Datang traitor
Chapter 68 Queuing and Chinese Cabbage
In the evening, the regular attendant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs submitted the list of [-] court ladies sorted out, and asked Li Shimin to make a decision.
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment when he saw the list, and asked Nei Changshi what he meant by this in doubt.
Nei Chang Shi was also puzzled when he heard the words, and explained to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty issued an order this morning to order the Ministry of Internal Affairs to draw up a list of three thousand people who want to leave the palace."
This matter is very strange, Li Shimin does not remember that he ever made an order.The time this morning is very special, and it is likely to be related to what happened last night.Li Shimin didn't make a statement for the time being, and ordered his internal servant to fetch the imperial edict first, and then ordered Qin Yuan to have an audience.
After Qin Yuan came in a hurry, he read the imperial decree, asked the eunuch who delivered the decree at that time, and confirmed with Li Shimin that Zhou Lan did it.
At this time, Li Baiyao, a member of Zhongshushe, came to see him and praised Li Shimin's way of letting the palace people out of the palace.
Li Shimin listened with complicated emotions while giving Qin Yuan his eyes.
"Because of the anniversary of the death of the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty has shown grace to the palace people, sympathized with the palace's grievances, filial piety and virtuousness, moved the heavens and the earth, and my ministers admire and admire them extremely."
Li Baiyao lamented that he actually had this idea a long time ago, and wanted to propose to Li Shimin, and he had already prepared a memorial.
"I didn't expect that His Majesty had already made a comprehensive arrangement, but I was too worried."
Li Shimin's expression became more complicated, this matter is indeed a good thing.However, Li Shimin was forced to falsely preach the imperial decree to order him to accept this matter. After all, Li Shimin couldn't help it, so he asked Qin Yuan's opinion on this matter.
Of course Qin Yuan thought it was a good thing.In Li Baiyao's memorial, he must have expounded in detail and convincingly the scene of the palace maids dying in the palace.Qin Yuan suggested that Li Shimin take a look at Li Baiyao's memorial first.
Li Baiyao looked back at Qin Yuan happily, expressing his gratitude secretly.He raised his eyebrows happily and said to Li Shimin: "Coincidentally, I just brought the memorial."
After speaking, Li Baiyao happily presented the memorial.It's hard for him, an old minister who is usually solemn and strict, to smile all over his face now, so that the wrinkles on his face are crowded together, bright like a chrysanthemum.
After Li Shimin read the memorial, his attitude was slightly moved.
After Li Baiyao left, Qin Yuanyou said to Li Shimin, "The court lady Zhou Lan tried her best to plot against His Majesty. She acted recklessly and falsely preached the imperial decree. She committed a heinous crime and should be arrested and sentenced to death. But thinking about her motives for doing this, it doesn't seem bad. This is a good deed by the palace people."
"According to what you mean, the widow is going to follow her threat and make her succeed?" Li Shimin narrowed his eyes and stared at Qin Yuan emotionally.
"Your Majesty thinks that you don't care about other people's threats, and only decide wisely what is right, so that you are truly free from threats. You can't stop a virtuous person from doing good deeds just because a wicked person threatens you with good deeds. It is your own decision to do what is good. It has nothing to do with others. In fact, even if there is no matter about Zhou Lan, Li Sheren will participate in this matter. I see that His Majesty is already moved, and if he plays first, His Majesty will definitely play. If this is the case, why don't you agree?" Qin Yuan suggested.
Li Shimin nodded, looked at Li Yuan differently, and praised him for suddenly having the demeanor of Wei Zheng and the talent for admonishing officials.
"I thought releasing people was just the first step. These court ladies are old and haven't been outside the palace for many years, so they don't know what the situation is like outside. On the one hand, it is difficult to adapt, on the other hand, they are rejected by their families, their lives are not settled, and they are even struggling for their livelihoods. , reduced to a beggar." Qin Yuan suggested that some money and court ladies should be properly divided, or a government order should be issued, for example, those who marry court ladies can reduce or exempt taxes.
Qin Yuan had no experience in formulating government orders, so he suggested that Wei Zheng or Fang Xuanling could come up with a reasonable solution.
Li Shimin praised Qin Yuan for his long-term thinking, which is excellent.It is bound to be impossible to turn the intention of a good palace man into a bad thing in the end, which deviates from the original intention.
Li Shimin immediately ordered Fang Xuanling to consider the matter in detail.
Qin Yuan went out of the palace earlier, so he went to investigate Zhou Lan's background in detail.Zhou Lan's family is in Pingyang County, not far from Chang'an. There are seven children in the family, three boys and four girls.Zhou Lan entered the palace at the age of 13, and now she is 24. Her family situation is ordinary, but there is nothing special about it.
Now because I know that Zhou Lan's purpose of seducing Li Shimin is for the Three Thousand Palaces.Qin Yuan felt that Zhou Lan was so adventurous that there might be a trigger that triggered her behavior.
After detailed questioning of several palace people who were acquainted with Zhou Lan, they learned that a court lady named Wu Xiuzhu lived in the same room with Zhou Lan and had a good relationship.Before Wu Xiuzhu entered the palace, her family had been in love with Lin Sanlang from the neighboring village. However, due to God's will, when the marriage was about to be finalized, Wu Xiuzhu was chosen in time for the palace selection.Before Wu Xiuzhu entered the palace, Lin Sanlang vowed to wait for Zhou Lan, willing to make a ten-year agreement.After ten years, Lin Sanlang will not be able to persevere. After all, he will be filial to his parents, marry a wife and have children.
"What a pair of lovers." Li Shimin allowed Xiuzhu, the palace witch, to leave the palace, on the condition that she would explain Zhou Lan's whereabouts, where Zhou Lan learned her soul-hunting technique, and the medicine on her hair, and what Where did it come from.
Wu Xiuzhu kowtowed three times to Li Shimin in tears. Her body trembled and she was obviously very frightened, but she uttered tremblingly with difficulty: "The poor maid would like to die on behalf of Zhou Lan."
She would rather die than betray her sisters.
Li Shimin smiled angrily, and let Qin Yuanlai take full responsibility to solve the case.
Qin Yuan told Li Shimin that based on his guess, Zhou Lan should have successfully sneaked out of the palace.Every morning, several carriages transporting vegetables would come and go from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Zhou Lan was so smart, bold and adventurous, he probably got out before the martial law in the palace.After all, she is capable of instigating souls and bewitching others. It is not difficult to cover her up and leave.
"Since she and sister Wu Xiuzhu are deeply in love, why not take Wu Xiuzhu and hang them outside the imperial city. Beat gongs and drums to announce that if Zhou Lan doesn't show up, Wu Xiuzhu will be executed in a short time." Qin Yuan finished his proposal.
Li Shimin agreed immediately.
As night falls, the curfew begins in Chang'an City.The imperial army beat gongs and drums and shouted in the city. Because of the curfew, the streets and alleys were very quiet, and the shouts burst out, and the common people basically heard the content.The next day, the entire city of Chang'an was discussing who Zhou Lan was, who was Wu Xiuzhu, who was the female thief Jiang Yang?After all, it must be a villain with very powerful means, forcing the government to take people with such a big fanfare.
When the sun was rising in the east, Qin Yuan stood on the tower at the Suzaku Gate and ordered people to hang Wu Xiuzhu on the wall of the imperial city.
"Hang up higher! Wait, whip two whips on your body before hanging up!" Qin Yuan said fiercely.
The guards did as they said, and beat 'Wu Xiuzhu' with a sound of whip in the air.At this time, it was the time for the officials to go to court, and gradually the carriages of the rich and powerful drove to Suzaku Gate.
Wei Zheng had heard people mention Zhou Lan and Wu Xiuzhu last night, and he had doubts all night. He drove to the Zhuque Gate this morning, and saw Qin Yuan yelling at someone on the high gate to beat him with a whip. A woman dressed in royal attire.He deliberately set off early this morning, just to get there early to inquire about the news.Seeing this, Wei Zheng couldn't help but stop the carriage and get out of the carriage.
At this time, a woman's scream passed through the air, and then the maid was thrown down from the height of the tower with her hands tied and her feet bound, and she was hanging half a foot away from the top of the Vermilion Bird Gate.Because of the high distance, Wei Zheng looked up and could only tell that the court lady's clothes were torn, her body was covered in blood, and her hair was disheveled, but other details could not be seen clearly.But he could vaguely hear a female voice groaning in pain.
