Go to Kaifeng to be a civil servant

If you talk about the prison in Kaifeng Mansion, it is well-known in black and white, like thunder, everyone knows, everyone knows.

First of all, this prison is heavily guarded and airtight, and all those who rob the prison will take a detour and avoid it for fear of being late.

Secondly, the prisoners held in the prison are even more different, ranging from the thief Xiao Xiao to the princes and ministers, high and low, everything that one expects to find, and no one is fake.

However, it is the jailer of the prison in Kaifeng Mansion that the people of Bianliang are most fond of talking about.

Speaking of these jailers, they are really pitiful. They stay in the dark cells all day long. Mr. Bao supervises them strictly, and Mr. Gongsun keeps them tight. Compared with other government prisons, they really can't get much money; Since Mr. Zhan, the fourth-rank imperial guard with a sword, took office, the frequency of prison robberies has dropped sharply, and there is no chance to exercise his muscles. He really has no hobbies and interests, so he can only listen to the gossip of everyone in the prison. Let's talk gossip.

Don't say it, just talk like this, and you will become famous.

Speaking of which, the jailers of the Kaifeng mansion are all extraordinary. They know everything about the inside story of major cases and gossip about small cases, and all of them are eloquent and sharp-tongued. Other than the master bargainer Jin Bukuai, this group is the most talented. If you just pull one out, sit on the tea stand, and come to the tea stall for a while, you can attract a large number of people to listen, and there are really people who rely on this Eating and drinking.

Therefore, whenever some important person came to the prison of Kaifeng Mansion, these jailers were more happy than anyone else, and they were willing to inquire about some gossip. Afterwards, they went out to chat, and it might be another free meal.

No, another inner palace chief was imprisoned in the prison today, who was said to be the confidant of the current empress dowager. The jailers in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion were as excited as Chinese New Year.As soon as everyone summed up, they immediately acted in teams, scouted around for news, and waited until they came back after dinner to report back one by one and summarize them one by one.

At the beginning of the day when the lights were on, in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion, several jailers were sitting around the resting place at the door of the cell, discussing secretly with their heads together.

"Hey, brother, what news did you find out?"

"It's strange. Mr. Bao and Mr. Gongsun have been staying in the flower hall, and they don't know what they are discussing. It is said that they are useless even for dinner."

"Lord Zhan and the captains are also nervous, and the policemen in the mansion are also very nervous. It seems that there is something big going on tonight."

"That's right, I also heard that Mr. Bao will interrogate Guo Huai tonight..."

"Several guards," they had just said this, and suddenly a high-pitched voice interrupted from a cell next to them, "Can you tell our family?

Ok?

Several jailers turned their heads at the same time, staring straight at the prisoners in the cell.

I saw this man, with a fat body, a shiny face, a pair of slits and two long bags under his eyes, although he was wearing prison clothes, but he had a relaxed expression, he was the eunuch Guo Huai who had just been imprisoned last night.

The faces of several jailers suddenly sank, and they said displeasedly: "Go, go, what are you doing, just stay here!"

Guo Huai walked to the prison door, raised his eyebrows and said, "Since what you guys are talking about is our case, why can't our family listen to it?"

A jailer raised his eyebrows and shouted, "It's because it's your case that you can't hear it!"

Guo Huai's face darkened slightly: "Our family is in front of the Queen Mother, how dare you talk to our family in such a tone?!"

"Yo! The person in front of the Queen Mother—" Several jailers walked up to Guo Huai, looked up and down, and couldn't help laughing, "So what? It doesn't matter who you were before, as long as you enter our prison, you will be One prisoner! Not to mention you as an eunuch, the former son-in-law named Chen Shimei is much more arrogant than you, and our brothers didn't take it seriously!"

Guo Huai's eye bags twitched, squinted his eyes, and stretched out his hand to pull out a hairpin from his bun, saying: "Then with this, how many would you like to tell our family?"

When the jailers saw the hairpin, their eyes lit up.

The hairpin is a finely carved fine jade hairpin.

A jailer snatched the jade hairpin, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a long time, and when he looked up again, he was already smiling: "I don't know what Eunuch Guo wants to ask?"

"Just ask Mr. Bao to interrogate our family tonight, how many of you know?"

"The father-in-law asked the right person. Our brothers are well-known inquisitors in Kaifeng mansion, and we can't hide anything from our ears." Another jailer laughed.

Guo Huai slightly raised his eyebrows and said, "Then Bao Zheng just finished his court trial today, why is there a night trial?"

"Yo! Do you really not know or are you pretending not to know?" A jailer exclaimed in surprise, "Mr. Bao's trial at night is a trial of ghosts!"

