Late at night, the moon hung high in the sky.
Chang 'an City, Wild Goose Pavilion.
Outside the building, close to a thousand city guards had surrounded Wild Goose Falling Building.
Hu Yan, the official of the Supreme Court, stood in front of the main entrance of the Pavilion of Wild Goose Falling, his expression extremely gloomy.
An hour ago, he was playing with his concubine in the courtyard of the Supreme Court. Just as he reached a critical point, a prison guard of the Supreme Court broke in.
One could imagine how terrified he was back then!
Before he could get angry, he was completely dumbfounded as if he had been struck by lightning!
Someone reported that State Duke Xue, Zhangsun Jingde, had died in the Supreme Court!
The highest official of the Supreme Court was the Supreme Court Minister. Below him were the Supreme Court Shaoqing. As one of the Supreme Court Shaoqing, Hu Yan was in charge of all matters related to Xing Prison.
Zhangsun Shunde was assassinated and died in the prison of the Supreme Court. The responsibility was all his act.
As for the Head of the Court of Judicial Review, Li Daozong was the Head of Honglu, Left Commander, and the Governor of Lingzhou. He was currently busy preparing for the war against the Xiongnu in the Governor's Office of Lingzhou, so he had no time to care about the matters of the Court of Judicial Review.
In fact, even if Li Daozong was in Chang 'an, he would not ask about the Supreme Court under normal circumstances. To him, the Supreme Court was more like an honorary official position.
The ones who actually held power in the Supreme Court were two young officials, and the other was Dai Zhou, who was mainly responsible for the trial and review of the Supreme Court's cases.
After the news of Zhangsun Shunde's assassination spread in Chang 'an, the gate of the Dai Mansion was tightly closed. No matter how many knocks were made outside, there was no response.
Dai Zhou could hide, but Hu Yan could not. He was in charge of the Xing Prison, and more importantly, he had nowhere to hide.
"Are you sure you escaped here?" Hu Yan stared at the huge plaque of the Falling Goose Pavilion and asked gloomily.
A few days ago, when Chang 'an was in a fire, all the officials were hung up for interrogation. He was also a part of it. He vaguely understood that Kong Yan was not an ordinary businessman.
During the morning court meeting, he witnessed Kong Yan pointing out that Zhangsun Shunde had embezzled the disaster relief funds.
"We chased him here, but the thief disappeared.”A middle-aged man beside Hu Yan said in a deep voice.
"Capture them all and interrogate them one by one. Before the Gate of Heaven Influence opens tomorrow, I want to know who the murderer is and who the mastermind is!”Hu Yan's voice was extremely cold, and his lips trembled slightly.
"Yes, sir!"
On the top floor of Wild Goose Falling Pavilion, Li Erlang looked at the patrolling city guards below with an ashen expression. His expression was also extremely cold.
"This is blatant framing!" Li Erlang clenched his fists tightly. Previously, there were indeed secret guards who reported that they had found traces of suspicious people near the Wild Goose Falling Pavilion. However, recently, Li Shiming had sent a large number of secret guards to monitor the vicinity of the Wild Goose Falling Pavilion. It had long become a habit to find suspicious people.
Therefore, Li Erlang did not pay much attention to it and thought that the palace guards were not professional enough.
However, he did not expect that the situation that followed was beyond his expectations.
Zhangsun Shunde had actually died in the Supreme Court's prison!
Moreover, the suspected murderer had fled to the vicinity of Wild Goose Falling Pavilion and disappeared.
Naturally, Wild Goose Falling Pavilion became the biggest suspect.
Now, there were only two paths in front of Li Erlang: Surrender or fight back!
"Second Master, they're about to attack!”The head chef of Wild Goose Falling Restaurant held the butcher knife, his lips trembling.
He had just been transferred over from Suzhou yesterday.
Li Erlang looked at the people in the room, his expression changing.
Finally, he sighed and said,""Burn the building. We can't resist. Otherwise, the young master will be in danger.”
Just now, he had used a secret signal to inform the hidden guards outside not to take any action before they saw Kong Yan.
"Burn down the building?"
The legs of the Suzhou chef were trembling. He said in a trembling voice,"Self-immolation is too painful. Do you still have Doctor Sun's medicine? I think…"
"I haven't even done anything for the young master, and I'm going to burn myself to death? This is too fucking aggrieved!" Someone shouted.
" That's right. Qin Dalang and the others burned Chang 'an City and beat up a group of ministers. He even beat up the Crown Prince himself. However, he could only burn himself to death. The difference was too great.”
