His Majesty once married me

When Zhu Bian got the case file of Wang Ni's disappearance, his subordinates had actually found out the case to the point that it was almost cleared up. Not only did they find Wang Ni's body that was discarded on the mass grave, but they also locked down the suspect who committed the case. The suspect in the case - Lang Gaoli, a member of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

In terms of content, this case is actually very simple.

There is no doubt that Wang Ni disappeared after he went to Gaofu. Many people knew and saw that he was brought back to Gaofu by Gao Li and entered the gate of Gaofu.

The people in the Gao Mansion said that Wang Ni just sat in the mansion, and soon left alone.

But the people in Gaofu obviously forgot that after the New Year's Eve riots, the curfew was greatly strengthened, and when Wang Ni was brought back to Gaofu by Gao Li, there was only about one stick of incense left before the curfew started.Even if Wang Ni came out immediately after entering, he would definitely encounter the imperial guards on the road and leave a record of interrogation.

However, the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs who were in charge of investigating the case went to the Forbidden Army to inquire, but did not find such a record.

The people in Gaofu didn't even know that the Ministry of Punishment had set up Yizhuang near the mass graves in various places, and arranged for bold officials to go there to pick up all the corpses in the mass graves and register them in the register.

According to the records of Yizhuang in the capital, Wang Ni was dumped in a mass grave the next morning after his disappearance. The guards on duty even saw the person who threw the body—wearing the clothes of a servant, driving a clean bucket It was obvious that Wang Ni's body was hidden in the clean bucket and carried out of the city gate.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ministry of Criminal Justice had set up ears and eyes in Yizhuang, the people on duty there were only responsible for picking up the corpses and were not allowed to arrest those who discarded the corpses, perhaps the case would have been solved that day.

What really embarrasses the people below is the identity of the suspect.

Wang Ni is the cousin of the empress of the current dynasty, and Gao Li is also the cousin of the eldest prince.

But Wang Ni is just a concubine adopted by the Wang family, while Gao Li is the only son of Gao Ming's eldest brother, the governor of the imperial army, and the eldest grandson of the Gao family.

Such a person, even with solid evidence, is not easy to be arrested at will.

Zhu Bian had heard about this case from people around him a long time ago, but at that time he was affected by the New Year's Eve riots, indulged in the past, couldn't extricate himself for a while, and was completely uninterested in such a small case that he knew what was going on when he heard about it .

At this moment, the file was brought under his nose, and Zhu Bian only glanced at it briefly, then threw it aside, turned around and called the little handyman who was serving his pen and ink, and asked him to take his name card to go to the office. Find Gao Ming, the governor of the Imperial Guard, and ask him to go to the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.

Originally, Zhu Bian's plan list did not include the item of being an upright official. After experiencing the New Year's Eve riots, he even had doubts about whether he should continue to be an official.

Wang Ni's case really did not attract Zhu Bian's interest.

The subordinates pushed the burden to Zhu Bian, and Zhu Bian just wanted to pass this burden on to others.

No matter what Zhu Bian thinks, in the eyes of others, he still belongs to the kind of key person who must not be offended even if he can't make friends with him. Even Gao Ming, who is also the emperor's confidant, dare not ignore his invitation .

Within half an hour, Gao Ming appeared in front of Zhu Bian with a smile on his face.

Zhu Bian didn't greet him politely, and directly threw the case file in front of Gao Ming, letting him read it by himself.

Gao Ming's eyes and ears couldn't hide what happened in Gao's house. Gao Li took Wang Ni home and beat him to death. Gao Ming knew very well.It's just that no one has found Gao Ming, and it was his nephew, not his son, who committed the crime—his own son was not old enough to do such a thing, so Gao Ming pretended to be confused and didn't intervene in this matter.

But Gao Ming also knew that fire cannot be contained in paper, and the Wang family is not a family that can be intimidating and tempting.

Received Zhu Bian's invitation today, Gao Ming guessed the reason, but he never expected that Zhu Bian would hand over the case file to him, as if to sell him face, so that he can privately this matter.

He was puzzled, but Gao Ming read the case file carefully, then raised his head, and asked tentatively: "Master Zhu..."

"Don't talk nonsense." Zhu Bian stretched out a finger and shook Gao Ming, "You must know better than me what is going on with this matter. How to solve this matter is also up to you, not Me. For the next three days, I will not do anything. However, after three days, if the Wang family still insists on this matter, then I can only do business and go to Gaofu to arrest people."

Gao Ming was stunned by Zhu Bian's words, and couldn't believe his ears for a while.

Dazed for a moment, Gao Ming quickly stepped forward, stood in front of Zhu Bian, and asked in a low voice: "What is the meaning of Master Zhu, is there still room for resolution of this matter?"

Zhu Bian glanced at Gao Ming, and raised the finger he had just shaken again, "The Wang family was not the first to report the case. It was his superior, Qiao Jian, who first discovered Wang Ni's disappearance. After Xiumu, Wang Ni did not Went to work in the Yamen on time, Qiao Jian sent someone to Wang's house to inquire as usual, and then learned that Wang Ni had not returned home for two days. Qiao Jian went there in person to ask what was going on, but found that the Wang family either asked three questions or didn't know. Gu left and right talked about him. Qiao Jian was so angry that he ran to the inspectorate to report the case, insisting on finding out Wang Ni's whereabouts. Then, the investigators found Wang Ni's body. Then, The people of the Wang family seemed to wake up from a dream, and personally sent someone to the inspectorate to appeal for grievances."

