Capture the Jade

Lin Chengyou took the two younger sisters to the front of the queen. After salute, he sat down with his robes up, and said with a smile: "It's not that my nephew is unwilling to help you choose, but my nephew is afraid that it will be difficult to choose."

The queen picked up a few coral beads, leaned over Changyi and Azhi's heads and gestured: "This is what the Weaving and Dyeing Department 1 only played this year, and there are not many outstanding ones, so it's hard enough to say this. You are a skilled craftsman, and no matter how clever your mind is, you can’t innovate every year. You are a brother, and you happened to come here. Just help your sister pick a few things, and they will be very happy. For the rest, my aunt intends to reward this year’s batch The relatives of a minister of merit."

Azhi pointed to a string of treasure chains in front of him, and said to Lin Chengyou, "Well, Ajie chose this one."

Then he held up a crystal clear jasper crown: "I picked this one, brother, please help me put it on."

Lin Chengyou patiently helped Azhi put the crown on her head.

Azhi tilted his head and asked, "Is it ready?"

Lin Chengyou tilted his head back a few inches, took a serious look, then pinched Azhi's fat face, and said with a charming smile, "Our Azhi is so pretty."

Azhi giggled, naturally very happy, and Changyi asked with concern: "Big brother, have you been busy with cases these days? Why does Dali Temple always have so many cases to solve?"

The queen touched her daughter's face affectionately: "Silly boy, what is this called, there are always cases, because there are always people in this world who commit **** and crime for the sake of profit."

Lin Chengyou helped the two younger sisters to choose a few items, and couldn't help but swayed towards the pearl on the table. Yesterday, the light in the tunnel was dim, but the underground palace on the second floor was still bright. If he remembered correctly, Teng Yuyi's temples were hanging down at the time. with a pair of pearls, so she lost it?

Yesterday, she was in a hurry to ask Master Jing Chen about this matter. She should have attached great importance to this matter. Unfortunately, he was a little far away at the time, and Teng Yuyi's voice was low. He only vaguely heard the word "Aniang" and said nothing else. understand.

Thinking like this, he picked up the step, turned it around at his fingertips carelessly, and asked casually, "Auntie, isn't this kind of pearl step uncommon?"

Empress Liu Bingyu was stunned for a moment, then she quickly turned her eyes to Lin Chengyou, looked at him calmly for several times, and asked patiently, "Why do you inquire about this?"

Lin Chengyou snorted: "In a recent case, a witness lost such a step. I heard that it was very expensive, so my nephew wanted to ask how much it was worth."

Liu Bingyu saw his expression as usual, full of surprise turned into faint disappointment: "Whether it is expensive or cheap, mainly depends on the quality of the beads. If they are similar to the pair on the table, the pair will cost about tens of thousands of dollars."

Lin Chengyou thought back for a while, Teng Yuyi's pair of beads were not that big, so it could be seen that the price wouldn't be very expensive. Even if the quality was similar to this, Teng Yuyi would have spent tens of thousands of dollars just for the pears and the glazed beads. , how can you put a pair of ordinary jewelry in your eyes.

She will feel so distressed about this step, will it be because it is A Niang's relic? He remembered the teardrops on her eyelashes last night, and felt that there was a possibility. If it was really a relic left by her mother, it would be a pity to lose it in the underground palace.

It's a pity that they only cared about escaping for their lives at the time. Afterwards, Teng Yuyi was busy avoiding disasters and had no chance to go back to find it. Moreover, the structure of the underground palace was ever-changing, and even Master Jing Chen might not be able to find it in person.

But no matter how difficult this matter is, it may not be difficult for him to beat him. For Teng Yuyi's worries about him all day, why not help her go back to the underground palace to find it?

On the surface, Liu Bingyu brought her two children to pick out things, but in fact she kept paying attention to Lin Chengyou secretly. As long as the child asked her for the pair of Buyao, or quietly stuffed Buyao into her arms, she immediately asked Fei Nu to give it to Qin. Yao and Lin Xiao send letters.

