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Xiao Suo sternly scoffed at him in a low voice: "The forbidden area of ​​the imperial palace, don't talk nonsense!"

Shen Yan walked out side by side with him, and said with a smile on his lips: "I have a sense of propriety, the people in charge of the class today are all from Habayashi Guard, and nothing will happen, you coward."

"This is prudence, not timidity." Xiao Suo paused, "What exactly are you going to tell me?"

Shen Yan sighed, and said seriously: "When I came here today, I heard that the Ministry of Criminal Justice took Mei Qi away yesterday afternoon, and Prince Qi couldn't protect himself, so he couldn't save him. You are handling this case now, if you have spare energy, help him Bar."

"You want me to help him?" Xiao Suo looked at him, "The emperor said the day before yesterday that although the case was presided over by the Yushitai, but due to the complexity of the case and the number of people involved, the Yushitai may not be able to handle it with enough manpower, so Let the Ministry of Criminal Justice cooperate with Dali Temple. Mei Qi is not the main criminal, so she was taken away by the Ministry of Criminal Justice. If she is not at Yushitai, how can I help?"

"It's just a co-organization, not a joint trial by the three divisions. You Yushitai is hosting the case, and the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs still have to watch over you. You don't have to intervene directly, just ask Liu Siwen to let them take Mei Qi away from the Inspectorate As long as you are not in the Ministry of Punishment, it will be fine. You also know Zhang Yunjian, Mei Qi has a problem with him, and if she falls into his hands, how can she not be wronged?"

"You care about the fragrance and cherish the jade, and you are lenient!" The two walked out of the palace gate, Xiao Suo put away his umbrella and boarded the official sedan chair, raised the curtain and asked him, "Why don't you go ask Yan Jun?"

"He won't help me with this matter." Shen Yan said, "Besides, as the censor of the capital, it is inconvenient for him to compete with the Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice for Mei Qi. You will have a lot of contact with the Ministry of Criminal Justice when you try this case. Just bring him here quietly. If the imperial censors are to come forward, it would be a big fuss, I'm afraid Zhang Yunjian will hold him back instead."

Xiao Suo asked lightly: "I am in a different place, will you help me?"

What's the use of assumptions?

Shen Yan's heart suddenly felt sour, he didn't know that Xiao Suo was estranged from him, he just didn't want to admit it.Whenever he heard him say ruthless words when they were rubbing hands together, he would listen to it as a joke, and he just didn't want to face the reality.But he didn't take it seriously, but Xiao Suo was serious.When he asked this today, it pierced Shen Yan's fantasy of closing his eyes and listening.

However, he has no right to be dissatisfied, and lowered his eyes and said: "For you, why have I ever considered the consequences?"

Xiao Suo was silent, put down the curtain and went.

Every time Shen Yan faces him, he loses.He threw down his umbrella feebly, and instead of riding in a carriage, he grabbed the horse led by Eleven and drove away with a whip.

The next day when the imperial decree came down, the officials of the Sanfa Department and the royal guards led the stormy wind and rain, the Qi Wang Party collapsed like a building, and nearly a thousand officials, relatives, friends and family members were implicated and imprisoned.

In the heavy rain, men and women with disheveled hair were locked in prison cars, and pigs and dogs in cages passed by on the street.The sound of wailing and wailing shook mountains and mountains, and it was a hundred times more miserable than when Xu Ling ransacked his home.

Rumors and rumors and gossip in the streets and alleys in Beijing spread wildly. Some clapped their hands, some secretly worried, and some were unpredictable and sneered. They all stretched their necks and waited to see the excitement.

Shen Yan took over the post of "hand-picked case supervisor" and immediately took people to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.Revisiting the old place, he was not as emotional as Xiao Suo. He shook off the waving hands of the cells on both sides calling for help all the way, and finally found Mei Qi who was covered in bruises in the second cell on the left.

He huddled in a corner, his former splendor was gone, and any disturbance could cause a shiver.Shen Yan wanted to pull him up, but just as his fingertips touched the bloody corner of his clothes, he heard him moaning in pain.

