There was a dead silence in the room. Everyone in the Xie family has a heavy heart.

At this point, the Cao family sought their own death, and there was nothing to say about their miserable end. Xie Xianzhi and Xie Yinghui are worried about the safety of their biological mother Cao Shuqing, while others are worried that if the Cao family is to be punished by the Nine Clans, will Xie Xianzhi and Xie Yinghui, who are blood grandsons and granddaughters, be implicated?

Even if they are not legally implicated, and they are in the name of the descendants of the blood of the great rebels, their future will become bleak. Xie Yinghui has already decided to marry, and her fiancé is also a scholar who has taken the imperial examination, if her future is blocked, wouldn't she be wronged? Xie Xianzhi has not yet decided on a marriage, but even if he doesn't care about the Ma family's family affairs, it is impossible not to pay attention to the future future!

Everyone was silent, and after a while, Xie Mulin came to his senses for the first time: "Slow down...... Didn't you say that when the Cao family asked Cheng Enhou to find someone to forge Fang Wenshan's autograph and make a fake and leave book to deceive people, Cheng Enhou refuted it back? The Marquis of Cheng'en strictly ordered Cao not to mention this matter to anyone again, which shows that he is well aware of the seriousness of the crime of forging the holy decree. The person who did this kind of thing was Ping Nanbo, who had been dead for several years, and he only inherited some of the things left by Ping Nanbo as a relative. Since he knew in his heart that this matter was very fatal, and he had been reprimanded by the emperor, and it was clear that the future was uncertain, could it be that he could still leave this kind of handle that would kill his nine clans, waiting for the emperor to search for it? He should have ruined the thing a long time ago, right? ”

Only then did everyone suddenly realize that they were busy asking Zhao Fengnian outside.

Zhao Fengnian replied: "Ye Laogao said, when he heard the Cao family talk about this, he was also very scared. The Cao family is his benefactor, although he has now transferred to the Cao family's name, but if something happens to the Cao family, the Cao family can't get out, and he will be sold on the street as a criminal slave. But Cao told him with certainty that Cheng Enhou had nothing in his hands to convict him of the great crime of treason, and even if he had obtained some relics of Ping Nanbo, they had long since disappeared from the world. If it weren't for this incident, Empress Cao and Chengenhou would not have killed Ping Nanbo so decisively that day. ”

Xie Pu smiled: "They are here to protect themselves. Ping Nanbo has already aroused the emperor's suspicion, once the emperor really finds evidence, not to mention Ping Nanbo himself, Cheng Enhou and the Cao family, and even the queen and the prince in the palace, there will be no good results. They let Ping Nanbo die violently, not only to sweep away the troubles, but also to prove their loyalty to the emperor. As for some important things in Ping Nanbo's hands, they said that they had destroyed them, and who could say that they did not? But even if it wasn't destroyed then, it should be destroyed now. The current situation of the Cao family is corrupt, and no matter how dull Chengenhou is, he also knows that those fake things have long been useless, and it is better to destroy them as soon as possible than to stay and become hidden dangers. As long as there is no evidence, no matter how jealous the emperor is of the Cao family, it is impossible to destroy their nine clans. ”

After all, the Cao family is the great hero of the emperor's ascension to the throne, and there are queens and princes. The emperor can use the crimes of individual Cao family members to deal with them one by one, but without clear evidence of rebellion, it is impossible to uproot the entire Cao family. It is already very rare to be able to completely blow the Cao family's power down and tear its allies apart. But if they are close to his family, there is nothing wrong with the high-ranking officials and eunuchs, except to put people in idleness, or transfer places, the emperor can not do anything else. He also wants to be famous, and it is impossible to kill the minister for no reason, just because he suspects that the minister is close to a certain imperial prince who may rebel.

Now that this fatal evidence has been disposed of, what is the point of Fang Wenshan confessing the so-called secrets of the Cao family?

Xie Mulin said puzzledly: "Which side is the force that made a deal with him?" What do you want him to do? If it was to let him go to the Cao family, then why did he tell the truth honestly to the Cao family? ”

At this point, Zhao Fengnian and others have heard Ye Laogao say it. After listening to Fang Wenshan's words, the Cao family was also frightened out of her body, crying and begging on the spot to beg Fang Wenshan not to harm the Cao family, and said that she would agree to any request he made, and would definitely take good care of his parents and children, hoping that he would stop resenting her.

Fang Wenshan is not a ruthless person. He actually really loved Cao Shuqing. Although after loving for many years, his heart for Cao Shuqing changed from love to obsession, and then after he really became a husband and wife, he gradually lost his love for her in the small spear and small shield of daily life, but after all, he had true feelings for her. When a man is about to die, his words are good. When he found out that he couldn't escape death no matter what, he relented when he looked at his wife who was crying bitterly in front of him.

He put forward another condition to Cao Shuqing: he had not really testified against the Cao family in front of the officials who interrogated him according to the requirements of that force, he just said that there was one thing. As long as Cao Shuqing agrees to all the conditions he put forward before, especially to take care of his parents, brothers, children and nephews who are currently living in his hometown, then he can also choose to show some flaws in front of the officials, showing that his accusations are not true, and he is resentful of the Cao family, so he lied.

In this way, the Cao family has not been convicted of the crime, and the evidence is unclear, so there is still hope. No matter how suspicious the emperor is, without evidence, it is impossible to uproot the Cao family. Even if a few leading figures may not be able to escape death, most of the ordinary Cao family members will be fine, and those young children are expected to save their lives. As long as the green mountains are there, I am not afraid of no firewood. As long as the remaining Cao family no longer goes against the emperor, does not interfere with the ownership of the storage position, and honestly returns to their hometown to farm, and lasts for decades, things have changed, and once one or two outstanding children can be produced among the descendants, then the Cao family will have a comeback one day.

Fang Wenshan didn't ask Cao Shuqing to promise him, because Cao Shuqing didn't count what he said about this kind of thing. He was going to make a deal with Cheng Enhou. When he was locked and taken into Beijing, the children of the concubine accompanied him all the way, and after entering Beijing, he looked for his old friend everywhere for help, trying to save him, but he fell into the eyes of those who cared. Now that the forces can come to the door to make a deal with him, it is also because they have already controlled his concubine children, and if he refuses the other party's proposal, the concubine children may die. He couldn't refuse, so he could only find the Cao family to protect his parents, brothers, and nephews. If his children are killed, there will be nephews who can inherit the incense. That side of the force is hostile to the Cao family, as long as the Cao family refuses to sit still and agree to his conditions, then his children, parents, brothers, nephews, and one side can always be saved.

Cao Shuqing truthfully relayed Fang Wenshan's transaction to Cheng Enhou. Cheng Enhou immediately agreed. Because of this, they knew a fatal thing from Fang Wenshan's mouth: that party wanted to deal with the Cao family's forces, and they had already prepared criminal evidence, even if the forged holy decree had been destroyed, they still had a way to nail the Cao family.