Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Before Lu Yifeng came over, Chen Shao opened Li Hong's package again, looked at the logos of the various noble families, and asked Li Tianliu nonchalantly: "When you are marching and fighting, if you encounter several enemies at the same time, which one do you usually deal with first?"

Li Tianliu said lazily: "That depends on the terrain and distance of the enemies."

Chen Shao said: "If the terrain and distance are the same, what would you choose?"

"Under the same circumstances," Li Tianliu said casually, "naturally whoever is the weakest will be attacked first."

Chen Shao's eyes fell on the symbols of the noble families again. The weakest of the noble families in Hongyuan County was...

"Sir," Chan Yi walked in quickly from the side door and handed over a jade tablet, "This was found in the bushes by the Yulin Guards when they were tracking down the woman in white."

It is an extremely beautiful green jade plaque. Not only is the jade quality the same as that of the chess piece, but the carvings on the front and back are also the same: a lotus-seated Buddha with a dagger-shaped fleshy bun on the front, and the Heart Sutra on the back.

After Chen Shao looked at the jade token for a while, he couldn't help but laugh: "Okay, don't bother with the woman in white for now."

Chan Yi was curious: "Master, do you know her?"

Li Tianliu looked at her.

"I don't know her." Chen Shao said with a half-smile, "But I can probably guess her identity."

Chan Yi asked, "Who?"

"Zhang Boshan has two daughters," Chen Shao said slowly, playing with the jade token, "We have already met the eldest daughter. The one I saw earlier was a stranger, so if I am not mistaken, that one should be Miss Zhang II."

Chan Yi looked at the jade token in her hand: "Then this jade token..."

"She stayed here on purpose to lure us to her." Chen Shao said with a smile, "Luo Zhengxin was beheaded, and she was probably anxious, afraid that her father would also be beheaded, so she used this little trick to lure us to come to her house."

Chan Yi glanced at Li Tianliu and asked, "Aren't they already under surveillance?"

"It is precisely because she is under guard that we have to take the initiative to find her." Chen Shao returned the jade token to her and asked her to keep it. He said indifferently, "Don't worry about her for now. There are still few clues in her father's case. Besides, I have other uses for her."

"That's true," Chan Yi looked at Li Tianliu, "We still need to find out how she got out."

Li Tianliu said with great interest: "We really need to investigate it carefully."

"If you want to investigate, then do so. Just don't delay the current business." Chen Shao looked at Shi Dajiang who was being escorted back by the Yulin Guards in the distance, and said in a cold voice, "No need to bring him back. Just drag him to the gate and chop him off."

Li Tianliu raised his eyebrows and gestured to the outside.

"Wait a moment." Chen Shao stopped him, asked Chan Yi to grind ink, picked up a pen and wrote a statement of crime and handed it to him, "Tell them that when they kill people, tell the people doing business to keep the land cleared in the future."

Li Tianliu looked at the charges written on the indictment, which included raping a married woman, trafficking, and inducing others to traffic boys and girls, nodded, and went out with the indictment.

After a while, accompanied by Shi Dajiang's crying for mercy, Lu Yifeng arrived.

Lu Yifeng was very straightforward. He knew that he could not escape the death penalty, so he confessed everything as soon as he entered the hall: he embezzled the court's funds, accepted bribes, bought a lot of land and real estate, had corrupt personal ethics, etc. After he finished confessing, he kowtowed and begged for mercy.

What he wanted was not himself, but his son Lu Yuanfei.

I do not ask for his innocence, but only to save his life, even if it means exiling him to a cold, miasma-infected place, or sending him into exile, as long as he can save his life.

After Lu Yuanfei was escorted to the lobby with injuries all over his body, he said nothing when he heard his words. He just knelt silently beside him with red eyes.

Li Tianliu glanced at Lu Yuanfei, then looked at the equally embarrassed Yulin Guards, and said with a cold face: "What's going on?"

Yu Linwei wiped the blood off his hands nonchalantly and said, "We encountered a few crazy horses on the way back."

Chen Shao's face also turned cold: "Explain it clearly."

"As soon as we entered Yanghuai Street, a mad horse rushed towards us." Yulinwei snorted coldly, "In order to protect the people around, I had to use brute force to subdue the mad horse. As soon as we subdued it, three more mad horses rushed over. The people were frightened and ran around. I was worried that they would get hurt, so I had to split up. As soon as I separated, two more mad horses rushed straight towards the carriage. Fortunately, he was alert, otherwise..."

Lu Yifeng looked at Lu Yuanfei in horror.

Lu Yuanfei looked at his trembling hands and legs and said in a low voice, "They are coming for me."

Lu Yifeng became more and more terrified: "Why are they..."

Lu Yuanfei forced himself to remain calm and said, "You are well-known as a master of accounting, so they are naturally frightened. You were imprisoned in the prison suddenly, and they had no time to react, so they could only point the finger at me. Someone has been trying to deal with me these days, but I expected this result, so I hid in your dark room early and relied on some dried fruits to fill my stomach. Earlier, I heard that the Yulin Guards were coming to arrest me, so I came out of the dark room. I thought that with the protection of the Yulin Guards, they would not dare to attack again, but I didn't expect..."

Lu Yifeng was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, "Those, those..."

Lu Yuanfei said with a sinister look: "Don't worry, Dad. I have already hidden those account books. No one can find them except us!"

After Lu Yifeng said hello several times, he suddenly realized that they were in the lobby of the prefect's mansion and hurriedly said, "My son, you can't hide it. Quick, tell the adults where you are hiding so that they can get it back!"

After Lu Yuanfei responded, he kowtowed to Chen Shao and said, "I hid the account books under the third stone nest from the left of the stable. The things that the noble families gave me over the years are still in my house. You can just send someone to search."

Chen Shao suppressed the coldness in his heart and asked the Yulin Guards first, "Are you all okay?"

Several Yulin Guards quickly said, "It's okay, we only have some scratches."

"It's good that you're okay. If you have something to say, you must tell me. Fenglong Commercial Bank still has so many medicinal herbs sealed up. It would be a waste if we don't use them." Chen Shao deliberately said a few words to make it lighter before asking, "Are there any civilians injured?"

"Yes, but not many. They were injured when they fell down and were crushed or stepped on by others while escaping in the crowd." The Yulin Guards replied, "We have arranged for them to go to the gate of the prefectural government, and also arranged for people from Juxian Tower to help call for a doctor."

Chen Shao responded with a "OK" and continued to ask, "Where are those crazy horses?"

Yu Lin Wei said: "They were all killed by our subordinates. We knew that the young master might go to investigate, so we asked the common people to help watch."

Chen Shao responded with a "yes" again, then stood up and told Li Tianliu, "You go in person and temporarily lock them up in the prison, and arrange for someone to keep a close watch on them! I'll go to the gate first to visit the injured people!"