Chapter 103 The Truth
"Official...... The official is saying that my parents are ......," Qing'er was surprised with more surprise on her face.
"Bring people in." Song Jingchen commanded the next humane, and then a man was put up.
"Say, repeat what you confessed before."
"My lord, sixteen years ago, Lord Lu ordered a few of us to burn down a private house, but the villain was sure that there was really no one in the house at that time!"
"Do you know why Lord Lu burned down that house?" Liu Qingyan asked solemnly on the side.
"My lord, those of us who are slaves, how dare we ask about the master's affairs, I hope you will think twice!"
"Okay, Lord Lu, don't embarrass this little subordinate." Song Jingchen said, waved his hand and asked the man to take him down.
After a while, the next man brought another man up, and the man confessed that he had killed a couple for Lu Guozheng sixteen years ago, and according to the man's description, Qing'er knew that it was her parents when she heard it.
"I didn't expect this person to be so ruthless, let his wife do his flesh and bones, I thought I was sold to the Qinglou, this matter is over, I didn't expect him to kill my parents...... Brute ......"
Qing'er gritted her teeth and scolded, she really couldn't imagine that she would fall in love with such a well-dressed beast back then.
"Knowing that my parents died in the skyfire, Lu Guozheng also came to Wanhualou to see me in person, he gave me some silver taels, said a few words of comfort, and asked me to forgive him."
Qing'er wiped her tears.
"I still believe that he is just afraid of the power of his wife's family, I believe that he has me in his heart, and I have not forgotten him for more than ten years."
After saying this, Qing'er kept biting her lip until blood flowed out, and then she continued to speak, "Official, what do you need to know?" The grass people must know everything and say everything! ”
Liu Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief, and after letting Qing'er finish writing the confession and drawing the charge, she was a little more relaxed.
"Thank you Prime Minister Song, if you don't have your help, I'm afraid that the lower officials will really be unable to investigate."
Liu Qingyan took all the confessions and took the officers and soldiers to the Lu Mansion, and as soon as she entered the mansion, Lu Yu walked out.
"Sister? Sister, why did you come home with so many officers and soldiers? Lu Yujian didn't know what was going on, and looked at Liu Qingyan with a pair of big eyes.
"Daddy is in the room, right?" Liu Qingyan didn't have time to explain to him, she just wanted to take Lu Guozheng to the Beijing Mansion Yin to try the case as soon as possible.
"Sister, what do you mean?"
Lu Yujian stopped at the door and guessed something.
Liu Qingyan didn't speak, and the people accompanying her replied, "Lu Xianxian, please don't embarrass our Lord Yin of the Beijing Mansion, this Lord Lu has committed a crime, we just ask him to go to the Yin of the Beijing Mansion for questioning." ”
"Please? Questioning? Is this your attitude of please? My father was a first-class official in the imperial court! Where is there room for you to be so offended! ”
Lu Yujian was really angry, but Liu Qingyan on the side refused to make a sound.
"Sister, it turns out that the investigation you said before was to investigate our father?"
"Yes."
"Then why didn't you tell me then!"
"Tell you what?"
Lu Yujian shook his head in disbelief, he wouldn't believe that his respected father would commit any crime.
"Yujian, don't mess around, we are on official business." Liu Qingyan gave the officers and soldiers a look and asked them to go directly to the mansion to arrest Lu Guozheng.
Of course, Lu Yujian refused, and beat the officers and soldiers far away with one palm.
"Lu Yujian, what are you doing? You're obstructing your official business! Liu Qingyan was so angry that her face turned red.
"Sister, I don't know what's wrong with my father, you treat him like this, you are Jingfu Yin, but you are also your father's daughter! This is unfilial piety! ”
Liu Qingyan sneered and didn't speak again.
At this time, Lu Siguan appeared, without any expression on his face, and coldly threw down a sentence, "Why are you stunned?" Obstruct official business and take it in one fell swoop. ”
Those officers and soldiers took advantage of Lu Yujian's shaking moment to take him down, and just when Lu Yujian wanted to resist, Lu Guozheng walked out.
"Hugh has hurt my son! Let him go, and I'll go with you myself. With that, he glanced at Liu Qingyan meaningfully.
Lu Siguan clicked on Lu Yujian's acupoint through the air and asked them to take Lu Yujian away with him.
Liu Qingyan naturally didn't want to embarrass this pure and lovely younger brother, and just wanted to speak, but was stopped by Lu Siguan.
"Take them all with you."
When he arrived at Jingfu Yin, Lu Guozheng still refused to speak, and when he saw the confession, a trace of surprise flashed on his face, but it quickly disappeared.
"Lord Yin of the Jingfu Mansion, the officials have seen this kind of thing decades ago." The white paper and black words were all in front of him, and he actually said that he was forced to confess, Liu Qingyan smiled.
"Say these things to Your Majesty."
It is enough to dwell with him and have witnesses who have evidence.