But Lin Chengyou just held the pearl in his hand and looked at it for a few times, then put it back in the jewelry box, Liu Bingyu choked, and suddenly showed a headache.

According to Daoist Master Qing Xuzi and his old man's calculations, the hurdle in the child's life is about to come. As a result, the old man said, "If it is not broken, it will not stand up, this child's own calamity, let this child destroy it by himself", he packed up and ran away. No shadow.

Qin Yao and Lin Xiao seem to have also received instructions from the Taoist priest Qingxuzi, and they have not appeared in Chang'an City yet. What is the so-called "love robbery", everyone has no idea in their hearts. She won't be bothered by this, the saint is worried about this all day, so she is also worried.

Reasoning that this child's "love calamity" should have come to Chang'an long ago, why is this child still silent? The Taoist priest and his old man are already old, so he must be old and faint.

Suddenly I heard the palace people: "The saint is here."

The emperor strode forward, and asked as he walked, "Has there been progress in those murder cases?"

Lin Chengyou got up: "My nephew is here for this."

Liu Bingyu held the two children in his hands: "Grandpa and Big Brother A are in a hurry to solve the case, so let's not quarrel here. They say theirs, you and A-Niang go outside to pick flowers."

After the emperor sat down and took a sip of tea, Lin Chengyou told all the clues he had found in the past few days, as well as his speculations.

The emperor listened quietly: "So now you suspect that the murderer may be a relative or friend of Shu Liniang?"

Lin Chengyou said: "My nephew went to 'Jinyun Waterfall' today to inquire, it turns out that the seventeenth murderer may have targeted Shu Liniang last month. In this case, the murderer obtained the first child in Tongzhou on the fifth day of the third lunar month, and can take the second child immediately. , but he didn't kill Shu Liniang until March 25. He followed him before he started, and he followed for so long. It can be seen that he always wanted to find an opportunity to take a baby outside. This is also the strange part of this case. Shu Liniang's residence is more obvious than outside. It's secluded, why didn't the murderer take the baby at her house? Considering the figure of this person, I guess he was afraid of being caught by Shu Liniang's neighbors when he started. It can be seen that Shu Liniang's neighbors have seen this person in the past."

The emperor snorted: "So now you suspect that Shu Wenliang is the murderer, because you are afraid that he absconds because of the crime, so you asked someone to seal the city?"

Lin Chengyou nodded: "He and Shu Liniang are cousins, and they have been to Chun'an Lane in the past, and their body shape is similar to the murderer seen by eyewitnesses. If they were seen by Shu Liniang's neighbors on the night of the incident, it would be very easy to think of him. But if It's really him, and there are still a few doubts that need to be clarified.

"First, he is Shu Liniang's cousin. Even if he knows the bad things Shu Liniang has done, how can he know that the little Jiang family is a villain? Killing and taking a fetus is extremely damaging to one's own cultivation. The person who set up such a game before killing the little Jiang family shows that he has carefully considered and dared to do it. I only know that this person was a jinshi fifteen years ago, and has been serving under Peng Zhen of Huaixi Dao since then. When did he come into contact with Taoism and when he fell into the party of sorcery, all of which are still unclear. I don’t know what to do, so I can only interrogate him in detail after he has been caught.”

"Resistance—" The emperor said thoughtfully, "Last time it was Zombie Evil, but this time it's Reinforcement, so it seems that several cases involve sorcery..."

Lin Chengyou said: "I heard that fifteen years ago, my uncle ordered to vigorously clean up the sorcery party, and these things that happened in the past few days are exactly the same as the sorcery of the year. Ask your uncle what happened back then."

The emperor's eyes became solemn and said, "The cause of this incident has to start from the massacre in Chang'an City fifteen years ago. Back then, there was a Taoist sect called Wujimen, and a Taoist priest called Qiankun Sanren came out. , This person believes in the superiority of Taoism, and has carefully studied various sorceries since he was young. Over the years, he not only asked him to search the world for ancient books that recorded Taoist sorcery, but also wrote a book based on it. Soul Sutra. One year, in order to fight another Taoist priest, Qiankun Sanren used the sorcery in the Soul Sutra to take away the souls of the Anyifang family, causing the family to die in Huangquan.

