Awaken Chapter 103

It was night.

Li Jianquan’s memory was so confused that if it wasn’t for Xu Qingnian’s strong mental strength and the Dream Entrance Avatar.

Otherwise, if anyone else had encountered such a situation, his spirit would have been severely traumatised.

The good thing was that everything was set in stone.

The sky was like ink.

Xu Qingnian, disguised as a crow, stood on top of the eaves and looked through the roof tiles at the scene inside the room.

This was the mortuary, and two figures appeared in it.

One was Li Jianquan’s.

The other was that of the coroner.

Xu Qingnian did not enter the coroner’s body and observed all this from his perspective.

In the morgue, forty-five corpses were arranged in three rows in turn.

The youngest of them, a child, was only four or five years old.

And at this moment, Xu Qingnian finally understood why Li Jianquan had doubts.

These corpses, with hardly an inch of their bodies intact, had been cut by sharp swords, especially on their faces.

The flesh of several women’s left and right arms had been cut off.

Xu Qingnian was well set, and although the visual impact was strong, it was still bearable.

“These corpses, have they been touched?”

Li Jianquan’s voice rang out, he was wearing a black coat and frowned as he examined the corpses.

“Back to Your Excellency, these corpses have not been touched since then, except when they were carried over.”

The coroner’s voice rang out, looking incredibly respectful.

“Strange.”

Li Jianquan’s brow furrowed even more as he looked over one corpse after another, landing not long after on a woman with all of her nails plucked off on both hands, black and blue and looking very ominous.

“Even if Zhang Nantian wanted to execute the whole clan, why did he have to be so cruel? Even if he was afraid of the crime, there is no need to be like this, right?”

Li Jianquan muttered.

He examined the wounds carefully, and soon could not help but mutter again.

“These wounds, they don’t seem to be newly added at the back, there are traces of struggle, wounds left by Zhang Nantian before he killed them, otherwise it’s impossible for a person to struggle when they’re dead.”

“That’s not right either, some of the wounds were added on later, very odd.”

Li Jianquan muttered, while recording these details down.

As for Xu Qingnian, she silently wrote down all these details.

Some of the wounds were newly added, while some of them were added later.

For a moment, Xu Qingnian was also a little curious.

An hour later, Li Jianquan examined the corpse over and over again, and the only result he knew was this, so he said goodbye to the coroner and left the place, intending to go to Zhang Nantian’s home to examine it.

The next moment, the scene around him instantly changed.

Xu Qingnian had not simply entered a dream, but searched his memories. Li Jianquan’s dream was incomparably confused; he was now a madman, and even when he had pa*sed out, his mind was still in a state of confusion.

Under such circumstances, everything that was obtained was Li Jianquan’s memories.

This is also an ability of the Dream Entrance Avatar, but the corresponding condition must be met, that is, the other party’s dream state is very chaotic.

Otherwise, it could directly search other people’s memories, and that would be truly unbelievable.

The scene changes.

But it is not Zhang Nantian’s home, but Li Jianquan’s place of business.

It is still night.

Li Jianquan is writing a dossier, while Xu Qingnian, in the form of a flying insect, is circling above Li Jianquan’s head, watching all this.

At this moment, however, the first half of Li Jianquan’s dossier, which Xu Qingnian had read, was asking questions.

But the second half, however, was different.

“The dossier has been altered?”

In an instant, Xu Qingnian reacted, and he smacked his lips a little, the dossier could even be changed? This guy’s ability was too terrifying, right?

He could even reach out to the Ministry of Justice?

If he had such power, then the Minister of Justice, Zhang Jing, would also be involved.

Normally, Zhang Jing would not have taken such a big risk, would he? Unless the 20 million taels of silver were related to him.

Xu Qingnian pondered in his mind, but he did not act rashly, but watched quietly.

I found that the death of Zhang Nantian’s entire family was suspicious. I carefully examined the 45 bodies and found that there were many injuries on the bodies of Zhang Nantian’s immediate family members, which belonged to the category of abuse and murder.

Li Jianquan carefully wrote, this is the original version of the file.

But at that moment, the light suddenly went out.

The next moment, Li Jianquan put the pen down in his hand, his hand subconsciously rested on the sheath of his sword, and his eyes looked ahead sharply and unmistakably.

But no figure appeared, as if a gust of wind had really blown out the lights.

Li Jianquan lit the lamp.

