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Fan An said: "His body is not recognized by others, but I recognize it."

Wei couldn't help laughing at that scene, he raised his eyes to look at Bai Qi next to him, Bai Guoqi said: "What else are you looking at, just follow what this lord said. You call out 80 people, and start digging now. "

The man didn't know Fan An's background, but he had to listen to the words of Governor Bai, so he had to obey at the moment. He called the supervisor over to give some instructions, but after a few moments, a group of people came over.That guard gestured at the place Fan An mentioned with his hand, and ordered the excavation.

Fan An stood by and watched, the October sun was a bit scorching hot, the surrounding area was covered with chaotic rocks, and the high mountains on all sides couldn't get a breath of cool breeze, Bai Guoqi was almost suffering from heat stroke when he was by his side.Fan An refused to leave, so he asked someone to take an awning to cover it, and prepared lotus leaf tea to wait.

Fan An didn't drink tea, and refused to sit down. He was engrossed in watching these people digging holes. The guard stood a few feet away commanding and scolding him. Is it all up to him?"

Bai Guoqi said: "Yes, I don't come here often, and I don't take care of it carefully. He is the head of the guard here, named Liu Xie, and a relative of the local magistrate Liu Fengshun. He arranges and writes proclamations, and he handles everything big and small. It's up to you."

Fan An said: "There are at least seven or eight hundred exiles in this quarry, but there are only twenty or thirty prisons. This mountain collapsed and killed so many people. It's amazing that he can remember Zhu Yan's death so clearly. Heart."

Bai Guoqi said: "Zhu Yan is in charge of the accounts here, and his comings and goings are all under his nose, unlike those who move rocks and sand all day long, so it's easy to take care of them."

Fan An didn't say a word after hearing this. He watched the group of people dig a huge hole ten feet wide in front of his eyes, but his heart became more and more peaceful.

As dusk approached, several corpses were pulled out from the depths of the rocks. Fan An ordered people to carefully lift them up and arrange them neatly, and walked over to identify them one by one.After he finished reading, he turned his head and said to Chang Wei next to him, "There is no Zhu Yan's body here."

Liu Zhangwei heheed a few times, and said: "My lord, look carefully. Few of these people can recognize their facial features when they were hit by rocks." He walked up to pointing at a headless body and said: "This body is fat and thin similar to Zhu Yan, sir, do you think it is this one..."

"I used to be old acquaintances with Zhu Yan. Since he was exiled, I have been thinking about him day and night. I am very familiar with his body, even if it is a finger, I will not admit it wrong." He left After taking two steps, he glanced at the entire quarry, and said, "Liu Changwei, Zhu Yan's body was not dug up at the place you mentioned. Exiles are not free to do things freely, and they come and go right under your nose. Where did Yan go?"

Then Liu Zhangwei said: "Zhu Yan is indeed buried at the bottom of this mountain. If the adults don't believe it, what can the villain do? Why don't you send a few more people to dig deeper..." Fan An turned to look at him, the look in his eyes Calm, as cold as ice in a deep well, Liu Xie met his eyes, his heart trembled, and he choked and couldn't speak.

Fan An looked at him for a moment, then suddenly said: "Then you continue to dig, dig up the corpse and tell Nanchang Mansion, it's getting late tonight, Master Bai and I will go back first."

The man didn't expect him to say that he wanted to leave suddenly, his heart was relieved, and he hurriedly said to see the adults off.Fan An rejected his offer, and walked out of Pingqing Mountain together with Bai Guoqi.

Fan An walked to the middle of the mountain, and said to Bai Guoqi: "When you go back, notify the magistrate and ask them to come and arrest the person." Bai Guoqi followed behind him, and the two-zhang monk was puzzled, and asked, "Take the person? Who?"

Fan Anzhu turned around and said, "That Chang Wei named Liu, can't you see that there is something wrong with that person?" Bai Guoqi was stunned for a moment and said, "What's the problem?"

Fan An was choked by him, he couldn't tell what was wrong with that man, so he said: "I think there is something wrong with him, you have a problem, you take him first, and then you take him to the prison of Nanchang's mansion. Ask him something." Bai Guoqi is a very honest person, after hearing this, he said softly: "But... how can you arrest someone without a crime? You can be directly locked up in the Nanchang Mansion without going through the yamen? The Nanchang Mansion has no right to interrogate, so it is against the law to do so. Wang Fa."

Fan An was stunned for a moment, and suddenly couldn't help laughing: "I am the head of the Lantai Metropolitan Police, and I am Wang Fa!" As an official in the imperial court, I can easily go to the third division of Daxuan, what are you afraid of?! Is it possible that he will go to the emperor to sue the imperial court? Don’t forget that the imperial court must be approved by Dali Temple!" Fan An said, "I have The Imperial Order of the Holy Land Procurator holds the right to kill first and then play, I tell you to do what you do!"

Bai Guoqi was taken aback by him, and said urgently: "Your Excellency, keep your voice down, it is a crime of disrespect to say such words."

"Who dares to sue me?" Fan An laughed again, "You?"

Bai Guoqi was in a cold sweat because of what he said, and he said: "My lord, don't do this, I just do what you say."

