The Lin family of the Red Chamber has a son

In the dark cell, there was a musty smell everywhere.Zhen Yingjia, the former president of Jinling Institute of Physical Education, was dressed in a prison uniform, standing under the gray wall, looking up at a small window high above.A few thumb-thick iron rods on the top blocked the already dim starlight, and it was pitch black.

The cell was stuffy and humid, and the prison uniform on her body was rough and stiff, which made Zhen Yingjia, who had been well-clothed since childhood, very unbearable.With a wry smile, he looked at the thick bowl on a dilapidated table in the corner, which contained two musty-smelling steamed buns. Zhen Yingjia sat down with a sigh, reached out and took the steamed buns and broke them together, but did not Do not put it in your mouth.

There were faint footsteps outside, and it didn't sound like a person.Zhen Yingjia was startled suddenly, and everything in her hand dropped.

With an extremely heavy sound, the cell door opened.With the light of the dancing candles outside, Zhen Yingjia saw the person coming.

The first one was not wearing an official uniform, only a plain robe with a belt of the same color around his waist. He was tall and slightly thin.Her black hair was as if dyed with ink, her handsome face was as white as jade, and she had a pair of extremely beautiful phoenix eyes, but the eyes were deep and terrifying.

"Master Lin, this is the prisoner Zhen Yingjia." The jailer who was leading the way from the side bowed his waist flatteringly, and shook the oil lamp in his hand towards the inside, so that people who came could see it more clearly.

It was Lin Yan who came.

In the first snowstorm in the twelfth lunar month, the emperor specially ordered the household department to allocate funds for disaster relief, and ordered the opening of warehouses to release grain.It was only after the first month that the disaster relief fund was embezzled.In the hands of the victims, it was less than [-]% of the original amount, and even the relief food was added with a lot of soil and other things. Natural disasters and man-made disasters, at most, the victims died of freezing and starvation in many places.The most serious case was nine out of ten households in a certain county in Shandong.

Situ Jun was furious and ordered a thorough investigation. In less than two months, more than [-] officials, big and small, were investigated. Among them, more than [-] people ransacked their homes and beheaded them.Another ten people were exiled, and the rest were dismissed from office. Later generations will never be allowed to enter the court as officials.

Before January, the Jinling flood incident occurred last year.Situ Jun secretly ordered Lin Yan, who went south with his wife to worship the ancestors, to go to Jinling to collect evidence, and escorted the former Jinling prefect Zhang Shaoqian back to Beijing for trial.Zhang Shaoqian was promoted by Zhen Yingjia, the president of Jinling Sports Institute, and the flood case is inseparable from Zhen Yingjia and the two kings Zhongjing Zhongzhong and Zhongzhong.The Zhen family has been entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River for many years, and there are many party members. Lin Yan's journey back to Beijing is extremely thrilling.

One hair will affect the whole body, Zhang Shaoqian was born in a poor family, and he originally had some ambitions.It's just that the officialdom is deep, so how can a person with no background be able to play around?Zhang Shaoqian can be regarded as a person who knows the current affairs, and he is very clever to grab the Zhen family's thigh. The past few decades have been smooth and smooth.It's just that after this person was escorted to Beijing, the emperor ordered the Criminal Department to try the case, Zhang Shaoqian still knew the current affairs, he didn't need to be sentenced to any serious punishment, and he would know everything in the first interrogation, which saved a lot of trouble.

Situ Jun acted resolutely, starting from Zhang Shaoqian, all the officials involved in the Jinling flood were arrested within one month, and the most prominent ones were naturally none other than the Zhen family.Counting the days, even the idiots of the court ministers have already understood that the emperor has made up his mind to move the Zhen family.

The Zhen family has been immersed in officialdom for several generations, and Zhen Yingjia has been restless since birth.With the help of her mother who had taken care of the Supreme Emperor as a female official in the palace, her clan sister was also the favorite concubine of the Supreme Emperor's side, and also gave birth to two leading princes for the Supreme Emperor. At the beginning, she was very active in planning for Cheng Jing Erwang.He is not stupid, he naturally knows that the current emperor may not tolerate the Zhen family.It's just that the Supreme Emperor and the noble concubine are still here, so the emperor wouldn't act immediately for the sake of the Supreme Emperor's face.Besides, those two people would not just watch him stay in prison pending trial.

Therefore, Zhen Yingjia made up her mind and never said a word since she was imprisoned.However, since he was detained, he was escorted all the way to Beijing. He has been in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice for more than ten days, but he has never even been interrogated.Rao even though he always claimed to be smart, he couldn't figure out what it meant.

