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traces of a beautiful woman As the novel's wisdom, Jie Gui is an expert in solving cases. Luo Jin has no doubt about his ability, but he also has a bad temper.

The legendary person who will die if he doesn't speak venomously refers to Jie Gui.

Luo Jin was very angry, but was also very curious about the truth of the case. She arranged for Xiang Xiang to take care of the visitor, and took Xiao Xiao Yu out to find Jie Gui.

She went to the Ministry of Justice to pick up the robe that had been sent to her before, and then went to the inner hall of the Ministry of Justice to find Jie Gui.

"Master Xie just went out for lunch, at the Fulai Restaurant across the street. How about waiting

for him, Master Luo?" When Luo Jin heard the word "lunch", she suddenly felt hungry, so she said, "No, I'll go find him across the street."

She said unconvincedly, "He's been out for more than a month, and the Ministry of Justice has so many cases piled up, but he's still so leisurely."

An official under him laughed and said, "Master Luo, you don't know, Master Xie has finished all the cases, and then he went out for lunch."

"A month's worth of cases... all finished?"

"Yes."

Luo Jin was speechless.

Can the characters in the protagonist group be set up to be so exaggerated and perverted? What do you mean by a month's worth of cases finished? Didn't he just come back?

Fulai Restaurant is not far from the lobby of the Ministry of Justice, just across the street, and can be seen at a glance.

It was lunch time, and the streets were bustling with people. Fulai Restaurant was doing very well. The lobby on the first floor was full of people, and there was no empty table.

When Luo Jin came in, the waiter greeted her with a smile, "Sir, there are no empty tables anymore. Do you want to share a table with someone else?" "

I'm looking for Jie Gui." Luo Jin looked around the lobby and pointed at a man in the corner, "Is that him?"

She knew at first glance that this man must be Jie Gui. According to the description in the novel, this man likes to wear red clothes and looks young and handsome. He is the most eye-catching person in the entire lobby.

"Miss, do you know Lord Jie?" The waiter smiled, "But... I don't recommend you to share a table with Lord Jie. You may not be able to stand his temper."

Luo Jin looked at Jie Gui and saw that he ordered a few exquisite side dishes, a pot of tea and a bowl of noodles, eating slowly. His life was quite comfortable.

She smiled, "You go and do your work. I have business to see Lord Jie."

"Well... OK." The waiter shook his head and went to greet other guests.

Luo Jin walked straight to Jie Gui, sat down next to him, and called out, "Hello, Lord Jie!"

"Hello, Lord Luo." Jie Gui responded immediately.

"Do you know me?" Luo Jin was stunned for a moment. She had never met Jie Gui before.

"I don't recognize him, I guessed." Jie Gui looked at Luo Jin and put down the chopsticks in his hand. "I've been away for more than a month, and I heard that Lord Luo was promoted very quickly. Inevitably, there are some rumors, which have spread beyond Weicheng. I was still a little confused, but now that I see Lord Luo, these rumors are self-defeating."

"What rumors?" Luo Jin was very curious, "I haven't heard of it..."

"Rumor has it that Lord Luo got to the top by relying on his beauty... It's so funny, how can a person get to the top by relying on something he doesn't have?" Jie Gui sighed, "So Lord Luo must be powerful."

Luo Jin: "..."

"Are you praising me or insulting me?"

"Of course I'm praising Lord Luo, can't you hear it?"

"I can't hear it."

Jie Gui pointed at the table, "Has Lord Luo eaten? I'll ask the waiter to get a set of bowls and chopsticks so we can eat together?"

Luo Jin shook his head, "No, your tongue is poisonous, and the food you touched must be poisonous too. I'm afraid I'll be poisoned to death."

As expected, if you don't have a poisonous tongue, you'll die. She has learned her lesson.

"Okay, let's get down to business," Jie Gui said, "Are you here to ask about the ancestor worship case?"

Luo Jin sat up straight, "Tell me, how did it get solved?"

"Very simple, there was something wrong with the stitches of the dress, you've already discovered that, right?"

"Yes."

"Then why were there such strange stitches? How did those threads disappear? Isn't it easy to answer? Xiu Niang used a special needle method to weave a living needle. Just pull one of the threads and you can quickly remove the dragon claw. But Xiu Niang should have been bought by someone. Her family is local, she has a husband and children, she can't run away."

"So the question is, why did you do this?"

Luo Jin thought for a while, "Frame Lin Jinzhou?"

Jie Gui laughed sarcastically, "Is he worth it?"

"Another thing happened that day, you know about it, right?" Jie Gui continued, "Because an assassin appeared in the palace and the princess was assassinated, the guards were doubled on the day of the ancestor worship. The guards were doubled, the dragon claws were removed... don't you have the answer after putting them all together?"

Luo Jin felt like his CPU was about to burn out.

"What's the connection?"

"A secret signal!" Jie Gui shook his head. "I can't think of this... It seems that you didn't get to the top by your strength, but by luck, right? The dragon claw was a pre-agreed signal. I guess someone originally planned an assassination that day, and they had an insider. If the situation changed, they would send out a secret signal. What kind of secret signal can be seen by everyone? Of course it's the emperor's clothes! The missing dragon claw is the agreed signal. Someone must have known about the increase in guards, and removing the dragon claw means stopping the action."

