"Second shopkeeper, a family in the western suburbs is on fire!" The western suburbs were not far from their temporary office, Shen Qiaoan immediately got on the horse, and when the group arrived, the sky was already slightly bright, and the people kindly extinguished the flames.

But the house was crumbling and dangerous, it was a thatched hut that was not very luxurious, and there were some stone chips on the roof of the thatched hut.

Every year between August and September, the autumn wind is easy to blow the thatch away, and the villagers spontaneously pick up the stone chips to cover the thatch. This is called "pressing money", Qiao An stared at the thatched hut with a solemn expression

"Lao Cheng, you protect me, Brother Luo, the three of us go inside and have a look." Joan commanded.

General Cheng naturally knew the danger and wanted to give advice, but Shen Qiaoan had always been the same, and it was better to obey than argue, and several people quickly entered the house, and nothing unusual was found in that room.

"To be sure, the murder and arson case in the city was committed by one person, how similar is the modus operandi?" Cheng General Road.

Before she came out of the house, Qiao An heard a rustling sound in the corner, she was stunned, and looked at the corner in amazement: "Who! Who's there? ”

In the corner of the wall was a big water tank, and a woman in the big water tank stood up, the little girl was actually known to Shen Qiao'an, wasn't she the girl who went to their inn to eat a few days ago?

"Ahh It's you? Come out! Shen Qiaoan was very pleasantly surprised, there was only one witness to the third murder, and she hurried over to greet her.

"JoAnn is back!" General Cheng and Luo Huaiyi grabbed Shen Qiao'an's shoulders at the same time, if Shen Qiao'an hadn't been caught, the flames from the little girl's mouth would have burned her.

Shen Qiao'an stood up again and eagerly went to the water tank to look, and what he saw was already a cloud of flying ashes, and Qiao An was sad.

"I'm sorry, my sister can't save you!" Joanne burst into tears.

"Let's go, it's not safe here." General Cheng took Qiao An away, and Luo Huaiyi assigned someone to come in to extinguish the fire and check the scene again, but still nothing was found.

This night, a series of murders flew into the Department of Works like snowflakes, Shen Qiaoan and they ran around, but they didn't even save a single mouth, but as the death toll climbed, clues gradually surfaced.

"This time it was the editor of the Hanlin Academy who died," Luo Huaiyi said: "This person doesn't have much money, but he is still looted." ”

"Brother Luo, I asked you to investigate the matter of the Divine Fire Pill, has there been any progress so far?" Shen Qiaoan looked at Luo Huaiyi.

Over the years, because nitrate and sulfur are in demand, they are expensive, and ordinary people can't afford them, and there are only a few shops selling sulfur and sulfur in Dijing. ”

Shen Qiaoan didn't rest since the fifth watch, and he didn't use a cup of tea, but he was afraid that they would go too late and the man would be killed, so he hurried to find the old man.

The little old man seemed to know that the people of the court were coming to him, and he couldn't wait to tell him about it.

"Why did you bother last time?" Luo Huaiyi stared at the shopkeeper deadly.

The shopkeeper smiled desolately, "I'm poisoned, as long as you can detoxify me, I'll tell you the truth." ”

"Poisoned?" Luo Huaiyi held the person's pulse and listened, and found that the person's pulse was like a bead, and his kidneys were already failing rapidly, and he knew that if he didn't continue to ask questions at this moment, it would be too late.

"This is the life-saving pill I brought from the medicine house, you can eat it, all poisons will not invade! After eating, you are completely healed, you tell us the news as soon as possible, so that we can take justice for you. Luo Huaiyi gave the man a black pill.

The shopkeeper ate it in one bite.

"It all started a month ago...... the shopkeeper thought about it for a while, and told him all the ins and outs of the matter.

"It turns out that the poison king is making trouble?" According to this person's confession, Shen Qiaoan and the others understood that the poison king Ning Tianxia was doing evil, and in order to avoid people's eyes, Ning Tianxia also found several other people to attack the target person.

But the only thing that made Shen Qiaoan puzzled was that the poison king had killed all the officials in the court before, but what about at this moment? The victim has become a common man, what is the connection between this poor man and the case?

"Joan, Lao Cheng!" Luo Huaiyi suddenly grabbed the hands of the two of them, and he quickly retreated, grabbing their hands and dodging into the distance.

In an instant, Qiao An understood Luo Huaiyi's purpose, and the shopkeeper who confessed everything became a lot more hideous at this moment, he opened his mouth, and spewed out flames with a bang, and then his body burned into ashes.

"The life-saving pill didn't save your life?" General Cheng is a sincere person, and he stepped back slightly at this moment, and asked timidly.

"What life-saving pill is not life-saving pill, it's just a heat-relieving pill made of Huoxiang, I just listened to the pulse for it, and I know that this person will definitely die! I am afraid that if I don't agree to renew his life, he won't tell the truth, and he will be able to make such a decision. "Luo Huaiyi is an old Jianghu, and it has been smooth sailing for him to do these things.

"You're not kind! General Cheng ridiculed.

"Ning Tianxia came to Zhongjing, what is his purpose?" Joan gritted her teeth and thought seriously.

"He stayed well in the Five Poisons Mountain, and suddenly came to the Central Plains, it is impossible that the purpose is just so much silver, I guess silver is not his main purpose!" Luo Huaiyi analyzed, "He knew that we were investigating, and he knew that we would close the case soon, so he let people play himself and attract us to the suburbs." ”

"Oops! There must be another mess on Fengtian Street. Qiao An didn't expect it badly, they had just arrived at Fengtian Street, and several people were killed again.

