imprinted you in my heart

After the two secretly returned to the palace, Bu Qianxue did not go back to Changfu Palace, but returned to Fengde Palace with Shi Min.

The first thing Shi Min did after returning to the palace was to order her to seal her mouth and ask about Qingying's situation, because she didn't want to, and not many people knew that Bu Qianxue had returned, but in order to prevent information from leaking, she still issued a seal order.

As for Qingying, Shi Min was really worried about it, after being busy for so long, he couldn't eat well, drink well, and even didn't get enough sleep, for fear that it would be bullied.

After waiting in fear for a day and a night, Lu Guan first saw the two returned safely, and finally put his heart back into his stomach. He quickly told what His Majesty asked and what happened during this period, and immediately sent a palace attendant to Anren after he left. The palace notified.

After listening to Lu Guanchu's report, Shi Min and the others knew that Qingying had come back long before them. As soon as they came back, they ate and drank a lot, and this society was sleeping in its own kennel.

Ever since Qingying grew up, the previous puppy kennel was a bit cramped, so Shi Min asked the Shangfu Bureau to make another big cushion for it, and specially packed out the reward room for it to live alone. It is divided into eating area, rest area, toy stacking area and toilet area. It is modeled on a modern cat litter box, and a special litter box is made for it, and sprinkled with plant ash and sand.

Shi Min originally wanted to go to see Qingying, but thought that it really should have a good rest, so he didn't go because he was afraid of waking it up.

Wen Yu learned that Shi Min had returned, and wanted someone to send her over, but he thought it was too difficult to wait, so he came directly by himself.

When she arrived at Fengde Palace, Bu Qianxue was taking a bath in the Duanmu room, and Shi Min was reviewing memorials and secret letters in the study. The backlog in two days was enough for her to work overtime today.

Hearing that Lu Guanchu reported that the Empress Dowager was coming, Shi Min hurriedly put down his pen and went out to greet her.Originally, she planned to wait for Bu Qianxue to finish her bath, then she would bathe and change clothes, and then go to the Wenxuan Hall to offer two sticks of incense to Grandma Huang, thanking her and the old ancestor for their protection, and finally went to pay her respects to the queen mother.

Unexpectedly, the queen mother came by herself. As soon as Shi Min walked outside the Hongde Hall, he met Wen Yu and his party who were oncoming. Send someone to say, and the minister will come."

"I know, but I don't want to wait any longer, let's go in and talk." After entering the Hongde Hall, he turned around and said, "I have something to talk to the emperor, and you all wait outside." When the manager and Lu Guan first glanced at each other, the meaning was self-evident.

Lu Guanchu and Wen Yu's chief code officer were also people with sharp eyesight. After seeing the two masters entering, they closed the door and guarded the door themselves.

Shi Min and Wen Yu didn't sit down on the Arhat bed until they entered the study. The tea was refilled by Lu Guanchu not long ago, and Shi Min poured a cup for each of them.

Wen Yu picked up the teacup and took a sip, and asked tentatively, "Did you find Qianxue?" She didn't see Bu Qianxue all the way just now, and the palace attendant who went to report only said that her daughter was back. The daughter is back, so Qianxue must have found that step, and it turned out that this is not the case?

Shi Min whispered: "She is taking a bath......".

After hearing Shi Min's words, Wen Yu realized that Qingying led the way to find Bu Qianxue, and Bu Qianxue was not harmed in any way, and only after a long sleep did she feel happy.

Regrettably, until now it is not known who is manipulating all this behind the scenes, so Shi Min deliberately concealed the news that he had found Bu Qianxue in order to catch the real culprit behind the scenes. Wen Yu expressed his understanding and support, and left after a few words of advice I went to Wenxuan Hall and Mingyue Hall successively.

On the other hand, Dali Guan Yucheng, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the Procuratorate are also working hard to solve the case. After receiving the corpses and criminals escorted by the Juwang County Yamen, they immediately asked Wu Zuo to conduct an inspection and arraign the prisoner.