Wei Zheng asked the guards at the gate why, but the guards all shook their heads, unable to say anything.
The guards told Wei Zheng that early in the morning they saw Qin Shaoqing bringing a few eunuchs and guards to escort a maid in a hurry, because Qin Shaoqing had a badge in his hand, so how dare they ask more questions, it was naturally Qin Shaoqing who acted.
Wei Zheng raised his beard and rolled his eyes, thinking that there must be something wrong here.He raised his foot to go up the tower, ready to question Qin Yuan himself.At this time, the sound of horseshoes came from behind Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng turned his head, the carriage drove in, and stopped side by side with Wei Zheng's carriage.
The curtain was lifted, Changsun Wuji squinted his eyes half-closed, leaned lazily on the car, and asked about the situation.After finishing speaking, Changsun Wuji yawned, as if he stayed up late last night and didn't get enough sleep.
Wei Zheng bowed his hand to Changsun Wuji.
Changsun Wuji seemed to see Wei Zheng at this moment, opened his eyes normally, got out of the car and greeted Wei Zheng.Wei Zheng told Changsun Wuji about the situation on the city gate.
"It's interesting." Changsun Wuji smiled, but was curious about another thing, "Does Wei Pushe know who Zhou Lan and Wu Xiuzhu are?"
"Eldest grandson also heard the cries of the imperial army last night?" Wei Zheng was also curious, and sent someone to ask, but he didn't find out why.Wei Zheng hurriedly asked Changsun Wuji if he knew.
"If I knew, why bother to ask Duke Wei just now?" Changsun Wuji said.
Wei Zheng: "If the eldest grandson doesn't know about this, I'm afraid no one in the court will know about it except those involved."
clang clang...
There was another sound of horseshoes, Wei Zheng and Changsun Wuji looked back at the same time, and saw Fang Xuanling getting off the carriage.
After Fang Xuanling looked up at the city gate, he pointed to it, and asked the two of them if they knew what was going on above.Both Wei Zheng and Changsun Wuji shook their heads, and told Fang Xuanling that Qin Yuan was on top.
"Then this girl is Wu Xiuzhu? Is it a court lady?" Fang Xuanling guessed.
"Wu Xiuzhu was the one who shouted last night?" Wei Zheng asked Fang Xuanling how he was sure.
"It's so hyped up and hung up like this, it seems like it was done by one person."
Wei Zheng admires Fang Xuanling, and he deserves to be the No. 1 strategy in this dynasty.
"So these things are all caused by Qin Yuan." Changsun Wuji laughed, very interested, and wanted to go up to the tower with Wei Zheng, anyway, it was still early.
When Fang Xuanling heard this, he couldn't be left behind. It happened that he was also a little curious, so he followed up to the tower.
What the three of them did not expect was that although the carriage of the three of them did not block the wide Suzaku Gate, Wen Daya, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, who came here later recognized that the carriage of the two prime ministers and the uncle of the state was parked at the gate. Here, one must not dare to exceed the etiquette and drive past the carriage of the three without authorization, and it is not good to turn the front of the car to avoid going to another door at this time, so he had to choose to stop obediently at the back and wait.He can only enter again after the three figures standing at the top of the court drive in.
Wen Daya was bored of waiting, so she poked her head and took a look at the city gate.
Rao is the official with the highest level of etiquette, and the Minister of Rites is like this, so who would dare to overstep the rules in the vehicles that came after him.Everyone obediently lined up at the back of Wen Daya's carriage, one after the other, almost across the side street.
At this moment, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji were still on the top of the city gate, and they didn't know what was going on below.They were looking at Qin Yuan who was sitting on a small wooden stool with his legs bent, speechless.At this time, he was holding a Chinese cabbage in his arms, and was nibbling on the cabbage with relish.
Qin Yuan was surprised to see these three people, chewed his mouth quickly, swallowed the cabbage in his mouth, got up and put down the cabbage, and greeted the three.
"You actually sit here and eat cabbage!" Wei Zheng was astonished, and asked Qin Yuan where his etiquette had gone.
"Being busy early in the morning, I'm a little hungry." Qin Yuan explained in a low voice, and then muttered, "Your Majesty didn't tell me that I can't eat when I'm doing this."
On the other hand, Changsun Wuji laughed, pointing at Qin Yuan and being unable to say anything, he was about to be twitched by Qin Yuan's appearance.
Fang Xuanling also laughed, but his posture was more refined, and he felt that Qin Yuan was not easy with Wei Zheng.
"You must be extremely hungry, otherwise you wouldn't even eat this cabbage raw."
"Where did you get this thing?" Wei Zheng found it inconceivable that Qin Yuan actually came to Suzaku Gate with a cabbage in his arms.
Qin Yuan was hungry and didn't bother to argue with Wei Zheng, besides Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji were still there, so he lowered his eyes, sniffed pitifully, and didn't say a word.
"Okay, you don't have to make things difficult for him. Where did it come from? Naturally, how did you get it by the way? If you're really hungry, eat it." It's not easy for Fang Xuanling to sympathize with Qin Yuan.
"That's right, Wei Gong is too harsh on him, eating womb cabbage like this is already a punishment!" Changsun Wuji blamed Wei Zheng for making a fuss.
Wei Zheng: "You—"
Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling looked at Wei Zheng at the same time, saying, 'If you don't agree with what you say, let's see how we refute you'.Wei Zheng was speechless for a moment, it was useless to say it, one to two, he definitely couldn't say it.
Fang Xuanling asked Qin Yuan what happened to the person hanging on the city gate, and could he be called Wu Xiuzhu?
Qin Yuan agreed.
Changsun Wuji interrupted and asked Qin Yuan why he didn't report what he was doing now. As the highest official of Dali Temple, he didn't know what his subordinates were doing secretly.
"Secret." Qin Yuan moved out Li Shimin to block the arrow.
"What kind of secrets can a court lady involve, and what mistakes did she make?" Wei Zheng asked Qin Yuan.
Qin Yuan pointed to the one hanging below, "About her, she seems to have made no mistake."
"Then you—"
Wei Zheng was a little too angry to speak.
In front of the three court officials, he uttered nonsense and said that he did not make any mistakes, and he actually beat him up like that and hung him up.
"There must be something hidden. Since we have obeyed the holy order, the three of us should not get involved." Fang Xuanling advised.
When Wei Zheng heard the word 'Holy Order', his eyes suddenly became solemn, and he immediately sat down and made up his mind.
Qin Yuan was naturally keenly aware of this, and couldn't help but thank the heavens for having eyes, allowing him to meet Wei Zheng at this moment.Qin Yuan feels that tomorrow's food problem will definitely be improved, and he will no longer have to eat bitter peppers and gnaw Chinese cabbage.
Changsun Wuji turned his head to see if the hanging maid was still alive, but suddenly he saw a line of carriages lined up under the city gate, stretching all the way to Zhuque Street at the other end of the side street.
"Let's go." Changsun Wuji was shocked by this spectacular scene, thinking that it was getting late, he urged.
Both Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling didn't pay attention to the situation under the city gate because they were focused on Qin Yuan and the Chinese cabbage in his hand.Now that the two of them met, they both felt that something was wrong, so they hurried downstairs with Changsun Wuji.
Qin Yuan picked up his Chinese cabbage, broke off a leaf and watched the three people leave with a smile while chewing.
After that, Qin Yuan gnawed on the cabbage and witnessed the panorama of the long queue of motorcades slowly entering under the door.
Today is the small court meeting, and the courtiers who arrived one after another were waiting, when suddenly they heard a burst of chaotic footsteps.Following the sound, under the leadership of Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji, more than a dozen ministers followed behind, hurrying over.Usually two or three met at most and came together, but this time there were many real people, it seemed that they came together after they made an appointment to meet somewhere first.
After the Xiaochaohui ended, Wei Zheng deliberately stayed and asked Li Shimin about the Suzaku Gate.Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji glanced at each other, and stayed behind to join in the fun.
"Well, the widow ordered it." Li Shimin said.
"Your Majesty, may I ask what mistake the palace witch Xiuzhu made?" Wei Zheng asked.
"Don't report what you know, conceal a felony." Li Shimin replied.
Wei Zheng: "May I ask what felony was concealed?"
