Ruan's wife is pregnant

Chapter 256 The matter of the salt tax
The handwriting in this letter was relatively unfamiliar, at least it wasn't Ruan Xuchen's spy who stayed in the capital. He turned around and handed the letter to Gu Jinxi, asking if Gu Jinxi knew him.

Chen Heng and Gu Jinxi read it together. In Tianji Pavilion, they often saw various notes, some were intercepted letters, and some were copied notes. In short, Chen Heng and Gu Jinxi's memories are very good. Yes, if you have seen this person's notes, you will definitely remember it.

But after reading it, Gu Jinxi also said that he didn't know each other.

"This is Chu Yao's handwriting. Chen Yunyun's personal maid in Chengfu is now. I arranged for her to stay by Cheng Lisheng's side early in the morning to gain trust. Now that Cheng Lisheng and Shen Yunyun are at odds, naturally let a maid who thinks she is safe come in. By her side." Ruan Cailing said.

Originally, Cheng Lisheng thought he was smart enough, but the Dao is one foot tall and the devil is one foot high. Even if they got married without Cheng Xuan, the white-eyed wolf, they still couldn't escape Ruan Cailing's palm.

She has already pinched the marriage to death.

Ruan Xuchen said, "So what the letter means is that someone asked Shen Yunyun to look for evidence of the salt tax in order to harm our father?"

"Looking at what I wrote in my heart, it probably means this." Ruan Cailing looked up at Ruan Xuchen. In the night, Chen Heng, who was standing not far away, could hardly see Ruan Cailing's expression clearly, but felt that Ruan Cailing erupted at that moment. Killing intent makes people shudder.

Is this really a woman who doesn't know martial arts?
Chen Heng has never felt that a person's eyes can really kill people, and Ruan Cailing has always looked indifferent, except that there will be a little girl next to Ruan Xuchen and Gu Jinxi.

At other times, he is calm and steady, and will always give people the feeling that he can't understand this person.

At least Chen Heng thinks so.

He thought that no matter what happened, Ruan Cailing would not panic and would not let others see his thoughts.

Maybe... Ruan Cailing had always hidden his murderous intentions, but he didn't see it?

Gu Jinxi held the letter and walked to Ruan Cailing's side, patted Ruan Cailing's shoulder comfortingly and said, "In this case, let's go back as soon as possible, and we will go back when things here are settled. We are all in the capital, so I don't believe we found Shen Yunyun." Man, what can you do to uncle!"

"But who do you think is the woman hiding her face in the black veil?" Ruan Cailing asked thoughtfully.

This……

Ruan Xuchen said, "The last time I heard about this character from the maid next to Shen Yunyun, things in our father's study room were touched. How did we doubt it?"

As time passed, Ruan Xuchen almost forgot about this matter and this person.

But Ruan Cailing will always remember that as long as it is related to Mu Yichen or something, she will always remember it in her heart.

Ruan Cailing said, "It's Li Chuqing!"

"Yes! That disfigured concubine! After Lin Yicheng died, the rest of the people fled and killed, and there were not many people left, but only Li Chuqing and her son were killed by Mu Yichen. It was well hidden, and our people haven't found it until now." Ruan Xuchen said.

At first they thought that Li Chuqing was placed in Jiangnan Restaurant by Mu Yichen.

However, several waves of people have gone to investigate, not only their people from Dingguo Mansion, but even some people from the royal family are searching for the remnants of Lin Yicheng's family.

Many people were interested in Lin Yicheng's concubine who never showed up in his family but had a high status. After Lin Yicheng died, this woman naturally became the target of public criticism.

Overtly and secretly, they are all searching.

But it's been so long, Leng didn't find any clues about Li Chuqing, everyone thought they had escaped from the capital.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Li Chuqing appeared again!
And as soon as it comes up, there will be matters related to salt tax.

Gu Jinxi said, "It seems that Mu Yichen was not honest in the frontier. Instead, he used Li Chuqing and Xie Qingyuan to keep one in the open and the other in the dark. He wanted to use the salt tax to get ahead of the court officials. , collect all the secretive officials, and then control them."

That's probably right.

Being relegated to the frontier was a great shame to Mu Yichen. Although the emperor said that Mu Yichen would go back after a year and a half in the frontier, but in Mu Yichen's heart, even if he went back, this matter The son will also be branded on his body forever, and it can't be washed away.

It seems that Mu Yichen is going to take a slant!
"Originally, Mu Yichen wanted to win the throne in an open and aboveboard manner by competing for the crown prince's position, but it can be seen from Lin Yicheng's incident that the emperor only cares about Mu Yizuo, and the emperor did not intend to let him inherit it. The throne, so if Mu Yichen wants to be emperor, he can only be forced into the palace!" Ruan Xuchen said.

In Mu Yichen's heart, no brotherly affection, no father-son relationship is important, only status is the most important.

Mu Yichen could do such a thing as forcing the palace.

Ruan Cailing was suddenly impatient.

