Long Song Fenghua: The Demon Queen Confused the King's Heart

Chapter 208

Mu Hongyu flicked his sleeves angrily, "What does Lord Li want me to wake up to!? How can I say something I have never done before!?"

"Your Majesty." Li Yuanfan said solemnly, "I am willing to guarantee with my own life that everything I said is absolutely true, and there is absolutely no falsehood!"

"As early as before, there were rumors in the market that Mr. Mu had become addicted to gambling for some reason in private. Whenever no one noticed, he would go to the gambling house and spend a lot of money."

"With Mr. Mu's salary, he can't afford to gamble anyway, and the Mu family has been a noble person for generations, so he definitely won't let him take a large sum of money to fill the gambling house."

"Because of this, I never believed these so-called rumors before. Even if I heard my subordinates claim that I saw Mr. Mu being so bold as to bring official money to the gambling house, I would never believe it!"

"Who knows—" Li Yuanfan's tone paused, and he looked at Mu Hongyu sadly, "Who knows now, I really trusted Mr. Mu too much before!"

Mu Hongyu's complexion has turned into a pig's liver color. Since he entered the court as an official, he has been smooth and smooth, and has never had any fierce disputes with others. Now that he is in a hurry, it is rare that he even speaks incoherently .

"You—you're talking nonsense, creating something out of nothing! I've never even set foot in the gate of a gambling house, so how could I spend a lot of money!"

"Then how do you explain these missing official bankers!?"

Li Yuanfan scolded sharply, his complexion no longer as elegant and gentle as before.

"These boxes in the disaster relief official bank are specially made to prevent people with ulterior motives from tampering with each other. Either you can only smash the boxes open, or you can only use the only one on your body. The key is open!"

"If these boxes are to be forcibly opened by someone, the lock cylinder will definitely be locked, but all of us have seen clearly just now, these boxes have never been tampered with by anyone before."

The more Li Yuanfan went on, the more stern his face became, "What's more, whether it's your Mu Mansion or Li Mansion, these disaster relief officials are guarded at every level."

"A total of fifty large wooden boxes. If you want to exchange the official silver inside for stones, there is no other possibility except that you, Mr. Mu, who owns this key, will steal it yourself!"

"I..." Mu Hongyu's complexion became more and more purple, and sweat was profuse on his face.

Mrs. Li sighed heavily, as if she was extremely sorry, but at this moment, the old man of the Mu family seemed to be on the verge of collapse, almost fainting like the second aunt who had lost half her life.

Mu Wenze tried to stay calm, but he quietly glanced at the emperor from the corner of his eye.

It is the most basic thing for a ruler to be happy and angry. However, after being a courtier all these years with trepidation, it is not difficult for Mu Wenze to see that the emperor is clearly angry at this moment.

His heart sank, and Mu Wenze bowed respectfully to the emperor, restraining his trembling palms, "Your Majesty is wise, there must be some misunderstanding in this matter, and please ask the emperor to find out the truth, so don't wrong the virtuous minister!"

Mu Hongyu quickly echoed, "I beg the emperor to find out, the minister was really wronged!"

"Lord Mu!" Li Yuanfan said in a deep voice, shaking his head in disbelief, "Now that the evidence is conclusive, you still want to argue, you are so unrepentant, yet you want the emperor to show mercy!?"

When these righteous words came out of Li Yuanfan's mouth, his gaze quietly passed Mu Hongyu and looked at Mu Changge behind him.

Although there were not many confrontations, Li Yuanfan knew very well in his heart that Mu Changge was by no means an ordinary boudoir lady, her scheming was probably ten thousand times more outstanding than her appearance.

Once the matter of Mu Hongyu's exchange of official bankers is settled, the entire Mu family will not even think that even one person will be able to save his life!

According to her deep city, when her life was at stake, how could she turn a blind eye and just take care of the second lady who fainted again and again?

Could it be... She has other plans?Or, really don't care about anything?

While thinking about it, Li Yuanfan quickly exchanged glances with Mrs. Li, and after receiving Mrs. Li's hint, Li Yuanfan suppressed the uneasiness that suddenly surged up in his heart, and took a step forward.

"Your Majesty, I have evidence, so I should be able to find out whether Mr. Mu is innocent or not!"

The emperor looked dignified and nodded, "The evidence is here."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Yuanfan said in a deep voice, "When the father-in-law returned to the palace and reported that the emperor's official money was missing, I thought about it and secretly ordered someone to investigate the gambling house. If you find any clues, come and reply immediately, and by this time, they should all be back."

Mu Hongyu had a cold face and sneered, but there was a bit of anxiety in his disdain.

"I am sitting upright, and I am not afraid of being framed by anyone. I am afraid that Mr. Li will not find this evidence if he wants to fetch water from a bamboo basket!"

No one expected that as soon as Mu Hongyu's swear words fell to the ground, he saw two people who looked like guards rushing in, holding a slightly shorter man in their hands.

