The return of the son-in-law

Huo Yu waited for a few days, but there was no news from Hao Yun from the government office.He was so anxious that he wished he could call the government office to find out what happened.

Fortunately, this should have been his proper reaction at this time, so Huo Yu didn't need to hide it specially, but he still had a confident look in front of his servants, so as to stabilize the hearts of everyone in the Guo family.

Huo Yu sent Jia Huan to the government office to inquire about the situation every other day. Huang Mingli and others knew about this, but he was only restraining his subordinates and must not disclose information to the outside world.

On this day, Huang Mingli listened to the report from his subordinates with a smile, waved his hand to signal him to go down first, turned around and said with a smile to a few colleagues: "My lords, look at what the second young master of the Guo family has done. Come to the government office to inquire about the news, do you really regard this government office as your own home?"

What Huang Mingli said was really dark, he was clearly hiding a knife in his smile, implying that Guo Zhan'an was too arrogant in Xuzhou's territory, and even his adopted brother dared to come to the government office to inquire about news.

Who is not human here?Maybe I didn't feel anything at first, but after thinking about it for a while, I figured out something was wrong.

It's just that Guo Zhan'an's fate has nothing to do with them.Even Wei Zichen, the only one who had a little interest in Guo Zhan'an and wanted to win over Guo Zhan'an, didn't have to be Guo Zhan'an.

Because of this, even though Huang Mingli's words were so obvious, no one responded or pointed out his pettiness, but went to their own businesses.

On the contrary, this gave Huang Mingli a lot of confidence. After thinking about the behavior of the people in the past few days, he knew that they really did not intend to interfere in this matter. As long as he could make it up, Guo Zhanan would not It's half o'clock!

He no longer tried to test everyone, but recruited his own subordinates and ordered them to sort out Shi Guogan's crimes before his death, so that they could be handed over to others.

After hearing this, the subordinate couldn't help asking: "My lord, you told me a few days ago to find someone to take advantage of the opportunity of Shi Guogan's family returning to their hometown, and kill them on the way. If you show these criminal evidence to other adults now, Shi Guogan will I am afraid that the Kokang family members will not be able to escape the responsibility."

Huang Mingli was confident, and said: "It was before, but now I have changed my mind. I almost forgot that this Jiang Yannian is still staying in the Northwest barracks. Those people in Guo Zhan'an's house will definitely go to Jiang Yannian for help. Stupid, maybe I guessed that I was going to kill people to silence the people, and sent people to block the road, just waiting for us to reveal the truth."

This subordinate has also followed Huang Mingli for many years, and after a little thought, he understood: "My lord, what you mean is that Shi Guogan should be charged with crimes right now, and it would be best if his family members could be dragged into the water as well, and it will be settled once and for all?"

Huang Mingli nodded with a smile, and said: "When we get into the prison, I'll see how Jiang Yannian and the others can get these people out! Shi Guo dared to be a man, and he knew a little bit of reason. What the fourth prince has done is ulterior motives, if you say that you didn't leave a way out for yourself? In short, I don't believe it."

The subordinate couldn't help pandering: "My lord has considered everything carefully. As long as these people go to prison and the matter is left to your lord to deal with it, I won't be afraid that Jiang Yannian and the others will do anything."

Huang Mingli turned his head and looked out the window, and sighed with emotion: "It's already early autumn, if we are quicker, we can still catch up with this year's decisive decision."

When the subordinate heard this, he couldn't help but tremble all over - my lord, this is murderous!

In the afternoon, when everyone was most sleepy, Huang Mingli ordered someone to invite the other four adults from the capital to the hall where they were discussing affairs, and he himself took a few files and went directly to the hall.

He was no longer polite, and said bluntly: "Everyone, after my investigation in the past few days, Shi Guogan can be said to have deserved his death."

As Huang Mingli said, he put these files in front of everyone, and continued, "Deducting military pay, selling officials and nobles, and disregarding human lives, ha ha, let's take a look, all the adults, these criminal evidences add up, even if Guo Zhan'an doesn't kill him, it's still true." Death is inevitable."

Hearing this, Wei Zichen couldn't help but glance at Huang Mingli.He looked down on Huang Mingli extremely, he was just an inconspicuous official in the capital, he really thought that if he was favored by the fourth prince Li Shaojin, he would be able to reach the sky in one step?Thinking of the current situation in the capital, Huang Mingli was probably promoted because the Fourth Prince had no one available for the time being!

However, before departure, the emperor Li Chonghao once pointed out to him that Huang Mingli was indeed the fourth prince, but as long as he did not violate Li Chonghao's taboo, he would let Huang Mingli do it.

