Emperor Phoenix

Chapter 140

In the end, there was a more casual person who stuffed the precious pearl into the sleeve casually.He continued to smile and said, "My lord? Upstairs please?"

Yu Zixi looked at Qin Changge expectantly with beautiful eyes, Qin Changge smiled at him, and unexpectedly said, "Why don't you enjoy traveling with beauty?"

With a smile on his face, Yu Zixi strolled up the steps, and when he entered the store, the whole store was silent.

Qin Changge glanced at his son, and Baozi glanced at the storyteller.

The storyteller who received the gaze understood, gave a pat on the gavel, and suddenly said: "Let's put aside the previous story, little old man, and tell you a legendary story of the recent dynasty. The name is: The Legend of the Glacier Goddess..."

Qin Changge, who was walking behind Yu Zixi, clearly saw Yu Zixi's body suddenly froze.

Qin Changge's eyes flashed.

Then he turned around slowly, with a smile on his face as bright as the sun, so romantic that it was almost distorted, and said softly: "You storytellers are so clear, and the stories are interesting, let me just listen. "

After speaking, he sat down and beckoned his guards to bring the famous green bud tea that he brought with him, and brewed a bowl of it thickly, intending to listen to it for a long time.

Qin Changge's thoughts were going back and forth in his belly, but on the face he pretended to be embarrassed, and said in surprise: "Oh, my lord, I thought it was just a spring breeze going upstairs, but thinking about my lord's body, it would not last more than a quarter of an hour. I don’t want the lord to listen to the book—this, this...just go to the Ministry of Punishment to order..."

"The future will be long..." Yu Zixi remained unmoved by Qin Changge's intentionally mentioned the biggest insult to a man, and just stared at the storyteller with a smiley face, "There will be a chance to let you know the majesty of this king..."

He and his son looked at each other and smiled, but Baozi succeeded in smiling, and Qin Changge smiled meaningfully.

Qin Changge, the new head of the Yingdu Mansion of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, was greeted with a big blow when he first took office.

Long Qi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, received Tan Hualang who came to report in his official residence. With a pair of cold three-sided eyes under his thick eyebrows, he looked Qin Changge up and down, and said in an indifferent way: "Ying In recent years, Yin Qingming of the Lai Mansion has been well managed and there are few accumulated cases. You have picked up a leisurely job, but speaking of it, the former principal still has an unresolved unsolved case and is thinking of finding an old official. Let's think of an idea together—do you dare to accept it?"

Smiling very modestly, Qin Changge said, "Mo Yan will definitely do his best."

Looking him up and down again, Long Qi waved his hand, and the handyman immediately picked up the tall stack of files, and Qin Changge was almost crushed when he took it.

"Young man, please work hard," Long Qi's expression flickered, and his smile was meaningful, "This case is settled, some of you are on the verge of prosperity..."

That night Qin Changge carried the stack of case files back to the small courtyard, and read them at night by candlelight.

The wind in May already has a hint of summer. In the corner of the wall, the night insects behind the moss are chirping, their voices fluctuating like poems, and the pomegranate bones under the flower wall are so full that they seem to burst open at any time, spraying bright red. The strange fragrance of flying green, the moonlight is like the best brocade in Huainan, flowing between the pages that have been turned over one by one, when the pages are opened, they are splashed far away like a flowing spring .

Focusing on the case file with all his attention, Qin Changge made a mark from time to time, and vaguely heard a sound behind him, turned around, and the man in blue behind him was whiter than the moonlight, staring at her quietly.

He became thinner and thinner, and a thin coolness appeared between his sleeves, like a layer of frost on the blue tiles, a ray of moonlight flowing between the silk curtains, or the aloes burnt in the jade cauldron furnace at midnight, as if there was nothing, I can't tell whether it's just the aftertaste of the aftertaste, or whether it really existed.

Qin Changge stared at him, as if staring at a fleeting time in the youth. The young man who was as firm as jade was secretly replaced by a piece of rosemary by someone. He spread his palms, and even the fingers were desolate.

Shijiacun came to the rescue on a rainy night, and it seemed easy to have a prophetic conversation with the middle-aged man, but in fact, the damage caused by using the supernatural power to Feihuan was indescribable, especially when his life was already overdrawn.

Qin Changge sometimes hated himself for not being able to protect himself perfectly, so that Fei Huan repeatedly used abilities that should never be used again.

He did not hesitate to sacrifice himself for her, how could she bear it calmly?
Love is fresh and sweet blood, swallowing it in the throat, no one can see the cracking pain in the heart.

Slowly smiling, Qin Changge's expression was as if nothing had happened, "Still sleeping?"

"Can't sleep," Chu Feihuan just stared at her quietly, as if staring at the horizon beyond the blue sea, the scenery here is unique, but with whom?Is it yourself?
However, he didn't want to be a not-so-perfect sad voice in the prosperous world.

Fingers clasping a thin piece of paper in the sleeve, so soft and yet so heavy, Feng Yao was warned once, she knew his wishes, she didn't seem to intend to force it, but someone sent a message.

In the Nanmin Sacred Valley, it is said that there is a taxiangjialan quietly treasured.

Taxiangjialan, at the very least, can make oneself stand up again?

