Wang Yan said: "What a haunted person, someone must be doing it."

Qiao Shuling looked solemn: "But sir, it is said that the pen holder was locked in an empty house, and the doors and windows of the house are all good! It's a secret room! If someone makes a fuss, how should that person do it?"

Wang Yan sneered and said, "It's a secret room! Everyone has gone in, and they have replaced the pen holder with ashes, and it's called a secret room? There is no need to pay attention to this kind of trick, I just want to think about why he did this."

Qiao Shuling said: "What is the Lord? Why did that person do this?"

Wang Yan said: "Ninety-one is that someone wants to borrow Chen Zishang's case a few years ago to make a little more waves. I wonder how Lord Shangshu will investigate it."

Qiao Shuling's expression flashed: "This... the lower official doesn't know..."

Wang Yan smiled. Qiao Shuling has always been Tao Zhoufeng's voice-over. I'm afraid that Tao Zhoufeng had no idea about this case, so he asked Qiao Shuling to come and find out.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Tao Zhoufeng called Wang Yan over and said that a major case was found in Dali Temple, which required the three departments of Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, and the Censorate to be tried. Tao Zhoufeng wanted to take care of the case, so he didn't care about the Liu Yuan family and Wang Yan took over it.

Wang Yan took it happily and said to Tao Zhoufeng: "The official also has the case of Ma Jinshi being killed. Maybe there will be less false etiquette when handling the case. It will be a little faster. I hope Lord Liu will not blame Wang for being abrupt."

Tao Zhoufeng said: "Don't worry, Lord Liu Yuan has a good temper. If you find out earlier, he will be more at ease. This decisive style is your strengths, so you can play it well."

Wang Yan said: "Mr. Xie is praised by you. I will do my best to do my best."

As soon as he left the Government Hall, Wang Yan immediately ordered his subordinates: "Let the Chief Bi take people to Liu Mansion, take the ashes turned into by the pen holder, and bring all the servants who had worked in the Liu Mansion for less than seven years back to the Ministry of Justice. Then he went to the Ministry of Rites and said that the department was urgently used and transferred the files of Ma Lian and Chen Chou!"

The constables from the Ministry of Justice rushed to the Liu Mansion, and Qiao Shuling went to the Ministry of Rites to transfer the file.

Lan Jue personally obtained the file for Qiao Shuling, and Wang Yan only transferred the file between Ma Lian and Chen Chou. Lan Jue guessed that Wang Yan must have investigated whether the case of Ma Lian's murder was involved in the case of Chen Zishang six years ago.

Six years ago, the culprit was Ma Hong. Six years later, Ma Lian was killed, and one of the suspects was named Chen Chou.

Both of them are Ma and Chen. Such a coincidence is indeed suspicious.

However, Lan Jue felt something was strange. If it weren't for Liu Yuan's willingness, Tao Zhoufeng would not have transferred the case to Wang Yan. Jingzhao Yin Feng Tai and Dali Temple Minister Deng Xu both had some friendship with the Liu family and were also good at filing cases, especially Deng Xu. A pen holder was haunted and could not be said to be a big deal. Why did Liu Yuan report this case to the Ministry of Justice and ask Wang Yan to investigate?

The constables led a long list of servants from the Liu Mansion to the Ministry of Justice, which attracted many people to watch on the roadside and exclaimed: "Mr. Wang is worthy of being the son of the Grand Tutor. He has a family background. He arrested prisoners like his father's recruitment, and he caught them one by one!"

Zhang Ping and others were squatting in the prison, and the constables pushed a bunch of people in and locked in various cells. Chen Chou said in surprise: "Grandpa, what case is this? There are so many suspects!"

Several people were locked up in the cell next to them. Chen Chou came over to talk to them: "How did you come in? Which case did you commit?"

One of them said weakly: "We are servants of the Minister of Personnel, Lord Liu. Our master bought a pen holder a few days ago and was haunted. The master of the Ministry of Justice suspected that we were making trouble, so he brought us in."

Chen Chou's spirit was immediately excited: "How can the pen holder be haunted?"

The man looked around and whispered: "We don't know this either. But I heard that our master sentenced an unjust case that year, which made a scholar die. This pen holder was the one who contained his ashes. His unjust soul came back to take revenge..."