Ruan Tong took out a handkerchief, tied a knot on his left wrist where the tendons had been gouged out, and said tearfully, "General Shen is here to save you, Ah Qi. Can you hear me, Ah Qi?"

"Come here and hold him." Shen Yan beckoned to Eleven, "Be gentle, don't hurt him to death first."

General Eleven wrapped the cloak he had brought over him, and hugged him horizontally, who was breathing in but not breathing out.Shen Yan went out first, turned around and told the jailer: "This general took him away, and I will tell your lords that Mei Qi is deeply involved in this case, and Yu Shitai wants to bring him over for questioning."

Before the man could open his mouth, he heard a cold voice from outside the corridor: "No need, the official is already here."

Zhang Yunjian turned around from the corner, narrowed his eyes and said, "Shen... ah, I can't call you a general now! You are not confined at home, so how can you come to our Ministry of Criminal Justice today to inspect? Why, is it because you miss the place where you used to live?" Time to be here?"

Shen Yan pinched his knuckles "clucking", and tried his best to smile and said: "Master Zhang may not know that Shen's restraint was released yesterday, and the emperor ordered Mr. The envoy has the right to intervene in the major and minor matters of the case. When Yu Shitai interrogated Xu Ling, he brought up some matters and needed to question the suspect Mei Qi. This envoy is here to mention him. I think Mr. Zhang will have no objection, right?"

Zhang Yunjian smiled: "Emissary Shen Qin is as eloquent as ever, I was ordered to assist in handling this case, so naturally everything is for the sake of the trial. Since the Yushitai has something to ask the suspect, the case supervisor will bring the documents for the transfer of the criminal. "

"The document... Ah, yes, the document!" Shen Yan felt guilty in his heart, pretending to search his body with both hands, and said bravely: "Look at my memory, I forgot the document at Yushitai. I'll go get it now , Zhang Shangshu wait a moment, the document will be delivered immediately."

"Really?" Zhang Yunjian sneered, "The imperial envoy will go and get it. It's just that this man committed a crime, so it's not easy to take it away."

Shen Yan remained silent, looking at him with gloomy eyes gradually.Zhang Yunjian showed no fear, smiled and looked at him, with a complacent and contemptuous expression, which made people itch with hatred, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The two were at a stalemate, and everyone who followed them dared not make a sound.

The prison was as silent as water, only the torches crackling.

In fact, Shen Yan didn't have documents, and even what Yushitai asked Mei Qi to ask was just nonsense.

There were so many suspects detained in this case that the prisons of the Sanju Division were far from being able to hold them. The prisons in the large and small yamen in central Beijing were full. There were still one or two hundred servants and family members who had nowhere to go, so they had to be temporarily detained in the Chenghuang Temple in the northern suburbs.

The prisons in the Procuratorate are all the first-class felons in this case. If you need to ask someone, you will find someone in the yamen who is detained. reason.

Shen Yan begged Zheng Xiu when he came, but the latter didn't agree to favoritism, but just greeted the warden.What he meant, Shen Yan understood, if nothing happened, he would turn a blind eye or close one eye, let himself go and act as if he didn't see it, if something happened, he would never hear or know a word, so Shen Yan Take responsibility.

Now that something happened, Shen Yan couldn't come to the stage, so he could only give up as a last resort.

"Here are the documents." There was another faint voice from the corridor.

Xiao Suo didn't know when he came, he handed over the envelope, saluted and said: "Envoy Shen Qin left the document on the Yushitai, the lower officials saw it, afraid of delaying the progress of the case, so they sent it."

"This isn't Xiao Yushi," Zhang Yunjian asked with a smile, "Have the nails grown?"

Xiao Suo froze, twitched the corners of his mouth, bowed his head and said: "Thank you for your concern, sir, it has grown well."

