Chapter 86 Implementation

No matter what General Gu's purpose was, Zhen Qingyi still recognized Gu Junqing from the bottom of his heart.

The opportunity to overturn the verdict was hard to come by, so Zhen Qingyi sorted out the evidence day and night, and those witnesses who had refused to confess at first were finally persuaded to confess after being tormented by him day after day.

As for some things he had guesses in his heart, he couldn't investigate further. It wasn't because he didn't dare, but because he couldn't.

After all, there are many dirty things hidden behind this that cannot be exposed. Once exposed, not only will his life not be saved, but even General Gu will be implicated. Zhen Qingyi is not stupid. Even if he is eager to overturn the case and seek revenge, he cannot be ungrateful. This is his bottom line.

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple first carefully looked through the physical evidence provided by Zhen Qingyi, which clearly recorded everything that happened that year.

This batch of military pay was supposed to be sent to the border to provide food and clothing for the soldiers who were fighting with neighboring countries. However, when passing through Yucheng, it was intercepted by an unknown force on the way. All the emergency military pay was snatched away, and the people responsible for escorting it almost all died. The remaining few only managed to return to the capital with their lives left and told the late emperor everything.

The late emperor was furious and immediately sent people to recover the military pay. First, the amount of military pay was enough to feed an army for a month. Second, wasn't this kind of behavior of intercepting the money halfway a blatant provocation and a slap in the face of the emperor? To touch the emperor's head is simply to risk one's life!

When the late emperor sent people to search for the whereabouts of the military pay, a group of people hid in the dark and watched the people sent by the emperor pass by not far from them, because at this time they were scattered, dressed in various clothes, either beggars on the streets, ordinary couples on the streets, or merchants from wealthy families. With such a large area and such scattered people, how could the people sent by the emperor find them? Moreover, they had already hidden the military pay in the huge basement they had prepared long ago.

This group of people were actually sent by a neighboring country in the beginning in order to starve the soldiers on the border to death so that they could win.

At that time, they were all in Yucheng, and all their things were hidden in Yucheng. So when the people sent by the Emperor of Da Qi found nothing in Yucheng, some people speculated that they might have gone to the neighboring city of Suzhou.

So they left dozens of people in Yucheng to continue the investigation, and the rest ran to Suzhou.

Seeing that only half of the people from Da Qi were left here, the people from the neighboring country were happy. After spending several days killing the remaining dozens of people, they were planning to take the military pay back to their own country.

Unexpectedly, a Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared in the middle of the road! At that time, in order to kill those dozens of people, they also lost half of their own people. So when they met this person who suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, they had no power to fight back at all. After a simple resistance, they found that it was useless. Instead, they killed the people around them, leaving only the leader lying on the ground. This group of people may have seen him lying on the ground and thought he was dead, so they didn't take him, a "dead man", seriously, so he survived.

He was just seriously injured and his will was low, so before the man fainted, he saw the face of the master who led dozens of people to kill them.

He happened to know this person, who was His Royal Highness Prince An, who was already 22 years old at the time.

Then he fainted and knew nothing about what happened afterwards.

When he woke up, he found that all the dead bodies had been thrown into a mass grave. The whole place was filled with the stench of rotting corpses, and there were crows staring at him hungrily as if they wanted to eat him.

There is no doubt that the military pay was brought back to the palace by Prince An to be shown to the Emperor of Da Qi in order to ask for a reward, the man thought.

He dragged his seriously injured body away and found a nearby small clinic to recuperate. During this time, he fainted again and met a young lady, the daughter of the doctor in the clinic.

As the saying goes, love grows with time. The man gradually fell in love with the daughter of the doctor in the clinic. He thought that even if he returned to his original country, he would still die in the end. It is better to live a miserable life than to die. What's more, he fell in love with a beautiful girl and was reluctant to leave here.

So the man stayed in Da Qi, and stayed in this unknown small clinic to be a doctor who followed the owner of the clinic to get medicine and see patients, instead of being a slave and secret guard of the Crown Prince of the neighboring country.

Life was peaceful here, but there was chaos somewhere else. When the late emperor learned that the military pay had been quietly stolen by another group of people, he was so angry that he spent the whole day venting his anger on the court officials. He had to ask the minister he disliked to look for it, but none of them found anything.

He had no idea that the Prince An, who was favored by him at the time, was the one who stole the military pay. On the contrary, when he saw Prince An's attitude of volunteering to find the military pay, he was very satisfied with Prince An and rewarded him with many good things. Prince An came to Suzhou with his people. The Zhen and Chen families were the two most powerful and wealthy families in Suzhou at the time. Knowing that the current Prince An had come to Suzhou, it was reasonable for them to personally bring people to greet him.

Prince An first declined the Chen family's invitation to rest at the Chen family, then turned around and looked at the Zhen family who had not yet opened their mouths to invite him, and smiled and asked him if he could stay at the Zhen family for a few nights as he was curious about the beautiful scenery.

How could the head of the Zhen family dare not respond? He immediately greeted him with a smile and spoke naturally.

However, when saying this, Patriarch Zhen did not pay attention to the mood of Patriarch Chen who was standing beside him. Only Prince An glanced at him and then turned around and followed Patriarch Zhen.

The Zhen and Chen families were very close. After seeing Prince An follow the head of the Zhen family into the mansion, he did not hide the unwillingness and resentment in his eyes. He waved his sleeves and led his people away to his own house.

A few days later, Prince An went to stay at the inn for a few days, saying that he had been bothering the Zhen family for a long time. The head of the Zhen family was not the kind of official who liked to please the royal family. Knowing that Prince An was leaving, he only tried to persuade him to stay again and again. Seeing that Prince An had made up his mind, he gave up the trick of persuading him to stay and watched him leave the alley.

Zhen Qingyi also followed out and watched Prince An leave. However, when he turned around, he caught a glimpse of the back of the head of the Chen family not far away. Just as he was thinking about whether he should say hello, the person had already run away in a hurry.

He could only bury his confusion in his heart and follow his father into the mansion.

In the past few days, Prince An has been following the imperial edict to find the other group of mysterious people who stole the military pay and have not been heard from since. Although Prince An knows clearly in his heart that he is just crying thief, he just wants to bring down the two major families in Suzhou, the Zhen and Chen families, for his own selfish reasons, so he implements the plan he has been planning for a long time step by step.

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