Warm fragrance cloud around

"So Chen San belongs to Shen Shangshu?" Lin Junnuan couldn't help frowning, "What did they say?"

Cheng Jiangyun looked unpredictable, "Before the follower entered the door, he was stopped by a man in gray. After a fight, he was defeated and fled."

"The man in gray? Could it be..."

"That man is not tall, and his weapon is a soft sword. It is very likely that he is the dwarf Ah San that Bai Mu'an was talking about."

"After that, is there any other news?" Lin Junnuan couldn't help becoming a little irritable, wanting to grab the man by the collar and ask, the dignified people in Dali Temple can't even beat a killer, and the salaries are all white-collar workers!

Cheng Jiangyun shook his head, "The man in gray didn't chase after him when he ran away. It seems that he just didn't want him to enter the Shangshu Mansion."

The dwarf Ah San did not stay by Jianyuanhou's side as Bai Muan said, but instead appeared in Shen Shangshu's mansion. This seems to explain a lot of problems. Since he has exposed his hiding place, he is not afraid that he will not be found in the future. A gleam flashed in Lin Junnuan's eyes, and suddenly remembered something.

"Didn't Jian Yuanhou say that Ah Min was killed by an assassin invited by Min Chongshan, so it's impossible..."

"That's right," Cheng Jiangyun glanced at her appreciatively, "I also suspect that it may be Shen Shangshu who instigated Min Chongshan behind the scenes."

"Isn't the evidence of Min Chongshan's ink corruption case all collected? What are you waiting for? Hurry up and ask someone." Lin Junnuan hurriedly pushed him and urged him, thinking of the embarrassment between the two of them, he immediately changed his words, " The adults have the foresight of the adults, and the subordinates go beyond."

Cheng Jiangyun sighed inaudibly, went out and told the subordinates in charge of the ink corruption case to act immediately.

I don't know what support Min Chongshan has. After seeing Cheng Jiangyun and his party coming to the door, he didn't look panicked at all. Instead, he smiled shamelessly at Cheng Jiangyun, "Good nephew, what do you want to see uncle?"

The Si Cheng of Dali Temple read out Min Chongshan's well-documented crimes in a correct tone, but he raised his eyebrows and approached Cheng Jiangyun's ear, provoking him with a turbid breath mixed with the smell of alcohol: "Uncle kindly advises you, if a person I was so smug that I hurt my own feet."

"Wait and see." Cheng Jiangyun pushed him away expressionlessly, "Again, my uncle is long gone."

Lu Taishi's son and daughter passed away one after another in their 30s. This is something that everyone in the capital knows.

Min Chongshan paused for a moment, and finally smiled sullenly, his eyes were like a vicious snake.

"Greedy ink? Evidence? That's right, there must be evidence. Mr. Cheng will ask someone to search carefully to see what evidence can be found."

Cheng Jiangyun recalled many moments when he was a child. He used to rely on his status as the son of the Hou family, and his personality was very arrogant. He always looked down on Min Chongshan, the elder brother of his stepmother. He had been slapped in the face and taught him a lesson, every time Min Chongshan didn't ask the reason, he always apologized obediently, but he often looked at him and his sister with such cold eyes behind his back.

It was a deep-seated hatred.

The master had already spoken, and the people of the Min Mansion did not dare to stop them. The people of Dali Temple searched through every corner of the Min Mansion smoothly, and finally found a hidden compartment behind the shelf in the study. A thick stack of letters.

"It was discovered by you, what should I do!" There was a trace of exaggerated nervousness on Min Chongshan's face, just now he was clearly drawing everyone's attention here intentionally or unintentionally.

One of the chief bookkeepers who searched took out the letter and flipped through it, and then gave Cheng Jiangyun a complicated look, but didn't speak.

"What's the problem?" Cheng Jiangyun asked with a frown.

"I'm afraid that the evidence was found to be related to Mr. Cheng, so he can't say it directly," Min Chongshan laughed, "What exactly did he find, read it out for everyone to hear, it doesn't matter, anyway, everyone present is his own."

The master secretary gave Cheng Jiangyun a timid glance, and Cheng Jiangyun nodded lightly, signaling to him that it was okay.

"Yes, someone instigated Min Chongshan to embezzle the letters and account books that Mo Ke withheld and oppressed the people. The letter also explained who could use it. The signature was, it was Jianyuanhou Cheng Keshen. "

Min Chongshan shrugged, showing a guilty expression after being exposed for his evil deeds, still exaggerated, "Good nephew, what are you going to do with this evidence?"

Cheng Jiangyun ignored him, and the chief secretary swallowed, and continued: "The problem is that there are not only letters from Jian Yuanhou instructing Min Chongshan, but also Min Chongshan's reply. Let it out and wait for us to find out."

"What did you say?" Min Chongshan snatched the letter, flipped through it, and threw it on the ground. He whispered, "Why are you all here?" Framed!"

"It's indeed a fraud, it's a false accusation," Cheng Jiangyun looked at him coldly, "It's just that you are the one who faked it, Min Chongshan."

"The evidence is convincing. Min Chongshan is not only greedy for ink, but also tried to forge documents and frame Jian Yuanhou. Take it back."

Back to two hours ago, Cheng Jiangyun was about to take people to minfu to arrest Min Chongshan, but was stopped by Lin Junnuan, "Do you still remember the man who claimed to be the murderer before?"