Shen Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and opened the envelope with the seal of the Zhixian Censor, and inside it was indeed a promotion document issued by the Censor.The situation suddenly reversed, he flung the letter in front of Zhang Yunjian arrogantly, and asked word by word: "Is it all right? Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Yunjian strolled up to the tear-stained Ruan Tong and the gnashing-toothed Eleven, stood there for a moment, and grabbed Mei Qi's left hand—the half-conscious person screamed in an instant, and the original bright and tender face was also at this moment. twisted by pain.

Shen Yan was angry and hated, and stepped forward with one step, ready to make a move immediately.Xiao Suo hurriedly grabbed the hem of his clothes, his eyes signaled him not to act rashly.Shen Yan looked into his lake-like calm eyes, and put down his fist for a long time.

Zhang Yunjian turned her head, waved her right hand, and said with a smile, "Please."

Shen Yan snorted coldly, and led the people away.

After getting out of the gate of the Ministry of Punishment, Xiao Suo said: "The general still has to take him to Yushitai Prison for custody, otherwise the subordinate officials will not be able to confess when they go back."

"I know, of course I know." Shen Yan frowned, "It's just that the tendons in his left hand were broken, and he was sent directly to prison with injuries all over his body. I'm afraid he will be disabled or even die. I mean... ..."

"Needless to say." Xiao Suo interrupted him suddenly, and said coldly: "No matter what the general thinks, he has to follow the rules. His injury has been diagnosed and treated by the medical officer of Yushitai, so the general doesn't have to worry about it!" Then he ordered the guards to take him away.

Shen Yan grabbed his arm and said anxiously: "You are angry, don't get me wrong! Wei Lan asked me to save him, I really am not..."

"Let me go." Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Xiao Suo broke away from his hand and walked away without looking back.

Shen Yan was very annoyed, he scratched his hair helplessly, kicked the stone lion at the door again, hugged his painful foot, and said angrily: "You still don't leave, what are you doing?"

Eleven and Ruan Tong curled their lips and hurriedly followed.

Xiao Suo returned to Yushitai, ordered someone to clean up Mei Qi's wound, and personally watched the prison doctor administer medicine to him.Mei Qi took the pain-relieving decoction and was fed some porridge, her energy was better than before, and she could already speak intermittently.

He kept thanking him and asked where King Qi was.Xiao Suo was afraid that he would get emotional, so he casually comforted him, saying that King Qi would come to rescue him soon, and then asked: "Why did Zhang Yunjian treat you like this? Did you offend him?"

"That's right, I offended him." Mei Qi sighed, "A few years ago, he paid a lot of money to see me and wanted me to spend a night with him, but I refused with excuses. Since then, he has hated me "It's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge." He is not a gentleman, but he holds grudges deeply."

Xiao Suo didn't comment, and continued to ask: "Do you often make friends with dignitaries like him?"

Mei Qi looked at him with her out-of-focus eyes, and forced a smile: "Master Xiao, are you watching my joke? Who do you think I am, a son of an official, or a relative of the emperor? I am not like this, how can I gain a foothold in the capital?" ?”

"I don't mean anything else." Xiao Suo said apologetically, "I have no opinion on what you did, don't get me wrong."

"You don't have an opinion, but you have an attitude." Mei Qi smiled desolately, "You treat me no differently than others, because you are well-trained. In fact, you look down on people like us very much, I know that Qingke, huh. To put it nicely, it’s Qingke, but to put it badly, it’s just a child molester with some status.”

"I didn't look down on you." Xiao Suo emphasized again, "Whether you believe it or not."

Mei Qi scoffed, "I don't believe it."

"That's up to you." Xiao Suo remained unmoved, "You haven't answered my question yet."

Mei Qi said indifferently: "Yes, I often make friends with high-ranking officials like Zhang Yunjian. So what, is this also a crime?"

"Why?" He asked without answering.

Mei Qi laughed absurdly, he was stabbed in the sore spot by Xiao Suo, and now he was covered with thorns: "Why do you say? Of course it is to live, just like you used to use General Shen."

"I'm afraid there are other reasons." Xiao Suo was not angry, and he didn't want to explain, he only asked about him.

"What do you mean by that?" Mei Qi glanced at him.

Xiao Suo smiled: "You are from Dongying, aren't you?"