In a wing room behind the main hall of the Yamen of Dali Temple, a middle-aged red-clothed official with a long beard was sitting behind a bookcase, looking through a case file with a serious expression.

He is the Dali Temple Zhengqing Zuo Zhaozhi.

A gust of wind blew, the candle shadows swayed, and someone strode through the door, interrupting his busyness.

"Your Excellency!" The visitor came to his desk excitedly, with excitement on his face. This person was also dressed in red, and if Xie Mulin was here, he would immediately recognize that he was the official of Dali Temple who had presided over the raid and interrogation in Xie's mansion before.

Zuo Zhaozhi looked up at the person who came and smiled: "Revenge is coming?" But what new trends have the Xie family had? ”

"Exactly!" Lu Fuzhi smiled and clasped his palms, "My lord guessed well, Pingnan Bofu secretly wanted us to release people, and our Dali Temple pushed the boat down the river, and they immediately sent a carriage to pick up the Cao family." Except for the servant woman who was detained by us, she took away her own two biological children and confidants, but left the rest of the Xie family at the door of the Xie family's mansion, even her mother-in-law, Mrs. Xie, and her former confidant, Aunt Qin. ”

After that, he lowered his voice again: "The Cao family has no objection to this, obviously they have been prepared for a long time, and even ...... was able to catch up with the time to pick up people so well, and before Mrs. Xie came out of Xie's family and learned the truth and reprimanded her daughter-in-law, she picked up Cao's mother and son, if it wasn't for the internal response among the officers and soldiers stationed there, it would never have been possible! ”

Zuo Zhaozhi raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Do you know who this person is? ”

Lu Fuzhi sneered: "That person thinks he is secretive and can hide from the world, but he doesn't know that his strange behavior has long fallen into the eyes of others." I've found out that it was Fang Wenshan who did it! The saint thought that he had an old gap with the Pingnan Bo Mansion, and it was impossible for him to collude with the Cao family, but he didn't expect him to be so ignorant of what to do, and he actually betrayed the trust of the saint! If in the past, his parents and family were slaves in Pingnanbo's mansion, we can still understand that he couldn't help himself. But now that all his relatives have been taken out of the Cao family, and they are all released for good, and they are no longer restricted by the Cao family, he is still willing to be driven by the Cao family, which shows that this servility has long been engraved into his blood and bones, and cannot be washed away. It's because he hasn't been created, and he shouldn't be reused by the saints! ”

Zuo Zhaozhi smiled slightly: "You don't have to bury him too much." Why did he degenerate and be driven by the Cao family, the real reason may not be what you think. ”

Lu Fuzhi blinked: "Could it be that Lord Fei knows what the inside story is?" ”

Zuo Zhaozhi smiled, and asked instead of answering: "How about the rest of the Xie family?" The old and weak women and children, I heard that several children are sick, and now they have been kicked out of the house, and the spring is cold, I really don't know how they will live tonight. ”

Lu Fuzhi replied: "Don't worry, my lord. The officers and soldiers below had already reported that it was the husband of Mrs. Xie who had married an old maid in person and had taken the Xie family to their house for resettlement. He paused, "To be honest, although the saint has the heart to fish, the old and weak women and children of the Xie family are too pitiful." The Cao family turned their faces and didn't recognize people, if it weren't for the old people to pick them up, they might really be on the streets. ”

Zuo Zhaozhi smiled and asked: "It's not enough to live on the streets, Wen Xuyou in the household department has already sent someone to Dali Temple to inquire, but I'm afraid that I will have to pick up people." However, the old lady of the Xie family may not be happy. Now that someone has reached out to the Xie family, Wen Langzhong doesn't have to worry about it. ”

"Wen Xuyou?" Lu Fuzhi's face was puzzled, "Xia Guan has heard of him, but he doesn't know that he has a relationship with the Xie family. ”

Xie family's birthday banquet, in fact, he and his wife and daughter are also guests. His wife is the county lord, and almost all the royal relatives in Beijing who have names and surnames, unless they have a bad relationship with the Cao family, are almost all invited to the banquet by the Cao family. Xie Pu has recently been observing politics in the Sixth Ministry, and there is no shortage of officials who are familiar with him, but there is no Wen Xuyou among them, how can he be a friend of the Xie family?

