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Chapter 338 Returning Prefect Lin's Innocence

Ji Fushou looked at Yeying's message and said with emotion, "Chen Zhengxin really stole the disaster relief money back then, but you must never have guessed where he hid the money."

Chi Qiguang was peeling sugar and fried chestnuts for her. Hearing this, he smiled and looked at her, "You say that, the place where the money is hidden must be unexpected."

After finishing speaking, he took a chestnut with his fingertips and gently pressed it to her lips. With his red lips parted, he ate the chestnut into his mouth. In the coffin of the servant girl who served beside his mother, when his mother was going to attend the funeral, it is said that there was a servant girl named Qiao Yun who was reluctant to let go of the old lady who was left in the underworld without being served, and died for the Lord. The silver was hidden in the coffin under the corpse Now, it seems that what is martyrdom is, it is clear that Chen Zhengxin wanted the coffin to hide the money, so she got the reputation of martyrdom."

Chi Qiguang raised his eyebrows, "It's really unexpected, it's really courageous to use a coffin to hide money."

Ji Fushou nodded in agreement, "Nighthawk sent me a message saying that Chen Zhengxin took his confidants to dig the grave and open the coffin in the middle of the night, which scared Li Shihong half to death, but Chen Zhengxin seemed like nothing happened.

The third prince's people came out to catch them while they were loading the money, but if it wasn't for Yeying's secret help, that group of people would have been silenced by the first prince's people. "

Chi Qiguang let out a 'yo', "So, Chen Zhengxin and the disaster relief money were stolen and confiscated?"

A smile appeared on Ji Fushou's face, "Yes, the third prince is not stupid, he dared not delay, took out the relief money overnight, and sent the money along with Chen Zhengxin and Li Shihong to the capital quickly, fearing that there would be problems on the way, They also asked the government soldiers to see them off, and Nighthawk secretly guarded them along the way, even if someone wanted to secretly silence them, it would be difficult."

After a pause, she shook her head again, "Actually, Chen Zhengxin and Li Shihong were caught by the third prince's people, so there is no way to send the letter out. The eldest prince still doesn't know that Chen Zhengxin and Li Shihong have been exposed."

Chi Qiguang fed another chestnut into her mouth and asked, "According to the pace, how many days will it take for them to return to the capital?"

Ji Fushou estimated, "It will be there in three days."

The third prince's people can be regarded as traveling day and night. After all, that large sum of money is in their hands, and they are also terrified, for fear that something will go wrong.

Just as Ji Fushou predicted, three days later, a major event happened in the imperial court—the disaster relief money from Ruyin Mansion was found!
The third prince made a big splash in this matter, because it was his people who got the money back, and one of the people involved here was Chen Zhengxin, the prefect of the fourth rank, and the other was Li Shihong, a concubine.

The people from the Third Prince's faction didn't wait for the First Prince to think of a way to deal with it, and immediately launched an attack, dragging this matter out of the First Prince, it's very simple, Li Shihong is the First Prince's cousin-in-law, and Li Shihong had nothing to do with Chen Zhengxin before, why suddenly? Will you go to Chen Zhengxin?

And how could Chen Zhengxin be willing to give 20 taels of silver to Li Shihong?The greatest possibility is that Chen Zhengxin wants to hand over the money to the First Prince, and Li Shihong just helped the First Prince take over the money and return it.

This speculation was actually the truth of the matter, and was accepted by many courtiers, even Emperor Qi Cheng looked at the eldest prince Li Yang expressionlessly.

A layer of sweat broke out on Li Yang's back. Facing the accusations from the third prince's faction, he forced himself to refuse to admit it, "Father, these are baseless speculations. The relationship can be said to be instigated by the son-in-law, and the minister can also say that General Feng Hao, who killed civilians and pretended to be a leader in the army, was instigated by the third brother to commit such a heinous crime."

The third prince Li Chong's face darkened immediately, he looked at Li Yang with unfriendly eyes, and argued for himself, "Brother, if Feng Hao's matter was really related to me, how could I kill my relatives righteously?"

Li Yang retorted fiercely, "Of course it is to remove your own suspicion."

Li Chong choked, "You"

Seeing that Li Chong had nothing to say, Li Yang calmed down and said again, "Father, my son is really wronged, and my son really doesn't know what happened, I beg my father to enlighten me!"

Li Chong sneered secretly, it had nothing to do with him, it was just fooling a fool.

At this moment, someone came out again, "Report to the Holy Majesty, I have a performance."

"allow!"

"Since the disaster relief money from Ruyin Mansion was found back then, it means that Lin Zhifu, Su Tongpan, and Zhang Tuiguan of Ruyin Mansion were wronged back then. I implore the Holy One to rectify the names of the three of them, and return the three of them and their entire family to be innocent. .”

This person is from the faction of the British government, and he obeyed Chi Qiguang's instructions. After the disaster relief money was exposed, he would rectify the names of the prefect Lin and the others and return their innocence.

Emperor Qi Cheng recalled in a daze that there was such a case, which caused a big commotion back then and almost led to a civil uprising. It was precisely because of this that, in a rage, he ordered the beheading of three people to appease public grievances.

Today the truth is revealed, those three people were indeed wronged. Emperor Qi Cheng was dissatisfied for a moment, dissatisfied with the courtier who suddenly raised the unjust case in front of him. What did he do wrong?
But in front of the whole court, under the eyes of everyone, Qi Chengdi didn't have the face to continue pointing a deer into a horse and turning black and white, so he looked a little bad, and said in a deep voice, "What Aiqing said is that since the prefect Lin and the others were wronged back then, then Give them back their innocence."

Emperor Qi Cheng briefly said this sentence, he really didn't want to talk more about the unjust case back then, so he waved his hand to let the courtiers who came out go back after speaking hastily.

Unexpectedly, this person still stood still, and said again, "I report to the Holy Majesty, I still have to play."

Emperor Qi Cheng froze, a little dissatisfied, "play."

"It's about the case of disaster relief money. I invite the three ministers of the Holy Spirit to interrogate Chen Zhengxin carefully to see who ordered the minister to embezzle the relief money and do such unlawful things."

Emperor Qi Cheng's expression softened, and he also wanted to know who was so bold that he even dared to take his money for himself.

Emperor Qi Cheng glanced across the face of his eldest son Li Yang, and nodded in response, "Quick."

"The minister still plays."

Emperor Qi Cheng's expression became ugly again, "Say what you have to say at once."

"Master Liu, the servant of the Ministry of Justice who tried the case of embezzlement of money for disaster relief in the Ruyin Mansion, I suspect that he and Chen Zhengxin are of the same breed. In order to cover up Chen Zhengxin's crimes, he wronged the prefect of Lin and others. The minister asked the emperor to arrest Lord Liu. Put them in prison and interrogate them together, if Lord Liu and Chen Zhengxin were not in the same race, then it is better to return Lord Liu's innocence."

Emperor Qi Cheng was stunned, interrogating Liu Liangji?

His eyes could not help falling on a middle-aged man in the main hall, and he frowned. During the moment of his hesitation, several courtiers came out to join him. At the end, Emperor Qi Cheng said: "Quick!"

(End of this chapter)