Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Gu Yingzhao had read all the evidence. Although the last few pieces of evidence did not include the Gu family, they still frightened him. The records were too detailed, leaving no room for excuses.

She still had half a box of evidence in her hand. Was there any evidence from the Gu family in it? Where did she get all this evidence from? Was the Wen family wiped out so cleanly because of this evidence?

Gu Yingzhao didn't dare to think deeply about each question. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. He suppressed his fear and could only reluctantly respond, "Although the Gu family and the Zhu family are old friends, we don't know much about the Zhu family."

He dared not admit that the Gu family was too deeply involved with the Zhu family. Admitting that the Zhu family committed a crime was tantamount to admitting that the Gu family was also committing a crime.

"Not sure?" Chen Shao's expression gradually turned cold. "Then tell me why, apart from those farms, most of the Gu family's businesses are in partnership with the Zhu family. The Gu family is a big family in Wu County, and their status in Hongyuan County is not low either. Don't tell me that your Gu family never knows the details of your partners when doing business."

Gu Yingzhao looked dejected, not daring to answer yes or no. If he answered yes, he would be asked, if that was the case, why didn't the Gu family do business with other families. If he answered no, he would be admitting that he lied. Looking at the evidence in his hand again, and then at the half box of evidence, Gu Yingzhao forced himself to say, "My lord, you don't know that although our Hongyuan County Gu family is not low-profile, we are still under the instructions of the Wu County Gu family."

Chen Shao sneered: "You mean to say that the reason why the Gu family did business with the Zhu family was because of the instructions of the Wujun Gu family?"

Gu Yingzhao gritted his teeth and answered, "That's about right."

Chen Shao smiled, "Okay, let's assume that you are doing business with the Zhu family under the instructions of the Wujun Gu family. You have been doing business for so many years, it is impossible that you have never dealt with the Zhu family. If the people dealing with the Zhu family are also from the Wujun Gu family, then I would like to ask, how did your Hongyuan County Gu family get this huge industry? You might as well tell me about it, and let me learn it well. There are constant wars at the border, and military supplies are getting scarcer year by year. It's just right that I can learn it and reduce the burden on both the court and the border."

She was forcing them to admit the crimes committed by the Zhu family, and also forcing them to take sides. Gu Yingzhao glanced at Master Gu, and then looked outside.

Master Gu was so anxious that he couldn't help but look outside a few times.

If they want to avoid being controlled by her, only Master Zhu and Master Zhu II can come quickly and the Gu and Zhu families can join forces.

However, after waiting for a long time, Master Zhu and Master Zhu Er never showed up.

"Master Gu and Master Gu are waiting for someone from the Zhu family, right?" Chen Shao saw what they were thinking and took out a few more pieces of evidence slowly. He looked at them and said, "Okay, I also want to ask the Zhu family in person whether the cases recorded on paper are true."

Gu Yingzhao shuddered!

He was the one who invited the people from the Zhu family.

She brought up the things they had done at Gu's house and asked them whether they were true or not. What would the Zhu family think?

"My lord, just tell us what you want the Gu family to do." Gu Yingzhao gave in, or rather, temporarily. He had to keep her steady.

However, Chen Shao changed his previous easy-going attitude, handed over several pieces of evidence in his hand, and ordered without further explanation: "Then tell me whether the information recorded on these papers is true or false."

Of course she knew that Gu Yingzhao was delaying time, but it didn't matter, she was also waiting for the Zhu family to show up.

Master Gu Er took the evidence before Gu Yingzhao did. There were seven pieces of evidence in total, and the records were not much different from the previous ones. They were detailed and could not be argued. Handing the evidence to Gu Yingzhao, Master Gu Er said calmly, "Yes, the Zhu family did these things. I only protected the Zhu family because I remembered Master Zhu San's kindness in saving my life. I hope you can forgive me!"

There was a loud bang of lightning, illuminating not only the flowers, plants and trees in the courtyard, but also the angry faces of Master Zhu and Master Zhu II who had just walked into the yard.

"So your Gu family still remembers that the third brother saved your life!" Master Zhu rushed into the hall and snatched the evidence from Gu Yingzhao's hand. "I want to see what my Zhu family has done to make your Gu family try so hard to kill my Zhu family..."

After seeing the content of the evidence, the word "地" stuck in the corner of his mouth. Master Zhu suddenly looked up at Gu Yingzhao, his eyes first filled with disbelief and fear, and then with raging anger, "What a Gu family! My Zhu family is sincere to you, but your Gu family is scheming against us behind our backs, good! good! good!"

After throwing the evidence at Gu Yingzhao, Mr. Zhu turned and left.

After taking a look at the evidence, Mr. Zhu followed closely in his footsteps.

"Master Zhu, Master Zhu, wait a minute." Chen Shao said, and the imperial guards inside and outside the house blocked their way. Master Zhu and Master Zhu's faces changed instantly. After a quick glance at the imperial guards blocking their way, Master Zhu forced himself to calmly turn around and said, "What is written on the paper is all slander by the Gu family. I hope you can understand!"

