Cowardly Stepmother Dressed As the Hero

In the following days, Cao Mi's people began to investigate Xia Lin's criminal evidence, but with little success.

Everything seems to be as true as Xia Lin's confession. Chen Kang's silver tael was obtained by coercing her, and the profit of the store decreased because the former princess died, and Cao Mi did not understand business operations and caused losses.

Cao Mi can only send Nanxi to various stores to investigate, but she has not been able to get any clues when she takes office as a new official.

When Cao Mi was busy collecting evidence, Xia Lin was not idle either.

On this day, Qi You, who had not appeared for a long time, returned to the courtyard.

He looked a little serious, followed by two maids with red eyes.

Cao Mi was shocked at the moment.

During this time, it seemed that because of the closure, Qi You was busy again. And unlike the past, this King of Bei'an seemed to have encountered some thorny problems. Cao Mi occasionally pretended to care about him in the front yard several times, and found that his face was not good.

But Cao Mi was too busy to take care of himself during this time, so he didn't know much.

She had just found the maid behind Qi You, and had some guesses about what was going on. She hurriedly left her seat and stepped forward to greet Qi You.

Qi You excused her courtesy, sat down in the hall, rubbed his forehead with a headache, and said, "These two maids have been going to the front yard for the past few days, saying that you wronged Xia Lin, and imprisoned her and tortured her. ?"

Cao Mi smiled stiffly, and explained, "What's the matter? I dealt with a steward in the backyard and found that Xia Lin seemed to be involved in this matter, so I locked her up first and is investigating."

Hearing what she said, the two maids who followed Qi You knelt down.

Cao Mi still had some impressions of them, they were the two maids in the backyard washing room. She sent people to monitor several servants suspected of Xia Lin's accomplices in the past few days, but she did not expect that there were still fish that slipped through the net.

After the two knelt down, one of them said with a weeping voice: "Princess Mingjian, Sister Xia Lin has been in the mansion for more than ten years, and now she has reached the age of leaving the mansion. What she made was just a small mistake of going out privately a few times. Her body Weak, how can they bear the pain of imprisonment. The slaves have been sheltered by Sister Xia Lin, and they know that she is a pure and kind person, and please don't blame Xia Lin. "

After speaking, the two of them kept kowtowing.

They acted decisively and used real strength when kowtowing. When Cao Mi reacted and called someone to pull them up, their foreheads were already red and swollen and bloody.

Cao Mi, a person who has been educated in the legal system for more than 20 years, is the first to encounter such a battle. Even if he knows that this is the normal state of this time and space, he can't help but feel a little apprehensive.

On the other hand, Qi You took everyone's reaction into his eyes, sighed lightly, and said, "Go and bring Xia Lin up, I will try it myself."

Hearing this, Cao Mi had to bow his head and say "yes".

At this point, Cao Mi knew that he had lost a move.

Before, Qi You had talked with her about Xia Lin, and at that time, Qi You also said that he would not intervene in this matter for the time being. But now, Xia Lin brought the matter to Qi You's side. In Qi You's heart, the label of her inability to do things might not be able to be removed for a while.

You must know that Qi You is a person who attaches great importance to ability. Otherwise, he would not have let all the noble ladies in the capital not marry, but his family was declining, but he has a good reputation as a housekeeper in Beijing. Sister as wife.

The resolute and resolute King of Bei'an had endured for a long time with the original body, who had nowhere to go. Now, even dealing with a maid in the backyard has to make trouble in front of him. After this incident, Cao Mi is afraid that he is even more unbearable in his mind.

Just when she was thinking about the way to save, Xia Lin was brought up.

After being detained for a few days, Xia Lin visibly lost some weight. At this time, her face was pale and her hair was disheveled, and she looked like she had been abused.

But when she came to Qi You and Cao Mi, she still bowed politely and thoughtfully.

Qi Youming asked blankly why she was being held, but Xia Lin still replied with the excuse that he was being blackmailed by Chen Kang.

After that, Qi You asked some more details, and she could answer them one by one.

In his words, Xia Lin admitted some small mistakes that were not enough to hurt his bones.

It took Qi You half an hour, and the conclusion he came to was the same as the result of Cao Mi's interrogation in the past few days——

Xia Lin is innocent.

In the end, Qi You thought about it and said directly: "Since the founding of the country, this dynasty has captured the most important evidence. If the princess has no other doubts, she should not imprison Xia Lin again."

Cao Mi and Xia Lin looked at each other and forgot to answer for a while.

She felt that she had clearly touched some of Xia Lin's secrets, but there was always a barrier that could not be explained clearly, making it impossible for her to restore the truth of the whole thing.

At this time, Xia Lin burst into tears when he heard what Qi You said.

She knelt down and bowed again, choked and said, "The lord is kind, and Xia Linming feels it. But Xia Lin is at fault after all. How the princess wants to deal with the slaves, the slaves don't dare to complain."

In front of Qi You, she always behaved very humble. But from Cao Mi's point of view, she could catch a glimpse of the corners of her mouth rising on her lowered face, as if declaring her final victory.

Cao Mi sneered in his heart, but he knew that there was nothing he could do now. Give her some more time, maybe Nanxi can find something new, but Xia Lin obviously thought of this, so he hurriedly invited Qi You.