"Ghost trial?" Guo Huai frowned, "How do you say that?"

Several jailers stared straight at Guo Huai, and said in unison: "Master Bao is famous for 'Surveying Yang by day and breaking Yin by night'! Who doesn't know this in Bianliang, Tokyo!"

"Judging Yang by day, breaking Yin by night?" Guo Huai's brows tightened.

"It's the trial of cases in the yang world during the day, and the trial of injustice cases in the underworld at night!" A jailer explained.

"Judging the underworld at night?" Guo Huai sneered as he walked around several jailers with slit eyes, "Absurd! Absurd!"

"Oh, father-in-law, this is absolutely true!" Several jailers shouted.

"Then Bao Zheng has been an official for many years, how come our family has never heard of him having such abilities before?" Guo Huai raised his eyebrows and asked coldly.

"Oh, father-in-law, you don't know now!" A jailer leaned forward and whispered, "Although Master Bao doesn't have this ability, but the people under Master Bao have it!"

"Oh?" Guo Huai seemed to be interested, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is it that Gongsun Ce or that Zhan Zhao?"

All the jailers shook their heads at the same time: "Although Mr. Gongsun and Mr. Zhan are capable, they don't have this ability."

"Which capable person is that?"

Several jailers looked around at the same time, and then looked at each other, then pushed a jailer forward and said in a low voice: "There is a policeman in our Kaifeng mansion, his surname is Jin and his name is Qian. Small, but he is a strange person, with extraordinary talent, able to conjure up souls, since he came to this Kaifeng mansion, Mr. Bao has been able to examine Yin and judge ghosts!"

Guo Huai squinted his eyes and sneered.

The jailer said again: "Elder-in-law, have you heard of the Wupen case?"

"The Wupen case?" Guo Huai squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then said, "I have heard a little bit of it, rumors in the market, that Bao Zheng avenged justice for the wronged souls who were sealed in the black basin, according to our family, it is completely nonsense! "

"Eunuch, this is absolutely true!" Several jailers whispered at the same time.

One of the jailers was terrified and said: "The officials in Kaifeng Mansion all saw it with their own eyes, that is, that Jinqian recruited the lingering ghost from the black basin, attached himself to himself, and testified in court, even the ghost was dying. He explained clearly what happened at that time, and frightened the murderous brothers to the point of tearing their livers apart, and they confessed their crimes!"

"Also, even Liu Shichang's wife and children are recognized!" another jailer also said.

Hearing this, Guo Huai's slitted eyes slightly opened, the bags under his eyes trembled slightly, and he said, "Is this really the case?"

"It's absolutely true!" Several jailers swore at the same time.

I saw a jailer look around again, leaned forward and said: "Eunuch, Mr. Bao has already explained that the inside story of this case must not be leaked. Today, the brothers are also telling the truth for the sake of the father-in-law. If the father-in-law goes out in the future, don't say that you heard about it from us, it will affect the jobs of our brothers!"

Guo Huai glanced at the terrified faces of several people with squinted eyes, the bags under his eyes twitched a few times, and he waved his hands accordingly.

When the jailers saw this, their expressions eased, and they clasped their fists together again, looked around, and left in a hurry.

There was a dead silence around the cell.

Guo Huai was alone in the prison cell, his oily face was slightly dull, and he murmured: "The sun is judged by the day, the yin is broken by the night...calling the soul...hmph, ridiculous..."

Suddenly, there was a strange sound coming from his feet, and Guo Huai's fat body trembled, and he took a few steps back in an instant, his slit eyes opened wide, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

After a closer look, it was just a mouse slipping past his feet.

Guo Huai narrowed his eyes slightly, the corners of his mouth twitched, kicked the mouse away, walked to the door of the cell, sat by the door, closed his eyes and meditated.

But if you look closely, it is not difficult to see that Guo Huai's fat fingers are trembling.

And outside the prison door, a man was wearing a Confucian shirt, with a smile in his eyes, and said leisurely: "It seems that the jailer's salary should be raised."

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"Clang...clang..."

In the middle of the night, there was no sound, and there was a burst of chains rattling, intermittently, coming from a distance, in the silent prison, it was extremely shocking.

Suddenly, the sound stopped, and a voice suddenly sounded outside the cell:

"Guo Huai, come to court!"

Guo Huai, who was sitting in the corner, looked up and saw two yamen servants standing in front of the cell with iron chains in their hands. Under the dim light, their pale faces turned slightly green.

Guo Huai couldn't help shaking, and said, "How can there be a trial in the middle of the night..."

