Ace's favorite concubine: Xiangmen's concubine

Chapter 270 The Complicated Case (5)

Tao Shi was left in Yi County by Zhuo Han that day, and had been secretly observing the movements of all parties. Because of Yang Hong's special status, he was even more concerned about Yang Hong's whereabouts.

He hastily saluted Lu Boqi and Wu Danqing without explaining why he came, and turned to stare at Yang Hong.

"Master Yang, that day I followed those servants to a mysterious place. Tao Shi was always curious as to why those servants disappeared after they arrived at the abandoned house. Tao Shi went in to investigate, and the abandoned house was heavily guarded. Tao Shi Seeing that Mr. Yang seems to be familiar with the owner of that servant, so can you boldly ask Mr. Yang, why is this?"

Yang Hong's expression changed drastically, he looked at Tao Shi, and stammered back, "I...I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Your Excellency, you really don't know? But I have already figured out the ins and outs. Unfortunately, last night Tao Shi had a whim in the middle of the night and went to the abandoned house to find out. My lord, guess what I found in the abandoned house?"

Tao Shi simply squatted beside Yang Hong, took out a key from his pocket, and waved it in front of Yang Hong.

The moment Yang Hong saw the key, his face turned pale!That is the key to the secret road that the abandoned house must go through to lead to the Yixian county magistrate.

When Wu Danqing arrived in Qi County, they had already colluded in advance to come up with a trick to get rid of the shell, and the key to the secret path has always been kept by Nangong Yi.

Nangong Yi took away Nangong Yan last night. Could it be that he already knew that the stolen money was nailed to the board, so he didn't want his sister to take risks with him?Or did he betray himself for Nangong Yan?

Yang Hong couldn't turn his head around for a while, staring at the key blankly.

Tao Shi saw him like this, the expression on his face was even more disdainful, "I heard a small sound from the dry well in the backyard of the abandoned house, so I went down into the well. But I didn't expect that there was a secret road in the well that went straight to the adult's mansion Sir, I just found this key at the door of the secret passage. My lord, I just heard you say that only 6000 taels of stolen money were embezzled, but why is it several times more than what I saw in the secret passage? "

Before Yang Hong could answer, Tao Shi took out another account book from his pocket and handed it to Wu Danqing, "Master Wu, on the way here, I have already read the general content of the account book, which is full of Yang Hong and Mi They colluded with businessmen, used the disaster funds to buy food and paid high prices, and on the last page of the ledger, officials related to the embezzlement of disaster funds were even involved.”

Hearing this, Wu Danqing turned to the last page of the account book, but the names of the officials on it made him stunned!
Shocked, he handed the ledger to Lu Boqi. Lu Boqi glanced at it hastily, and a knowing smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

"Gao Taifu, the second rank in the imperial court, and the sheriff of Yunjun are in-laws. This should be an extremely secret matter. Maybe even Gao Taifu's wife doesn't know about it, but I just know about it. And you, Yang Hong, you don’t need to specify your relationship with the Minister of Rites, right? Yang Hong, you confessed many things today, and no one else knows about it. How about I give you a chance to redeem your sins?”

"What chance?" Yang Hongben had already embraced the mentality that he must die the moment he saw the ledger. Now that he heard that there was a glimmer of life, his ashen face glowed a little, and he couldn't wait to ask.

Lu Boqi glanced at Wu Danqing and motioned him to take over the conversation. After all, Wu Danqing was the imperial envoy for this operation.

(End of this chapter)