After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 929 Lu Family
Haitang hurriedly asked Wang Xiaoqing for details.

Wang Xiaoqing didn't know much. He was just Xie Wenzai's servant, and was loaned to Cao Gengyun because Xie Wenzai was worried that his old friend would be neglected by his children and grandchildren after returning home. However, for the sake of face or some other reasons, he was unwilling to tell anyone and was unwilling to return to the Hai family. Therefore, he specially loaned his servant to be an eye and ear, and also meant to let Cao Gengyun have a reliable person at home.

Therefore, Cao Gengyun always let Wang Xiaoqing stay in the house to serve him, and would never let his children, grandchildren or daughters-in-law find a reason to send him away. Even if Wang Xiaoqing had to leave Cao Gengyun due to something, he would go back quickly and would never let Cao Gengyun stay alone for too long. When Cao Gengyun met with his children and grandchildren, Wang Xiaoqing would also wait by the door, so he could naturally hear what they were talking about. However, he was young, had little knowledge, and was not familiar with the affairs of the court, so he could only understand half of it at most. Cao Gengyun would not explain more to him, so he could not tell clearly what those words meant.

Wang Xiaoqing only knew that the old emperor had died in the palace, and after his death, the princes of the royal family came to the palace to discuss the funeral. Ji Wang and his son suddenly colluded with the imperial guards to start a palace riot. Fortunately, Yingchuan Hou quickly led his troops into the palace to quell the riot. Ji Wang and his son are now detained in the palace. Yingchuan Hou sent troops to surround the street where the Sun family lives on the same day. It is estimated that the Sun family was behind the scenes to instigate Ji Wang's actions. The Sun family is guilty of treason!

There were low-level officials of the Sun faction who were unaware of the inside story and spoke up for Sun Ge Lao. They colluded everywhere and wanted to redress his grievances, but they were suppressed by their superiors or teachers. After the palace turmoil was quelled, the cabinet ministers and royal family members were able to escape danger and return home, bringing back a lot of news. Whether the Sun family bribed the generals of the imperial guards and cooperated with the father and son of Prince Ji to stir up the turmoil still needs further verification, but it is indisputable that Concubine Sun caused the death of the late emperor. The Sun family cannot escape the blame this time, so why plead for them? The officials of the Sun faction did not expect Concubine Sun to be so bold. For now, they should first consider how to draw a clear line with the Sun family to avoid being implicated in such a serious crime of treason.

As a result, the officials and scholars who had wanted to promote the Sun family stopped talking. Everyone had long complained about how much Concubine Sun had cheated her father. But Lord Sun loved his daughter so much that he always indulged her. What could everyone do?

Families like the Lu family, who had been dependent on the Sun family for many years and whose background was not very clean, were even more panicked. They tried to find another backer everywhere, but they were not very successful. When they heard that the family's abandoned son Lu Bainian had returned to the capital and had contacted many old students of the Wu family and had close contacts, they started to think about him again. However, when Lu Bainian returned to the capital, their attitude was very cold and they ignored him. They were worried that if they went to his house now, they would be treated coldly by Lu Bainian, so they went to the Cao family and wanted the Cao family to persuade Cao Gengyun to help the Lu family lobby and persuade Lu Bainian to reconcile with his family, so that they could use the face of this former abandoned son to ask the old students of the Wu family to let their family go.

How dare the Cao family take over? They immediately came to report to Cao Gengyun. Cao Gengyun scolded the Lu family severely and did not intend to send a letter to his old friend. He directly rejected the Lu family on behalf of Lu Bainian.

The Lu family had no choice but to think of another way. Family members were running outside all day long. The head of the family's brother even asked someone to pass a message to a cabinet elder, expressing his willingness to provide evidence of the crimes of Sun's officials in exchange for his own exoneration.

As soon as the news came out, the Lu family immediately aroused public outrage in the Sun faction circle. The Sun faction's followers and officials attacked several members of the Lu family who were officials, and also exposed many evidences of his family's crimes. The two sides started to fight each other.