These people are the officials of Honglu Temple and Dali Temple. The total number of deaths has exceeded 100, and among these 100 people, there are only two strange ones, one is a poor tenant in the western suburbs, and the other is the head of the prison department of the penal department.

These two people died in a miserable state, Qiao An decided to focus on checking these two people, in the afternoon, Pei Yan, the secretary of Dali Temple, arrived, "Niangniang, the cell head has retired five years ago, and the martial artists in Dijing who are over forty years old and have not been promoted basically have to be replaced." ”

Joan also knew that, after all, Takefu was the job of a young and strong man.

"How did this man do before?"

Master Pei already knew that Qiao An would ask these questions, and said like a bamboo tube pouring beans: "This person is also doing nothing, but the strange thing is that during the Mid-Autumn Festival five years ago, he suddenly resigned from the post of head of the Criminal Department due to his inconvenient legs, and the second year was the year he stepped down, and the court allowed him to retire early." ”

"Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, could it be that he did something shady and disgraceful?" Shen Qiao'an counted on his fingers, Li Zhongxuan has been on the throne as emperor for four years, the fifth year? Looking back, the emperor five years ago was still his younger brother.

At that time, the regime changed very quickly, and the court was full of treacherous battles for a while, but it was not known what cases were involved.

"That person on the outskirts of Beijing has investigated?" JoAnn broke the awkward silence.

Master Pei has done everything well, he has already investigated all the information he needs, and there is no mistake, "That wicked man has also investigated, you can't imagine that he is not a flat-headed person!" Five years ago, he was the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court, and his name was Wang Fang! ”

"Wang Fang?" Qiao An thought about it for a long time, and didn't seem to have any impression of this name, after all, five or six years ago, Shen Qiao'an lived far away from the temple, and she was still in Ji Huan's house at that time.

"Iron-faced Langjun Ministry of Industry Shangshu Wang Fang!" Although Luo Huaiyi is a native of the rivers and lakes, he is better informed than anyone else, and when he said this, it evoked Shen Qiaoan's long-term memories, and Shen Qiao'an and this Lord Wang Fang still had a relationship.

On the side many years ago, she saw Wang Fang as a heroic young man, why did he seem to have been reborn in only five or six years? That year, Wang Fang often went to find Ji Huan, and the two didn't know what they were talking about.

Sometimes chatting Yixing Feifei, sometimes the two glared angrily, and then the godfather Ji Huan ignored Wang Fang anymore, and Wang Fang withdrew from their world.

"So, Lord Wang is only in his thirties this year?"

"Joan! I'm only twenty-eight years old! The voice next to him reminded Shen Qiaoan for a moment, "Twenty-eight? On the other hand, she thought that this grief-stricken person was in his last years, what kind of torture was a promising young man in his twenties with dusty sideburns like frost?

The more I investigated, the more meaningful it became.

Shen Qiaoan coughed, "That person also left five years ago?" I remember that the officials of the imperial court, especially the Zhengsanpin, didn't they all have to work until they were sixty years old before leaving? He was only twenty-three years old, and he was dismissed? How can the emperor grant it? ”

"Joan!" Pei Yan said: "At that time, the power was in the hands of the queen mother, and the queen mother always ignored these, so she let her leave vaguely. Joan heard this and understood something.

"There was an unjust case five years ago!" Shen Qiaoan looked at Pei Yan calmly.

"You and I will go to the imperial court and check every case from five years ago." Shen Qiao'an acted resolutely, and after speaking, he pushed Pei Yan away, General Cheng and Luo Huaiyi were still patrolling everywhere, but it was also strange to say, everything had ended here, and the past two days had been unusually calm.

This whole day, Qiao An buried her head in the pile of old papers, she thought that there should not be many cases in the small half year before the Mid-Autumn Festival, even if there were many cases, but there were probably not many unjust cases, where did she know that there were more than 120 large and small cases!

That's it, nine out of ten of the more than 120 cases were hastily handled, which involved lawsuits, attacks, reports, corruption, selling official positions, etc., Shen Qiaoan had already seen it for two hours.

"No! I take a break. Qiao An was tired and threw the file to Pei Yan.

Lao Pei is fifty years old this year, half of his life has been dedicated to the imperial capital, he is also a bystander in these cases, and even participated in some, after reading the file at the moment, carefully sorted out and annotated, "I have time to retry it, I didn't expect that there are so many hasty cases in the imperial court." ”

"With a word from the imperial court, there will be more things that careless about people's lives, hey." Shen Qiaoan coughed lightly and closed his eyes.

Her thoughts drifted far, far away, she suddenly thought of something, and opened her eyes, "Ning Tianxia!" By the way, there is someone surnamed Ning in this case, you can check it for me. ”

But after the search, he didn't see that the person surnamed Ning had a case file, and just when Shen Qiaoan was about to give up, Pei Yan was shocked.

"Niangniang, take a look!" Master Pei gave the book to Qiao An, his hands were trembling, and Shen Qiao An saw that the thirty-seven and thirty-eight pages were missing before thirty-six and thirty-nine.

"The most important thing must be on these two pieces of paper, someone from the Criminal Department Information Room has recently come, and this person has taken these two pieces of paper away in order to create endless trouble for us, this is the secret we are looking for."

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