After rebirth, I became the favorite of my scumbag brother

When this incident happened, people in the entire capital were shocked. How could a mere aide to the Third Prince be so bold?

It would be understandable if such a thing happened to a noble family in the capital or the in-laws or relatives of a noble family. However, it is indeed unbelievable that such a thing happened in the home of a small aide.

The Dali Temple took over the case that day and began to investigate the matter thoroughly...

It turned out that the man who stopped the sedan chair in the street was named Cui Ming. He was originally a scholar with a good academic record. He was twenty-one years old and married Zhang last year. Zhang was the only daughter in the family and the Zhang family was quite wealthy in the local area.

His wife was a beautiful woman who could not only help with the family business, but also had an extremely strong temper. During one of her inspections of the shop, she was spotted by a playboy, whose family was quite wealthy and had close relations with the local government.

After the playboy fell in love with the lady of the Cui family, he came to the house many times to inquire about the matter, hoping that the lady of the Cui family and the poor scholar would divorce each other, but the Cui couple's love was stronger than gold.

First, the Zhang family's business was repeatedly suppressed, either by being suppressed or by government officials finding excuses to close the shop. For the sake of their daughter and son-in-law, the Zhang family sold the shop and property and prepared to move.

Seeing that Zhang was still unwilling to compromise, those people set their sights on Cui Ming. They first offered him a large sum of money as an inducement, but Cui Ming was a man of integrity and scholar and refused to accept it.

Those people found a reason to arrest Cui Ming's father-in-law and forced Cui's wife. Seeing that the master of the Zhang family was tortured beyond recognition, Zhang agreed to divorce.

After the master of the Zhang family returned home, he was bedridden every day due to abuse, and died within a few days due to the depression in his heart. Cui Ming's mother-in-law saw her daughter and son-in-law being forced to such a point, and she did not want to implicate her daughter, so she followed the master to die.

Having lost both parents at the same time, Mrs. Cui was in great pain. The two of them pulled themselves together and handled the funeral affairs of the master and wife of the Zhang family. Cui Ming was indignant, so he reported the case to the government, but he was found to have made a false accusation by the government.

After the Cui couple divorced, Cui Ming was imprisoned for false accusation. Mrs. Zhang chose to compromise for the sake of her lover, and Cui Ming was stripped of his official title and exiled.

When Madam Zhang found out about this by chance, she chose to resist. However, her resistance failed and she was humiliated instead. She eventually burned herself to death due to the humiliation. Cui Ming escaped at night during his exile, but when he returned to his hometown, he found that his wife had burned herself to death.

Cui Ming, who was alone, begged for food all the way to the capital. On the way, he met a knight who escorted him to the capital and stopped the sedan chair of the Dali Temple Minister on his way home.

After investigation, the matter was confirmed to be true, and the Dali Temple Minister reported it to the emperor truthfully. The emperor was furious and all the family members of the staff and male staff members over ten years old were killed, and the female family members were made official slaves.

The local officials involved in the incident were dismissed and investigated. After Cui Ming was restored to fame, he returned to his hometown to mourn for his wife and parents-in-law. The third prince was reprimanded for a long time for not disciplining his subordinates, and was also confined to his homeland for reflection.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Third Prince was being targeted. As to who was behind this, it was hard to say at the moment. After all, few people in the capital could come into contact with people from the underworld.

Li Ziyu returned to Beijing a few days after the case was settled. The first thing he did when he arrived in Beijing was not to go home, but to secretly meet with Shen Mu, Chu Mo and others.

The few of them met at Yicui Pavilion. Chu Mo looked at the dusty Li Ziyu and asked, "Did your trip go smoothly?"

Li Ziyu felt refreshed after drinking a large bowl of mung bean soup. "Your Highness, it went smoothly. The previous news was true. There are indeed private soldiers in those places.

The reason why so much time was wasted was that during the investigation, his subordinates discovered that someone was privately mining iron ore. After further investigation, they found that some of the iron ore was made into weapons, and some was exchanged for silver.

The iron mine was mined in secret, and the workers were all death row prisoners from the local government and other places. The mountain and the surrounding mountains all belonged to a man named Xiao Yuhe.

That person was from a branch of the imperial merchant Xiao family. He had a younger sister who was a concubine in the Third Prince's mansion. She entered the mansion more than a year ago, and it was Xiao Dehong who introduced her.

That iron mine was discovered just over a year ago. The local prefect is the Third Prince’s man, and the prefect’s second daughter is the Third Prince’s concubine, who also entered the mansion more than a year ago.”

After Li Ziyu finished speaking, he took out all the evidence and account books he had found in the bag. Chu Mo frowned and took a look at them. The wrinkles between his brows were big enough to kill a fly.

The evidence is in hand, but the matter still needs to be considered carefully. My father's prejudice and defense against me have finally loosened, but I or people related to me cannot expose this matter.

After a discussion, several people finally decided that the county magistrate of Songming County, who was the person who provided Li Ziyu with the news and account information, would expose the matter.

The previous incident with Cui Xiucai was the work of the second brother. Although the second brother had gone to his fiefdom, he still had a lot of manpower available. Chu Mo also learned about this by accident.

Now I can use the second brother's people to uncover the matter, but before that I have to reveal the matter first and let the second brother's people pick up the county magistrate. I just need to protect the county magistrate.

On the second day, Censor Liu of the Censorate and his colleagues were drinking tea and listening to music in the elegant room of Mingyin Pavilion when they heard someone talking next door. The voices gradually became louder.

At first, the two felt that it was disrespectful to speak loudly in such an elegant place, but gradually their expressions became serious.

The two men first sent away the girl who was playing the piano and making tea, then leaned close to the wall to listen carefully. Under normal circumstances, they would definitely not act like this, but they could not care less at this moment.

The more they listened, the more suspicious they became. Before they could listen carefully, the person in the private room next door was about to leave. The two hurriedly paid the bill and chased after him, only to find that the person was a burly bodyguard.

After inquiring in detail, the two men began to send people to Chongming County and quietly took away the county magistrate of Chongming County. Of course, Chu Mo's people secretly assisted them.

A few days later, two imperial censors jointly impeached the third prince for illegally mining iron ore and colluding with local officials to deceive his superiors and subordinates.

After Chu Yu learned that the Chongming County magistrate had disappeared without reason, he had a premonition that things were going to get bad, and had already ordered a manhunt for him. He did not expect to be discovered so quickly.

However, one of the two censors was his second brother's man, and the other was a person who did not take sides and was not conspicuous. He had no doubt that these two people were being used by someone.

Of course, it could also be the second brother's doing. Except for the second brother, none of his brothers in the capital are simple. Anyone could be responsible.

A few days ago, Li Ziyu, one of the eldest brother's men, left the capital for a long time. He said he was on business. Maybe he went to investigate this matter. It is possible that the other younger brothers were also there.

Chu Yu refused to admit that he had privately opened an iron mine and insisted that he had no knowledge of it.

So the identity of his concubine was exposed, and his relationship with the imperial merchant Xiao family was also mentioned...