Ji Yanning was undoubtedly gentle towards Ji Lang, and Yi Jun, who was on the side, couldn't help but be a little envious of Ji Lang, who had relatives around him who were so good to him.

The rest of his family looked down on him.

Ji Yanning said a few words in Ji Lang's courtyard, and then he didn't make any other moves, and went back to his yard.

Ji Lang's eyes looked at Yi Jun seriously, a person of the same age as him, with a little loneliness in his eyes.

"You will be working in my yard in the future, and in order not to make people suspicious, you will have to do the work of serving tea and pouring water. Ji Lang said.

Yi Jun bowed: "I know that you saved me, and I am naturally grateful." ”

Ji Lang's eyes moved slightly, looked at Yi Jun, and said, "That's it, if you follow Ji Jiu, he will give you a place to live and daily things." ”

Yi Han saluted Ji Lang and then retreated.

Looking at Yi Jun's back, Ji Lang sneered.

Ji Wenxu returned to Chang'an, sorted out the entire case, sorted out all the documents, and the account books were also backed up to prevent theft.

Qi Tixing didn't expect Ji Wenxu to return to Chang'an so soon, looking at the file from Zhangzhou, he thought that this case would be a little tricky.

It's just that what Ji Wenxu brought back surprised Qi Tixing.

These evidences actually point to the second prince.

Yi Xingzhi deducted the money of the imperial court to repair the river dam, which led to the river dam bursting, and the people were affected, and most of the money went into the money bag of the second prince.

This case is clearly investigated, reasonable, and well-founded, and the second prince will definitely not be able to escape.

Qi Ti's punishment is a case idiot, most of the things are in the investigation of the case, he naturally doesn't want to pay too much attention to the affairs of the court, but it involves the second prince and the Changhe disaster, if it is known by the people, it will definitely cause an uproar.

"If you present this evidence to the emperor, I am afraid that the emperor will want to protect the second prince for the sake of the royal reputation. Qi Tixing reminded Ji Wenxu and said, "After all, this matter is too easy to arouse public anger." ”

Ji Wenxu didn't know this truth.

wanted to expose this case directly above the court, but unfortunately his grade was too low to go to court.

If all the things are handed to the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and then the Shangshu of the Criminal Department is handed to the emperor, I am afraid that the emperor will suppress Lord Shangshu, and the truth of this case will not be made public in the end.

He thought about publicizing the matter first, but was stopped by Ji Yanning.

There are two inappropriate points in doing this, one is that it is easy for the second prince and Zhai Taiwei to jump over the wall in a hurry, wanting to kill Ji Wenxu and snatch the evidence. The second is that it will anger the emperor, after all, such a thing is in charge of the decision, and the emperor is angry, but he is afraid that he will be blamed on him, a little official.

Ji Wenxu said: "That's why I came to ask the teacher, do we still have to report this case truthfully?"

Qi Ti said: "You don't want to report it truthfully, or do you want to make it public first?"

Ji Wenxu's eyes moved slightly, and he shook his head: "Neither." ”

Qi Tixing looked at Ji Wenxu: "Then what do you want to do?"

Ji Wenxu said: "Whether I hand over this evidence or make it public, I can't please me." But if the second prince attacks me first, then I will have no choice. ”

Qi Tixing is not a stupid person, hearing Ji Wenxu's words, he narrowed his eyes slightly: "Do you want to lure the second prince into the bait first?" But this is too dangerous, he wants to take the heir so much, if this incident breaks out, there will be no hope for his position as the prince, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, he must be desperate to kill you and destroy the evidence." ”

Ji Wenxu said: "It's really dangerous to do this, so I don't plan to let him know, but to pretend to be the second prince's person." ”

If someone wants to hunt him down, this case will naturally be pushed to the forefront again, and when the time comes, it will be a matter of course for the evidence to flow out.

Qi Tixing pondered for a moment, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "If you want to do it, do it." ”

Ji Wenxu nodded, he knew that the master would understand him.

What happened over the next few days was to be expected.

Just when he was about to take the evidence to the Criminal Department to submit it, a lot of killers appeared on the way, wanting to take his life, but fortunately, rescue arrived in time, but Ying Wenxu was still injured.

Because he was too frightened, he shouted loudly that the second prince was the murderer who killed Yi Xing.

There were many people hiding around, and Ji Wenxu was worried that he would be killed, so he told the story on the street.

It didn't take long for this matter to spread throughout Chang'an City at once.

The prefect of Zhangzhou was easy to take bribes, most of the money was given to the second prince's mansion, the long river burst the embankment, the second prince was afraid of the east window incident, killed people and killed people, and suddenly the crowd was excited.

When the Emperor knew about this, the evidence was already in his hands.

