The eldest lady just wants to be a crazy beauty

Chapter 62

As soon as they entered the city, Qin Ruizhi and his party were picked up by people from Dali Temple.

Zheng Pin was escorted into the palace by Sang Yucheng.

At the entrance of the palace, Sang Yucheng stopped. Zheng Pin got off the sedan chair and walked to face the saint.

Tai'an Palace is majestic and solemn, with glazed tiles shining in the sun.

In the palace, the emperor was sitting upright, his body stern, his eyes as if falling into an ice cave.

Your Highness, Zheng Pin was kneeling on the ground, his head on his hands, trembling, unable to look or speak under the power of the dragon.

"Zheng Pin, I ask you, can you be present in person when Yuan Qinian interrogates Tongli Ting?"

Zheng Pin raised his head, straightened his spine, and raised his voice slightly: "Your Majesty, I'm not here. Mr. Yuan said that this is a big matter, related to the safety of the country, and he is afraid of leaking the news. The fewer people know about it, the better, so it's all Master Yuan interrogates Tongli Court alone."

"Then how did you know that the owner of the money-making workshop is Tong Liting?"

Zheng Pin replied: "It was Mr. Yuan who told me. Mr. Yuan said that Tongli Ting was greedy for life and wanted to make a living. He had to go to Beijing to meet His Majesty before he was willing to confess the mastermind. We escorted Tongli Ting back to Beijing from Xiangzhou. He just left On the border of Xiangzhou, we were chased by masked assassins. The state soldiers resisted desperately, but were still defeated. Tongli Ting died first, and Mr. Yuan was afraid of an accident, so he told me the name Tongli Ting."

"Since Tong Liting is dead, why are we still chasing you all the way?"

Zheng Pin did not dare to hide anything, and added: "Master Yuan compiled his conversation with Tongli Ting into a confession. When we arrived at the border of Puzhou, more than half of the state's soldiers were lost, so Master Yuan gave me the confession." , and then risked his life to lure away the masked assassin.

Following Lord Yuan's wishes, I went to Puzhou and sought help from the Puzhou County Magistrate Gao Jinying and his sister. Unfortunately, Magistrate Gao was transferred to Gaoyang County Lieutenant. Fortunately, Lord Gao's niece Qin Ruizhi took him in. That night, I was chased by assassins and was almost injured. He died again, and thanks to the rescue of Gao Zhiying's mother and daughter, he rested at Gao's house in Puzhou for several days before landing and setting off.

I met Chongzhou on the road, and was chased by assassins at the posthouse outside the city..."

"Zheng Pin, where is that confession now? Please submit it to me."

Zheng Pin also wanted to talk about the Chongzhou Post House in detail, but the emperor couldn't listen and changed the topic directly. Asking for Li Ting's confession was tantamount to killing Zheng Pin.

Zheng Pin was in a daze and kowtowed to the ground, "Your Majesty clearly knows that I am loyal to Your Majesty."

"Tell me, where is the confession?"

The emperor's eyes widened with anger. He walked down from His Highness and looked majestically at the kneeling Zheng Pin. Just one look was enough to make Zheng Pin tremble.

"The confession was burned." Zheng Pin's voice was trembling, "At Chongzhou Post House, the assassins came fiercely and burned the post house. Although Wei Chen fought desperately and almost died in the flames, he still could not keep his confession. Wei Chen deserves to die. , please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"You deserve to die..."

The emperor kicked Zheng Pin. Zheng Pin staggered and curled up on the ground, with a distorted expression on his face. With the help of his body's resistance, he pressed his hand into the injured area on his heart, waiting until the warm blood flowed into his finger. tip.

Zheng Pin struggled to crawl to the emperor's feet, "Your Majesty, please forgive me..."

After saying a few words, the person fainted and lay on his side. It was summer, he was only wearing two layers of thin clothes, and his heart was stained with a large bright red.

The bitter meat trick was played in front of the emperor. The emperor was furious, raised his leg and stepped on the wound on Zheng Pin's chest.