The pen in Li Shimin's hand froze for a while, and when he looked up and saw that Sun Wuji was there, he couldn't speak even more.
"Confidential." Li Shimin said unhurriedly.
It's a secret again. Wei Zheng was very angry when he heard these two words from Qin Yuan just now.
"Your Majesty, what kind of secrets can a little court lady in the province involve, so that His Majesty can't talk to my ministers?"
Li Shimin: "Play if you have something to do, and leave if you have nothing to do."
"Could it be that your Majesty has done something out of bounds, and that he deliberately concealed it for fear of being persuaded by the ministers?"
Wei Zhengzhi has lost his temper, especially to Li Shimin, he must say what is wrong.
"Just now on the city tower, I personally asked Qin Yuan, and he claimed that the maid hanging above the city gate was not charged with any crime."
Li Shimin was startled, and asked Wei Zheng, "He really said that?"
Wei Zheng agreed.
Both Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling were sweating for Qin Yuan in their hearts. It seemed that His Majesty was very displeased, Qin Yuan would probably be in trouble.
Li Shimin lowered his eyes and looked serious. After a moment of silence, he sighed.
"What Qin Yuan said is correct, the one hanging on the city gate is indeed innocent."
"Your Majesty, innocent people are treated like this, and they are still at the largest Suzaku Gate in Miyagi. Isn't Your Majesty afraid of being called a tyrannical king by the world?" Wei Zheng asked.
Li Shimin: "Not afraid."
"Your Majesty, as an emperor, does not put virtue first, is stupid and tyrannical, disregards human life, and does not listen to advice!" Wei Zheng said fiercely, his tone very aggressive.
"Hahaha..." Li Shimin laughed, and asked Wei Zhengke if he had carefully checked the people hanging on the city gate.
"Look, the court lady was whipped and hung on the city gate more than ten feet high, sobbing and crying, her life is not long." Wei Zheng's eyes were stern, and he scolded, "She can have today, all because of her bad life. , caught up with such a king who despises the life of the humble."
Wei Zheng dared to speak out.
Li Shimin laughed again, "Okay, okay, I will tell you now that the dummy hanging on the city gate is just for attracting people. The crying you heard must have been faked by someone ordered by Qin Yuan."
Li Shimin then deliberately emphasized to Wei Zheng that his behavior is not considered to belittle human life.
"As for the reason, it's nothing more than an internal matter in the palace. The widow lost an important thing, which was taken away by the maid, and must be recovered. You don't need to ask more about it, but you should worry more about the drought in the pass. You must monitor it carefully, but You can't wait for the disaster relief money to be corrupted." Li Shimin reminded Wei Zheng that if he fails to monitor this matter and something goes wrong, he will be punished together with him.
Wei Zheng asked Li Shimin to rest assured that he will arrange all these matters properly and there will be no mistakes.
Wei Zheng asked again: "Your Majesty's things were stolen by the maid? How did the maid escape from the palace? Escaped from the imperial city? Will there be any accomplices? This case is very important and must be punished severely. It should be dealt with by Dai Zhou, Qin Yuan...is not suitable."
"Why is it inappropriate?" Li Shimin asked.
Wei Zheng told the story of Qin Yuan sitting on the top of the city gate and eating cabbage.
Li Shimin laughed out loud, but regretted that he was not there at the time, thinking about that scene is interesting.
"It's hard for him. In order to work on this case, he doesn't have time to have a serious meal. What should I reward him for?" Li Shimin pondered.
Wei Zheng had no choice but to suggest that Qin Yuan was 'inappropriate', not a 'reward' to Qin Yuan.
"He is short of a house now." Changsun Wuji told Li Shimin that Qin Yuan is currently living in no fixed place, and now he is temporarily staying at Zhao Wang Li Yuanjing's house.
Li Shimin nodded, he was really interested in this matter, but he won't reward him immediately, so he ordered him to find a suitable house.Wait until Qin Yuan solves the case against Concubine Wei's mother, and then reward him.
Li Shimin planned to agree with Qin Yuan to open the coffin to examine the body of Concubine Wei's mother, and asked the three of them how they viewed the matter.
Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji exchanged glances.
"I think there is no distinction between high and low in the investigation of cases, and so is the corpse. Since the case is involved, no matter whether it is noble or not, the one who should be inspected must still be inspected." Wei Zheng said straightforwardly.
Changsun Wuji also agreed and told Li Shimin that Qin Yuan had spent a lot of energy on this case during this period.Dali Temple was about to break its legs, but there is still no directional evidence.
"The key lies in this corpse. If you don't know where the problem lies, it is tantamount to looking for the murderer blindfolded. There is a huge crowd, where to find it!"
"It should be so." Fang Xuanling followed suit and suggested, "It's just that Concubine Wei Gui will have to trouble Your Majesty to comfort her more."
Li Shimin agreed, and then ordered the three of them to leave without incident.
After the three of them left Taiji Palace, Changsun Wuji began to question Wei Zheng, why did he say that Qin Yuan was inappropriate in front of Li Shimin just now.
"There is no seriousness in doing things. Within the palace curtains, a slight mistake can easily cause trouble. He has just been an official, so he doesn't know the situation in the palace. I am afraid that he will stick to things but not know it. Get it in by yourself." Wei Zheng was always worried about Qin Yuan's immaturity and lack of experience.
Changsun Wuji lamented that Wei Zheng thought too much.Changsun Wuji turned around and asked where Fang Xuanling was standing.
"Qin Shaoqing is able to win the favor of the sage and do things for the sage that even the three of us don't know. He is already better than us." Fang Xuanling praised without hesitation.
Wei Zheng disagreed, "I said there was something wrong here! The sage was afraid that we would know how to persuade him, so he asked him to do it. We know what Qin Yuan is like, and every day he shouted that my emperor is happy, and he is extremely flattering, encouraging the sage to indulge. !"
Speaking of flattery, Changsun Wuji thought of his 'discussion on a gentleman' with Qin Yuan.He discussed with Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng, and asked them if they thought they were gentlemen.
"Yes." Wei Zheng can be humble in many things, but in this matter, he is determined not to be humble.
"Me too." Fang Xuanling seconded.
Changsun Wuji pointed at the two of them helplessly, scolding them for not being too thick-skinned.He flicked his sleeves and turned around.As a villain, he is ashamed to associate with these gentlemen!
When Qin Yuan gnawed on the third cabbage on the top of the city gate, he found a woman appeared on the side street. She was standing on the side of the road, looking up at this end, and then frantically ran in the direction of Suzaku gate.
Qin Yuan threw away the cabbage in his hand and ordered people to arrest the woman immediately.
After a while, the guards brought over a woman in a duck egg green dress.With a melon-seeded face, crescent eyebrows and almond eyes, cherry red thin lips, and a gorgeous appearance, she is indeed a beauty.
Qin Yuan covered his nose with a silk handkerchief, kept a foot away from the woman, and asked her if she was the court lady Zhou Lan.
Zhou Lan glanced back at Qin Yuan slightly angrily, then had to kneel down, begging Qin Yuan to let Wu Xiuzhu go.
"She didn't know what the lowly servant did, she was innocent." Zhou Lan kowtowed to Qin Yuan and said in tears, "The lowly servant has confessed to the crime of the lowly servant, and she is willing to be punished by a thousand swords, she deserves it Retribution, please let her go."
"I don't think she's innocent. Since you and her have a good relationship, she must know about you." Qin Yuan said this deliberately, so as to draw out more words from Zhou Lan.
"No, she doesn't know that I can inspirit. You have to be careful everywhere in the palace. If my ability is known, there is no chance of survival, so I haven't told anyone. Even the best My friend, I am also afraid that she will betray me."
Zhou Lan told Qin Yuan that her soul-hunting technique was taught by her master.The charming fragrance on her hair is the prescription she got after taking her soul from Sun Taiyi.The medicine was taken by the eunuch of the pharmacy, so he stole some for himself.
"Then who is your master?" Qin Yuan asked again.
"My master is an old maid from the Shangyi Bureau, named Wang Yan. She has already died of illness."
"How do you know that you didn't deliberately use a dead person to prevaricate us, in order to protect your real living master?" Qin Yuan asked.
