Go back to ancient times to explore the case

"Sheng Huaimin."

After revealing the true identity of the mastermind behind the scenes, Luo Yi continued: "I only recently learned about his identity. Not long ago, I went back to southern Xinjiang and learned from several patriarchs that they have been in contact with each other. The official is Sheng Yueran, the son of the prime minister stationed in the southwest, he has been stationed in the southwest for many years to attract the forces in southern Xinjiang, so that he can use them in the future."

"Although the total strength of southern Xinjiang is only [-], all of them are brave and good at fighting. However, if there is a [-] army in the Central Plains, if their plan changes in the end, they will let Southern Xinjiang raise troops, invade the Central Plains, and make trouble in Daqi. If the world is turned upside down, it is better to be broken jade than to be ruined."

Luo Yi sighed faintly: "But it's a pity, their plan is going well now, and they are just one step away, and the world will fall into the hands of his father and son of the Sheng family."

Xie Yu'an closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Don't worry, his plan will not succeed, absolutely not."

Luo Yi took out a stack of letters and handed them to Xie Yu'an, "These are the rubbings of secret letters between Sheng Yueran and our clan, I think you need them."

Xie Yu'an took it, put it in his arms, and returned to the inn in the city where he was staying. Then he received two secret letters, one of which was from a spy in southern Xinjiang, the content of the report confirmed what Luo Yi said, and the other was from the capital.

There are only a few words in the letter.

"Everything in Beijing is fine, you cherish yourself."

Without a signature, Xie Yu'an recognized that it was Yan Qingchuan's handwritten letter. Xie Yu'an read this sentence several times and couldn't help smiling. He took the letter paper and wanted to write back a letter, but thought that he would soon return to Beijing. It is much clearer to tell Yan Qingchuan personally than to write it out.

She walked to the bed, looked in the direction of Kyoto, and whispered: "Wait for me to come back."

The next day, Xie Yu'an and others left the city in a low-key manner and headed south to Crane City. Along the way, they ran into troops assembled from various places and passed through several cities. The city was under martial law, and the atmosphere fell into the solemnity before the outbreak of war.

Three days later, Xie Yu'an and others came to Crane City, and reunited with the spies she had ordered to investigate Yan Zhengshenping's past here earlier.The spies took them to the old house of the Yan Mansion, and took out a stack of files in the study room. The files recorded that in the tenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, when Yan Zhenggang was promoted from the servant of the household department to the secretary of the household department, a huge amount of corruption occurred. .

Emperor Yuan Qian ordered Yan Zheng to be in charge of the case, and must find out the people involved in the case. At that time, Sheng Huaimin assisted Yan Zheng in investigating the case. Later, the two were assassinated by an assassin during the investigation. Sheng Huaimin stepped forward to help Yan Zheng. After receiving a fatal blow, the two returned to Beijing for a short rest. Yan Zheng resolutely stated in front of the imperial court that he could not find out the ringleader of the case, but only found a few low-ranking officials. However, Emperor Yuan Qian regarded him as his confidant and did not want to punish him severely. In the end, he only fined him one year's salary, so let it go.

Xie Yu'an slammed the dossier onto the ground, "It's a bitter trick, it's a tough trick that won't rot."

I think that the corruption case back then was done by Sheng Huaimin who had a bad heart, and was finally found out by Yan Zheng. In order to get Yan Zheng's forgiveness, he used such a bitter trick, and in addition, he promised repeatedly in front of him that he would repent. Only then did the loyal Yan Zheng bypass him this time.

Xie Yu'an picked up the file, stepped out of the Yan Mansion, "Go back to Beijing immediately."

At that time, in the Yongchang Hall of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Chu Qing was sitting in front of the case, listening to the report of the affairs of the court by Kou Yan, the head of the Royal Pavilion.

Si Kouyan is over fifty years old this year, with a thin body and gray hair. He doesn't look very energetic, but his eyes are as sharp as a falcon. Even in front of the emperor, he doesn't restrain himself.