The next moment, the light was restored, but a shocking scene occurred.

The dossier on Li Jianquan’s desk had been replaced by a new one.

And the changed copy was the one Xu Qingnian had seen.

“Someone?”

Xu Qingnian instantly understood that the moment the lights went out, someone had changed Li Jianquan’s dossier.

At this moment, Li Jianquan sat in his seat and instantly fell into deep thought.

Xu Qingnian knew that the other party was giving a warning, a silent warning, that the latter had absolute power and could kill him silently if he could manage to change the dossier without a sound.

Not killing him was a warning, if Li Jianquan dared to continue writing, then they would not show any mercy.

At this point, Xu Qingnian also kind of understood and was relieved, if the Ministry of Penalty was also involved, then this matter would be really troublesome.

The six ministries of the Great Wei are not likely to do such things anyway.

This is not a matter of character or not, but the ability to do things, the six ministry shangshu can spend money to buy, then the Great Wei is the rotten mud that can not support, Xu Qingnian immediately ready to jump ship.

This is not an exaggeration at all.

It was a full half hour.

Li Jianquan eventually took out a new copy of the dossier, and then transcribed it according to this one.

“So that’s it.”

Xu Qingnian understood the causes and consequences, but there was no substantial progress as well as clues for solving the case.

In the Pingqiu Province disaster relief case, there must be a big shot behind it, there was hardly any need to guess.

It was just a matter of seeing with one’s own eyes and having a piece of mind.

But it did nothing to help the case.

Soon the dream breaks up and the scene displaces once again.

High noon.

The sun is blazing.

Li Jianquan was walking back and forth in his home, his brow furrowed as if he was waiting for something.

At that very moment, several figures appeared.

When these figures appeared, Li Jianquan immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

“Greetings, Brother Zhang, Brother Chen, Brother Li and Brother Zhou.”

Li Jianquan revealed a smile and bowed towards the four people.

“Brother Li is very kind.”

The four returned the bow, and in an instant Xu Qingnian knew who these four people were.

Zhang Wang, Chen Kang, Li Jun, and Zhou Bo.

Xu Qingnian had not expected these four to have met, and apparently with the current timeline, it should be that all four had been threatened, so they had gathered together to discuss some matters.

At this moment, Xu Qingnian was incomparably serious as he transformed into a swallow and looked at them quietly.

“Talk inside.”

Li Jianquan didn’t say anything and greeted the four people inside, having already prepared the wine and food.

Xu Qingnian also followed the trend and flew into the eaves of the house.

As the five settled down, Zhou Bo’s voice rang out.

“Gentlemen, we are only afraid that we have caused a big trouble.”

Zhou Bo was a little nervous, and he spoke with a hint of fear.

“Was the dossier inexplicably altered?”

Li Jianquan, on the contrary, was very calm and said so calmly.

“En.”

Zhou Bo nodded.

“We’ve all encountered the same thing.”

“The Pingqiu Province disaster relief case involves a big figure in the court, and as for who it is, I already know.”

Li Jianquan said so.

“Who?”

Li Jianquan was the first person to take over this case, so it would be reasonable to say that he had guessed who it was.

“The King of Huai Ping County.”

Li Jianquan said calmly.

As soon as he said this, all four of them changed their expressions.

“The Huaiping County King?”

“Hiss! How did he get involved with this one?”

“Why would a county king embezzle the silver for disaster relief? This doesn’t make sense!”

The crowd spoke up, thinking that this was impossible.

Furthermore, this was no ordinary person.

In fact, even Xu Qingnian was shocked to hear Li Jianquan’s words.

How could it be the King of Huaiping?

Although he had a deadly feud with the King of Huaiping, he could never have imagined that it would be the King of Huaiping.

Firstly, the Huaiping County King has nothing to do with the Pingqiu Mansion, and secondly, as Zhang Wang said, what would a county king do to embezzle 20 million yuan of silver?

Although it is true that 20 million silver is a lot, for the Huai Ping County King, he can get it by any means.

To directly embezzle the silver was indeed a bit irrational.

Li Jianquan did not say anything, but used his hand to dip it in some water and slowly wrote out two words on the table.

[Rebellion].

In an instant, the four people were silent, and Xu Qingnian was also silent.

The Huiping County King wanted to rebel?

“This time of year, Emperor Wu has already returned from his northern expedition, the Great Wei state is weakened, and the empress has not yet ascended the throne.”