Hearing that the jailer called the person "Master Lin", his gaze on the ground could not help but sink - at this age, anyone who can enter and leave the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice like this, except for the upstart Lin Yan in the court, did not think about anything else.He had never met Lin Yan. When Lin Yan brought the imperial decree to fetch Zhang Shaoqian, he did not meet him in person, but just sent a message to the people around him.

Lin Yan looked at Zhen Yingjia leisurely, and after a long time, he said calmly, "Master Zhen, please move to the interrogation room."

It is said to be an interrogation room, but it is actually a torture room.From the prison cell to the execution room, the road was not long, but Zhen Yingjia was quite frightened to walk.It was dark and gloomy, and the prison was filled with a special damp and gloomy atmosphere, which also faintly mixed with a trace of bloody smell, which made him feel a little nauseous.

The torture chamber was very large, and there were many terrifying instruments of torture hanging on the walls.The smell of blood became stronger and stronger, Zhen Yingjia tried hard to resist the feeling of vomit in his heart, but at least he kept a calm look on his face.

A long time ago, a jailer wiped and wiped the big chair with his sleeve very attentively, and respectfully invited Lin Yan to sit down, and then shouted at Zhen Yingjia, "Doo! You prisoner, why don't you kneel down when you see your lord?"

Lin Yan raised his hand very gracefully, with a smile on his jade-like face.It's just that this smile, which was supposed to make people feel refreshed, looked a little more terrifying in the gloomy execution room.

Zhen Yingjia's eyelids twitched slightly, and the anxiety and fear for many days suddenly turned into a wave of anger in her heart, and she immediately sneered and said: "When I was in a good mood, I don't know where this yellow-mouthed kid is. Let me kneel down? "Having not spoken for many days, and being in prison again, his voice has become a little hoarse, and Lin Yan couldn't help frowning when he heard it.

Zhen Yingjia arched her hands to the upper left, "My ancestors followed the Emperor Taizu from birth to death, and my Zhen family has received the emperor's favor for generations. Since I became an official, although I dare not say that I have dedicated myself to the emperor, I have saved the word loyalty. I have asked myself for decades. I am also conscientious and hardworking, never forgetting the teachings of the ancestors of the Zhen family. Now I am just a young man talking nonsense and smearing my name, and one day I will be able to go up to the emperor. Wait..."

After a pause, he saw Lin Yan's smile curled up slightly, and his clear and clear voice could not tell whether it was ridicule or disdain, "Master Zhen is loyal to the emperor or not. Master Zhen, please rest your voice a bit, and come back and say what you need to say."

"I don't understand what you mean."

Lin Yan smiled, stared at Zhen Yingjia for a moment, and said slowly: "Master Zhen has a hard mouth. But it's the same whether you say it or not."

He took out a booklet from his sleeve pocket, flashed it in front of Zhen Yingjia's eyes, and asked, "What is this? Master Zhen just thought that if he didn't open his mouth, it would be all right?"

"My official checked the records of the household department. Since the 25th year of Yongji (the reign title of the Supreme Emperor), in just over [-] years, a total of [-] floods have been reported in the Jinling area, including two real disasters. The imperial court allocated a total of more than one million taels of silver for disaster relief. The money has not really reached the hands of the victims, has it?"

Zhen Yingjia sneered, "So what? This dynasty has its own laws to follow for disaster relief, millet transfer, transfer of victims, and compensation and resettlement. Although Zhen is the president of the Institute of Humanity, this disaster relief has nothing to do with me. Mr. Lin If you want to accuse this official of a crime, don't make any decisions about it."

I have to say that this Zhen Yingjia has a good skin, although she is old, but she comes from a great family and has held a high position for decades, so what she said is righteous, but now it seems that she is very righteous.

Sighing, Lin Yan slowly shook his fingers, flipped through the middle of the booklet, and threw an unsealed letterhead on the table, "My lord Zhen, I'm not here today to ask questions. I just want Master Zhen to think about it for his family."

As soon as the letterhead was taken out, cold sweat broke out from the palms of Zhen Yingjia's hands.

If it wasn't for this, I would bite the bullet and just insist that it was Zhang Shaoqian and others who slandered their superiors.At that time, at most, he will be accused of lax government and ineffective supervision, but his life will not be affected.But looking at the imprint on the letter that Lin Yan threw out, it was clear that he had stamped it on purpose when he had been communicating with Chengjing Erwang's residence for many years.I had ordered these things before, and burned them immediately after seeing them. How could this surnamed Lin have them in his hands?Is this true or false?If it was true, was it just this one, or did all the previous ones fall into his hands?Could it be that loyal and respectful two...

A few thoughts flashed through my heart, but I couldn't grasp the clues. Zhen Yingjia finally showed a look of panic on his face that was somewhat self-possessed - if these really fell into the hands of the surname Lin, it would be enough. The disaster of copying the house!

