Go back to ancient times to explore the case

In the Qingtian Division, a middle-aged man with a tall body and a beard like a halberd said angrily: "You Qingtian Division still don't follow the rules! The position of Shaoqing, who is a fifth-rank official, can be imprisoned if you say you are imprisoned. Where's Gongsun Zan? Come out for me and put the cigarette away right away!"

"I have seen Master Ling."

Ling Rui stared at the slender woman with a cold and handsome face, frowned slightly, and remembered that this person was Yan Qingchuan, one of the young ministers of the Qingtian Division.

He snorted coldly, "I'm afraid Yan Shaoqing is very proud right now."

Yan Qingchuan turned a deaf ear to this ridicule, and made a gesture of invitation, "Master Ling, go and see Ling Shaoqing, I think you have a lot to say."

Ling Rui glared at her, then strode into the dungeon, and went straight to Ling Yan's cell, "Yan'er, how are you, they didn't abuse you by lynching you?"

Ling Yan returned a comforting smile, "It's okay, Father."

Ling Rui said with a sad face: "Don't worry, Dad will rescue you." After finishing speaking, he turned to Yan Qingchuan who was following, and asked, "What's going on?"

Yan Qingchuan glanced at Ling Yan, and replied: "Not long ago, the Qingtian Division had a spies, and later used a plan to catch that person, but that person insisted that what he did was ordered by Ling Shaoqing, and provided the key information. evidence."

"What?! Impossible, Yan'er will never be like this. Someone must have framed her. Instead of finding out the reason, you Qingtian Secretary is so reckless and listens to what the villain says, but relying on His Majesty's respect, you can become lawless!" Ling Rui Glaring, the voice full of anger echoed throughout the dungeon.

Yan Qingchuan didn't even shake her eyelids, she calmly looked at the Lord Shangshu who was three ranks older than her, and said slowly: "Master Ling, don't ask who is the person who framed Ling Shaoqing?"

Ling Rui sneered: "If you have something to say, don't hold back."

"This person's name is Gu Qifeng."

As soon as Yan Qingchuan finished speaking, Ling Rui's face froze. Even if he suppressed his surprised expression the next second, Yan Qingchuan could see the clue.

Yan Qingchuan asked: "Lord Ling, Ling Shaoqing said that this person was sent by you to assist her. Thinking about it, there should be no father in this world who would intentionally harm his daughter, so do you have any clues about Gu Qifeng to provide to the subordinate?" , so that Ling Shaoqing can wash away her grievances as soon as possible."

Ling Rui frowned, a trace of struggle flashed in his eyes, and then he said firmly: "This man is just a guard I recruited into the mansion at will. I think he has good skills and a clever mind, so he was assigned to Yan'er as an errand." After all, he did not forget to put pressure on Yan Qingchuan, "It is your Qingtian Division's responsibility to find out the truth and return the innocent to justice. If there is an unjust, false or wrong case, I will be the first to impeach your Qingtian Division. "

Yan Qingchuan didn't speak, and said sideways: "Please, Master Ling, the time for the interview with the suspect is up."

Hearing that she referred to her daughter as a suspect, Ling Rui was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, but he had no choice but to comfort Ling Yan and leave Qingtian Division.

Yan Qingchuan watched Ling Rui's carriage disappear at the gate, raised his hand, and immediately a subordinate came forward and bowed to listen.

"Find a smarter spy and follow the Minister of the Ministry of Industry."

"Yes." The subordinate immediately sent someone to do it after receiving the order.

And here Ling Rui was sitting in the carriage, looking extremely annoyed, unaware that he was being followed.The carriage drove to an alley and stopped suddenly. He was about to lift the curtain to get angry when a deep male voice came from outside the car, "Be careful, you are being followed."

Ling Rui froze, and immediately sat back in the carriage. The carriage continued to move forward and merged into the traffic flow on Min'an Avenue ahead. When it reached a crowded place where the carriage stopped, Ling Rui was suddenly caught by someone. He pulled it out, covered his body with a deep robe, and pulled it into the crowd.

