The person who supervised this matter, or the person who thoroughly investigated the matter, was the Marquis of Chai, who was also Xi Fang's favorite among Xi Fang's protégés.

The day before Xi Fang's birthday banquet, he received a secret edict and asked him to investigate the matter alone.

But what is conceivable is that everything is carried out according to what this Chai Hou Ye thinks.

Except for a pile of handwritten letters with Xi Fang's handwriting in the treasury where the treasury silver was stored, nothing else was found.

According to the guards guarding the treasury, Xi Fang had never visited here in person since the twenty-seventh year of Fengyuan, but a middle-aged man with his handwritten book came here to collect the treasury silver.

But the accounts seem to have been manipulated by the man, and there has never been a mistake.

Including Xi Fang's instruction in the palace to copy a copy of the accounts in the treasury, he did not find it.

Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor, who was in anger, naturally thought that this was a way to exonerate Xi Fang that he had already thought of.

This matter was inadvertently heard by Zhao Enzheng from Chai Song's mansion.

Xi Yuanxiu and Zhao Enzheng understood that if the middle-aged man could be found by them, and then push the matter back to His Majesty the Emperor, then it would be clear.

Over the years, the two of them have been looking for the man uninterruptedly, until half a year ago, in the book that Zhao Enzheng gave to Xi Yuanxiu, the title page reads: "If a person dies, he loses!" ”

When Chi Chao found out where the man was, he had already entered the coffin.

This person's identity is a mystery first, according to Zhao Enzheng's words, he has never seen this person in Chang'an, Zhao Enzheng once opened the coffin and saw this person's face, a person who is so ordinary that he can no longer be ordinary.

And since the Chang'an Incident, this person has lived in seclusion in a remote mountain village, living alone, according to the people in the village, he has never seen his family add more than two dishes and chopsticks.

In fact, the most unexpected thing is that this person can imitate Xi Fang's handwriting.

If it is a person who can imitate Xi Fang's handwriting, it must be someone close to him.

In fact, everything is pointing to that Chai Hou Ye, because when he was Xi Fang's protégé, he often ghostwrote for Xi Fang.

But there were many protégés of Xi Fang back then, and most of them entered the court as officials, and there was no evidence to prove that it was this Chai Houye.

Moreover, the day before the arrest, His Majesty the Emperor's secret edict was passed to Chai Song, and even the mirage closest to the emperor had never been seen.

Xi Yuanxiu looked at the book given to him by Zhao Enzheng, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "Uncle Zhao and I have always thought that we can catch up with others, but we have always been one step late!" ”

Xu Lai said calmly: "But wasn't that Chai Hou Ye already on that list?" ”

At this time, gusts of wind poured into the house, and this autumn rain seemed to start its own performance again, gradually connecting into a silver line and falling in front of Xi Yuanxiu.

"Jingguo is like a house that has been thrown with stones by those people, it is already dilapidated, what are the things that those adults on the list do in the court are different from these people, the people just ruined my house, and those adults are going to destroy this country!"

The list that Xu said was prepared by Xi Yuanxiu a long time ago, and after he was ready to enter Beijing, he would remove the people on the list one by one.

It's not just because they were all involved in that old case, it's more because these people who commit adultery and criminals can't be tolerated.

Everyone in the world knows that Chai Song loves money, but they don't know how much he loves it.

No copper smell is not fragrant.

can only use this to describe each other.

Not only did the people on the list make a big contribution to that incident, but after that incident, these people also got what they wanted.

Saving the father and removing adultery, two things, seem to be the same thing.

And about this man, in fact, it is useless, and there is no proof of death.

Xi Yuanxiu thought of the middle-aged man who had died, and said to Xu: "Actually, I don't have much confidence, I don't think I'm ready!" ”

Xu Lai knew why Xi Yuanxiu was like this, according to the original plan of the two of them, it was to wait until four years later, Xi Yuanxiu's grandmother's seventieth birthday to return to Beijing for this reason.

But if you enter Beijing because of this matter, after the defeat, there must be no one alive in the Xi Mansion.

Xi Yuanxiu had already observed the matter of private salt in Yangzhou, so it was also a temporary idea.

He seems to be led by the nose all the way, but in fact it is still in his calculations.

But when he really returned to Beijing, he felt a little similar to the feeling of being close to home.

Or maybe it's really timid.

"My father's imprisonment is not just someone who is fueling the troubles, if it is just one Chai Song, he must not have such a great ability, Your Majesty has actually had this intention!"

After Xi Yuanxiu learned about the death of Prince Anping in the prison of Yangzhou Mansion, he was actually a little shaken about returning to Beijing to save his father.

In fact, he himself understands that changing prisons for prisoners, or robbing prisons, is not the best way.

Because after doing this, you can only keep fleeing, escaping from Jingguo, or the land that Jingguo can reach.

Only by letting His Majesty the Emperor personally pardon Xi Fang is the best way.

In other words, Xi Fang can be regarded as killing his most beloved son with his own hands.

If you were any one else, you wouldn't be so generous.

Xu Lai also learned all this from Liu Xiao's mouth, but at this time, Xu Lai still looked at Xi Yuanxiu with that kind of unwinding expression.

What he meant to Xi Yuanxiu was that this matter was not difficult.

Xi Yuanxiu said: "If Your Majesty really doesn't plan to let go, I can only make this decision!" ”

Xu Lai knew that he wanted to threaten His Majesty with the Red Tide and the Golden Horde, so that after the matter was over, he could gain a few years of stability.

What Xu Lai didn't know much about was why the Xi Yuan Cultivator had anything to do with the Golden Horde.

Since the establishment of the Red Tide, Xi Yuanxiu has been in contact with the Golden Horde, and it has become more frequent recently.

But he never asks about these things, and he knows that there are things that everyone doesn't want to tell each other.

Xu Lai said with some displeasure: "You have disappointed me a little, this is the first time since we met!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu replied indifferently: "Today, you are angry for the Ninth Girl, and it is the first time I have seen it in my life!" ”

The two looked at each other in silence, as if it was the first time they had drunk and sat opposite each other after waking up, not knowing how to speak.

Xu Lai took the sword into his arms and said to Xi Yuanxiu: "I will wait for you in Yangzhou, when you think clearly, when you come again!"

Xi Yuanxiu waved his hand with a low expression, and said softly: "Your Majesty will not let go, I am a little scared, just imagine, if I am Your Majesty, you are the father of the family, don't talk about the country's society, don't talk about the people's grievances, I will definitely let you go to my son's funeral, and personally pardon the enemy who killed the son, how could he do it?" ”

Xu Lai walked outside the house and held an umbrella and replied: "So you are not the emperor, and the emperor is not you!" ”