“It’s possible.”

Xu Qingnian made an instant judgment, but he didn’t continue to think more, instead he observed their conversation, not wanting to miss a single detail.

“Brother Li, you …… How did you judge that?”

Zhang Wang spoke out, he didn’t know how Li Jianquan had judged it.

“Two reasons.”

“Since I was threatened, I have been secretly investigating many things, and after the relief silver came to Pingqiu Prefecture, Zhang Nantian Zhang Fujun has not been seen.”

“I suspect that he was already imprisoned at that time, and I have heard from the people that Zhang Fujun, who is an upright person, does not look like someone who would corrupt the law.”

“Because I have been investigating the Zhang Fujun, I have found that this Lord Fujun is of good character, and once a minor official, who stole a copper coin, was tortured by him for fifty times and almost killed alive.”

“I have personally visited the home of Lord Zhang, and while other lords, not to mention the lord, might have some paintings and antiques at the home of a magistrate, Zhang’s home is simple.”

“Perhaps these are all illusions, but I found a secret letter in the house of the prefect, and it is because of this secret letter that I dare to be sure it is the Huai Ping County King.”

Li Jianquan said slowly, in which a secret letter was mentioned.

It was a secret letter written by Zhang Nantian.

“What secret letter?”

“Where is it?”

“What is the content?”

The crowd got a little excited, while Li Jianquan shook his head and said, “I have hidden this secret letter in case these people settle their scores afterwards, and if I die, I am fully sure that this secret letter will be sent to the court.”

“As for the content, the general meaning is that the court has allocated 30 million taels of silver for disaster relief, but only 5 million taels are in his hands, of which the shortfall has been embezzled by the traitorous officials.

“This is a secret letter in Zhang Nantian’s own handwriting.”

Li Jianquan said so.

But as soon as the words were finished, the crowd was a little puzzled.

“Brother Li, if you have a secret letter, why don’t you just submit it?”

They were curious, since you had the secret letter, which was the key physical evidence, why didn’t you submit it.

“No!” Li Jianquan shook his head, and then said with a firm gaze, “Now that His Majesty has returned from the Northern Expedition, and Wei is on the verge of collapse, it is a big deal for all of us, if this is really the work of the Huai Ping County King, what is the use of submitting it?”

“Moreover, we should also be secretly watched, once we really go to the capital, we are afraid that we will die halfway, this matter cannot be overturned now, we can only wait for an excellent period of time.”

Li Jianquan looked very serious and said.

“No, no, brother Li, I’m a bit confused, Zhang Nantian Zhang Fujun was wrongly accused, he wrote a secret letter, and the secret letter named the Huai Ping County King.”

“With such iron-clad evidence, how could the Huai Ping County King not be brought down? Even if it’s true that Wei is now in a state of decline, it’s impossible that such a big matter can’t be brought down by the Huai Ping County King, right?”

The crowd was curious, you have ironclad evidence, why are you still so afraid?

“Not really.”

Li Jianquan took a deep breath.

“Who is Prince Huai Ping’s father, you all should know, right?”

“Prince Huai Ning is so powerful that His Majesty handed over many powers in the imperial court to him during the Northern Expedition, such power is something that can be convicted with just a secret letter?”

“Taking a step back, if Prince Huai Ping said that it was Zhang Nantian’s slander, how would you answer?”

Li Jianquan’s words woke up the crowd.

The physical evidence was available, but on what basis can you say that this physical evidence is true? What if it was Zhang Nantian’s slander?

The four men were silent.

“But if we can be sure that this physical evidence is real, wouldn’t that be enough?”

Someone spoke up and spoke a nonsense.

“That’s why I have been secretly investigating, and there is indeed no relationship between Zhang Fujun and the Huai Ping County King.”

“Even with my various searches, I didn’t find any dealings between the two, and even none of the subordinates of the Huai Ping County King had any dealings with Zhang Fujun.”

“It was only after meeting with Brother Zhang that I discovered this second key clue.”

Li Jianquan looked towards Zhang Wang.

“Me?” Zhang Wang frowned slightly.

“Yes. Brother Zhang’s investigation revealed that Zhang Nantian cultivated a foreign art and his tendons and veins were forcibly opened, right?”

Li Jianquan asked.

