Seeing that his wife had been sitting for 45 days, her appetite was long, her face was ruddy, and the doctor also said that her health was getting better, Wen Yuan's injuries were unhindered and he was worried about the rebellion case, and he was urged by the king of Chu, so he simply canceled his leave the next day and continued to work on errands.

When I went to Dali Temple to ask, there was no significant progress in the case, and it was still stagnant on the news brought by the "undercover witness" Xingxuan more than half a month ago.

It is said that it is almost the New Year, and he has no intention of working. Because the king of Chu led the passive sabotage of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, and there was no heavy reward in the follow-up, so the subordinates also struggled to only eat and not work.

"Isn't there a reward for solving a big case?" Wen Yuan calmly threw the file into the black lacquered tortoiseshell-inlaid high-footed grazor case, and there was a crackling sound.

After speaking, he looked at Liu Jingyue, who had worked with him, and hated that iron could not become steel: "Do things well before the year, and get a good evaluation, and you will be promoted after the year!" Don't you understand this truth? ”

The little official Liu Wenshi, who was stared at by Wen Yuan, wiped a cold sweat in the winter, and looked helplessly at the boss Dali Cheng who assisted in the case, the two glanced at each other, and replied in unison: "The stakes are very high, and the lowly position is really there, and there is no way to start." ”

"Why is it so clear and clear?" Wen Yuan looked at them with a puzzled face.

It is clearly written in the dossier: Shi Shu Hongyang, the former governor of Yizhou, noticed something strange on the way to suppress the bandits, and sent his second son Shu Xingxuan to go deep into the Shu robbers and the Maitreya Sect to lurk, and learned that the king of Shu sent his henchman Mao Qianying to secretly recruit and train the army. At the same time, Shan Tianheng, Lu Shujun, Zhu Xiu'e and others picked up clever boys and sent them to Shu to be private soldiers.

Now that the causes and consequences are clear, what is so difficult to understand?

"Evidence, insufficient." Liu Wenshi was pushed by Dali Cheng, and he had no choice but to step forward and answer.

"Then look for it, check it in the capital first, and if you can't find it, ask the boss to send someone to check the place. What can you do while sitting? Wen Yuan picked up the letter that Xingxu had stolen and trembled as he stole the subordinate officials of the Suizhou Assassin History.

Yao pointed to the rest room of King Chu next door and said: "This is a big case of rebellion, how can it be delayed?" If you don't have enough authority, you can ask the king to play it directly to the heavens. ”

In fact, before Shu Hongyang left Beijing, it was as if he knew that something would happen to him, and he had already arranged everything. It can be seen that the rumors of the plot of the King of Shu have long been leaked, how can there be no evidence at all?

He still remembers hearing his wife say that when his father-in-law was dying, he tried his best to say two words, something, which was really vague and indistinguishable at the beginning, but now that he thinks about it, it should be the word "rebellion".

Mao Qianying couldn't provoke a confrontation in Suizhou, his eldest son was in the capital, but it was ...... "It's Rong Shaoqing, your brother-in-law!" And this person is still working in Tianchengjun, Tianchengjun is the realm under the control of the palace attendants, and even the prime minister can't move.

Liu Wenshi looked at Wen Yuan with a longing gaze, and almost said bluntly: Your adoptive father is a lieutenant of Tianchengjun, can you go and get that Mao Kunming to interrogate?

"If the law does not work, it will be violated from above...... Alas," looking at the timid and fearful elm-headed subordinates, Wen Yuan couldn't help but sigh, waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, I'll come." Where's Xingxuan? Let's talk about it in detail. ”

Shu Xingxuan, as the most critical of the witnesses, was afraid that he would be assassinated, and in order to avoid leaking the news before the case was closed, Wen Yuan had already let him eat and live in Dali Temple, and then go home when the dust settled.

In the previous month, Wen Yuan didn't talk to Xingxuan in detail in a hurry because he took care of Yan Bing, but now he has to talk about it from beginning to end.

After a while, a small official immediately invited him to speak. I saw Xingxuan wearing a blue muslin cotton robe, bypassing the five-fold clamp screen in front of the hall, and walking slowly, he was still wearing the black rabbit fur cloak on the day of the first meeting, and his face became more and more white.

This polite appearance is no different from a few years ago, but there is no longer the original arrogance in his expression, and I don't know if he has grown up and matured, or because of the perennial chanting of the scriptures, his mind has become peaceful?

Seeing Xingxuan, Wen Yuan first got up and thanked him again for his kindness in giving Yan Bing Heaven Replenishing Pills, and said with emotion: "If it weren't for the help of my uncle, I'm afraid Neiko wouldn't have been able to give birth to Lin'er smoothly." ”

"It's just to help my sister, what's there to be thankful for? It was Ah Bing, who was blessed with a great life and survived it herself. Xingxuan waved his hand and smiled lightly, but did not take credit.

Even, he was quite polite to Wen Yuan, while telling his experience over the past few years, he knocked on the side and asked: "I heard that Dali Temple often sends people to secretly investigate cases, if you accidentally violate the law in the process of 'secret visit', can you continue to be an official?" ”

Hearing him say this, Wen Yuan immediately thought of Maitreya's indiscriminate slashing and killing in the Taoist temple during the Xia Yuan Festival.

"You killed and wounded civilians?" He blurted out the question softly.

Since its founding, Maitreya has strongly advocated murder, and there have been false sect leaders who claim that those who kill one person are one bodhisattva, and those who kill ten people are ten bodhisattvas. Xingxu has been in it all year round, and it is not uncommon for him to commit murders.

