Chapter 40

"Miss Xia, please."

Xia Jin will be led to a semi open door outside the room, Lu Huachong she made a please gesture, did not want to enter the meaning.

Xia Jin hesitated and stepped into the door.

There are several rows of tall bookshelves in the room, which are close to the beam. There are many files on the bookshelves. Most of the files are stained with thick dust because of the long time and few people touch them.

Xiao Yiyuan stood in front of one of the bookshelves, holding a dusty file in his hand. His eyes seemed to see something through the file. There was a kind of emotion called sadness lingering on his whole body.

"Lord Yi?"

Xia Jin tentatively called him, wondering why Xiao Yiyuan showed such emotion, but did not ask.

Called back by her voice, Xiao Yiyuan puts the volume clan back on the shelf, turns to look at Xia Jin, slowly opens his mouth, and asks a question that Xia Jin seems to be very puzzling.

"I haven't asked you, what do you think of your father's edict that you should be a judge of prison?"

She was his life-saving benefactor. He didn't want to involve her in these troubles, but his father ordered her directly and disrupted his plan.

Since she was destined to get involved in the trouble, he could only find an excuse to protect her under his nose.

"Xia Jin is very grateful for the emperor's trust, will be conscientious, such as facing the abyss, like walking on thin ice, dare not have the slightest carelessness."

Xia Jin does not know Xiao Yiyuan's good intentions, Leng for a moment, said an official answer.

Unexpectedly, after listening to her answer, Xiao Yiyuan uttered the word "hypocrisy" with a sneer.

She gasped at the corner of her mouth, deeply aware that Xiao Yiqi's remark that Xiao Yiyuan was abnormal was extremely reasonable.

Seeing that she was silent, Xiao Yiyuan was too lazy to continue to entangle on this topic and went straight to the point

"Here is a file about Wu lang. take it and have a look. The Privy Council has urgent military affairs, which should be handled by the king himself. For the time being, the case of Wu Xue will be handled by you. If it is useful, let Lu Hua handle it. I will give you three days to find out the truth. "

While talking, he took out the file next to the one he had just taken out and threw it straight at Xia Jin.

Xia Jin catches it in a hurry, but her heart is not calm

"I don't have any experience in handling cases, and I'm not familiar with the law. It's very difficult for me to spend three days, and if I'm not familiar with the law, I'll be in trouble..."

"If there is no difficulty, what do I want you to do?"

Xiao Yiyuan's face is slightly cold. He doesn't like her lying to him. His words hurt people.

The room was quiet for a moment. After a long time, Xu felt his tone was too heavy. Xiao Yiyuan relaxed his face and added:

"If something goes wrong, I'll take care of it. Just let it go!"

"Yes, I do."

Xiao Yiyuan just a anger, let Xia Jin realize that in this world, not everything can be reasonable, in the future, she has to be more cautious.

Xiao Yiyuan looks at Xia Jin's respectful appearance, and his mood is not good again.

He fidgeted with a wave of sleeves, foot move, over Xia Jin, quickly out of the house, disappeared in this yard.

In Shicheng, Xia Jin found Xiao Yiyuan's strange temper, but he was not so irritable and moody.

Thinking of the scene she saw when she entered the door, she went to the position where Xiao Yiyuan had just stood, and took down the file that made him wandering.

Curiosity in the heart makes her open the file and look at it at a glance. Even if it's just a cursory scan, Xia Jin is still aware that there is a big problem with the file.

It is mentioned in the dossier that Shen Weiran, the right servant of the Ministry of justice, was on guard against theft, embezzlement, perversion of the law, and murder of his colleagues. After the crime was exposed, because Xiao Yiyuan, the Minister of justice of the Ministry of justice, was not in DIDU, the Ministry of justice had no head, and the Department of justice could not move anyone. After hearing the news, the queen directly sent a team of chambermaids to put him in the main hall of the Ministry of justice.

In the hundred years since the founding of the Eastern Qing Dynasty, the law had already matured. Even if the Department of criminal justice had no time to hear the case, and the Minister of criminal justice was not in his position, he could still choose the right person to hear the case. If it was not possible, the trial could be postponed.

