Queen's Detective

The sound of the grievance drum resounded throughout the long night, as if even the bronze statue at the end of Zhuque Street was awakened.Its eyes slowly opened, passing through the long river of time, and saw the distant past.

Li Yan and Yan Sanbai were forced to wake up from the gentleness, looked at each other, and saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.Putting on his coat, he walked all the way to the side hall along the road illuminated by palace lanterns. Li Yan frowned and looked at Ling Ding who arrived earlier, and asked, "What's going on?"

As the zero o'clock approached, he whispered, "My lord, someone complained of grievances, and even asked Yan Xia to investigate."

Find me?

Suspicion arose in Yan Sanbai's heart, he looked around and saw a young man kneeling in the side hall, although he was kneeling, his back was straight.

Yan Sanbai walked over and said seriously: "You played the drums? What are you complaining about?"

The young man looked up at him with sharp eyes, "You are Yan Sanbai?"

Seeing the young man acting like this, the big eunuch Ming An next to him suddenly showed concern, frowned and said: "Please show our family some respect." "No problem." Yan Sanbai waved his hand, "Next is Yan Sanbai."

Hearing this, the young man looked at him fixedly, as if he wanted to see something in his eyes.Then, when everyone was wondering what he was trying to do, suddenly, Yan Sanbai gave Yan Sanbai a heavy knock on the head, with a bang, which was very clear. "What are you doing?" Yan Sanbai was startled, and quickly helped him up.

But the young man refused to get up, "Tan Yan, I have something to ask of you, and you are the only one in the world who can help me!" He turned his face, "My lord is here, how dare you..." "Ming An." Li Yan interrupted him, turned his head to look at the young man, his face became serious, and said, "What is your name? Why did you say that?" Yan Xia Tan can help you, can't this king?" "Cao Min Zheng Yong, it's not that Cao Min intends to offend the lord, but what the grass man asks for is afraid that the lord will not like it." Zheng Yong said respectfully, but he didn't know why However, Yan Sanbai felt a trace of hostility from his tone. "What's the matter?" Yan Sanbai asked.

Zheng Yong's attitude towards him was much better, he lowered his head again, his forehead resting on the cold stone slab, his words were unprecedentedly resolute and fearless, "Please inspector Yan Xia to thoroughly investigate the Hongheling matter again!"

Red River Ridge?Hearing this answer suddenly, Yan Sanbai was not surprised - what should come will come, no one can avoid it, no one can escape. "What is your relationship with Hongheling?" Yan Sanbai asked in a deep voice. "The grass people's ancestral home is Hongheling. When the incident happened, my mother and I were visiting relatives at my grandfather's house, so we escaped the catastrophe."

Ming An's face looks better now, probably because he was thinking about Zheng Yong's life experience, but he still frowned, "Forgive me for speaking bluntly, the Honghe Ridge incident has already been settled, and Qin Yan, who committed crimes in the previous dynasty, was cruel and heartless. You couldn't protect yourself, so you slaughtered more than [-] people in the Honghe Ridge area and buried them with you. Bringing up such a thing will only make people sad. What is your intention? Besides, His Royal Highness King Li then killed Qin Yan Killing, avenging the dead people, you came to sound the drum of injustice more than ten years later, isn't it too late?"

Ming An was the chief eunuch next to the emperor, so he spoke with confidence and gained a bit of majesty.Zheng Yong stared at him as if he had been stabbed in the sore spot, "Is that true? A total of [-] unarmed civilians were slaughtered just because Qin Yan wanted someone to be buried with him? Qin Yan had that time, why didn't he run away?! He only had so many soldiers left at that time, how could he kill so many people at that time?!" "You!" Ming An never thought that he would be killed by a Ordinary people talk back like this, and their faces turn black immediately.

Yan Sanbai was immediately winked by Li Yan, and Li Yan understood, "Ming An, you step back first." "My lord, but..." Ming An hesitated, how could he let this person continue to talk nonsense, and it was still in the hands of the lord. before.And it was related to King Li, he was not sure what Li Yan was thinking.

But Li Yan raised his eyebrows, "Do you want me to invite you?" "The little one doesn't dare, so I'll back down now." Ming An then quickly backed down, but he didn't dare to really back down, he just waited at the door outside.

Li Yan looked at Zheng Yong again, "You are here to complain about this matter? What do you want to know?" "Returning to the prince, the grassroots only want to know the truth. I want to know what happened in Hongheling more than ten years ago. What's the matter?" Zheng Yong's hands were shaking, and he was still scared when he talked to King Luoyang like this.But when he thought of the tragic situation back then, his heart became firmer, and there was a little bit of determination in his eyes.His father must not die so unclearly, and so many distant relatives and neighbors cannot die so unclearly.

Li Yan, with his hands behind his back, paced slowly in front of him, narrowed his slender Danfeng eyes, and looked at him, but he didn't have a frightening anger, "The king asked you, why did you come to ask now?"

Zheng Yong pursed his lips, clenched his fists, and said nothing.

Li Yan glanced at Yan Sanbai, and saw the same conjecture as himself in his eyes - like Guan Qingci, he must have secretly obtained clues about Hongheling from somewhere.In the end, Li Yan flicked his sleeves, but he couldn't tell whether he was angry or not, and said: "Ling Ding, take him down, and send him back tomorrow. No, send him to Dali Temple and keep him under strict supervision." "Yes, my lord." "My lord, I've already sounded the drum to call for grievances, Hongheling case, please review!" Zheng Yong was anxious, and looked at Yan Sanbai again, "Tan Yan, please help me! I beg you!" "Be at ease " Yan Sanbai calmed down with gentle words, but Li Yan seemed to finally show his displeasure, and said: "Take it down."

