So the key to breaking this case is how to rehabilitate Crown Prince Zhao of Song and save the face of Emperor Zhongzong at the same time.

  The latter is even more important, how can someone be so stupid as to step on the dignity of the current sage for the sake of solving a case, and Pei Tan and the Grand Temple will also be reused and favored.

  Pei Tan stared at Shen Xingwen: "You figured all this out in just one night?"

  Shen Xingwen said: "The adults look for Shen Mou, it is because Shen Mou is not afraid of offending those people."

  Pei Tan's eyes gradually deepened.

  "Shen Xingwen slowly said: 'I, Shen, come from a humble background, the Shen family has no power or influence. I am not worthy of entering the eyes of those noble and aristocratic families. Therefore, I can represent you in public, face people that you cannot face directly, and take care of matters that are inconvenient for you to handle personally. From this moment on, I will be your sword.'"

  Pei Tan looked at Shen Xing for a long time without saying a word.

  Shen Xingwen's mouth curled up with a hint of mockery: "Your Excellency has taken in Shen Mou, and I will repay your kindness with gratitude. From now on, I will be at your beck and call."

  They are all finding a backer, as a concubine's child, there is no choice, Shen's legitimate children and grandchildren occupy all the advantages and bully those born out of wedlock, so what's wrong with him finding support from Pei's family.

  "Put down the case file, you go back first." Pei Tan was still wearing his night clothes, he looked at Shen Xingwen.

  Shen Xingwen bowed slightly to Pei Tan and left the study room indifferently.

  Shen Xingwen was so quick to pledge his loyalty, of course, he wanted Pei Tan to make a corresponding return. Moreover, if Pei Tan had obviously tried to win him over from the start, Shen Xingwen would not have been moved. But precisely because he used the most direct method, Shen Xingwen also quickly made his choice.

  Return peach repay plum, a few days ago, had just seen the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict to Pei Tan. The next day, he appeared at the gate of the Supreme Court with a gloomy face.

  "The position of Dalishi has been vacant for a long time, I specially appoint Shen Xingwen as the undertaker."

  "Temporarily acting as Deputy of the Grand Justice Temple, assisting the Grand Justice Temple in handling cases, by imperial order."

  Although he was only temporarily acting as the deputy of the Dalishi Temple, everyone understood that as long as Shen Xingwen performed well, the two words "temporary" could be erased at any time.

  Everyone in the Temple of Dali had never seen such a lineup, from being an ordinary monk to being directly promoted to the sixth-grade Temple Assistant? Even if they had built a ladder to heaven, it couldn't have been that fast, could it?

  After Shen Xingwen took the imperial edict, his expression also became gloomy and unpredictable. He held the imperial edict and walked towards the inner court, the officials on both sides of the road, after changing color, quickly lowered their heads... "Temple, Temple Assistant..."

  Overnight, Shen Yu became Shen Si-Cheng.

  Chang'an City was originally a place where even the smallest thing would spread, let alone the Temple of Great Wisdom, which has been watched by many eyes since Pei Tan took office.

  An unknown clerk suddenly became a temple official, and the officials of the Ministry of War had already begun to whisper to each other.

  "Shen Xingwen was sent by the Ministry of Punishment to the Temple of Great Awakening, actually just because the Ministry of Punishment did not want to keep him, his experience as a coroner was also the shallowest,"

  "Kick the worst one to Dali Temple."

  This was the original intention of Shen Xingwen being transferred to the Dalit Temple, but who would have thought that in their eyes, the worst of these morticians would suddenly become the deputy abbot of the Dalit Temple.

  "The Shen family is only a second-rate household, and they don't have any connections in the imperial court. Shen Xingwen is also just an illegitimate son, so all of this... must be due to Pei Tan's manipulation behind the scenes." They didn't put the Shens or Shen Xingwen in their sights; what they were concerned about was still Pei Tan.

  Why promote someone without foundation to a high position for no reason?

  "Although Pei Tan's cases were all solved in the end, he was restricted everywhere during the process and fell into danger several times. The main force of the Pei family is still in Hetu River East, not in Chang'an. He must have had his own plans."

  So Bae Dae-soo actually had no guarantee, and his family's protection could not cover him.

  The staff looked at Zong Chuke with a expressionless face.

  Zong Chuke's expression was cold: "He also wants to cultivate his own wings"

  ？”

  The staff said, "The Minister has a deep foundation in Chang'an and has the support of the Wei family behind him. How can he be replaced by someone else just because of Pei Tan's one-day words? I think it is not necessary to pay attention to that little boy."

  Wings are not easy to cultivate. Many families have established themselves for decades, even hundreds of years, before they can establish their roots in this city of Chang'an.

  A small family with the surname Shen is not enough to be a threat.

  Zong Chuke's expression was cold: "Pei Tan's chips have never been just this one point." Behind him, the favored concubine of the Zong family, the remaining influence of the Pei family, all could become Pei Tan's iron armor.