The accident happened to the Dingguo Duke's family in the previous life because Mu Yichen successfully sat on the throne. Although she did not marry Xie Qingyuan again in this life, Mu Yichen could not use Xie Qingyuan and Shen Yunyun to slander their family, but as long as Mu Yichen Sitting on the throne, they must still be in danger.

This man is too dangerous.

She has never been so eager to die alone.

For Xie Qingyuan and Shen Yunyun, she hoped that these two people would die slowly and painfully.

But if it were Mu Yichen, if he died one day earlier, their family would be safe one day.

Moreover, this life is different from the previous life.

In the previous life, Gu Jinxi was considered safe, but in this life, the elder brother and Jinxi are both on the side of the third prince, Mu Yizuo, and they are threats to Mu Yichen. Mu Yizuo and the remnants of his subordinates will be kept.

All those who stand as the third prince will die.

For whatever reason.

It doesn't matter whether Gu Jinxi's father is a prince with a different surname or not.

A person like Mu Yichen became so mad that he even had the heart to attack his own father, how could he care about other people, let alone people who were not related by blood?

Ruan Cailing felt afraid because she saw people like Mu Yichen too well.

She took a deep breath, clutched Gu Jinxi's sleeve tightly, trembling slightly, "Jinxi, brother, we have to speed up the process, and we must put an end to the possibility of Mu Yichen becoming the prince and emperor forever!"

Even Chen Heng understood the stakes.

Chen Heng waved his fan and walked slowly in the yard, and said suspiciously, "It stands to reason that the matter of salt tax is not easy to find out, and even Duke Ding is not capable of finding out all the dark things below immediately. How can Mu Yichen be sure that as long as he gets inside information, he will be able to catch the right person?"

Several of them were deeply involved, but Chen Heng was the only one who was an outsider, so he saw things very clearly.

Gu Jinxi felt that what Chen Heng said made sense.

Ruan Xuchen took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "There is only one possibility."

Ruan Cailing turned to look at him.

"Mu Yichen participated in it."

Only this kind of possibility can explain clearly why Mu Yichen wanted inside information and a list of personnel.

He may not only find Ruan Qi first to find this group of people, and then force them to submit, but also because he is also a part of it, so he needs to protect his identity.

In this way, everyone involved in the salt tax is in danger!Mu Yichen may attack this group of people at any time!
"In three days, let's settle the matter in Jiangnan and go back immediately. Wen Rushi and Chen Heng will stay here temporarily, and you and Uncle Long will end the matter in the border town together." Ruan Xuchen got up immediately and said.

Wen Rushi nodded, he naturally obeyed, but Chen Heng frowned, "Why should I stay here?"

Ruan Cailing said, "Didn't it be agreed before that you would go to the capital with the greatest pomp and honor? Of course we will go back quietly. Besides, if you walk with us, your identity will be exposed."

"It's like leaving a good aftermath so that the emperor can bestow rewards in the future. On the surface, the two of us brought Ling'er here to play, and the Bai family is just passing by. Even if the emperor wants to give rewards, it won't be very powerful in the court. Propaganda, Wen Rushi is different."

Now Wen Rushi is short of a reward from the emperor in the court.

Although the emperor gave Wen Rushi an unprecedented rank, Wen Rushi's rank is the highest among all the new champions.

However, some people in the court fanned the flames and said that Wen Rushi had never achieved anything, and that he had no real ability in a high-ranking white-collar salary.

This time it is Wen Rushi's proof, he brought people to solve the 'plague' in the border town, and he can also tell the truth to the emperor, the next thing is to follow the clues to find out the real culprit of the poison!
"Didn't you say that the real culprit is hard to find?" Chen Heng said.

Ruan Cailing nodded, "That's right, they all sent letters by proxy. Even if I know that Xie Qingyuan ordered the married people to poison, I still need evidence!"

Chen Heng frowned and said, "Since you know there will be no results, why did Wen Rushi bring this up and investigate?"

This is Ruan Cailing's own little hobby, she said, "It's good to make Cheng Jia and Xie Qingyuan panic, I'm happy!"

Chen Heng and Wen Rushi, "..."

Except for Gu Jinxi and Ruan Xuchen, everyone present felt that Ruan Cailing's interest was really bad, but Gu Jinxi still found Ruan Cailing cute and charming, especially this arrogant look.

Not to mention how perfect Ruan Xuchen's sister is.

Chen Heng really doesn't want to talk about these two big men, one looks like he has a younger sister and the other just wants to be with his fiancée every day. No matter what Ruan Cailing does, these two people support him for no reason.

Even if Ruan Cailing killed people indiscriminately in a moment of interest, they would only feel sorry for Ruan Cailing's slender hands, which made it difficult to dig holes.

Then help her with the aftermath.

Such a person, Chen Heng is really... Why on earth did he allow Gu Jinxi to enter Tianji Pavilion?
Was it really the Gu Jinxi in front of him who was ruthless back then?
(End of this chapter)