But, isn't Lin Yan in front of him a loyal son-in-law?Is there something wrong with Zhongjing, or is it that Lin is going to take advantage of this act of killing relatives so that he can get promoted in official career?

Thinking of this, he looked at Lin Yan with more indignation and hatred.

Lin Yan didn't mind either. His fair and slender fingers tapped the letter paper rhythmically, "Since the Jinling flood incident occurred, I was ordered to collect evidence in Jinling. I escorted the criminal Zhang Shaoqian to Beijing for trial. He was attacked several times along the way. Jingji just took a breather. Lord Zhen, if you hadn’t made such a foolish move, I wouldn’t have been able to get the many letters between you and Prince Jing’s Mansion. The one on the table is just one of them.”

Zhen Yingjia closed her eyes fiercely—but she was unconscious.At that time, he received a secret letter from the capital, knowing that the person who came to Jinling was the emperor's confidant, if Zhang Shaoqian was brought back to the capital, the future situation would be unpredictable.Anyway, Jinling is more than [-] li away from the capital, whether it is by water or by land, can't it all be so peaceful?Even if you just get rid of Zhang Shaoqian, you will get rid of the serious problem in your heart.It's just that he didn't expect that the several assassinations failed, but Lin Yan's newlywed wife, Princess Le'an, who had just returned from offering sacrifices to his ancestors in Suzhou, fell into the water in shock, disappeared, and his life and death were unknown.

The Le'an siblings are loyal and respectful, could it be because of this that the fool left his heart and handed over this terrible thing to Lin Yan?Doesn't he know that if this thing gets involved, he himself can't escape a crime!

Lin Yan looked at his face in bewilderment, understood, resentment had changed several times, felt very happy, and added fuel to the flames in a very rude manner: "I think Mr. Zhen has already understood, and you sent this death talisman to the official. Let me tell you the truth, I haven't tried you for many days because you have nothing to judge. You only say that the emperor is filial and will not touch the family of the old minister. The two saints are indeed kind, but this old minister If you have a different heart and try to shake the foundation of the country, you say, there is still a way out? This cell is separated by a wall, which is where your family members of the Zhen family live. Poor old lady Zhen is so old, she still has to accompany her children and grandchildren Suffering from prison..."

Cold sweat dripped down Zhen Yingjia's back.

"I'm here today, not to judge you, but to say something from you, Mr. Zhen." Lin Yan said after a pause, "Your Zhen family is also the family of Shilu. Although you don't have a title, you have real power. Not only that In Jinling, who in the whole Jiangnan doesn’t know the Zhen family? Now that the Zhen’s mansion has been copied, the emperor’s own decree is that the daughter you raised in the palace with the noble concubine is also in this prison. Lord Zhen is familiar with it. Law, you should know that if you have committed an unforgivable crime, Mrs. Zhen, Mrs. Zhen, and the girls of the Zhen family will all be registered as lowly according to the law..."

Zhen Yingjia was shocked, ransacked the house!Bitch!

"Well, the Zhen family has been in business for many years. Even if it is not rich, according to the figures calculated by the official, the family property is far more than that. Then Mr. Zhen, the silver in your family, millions of taels of silver, Where are you?"

Lin Yan naturally knew where he was, but Zhen Yingjia still had to say a word.

Seeing that Zhen Yingjia's complexion changed drastically, but still refused to speak out, Lin Yan smiled coldly, got up and brushed off his robe, "Forget it, it doesn't matter whether you say it or not. It's just that Lord Suwen is cold-hearted. I don't know how to soften my heart when I see my children, grandchildren and nephews, both male and female, fall into prostitution."

With a sound of "snap", Zhen Yingjia unexpectedly stepped over to the table and slammed on the table with both hands. Several guards in the interrogation room were startled.Ping An, the servant who followed Lin Yan, reacted very quickly, and caught him in a flash, and pressed him face down on the table.

Zhen Yingjia, a pampered man with limited strength, struggled desperately for a few times and couldn't get away. He pressed his face tightly against the table and glared at Lin Yan, "Don't push me too hard!"

Lin Yan spread his hands, "Lun Gong, how many real flood-affected people in Jinling have been displaced and sold their children and daughters because of your greed? I have only been promoted to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and I dare not violate the rules. How to deal with this criminal official will naturally follow the law. Acting. In private, because you tried to cover up your crime and harmed my wife's body so far, it is hard to find, you say, will I be merciful?"

After that, he stopped looking at him and ordered the jailer: "This man is a serious offender, so don't take it lightly. If there is something wrong, you can't afford it! Serve him and put him on a splint!"

Lifting his foot out of the interrogation room, Ping An followed, Lin Yan could only hear the sound of Zhen Yingjia's continuous struggle behind him, and the shouting of the jailer, and occasionally a few muffled sounds.But he just curled his lips coldly, and left the prison without looking back.