Chapter 869: Two Recognized Life and Death Guests
When the curtain of the sedan chair was just lifted, Li Enxian was obviously a little frightened and subconsciously shrank back.
However, when he saw clearly that it was Sun Shaozong standing outside, he immediately showed a look of joy, leaned forward, and was about to stand up and bow.
But before he could open his mouth, Jia Yucun lowered the curtain again, invited Sun Shaozong to the side, and asked in a low voice, "Brother, did you see it clearly just now?"
Sun Shaozong nodded, and then asked curiously, "Why is he in Brother Yucun's sedan chair?"
"Oh~"
Jia Yucun sighed and said with a wry smile, "It's all because of those unruly people! Have you heard recently that some victims froze to death near the porridge stalls in the inner city?"
After listening to his account of the whole incident, it turned out that yesterday, when the yamen runners of Shuntian Prefecture were ordered to drive out the disaster victims, they somehow let Li Enxian sneak in and sent him to the refugee camp outside the city.
When porridge was being distributed in the refugee camp this morning, everyone else was swarming to line up, but Li Enxian stood next to the line, holding up a few golden ornaments, shouting that he was a North Korean envoy and that he had something very important to discuss and that he had to see the person in charge of the refugee camp immediately.
If it was just empty talk, naturally no one would believe it, but the toys he took out were all valuable.
The officers in the refugee camp did not dare to make decisions on their own, so they could only report to the manager of the refugee camp.
The manager of the refugee camp didn't dare to do anything wrong - if there weren't so many people seeing it, he might really be tempted by money. But there were more than a thousand people in the refugee camp seeing it, so he naturally didn't dare to have any bad thoughts.
Therefore, the matter was reported to higher levels and finally reached Jia Yucun.
Jia Yucun had never met Li Enxian, but when he heard him speak so convincingly and clamoring for an audience with the Emperor, he believed him 70% of the time - after all, this was the guy's second visit and many people in the palace had seen him.
Therefore, he used his own sedan chair to bring the Korean envoy to the palace, intending to ask the eunuchs in the palace to identify him first before deciding how to deal with him.
Coincidentally, as soon as he arrived outside Xihua Gate, he ran into Sun Shaozong.
Knowing that he had dealt with Li Enxian before, he hurried over to stop him and asked Sun Shaozong to help identify him.
But after hearing what Jia Yucun said, Sun Shaozong felt deeply regretful.
Li Enxian is a dignified envoy, but instead of taking the proper diplomatic route, he sneaked into the refugee camp with disheveled hair and a dirty face.
What was even more bizarre was that despite behaving so furtively, he had no intention . Instead, he deliberately revealed his identity in full view of everyone.
All of these things are really thought-provoking.
But fantasy is fantasy. If Sun Shaozong had known it was such a big trouble, he would never have stepped forward to identify it.
Fortunately, it’s not too late to withdraw now.
"Brother Shi Fei."
Sun Shaozong cupped his hands and said, "Since this involves the Korean envoy, I'm afraid it's not something that the Dali Temple can intervene in. Besides, I still have to submit a memorial, so I'll be with you for a while."
Having said this, he bowed, and without caring about how Jia Yucun would react, he turned around and strode straight to the presentation area.
Jia Yucun opened his mouth behind him but didn't call out to him. He turned around to look at the sedan chair, sighed dejectedly, and then walked towards the guards in front of the palace gate with heavy steps.
…
After Sun Shaozong submitted the proposal of "Popularizing Law in the Countryside" according to the established procedure, he saw the official sedan chair being carried into the palace gate by four guards.
He looked at the sedan chair and pondered for a long time, thinking of a dozen possibilities in his mind, and finally came to the following conclusion: What does this have to do with me?
Then he turned around, got on his official sedan chair, and went home surrounded by his entourage.
No conversation along the way.
After returning to the Dali Temple, it was around noon, and Sun Shaozong followed the usual practice and invited his legal advisor Qin Kejian to have dinner together - this guy's sarcastic face would probably only change slightly at the dinner table.
Sun Shaozong's usual quick eater style aside, Qin Kejian's manners were completely ruined at the dinner table. After this standard meal of twelve dishes and two soups, he almost finished everything.
Of course, more than 80% of it went into Sun Shaozong's stomach.
After lunch and a rest of about half an hour, Sun Shaozong handed over the case files that Yang Zhiming had recently tried - several corruption cases transferred from the Censorate - to Qin Kejian for review.
Unlike Shuntian Prefecture, the Dali Temple did not have officials specifically responsible for investigating cases. Instead, it was composed of a total of five court officials who supervised each other. Therefore, the case tried by Yang Zhiming was sent to Sun Shaozong for investigation as usual.
Sun Shaozong handed the task over to Qin Kejian, mainly to see whether he had become unfamiliar with the officialdom during the three years of exile in Lingnan.
Judging from the results, it is no problem for Qin Kejian to give a "good" rating for the answer he handed in. The reason why it failed to reach an "excellent" rating was mainly because his choice of words and sentences was too sarcastic.
Sure enough, I still have to hire another copywriter in the future.
As for Qin Kejian, let him concentrate on the case.
After a while, it was almost time to adjourn the court session. Sun Shaozong had an appointment with Li Wenshan to go to Dingxianglou for a few drinks and discuss the legal basis of "Popularizing the Law in the Countryside".
Therefore, he arrived at the You Temple in advance to show his respect for Li Wenshan.
Unexpectedly, just as he arrived at Yousi, Zhao Nan caught up with him and said that Qiu Yunfei, the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture, had come to visit suddenly, and he was carrying a dead body.
When Sun Shaozong heard this, he guessed that Qiu Yunfei might have encountered some difficult case and had to come to him for help.
but……
Even if you want to ask for help, there is no need to carry the corpse here, right?
Although he was somewhat disapproving of the boy's recklessness, Sun Shaozong still apologized to Li Wenshan, and then returned to the Zuosi office with Zhao Nan.
When I entered the room, I saw Qiu Yunfei and Qin Kejian staring at each other. It was obvious that they were talking about something irrelevant and had already run out of topics to talk about.
"grown ups!"
As soon as he saw Sun Shaozong coming in, Qiu Yunfei jumped up as if he had seen a savior and said, "There's someone I want you to help me identify!"
This...
Why does it sound familiar?
Sun Shaozong's heart moved, and he didn't bother to exchange polite words with him, so he asked directly: "Where is the body?"
"In the morgue of the Dali Temple."
Sun Shaozong turned around and walked away without saying a word, followed by Qiu Yunfei and Qin Kejian.
Everyone rushed to the morgue and saw four bailiffs from Shuntian Prefecture, together with Inspector Zhao Wuwei, guarding the door as if they were facing a powerful enemy, but there was no coroner inside to perform an autopsy.
"master!"
"grown ups!"
Seeing this scene, Sun Shaozong felt more and more that his speculation was probably correct, so how could he have the time to pay attention to Zhao Wuwei and others?
He stepped into the morgue and pulled aside the white sheet in the middle. As expected, a familiar face suddenly came into view. It was the Korean envoy Li Enxian who he had met in front of the palace gate in the morning!
