Chapter 277: Elder Grievances (2)
Emperor Liang Qin learned that Lu Yan was corrupt and perverted the law, and almost without even verifying, he detained the charge in one fell swoop, and the sentence was a capital crime, and all the property of the Lu family was confiscated.
Fortunately, Lu Xuan's mother is the last bloodline of the Qinghe Cui clan, and she has been taken in by the Dongyang Rong clan since she was a child, and she still has some property under her hands, which ensures that the Lu family's descendants can barely worry about food and clothing.
Compared with the concubine branch, the concubine branch, who has no background and no ability to enter the court as an official, is completely destitute, only relying on the old mansion left by his ancestors to live, and even his livelihood can only be maintained by himself.
This is also the reason why Lu Xilong hates Yan Zhi even more, in his opinion, his end of poverty is all due to Lu Yan, after Lu Yan's death, he counted this account on Lu Xuan's head.
Later, the queen died of illness, and Emperor Liang Qin was compassionate during the queen's lifetime, in order to allow her to ascend to bliss after her death, and announced amnesty to the world at her funeral, Lu Yan's "crime" was offset in a daze.
Without this crime, although he could keep the career of the descendants of the Lu family from being implicated, Lu Yan finally lost his life in vain, which is why Lu Xuan insisted on entering the court as an official when he grew up.
She firmly believes that her father is not a villain who will take bribes and pervert the law, and she will seek justice for him in everything.
With Lu Yan's death, the so-called treasure map was still missing, and what drove those people to give up later became the appearance of Gu Huanli.
Gu Huanli was taken back to the court and crowned the prince, and later Emperor Liang Qin saw that he was not going well everywhere, and tried every means to send him to the front line and wanted him to be wrapped in horse leather.
But Gu Huanli was born to lead troops to fight, so Emperor Liang Qin's move not only failed to kill him, but allowed him to successfully replace the treasure map.
Later, Gu Huanli led the army he had trained to kill all sides, not only helping the Liang State to repel the invading kingdoms and expand its territory, but even developed a weapon that was even more indestructible than Emperor Taizu.
Since then, Gu Huanli has become the most lethal weapon of the Liang State, and has been given the word "fierce" as a title by the people of the whole world, and the treasure map left by the ancestor emperor has no meaning, and naturally no one has to search for it anymore.
Hearing this, Chen Weizhi couldn't help but sigh in his heart: In this way, he saved the lives of the rest of the Lu family.
Chen Weizhi suddenly had a thought that should not have been born from him - the fate of Gu Huanli and Lu Xuan seemed to have started earlier.
Just thinking like this, a long sigh full of remorse suddenly came from the side of the Tobe Shangshu: "After all, it was I who harmed Lord Lu in the first place, and he was simply taking the blame for me." ”
Seeing this, Chen Weizhi hurriedly stepped forward to comfort: "The adults were also unintentional at the beginning, those people were bent on framing Lord Lu, even if there was no mistake of the adults, I'm afraid they would have made other plans." ”
Having said that, he still can't offset the guilt that Hubu Shangshu has felt over the years, which is why he has been taking good care of Lu Xuan since she joined the Hubu.
Although Hubu Shangshu felt guilty about Lu Yan in his heart, because of the amnesty in the world, Lu Yan's charges had been offset, and the descendants of the Lu family were not implicated in any way, and Hubu Shangshu also hid this matter deep in his heart.
Originally, he planned to take this secret to the coffin, but he never thought that this time the Criminal Department would hand over the trial of this old case to Lu Xuan.
said that Lu Xuan found out that her father's death was related to the book of the household, and I am afraid that he will no longer be able to hide it.
Chen Weizhi can understand the mood of Hubu Shangshu at this time, and he also knows that he is so entangled just out of consideration for his own future, which is also human nature.
Hubu Shangshu has been an honest official in this position for decades, and now that he is about to retire, who wants to be stained at this time and let his life's achievements go to waste?
Chen Weizhi is not a party to the party, and he can't make decisions for others regardless of the interests of others, so he sighed helplessly: "This matter is indeed not the fault of adults, Lu Xuan has always been magnanimous, she must be able to understand." ”
Leaving such a sentence, and did not specifically ask Hubu Shangshu to do anything, Chen Weizhi left, and promised not to tell anyone what he heard today.
But the more he said this, the more he didn't want to go, so many years of grievances have accumulated until now, I thought I could cover up the past, but in the end I still have to face it.
Hubu Shangshu fell into deep thought, and Lu Xuan on the other side also got the relevant files about the brocade box case from Lin Xiao.
Although Gu Huanli ordered not to let Lu Xuan go out to investigate the case without authorization, how could her temperament really stay in the mansion with peace of mind? She then consulted with him to collect the dossier for study.
Gu Huanli couldn't resist Lu Xuan, so he had to follow her intention and order Lin Wei to go and collect it.
