Rebirth of the Demon Queen

Chapter 140 Evidence
Cao Lang immediately stopped in his tracks, turned back to Li Shilang and said, "What's the clue? Tell our family, if there are any clues, our family won't be able to take your credit."

"Lin Yuanzhi accepted huge bribes, and the evidence is conclusive."

"unambiguous evidence?"

A mocking smile flashed across Cao Lang's face, and he pointed to the cracked red pillar beside him and asked, "Lin Yuanzhi is only a fifth-rank official, and this Lin Mansion is so shabby. Huge bribes, what evidence will there be?"

Li Shilang's heart skipped a beat, and he told Cao Lang about the detailed clues.

When Lin Yuanzhi's nephew, Lin Fangfeng, was fighting crickets on the street, he met a group of teenagers from central Beijing. They held a cricket fighting contest, and the lottery was two beads the size of the belly of a finger.

Xicheng County is sparsely populated, and there is nothing exciting to see in the entire county.

When Lin Fangfeng arrived in Beijing, what he loved most was the excitement. Hearing about this competition, he directly participated in it.

Unexpectedly, his general was invincible, everyone's crickets were defeated, and Lin Yuanzhi won the lottery easily.

After winning, Lin Fangfeng only cared about showing off his great general, and didn't care about the lottery. After returning home, he handed the two beads to his mother Huang.

Huang didn't know that her eldest brother and husband had already rejected the marriage in Prince Wei's mansion, and they were still arranging for their daughter's dowry.

She didn't have much interest in these two beads of her son's, but the luster seemed to be okay, thinking that her daughter's embroidered shoes were missing two embellishments, so she put these beads on her daughter's new shoes.

Huang didn't expect that these two beads were Dongzhu, and each one was priceless.

When the officers of the Criminal Ministry found these two beads from the Huaguang Courtyard, Huang didn't know what happened, but looked in horror at this group of wolves and tigers who turned her daughter's dowry upside down.

Li Shilang led Cao Lang to the main hall of the Lin Mansion, and said as he walked: "Lin Yuanzhi has two crimes. He allowed his nephew to accept huge bribes. This is the first crime. He used Dongzhu beyond the limit. This is the second crime. Evidence It's right in front, and the next official will take my father-in-law to have a look."

It is not easy to collect Dongzhu and Nanzhu, because the above-mentioned good beads are very precious once they are in the world. In order to ensure the use of the royal family, Taizu made a decree that only people with certain status are eligible to wear Dongzhu and Nanzhu.

There is a decree in the Dayan Huidian that Dongzhu and Nanzhu are the treasures of the country. All officials, gentry and people are not allowed to use them privately. Anyone who uses them in violation of the prohibition will be severely punished.Those who have no official status will be charged fifty, and they will be punished by their parents.

Kang Ningbo's mansion is not qualified to use Dongzhu, let alone use it as a dowry for his own daughter. This crime is enough for Lin Yuanzhi to be dismissed from office.

All the men of the Lin family were detained in the front yard, and the two pearls were placed in the main hall of the Lin mansion as evidence of crimes.

The officers of the Ministry of Punishments continued to carry the "suspicious items" into the main hall, and two clerks were registering and compiling the books.

The two masters and three young masters of the Lin family were all sitting in the side hall.

This disaster happened suddenly, Lin Wenjing, the young master of the Lin family, didn't know why the turmoil in the mansion was happening in front of him, he was a little puzzled, while Lin Fangfeng and Lin Banxia were terrified, they kept standing at the door towards the yard Probe inside.

Lin Yuanzhi and Lin Wuyou sat upright, as if they ignored the chaos in the main hall.

It wasn't until Cao Lang and Li Shilang walked in that the two brothers stood up together.

Lin Yuanzhi cupped his hands towards Cao Lang, and said, "Young Eunuch Cao is here, and the officials are far away to welcome you. There are still some things in the house, and the hospitality is not good. Please forgive me."

Cao Lang ignored Lin Yuanzhi, walked back and forth in the side hall with his hands behind his hands, and said, "Li Shilang, our family is getting more and more curious about the evidence you mentioned."

With a smile on his face, Li Shilang led Cao Lang to the main hall.

One of the clerks was very winking, seeing that Li Shilang was almost bowing his waist to accompany Cao Lang into the door, he hurriedly beckoned someone to make room for Cao Lang.

Li Shilang immediately ordered someone to bring the case file and evidence to Cao Lang. Cao Lang casually flipped through the two pages of the file, and then turned his attention to the so-called "criminal evidence" on the table.

They were a pair of palm-sized embroidered shoes, and the uppers were also made of ordinary red brocade. Even if there were two oriental beads adorning them, there was nothing special about these shoes.

Cao Lang held the embroidered shoe in his hand and looked at it for a moment, then frowned and asked, "Is it these two beads?"

"That's right. After I heard about it, I asked someone to check it out. I was sure that it was Dongzhu. The estimated price on the market was 8000 taels. Those people deliberately lost to the Lin family for such a big prize. That's why the lower officials dare to conclude that bribery is absolutely certain."

"Without a doubt?"

Li Shilang nodded without hesitation.

Cao Lang asked again: "Then tell me, who is the briber? Why did you bribe Lin Yuanzhi?"

"That group of people are well-known brokers in the capital. They originally wanted to take advantage of the Lin family's relationship to get Luo Xiu Luo Shangshu. I heard that the Lin family committed a crime and fled in all directions. Now no one has been brought to justice. Master Tantai has issued an order. I have issued the sea arrest documents, and I will arrest them within a time limit."

Cao Lang's voice turned cold, and he asked: "No one has been brought to justice, so why dare to say that it is certain?"

Li Shilang was speechless immediately, and kept winking at the two scribes, hoping that the scribes could explain something to him.However, the two scribes lowered their heads and did not see Li Shilang's eyes at all.

"By the way, it was those people who searched the house at that time, and our family wanted to meet up."

Cao Lang threw the pair of embroidered shoes on the table, and said in an extremely cold voice: "Ordinary people can't see Dongzhu. The difference between Dongzhu and Pearl. Our family is curious, why the people in the Ministry of Justice can recognize Dongzhu at a glance? They even went to the girl’s boudoir to search for other people’s dowry? Could it be that there are some high-ranking people in the Ministry of Justice?”

Li Shilang groaned inwardly, this case was assigned urgently by the superiors, and they only focused on accusing Lin Yuanzhi when handling the case, never thought of any loopholes, let alone Dongchang would come to make a mess.

As Li Shilang said, he made a gesture of invitation to Cao Lang, and said with a flattering smile: "Little Eunuch Cao, I'm sorry to report back."

Cao Lang glanced at him sideways, as if he had seen through his thoughts, and said coldly: "Our family doesn't need to watch it. The Ministry of Criminal Justice handles the case so muddled that it doesn't matter whether it is indiscriminate. If it spreads, wouldn't it be Damage the name of the emperor's benevolence?"

Li Shilang wanted to distinguish again, so he listened to Cao Lang's order, and then a team of Jinyi guards poured into the front yard from outside.

The leader, a man dressed as a thousand households, shouted loudly: "The East Factory handles the case, it has nothing to do with anyone, please give way quickly!"

(End of this chapter)