After the autopsy, no major findings were found. The prisoner who was interrogated was pale and limped. He looked like he had been tortured with a cane. Yu Cheng has many years of experience in handling cases, and nine out of ten he is a stubborn stubble.

Dali Guan Yucheng's guess was correct. In order to catch the escaped person, the magistrate of Juwang County interrogated the prisoner overnight before he was escorted, but the other party was very stubborn. His Majesty abolished interrogation and torture, leaving only whipping and punishment Torture instruments such as shackles and shackles, tossing until dawn did not get any useful information, so it was not mentioned in the handover document.

Since Shi Min and his party left Juwang County, the magistrate of Juwang County has been extremely busy trying to catch the other two fugitives, and progress has been slow.

Dali Guan Yucheng has been in charge of Dali Temple for many years. Regardless of experience, methods, or city government, it is not comparable to a rookie like the county magistrate of Juwang County who has just fled for a few years.

Ever since His Majesty ordered the abolition of interrogation torture, they have exchanged ideas with the Ministry of Punishment and the Procuratorate, learned from each other, and integrated and sorted out a few tricks that can make the other party's life worse than death without any blood or trauma. Just right.

From the prisoners, Dali Guan Yucheng got two useful news, one is that if they are not overtaken, they will disperse as soon as they cross the Daihe River, and finally gather at Xuanchuan; Jiangzhou collection.

As for where to gather, the prisoners did not know the exact location, because they used to be connected by specific symbols, and there were more than one symbol, and the higher the level, the more people knew.

In the past, high-level people like them would not need to do things with their own hands, but since they conducted an internal cleanup this year and some people died inexplicably, the middle and lower lines were basically wiped out, leaving only the people in Far Kang. The leader of the remote command, the young leader of the command in the Hua Dynasty, and the few high-level leaders like them.

Speaking of which, the leader and the others have met before, but the young leader is even more mysterious than the leader. If you haven’t seen the truth, you don’t say anything. You always give orders through special channels. Even if you meet, you still wear a mask. What you want to do is never Discuss with them, let alone tell them why they did this. This aspect is simply taught by the leader, so they all obey orders. As for why?What is the purpose?I don't know, and I dare not ask.

Dali Guan Yucheng immediately asked him to write down all the symbols and meanings he knew, and was afraid that the other party would deliberately lie and report false information, so he took some food to reward the other party, and actually added some ingredients to it, so that the other party had a good sleep After waking up, I immediately asked the other party to write another copy.

It turned out that there was a slight discrepancy between the two copies, and Dali Guan Yucheng had to change the method. It took a long time to finally get the correct symbol information, and immediately copied two copies to the Ministry of Punishment and the Procuratorate, and sent A team of people took the symbolic information and went to Xuanchuan and Jiangzhou to check it in person.

Xuanchuan is the provincial capital of Wuchuan Province, and Jiangzhou is the provincial capital of Qianshan Province. Apart from the fact that they are both provincial capitals, they are also big cities in Southwest Guandaohua, and they are also the capitals of the southwestern countries. , The place that business travelers must pass through when they come to Fandu.

As for the other person who was listed as a suspect at the same time as Mrs. Zhang, he was a servant of Bu Family Dazong, who was only here to send invitations. He went out to buy something for the Patriarch last night and never came back. When he was found this morning, he was gone. He was dead, and was about to report the case when the yamen servant came, and simply brought the housekeeper and the body to the yamen.

After Dali Guan Yucheng learned about it, he immediately thought of killing people to silence him, but it turned out to be counterproductive. This servant died of a sudden illness because he liked to drink on weekdays, and he was a little old. It was not homicide.

At that time, this clue was broken, and the Zhang family could not see anyone alive or dead. Dali Guan Yucheng and the others had no choice but to inquire about all the people in the Buhou Mansion and the Bu Family Dazong, but there was no major discovery. Although there are some small conflicts in the family, they are of the same clan after all, and they will not risk the risk of killing the clan to kidnap Zhonggong.

