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Chapter thirty-three

In the ninth year of Xuanwu, spring.

In Baihe Village on the border of Tianqi County where Wuyang City is located, evil spirits are causing trouble.

The head of the Qing family, Qing Xiangfeng, was ordered to go to Baihe Village to investigate the matter. There was no news for several months. Then it was reported that Qing Xiangfeng had converted to a cult and massacred civilians in Changlou County, which is adjacent to Tianqi County.

The imperial court was furious, and Ying Xiangjun, a member of the same four clans of the Ying family, led dozens of soldiers drawn from the three prefectures and nine divisions to suppress it.

After a bloody battle, Qing Xiangfeng was killed and sixty-seven cult disciples were beheaded.

The Qing family was accused of treason, and all of their 123 members were beheaded and their female relatives were cast into slavery.



In the tenth year of Xuanwu, winter.

Trouble breaks out again in Baihe Village.

The head of the Xia family, Xia Qian, was ordered to go to Baihe Village to thoroughly investigate the case.

Seven days later, Xia Qian returned to Wuyang City and was summoned by the Chief Commander of the Demon Suppression Division. He said that all the people in Baihe Village had died unexpectedly and that the cult matter was related to the safety of Wuyang. He had found clues and needed to report to His Majesty face to face.

Your Majesty summoned Xia Qianzheng the next night, but Xia Qianzheng suddenly rose up and attempted to assassinate your Majesty, but was immediately repelled by the secret guards in the palace.

His Majesty was furious and ordered all the more than 360 members of the Xia family to be executed. Xia Qian's body was hung outside the Meridian Gate for seven days!

Only the orphan girl of the Xia family offered the Xia family's ancestral sword Yuanhu, and Yin Wujiang, the director of Tianjian, was the guarantee and survived.



The Hanoi cult case is now over.

To this day, it is still one of the biggest unsolved cases in Wuyang.

The cult did not leave any clues. The only thing worthy of scrutiny is...

Regardless of the cult members who were beheaded together, or the rebellious Xia Qian and Qing Xiangfeng, their corpses were all tattooed with a green-faced and fanged ghost head on their chests.

Therefore, this unsolved case is also called the Green Ghost Case.



Qingzhu frowned and put down the dossier with only a few words.

After many years, even if she saw the contents of this file again, those unpleasant memories could not help but flood into the girl's heart.

She was only fourteen years old at that time. More than eight years have passed, but the scene when those soldiers poured into the Qing family is still vivid in her mind.

She took a deep breath and picked up a piece of hand-drawn rice paper from the bottom of the file. On the rice paper, there was a green-faced and fanged evil spirit with a ferocious expression - this was copied by the knife and pen official at the time based on the tattoo on Qing Xiangfeng's chest. Green ghost statue.

"Dad...what happened back then..." Qingzhu stared at the portrait, frowning and murmuring to himself.

Squeak.

At this moment, the door to the archives room of Tianjian Division was pushed open.

Qingzhu's heart tightened and he was about to put away the file - unlike Xia Xianyin, she was a person who should have been a slave. Li Danqing did a good job of disappearing back then, so no one suspected it.

But for a girl like her from Yingshui County to suddenly become concerned about the green ghost case that had not been mentioned for several years, it would inevitably arouse the suspicion of interested people.

This is a big trouble for her and Li Danqing.

Qingzhu, who didn't want to cause trouble, had put away the file, so he got up and put it back in the archives.

"Sister Wen Jun." At this time, people outside the door also walked into the room. Seeing Qingzhu, Xia Xianyin raised a smile on her face and walked up quickly.

"I haven't seen Sister Wen Jun going to the dining hall at this point. I guess she should be here." Xia Xianyin said with a smile, handed out two steamed buns from his hand and said: "It's still hot, sister, eat it quickly." "

Seeing Xia Xianyin, Qingzhu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

She took the steamed bun and said softly: "Thank you."

Xia Xianyin said nothing, but turned his eyes and landed on the dossier hidden behind Qingzhu.

At that time, a wry smile appeared on Xia Xianyin's face, and he said: "I have read this file many times since it came to Tianjian Division, but... there are no usable clues at all..."

Qingzhu frowned and looked around. It was noon at this moment. The staff of the Tianjian Department gathered in the canteen to have a meal. There was no one else in the archives. Qingzhu then felt relieved and whispered: "I

I also visited the ruins of Baihe Village, but also gained nothing."