"My lord, my subordinate found the official banker in Yunlai Casino!"

The guard pressed the short and fat man to the ground, "This is Zhu San, the shopkeeper of Yunlai Casino, and his subordinates have already brought him along with the official money!"

Although Zhu San's gambling house is big, he has never seen such a battle before. He knelt on the ground tremblingly, his body covered with oil and sweat, soaking the silk and satin wrapped around his body.

"The grass people meet the emperor!"

"Where's the official bank?" Li Yuanfan asked the two of them.

The two waved their hands behind them, and immediately someone carried several large wooden boxes.The wooden box was opened, and it was full of official silver, no more, no less, which happened to be the money for disaster relief.

When he saw these silver taels, the old man of the Mu family gritted his teeth hard, his face turned pale, and he couldn't breathe immediately.

The servants beside him rushed to help the old man, but Mu Wenxian, who was standing with him, only cast an indifferent glance at him, leaving nothing but indifference.

And in that indifferent glance, there seemed to be an inexplicable disgust mixed in.

Mu Changge, who accompanied the second lady to examine carefully, heard the old man's voice, and hurriedly got up and went over, his face was full of anxiety, and his eyes never looked away.

Li Ziyan, who came with Li Yuanfan, stood at the back from the beginning to the end, without saying a word, except that his gaze was quietly sizing up Mu Changge all the time.

Seeing her unfocused and indifferent appearance, Li Ziyan couldn't help but tighten his brows, and then, a bright light flashed across his eyes, he narrowed his eyes, and put on that nonchalant look again.

Li Yuanfan stared at Zhu San, and said sharply: "You know it's official money, but you dare to accept it, aren't you afraid of beheading to show the public!? Tell me, who did you get these official money from!?"

Baian's attitude towards gambling houses has always been ambiguous, not banning them, but never supporting them.Among the ministers, if someone goes to the gambling house, it's fine to turn a blind eye and close their eyes, but there is only one thing that no one dares to make an exception, and that is that the circulation of official money is never allowed in the gambling house.

Once any gambling house dared to accept the official money, and any minister dared to bring the official money to the gambling house, they would not tolerate it. For the lightest, they would lose their official hats.

Hearing his persecution, Zhu San immediately wailed, "I'm wronged! The villain has no other choice, my lord!"

"The villain is just a gambler. After all, he is just a grassroots person. How dare he refuse an adult who comes with a loud voice!? The villain is also worried, but this, this is definitely not what the villain wants!"

"Oh? So, you have already met the people who brought these official money to the gambling house?"

"I've seen it, I've seen it." Zhu San knelt on the ground, not daring to get up, and could only nod his head, "The villain has seen it before, and the lord comes quietly every time, and he doesn't allow his followers to enter. It's been a long time , the villain will remember."

Li Yuanfan said again: "That man, can you still recognize him?"

"Yes, of course I can!" Zhu San wiped the cold sweat off his neck vigorously, "Although there are rules in the gambling house, there is no distinction between high and low when entering the house, and I don't ask about the identity, but I remember the appearance!"

"That grown-up is extremely elegant, and he looks like a scholar at first glance. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that!"

Li Yuanfan sneered, "Since that's the case, if he's here, you can easily recognize him. Now, I'll give you a chance to make up for your mistakes."

"Raise your head and look carefully to see if you can recognize that person."

Hearing this, Zhu San was startled, got up in a hurry, squinted his eyes and looked over carefully, when he saw Mu Hongyu, he raised his hand and pointed at him——

"It's this lord!"

Confused and terrified, Mu Hongyu's expression was covered in an instant, and a clear anger appeared on the emperor's face in an instant.

"Ridiculous! You and I have never met before, why do you want to hurt me like this!? I have never stepped into a gambling house, how can you spout blood!"

"My lord, how dare the little one spout blood?" Zhu San spread his hands, and said with a bitter face, "If the big man didn't feel unwilling after losing and threatened the villain, how dare the villain accept this ten thousand taels of official money!?"

"What the lord has done, the villain doesn't know at all, and I ask the lord to see that the villain has seniors and juniors, and don't make trouble with the villain!" Zhu San said, and fell to his knees on the ground in fear , Kowtowing to Mu Hongyu again and again.

"You—" Mu Hongyu was dumbfounded, his eyes widened, but at this moment, he couldn't even say a word.

"Master Mu, what else do you have to say now!?" Li Yuanfan said heavily, "I really never thought that Master Mu would do such an obsessive thing!"

"Could it be that Mr. Mu really didn't know that if he embezzled the disaster relief money privately, even if he only moved one tael, he would have to kill everyone!?"

As soon as the four words of copying and chopping were uttered, in an instant, the huge Mu Mansion was completely silent.

Looking again and again at the ten thousand taels of silver and the gravel on the ground, the cold and stern murderous intent also stirred up under the eyes of the emperor——

(End of this chapter)