Get on the wrong sedan chair and marry the right wolf

Weiwei on the left and right were shocked when they heard the words, they all looked at each other in blank dismay.However, due to the presence of Wei Yueyan, he did not dare to show his inner worries too much on the surface.Wei Yueyan naturally heard the movement behind him, but turned a deaf ear to it, only watching Qu Quan's childish and ridiculous struggle with a playful smile.

"They obey me, and I, Wei Yueyan, will bear the responsibility for the crimes and punishments they deserve. However, if this moment is delayed, Master Qu will be accused of 'releasing fugitives privately'."

"Big words." Qu Quan sneered, "Then I'd like to ask the general, if Shi Zhuang is not the real culprit, how will you punish the general!"

Wei Yueyan put his hand behind his back and raised his jaw, "I've already made it clear, Mr. Qu, don't make useless entanglements. The most important thing right now is to convict Shi Zhuang."

Qu Quan's eyes turned cold, "There is no evidence to convict anything!"

Wei Yueyan laughed.

"What if I say that I have conclusive evidence?"

"What!" As if all the strength to support was taken away in an instant, Qu Quan intuitively felt a cold current rushing up the spine and brain, which made people jittery.An ominous premonition surrounded her body like undulating waves. She tried her best to calm her breath and barely maintained her figure, "What evidence."

Compared to Qu Quan who was facing a formidable enemy, Wei Yueyan watched her reaction calmly. Seeing that she was asking for evidence, he flicked his palm a few times, and Wei Wei brought several people up. Several people happened to be one old, one young, one man and one woman, they were a little apprehensive seeing the situation, and they were led to Qu Quan tremblingly.

"There are tens of thousands of people in Jinling City, but Master Qu must be familiar with these few." Wei Yueyan first walked up to an old woman, "This is Granny Zhou who lives in Nvdefang. The carriage that transported the corpse was rented by her, and she was the one you interrogated first, my lord." Then she walked up to a young man, "This is a medicine student from the Bian Que Medicine House at the East City Gate, and the carriage at the East City Gate is He rented it, and when you were interrogating him, my lord, you broke a cup of good tea."

Wei Yueyan recounted the situation of those people again. She said something, and Qu Quan just listened to it with such a cold face.Every time Wei Yueyan said a word, his smile deepened, and every time Qu Quan heard a word, his face became colder.After introducing the last 12-year-old girl who rented a carriage on Gusu Temple Street, Qu Quan's face was already livid, and he was about to speak, but was cut off by Wei Yueyan.

"Master Qu must want to say that the person who gave them generous rewards to rent a carriage is a masked man, how can he be identified as a historical pile, right? Master Qu, please take a look." Wei Yueyan took the letter from a Wei Wei The cloth bag, the cloth is extremely thick, not like the cotton and linen used by ordinary people, nor is it silk, I don't know what kind of texture it is, and what function it has.Open it up, and there are four small muulin bottles lying quietly inside. "After saying goodbye to Mr. Qu today, I immediately sent people to invite these witnesses to the mansion for interrogation. As expected, the masked man gave them back a large amount of silver notes and a corpse box at the same time. Bought a muulin bottle full of corpse powder."

"It's not uncommon for me to face Miao Lin bottles, but most of them are clear and tasteless, but these four Miao Lin bottles have a special smell." Wei Yueyan came to Qu Quan with the cloth bag in his hand, "Master Qu may as well Come closer and smell it, this smell should be familiar to officials who have lived in the Ministry of Punishment for a long time."

Qu Quan's eyes were as cold as frost for several times, let her smell the evidence like a dog?The fallacy of slipping the world!You don't need to smell it to know that the smell that Wei Yueyan refers to is the mixed smell of various secret medicines and the charcoal fire used to refine medicines that permeate the Misin Division, because there are several secret medicines in the Misin Division whose main effect lies in the smell Therefore, the smell of these secret medicines is strong and special, and it will not disperse after a long time. It is very normal that they will be deposited on the utensils in the room and on the clothes.But in this way, it just proved that the Mulin bottle given by the masked man came from the Secretary of Sin.

"In order to keep this precious and perishable evidence for a long time, I also specially cut the tribute material from the imperial court as a bag for storage." After Wei Yueyan finished speaking, it seemed that he was afraid that the smell on Miao Lin's bottle would be blown away. , hurriedly continued to wrap the cloth bag.This is also telling Qu Quan that this physical evidence is in her hands, as long as the tribute materials are not rotten, the smell will not dissipate for a long time, and it may appear in the Yuqianlong case at any time.

These people are all local people who have been recorded in the left and right streets of Jinling City. They are unlikely to have the courage to give false testimony. The source of the smell is too special to be fake. Shi Zhuang was the only person facing him, and as an official of the Ministry of Punishment, Shi Zhuang's mobility and communication were limited, and the possibility of ganging up to commit crimes was almost zero, and each case was revealing an iron-clad fact ——

Shi Zhuang is the murderer of this serial murder.

"The evidence is as solid as a mountain." Wei Yueyan made a final decision.

"No." Qu Quan shook his head very slowly, "There is a loophole."

"Where is the loophole?"

"Motive." Qu Quan was categorical, "Shi Zhuang killed people without a motive."