"I'm just the daughter of an ordinary family. I don't know a single word. There are not many promising people around. If I knew such a powerful thing before I entered the palace, I would try my best not to enter the palace. Everyone in the palace Be careful, as I said just now, I was careful, and my master was naturally very careful about it back then. If she hadn't been with her for a long time, seeing that I was reliable, she herself was about to die soon, so how could she treat such a powerful Things are taught to me." Zhou Lan argued logically.
"Then why didn't your master use the soul-stirring technique to get out of the palace? Instead, he wanted to die of old age in the palace?"
Zhou Lan: "Her mother died a long time ago, her father remarried, and her stepmother gave birth to a pair of sons. There is no place for her at home. She is in charge of the clothing bureau anyway, so her life is not too difficult. Besides, The soul-hunting technique is just a spell to fool people for a while, and it won't last long. If she returns home, her stepmother will die."
Zhou Lan then explained to Qin Yuan that she was planning to lend a helping hand because she saw many court ladies being forced to separate from their families and felt resentful.Wu Xiuzhu was only one of the reasons for her action, not all of them.
"I have been planning this matter for a year, and I have finally succeeded in defending it until now, but it is also a time when I am dead."
Zhou Lan kowtowed to Qin Yuan repeatedly, begging him to let Wu Xiuzhu go.
"One person does things and one person is responsible. If she dies because of my innocence, I will not let her go even if I go to hell. I must remember it clearly."
Zhou Lan just told Qin Yuan that if he couldn't let her good sister go, then she wouldn't let Qin Yuan go even if she was a ghost after death.
"Your threats may be useful to others, but forget it to me. I'm afraid that if you come to me after you die, you will be scared to death again." Qin Yuan is a fairy, so of course he is not afraid of ghosts.
Zhou Lan knelt on the ground in grief and resentment, her hands clenched into fists.
"You are bold and reckless, falsely preaching the imperial decree, and doing such wrong things, you will definitely die." Qin Yuan sighed that she was a pity, he was obviously a kind-hearted person.
"People are good at being ridden by others, give me one, and get three thousand, it's worth it." Zhou Lan raised her head in tears, looked at the people hanging from the city gate tower, cried sorry, and kowtowed in the direction of the city gate.
Qin Yuan ordered his subordinates to put him down.
There was hope in Zhou Lan's eyes.
The guard hurried up to the city gate tower and cut the rope with a single blow.
The hanging man quickly fell in front of Suzaku's door, and fell hard to the ground, kicking up the surrounding dust.
"No—" Zhou Lan exclaimed with tears in her eyes.
Qin Yuan took the knife from the guard's hand, turned around and walked in front of the 'corpse', and slashed wildly on the 'corpse''s stomach a few times.
"No-no-no-" Zhou Lan's voice was hoarse, and his voice was finally hoarse to silence.
"I'm going to kill you—" Zhou Lan got up and was about to throw herself on Ruan Yuan, and then she saw the straw exposed from the cut abdomen of the corpse.
Zhou Lan looked at Qin Yuan in a daze, and after realizing that the corpse was fake, she thumped and knelt on the ground, not knowing what to do.
"Does it feel comfortable to be cheated?" Qin Yuan asked.
Zhou Lan's body was still trembling, because she hadn't recovered from the stimulation just now.
"You lied to His Majesty like that, do you think His Majesty will feel better?"
"It's my fault, I take the blame." Zhou Lan sobbed brokenly.
"Since you have already had the opportunity to face the Holy Spirit, why don't you express your thoughts directly, how do you know that His Majesty can't understand?"
Zhou Lan looked at Qin Yuan.
Qin Yuan could feel her meaning from her eyes.Zhou Lan thought that the high-ranking emperor would not bother to care about the living conditions of the court ladies.
"After the imperial decree, you can't go back on your word, that's why you made such a bad move." Zhou Lan explained.
Zhou Lan then listened to Qin Yuan talk about the Mid-Autumn Festival Sheren's participation in the palace maid, and Li Shimin's final decision to release the palace maid, and long-term consideration of the palace maid's future life.
Qin Yuan also told Zhou Lan that her good sister Wu Xiuzhu was already on the list of exiles.
Zhou Lan was very moved. When she followed Qin Yuan to meet Li Shimin, she sincerely kowtowed to Li Shimin and apologized, calling Long live my emperor.Now she deserves to die even if she dies. She is willing to die and deserves to die.
Seeing that Zhou Lan sincerely apologized and had kind thoughts in his heart, Li Shimin couldn't help being moved.He even felt soft-hearted for a moment and didn't want to kill her.But bewitching the emperor and falsely preaching imperial edicts, how can such bold and reckless people be forgiven.
It means that capital crimes can be forgiven, but living crimes cannot escape.
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After a stick of incense, Qin Yuan came out from the Liangyi Hall, happy.Li Shimin finally let go and let him examine Mrs. Duan's body.
It is better to hit the day than to choose the day, start as soon as possible.
After Qin Yuan arrived at Wei Mansion, Sun Fujia and Wu Zuo, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, were already in place.Lu Qiaoer was also there, and told Qin Yuan that she had carefully checked all corners of Yong'an Temple, including every elixir in the elixir room, and found no trace of Gu poison.
There are still no clues, but fortunately, the coffin can finally be opened for an autopsy.
Qin Yuan ordered someone to open the coffin.
The moment the coffin lid was lifted, a faint strange smell wafted out.
Everyone held their noses and leaned forward to take a look. Everyone thought that the smell would be more if they got closer to the coffin, but in fact there was no smell at all.It seems that there is only the smell of the coffin just opened, which is caused by the coffin being sealed for a long time.
At this moment, several people opened their eyes wide at the same time, staring at the corpse in the coffin in amazement.
Lu Qiaoer: "It's only been five days since someone died, how could it be..."
Sun Fujia: "Even after two or three months of death, or even half a year, I have never seen anything like this."
Qin Yuan stared straight at the corpse: "It can be seen that the autopsy is correct, this corpse is very problematic."
Inside the coffin, Duan's skin and flesh were already dry, covered with bones, and the surface of the skin looked hard, like bark and stone shells.
Qin Yuan ordered Wu to conduct an autopsy.
In view of Duan's noble status, the inspector did not dare to touch it directly, but just fiddled with the bamboo wrapped in cloth, inspected it roughly, and then shook his head helplessly.Wu Zuo said that he had never seen such a corpse, and he really couldn't figure it out.
"Obviously when a person dies, the skin is normal, not like this." After seeing the corpse, the butler of the Wei Mansion was surprised and puzzled.
"Take a look with a knife." Qin Yuan suggested.
Sun Fujia stopped immediately, "This is not appropriate. The saint asked you to do an autopsy, but did you let you use a knife on Mrs. Duan's body?"
"I didn't say no." Qin Yuan took advantage of the loophole and said.
"But I didn't say yes." Sun Fujia added, he was doing it for his own good, and he was afraid that Qin Yuan would offend Shengyan on impulse, "If you have to use the knife, it's okay, I suggest you bring two more people .”
"Who?"
Sun Fujia: "The eldest grandson and Dai Zhou."
In this way, all the leaders of Dali Temple are called, and everyone has a share.Even if they take the responsibility, they won't be too unlucky with Changsun Wuji's uncle at the front.
Qin Yuan smiled and pointed at Sun Fujia, sighing that he was too bad. "I always thought that Sun Shaoqing was upright, but I didn't expect there to be so many twists and turns in my stomach."
"When you can be straight, it's good to be straight, and your reputation is good. But when you can't, don't be stubborn. The way to be an official is not the means, but the result." Sun Fujia told Qin Yuan, as long as you don't Under the premise of violating the law and violating morality, it is a good way to deal with the problem by protecting oneself wisely and using devious tactics.
"Taught!" Qin Yuan thanked Sun Fujia for his advice, and immediately called Changsun Wuji and Dai Zhou.
Dai Zhou is very kind, the relationship between Qin Yuan and him has eased recently, just send someone to call him.
Changsun Wuji was a bit difficult, so Qin Yuan decided to do it himself.
After Changsun Wuji heard the words, he immediately sensed Qin Yuan's purpose, and sighed with a sneer, "Don't come to me for good things, but I will be blamed for bad things. If it's not good, don't go!"
"It's good, there is!" Qin Yuan asked Changsun Wuji to wait a while, and soon after, he held two Chinese cabbages in his left and right arms and sent them to Changsun Wuji.
Changsun Wuji didn't continue.
