Yan Cigui.

Shan Shen drank five cups of tea in a row without saying anything.

Xu Jian did not urge him, but just drank with him, refilling Shan Shen one cup at a time. When the pot of tea reached the bottom, he waved to Xuan Su to change the tea.

Master Shan gathered his thoughts, couldn't help but drink a lot, and simply stood up: "Go to the hut, go to the hut."

Xu Bai showed him the way.

At sunset, the sky is half yellow and half gray.

Shan Shen came out of the warm flower hall with the cold wind blowing on his face, and couldn't help but shiver from the wind.

His lower abdomen was so tight, and what was even more tight than this was naturally his heart.

This is not easy to handle!

Not to mention anything else, there is one word that Mr. Guo used rightly - unfounded.

At that time, Liu Xun and Qian Hu held different opinions. No matter how Shan Shen thought about Geng Baoyuan in his heart, the yamen needed evidence to investigate the case.

Since there was no evidence, the Yamen could not investigate in depth, and it was impossible to investigate the situation in depth at that time, which ultimately led to this result.

Besides, what if we get to the bottom of it?

Unless the stolen goods are both captured, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the kidnapped little girl are "captured" together, the girl must be unconscious or would rather die than obey, and His Highness must be in a state of grandeur and wearing better clothes than when he was taken out of Chen Mi Hutong. Only a few cases can lead to a conviction.

Otherwise, Geng Baoyuan did the bad thing.

Even if Geng Baoyuan shouted, "I followed His Highness's orders," he would not be able to accuse the Crown Prince.

At best, His Highness is a lax ruler.

Among the disheveled dancers and little nuns, it doesn't matter if the rule is not strict.

This was one of the reasons why Shan Shen hid it in the first place.

Now, it has to be turned out...

It's not a matter of "dare you dare", but "can you".

Even if there is an extra piece of Geng Baoyuan's belt, the nature of the case remains the same.

There is no such thing as "everyone gets the stolen goods". If you check, you will not check, and you will offend the prince and anger the emperor.

Shan Shen was very dissatisfied with this move.

The pros and cons were analyzed by so many people in the Penal Department Yamen in the early morning.

However, Shan Shen knew that he was wavering now.

Because the person who gave him advice was Duke Fu.

The Duke of Fu is sometimes out of tune and has a bad mouth, which makes even Shen Shen feel ashamed.

After all, no matter how much he can scold Shanfu Yin, he usually still does it in his own yamen. Unlike the Duke of Fu, he dares to speak nonsense and make weird remarks in the Jinluan Palace.

But no matter how yin and yang, Fu Guogong has never cheated Shan Shen. In fact, Fu Guogong has contributed a lot in the previous cooperation.

To be fair, Shan Shen trusted Duke Fu. If not, he would not have come to the Duke's residence to offer incense and worship Buddha for two days in a row.

Now that the incense has been burned, the Buddha has worshiped, and the Bodhisattva has given instructions, if he does not follow them, will the Buddha still shine on him in the future?

Just, why?

Shan Shen didn't even think about it clearly.

With a sullen face, he stood in front of the pit and poured water. His eyes were blank, but he remembered.

This has happened before.

Without any foreshadowing, he directly led them to find Wang Liu's whereabouts in the sixth year. He brought a portrait and did not mention his name or origin. He only said that he was the real murderer of Dao Heng, and asked Shuntian Mansion to post a reward.

Everyone has his or her own way, and the auxiliary of the country has his own way of auxiliary to the country.

The Duke of Guo just said "I can't say anything specific", so there must be some considerations on his part.

Speaking of which, a few days ago, Uncle Chengyi met the Holy Spirit alone in the Imperial Study Room, and then the Holy Spirit summoned the Third Duke.

Although no one in the court knew the inside story, if there was any disturbance and the father-in-law and son-in-law advanced and retreated together, the auxiliary prince would surely have heard about it.

Yes.

That's how it should be.

Shan Shen suddenly became enlightened.

He tightened the waistband of his trousers, washed his hands and straightened the hem of his clothes, feeling that his eyes and ears were clear.

When handling cases, you must pay attention to details, and when handling affairs, you must turn a blind eye.

Anyway, the Duke of Fu will not trick him, so he will do as he is told. He also listens to the Duke and hides it from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment first.

snort!

Speaking of which, when things developed to this point, it turned out that Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment were the first to trick Shuntian Mansion. What does this small reward mean?

Shan Shen walked back to the flower hall.

The setting sun hangs in the sky and bursts of rays of light make people feel relaxed and happy.

He entered the warm flower hall and sat down: "I definitely believe what the Duke of Guo promised. I will go back and rectify Qian Hu's and Liu Xun's original confessions, and report them to the Holy One tomorrow. How can I check it later?" Why check it?"

Xu Jian nodded, thought for a while, and added: "After all, it is a matter of the East Palace. It is disgraceful. The Holy Lord cares about the prince, so the thunder must be loud and the rain must be loud. But don't worry, Mr. Shan, the rain will not fall on you." Just don't be frightened by the thunder."

Shan Shen laughed.