The Royal Pavilion was not taken seriously before, and he didn't often go in and out of the palace, but now the Royal Pavilion has become an institution that truly holds the real power. As the head of the pavilion, he goes in and out of the palace almost every day.

When Chu Qing faced him, he was often shocked by his sharp eyes that seemed to be able to read people's hearts, but thinking of Xie Yu'an's warning before leaving, he could only suppress the fear in his heart and maintain the aura of an emperor.

"Si Kou Aiqing makes decisions about these trivial matters, and there is no need to report everything to me."

Si Kouyan glanced at the little emperor, then looked away and said: "The emperor is the son of heaven, and your Majesty should know all the big and small things in the world. If a humble minister does not report the news, it is not a violation of the emperor's dignity."

Chu Qing swallowed a little, and just when he was about to speak, a soldier in armor suddenly ran in from outside the hall, knelt down and prostrated: "Your Majesty, something is wrong, the general of Ming City has rebelled, and he led [-] soldiers of Ming City to march out." On the way to the northwest, he suddenly turned against him, invaded Linjun City, and declared himself king."

Chu Qing was shocked, "What?!"

Si Kouyan said calmly: "Immediately transfer the southwestern garrison to the north, and make sure to recover Linjun City."

"Yes." The soldiers hurriedly retreated, while Si Kouyan approached the imperial case unhurriedly, took out a letter from his bosom and presented it in front of the case, "Your Majesty, I have previously expressed my concern to the general of Ming City." What I suspect is that I sent people to sneak around Di Si to investigate, and today this letter has just arrived in Weichen's hands, and Weichen was shocked after reading it."

Although Si Kouyan said he was shocked, but his calm face did not show the slightest surprise. He raised his head and said to the little emperor: "In this letter, an old case was mentioned in Yuan Qiannian. The case was the tax corruption case that shocked the world by the Minister of the Ministry of Households, although he hanged himself in the end to apologize and was imprisoned, but the tax money is still missing."

"And in this letter, it is mentioned that the tax money back then was bribed by Yan Zheng to the general soldier of Ming City, so that he could raise private soldiers and wait for an incident in the future."

"Now the daughter of Yan Zheng is still in the capital. If it is not guaranteed, she and the Nadi Temple should cooperate with each other to leak the defense of the capital. The military situation needs to be questioned. I request an order to arrest Yan Qingchuan immediately and torture him severely." Si Kou Yan said loudly, before the case Kneel down and ask for an order.

Chu Qing clenched her small fists, and looked at a little maid in one corner. The little maid nodded slightly to him, and then Chu Qing took a deep breath and said, "So, according to what Aiqing said Say, let someone do it."

Si Kouyan stood up, took the order, and withdrew from the main hall, and sent a team of imperial guards out of the palace to the Yan Mansion to arrest Yan Qingchuan.

At the same time as this team of imperial guards, there was the little maid who had just nodded to Chu Qing in the palace. She came to the city wall at the corner of the palace gate, found a loose wall brick, and tapped it a few times regularly. Then left here.

In the quiet city avenue in the middle of the night, there can be heard the sound of the Imperial Guard's armor rubbing, and the sound of iron boots stepping on the stone bricks. The houses beside the street only closed the doors and windows more tightly when hearing these sounds, because the world has not been peaceful recently. , Kyoto is also uneasy, soldiers often arrest people, and the prison in the southeast corner is full of screams day and night.

Everyone is in danger, he doesn't know when the disaster will fall on his head, so he has to close the door to keep safe, so the daytime in Kyoto has become quite deserted recently.

In Yan's mansion, Yan Qingchuan was about to fall asleep when there was a knock on the door and Yi Zheng's voice, "Master Yan, that person is going to attack you, follow me quickly."

