Chapter 35: Another Mastermind

"You little woman is not small, what, the Xu family is really no one, let you show up as a backhouse woman, Xu Junze is really good at managing the family!" Zhai Yao squinted and glared at Lin Shuran, even if her father was a Taifu, he was not afraid.

In the face of the arrogant Zhai Yao, Lin Shuran never showed any retreat, but straightened his body more straight, as if he was a few points better than Zhai Yao in momentum.

"My husband's family is not as good as you, the Hou Ye, who in the capital doesn't know that the Guangping Hou Mansion 'produces a virtuous wife and raises filial sons', and its reputation is far away!" As soon as Lin Shuran said this, the people present who knew some inside information were dumbfounded, this General Xu's wife really dared to say it.

As we all know, Guangping Hou Zhai Yao's wife died early and left a son, that is, the current son Zhai Zilu, and later Zhai Yao married a young and beautiful new lady, who thought that this new lady and the housekeeper in the house hooked up and became an adulterer, and the two of them made everyone know, and it was his biological son Zhai Zilu who broke the news.

Besides, this prince of the Hou Mansion is not good at civil and military talents, but he is an expert in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and he is a famous gentleman, but he has always pretended to be filial and well-behaved in front of his father, and Zhai Yao spoils him very much.

"Y-huh, sharp teeth!" As if someone had torn off the fig leaf, Zhai Yao was extremely angry, and was about to attack again, but Fu Yin Zhangmin hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded him, "Master Hou, Master Hou, let's talk about the case first!" ā€

Zhai Yao snorted and sat down on the chair on the side, Zhang Min also asked Lin Shuran to sit down opposite, and then Luo Zhutou stepped forward and muttered a few times in his ear, Zhang Min nodded, and then the yacha pulled out a ten-year-old boy with yellow muscles and thin and shivering, and asked him to identify which one in the hall was the seventh young master of the Xu family.

The young man shook his body in fear at first, and then raised his eyes to see a boy who looked almost identical, his face was full of confusion and doubt, and the yacha asked him to recognize it, but he shook his head and could not recognize any of them.

"You mean, which kid from the Xu family is that!" Zhai Yao yelled angrily, in fact, he didn't know which one was Xu Minghao, today he came to shock Yin Zhangmin of the Earthquake Mansion, and it was the Xu family who stole things, and then Xu Junze was ugly, and by the way, he knocked him a sum of compensation.

The boy fell to his knees in fright, shook his head vigorously, and said, "I—I forgot!" ā€

The young man's answer gave Lin Shuran some bottom in his heart, and also made Fu Yin Zhangmin fall into contemplation, he looked at Zhai Yao, who was slightly irritable, and then looked at Lin Shuran, who was calm, and asked Yacha to bring another one.

Then, the yacha brought in another boy who was older than the boy just now, and he looked around at the boy standing side by side, and shook his head blankly, none of which he knew.

Then, the yacha passed the rest of the people through the hall one by one, but they either recognized the wrong person, or shook their heads vigorously and said that they didn't know anything.

"Boldly Diao Min, before you said in the hall that it was the Seventh Young Master of the Great General's Mansion who asked you to go to the Treasure Pavilion to steal things, but now you can't recognize him, and say, why do you want to frame the courtiers' families?!" Zhang Min slapped the startled wood so hard that all the little prisoners trembled, and several of them cried in fright.

"Say it quickly, don't talk about banishing you to the frontier after beating you hard, as a severe punishment!" Zhang Min's eyes were cold, and his official authority was fully displayed.

"Back - return to the eldest master, that person said that he was the seventh young master of General Xu's mansion, and also said that his family had a grudge against the Treasure Pavilion, so he let us steal things, and the little ones really don't know who he is!" The older boy said with tears in his voice.

"Do you remember what that man looked like?" Zhang Min continued to ask.

"Remember, remember!" The boy nodded quickly.

Zhang Min originally wanted to recruit a painter to come and ask the young man to tell the appearance of the master, but Lin Shuran said that she could do it for him.

How dare Zhang Min agree, now that he has found out that this matter has nothing to do with the Xu family, he is worried that Xu Junze and Lin Shuran will blame the government for doing things unfavorably, how can he bother Lin Shuran, a "noble lady", to help paint the portrait, and whether Mrs. Lin and General Xu will be flayed alive when he turns around.

"Master Zhang, although there is another person who is the mastermind of this matter, and it has nothing to do with my Xu family, but that person deliberately framed my seventh child, I also want to catch him as soon as possible to find out the truth, my painting skills are really okay, just let me come!" Lin Shuran took the initiative to ask, and Zhang Min looked at the Marquis of Guangping again, and saw that he was depressed alone, as if he was dissatisfied that those prisoners did not recognize the seventh young master of the Xu family.

"This-" Zhang Min hesitated, seeing that Lin Shuran had a firm attitude, and he didn't dare to refuse again, for fear of offending her, when the pillow wind blew, if he was "worried" by General Xu, his position in the mansion would be unstable, so he said humbly, "Then there is Mrs. Lao Xu!" ā€

"You're welcome!"

Subsequently, Zhang Min asked Lin Shuran to prepare a table, chair, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and then warned those little prisoners to carefully recall the appearance of the criminal, and Lin Shuran was very serious about painting one stroke at a time, and soon a lifelike and realistic portrait was drawn.

"That's right, it's him, it's him!" As soon as Lin Shuran finished the drawing, he let the little prisoners look at it again, and they all exclaimed that it was this person.

When the portrait was shown to the Marquis of Guangping and Zhang Min in the hall, Zhai Yao, the Marquis of Guangping, jumped up from the chair at once, and looked at the portrait with his eyes wide open, but Zhang Min was a little puzzled, and the reaction of the Marquis of Guangping was too big.

"This is Zhai Zifei, the little son of the Marquis of Guangping!" Xu Minghao also saw the portrait, and he immediately recognized this person, "I fought with him on the street, and it turned out that he framed me!" ā€

Zhang Min never thought that things would turn around like this, and it was the youngest son of Hou Zhai Yao of Guangping who instructed these thieves to steal things.

"Master Hou, it seems that I have to invite the little boy to ask!" Zhang Min turned to Guangping Hou Zhai Rao and said.

Unexpectedly, Zhai Yao became irritable when he heard it, and said loudly and angrily: "What do you ask, this is simply a bunch of thieves, but they lost a golden hairpin, Ben Hou doesn't want it, this matter is over!" ā€

After speaking, Zhai Yao got up and was about to leave, but at this time, Lin Shuran said loudly: "That's not good, since you already know who the main culprit is, you Guangping Marquis Mansion can not be investigated, but my General's Mansion will never give up, and be wronged, where is the law of the country, where is the justice." ā€

Then, she glanced at Zhai Yao and Zhang Min again, and then walked in front of Xu Minghao, took his hand and stood in the middle of the court, and said in a clear and powerful voice: "My Xu family Erlang is innocent, sitting up straight, daring to act, today was framed, you Guangping Marquis Mansion and Beijing Mansion are bound to give my family seven an explanation, otherwise the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the palace will all hand over a complaint to seek justice for my family's seven brothers!" ā€