Chapter Seventy-Two: The Insider
Seeing this, the governor's face also changed, and his eyes turned around Ji Qiang twice, the matter of seven years ago was implicated in the Guogong Mansion, and in the end, His Majesty punished him, and only the Guogong Mansion was safe.
Although I just heard some rumors, but now I listen to the meaning of lotus, it seems that there is an inside story.
The governor's eyes flashed, his face turned serious, and he said in a deep tone: "This matter is widely implicated, and it is better for the lotus girl to be cautious." ”
The people around him were also talking to each other, and they were very curious about what the lotus said.
Hearing this, Lotus looked at Ji Qiang with an embarrassed face, and the governor asked again, and Lotus said slowly: "The incident of the year was full of storms in the city, and in the end, it was over, and the ministers who investigated the matter were dismissed and demoted. ”
"It's not easy for Grandpa Guo, when he returned to Beijing, he happened to meet the Eighth Prince who was killed by an ambush thief."
As he spoke, he paused, looked at Ji Qiang and said: "And now the warehouse is good, when I learned that the princess was going to take over, it happened to go out of the water, and the loss of silver is small, doesn't the princess think this matter is too strange?" ”
"Or is it too coincidental that the princess's luck is as bad as that of Grandpa Guo, and she has encountered such an unlucky thing?"
Ji Qiang's face was flat, she glanced at her, sneered, and said, "You mean I set fire to the warehouse?" ”
This thief shouted to catch the thief, and his face was really not red and his heart was not beating.
Lotus had a disdainful smile on her face, raised her eyebrows and continued: "The slave family didn't mean this, but this fire was too strange, and when I counted the losses later, I found a few extra things, which were difficult to match with Kuang's manifest, although I couldn't see what the thing was, but if someone wanted to destroy something, wouldn't it be a matter of course?" ”
Lotus said the back, there was a contemptuous smile in her tone, and seeing Ji Qiang's face change slightly, she was even more confident, "The matter of Chi Qiang was strange, His Royal Highness was killed by thieves when he returned to Beijing, and all the gold and silver treasures were looted. And now the princess's mansion, which has always been peaceful, has come out again, no matter how you think about it, it is inseparable from the princess. ”
After that, he glanced at the cart full of silver taels, and chuckled, "Maybe these 400,000 silver taels are also unsightly stolen goods." ”
"Bold!" Hearing this, the governor's face also changed, there are many people who have suspected Li Yuanxun over the years, and now he is put on the table like this by the lotus, which must be convincing.
"The imagination of the lotus girl is really ingenious, it's a pity not to go to the teahouse to tell stories." After half a sound, Ji Qiang chuckled lightly and said slowly: "After talking for a long time, it's just speculation, anyone can say this kind of empty words." ”
This incident has been a long time, and the people in the capital have long forgotten it, but now that it is turned out by the lotus, it naturally attracts the surrounding crowd to exclaim.
looked at Ji Qiang's eyes a little strange, suspicious, fearful, surprised, all whispering, as if he had already decided that Ji Qiang was self-directed and self-acting. Nine cakes in Chinese
Ji Qiang's meaningless voice fell, and Lotus's face stiffened, and then the corners of her lips were raised, "Dying and struggling." ”
Glancing at the Kuang family next to him, the latter understood, and stepped forward and said: "The princess doesn't know, when the warehouse was in the water, someone saw the figure of the suspected princess's house, and when he counted the property, he found that there were extra jewelry, just like a few of the property ordered by His Majesty to be recovered when the matter of the pond gully happened." ”
Kuang's talked eloquently, and after having the governor as a backer, he was even more confident, "Because I have been dealing with gold and silver jewelry for a long time, I am extremely sensitive to these, and I was already amazed when I first saw the posted emperor list, and the materials used and the techniques used are different from Dachen, so I can dare to guess." ”
After a generous statement, Kuang's face was bound to win a smile, shook his fat body, looked up at the governor, and said loudly: "If the governor doesn't believe what I say, you can go and find out, if there is a mistake, let the governor deal with it." ”
The governor was just invited by the lotus to be a notary for the cashier, and now the situation is already involved in the court, how dare he, a small governor, speak at will.
Seeing that the governor was silent, the corners of Lotus's mouth were raised, and she looked at Ji Qiang clearly, waiting for her to speak.
Ji Qiang lowered her eyes, she didn't know what she was thinking, even the governor was a little convinced that what happened back then was really what Li Yuanxun did.
"What the Lotus Girl says is true." Ji Qiang spoke slowly, and said in a flat tone: "Kuang's memory is really surprising that he knows so well what the gold and silver treasures have lost in seven years. ”
Ji Qiang's tone was relaxed, but it made the smile on Kuang's face a little stiff, and a trace of panic flashed in Kuang's eyes, "The princess has won the award, I have been in the mall all the year round, so I naturally know these things well, and I still have some eyes for jewelry." ”
Ji Qiang smiled meaningfully, and her eyes turned around Kuang's body, but her whole body was uncomfortable, and Kuang's shrunk her neck uncomfortably and looked away.
Only then did Ji Qiang retract her gaze and turned to look at the lotus, her eyes sharp, "What the lotus girl said is that she suspects that what happened seven years ago was done by her father?" ”
Lotus's face was flustered, she looked away, and laughed dryly, with a bit of mockery in her tone, "The princess knows it in her heart, so why bother saying it." ”
The corners of Ji Qiang's mouth rose, with a just right smile on her face, and she said slowly: "That's not what you mean, and your so-called evidence is too weak." ”
"The truth I have learned is a little different from that of the Lotus Girl." Ji Qianglian moved lightly, took a few steps closer, and took out the red tassel from her sleeve, "This red tassel was found in the warehouse where the water walked, the lotus girl said, I saw someone from the princess's mansion in the warehouse, so this red tassel, do you think it was accidentally dropped there?" Or was it deliberately placed there? ”
Lotus paused for a moment, saw the red tassel in her hand, and a hint of darkness flashed in her eyes, "I'm not a princess, how can I know what the princess thinks in her heart." ”
"Since you don't know, then it's up to this palace to explain what the evidence I am calling here is." Ji Qiang spoke, her tone was not hurried, and she put the red tassel in her hand, "Seven years ago, my father was ordered to return to Beijing to resume his post, and the eighth prince came back from the frontier at the same time, returning to Beijing with gold and silver jewelry, but he was ambushed halfway and the whole army was annihilated. This is well known. ”
"And the suspicion in this is nothing more than the identity of the thief." Ji Qiang paused, "Now that my father's stolen red tassel has appeared in the warehouse, and the scene has deliberately left traces of similar stolen goods, and a discerning person can know at a glance that the strangeness is the same as seven years ago." ”