Cheng Jiangyun nodded slightly.

"Now that I think about it, he clearly showed up on purpose and was caught by you on purpose, so as to provide false testimony as a murderer and lead all the crimes to Jian Yuanhou. Will it be the same this time?"

"You mean... Min Chongshan will identify his father in the end?"

"A simple identification is hard to convince. He may have prepared evidence."

Cheng Jiangyun thought for a moment with a serious face, "I'll send someone to the Min Mansion to search secretly."

Lin Junnuan shook her head lightly, "Why go to Min Mansion, isn't it faster to go to Hou Mansion?"

Therefore, Cheng Jiangyun forcefully asked Jian Yuanhou, who was in the prison of Jingzhao Mansion, where he usually kept his private letters, and he really found a thick stack of letters.They are all reports written by Min Chongshan to Marquis Jian Yuan, and there is also a detailed account book that records corruption in ink and silver.Judging from the tone of the letter, it seems that Min Chongshan has been trying to dissuade Jian Yuanhou, unwilling to embezzle the life-saving money of the victims against his conscience, but in the end he was unable to resist Jian Yuanhou's threat and had to obey his orders, as if he was a general. All the blame rests on Jian Yuanhou's head.

"What is the deep hatred between Min Chongshan and your Hou's family, so that you want to drag the Hou into the water, and completely ignore his sister and nephews?" Lin Junnuan subconsciously sighed.Cheng Jiangyun just shook his head, but he couldn't answer.

Cheng Jiangyun took the stack of letters from the Hou Mansion, and let his subordinates sneak into Min Chongshan's letters while searching the Min Mansion.Correspondence is only when there is back and forth, and if both incoming and outgoing letters are in the hands of the same person, it is blatantly framed.

"It was you, it was you who changed the letter!" Min Chongshan looked at him viciously, "I was wronged, I was forced! I want to see the emperor, I want to see Shen Shangshu!"

"Shangshu Shen?" Cheng Jiangyun glanced at him expressionlessly, "You will see him soon."

***

Although he said that, whether it was the case of Jian Yuanhou's assassination or the case of Min Chongshan's embezzlement of ink, Shen Shangshu had picked himself very cleanly, without any clues and evidence pointing directly to him.

Although Lin Junnuan was anxious to arrest the dwarf Ah San and find out what happened eight years ago, he also knew that everything should not be rushed. Now that he finally has a clear direction, it is much better than searching randomly without a clue in the past.

That's how the day ended.The time sequence has gradually entered midsummer, and the days are getting longer and longer, but in the end there will still be twilight, just as she has always believed that no matter how many twists and turns she has experienced, the truth will eventually surface.

There are still three days before the time set by the emperor.

After Lin Junnuan returned, Cheng Jiangyun was still sorting out clues and thoughts in Dali Temple, when Guanqi suddenly walked in the door dejectedly, "Master, Master Hou wants to see you."

His reaction was as expected, Cheng Jiangyun was not surprised at all, he came to Jingzhao Mansion unhurriedly, approached Jianyuanhou's cell, before he could stand still, a small stone hit him head-on.

"Unfilial son, I have already said that Min Chongshan was framed!"

Cheng Jiangyun didn't dodge, and let the stone hit his head, his forehead was cut with a sharp corner.

Jian Yuanhou didn't seem to expect that he would not hide, he stared blankly at the blood gushing from his forehead, and then muttered stiffly after a while: "You deserve it, who told you not to hide."

Ignoring the injury on his head, Cheng Jiangyun grinned instead, and suddenly remembered what the emperor said, when his mother used to evaluate his father, he would always use a weird word, silly and sweet.Although he didn't fully understand the meaning of the word, looking at his father sitting in the cell with his beard blowing and staring, he somehow felt that what his mother said was very appropriate.

"What are you laughing at, are you stupid?" Jian Yuanhou gave him an annoyed look, "If you still recognize me as an old man, then let Min Chongshan go!"

Cheng Jiangyun didn't respond to him, took the handkerchief from Guanqi and wiped his forehead casually, and then said: "Father, why did you marry the Min family?"

This is a question he has puzzled for many years.The year after his mother passed away, his father remarried. The stepmother was not a noble daughter, not even a lady of the family, but a daughter of a poor scholar family. She was ordinary in appearance and mediocre in talent. mother on a par.

However, Marquis Jianyuan just married, and over the years, she is very satisfied with her status as the mistress of the Hou Mansion.

Jian Yuanhou's eyes flickered for a moment, and he still poked his neck and said, "What's wrong with her, Mrs. Min, she can take care of the house and take care of people, and she treats you better than Jiang Ming, so why don't you call her mother? !"

His tone was too righteous, and Cheng Jiangyun didn't know what to say to continue. Thinking that he had secretly complained about his father before, knowing that he and his sister were being bullied by their stepmother, he still turned a blind eye. Now that he thinks about it, he may have really wronged him.

His father was probably really blind.

"Father, do you know what I found in your room?"

"What?" Jian Yuanhou thought for a while, his old face blushed suddenly, and angrily said: "Bastard, who allowed you to enter my room?!"

Judging by his expression, could it be that there is really something shady hidden in the room?Cheng Jiangyun paused, and ordered Guanqi to show the stack of letters to Jian Yuanhou.