The girl heard Wei E's voice but still walked forward.

Wei E immediately became anxious: "I walked around to do business, and happened to go to the shop of the prince of Shunyang County, the capital was extremely cold that year, I was going to buy a batch of cotton cloth and cotton, and let my people ask around, and learned that the goods in that shop were enough, so I took someone to the shop to see the goods."

Originally, the conversation was good, and I was ready to do this business, but I didn't expect to be targeted, and the person staring at me was the second brother of the king of Shunyang County, the second master of Qi. ”

Xu Qinghuan's footsteps finally stopped, and Qi Defang looked at Wei E, for fear of missing a word.

"And then?" Qi Defang asked anxiously.

Wei E said: "When the palace held a banquet, I had been to the family of the king of Shunyang County, and I also served the second master of Qi, the second master of Qi must have recognized me, so he would chase after me, I came out to do things and did not want to be discovered, and most of those dignitaries and dignitaries saw people like us, most of them had bad intentions, either they wanted to threaten us to inquire about the news, or they wanted us to serve for them."

What's more, I also pretended to be a businessman, holding a large sum of money to buy things, it was very likely that I would be caught, I didn't want to cause too much trouble, so I left overnight, but I knew that the people sent by the second master of Qi were always staring at us, and it was not easy for me to get out.

After returning to the capital, I was still worried that the second master of Qi would come to the door, and later I heard that the second master of Qi sold horses without permission and was tracked down by the imperial court, so I was relieved, after all, the second master of Qi was in trouble, and he would not hold me down. ”

Hearing this, Qi Defang's face turned pale, and he couldn't wait to beat Wei E immediately.

Qi Defang said: "The shopkeeper said that you are his daughter Qiao Shu, it is obviously your pre-agreed rhetoric, since you went to the shop to discuss business, why do you want to pretend to be Qiao Shu." ”

Wei E was stunned: "I talked about business with him but met twice, and the name I used at the time was Wei E, what Qiao Shu?" I don't know. ”

Qi Defang looked at Xu Qinghuan: "Miss Xu, he is clearly lying, my second uncle found out that Su Kun opened an iron mine privately, he was instructed by Su Su to go to the shop, and conspired with Qiao's shopkeeper to frame my second uncle, my second uncle chased him all the way after he found out, and he tried every means to escape......"

When Qi Defang said this, he felt that he had figured out something.

"I remembered, the second uncle found out that Su Su opened an iron mine privately before that, and mobilized people to investigate the matter, and it was inevitable to interrogate the shopkeeper of a few shops, Wei E appeared at that time, attracting the attention of the second uncle, and the second uncle personally led people to check all the way, so he was lax about the shopkeeper Qiao, so he gave the shopkeeper Qiao the opportunity to make fake accounts and frame my second uncle for selling horses in the frontier."

This is the ins and outs of the whole thing, and Qi Defang feels that he is very clear.

"If I serve the eldest princess and the horse," Wei E swallowed and moistened her throat, "After the horse is captured, why don't I leave the capital and stay here?" ”

Qi Defang said: "Because you think no one can catch you, my second uncle, Qiao shopkeeper and Qiao Shu are all dead, no one knows about your conspiracy with the shopkeeper that day, you didn't expect to follow me to the shop with the second uncle that day, I have been in the carriage, so you didn't see it." ”

Wei E found that she had no way to defend herself: "You said that I was related to Su Yuma, so you found evidence, and this alone cannot be convincing."

You can also check what I said, that year Shanxi Shouyang cotton harvest, cotton prices are much lower than the capital, in addition to me, there are other businessmen to Shanxi Shouyang, and I did not do business in Shanxi because of this incident, so I had to turn around and go to Shandong.