"Is this—" Wei Yueyan tilted his head slightly, revealing a perfect side face, with a bunch of black hair hanging down, covering the originally indistinct eyes even more obscurely. "We'll know after the first trial."

At midnight, there was a sea of ​​flames in front of the gate of the Ministry of Justice. Everyone present had the illusion that they were in a majestic and majestic city of ghosts and monsters, where singing snakes fluttering and whistling were fighting with leopard-bodied gu carvings. It's hard to tell.Suddenly the dragon's light flashed across the sky, and the surrounding area was instantly bright as day, in the dazzling white light, it is unknown whether it was the singing snake piercing the Gu Eagle's eyes, or the Gu Eagle strangling the singing snake's throat.White light flashed, and the chirping snakes and gu carvings disappeared from the towering city walls, only scarlet splashed down.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of wheels, two more carriages came, and two well-dressed officials got off the carriages and walked quickly to Qu Quan to salute, and then saluted Wei Yueyan.

Wei Yueyan turned around and said to the left and right Weiwei: "You are not polite when you see the two ministers of the Ministry of punishment? Do you want others to say that the twelve guards don't know how to be polite, and you will be punished again?"

Although the left and right guards are all warriors, they are not as demanding on etiquette as civil officials, but they naturally know to salute when they see officials with higher ranks than themselves.It's just that in the current situation, those with long brains are afraid of sweeping away the "interest" of their own generals. Seeing that the people around them are hesitating, no one dares to be the first bird.Seeing Wei Yueyan speak at this time, they all saluted the two servants of the Ministry of Punishment who had just arrived, their voices were like thunder.

Cui Jian turned a deaf ear to him, turned around and bowed to Qu Quan, "My lord, Cui Jian is late."

No echo.

"grown ups?"

There was still no reply, so Cui Jian boldly raised his eyes to look at Qu Quan, who had been silent all this time, and it was so good that he almost knelt on the ground in fright.Qu Quan's complexion was terrible. This expression was only revealed last year when he tried a wife-killing case. All the criminals and prison officials will never forget the day when Xia Tai's 72 civil punishments and 36 martial punishments were all poured out. There was a puddle of blood under Xingtai, and the smell of charcoal and blood mixed together could be heard everywhere, and even two timid people in the closer prison were frightened to death by the sound and smell from the execution room.Cui Jian's forehead was dripping with sweat, thinking that what happened just now touched the bottom line of his family's minister, and it might be difficult to handle.

"Since Lord Qu and Shilang Cui still have something to say, I will take them away first." Wei Yueyan showed a victorious smile to Qu Quan, raised his hand as an order, and the group left in a mighty manner the Ministry of Punishment.

"My lord? My lord?" Cui Jian and another Fan Shilang looked at each other, not knowing what to do.Although their own ministers didn't move, they, as subordinates, had no choice but to stay aside peacefully and let the stormy waves in their hearts hit the shore.

After a long time, when Cui Jian and Fan Shilang felt that their legs were completely numb and crumbling, Master Shang Shu finally opened his mouth.

"Fan Shilang has just recovered from a serious illness and is returning home to recuperate." Qu Quan's voice was floating, as if she had been drained of all her strength, she turned to look at Cui Jian with misty eyes, "Cui Jian is going to the jury."

Cui Jian was afraid that something might be wrong, so she asked: "Twelve guards generals are interrogating, can the lower officials be jurors?"

Qu Quan blinked weakly, and nodded, "According to Da Xia's laws and regulations, except for the Son of Heaven, if officials from the Ministry of Punishments are presided over by non-officials from the Ministry of Punishment, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment are qualified to be jurors."

"I obey orders." After Cui Jian bowed, she didn't dare to stay for a moment, and got into the carriage at the same time as Fan Shilang, and then the two carriages parted ways.

An absurd banquet was gathered in a hurry, and it also dispersed in a hurry. Qu Quan walked alone on the avenue of Jinling City.The street during the day is late at night, it seems that the prosperity of the whole life is about to wither. If there is no noise during the day, will you not feel the desolation of the night?Qu Quan thought about it and stopped walking, suddenly looked up and saw the sky was dark and the shadow was desolate.

Seeing Shangshu stop, the carriage following behind him drove forward, "My lord, do you want to return?"

Return or not?

Where to go?

I still remember that when I was a child, my family was not strict, and I liked to take my maids out to go shopping in the market. Although the street was full of fun and lively things, but after a long time of shopping, I felt that it was not very interesting.Although the aunt who sells food and the uncle who sells novelty gadgets are amiable on the surface, they will praise you when they see you, but if you take their things and don't give money, they can immediately perform a change of face without money in front of your eyes play.

As you grow older, your family situation changes dramatically, and there are face-changing scenes around you every day, which makes you feel so painful that you can't cope.Every word and every plan is like walking on a cable bridge in the abyss. The bottom is far below you and you can’t see the bottom. In the fog and mist, countless hands will stretch out, trying to pull you down, and you will fall into the endless hell. .When his body was blown by the fierce wind on the cliff, he had to bandage his own wound, and there was no one to complain to when he was tired.Looking back, the way back has long been submerged in the mist that covers the sky and the sun, but looking at the journey, we can't see the distance clearly and can't estimate the danger of overlapping.

If you ask whether to return, it is because you still have a way back.

But for me, there is only an extremely insane desire/thought left, and I need to fight for my life to pursue it.

I have no way back.