Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 728 Seven Brothers

100 million taels, this amount is so huge that a small Yanzhou mansion can't swallow it, there must be other accomplices.The emperor asked Yan Mu to investigate. Some people were afraid of being found on themselves, so they used this dead mouse to warn him not to dig too deep into this matter.

"Just trying to scare me with a dead mouse, am I just so timid in their eyes?" Yan Mu sneered after hearing Liu Yunxiang's analysis.

Liu Yunxiang picked up the tea and took a sip, then said: "But this dead mouse was put in the snack box of the two children. They know you are difficult to deal with, so they just stabbed your weak spot."

Yan Mu frowned when he heard this.

He is indeed not afraid of anything, but he has a wife and children, so he has to be scruples.

"These days, we will be careful. You don't have to worry about it. It's just the corruption case of Yanzhou Futai. Do you have any new discoveries?"

"No." Yan Mu spread his hands, "The files Qin Feishi and the fourth child sorted out are very complete. I also met Yang Xun when I went to the prison. He was a frail scholar and a weird person. He was still reciting poems and painting in the prison. Whether he has been wronged, whether he pleaded guilty or not, he admitted it, and his attitude is very sincere. But if you want to ask him where the 100 million went, he just points to it and refuses to say a word.”

"When dealing with this kind of prisoner, the Criminal Department should not be lenient, right?"

"Hundreds of torture instruments have been used, and he just wants to die."

Liu Yunxiang thought for a while, and said, "Maybe someone threatened him with his family, and wouldn't let him confess his accomplices."

Yan Mu shook his head, "His parents, wife and children are all dead, and he is alone."

"what?"

"He has no weakness, so the government has nothing to do with him."

"Is it possible that he can save his life if he doesn't say anything?" This was the only reason Liu Yunxiang could think of.

"No, the time limit given by the emperor is more than a month before he is executed, but no matter whether it is found out or not, he will be sent to the execution ground at that time."

When Yan Mu said this, he shrugged his shoulders, "So even though this case is in my hands, it doesn't really matter how to investigate, more quickly and slowly, or even whether to investigate."

Liu Yunxiang thought so too. If others can't find out, he can't find out either, so it's useless. But if others can't find out, but he finds out something, I'm afraid it will only cause trouble for himself.

"Then what have you been up to these days?"

Yan Mu exhaled, "When it gets warmer at noon tomorrow, you and I will go out to the city."

In the afternoon of the next day, Liu Yunxiang went out with Yan Mu.In the twelfth lunar month of winter, even in the afternoon, the wind is chilly.Yan Mu wrapped Liu Yunxiang in the cloak, and carried her into the carriage.

On the way, Yan Mu lowered his eyes and said nothing, as if he was in a bad mood.Liu Yunxiang didn't ask any further questions, leaning on his arms, following the bumps of the carriage, he was dazed after a while.

After sitting for an unknown amount of time, Yan Mu called her softly, "Yunxiang, we're here."

Liu Yunxiang opened his eyes in a daze, unable to hug Yan Mu behind him, his low laughter came from his ears.Liu Yunxiang sobered up quite a bit at once, and seeing himself clinging to him and hugging him so affectionately, he couldn't help but blush.

Yan Mu bowed his head and kissed her, then straightened his cloak and carried her off the carriage.

"Lao Qi, what did you ask us to come here for?"

Hearing Zhou Lihuai's voice, Liu Yunxiang hurriedly patted Yan Mu and asked him to put her down.

It wasn't until she got her feet on the ground that she realized they were on the mountain. Because it was winter, the woods were bare and desolate.And Zhou Lihuai was just a few steps away, he seemed to be used to the intimacy of the two, and did not avoid it.To Liu Yunxiang's surprise, there was another person standing behind Zhou Lihuai, Zhu Qingjia.

Zhu Qingjia is Shangguanxu's adopted son, Xingyi, a military commander, and had a very good relationship with Yan Mu before, but after Yan Mu and Shangguanxu broke up, he sided with Shangguanxu.

Before Nanzhou quelled the chaos, Zhu Qingjia injured his leg and was still in office, but now he is at home.He was wearing a blue robe with a black cloak outside. His eyelids were swollen and his beard was unshaven. He looked depressed and frustrated.

"This is a barren mountain, just in case you encounter a bear or something." Zhou Lihuai said and picked up a wooden stick from the ground.

Yan Mu snorted, "If I really meet a bear, I'll throw you to it to eat."

"Lao Qi, it's a good thing I'm your fifth brother, and I always secretly gave you sweets when I was young."

"As a result, he ate his teeth." Zhu Qingjia added suddenly.

Zhou Lihuai chuckled, "Who made him always sneak in the bed at night to eat, and was afraid that his foster father would find out, so he didn't dare to rinse his mouth, his teeth must be broken."

"He had a broken tooth, and you got a beating."

"Hey, who made me a brother."

Speaking of childhood, the atmosphere among the three became much more relaxed.

Zhu Qingjia looked at Yan Mu, frowned, and then let out a long sigh of regret, "Xiao Qi from back then is now the king of Zhenbei, and we are in the same place as us. I just don't know why His Highness asked us to come here?"

Yan Mu looked at Zhu Qingjia and said lightly, "Let's go up the mountain first."

Zhu Qingjia didn't ask much, turned around and walked up the mountain, but his leg was not convenient, and he was limping when he walked.Seeing this, Zhou Lihuai sighed slightly, and then ran forward to help him.

"I don't need it."

"The road up the mountain is steep..."

"roll!"

Zhou Lihuai had no choice but to follow Zhu Qingjia so that he could support him in time when he needed it.

"I heard from my sister-in-law that you drag this sick leg to exercise every day, and you run for more than ten miles. I didn't tell you to keep it, slowly, calmly, and don't worry."

"It's been half a year, and it's not getting better at all!"

"That also needs to be nourished. You can exercise, but in moderation."

"Okay, long-winded."

Watching the two walk away, Liu Yunxiang walked up the mountain with Yan Mu's arms in his arms.It had snowed a few days ago, and there was still snow on the road, so it was a little slippery. They were afraid that Liu Yunxiang would hurt his wound, so the two walked very slowly.

When they reached the halfway up the mountain, there was a flat land, Liu Yunxiang saw Zhu Qingjia and Zhou Lihuai stopped there.She took a few steps forward, and after a closer look, she found that there were three graves in front of the two of them.

She turned her head to look at Yan Mu, seeing his serious expression, and after thinking about it, she figured it out.She took a few steps faster and walked to the grave. She saw Mu Jin's grave first, Lin Jinxiao next to it, and Wei Shuyi over there.

Wei Shuyi killed the Third Highness, committed suicide in prison, and threw the body directly into the mass grave.She didn't expect Yan Mu to collect his body and bury it here.

"Lin tonight is... a beggar?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

"Yes, he is the second. We only know that his name is Lin Jinxiao. He was also a descendant of a famous family. He was rescued by his adoptive father and worked for his adoptive father. Grow up with us." Zhu Qingjia said.

Yan Mu looked at the tombstone and said: "He has gray hair, we call him an old beggar, but he is not very old."

"You brought their bones back from Beijin." Liu Yunxiang turned to look at Yan Mu.

"If it wasn't for me, they wouldn't have died there." Yan Mu looked at the graves of the beggar and Mu Jin, and said in a deep voice, "Rest in peace, I won't wait too long, I will unscrew Qin Feishi's Pay homage to you."

(End of this chapter)