Qin Yuan directly put two cabbages on the table in front of Changsun Wuji, and one of them was not safe, rolled a bit, and rolled into Changsun Wuji's arms.
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment when he saw the list, and asked Nei Changshi what he meant by this in doubt.
Nei Chang Shi was also puzzled when he heard the words, and explained to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty issued an order this morning to order the Ministry of Internal Affairs to draw up a list of three thousand people who want to leave the palace."
This matter is very strange, Li Shimin does not remember that he ever made an order.The time this morning is very special, and it is likely to be related to what happened last night.Li Shimin didn't make a statement for the time being, and ordered his internal servant to fetch the imperial edict first, and then ordered Qin Yuan to have an audience.
After Qin Yuan came in a hurry, he read the imperial decree, asked the eunuch who delivered the decree at that time, and confirmed with Li Shimin that Zhou Lan did it.
At this time, Li Baiyao, a member of Zhongshushe, came to see him and praised Li Shimin's way of letting the palace people out of the palace.
Li Shimin listened with complicated emotions while giving Qin Yuan his eyes.
"Because of the anniversary of the death of the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty has shown grace to the palace people, sympathized with the palace's grievances, filial piety and virtuousness, moved the heavens and the earth, and my ministers admire and admire them extremely."
Li Baiyao lamented that he actually had this idea a long time ago, and wanted to propose to Li Shimin, and he had already prepared a memorial.
"I didn't expect that His Majesty had already made a comprehensive arrangement, but I was too worried."
Li Shimin's expression became more complicated, this matter is indeed a good thing.However, Li Shimin was forced to falsely preach the imperial decree to order him to accept this matter. After all, Li Shimin couldn't help it, so he asked Qin Yuan's opinion on this matter.
Of course Qin Yuan thought it was a good thing.In Li Baiyao's memorial, he must have expounded in detail and convincingly the scene of the palace maids dying in the palace.Qin Yuan suggested that Li Shimin take a look at Li Baiyao's memorial first.
Li Baiyao looked back at Qin Yuan happily, expressing his gratitude secretly.He raised his eyebrows happily and said to Li Shimin: "Coincidentally, I just brought the memorial."
After speaking, Li Baiyao happily presented the memorial.It's hard for him, an old minister who is usually solemn and strict, to smile all over his face now, so that the wrinkles on his face are crowded together, bright like a chrysanthemum.
After Li Shimin read the memorial, his attitude was slightly moved.
After Li Baiyao left, Qin Yuanyou said to Li Shimin, "The court lady Zhou Lan tried her best to plot against His Majesty. She acted recklessly and falsely preached the imperial decree. She committed a heinous crime and should be arrested and sentenced to death. But thinking about her motives for doing this, it doesn't seem bad. This is a good deed by the palace people."
"According to what you mean, the widow is going to follow her threat and make her succeed?" Li Shimin narrowed his eyes and stared at Qin Yuan emotionally.
"Your Majesty thinks that you don't care about other people's threats, and only decide wisely what is right, so that you are truly free from threats. You can't stop a virtuous person from doing good deeds just because a wicked person threatens you with good deeds. It is your own decision to do what is good. It has nothing to do with others. In fact, even if there is no matter about Zhou Lan, Li Sheren will participate in this matter. I see that His Majesty is already moved, and if he plays first, His Majesty will definitely play. If this is the case, why don't you agree?" Qin Yuan suggested.
Li Shimin nodded, looked at Li Yuan differently, and praised him for suddenly having the demeanor of Wei Zheng and the talent for admonishing officials.
"I thought releasing people was just the first step. These court ladies are old and haven't been outside the palace for many years, so they don't know what the situation is like outside. On the one hand, it is difficult to adapt, on the other hand, they are rejected by their families, their lives are not settled, and they are even struggling for their livelihoods. , reduced to a beggar." Qin Yuan suggested that some money and court ladies should be properly divided, or a government order should be issued, for example, those who marry court ladies can reduce or exempt taxes.
Qin Yuan had no experience in formulating government orders, so he suggested that Wei Zheng or Fang Xuanling could come up with a reasonable solution.
Li Shimin praised Qin Yuan for his long-term thinking, which is excellent.It is bound to be impossible to turn the intention of a good palace man into a bad thing in the end, which deviates from the original intention.
Li Shimin immediately ordered Fang Xuanling to consider the matter in detail.
Qin Yuan went out of the palace earlier, so he went to investigate Zhou Lan's background in detail.Zhou Lan's family is in Pingyang County, not far from Chang'an. There are seven children in the family, three boys and four girls.Zhou Lan entered the palace at the age of 13, and now she is 24. Her family situation is ordinary, but there is nothing special about it.
Now because I know that Zhou Lan's purpose of seducing Li Shimin is for the Three Thousand Palaces.Qin Yuan felt that Zhou Lan was so adventurous that there might be a trigger that triggered her behavior.
After detailed questioning of several palace people who were acquainted with Zhou Lan, they learned that a court lady named Wu Xiuzhu lived in the same room with Zhou Lan and had a good relationship.Before Wu Xiuzhu entered the palace, her family had been in love with Lin Sanlang from the neighboring village. However, due to God's will, when the marriage was about to be finalized, Wu Xiuzhu was chosen in time for the palace selection.Before Wu Xiuzhu entered the palace, Lin Sanlang vowed to wait for Zhou Lan, willing to make a ten-year agreement.After ten years, Lin Sanlang will not be able to persevere. After all, he will be filial to his parents, marry a wife and have children.
"What a pair of lovers." Li Shimin allowed Xiuzhu, the palace witch, to leave the palace, on the condition that she would explain Zhou Lan's whereabouts, where Zhou Lan learned her soul-hunting technique, and the medicine on her hair, and what Where did it come from.
Wu Xiuzhu kowtowed three times to Li Shimin in tears. Her body trembled and she was obviously very frightened, but she uttered tremblingly with difficulty: "The poor maid would like to die on behalf of Zhou Lan."
She would rather die than betray her sisters.
Li Shimin smiled angrily, and let Qin Yuanlai take full responsibility to solve the case.
Qin Yuan told Li Shimin that based on his guess, Zhou Lan should have successfully sneaked out of the palace.Every morning, several carriages transporting vegetables would come and go from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Zhou Lan was so smart, bold and adventurous, he probably got out before the martial law in the palace.After all, she is capable of instigating souls and bewitching others. It is not difficult to cover her up and leave.
"Since she and sister Wu Xiuzhu are deeply in love, why not take Wu Xiuzhu and hang them outside the imperial city. Beat gongs and drums to announce that if Zhou Lan doesn't show up, Wu Xiuzhu will be executed in a short time." Qin Yuan finished his proposal.
Li Shimin agreed immediately.
As night falls, the curfew begins in Chang'an City.The imperial army beat gongs and drums and shouted in the city. Because of the curfew, the streets and alleys were very quiet, and the shouts burst out, and the common people basically heard the content.The next day, the entire city of Chang'an was discussing who Zhou Lan was, who was Wu Xiuzhu, who was the female thief Jiang Yang?After all, it must be a villain with very powerful means, forcing the government to take people with such a big fanfare.
When the sun was rising in the east, Qin Yuan stood on the tower at the Suzaku Gate and ordered people to hang Wu Xiuzhu on the wall of the imperial city.
"Hang up higher! Wait, whip two whips on your body before hanging up!" Qin Yuan said fiercely.
The guards did as they said, and beat 'Wu Xiuzhu' with a sound of whip in the air.At this time, it was the time for the officials to go to court, and gradually the carriages of the rich and powerful drove to Suzaku Gate.
Wei Zheng had heard people mention Zhou Lan and Wu Xiuzhu last night, and he had doubts all night. He drove to the Zhuque Gate this morning, and saw Qin Yuan yelling at someone on the high gate to beat him with a whip. A woman dressed in royal attire.He deliberately set off early this morning, just to get there early to inquire about the news.Seeing this, Wei Zheng couldn't help but stop the carriage and get out of the carriage.
At this time, a woman's scream passed through the air, and then the maid was thrown down from the height of the tower with her hands tied and her feet bound, and she was hanging half a foot away from the top of the Vermilion Bird Gate.Because of the high distance, Wei Zheng looked up and could only tell that the court lady's clothes were torn, her body was covered in blood, and her hair was disheveled, but other details could not be seen clearly.But he could vaguely hear a female voice groaning in pain.