Gao Ming listened in amazement, but couldn't understand more and more, and couldn't figure out why Zhu Bian wanted to tell him the inside story that wasn't mentioned in the case files.

At this time, Zhu Bian raised another finger, "Wang Ni was once a trainee in His Majesty's attendant's room. On the first day of the first lunar month, His Majesty stayed in Qiankun Hall."

Gao Ming finally realized suddenly, and blurted out: "The Wang family... really has a big heart!"

"It's so big it's boundless!" Zhu Bian snorted coldly.

After reading the case files, Zhu Bian remembered who Wang Ni was, and also figured out why the Wang family didn't look for someone immediately after he disappeared—obviously, they thought that Wang Ni was recruited into the palace by His Majesty the Emperor again, to be favored by the emperor. went!

If the body hadn't been found soon, the Wang family would still be dreaming, thinking that after the empress, their family would raise another favorite concubine!

Gao Ming also sneered, glanced at Zhu Bian, leaned forward, and said in a low voice: "It's true that Wang Ni stayed in the palace, but it was just a night in Qiankun Palace, that's all."

As the governor of the imperial guards, Gao Ming is more discerning about the affairs of the palace than many palace family members.

Knowing that Wang Ni was staying overnight in the palace, Gao Ming quietly checked the guards on duty that night, and then found out that although His Majesty the Emperor kept Wang Ni, he himself returned to the Taihua Palace. The guard on duty in the palace also told Gao Ming clearly: His Majesty not only did not touch this young man of the Wang family, he did not even meet him.

Hearing Gao Ming's hint, Zhu Bian grinned and said nothing.

Gao Ming didn't say any more, he bowed his hands towards Zhu Bian, made a gesture of thanks, and then left, and went back to find a way to solve this trouble.

Seeing Gao Ming leave, Zhu Bian smiled coldly.

As long as Gao Ming still has a little foresight, this matter should be done in a business-like manner, and Gao Li should be handed over voluntarily, leaving behind a reputation of righteousness and extermination of relatives. The vain attempt to sell his son for glory was exposed, which made the world lose sympathy for the Wang family.

In this way, the Gao family will not leave any excuses, and the eldest prince will be less criticized.

However, correspondingly, the Gao family will lose their eldest grandson, and Gao Ming's elder brother may not be able to have a new son.

——It depends on how the Gao family decides.

Zhu Bian laughed mockingly, and his mood improved a little because there was something lively to watch.

Three days later, the Gao family did not send Gao Li, but the Wang family sent someone to cancel the complaint.

If the people don't raise it, the officials don't investigate.

Even if the person who died was an official ordered by the court, as long as it did not involve the unforgivable crime of treason and regicide, the government could still turn a blind eye and let the two families have their own affairs.

But it didn't end like this.

I don't know who knows what kind of troublemaker stabbed this matter into the ears of the eldest prince Qi Yuche, which made the eldest prince furious. He personally led people to break into Gao's mansion, arrested Gao Li who was having fun in the mansion, and together with him All the servants in the yard were tied up and sent to the inspector, and Zhu Bian was asked to be in charge of the interrogation by name.

Naturally, Zhu Bian would not obediently obey orders, he laughed and put the eldest prince aside, and went into the palace to report the matter to the emperor.

But the emperor's mood at the moment was obviously worse than that of the eldest prince. After hearing him say this, he said directly, "Since Yu Che wants to know the truth, then find out the truth."

Then, he pushed Zhu Bian back.

Ever since, even if Zhu Bian didn't want to thoroughly investigate the matter, he had to cheer up and try the case in the shortest possible time.

In just one day, the servants of the Gao family let go one by one, and took the initiative to explain how Gao Li lured Wang Ni back to the mansion. After the threats failed, he became angry and murdered. He took out the property he had stolen from Wang Ni.

After getting the servant's statement, Zhu Bian sent his assistant to search the scene of the crime, and soon found the bloodstains that had not been cleaned up, and also found the inkstone that Gao Li used when he smashed Wang Ni to death from a dead corner behind the table The fragments also had blood stains on them.

With all the witnesses and material evidence available, the case will naturally be closed.

In the end, Gao Li was dismissed and imprisoned, and sentenced to Qiu Hou Wen's execution, and all the subordinates who helped him deal with the aftermath were convicted as accomplices.

The other males in Gao's family were also affected. Gao Li's biological father was dismissed from his official position and became a white man because he failed to raise his son well. Gao Ming's uncle was also fined a year's salary and reprimanded.

So far, the case of Wang Ni's disappearance has finally been declared over, but neither the defendant, the plaintiff, nor Zhu Bian, who is presiding over the case, feel satisfied, let alone happy about it.