That guard was arrested the next day and taken to the prison in the mansion. The criminal magistrate in Nanchang's mansion took him out of nowhere and never told him what the crime was. Formed.As I said earlier, Liu Zhangwei is a relative of the magistrate, and he can always beat the left and right sides.This Bai Guoqi is just the governor of Heyang who is in charge of exile. How dare he take the relatives of Liu Zhifu after eating a leopard?

When Liu Fengshun received this complaint, he immediately wrote a document and sent someone to Nanchang Mansion to ask Liu Xie what crime he had committed.I don't want Nanchang's mansion to write the words "unnecessary" in the palindrome.This is simply a big joke, Liu Fengshun directly wrote the notice, reprimanding Bai Guoqi for not following the law, and ordered him to be released immediately.

Unexpectedly, this warning was called back.Does Bai Guoqi want to rebel? !Liu Zhifu was so angry that he took the case and personally brought people to the Nanchang Mansion for questioning.His group also brought Pingqing's supervision field, a mighty force of 60 people, directly surrounded the Nanchang Mansion.

Bai Guoqi went out to greet him in trepidation, but he didn't explain anything, he just said that an adult came to the mansion, you go and see him.

The magistrate's yamen servants and the supervisor were waiting outside, and the magistrate came forward in person. They were sure that they would not be able to count, and Nanchang's mansion would obediently send Liu Zhangwei out of the house.After a while, Liu Fengshun came out in a hurry, his face was blue and green.The supervisor of the quarry went to ask, "Where is Liu Changwei? Why didn't he come out?"

Liu Fengshun slapped the man on the head hard, and cursed: "What Liu Changwei, which one of you saw that Nanchang's mansion took Liu Changwei! Go back to supervise the work honestly! I'll forgive you if you mention this again. I can't leave you!" He said Zhijian got into the sedan chair and ordered to return home immediately.

The prefect's men and horses left quickly, leaving a group of quarrying supervisors in a daze.Among them, someone with a bright mind said: "Didn't Liu Zhangwei offend some terrible person?" The group looked at each other for a while, and someone from Nanchang's mansion came out and said, "There are no idlers outside Nanchang's mansion, where are you?" people?"

Immediately someone said: "No one, no one! Let's go now!"

Di Liu Zhangwei was beaten up as soon as he was put in the prison. At first he yelled to sue, but after being stripped of his pants and fought for a few times, he cried and begged for mercy.Fan An sat in the torture room, saw him tied to the pillar covered in blood, drank tea and asked, "Where is Zhu Yan?"

Liu Xie cried: "My lord, why don't you believe me! Zhu Yan has been crushed to death by the rocks! Where do you want me to find you another Zhu Yan?!"

Fan An put the teacup aside, and said to the executioner at the side: "Keep beating, don't talk about it, it doesn't matter if you kill me." Liu Xie's eyes widened when he heard this, and scolded: "Where did you come from? Disregarding human life, where is the king's law?!"

Fan An lowered his head and only sneered, Wang Fa?He seems to have never seen Wang Fa since he was born. If you ask me, who should I ask?He said, "Keep fighting."

Liu Xie was able to scold at first, but after a few moments, he began to beg for forgiveness again. Fan An sat in front of him, letting him cry with tears and nose, without moving his eyebrows.He used to be the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishments, and he had seen many inhuman and cruel punishments in the torture room. How many people wanted to bite their tongues and commit suicide in front of him, his teeth were red-eyed, and life was worse than death.To him, this kind of whipping and scolding was as painless as flowers blown by the wind.

But one afternoon, Liu Xie recruited: the man named Zhu Yan did not die, but was sold to a slave merchant by him for 20 taels.

Fan An closed his eyes and let out a sigh of relief. "Didn't you say earlier that you don't have to suffer?" Fan An walked up, put the water glass to Liu Xie's lips, and said, "Drink some water."

Liu Xie was so thirsty that he couldn't speak. He swallowed a sip of water and coughed a few times before regaining his senses.Fan An poured another glass of water, lingered on his lips but didn't give him a drink, and only asked, "Who did you buy it for?"

Liu Xie stared at the water and said: "I bought it for Sa Fanpei, he is not from the Middle Earth, he only comes to Heyang occasionally to sell slaves, and he will leave after staying for a month. If you want to find it, go find it quickly. After that, I don't know where he took Zhu Yan."

Fan An grabbed his collar tightly and said, "Where can I find him?" Liu Xie said, "Changping Yongle Building."

Fan An turned around and said to Bai Guoqi who was beside him: "You take my imperial order to the Yamen to borrow people, and take them directly to Yongle Tower! There is no delay!"

Bai Guoqi woke up with a start, and ran out to do it without even saying yes.Fan An turned to Liu Xie and said, "If you lie to me, I won't spare you."

Liu Xie closed his eyes and said weakly: "My lord, don't worry, I just saw Sa Fanpei yesterday, he didn't leave, Zhu Yan must still be in his hand, you can find it."

Fan An heaved a sigh of relief, and took two steps that were a bit vain. The waiter next to him supported him and asked, "Sir, are you going to Yongle Tower now?"

Fan Jing was quiet for a while, and said: "I haven't slept well these days, my face must be ugly." The waiter next to him took a look at him and said: "Your Excellency is a good-looking talent, elegant and handsome, not ugly."

"Really?" He stroked his chin, wondering if he should shave his beard first before going to see Mr. Li...