Wei Zichen understood that the emperor was deliberately giving Li Shaojin some benefits, so that Li Shaojun could behave like a man with his tail between his legs.In the past few months, the support for the third prince has grown louder and louder. Last month, some ministers even made a speech at the morning court, proposing to make the emperor's only son, Li Shaojun, the crown prince.

Li Chonghao only said that the establishment of a reserve was not a trivial matter, and he wanted to invite the prime minister and six ministers to discuss it together, so he put it aside and did not mention it again.Wei Zichen could see clearly that the emperor's face was very embarrassing for a moment, if it wasn't for his face, he might have had a fit in the court long ago!

If Wei Zichen could hold the position of the emperor's confidant, he wouldn't be stupid in this matter.Therefore, even though he admired Guo Zhan'an and knew what Huang Mingli was planning, he did not intend to help.

If Wei Zichen is like this, other people who don't know what to do will not object.Each of these criminal evidences is a serious crime that will kill your head. Now that they are added together, I am afraid that the whole family will be executed!

He Zudao frowned, and said: "Shi Guogan has been in Xuzhou for five years, I'm afraid he got a lot of benefits. Not to mention anything else, just the embezzlement of military salary, where did the embezzled military salary go? All these crimes alone Not enough, Master Huang, please send more people to find more physical evidence."

Huang Mingli was annoyed, for the past five years, so much military pay was deducted, all of which were taken by the fourth prince to support private soldiers, how could he get back the military salary, and let the fourth prince spit it out!

But the most important thing right now is not this. Huang Mingli temporarily suppressed his anger and said, "Don't worry, Mr. He, I will definitely do my best. However, Shi Guogan's family members are now considered guilty, and continue to live in the backyard of the government office." I don't agree with reason, what do you adults have to say?"

Wang Kaiyang is the one who likes to beat dogs in the water the most. Shi Guo dared to be convicted of a crime. Naturally, he would not have the idea of ​​treating women and children kindly, so he immediately said: "Since he is wearing a crime, let's take him into custody first. It's just right, just Locked up with Guo Zhan'an, maybe we can watch a good show."

When He Zudao heard the words, he gave Wang Kaiyang a hard look, and said, "Whether a man or a woman is in love with each other, men and women are detained separately in my court, so why should they be together? Also, Mr. Guo is now only a suspect. According to the testimony of the head, there is no other evidence to prove that Mr. Guo killed Shi Guogan."

Wang Kaiyang frowned, obviously dissatisfied with what He Zudao said.But as the saying goes, a high-level official crushes people to death, and He Zudao is the one who made the real decision this time. Although he has been unhappy with Guo Zhan'an for a long time, he is not willing to offend He Zudao because of such a small matter.

Huang Mingli saw it, and quickly added fuel to the flames, saying: "Master He, these jailers and Guo Zhan'an are not relatives, they have no grudges in the past, and they have no enmity in the present. What they say is not credible, so who can be credible?" ? Mr. Huang is not talented, so I ask Mr. He to enlighten me."

Seeing Huang Mingli speaking for him, Wang Kaiyang was very happy, and said, "Master Huang is right! Sir, what the jailers say doesn't count, so who counts? Are you sir?"

At the end of the sentence, he was clearly accusing him of being selfish!

To Huang Mingli's surprise, this time He Zudao did not show weakness as before, but replied: "Why are you two adults so aggressive? I am just acting according to the laws of this dynasty! Do you want to ignore the law written by Emperor Taizong himself, and repeat the unjust case of mother and son conspiring to kill Zhang Tong?"

These words resounded in everyone's hearts, and they were all shocked.

When Emperor Taizong was around, a wealthy businessman named Zhang Tong died at home one day. His wife and son testified that it was Zhang Tong's concubine who murdered him. Concubine's way.

At that time, the magistrate of the prefecture directly sentenced the concubine to beheaded after interrogation, but he didn't want to. After asking about the beheading at the end of autumn, the local area was covered with heavy snow day and night for three consecutive days.

This grievance alarmed Emperor Taizong, and Emperor Taizong ordered another investigation, only to find out that Zhang Tong's wife and son conspired to kill him, and then pushed the crime to the concubine.Although the grievances of the concubine were cleared in the end, but the dead cannot be resurrected, and a young woman just died like this.

If the Zhizhou at that time hadn't listened to what Zhang Tong's wife and son had said, the case would have been very different if we went deeper.

Emperor Taizong felt this, so he made a law. In future generations, as long as there are witnesses, the relationship between these witnesses and prisoners cannot be the same. By analogy, there must be at least two relationships to count.Otherwise, not only witnesses but also sufficient physical evidence are required to truly convict a person.

Now that He Zudao suddenly mentioned this law, no matter how much Huang Mingli and Wang Kaiyang objected, they could only submit.