"Shut up, there's so much nonsense!"

The Yacha shouted in a low voice, and with a wave of his hand, he wrapped the iron chain around Guo Huai's neck.

The cold and piercing touch made Guo Huai's heart tremble.

After being dragged out of the prison, Guo Huai followed the two yamen servants and walked slowly towards the lobby.

The sky is dark, the moon is gloomy, the cool wind blows, the shadows of the trees sway, and the refreshing summer wind, it is actually a bit cold at this time.

When he came to the gate of the Kaifeng Mansion lobby, Guo Huai took a closer look and his heart trembled.

I saw that the big hall was empty and silent, there were only two small fluorescent lamps, one was placed on the public table in the middle of the hall, and the other was placed in front of the master's table. Wind flurry.

Master Bao was sitting in the case, almost hidden in the dark night, he could only vaguely see a pair of sharp eyes shining brightly, and the crescent moon imprint on the top of his head faintly glowing.

Zhan Zhao was wearing a bright red official uniform, which seemed to be blood-stained at this moment.

Mr. Gongsun sat with him in the hall, his face fluctuated with the lights, and his face was pale and pale.

"Crack!" The gavel slapped, echoing repeatedly.

"Bring Guo Huai!" Master Bao said in a deep voice, buzzing around his ears, as if it was coming from all directions.

The two guards suddenly pushed Guo Huai into the hall and knelt down with both hands. Guo Huai suddenly turned around, but saw that the two of them disappeared in an instant, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.

Guo Huai suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

Then I heard Lord Bao's voice faintly said in the hall: "Guo Huai, are you guilty?"

Guo Huai swallowed, regained his energy, and stared, "Our family is innocent!"

Lord Bao said again: "Guo Huai, can you plead guilty?"

Guo Huai raised his eyes and said with a sneer: "Bao Heizi, you have no evidence and no certificate, our family wants to see how you convict our family?!"

Master Bao said in a deep voice: "Although there is no witness in this house, there is a ghost witness! Guo Huai, do you dare to confront that evil spirit of Kou Zhu?"

Guo Huai's bags under his eyes twitched a few times, he shook half of his fat face and said with a sneer:

"Hmph, Bao Heizi, don't think that if you go to court in the middle of the night and pretend to be a ghost, you can make our family plead guilty, saying that you're judging the yang every day, and breaking the yin at night'. Our family doesn't believe in this evil! If you have the ability, tell the gangster Zhu's wronged soul is coming to the court, we want to see what kind of tricks you, a blackie, can play!"

"This house is all for you!" Master Bao stared at him suddenly, his eyes shot out like lightning, and the crescent moon on his forehead was shining brightly: "Where is the golden catcher?!"

"Subordinates are here!"

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Guo Huai only felt a figure beside him for an instant, and couldn't help being startled, and when he looked up, he was shocked.

I saw this person with narrow eyes, face like wax paper, pale elf, wearing a blue-gray Taoist robe, loose and fluttering, in the dim light, it seemed that this person had no body and no shape, just a star floating on the empty robe. head.

Then I heard Master Bao's deep voice from the hall: "Catcher Jin, pass on the ghost Kou Zhu!"

"Subordinates obey!"

The green robe flickered, and in the blink of an eye, the person in front of him had disappeared. Turning his head again, he realized that this person had arrived outside the lobby door at some time, and there was an extra person in front of the empty lobby door out of thin air. For the Zhangxiang case, plain white double wax flutters, and pale smoke swirls around, setting off the ghostly atmosphere in front of the originally solemn and solemn lobby.

I saw Jin Qian bent down, clasped his hands together, and muttered something in his mouth. Suddenly, he straightened up, raised the black wooden sword on the case, and swung his arms out horizontally. When the wooden sword touched the candlelight, suddenly a A ghostly green fire shot straight into the sky, making Jin Qian's sallow face and green light glow, as if emerging from the Senluo Ghost Palace.

Guo Huai knelt on the hall, staring straight at Jinqian in green robe who was playing sword in front of the hall, his slit eyes were wide open, and his eyelids kept twitching.

Indistinctly, a few incantations came, swaying and swaying, carefully stacked, surrounding the ears, making people shudder.

"Prajnaparamita... Beacon flames and lightning strikes... Righteousness is in people's hearts... The law of heaven preserves righteousness... Big ghosts and little ghosts listen to me... Before the evil spirit Kou Zhu goes to court..."

A gust of wind blew by, and the gray Taoist robe danced wildly, revealing Jinqian's slender and straight arms, under the terrified moonlight, it looked like white bones dancing under the moonlight.