Fortunately, two corpses and a suspect, including Mrs. Zhang, were escorted from Juwang County, and they wrote down the general process, which allowed them to make the current progress.

What Dali Guan Yucheng and the others didn't know was that the suspect did not confess all of them, and even if he did, some of them were half-truths and half-false. The case seemed to be progressing, but in fact it was suspected of delaying time.

The sky is getting darker, and the whole complex is about to be covered by night. Dali Guan Yucheng has a headache when he sees the sky, because His Majesty only gave them three days, and now two days are almost over, but they can't even see the shadow of the middle palace. I don't see you, sorry.

In desperation, Dali Guan Yucheng and the other three made a total calculation, and prepared to sort out the case, and went to the palace overnight to ask His Majesty. As for whether His Majesty returned to the palace, they didn't know, so they could only gamble.

In the study room of Fengde Palace, the candles have already been lit, Shi Min is sitting behind the desk reviewing secret letters and memorials, and Bu Qianxue is also sitting on the Arhat bed reviewing memorials, communicating with each other from time to time, most of the time it is quiet. Approve mine.

Bu Qianxue's approvals were not in a hurry but more routine, so generally there were no major problems, as long as the approval was made according to the notes prepared by the military secret office and the cabinet, and Shi Min would be asked if there were any problems or those who didn't understand.

After the tireless review by the two of them, more than half of the secret letters and memorials that had a lot of stock had been approved, and they might be able to finish the approval before going to bed, but the minister didn't take face too much, and asked to see him outside the palace gate at night.

Dali Guanyu accepted their request to see them, but Shi Min had no choice but to wait for them to come while working hard to review.

Lu Guanchu came in and said, "Your Majesty, Yucheng and the others have arrived." At this time, Bu Qianxue had already moved to the dormitory to continue reviewing. The more memorials she wrote, the more she knew.

"Let them in," Shi Min said without raising his head, and the pen in his hand was still writing. There were not many urgent memorials, and most of them were confidential letters, and most of them needed to be answered, otherwise she would finish the approval.

After Dali Guan Yucheng, the Procuratorate Youdu Yushi and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment came in to salute, Dali Guan Yucheng reported the latest progress of the case.

When listening to the report, Shi Min finally stopped writing, "What's the problem with Qing and so on?" You can't beg to see her at night just to tell her these innocuous things, they don't have that kind of personality either.

"Your Majesty, after the disappearance of the Central Palace, the ministers have been unable to sleep for the past few days and nights. They only hope that the case will be solved day and night. However, the sky is not fulfilling people's wishes, and the clues are very limited. It is all thanks to Your Majesty's great blessing. Today, great progress has been made. However, I will go to Jiangzhou now." , Xuanchuan’s round trip can take a few days, or more than ten days, and since tomorrow is the deadline for solving the case, I feel uneasy, please allow a little more time, Your Majesty,” the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment said earnestly.

When she issued the order that the case must be solved within three days, Shi Min was really in a hurry. In order to find Bu Qianxue as soon as possible, she could only put a heavy burden on them and put them under pressure. Now that she has found Bu Qianxue, it is not a good idea to give them some time No, so they gave them a grace period of half a month.

After another half a month, the three went back happily.But Shi Min and the two had to continue to review, and they were busy until the third watch before finishing the review.

Bu Qianxue, who finished her work one step earlier, had already gone to bed first, Shi Min habitually walked to the dormitory after finishing her work, and only when she entered the dormitory did she think of getting up and being put to sleep by Bu Qianxue, and immediately turned back, as they had agreed before, She sleeps in the study.

Shi Min finally lay down on the warm Arhat bed in the study room. Before going to bed, he thought: Tomorrow is the third day, Mulan Yu and the others should be here too, and the news about the hostage exchange should also be passed on to me. ?