Ever since he inquired about Gu Huanli's mention of this case, Lu Xuan has always had doubts in his heart, and it stands to reason that with Liang Guo's current strength, it makes no difference whether he has that treasure map or not. 186 Chinese Network
As for the people who were involved in it and coveted the treasure map back then, but it was only out of selfish desires, and in the end she didn't do anything to damage the court, she really didn't understand why she had to turn it over and review it after so long.
After thinking about it, Lu Xuan always thought that Emperor Liang Qin just wanted to find that treasure map as a bargaining chip to be able to compete with Gu Huanli's strength.
Although she didn't want Gu Huanli to be targeted by Emperor Liang Qin all the time, since gaining the king's trust was the long-term way for him to survive in the court, she could only try her best to consider him and spare no effort to review the case clearly.
But in such a situation without consideration, Lu Xuan found something that made her tremble in a pile of files.
A name that was very familiar to Lu Xuan appeared prominently in one of the files, and she couldn't help but widen her eyes.
Lu Yan ...... Father. The moment Lu Xuan saw his father's name, his heart felt as if he had been hit by something, and tears burst out of his eyes involuntarily.
In her previous life, Lu Xuan tried her best to get into her father's cabinet, but before she could find out the truth, she was also victimized by a traitor.
In this life, although Lu Xuan had the intention of seeking revenge on Li Ce and Lu Qingmeng, she never forgot her father's grievances, and she still broke her head and returned to the cabinet to find out the truth of what happened back then.
didn't expect that she hadn't come that far, so she found the file about Lu Yan's case here.
For a while, Lu Xuan was both excited and nervous, she tried her best to control her trembling hands, and slowly opened the pile of files.
"The criminal minister Lu Yan, the official to the cabinet of scholars, when inspecting the official affairs of the six ministries, he was corrupt and perverted the law, embezzled 10,000 taels of gold from the treasury, and refused to admit his guilt when he was examined by Dali Temple, and his attitude was bad, and his crime should be punished...... In accordance with the law of the country, Lu Yan was given the death penalty and all the property of the Lu family was confiscated as compensation......" This is a passage in the dossier.
The dossier wrote at length the process of what Lu Yan committed back then, which seemed to be reasonable, but Lu Xuan didn't believe it at all.
She endured the pain and finished the dossier, and the strangeness in it was not known at a glance, and she did not know how much benefit the person who had decided the case in the first place to bear to put him to death in one fell swoop.
Lu Xuan's fists became tighter and tighter, and the anger on the whole body could be felt even through the back, and Gu Huanli, who was not far away, walked towards her and reached out to hold her shoulder.
"What's wrong? But what does it take to see from the dossier? Gu Huanli didn't know why, and asked Lu Xuan softly.
Lu Xuan took a deep breath and tried his best to adjust his emotions, and then turned his back to Gu Huanli and asked, "Has Your Highness ever heard that a cabinet scholar was sentenced to death for corruption fifteen years ago?" ”
When talking about the words "corrupt and perverting the law", Lu Xuan's heart felt as if it had been eaten by ten thousand insects.
Gu Huanli was puzzled, and only sensed that Lu Xuan's mood was wrong, so she picked up the file in front of her.
What is written on the file is the cabinet scholar who Lu Xuan just said was sentenced to death for corruption and perversion of the law, and coincidentally, the cabinet scholar is also surnamed Lu.
Seeing Lu Xuan's expression, combined with what she had just asked, Gu Huanli couldn't help but have a conjecture in his heart that shocked him: "Could it be that this Lord Lu is your ......?"
Gu Huanli didn't dare to finish his words, but Lu Xuan nodded with a wry smile: "Yes, he is my father." ”
Lu Xuan's bold admission made Gu Huanli not know how to continue for a while, and after a pause, she looked back at him: "If I say that my father was framed and unjustly killed, will Your Highness believe it?" ”
Originally, Gu Huanli had never been interested in paying attention to these old things, and he had always relied on evidence in his work, so he would not make judgments, so there was really no way to answer Lu Xuan's questions.
But now, seeing that these extremely sincere eyes that were looking at him were a little swollen under the reflection of the two circles of redness, as if they were sent by ghosts, Gu Huanli nodded resolutely at her.
"I believe in you." His voice was deep and gentle, which made Lu Xuan feel a little dazed, she didn't even know where she got the courage to expect her to believe in herself unconditionally.
But Gu Huanli didn't live up to Lu Xuan's expectations at all, and after a pause, he let go of the hand holding Lu Xuan's shoulder and asked her: "So even if you are guilty of bullying the king, you have to enter the court as an official, just to wash away his grievances?" ”
Gu Huanli broke Lu Xuan's mind with one word, it seems that what he said when he argued with Rong Li that day was not just empty words, he understood Lu Xuan, he really understood her.
Lu Xuan nodded, and then turned into a strong appearance and looked at him firmly with a pair of spiritual eyes: "Your Highness, since this case involves the cabinet, maybe you can find out my father's case back then, I ......"
Lu Xuan was emotional, and her speech was a little incoherent, but Gu Huanli fully understood her thoughts without waiting for her to finish.