After sending his wife away, Wen Yuan immediately straightened his clothes and hat, walked through the flow of people, and rushed to the Octagonal Pavilion in the middle of the lake to meet the King of Chu.

When Wen Yuan went, he saw the king of Chu wearing a gorgeous Shu brocade, sitting cross-legged in the red lacquer high-legged armchair, although this person is the emperor's uncle, he ranks nineteen among his peers, and he is only twenty-five or sixteen years old, and his appearance is excellent.

At this moment, he is holding a shorthair cat with dark clouds and snow, rubbing it without a match, pursing his lips, and his eyes are half-open and half-closed.

Seeing Rong Wenyuan kneeling down, King Chu's pair of clear and stunning Danfeng eyes immediately raised, looked at him and said slowly: "Rong Wenyuan is exempt from courtesy." Alas, such an ugly thing happened under his rule, which is really a lifelong shame for the governor of Yangzhou. ”

At the last word, he paused, raised his eyebrows, gritted his teeth and squeezed two accents out between his teeth.

Wen Yuan never expected that what Yan Bing had just said would reach the ears of King Chu so quickly, and he immediately felt a pang in his heart.

Then he immediately bowed down and apologized continuously: "Please forgive the king of Chu, I am clumsy Jing personally experienced the martyrdom of my cousin, and because of excessive grief and did not choose to speak, the lower officials failed to stop it in time, it is really ashamed——"

Before Wen Yuan finished speaking, he was interrupted by the King of Chu.

I saw him raise an index finger and shake it, with a look of uncertainty on his face: "No, she is right, it is indeed a shame." Although this king doesn't like to take care of things, he can't tolerate being fooled, and even his concubine is led out to play...... Shan Tianheng, you are really capable! ”

The blue-clothed scribe who was kneeling beside him with a dark blue right eye couldn't help but tremble when he heard this, and immediately showed a miserable expression of wanting to cry without tears, and kowtowed: "The prince forgives the sin, the humble duty is wronged, the humble duty has never been done!" ”

"Haven't done it?" Chu Wangfeng's eyes widened, and he said strangely, "I haven't done it yet, as soon as that little lady calls your name, how can you raise your legs and retreat?" ”

After speaking, without waiting for Shan Tianheng to defend himself, he buried his head in looking at the oily and slippery big fat black cat in his hand, and pointed to the middle-aged man kneeling on the ground and asked gently: "Concubine Ade, did he get you out of the house earlier?" ”

"Meow~~" The black cat called Adele immediately responded.

"......" This is also called questioning? Wen Yuan was speechless for a moment. Xindao: I don't know if this cat is answering a question, or is it just because it is comfortable to be scratched? Just as he was waiting for the king of Chu to continue to interrogate Shan Tianheng through the cat's answer, he saw him suddenly yawn and get up.

Looking at the people on the other side of the lake, the King of Chu unceremoniously instructed the middle-aged short and fat man waiting on the side: "Inch stabbing history, what are you still stunned about?" Quickly dispersed the spectators, and asked if there were any abducted flower girls in the green buildings everywhere. Don't continue to be scolded by this king. ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Wen Yuan, pointed at Shan Tianheng and said, "Rong Pingshi, I heard that you are good at asking cases, so I will leave this person to you." The king's guards will use two teams, and the Chu Wangfu will do its best to support, well, you will be limited to solving the case within three days. ”

Wen Yuan was stunned by King Chu's string of instructions, and he didn't have time to wonder if he really had nothing to do with the case of Liuren, and whether he could gain anything from his three-day hard work. I saw that he was already dashing and ready to go home.

"Great King," Wen Yuan hurriedly took two quick steps, caught up with the King of Chu and asked politely, "Can you go directly to Shan Changshi's residence to have a look first?" ”

Even if the prince's mansion chief Shi does not reach the fourth grade, he must have five grades, which has not yet been convicted, Shan Tianheng said that it was handed over to Wen Yuan, but he is only an eighth-grade official, if the king of Chu does not have a word of accuracy, how can he dare to dispose of this kind of official appointed by the imperial court at will?

"Plagiarism? Exhibition guards, take it with you, go ahead. The King of Chu unceremoniously pierced Wen Yuan's unspoken meaning.

With a wave of his hand, a guard picked up the gagged Shan Tianheng like a chicken, and a black-faced man stepped forward to salute Wen Yuan with a fist and invited him to accompany him.

"Thank you, Brother Zhan, for your help." Wen Yuan knew that this must be the head of the guards of the Chu Palace, so he hurriedly said a few kind words. Seeing that after the king of Chu said the word "copying", his face was disgraced, and his heart was suddenly settled.

The group greeted each other slightly, and went straight to Shan Tianheng's residence not far from the Chu Wangfu, and there was a burst of rummaging when the door was split.

In a short time, two chests of gold, silver and jewellery were found, shining in the light of the candles.

Seeing this, Wen Yuan looked at Shan Tianheng, who was tied up under the corridor, and asked, "Shan Changshi, do you have any other legitimate income besides Yulu?" ”

"......" has, 100 acres of fertile land. Shan Tianheng wanted to answer like this, but looking at Wen Yuan's expression as if he had understood everything, he couldn't say anything.

Doubling the land cannot be exchanged for so much gold and silver, what is there to argue with the conclusive evidence? After the self-killing little lady said her name, the dust had already settled.

Wen Yuan asked Liu Wenshi to continue looking for Shan Tianheng's handwritten secret letter in the study, waiting for the crop certificate, and he looked at him and began to ask about the case: "You obviously took bribes?" I don't know if I have bent the law or not? ”

"......" Shan Tianheng was silent for the time being, and did not answer in thought.