Zheng Pin was exhausted and woke up groaning in pain. Looking at the emperor's angry face, he became more and more frightened. He knelt on the ground and did not dare to breathe. There were big drops of sweat on his forehead, and the wound in front of his heart was bleeding. Terrified and uneasy.

"Go away. If this matter is not investigated clearly, you will not be alive." "Wei Chen...accepts the order."

Zheng Pin kowtowed and struggled to get up from the ground. Every cell in his body was mobilized to maintain a difficult walk. He gritted his teeth and stepped out of the hall step by step.

As soon as I left the main hall, I couldn't hold on any longer. I just felt like the world was spinning and day and night were upside down.

At this time, the internal official who was waiting here hurriedly walked over, supported Zheng Pin, and whispered softly to Zheng Pin: "By the order of Prime Minister Zheng, I am waiting here. Please come with me, Master Zheng."

Zheng Pin nodded slightly, let the internal officials hold him up, and hurriedly left the palace.

In Tai'an Palace, the emperor frowned as he looked at the files on the Chongzhou Post House case that were presented to him.

The case file was written flawlessly, and the statements of the twenty guards of the Pei family corroborated each other, especially the words that the masked assassin said before his death, which Zheng Pin heard very clearly, and the autopsy also confirmed that the ten corpses were indeed those of the deceased. Died in a fire, his logic is self-explanatory and impeccable.

It seems that he is a remnant of King Xiang's lineage. In order to keep the secret of the money-making workshop, he killed someone and then committed suicide.

But this excuse is too strange. The whole line of King Xiang has been executed, and no one of his wife, concubines, and children were spared. Together with his subordinates, in-laws, and collaterals, a total of more than a thousand people were chopped cleanly, and not even a branch of blood was left. There is no possibility of revenge, so why keep the secret of the coin workshop?

The emperor flipped through the files again, and at the end was Qin Ruizhi's confession. Looking further back, it was Qin Qingyue's confession.

"Why are the two children of the Qin family involved?" The emperor put down the file, his face suddenly filled with suspicion, and his sinister eyes narrowed, which was a prelude to anger.

The eunuch in charge hurriedly responded with a sharp voice: "Back to Your Majesty, Master Xiao Zheng just said that Qin Ruizhi saved his life when he was in the Gao family in Puzhou. As for Qin Qingyue, the old slave heard that he was fond of gambling and wandered around Various gambling dens in Kyoto lost half of their family fortune.

This time, he was gambling with the second son of Duke Rongguo, and he lost five thousand silver. General Qin refused to pay him back, so he ran out of Kyoto in anger, presumably to Puzhou. "

"So, Qin Ruizhi also followed Zheng Pin back to Kyoto?"

The eunuch in charge replied: "Yes, he was taken away by people from Dali Temple as soon as he entered Beijing. He is probably in a prison in Dali City at the moment."

"In that case, let the Minister of Dali Temple investigate his two nephews carefully. If he dares to cover up and show favoritism, I will twist his head."

Then, he walked away, leaving a stack of unreviewed memorials on the desk behind him.

Late at night, the little eunuch conveyed the emperor's oral instructions to the palace.

At this time, the lights in Gaofei were still bright, and the meeting hall was full of people, all with gloomy faces.

The eldest son Gao Chengying, the fourth son of the Gao family, is the minister of Dali Temple and has been deeply involved in Kyoto for many years.

The second son, Gao Jieying, is a member of the Ministry of Industry. Three years ago, he took the initiative to go to Kuishan to build the imperial mausoleum. He only took a rest every six months and is not in the mansion now.

The third son, Gao Jianying, was the Sima of Cangzhou and was not in Kyoto.

Not long after the fourth son Gao Jinying was transferred to Gaoyang County Captain, his family of four lived in Linjiu Lane of Changshoufang.

I heard that the Qin brothers and sisters were taken away by people from Dali Temple as soon as they entered Kyoto. After going to the Yamen, they took their wives to the Gao family mansion.

(End of this chapter)