Xia Xianyin sighed, she was so disappointed

She had experienced it a long time ago, but she was more open-minded than Qingzhu. She was silent for a while, and then she mustered up the courage to look at Qingzhu and asked: "Where has my sister been all these years?"

Xia Xianyin guessed Qingzhu's identity as early as when she was in charge of trying the Yangshan collapse case in Yingshui County.

But what happened next was too complicated, and Qingzhu never responded. Even when he came to Tianjiansi, and the two of them got along day and night for a few days, Qingzhu turned a deaf ear to Xia Xianyin's temptations. Today, maybe that

The contents of the file aroused Qingzhu's turbulent thoughts again. Faced with Xia Xianyin's half-probing and half-concerned inquiry, Qingzhu did not deny it anymore.

"Just walk around and take a look."

"I'm living a pretty good life. Except for the fear in the first two years in the brothel, I haven't suffered much." Qingzhu said with a slight smile on his lips.

"Did Li Danqing save you?" Xia Xianyin asked again.

"Yeah." Qingzhu nodded.

Then the two fell into silence again.

Friends whom I haven't seen for many years reunite again.

The two of them wanted to say something, but they couldn't.

I want to get close, but I'm afraid of appearing deliberate.

So I could only maintain this warm but awkward silence for the time being.

"Have you ever visited the local archives?" After a few breaths, Qingzhu broke the silence and asked.

Xia Xianyin nodded quickly when he heard this: "I have been there, but there is no file on the Green Ghost case."

The archives of Tianjian Division are divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Xuanhuang.

Anyone in the lowest level Huang-level Tianjian Department can enter to check the files, while only those at the governor level can enter. As for the second-level Tiandi, they naturally correspond to Shao Siming and the Great Siming.

"But this matter has nothing to do with the Ying family!" Xia Xianyin saw the look of disappointment on Qingzhu's face after hearing this, and hurriedly said again at that time.

Qingzhu nodded. The four Wuyang clans had a transcendent status, not to mention that their father's motive for rebellion could not withstand scrutiny.

Even if they really intend to rebel, such a major matter requires at least the three departments of Zhenmo Division, Tianjian Division, and Tiyu Division to set the record straight, but the court's handling is full of weirdness, and it is all handed over to Ying, who is also a member of the fourth clan.

When the prime minister dealt with it, the file was ambiguous. The two files on such a major case together only contained less than a thousand words, so the case was hastily closed and a conclusion was drawn.

The weird thing about this, let alone Xia Xianyin and Qingzhu, is that even an outsider who knows something about this can figure out the secret.

What's more, all the personnel of the Three Prefectures and Nine Divisions who surrounded Qing Xiangfeng were killed in this battle. Except for Ying Xiangjun himself, no one survived. Everything was based on his empty words.

When Xia Qian assassinated Ji Qi at the beginning, the secret guards in the palace received instructions from Prime Minister Ying in advance, so that they could repel Xia Qian the moment he took action.

"Ying Xiangjun's power in Wuyang has grown more and more over the years. If we want to overturn the case for our father, we have to work hard..." Xia Xianyin said again, her tone a little cautious, as if she was afraid that the dossier would stimulate Dao Qingzhu.

, making her do something unwise.

Qingzhu probably also heard Xia Xianyin's worries. She smiled and looked at Xia Xianyin. The girl in front of her had long since lost her youthfulness, and was the same as the little girl who liked to follow her and pull her clothes.

They are completely different. She sighed: "You have changed a lot."

Xia Xianyin's eyebrows darkened, and she corrected meaningfully: "I have grown up."

Qingzhu was stunned and suddenly felt a little distressed.

Of course she understands how difficult it is for a daughter of a guilty minister to stay alive in a place like Wuyang City.

She reached out and touched Xia Xianyin's head. She was familiar with this action in the past, but now it was a bit difficult - before she knew it, that little girl had grown to be as tall as herself.

"It's okay, I'm here now."

"And the young master..."

"In this Wuyang City, you are no longer alone."



Prince Li counted the banknotes in his hand with a smile on his face. This Ji Yuzhi was really the God of Wealth. He killed everyone in the gambling shop today, doubling the banknotes in Prince Li's hand from one thousand taels to two thousand three hundred taels.

