Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 355 A Scary Guess

Seeing Jin Jing's mysterious look, Shen Cha curled her lips in disgust, put down the official document in her hand, stood up, put on her cloak and went out.

Growing up together, Shen Cha is very aware of the bad taste engraved in Jin Jing's bones. Although he looks like a handsome young man on the surface, he is actually a guy with a particularly bad personality.When I usually talk, I like to say half and leave the other half. It is a special enjoyment to see others scratching their heads and racking their brains to guess his true thoughts.It would be even more serious if it happened to him when he was extremely excited. If he planned to say ten sentences, he would only say one sentence, and others would have to guess the rest, or let others beg him to say it.

Shen Cha is too lazy to play guessing and guessing tricks with Jin Jing, and I don't know if she has too little sleep time recently, and there are too many official documents and battle reports to deal with, so she is groggy and needs to go out Let the air blow and wake up completely.

Seeing that Shen Cha had left the big tent, Jin Jing quickly put down the snacks in her hand, grabbed her cloak and followed them out, seeing that Shen Cha hadn't gone anywhere, just stood in front of the big tent in a daze, she was a little relieved.

"What are you doing running out in such a cold day?" Jin Jing put on her cloak and put on the hood for Shen Cha, "I haven't had a good rest for so many days, if I catch a cold or get sick, This is no joke."

"Sitting for too long, my body is stiff, I need to move a little bit." Shen Cha raised his head to look at the blue sky, and sighed softly, "It's too warm in the big tent, my brain is not working well, sober up " She looked at Jin Jing, "Brother Xiao Jing also moved a little bit, he ate so much."

"Just one bite of a piece of cake, and there will be more." Jin Jing was a little worried, "You've been preoccupied these past few days, what are you thinking about?"

"Although we have always known that the internal conflicts in the Kingdom of Jin are deep and irreconcilable, and that chaos will happen sooner or later, but we didn't expect it to come so soon. According to my previous prediction, Wanyan Ping will find him no matter what. This is an excuse to fight us or Liao a few times, temporarily divert the attention of those who oppose her to other places, and seize the time to build up their own forces. When those people come to their senses, she has become stronger, and then proceed Unexpectedly..." She turned her head to look at Jin Jing, "I don't think it's enough for her to take revenge on Wanyan Zongcheng so quickly. Very unfavorable. So, there must be some reason we don't know."

"There are unpredictable things in the sky, and there are bad and good things in life. There are probably outsiders who know about her mother. Maybe someone used her hands to clean up Wanyan Zongcheng, and by the way, Wanyan Ping was caught off guard. "

"Does it kill two birds with one stone?"

"It's a possibility, but it's not certain, and we have no evidence." Jin Jing exhaled, "Maybe the truth of the matter is not as complicated as we thought. Wanyan Zongcheng's body is not as good as before, and it will die all of a sudden. Therefore, we have given Wanyanping, the rest of the Wanyan family, and those tribes that are eyeing you a chance, and now it depends on whose fist is hard."

"Maybe, I hope I'm thinking too much."

"Heh, I'm afraid that's not the only thing you've been thinking these days, right? What else are you thinking about? Say it all."

"This is really not my focus. I'm not worried about how fiercely they will fight now. It's just that it's more difficult for us to find the truth of the year in this situation, isn't it?" Shen Cha turned her head and spoke to Jin Jing. Taking a look, "The insiders from back then, there are not many who have survived smoothly to the present. After this war, there will be even fewer left, and if it is more serious, maybe there will be none left."

"Whether there are those people is actually not important to us, so we don't need to worry so much." Jin Jing patted Shen Cha's arm, "Although in many cases, witnesses are the key, but in this kind of major collaborating case, physical evidence is the starting point. The one that plays the most important role. The witness’s statement can be changed, but the difficulty of changing physical evidence is much greater, isn’t it?”

