Wife Kim An

Chapter 130

The person who gave the gift was quickly caught by the people sent by the Song family. In a gambling house, a middle-aged woman about forty years old was excitedly raising the bank notes in her hand and betting loudly.

Song Xiao rolled her eyes, and the Song family's guards quickly dragged the girl out of the gambling house and threw her on the ground.

Song Xiao glanced at the woman, and said threateningly: "The box you sent to the Song Mansion was a human head, why did you kill her?! Why did you send this head to the Song Mansion? You know, you will pay for your life if you kill someone!"

Before the torture started, Shen Junyi just pulled out the sword with a cold face, and the woman knelt down on the ground in a panic, kowtowing non-stop, and all of them were recruited.

She didn't know what was in the box, but when she was sleeping on the street because of her debts, a masked man gave her the heavy box and said that as long as the box was sent to the Song Mansion, she would get 1000 taels of silver.

There is such a beautiful job in the world, she naturally agreed with a secret joy.

But she didn't expect that this gift to the Song Mansion would be so tricky!If the explanation is not clear, I'm afraid this life depends on her!She doesn't want to go to jail!
The woman looked at Song Xiao anxiously, took out a 1000 tael silver note from her bosom, and said timidly, "That's all I know, please forgive me, Miss Song, I didn't kill anyone..."

"Did you see his face?"

"He was wearing a veil, and he sounded like a young man, the rest I...I really don't know..." At that time, her mind was full of the 1000 taels of silver, how could she observe so much...

Song Xiao frowned, and when he was wondering if the woman had lied, Bai Zhi walked over and whispered in her ear what he had just investigated.

As the woman said, she is a gambler who likes to gamble. After losing a bet not long ago, she owed a huge debt, slept on the street, and couldn't guarantee three meals. The people in the house stared sideways, thinking that she had made a fortune.

Song Xiao sighed lightly.The woman did not lie.She waved her hand and let her go.

The thread just ended.

What is the purpose of killing Ling Ling and brutally cutting off her head and sending it to the Song Mansion?
Song Xiao rubbed his aching head, and suddenly his face darkened.

Is this a challenge book?The other party was telling her, so what if she pulled out the pawn he laid out from the Song Mansion?This in itself is an abandoned child, he is not rare.Aren't you looking around for her whereabouts?Here you go...

Thinking of this, Song Xiao became more and more angry. She actually watched someone bully her at the door, but she was powerless, and she didn't even know who the other party was.The only thing they know is that the other party is a cruel and cold-blooded person, who is abandoned by useless people, and the price of abandoning a child is usually only-death.

Ling Ling's head was eventually taken by Bai Zhi, and Song Xiao was always curious whether he took it and buried it hastily, or kicked it as a ball after venting his anger, or was so angry that he boiled it in the pot.

However, when she secretly followed Bai Zhi for a peek, she saw Bai Zhi buried Ling Ling's head in an old forest deep in the mountains, with a mocking face, drinking a glass of wine, muttering something, and then spilling the wine on the ground .

What the hell... Bai Zhi didn't vent her anger, wasting her expectation.

Bai Zhi stood up and said calmly: "You said that I haven't improved in disguise or martial arts, and even talked more. But at least, I'm still alive and living a good life... However, you are dead ..."

He glanced behind him and said, "Song Xiao, are you disappointed?"

Song Xiao who was caught laughed, scratched his head, looked at the sky and said: "The scenery here is good, not bad..."

At night, Shen Junyi hurriedly walked on the road. He stopped at the back door of a certain mansion, looked behind him with bated breath, and after making sure that no one was following him, he knocked lightly on the door three times.The door slowly opened a corner, and the middle-aged woman who opened the door saw Shen Junyi bowed her head respectfully, and then led the way for Shen Junyi in front, leading him to the door of the study.

"Junior Shen Junyi pays his respects to Aunt Yan."

The woman in brocade clothes who was drinking tea in the study was slightly taken aback. Through the thin paper window, she clearly saw a figure reflected on the window under the reflection of the candle.The breeze blows, and the slender and straight shadow is stretched very long.

Mo Tong was like a deep and dark black pool. When she looked at the figure on the paper window, she flickered slightly. After she arranged the things on the desk and stacked them neatly, she stood up and opened the door with a smile on her face.