Standing at the same height as her eye level a few years ago, you can walk in front of her, no longer need to look at that slender figure, think of the burden on her shoulders, and feel sad when thinking of Ruiyi's incomplete body.

Chu Feihuan's smile made the room seem to brighten up. He looked sideways at the case files on Qin Changge's desk, his eyes especially on the marks made by Qin Changge, and said for a long time: "These disappearance cases , it seems very strange..."

Qin Changge smiled, leaning on the book case and said slowly: "You probably know that this is not a simple disappearance case. Long Qi wants to send me a hot potato..."

Qin Changge stroked the case file, which had been dusty for a long time and some of the paper was a little brittle, and raised his eyebrows. In fact, this kindling has been buried since the circles and forks on the ink scroll of the palace examination occupy half of each other, right?
In recent years, women have often disappeared in the capital, all of them are ordinary women from poor families, all of them are beautiful, they all disappeared when they went out by chance, and their family members couldn't find them, so they went to report to the government, and the government has only so many people, so you can find them at will. Just fill in "missing" randomly and the case will be closed. These women have disappeared since then, leaving their family members wailing every day, but they have nowhere to ask for help.

It wasn't until last year that Du Changsheng took over as governor of Yingdu Prefecture that he accidentally discovered that there were so many missing cases, so he sent a copy of the case file to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, hoping to send people to arrest and investigate the case. Find some excuses, drag it down day by day, Yingdu Mansion is in charge of eating and drinking in the entire capital, but it doesn't care about the people's livelihood, military, political and prison cases, and doesn't have time to ask too much, the backlog of cases piles up.

At first glance, this case has happened repeatedly but has not been solved for many years. It must be a difficult and serious case. Qin Changge thought that Long Qi just didn't like him, and wanted to make things difficult. Now that he analyzed the case files carefully, he found that the other party had sinister intentions.

The case seems to be complicated and confusing, but in fact it has a vague direction. It should be the simplest incident of abducting people. It seems that the methods are ruthless and the people are dealt with directly. However, a case with clear clues is found in two local highest criminal cases It has been dusty for so long, it is really a phenomenon that people have to think about.

The Punishment Department, which has countless veteran officials who solve cases, cannot solve simple cases.

Du Changsheng, the so-called upright official of Yingdu Prefecture, did not choose to investigate and deal with it alone, but sent a letter to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to ask for assistance.

The Ministry of Punishment pretended to be a snake, but nothing happened.

All of these imply that the identity of the murderer is unusual.

A simple case will cause such a stalemate, which implies that the background is definitely not simple-it involves the biggest contradiction that has always been lurking in Xiliang, and it is also the contradiction that all emperors who overthrow the old country and establish a new dynasty must face: There is an irreconcilable collision between the power of the court officials and the nobles, and the new dynasty's upstarts who were born as commoners.

At the beginning, Qin Changge and Xiao Jue made many efforts for this, and finally controlled the two forces in a balanced position. The maintenance of this balance is based on the fact that the two parties are evenly matched in the court, and their interests are shared and they do not touch each other. basis.

Checking and balancing is the emperor's art that all emperors must master.

In other words, once a certain force is touched by the other party, the chain reaction and confrontation that will be triggered are difficult to estimate.

Looking at each other, Qin Changge and Chu Feihuan's eyes were full of undercurrents, and Chu Feihuan said indifferently: "There are few evils in the capital, and there are only a few left."

"Yes," Qin Changge thought slowly, "Jiang Hua died in the Supreme Prison, and Jiang Chuanyun, the evil young man of his family, also became a plucked rooster. The shock is enough, since the Jiang family has fallen, the case was not immediately brought up for investigation, which means that it is not Jiang Chuanyun, and the rest..."

The eyes of the two of them flashed again, and they both thought of the person whose identity was enough to cause the two or even three parties to be sensitive and turbulent.

Li Li, the only son of Duke Wuwei Li Han, is a tyrant in the capital. Duke Wuwei himself was born as a general in the former dynasty, but he was very early in life and saved Xiao Jue's life on the battlefield. The king's charming daughter, the Changcheng county king changed her title to An Guogong in the new dynasty. The Li family is not only a noble family with the blood of the former Yuan royal family, but also a dignitary of the new dynasty with meritorious service. It is a truly prominent family.

The identity of the young master of the Li family will involve not only the two forces, but even the emperor himself—if he is the murderer, how should the emperor of Xiliang, whose reputation for wisdom and benevolence spread throughout the world, deal with his savior? A single seedling for three thousand miles?

What's more, as soon as this case comes out, it will definitely arouse the vigilance and attention of the elders and the nobles. In order to protect the interests of the class, maintain the authority of the class, and prevent political opponents from taking this opportunity to suppress them, the nobles will definitely ask for mercy, cooperate vertically and horizontally, and go to the police station. Jumping down and down, in the court hall of the palace, to pull up a vast and boundless network of relationships, and those radical and sober upstarts in the court, officials from poor families, and the victimized common people will form another alliance, insisting on severely punishing the murderer, An ordinary murder case will eventually turn into a tug-of-war between the power of the public minister and the officials of civilian origin. It may lead to turmoil in the court and the separation of hundreds of officials.

(End of this chapter)