Queen's Detective

When he came out of the prison, there was light rain in the sky, Yan Sanbai didn't bring an umbrella, so he had to walk alone in the rain curtain.Keeping clothes wet is just a beautiful vision in people's imagination. No matter how good Yan Sanbai's martial arts are, he can't be like the legendary protagonists in the story books.

That is unreasonable.

And the guess in Yan Sanbai's mind at the moment was not very reasonable, so he walked a little slowly, maybe his mind would be clearer after the rain, and he would come up with a completely different answer.However, this is just deceiving himself and others, Yan Sanbai is actually very clear in his heart, once a guess arises, it will only become more and more determined with his footsteps.

Because his guess is extremely difficult to go wrong.

This is not boasting, but a fact that has been verified countless times.

Sometimes Yan Sanbai would rather be a little stupid, so that he can live a better life.

He walked slowly in the rain, and the white clothes outside were already wet from the rain.He was walking slowly at first, but when the guess in his heart became more and more firm, he ran quickly again.

The white brocade boots stepped on the newly formed puddles, and a little bit of mud was splashed up, but before they had time to climb up his clothes, the white cloud had already moved away from them.

The white cloud stopped in front of a ruined temple, where Li Qian's life finally ended.

A bonfire was burning in the dilapidated temple, and a homeless man wrapped in rags sat beside the bonfire. The homeless man was concentrating on roasting a piece of plant root for dinner. He was about to eat it, but suddenly heard a nice voice from outside, Like a ghost after the rain.

"May I come inside?"

The homeless man turned his head and saw a person standing outside the rain curtain.

He stared, and soon remembered who this person was. Although he had a good impression of him, he was still wary.

Yan Sanbai walked into the ruined temple, shook off the rain on his clothes, didn't care if the ground was clean, and sat down beside the homeless man very accommodatingly.

The tramp looked at him strangely, held the root tightly with his hands, and moved to the side, "What do you want to do?"

Yan Sanbai smiled, pointed to the rhizome and said, "Although this piece is edible, try to eat it as little as possible. If you eat too much, it will accumulate poison. If you really can't find anything else to eat, you can go to find the purple skin." The rhizome of the plant, which appears to be more poisonous, is actually quite the opposite."

The way the tramp looks at him is even more strange—I dig these things in the ground to eat because I don’t have enough to eat. You, a clean and good-looking boy, why do you feel that you like these pig food more than me? learn?

"Don't worry about me lying to you, I've eaten all of these." Yan Sanbai's eyes were sincere, which slowly disintegrated the homeless man's defenses. Anyway, there was nothing in him that could make people plot, so what to be afraid of.

"Can you tell me about your dream that day?" Yan Sanbai asked again. He told the homeless man about the rhizome, so it is reasonable to ask one more thing.

"Which dream?" The homeless man froze for a moment, then quickly remembered, and then he looked at Yan Sanbai with even more strange eyes - this little brother looks like he has read a lot of poetry and books, but he turned out to be a fellow Chinese?

Yan Sanbai was embarrassed by him, but he didn't want to.

Which dream can embarrass Yan Sanbai so much, of course it is the spring dream that started off that day.It is said that Chunmeng has no trace, but the homeless man remembers it very clearly.

"Can you tell me in detail what that woman looks like?"

The tramp showed a knowing expression, "Oh~~~she, she is a fairy, she is so beautiful, I have never seen such a beautiful woman, she is dressed in white, oh yes, just like you."

Yan Sanbai rubbed his nose and recognized it.

"She walked slowly through the rain that day..." The homeless man's eyes blurred, revealing a happy look, "It was raining lightly that day, just like today, she walked towards me with an umbrella and a smile. I felt It was like arriving in Yaochi all of a sudden, I couldn't even hear the sound of rain, and then she hugged me, and I smelled a good fragrance from her body, and my whole body..."

"Hey, I mean the specific appearance."

"It's just...it's beautiful anyway!" The homeless man can't remember clearly, it's a dream after all, and the people in the dream are very hazy.He tried hard to recall, and he also wanted to recall this woman who appeared in his dream but seemed to suddenly light up his life.

Yan Sanbai didn't urge him, the two people with completely different identities just sat in the same dilapidated temple, listening to the gurgling rain outside, quietly fiddled with the dead branches in the bonfire.

This made the tramp feel genuinely relaxed, as if the differences between people were virtually eliminated.The world was very quiet, and his memory gradually became clear. The woman's face was still blurred, but he suddenly became excited, "I saw a red dot! It's like a grain of cinnabar, so beautiful!"

"Cinnabar?"

"Yes, it's beautiful...it's shockingly beautiful, I don't think I'll forget it in my life..."

The homeless man seems to have opened up the chatterbox, talking endlessly. It has been a long time since he talked to someone so freely, and this person still looks so good.

But the good times didn't last long, and soon, someone came to pick him up.

Yan Sanbai stood up, looked at Li Yan under the umbrella, "Why are you here?"