“En, it was obviously opened by a powerful force, but in doing so, there is no benefit, the qi veins were forcibly opened by an external force, and it is incomparably domineering, it won’t live for more than twelve hours.”

“So I can conclude that Zhang Nantian killed himself, not committed suicide.”

Zhang Wang nodded, giving this answer.

“That’s right, the only clue is here.”

Li Jianquan nodded.

“Zhang Fujun’s qi veins were forcibly opened by external forces, I overlooked this when I examined Zhang Fujun’s corpse that day, and I went back later to examine it more closely.”

“There was still a wisp of true qi left in Zhang Fujun’s qi vein, if a true supreme expert was invited, one could determine what kind of true qi it was with this wisp of true qi.”

“I have found out that the martial art practiced by the Huai Ping County King is the Yellow Dragon Great True Art, and the internal qi is extremely dominant. If I find out that this true qi is the Yellow Dragon Great True Art, then it will be ironclad proof.”

“Only, I need to intercept a tendon or vein in Zhang’s body and hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment of the Great Wei, which will send someone to examine it.”

“But this process is difficult, and we will definitely be secretly watched.”

“If we want to contact the high officials of the Ministry of Punishment, or go to the capital, I’m afraid it will be as difficult as the sky, and even the words spoken today have already been heard by them.”

When Li Jianquan said this, he paused for a moment.

And the crowd looked tense.

“But there’s no need to panic about anything, they don’t dare to kill us in one breath, so we still have time to resist and keep a good backhand so that they don’t dare to kill our backhand.”

“Otherwise, once we wait for a few years to pa*s, our lives and deaths will really be uncertain.”

Li Jianquan’s analysis was right on the mark, the reason why he had gathered the crowd here, and the reason why he dared to say these words even though he knew that someone would be watching them.

It was because he had to say these words to deter the people in the shadows, to tell them that he had ironclad evidence.

If they wanted to move themselves, they had better weigh their options.

“Understood.”

“Brother Li, I have been taught.”

Zhang Wang and the others understood the purpose of Li Jianquan calling them over this time.

The five of them were handling the case, so the people in the shadows would only dare to threaten them, but they wouldn’t dare to do anything excessive to them, otherwise, the court wasn’t stupid, especially the Ministry of Justice, if you really dared to kill the people handling the case, then the Ministry of Justice would fight with you to the end.

There are cases of silver corruption in every dynasty, so it doesn’t matter if they are investigated slowly, but if you kill someone, the Ministry of Justice won’t be able to accept it, so who will dare to handle the case in the future?

The five people were really killed, which is more proof that there is something fishy about this matter, which is not forcing people to investigate you?

This is something Li Jianquan has thought about very carefully.

“The case will be closed. Wouldn’t it be enough to stop investigating this case altogether?”

“Gentlemen, this case is too big and simply beyond our reach. How about we make our intentions known, or even make a poisonous oath, as long as they are willing to let us go and shut up about it, won’t that be enough?”

Zhou Bo was a bit timid, he couldn’t help but say this, wanting to ask for peace, not willing to continue the investigation, just wanting to stop at the end, he just wanted to live.

But as soon as he finished speaking, all four of them showed a cold smile.

“Brother Zhou, it’s not your first day as a constable, even if they agreed to do it, would you believe them?”

“Yes, don’t you know the saying that only the dead don’t leak secrets?”

“I also thought about asking for peace, but as soon as the thought came to me, I vetoed it, this matter is too involved, to that extent, there is no way they will keep the aftermath.”

Zhang Wang three people have spoken up, they are smart enough to know that since they are already in the game, they don’t want to pull out safely, you sincerely want to quit, are people willing to let you go?

You say you won’t mention it in your life, but what if? What if you do mention it that day?

So, when you take on this case, you can’t pull out anymore.

“Brother Zhou, I don’t mean anything else, as long as the storm of this matter stops, we can basically wait for death, and even this group of people who are spying on us will not end up well.”

“All those who know about this matter will not end up well. To the Huai Ping County King, all of these people are just pawns, and when they are not needed, they are all discards.”

“So don’t think about seeking peace, we are not qualified to do so, nor can we, but if we want to truly overturn the case, we must wait, until a perfect time.”

“Then the Jedi will strike back, so that we can truly rest in peace.”

When Li Jianquan said this, he had already made his attitude clear.

But while his attitude was resolute, he was also hiding a hand. His words about waiting for an excellent time were true, but they were also meant for some other people.