Half an hour later, Ling Rui was blindfolded and taken all the way to a secret house in the city. The blindfold was removed. He blinked to get used to the faint candlelight in the room, and then looked at the man standing in front of the case with his back facing him. tall back.

"I've already promised you! Why do you still instigate Gu Qifeng to frame Yan'er? What else do you want?"

The man in front of the table let out a deep laugh, he turned around, but his face was still hidden in the shadows, "Don't worry, I was just testing your loyalty, you did a good job just now, Ling Smoke will be fine."

Ling Rui suppressed his anger: "You'd better do what you say."

"Naturally, but Master Shang Shu has to start our plan as soon as possible."

A look of disdain and unwillingness appeared on Ling Rui's resolute face, but it was replaced by helplessness in the end, "I understand." After finishing speaking, the black veil covered his face again, and he was led away from here .

After Ling Rui left, the room returned to silence. The man sat down in front of the case and stared at the scroll on the table. On it was a top-to-bottom diagram of the structure of the Daqi court, totaling 1000 There are many important officials of the imperial court, and each of them has many branches extending from it, which together form a huge and winding relationship map.

The man's eyes kept falling on the word "Tianzi" on the top, and he didn't move away for a long time.

After a long while, he slowly closed the scroll and said, "Get rid of Gu Qifeng, you go yourself."

A young man stepped out from the shadows on one side. There was a long scar between his brows, which made his handsome face faded a lot. He had a long sword on his waist.

The young man faced the man and knelt on one knee, his tone full of respect, "Leader, the order of the pavilion master."

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In the Qingtian Division, the spies who had been lost just now were timidly pleading guilty in front of Yan Qingchuan.

Yan Qingchuan pinched his brows, remained silent for a while, then waved his hands, "Go down."

The spy hurriedly left the room.

However, before the house was quiet for a long time, the door was opened, and at the same time, a woman's clear voice sounded, "Master Yan, why didn't you wake me up?"

Yan Qingchuan opened his eyes, looked at Xie Yu'an who was at the backlight at the door, and suddenly felt that the feeling of exhaustion and powerlessness had faded a little bit, this person seemed to always have such a magic power, where the atmosphere would not be gloomy, obviously noisy, It just doesn't bother people.

"You are sleeping on your back, unconscious, how can I wake you up?"

"Ah? Seriously, I sleep quite honestly." Xie Yu'an fell into self-doubt, and for a while felt a little sad that his image of being smart, wise, beautiful and generous in Master Yan's heart would not be maintained.

Whether it's true or not, Yan Qingchuan doesn't know, of course she wouldn't deliberately go to Xie Yu'an's room to observe how she sleeps, she just said it casually just now.She didn't chat with Xie Yu'an about these things anymore, but briefly mentioned the matter of being appointed as Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

After Xie Yu'an heard this, his expression became serious, "Seeing that his own daughter was imprisoned unjustly, Ling's father never mentioned the person behind Gu Qifeng, so it is almost impossible to find clues from him, or we can only find clues from Gu Qifeng. Let's do it."

Yan Qingchuan nodded, apparently thinking of something with Xie Yu'an.

"Is there any news from Kaiyang County?"

Mentioning this, Yan Qingchuan was worried again, and frowned, "No."

Xie Yu'an explained: "It's okay, we can't find those two people, and the murderer can't be found so quickly. The sky is big, and the earth is big, who knows where those two people are now."

Yan Qingchuan was dumbfounded, Xie Yu'an didn't know the five-day period she promised in front of the emperor, and she didn't intend to tell her.She stood up and walked towards the dungeon, "Go and interrogate Gu Qifeng."

The two came to the dungeon together, and Gu Qifeng was imprisoned in a single room, with his back facing the direction of the prison door and sitting facing the wall.

Xie Yu'an knocked on the iron prison door railing and said, "Gu Qifeng, we have something to ask you."

Gu Qifeng remained motionless, his tone indifferent: "I've explained everything I need to say, what else do I need to say?"