Look, it is such a pleasure to work with Fu Guogong.

"It's easy to say anything unless we hit Shuntian Mansion." He said.

Shan Shen stood up and said goodbye, and Xu Bai saw him off.

Xu Jian returned to the main courtyard and when he lifted the curtain and went in, Lin Yunyan was still facing the chessboard.

Before Shan Shen arrived, the couple were playing chess.

Halfway through the chess game, the outcome was unclear. Xu Jian went to meet the guests, and Lin Yunyan confiscated the chessboard, but her mind was not on the game.

Seeing Xu Jian coming back, Lin Yunyan asked, "Have you convinced Mr. Shan?"

Xu Jian said: "Master Shan is smart and wise."

Lin Yunyan smiled.

Xu Jian sat down on the opposite side of the chessboard, playing with the chess pieces casually in his hands: "So, it's not easy for you to hide those two boxes of books from him."

Lin Yunyan raised her eyebrows.

The exchange of gold bricks for books cannot be said to be seamless. If Mr. Shan becomes suspicious and starts the investigation again, he will naturally be caught with clues.

Being able to hide from the sky and cross the sea, except for the rain that night, it was still "dark under the lamp".

Xu Jian, an accomplice, swaggered into Shuntian Mansion, changed "Where are the gold bricks" to "Who wants to dig the box?", dragged Li Yuanfa into the bureau, and because of Li Yuanfa's sudden death, the theft case was investigated. It became a homicide.

Then it has nothing to do with Uncle Chengyi's Mansion.

Of course, Lin Yunyan still knew Xu Jian.

This person brought up old things again, either because he wanted to hurt her, or because he wanted to praise himself.

"Toefl," she laughed, "the Duke is still considerate."

Xu Jian raised his eyes to look at her, and didn't care whether her words were careless or not. He chuckled, shook his head, and replied: "Thank you, it's all thanks to the weather."

It snowed yesterday and the mountains were frozen, blocking the view most of the night.

As long as it's broad daylight, if Master Shan looks more carefully, he might be able to get some clues from the situation at that time.

The bits of old mud on the waistband were rubbed on, and they were far from what they should have been if they had been buried for a long time.

This is also the reason why they only dig for pocket cards and nothing else.

Under the snow, it was impossible for them to break ground in advance and bury anything. They just took mud from the nearby mountains and processed the waist badge.

The waistband is small enough to carry around.

The men in the garrison yamen pretended to dig something out of the soil while everyone was digging separately and not paying attention to each other. He is a young man with quick hands and feet, but he does not carefully preserve the evidence. He digs and erases randomly, which will make Master Shan feel disgusted, but he will not be suspicious.

Furthermore, the body can be used to determine the time of death and even how long it has been buried, but the waistband cannot reveal that much.

Of course, the less you investigate, the less you can prove.

Lin Yunyan said: "The lax governance is not enough to make the Holy Lord Thunder angry."

He hurriedly rescued Jin Shu that day and hid everything, just because he didn't want to exchange Jin Shu's life and reputation for Li Shao's crime. So now, it is impossible to drag the Jin family back into the police.

"The Jin family can't be traced," Xu Jian said, "Liu Xun cleared it all up and said Qian Hu was full of nonsense. Qian Hu only wanted to harm Liu Xun and didn't want to drag Li Shao into the water. He never gave any useful clues from beginning to end, let alone Mentioned that they went to Fa'an Temple to find Geng Baoyuan."

Lin Yunyan nodded.

Xu Jian added: "Besides, Li Shao might not have known anything about it beforehand. If he had known about the situation, he wouldn't have kicked Liu Xun hard at that time."

Lin Yunyan also pinched a chess piece.

At the end of the day, this is just starting to work.

Li Shao, he would admit the bastard things he had done, even if it was the fatal things like Yu Menguan, he was scolded bloody by the Holy Master, and he was just angry this way and that.

And once those things that he didn't do were covered up on his head and kept here and there, and he couldn't prove his innocence, then he couldn't accept it at all.

He will go crazy.

What they were waiting for was for Li Shao to go crazy.

If Li Shao is not crazy, it will be difficult to continue the drama.

"I can only work hard for Master Shan," Lin Yunyan smiled, "Jinluan Palace has to settle old scores, and he is under a lot of pressure."

Xu Jian thought for a while and said, "I have to loosen up Master Shan. He can only scold in Shuntian Mansion all day long. He also holds it back. When he listens to more thunder in the morning, he won't have such a big burden in the future." , maybe he can also become his own style of scolding."

Lin Yunyan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed out loud. She lost her grip on the chess piece and fell back into the basket.

Also.

An Yibo speaks outright, with a loud voice and full of momentum, and he says what he has to say.

Ge Yushi's prose was gorgeous and majestic, and he came face to face with all kinds of techniques. If he didn't have any ability, he would have fainted on the spot and didn't understand how harshly the old man scolded him.

Master Shan is different from the two of them. He pays attention to the appreciation of both refined and popular tastes.