Zheng Yong was taken away, but Li Yan's frown was deeper than before. The incidents about Hongheling came one after another, and he could almost foresee that there must be a storm in the future.Hongheling, it seems that it is just an old thing, but once it involves his dead ghost father, he is too sensitive.

Yan Sanbai saw his furrowed eyebrows, hugged him from behind, and pressed his cheek gently on his back, "You are you, King Li is King Li, others may think that you represent him, You can't escape that responsibility, but in my heart, you are the only one in the world, so don't worry, no matter what happens, I will be with you."

Li Yan held Yan Sanbai's hand on his waist, feeling warm in his heart.

The night outside was very dark, but Yan Sanbai's light was like a moon, although it was light and shallow, it was always there - Li Yan couldn't help thinking that his eyesight was always the best.

At the same time, Qiu Xuzi finally ate and drank enough under the service of his little apprentice, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, got up and pushed the door out, looking up at Qiwei standing on the top of the tower. "At the beginning, I asked you to be the national teacher, and I was unwilling in every way, why are you so interested now?"

Qi Wei jumped down, his clothes fluttering.When passing by, he glanced at Qiu Xuzi and said, "That's your apprentice, why should I care?"

Qiu Xuzi shook his head, put his hands behind his hands, and smiled helplessly, "Junior Brother, when will you get rid of your duplicity? But it's cute too."

The next day, go to court.

As usual, civil and military officials stepped into the palace gate in the dim light of the morning, and the perceptive people had already discovered that the King of Luoyang, who had never loved going to court, was here today.

Does the sun come out from the west?

However, the well-informed people already knew the sound of the drum last night, so they looked at Li Yan with a different meaning, and they couldn't help but have their own little jokes in their hearts.The eyes from the east and the glances from the west meet in mid-air.The trade-off between the open and the dark has already begun.

So everyone was very quiet in the early morning today. The so-called silence is better than sound. What should be said is hidden in the heart and eyes, and what is said is nonsense.

The emperor was obviously in a bad mood. Seeing the lifeless court hall, he was even worse. He tapped on the armrest of the dragon chair with his fingers, "All the lovers have nothing to say? Well, I happen to have something to say."

Baiguan immediately bowed his head and listened. "Last night, someone sounded the grievance drum and asked for a re-investigation of the Honghe Ridge incident. What's your opinion on this?"

The atmosphere in front of the hall suddenly stagnated, as if no one expected that the emperor would raise this question so directly.If this matter can really be put on the table and talked about casually, how can it become a taboo in the court? Even if the emperor speaks first now, no one wants to be the first bird.

Moreover, Li Yan is still here today.

People who knew a little bit of the truth couldn't help but look at him from the corner of their eyes, and found that he was still the same as when he came to court occasionally, standing lazily, closing his eyes and resting his mind, and he didn't hear anything outside him.

But this is puzzling.

This incident has a lot to do with Li Yanxi, and if it wasn't for this incident, why would Li Yan come to court so diligently today?

Or... he doesn't know the inside story of Honghe Ridge at all?This seems unlikely, right?

Suddenly, Li Yan opened his eyes, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his tone was still the same as before, making people want to strangle him to death, "Master Fan, you have been looking at me, do you have something to say?"

The conscience of heaven and earth, Fan Zhengchun, was really not looking at him. He was afraid of doing something wrong recently, and was planning to pretend to be a quail to escape this disaster, but Li Yan wanted to call him by name.

Secretly wiped off the sweat in his heart, Fan Zhengchun cupped his hands and said: "Why did your lord make such a statement? The Hongheling case is a serious matter, and the lower officials dare not speak nonsense." Dare to speak nonsense?" Li Yan's tone was gentle, his eyes scanned for a week, and wherever he went, he bowed his head.He couldn't help touching his nose and introspecting - is this king so scary? "Yu Shitai, what do you say?" If the mountain doesn't come, it's me, so I have no choice but to go to the mountain.

Wang Yushi, a dead pig, was not afraid of boiling water, and did not look sideways, "This matter should be managed by Dali Temple, Master Fan is modest."

Fan Zhengchun's teeth itch in anger, but the people at Yushitai have always been like this, if you say something here, people can squeeze you for a whole year.Fan Zhengchun, who had learned from the past, did not dare to act rashly, but Li Yan had already made a conclusion, "Then it will be under the management of Dali Temple."

Fan Zhengchun groaned inwardly, and after looking around for a week, no one was willing to rescue him at all, but the emperor said, "Qinghe, don't mess around."

Fan Zhengchun's heart relaxed, and the respect and love for the emperor in his heart suddenly flowed like a torrential river, but the emperor followed up with another sentence, "Then it will be under the management of Dali Temple."

Boom—the river was so fast that it broke the dam.

So what's the point of the last sentence? !What a joke!

However, no matter how unwilling Fan Zhengchun was, this matter was settled by Li Yan in a few words.After coming down to court, civil and military officials scattered in twos and threes, Fan Zhengchun was the most anxious to leave, fearing that if he was a step too late, some trouble would come to him.

Li Yan walked last, with his hands in his sleeves facing each other, and walked out slowly. As soon as he went out, he saw someone waiting for him outside the door.

That was Li Wang's capable general before his death, and now the top general - Su Shihui.