This is because the bosses of gambling houses have been wary of everything lately, and Li Danqing, following the principle of steady flow, deliberately made Ji Yuzhi lose a few games.

However, I heard that the shopkeepers of the gambling houses have also come to their senses and established an organization to boycott the Laughing Three. I guess it will not be easy in the future if you want to make a fortune relying on naughty children.

Thinking of this, he brought the naughty child and the little elk to Yanhuan Palace.

"Take your things and save some food. You will have a rest tomorrow. I will not come to the palace. I will come to see you in two days." Li Danqing stood still in front of the palace gate and took out a large bag in his hand.

The things were handed into the hands of the little elk.

Carrying these things, the little elk smiled happily, but the happiness quickly dissipated on her face. She frowned, looked at Li Danqing, and asked in a sweet voice: "Master won't come tomorrow.

Yet?"

Following Li Danqing these days, the little elk ate and played happily. For the little elk who used to stay in the palace all year round, his life these days seemed to be in paradise.

Li Danqing really liked this little princess. Seeing her in this state, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand to scratch the bridge of her nose and said: "Master has other things to do, but I heard that there is a new one in Beicheng.

There is a restaurant where the chef cooks excellent braised fish. I will take you there after I finish my work in a few days."

When she heard that there was food, the little elk suddenly became happy again. She stretched out her hand to wipe the saliva that overflowed from the corner of her mouth, and nodded hurriedly: "Okay!"

At this time, Li Danqing turned his head to look at Ji Yuzhi again. Ji Yuzhi made a serious face, looked to the other side and said: "Humph! Finally I don't have to play with you with those boring things! This prince is still here this month.

Thirty-two books haven’t been read yet!”

Li Danqing has long been accustomed to this naughty boy's duplicitous temperament. Ji Yuzhi has been in high spirits at the gambling table these days, enjoying the enviable looks of people around him after winning repeatedly.

After all, he is a big kid, but because of the intrigues among the adults in the palace, he has to restrain his temper. How can he really calm down when he gets the chance.

It's just because Ji Yuzhi is too smart and knows what he should and shouldn't do, so he suppresses his own nature.

That's how it is sometimes.

The smarter the child, the more cautious he is.

This is somewhat like Prince Li in earlier years.

Probably out of sympathy for each other, Li Danqing has spent some time with his two children these days.

He smiled at that time, took out a few books from his arms, and handed them over: "Of course it's good to read books, but you can't just read those trivial things. Children of this age should read some books that should be read at this age.

watch."

Ji Yuzhi stretched out his hand to take the books with some strangeness, and looked at them intently.

"Shu Jian Chang'an", "Zang Feng", "Swallowing the Sea"...

"What a strange name. What kind of book is this?" Ji Yuzhi was a little confused and pointed at the first book.

"This is the story of a boy with seven stars on his head, who goes around picking up girls..."

"What about this one?"

"This is the story of a boy who carries a black cat and is missing one hand, and goes around picking up girls..."

"What about this?" The expression on Ji Yuzhi's face became increasingly weird.

"This is the story of a boy with a dragon tattooed on his back, who goes around picking up girls..."

Ji Yuzhi: "..."

"It's all about picking up girls, is it so boring?" Ji Yuzhi muttered with some dissatisfaction.

As soon as he said these words, Ji Yuzhi was hit hard on the forehead by Li Danqing: "If you don't learn how to pick up girls at your age, when you get to your teacher's age, all the good girls will run away with you!"

Squeak.

It was probably because the conversation between the three of them was louder, and people in Yanhuan Palace heard the movement.

The palace door of Yanhuan Palace was opened from the inside, and the palace maid called Granny Yu saw the little elk and the naughty child and hurriedly came to welcome them.

"Ouch! My little prince and princess! Why did you come back at this time?" Grandma Yu said in an anxious tone.

Only then did Li Danqing realize that the old woman's eyes seemed to be a little red.

"What's wrong?" Li Danqing's heart tightened and he asked quickly.

"The Empress came to Yanhuan Palace today to assess the princess and the prince's recent academic progress. However, after seeing the Youshi prince and the princess, she had not returned to the palace, so she reprimanded the empress for her incompetence in educating her son and took her to the Jingnu Palace to be punished!"


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