Yan Qingchuan's face turned serious, he turned over and put on his robe, took the long sword and opened the door, and hurriedly left Yan's mansion with Yi Zheng.

But as soon as they left, the imperial guards arrived at the Yan Mansion and kicked open the gate of the Yan Mansion. Naturally, they knew that they had already run away, so they ordered: "Immediately notify the guards of the four major city gates, and the city gates are under martial law. No one is allowed to go out!"

Yi Zheng looked at the city gate that was about to close, and said in a deep voice, "Master Yan, I will show up to fight with them first, and you should leave the city right away when you find the opportunity."

Yan Qingchuan was just about to refuse, but Yi Zheng rushed out. After blowing the secret whistle, the hidden guards of Wen Ruoge who had been dormant in the city appeared, together with dozens of guards at the city gate and those who ran down from the city wall with torches in their hands. Soldiers fight together.

Yan Qingchuan clenched her long sword tightly, and also rushed out, joining the fight. She slapped one of the defenders, and said, "Yi Zheng, call them to go together."

"Master Yan, you go first, I can delay the pursuit if I stay."

"If you drag on any longer, reinforcements from the city will arrive, and you and I will die!" Yan Qingchuan kicked open the half-closed city gate, "Let's go!"

Yi Zheng gritted his teeth and glanced at the imperial guards who were galloping towards the far side of the avenue, drew his sword and said, "Withdraw!"

After rushing out of the city, the pipeline outside the city was empty, Yan Qingchuan immediately said: "Leave, run into the woods, and spread out!"

Dozens of hidden guards immediately retreated into the forest, and Yan Qingchuan and Yi Zheng were also preparing to run to the dense forest in the southwest corner, but at the same time, they heard the sound of arrows whistling from the city wall piercing through the air.

Yi Zhengmeng turned around, and the sharp arrow was aimed at Yan Qingchuan. He immediately stretched out his long arms, trying to block Yan Qingchuan's body, but he didn't expect that someone pushed his back vigorously, and he turned away. At this moment, sharp arrow clusters had already penetrated deeply into Yan Qingchuan's shoulder blades, causing her to let out a muffled snort.

Yi Zheng turned pale with shock, "Master Yan!"

Yan Qingchuan gritted his teeth and endured the pain, "Go, go!"

The two immediately fled to the dense forest on the southwest side, and ran all the way in the forest. After the sound of pursuers disappeared, Yan Qingchuan relaxed his body by leaning on the tree trunk, and when he fell into a coma, he said intermittently: "Don't... ...Don't tell...Xie Yu'an."

Yi Zheng supported her body that was about to fall, but did not respond.

The old case of Yan Zheng was uncovered, and when the news that Yan Qingchuan was listed as a key criminal by the court reached Xie Yu'an, she was on her way back to Beijing. She grabbed the spy's collar and asked a little out of control, "Master Yan, is Master Yan okay? ?!"

"Commander Yi said that Mr. Yan was wounded by an arrow, and the arrow was poisoned. The poison has been cured now, and there is no life-threatening. They are hiding in Zizai Village, a hundred miles away from Beijing. The pavilion master can rest assured."

An Xin, how can I be at ease, Xie Yu'an got on his horse, almost forgetting that it was late at night, "Go to Zizai Village."

In such a hurry, Xie Yu'an arrived at Zizai Village, where the bloody nursery rhyme case happened, on a rainy night. Coincidentally, it was the Cao brothers' grandparents' house that Yi Zheng arranged for them to settle down.

Xie Yu'an was soaked by the rain, just like when Wen Qi kidnapped him and fled back to the capital, his whole body was wet.

Pushing open the door, the candlelight in the room flickered slightly, reflecting the peaceful face of the woman sleeping peacefully on the bed.

Xie Yu'an walked to the side of the couch step by step with heavy steps, wiped off the wet stains on his palms, lightly pressed it to Yan Qingchuan's cheek, and whispered: "Master Yan, I'm back."