After nightfall, at the door of Mo Zechen's room, there was a figure walking back and forth.

After a long time, he stopped walking back and forth, took a deep breath, stood still in front of Mo Zechen's door, raised his hand, hesitated for a moment, and knocked on the door.

"Buckle—"

"Come in."

Almost as soon as the knock on the door sounded, Mo Zechen's cold voice came from inside the house.

As early as when Lin Qing was about to walk to his door, Mo Zechen heard his footsteps.

Even when Lin Qing walked back and forth at his door for a quarter of an hour before he made up his mind to knock on the door, Mo Zechen knew it.

He didn't intervene silently, let Lin Qing tangle enough, and then wait for him to make a decision.

Mo Zechen raised his head, his deep eyes fell on Lin Qing's body, and he spoke coldly.

"Have you thought about it and told you all the things you're hiding?"

Lin Qing pursed his lips and avoided Mo Zechen's eyes, obviously he was still hesitating until now.

Mo Zechen frowned, he was not used to Lin Qing, and said bluntly, "If you don't think about it, go out." ”

"Because of your concealment, I have been doing useless work for nearly half a month since I came to Xuancheng, and I don't have time to distinguish whether you are telling the truth or a lie now."

If it weren't for the flash of inspiration in his mind today and the discovery of some problems, maybe he wouldn't have guessed that Lin Qing was hiding something from him, or even lying.

Lin Qing's face stiffened slightly when Mo Zechen said this.

He was silent for a long time before he asked in a hoarse voice, "Can I trust you?" ”

Mo Zechen raised his eyes to look at Lin Qing, but did not speak.

Lin Qing looked a little uncomfortable by Mo Zechen's eyes.

"Do you think you have any other options now than to trust me?"

Mo Zechen didn't say anything nice, but said a fact in front of him.

"You can choose to continue to hide it, but are you sure you can bear the consequences?"

Mo Zechen's words without a trace of emotion made Lin Qing's hesitant heart finally make a choice.

"It's a bit long, is the prince interested in listening to me tell a story?"

"Sit down."

When Mo Zechen looked at Lin Qing's appearance, he knew that the story he was going to tell must be very long, so he asked Lin Qing to sit down and talk about it.

"I originally had a very happy home, although the family was poor, but my parents did their best to be good to me and my sister."

"When I was nine years old, my father sent me to study in the school, hoping that I would become a talent in the future and shine on the lintel."

After Lin Qing sat down, he talked about his own affairs.

"The master who taught me said that I am quite talented in reading and can endure hardships, and if I study hard, I may not be able to be named on the gold list in the future."

"Just because of the master's words, my father tried his best to provide me with education, looking forward to the time when I will be named on the gold list in the future."

"It's a very expensive thing to study, but in a year, the few money in the family has been spent, and my father and mother have even borrowed it from relatives and friends around me, but it's still a drop in the bucket."

Mo Zechen said quietly, "But I went to your house today, and the furnishings in your home don't seem to be poor enough to make you say." ”

"This brings us to what happened next, and it was the beginning of my family's nightmare."

Lin Qing chuckled, but his smile was a little more bitter, and there was a bit of hatred in his eyes.

"My parents are honest farmers, and they don't make any other living, they can only farm, but because of the topography, Xuancheng has many mountains and forests and few fertile fields."

"Five years ago, my father listened to the jokes told by the villagers and whimsically wanted to reclaim a piece of land in the mountains and forests, thinking that if he could do it, the family would have more income."

"Five years ago? Wasn't it three years ago? ”

Mo Zechen couldn't help but interrupt Lin Qing's words.

He remembered that Lin Qing's uncle said that Lin Qing's father had nothing to do three years ago when he was full of food and had nothing to do, and suddenly had a whim to go to the mountains to cultivate fertile land.

Why did Lin Qing say it was three years ago?

The time is not right!

"The exact time was five years ago, but apart from me, my family always thought it was three years ago."

Lin Qing explained before continuing.

"My father's idea of cultivating fertile land had just started, and something unexpected happened."

Lin Qing clenched his fists and tried his best to stabilize his emotions, "When my father was reclaiming wasteland in the mountains and forests, he accidentally dug up several pieces of gold that had not been smelted. ”

"Although my family is poor, my father didn't dare to secretly hand over the money from unknown sources, so he handed it over to the government."

"I thought it was an accident, but the next day my father changed the land and cultivated it, and when he was halfway through the cultivation, he found gold that had not been smelted."

"My father quickly realized the problem and reported the matter to the government, and after a period of investigation, the government suspected that there might be a gold mine under the mountains and forests that my father had cultivated at that time."

When Mo Zechen heard this, he didn't interrupt Lin Qing's words, but his brows furrowed deeper.

He didn't remember that someone in Xuancheng had reported the appearance of gold mines in Xuancheng.

Could it be that someone from the government later found out that this was an oolong?

"At first, the government rewarded my father with a sum of money and told him not to go near the mountain in the future, nor to tell anyone about the gold found on the mountain."

"They said that this matter was a matter of court secrets, and if other people knew about it, my father would be punished for treason, and my father was cowardly, and he was so frightened by the other party, and after taking the reward, he never dared to say this matter to the public."

"When I got home, I told my mother that he had accidentally helped a rich man who gave him a large sum of money in order to thank him."

"Just when our family was rejoicing at this windfall, we didn't know that danger was approaching."

Lin Qing smiled mockingly.

"My father had forgotten about his discovery of the gold mines, but three years ago, when he went to town to sell the extra grain he had in the family, he passed by a restaurant on his way back."

"Originally, I wanted to make money and go home happy after two or two drinks, but I accidentally heard a group of drunk officials talking about the gold mine that my father accidentally discovered five years ago."

"My father only knew at that time that the government did not report this matter to the imperial court, but secretly mined it in private."

"My father, realizing that he had heard something he shouldn't have heard and might be a danger to the family, hurried home and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night before he came to talk to me and wanted to ask me what to do about it."

"But before I could think of any useful solution, my father was arrested the next day, and they made trumped-up charges against him and sent my father to prison."

"Behind the scenes, they threatened our family that if we dared to tell the public about the gold mine, they would kill my father immediately."