Qi You had already sent a message, Cao Mi could only let him go.

So she pulled the corners of her mouth forcibly, "Your Highness is right, the concubine herself is thinking..."

Before she could finish speaking, Chun Lin suddenly came in from the door and knelt down in front of the two of them.

Cao Mi was reluctant to let him go, so he stopped and asked, "Chunlin? What's the matter with you?"

After Chunlin finished the ceremony, he got up and said, "Your Highness, Princess Rongqi, and this maid remembered some of Xia Lin's previous abnormalities. I searched the courtyard today, and I came here to present the fruit."

Cao Mi was a little surprised, "Oh? What?"

Chunlin took out a stack of letter paper from his arms and handed it to Toli who came forward to fetch it.

Xia Lin, who had stopped crying beside him, suddenly turned pale when he saw the letters.

After she reacted, she stared at Chun Lin standing with her head bowed in disbelief, as if she couldn't believe she would do such a thing.

Chunlin glanced at her with sad eyes, and in the gap between Qi You and Cao Mi Zhanxin's reading, he explained: "Xia Lin is in charge of the shop under the princess' name, and has many correspondence with the shopkeeper in the shop. She would save the monthly letters in one place, and then take them to the kitchen to be burned. But for the past two months, because she was sent by the princess to oversee the embroidery workshop, she had not been able to deal with these letters.

"The slave and Xia Lin have known each other since childhood. During the few days she was detained, the slave tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at night. After that, she finally made up her mind and searched the courtyard for several days, and finally found these things."

As she said that, she closed her eyes and said sadly and decisively, "If these letters can't prove Xia Lin's innocence, then let the mansion be innocent."

Xia Lin next to him was already shaking like leaves in the wind. As soon as Chunlin finished speaking, she suddenly burst into a rage and rushed towards Chunlin, she was about to grab Chunlin's face, "Bitch! What a hypocritical act. ?! You think I don't know what you're thinking? Bitch!!"

With tears in her eyes, Chun Lin stood on the spot without escaping, letting her swear and abuse. Fortunately, Bei Si and others reacted immediately and stepped forward to restrain Xia Lin's facts.

Of course, what suddenly made Xia Lin go mad on the spot was no ordinary thing. These letters were the hard evidence that she was greedy for the profits of Cao Mi's shop.

The letter was exactly as Chun Lin said, it was a correspondence between Xia Lin and the shopkeepers of several shops. In the letter, Xia Lin mentioned Cao Mi's recent changes, and discussed the aftermath plan with the shopkeepers.

The shopkeepers who replied to the letter obviously didn't care. They mentioned the words "The princess is incompetent, don't take it to heart" many times in the letter, and also wrote the omissions they had made before to Xia Lin as a joke, telling her that it would be considered as Cao Mi would nod to believe it because the mice had eaten up the granary.

Everything on the letter can prove what an unforgivable crime Xia Lin committed.

Seeing that the escape was imminent, but at the last moment, Chun Lin took out the most important iron proof. It is strange that Xia Lin did not collapse.

After roughly reading all the letters, Cao Mi looked at Xia Lin, who was pinned to the ground, and asked, "Xia Lin, do you have anything to say about these letters?"

Xia Lin probably knew that the situation was over, and only stared at Cao Mi with fierce eyes.

Just when Cao Mi thought she acquiesced to the crime, Xia Lin sneered and said, "Princess Jing is smart and dignified, and she has a good command. I have been by her side for two years, and I have not dared to make a mistake. She took it away, and brought you such an incompetent waste, how can you make me not have two hearts?"

There was a sneer at the corner of her mouth, "I blame you for being too stupid, hehe, you are too stupid to lose, if you were more shrewd, probably every time I swallowed these letters, I wouldn't leave the slightest clue... Also... it won't lead to today's disaster."

Cao Mi stared coldly at her to vent, and when she finished speaking, she just replied lightly: "Why do you put everything on me, is it because I forced you to do it?

She sighed lightly, "Your bitter fruit took root the day you crossed the border."

When Xia Lin heard this, he didn't answer any more, but the sarcasm at the corner of his mouth remained undiminished.

Seeing that Cao Mi had regained control of the situation, Qi You, who was next to him, stopped talking and let her handle it herself.

He put down the letter paper in his hand, and occasionally caught a glimpse of Chun Lin who was crying secretly beside him. Knowing her mood, he casually comforted: "If you can't return Xia Lin's innocence, you can return the integrity of the house. You have done a good job, and you don't have to blame yourself. "

Chunlin wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "Chunlin always remembers what the lord taught Chunlin when he was with the lord, and remember to be a person who fulfills his duties and distinguishes between good and evil."

Qi You smiled when he heard the words, "Do you still remember? Among the four spring, summer, autumn and winter, you are the youngest, but you have always been the most sensible one."

Hearing this, Chunlin lowered his head a little embarrassedly.

She hid her blushing face, and responded timidly, "It's all what slaves should do, and it shouldn't be praised by the prince."

On the other side, Cao Mi took Xia Lin down and interrogated him again. He turned his head to see Chun Lin with a blushing face, and fell silent thoughtfully.

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