Hexi

Chapter 299 Framed!
Chang He went to Liushu Alley, found the No. [-] Courtyard of A-brand, and patted the gate without any explanation.

At the sound of footsteps, the porter glanced at him through the crack and opened the door.

Chang He kicked him: "Where is the master?"

"The master is in the west courtyard... Hey, Second Master! You can't go in, Second Master!"

Chang He shook off him and strode into the backyard.

The house is far from being as big as the Chang family's old house, and there are only two yards across the west courtyard, so it's easy to find, as long as someone is standing under the door.

Chang He rushed in, and the servants rushed to stop him, but he was the young master after all, Chang Wei's eldest son, they couldn't force him.

But the more they blocked him, the more Chang He couldn't restrain himself from wanting to be violent. Since childhood, Chang Wei cultivated him with all his heart, and placed great expectations on him. But he never knew that his father, whom he had always trusted and admired, had purchased such a house without telling him. He could guess that this was not an ordinary house, but a house that hid the secrets related to tonight's accident!

He broke into the courtyard, reached the front of the main house where the double doors were tightly closed, but green smoke was faintly emitting, and then pushed the door open without any explanation.

The porch light shines into the room, illuminating the scattered papers and objects yellow and bright. In the brazier lit in the center of the room, clusters of flames are knocked into various shapes by the airflow when the door is opened. Chang Wei, squatting behind the brazier, has disheveled hair and beard, and his good Shu brocade robe is not only dirty, but also crumpled. On his kneeling right leg, the robe is dark red, and his body is obviously turned to the left, while he In his hand, he was holding a ledger with a corner burned.

"Father!"

Chang He hurriedly stepped forward to help him: "Are you injured?"

Chang Wei looked at him: "How did you find this place?"

"I..." Chang He was about to answer, but his eyes were attracted by the account book in his hand, "... Xue Mansion?!"

The handwriting on the account book was very clear, and the hairpin lowercase script clearly wrote "Accounts of General Affairs of the Xue Mansion".

Everyone in the Chang family is very sensitive to the surname Xue, because of the Xue family, they have raised a level from the flat ground.

"Is it the Xue family? Why are their account books in your hands?" Chang He quickly took the account book in his hand, quickly flipped through a few pages, and then stared at Chang Wei with wide eyes, "These are the Xue family's accounts. Shouldn’t it have been taken back by the court long ago? Why is it still in father’s hands?”

Chang Wei looked back at him with complicated eyes.

Chang He turned his head and looked at the documents all over the floor again. He lost the account book, picked up one and looked through it, his face turned pale, and then picked up another one to look at it, his face faded a bit, then he knelt down on the On the ground, searching through the piles of documents and things, there is nothing that does not shock him!

"What do these mean?" He stood up, holding some maps and letters.

"You have seen it all." Chang Wei sat back on the chair behind him, the previous panic was gone, he looked at the ground calmly, "That's what you saw."

"So, Xue Rong is innocent. He didn't harbor the descendants of the deposed prince. Are you fabricating the facts and accusing him?"

Chang Wei nodded slightly: "That's right. He didn't hide. Not only did Xue's family not rebel or harbor traitors, on the contrary, he was very worthy of the reputation given to him by the world. In all fairness, he is a good official, and what is rare is He doesn't try to catch his name. Maybe he still has some gaps compared with the names of famous ministers in the past dynasties, but after I have studied his experience in the officialdom for decades, I found that he is worthy of the leader and worthy of the emperor."

"Then why did you do this?" Chang He trembled, "You framed Zhongliang of the court. This is a crime of confiscating the family and implicating the whole family! So many people died in the Xue family...why, why did you do this?"

Chang Wei took a deep breath and looked ahead: "Because you were born as a human being and entered an official position as a human being, you will inevitably follow the crowd and do things that you know are wrong, but you will still do them. If it weren't for the case of the Xue family, your father How many years will it take to get ahead among the six officials? How can you quickly rise to the prestige you have today? You are young and have little experience, and now all you want is to stand proudly in front of the head of the house. At my age, you will not It’s the same. Do you know how it felt when I was sought after by everyone after Xue Rong was removed? Do you know how it felt when even the second and third rank generals in the military department’s office offered to give me their hands to get close to me? You see Look, doesn't even a first-rank military officer like Fang Mei have to put down his dignity and listen to my orders? People have thousands of desires, and only power is the most practical."

"I know power is very important! But haven't you thought about what happens if something happens?" Chang He's voice was hoarse, and he stepped closer to him, "Have you considered your mother, me, and your siblings for such a big crime?" ?”

"Of course I do things perfectly. You see, it's been almost three years. Who still remembers this case? Who still mentions Xue Rong? No one will doubt it. When the case was tried back then, up to the emperor , Down to the local officials, there is enough evidence to support every link, and no one can catch the loopholes."

"In this case, why did you destroy these things overnight?"

"I destroyed them because tonight's plan almost failed, leaving behind troubles."

Chang He looked at him, and his throat rolled: "What's wrong with tonight's plan? Are there any future troubles?"

"Fang Mei didn't die."

Chang He choked for a while: "You want to kill Fang Mei? Didn't he form an alliance with us? Could it be that our original plan was not to destroy the Han family, prevent him from continuing to investigate the cause of Luo Zhi's death, and then find a way to get it from the Su family?" Is that what we were looking for?!"

"He'er," Chang Wei put his left hand on his knees, his eyes warm, "For my father to come this far, the purpose should not only be the Han family, but also how to become the head of the Chang family. You are right, these are all It's the purpose of tonight's plan, but it's only part of it. There are some things that I didn't have time to tell you before." Chang Wei scanned the paper on the ground, picked out a few pages and handed them over, "Our purpose is this."

Chang He, who quickly saw the content on the paper, turned pale!

"This is... this is..." He was so shocked that he couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time, "so those weapons—"

"That's right, it's exactly what you think. Those weapons were never intended to be returned."

The porch lamp shone into Chang He's eyes, and his voice was hoarse: "I don't know anything about these things, you even keep it from me."

"How can you talk about this kind of thing?"

"Then why did you kill Fang Mei?"

Chang Wei moved his sitting position and said, "It's a long story."

(End of this chapter)