"Isn't it raining? I'll pick you up." Li Yan said casually, waving his hand to let him go quickly.This person is really, running around when it rains, obviously always seems to be unhurried, but he is still busy investigating the case at night.If Amon hadn't left a lot of eyeliner outside, he really didn't know he came here.

Yan Sanbai said goodbye to the homeless man, then quickly walked into the rain curtain and got under the umbrella.However, just as he was about to leave, he grabbed Li Yan again, turned around, and said to the homeless man, "Actually, that purple rhizome can be dried in the sun. It's sweet and delicious. If you have more, you can sell it." To the shops in the city."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and said, "Let's go."

The homeless man sat by the bonfire blankly and watched his back as he left. The root in his hand was already cold, but for some reason, his heart was warm.

Yan Sanbai and Li Yan strolled under the yellow paper umbrella, Li Yan turned to look at Yan Sanbai's side face, and suddenly asked curiously, "Is that purple root really delicious?"

"Of course, but it's definitely not as good as those in the palace." Yan Sanbai said, "But I think it's delicious."

"I haven't eaten it, will you treat me to it next time?"

"Okay." Yan Sanbai slightly curled the corners of his mouth, because this is what he likes to eat, and Li Yan wants to eat it too, so he is happy, even though Li Yan doesn't know that those inconspicuous purple roots are important to him mean something.

After a while, the topic got back to business.

"Have you checked it out?"

"It's close."

While speaking, Yan Sanbai looked over the umbrella eaves to the black night sky, and the smile on his face finally faded.

The next day.

Counting today, there were still two days left before Li Yan returned to Chang'an, and he would definitely go with him alone, so there was a bit of turmoil early in the morning.

He rushes to Kyushu in a hurry, and goes to investigate the case in a hurry.

However, when he was gearing up, Yan Sanbai stopped him, "There is no need to investigate today."

"Huh?" Ling Ding was puzzled.

However, Yan Sanbai didn't answer his questions like before, he went to the Yamen in the early morning dew.

The case is still the matter of the Luoyang magistrate. The county magistrate couldn't sleep because of what happened in the past two days. The indictment document about the Luoyang king's assassination has been sent to Chang'an, but there is no reply yet.Although the King of Luoyang definitely didn't like his making small reports like this, the county magistrate had seen the letter received in the post station, the monthly letter from His Majesty the Emperor to his beloved nephew.With such grace, the county magistrate dared not hide it.

After all, between the emperor and the king of Luoyang, the former is more terrifying.

So when the servant got off the bed, Luoyang County Magistrate Xu Wei was still dizzy.When Yan Sanbai flashed a token in front of his eyes and said the words "let's close the case", Xu Wei was instantly enveloped in happiness.

Case closed!

The case is finally closing!

Let Luoyang Wang's confidante, green hat, and so on go to hell!

Xu Wei hurriedly asked the chief secretary to prepare some matters, and when it was almost noon, everyone gathered in the yamen.

Jia Qing, Li Yan and the others arrived, as did the Yuan family father and son and a group of people who came to watch. After a while, the prisoner Xiaoyue was also brought up.

"Mighty—!" The Shawei stick was struck, and Xiaoyue knelt in front of the hall, her thin body showing a little frailty.

The case was still presided over by the county magistrate, but Yan Sanbai sat first on his right hand, and Li Yan sat first on his left. Everyone knew that the outcome of the case depended entirely on these two.

"Cough, cough." Clearing his throat, Xu Wei stated Xiaoyue's crimes again, just like what Yan Sanbai said that day, there was no difference.In the past two days, most of the common people have heard about the bloody case caused by this idiotic man and woman, so although they sighed, the reaction was not very strong, but there were still sighs.

Now, just waiting for the verdict.

Yuan Yiqing looked at Xu Wei nervously, Xu Wei looked at Yan Sanbai modestly, and Yuan Yiqing also looked at Yan Sanbai.

Everyone is looking at him, he is Yan Sanbai who is ordered to investigate the case, the token in his hand is the Shangfang sword, and he can break it as he says.

Yuan Zhi comforted his son, Master Yan is a good man, he will forgive Xiaoyuewang.Most of the people present also thought so, so their hearts were not very heavy.

However, when they really heard Yan Sanbai's words, their hearts couldn't help sinking. They opened their mouths wide and looked at him in puzzlement.

How could this be?

How can this be? !

The anxiety and tension in Yuan Yiqing's eyes was instantly replaced by astonishment. He took a step forward but was stopped by an officer, but he still tried his best to move forward and asked, "Why?!"

Yan Sanbai stood up, looked at him, did not answer, but repeated what he said just now, "Xiaoyue committed the crime of murder, she should be exiled to the northwest."

Exile sounds at least much better than capital punishment, but Xiaoyue is a weak woman who doesn't seem to be in good health, and now it's a season of being susceptible to wind and cold, how can she survive the severe cold in the northwest? !