Just yesterday, someone informed the cabinet, including Tao Ge Lao and several other old officials. The cabinet officials asked for the queen mother and the new emperor's orders, met with Yingchuan Hou, and went to the street where the Sun family lived. They searched the surrounding houses and found a secret passage in the back garden of the house of a branch of the Lu family.

Following this secret passage, the officers and soldiers found the entrance to the main house of the Sun family, and found that the exit at the other end was in an empty house two streets away. The places where the secret road passes are basically either empty houses or houses where the owner is absent and only a few servants are guarding the door. In fact, most of them are owned by the Sun family or relatives of the Sun family. They surround the streets where the Sun family lives, forming an isolation circle. No one can cross these empty houses and spy on the situation inside the Sun family. Because this circle of houses is actually under the control of the Sun family, the tunnel was dug for at least half a year, and no one leaked the news. The secret passage is said to have several entrances and exits, leading to two or three directions. Such a large-scale underground network inevitably passes through properties that are not owned by the Sun family. Among them is a house bought by a branch of the Lu family after the family split up. This branch of the Lu family used to be an assistant official for an official of the Sun family, so he bought a house near the Sun family to be closer. Now this man has been exiled with his family and has not been home for more than a year. He only left a pair of old servants at home to look after the door. He has lent his house to his nephew to study. There is a tunnel through his backyard. Even if the old servants are deaf and blind and don't know what's going on in the backyard, it is impossible for the young man from the Lu family who is staying here not to hear any movement.

The Sun family had long been preparing to dig a tunnel to escape, which was enough to shock the cabinet. The Lu family was involved, so naturally they could not escape responsibility. Now that his family had offended their allies, even the Sun faction officials were unwilling to intercede for their family. Their family could do nothing except repeatedly arguing that they had no knowledge of the incident. The young man from the Lu family who was temporarily living in the house also claimed that he had not really spent the night in the house. In fact, he had used the excuse of studying outside to deceive his family and secretly slept with prostitutes.
But even if the young man could prove that he had never spent the night in that house, he could not prove that he had not heard any noise in the backyard. The owner of the house escaped the disaster temporarily because he left Beijing early, but some people doubted that the Sun family might have contacted him by letter to borrow his backyard. If he was the one who knew the existence of the secret passage, he could not escape responsibility.

The Lu family was accused of colluding with the Sun family to flee, and was attacked by their former allies. It was like a world of ice and fire, and the whole family was about to suffer. Although Cao Gengyun hated his family, he still cared about his old friend. He was worried that Lu Bainian would be implicated by his unfilial descendants after finally living a quiet life, so he immediately rushed back to inform him.

Wang Xiaoqing's words were trivial, but Haitang already understood what was going on.

But she was also very surprised. She thought that only the son of the Grand Secretary dug the tunnel in private to rescue his beloved daughter, who was a member of the Sun family. She never expected that the Sun family had already had a plan to dig tunnels and dug a network of tunnels in the place where their family lived. I am afraid that since the Sun Lady was demoted and the Sun Lord was kicked out of the cabinet, the Sun family has been considering a way out? In order to be on the safe side, they dug a tunnel first, so that if the soldiers surrounded the mansion, they could quietly escape through the tunnel.

No wonder the Sun family father and son did not make any move even after the soldiers surrounded the Sun family for 20 days. It turned out that they had a way out, so they were not panicked. They seemed to be honest and calm, but they were actually speeding up the tunnel digging in private, right? If they were not anxious to dig through the tunnel, they would not have made any noise and let people report it.

Haitang sneered in her heart, feeling that the law is long and unstoppable.

But a thought suddenly popped into her mind and she hesitated.

Brother Haijiao didn't tell me that this happened in his previous life? Could it be that... it was because he "told" his uncle Xie Wenzai that the Sun family's tunnel network was accidentally exposed?