Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 150 Close to the truth
Seeing the chaos in the hall, Wang Shan, who was being escorted aside, was also frightened and took a few steps back.

Who is so courageous to openly assassinate in court!
It was Wang Yuan who killed him!
Wang Shan swallowed his saliva, and hid his body behind the pillar in the corner, who knows if someone will pop up suddenly and shoot him an arrow!
Both Ji Wenxuan and Yun Zhi gathered around Sheng Shaoqing and persuaded, "Why don't the queen mother go to the back hall to avoid it for a while, it's safer there, and it will take time for the hidden guards to investigate."

"No, you are all here, why should I hide. What's more, I am watching here, who dares to assassinate?!"

"Queen Mother!"

"The ones who can use the sleeve arrows to hurt people at this distance are either the people in this yamen, or Wang Yuan's own people. Since they killed Wang Yuan in front of me, the target is not me, don't worry."

Yun Zhi wanted to persuade him again, but Ji Wenxuan did not stop him, "Who does the Queen Mother think it could be?"

"If I heard correctly, what Wang Yuan was chanting before he fell down seems to be Wang Jun."

Yun Zhi frowned and said, "Ke Wang"

"Wang's No. 30 generations of descendants are ranked according to their ranks, and they all follow this handsome character."

Sheng Shaoqing pointed to Wang Yuan who was lying down and Wang Shan who was shivering behind a pillar, "Then they"

"They weren't born in the same line, so it's not their turn to use this word."

Sheng Shaoqing's eyelids twitched, "Then wouldn't it be easy to track down?"

Fortunately, Wang Yuan didn't swallow his breath completely, otherwise, if he died, it would be difficult to trace the murderer who killed him, and he would really die with regret.

Yun Zhi shook his head and said, "Even so, the Wang family has a great career, and there are at least dozens of people who join Jun. What's more, Wang Yuan was vague at the time, and it is still unknown whether he is talking about Wang Jun or not!"

"It's okay, at least there is a direction to track down"

"At least, we can be sure that it was the Wang family who killed him."

Ji Wenxuan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked, "Why is that?"

"There are always motives to follow when doing things. Now we are in the fog, but we don't even know where the enemy is, and we don't know why, just like scurrying ants."

Sheng Shaoqing glanced at Guo Song who was still lying there, smiled and said, "Wang Yuan is gone, isn't there Guo Song here?"

Guo Song has been dumb since submitting the pleading, now that Sheng Shaoqing has noticed him, he hangs his head and refuses to speak.

"Didn't you still talk kindly in the inn before?" Sheng Shaoqing took the handkerchief Ji Wenxuan handed over and wiped his hands, walked to Guo Song and whispered, "Why, you became dumb when you came to the court?"

Guo Song raised his eyelids, and snorted weakly, "If you talk about it, it's hard to guarantee that you won't end up with Mr. Wang."

"Oh? In other words, you already knew that someone was going to kill Mr. Wang?"

Guo Song's expression tightened, he gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know."

"Wang Yuan has already admitted that he forged the letter to frame Wang Shan, so why don't you come and tell me, did Wang Yuan tell you who else was involved in this matter?"

Sheng Shaoqing looked at Wang Shan who poked his head out from the side of the pillar, and it was really hard to believe that the people behind set up such a big game and went through so much trouble, just for someone like Wang Shan?

Sheng Shaoqing frowned, and looked around the entire hall, why did it feel like there was someone missing?

Ji Wenxuan and Yun Zhi also came to their senses, "Where is Manager Lai?!"

"He must have been running away just now, he shouldn't have gone far at this moment, chase after him!"

Sheng Shaoqing told the hidden guard summoned by Ji Wenxuan, "If he wants to run, he won't be able to get away without a guide. He will definitely go back to the palace, go quickly!"

Ji Wenxuan caught Wang Shan who was hiding behind the pillar, "Think about it yourself, who have you offended before?"

Wang Shan looked up in surprise, "Me?"

"You mean me?"

Ji Wenxuan nodded, "Do you see anyone else in this class?"

"The one who died was Wang Yuan, what does it have to do with the lower officials?"

Sheng Shaoqing:
Ji Wenxuan:
Even Yunzhi showed an indescribable expression, and Wang Shan looked at the three people without understanding, "If you say you offended, you can only say you offended Wang Yuan, otherwise why would he go to such lengths to frame this humble minister?" Woolen cloth?"

"Do you think Wang Yuan's death has nothing to do with you? Or do you think you were wronged for what happened today?"