"Perhaps. I don't know," Xingxuan sat in front of Wen Yuan, his eyes glanced left and right and saw that no one was listening, he couldn't help but smile embarrassedly, and said frankly, "If you seriously investigate, I'm afraid that there will be a crime." ”

That is to say, if it is not murder, it is the heinous sin.

"If there is no evidence to adduce evidence, it should be all right, if the evidence is conclusive...... Capital offenses are avoidable. Wen Yuan's heart sank, and he only said half of his words. The implication is that you don't have to think about being an official, and if you don't go to jail, you will be lucky.

Xingxuan showed a hesitant look on his face, and only after groaning did he say tentatively: "Ironclad evidence, there must be no evidence." But I'm afraid that if I testify later, the other party will turn around and accuse him. ”

Wen Yuan saw that there was a tangled look in Xingxuan's words, and suddenly realized that he must still have the physical evidence next to him. For example, the more important letters involving the core figures around the Suizhou Assassin History are inconvenient to take out only for fear of involving themselves.

After thinking for a while, Wen Yuan smiled lightly at his brother-in-law and talked eloquently: "This dynasty is indeed heavy on confessions and light on evidence, but as long as you bite to death and don't admit it and don't have any direct physical evidence, it can't be bent into a trick." What's more, with me here, who can torture you? ”

In fact, he is only a sesame mung bean official at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and it is quite difficult to completely keep Xingxuan. However, it doesn't matter if you talk about it at the moment, in short, you can trick things over and look at them before talking about anything else.

Xing Xuan saw that Wen Yuan had made a package ticket, thinking about his adoptive father who could almost cover the sky with one hand, gritted his teeth, turned the cloak over and swiped it with a knife, and took out a few pages from the mezzanine.

"Mao Kunming's handwritten letter is evidenced by his seal, and many people are mentioned in it." Xingxuan only said a short sentence, but it immediately made Wen Yuan ecstatic - it was really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it.

After reading the letter, Wen Yuan realized why Xingxuan had been hesitating.

It turned out that he said that it was an unannounced visit, but in fact, his identity had already been exposed, and Mao Kunming's pages of letters written at different times, each of which was clearly addressed to his wife and brother Shu Xingxuan.

The content is to discuss with him step by step, how to infiltrate the believers in the prosperous circle of profit in the south of the Yangtze River, how to use Shan Tianheng to set up the king of Chu, and assist Jia Chunzhen to lobby the king of Dingyue County to make it echo the king of Shu. Even, in the end, Mao Kunming did not forget to say that he would ask for credit for his eldest brother in front of the new emperor.

"I used to think that Mao Kunming was a bully who was afraid of the soft and the hard, and he didn't have a brain, and this is really the case." Wen Yuan looked at it hastily and couldn't help but sneer.

It's ridiculous that a conspiracy can be so straightforwardly written and discussed.

However, since it is a letter to discuss, the content should naturally be back and forth, and this is only half of it.

Wen Yuan then looked at Xingxuan again and asked bluntly, "What did you say back?" Didn't involve the Shu family, did you? ”

Naturally, there was no mention of the Shu family. And, I wrote as vaguely and vaguely as possible. After speaking, Xingxuan paused again, suddenly got up, took a pen and paper from the table not far away, and wrote a line of words for Wen Yuan to see in each of the pens in his left and right hands.

One is a free and uninhibited and angular line of writing, and the other is a decent and can even be called a beautiful Xiaokai.

He was a little stunned holding the paper, and then saw Xingxu smile and asked, "I'll return to the left hand of the credit." Not like, right? ”

"Well, it does look like it was written by two different people." Wen Yuan was almost dumbfounded—this is really talent! Compared with him, his brother-in-law Xingyi really got the guidance of his grandfather's grandfather in calligraphy, and it was really not a star and a half.

It turns out that in addition to Yeonqing, even Xingxu is also left-handed?! Who is he like to his ancestors? After studying together for several years, I didn't know that he could use both his left and right hands......

After a little emotion, Wen Yuan immediately went to get down to business. Hurriedly walked to the quiet room next door and returned to the king of Chu, asked him to send a judge and several guards, and went to Shu to continue the secret investigation under the stars.

In addition, he had to ask him to have an idea, Wen Yuan looked at the King of Chu who was playing with the red coral bracelet with his head, bowed down and asked: "King, do you think this is continuing the secret investigation or passing on Mao Kunming to defend himself, or directly depriving him and putting him in prison for torture?" ”

King Chu sat cross-legged on the meditation chair and yawned, and replied slowly: "Didn't you say a while ago that you sent Xizuo to my sister-in-law's house to investigate?" Ask if there's anything new before deciding. ”

Where can I get into Mao's house, but I just sent Xiaozuo to follow the youngest Yanqing to Yanjie's side a few times, but I heard that I didn't get any strong clues.

Wen Yuan knew that the King of Chu couldn't tell how many sisters-in-law he had, and he was wrong, but he couldn't tell the difference-it was useless to explain if the matter was not done.

"Yes, the lower official will go and ask." Wen Yuan calmly replied and withdrew from the quiet room, and said in his heart, the king of Chu clearly meant that he wanted to take the ironclad evidence and lock up the prisoner again, and he was impatient to continue to watch the torture to extract confessions.

Alas, he sighed regretfully, and then secretly thought that Yan Bing Yuezi could also invite his sisters and husband to come to see the little nephew after sitting down, and maybe he could go to Mao's house to investigate again after the tiger left the mountain.

Who would have thought that before Wen Yuan persuaded his wife to help him send an invitation post, Yanjie herself came to the door crying.