After this incident, the relationship between the First Prince and the Gao family returned to its original freezing point, but the First Prince's reputation has improved a lot because of this incident.People in the capital, while lamenting the absurdity of the eldest prince, would mostly add another sentence: Fortunately, my nature is not bad, and I hate evil like hatred.

When Gao Li was interrogated, he confessed the reason why Wang Ni attached himself to him, so that everyone knew about Wang Ni's vain attempt to serve the emperor with sex. The practice of not being close to the ancestors has finally been understood by the world——

No one wants to get close to such an ancestral home!

Correspondingly, Zhu Bian's reputation has risen to a higher level, and Zhu Qingtian's nickname has become louder and louder.

But such a reputation was not what Zhu Bian wanted at all.

Compared with this kind of useless reputation, Zhu Bian hoped that this matter could be used as an excuse to drag the Gao family and the Wang family, and finally pull down the eldest prince and even the empress.

However, after this incident, Zhu Bian fully realized that there are really not so many fools in this world. Even the most arrogant eldest prince has a cunning at a young age that adults can't notice.

Zhu Bian didn't think that the eldest prince was really jealous.

In the whole matter, only the First Prince was the one who really benefited.

Reversing his reputation is only one aspect of it. More importantly, he drew a gap between himself and the Gao family, creating a distance between himself and the Gao family.

Gao Ming is the eldest prince's only reliance at this stage, but Gao Ming's identity is a double-edged sword.

Don't look at Gao Ming who now bears the title of the Imperial Guard Commander. In those days, what he did was Pan Wuchun's work, and he was far from being as human as Pan Wuchun, with a bottom line. He was completely a dog of His Majesty the Emperor. People come unscrupulous.

Many courtiers, especially those with senior qualifications, objected to the eldest prince's succession because they were afraid of his uncle.

Who doesn't have a dark history?

Even Zhu Bian used some disgraceful tricks in order to get close to Qi Yunheng and get his favor.

Some people, even in order to win Qi Yunheng's trust, handed over their own handles, and at that time, it was Gao Ming who was in charge of this matter.

Everyone believes that Qi Yunheng will not use these handles that he gave them to kill them-or not believe it.

But everyone can't believe Gao Ming.

Including Zhu Bian, they are extremely unwilling to let Gao Ming be the uncle of the country.

Because of this, to the eldest prince, Gao Ming and even Gao's family are a hot potato, but they are in-laws who are constantly talking about it.

In the past two years, the eldest prince who had no relationship with his grandfather's family inexplicably got close to Gao Ming, causing all the courtiers to worry for a long time, fearing that Gao Ming would hold them back and force them to stand in line.

Of course, if Gao Ming really did this, they would not be afraid.

Right now, the person who can really decide their life and death is the emperor Qi Yunheng. Gao Ming has already used the excuse to persecute them, and they can get rid of this burden early.

But Gao Ming didn't do anything, which made the courtiers uneasy.

Worrying and fearing for so long, now, the eldest prince broke with the Gao family again, estranged Gao Ming, even killed a cousin, stepped on the Gao family severely, and the courtiers finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just a sigh of relief.

Zhu Bian didn't think that the eldest prince intervened in this matter to uphold justice, nor did he think that there was really a rift between him and Gao Ming.

It is true that the Gao family suffered heavy losses in this matter, but what about Gao Ming himself?

Will he lack that year's salary, or will he be afraid of that painless reprimand?

The eldest prince's move is actually not enough to fool those old foxes, but at his age, to be able to do this is already an extraordinary talent and commendable.

At least, he was much smarter than the second prince who claimed to be a real gentleman.

Zhu Bian is really not interested in the fact that he is fighting for the heir.

The princes are still young, so getting involved now is not to prepare for a rainy day, but to worry about the sky.

In fact, after experiencing the riot on New Year's Eve and losing another house that could be called "home", Zhu Bian even had doubts about whether he should continue to stay in the court as an official.

Zhu Bian originally thought that as long as he has power, he can prevent the past from happening again, but the riot on New Year's Eve gave him a blow, and he was stunned to find that he was still under the shadow of those mobs.

Although it was obvious that there was another mastermind behind this matter, the mobs were still the ones who did the real work. They were also the ones who murdered and set fire.

Although most of those mobs had tragic experiences of one kind or another, just because of their misery, could they ignore the law, recklessly cause chaos, and transfer their misery to others, even innocent people?

If everyone does this, what is the use of the law, and how can the family and the country survive?

What made Zhu Bian even more unbearable was that His Majesty the Emperor was tolerant of those mobs, and only exiled these bloody executioners, while those officials who were murdered by them were pushed out and beheaded for public display. scapegoat.

For a moment, Zhu Bian really wanted to take off his official hat, shake his sleeves and leave.

But Zhu Bian did not do that in the end.

Ever since the day when his family was ruined, Zhu Bian never overestimated his abilities.

With official clothes and hats on his body, and the emperor as his backer, he can still use the law and power to judge those mobs.

Without these support, he can't do anything, he can only watch those mobs do harm to the world as before.

Zhu Bian never wants to experience such a sense of powerlessness in this life.

If there is a way to completely wipe out those mobs, it would be great to eliminate them fundamentally!

There must be, Zhu Bian thought.

There must be.