Behind the screen, Lu Shangshu's fist had hit the master's shoulder hard: "Who asked you to make your own claims?! Are you stupid?"

The master was beaten and begged for mercy in a low voice: "Master Shangshu, spare your life! I don't know, I don't know, Yue Xun dares to kidnap Mr. Zhong in front of His Highness the Crown Prince!"

Today's inner court interrogation has become a public interrogation, not because of Lu Shangshu's intention, but because the master acted on his own initiative.

His original intention was to cause trouble for Lu Qingfan and make his own minister angry, but he didn't expect that there were so many twists and turns that the entire Ministry of Punishment was involved!

"You bastard! I usually make small fuss over my own affairs behind closed doors..."

Lu Shangshu's head was about to explode. He thought for a moment that if Yue Xun could not be convicted today, His Royal Highness and the Ministry of Husbandry would not be able to justify it; but if he was hastily convicted and so many people were watching, wouldn't it mean that the Ministry of Punishment was incompetent?

For a moment, it turned out that neither this nor that would work, creating a situation of "riding a tiger and being unable to get off".

Lu Shangshu sent greetings to all eight generations of his master's ancestors in his heart.

For the first time in his life, he prayed in his heart that Lu Qingfan would be as accurate as the outside rumors, and that it would be better to nail Yue Xun's crime in front of the court instead of escalating the situation.

Lu Qingfan couldn't help but curl his thin lips slightly after hearing Yue Xun's rebuttal, and said in a cold voice: "You are from Guanzhong. You passed the Huihe Examination and went to Beijing to take the exam fifteen years ago and never went back... In three days, what kind of home did you return to?"

!”

Ever since he knew that Yue Xun might be a suspect, Ran Piao had barely found out the origins of Yue Xun's ancestors for more than a dozen generations. This little lie couldn't trouble Lu Qingfan at all.

Yue Xun seemed to have expected that Lu Qingfan would ask such a question, and said with a helpless smile: "As your Excellency said, Xiaguan entered the capital fifteen years ago. When he was young, his parents entrusted Xiaguan to his fellow countrymen.

Take care of them, they live in the suburbs of Beijing, and I will be respectfully addressed as 'uncle and aunt' by my subordinates."

Yue Xun said that his aunt was sick and he had to go home to take care of her, so he took three days off.

"Oh? Since you went home to take care of your elders, why did you show up at Feiyan Tower on the 17th?"

There was a coldness in Lu Qingfan's eyes: "Officials in my court have clearly stated that no prostitution is allowed. Even if Mr. Yue is a low-ranking household official, he shouldn't be able to enter and leave the fireworks place at will, right?"

Yue Xun couldn't help but blush when Lu Qingfan said that. He glanced at Xueming and said warmly: "Xiaguan's sweetheart is in Feiyan Tower. Xiaguan just wants to take a look while he is free."

Xueming was unhappy when she heard this. She lowered her head and didn't want to look at Yue Xun, but she couldn't help but vigorously stir the handkerchief in her hand. She was no longer as calm as when she first met.

Yun Xi quietly held Miss Xueming's hand that was stirring the veil.

Xueming raised her eyes, and Yun Xi's calm and clear gaze seemed to give her strength invisibly. The tears in her eyes dissipated and she became calm again.

"Sir, he lied." Xueming stood up and knelt in front of the hall: "He came here to inquire about information, not to visit the so-called 'sweetheart'."

Lu Qingfan nodded: "Let me tell you in detail."

Xueming told all the events and consequences of that day. When it was mentioned that she was taken away and took 50,000 taels of silver notes, and was seduced by Yue Xun and sent him out of Feiyan Tower, Yue Xun finally couldn't help but retorted.

:

"Miss Xueming is so strange. Since they said they sent Xiaguan out, how can they say that Xiaguan's people killed Bo Niang in the building? As far as Xiaguan knows, Bo Niang was found dead in the early morning of the 18th.

Bar?"

He glanced at Xueming, and then his sarcastic gaze fell on Lu Qingfan: "Sir, I went to the Hubu Shangya on errands that morning. You must not listen to the one-sided words of some people and wrongly accuse a good person."

Yue Xun has a bright future, and he must have a good reputation after a major tune. How can he be slandered by Miss Xueming's "bullshit".

This is what Lu Qingfan was waiting for.

He threw a piece of paper in his hand and said calmly: "After killing someone and not being able to find anything, I rushed to the Ministry of Finance from Feiyan Tower much earlier than when you rushed there from the suburbs of Beijing."

On the paper, the time required for riding, driving, and walking from the home of Yue Xun's "aunt" is all marked; the time required for riding, driving, and walking from Feiyan Tower to Hubu Yamen is also listed one by one.

Yue Xun looked at the comparison of the two paths on the paper clearly for a while, and his eyes were full of admiration: What a detailed inference, what a thorough logic!