Tell the other side that this matter is definitely not over, but I won’t do anything now, so don’t jump to the wall in a hurry.

Otherwise, if they had to really show their determination, there was no guarantee that the other side would get hot-headed and kill them, which was most unfortunate.

“Ahem.”

At this moment, Li Jianquan suddenly coughed violently a few times, and his face looked a little weak.

“Brother Li, what’s wrong with you?”

The crowd got up and cared, while Li Jianquan shook his head and said, “No harm done.”

“The other day when I was investigating a case, I underestimated the strength of the other party and was slashed, almost dying, luckily someone helped me, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to see you all today.”

Li Jianquan gave his reply, and as for who helped him, the crowd knew very well.

When the voice reached this point, everything came to an abrupt end.

Immediately afterwards the picture dissipated quickly once again.

It was still night.

The mountains and the forest.

A voice begging for mercy rang out, it was Li Jianquan’s voice.

“Please, please, please, let me go, let me go, I can promise you that I really won’t tell anyone.”

“The four of them are already dead, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die, I can just go to the north and never go back to Great Wei ever again.”

“You guys let me go.”

The cries rang out, the great night filled the sky, and everything seemed incomparably silent and eerie.

Xu Qingnian transformed into a crow and stood on a tree, watching all this in silence.

At this moment, Li Jianquan was incomparably filthy, his scalp dishevelled, kneeling on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, his eyes full of panic and a kind of fear, a fear of death.

“Hand over the secret letter and you can be spared death.”

As a cold voice rang out.

Soon a figure appeared, dressed in black, with his face masked, and his face could not be seen in the night.

“It is impossible for me to give you the secret letter, if I do, I will die faster, but I can promise that I really won’t tell anyone.”

“This matter, has nothing to do with me, from the beginning to the end, I just want to live, you tell the lord above for me, as long as he is willing to let me go, I can leave the Great Wei like a dog.”

“If I ever return to Great Wei, I will die without a burial place and my children and grandchildren will not be allowed to die well, my lord, my lord, I beg you, I beg you.”

He knelt on the ground and kowtowed towards the other party, extraordinarily emotional.

It was obvious that he already knew about the bizarre deaths of Zhang Wang’s four people.

“It seems that you are really toasting the wine and not eating the punishment.”

With a cold voice, the next moment he directly dropped his foot, crushing Li Jianquan’s palm, using his internal qi to shatter every bone in his hand.

Uhhhh!

A scream from the throat cavity rang out like the roar of a wild beast, it was not a very loud sound, but Li Jianquan’s face was extremely distorted and he was in cold sweat from the pain.

“Li Jianquan!”

“Hand over the secret letter, the lord said that he would give you a way out and another 10,000 taels of silver, so that you can live your life without worries.”

“I advise you to hand it over, lest you suffer flesh and blood.”

The voice of the man in black rang out, cold to the core.

“Let me leave, I can really guarantee that I will not return to Great Wei, I will not tell the secret letter even if I die, telling it is a death sentence, I am not stupid, my lord, let me go.”

Li Jianquan was indeed not stupid, the secret letter was the only thing he had to save his life, if he handed it over, he would definitely die.

“OK!”

“Your Excellency’s guess was accurate, you are worthy of being an old man, you refuse to hand over the secret letter even if you die.”

“In that case, it’s fine to let you live, but ……. Do you know of anyone in this world other than a dead person who won’t leak a secret?”

The man in black coldly said.

In the next moment, he grabbed Li Jianquan’s head with one hand, followed by a wave of Yin cold power gushing directly into his body from his palm.

Li Jianquan struggled frantically and let out an incomparably miserable scream, yet everything was still to no avail.

After a little over half an hour, the man in black departed.

Just as quickly, a voice rang out.

“My lord …… You!”

With a dull voice rang out.

At this moment, everything was quiet.

It was completely and utterly quiet.

Between the mountains and the forest, a figure slowly disappeared, and this was the last scene of Li Jianquan.

And Xu Qingnian looked at the figure with a deadly gaze.

It was ……. Huai Ping County King.

It was also at this moment.

Xu Qingnian woke up from her dream.

Everything was roughly clear.

In the Shouren Academy.

The sun has shone into the room.

Xu Qingnian was silent.

After a while, Xu Qingnian directly left the Shouren Academy, ignoring Yang Hu and the others, and went straight to the Ministry of Punishment.

