Mu Nanjin frowned: "You're asking for leave on your first day on duty?"

Lu Feichen said: "I have something important to tell my family."

"Can't you write and let me know?"

Lu Feichen: "..."

At this time, Captain Liu came running in excitedly: "Mu Nanjin, good news."

Only after he walked in did he realize that the atmosphere between Mu Nanjin and Lu Feichen was a little depressing.

Lu Feichen lowered his head slightly, feeling guilty as if he was meeting an elder.

As for Mu Nanjin...

It's better not to say it. Ever since I met her, she has always had a cold face. I have never seen her happy or angry. People who don't know her think she is a cold person, but in fact...

hehe.

Mu Nanjin asked calmly, "What's the good news?"

Captain Liu cleared his throat. "Didn't you hope that the emperor would not pursue the witnesses for false testimony? Now the emperor has decided that as long as the witnesses who have given false testimony have the courage to come forward and change their testimony, their families will not be implicated, and they will be sentenced according to the severity of the matter. But if they know that they have given false testimony but still do not come forward to prove it, when the matter is verified, not only will their families suffer, but in serious cases, they will be executed nine times."

Mu Nanjin nodded: "It is indeed good news."

She looked at Lu Feichen and said, "I'm in a good mood today, so I'll give you a month off to take care of your affairs."

Lu Feichen opened his mouth, but finally swallowed his words back.

He originally wanted to explain that one month was not enough to make the round trip, but with his ability, it was enough for him to travel back and forth between the two countries within a month, so there was no need to make Mu Nanjin unhappy.

"yes."

Lu Feichen quickly left the office, and when he was out of Mu Nanjin's sight, he let out a breath.

Just now, he actually felt more nervous about meeting Mu Nanjin than meeting his master. What a weird thing.

Lu Feichen first went back to Xiaoqinglou to pack his bags, and then rode away from the capital.

When he left the capital, the emperor had sent people to post an imperial edict at the city gate, announcing the punishment for giving false testimony.

Mu Nanjin immediately informed all witnesses of the contents of the edict. Witnesses who had been feeling guilty for many years were willing to come out and testify again. Only the timid ones were still hesitating and unable to make a decision.

These did not prevent her from overturning the verdict. To her, timid people were easy to deal with. She only needed to scare them a little more and she was guaranteed to get them to come out and testify.

The first case that Mu Nanjin wanted to review was the first case file she had seen, and the criminal was named Cheng Zhiyou.

He was guilty of treason.

The crime of treason is a serious crime. Not only will the family members be implicated, but all nine generations of the clan will also be executed.

More than 600 people died at that time, from the elderly in their 80s to newborn babies, no one was spared.

Mu Nanjin reported the overturn of the verdict to Captain Liu, who then conveyed the matter to Kan Chaoyan.

After seeing the case file, Kan Chaoyan's face changed drastically: "Why is this case file here with you?"

"It was taken from the case files that needed to be reviewed again." Captain Liu was puzzled: "Is there any problem?"

"Took it out from the case file library?" Kan Chaoyan shook his head: "Impossible, this case file has been sealed long ago, it is impossible to appear in the case file library, are you mistaken?"

Sealed case files cannot be overturned.

Captain Liu felt that he was wronged: "How could I be wrong? And with my status as a captain, how could I be qualified to retrieve the sealed case files? Don't you think so?"

Kan Chaoyan thought about it and said, "Could it be Mu Nanjin's doing?"

"That's even more impossible. This is the first case file she has read. That means she didn't know what she was going to do before. She only read the case file after coming to the Duwei Mansion and accepting my arrangement."

Kan Chaoyan frowned, "Who is that? Who took out the case file? And specifically asked Mu Nanjin to handle it? There is a problem. There is definitely a problem here. Go back and tell Mu girl that this case file cannot be opened. Let her open other case files."

"Mu Nanjin has found a lot of physical and human evidence. Now you say that the case cannot be overturned..." Captain Liu looked embarrassed: "I'm afraid she won't be happy about it, and she may not listen to you."

He strode out of the secretariat and headed straight for the imperial study in the palace, where he was then informed by the guards outside the courtyard that the emperor had left the palace.

Kan Chaoyan asked anxiously, "Do you know where the emperor went?"

“I don’t know.”

Kan Chaoyan asked again: "Do you know when he will come back?"

“I don’t know.”

Kan Chaoyan was walking back and forth outside the yard.

He couldn't possibly wait here forever, so he had to leave.

After he left, the guard ran to the imperial study and said to the inside: "Your Majesty, Lord Kan has left."

The emperor came out of his bedroom.

Eunuch Yuan smiled and flattered him: "Your Majesty, you are really smart. You knew that Lord Kan would come to see you."

The emperor shook his head: "I only know that if he sees Mu Nanjin re-examining the case files, he will definitely come to me."

Eunuch Yuan was puzzled: "Which case does Lord Mu want to review?"

"Cheng Zhiyou."

Eunuch Yuan knew about Cheng Zhiyou's affairs and dared not say anything more.

On the other side, Kan Chaoyan returned to the Duwei Mansion and heard Mu Nanjin's voice.

[Captain Liu said that Cheng Zhiyou's case file needs the emperor's consent before it can be reopened, which is obviously delaying the retrial.]

[If he knew that Cheng Zhiyou took the blame for someone else and was executed along with his entire clan, he would know that this matter needed to be redressed as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the news of the redress got out, the witnesses and their families would be in danger, and many people would die.]

Kan Chaoyan frowned.

There must be a traitor in the Jinyiwei, and he will definitely spread the news of helping Cheng Zhiyou to redress his wrongdoing.

As expected, within half a day many officials knew about this matter, and they all went to the palace to see the emperor, but they were told that the emperor had left the palace.

However, the ministers were all smart people and they knew that the emperor was avoiding them.

The emperor was indeed hiding from them, and he was hiding in the Empress Dowager's Yongshou Palace.

The Queen Mother sighed helplessly: "I know that you asked someone to secretly place Cheng Zhiyou's case file on Mu Nanjin's desk."

The emperor smiled bitterly: "No one knows a child better than his mother."

"Since you believe Cheng Zhiyou has been wronged, you should stand up and seek justice for him instead of hiding here from the ministers."

The emperor looked gloomy. "My father once issued an order not to let me get involved in this matter. If I go out to see the ministers now, they will definitely ask me to issue an order to stop this matter. How can I seek justice for him?"

"Didn't you ask Mu Yatou to take care of this matter? If you hand the case file to her, you should believe that she has the ability to redress Cheng Zhiyou. Even if you issue an order to stop her, she will find a way to help you."

This made the emperor involuntarily recall what Mu Nanjin had done, and he couldn't help laughing. His gloomy expression disappeared: "My mother is right, I should believe her."

He stood up and took his leave, then went to meet the ministers.

Half an hour later, Eunuch Yuan came to the Duwei Mansion with the emperor's edict, which stated that Mu Nanjin was not allowed to re-examine Cheng Zhiyou's case file.

"I accept your order."

Mu Nanjin took the imperial edict, but he didn't think so in his heart.

[Tsk, you think you can stop me with just an imperial edict? ]

Jinyiwei: "..." (End of this chapter)