Guo Huai's fat body trembled, his eyes froze in shock, and he froze in the hall.

"Before the injustice Kou Zhu enters the hall... There is my generation in the Senluo Palace... The law of heaven and justice and the three worlds..." Jin Qian's figure suddenly flew, and the Taoist robe spun up, revealing the plain white skirt under the Taoist robe, and disappeared in a flash.

The few people in the hall hadn't seen it before, but at this moment of turning around, Jin Qian raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead with lightning speed.

"Prajna Paramita...Prajna Paramita..." The voice of the incantation lingered low and turned into murmurs, buzzing around, and only a few words could be heard, "Kou Zhu, Kou Zhu... Going to the court, going to the court... No more words, no more words... Xiao Liu, Xiao Liu... don't make a move at this time... let alone when to stop..."

Jin Qian whimpered in an ill-fitting Taoist robe and danced a heavy and heavy wooden sword. At this time, he was sweating through his robe and was extremely tired. What's going on? It's just lighting two cigarette trays on both sides of the hall, using cattail fans to stir up the smoke, so we can take the opportunity to take off our Taoist robes, revealing that we are wearing plain white prison clothes and go to court to pretend to be Kou Zhu to testify. It's such a simple job, why is it so procrastinating? ?

This Guo Huai is the same, staring at us without moving, not even blinking his eyelids, isn't he afraid of eyeball cramps?Tsk, I can't even find a chance for us to throw smoke bombs... Sigh, if I knew it, I would have given Zheng Xiaoliu two ammunition for the rescue...

He complained endlessly in his heart, but his body couldn't stop for half a minute.

I saw Jinqian's left one "Holding the Moon in His Arms", the right one "Wild Horse Splitting Mane", two moves up and down, "Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms", bending forward and swinging "Nine Yin White Bone Claws", the whole set is finished , but there was still no movement, I couldn't help sweating, and shouted in my heart: It's broken, it's broken, this Zheng Xiaoliu has gone on strike temporarily?

Gongsun Zhuzi, I blame you for being too stingy and not even paying overtime pay. Now even this dedicated Comrade Xiao Liu is on strike. What should I do?

Jin Qian was complaining vigorously, when suddenly he glanced out of the corner of his eye, and saw a figure bowing in a hurry, lying under the steps of the lobby, rolling his eyes at him.

Huh?

Jin Qian took a closer look, and immediately became angry.

This Zheng Xiaoliu, dishonestly, is lighting a fire behind and blowing smoke, so what is he doing here?

But seeing that Zheng Xiaoliu looked anxious, he gesticulated for a long time, seeing that Jinqian didn't understand, so he had to lean forward and whispered: "Jin, Jinqian, what should we do? The fire is lit, but there is no smoke ..."

Eh? ! !

Jin Qian staggered suddenly and almost fell to the ground.

Peeking at the lobby again, Guo Huai still stared straight at him, unmoving, but the frightened look on his face tended to fade away.

tsk...

Jinqian narrowed his eyes, held up a sword flower, and posed a posture of "walking towards Tiger Mountain", and continued to mutter: "I offer animal sacrifices... I only hope that Yama will let me go..."

While muttering, he winked at Zheng Xiaoliu, thinking:

Xiaoliu, Xiaoliu, throw that pig's head that you bought and didn't put on the incense table, quickly throw it into the brazier and set it on fire, it will definitely smoke out some smoke...

It is true that Zheng Xiaoliu had been in the same room with Jin Qian for a long time, and she had a good understanding, at this time, she was able to comprehend it with just two incantations, and as soon as her eyes lit up, she stooped and slipped back.

Sure enough, within a short while, there was a burnt smell of burnt pig hair, straight into the nostrils, and after that, billowing black smoke came with the wind, and the waves were turbulent.

Jin Qian was overjoyed immediately, and he didn't care about coughing and sneezing, and hurriedly took advantage of the smoke to take off his broad avenue robe, revealing a plain white prison attire, let go of his bun, and was about to rush into the hall.

But as soon as he took a step, he suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blowing by his feet, which was icy cold.

Huh?

Jin Qian couldn't help being taken aback, and thought to himself: Unexpectedly, this Zheng Xiaoliu has some abilities to create a gust of evil wind.

As soon as I thought of this, I heard a faint female voice from a distance, miserable, weeping and complaining, making the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

"Ku Zhu arrives..."

Jin Qian was shocked immediately, and instinctively took a step back.

"Ku Zhu arrived..." I heard the swaying female voice, and it got a little closer, surrounded by the night, comparable to a surround sound effect.

