Chapter 35: My life has no regrets
April 25, 2018
For the vast majority of Jinyu people, what happened on the 25th can be described as unforgettable. Regarding Zhao Xinyu's malicious slander of the former city lord Zhao Shenlu, the rapid and intense changes in the situation and the strong dramatic effect are enough to make many people remember them for a lifetime.
In fact, when the first group of protesters arrived at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion in the early morning, the provisional government sent representatives to reassure the people with bitter words, repeatedly emphasizing that the people who spread rumors and cause trouble will be dealt with strictly, and no one will be allowed to wantonly slander the leader of Jinyucheng - even if she has now been suppressed by the coup d'Γ©tat in the underground of the City Lord's Mansion, but after all, Zhao Shenlu has also made outstanding contributions to the construction of Jinyucheng, and slandering Zhao Shenlu is tantamount to slandering Jinyucheng.
However, the representative of the City Lord's Mansion also said that while Zhao Xinyu claimed his identity, he also submitted a lot of evidence to confirm his identity, and applied for protection from the Liantian City Holy Sect. Therefore, at present, the City Lord's Mansion needs to carry out further investigation and refute his evidence one by one before it can be dealt with seriously.
This kind of high-sounding perfunctory rhetoric, of course, can't satisfy the demonstrators, but on the other hand, the reason given by the City Lord's Mansion also makes people speechless, since Zhao Xinyu has applied for the protection of the Holy Sect, there is not much way to think about it except to convince people seriously, and he must not care about forcibly killing Zhao Xinyu, but it seems that Jin Yuren is a thief.
The current Golden Jade City is no longer the Golden Jade City of Zhao Shenlu's era, and it is impossible to disdain the authority of the Holy Sect at will.
After the painstaking persuasion of the representatives of the City Lord's Mansion, most of the demonstrators agreed to wait for the results of the investigation of the City Lord's Mansion to be announced, and then give Zhao Xinyu a heavenly punishment with confidence.
In Jin Yuren's opinion, that high-ranking Zhao Shenlu, no matter how many things are not, it is absolutely impossible to have an ex-husband, let alone indulge in carnal desires, that Zhao Xinyu is just a grandiose clown, the so-called evidence must be broken as soon as it is stabbed, as long as the City Lord's Mansion does a good job of investigation, he will soon be able to expose his shameless true face.
However, at night, a statement from the Golden Jade City Lord's Mansion was like detonating a Qingyu True Yuan Divine Thunder in the city, which blew up millions of people in the city in a trance, and they didn't know why.
This kind of villain framing is no more obvious, and it has actually been officially endorsed?!
Do you have an official score or not?! Instead of severely punishing the shameless villain who spreads rumors, he admits that his evidence is valid? Are you guys doing this investigation with your ass?! Could it be that the current regime is unscrupulous in order to undermine the reputation of the previous regime and maintain the legitimacy of the provisional government!?
However, just when people were shocked and even angry at the first statement, the second statement of the City Lord's Mansion was also released, and the description of Zhao Xinyu's identity verification work will be broadcast live in the city in 10 minutes.
Ten minutes later, the live projection of the City Lord's Mansion appeared in various places in the streets and alleys of Jinyucheng.
Almost all the golden jade people can see the live broadcast from the city lord's mansion in places not far from them: flower beds on the street, square statues, street archways, etc. This live broadcast system was established by Zhao Shenlu during his tenure, and the original intention was to facilitate the city lord to show her endless charm, and at this time it was used by Zhao Hongwu and others to do a press conference, announcing news that was not conducive to Zhao Shenlu, which can be described as ironic.
In the projection, a man who seemed to be fifty or sixty years old said with a solemn face: "Good evening, I'm Zhao Sen." β
In a word, it quieted down millions of gold and jade people.
The name Zhao Sen has such weight. As the chief steward of the City Lord's Mansion, Zhao Sen has served three City Lords before and after, as early as Zhao Hongxue's era, he was the elder of the previous dynasty and had a pivotal position in the City Lord's Mansion. Then Zhao Shenlu succeeded to the throne and cleaned up a large number of former dynasty personnel, but Zhao Sen still retained his original post and continued to serve the city lord's mansion. Later, Zhao Hongwu and others colluded with Zhao Lingbo to launch a coup d'Γ©tat and establish a provisional government, and Zhao Sen also stayed in the city lord's mansion as a big steward.
Because this person is a rare person who is absolutely neutral, no matter who enters the City Lord's Mansion, he will serve the other party without mind, but it is limited to matters related to the internal affairs of the City Lord's Mansion, and other than that, he will never take sides.
Zhao Sen was like a ghost tied up in the City Lord's Mansion, and he had no personal position at all. Announcing the news by such a person is already the greatest sincerity that the City Lord's Mansion can show.
Zhao Sen didn't waste any time, twisted his face, and went straight to the point: "Regarding the recent matter of the former city lord, we have carried out a very serious investigation. It mainly includes three aspects, the first is polygraphy, when Zhao Xinyu explained the story, we used the truth treasure, and from beginning to end we did not find anything against his heart when he spoke......"