"Qiankun Sanren and this family are never acquainted, and according to his own words, he chose them as targets simply because they lived close to each other and cast spells more easily.

"Uncle and your aunt were shocked when they heard about this. 'Dao's respect, virtue is precious'. One of the veins of 'Dao' must always be in the company of 'Virtue'. Those who cultivate Taoism should respect Taoism. Guide thinks of it for himself, but this person disregards human life for the sake of fighting the law, and clearly has regarded Taoism as a toy for his desire. The door, too, will be filthy with the scum of these scumbags.

"Uncle then ordered on the spot: Qiankun Sanren and his disciples will be immediately handed over to Dali Temple for trial. Anyone who kills people with cruel Taoism will be hanged. Unforgivable sins, and also copying the relevant sorcery secrets of Qiankun Sanren and his henchmen, thus shocking the world."

Speaking of this, the emperor looked at Lin Chengyou and said, "You should remember the secrets of sorcery that your master kept in the temple: "Soul Sutra", "Shaman"...including the "Unfeeling Gu" that you mistakenly practiced when you were young These are the cheats that were confiscated when the banned books were removed fifteen years ago. Your teacher didn't burn these cheats, just because he was afraid that the remnants would come back in the future. Keeping these remnants, you can also find out in time how these evil ways do harm. human."

Lin Chengyou nodded. He had read the "Soul Sutra" a few years ago, and it was only the last time that he recognized that the ghost of Peng Yugui torturing the Tian family was the famous Qimang Guiluyin.

The emperor said again: "Besides that, my uncle was afraid that the scattered people would leave behind the remnants, and he ordered your teacher to lead people to conduct detailed investigations in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, as well as in all major states and counties. Anyone in the world who is involved in magic arts, There are no exceptions to be punished. Those who use sorcery to commit crimes must be severely punished. Once verified, they will all be thrown into prison; It took four or five years before and after, but it was precisely because of the strong pressure of the imperial court, after more than ten years, sorcery was almost extinct in Chang'an and various prefectures and counties."

After Lin Chengyou heard these words, he remembered his doubts for the past few days.

"Does my uncle still remember that tree demon?"

"Why ask that?"

Lin Chengyou: "This demon appeared in the bamboo forest next to the Ziyun Tower on the night of the Shangsi Festival. In previous years, during the Shangsi Festival, my uncle would lead the courtiers to the Ziyun Tower to view the Grand Palace, and the Moon Lantern Pavilion next to it would also be held because of the event. The Jinshi Banquet was held on the night of the Shangsi Festival to gather the newly selected talents from all over the world. This tree demon was turned into a demon not long ago. If someone deliberately led it that night, it would be enough to kill a bunch of people in the court. Minister, if you let it succeed, the court will inevitably suffer a catastrophe.

"Now that my nephew wants to come, the tree demon appeared so coincidentally that night, maybe not just to get the beauty's skin, its real target may be the uncle and the minister of the court. It's a pity that this monster was unlucky, and it was Mrs. Teng who happened to pass by. Using the divine sword to slash his claws caused a serious injury to the mana, and then he was beaten back to the prototype by his nephew on the spot. This conspiracy disappeared before it was officially launched."

The emperor's face gradually became solemn.

"As for the two monsters in Caifeng Tower, they will break through tomorrow, but because someone carefully covered it up, there has been no trace of demonic energy this month. The people behind the scenes are so meticulously maintained, they just want to wait for the second monster The demon power has almost recovered. With the help of the power of the two monsters, Chang'an has been stirred up. If it can hurt the uncle and courtiers, it may be more in line with the people behind the scenes. Unfortunately, this carefully designed game was still disturbed by the nephew. .

