"Father, why didn't you try this case?" Ling Qiufan stood in Ling Jiang's study, frowning beautifully, looking at his father who had always been dedicated to his duties incomprehension.

Ling Jiang covered the porcelain lid of the teacup and sighed heavily. "Qiu'er, close the door."

Ling Qiufan temporarily suppressed his doubts, walked quickly to the door of the study, and locked the door.Then go back to the Lingjiang case and listen to what my father will say next.

"Qiu'er, you don't know something." Ling Jiang fetched Luoyang rice paper and spread it out, and pressed it with a white jade pixiu-like paperweight, "The news came from Jinling yesterday that similar murders were found in Jinling City, three in succession. .”

"Here, someone is so cruel..." Ling Qiufan's handsome face paled, and she sat down on the armchair behind her, her finger knuckles covered with silk were showing bluish white.

Ling Jiang shook his head, "In the imperial city at the foot of the Son of Heaven, that thief dared to do such a thing, so he couldn't do something more insane in Wu Jun, which is not equal to my square inch." Yan Luo, carefully selected a wolf hair from the pen stand, and held it softly in his hand. Hao Duan gently scratched his fingertips.

"But, didn't you investigate because you were afraid?" Ling Qiufan bit his lips lightly, the blood on his face had just recovered, he looked much better under the warm light, but his expression was still stern.

"Qiu'er, it's not that you don't dare to investigate as a father, but you can't." Ling Jiang paused in the air while holding a pen, and sighed again.

"Why can't we investigate?" Ling Qiufan suddenly got up and came to Ling Jiang's desk, with his hands propped on the desk and his face looking down at Ling Jiang, this may be the first time in his life that Ling Qiufan was so strong in front of his father, even She didn't even discover it herself.

Ling Jiang seemed startled by his daughter's sudden burst of momentum, and was at a loss for words.After staring at each other for a while, Ling Qiufan gradually regained his breath.

"Oh, Qiu'er, you're still too young."

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Jinling City Jinwuwei Right Street Office

"This case is not simple." Qu Quan put down his pen, and the barrel of the pen collided with the pen holder, making a slight crisp sound.

"I think so too." Ling Xueji, who was dozing off at the side, nodded half awake, and Qu Quan shook his head helplessly seeing her appearance.

"If you feel tired, I'll send someone to take you back home to rest."

"Ah no! I don't want to go back to the mansion!" Thinking of the stagnant time spent in Shangshu's mansion before, Ling Xueji woke up from a doze, and immediately straightened up and sat down, like a lazy student in the school who was named by the master.

"Not going back home?" Seeing her appearance, Qu Quan suddenly felt a little teasing, picked up the Langhao pen on the pen stand, and hooked Ling Xueji's chin with the soft end, teasing with a smile, "Then I get it, you~ want to stay with me?"

"Ah! Bah, bah, bah!" Ling Xueji was hooked by the wolf, and a numb, itchy feeling spread from his chin to his cheeks, "Who wants to stay with you, you dog... a foolish officer!"

"Ah Quan is not confused." Shuo Dendrobium, who was sitting frankly on the table on the west side, pretending to read the information on the surface, but secretly watched the show, heard this and immediately stood up to justify his friend's name, "I set up the first year of the founding of the dynasty In the imperial examination, there have been only [-] female champions among thousands of students in the past hundred years, and among the [-] female champions, only three have finally overcome all difficulties and become officials."

"One is Meng Yaoguang, who was amazingly talented decades ago. Unfortunately, he married the Marquis of Lingnan after only three years as an official in the capital. Another eunuch served as his husband's foil. Although she has the reputation of 'Mrs. Yaoguang', But before he died, he left regretful last words. The other was Jun Qiufeng, who fought invincible opponents all over the country with his dragon and tiger swords 15 years ago. Under the conspiracy of the courtiers."

"The last one is Ah Quan." Shuo Dendrobium's eyes showed admiration, "Starting from the official position, she worked hard and worked hard every step of the way. She climbed and meditated all the way to the high position of the third-rank minister. This is the only woman since the founding of the country. One person. How can such a person be a foolish official?" He flicked his sleeves and smiled brightly, "At most, he is a dog official."

"Ahahahahahahahahahaha!" Ling Xueji clapped his hands and laughed, "Heroes see the same thing!"

"Shuo Dendrobium, what nonsense are you saying!" Qu Quan picked up the whole mahogany pen hanging and smashed it at Yunfeng with several jade pipes attached to it. , I only felt the wind blowing over the top, and there was a sound of jade breaking behind me, and the calamity was over.

With a "bang", the door of the study room of the Jinwuwei Youjie Yamen was thrown open, and the master was standing on the threshold holding a stack of papers. His handsome face was as black as a pot of charcoal, and his eyes were so sharp that he almost flew out of two. The ice pick stabbed Dendrobium to death.

Seeing his wife's appearance, Shuo Dendrobium knew something bad was going on, he turned around one by one, looked down and sweated profusely.That shattered——

Isn't it the jade pipe Yunfeng that his wife gave him yesterday!

"Good job, Qu Xinghuang—!" Shuo Shihu stretched out a trembling finger before pointing at Qu Quan, and saw the master standing in front of him.Her knees gave way and she almost fell to her knees, "Han Xiao, I was wrong."