"Nephew Jun Yi, why did you come to see me tonight?" Yan Ning smiled kindly, looking like a loving mother.

"Auntie..." Shen Junyi took a deep breath, looked into her eyes and said word by word, "I found my mother's belongings..."

Yan Ning's smile froze slightly, and then he asked hastily: "Have you found anything? If Ziyue left some clues to find out the suspicious points of the case back then, maybe it can prove her innocence!"

"No." Shen Junyi bowed his head in discouragement, and said depressedly, "My mother only gave Song Xin a strange cookbook before she was alive. Recently, Song Xiao discovered that the recipes recorded on it were not edible at all. I am afraid that my mother left them on purpose for fear that others would find out. The next clue. However, Song Xiao and I have been thinking about it for many days, but we can't solve it at all..."

"So, I think..." He looked at Yan Ning with the last sliver of expectation, and said, "Aunt Yan and mother were close friends and worked together for many years, maybe they can crack the code left by mother. So, Today, I brought the recipe here, I hope Aunt Yan can take a look..."

Shen Junyi took out the recipe from his pocket, handed it to Yan Ning respectfully, and then waited quietly.

Yan Ning took the recipe, carefully flipped through a few pages, his eyes flickered slightly, and said seriously: "Do you think this might be a list?"

Shen Junyi said: "The junior really thinks so, but he has no clue."

"Back then, Ziyue was demoted to Yizhou. I have been in Phoenix City and have not been to Yizhou. I am not familiar with the officials there. If this is a list, it is difficult for me to guess the specific names of officials. Tomorrow , I will go to the Ministry of Officials to check the officials in the Nianchuan area of ​​Yizhou, maybe I will find something."

Yan Ning returned the recipe to Shen Junyi, and said with concern: "The night before I escorted the magistrate of Nianchuan back to Beijing last time, you must have gone to the prison. Someone discovered it, but I suppressed it secretly."

"It's me." Shen Junyi clenched her fists and said bitterly, "It's a pity that she refused to reveal anything. Back then, her mother was wronged, but she made a false confession for the sake of her future. Now, she has fully borne it and covered up the crime come down."

Yan Ning nodded and said: "At that time, I also questioned her, but she took the charge to herself, and she never let go. Even when the empress interrogated herself, it was no exception. After that, the Ministry of Criminal Investigation did not make any progress. We can see the evidence They were all obliterated in advance. Therefore, I fully suspect that the person who framed Ziyue back then is still in Nianchuan area of ​​Yizhou. Scapegoat."

"Actually, the empress doesn't believe that the magistrate of Nianchuan County did it alone, but because there is no evidence, she can't do it easily." Yan Ning sighed, "Official corruption has always been a problem."

"I know one thing. The magistrate of Nianchuan colluded with the Lin family of Shang Dao. The Lin family shared the embezzled money for her and used the disaster to make a fortune. Now, the magistrate of Nianchuan has been beheaded, but the Lin family is at large. How about, from this Follow up the clues, find out who the Lin family has had close contacts with, maybe you can find out something."

"The Lin family?" Yan Ning frowned and said, "Okay, I will investigate."

"By the way, Nephew Junyi, it's been almost three years. How are you doing in the Song family?" Yan Ning sighed, "I let you enter the Song family, and I really wronged you..."

Shen Junyi was in a daze for a moment, and said softly: "Thank you, auntie, for your concern. I'm doing... very well... Now, I just want to get the evidence as soon as possible, so I want to return to Yizhou with Song Xiao tomorrow."

Yan Ning smiled bitterly and said, "If I hadn't been the prime minister, I couldn't leave without authorization, otherwise I really want to go to Nianchuan in Yizhou again to investigate the truth."

Shen Junyi clenched his fists tightly and said: "This time, they will definitely not be allowed to go unpunished... definitely..."

From that day on, Song Xiao devoted himself to helping Shen Junyi investigate the case of Shen Ruoqing five years ago.At Shen Junyi's suggestion, she and Shen Junyi returned to Yizhou and Nianchuan successively.Because her actions of disaster relief in the past were kind to many people, many people tried their best to provide her with clues, but many of them were useless.Because five years is too far away, many evidences have been obliterated, and most of the witnesses may have been obliterated as well.