All of a sudden, a dark wind picked up, flying sand and rocks, the light of plain candles suddenly went out, and there was a sudden darkness outside the hall, only the incense table in front of the door was blown aside, Jin Qian was also blown to the ground by the gust of wind, breathing difficulty.

After a long while, the cloudy wind gradually dissipated, Jin Qian was sore from the fall, and it took a long time to recover, slowly crawled to the gate of the government office, opened his eyes to look into the hall, and was shocked on the spot.

On the lobby, beside Guo Huai, there was a woman in white kneeling respectfully, with loose long hair and blood oozing from her clothes. Most importantly, there was only one oil lamp left on Mr. Bao’s case to reflect the dim light, but It can be clearly seen that this woman has no shadow.

Jin Qian's muscles all over his body were sore and weak, and he stuck to the ground with a "poof".

Yes, yes, yes, there are ghosts...

It's a pity that this reminding scream failed to come from Jin Qian whose facial muscles were already stiff.

And the people in the hall obviously haven't realized that the person kneeling in the hall is a wronged ghost, and they are still sitting in a stable position, as motionless as a mountain.

Only Guo Huai shrank in one place, his whole body was shaking non-stop.

Master Bao asked in a deep voice: "Whoever kneels in the hall, report their names!"

The female ghost said: "Kou Zhu, the wronged soul, kowtow to Mr. Bao!"

The voice was faint, as if it came from a distance, and it seemed to come from the ear.

Master Bao's voice faltered slightly in the hall, and he continued to ask: "Kou Zhu, you claim to be a wronged soul, what is wrong with you, and why did you die?"

"Master Bao, Kou Zhu was killed by Guo Huai..."

"It's nonsense! It's nonsense!" The lump of fat in the hall jumped up suddenly, and shouted in a trembling voice, "Bao Heizi, don't think that you can fool our family by finding someone to play tricks!"

"Eunuch Guo..." The female ghost straightened up slowly, and said quietly, "Elder-in-law is forgetful. In the past, Kou Zhu helped Eunuch to exchange the civet cat for the crown prince, and then the father-in-law ordered Kou Zhu to kill the prince and throw him under the Jinshui Bridge. I couldn't bear it, so I handed the crown prince to Eunuch Chen Lin, which saved the crown prince's life. After the incident, the father-in-law tortured Kou Zhu, causing Kou Zhu to fall to his death. The past is vivid in my memory, and the father-in-law has forgotten..."

"Nonsense stories! Nonsense stories!" Guo Huai jumped all over his body, and his voice soared.

"Eunuch Guo, that's right..." Kou Zhu turned half of his body slowly, looked straight at Guo Huai and said, "Kou Zhu is indeed a wicked ghost. For more than ten years, Kou Zhu has been in the Netherworld, thinking about her father-in-law all the time. However, Eunuch Guo has already forgotten what Kou Zhu looks like..."

"Nonsense! Nonsense..." Guo Huai's voice stopped hoarsely, and he looked straight at the figure beside him. His face changed drastically in an instant, and his body was full of fat, as if he had suffered from epilepsy. screamed, "You, you, you, you, don't come, don't come!"

Jin Qian was lying outside the door, the light was dim, although he could only vaguely see half of the side face of the wronged soul Kou Zhu, but he was frightened.

Under Kou Zhu's long black hair, there was a blue-green face covered with scars, which was horrible, and the scars were bleeding, and the bright red liquid dripped down his chin, making a rattling sound.

A gust of wind blew up for no reason, and Kou Zhu's body suddenly flew into the air, her long hair danced wildly, her eyes were filled with green light, and she approached Guo Huai closely: "Eunuch Guo, today Kou Zhu will invite you to go to the Senluo Ghost Realm with Kou Zhu... "

"No, don't! Help, help!" Guo Huai screamed incoherently, scratching his hands.

"Crack!" The gavel slammed, Master Bao shouted loudly: "Kou Zhu, don't make mistakes!"

This sound was like a spell to suppress ghosts, Kou Zhu's ghost immediately restrained, floated to the ground, knelt respectfully in front of the hall, and wept softly: "Master Bao, please be the master of Kou Zhu..."

"Bao Heizi! Master Bao! Bao Qingtian! Help, help!" Seeing Kou Zhu being restrained by Master Bao, Guo Huai hurriedly scrambled and crawled under Master Bao's case, knocking his head vigorously.