However, Huang Mingli didn't intend to let Guo Zhan'an go, so he said, "If that's the case, then these family members will send people to be imprisoned, and they will be treated the same as ordinary prisoners, how about it?"

Wei Zichen seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly asked, "Now Guo Zhan'an is also in prison, how is his treatment?"

Huang Mingli was embarrassed for a while, and Guo Zhanan's treatment would not be much better. Although he could not use torture, he had already sent a special jailer to watch over him. Among other things, the food was very poor.

Where could Wei Zichen fail to see?He didn't bother to listen to Huang Mingli's words, and continued: "Although Guo Zhan'an is a suspect, he was sentenced by Xuzhou after all. How could he be imprisoned without being convicted? I was too busy a few days ago. Forgot to tell Mr. Huang. Mr. Huang, hurry up and get Guo Zhanan out of the prison. This man can’t be released home. Just choose a secluded place in the government office and order someone special to Let Guo Zhanan live there for the time being through the opening where the hand goes in and out."

He Zudao nodded and said: "Master Wei is right, I even forgot about it. If Master Wei didn't bring it up today, I'm afraid Master Guo will suffer a lot."

Huang Mingli smiled and said: "Thank you, Mr. Wei, for reminding Huang. I will send someone to clean up a clean place immediately, and invite Guo Zhanan to live in it."

Wei Zichen smiled slightly, not fussing like Huang Mingli.

Although these few people restrained their subordinates, they were not allowed to spread the news.But there are a lot of people, and besides the confidantes they brought, there are also many people from the government office.

On the same day, Hao Yun got the news and rushed to Guo's mansion to report the news.

Huo Yu asked in disbelief: "What? You said that Shi Guogan's family will be imprisoned soon?"

Hao Yun ran all the way over, sweating all the way, and said, "That's right, the person who sent me the news said that they discussed inside for a while this afternoon, and when Huang Mingli came out, he asked people to go to the backyard to check Shi Guokang's property. , and asked people to control all the entrances and exits, saying that no one is allowed to enter and exit, if one person is missing, it will let the prisoner run away, it will be fatal!"

Huo Yu was so anxious that he couldn't help biting his lower lip, and kept thinking about the corresponding method.

He and Jiang Yannian had originally guessed that Shi Guogan was dead, and it was impossible for Shi Guogan's family to continue living in the government office. Now that the focus is on Guo Zhan'an, Shi Guogan's family should be sent back to their hometown soon.If you want to kill someone, it must be done on the way back to your hometown.But never expected that Shi Guogan's family members would also be convicted and put in prison!

But this also gave Huo Yuxin a clue. Originally, he thought it was Guo Zhan'an's enemies who did not know when he met in Xuzhou bought the jailer to give false testimony. Now that he thinks about it, it must be someone in the government office who is obstructing him!Moreover, most likely that Huang Mingli couldn't run away!

However, the situation has changed now, the northwest military camp is more than a day away from Xuzhou, and Jiang Yannian may not be able to come up with an idea in a short while.If I just rely on Jiang Yannian to come up with ideas, it will definitely be too late!

Huo Yu understood that he only had one night at most. If it was really the brother Huang Mingli framed, he would definitely put Shi Guogan's family in prison as soon as possible. By then, Huo Yu would really be desperate!

Thinking of this, Huo Yu's gangster spirit that was soaked in the cottage was revealed, and he said ruthlessly: "There is no other way, it's not too late, let's do it tonight!"

"Do it!" Hao Yun was taken aback, and asked, "What hand?"

Huo Yu didn't care about the bleeding from his lower lip, and said, "I know, my brother definitely didn't kill Shi Guogan. Shi Guogan died in prison strangely, it must be because he had some ulterior secrets about him. If people from the capital know about these secrets, Shi Guogan's backers will be implicated, that's why they are so eager to kill and silence, and then put the blame on my brother. Those jailers who framed my brother were either with these people from the beginning, or It is to take their benefits. But no matter what, it is impossible to find flaws from these jailers. We have to start with Shi Guogan's family members to find out the secrets hidden by Shi Guogan, so that we can find the real culprit! "

Jia Huan has already understood: "Do it tonight, rescue Shi Guogan's family!"

Hao Yun whimpered and said, "Both of you, this is not just a joke, it's no different from robbing a prison!"

Huo Yu was determined: "If I can't save my brother, I won't have anything to do. The whole Guo family is no good. Even you, the official career is at the end. Just a word, do you want to do it?" "

Hao Yun had a bitter face, and finally compromised: "Then tell me first, what is your plan? You can't just hit the door with a stick!"

Huo Yu thought for a while, and said, "Do you have the blueprint of the government office? Let's find an easy point to break into, sneak in, and save only two people - Shi Guogan's wife, and Shi Guogan's favorite concubine. "