Chapter 60: Public Opinion Erupts
"Smack!"
This is already the first teacup that has been broken by the five princes.
"Hateful! Hateful! The family surnamed Zeng is really hateful! ”
The fifth prince was furious in his room, poked the noses of a group of subordinates in front of him and roared, "What are you rice buckets doing to eat, it's been a few days, and you can't even find a family?" What am I raising you for? Yes!? ”
A group of subordinates trembled, and they all hung their heads and did not dare to speak.
"What are you doing here?" The fifth prince slammed out a cup again, hitting the head of one of the subordinates, and the flowers exploded on the spot, the tea slowly dripped with his blood, and the soaked tea stuck to his head, and he didn't dare to reach out to wipe it.
"Why don't you look for it! A bunch of rice buckets! ”
It's not for nothing that the fifth prince is so angry, just because in the past few days, the folk have made a lot of noise about him forcing his daughter to his friend's wife and killing Zeng Yihuai, and it is almost known to everyone, and it has become a sensational news.
Obviously, the family received the money and was still not so peaceful, and finally told the matter!
"What the hell do they want to do, do they really want to offend me to death, it's not good to break my teeth and swallow it in my stomach?"
He couldn't figure it out, why were these fools so obsessed, didn't they just have a dead son, and they had to fight him to the end as a prince?
What good can it do if you take all the money and still bite it?
The five princes were so angry that they couldn't do it, although the government had to release the news for the sake of his face and image, saying that the case had been concluded, and it was Zeng Laohan's family who wanted to blackmail the five princes, so they blamed the five princes for their son's sudden death.
"So that's the case, let's disperse, let's disperse, I said, how can a dignified prince covet an ordinary folk girl."
"That's it, I think so, it must be that the old man's family is unwilling to let their son die suddenly, and wants to deduct the of the fifth prince and take the opportunity to get a pension."
"This makes sense, the rumors stop at the wise, it must be the old man's family who is plotting against him, so don't slander the five princes with false rumors."
"I hope the government will severely punish those who spread rumors."
"It's outrageous, it's actually falsely accused of the prince."
"Is it the Fifth Prince who lost the 'Yaoguang' sword?"
"This fifth prince is too cheating."
"Let Zeng Laohan's family come out in person to say the truth!"
The official refutes the rumors, of course, there are many people who believe it, but there are still a considerable number of people who have the ability to think independently and still firmly believe that the five princes have really committed crimes.
The government is trying to cover up.
"No wind and no waves, I don't think it's that simple."
"Officials protect each other, most of them are the government covering up the crimes for the prince."
"The prince broke the law, and he was guilty of the same crime as the common people, the crime can be concealed for a while, but it can't be concealed for a lifetime, God has eyes, and he will be punished!"
"is worthy of being a prince, committing such a big crime, it can also make the government say that the black is white, and the victim Zeng Laohan's family will bear the infamy of slander."
"Hehe, the law is really only for us ordinary people."
"I just want to know, if this goes to Beijing to sue the emperor, what will the emperor do."
"Sue the royal court? That's a good idea. ”
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Fortunately, although there are angry young people in this world, there is no Internet, otherwise the position of keyboard warrior will definitely be popular all over the world, and people in the government will delete posts at this time.
As soon as the news spread, clouds moved in all directions.
Shocked from all walks of life.
"There is no impermeable wall in the world, and this matter can't be hidden after all......"
In the deep palace, Emperor Lan Chong sat on a high seat, holding his forehead with a headache.
Recently, he has also been a little troubled by the rumors about the Five Princes.
He had heard of this case before, and he sent Qiu Pingzhang, the superior Sizun, to Hangchuan in person, and the feedback he got was obviously settled.
How do you know that the mouth that kills a thousand knives has no door, and he still publicizes it.
If he knew that the initiator was Xu Tian again, I don't know if His Majesty the Emperor would be so angry that he vomited three liters of blood directly.
"Come on, let Qiu Pingzhang come to see me!" He said with some resentment.
"Yes!"
The great eunuch Zhao Yao sighed in his heart, he knew that Qiu Pingzhang, the master above, would inevitably be scolded by His Majesty when he entered the palace this time.
Sure enough, as soon as Qiu Pingzhang arrived, the emperor was so angry that he directly smashed the music on the table in his face: "Qiu Pingzhang! What are you going to do! Didn't you tell me that you had settled the matter satisfactorily, and now what's going on!? ”
The so-called satisfactory settlement is nothing more than using Zeng Laohan's daughter-in-law and youngest daughter as a coercion, forcing them to retract their confessions and withdraw the lawsuit, turning a rape and murder case into an ordinary sudden death of an old disease, and minimizing the influence, and the case is over.
In the end, I gave the Zeng family a sum of money, and it was done as a hush money.
In this way, it can be said that it is seamless, and the five princes can clean up the charges.
As for the murder and extermination of the five princes' first advocacy, killing Zeng Laohan's family was completely denied by him, because then this matter would become a massacre case, which would definitely cause a sensation among the people, and it would not be so easy to eliminate the impact at that time.
It's just that Qiu Pingzhang never expected that the Zeng family would be so ignorant of current affairs and didn't know what to do, and they dared to talk nonsense after taking the money.
Qiu Pingzhang wanted to explain, but it was useless to think about it, it was better to directly admit his guilt honestly, and kneel down directly in fear: "Your Majesty is angry, and the guilty minister knows his mistake!" ”
The emperor really wanted to kill Qiu Pingzhang, but when he thought of this, he had to let this loyal minister go to the aftermath, so he just scolded him for being a bloody person and gave up, and then ordered him to get out of the way.
I don't know where this will go.
If it's just public opinion, when the heat cools down, the rumors will pass, after all, the people are very forgetful.
There is a strong official justification for refuting the rumors, and the common people can only read a few words in fragments at most, and they cannot overturn the judgment of the innocence of the five princes.
"But, I'm afraid that the missing Zeng family will suddenly jump out again......"
The emperor let out a long sigh, of course the fifth prince had already told him the news of the disappearance of the Zeng family.
"Alas, it's all the emperor's drunken mistakes, there are so many beauties in the world, so I have to have bad intentions towards a married woman."
Thinking of his fifth son, he was also helpless, and of course he was quite angry when the incident happened, but having said that, after all, it was his own son, and he had to wipe his ass as a father if he had caused a big disaster.
Who made this son or his favorite one.
Therefore, the whereabouts of Zeng Laohan's family also tugged at the heartstrings of Emperor Lan Chong and the Five Princes, the father and son at the peak of power.
Recently, the five princes have been sleepless at night.
"Will it be ......?"
His conjecture was ......
Zeng Laohan's family may have been hidden by that nosy guy.