How could it be that the empress who lives in the harem would be bothered to try and settle the case?

What's more, there are no phrases about how the queen tried the case.

The whole case looks more like the queen who is Yiwang's biological mother can't wait for Shen Weiran's life!

Xia Jin pondered that among the four adult princes of the current emperor, the eldest prince and the eldest Sanlin have already accepted concubines and have children.

However, the second king of Qi and the fourth king of Yi are vacant.

The king of Qi was delayed because he traveled abroad all the year round. As for the king of Yi

She had heard that the reason why the throne of imperial concubine Yi was vacant was because of a woman who had been dead for six years.

Shen Weiran in this file was killed six years ago.

Xia Jin thinks that she is likely to know the truth.

The mother was not satisfied with her son's daughter-in-law, so she found an excuse to kill her.

Life and death are decided at will. This royal family is really a place of great strength.

It's a pity that few women in this world can see through this.

Xia Jin put the file back in place, took the share Xiao Yiyuan gave her, went out of the yard, found a temporary office with the help of Lu Hua, opened the file and looked at it.

The case in this file also happened six years ago.

Wu Lang, who was only a member of the Ministry of household affairs at that time, and Qian Ling, a concubine in the backyard, died of a poison called heixinsan.

This poison comes from Beiyou. It's rarely known in Dongqing. The poisoned person's internal organs are eroded by the poison. His lips are black, his nails are black, his chest skin is black, and his seven orifices are bleeding.

Qian Ling made a mistake and was punished by her mother. She felt resentful and scattered her black heart in the cup. She wanted to poison her mother, but she accidentally confused the cup and suffered the consequences.

Qian Ling's identity is exactly Wu Yali's biological mother.

Looking at the contents of the dossier, Xia Jin can't help thinking of Wu Xue's body symptoms. She also has the symptoms of black lips and black nails. It's just that Wu Xue's black chest is spreading in a spider network, while Qian Ling's whole chest is black as ink.

But Wu Xue did not die of poison. When she died, the poison in her body was in the stage of attack.

Xia Jin doesn't know about ancient poisons, but these similar symptoms are enough to make her doubt.

Wu Xue's case seems to have no clue, but in fact it has been discovered a lot. No wonder Xiao Yiyuan will order her to solve the case within three days.

Xia Jin rearranges her mind and decides to go to the palace. She needs to determine who left the banquet during the banquet.

She called Lu Hua and said what she thought.

Lu Hua flipped the books in front of her desk for a while, but got nothing. He asked her to wait and left.

Less than half of the time, he appeared again with a small book in his hand.

He handed the book to Xia Jin and said:

"It was sent by the prince before. It was left alone, so it was missed."

"Thank you."

Xia Jin reached out to take it, and with a smile, she opened the page and looked at it.

The first page of the small book describes the cause of Wu Xue's death. She drowned in a coma. The poison she was poisoned is the same as Xia Jin's guess. It's really black heart powder.

It takes three hours, that is, six hours, from poisoning to complete attack of heixinsan.

Well, maybe Wu Xue was poisoned outside the palace

She continued to turn the pages of the book one after another. It was recorded on the page that during the Palace Banquet, apart from herself, eight people left midway.

They are Wu Xue, Wu Yali, Xiao xueran, the Queen's mother Wang, and four other officials.

The prince has checked the whereabouts of these people that night, and the four officials and Xiao xueran are not suspected, while Wu Yali, Mammy Wang and Wu Xue have never seen them since they came out of the shadow palace.

In addition to Wu Xue who has already died, the suspect Wu Yali and mammy Wang testify to each other.

Mammy Wang said that she asked Wu Yali, the "first embroiderer in DIDU", for a picture of embroidery in the mountains and rivers, so she held Wu Yali and talked with her in the pavilion outside the shadow palace.

The Eastern Qing Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety. Because the empress was involved, the Prince did not study deeply and adopted their words.

Looking at the contents of this small book, Xia Jin has a headache.