Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 568 Breakfast

Shen Cha spent one night sorting out the testimony of Mrs. Cai and Mrs. Gao, and followed Shen Haolin to court the next morning.

Mr. Cai and Mr. Gao were arrested, and the two mansions were ransacked because of his two sons assassinating His Majesty who was out on tour in disguise. These news spread throughout Xijing in one night, and everyone in the hall knew about it.

The reaction from the generals was fairly flat, but the atmosphere from the civil servants was not so good.Mr. Cai and Mr. Gao are the mainstays of Yushitai. When these two were arrested, the Yushi lost their backbone and panicked. The whole court was like a quail with a bald tail. They lowered their heads and did not speak for fear of saying anything. He didn't say to deal with it, and he was also implicated.As for the more well-informed cabinet and the Hanlin Academy, which concentrated on studying books and learning, they didn't take the initiative to talk about it. Therefore, the whole court meeting seemed relatively peaceful, and the court ended after talking about two trivial things.

Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Song Qiyun did not leave the palace with the civil and military officials, but waited until everyone had almost left, and then turned to the imperial study room. When passing by the imperial dining room, they also took away two drawers of hot pot Meat buns, a few freshly made side dishes, and a pot of steaming and fragrant chicken soup just cooked on the stove.

"It smells so good!" Song Jue smelled it in the room, and found it after looking for it. When he saw the things Mei Lin and Mei Zhu were holding, he raised his eyebrows slightly, "Great, I ate it in the morning." A little, but now I'm hungry again, just enough to fill my stomach." He looked up at the sky, "It's a nice day, not too cold, how about we eat in the yard?"

Everyone had no objection, Eunuch Cui directed the servants to move the tables, chairs and benches to the yard, took over the things from Mei Lin and Mei Zhu and set them up, and went to the imperial dining room to get some sets of utensils, and put them neatly one by one .

"Everyone sit down!"

Song Jue took the first seat and called everyone to sit down together. He specially ordered a small table not far from them to let Mei Lin and Mei Zhu sit down and eat.The two of them ran around here and there, and they couldn't have a good meal. It just so happened that they were fine now, so they could relax a little bit.

"Go to prison yesterday?" Song Jue grabbed two steamed buns and put them on his own plate. After Shen Haolin finished filling Shen Cha's soup, he filled a bowl for Song Qiyun before it was his turn. "It is said that the harvest is not small."

"What did the commander-in-chief say?"

Seeing Song Jue nodding, Shen Cha put down the spoon in her hand, pulled out her prepared confession from her sleeve, and handed it to Song Jue.

"what is this?"

"The confessions of the two ladies and what they said are all recorded on it. I asked my brother to check it, and I didn't miss any key testimony."

Song Jue drank two mouthfuls of soup, grabbed the steamed stuffed bun next to him, and looked at it while chewing. The more he looked down, the more solemn his face became.After reading all of them, there was still more than half of the bun in his hand, and he didn't even notice that the oil in the bun stuffing had flowed onto his hands.

"Brother Huang, wipe it off!" Song Qiyun handed his brother a handkerchief, "Your steamed stuffed bun will get cold if you don't eat it, and it won't taste good!"

"Oh!" Song Jue came back to his senses, washed his hands in the washbasin brought by Eunuch Cui first, wiped off the water on his hands with a handkerchief, grabbed the leftover buns and continued to eat, "Is it more reliable?"

"A large part of it matches the content of our investigation, but there is still a small part that needs to be verified before drawing conclusions. The few people they provided who are good at forging notes and letters have already sent Shadow to investigate last night. In two days, there will be results."

"This is a very crucial point!" Song Jue's expression was very serious, and he tapped on the table lightly, "I was convicted of my aunt back then because of these letters, which are considered ironclad evidence. If it can be determined that these letters are forged Yes, then this case can be overturned from the very beginning. Xiaocha, tell your people to search for it quickly. This time, we will be ahead of Wanyanping's people."

"Yes." Shen Cha nodded, "The two ladies admitted that they are Jin people or Wanyan people, and at the same time they also said that they stayed in Xijing under the order of Prince Long Qing, and they did not go along with Wanyan Ping. "

"Prince Longqing is the most loyal supporter of Prince Wanyan. He was the one who sent Wanyanxi out of Yiqing Mansion to save Wanyanxi's life, but he himself..." Song Jue finished eating The bun in his hand reached out to the second one, "What do you want to do?"

"First, let's see if the information they gave is correct, and see if those craftsmen will be found. If the information they provide is correct, we will consider asking Wanyanxi to meet them." Shen Chachi After eating half a steamed stuffed bun and half a bowl of chicken soup, he put down the chopsticks in his hand, "Before that, we probably won't interrogate them again. As for Mrs. Cai and Mrs. Gao, according to the two wives, they did not ask themselves Her husband revealed his identity, and the two adults did not know the secrets hidden in the tea house they often went to."

"This..." Song Jue sneered, "Do you believe it?"

"I don't believe it!" Shen Haolin and Shen Cha shook their heads at the same time, "But the expressions of the two ladies don't seem to be lying, so the background of these two adults needs to be investigated. Maybe..." Shen Haolin naturally said to Shen Cha He ate the leftover buns, and he drank the half bowl of chicken soup. "They are arranged by Prince Longqing on another line. It is not uncommon to do this. We also do the same."

Song Jue did not speak, but agreed with Shen Haolin's conjecture. However, there is another possibility, that is, they discovered their wife's secret, and in order to protect their wife, they concealed this secret.

"After these two adults were arrested, how did the other people in Yushitai react?" Song Qiyun looked at Song Jue, then at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "They were unusually quiet in the court today, so quiet Not like them."

"The few who often signed their memorials got together last night and chatted for about an hour before they broke up." Bai Meng walked over with a yawn, walked to Song Qiyun's side, and kicked Song Qiyun lightly. His stool, "give it a place, I'm starving to death."

"Why did you go?" Song Qiyun moved to the side, looking at the tiredness on Bai Meng's face, "Have you been stalking?"

"No, after this group of people broke up, they found a few different people to pass on the news. They have been busy all night, and I have been busy all night too." Bai Meng glanced at the half pot of chicken soup, and told herself He filled a bowl and said while drinking, "I didn't expect that people from the Imperial Academy and the cabinet would mess with them. These people have been studying for nothing for so many years. Don't worry, those who attended various parties last night, I have arranged for people to watch, and if they make any moves, as long as they get the stolen goods, they can take them down immediately!"

"It's just for the little profit, but it's good now, I can use this opportunity to clear up the three most troublesome places." Song Jue saw Baimeng's way of eating, and asked Cui Eunuch to go to the imperial dining room again. Fang came back to get some food for Bai Meng, "Slow down, no one will grab you."

Bai Meng didn't make a fuss, just smiled at Song Jue, and continued to attack the buns in the cage.

(End of this chapter)