Master Bao also changed his face slightly at this time, he fixedly glanced at the female ghost in the hall, frowned, and said: "Kou Zhu, this residence will definitely give you justice!" After finishing speaking, he turned to look at Guo Huai again, After a pause, he raised his voice and shouted, "Guo Huai, you exchanged the civet cat for the crown prince, slandered Empress Li of Yuchen Palace, and killed Kou Zhu, a palace official. Do you accept these crimes?"

"Recognize! Recognize! I recognize all of them!" Guo Huai continued to kowtow, his thin voice already filled with tears.

Lord Bao nodded, and raised his voice: "Let him draw a bet!"

Mr. Gongsun got up immediately, came to Guo Huai's side, asked him to draw and press the seal, and handed the testimony to Mr. Bao to watch.

After the trial, Master Bao nodded, raised his eyes and said to the female ghost: "Guo Huai has pleaded guilty, Kou Zhu, you can rest in peace!"

"Thank you, Mr. Bao!" Kou Zhu floated up, bowed quietly, turned around and floated out of the lobby, but when he came to the gate of the lobby, he bowed respectfully to Jinqian who was lying on the ground.

Jin Qian simply rolled his eyes and passed out on the spot.

A gust of dark wind blew past, and when Mr. Bao raised his eyes again, the front of the lobby was empty, and there were no ghosts there.

"Come here, hold the lamp!" Master Bao gave an order, followed by the sound of noisy footsteps, two teams of yamen guards ran into the hall with torches in hand, in an instant, the hall of Kaifeng Mansion was brightly lit.

Master Bao stood up, bypassed the public case, bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty, the Eighth Prince!"

The curtain of the back hall was lifted, and a group of people stepped out. The two leaders, dressed in brocade clothes and jade belts, were pale. They were the current emperor and the Eighth King Qiansui. The next person, with a terrified expression, was Chen Lin and Eunuch Chen.And after that, there were several imperial guards.

Master Bao immediately presented Guo Huai's testimony.

Renzong held the testimony in his hand, but he didn't care to read it carefully. Instead, he asked anxiously:

"Bao Qing, you claimed in advance that you wanted to find someone to pretend to be Kou Zhu's wronged soul..."

Master Bao clasped his fists and said, "I have a subordinate who has the ability to summon spirits and ghosts, and he has just used his skills in front of the hall. Therefore, the soul that the Holy Majesty saw in the hall tonight may be Kou Zhu himself."

Renzong couldn't help being startled, and exclaimed: "Is there really a theory of ghosts and gods?!"

"There are gods standing three feet above your head. If you have a clear conscience, even if the wronged souls come to your door, why should you be afraid?! Then Guo Huai has done many injustices, and tonight there will be wronged souls coming to the court to prove it. It is the cycle of heaven, and the retribution is not good!" Master Bao clasped his fists and said solemnly. road.

After hearing this, Renzong calmed down, looked at the testimony in his hand with peace of mind, and finished reading it in a short while, raised his eyes suddenly, and shouted angrily: "Guo Huai, who instigated such a wasteful and immoral thing? you?!"

At this time, Guo Huai was completely exhausted and was lying on the ground. Hearing the emperor's question, he could only raise his eyes slightly, but he was unable to speak.

Emperor Renzong raised his eyebrows, and shouted again: "I will ask you again, who ordered you?!"

Guo Huai's figure trembled slightly, and he managed to get up with difficulty, knelt down on the ground, tremblingly said: "Report to Your Majesty..."

Just halfway through the words, a red shadow swirled out of the air, the Juque sword was unsheathed with a clang, and the cold light swirled with the red shadow, filling the room brilliantly.

Just listening to the sound of "ding ding ding", several dark darts flew with the sound, and were nailed to the red pillars on both sides of the lobby.

"Protect the emperor!" The voice was still ringing in my ears, and the red figure had already flitted out of the lobby, like a glimpse of a glimpse.

"There are assassins!"

"Protect the Emperor!"

Shouts arose immediately, guards from the forbidden army, arresters from the government office, all rushed up, and immediately surrounded the Emperor Renzong and the eight kings, Qiansui.

Mr. Bao has rich experience, so he immediately raised his voice and shouted: "Come on, help the guards catch the assassin!"

"Subordinates obey!"

Several yamen servants at the gate rushed out with orders.

Not long after, the red shadow came back and landed in the middle of the hall, holding a sword and saluting, followed by a group of yamen servants who were panting just now.

"Guard Zhan, have you ever captured an assassin?" Master Bao asked anxiously.

Zhan Zhao clasped his fists and said, "My lord, the assassin has committed suicide by taking poison. According to my subordinates' guess, the assassin who assassinated Li Niangniang a few days ago is probably the same person."

