After death, I became the cannon fodder of the three protagonists

Chapter 63 The truth?

Su Mo's eyes flashed a flash of wariness, and he lowered his head without saying a word.

Fang Shi looked outside the door, the courtyard wall of Gu's old house was quite high, at a glance, he could only see the distant sky.

Distant memories resurfaced, and Fang Shi lowered his eyes to cover his obscure eyes.

"Do you know that when you and your father were shot dead by officers and soldiers by the river, it was not because you two wanted to escape from Jinzhou, but because someone bribed the officials to take your lives..."

Su Mo raised her head suddenly, "What does your lord mean by that?"

Fang Shi cast a glance at Fang Yue who was at the side, Fang Yue received the look, left reluctantly, and went to the study to look for the three children.

There were only Su Mo and Fang Shi left in the room, the door was open, the light illuminated the room, and there was nowhere to hide from all the darkness.

"This matter starts from the 16th year of Yuanyong.

At the end of February of that year, I failed the official examination.

After returning to Guanyuan City, Jinzhou, he was very decadent and unwilling to go out. Seeing this, his father proposed to go on a long trip, firstly to relieve his mood, and secondly to broaden his horizons.

The official followed his advice and went out, traveled all over the country, but never thought of returning, and learned of the severe drought in Jinzhou.

The official immediately bought a batch of grain and asked the escort to escort it to Jinzhou, but found that all the official roads in Jinzhou were controlled by officers and soldiers, and it became an iron bucket. People inside could not get out, and people outside could not get in.

In addition, there are many differences.

Speaking of this, Fang Shi paused, clenched his hands under his sleeves into fists.

He took a long breath to calm himself down, and continued:
"At that time, although the official would try to fail the ranking, he was still a candidate.

The official took this opportunity to visit nearby local officials, but unfortunately those officials did not leak any information about it. Not only did they not find any useful information, they almost alarmed the snake.

Fortunately, the sky paid off, those people still showed their feet, and the officials found the corruption ledger, which even contained the names of officials in the capital.

When those people found out that the ledger had been stolen, they were like frightened birds, terrified and uneasy, but they didn't dare to arrest them in a big way, so they had to write to the backers in Beijing, and they must beware of those who sued.

But he never thought that all these were being seen by the official. "

Speaking of this, Fang Shi sneered sarcastically.

"I know that I should not act rashly, and wait patiently until the spring of the next year, when the rain falls and Jinju is unsealed again.

Only then did the official disguise himself and go to Jinzhou.

Jinzhou at this time can be described as a mess, with bones everywhere.

When I rushed to Guanyuan City, I also learned that your father left with his daughter, and his life and death were unknown.

Before his father left, he handed over the property under his name to the bank to take care of it, and appointed the housekeeper to be responsible for the size of the property.

When the housekeeper died, the bank handed over the matter to the housekeeper's son in accordance with regulations.

After the drought, the Yishan Hall was completely closed, and many people inside died, or their lives and deaths were unknown.

Seeing this, the official left Guanyuan City, inquired about your father's whereabouts along the way, and studied hard, tried to get into the palace examination, and exposed the corruption of officials in the severe drought in Jinzhou and the carelessness of human life.

This official endured for three years, avoiding the eyes and ears of the officials, and finally won the first prize in one fell swoop. In the palace examination, he was handpicked by the Holy One.

The official also took this opportunity to tell the truth about the drought in Jinzhou in the 16th year of Yuanyong, and informed that the evidence was sewn on the official's inner garment.

This matter was quite risky, as it was recorded in the ledger that [-]% of the embezzled money for disaster relief was sent to the prime minister's mansion.

The prime minister is an official left over from the previous dynasty, and his eldest daughter is the former crown prince. He killed his relatives righteously and surrendered with the lives of all the people in the former prince's mansion.

At the beginning of the new dynasty, officials of the previous dynasty were not killed.

One is to show the benevolence of the emperor.

The second is that the officials of various aristocratic families are intertwined. If they don't move, they will be fine.

In particular, the prime minister voluntarily surrendered and dedicated his daughter to the emperor.

Later, her little daughter was promoted step by step, and became a noble concubine of the court. Although she had no heirs, she was quite favored.

But the evidence that the official has is only one ledger.

Sure enough, the Holy Majesty looked through the account book, and seemed to be letting it go.

Fortunately, there was a turning point, and Gu Lei, the flower-tanner, also sued the prime minister in the palace, corrupted the law, and framed loyal ministers. He was the mastermind behind the fraud case in the fourth year of Yuanyong's reign.

There were all witnesses and material evidence, Emperor Jingyong was furious, and immediately appointed Gu Lei as imperial envoy, and I made an exception to enter the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to assist Dali Temple. The two cases were investigated together.

Many officials were involved in this case, and it was not until the beginning of August of that year that the truth came to light.

While investigating the case in Jinzhou, I found your father's jade pendant on an official's body. After questioning, I learned that someone paid you with this jade pendant and ten thousand taels of silver to kill your father and you.

The official said that they chased you two all the way to the river, shot you two with bows and arrows, and watched your bodies float away along the river with their own eyes..."

Fang Shi didn't say anything later, and Su Mo guessed it. Naturally, Fang Shi mistakenly thought that they were all dead, so he didn't look for them.

The task will be completed soon, and Su Mo feels a little happy. Fang Shi has said so much, but she has already guessed everything.

But the system did not remind the task to be completed, which meant that Fang Shi had to say it himself.

In order to prevent Fang Shi from talking about other things, Su Mo lowered her eyes slightly, and mist soon appeared in her eyes.

A deeply shocked, vulnerable, but still pretending to be calm, with tears in his eyes, which seemed to not fall.

"So... who bought the murderer?"

"The son of the housekeeper—Su Quanxiao."

Hearing Su Mo's question, Fang Shi revealed the identity of that person without hesitation.

"Qianzhuang is controlled by the government, and they don't recognize people.

When the father entrusted the property to the bank, he used the token as a token. If someone left with the token within 20 years, the bank would hand over the property to that person.

If no one goes, [-]% of all property will be donated to the steward, and he will be released into slavery.

[-]% belong to the bank.

The remaining [-]% ​​will be converted into cash, in your name, to subsidize the children of poor families who have no funds for scientific examinations in Jinzhou until all the cash is used up.

But the bank stipulates that the father dies and the son succeeds the son. Su Quanxiao did not hesitate to kill his father for the [-]% of his father's property, and even paid money to bribe the officials to let them go south to hunt you two down.

After the official learned the truth, he wanted to kill this person, but because of insufficient evidence, he could not arrest Su Quanxiao and bring him to justice.

The bank was also requested by his father to send someone to protect the butler's line.

The butler's death was too sudden, and when the bank's guards found out, they were already powerless, so they had to strengthen their protection of Su Quanxiao after his death.

This also makes me helpless against him, but you are different. "

Fang Shi raised his eyes to look at Su Mo, "The steward is a slave of the world, and the descendants are the servants of the Su family for generations, the main slave dies, the slave has to die.

As long as you go back with the token and take back the Su family's property, he will surely die! "

As Fang Shi's words fell, the voice of 258 suddenly sounded in Su Mo's mind.

"Ding... Su Zhiyuan's side mission [-] has been completed, and the relevant rewards are being distributed...

Ding... Su Zhiyuan's side mission [-] is now open.

Ask the host to take back the Su family's property within the agreed time limit and avenge his father.

[-] points will be rewarded for completing the task, and [-] points will be deducted for failing the task.

Mission countdown: ten years, three months, nineteen days, 21 hours and 6 minutes. "

(End of this chapter)