"Whether it is slander or not, don't jump to conclusions yet," Chen Shao gently patted the coffee table where the evidence was placed twice, "Here is a box of records about the Zhu family's crimes. Master Zhu and Master Zhu II might as well take a look at them, so that you can clearly distinguish which ones are slander and which ones are facts."

Master Zhu and Master Zhu Er immediately looked up. When Master Zhu saw the box next to her, his legs went limp. Master Zhu Er quickly supported him and said, "Big Brother."

"Let me take a look." Gu Yingzhao hurried forward and took out a stack of evidence from the box, reading it out as he looked. After reading each piece, he would look up and look at Master Zhu and comment, "This is indeed the case, it's not a lie."

When he read the third one, Master Zhu's expression changed again and again, and suddenly he sneered, "It's true that my Zhu family did these things, but didn't your Gu family do them? Let's not talk about the distant past, just take the Bi Tao Garden, who doesn't know that it is shared by your Gu family and my Zhu family? Of the thirteen people who died in Bi Tao Garden, eight died at the hands of your Gu family. In addition, if I remember correctly, it was your Gu family who proposed to kill them to eliminate future troubles and to intimidate Mr. Chen Liu, right?"

Idiot! He took the initiative to read out these evidences, what does it mean? Can't he see that he, Gu Yingzhao, was also forced! Gu Yingzhao looked gloomy and raised his eyes to look at Master Zhu. Seeing the mockery in his eyes, he instantly understood: He did it on purpose!

He did it on purpose! Master Zhu laughed cruelly twice.

They could have waited until he came over and then joined forces to fight Chen Shao, but they ignored the Zhu family in order to save themselves! They wanted to have the best of both worlds, so why should he help them?

It's over! Gu Yingzhao closed his eyes and sighed silently in his heart. The Gu family's tolerance over the years has made the Zhu family too oblivious. Now at the critical moment of life and death, they don't want to find a way to overcome the difficulties, but are still fighting with the Gu family for trivial matters!

"We'll talk about the matter at Bi Tao Garden later." Seeing that the development of the matter was strictly in line with her expectations, Chen Shao spoke at the right time and continued to add fuel to the fire, "Master Zhu, please tell me, did the Zhu family do the things that Master Gu mentioned?"

Master Zhu straightened his back and said with a gesture of destroying both sides: "The Zhu family did it, and the Gu family did it too!"

"Since Mr. Zhu has admitted it, let's take him away." Chen Shao gave the order simply.

The Yulin Guards quickly stepped forward and deftly twisted their hands and pressed them to the ground.

At the same time, the followers who followed the two men also had their hands twisted and pressed to the ground.

The speed was so fast that not only Master Zhu and Master Zhu II did not react, but Gu Yingzhao and Master Gu II also did not react. In other words, none of them thought that Chen Shao would take action. Looking at the vigorous and fierce Yulin Guards, and then at the heavy rain pouring down like a bucket, Gu Yingzhao sat down dejectedly, holding on to the chair.

After being stunned for a while, Master Zhu quickly struggled. The Yulin Guards did not hold him down, and let him wriggle on the ground. But after a moment, Master Zhu, who was already exhausted, knew that there was no hope of escaping, and raised his head with force, and said with a grim face: "The Gu family has also done many unscrupulous things, why didn't Master Chen Liu arrest them!"

It turns out that he also knows that what they did was unscrupulous! Chen Shao stood up with a cold face, looked at Gu Yingzhao, and then looked at Master Gu, and mocked: "If the Ren family really did those things, I will naturally not let them go. But the evidence of the Zhu family's crimes is irrefutable, and the Gu family is just your words. Words are not enough, so I don't need to tell Master Zhu, take him away!"

The Yulin Guards roughly pulled up Master Zhu and Master Zhu II, completely disregarding their wishes, and dragged them into the rain.

Catching them means the action begins.

"Gu Yingzhao, just wait, the fate of my Zhu family today will be the fate of your Gu family tomorrow!" The moment he was forced to walk out of Guangrenyuan, Master Zhu roared unwillingly.

Chen Shao took the umbrella handed over by Chan Yi, and before leaving, he turned to look at Gu Yingzhao and Gu Erye, who had gloomy faces, and said, "It's late at night, I don't want to disturb you any more. Gu Ye and Gu Erye should also go to bed early."

Gu Yingzhao and Mr. Gu bowed and replied "yes" respectfully.

Fu Jiu quickly collected the evidence and put it back into the box. After carefully closing it, she chased after them.

Chan Yi heard footsteps and looked back to see him hunched over to protect the box, but she herself was soaked so hard that she couldn't even open her eyes. She couldn't help but hold the umbrella over her and cursed, "Are you a fool?"