Lord Bao frowned, turned his sharp eyes slightly, and looked straight at Guo Huai who was down in the hall.

Eight Kings Qiansui followed Master Bao's gaze, his expression changed immediately, and he shouted, "Could it be that someone is going to kill Guo Huai to silence him?"

Emperor Renzong moved his eyes slowly, staring fixedly at Guo Huai who had already shrunk into a ball, and asked in a deep voice: "Guo Huai, I will ask you again, who ordered you?"

I saw that Guo Huai straightened up slowly, looked back fixedly, and said unhurriedly: "I report to the Holy Majesty that this matter was done by Guo Huai alone, and no one ordered it!"

Renzong's eyes were wide open, and he shouted loudly: "Guo Huai, you dare to deceive the king?!"

Guo Huai's eyelids twitched, he looked back and said, "This was done by Guo Huai alone, no one ordered it!"

Renzong stared at Guo Huai for a long while, his face gradually darkened, and after a long while, he said in a deep voice: "Pull it down, and you will be executed tomorrow at noon!"

Guo Huai suddenly went limp and collapsed to the ground.

Immediately, several guards stepped forward and dragged him down.

The hall was silent again.

Only the Eighth King Qiansui murmured: "I can't imagine that such wicked people are still somewhat loyal..."

The Son of Heaven closed his eyes slowly, and when he opened his eyes again, his face had returned to his normal color, his clear eyes turned, he looked at the Eight Kings, then at Lord Bao, hesitantly said: "Eight Kings, Bao Qing, can you accompany me? Greetings to Li Niangniang... no, to the empress mother..."

Master Bao and Eight Kings Qiansui looked at each other, couldn't help but smiled knowingly, and clasped their fists at the same time.

"The minister obeys the order!"

Renzong also showed a smile, nodded slightly, and led the imperial guards into the inner hall with the two.

The yamen servants in the hall also dispersed one by one.

After a while, only Mr. Gongsun and Zhan Zhao were left in the hall.

The public prosecutor secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and while sorting out the files, he asked another person in the hall: "Guard Zhan, from what you can see, are those assassins sent by Empress Liu to kill Guo Hua—Guard Zhan?"

In the middle of speaking, Mr. Gongsun suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he suddenly raised his head, he realized that there was no one in front of him. Turning his head again, he saw that red figure went to the entrance of the lobby at some time, and squatted down with his robe lifted.

Mr. Prosecutor blinked, showed a clear smile, and walked over with the file in his arms.

As he walked, he could hear Zhan Zhao's clear and clear voice faintly.

"Catcher gold, catcher gold?"

Another boy's voice was heard weeping slightly: "Master Zhan, Mr. Jin, Jin Qian has been unconscious for a long time..."

Mr. Gongsun stepped forward and took a closer look, only to see a person wearing a white shirt lying beside the threshold, his eyes closed, his face pale, it was Jin Qian who was ordered to invoke the soul.There was also an anxious policeman squatting beside him, it was Zheng Xiaoliu.

Zhan Zhaojian frowned, when he saw Mr. Gongsun, he quickly got up and cupped his fists and said, "Mr. Gongsun came just in time, come and see Mr. Jin quickly."

Mr. Gongsun nodded, squatted down together with Zhan Zhao, put Jin Qian's wrist to check his pulse for a while, and said slowly: "It's okay, it's just that I was too frightened, passed out, and will wake up in a moment."

As soon as I said this, I saw Jin Qian's fingers twitching, and his thin eyes slowly opened.

"Jin, Jinqian, are you okay?" Zheng Xiaoliu cried.

"Catcher Jin, are you okay?" Zhan Zhao also asked anxiously.

I saw Jin Qian's dull eyes turning slowly until he saw Zhan Zhao, and suddenly his eyes flashed, he grabbed Zhan Zhao's palm, sat up suddenly, and looked straight at Zhan Zhao's handsome face.

"Jin, Jinqian?!" Zheng Xiaoliu exclaimed.

"Fix Jin?!" Mr. Gongsun was stunned.

"Jin, Jin, hurry up?!" Zhan Zhao was startled at first, his bright eyes flew over, and he caught a glimpse of the faces of Mr. Gongsun and Zheng Xiaoliu, he was immediately embarrassed, and wanted to pull his hands away.

But that Jinqian's hands were like pliers, holding Zhan Zhao's right hand tightly, refusing to let go of it.

I saw Jin Qian's fine eyes were full of water, looking straight into the depths of Zhan Zhao's star pupils, and said sincerely: "Master Zhan, Jin Qian has a merciless request today, please agree to Jin Qian no matter what. !"