In this way, we collected bits and pieces and pieced together the events of the year. Five years ago, Shen Ruoqing served as the county magistrate of Yizhou. Ruoqing was escorted back to Beijing, then Shen Ruoqing pleaded guilty and was executed.

Wait...the imperial envoy surnamed Yan...

Song Xiao quickly opened the cookbook, pointed at the salt on it, and opened his mouth in shock.

Strict - salt...

In an instant, Song Xiao suddenly realized.Isn't this salt the same as Yan?
Back then, the person who escorted Shen Ruoqing back to Beijing was the one on the list!
Yan, Yan, Yan, isn't it the Yan family!

The Yan family has always regarded the Song family, which occupies most of the businesses in Phoenix City, as a thorn in their side, and the case of Yuexing Building three years ago proved this point.They want to monopolize Phoenix!
The Yan family is not only well-developed in business, but also has a lot of officials, which has supported the court for a long time.What's more important is that the Yan family has a favored nobleman and two imperial daughters, so they are even more confident!

"Xiaoxiao, what's wrong with you?..."

"Junyi...I think I may have guessed something!..." Song Xiao tugged on Shen Junyi's sleeve, and said in a panic, "The salt of the recipe is actually strictness!"

She drew the brush in Shen Junyi's palm, and nodded solemnly to him: "As long as we find out which member of the Yan family became the imperial envoy to escort Shen Ruoqing back then, maybe we can learn all the truth..."

Shen Junyi's face darkened, and he took out the letter that Yan Ning Feige had passed on to him from his bosom.

Comparing the contents of the letter, there was indeed no official surnamed Yan among the officials who served at that time, only the imperial envoy who escorted his mother to Beijing was surnamed Yan-Yan Wu.

When the mother was escorted to Beijing, she was seriously injured and unconscious.The only person who had the most contact with her was Yan Wu, the imperial envoy.As a member of the list, she went to Yizhou to destroy the evidence, and then framed her mother, threatened her mother to sign a pledge, and pleaded guilty voluntarily.

Yes, it must be her!Yan Wu Yan Wu, just find her!

Shen Junyi was so excited that he held Song Xiao's hand and said, "Xiaoxiao, we have to go back quickly!"

Song Xiao was quickly pulled into the carriage by Shen Junyi. Seeing him comparing the recipes and the names on the letter step by step, his face became more and more serious, exuding a murderous look, she asked suspiciously: "Junyi, why did you have the position of an official in the past? list and the names of the imperial envoys?"

"My mother had a close friend who worked together for many years. She is now the prime minister, Yan Ning. Back then, when my mother was escorted back to Phoenix City, I rushed back to Phoenix City. In Shen's mansion, she was not allowed to go out. And my mother was imprisoned in the largest dungeon in Dongmu. At that time, I broke into the dungeon with all my heart to rescue my mother, but was discovered by officers and soldiers. When I was chasing all the way, I ran into Aunt Yan, who hid me , I escaped a catastrophe. After that, I begged her to let her help to see my mother, and she took me into the prison at the risk..."

Shen Junyi let out a long sigh of relief. When he thought of the scene when he saw his mother back then, it was like a big stone was suppressed in his heart, so depressed that he wanted to cry.

"My mother was bruised all over her body. It was obvious that she had been lynched. Seeing me suddenly, she was silent, but her tears couldn't stop flowing down. I can't forget those eyes, full of despair and sadness. That At that moment, I knew that my mother was wronged by others, and my mother was unwilling to suffer such wronged and persecuted. I burst into tears on the spot, and Aunt Yan comforted me while swearing in front of my mother that she would definitely Clear up the grievances for the mother. At this time, the mother suddenly opened her mouth to say something, but no sound came out of her throat. She must have heard what Aunt Yan said, and wanted to say what she knew. She wanted to clear up her grievances, but she tried her best in the end, but she couldn't utter any words..."

Shen Junyi still clearly remembers that his mother's hand crossed over the prison's railing and held his hand heavily, patting it again and again, just like when he was a child, when he was sick in bed, he often patted his hand to lure him. Coax him to sleep.

