"It's unreasonable, it's simply unreasonable...cough cough...cough cough cough..." Li Yan, the governor, slapped the table angrily, "In my territory of Tangzhou, there are such arrogant people, it's simply lawless! Cough cough..."
"Master Li..." Yuan Xingtai on the side hurriedly consoled him, "You just caught the cold and haven't recovered yet, so you should pay attention to your health!"
"What evil have I done!" Li Yan was filled with compassion and trembling all over, "Then Ligu County is less than a hundred miles away from Wude City. If this spreads to the higher ups, I will be surprised if I am not criticized!
"Is the Wude County Sheriff a jobber? With such a bad outlook, he didn't even investigate!?
"The most irritating thing is the Xingchuan County Magistrate. He actually colludes with the gangsters. I can't wait to chop off his head!"
"Sir, please calm down," Xu Zun advised, "We have already interrogated the Xingchuan County Magistrate, and based on the confessions of him and his entourage, I am afraid that he does not know about the activities of Chongtian Temple.
"In the end, he only admitted to accepting bribes and said he had no knowledge of the crimes committed by the practice room, Yuyangzi and others!"
"This is purely to shirk the crime!" Li Yan shook his head helplessly, "Chongtian Guan obviously has money of unknown origin. Instead of paying attention, he accepted bribes. Now that something has happened, he has no idea what he is talking about?
"Jiying," Li Yan gritted his teeth and said, "Let's torture him! This bastard county magistrate cannot be too easy on him!"
"Sir," Xu Zun said with cupped hands, "I have already used it, otherwise, he would not have confessed so readily.
"But... combined with the confessions of the bandits, the county magistrate probably doesn't know much..."
"Hmm..." Li Yan thought for a while and asked Xu Zun, "How are the investigations of those escaped bandits and the chief of some kind?"
"In the past two days, several escaped bandits have been captured one after another," Xu Zun said, "As for the leader Luo Yu, he has disappeared. Since this person had the guts to kill Yuyangzi, he must have done it long ago.
Be prepared carefully, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to catch!”
"Ahem..." Li Yan covered his mouth and coughed several more times before continuing to ask, "How is that girl from Lu's Bookstore doing now?"
"Well," Xu Zun frowned slightly and replied, "Lu Xiaofeng is still being raised in the Hou Mansion. Although he has regained consciousness,... he is in a trance and can't find out the inside story.
"I'm afraid, she was greatly stimulated and needs psychological counseling to recover, right?"
"Psychological counseling?" Li Yan had never heard of this term before, and immediately smacked his lips and said, "Tsk tsk... I hope she can recover soon!
"By the way, Jiying," he thought of something and asked again, "I heard that there is a girl from Yuanzhou with the Lu family girl?"
"Yes," Xu Zun replied, "She said she is the personal maid of Aiyu, the Naiman princess in Haimir County, Yuanzhou, named Timur Ani."
"Yuanzhou...ahem..." Li Yan was confused, "How could she come from such a far away place? What on earth did she say?"
"This Timur Ani," Xu Zun introduced, "said she was kidnapped from her hometown four years ago, when she was only thirteen years old.
"She said that she and the princess once attended a tribe's banquet, and she was knocked unconscious by something during the banquet, and was kidnapped by the gangsters.
"In the past four years, she was resold several times, and finally ended up in Chongtian Temple," Xu Zun said. "According to her own estimation, she stayed in Chongtian Temple for more than a month, because the temple
The Lord gave her a pill that made her sometimes sober and sometimes hallucinating..."
"It's actually like this...these people really deserve to be cut to pieces! Ahem..."
Due to his excitement, Li Yan coughed more and more violently. He finally took a sip of tea and choked on the tea, which made him cough even more fiercely.
At this moment, in the inner hall of the county government office, in addition to Li Yan, Xu Zun, Yuan Xingtai and Ju Ran, there was also the county governor Taimin.
Logically speaking, Chongtian Temple is located in Wude County, and this matter has nothing to do with Taimin.
However, Tai Min is still no different from before, still looking cowardly and submissive.
No matter what others say, he just doesn't say a word.
Especially when he saw Xu Zun, those two eyes never dared to look at Xu Zun, and they were clearly deliberately avoiding it.
Depend on……
Xu Zun secretly wondered, is this the county guard's nature, or does he have some guilty secret?
"Master Li," Yuan Xingtai said at this time, "don't think that Yuanzhou is far away from us. In fact, Haimir County is in the northeast of Qinzhou. If we start from Wude City, we can travel quickly.
It only takes four or five days to arrive!"
"Oh..." Li Yan nodded and asked, "Have Lieutenant Yuan heard of this... what kind of princess?"
"This is Princess Ayu of the Naiman tribe." Xu Zun reminded.
"I only know that the Naiman tribe is a large tribe in Yuanzhou. When Taizu founded the country, he and the leader of the Naiman tribe in Yuanzhou were married to opposite-sex brothers. Therefore, after the establishment of Daxuan, many tribal kings were granted titles.
"Although the daughter of the princess is also called the princess, her level is much different from that of the Central Plains. At best, she is just a noble.
"As for Princess Ayu, I've never heard of it!"
"In other words," Li Yan said thoughtfully, "this girl is just a maid from a wealthy family. In this case, is it necessary to send her back?"
"Sir," Xu Zun said quickly, "it doesn't matter whether we send her back or not. What's important is that we have to confirm her identity first!"
"This..." Li Yan was puzzled, "Is this still necessary?"
"Sir, she is already seventeen years old," Xu Zun said, "We can't just listen to her words, right?"
"Okay!" Li Yan thought for a while and then said, "In that case, I'll leave it to you to take charge!
"Ji Ying, the Chongtian Temple incident has a great impact. Although it is a group of outright bad gangsters, this matter is related to the state religion Xuan Dao after all. It can be big or small!
"If this matter is not handled well, I am afraid that the Holy Emperor will punish me, so..." He pointed at Xu Zun, "Hurry up and get ready and follow me back to Wude City!"
"What?" Xu Zun was surprised, "Go back to Wude City now?"
"Of course," Li Yan said, "Chongtian Temple is under the jurisdiction of Wude County, I can't handle this case in Shangyuan County, right?
"Hurry up and make a plan to bring all the criminal and material evidence back to Wude City. Only if we investigate this case from the state capital can we be justified!"
"This..." Xu Zun stopped talking.
"What?" Li Yan was puzzled, "Do you have a problem? Jiying, you are now in Tangzhou and you have to help me share the burden of such a serious case!"
"Sir," Xu Zun said, "to investigate this case thoroughly, it is my duty to carry out my humble duty, but... the case of the corpse of the woman in monk's clothes, still..."
"Oh...it turns out you are still thinking about this case!" Li Yan frowned.
"Sir," Xu Zun said, "Chongtian Temple has been raided, and all that's left is the finishing work, but that monk-robed killer is still going to take action!
"If we extrapolate from the case ten years ago, he is probably already planning the next murder!"
"Jiying, I don't mean to embarrass you, but..." Li Yan advised, "You have to know what is important and what is light!
"The Chongtian Temple incident started because of you. This matter is big or small. When you take office as a new official, you still don't understand that this officialdom is dangerous. If you don't handle it properly, you are very likely to destroy your future. So..."
"Sir!" Xu Zun cupped his hands and said resolutely, "Sir, please give me three days!
"If I can take that killer in monk's clothing back to Wude City, won't my future be more secure!?"