"Jin, Jinqian?" Zheng Xiaoliu couldn't help but took half a step back.

"Jin, Jin, hurry up?" Mr. Gongsun also leaned back slightly.

Zhan Zhao twitched his palm again, but to no avail, he could only say in a shy voice, "Catcher Jin, if you have any difficulties...please tell..."

Jin Qian clasped Zhan Zhao's right hand tightly with both hands, raised it to his chest, and said with glistening eyes, "Master Zhan, please sleep with Jin Qian these few days..."

"Jin Qian?!" Zheng Xiaoliu jumped up suddenly and exclaimed, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Ahem...ahem..." Mr. Gongsun coughed dryly.

Zhan Zhao didn't know whether it was from anger or fright, Jun's face flushed red, he pulled out his right hand, stared straight at Jin Qian, twitched his face a few times, but finally didn't say a word, turned around, Hong Ying Like electricity, it disappears in an instant.

The remaining three were left stiff on the spot.

Zheng Xiaoliu froze, half-spoken.

At this moment, Mr. Gongsun didn't know how to put on an expression: "Catcher Jin... this move... I'm afraid it's inappropriate..."

But that Jinqian had no time to take into account Mr. Gongsun's words, he just looked straight at the direction Zhan Zhao was leaving, and cried out in a sobbing voice: "Master Zhan, don't go! In case that wronged soul of Kou Zhu comes back to find us, we will But what should I do? You can’t sleep in Mr. Bao’s room to ward off evil spirits, right?! Mr. Zhan is upright and can calm down ghosts, but Jin Qian just wants to sleep on the floor in Mr. Zhan’s room for a few days..."

It's a pity that Nan Xia Zhan Zhao's lightness skills are superb, and he has long since disappeared. How could he hear Jin Qian's touching "heartfelt words".

But Mr. Gongsun heard it clearly, Confucian face kept shaking, and even the files in his hand shook to the ground.

And although Zheng Xiaoliu was still in shock, he still had a sense of loyalty and patted his chest to comfort Jin Qian, saying: "Jin Qian, don't worry, I will go to the temple tomorrow to ask for a peace talisman for you..."

-

In the next few days, there was a big change between the DPRK and China.

Empress Liu, the empress dowager of the dynasty, inexplicably became a monk, claiming that she would always accompany the ancient Buddha with the blue lamp, and would never enter the Forbidden Palace again in this life.

Emperor Renzong respectfully welcomed his own mother, Empress Li, into the court, and was regarded as the queen mother of the current dynasty.

The Empress Dowager's righteous son and the emperor's righteous brother, who accompanied Li's mother into the palace, was the little prince Fan Ronghua who was named "King of Xiaoyi".

The reunion of mother and child, sharing the happiness of the family, should be celebrated in Daqing, but because Empress Li's blindness has not recovered, the Holy Majesty ordered consultation and treatment in the Imperial Hospital, and the imperial physician claimed that Empress Li should not work too hard, so the matter of Daqing was delayed.

And the eight kings of the Nanqing Palace, Qiansui, Niangniang Di, and the emperor's close servant Chen Lin and Eunuch Chen were also rewarded one by one for their meritorious service in escorting.

Lord Bao of the Kaifeng Mansion solved strange cases, tried strange injustices, welcomed the mother of the country into the court, and was promoted to two ranks. A first-rank official at the same level as Zai.

Coupled with the grace of the Holy God and countless rewards, Kaifeng Mansion was full of joy.

Jin Qian had made great contributions in helping to solve the case, and he had also received a lot of rewards. He should have smiled and thanked Shengen, but at this moment, Jin Qian couldn't even squeeze out a smile.

It was because Jin Qian was currently in Li Guomu's bedroom at this time, and there were two heavyweights standing in front of him - the current Empress Dowager and Fan Xiaowang Ye.

What is even more depressing is that at this time these two heavyweights are discussing with Jin Qian a major matter related to people's livelihood, life and death.

"Jinqian, Hua'er has been named the 'King of Xiaoyi', but it's a pity that he doesn't have a caring subordinate around him. Hua'er has always said that he is very close to you, so the Ai family wanted to talk to Bao Qing, so they transferred you Would you like to take up a position in Hua'er's mansion and be promoted to a sixth-rank school lieutenant?" The Empress Dowager Li, dressed in brocade attire and full of nobility, sat under the magnificent phoenix screen, and asked amiably.

"This..." Jin Qian secretly wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead, thinking:

willing? !It's crazy if you want to!

When working as an errand in the prince's mansion, he sees the royal relatives or the relatives of the state every day.