But this evidence has already been seen by many people.

The bribes and other calligraphy and painting antiques that the second prince has received from Yi Xingzhi over the years also have more than 100,000 taels of silver.

"What else do you have to say?!"

The emperor threw the two account books in front of the second prince, hit him in the head, and fell to the ground.

The second prince was hurriedly announced into the palace, and as soon as he entered the imperial study, he was smashed by the emperor with an account book, and there were many ministers standing next to him, looking at him with a disappointed expression.

"Erchen is wronged!" The second prince knew that such a thing must not be admitted, crying and shouting, "This matter has nothing to do with Erchen, this account book must be forged, and Erchen has never sent someone to kill Yi Xingzhi! If the father doesn't believe it, you can go to check, Erchen's people have never left Chang'an!"

The emperor's angry eyes were full of anger: "So far, what else do you have to quibble, I have already let people check it, this is indeed an easy account book." ”

The second prince's face turned pale, he didn't expect that Yi Xingzhi's fool would secretly leave some account books, could it be that he planned to use it to threaten himself in the future?

Even if you don't kill him, he will become an obstacle to himself.

It's a pity that Taiwei Zhai didn't do this well.

Thinking of this, the second prince's gaze looked at Zhai Taiwei, and that look was clearly like Xingshi asking for guilt.

Taiwei Zhai was expressionless, and said to Rong Yu: "The facts are in front of you, Your Highness still confessed truthfully, the emperor is kind, and he will definitely not embarrass His Highness." ”

He's trying to get out of it.

Rong Yu's eyes stared straight at Captain Zhai, but before he could speak, the emperor who was sitting on the dragon chair spoke: "Zhai Aiqing's words really make me a little confused, this rebel has done such a thing, how can I let him go!"

If the people of the entire Chang'an City knew about it, they wouldn't be able to suppress it even if they wanted to.

Now the people's anger is very high, if he favors Rong Yu again, he, the emperor, will also be criticized.

When Taiwei Zhai heard the emperor's angry words, he hurriedly lowered his head, knelt on the ground, and said, "It's Weichen's words, and I ask the emperor to forgive me!"

Rong Yu's eyes looked at the emperor, he was already panicked, and said: "Father, this matter really has nothing to do with Erchen, Erchen did receive some easy benefits, but I don't know that he actually pulled out the money from the money in the river dam, if he knew, Erchen would not touch this money if he was killed." ”

The emperor was choked by the second prince's anger.

The second prince continued: "The person is really not sent by me to kill, the kid sent by the Criminal Department doesn't know how to investigate the case at all, and I haven't sent anyone to kill the kid from the Criminal Department, Father, you have to believe me, what I said is true." ”

Although his language was pale, he spoke with great sincerity.

After all, he really didn't do anything other than collect money.

The emperor's face became deeper and darker, and Rong Yu's defense was too weak, as if he was dying.

Now that the evidence on the Criminal Department is complete, the Yi family was killed by well-trained killers, they are by no means ordinary mountain bandits or refugees, and Yi Xingzhi once reported the flood disaster in Zhangzhou to Rong Yuyu, but he didn't know about it.

"I'm so disappointed in you. The Emperor sighed lightly.

He can't wait to start the investigation of the case, but it doesn't prove his weakness, if the evidence is presented, maybe there is still room for turnover, and he can still survive secretly, but he is not sensible, this son is completely unwanted.

Murong Kai stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the second prince is corrupt and perverts the law, conceals the disaster, and assassinates the court officials, which is really outrageous, and I beg the emperor to punish him severely!"

There were also two officials beside him, who stepped forward and said, "The minister seconded the proposal!"

"Someone. The emperor spoke, "Put the second prince in the heavenly prison and keep it under strict guard!"

With the emperor's words, the Praetorian Guards outside walked into the imperial study, set up the second prince, and were about to drag them out.

The second prince struggled and said, "Father, the son is really wronged, it was Captain Zhai who killed people and killed his mouth, and it has nothing to do with the son and son!"

As soon as his words fell, everyone's eyes fell on Captain Zhai.

Captain Zhai's face sank, and he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and saluted the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has nothing to do with this matter. ”

Rong Yu was indignant in his heart, after all, although he asked Captain Zhai to do it, he didn't leave any evidence, but Captain Zhai was not doing well, and he was able to let the people from the Criminal Department find out the account books, how could he not complain.

originally thought that with Taiwei Zhai on his side, the gap between him and Rong Qi would naturally be narrowed a lot, helping him win the heir, but he didn't expect that because of him, everything he had was gone, and he would be reduced to the point of becoming a prisoner.

He opened his mouth and said: "Father, the son did not lie, it was Captain Zhai who killed him!"

The emperor's face became even darker: "How do you know?"