At this time, Dali Temple began to investigate the case, and Chen Yaozhi, the secretary of Dali Temple, personally took charge of it. They first sent people to find a few river workers and soldiers to understand the situation. Among them, there are Xu Liunian, an old river worker who was aware of the flood peak in advance, as well as Li Song and Li Qing, who personally witnessed the whole process of the rescue, berm protection, and flood fighting, and they described the scene of Liu Zhili taking the lead, disregarding his safety, and personally presiding over the flood relief on the front line, and also pointed out that the young supervisor of the capital water supervision and the river patrol envoys were not at the scene and escaped from the battle. In particular, they mentioned an important situation, that is, the silicons they fabricated this year were all insufficient materials, cut corners, and basically failed to play the role of berms. Li Song said again: "Lord Qiyu, at that time, Lord Liu collected these incriminating evidence, and asked us to sign and draw to confirm it, and almost every river worker and soldier signed it, which is simply a book of all people." ”

The guards were also called to Dali Temple for questioning, mainly asking Liu Zhili about his whereabouts before the accident. The guard said: "Lord Qiyu, my lord, I have been on the embankment for nearly twenty days, and I will not rest at home, especially in the days when the flood came, I basically didn't close my eyes much, and when I was tired, I temporarily found a haystack to sleep on. I have been with my family for five years, and I will never believe that my family is a corrupt official. Chen Yaozhi asked, "Guard, Lord Liu, was there anything abnormal when you were dying?!" The guard said: "Humble duty, did not escort my family back, after my family found out about the corruption case, he has been collecting evidence, and finally caught the big pipe (warehouse head) of the material warehouse, one is called Tan Danian, and the other is Yuan Zijing, they all pleaded guilty and confessed, and handed over the hidden real account book. In order to prevent these two from being killed, my lord asked me to arrange them in a hidden place. Before I died, I was escorted back to the yamen by other guards. Chen Yao's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he felt that the case was about to be revealed, so he asked people to make a record and asked the guards to sign and draw the charge. He sent someone to summon the other three people who were now guarding Liu Zhili's family to come for questioning and understanding the case.

Gui Chengde and Liu Zhengyuan are like sitting on pins and needles these days, spending days like years, and they are frightened all day long, like birds with a frightened bow, and they are afraid that the officials of Dali Temple will come to the door. But he still had luck and illusions, and was bent on finding the ledger and destroying the evidence. After more than ten days of investigation, the whereabouts of Liu Zhili's family were finally found and their safe place was found. The two of them spent a lot of money to recruit several skilled bandits and fugitives, preparing to kidnap the orphans and widows of the Liu family and force them to hand over the account books, but because they have been staying at home and not going out, they have never had a chance to do it. Therefore, they can only closely monitor their family's every move and wait for the opportunity. On this day, Liu Yunniang and Fu Xiaowan went to Yanqiu to play, but they were actually targeted by these bandits, and Gui Chengde and the others were overjoyed when they heard the news. sent people to look for an opportunity to kidnap Liu Yunniang, but the appearance of the guards made them return with a feather.

Liu Yunniang has regained her senses at this time, and she feels that the most important thing now is to take the evidence back and hand it over to Dali Temple, avenge her father's grievances, and bring to justice those corrupt officials who killed her father. Since the guards of these fathers came to the house, they felt that the home was safe, so they were eager to get back the evidence hidden in the tree hole. On this day, she secretly went out of the door alone with a scarf on her face, and she was targeted again as soon as she went out.

She got on the bus and sat down according to the ticket number, and the person who was watching also got on the bus, but he also noticed that there were big people on the bus, and there were several guards in civilian clothes in the carriage, so he forcibly found a place and stood there secretly observing Liu Yunniang. But this scene was inadvertently discovered by Meng Ming in the car, who accompanied Zhao Zhen to the royal school in the car, so the scene described in Chapter 53 appeared. Zhao Zhen was attracted by Liu Yunniang's beauty and refinement, the feelings of the young man are all poems, the fate given by God, if it weren't for this bus accident, he would not have found Liu Yunniang's beauty like a flower and threw himself into his arms, Zhao Zhen felt that his heartbeat was so strong, he couldn't help but peek at this nephrite warm little lady, and then to the later hero to save the beauty, and Meng Ming's placement of Liu Yunniang, I won't repeat it one by one.

After the masked assassin who assassinated Liu Yunniang was arrested, he finally confessed after some torture. At this time, the mastermind Gui Chengde and Liu Zhengyuan can be arrested, but the main evidence is that the evidence and account books collected by Liu Zhili have not been found, Chen Yaozhi decided to find all the evidence first, and arrested these corrupt officials who bought murderers and killed people, this is not Liu Yunniang handed over the evidence of the corruption case to Zhao Mingyue, Zhao Mingyue gave it to Meng Ming, and finally Meng Ming handed over the evidence to Chen Yaozhi.

The truth of the case was finally revealed, Gui Chengde and Liu Zhengyuan were brought to justice, abandoned the city and executed on the spot, and 20 river patrol envoys were exiled to Cangzhou; Tan Danian and Yuan Zijing were pardoned and acquitted. Liu Zhili was posthumously awarded the title of Yinqing Guanglu Doctor (from the third grade), awarded to the Marquis of Cao County, and his son Liu Yanyin was judged; His wife was appointed as the second-class county lady, and his daughter Liu Yunniang was meritorious in guarding the evidence, rewarding 100 horses of silk and brocade and making 3,000 pieces of money; Another Hou Mansion was rewarded to house his widows and orphans.

In fact, the ministers above the court have a lot of complaints about Liu Zhili's posthumous reward, although Liu Zhili is diligent and has made great contributions to the river and disaster relief, but he still feels that the standard of the reward is too high, which violates the ancestral system and the dynasty system. But Zhao Zhen didn't listen to the advice and insisted on doing so. The ministers also felt that "human death is greater", so they turned a blind eye and no longer objected; The government hall also passed the will of this reward.

In fact, the imperial court's initial reward for Liu Zhili's death was also drawn up in accordance with the court's practice, but when Zhao Zhen learned that the little lady he liked that day was Liu Yunniang, the daughter of Liu Zhili, his heart was full of sympathy and pity for Liu Yunniang.