Fu Jiu said: "This box is not protected from the rain. If it gets wet, the evidence will be gone."

Chan Yi said angrily: "Shut up!"

Fu Jiu had no idea what had offended her so she quickly shut up.

Chan Yi snorted coldly and subconsciously looked at Li Tianliu. Seeing that he was also drenched in the rain, she immediately laughed angrily, "You guys all have no brains, right?"

Fu Jiu shrank her neck and dared not answer.

Li Tianliu wiped his face and said, "Have you ever seen a general who can still hold on when he goes to the battlefield..."

"The battlefield is the battlefield, and now is the time!" Chan Yi coldly stuffed the umbrella in her hand into his hand, then pulled him over and asked him to share an umbrella with Fu Jiu. Then she ran to Chen Shao's side and hid under her umbrella.

Li Tianliu glanced at the umbrella in his hand. The handle was warm from her grip, and it was a little hot in his palm. But the rain was on his hands, and the warmth was quickly washed away.

Raising his eyebrows, Li Tianliu couldn't help but look at her.

Chan Yi hid under Chen Shao's umbrella and gently pulled her sleeve. As they walked, one was elegant and the other was cute, which was very intimate and pleasing to the eye. Li Tianliu raised his eyebrows again, handed the umbrella to Fu Jiu, and took a few quick steps, passed them, and strode away.

Chan Yi glanced at him, then turned back to look at Fu Jiu.

Fu Jiu quickly said, "He stuffed it into my hand himself."

Chan Yi said nothing and looked away.

The Gu family has spies planted by the Zhu family.

When the Yulin Guards escorted Master Zhu, Master Zhu II and their followers out of Guangren Courtyard, a spy quickly went to the Zhu family to report the news. However, before they reached the Zhu family, the Yulin Guards ambushed around the Zhu family had already begun the encirclement and suppression operation.

The day Chen Shao went to Gu's house to play chess, the Zhu family was on guard. Master Zhu even asked Master Zhu to notify the second in command of the goods company to prepare his men and horses and be on standby at any time. However, he issued this order at noon, and the second in command had not prepared anything yet, but Chen Shao had already started. Therefore, the moment the Yulin Guards entered the Zhu family, the Zhu family was in chaos.

In less than half an hour, they were completely controlled by the Yulin Guards.

After leaving Gu's house, Chen Shao did not return to the prefect's mansion. The carriage stopped at the street corner closest to Zhu's house, quietly waiting for the result.

Soon, the results came.

The carriage slowly drove out of the street corner and stopped in front of the Zhu family's gate in the wind and rain.

Chen Shao got off the carriage holding an umbrella, raised the umbrella slightly, took a look at the Zhu family's plaque, then walked up the steps, entered the Zhu family's gate step by step, and walked towards the Yingchun Hall where the Zhu family received foreign guests.

More than 200 people from the Zhu family knelt on the stone dam in front of Yingchun Hall.

Chen Shao walked past them and entered Yingchun Hall. After sitting down in a chair facing the stone dam, he looked up at the people in the stone dam.

The Zhu family members were arranged in four rows according to the order of age. Behind the Zhu family members were the servants.

Retracting his gaze, Chen Shao ordered: "Go and call Ding Lisheng over, and also call the executioners who killed the Wen family last time."

It was raining heavily, so her words could not be heard far away, but Old Master Zhu and Master Zhu, who were kneeling in the front row, heard them.

Although Old Master Zhu and Master Zhu were afraid, they still had some pride and would not give in until the last moment. But the four stewards beside them did not have their pride. When they heard the executioner's words, they could no longer bear the fear and kowtowed to beg for mercy.

Master Zhu angrily said: "You beasts, my Zhu family treats you well!"

Chen Shao mocked: "If the Zhu family really wants to treat them well, they should find a way to let them live instead of letting them die for you!"

Master Zhu said angrily: "Young Master Chen Liu, it's too early for you to be happy!"

Chen Shao smiled lightly, "Master Zhu, are you hoping that the second wife of Hua'anshan Villa or the third wife of Tongwang County will come to rescue you?"

Master Zhu's expression suddenly changed: "You..."

"Master Zhu, have you ever thought about this," Chen Shao teased, "Even if I didn't send people to encircle and suppress them, with the current strong wind and heavy rain, who would come faster, them or Ding Lisheng and the executioner?"

Master Zhu stood up instantly and said, "You dare!"

Chen Shao laughed and said, "Would I dare to do that? Aren't all the people from your Zhu family kneeling here?"

Mr. Zhu helped Old Master Zhu up and shouted to the surroundings, "Everyone get up! I want to see if she dares to do it!"

Chen Shao ordered slowly: "Come here, drag out Old Master Zhu and Master Zhu and chop them up!"

"Let me see who..." Before Mr. Zhu could even finish his sentence, the Yulin Guards had already dragged him and Old Master Zhu to an open space nearby and slashed at them with their swords.