"It makes sense to say that." Shen Cha nodded, "However, we have studied the dossiers back then many times, but we haven't found the key physical evidence for the real conviction. The testimony of witnesses is vague Yes, the physical evidence submitted cannot withstand scrutiny. Even His Majesty can't figure out what the late emperor relied on to execute Aunt Xue so neatly."

"Who says it's not? It's just because the judgment of that case is ambiguous. If there is nothing, whether witness testimony or physical evidence, it can't form a complete chain of evidence. It took so many years to find the truth." Jin Jing stretched her waist, looked around, and confirmed that Shen Haolin and Xue Ruitian were not hiding somewhere to eavesdrop, and then said, "Most of the physical evidence used to convict was the eldest prince. The note passed between Aunt Xue and Aunt Xue when they were young is nothing more than the words and sentences of the young children expressing their inner feelings to each other. If it is placed in other cases, it is not even counted as physical evidence. "

"That's right, those elders of the Imperial Academy have been studying it for days, insisting that they hid the news in the poems, but in the end they didn't give a clear answer." Shen Cha sneered, "Maybe they studied It came out, and I forgot to write it in the dossier.”

"Xiaocha, don't be so mean. It's not easy for those masters in the Hanlin Academy. They forget to eat and sleep, and their heads are almost bald. Let's be considerate of them. They decided to pass on the news, but it was because those notes were written by Xue. My aunt wrote the handwritten letter, and then someone came forward and said that they had witnessed the entanglement between the two of them at the border, so..." Jin Jing spread her hands, "It only took ten days from the time the case was issued to the case was closed."

"I always feel that the case is closed in a hurry, and I'm afraid that others will argue repeatedly. It would be strange if there is nothing tricky in it. Besides, there is another point that I haven't figured out until now." Shen Cha paused for a while, "It stands to reason For such a serious crime as collaborating with the enemy, it is already a great favor not to implicate the nine clans, even if it is a foreign relative, it will also implicate the empress in the palace. But you see, after Aunt Xue's accident, she was the only person dealt with by the late emperor."

"That's right, the late emperor ignored the joint letter from the ministers, still trusted the Marquis of Wuding's mansion, and still entrusted him with important tasks. Even...the empress dowager was not implicated. Not only was she not implicated, but her favor was even greater than before."

"You feel the same way, don't you?"

"The former emperor's actions are so contradictory, it has to be thought-provoking." Jin Jing looked at Shen Cha, "I'm here today, and I'll tell the truth. Several times, I felt that the truth of this case was not That's what we think, but it's another possibility. But if that's the case, it's really terrible, or too scary."

"Brother Xiaojing thinks of the hypothesis, and I have discussed it with my brother many times. As you said, if that is the truth, the late emperor's thoughts are too... He really is not afraid of hurting Xun by doing this. Gui, the heart of a general?"

"Emperor's mentality, rough people like us can't understand it, but what is certain is that the court needs balance. When the first emperor was alive, the nobles and generals were too beautiful, and the civil servants couldn't lift their heads." Jin Jing sighed, "If my guess is right, the first emperor was also troubled by this at the time, and what happened to Aunt Xue happened in the end. If Aunt Xue didn't have a sister who was a concubine in the palace, perhaps such a thing would not have happened. occur."

"It's just... for the sake of civil and military balance, to sacrifice the life of an innocent woman, innocent?" Shen Cha sighed, "Should we be thankful that Your Majesty is not such a person?"

"Don't say that. This is just our guess, the most terrifying and impossible guess. Don't take it to heart. If the truth is not like this, wouldn't we have wronged the late emperor? This is disrespectful. Those censors know about it, and it’s another trouble. Let’s find the evidence first, and we’ll do our best, right?”

"What I'm talking about is that if the truth is what we think in the end, we have to accept our fate. At that time, we have to comfort Brother Xiaotian."

"It's the most important thing for you to figure it out first." Jin Jing patted Shen Cha, "It's been too long, let's go back!"

"……it is good!"

(End of this chapter)