Wei Zheng asked the guards at the gate why, but the guards all shook their heads, unable to say anything.
The guards told Wei Zheng that early in the morning they saw Qin Shaoqing bringing a few eunuchs and guards to escort a maid in a hurry, because Qin Shaoqing had a badge in his hand, so how dare they ask more questions, it was naturally Qin Shaoqing who acted.
Wei Zheng raised his beard and rolled his eyes, thinking that there must be something wrong here.He raised his foot to go up the tower, ready to question Qin Yuan himself.At this time, the sound of horseshoes came from behind Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng turned his head, the carriage drove in, and stopped side by side with Wei Zheng's carriage.
The curtain was lifted, Changsun Wuji squinted his eyes half-closed, leaned lazily on the car, and asked about the situation.After finishing speaking, Changsun Wuji yawned, as if he stayed up late last night and didn't get enough sleep.
Wei Zheng bowed his hand to Changsun Wuji.
Changsun Wuji seemed to see Wei Zheng at this moment, opened his eyes normally, got out of the car and greeted Wei Zheng.Wei Zheng told Changsun Wuji about the situation on the city gate.
"It's interesting." Changsun Wuji smiled, but was curious about another thing, "Does Wei Pushe know who Zhou Lan and Wu Xiuzhu are?"
"Eldest grandson also heard the cries of the imperial army last night?" Wei Zheng was also curious, and sent someone to ask, but he didn't find out why.Wei Zheng hurriedly asked Changsun Wuji if he knew.
"If I knew, why bother to ask Duke Wei just now?" Changsun Wuji said.
Wei Zheng: "If the eldest grandson doesn't know about this, I'm afraid no one in the court will know about it except those involved."
clang clang...
There was another sound of horseshoes, Wei Zheng and Changsun Wuji looked back at the same time, and saw Fang Xuanling getting off the carriage.
After Fang Xuanling looked up at the city gate, he pointed to it, and asked the two of them if they knew what was going on above.Both Wei Zheng and Changsun Wuji shook their heads, and told Fang Xuanling that Qin Yuan was on top.
"Then this girl is Wu Xiuzhu? Is it a court lady?" Fang Xuanling guessed.
"Wu Xiuzhu was the one who shouted last night?" Wei Zheng asked Fang Xuanling how he was sure.
"It's so hyped up and hung up like this, it seems like it was done by one person."
Wei Zheng admires Fang Xuanling, and he deserves to be the No. 1 strategy in this dynasty.
"So these things are all caused by Qin Yuan." Changsun Wuji laughed, very interested, and wanted to go up to the tower with Wei Zheng, anyway, it was still early.
When Fang Xuanling heard this, he couldn't be left behind. It happened that he was also a little curious, so he followed up to the tower.
What the three of them did not expect was that although the carriage of the three of them did not block the wide Suzaku Gate, Wen Daya, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, who came here later recognized that the carriage of the two prime ministers and the uncle of the state was parked at the gate. Here, one must not dare to exceed the etiquette and drive past the carriage of the three without authorization, and it is not good to turn the front of the car to avoid going to another door at this time, so he had to choose to stop obediently at the back and wait.He can only enter again after the three figures standing at the top of the court drive in.
Wen Daya was bored of waiting, so she poked her head and took a look at the city gate.
Rao is the official with the highest level of etiquette, and the Minister of Rites is like this, so who would dare to overstep the rules in the vehicles that came after him.Everyone obediently lined up at the back of Wen Daya's carriage, one after the other, almost across the side street.
At this moment, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji were still on the top of the city gate, and they didn't know what was going on below.They were looking at Qin Yuan who was sitting on a small wooden stool with his legs bent, speechless.At this time, he was holding a Chinese cabbage in his arms, and was nibbling on the cabbage with relish.
Qin Yuan was surprised to see these three people, chewed his mouth quickly, swallowed the cabbage in his mouth, got up and put down the cabbage, and greeted the three.
"You actually sit here and eat cabbage!" Wei Zheng was astonished, and asked Qin Yuan where his etiquette had gone.
"Being busy early in the morning, I'm a little hungry." Qin Yuan explained in a low voice, and then muttered, "Your Majesty didn't tell me that I can't eat when I'm doing this."
On the other hand, Changsun Wuji laughed, pointing at Qin Yuan and being unable to say anything, he was about to be twitched by Qin Yuan's appearance.
Fang Xuanling also laughed, but his posture was more refined, and he felt that Qin Yuan was not easy with Wei Zheng.
"You must be extremely hungry, otherwise you wouldn't even eat this cabbage raw."
"Where did you get this thing?" Wei Zheng found it inconceivable that Qin Yuan actually came to Suzaku Gate with a cabbage in his arms.
Qin Yuan was hungry and didn't bother to argue with Wei Zheng, besides Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji were still there, so he lowered his eyes, sniffed pitifully, and didn't say a word.
"Okay, you don't have to make things difficult for him. Where did it come from? Naturally, how did you get it by the way? If you're really hungry, eat it." It's not easy for Fang Xuanling to sympathize with Qin Yuan.
"That's right, Wei Gong is too harsh on him, eating womb cabbage like this is already a punishment!" Changsun Wuji blamed Wei Zheng for making a fuss.
Wei Zheng: "You—"
Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling looked at Wei Zheng at the same time, saying, 'If you don't agree with what you say, let's see how we refute you'.Wei Zheng was speechless for a moment, it was useless to say it, one to two, he definitely couldn't say it.
Fang Xuanling asked Qin Yuan what happened to the person hanging on the city gate, and could he be called Wu Xiuzhu?
Qin Yuan agreed.
Changsun Wuji interrupted and asked Qin Yuan why he didn't report what he was doing now. As the highest official of Dali Temple, he didn't know what his subordinates were doing secretly.
"Secret." Qin Yuan moved out Li Shimin to block the arrow.
"What kind of secrets can a court lady involve, and what mistakes did she make?" Wei Zheng asked Qin Yuan.
Qin Yuan pointed to the one hanging below, "About her, she seems to have made no mistake."
"Then you—"
Wei Zheng was a little too angry to speak.
In front of the three court officials, he uttered nonsense and said that he did not make any mistakes, and he actually beat him up like that and hung him up.
"There must be something hidden. Since we have obeyed the holy order, the three of us should not get involved." Fang Xuanling advised.
When Wei Zheng heard the word 'Holy Order', his eyes suddenly became solemn, and he immediately sat down and made up his mind.
Qin Yuan was naturally keenly aware of this, and couldn't help but thank the heavens for having eyes, allowing him to meet Wei Zheng at this moment.Qin Yuan feels that tomorrow's food problem will definitely be improved, and he will no longer have to eat bitter peppers and gnaw Chinese cabbage.
Changsun Wuji turned his head to see if the hanging maid was still alive, but suddenly he saw a line of carriages lined up under the city gate, stretching all the way to Zhuque Street at the other end of the side street.
"Let's go." Changsun Wuji was shocked by this spectacular scene, thinking that it was getting late, he urged.
Both Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling didn't pay attention to the situation under the city gate because they were focused on Qin Yuan and the Chinese cabbage in his hand.Now that the two of them met, they both felt that something was wrong, so they hurried downstairs with Changsun Wuji.
Qin Yuan picked up his Chinese cabbage, broke off a leaf and watched the three people leave with a smile while chewing.
After that, Qin Yuan gnawed on the cabbage and witnessed the panorama of the long queue of motorcades slowly entering under the door.
Today is the small court meeting, and the courtiers who arrived one after another were waiting, when suddenly they heard a burst of chaotic footsteps.Following the sound, under the leadership of Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji, more than a dozen ministers followed behind, hurrying over.Usually two or three met at most and came together, but this time there were many real people, it seemed that they came together after they made an appointment to meet somewhere first.
After the Xiaochaohui ended, Wei Zheng deliberately stayed and asked Li Shimin about the Suzaku Gate.Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji glanced at each other, and stayed behind to join in the fun.
"Well, the widow ordered it." Li Shimin said.
"Your Majesty, may I ask what mistake the palace witch Xiuzhu made?" Wei Zheng asked.
"Don't report what you know, conceal a felony." Li Shimin replied.
Wei Zheng: "May I ask what felony was concealed?"
The pen in Li Shimin's hand froze for a while, and when he looked up and saw that Sun Wuji was there, he couldn't speak even more.