"Then why didn't this person show up and deliver the signal? I guess he had no chance, right? How could someone who could touch the emperor's robes but could only stay in the house and couldn't come out during ancestor worship hear the news of the increase in guards... Ha, the range is really small enough."

"The eunuch who was assigned to serve in the inner room that day?" Luo Jin blurted out, "And the one with a relatively high status?"

"He's not particularly stupid." Jie Gui took a sip of noodle soup, "Okay, I'm going to go back and rest, and today's official business ends here."

Luo Jin was speechless. The Ministry of Justice was notoriously busy. How could he, the Minister of Justice, live such a leisurely life?

She had already got the answer she wanted, so she said goodbye to Jie Gui and left the restaurant.

Xiao Xiaoyu was waiting for Luo Jin downstairs holding the dress. When she saw Luo Jin coming out, she greeted him and said, "Sir, are you going home?"

"There's no rush. Buy some food before going back."

"Okay!"

Luo Jin bought some oranges and some desserts, and was strolling when she suddenly saw Jie Gui walking towards her from a distance. His face was obviously not very good. When he walked in front of Luo Jin, he suddenly grabbed her wrist and shouted, "How dare you raise a dwarf slave privately!" His

expression was completely different from the leisurely and contented look just now.

Xiao Xiaoyu heard this and suddenly turned around and ran away.

Luo Jin was stunned, "Dwarf slave? What is a dwarf slave?"

"That's..." Jie Gui pointed at Xiao Xiaoyu's receding back, "That's not a child, right? According to the laws of this dynasty, buying and selling are equally criminal, and privately raising a dwarf slave is also a serious crime! Come with me to the Ministry of Justice!"

Luo Jin's wrist was hurt by his pulling, and she shook him off, frowning and said, "You are the Minister of Justice! It's not against the law to arbitrarily accuse people, right? Which eye of yours saw me buy a dwarf slave? How do you know he is not a child? And he is not my man, he is the Crown Prince's man! Speaking of which... what is a dwarf slave?"

Jie Gui put one hand on his sword, frowned and looked at Luo Jin, "You really don't know what a dwarf slave is?"

"If I had known, would I have brought him out openly? Brought him in front of the Minister of Justice, right?" Luo Jin rubbed his wrist, "Really, I used to think you were quite smart, but I didn't expect you to be such a reckless man."

Jie Gui was silent for a while before saying, "The so-called dwarf slaves are children who are raised in cages to cater to the preferences of certain nobles so that they don't grow tall. They are dwarf slaves."

Luo Jin remembered that Xiao Xiaoyu had said before that he was raised in a cage as a child, so he didn't grow tall. It was Liu Shu who saved him, so he was able to live to this day.

She gasped, "It turns out this is not an isolated case! How can there be such a crazy person?"

Jie Gui said, "Because of the harsh growth environment, less than 30% of dwarf slaves can survive, and most people will die in the harsh living environment. And even if they survive, the dirt in their bodies will be squeezed, and the function of their organs will be more or less impaired. As far as I know, most dwarf slaves are infertile."

He pondered for a while, "I can't listen to your one-sided story. I have to confront the dwarf slave before I can make a judgment."

Luo Jin felt bad. She knew that Xiao Xiaoyu had encountered very tragic things, but she didn't expect it to be so tragic. Not only did he not grow tall, but he also had physical disabilities.

She took a deep breath and said, "Let's go find Xiao Xiaoyu."

Then she walked in the direction where Xiao Xiaoyu had just run away. Xiao Xiaoyu probably ran away because he was afraid that she would be implicated.

After turning a few streets, she still didn't see Xiao Xiaoyu. There were many people on the street, so Luo Jin called out a few times, "Xiao Xiaoyu, come out, everything is fine!"

But Xiao Xiaoyu didn't respond.

Jie Gui said, "Is he hiding from me? Just now... I was too angry at the time, that's why I was so reckless. I'm not like this usually..."

He paused, "I investigated a case of a dwarf slave before. It was a 15-year-old girl. She was shorter than Xiao Xiaoyu. When she was found, her internal organs had been severely squeezed to the point of rupture. She often coughed up blood. A few days after she was rescued, she..."

He clenched his fists.

When Luo Jin first met him, he seemed cheerful, with a kind of confidence that everything was under control, but he didn't expect that he would also be powerless, and he would be equally angry and powerless.

She patted his shoulder, "Let's find Xiao Xiaoyu first... Where did this guy go? Will he go home? I'll go home and check."

Jie Gui said, "I'll go with you."

The two walked towards Mo Garden while looking for Xiao Xiaoyu.

Back at Mo Garden, Luo Jin asked Xiang Xiang as soon as he entered the door, "Has Xiao Xiaoyu come back?"

Xiang Xiang shook her head, "No, he never came back after he went out, what happened?"

"He's gone!" Luo Jin was anxious, "Where could he go?"

Jiang Mo walked out of the house and whispered, "Don't worry, I'll help you find him."

As he said that, he flew out and disappeared in an instant.

"I'll go too!" Yue Qinghai also flew out and disappeared in an instant.

Jie Gui was a little stunned, "How come these two people's skills... seem to be at the ninth level?"

"Not just seeming, they are at the ninth level." Luo Jin said, "Okay, let's go find them, Xiangxiang, you stay here and watch the house. If he comes back, tell him not to run around." "

Okay." Xiangxiang replied.

Jie Gui was still stunned, "Ninth level... is it so common?"