Several scholars' eyes were straightened. Zhang Ping raised his head from the porridge bowl. Chen Chou was stunned: "Is it referring to the case of Chen Zishang?"

Not long after the servants of the Liu Mansion entered the Tianzhu, the sedan chair of the Ministry of Personnel Liu Yuan also stopped outside the criminal department.

"Mr. Wang, you act recklessly, which is admirable, but is it inappropriate to arrest so many servants from my house and enter the prison cell?"

Wang Yan threw down the file in his hand: "Excellent. Lord Liu, I suspect that this case is related to the Chen Zishang case six years ago, and it is somewhat related to another case in my hand. In order to solve the case as soon as possible, I have to be more radical. Lord Liu came here in person. I was about to visit Lord Liu, and there is an important thing to ask - How did Lord Liu get that pen holder?"

Liu Yuan sighed lightly: "I got it by accident... A few days ago, I went to the ghost market for some official duties..."

Now that the emperor has just taken charge of the government, he wants to rectify the administration. When the court received a report, some officials accepted bribes and could not pile up the precious items they received in the mansion, so they sold them privately.

There is a ghost market outside the capital. It was originally a child of a dilapidated family. He sold the things in his family but couldn't bear to lose face. So he took advantage of the late night to set up a stall in the market. There was only an oil lamp on the stall. The buyers couldn't see who the seller was. Later, such a market gradually became a climate and became a specific black market. It usually opened at the third and fourth hours and closed at dawn at the fifth hours.

The Censorate received the news that this black market became a specific place for some officials to sell bribes, and there was a force behind it. Liu Yuan and the Censorate, and two officials from Dali Temple disguised themselves as civilians and went to the ghost market to get a walk first and touch the bottom.

In order to disguise yourself as you like, the three officials bought some valuable things at the stall. Liu Yuan bought this pen holder casually.

Wang Yan asked: "Does Lord Liu still remember the appearance of the person who sold you a pen holder? Why did he choose this pen holder?"

Liu Yuan said helplessly: "The stall owners in the ghost market cannot see them. They heard that they were an adult man. I usually like to collect four treasures of the study. At that time, I happened to hear him greeting me, so I went to take a look."

Wang Yan frowned: "What's there in the stall?"

Liu Yuan said: "Pen, pen holder, inkstone, fan, etc., it is difficult to tell whether it is good or bad under the dim light. The only thing that pen holder is porcelain, it is also a whole, and the price is not high, so I bought it."

Wang Yan said: "When did Lord Liu find something wrong with the pen holder?"

Liu Yuan said: "The pen holder I bought obviously had landscape paintings on it, but after I got home, it turned into a white porcelain pen holder, and there was a crack."

At that time, Liu Yuan paid the money, and the stall owner wrapped the pen holder with a piece of black cloth. After returning home, Liu Yuan opened the cloth bag and the pen holder looked like it.

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows: "What does that crack, Lord Liu think looks like?"

Liu Yuandao: "It probably looks like a little flower branch."

When Liu Yuan saw this white porcelain pen holder, he couldn't help but remember the Chen Zishang case a few years ago. Chen Zishang's mother was hit and killed in front of the Ministry of Justice. In her arms, the white porcelain pen holder containing Chen Zishang's ashes was not broken. She rolled on the ground and the ashes were sprinkled all over the ground. The pen holder and the ashes were stained with Chen's mother's blood. Liu Yuan always had nightmares, and always dreamed of this scene, sweating profusely.

But he did not say these things in front of Wang Yan. He only said that his wife felt that this was a bit unlucky and the woman had no knowledge, so she put the pen holder into the Buddhist temple.

Wang Yan asked again: "Can anyone usually enter the Buddhist temple?"

Liu Yuandao: "The Buddhist temple is in the inner courtyard, and only female family members can enter the inner courtyard. Usually, the inner people burn incense and one or two close maids clean it."

On the night after the pen holder was placed in the Buddhist temple, the two maids cried and told Mrs. Liu that there was a fire in the Buddhist temple. They saw a man's shadow on the window and heard the man's sigh.

Liu Yuan personally took his servants to the Buddhist temple to check. There was no trace of it in the Buddhist temple, nor did he smell the lights of candles.