"This time, the endurance is even more extraordinary. As long as its yin energy is fully restored, neither the imperial court nor the people of Chang'an will be able to escape the disaster. My nephew has thought about these cases several times, and I always feel that there is something behind the scenes. People carefully arrange these major situations, in addition to wanting to disrupt the world and disrupt Chang'an, there is also an inexplicable hatred."

"Hate?" The emperor was startled, lowered his eyes and thought, and gradually understood.

Lin Chengyou said sternly: "I hate my uncle and the court. Looking back on these evil calamities, except that the tree demon's mana is slightly lower, the rest of the evil things are all big things that are not tolerated by the world. No matter how strong this person's magic arts are , when manipulating these evil things in the dark, there is always the risk of being swallowed by the other party, but this person is still taking the risk to do so, which makes my nephew feel... that this person is holding a kind of obsession with burning jade and stone, like It's like he's risking his own life to achieve his goals, plus the people behind the scenes are so skilled at sorcery—"

The emperor said clearly: "Do you suspect that the people behind the scenes have hatred for the imperial court and uncle because the imperial court swept away the sorcerer party fifteen years ago?"

Lin Chengyou snorted: "So my nephew wanted to ask my uncle whether the evil sect of fifteen years ago, especially the founder of Qiankun Sanren, has any relatives left in the world, or did some disciple escape the court's pursuit?"

The emperor pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered something.

"Uncle remembers that Qiankun Sanren is very good at winning people's hearts, and there are many disciples under his family, all of whom are devoted to him. In order to carry forward the sorcery of this sect, Qiankun Sanren especially treats a few eldest disciples with great trust. After the incident, Qiankun Sanren was interested in it. Preserving the line of Wujimen, the eldest disciple was desperately sent away that night. The imperial court went to various states and counties to hunt them down, but only a part was captured. Two disciples have not been heard from since then. One is called Haoyue Sanren and the other is Wenqing Sanren."

Lin Chengyou sighed: "Uncle, do you still remember the appearance and age of these two male disciples?"

"Male disciple?" The emperor waved his hand, "Wenqing Sanren is a male disciple, but Haoyue Sanren is a female disciple."

"Female disciple?" Lin Chengyou pondered.

"Back then, my uncle asked someone to paint their portraits, and it is estimated that it is still in the Department of Serious Cases of your Dali Temple, but after all, fifteen years have passed since the case, and it may take some time to find it."

Lin Chengyou pondered for a moment, then smiled and nodded: "I think I already have a clue about this case, but before returning to Dali Temple, my nephew still has a few things he wants to ask his uncle."

"Come and listen."

"Speaking of the recent case of abortion, let's not talk about the first two cases. The third victim, Xiao Jiang, seemed to have too many coincidences when the accident happened. For example, on the day she was killed, she went to the spice shop to buy things on a whim, and she was tired. After that, I decided to go to the quiet room downstairs to rest as usual... If there is a change in one link that day, the game carefully designed by the murderer will be invalid.

"But Xiao Jiang's every step is based on the murderer's plan, and it is precisely because of this series of coincidences that the murderer is provided with the opportunity to kill and make arrangements. Therefore, my nephew always feels that this case is different from the previous two. The difference is that in addition to the careful design of the murderer, there must be someone who secretly helps to promote... and this person must be extremely trusted by the little Jiang family. Of course, all this is just suspicion, and my nephew can't find evidence that this person participated in the crime for the time being. , so I want to ask my uncle, if a man truly loves his wife, would he be willing to let gossip slander her?"

The emperor was stunned for a moment, then smiled amiably: "You only need to look at your grandfather. Will your grandfather be willing to let your grandma be slandered? A man will take care of all her affairs when he has a woman he loves. I will never let her suffer any grievances."

When Lin Chengyou heard the first sentence, his eyes lit up, but when he heard the second sentence, a person suddenly appeared out of place in his mind.

He felt puzzled, shook his head to shake the figure away from his mind, and got up with a smile: "Nephew understands."