Wang Shan waved his hands again and again and said, "The Empress Dowager Mingjian! The worst thing Wang Shan has done in this life is to let Wang Yuan's son replace my son, but I really don't want to kill people just because of this! Wang Yuan's death can be compared with It has nothing to do with the lower officials!"

Sheng Shaoqing:
"Of course I know you didn't kill him, but he died because of you! Haven't you ever thought about why Wang Yuan wanted to kill you?!"

Wang Shan lowered his head, "Isn't it because the officer didn't agree to his request later?"

"It's already a crime for the subordinate officials to let him be the head of a township, how could he be transferred to the county?! That's really a wrong step!"

Sheng Shaoqing snorted coldly, "You've become more principled now."

"Then, since the Queen Mother knew that Wang Yuan deliberately framed her, she also knew that it was Wang Yuan who told me that his son was willing to suffer for my son. Later, it was really impossible to rescue her, and she was pressed by Wang Yuan every step of the way. It's only the lower officials who are so determined to ignore Wang Yuan."

"Originally, I thought about waiting for the Dali Temple's judgment. If there is really no chance of turning around, I will take Yu'er to redeem Wang Qing, but I didn't expect it to happen today."

"People are dead, you can say anything now."

Wang Shan said anxiously, "What the lower officials said is true! If the Queen Mother doesn't believe it, you can go to the minister's study to find it. There is already a letter of confession from the minister behind the secret compartment!"

Sheng Shaoqing signaled with his eyes, and Ji Wenxuan sent someone to look for him knowingly.

"I really didn't expect the Queen Mother to come to Qingshiban Township in person, nor did I expect Wang Yuan to deliberately frame her."

Sheng Shaoqing frowned, "Are you the county chief?"

Wang Shan nodded, "Yes."

"Then Chen Liu is really unlucky."

"What did you say, Queen Mother?"

"It's nothing," Sheng Shaoqing muttered in a low voice, "You have no enemies in the Wang family, nor do you have any enemies with others?"

Wang Shan affirmed, "No!"

"Then," Sheng Shaoqing suddenly thought, "Chen Liu's land property population register in the daily newspaper, have you seen it?"

Wang Shan wondered, "How does the Queen Mother know?"

"The job of the lower official is to check the population of the county," Wang Shan said with a sad face, "The lower official's brain is not very smart, but since the lower official takes on this important task, he must be loyal to his duty!"

Sheng Shaoqing and Ji Wenxuan Yunzhi looked at each other, and then asked, "Then what strange things have you seen or heard recently?"

Seeing the solemn expression of the queen mother, Wang Shan thought about it seriously, and after a while, he exclaimed in surprise, "It really is!"

"The lower official found that since Shangshu Yun came, the population of Chenliu has really increased by leaps and bounds. However, the number has changed too fast. When the lower official went to check again, he found that several records books had disappeared. gone."

"The lower official has already reported this matter, and I think it will be recovered soon. The strange thing is that there are only a few keys to the room where the booklet is stored. No one should be able to get in except the minister. The booklet is not Fly away."

"However, it is also possible that the lower official put it elsewhere, so I don't remember."

Sheng Shaoqing said speechlessly, "How can you be an official with your brain?"

Wang Shan lowered his head and didn't answer, but Yun Zhi who was beside him blushed a little bit. After all, his grandfather's family had become like this. As a person with Wang's blood flowing in his body, it was difficult to keep himself out of the matter.

"How can you forget such an important thing?"

Wang Shan said helplessly, "This kind of hard work and thankless work, if it weren't for the dismissal, no one would want to do it."

"Since you know it's not good to do your best, how dare you let Wang Yuan entangle you?"

Sheng Shaoqing felt more and more that he was getting close to the truth, but this Wang Shan was really too stupid, he was so arrogant and domineering just now, but now he has not realized that all these right and wrong are aimed at whom.

After a long time, Wang Shan slowly figured out the joints, and said in a trembling voice, "Wang Yuan designed the dismissal from the beginning, not for his promotion, but for the dismissal of the subordinate?!"

"Otherwise, you think he is upright, how dare he threaten the governor of the county?"

"If it weren't for his letters to show his flaws, I would have believed him, thinking that you are running amok in the county and forcing people to ruin their families!"

Wang Shan trembled, "Xiaguan, Xiaguan" "Believe it or not, once I deal with you today, tomorrow there will be a basin of dirty water poured on you?"

Wang Shan's head finally came to light for a while, "They...are they going to plant all those lost records on me?"

