Don't disturb me, I won't be a concubine

Cui Qiyan and Mr. Huang interrogated for three consecutive days. On the first day, they kept their mouths tightly shut. They only said three sentences when asking questions: I don't know, I was wronged, and it has nothing to do with me.

Even if Mr. Huang threw the account book in Yan Chao's face, he would refuse to acknowledge it.

The next day, Cui Qiyan asked Qu Wei to speak and brought out his collusion with Yan Chao.

It turns out that before Yan Xiangwen met Qu Wei, Qu Wei had already been secretly fawning over Yan Chao. One of them was greedy for money, the other needed support, and they hit it off quickly.

Qu Wei legitimately put the money earned from Ruyilou into Yan Chao's pocket through Yan Xiangwen. Qu Wei was the flower-picking thief, and Yan Chao had known about it for a long time. In order to get [-]% more silver from Ruyilou, he chose to turn a blind eye. The two of them had even agreed to find someone when the matter had to come to an end. Take the blame personally.

This is also the reason why Qu Wei agreed to Yan Chao to kidnap Yunling to distract Cui Qiyan. They even discussed what to do if Cui Qiyan found out.

So they had planned step by step to lure Cui Qiyan up the mountain, let him exchange for Yunling, and then push him off the cliff.

Yan Chao promised Qu Wei that as long as he accomplished these things, he would find a way to send him out of the city and find someone to die on his behalf.

Master Huang read Qu Wei's confession and slammed the table in anger.

"Yan Chao Shuzi! There is simply no royal law in his eyes!"

"Lord Huang, please calm down. Now that Qu Wei has testified, Yan Chao is already guilty of death, but the crimes he committed are more than that. I would like to ask you to order the county magistrates below Yuzhou to come to the Yamen and ask them what they have to submit every year. The tax situation may be able to find out the flaws." Cui Qiyan suggested.

"What Mr. Cui said is absolutely true. I will

Ordered to go down. "

On the third day, magistrates from various counties arrived overnight. During the inquiry process, they found that the number they reported was very different from what the court finally received.

All kinds of evidence were put in front of Yan Chao and others, and they had to plead guilty.

Yan Chao secretly withheld tax money, colluded with his subordinate officials, and defrauded the court of money in the name of natural disasters. Whenever he encounters a real disaster, he only needs to spend a small amount of money to appease the people, and let the people praise him. It seems that the taxes of the people have been reduced, but in fact it is much more than the reductions and exemptions ordered by the court.

In this way, Yan Chao defrauded a huge amount of money from both sides in the past few years. And where he hid the money, he wouldn't say even to death.

However, he never imagined that two days later, Cui Qiyan and Master Huang would get a clue from one of his concubines when they interrogated his family members.

On the fourth day, in the house where Cui Qiyan once lived, more than ten boxes were dug out from under the sycamore tree, filled with gold bars, silver ingots and various jewelry.

Under the sun, the contents of the box dazzled everyone present.

Master Huang ordered people to carry the box away, and said with a livid face: "He hid Greedy's things here, and he dared to let Master Cui live in him. He is really arrogant!"

"Maybe he is not conceited, but intentional." Cui Qiyan raised his head and looked at the leafy sycamore tree.

"Why did Mr. Nie say this?"

"It's dark under the lights. The more he treats this place like an ordinary house, the less likely others will be suspicious. On the contrary, if he sends people to guard this place tightly, people will guess it immediately after something happens."

Mr. Huang snorted heavily, "If he puts these thoughts into

I have spent all my thoughts on the right path, and now I am afraid that I will join the cabinet to worship the prime minister! "

When Yan Chao learned that all the belongings he had been hoarding for many years were in vain because of a woman, he couldn't bear it and passed out immediately.

The case was basically found out. Five officials, including Liu Zhengping, the state colleague, had a deep collusion with Yan Chao. Some other people also helped him do things, but they didn't know much about him.

Master Huang reported the results to the court and waited for the Holy Emperor's decision.

The Yuzhou officials basically took over the responsibility, and Mr. Huang was left to deal with the mess they made.

When the people in the city heard the news, they came to the government office every day to yell and curse. Mr. Huang came forward and repeatedly promised to give them a satisfactory explanation before appeasing them.

Cui Qiyan lives with Mr. Huang in the Yamen these days. Sometimes he thinks of asking Ji Bai to go back to the inn to see Yunling.

After the matter came to an end, he returned to the inn, knocked on the door and entered Yunling's room.

"The son is back."

Cui Qiyan looked at her smiling face in a daze for a moment, as if she had been waiting for him.

"Young master, are you exhausted these days? It's a pity that I can't go to the ground, otherwise I can make a pot of tea for you to relieve your fatigue." Yunling continued.

Cui Qiyan sat down next to him, "How is your injury?"

"The doctor came to see it and said there was no big problem."

"Yeah." Cui Qiyan saw a pile of books lying on her side and thought she asked Yi Cheng for it. He thought that she knew how to pass the time and was quite good at entertaining herself.

"Sir, did Mr. Yan really bury dozens of boxes of gold, silver and jewelry under the sycamore tree in the house where we lived?"

When Cui Qiyan raised his eyes and saw her eyes shining, he didn't understand what was so exciting about this.

"

Who told you that? Where are the dozens of boxes? "

"I heard what the people at the inn said," Yunling leaned forward, "So it's really under that tree? How many boxes is it if there are not dozens of boxes?"

"Sixteen boxes."

Yunling clicked her tongue and said, "Sixteen chests, how much silver is that? As a parent official, Mr. Yan has plundered so much people's wealth and wealth. I'm sorry for the imperial court, and I'm sorry for the people of Li."

"What made you happy just now?"

"This slave is not happy, I just think about standing under that tree many times, with mountains of gold and silver at my feet. This feeling is wonderful."

"No matter how much money you have, it's not yours, so what's the use of it even if it's at your feet?"

"Young master is making me laugh. I have never seen so much money before, so I am just thinking about it."

If she could have that much money, no, one of these boxes, then she could live the life she wanted after leaving the Duke's Mansion.

"That's all you're good for." Cui Qiyan got up from the stool.

"Master." Yunling called him.

Cui Qiyan paused, "What's the matter?"

"Have the five imprisoned girls gone home? How are they now?" Yun Ling has been thinking about this matter.

"Yan Chao had people take them out of the iron cage and send them home, and word spread about Qu Wei's inhumanity. Even so, they were imprisoned for several months or even a year. It was inevitable that there would be people talking behind their backs. It is impossible for them to live the same life as before. I only heard that after they returned, they never left the door or took a step forward. I don’t know exactly what happened." Cui Qiyan told her everything he knew.

"Thank you for letting me know, sir."

It’s pretty much what Yunling thought.

After escaping, the five girls faced another problem.