"That day, when you went to Hubu, you took a cup of tea longer than before, which was the same time as when you rushed to Hubu from Feiyan Tower. Yue Xun, what else do you have to say?"

Yue Xun didn't panic at all, folded the paper and presented it again: "Even if Xiaguan returned to the household department from Feiyan Tower, it can only prove that Xiaguan went in and out of Feiyan Tower before and after the incident, but it cannot prove that Xiaguan went to Feiyan Tower before and after the incident.

Having been to the place where the crime occurred, it doesn't prove that the official killed someone, right?"

Lu Qingfan is nothing more than that, these evidences are just to punish a person...

Yue Xun looked at Lu Qingfan, whose eyes were burning, and something was wrong in his heart.

Lu Qingfan is more confident than him.

"Who said we have no evidence of guilt?"

Yun Xi took out a piece of paper from her sleeve and said calmly: "These are the footprints I made at the crime scene. Just compare them with Mr.-in-law's footprints to know whether you have been to the crime scene..."

When Yue Xun heard this, he couldn't help but move his feet back half an inch.

How could such a small gesture escape Yun Xi's eyes?

Before she could speak, Lu Qingfan had already signaled the guards to step forward and hold Yue Xun down!

Yue Xun was pushed to the ground unable to struggle, and he kept shouting: "Although I am a low-ranking deputy envoy of the military warehouse, I am still an official! How can a minister humiliate an official of the imperial court like this?"

Yet?"

Lu Qingfan didn't accept moral kidnapping at all, and he didn't care about his official reputation. His expression didn't change, and he just waited for Yun Xi to take Yue Xun's footprints and compare them.

Yun Xi and Qing Guo quickly took off Yue Xun's shoes and traced the footprints, and then compared them with the footprints she traced from the crime scene.

Everyone inside and outside the hall could clearly see that on the thin and translucent rice paper, the dark lines at the toes of the feet exactly matched the rubbings on Yue Xun's feet.

Yue Xun didn't expect that Lu Qingfan didn't care about the official reputation at all, but only wanted to collect evidence, and he was already anxious; and when he saw the footprints were easily touched by Yun Xi, his face turned pale in an instant.

"There are no identical feet in this world, even if people's left and right feet are not the same size. But Mr. Yue's little pointe shoe prints can match perfectly..."

Yun Xi pointed at the boots on the ground, her tone was gentle and heart-wrenching: "Master Yue must have loved these boots very much, so he wore them today and when killing people. That's right."

Yue Xun never expected that Yun Xi would take advantage of the negligence on his boots!

"There are so many people wearing the same boots! Maybe I just happen to..."

"I recognize these boots."

Before Yue Xun could finish speaking, Xueming stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "These boots were sewn by the slave family for Master Yue. In order to distinguish them from the boots on the side, the slave family secretly made a small flower on the bottom of the boot toe.

of snowflakes.”

Qingguo lifted up his boots as instructed. Lu Qingfan had excellent vision and saw the dark and delicate snowflake pattern at a glance.

The people who gathered around to watch the trial also saw that there was also a small, faint half-snowflake mark on the rubbing "criminal's footprints".

When Yun Xi saw it today, she was still confused that the texture was very delicate, but she didn't think it was because of that.

The unspeakable feelings and concerns of your daughter's family are quietly left on this piece of snowflake. Do you want to follow your sweetheart all the time?

That unspoken friendship has now turned into evidence pointing directly at the murderer.

"Xiaguan did go to Bo Niang's room, but she was already dead at that time! It was not the murder committed by Xiaguan!" Yue Xun did not look at Xueming who "betrayed" him, as if she was not there in the room.

Yes, I tensed up to deal with Lu Qingfan.

"Yue Xun, are you still going to fight stubbornly!?" Lu Qingfan gave a startling "snap", as if he had lost the patience to deal with Yue Xun.

"Does your Majesty still have to give in to the fight?" Yue Xun's face turned red, but he still refused to say anything.

"I won't shed tears until I see the coffin." Lu Qingfan looked at Yun Xi and signaled that she could take action.

Yun Xi sighed, took a step forward and reached out to grope in Yue Xun's arms.

"You! What are you doing? A deputy from the Ministry of Justice can attack court officials..." Yue Xun was halfway through speaking when he saw Yun Xi take out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket.

The porcelain bottle contained the Guanzhong white honey that Yue Xun carried with him.

Yue Xun's eyes widened, and he had a terrible guess in his heart: No, it won't happen.

How could Yun Xi know that he had used honey to attract insects? It was obvious that the corpse had been burnt to a crisp by him, so how could he leave any traces of incriminating evidence?!

[Author's digression]: Yun Xi: I really can keep it.

Qingguo: Hey, my lady wants to keep whatever she wants but can’t?!

Yun Xi: Is the trouble of the young girl in love solved?
Chapter completed!