Liu Yuan said this was nonsense and scolded the maid. Unexpectedly, another day, when Mrs. Liu was chanting scriptures in the Buddhist temple, she heard a man's sigh. Mrs. Liu was so scared that she collapsed on the ground and heard an old woman's sigh. Mrs. Liu asked the monks from the temple to recite the scriptures of salvation, and also asked a paper talisman to suppress the Buddhist temple. Until this morning, the pen holder turned into ashes.

Wang Yan checked the ashes brought back from Liu's mansion and examined them with coroner work, and they were indeed ashes.

Wang Yan closed the file and said to Liu Yuan: "Mr. Liu, Wang initially concluded that this case should be related to the Chen Zishang case six years ago. Someone pretended to be a ghost, but the criminal did not hurt Lord Liu and others. It is not clear what the intention was. Therefore, all the servants who entered the palace before and after the Chen Zishang case of the mansion were brought to the Ministry of Justice. Please think carefully. Before and after the Chen Zishang case, until now, besides the haunted pen holder, are there any suspicious people in the mansion? What is strange?

Liu Yuan said: "After the case a few years ago, Liu resigned from his official position, thanks to the emperor's resignation and re-activated it. Family affairs have always been managed by insiders and housekeepers. As Mr. Wang asked, Liu had to go back to the house to inquire before answering." He stood up and bowed, "But Mr. Wang was quick-thinking and sharply determined. Liu admired him very much. This case must be entrusted to Mr. Wang."

The servants of the Liu Mansion were locked up in prison, but there was still no question of interrogation. Chen Chou sighed: "It seems that Mr. Wang's hobby is to arrest people and be locked up in prison and watch happily."

As they were complaining, several prison guards surrounded a blue robe and walked to their cell door and opened it.

Chen Chou recognized this official as Dr. Kong.

Doctor Kong held up a piece of paper and said, "Gao Yanggui, Gong Qinchuan, Zhang Ping, the Minister of the Secretariat has an order, you can go out."

Several scholars were stunned, and Chen Chou jumped up from the straw shop: "Then me? Brother Han, Brother Lu, why can't I go out?"

Dr. Kong said expressionlessly: "You guys can't go out, so there are naturally reasons why you can't." He waved to Zhang Ping and the others and said, "Go away quickly."

Zhang Ping got up, and Chen Chong pulled the corner of his clothes and burst into tears: "Brother Zhang, it was you last time, this time it was me. After you go out, find out this matter for me and get me out! Mr. Wang let Gong Qinchuan go, but he didn't let us go. I think the Ministry of Justice is unreliable!"

Doctor Kong had a dark face and pretended that he hadn't heard it, and did not care about it. Gong Qinchuan smiled and said, "My Lord is very careful, and his mind is naturally better than Brother Chen. You know that Gong is innocent. I will say goodbye first, Brother Chen, please take care of yourself!" He patted Chen Chou's shoulder and left.

Zhang Ping comforted Chen Chou for a few words, and then left the cell.

The weather was stuffy and Zhang Ping was kept in prison for a long time, and his whole body was already stinking. The flies on the street abandoned the filth in the corner and came to get close to him.

Zhang Ping walked around outside the main gate of the Ministry of Justice and wandered for a while, recalling the gossip that the servants of the Liu Mansion were talking about in prison.

"... Can our master not be afraid? The mother of the unjust dead man Chen Zishang was killed at the entrance of the punishment department. Our adult sedan chair happened to arrive at the Ministry of Justice. That was so miserable. I saw it with my own eyes... When the woman died, she held her son's ashes and put them in a white porcelain pen holder. It was exactly the same as the pen holder he bought. It was rolling in the blood, and the ashes mixed in the blood... At that time, my legs were weak, and the master had not gotten out of the sedan chair for a long time..."

As soon as Zhang Ping left Tianzhuo, Chen Chou, Lu Zhonghe and Han Weijuan were interrogated by Wang Yan.

The constable took the three of them to a quiet room, and actually took a chair and let them sit down, pouring three cups of tea.

Chen Chou and the other two sat tremblingly. Wang Yan sat behind the table above and looked at them with a smile.
Chapter completed!