Lu Yujian was locked up in prison, and now he is very disappointed in his sister, who he liked very much, but he didn't expect her to become like this when she became an official.
He slammed the door of the cell hard, attracting the attention of the others, and after a long time, the other people in the prison were very bored and scolded him.
When the jailer heard the movement, he came over to check, and when he saw those people scolding Lu Yujian, he deliberately said as if he had intentional, "You are so bold, do you know who this master is?" He is the son of Lord Lu's family, don't you want to die? ”
It's okay if he doesn't say it, but as soon as he says it's Lu Guozheng's son, the people in the prison will scold him even more.
"Phew, it turned out to be Lu Guozheng's son, no wonder he looks like a dog, he Lu Guozheng couldn't imagine that his son would also go to prison, right?"
"I've done too many bad things, and the retribution will be on my son."
Lu Yujian listened to the group of people chattering, but he knew it very well. The father in the mouth of this group is by no means what he thinks he is.
In his heart, his father has always been a great person, from a small official all the way to a court official, working every day for the affairs of the family and the country, how can he be what this group of people thinks?
It's just that he didn't argue with them, because he had also been gone for many years, and it was not surprising that he didn't know a lot of things, and he wanted to know more......
In fact, Lu Siguan did this on purpose, and all the people in this prison were people who had been wronged and harmed by Lu Guozheng, and he instructed the jailers to tell them that this was Lu Guozheng's son at a critical time.
He didn't want to embarrass Liu Qingyan by doing this, so he let this kid know what his father was like earlier, and he wouldn't resent Liu Qingyan so much.
Lu Si could see that Liu Qingyan cared about this younger brother, and Lu Yujian's martial arts were extraordinary, if he was trained, he would definitely be a useful talent for the Celestial Empire.
Lu Si saw that it was almost over, so he came to the prison and took Lu Yujian out, he didn't say a word along the way, just waited for Lu Yujian to speak first.
"Lord Lu, what crime did my father commit?" This Lu Siguan is a god-like existence in Lu Yujian's heart, and Lu Yujian will not doubt what Lu Siguan says.
"What crime? You shouldn't ask that, you should ask him how many things he has done since he became an official that is beneficial to the people and the court. ”
Indeed, how can he count the deeds he has done.
"I want to find my sister." Lu Yujian had mixed feelings in his heart, very unpleasant, he didn't expect that the person he had always respected was like this in the eyes of others, but he also understood more or less that it was groundless, if his father really didn't do anything bad, others wouldn't say that about him.
"Your sister is waiting for you in Jingfu Yin."
It's just that he can understand everything, but he still can't understand what his sister does, he understands that being an official must be honest, but for him, his family is more important, his father can be arrested by others, but not by his sister.
"Sister, did you arrest your father for the sake of righteousness, so that the emperor could reward him?" Lu Yujian can't be tactful, he will say it directly if he has something to say.
"Lu Yujian, do you know what this so-called father in your mouth has done?"
"I know, but even if my father is not an official, we are his children, how can this be? If I were Jingfu Yin and my sister was my father, I would definitely resign from Jingfu Yin, and I would stand behind my sister when I was the enemy of the world! ”
Of course, Liu Qingyan understood what Lu Yujian meant, but the bitterness in her heart, whether Lu Yujian could understand it.
"Yu Jian, you just know that I am also my father's daughter, and you know that I am your sister, but you have a mother, so do you know where my mother went?"
"My mother said that my sister's mother died......"
"Yes, I died, but before I died, my mother was abandoned by my father, do you know why I didn't have a sister when I was a child, but I had it when I grew up?"
"Because my father didn't want to offend the Du family, he hid that the Du family already had a wife and children, and after my mother died, my father brought me to the Du family as a maid, do you know how the people of the Du family treat me?"
"And then do you know what your father did? He ordered someone to throw me into the snow, and only put a light dress on me, but I didn't expect to survive. ”
"Later, by chance, he had to recognize me, but with your mother, Du Yuyan wanted to sell me to the Khitan as a prostitute......"
Lu Yujian listened to what Liu Qingyan said, he was really a little unbelievable, he couldn't imagine that there were so many secrets buried in this family.
"Do you want me to call him father? Do you want me to honor him and be filial to him? Liu Qingyan cried, because Lu Huaixiang's thoughts had been lingering in her mind, and that kind of sadness couldn't help it.
Lu Yujian didn't say anything more, hugged Liu Qingyan in her arms, stroked her back, and felt her choking.
"Sister, I'm sorry, I'll protect you in the future, and I'll always protect you." Lu Yujian gritted her teeth, he would not let anyone hurt her again in the future, even if that person was his father.
"I didn't want to tell you this, because you are the only person I don't hate in the Lu family, and you are the purest person in the Lu family."
Liu Qingyan didn't want Lu Yujian to hate her father or anything for him because of this, she just wanted Lu Yujian to understand what she did and why she hated her so much.