Everything went smoothly at the Luozhou crossing, and news soon came from the guards that Quan Liyu and his group had been successfully captured.

Although the guards were not very clear about the ins and outs of the case, they asked what Lin Fei told them to ask. Quan Liyu was going to kill people in the chaos and put the blame on the guards, which was exactly what Lin Fei had guessed.

Since they knew clearly that the other party wanted them to take the blame, the guards would not be very kind to Quan Liyu, but they still explained the matter objectively. After Quan Liyu was arrested, he gave a very straightforward explanation, which was much better than those envoys who procrastinated and wanted to plot.

Since Quan Liyu was arrested, Jin Yanxiu would naturally confess without any prying.

“We have been trying very hard to find a solution,” Jin Yanxiu sighed after hearing that Quan Liyu was arrested and looked at the people in the Dali Temple in front of her. She was not surprised by the result. “I have stayed in Chang’an for so many years, and I have heard too many stories about you Dali Temple solving cases. If it were me, I would probably never be able to solve the case in my lifetime, but you solved it easily, so I know it is difficult to hide it from you.”

“We are not good at this,” Jin Yanxiu said, sitting cross-legged on the stone bed in the prison, rubbing her chin, and said, “If it weren’t for that old man Du interfering, I’m afraid we would have been discovered long ago.”

That was right! If it weren’t for the intervention of Master Du, these two would not have been able to deceive even the Goguryeo envoys.

“The people of the Moro Cult didn’t know I was in Darong at first, but they found out later,” Jin Yanxiu said, spreading her hands. “After my father died, everyone in the cult wanted to be the leader. They called me a saint, but it was just a slogan. I didn’t know a lot of things.”

“Five years ago, that guy called Sudan was very smart. He saw through my situation and convinced me,” Jin Yanxiu said. “Actually, he didn’t convince me. The Moro religion shouldn’t have existed in the first place.”

“The leader of the Moro sect was a human, not a god. I am afraid no one knew this better than the fake Chao An and his friends. Everyone is just trying to fight for power under a cover.”

“Sudan Sheng had almost guessed it, but he just got confirmation from me.” Jin Yanxiu said, “As for Prince Yu and the fake Chaoan, they were just respecting me on the surface and acting as puppets!”

“Prince Yu came to me for tea. He was actually looking for information about how the Sudan knew about the Moro religion.” Jin Yanxiu couldn’t help but sneer when she said this. She touched her nose and said, “But he never doubted me!”

After all, she was the daughter of the leader of the Moro Cult. Even if no one really took her seriously, Prince Yu didn’t think that she would betray the Moro Cult.

“This is probably what you Han people call ‘a leaf blocking your view of Mount Tai’The idiom metaphorically means that sometimes, people get so focused on minor details or small issues that they fail to see the bigger picture or more important matters. It highlights the tendency to be distracted by trivial things, causing one to overlook significant or larger realities. ?” Jin Yanxiu smiled and shook her head, saying, “Back then, they originally thought that if they couldn’t fool the late Emperor, they would push me out!”

While calling her saint over and over again, they were preparing to push someone out to take the blame. She didn’t know how those people were so sure that she would be loyal to the Moro religion and would not betray it.

Did they think she was a fool? Would she be willing to do all this just because she was the daughter of a hollow leader?

“In fact, my father didn’t treat my mother and me well at all,” Jin Yanxiu shook her head, clicked her tongue, and then said, “He thought he was the leader of the Moro Sect. When he started the uprising, he thought that sooner or later he would become the Emperor of our Goguryeo. Although he hadn’t become the Emperor yet, he thought that the Emperor should have many concubines. So at that time, he had many women. And because I was a woman, he often beat and scolded me, saying why I was not a man!”

“My mother was beaten to death by my father.” Jin Yanxiu said frankly, “So, I never hated General Quan. Instead, I was grateful to him for helping my mother get revenge. If he didn’t kill my father, I would have wanted to kill him too.”

“After my father died, the sect was in chaos. I ran away with the crowd, and no one cared about me. It was General Quan who found me. He took pity on me for being implicated by my father at such a young age, so he sent me to Darong to escape the disaster and taught me a lot of skills!” At this point, Jin Yanxiu’s face showed a little more admiration, “It’s a pity that without the war, the Emperor no longer values ​​General Quan!”

Just a few words are enough to make people understand why Kim Yeon-soo was willing to take the blame for Kwon Soo: to her, Kwon Soo was like both a teacher and a father.

“I didn’t think what he wanted to do was wrong,” Kim Yeon-soo said, “so I cooperated with him and did it.”

Of course, before doing this, she knew what would happen: “If it weren’t for General Quan, I would have lost my life many years ago. Now I am just giving it back to him!”

From the beginning to the end, although she was the daughter of the leader of the Moro religion, she never agreed with the Moro religion.

“So, when we came to you about Sudan Sheng’s death that day, you deliberately used the box to reveal the existence of the Moro religion, just to take the opportunity to eradicate the Moro religion?” Liu Yuan couldn’t help but ask her when he heard this.

Jin Yanxiu’s people appeared very strangely in the whole case. They seemed to be related to the Moro religion, but they deliberately leaked the Moro religion. Such contradictory behavior now makes sense.

“The Moro sect should have been eradicated long ago. Not only do you people from Dayong want to eradicate it, but I and General Quan also want to eradicate it.” Jin Yanxiu said, “This sect, like Lord Zhao and his people, is one of the culprits that is responsible for Goguryeo becoming a mess.”

So, what they wanted was to purge, but purge required soldiers and horses. Goguryeo’s soldiers and horses had long been controlled by the two parties. Quan Liyu’s resistance was futile and he had no soldiers, so he thought of the idea of ​​”borrowing soldiers”.

“We know that this is a bit unrealistic, but what if it works?” Jin Yanxiu touched her neck and said, “Even if it didn’t work, as you Han people say, you will be a hero again in 18 yearsThis idiom is often used to express a fearless or undaunted attitude in the face of potential failure or even death. The underlying message is that even if one fails or falls now, they can come back strong in the future, showing resilience and courage. !”

The whole case was not complicated at all after it was sorted out. It was just that because everyone had their own thoughts and concealed things from each other, many things seemed extremely contradictory and complicated.

After coming out of Jin Yanxiu’s cell, Liu Yuan asked Lin Fei: “Lin Shaoqin, should Jin Yanxiu be returned to Goguryeo?”

Lin Fei shook his head and said, “No need! She doesn’t have a household registration in Goguryeo, so there’s no need to send her back to Goguryeo. The crime she committed here, must be paid here.”

This explanation was not far-fetched and there was nothing wrong with it in terms of both emotion and logic.

After hearing this, Liu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, “I thought so too.”

Throughout the entire case, Jin Yanxiu had never killed a single person. If she was in Daerong, her crime would not be too serious. However, if she was sent back to Goguryeo as the daughter of the leader of the Moro Cult, she would probably be sentenced to death.

Since she had never harmed anyone in her life, the Dali Temple naturally wanted to spare her life.

After dealing with Jin Yanxiu’s problem, it was Old Master Du’s turn.

“Master Du wants to ask us for a favor.”

(End of this chapter)

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