Xu Wei was also stunned. In fact, he had already made preparations to open the door. If the public opinion is so, of course he has to go with the flow.Besides, the one who died was a prostitute, and so was the murderer. After all, few people really mourned for them, and the chatter passed away.

"Master Yan, this..."

"Does your lord have any objections?" Yan Sanbai asked.

Xu Wei looked at the people who were in an uproar, turned his head, and said, "Master Yan is sympathetic to Xiaoyue, and spared her death penalty, but this place of exile, we can choose a closer one, how about it?"

The common people nodded and said yes, after all, it was a murder, and the exile would be closer. This couple of lovers might have a chance to reunite in the future, but what they didn't expect was that Yan Sanbai refused.

"No." Yan Sanbai said categorically, showing a bit of toughness that he had never seen before, "Xiaoyue's crime cannot be forgiven lightly, and she must be exiled to the northwest."

"This..." Xu Wei was in trouble now, and there was already a commotion outside the hall.

"How can this be, can't you be a little more flexible?"

"Master Yan, what's the matter?"

"That's right, exile in the northwest, isn't that a direct death penalty!"

"what happened?"

……

Everyone was arguing and expressing their opinions, but almost all of them were dissatisfied with the verdict.Xu Wei knocked down the gavel helplessly, "Silence!"

He couldn't help turning his eyes to Li Yan for help, "My lord, look..."

By the way, there is also His Royal Highness the King of Luoyang!

Everyone couldn't help but hope again, especially Yuan Yiqing, who hurriedly shouted: "My lord, please forgive me outside the law!"

Li Yan turned his head to look at him, but quickly looked away, and said to Xu Wei: "Just do as Master Yan said."

The hope in Yuan Yiqing's eyes was shattered, he stood dumbly outside the hall, still unable to accept this reality.He looked at Xiaoyue, at that frail figure, and his heart felt like a knife.

But Xiaoyue didn't say a word, and she didn't say a word of defense. This poor woman seemed to have succumbed to her fate of suffering. She just turned her head and showed a faint smile, as if she wanted to comfort her lover, "Yi Qing... "

However, this laughter was more piercing than crying, and everyone couldn't help feeling more sad, and the noise became louder and louder.

Xu Wei couldn't help sweating anxiously, he looked at Li Yan and Yan Sanbai, these two were still so unmoved, so how should it end?Although Xu Wei's name has the word Wei in it, he is not mighty at all, so he has to rack his brains to find a compromise at this moment.

"How about...how about postponing the days of exile and letting Xiaoyue go back to reunite with her family for a few days? Anyway, she is such a weak woman, she can't escape, how about it?"

Yan Sanbai thought about it, then nodded, "Yes."

Naturally, Li Yan had no objections, so the case was settled in this way.

Yuan Yiqing was dissatisfied, and the people outside were not very satisfied, but neither Li Yan nor Yan Sanbai were people they could control.Therefore, the two of them walked out from the main entrance Shi Shiran, but no one dared to stop them.

They didn't understand Yan Sanbai's actions, and Lone Ding, who had been by their side, didn't really understand either.

"Your Highness, Hero Yan, why? Miss Xiaoyue..."

"Do you think it's cruel?" Li Yan interrupted him and asked back.

Ling Ding hesitated, but nodded anyway.

Unexpectedly, this time Li Yan didn't call him stupid again. He just folded his folding fan and put his hands behind his back. His voice calmed down, and he said, "The real cruelty is yet to come."

Solo didn't know why, but he guessed they must already know something.

So when the three of them sat down at the wonton stand on the side of the road, he asked again: "Since Xiaoyue's matter is over, how should we investigate next?"

"The case is closed." Yan Sanbai repeated what he said in the morning.

"It's over? What about Li Qian and Cheng Rui?" Ling Ding's eyes widened.

Yan Sanbai said: "The matter between Li Qian and Cheng Rui is actually very simple. We were just distracted by too many side details at the beginning, and made this matter too complicated. Ling Ding, let me ask you, If Xiaoyue's incident is excluded and the case of Li Qian and Cheng Rui is taken into consideration, who is most likely to kill them?"

Ling Ding stroked his chin and thought, his eyes suddenly widened, but he opened his mouth, but he still couldn't say the name, "No way..."

"Exclude all impossible situations, and the remaining one, no matter how unimaginable, is correct."

While talking, the boss brought three bowls of wontons.

Yan Sanbai stopped talking, took his own bowl, and picked up a spoon to eat.But when he scooped up a warm wonton filled with meat, he paused again.He looked at the wonton with a look of disappointment.

"Don't force yourself if you don't want to eat." Li Yan said without taking a bite.

Lone Ding looked at them both strangely, these words were not like what his prince would usually say.

Yan Sanbai paused, but still stuffed the wonton into his mouth, chewed slowly and earnestly, and then swallowed.

Those bright eyes looked at Li Yan, and said, "If you want to live a good life, you must eat seriously."