When he arrived at the Ministry of Justice, all the people looked at Xu Qingnian and their eyes showed an odd look, no one greeted Xu Qingnian, and Xu Qingnian didn’t say anything, he went straight to the document library.

When Xu Qingnian arrived, the new treasurer of the case file library immediately rose and looked incomparably awe.

“Lord Xu, what dossier do you need, my servant will fetch it for you immediately.”

The latter spoke up and asked Xu Qingnian.

“No need, I will seek it myself.”

Xu Qingnian entered the case file vault, what he was looking for was not a case file, but some historical information, the Criminal Affairs Department’s case file vault did not only contain case files, but also many information materials, divided by year.

It did not take Xu Qingnian long to find what he was looking for.

Xu Qingnian did not even return to his office, but stood directly in the case file library and read the files.

From day to night.

And then from night to day.

For two whole days, Xu Qingnian stayed in the case file library, and the entire Ministry of Justice did not know exactly what Xu Qingnian was doing.

However, in the hearts of all the people, they somehow felt that Xu Qingnian was just being temporary.

It was dawn.

Only the last day remained before His Majesty’s three-day appointment.

At this moment, Xu Qingnian understood completely.

This time he came to the Ministry of Justice to look at the chronological files since the Pingqiu Province disaster relief case.

He understood in general the background of the case.

Emperor Wu had failed in his Northern Expedition and was suspicious in his later years, putting enormous pressure on the court, so that everyone was in danger.

In order to protect themselves, some of the va*sal kings even colluded with the Tusi and Chu Yuan dynasties, and might be about to revolt at any moment.

There was unrest both inside and outside the court.

Prince Huai Ping was not qualified to rebel, but his father was, and Prince Huai Ning was qualified to compete for the throne, second only to the grandfather of Prince Yong Ping.

And what was the most important thing needed for a rebellion? A vast amount of money and silver.

Therefore, it was entirely possible that Prince Huai Ping had embezzled 20 million taels of silver.

He was already planning to rebel, and he was still worried about rebellion or not?

But why he did not rebel in the end is another story.

Xu Qingnian roughly speculated that Prince Huaining really wanted to rebel and had his son do something untoward to ama*s a large sum of silver in a short period of time, creating internal problems and at the same time boosting his own strength.

But in the end, Emperor Wu returned and suppressed it all with a means so that Prince Huaining could not rebel, and then allowed Prince Huiping to clean things up a bit.

That’s why the traces were left behind.

The thing that Xu Qingnian came to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to investigate was the motive.

Now that the motive has been established, then the remaining things are two.

First, physical evidence! Where is Zhang Nantian’s secret letter! Finding the secret letter written by Zhang Nantian is the physical evidence!

Secondly, human evidence. All the people had already died, and the Huai Ping County King had indeed acted neatly, not even sparing his own men in the end, so there was no way to find human evidence, but Li Jian Quan was absolutely right.

The only human evidence was the dead Zhang Nantian, and if there was any residual true qi in his qi veins, that would be hard evidence.

But Zhang Nantian’s corpse was already gone, and it was recorded in the dossier that although Zhang Nantian had killed himself, the Ministry of Justice had dismembered him and dumped his body in the wilderness as an example to others.

It had been decades since this incident, and it was impossible to find the body.

“Where is the physical evidence?”

“How should I get the human evidence?”

Xu Qingnian frowned, thinking hard.

Half an hour later.

Xu Qingnian came to a sudden realization, he knew how to find the human evidence.

The next moment, Xu Qingnian ran straight to the inner hall of the Ministry of Punishment, and without any consideration, he directly pushed the door open.

“Xu Qingnian? What do you want again?”

Zhang Jing was grading the dossier when he suddenly saw Xu Qingnian barging into it, and could not help but rebuke angrily.

“Lord Shang Shu, the matter is important, give me some heavenly decrees.”

Xu Qingnian spoke.

The so-called heavenly decree was an extremely precious object, as long as something was written in the heavenly decree and later burned, it could reach the heavenly court and appear in the hands of the empress.

It was something that would only be used for really big cases, and all departments had a few copies of it, which would never be used on a regular basis.

“A few? Are you crazy? There are only three in the entire Ministry of Justice, and what else do you need this for?”

Zhang Jing glared at Xu Qingnian and said this.

“To handle a case!”

“A big case!”

