"Minister Meng, it seems you already know who the murderer is..."
Minister Meng held the memorial tablet, tears streaming down his face, looking as aggrieved as a child. "I'm sorry to him, I'm sorry to his mother, but I've tried my best to make it up to them, but alas..."
Minister Meng broke down in tears, and Su Yan picked up where he left off, saying, "It's a pity it's too late, isn't it?"
Upon hearing Su Yan's words, Vice Minister Meng cried even more aggrievedly.
But crying won't solve anything. Su Yan has to capture Dongfang Yi, otherwise the court situation will definitely descend into chaos if this continues.
Now that Vice Minister Meng has suffered such a heavy blow, his spirits are deeply shaken, and it is uncertain whether he can emerge from this gloom. The position of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice will definitely be vacated, and then the Empress Dowager's faction and the Empress's faction will inevitably vie for the position in the Ministry of Justice.
"I'm sorry to Yi'er. If I hadn't been weak back then and had given them a proper status, we wouldn't have ended up with our family destroyed."
Seeing Minister Meng weeping bitterly, Su Yan had only one thought in her heart.
If only I had known then what I know now.
“Minister Meng, you need to pull yourself together as soon as possible. I’m afraid we’ll need your cooperation in this case.”
Upon hearing this, Minister Meng immediately stopped crying and looked at Su Yan with a surprised expression. "What do you want me to cooperate with?"
Seeing Meng Shilang's sudden change in mood, Su Yan couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.
She could no longer tell whether the tears that Minister Meng had just shed were genuine or crocodile tears.
Su Yan smiled. "I'm sure Minister Meng is well aware that you are Dongfang Yi's next target. I need your cooperation to lure him out."
Upon hearing this, Minister Meng refused without hesitation, “Impossible. That little brat is ruthless. You’re gambling with my life.”
Su Yan, how your Surveillance Bureau investigates cases is none of my business, and I don't want to be involved, but don't even think about gambling with my life..."
When Shen Yao saw that Minister Meng had spoken rudely to Su Yan, his face instantly darkened, and his eyes were filled with disgust as he stared at him coldly. "Minister Meng, rest assured, the Imperial Guards will definitely protect your safety."
"Shen Yao, don't give me that. You all have martial arts skills to defend yourselves, while I'm just an old, frail scholar. If something really happens to me, it will be too late for me to regret it."
Seeing that Vice Minister Meng was resolute and wouldn't listen to anything she said, Su Yan didn't intend to continue persuading him and pulled Shen Yao towards the door.
"Lord Shen, Vice Minister Meng is right. It's better to avoid trouble. Dongfang Yi is in the shadows, so it's not easy for us to catch him. But as the saying goes, every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt its debtor. Dongfang Yi isn't after us. It's just another murder case. People die every day in this world."
Let's retreat first..."
After saying that, Su Yan pulled Shen Yao and walked out the door without looking back.
Vice Minister Meng quickly realized the meaning of Su Yan's words.
He immediately put down the memorial tablet in his hand, ran to the door, and blocked the two people's way.
"You're from the Oversight Council, how can you ignore this..."
Su Yan shrugged helplessly, "Minister Meng, the Supervisory Council is only responsible for investigating cases. The matter of catching and apprehending criminals is not under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Council."
Dongfang Yi is ruthless, but he's not cruel; he won't torture the dead for too long.
Upon hearing Su Yan's words, Minister Meng panicked even more. "I'll agree, okay?"
Seeing that her plan had succeeded, Su Yan couldn't help but smile triumphantly. She stepped forward, patted his shoulder, and said in a deep voice.
"As expected of Minister Meng, his spirit of sacrificing his life for righteousness is a model for us all."
Hearing Su Yan's words, Vice Minister Meng's face was even more ashen than a wilted eggplant, but he was helpless.
For the next fifteen days, Su Yan and her entourage from the Dali Temple had been lying in ambush in the bushes of the mass grave for almost half a month.
Ever since Su Yan learned that Dongfang Yi's biological mother had passed away, the family's money had already been spent on medical expenses.
Dongfang Yi couldn't afford a burial plot, so he could only bury his birth mother in a mass grave. He would come to the grave to pay his respects on the first or fifteenth of each lunar month.
Today happens to be the first day of the fifth lunar month. Whether Dongfang Yi intends to kill Minister Meng or come to pay respects to his mother, he cannot escape his own encirclement.
At this moment, the sun was shining brightly overhead. Su Yan lay in the grass, a blade of grass dangling from her mouth, lazily yawning with her legs crossed.
Xie Yu, meanwhile, rested his chin on his hand, staring intently at Minister Meng, who remained kneeling before the grave of Dongfang Yi's birth mother.
Having waited for more than ten days, Xie Yu was getting impatient.
"Su Yan, isn't your plan of waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump a bit too foolish? If Dongfang Yi never comes to pay respects to his mother in his lifetime, we'll both look like fools."
Su Yan chewed on a blade of grass, the astringent taste of fresh grass spreading in her mouth. "I never intended to capture Dongfang Yi..."
Upon hearing this, Xie Yu was completely stunned. "If you're not planning to arrest him, then why did you make us guard the mass grave for almost half a month...?"
Xie Yu was very puzzled; he couldn't figure out what Su Yan was up to.
Su Yan propped herself up and looked at Minister Meng. "Minister Meng is a hypocrite, he has no sincerity whatsoever, and he's good at disguising himself. I'm deliberately trying to mess with him..."
Upon hearing this, Xie Yu instantly understood Su Yan's intention: "So, you deliberately made him kneel in front of Dongfang Yi's birth mother's grave."
Su Yan nodded, "But I didn't do it entirely on purpose to mess with him; I was also trying to save his life."
"Su Yan, where do you think Dongfang Yi is hiding?"
Su Yan shook her head. "I don't know either, but I don't think he'll leave Chang'an."
"Why?"
"If he wanted to escape, he would have left Chang'an before Meng Hengyan's poison took effect. Dean Xie, do you really think that it was a coincidence that we found that wooden puppet on the day of the imperial examination?"
After hearing Su Yan's words, Xie Yu instantly realized something, "You mean that Dongfang Yi deliberately left it there..."
Su Yan nodded. "At first, I couldn't understand it either. Miss Leng took all the blame upon herself. As for the origin of the puppet, only Dongfang Yi kept it a secret, so no one in the world could suspect him."
But Dongfang Yi didn't do that; instead, he deliberately left clues to make us suspect him.
Xie Yu frowned. He didn't understand why Dongfang Yi would do such a thing. A normal person would rather run away than not run away, but Dongfang Yi was digging his own grave.
Xie Yu couldn't help but sigh, "Dongfang Yi is such a strange person..."
Su Yan shook her head, "No... he's not strange..."
"Huh?" Xie Yu didn't understand what Su Yan meant.
Su Yan smiled. "Dean Xie, do you remember when I told you about the case in Pear Blossom Village?"
Xie Yu nodded. "Of course I remember. Hua Hanyun endured humiliation for so many years to avenge his beloved. He is a true man. But what does this have to do with Dongfang Yi?"
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