Queen's Development

Chapter 207 The Temptation of Silver
That night, Lin Jia brought Bai Yuming, Qin Yuchuan and a dozen or so masters who followed Bai Yuming and Qin Yuchuan to Yuzhou to investigate the case into the palace to face the saint.

Joining Lin Jia in the palace were Prince Taifu Han Li, cabinet ministers Jiang Shulin and Gui Wen.

Volumes of case files of the Yuzhou case piled up into mountains and were placed on the ground of the main hall of Yutang Hall. Bai Yuming and Qin Yuchuan took turns telling the case with solemn faces.

Bai Yuming was calm and rational, and Qin Yuchuan was eloquent and emotional, telling a series of tragedies in the world.

Emperor Yongtai sat there motionless, his face pale, as if he had aged several years.

It turned out that in this palace, there used to be a few beasts with human faces and beast hearts, talking in front of him and stealing high positions...

After an unknown amount of time, Emperor Yongtai's voice was hoarse, but there was a chill in his voice: "Yang Wen, according to my order, immediately arrest Yu Yizhou, Zhou Zhihua, Zhang Zijun, Wang Zhiwei, and Cai Zheng, and search their residences at night. Ajia, you and Jiang Qing is here to take charge of this case!"

Lin Jia and Jiang Shulin took a step forward, and they clapped their hands together and answered "Yes".

After all the ministers withdrew, Emperor Yongtai looked at Lin Jia with a tired face: "Ajia, let's send Ayin to the palace to accompany me tomorrow!"

Lin Jia looked up at Emperor Yongtai, his eyes were full of worry, he was silent for a moment and said: "Father, I will send Ah Yin over tomorrow!"

Yu Yizhou was an important minister that Emperor Yongtai had relied on for 16 years. Now that it was revealed that he had done so many evil things, it was normal for Emperor Yongtai to be in a bad mood.

After a while, Lin Jia looked up at Emperor Yongtai: "Father, the cabinet system is good, but checks and balances are necessary!"

Emperor Yongtai focused his expression: "Ajia, let's talk about your thoughts!"

On the first day of the search of Yu Yizhou's mansion, the imperial army dug out a total of [-] bones in the plum grove in the garden behind the mansion.

When the news came out, the capital was in an uproar. Driven by public anger, the search for Yu Yizhou and his party members was carried out vigorously.

Lin Yin went to the palace to accompany Emperor Yongtai, and Yuzhi was free for a while.

Lin Jia was busy with Yu Yizhou's case, so she asked Yuzhi to follow him behind the screen in the outer study to handle official business while she was handling the housework in the mansion.

In the blink of an eye, it was November [-]th, which was the day when the shop under the name of Yu Zhi and Lin Jia came to pay their accounts. Yu Zhi had been busy for half a day before finishing the process.

Yuzhi was really a little tired, so she leaned on the embroidered pillow and leaned on the arhat bed with her eyes closed.

Han Lin knelt on one side, massaging her shoulders.

The wind was howling outside, Ye Ling opened the brocade curtain and walked in, bringing a chill in, she came in happily and said, "Auntie, the red plums over there in the bamboo forest are all in bloom!"

When Yuzhi heard it, she immediately became happy, waved her hand, motioned for Han Lin to help her up, and said with a smile, "Let's go out to enjoy the plum blossoms!"

Ye Bi hurriedly took out the red satin ferret cloak, and waited for Yu Zhi to put it on.

Once outside, Yuzhi felt a gust of cold wind blowing towards her face, she couldn't help feeling refreshed, and immediately led everyone towards the bamboo forest.

The few red plums really bloomed, and the bright red flowers bloomed in the background of dead trees and decayed bamboos, as beautiful as a poem.

Yuzhi was in a relaxed mood, holding a branch of red plum and looking at it, suddenly felt a little cold on her face.

She looked up and found that dense and fine snowflakes began to fly in the dark sky at some point.

Yuzhi couldn't help smiling.

What a blessing it is to be alive and to be able to enjoy such beautiful scenery!
Ye Ling, Ye Bi and Han Lin all laughed.

Ye Ling smiled and said, "Auntie, it's snowing!"

Seeing that the snow was getting heavier, Han Lin hurriedly said, "Auntie, it's snowing heavily, let's go back!"

Yuzhi nodded, and led all the maidservants back the way they came.

As soon as he reached the T-junction, he ran into Li Fanxing head-on.

When Li Fanxing saw Yuzhi, he hurriedly bowed his knees and saluted: "Auntie, please see Madam Lan!"

Yu Zhi said with a smile: "Please come in!"

Lan Zhen is a hero under Lin Jia's command, and she is trusted by Lin Jia. Now she is stationed in Ganzhou, so Yuzhi is very fond of Mrs. Lan Zhen.

Not long after, Li Fanxing led a beautiful woman wearing a big red feather gauze cloak, it was Mrs. Lan Zhen, followed by a woman and a maid in Tsing Yi.