“Will the Minister give it to me? If I don’t, I’ll leave, and when the court comes tomorrow, I’ll have to say that the Minister obstructed the case.”

Xu Qingnian said with a roguish face.

“You ……”

Zhang Jing was a little depressed, but looking at Xu Qingnian’s anxious and so serious gaze, he finally gritted his teeth and said, “Only one for you.”

“Okay!”

Xu Qingnian nodded, one sheet would be fine.

“Wait!”

Zhang Jing put the scroll down in his hand without good grace, and then went to a bookcase to the side to take out a yellow heavenly decree, like a holy decree, but the holy decree was fabric plus paper, and this was pure paper.

“Many thanks, Lord Shang Shu.”

Xu Qingnian gave a thank you, public is public, private is private, Zhang Jing could indeed not give it to himself, after all, this thing means too much, not giving it is not considered wearing small shoes, as for just saying that obstructing the case is just talk, it does not serve any purpose.

“Humph!”

Zhang Jing snorted coldly, but watching Xu Qingnian turn his head and leave, he still immediately pulled Xu Qingnian back.

“Xu Qingnian.”

“I’m asking you something, give me an approval.”

Zhang Jing pulled Xu Qingnian and asked with a suppressed voice.

“What is it?”

Xu Qingnian was a little curious.

“This case, are you sure about it or not!”

Zhang Jing asked with a serious face.

“The case will be solved tomorrow!”

Xu Qingnian gave a reply, followed by turning around and walking away.

Once this was said, Zhang Jing could not help but continue to ask.

“Seriously?”

Unfortunately, Xu Qingnian walked away too quickly and did not give a reply at all.

At this moment, Zhang Jing was also somewhat pensive, he really did not know whether Xu Qingnian was telling the truth or not.

In the end, Zhang Jing took a deep breath and cursed in his heart.

“D*mn it, anyway, I’ve already disgraced myself, might as well disgrace myself to the end, Xu Qingnian ah Xu Qingnian, if you deceive old me again, I won’t let you get away with it even if I go against my character.”

Thinking of this, Zhang Jing immediately walked out and stood in the courtyard, looking up at the sky for a long time.

An hour later.

Li Yuan and Feng Jianhua returned in parallel, and seeing this scene, Zhang Jing wriggled his incomparably sore neck, before sighing long and muttering.

“Xu Qingnian really has the talent of the ages, it’s exasperating and lamentable.”

Saying this, Zhang Jing turned around and walked into the room, ignoring the expressions on the faces of Li Yuan and Feng Jianhua.

Then he locked the door of the room tightly, praying in his heart that Xu Qingnian had not blinded him.

Otherwise, he, the Minister of Penalty, would really be in a great disgrace.

And at the same time.

In the Shouren Academy.

Xu Qingnian had written thousands of words on the heavenly decree.

When the last word was finished, Xu Qingnian placed the heavenly decree directly on the candle without any nonsense.

In no time, the Heavenly Decree turned into white smoke and floated towards the palace.

“The human evidence has been resolved.”

“Now the most crucial thing is the physical evidence.”

“Where did Li Jianquan hide the physical evidence?”

After the heavenly decree had been burned clean, Xu Qingnian sat in his room and fell into deep thought.

Li Jianquan had clearly said in his dream that he had gotten a secret letter from Zhang Nantian.

It was to let the Huai Ping County King weigh in.

And at the end of the day, before Li Jianquan went mad, the Huai Ping County King did not even find the secret letter. The reason why he did not kill Li Jianquan was for two reasons.

One, Li Jianquan was not dead, but just crazy, so the other party might be afraid to take out the secret letter.

Secondly, four of the five case officers had died, and if another one died, it might have drawn the wrath of the court, so killing four was already the limit, and it was impossible to kill any more.

So Li Jianquan survived, but he also went mad.

Just where did the secret letter go?

Xu Qingnian was a little puzzled.

Inside the room.

Xu Qingnian pondered.

And time was pa*sing little by little.

The hour.

Six o’clock.

Midday.

Three hours had pa*sed, and there were only eight hours left before the court was due to start at dawn tomorrow.

But Xu Qingnian still had no idea.

“What if I were Li Jianquan?”

Xu Qingnian walked back and forth in the room, replacing himself with Li Jianquan.

“I’ve gotten into a big problem.”

“The person behind it is a county king.”