"It's very good," Lin Yunyan supported Ji Zi, "No wonder the Holy Father always said that you go to court to have fun. Who doesn't like to listen to this kind of music?"

Night fell.

Shan Shen is preparing for tomorrow's "fun".

He asked his master to move out all the case files from Chen Mi Hutong.

In addition to the files that were compiled and submitted, the Yamen also contained many testimonies and clues that were not included in the files, including the confessions of Liu Xun and Qian Hu.

Liu Xun was exiled, Qian Hu was dismissed from his post and put into labor force. At this moment, he didn't know which corner he was building a city wall in. It would take time to interrogate him again.

Of course, whether or not to try, and how to try, depends on what the outcome will be in the Jinluan Palace tomorrow.

Shan Shen read it carefully, combed it carefully for a long time, and wrote a rigorous excerpt. Just like what he and Xu Jian said, there was no embellishment or subjective judgment. Whatever the two people said, then so be it. Write.

It was late at night, Shan Shen took a brief nap in the back office, wrapped in clothes, then hurriedly got up and changed into court clothes.

It was cold, but he didn't ask anyone to prepare warm water, so he wiped his face with the cold water. He was shivering from the cold and felt much more awake.

When he arrived at the court room, he stood aside.

Ruan Shangshu and Shi Rui both saw that Shan Shen was worried, and they couldn't help exchanging glances.

Maybe it's because Master Shan's secret investigation into the case didn't go smoothly...

This is not surprising. It has been almost a year and it is so easy to find out.

The case will be closed in two days, and the seal will be opened again. It will be a new year and a new atmosphere. Gambling debts, robbing people, etc., there is no such thing!

But no matter how much they fought with each other, they never thought that Shan Fuyin would be earth-shattering if he hid it from them.

So, in the Jinluan Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince inquired about the progress of the case, and while they were both playing quail, their hearts skipped a few beats when they saw Shan Shen striding into the middle.

wrong.

Master Shan's expression is wrong!

It seems like they are going to die together!

By the time the two of them reacted and tried to stop Shan Shen, it was already too late.

Lord Shan held the folder in his hand and said word by word: "Back to Your Majesty, His Majesty the Crown Prince, in order to solve the case as soon as possible, I led people to search the previous burial ground again.

The corpse was washed down the river by the heavy rain, and there might be something harvestable on the mountain. I was like a blind cat who encountered a dead mouse, and I really dug something out of the mountain. "

Sheng glanced at Shan Shen.

Li Shao was also surprised.

He urged the yamen to solve the case, but the case could not be settled for a long time, and several yamen were going back and forth in the morning.

But Li Shao actually didn't know that much about the actual circumstances of the case, why Dali Temple dismissed the case, and whether there were any problems with the judgments of Shuntian Mansion and the Ministry of Punishment.

So, when he heard that there were other developments in the case, he was stunned for a moment.

Isn’t Dali Temple looking for trouble?

Is it true that the Shuntian Prefecture and the Ministry of Punishment are not handling the case clearly?

In other words, when he supervises the case, does he really get it right?

Thinking this way, Li Shao became energetic.

"Sir Shan, what you mean is," Li Shao cleared his throat and looked at Shan Shen, "your Shuntian Mansion didn't understand the case at first, didn't investigate it clearly, and left clues at the scene but didn't recover it?"

Shan Shen paused.

Li Shao was reluctant: "They say Master Shan handles cases rigorously and carefully, and his performance evaluation has been very good in the past few years. How could such a mistake happen?"

His tone gradually revealed a bit of pride.

Let Shan Shen find out about him before!

When checking Chen Mihu and asking him in Shuntian Mansion, Shan Shen never thought that this moment would happen!

"I'm scared," Shan Shen took a deep breath and took out something, "This is what was dug out."

Many people were curious to see it, but they could not see clearly from a distance. They could only see that Eunuch Cao's face changed the moment he took it. He became gloomy and very ugly.

Eunuch Cao walked back to the throne and handed it over to the Holy Master.

The Holy Master also frowned: "This is..."

Li Shao turned to look and saw that it was the East Palace waist badge. He looked at Shan Shen in shock: "Sir Shan, what does this mean?"

"This is what was dug up," Shan Shen said. "The waistband of the East Palace belongs to Geng Baoyuan, the guard of the East Palace who disappeared on the eighth day of the first lunar month."

Upon hearing this name, Li Shao's expression changed in shock.

The Holy Master had already turned over his waist card. Li Shao's throat rolled when he saw the name "Geng Baoyuan" on it.

"Father," he said hurriedly, lowering his voice, "you asked me earlier if I had changed my bodyguard, and it was this Geng Baoyuan. His father was in poor health and wanted to return to his hometown for retirement, so he handed me his resignation letter. Right."

The Holy Father nodded, he remembered this.

But how come the waistband of the guard who went home to retire was buried there?

Just as he was wondering, he heard Shan Shen say: "Geng Baoyuan disappeared, either to collect gambling debts, or because he failed to rob someone."

Li Shao was blocked in one breath.

The December title building in the book club is about to end. Interested book friends should take a look.

Thanks to the book friend’s yard for the reward.