"Confidential." Li Shimin said unhurriedly.
It's a secret again. Wei Zheng was very angry when he heard these two words from Qin Yuan just now.
"Your Majesty, what kind of secrets can a little court lady in the province involve, so that His Majesty can't talk to my ministers?"
Li Shimin: "Play if you have something to do, and leave if you have nothing to do."
"Could it be that your Majesty has done something out of bounds, and that he deliberately concealed it for fear of being persuaded by the ministers?"
Wei Zhengzhi has lost his temper, especially to Li Shimin, he must say what is wrong.
"Just now on the city tower, I personally asked Qin Yuan, and he claimed that the maid hanging above the city gate was not charged with any crime."
Li Shimin was startled, and asked Wei Zheng, "He really said that?"
Wei Zheng agreed.
Both Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling were sweating for Qin Yuan in their hearts. It seemed that His Majesty was very displeased, Qin Yuan would probably be in trouble.
Li Shimin lowered his eyes and looked serious. After a moment of silence, he sighed.
"What Qin Yuan said is correct, the one hanging on the city gate is indeed innocent."
"Your Majesty, innocent people are treated like this, and they are still at the largest Suzaku Gate in Miyagi. Isn't Your Majesty afraid of being called a tyrannical king by the world?" Wei Zheng asked.
Li Shimin: "Not afraid."
"Your Majesty, as an emperor, does not put virtue first, is stupid and tyrannical, disregards human life, and does not listen to advice!" Wei Zheng said fiercely, his tone very aggressive.
"Hahaha..." Li Shimin laughed, and asked Wei Zhengke if he had carefully checked the people hanging on the city gate.
"Look, the court lady was whipped and hung on the city gate more than ten feet high, sobbing and crying, her life is not long." Wei Zheng's eyes were stern, and he scolded, "She can have today, all because of her bad life. , caught up with such a king who despises the life of the humble."
Wei Zheng dared to speak out.
Li Shimin laughed again, "Okay, okay, I will tell you now that the dummy hanging on the city gate is just for attracting people. The crying you heard must have been faked by someone ordered by Qin Yuan."
Li Shimin then deliberately emphasized to Wei Zheng that his behavior is not considered to belittle human life.
"As for the reason, it's nothing more than an internal matter in the palace. The widow lost an important thing, which was taken away by the maid, and must be recovered. You don't need to ask more about it, but you should worry more about the drought in the pass. You must monitor it carefully, but You can't wait for the disaster relief money to be corrupted." Li Shimin reminded Wei Zheng that if he fails to monitor this matter and something goes wrong, he will be punished together with him.
Wei Zheng asked Li Shimin to rest assured that he will arrange all these matters properly and there will be no mistakes.
Wei Zheng asked again: "Your Majesty's things were stolen by the maid? How did the maid escape from the palace? Escaped from the imperial city? Will there be any accomplices? This case is very important and must be punished severely. It should be dealt with by Dai Zhou, Qin Yuan...is not suitable."
"Why is it inappropriate?" Li Shimin asked.
Wei Zheng told the story of Qin Yuan sitting on the top of the city gate and eating cabbage.
Li Shimin laughed out loud, but regretted that he was not there at the time, thinking about that scene is interesting.
"It's hard for him. In order to work on this case, he doesn't have time to have a serious meal. What should I reward him for?" Li Shimin pondered.
Wei Zheng had no choice but to suggest that Qin Yuan was 'inappropriate', not a 'reward' to Qin Yuan.
"He is short of a house now." Changsun Wuji told Li Shimin that Qin Yuan is currently living in no fixed place, and now he is temporarily staying at Zhao Wang Li Yuanjing's house.
Li Shimin nodded, he was really interested in this matter, but he won't reward him immediately, so he ordered him to find a suitable house.Wait until Qin Yuan solves the case against Concubine Wei's mother, and then reward him.
Li Shimin planned to agree with Qin Yuan to open the coffin to examine the body of Concubine Wei's mother, and asked the three of them how they viewed the matter.
Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji exchanged glances.
"I think there is no distinction between high and low in the investigation of cases, and so is the corpse. Since the case is involved, no matter whether it is noble or not, the one who should be inspected must still be inspected." Wei Zheng said straightforwardly.
Changsun Wuji also agreed and told Li Shimin that Qin Yuan had spent a lot of energy on this case during this period.Dali Temple was about to break its legs, but there is still no directional evidence.
"The key lies in this corpse. If you don't know where the problem lies, it is tantamount to looking for the murderer blindfolded. There is a huge crowd, where to find it!"
"It should be so." Fang Xuanling followed suit and suggested, "It's just that Concubine Wei Gui will have to trouble Your Majesty to comfort her more."
Li Shimin agreed, and then ordered the three of them to leave without incident.
After the three of them left Taiji Palace, Changsun Wuji began to question Wei Zheng, why did he say that Qin Yuan was inappropriate in front of Li Shimin just now.
"There is no seriousness in doing things. Within the palace curtains, a slight mistake can easily cause trouble. He has just been an official, so he doesn't know the situation in the palace. I am afraid that he will stick to things but not know it. Get it in by yourself." Wei Zheng was always worried about Qin Yuan's immaturity and lack of experience.
Changsun Wuji lamented that Wei Zheng thought too much.Changsun Wuji turned around and asked where Fang Xuanling was standing.
"Qin Shaoqing is able to win the favor of the sage and do things for the sage that even the three of us don't know. He is already better than us." Fang Xuanling praised without hesitation.
Wei Zheng disagreed, "I said there was something wrong here! The sage was afraid that we would know how to persuade him, so he asked him to do it. We know what Qin Yuan is like, and every day he shouted that my emperor is happy, and he is extremely flattering, encouraging the sage to indulge. !"
Speaking of flattery, Changsun Wuji thought of his 'discussion on a gentleman' with Qin Yuan.He discussed with Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng, and asked them if they thought they were gentlemen.
"Yes." Wei Zheng can be humble in many things, but in this matter, he is determined not to be humble.
"Me too." Fang Xuanling seconded.
Changsun Wuji pointed at the two of them helplessly, scolding them for not being too thick-skinned.He flicked his sleeves and turned around.As a villain, he is ashamed to associate with these gentlemen!
When Qin Yuan gnawed on the third cabbage on the top of the city gate, he found a woman appeared on the side street. She was standing on the side of the road, looking up at this end, and then frantically ran in the direction of Suzaku gate.
Qin Yuan threw away the cabbage in his hand and ordered people to arrest the woman immediately.
After a while, the guards brought over a woman in a duck egg green dress.With a melon-seeded face, crescent eyebrows and almond eyes, cherry red thin lips, and a gorgeous appearance, she is indeed a beauty.
Qin Yuan covered his nose with a silk handkerchief, kept a foot away from the woman, and asked her if she was the court lady Zhou Lan.
Zhou Lan glanced back at Qin Yuan slightly angrily, then had to kneel down, begging Qin Yuan to let Wu Xiuzhu go.
"She didn't know what the lowly servant did, she was innocent." Zhou Lan kowtowed to Qin Yuan and said in tears, "The lowly servant has confessed to the crime of the lowly servant, and she is willing to be punished by a thousand swords, she deserves it Retribution, please let her go."
"I don't think she's innocent. Since you and her have a good relationship, she must know about you." Qin Yuan said this deliberately, so as to draw out more words from Zhou Lan.
"No, she doesn't know that I can inspirit. You have to be careful everywhere in the palace. If my ability is known, there is no chance of survival, so I haven't told anyone. Even the best My friend, I am also afraid that she will betray me."
Zhou Lan told Qin Yuan that her soul-hunting technique was taught by her master.The charming fragrance on her hair is the prescription she got after taking her soul from Sun Taiyi.The medicine was taken by the eunuch of the pharmacy, so he stole some for himself.
"Then who is your master?" Qin Yuan asked again.
"My master is an old maid from the Shangyi Bureau, named Wang Yan. She has already died of illness."
"How do you know that you didn't deliberately use a dead person to prevaricate us, in order to protect your real living master?" Qin Yuan asked.
"I'm just the daughter of an ordinary family. I don't know a single word. There are not many promising people around. If I knew such a powerful thing before I entered the palace, I would try my best not to enter the palace. Everyone in the palace Be careful, as I said just now, I was careful, and my master was naturally very careful about it back then. If she hadn't been with her for a long time, seeing that I was reliable, she herself was about to die soon, so how could she treat such a powerful Things are taught to me." Zhou Lan argued logically.