Yuzhi was still admiring the plum blossoms outside, when she saw Mrs. Lan coming, she greeted her with a smile.

Mrs. Lan's skin was white, her eyebrows were thick and her lips were red, and she was very gorgeously dressed. Seeing Yu Zhi greet her, she hurriedly smiled and bowed her knees.

Yuzhi hurriedly supported her, and walked towards Mingjian hand in hand.

In the Ming Dynasty, both of them took off the snow-covered cloaks outside under the servant girl's ear, and then sat down together on the armchairs placed against the east wall.

Knowing that Mrs. Lan likes to eat desserts, Yuzhi said with a smile: "I have a dim sum chef from Youzhou in my small kitchen. If you have anything you want to eat, just tell me and let the small kitchen prepare it!"

Mrs. Lan smiled sweetly: "I will eat whatever my aunt gives me, I will listen to my aunt!"

Seeing that she was acting sweetly, Yuzhi also laughed, and said, "Then I will make the decision for you!"

Not long after, Jin'er and Ye Ling served refreshments together. Mrs. Lan took a look and found that there were indeed exquisite and unusual varieties.

She washed her hands again, took a slice of ice cream and ate it.

The snowflake cake melts in the mouth with a lingering fragrance.

After drinking some more almond tea, Mrs. Lan's eyes flickered slightly: "Auntie, I have a few words to say to you!"

Yuzhi heard the string song and knew the elegance, so she immediately raised her hand.

Ye Ling, Ye Bi, and Han Lin who were waiting in Mingjian all retreated.

Seeing the light blue satin curtain of embroidered green bamboo hanging on the Mingjian door fell down, Mrs. Lan looked at Yuzhi with a smile: "Auntie, do you still remember Mrs. Fan?"

Yu Zhi pondered for a while: "The wife of General Guide Fan Wu? Is it the Xie family?"

Mrs. Xie, the wife of General Guide Fan Wu, is the cousin of Prime Minister Yu Yizhou. She tried to bribe Yuzhi before.

Mrs. Lan hurriedly laughed and said, "It's Mrs. Xie!"

Yuzhi lowered her eyes, picked up her almond tea, took a spoonful with a silver spoon, slowly put it into her mouth, and tasted it carefully.

Mrs. Lan glanced at Yuzhi, and said slowly: "Now that His Majesty has ordered His Excellency to investigate Yu Yizhou's case, Xie's life is not easy. She has also saved some money over the years and wants to spend 10 taels of silver. Buy an Anwen... why don't you meet her?"

Yu Zhi rolled her eyes and looked at Mrs. Lan: "10 taels of silver to buy something safe? What exactly does Mrs. Xie want?"

Seeing Yuzhi speaking bluntly, Mrs. Lan hurriedly laughed and said, "Auntie, the truth is, Yu Yizhou has a concubine who gave birth to a concubine for Yu Yizhou. She is now 16 years old and has never been married. What Xie means is If you want to use this 10 taels of silver to buy the life of this bastard, it can be regarded as leaving a root for the Yu family..."

Yu Zhi said slowly: "Your Excellency has always been strict, I never cared about his affairs, let's leave this matter alone!"

10 taels of silver to buy a life, this money must be Yu Yizhou's stolen money!

Mrs. Lan looked at Yuzhi with a smile, but she was cursing in her heart: Lin Jia's subordinates don't know that Lin Jia trusts you the most, and they can participate in Lin Jia's decision-making, why are you so hypocritical!

Mrs. Xie promised Mrs. Lan a gift of 1 taels of silver, so she had to complete the matter.

After thinking about it in her heart, Mrs. Lan smiled and said, "Madam, 10 taels of silver is enough for ordinary people to spend ten or a hundred lives. Don't be in vain..."

Seeing that Yuzhi was silent, Mrs. Lan put on a helpless look again, and said, "Mrs. Fan has been kneeling outside the corner door of our mansion, saying that I won't get up unless I pass a message to Auntie for her. I have to have the cheek to come to see you!"

Yu Zhi shook her head and said, "It's easy to talk about other things, I won't take care of this matter."

Yu Yizhou obviously has a concubine named Yu Xingxing, but he only wants to save his concubine's life, which is really partial!
Besides, Yu Yizhou committed such a crime and buried a lot of bones in the plum grove in the back garden. How could his family and children not know about such a thing?It's just helping the evildoers!
Not to mention that Yuzhi is not short of money, even if she is short of money, she will not accept the illegal money from her family!
Seeing that the smile on Yuzhi's face had disappeared, Mrs. Lan knew that this matter would not work, so she didn't dare to pester her anymore, so she had to bring up other topics, talked for a while, and left.

After seeing off Mrs. Lan, Yuzhi stood on the porch and looked at the snowflakes in the courtyard, her heart became more determined.

There will be no less such things in the future, she must stick to her position and not cause trouble for Lin Jia!
When he thought of Yuzhi, he thought of Li Rui again.

Li Rui went out to help her with something very important to her and Lin Jia, and I don't know how it went!

(End of this chapter)