"Hey, I have a bad temper." Xie Yu'an rolled up his sleeves, trying to scare him.

Yan Qingchuan pressed her arm, and said in a calm manner: "Since Qingtian has never been good at torture, I will not torture you."

Hearing this, Gu Qifeng turned around suddenly, his hair was disheveled, and his eyes showed jealousy, "Pretending to be so kind, you want me to speak up, and if you have the ability, use the torture tools."

Yan Qingchuan took a step closer to the prison door, shook his head and said, "There are many ways to make you speak, you might as well listen to this."

"Master Ling, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, came to Qingtian Division just now, and he obviously knew something hidden, but he kept silent, and then the spies I sent came to report that he lost Lord Ling," she paused , continued: "You said, who did Master Ling go to see just now? Is it the person who is loyal to you behind your back? What did they talk about?"

Gu Qifeng swallowed, and grabbed the edge of the stone bed tightly, "I can't understand what you are talking about."

Yan Qingchuan smiled faintly, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, let's try it out, if you and Ling Yanzhong must put out the name of a real spy, do you think that the person behind you is choosing to protect your loyal reputation?" The very strict subordinate is Ling Yan, the daughter of Qing Tian Si Shaoqing, the daughter of the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Security."

Seeing Gu Qifeng's embarrassment, Yan Qingchuan continued: "If you were him, how would you choose?"

Gu Qifeng's lips trembled slightly: "Stop lying to me, I won't be fooled by you."

Now even Xie Yu'an couldn't help laughing, she was really curious about what the mastermind behind the scenes was looking for in Gu Qifeng, could it be this stupid loyalty?

Gu Qifeng turned around, looking like he was bitten to death and didn't speak anymore.

Yan Qingchuan frowned, and was about to find ways to soften Gu Qifeng's attitude, when a guard came to report that someone had asked to see her and could provide important clues to Mr. Wei Wei's murder.

"Take that man to the study first, and I'll be there right away." After finishing speaking, she told Xie Yu'an: "You look at him first, and I'll come back as soon as I go."

Xie Yu'an nodded, and after Yan Qingchuan left, she asked Gu Qifeng: "I said, what good did your master do to you? You are so loyal to him, or do you have something to fall into his hands?"

Gu Qifeng said firmly: "Shut up."

Xie Yu'an clicked his tongue and yawned.

At this time, a man dressed as a cook walked into the dungeon with a plate of food. He saluted Xie Yu'an and said, "My lord, this is the food Master Yan ordered for the prisoners."

Xie Yu'an didn't think much about it, this is indeed something the cold-faced and soft-hearted Mr. Yan can do.

After getting permission, the jailer on the side opened the cell door, and the cook walked in with the food. Xie Yu'an also said that Gu Qifeng was so stubborn, but he couldn't bear to think that this man had been hungry for two days. When he met the hot food, he was like a hungry wolf rushing to eat Gobble it up.

Xie Yu'an let out a laugh.

"My lord, I'll take my leave." The cook finished speaking and was about to leave, Xie Yu'an glanced at him, but suddenly felt something was wrong, she immediately stood up straight and said: "Stop."

The cook sneered: "What's the matter, my lord?"

Xie Yu'an said vigilantly: "Stretch out your hand."

But the guy didn't move.

Immediately, Xie Yu'an's heart rang alarm bells, and he said loudly: "The cook builds fires and chops wood all the year round, his nails are usually black, but yours are very neat and tidy. You are not from Qingtian Division, stop him!"

However, it was the cook who moved faster than the jailer. He grabbed a handful of something from his arms and threw it into the air, causing white mist to float across the entire dungeon.

Xie Yu'an only took a few puffs, and felt dizzy and her footsteps were weak. While shaking her head, she tried to check Gu Qifeng, but the white smoke was so strong that she suddenly fell to the ground. When she was unconscious, she only saw Gu Qifeng. Qifeng's eyes burst out, he pinched his neck tightly, with a hideous look on his face.