  The staff slowly said: "If the adults are worried, then first strangle this Shen surname in the cradle..." Getting rid of a small family's illegitimate child is as simple as pinching an ant to death.

  Zong Chuke's eyes were deep and gloomy: "This is the real purpose of Pei Tan, we have all our spears pointed at a small role, he can rest easy in the back."

  The more they underestimate this small role and think it's easy to deal with, the better they fall into Pei Tan's trap. That's right, Shen Xingwen said

  Death is just death, and Pei Tan can immediately promote another person to be the Temple Manager. Are they going to continue to get rid of him? Afraid that if someone dies again, Emperor Zhong will be enraged.

  Things were done so obviously and ostentatiously, Chang'an was after all under the emperor's feet, so whether Shen Xingwen lived or died, the situation would be advantageous to Pei Tan.

  The staff's face began to pale: "Then, we can't do anything about the one with the surname Pei?"

  Zong Chuke's eyes had not changed since the day he personally buried Zong Huo's body: "From the moment he made this move, I knew that no matter what we did, we would never end up with a good outcome."

  In the past, there were two strategies: yin and yang. Even if a master of yin strategy is extremely clever, they are still no match for someone with a yang strategy. The latter may appear simple and transparent under the sunlight, yet remain elusive and untouchable.

  Can kill Shen Xingwen? Can. Dare to kill Shen Xingwen? Do not dare.

  The staff's face changed color: "But it's just a young man who has just entered the official career, is his thinking so terrible?"

  Even the cunning and calculating Zong Chuke couldn't find a weakness, and could only be manipulated by him.

  Zong Chuke's face made his assistant regret speaking out for a moment, as if he had been pierced by a poisonous nail in Zong Chuke's gaze, poisoned to the point of suffocation.

  "My son didn't even have a complete corpse, I must make that villain's soul restless..."

  The staff's face turned pale: "A villain has misspoken, a villain has misspoken..."

  ——

  In the archives room of the Dali Temple, Jing Yu'er stood in front of the door and smiled at the chief clerk: "The master wants to review the case files from the first year of Shengli to the third year of Chang'an."

  The chief scribe looked surprised and measured Jing Yuane with a glance, then said after a long while: "During the Shengli years? The case files from that period have long been sealed and no one is allowed to read them..."

  Jing Wan'er looked at the chief clerk: "The adult is ordered to investigate the case, and His Majesty has already given instructions to the adult. All matters related to the case can be reviewed at will without hindrance."

  The chief accountant's face obviously changed.

  Jing Wan'er's face was calm and peaceful, her voice soft and gentle, yet somehow she gave off a cold feeling.

  The chief clerk secretly wiped away his sweat and said with a lowered head after a while: "Miss, please wait for a moment. I'll go get the case files for His Excellency."

  The chief clerk went deep into the archives room and after a long time, his figure reappeared from the end, with a thick stack of old files in his arms.

  In the first year of Shengli, to the third year of Chang'an, there were already two changes in the imperial throne. The archives of the Dali Temple had been sealed by imperial decree, but now Pei Tan suddenly wanted to review them under the pretext of investigating a case, making the person in charge of the archive room uneasy.

  The clerk carried out the case files and walked in front of Jing Yu'er: "Miss, be careful when holding them."

  These files all have wax seals on them; if anyone dares to move them, they will definitely be found out.

  Jing Wan'er took the case file from the clerk's hand and smiled faintly: "I'll deliver it to the master right away."

  She turned around and left, walking towards Pei Tan's study.

  For three or four days, Shen Xingwen spent every day with Pei Tan in the study, checking the records from that year from dawn till dusk, searching for clues from the sea of words.

  "All the records have the confessions of that year's case, which are full of contradictions and paradoxes, indicating that these confessions are not true at all." Shen Xingwen threw away all the confession records he had read for a day.

  It's too easy to frame someone, just fabricate a few confessions and that's it. It doesn't even matter if the person on the confession exists or not.

  Shen Xingwen's voice was not hard to conceal because there wasn't even a single servant around the study, they were discussing in the study and naturally couldn't be leaked out.

  Jing Wan'er stood at the gate of the study's courtyard, for some reason she didn't go in.

  She quietly listened to Shen Xingwen and Pei's conversation for a while before slowly looking down at the case files in her hands.

  She stretched out her hand and pulled out the file at the very bottom, putting it into her own

  His own sleeves.

  Jing Wan'er held the remaining scrolls and walked to the door of the study, knocking gently.

  The door was opened by Shen Xingwen, who gave a cold glance at Jing Yuane.

  Jing Wan'er stepped inside and saw Pei Tan sitting at a table with a long piece of paper draped over his arm.

  "Sir," Jing Wanyu walked over, a smile at the corner of her mouth: "The case files from the past three years in Chang'an are all here."

  "Thanks for your hard work."

  Jing Wan'er put the case files on the table and took a glance at what Pei Tan was looking at.