Zuo Zhaozhi smiled faintly: "Wen Langzhong and the Xie family don't have a deep friendship, but they and Xie Pu are classmates of Guozijian who have known each other for many years, and they are still fellow villagers. If something happens to the Xie family, he naturally has to care. ”

Lu Fuzhi was stunned, he always felt that his boss's words were a little strange, and he wanted to ask more clearly, but Zuo Zhaozhi didn't want to say anything more, picked up the case file, and asked Lu Fuzhi with a straight face: "What do you think of this case?" ”

Lu Fuzhi came back to his senses: "Do you still need to watch this?" It is obvious that Wang Angui framed Xie Pu in an attempt to reduce his guilt. But he has no empirical evidence to prove Xie Pu's guilt, and he can't come up with evidence to clear his name, so all quibbles are just in vain. ”

To be honest, he didn't quite understand why such a clear and clear case would develop to the point of sending officers and soldiers to copy Xie's house? Is the Holy One confused for a while? Even if he was misled by Wang Angui's confusing words at the beginning, now that he has interrogated Xie Pu and checked the accounts of the industrial stores under the Xie family's name, he should know Xie Pu's innocence and should be released. Even if you suspect that the Cao family has any conspiracy, shouldn't you be angry with the women and children of the Xie family? Xie Pu is a first-class good minister, don't chill the courtier's heart.

However, Lu Fuzhi did not dare to resort to these words. Even if he has a county lord's wife, he still doesn't have the courage to break through some disasters.

But Lu Fuzhi didn't say it, and Zuo Zhaozhi could guess his thoughts. He had such doubts, but now he has figured them out. Although the Holy One is a little suspicious, it is not unreasonable.

He pointed out a line on the case file to Lu Fuzhi: "You see, during the daytime interrogation of Xie Pu's wife and Ping Nanbo's sister Cao, she once said that she accidentally bumped into Xie Pu reading a letter, as if it was written by a person named Li Changsheng, mentioning how the silver from the river Yamen ruled the Yellow River was transported. She didn't see the specific details, but Xie Pu asked the river yamen for no reason what the money was doing to control the river? Therefore, she guessed that Xie Pu must have been greedy for money to govern the river, and Li Changsheng was the one who colluded with him. ”

Lu Fuzhi pursed his lips: "What can this vague word prove?" Xie Pu had previously complained to his wife Wen that he was not enough money to govern the river, and if he had to pay for the subsidy out of his own pocket, even his eldest son knew about it. Maybe he couldn't help but complain again when he was coracting with a friend? How can this be said to be evidence that he was greedy for the river's silver? The Cao family was obviously afraid of getting into trouble, and they turned their faces and didn't recognize anyone when they were greedy for the benefits of the Xie family, so they couldn't wait to draw a line with Xie Pu, and they dared to say anything nonsense. Besides, only the Cao family said that there was this letter, and no one saw it, and I didn't find the letter when I searched Xie's house. How can such testimony be credible? ”

Zuo Zhaozhi lowered his voice: "The testimony is not important, what the saint cares about is that the person who corresponded with Xie Pu in Cao's mouth is named Li Changsheng. ”

Lu Fu was stunned, thought about it carefully, and was suddenly taken aback: "Li Changsheng? The friends around the governor of Hedong River seem to be called by this name, but hasn't he already committed suicide in fear of sin?! "It is precisely because Li Changsheng committed suicide in a strange way that the saint suspects that there is a bigger secret hidden behind this corruption case of river workers and silver, or in other words, a bigger mastermind behind the scenes.

Zuo Zhaozhi tapped lightly on the table: "Xie Pu is the son-in-law of the Cao family of the descendant clan, but his wife Cao said that he was secretly communicating with Li Changsheng, and Li Changsheng's proprietor, Lin Dongnan, is the uncle of Lin Zhaoyi, the biological mother of the second prince...... This case is obviously just a corruption case, but behind the scenes, it involves the queen and the two princes, as well as the Guogong Mansion, the Bofu, and the Ouchi Forbidden Army. Is there an unknown story in this? ”

And Xie Pu has provided the Cao family with one million taels of silver openly and secretly in the past ten years, is it really all squandered? Are there any unknown uses? A million taels of silver are all used to eat, drink and be merry? Who believes? How could the Cao family be so ridiculous?

You must know that although the army under the Cao family has been reduced a lot in the past ten years, it is only the number of people in the open and the ...... in the secret Who knows?

There are so many things that the saint wants to know, no matter how much Xie Pu feels that he has been wronged, he has to prove it clearly to the saint. Now...... Let's wait to see if the Cao and Xie families, as well as the Lin family, will go to the fishhook on the saint.