"However, without waiting for Aunt Yan to find all the evidence, no, it should be said that Aunt Yan has tried her best, but she can't find any evidence that can reverse the case." Shen Junyi's eyes dimmed, "Soon, my mother suddenly pleaded guilty and painted A few days later, the Ministry of Criminal Justice ruled that the mother had embezzled huge sums of money, and the disaster was ignored, causing countless deaths and injuries to the people, and the loss of the treasury. Everyone in the court handed over a memorial requesting that the mother be beheaded, but Aunt Yan resisted all her strength, claiming that there were doubts. The final case Hand it over to the Clan Mansion for review, and ten days later, the Clan Mansion still ordered the mother to be beheaded."

Shen Junyi's fists were clenched tightly, with strong hatred: "In the end, the empress ordered her mother to be beheaded, and the 130 or so members of the Shen family were exiled, but they were robbed and killed by so-called horse thieves on the way. When I arrived, blood The ground was flooded, and no one survived."

"After this incident, Aunt Yan has been blaming herself. If she could have found something at that time, she might have saved her mother and the people of the Shen family. But in fact, she can't be blamed for this. If it wasn't for her encouragement and comfort, I may have been in a trance long ago, and left with my relatives. She told me that she would try her best to become a prime minister, be a clean and honest prime minister like her mother, devote herself to investigating the case of official corruption, and clean up her mother's grievances And I can't commit suicide because of this, I should reverse the case for my mother and return my mother's innocence."

"Over the years, I have contacted many people, those who had contact with my mother, those who investigated her, and those who judged my mother... However, after so many years of searching for evidence, I still found nothing. They are too treacherous and cunning, almost all the evidence All physical witnesses were wiped out."

When Shen Junyi was almost in despair, someone told him that his mother had met Song Xin not long before her death, so he approached Song Xin and entered the Song family.

It takes a lot of money to reverse the case for the mother, and the Song family has such financial resources.In this way, kill two birds with one stone.

The carriage drove slowly towards Phoenix City. When passing through the city wall of Phoenix City, Song Xiao suddenly became uneasy. She looked at Shen Junyi in a panic, and saw that his head was lowered, and his black hair was hanging down to cover his dark and deep eyes.His lips were pursed tightly, his teeth were biting his lower lip tightly, and his hands were clasped tightly.Along the way, he has maintained this posture.

Song Xiao said anxiously: "Jun Yi, what are you going to do later?"

"I want to meet Aunt Yan first and tell her about my investigation."

——The magistrate of Nianchuan once said that his mother provoked people who should not be provoked...

People who shouldn't be messed with...

Shen Junyi's face became ugly, and his brows became more and more wrinkled.If it really has something to do with the Yan family, then the people who shouldn't be offended are the two princesses!
The princess Feng Lin and the seventh princess Feng Qingge...

If it really has something to do with the princess, if you want to reverse the case, you can only ask to see the queen... Therefore, you must ask Aunt Yan who is the prime minister...

His hands were tightly clasped, and the nails had already pierced into the palms, stained with blood.

Not long after entering the city, Shen Junyi jumped out of the carriage and told Song Xiao to wait at home before performing lightness kung fu and leaving.Song Xiao returned to the Song Mansion in a daze, and just after resting in the room, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

She always felt that something was wrong, but she didn't know what was wrong.

above the hall.

"Your Majesty, I traced the case of Nianchuan, and noticed a clue. The original magistrate of Nianchuan colluded with a certain profiteer, embezzled the disaster funds, raised the price of food, caused several people to starve to death, and aggravated the disaster. At that time, the county magistrate A large amount of money was not found in the search. I suspect that all the money has been secretly stolen by a profiteer. Now the magistrate of Nianchuan County has been arrested, but the profiteer has been at large until now. Not long ago, the snowstorm once again used the disaster to collect a huge amount. The minister suspects them There was an illegal attempt to raise huge sums."

Yan Ning bent down, put the memorial in the palm of his hand, and said loudly on the top of his head: "I have written the details of the detailed investigation on the memorial, please look it up, Your Majesty."

Feng Qi opened the memorial that was handed over, and only looked at the first line, her gaze flickered, and she said coldly: "You actually raised the price of grain to ten taels of silver a catty, which is a hundredfold increase. Where you can't reach, you can do whatever you want and earn private money!"

(End of this chapter)