Before he finished speaking, he heard a woman's voice inserted next to him: "Maybe he was self-suggesting and forcing himself to believe his lies." As far as I know, the Treasure of Truth can only identify lies, and it does not really ensure the truth of things. β
This session is a Q&A session specially arranged by the City Lord's Mansion, which answers the questions that some of the audience may have through this narration question, so as to increase the authenticity of the explanation.
Zhao Sen replied: "It is true, the Truth Treasure Book cannot be used as the sole basis for judging the authenticity, so far, there have been many cases that show that the Truth Word Treasure Book can be deceived by autosuggestion, memory tampering, etc. Therefore, although we were also testing Zhao Xinyu for signs of distorting his mind when we were taking a lie test this time, we also took other means to cross-corroborate his remarks, such as examining physical evidence. In order to prove his identity, Zhao Xinyu took out some eldest ladies...... No, the belongings used by the former city lord Zhao Shenlu are indeed genuine after my own identification. β
"Wait, the belongings used by Zhao Shenlu do not mean that they were given to him by Zhao Shenlu himself. As far as I know, whether it is Jinyucheng or other places, there are many collectors who like to collect items used by Zhao Shenlu. Her handwritten letters, obsolete furniture, etc. have all been sold at auction prices, perhaps that Zhao Xinyu just got these collectibles through various channels. β
Zhao Sen replied: "He showed underwear. β
"Oh."
"The main types are bras, belly pockets, and ......"
"Alright, no need to continue."
"Okay." Zhao Sen said: "Third, and most importantly, I personally asked the eldest lady herself. β
Speaking of which, even the voice-over-narrator who asked the question made a gasp.
This is clearly an unplanned link.
When Zhao Hongwu found Zhao Sen, the three verification methods he explained were polygraphy, physical evidence and third-party witnesses, and during the verification process, the City Lord's Mansion would not interfere with Zhao Sen's investigation and evidence collection - but these three verification methods themselves were strongly deceptive.
But no one expected that Zhao Sen would actually go to Zhao Shenlu privately!
Zhao Shenlu, who was suppressed in the Seventeen Chains, is undoubtedly the biggest taboo in the Golden Jade City at present, especially when the Seventeen Chains are becoming more and more unstable, any unnecessary contact will bring unpredictable risks. So usually, even Zhao Hongwu and Zhao Hongwen's brothers forbade them to go to see Zhao Shenlu alone, but they didn't expect Zhao Sen to secretly meet her!
He is the chief butler of the City Lord's Mansion, and he knows more about the City Lord's Mansion than Zhao Lingbo, a personal maid, and many people think that Zhao Sen has been refined into a guardian spirit at all. If he wanted to hide from others to see Zhao Shenlu, no one could resist it.
Fortunately, this neutral person didn't do anything superfluous, just asked Zhao Shenlu a few words.
"After the eldest lady heard about Zhao Xinyu's matter, she behaved very strangely...... First of all, she asked me about Zhao Xinyu's own situation, repeated it several times, and after confirmation, she asked me to repeat Zhao Xinyu's remarks about her ex-husband and sex life, which was also repeated many times, and finally ...... She seemed to be very happy, I had served her for many years, and I had never seen her so happy, and finally she told me that no matter what Zhao Xinyu said, just believe him. Therefore, based on the above three points, all the evidence provided by Zhao Xinyu ...... are all effective. β
In the end, Zhao Sen's zombie-like face showed an expression of obvious unwillingness, and it was obvious that this fact was also extremely difficult for him, a neutral, to accept.
"That's all I can do, that's all I can say, and it's up to you to decide what to do next, so take your leave."
After that, Zhao Sen's image disappeared.
Then there was an uproar, and both the millions of people in Jinyu City and the dignitaries of the provisional government in the city lord's mansion were shocked by this conclusion.
According to Zhao Sen, if even Zhao Shenlu himself confessed to her ex-husband, then there would really be no turnaround.
Late that night, the topic of Zhao Shenlu's ex-husband Zhao Xinyu has become the theme of more than 80% of the golden jade people's dinner tables, and people are talking about this Zhao Shenlu's ex-husband who was born from all angles. Most of them are impassioned and scolding, some scold Zhao Xinyu for being shameless and shameless to deceive the golden and jade fairy, and of course, some scold Zhao Shenlu shamelessly deceiving the world with a single attitude. There are also a few gossip mentality, discussing how Zhao Shenlu has sex.
But in any case, Zhao Shenlu's possession of her ex-husband seems to have become an undoubted fact, and the reputation of the former world's number one beauty has begun to change dramatically.
At the same time, on the other side of the Golden Jade City, a grand performance that is ready to turn the hearts of millions of people has also entered the final stage of preparation.
"Okay, the script of Sanshengshi has been completed, and the first draft has been sent, I don't know much about human love stories, so I need you senior readers to judge the quality."
And after getting the script, several leading actors who were about to be responsible for speaking were shocked.