Hou Men Splendid

Chapter 128 So Many Years Ago

At Zhang Shangshu's age, he would naturally want to climb up if he had the opportunity. In addition to doing business for the emperor, the Ministry of Punishment must handle major cases if he wants to be promoted.

After Shao Ziyu took office in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Zhang Shangshu made a lot of profits. If there is nothing wrong with him these days, then he will be the Minister of Criminal Ministry to the end.

So when Shao Ziyu said this, Zhang Shangshu was also a little moved, the case from decades ago.

Furthermore, what is Shao Ziyu's identity, the son-in-law who is now assisting Minister Lin, his future is boundless, since it is necessary to investigate, then just investigate.

Zhang Shangshu pondered for a while, "This matter still needs to be reported, Mr. Shao, please be safe and don't be impatient."

"Please trouble Lord Shangshu." Shao Ziyu cupped his hands, and the two of them gave each other a few words of humility. Zhang Shangshu left, and Shao Ziyu also left the Ministry of Punishment and returned home.

After arriving home, Lin Qingran heard what he said and laughed at him, "Before you said that I was bluffing people, and you said it was serious even after the qin was burned. You are not the same." When it comes to the case of the Lan family, he also said that someone came to destroy the evidence.

"We haven't finished watching it all, and it's not necessarily true." Shao Ziyu shook his head, "I just find it strange that the Lan family was considered to be in power back then, and they lost as they said."

"After so many years, when the ancestor emperor was still there, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment has changed several times. Not many people know about it."

"Someone knows that too." Shao Ziyu sent someone to look at the demoted Lan's house, and found that there were no valuable clues there, and the Lan's house and Shao's house had already drawn a clear line.

"It's possible that we can't say it." Lin Qingran raised her head, "Isn't the serial murder case also tried in private, because the son of Prince Chen was involved, and those murderers were dealt with in private, and none of them were made public."

"That involves the royal family and many officials." Shao Ziyu paused after finishing speaking, yes, like the Lan family, it was not a chaos in the past, and they were suddenly demoted, so it should have been involved in the affairs of the court.

Lin Qingran looked at him, why did he suddenly stop talking, Shao Ziyu nodded, "You will know after reading the file in a few days."

Shao Ziyu made things worse, and when he reported to the official, he insisted that someone wanted to destroy the evidence, and then there was the matter of the piano business, which was always inseparable from the Shao family.

Shao Ziyu has no evidence to say that it is related to Mrs. Tai and who, but decided on the case of the Lan family back then, but I didn't expect that Zhang Shangshu had just asked Zhang Zhonghou for instructions on this matter, and was invited by the empress dowager After a trip, he came back and told Shao Ziyu that the case could not be further investigated under the order of the Empress Dowager.

"My lord Zhang, the Empress Dowager invited you to come over, and she said that you can't go down to check?" This was beyond Shao Ziyu's expectation. Since there was a file earlier, it must have been reviewed, so why can't I check it.

"Master Shao, I advise you not to search further. You have also seen that the Empress Dowager ordered that you should not continue to search. We all understand that even if someone did it on purpose, you will We can only settle the case against the arsonists." Although Zhang Shangshu felt strange, during his tenure, there were not many unexposed cases.

"Master Zhang, even if I don't check it, can I read this file?"

"I said, why don't you listen to this?" Zhang Shangshu looked helpless, Shao Ziyu cupped his hands, with a calm expression, "I understand, I will retire."

Shao Ziyu did not leave the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but called Eleven and Ah Jiu to come in, stayed in the room for half an hour, Shao Ziyu left the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and Ah Jiu drove the carriage, and left quickly

Five days later, Lin Qingran was called into the palace.

I went to the Yihe Palace where the Concubine Gui was. Lin Qingran did not bring Bogeer with her. When she arrived at the Palace of Harmony, Concubine Zhang Gui had been waiting for her for some time.

"My child, sit down." Concubine Zhang Gui signaled her to sit down, and sighed, "I came here today to ask you to persuade Ziyu." Lin Qingran waited quietly for her to continue talking, and Concubine Zhang Gui looked at her , "Let him stop investigating what happened to the Lan family 40 years ago."

Lin Qingran also did not expect that the imperial concubine would ask her to enter the palace because of this matter. To what extent is the case secret? The husband just went to find his grandfather to help inspect this matter, and everyone in the palace knows about it. .

"Both of you, you don't know anything. It's been so long since the things of the Lan family, there's no need to worry about them." The imperial concubine was only a few years old and didn't know much about these things, but many years later she entered the palace. Knowing the whole story of this incident, "There is also a reason why the Empress Dowager didn't want Zi Yu to investigate."

"Ms. Taifei, we didn't want to investigate these things originally, but some people didn't let us go. The house my grandfather left us in Sangjiang was burned, and so many things left by my grandfather and grandmother were burned. When I came to Luodu City, I used my grandmother’s guqin to repair it, and some people went to rob the piano shop, and this is because someone forced us to find out the truth.” Lin Qingran and the others didn’t want to get involved with these things. They haven't been born yet, why are they so entangled in the affairs of the elders?