"For the young master, it's fine if I die, but this way of dying is too aggrieved!”
"Unfortunately, the Carved Wine I prepared for Young Master is still half a month away. I don't know if it can be preserved.”
"In Young Master's words, our deaths are worthless and light as a feather.”
“……”
At this moment, many people were filled with dissatisfaction. Their faces were filled with anger, panic, and even some people's legs were slightly wet.
They could not face death calmly, but none of them had thought of surrendering to save their lives!
"Self-immolation?" Yang Jiaoniang stood in the corner, her face pale.
"A bunch of lunatics!"
She couldn't figure out what these people were thinking. This was too crazy!
Li Erlang's face turned green.
When did he say that he would burn himself?
Wouldn't that be suicide?
"That…I didn't say I was going to burn myself!”Li Erlang's tone was a little weak. He felt that he had ruined the atmosphere of everyone seeking death.
Everyone quieted down and looked coldly at Li Erlang.
"Li Er, are you afraid?" The chef who spoke first said coldly with a hint of disdain on his face.
“……”
The rest of the people also looked at Li Erlang with an unfamiliar gaze, incomparably cold.
"If we all burn ourselves, it will be treated as suicide, which will be even more disadvantageous to Young Master," Li Erlang explained weakly.”
"Hmm?"
Everyone thought about it and realized that it was really possible.
"Then why did you say that you were going to burn the building?" Someone asked unhappily. He had already thought of how to die with dignity.
" There are many secrets of the Young Master in the building, and the spies that we've developed in various official residences these days..." Li Erlang said in a deep voice," We must not let them find any evidence that will harm the Young Master!”
"So you mean…we won't resist at all, just like the last time when Wild Goose Falling Pavilion was seized?”The Suzhou chef asked.
"Young Master will definitely save us." Li Erlang nodded.”
"If they torture you, will you betray Young Master?”
Li Erlang's expression was solemn as his gaze swept across everyone's faces indifferently and coldly.
"Li Erlang, you're underestimating us too much. When I was learning cooking from Young Master, you hadn't even followed him!”The Suzhou chef said coldly.
"I'm afraid of pain, but no matter how painful it is, I will never betray Young Master. Besides, the person who knows about Young Master is you, Li Erlang. If they torture you, can you resist?”
“……”
Perhaps it was because they had rehearsed their death, some of the people who were originally respectful to Li Erlang now had a bad expression on their faces.
Li Erlang smiled brightly, or rather arrogantly.""My name was given to me by the young master. I'm ranked second, second only to Qin Chu. Isn't this enough to explain the problem?”
“……”
Everyone was silent. Those who could be named by the young master were all the people the young master trusted the most.
"Isn't there a traitor Sima?”Someone couldn't stand Li Erlang's arrogant appearance and muttered softly.
Li Erlang's expression froze and he said coldly,""Are you comparing me to him?"
“……”
The Suzhou chef laughed and said,"Didn't you want to burn down the building? Hurry up and burn it, or they will attack in a while.”
"When you leave, you are not allowed to bring anything with you.”Li Erlang instructed again and waved his hand to let everyone go out to prepare.
In the room, only the former Consort Chao, Yang Jiaoniang, remained unmoved.
Her identity was special, and once she was discovered, it might be even more serious than this incident.
"Are you trying to kill me?" Yang Jiaoniang bit her lips and asked.
"We can't burn the building without any bones, or they'll think we're destroying the evidence." Li Erlang shook his head.”
"They will definitely recognize me." Yang Jiaoniang sighed.
"That's why you can't go out." Li Erlang said.
Yang Jiaoniang frowned and asked,"There's a secret passage in Luoyan Pavilion?"”
Li Erlang said,"If the fire burns down the building, it will definitely turn into scorched earth. No secret passage will be able to hide."”
"Then what do you mean?"
"You should know that there's a place on the first floor of Wild Goose Falling Pavilion that no one is allowed to enter.”Li Erlang said lightly.
"Where is it?" Yang Jiaoniang was curious. She had been staying in the Wild Goose Falling Pavilion for the past two days. Perhaps it was because Kong Yan had stayed in her room for a long time, but everyone in the Wild Goose Falling Pavilion was very respectful to her, even Li Erlang was no exception.
Therefore, she could travel freely in the entire Falling Goose Pavilion, including the entertainment room where Princess Chang Le went. She had also gone to play.
There was only one place that she could not go to!
"That's a vault!"
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