhu?"

"No." Chen Pingping frowned and said, "I have seen Lin Gong's body. His death was indeed strange."

"Is there anything in Kyoto that you, Chen Pingping, don't know?" Fan Jianqi asked.

"I, Chen Pingping, am not a god, so how can I know everything?" Chen Pingping said worriedly, "But I have a feeling that there must be a mysterious force hidden in Kyoto City, which may be related to Yuan Meng!"

Fan Jian worriedly said: "Yuan Meng?!"

Chen Pingping held down the wheelchair and said to Fan Jian: "You'd better pay attention to the people around you. I will keep an eye on the Yuan-Mongol envoys."

"There is definitely no problem with the people around me. They are all my trusted confidants who I have used for more than ten years. However, there is one director, Zhu Ge, who is a little strange this time." Fan Jian said.

"I know. I will deal with Zhuge." Chen Pingping said coldly.

The two men walked out of the palace, finished their discussion, and were about to part ways when Wang Qinian from the Inspection Institute came running over.

"Dean, General Qin has been murdered!"