"The Ai family has also heard about this matter, but even if you know about the Lan family, it can't help you much, so the empress dowager and the Ai family feel that there is no need to investigate." With the persistence on Qing Ran's face, she sighed softly, "This is not a glorious thing for the Lan family."

Lin Qingran was slightly taken aback, being demoted was not an honorable thing in the first place, but from what it meant, it was even more serious.

"At that time, the ancestor emperor was old, but the new concubine in the palace was young. In fact, there were several scandals, and the matter of the Lan family was also related to this." The imperial concubine also knew that they would not give up. , "You also know that it takes a lot of time for many women to come in every three years. One of the concubines is very close to the young master of the Lan family. She should have known her before entering the palace." What, getting close to the concubine, I don't know how many gossips will be caused, and how the royal family will allow it.

"Although I don't know what happened between them, but the concubine asked the young master of the Lan family to take her away. She didn't enter the palace voluntarily and didn't want to stay in the palace. They didn't elope successfully. It should be said that they haven't had time to elope yet." It was discovered, and the two letters exchanged are enough to prove this, what is the crime of elope with the emperor's concubine."

The imperial concubine looked at Lin Qingran with a smile, but Lin Qingran read the depth of the crime.

"The person was not abducted, it was only with this intention, but it was enough for the young master of the Lan family to be considered a capital crime. Naturally, the concubine couldn't escape. Later, Taifu Lan used him and his two sons' official relegation and never returned. At the price of Luodu City, the life of the young master of the Lan family was saved. At that time, several ministers pleaded for mercy. The royal family concealed this matter. It is a matter of the royal family's face. No one dared to speak out. After so many years In the past, there were not many people who knew about it." The Concubine Gui spoke slowly, she did not experience it personally, half of it was heard after entering the palace, and half of it was asked by Zhang Zhonghou later, "Now you want to investigate, you have found out What good can it do for you, how could the royal family allow you to reveal what happened so many years ago."

"Ms. Taifei, who are the ministers who interceded with Taifu Lan back then?" The imperial concubine's eyes were clear, and she saw what Lin Qingran wanted to ask, "You want to say, is there any old general Gu among them?" ,is not it."

Lin Qingran nodded, "Yes, even if you inquire about Lan's family, you know that the sons of Mrs. Lan were all excellent back then. Mrs. Lan taught them well. Elopement with the concubine is such a serious crime. Think he won't make it."

"The beggars indeed included Old General Gu. At that time, there were several old ministers who were old friends with Taifu Lan. They have all passed away now. As for whether you will do what you said, the case has been decided." There are witnesses who have already passed away. Furthermore, the Empress Dowager has made it clear that they are not allowed to investigate.

"The concubine understands that the case has been settled, but if she is really guilty, why bother to burn the house and burn the notes? Grandma also knows about what happened back then. The concubine and the minister just want to transport those things back to Luodu City for safekeeping. It was burned, if you don’t check it out, it’s hard to feel at ease.” Lin Qingran felt that this was a trick, who knew if someone else deliberately designed the young master of the Lan family to elope with the concubine, it was only done with true love If this kind of thing happened, otherwise I would agree to it just by begging, and if I didn't go out to buy a box of rouge and gouache, how could I agree.

"What are you going to do after finding out?" The Concubine Gui looked at her, "Even if, as you said, the case is suspicious and the damned people are already dead, what are you going to do?"

There was something in the Concubine Gui's words, and Lin Qingran was silent. What are she and Shao Ziyu going to do? They want Madam Shao to live in peace. Could it be that they can't bear anything if they burn down the house and burn down the things left by their grandparents? , they couldn't find strong evidence to prove that she ordered the arson, but let it go like this, it would be too aggrieved, she Lin Qingran is not the protagonist of the bloody drama at eight o'clock, she was tortured to death by bad guys, powerless Fight back, but also all kinds of poking heart and vomiting blood.

She wasn't so magnanimous that if she thought about it, she wouldn't pursue it. It wasn't too much to use her own way to deal with her own body.

"Old General Gu's reputation has been ruined by the robbery, so what if you ruin him again, the dead are not afraid of being accused."

"Ma'am, Mrs. Gu, old general Gu is not afraid of being accused, and the loess is a handful, but his grandfather's reputation is so bad, doesn't it affect the Shao family today? How did the Shao family lose their title? What happened to Ziyu's parents? The dead ones were borne by Old General Gu in the past, but now there is no old General Gu who bears these charges.” The grandmother in the Shao Mansion would not have a better life when the Lan family was relegated. Not very good, and after experiencing such a blow, the body can only get worse and worse.

Could it be that the ultimate goal has nothing to do with the position of the wife of the head of the Shao family?

"Then what do you want?" Speaking of the death of Shao Ziyu's parents, Gui Taifei's eyes flickered slightly, Lin Qingran got up and knelt down, "My concubine, I implore the Taifei empress, if you can speak with the empress dowager, let us Re-examining the case 40 years ago, not many people know about it now, and it was done secretly, so the Empress Dowager can rest assured that no one will know about it.”

"If you are allowed to commit a crime, what are your intentions?" The Concubine Gui asked calmly.

Lin Qingran raised her head, "Return Lan's family's innocence, and grandma's justice."

(End of this chapter)