Han Xiao put the stack of papers full of words in her arms back in front of Shuo Dendrobium. On the surface, it was business-like but undercurrents were turbulent. "Amao has opened his mouth. The content is all on it. You can read it yourself."

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Wujun Taishou Mansion

"Hey, are you back so soon?"

Wei Yueyan, who spent the night in his wife's room, saw Ling Qiufan push the door in and immediately went up to him, and saw his wife's tired face through the faint candlelight shining through the screen. "What's the matter? Dad still doesn't check?"

Ling Qiufan nodded feebly, feeling even more unbearable, her father never hid anything from her, even if she didn't ask her father about some unimportant things, he would find a chance to tell her.But this matter, my father was unwilling to investigate anything, and he was unwilling to tell her the reason, which was really puzzling.

"Qiu Fan, Qiu Fan?" Wei Yueyan felt uncomfortable seeing Ling Qiu Fan's appearance, she thought for a while and raised her hand to support Ling Qiu Fan's shoulder, shaking it slightly, "Qiu Fan, don't be unhappy .If you really want to check, it's not impossible."

Ling Qiufan heard the words and looked over with a pair of eyes full of autumn water, "Does the general have a good plan?"

"What kind of strategy is there?" Wei Yueyan half pushed Ling Qiufan to the table and sat down, poured a cup of tea and put it in his wife's hand to hold it. Although it was late spring, the coldness of the night It is still not to be underestimated, "You are the eldest daughter of the prefect's mansion, and I am the general of the twelve guards. If you and I want to investigate, isn't it justifiable? Since we are justifiably investigating the case, why don't we have to use manpower?"

Ling Qiufan stopped holding the teacup to his lips, his face was full of joy, "You mean, if Dad doesn't want to check, let's check it ourselves?" Yan Luo hesitated for a moment, "But Dad said, This case is unusual and extremely complicated. It even involves a serial murder case in Jinling."

"The serial murder case in Jinling?" Wei Yueyan frowned. Recently, in order to accompany her wife to play in Wu County, she not only risked the wrath of the emperor, but also asked Lv Shenhe who was far away in the general's mansion in the capital. Zhan Jin only mentions the most important matters, and there is no need to inform about the rest.Therefore, General Wei, who had already lost his will, had no idea that a series of murderous murders had occurred in Jinling City.

"What is the specific situation?" Wei Yueyan found a chair and sat down next to Ling Qiufan.

Ling Qiufan's expression became serious, and he put down the teacup to tell her the specifics of the serial murder case that his father had just told her in the study, Wei Yueyan's brows became tighter and tighter, and his eyes gradually darkened, " So, the corpses in Jinling City are very similar to what we see today?"

"Exactly." Ling Qiufan nodded, "But I don't know why such a similar case happened thousands of miles away. Is the murderer one person or several people?"

"Do you know who is investigating this case in the capital?" Wei Yueyan asked.

"I heard from my father that it is Lord Shuo Shihushuo from the Youjie Yamen of the Jinwu Guard." Ling Qiufan replied after thinking for a while.

"Shuo Dendrobium..." Wei Yueyan, who originally wanted to slander the court for not paying attention to the case, nodded when he heard the name, "This Shuo Dendrobium is quite capable."

"Oh, there is another one!" Ling Qiufan suddenly remembered, "Shangshu Qu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice also participated in the investigation. It seems that the Ministry of Criminal Justice also attaches great importance to this case."

"..." Wei Yueyan's eyebrows twitched, and he waved his hand to interrupt his wife's whimsical thoughts, "Where does the Ministry of Punishment care about such matters, it must be Naqu Quan himself who filed a complaint and went to investigate the case."

"It's so?!" Ling Qiufan's tone gradually showed a little admiration, "I didn't expect Qu Shangshu to have such a heart for the people."

Ling Qiufan's voice has the beauty of a harp, and Ling Lingran is very pleasant to hear, but at the moment it sounds harsh to Wei Yueyan's ears, and he can't refute it, so he has to change the subject immediately, "Madam, did daddy tell you When was the third corpse found in Jinling? Also, when were the three female corpses killed?"

"This... Dad didn't mention it."

"Don't you want to know if the murderer is one person or many people? This question is very important. We need more information." Wei Yueyan got up and walked around the room with his hands behind his back, hesitating again and again and had to admit it. : "If the corpse is sent to Jinling, I'm afraid it's inappropriate. Not to mention the delay, it's easy to miss the information here. We can only investigate on the spot. It seems that this time we really need the help of Qu Quan."

Seeing this, Ling Qiufan stood up, "If the rift between the general and Mr. Qu is too deep, I can ask my sister to deliver the news for us. It's just...Jinling Wujun is thousands of miles away, so it may not be easy to go back and forth."

"It only takes three days for my Qianli Yunyan to go back and forth between the two places, plus you and sister Xueji's hydrangea bird, I believe it will not be difficult to exchange information." Wei Yueyan turned around and faced the unsuspecting Ling Qiufan , Seeing his wife didn't have time to turn around, she quickly lowered her head and smiled suddenly, a lock of crow hair fell in front of her eyes, and the wind swayed the lamp, making the long and narrow right eye hidden behind the hair reveal a sense of magic.

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