Sheng Shaoqing didn't answer, and saw that the person who had just been sent out to chase after steward Lai had already turned back.

"Queen Mother!"

"Dereliction of duty. When I chased him, Guanshi Lai had hanged himself in the courtyard of the palace."

"what?!"

Ji Wenxuan also stood up from the stool "squeaky", "Are you sure you hanged yourself, not homicide?"

The hidden guard replied firmly, "The humble officer is sure that he hanged himself, and besides, the humble officer found his suicide note."

"Bring it here!"

Sheng Shaoqing opened the suicide note, and as soon as he unfolded it, a bloody smell rushed to his face, so that Sheng Shaoqing couldn't recover from it. The suicide note was written in blood!

Sheng Shaoqing silently handed the suicide note to Ji Wenxuan after reading it, and his expression changed from shock to realization and then to silence, "They have a good plan."

"It's just that I didn't expect that person to stay behind."

Yunzhi watched the enigmatic conversation between the Queen Mother and Ji Wenxuan, and took the bloody letter from Ji Wenxuan.

And Lin Jin, who chased the assassin, returned without success, and said dejectedly, "Queen Mother, this subordinate is incompetent, that man...he...he has already committed suicide."

Sheng Shaoqing nodded silently, "I see."

"Who is that person?"

In order not to make his failure seem so failure, Lin Jin had already found out the identity of the assassin before he came back, "He is the guardian of the palace. The nursing home is kept at home."

"Probably from Chenliu."

Sheng Shaoqing walked up to Guo Song again, "Are you still unwilling to say?"

Guo Song lowered his head and said, "The queen mother should have known about Lai Guanshi's suicide note, shouldn't she?"

"I just didn't expect you to be so courageous."

He actually included himself in it.

Guo Song raised his drooping eyelids with great effort, looked at Sheng Shaoqing and said, "Then, will the Queen Mother deal with him?"

Sheng Shaoqing turned her head away, "Of course."

"But you, a waiter in a small inn, why did you get involved?"

Guo Song exhausted his last breath and said, "Prime Minister Ji, do you still remember what the little one said? Little one, you have a grudge against the Wang family?"

"Naturally remember."

Ji Wenxuan waited for a long time but didn't get his answer. He walked over to take a closer look, only to find that his face was pale without a trace of blood, and quickly said to Sheng Shaoqing, "Queen Mother, he seems to be dying!"

Only then did Sheng Shaoqing see the disastrous expression on Guo Song's drooping head, "Go to the doctor!"

Wang Shan couldn't react to the shock of these successive incidents. Wang Yuan died just now, and now the steward of Wang Yuan's house is also dead, and now even the person who sued him is dying.

Obviously these things are coming for me, but why is it not me who died, but these irrelevant people?

Sheng Shaoqing looked at Wang Shan with hatred, "If you have a brain, you should know that you can survive the disaster now, all of it."

"Queen Mother!" Ji Wenxuan interrupted Sheng Shaoqing, "Since Mr. Wang has pleaded guilty, if you don't, then take him away and keep him under surveillance. We will return to Chenliu for another trial at another day!"

Sheng Shaoqing knew that Ji Wenxuan had something to say, so he agreed.

After reading the suicide note, Yunzhi remained silent for a long time, and his gaze towards Wang Yuan's corpse became complicated.

From the day that person came to him, Wang Yuan already knew that he might not survive.

Whether he rejected that person's request or agreed to that person's request, he could only live for a few more days.

But he will use these days to protect his family as much as possible.

He didn't believe that that person would leave a way out for his wife and son. It was a grievance for them to follow him for so many years, so how could he let them die with him? !

So, he pretended to agree to the man's request, designed to frame Wang Shan, and then exposed him in front of the Queen Mother.

Wang Shan was stupid, and this strategy went very smoothly. Wang Shan really let Wang Qing replace Wang Yu.

And Wang Yu really went to Qingshiban Township at the instigation of that person, but what he met was not the assassin sent by Wang Yuan, but the real bandit.If Wang Yuan hadn't sent someone to rescue him, Wang Yu would have died in that valley long ago.

That person has always been cautious, the letter in Guo Song's hand was what they tried their best to get from Wang Shan, the evidence that the person instigated Wang Shan to replace Wang Yu with someone else.

And when he came out in the hall, he originally wanted to save his own life by using a fake letter to expose his flaws and make the queen mother suspicious, and if he chooses the opportunity to tell the reason, the queen mother might let him live, regardless of his previous work as a minion , Those things that help the evildoers.

(End of this chapter)