“He doesn’t kill me now because he doesn’t dare to kill me yet, not because he’s afraid of me, but because he’s afraid of the imperial court.”

“As long as we wait for three to five years to pa*s, he will certainly settle his score afterwards.”

“I have to defend myself, I have a secret letter in my hand, this secret letter will not say that it can kill the Huai Ping County King outright, but at least it will make him suffer a great loss.”

“I must hide it to come and give it to someone else, and as soon as I die, let him hand it over.”

“No! I cannot do it; I am watched from above and below, and I have no chance of giving the secret letter away.”

“Nor could I find a man so trustworthy.”

“Hiding it at home? Nor is it possible; even if they dug up the ground, they would have found it.”

“Then where is this secret letter hidden?”

“The most dangerous place is the safest place, hidden on your body?”

“That’s not possible, it’s too silly.”

“Wait!”

“On your body!”

Almost in a flash, Xu Qingnian’s eyes revealed a brilliant aura.

In the middle of his mind, he could not help but recall something Li Jianquan had said, that he had underestimated the strength of others and had been slashed, in the abdomen, almost dying, and that later it was the Huai Ping County King’s men who had stepped in to protect him, fearing that his death would draw suspicion from the court.

But why did Li Jianquan continue to solve the case? Shouldn’t he be trying to figure out how to break the case? And have the time to work on other cases? As for underestimating the strength of others? After more than ten years as a constable, he wouldn’t be so stupid.

So Li Jianquan was deliberately looking for someone to be injured on purpose.

Because he wanted to hide something, within his own body, within the wound.

At this moment, Xu Qingnian figured it out.

Swish.

The next moment, Xu Qingnian arrived outside the academy, and at this moment, Li Jianquan was still in an unconscious state.

Without any nonsense, Xu Qingnian directly sealed his acupuncture points and veins, paralysing him to stop the pain.

Immediately afterwards, his shirt was lifted off and indeed a scar appeared on his abdomen.

“Fetch fire and a small knife.”

Xu Qingnian said with a calm face.

“Yes.”

Yang Hu immediately got up and fetched a candle and a small knife for Xu Qingnian.

After receiving the knife, Xu Qingnian burned it back and forth on the candle, and when the blade was red, Xu Qingnian then cooled it slightly for a while before cutting down along Li Jianquan’s wound.

Once the cut was made, Xu Qingnian stretched out his two fingers and indeed touched something hard.

He carefully pulled it out, fearing that it would involve his intestines.

After a while, a stack of oil paper was withdrawn by Xu Qingnian.

“Water.”

“Stitch up his wound and send it to the medical clinic.”

Xu Qingnian asked Yang Bao and the others to come and take care of the aftermath, they all knew the art of stitching, as constables, this was a basic skill, in case they were cut on duty, they would have to stitch their own wounds if they could not find a medical hall.

Zhao Er brought in a bucket of water and Xu Qingnian used a cloth to wipe the oiled paper clean, then slowly unfolded it, with a layer of yellowed paper sandwiched inside.

The folds on the paper were broken and Xu Qingnian came into the room and unfolded it with immense care, and then several hundred words appeared in his eyes.

untimely.

Xu Qingnian’s voice rang out.

“Yang Hu and Yang Bao, go to the Ministry of Punishment and transfer troops to apprehend the suspect, the Huai Ping County King.”

A voice rang out.

In the middle of the academy.

Yang Hu’s six men froze in place.

What?

Arresting the Huai Ping County King?

But as Xu Qingnian’s token flew out of the window, Yang Hu took the token without any hesitation, just took a deep breath and walked towards the Ministry of Punishment.

A quarter of an hour later.

The Ministry of Punishment was abuzz with excitement!

Transferring troops!

Apprehending the Huai Ping County King?

What was this about?

Has Xu Qingnian gone mad?

However, Xu Qingnian is now working on this case, and His Majesty has given him all the power to do so.

Three minutes before the hour.

The Ministry of Justice officials a*sembled, three to four hundred of them, and headed for the Huai Ping County Palace.

Meanwhile.

The Great Wei Palace of Literature!

The State Dukes’ residences!

The Liege Marquis’ residence!

The Prince’s residence.

The county kings’ residences.

Even the capital city.

Once again, there was an uproar.

A month ago a fuss was made at the Ministry of Punishment.

A month later, he ordered the arrest of the Sheriff King?

This Xu Qingnian is up to something big again?