"If you bend the law, you will be given a hundred canes of one foot of silk, and fifteen or more of them will be hanged. You obviously have more than 100 horses, and even if you don't bend the law, you have to add exile to more than 30 horses, at least 2,500 miles, and even if you don't admit your guilt, you can't escape. Wen Yuan looked directly at Shan Tianheng as he spoke.

Seeing that he showed a little struggle, Wen Yuan immediately made a decision and promised: "If you explain well, you can make a nobleman such as the King of Chu intercede." ”

Shan Tianheng sighed as if he was persuaded, and explained lightly: "Zhu Xiu'e was my childhood neighbor, but I just helped her use the momentum of the Chu Wangfu to pass the checkpoint smoothly when transporting people." ”

“…… Nothing else? Wen Yuan was a little puzzled, and always felt that things shouldn't be so simple.

After he confessed the crime, he still looked nervous, and there was no relief after confessing, as if he was hiding some bigger secret.

Moreover, Shan Tianheng, as the governor of the palace, can get the position of Shangzhou Assassin when he does a good job, and even when he is the envoy of the festival, there is a precedent, how can his eyelids be so shallow?

"If you think about it again, if you have anything else to explain, if it can be beneficial to the community and the people, you should be able to get a commutation." Wen Yuan politely persuaded at first, but Shan Tianheng kept his head down and was silent.

Wen Yuan thought about Yan Bing, who was frightened at home, worried about whether his unaccompanied wife would be able to sleep peacefully tonight, and wanted to quickly cut through the mess Shan Tianheng and hurry home.

Turning his head and seeing that Shan Changshi, who was tied up by five flowers, had been silent, he was irritable, and gradually lost his patience, turned his head to look at the several guards who were standing aside to watch the excitement, and said earnestly to the leading exhibition guards: "Help me go to the kitchen to get some honey." ”

The commander of the Zhan guards was very curious about what he wanted to do, and immediately ordered his subordinates to obey the order.

Immediately, everyone was stunned and watched as Wen Yuan borrowed a knife, cut a criss-crossing small slight wound on Shan Tianheng's body, smeared it with a thin layer of honey, and put his shirtless and bare legs down in the mud by the flowers, waiting quietly.

Because there are many mosquitoes in summer, after a while, there are swarms of ants, climbing and gnawing on Shan Tianheng, and even flies fly in, buzzing and turning.

When Shan Changshi couldn't hold back his exclamation and rolling, Wen Yuan also added fuel to the fire with an expressionless face: "When the summer is hot, you should be covered with maggots in less than three days, right?" Shan long history, this taste is good? Or do you think of something else you can explain? ”

The soft-spoken and gentle voice seemed to come out of hell, accompanied by the itching pain that seemed to invade the internal organs, and he was about to be forced to kneel and beg for mercy: "I said! I say! I'll say everything! Hurry up and get some water! ”

……

In the torture to extract confessions, everyone soon ushered in the dawn.

After explaining Liu Wen's matter and sorting out Shan Tianheng's confession, Wen Yuan hurried back to the post house and wanted to have breakfast with Yan Bing, but when she went back, she hadn't gotten up yet, and was awakened by the sound of her own door.

Yan Bing saw her husband's surprised face, and explained a little shyly: "Somehow, I always feel that I am sleepy at any time, and my waist is a little sore. ”

"Okay, then just keep lying down." Wen Yuan didn't take this matter to heart at the moment, only made Yan Bing smile with crooked lips, leaning on the bedroom couch and talking to her while eating.

"I'm ready to leave for Liuhe County immediately, you are resting alone in the post house, can you do it?" Wen Yuan's face was full of hesitation when he spoke, wanting to take her with him,

But he had to hurry up, and he was worried that his wife wouldn't be able to stand it, so he had to leave her alone.

"You do a good job, don't care what I do. I don't need to cook by myself, so what does it matter if I live alone for a few days? Yan Bing smiled and waved her hand, and wondered, "What are you going to do when you rush to Liuhe County?" Arrest Nalu County Order? ”

"Well, arrest and interrogate," Wen Yuan nodded lightly, and explained, "Liu Wenshi dug out his correspondence with Jia Chunzhen from the secret compartment of Shan Tianheng's study. also confessed that Zhu Xiu'e had a secret door in Liuhe County, raised several good-looking abducted girls, and specially received public officials. I'll need to see for myself. ”

"Jia Chunzhen?" Yan Bing felt that the name was very familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere, and she couldn't remember who it was for a while.

Wen Yuan was about to explain, but when he heard Yan Bing pat the futon, he suddenly realized: "Dingyue County Wangfu Jia Changshi?!" This person is really ghostly, and he is present in every case. ”

She still remembered that this person almost provoked Zheng Gongxu to overturn the case, which was really hateful!

Because she was too excited, Yan Bing accidentally knocked over the food table and sprinkled a bed of soup, she didn't care about wearing only her bedclothes, so she quickly got up and lifted the quilt.

When she turned around, Wen Yuan happened to see that her back waist and pants were dyed a dark red.

"You're on your menstrual journey?" Wen Yuan asked casually with some disappointment, but saw Yan Bing's puzzled look, she didn't know it herself.

He simply reached out and touched it, but saw that it was a little dark red blood that had not coagulated, and his heart couldn't help but chuckle.

That's not right, the menstrual event should be bright red, dark red......? This, don't be too tired to sit on the tire!