"Then why didn't your master use the soul-stirring technique to get out of the palace? Instead, he wanted to die of old age in the palace?"
Zhou Lan: "Her mother died a long time ago, her father remarried, and her stepmother gave birth to a pair of sons. There is no place for her at home. She is in charge of the clothing bureau anyway, so her life is not too difficult. Besides, The soul-hunting technique is just a spell to fool people for a while, and it won't last long. If she returns home, her stepmother will die."
Zhou Lan then explained to Qin Yuan that she was planning to lend a helping hand because she saw many court ladies being forced to separate from their families and felt resentful.Wu Xiuzhu was only one of the reasons for her action, not all of them.
"I have been planning this matter for a year, and I have finally succeeded in defending it until now, but it is also a time when I am dead."
Zhou Lan kowtowed to Qin Yuan repeatedly, begging him to let Wu Xiuzhu go.
"One person does things and one person is responsible. If she dies because of my innocence, I will not let her go even if I go to hell. I must remember it clearly."
Zhou Lan just told Qin Yuan that if he couldn't let her good sister go, then she wouldn't let Qin Yuan go even if she was a ghost after death.
"Your threats may be useful to others, but forget it to me. I'm afraid that if you come to me after you die, you will be scared to death again." Qin Yuan is a fairy, so of course he is not afraid of ghosts.
Zhou Lan knelt on the ground in grief and resentment, her hands clenched into fists.
"You are bold and reckless, falsely preaching the imperial decree, and doing such wrong things, you will definitely die." Qin Yuan sighed that she was a pity, he was obviously a kind-hearted person.
"People are good at being ridden by others, give me one, and get three thousand, it's worth it." Zhou Lan raised her head in tears, looked at the people hanging from the city gate tower, cried sorry, and kowtowed in the direction of the city gate.
Qin Yuan ordered his subordinates to put him down.
There was hope in Zhou Lan's eyes.
The guard hurried up to the city gate tower and cut the rope with a single blow.
The hanging man quickly fell in front of Suzaku's door, and fell hard to the ground, kicking up the surrounding dust.
"No—" Zhou Lan exclaimed with tears in her eyes.
Qin Yuan took the knife from the guard's hand, turned around and walked in front of the 'corpse', and slashed wildly on the 'corpse''s stomach a few times.
"No-no-no-" Zhou Lan's voice was hoarse, and his voice was finally hoarse to silence.
"I'm going to kill you—" Zhou Lan got up and was about to throw herself on Ruan Yuan, and then she saw the straw exposed from the cut abdomen of the corpse.
Zhou Lan looked at Qin Yuan in a daze, and after realizing that the corpse was fake, she thumped and knelt on the ground, not knowing what to do.
"Does it feel comfortable to be cheated?" Qin Yuan asked.
Zhou Lan's body was still trembling, because she hadn't recovered from the stimulation just now.
"You lied to His Majesty like that, do you think His Majesty will feel better?"
"It's my fault, I take the blame." Zhou Lan sobbed brokenly.
"Since you have already had the opportunity to face the Holy Spirit, why don't you express your thoughts directly, how do you know that His Majesty can't understand?"
Zhou Lan looked at Qin Yuan.
Qin Yuan could feel her meaning from her eyes.Zhou Lan thought that the high-ranking emperor would not bother to care about the living conditions of the court ladies.
"After the imperial decree, you can't go back on your word, that's why you made such a bad move." Zhou Lan explained.
Zhou Lan then listened to Qin Yuan talk about the Mid-Autumn Festival Sheren's participation in the palace maid, and Li Shimin's final decision to release the palace maid, and long-term consideration of the palace maid's future life.
Qin Yuan also told Zhou Lan that her good sister Wu Xiuzhu was already on the list of exiles.
Zhou Lan was very moved. When she followed Qin Yuan to meet Li Shimin, she sincerely kowtowed to Li Shimin and apologized, calling Long live my emperor.Now she deserves to die even if she dies. She is willing to die and deserves to die.
Seeing that Zhou Lan sincerely apologized and had kind thoughts in his heart, Li Shimin couldn't help being moved.He even felt soft-hearted for a moment and didn't want to kill her.But bewitching the emperor and falsely preaching imperial edicts, how can such bold and reckless people be forgiven.
It means that capital crimes can be forgiven, but living crimes cannot escape.
……
After a stick of incense, Qin Yuan came out from the Liangyi Hall, happy.Li Shimin finally let go and let him examine Mrs. Duan's body.
It is better to hit the day than to choose the day, start as soon as possible.
After Qin Yuan arrived at Wei Mansion, Sun Fujia and Wu Zuo, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, were already in place.Lu Qiaoer was also there, and told Qin Yuan that she had carefully checked all corners of Yong'an Temple, including every elixir in the elixir room, and found no trace of Gu poison.
There are still no clues, but fortunately, the coffin can finally be opened for an autopsy.
Qin Yuan ordered someone to open the coffin.
The moment the coffin lid was lifted, a faint strange smell wafted out.
Everyone held their noses and leaned forward to take a look. Everyone thought that the smell would be more if they got closer to the coffin, but in fact there was no smell at all.It seems that there is only the smell of the coffin just opened, which is caused by the coffin being sealed for a long time.
At this moment, several people opened their eyes wide at the same time, staring at the corpse in the coffin in amazement.
Lu Qiaoer: "It's only been five days since someone died, how could it be..."
Sun Fujia: "Even after two or three months of death, or even half a year, I have never seen anything like this."
Qin Yuan stared straight at the corpse: "It can be seen that the autopsy is correct, this corpse is very problematic."
Inside the coffin, Duan's skin and flesh were already dry, covered with bones, and the surface of the skin looked hard, like bark and stone shells.
Qin Yuan ordered Wu to conduct an autopsy.
In view of Duan's noble status, the inspector did not dare to touch it directly, but just fiddled with the bamboo wrapped in cloth, inspected it roughly, and then shook his head helplessly.Wu Zuo said that he had never seen such a corpse, and he really couldn't figure it out.
"Obviously when a person dies, the skin is normal, not like this." After seeing the corpse, the butler of the Wei Mansion was surprised and puzzled.
"Take a look with a knife." Qin Yuan suggested.
Sun Fujia stopped immediately, "This is not appropriate. The saint asked you to do an autopsy, but did you let you use a knife on Mrs. Duan's body?"
"I didn't say no." Qin Yuan took advantage of the loophole and said.
"But I didn't say yes." Sun Fujia added, he was doing it for his own good, and he was afraid that Qin Yuan would offend Shengyan on impulse, "If you have to use the knife, it's okay, I suggest you bring two more people .”
"Who?"
Sun Fujia: "The eldest grandson and Dai Zhou."
In this way, all the leaders of Dali Temple are called, and everyone has a share.Even if they take the responsibility, they won't be too unlucky with Changsun Wuji's uncle at the front.
Qin Yuan smiled and pointed at Sun Fujia, sighing that he was too bad. "I always thought that Sun Shaoqing was upright, but I didn't expect there to be so many twists and turns in my stomach."
"When you can be straight, it's good to be straight, and your reputation is good. But when you can't, don't be stubborn. The way to be an official is not the means, but the result." Sun Fujia told Qin Yuan, as long as you don't Under the premise of violating the law and violating morality, it is a good way to deal with the problem by protecting oneself wisely and using devious tactics.
"Taught!" Qin Yuan thanked Sun Fujia for his advice, and immediately called Changsun Wuji and Dai Zhou.
Dai Zhou is very kind, the relationship between Qin Yuan and him has eased recently, just send someone to call him.
Changsun Wuji was a bit difficult, so Qin Yuan decided to do it himself.
After Changsun Wuji heard the words, he immediately sensed Qin Yuan's purpose, and sighed with a sneer, "Don't come to me for good things, but I will be blamed for bad things. If it's not good, don't go!"
"It's good, there is!" Qin Yuan asked Changsun Wuji to wait a while, and soon after, he held two Chinese cabbages in his left and right arms and sent them to Changsun Wuji.
Changsun Wuji didn't continue.
Qin Yuan directly put two cabbages on the table in front of Changsun Wuji, and one of them was not safe, rolled a bit, and rolled into Changsun Wuji's arms.
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