Although Suzhou, Changzhou, and Fengyang also have cotton, it is the place of the Zhang family, and if you want to go there to buy and sell, you have to pass the Zhang family. ”

Wei E's words made Qi Defang unable to find a loophole for a while: "What about the cages in your house and those clay pots in the yard?" ”

Wei E's eyes flashed with sadness, but it quickly turned into a contemptuous look: "Lord Shizi, those people didn't die at my hands, Lord Shizi went to the palace to check the files, and he knew how they died." ”

Wei E said this and looked at Master Shen: "The father-in-law knows better than me, how many people have died in the palace over the years, I am just collecting the corpses for them, the eunuch's aftermath is far more bleak than you think, after coming out of the palace, I do some business to make money, just to give them some decency." ”

Xu Qinghuan nodded, as if believing Wei E's words: "Since you just want to secretly do something for the dead palace people, why do you care so much about Huijing's identity?" Running to the Shen family like this to blackmail Master Shen is easy to be caught, which is contrary to your original intention. ”

Wei E couldn't answer for a while, if he made an excuse and said that he wanted to find clues to exchange it for money, and there was a contradiction with what he just said, if he just wanted to do some good deeds for the dead slaves and maids in the palace, why should he get involved in the affairs of the court.

Master Shen looked at Wei E, he listened to what Wei E said very carefully, and he lowered his eyes slightly, making people unable to see his emotions.

"I asked him to inquire." King Jane came out of the hall.

Master Shen immediately got up and saluted King Jian.

When King Jian said this, the whole person was a lot more relaxed: "I also placed Wei E here, and I also knew about Wei E going to Shanxi to buy and sell cotton, and I also gave Wei E the money he used to do business." ”

Princess Jane, who was following behind, clenched the handkerchief in her hand, she really didn't know what the prince was thinking, but now that the prince admitted it himself, she felt ...... It's better for the prince to raise an outer room here, in that case, it will be much better to deal with than the situation in front of him.

At least the prince will be fine, although she resents him, she doesn't want him to make mistakes.

King Jian looked at Xu Qinghuan: "The Yamen of Shuntian Mansion is coming, let's go into the house and talk!" ”

……

In the huge hall, King Jian and King Shunyang sat down first.

Several people were silent and did not speak for a while.

Qi Yingyue found that the atmosphere in the mansion was unusual, and asked the housekeeper's mother to chase all the way to Zhuangzi, although she didn't know the inside story, Qi Yingyue could also feel that the matter was not trivial, and it was very likely that the Kung Fu Jian Mansion would collapse in the blink of an eye.

Her parents were talking to the king of Shunyang County and Miss Xu in the hall, and she sat on the stone bench outside the hall.

A gust of cold wind hit, Qi Yingyue couldn't help but shrink a little, she came out in too much of a hurry, she didn't even wear a cloak, she only felt a biting cold, she wanted to be strong, and her legs couldn't help but tremble.

Seeing this, Qi Defang stretched out his finger and poked Xu Qing'an: "You are wearing a cloak, go and send it to her." ”

Qi Yingyue's appearance is very pitiful, but ......

"Why?" Xu Qingan firmly grasped the clothes on his body, for fear of being snatched away, so he would not do such a loss, he glared at Qi Defang, "Why don't you go, you are all royal relatives......"

Qi Yingyue seemed to hear the voices of two people talking, and she lowered her head deeply.

Finally, Qi Defang couldn't help but walk over and handed the cloak in his hand to Qi Yingyue: "Cousin, it's cold, you can put it on!" "Even if the mastermind behind the scenes is King Jian, who has nothing to do with Qi Yingyue, he can't be angry with this girl.

Qi Yingyue took the cloak and couldn't help but choke up.

……

In the hall.

King Jian took a sip of tea, his eyes were slightly dilated, and he reunited after a while: "There are some things you don't know, when King An was gone, my father went into the palace to find Emperor Gaozong, and there was something strange about King An's death, so I asked Emperor Gaozong to send someone to find out, and it was also because of this incident that my father couldn't afford to be sick."

From then on, I knew that I could only be an idle clan so that I could keep King Jian's mansion. ”