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Zhao Jian looked at him suspiciously: "Are you sure Tong Zhongqian will meet you?"

Zhao Liangchen nodded firmly: "Yes, he will. He must be very eager to solve this case now. He will not give up as long as there is a clue."

Zhao Jian's eyes darkened. "What clue do you want to give him?"

Zhao Liangchen: "Zhao Kuo's whereabouts."

Zhao Jian's pupils shrank: "Do you know where he is?"

Zhao Liangchen shook his head: "I don't know, but my son knows they are definitely not in the city anymore."

Zhao Jian: "Why are you so sure they are no longer in the city?"

Zhao Liangchen: "It is very risky to secretly replace them on the way to the escort. In the city, there are onlookers all the way. If we replace people under the noses of so many people, if even one person sees it, it will be a disaster.

Moreover, they had to be sent away after being replaced. If they were replaced inside the city, they had to be sent out of the city gate. The city gate was heavily guarded, and they would be at risk of being caught when leaving the city.

So they could only follow the escort team out of the city and look for opportunities to change people on the way.

The son remembered that day very clearly. As soon as he escorted the victims out of the city, he sent people to the camp outside the city to mobilize troops. When they arrived at the gathering place of the victims, the escorted victims returned to the group of victims. At that time, the imperial guards who were mobilized arrived and the victims gathered. The son was busy guarding against the victims, and the attention of other officials was also on the victims. At this time, no one paid attention to the prisoners, and it was the time when they were most likely to be replaced.

The replaced prisoners cannot leave immediately, as that will easily attract other people's attention. In that situation, they have only two ways to hide their identities. One is to change clothes and pretend to be imperial guards. They are originally imperial guards, so it is not difficult to disguise themselves.

Another way is to blend in with the victims and pretend to be them, but there are imperial guards between them and the victims, so it is difficult to bypass the imperial guards and blend in with the victims.

So the son guessed that they must have mixed in with the imperial guards, only in this way could they avoid the court's search.

The imperial court must have sent a lot of people to look for them inside and outside the city in the past few days. They were afraid that leaving rashly would arouse suspicion, so they must not have left the imperial guards camp yet.

The Imperial Guards Camp is their territory, so it's easy for them to find a place to hide."

Zhao Jian was shocked. In the past, he always thought that his son was brave but not wise, and was very easy to control. He didn't expect that he could guess the truth of the matter in just a few words.

He looked at Zhao Liangchen meaningfully: "So you want to tell Tong Zhongqian and Zhao Kuo's whereabouts?"

Zhao Liangchen nodded: "Father, Zhao Kuo is a member of the Zhao family. If someone else finds Zhao Kuo, what if that person is your political enemy, or has some ulterior motive and instructs Zhao Kuo to slander your father for other things? Then we will have no way to defend ourselves.

My son knows him well, and only if he brings people to find him personally can we prevent him from attacking you."

Zhao Jian looked at Zhao Liangchen for a long time without saying anything. He was weighing the pros and cons.

The news that Mrs. Zhao brought back from leaving the house that day was that she wanted to try her best to delay the time when Zhao Kuo and others were found.

Tong Zhongqian risked his life for ten days to solve the case, which was not a bad thing for them. If Tong Zhongqian did not find Zhao Kuo and others, nor the disaster relief money after ten days, then he would fulfill his promise.

He may not die by then, but he will probably lose his official position. This will be beneficial to them. Without Tong Zhongqian, they can still sentence Su Jijing to death and use the disaster relief money to improve their reputation.

Even with the comparison of Tong Zhongqian, their abilities are more highlighted, which is more beneficial to their reputation.

At most, Zhao Kuo and others would be brought forward afterwards to appease the people.

Even if Tong Zhongqian finally found Zhao Kuo and the disaster relief money, he would not be afraid. At most, he would just find a scapegoat according to the original plan.

No matter what they do, it will be beneficial to them, so Zhao Jian and others did not push a scapegoat into Tong Zhongqian's hands as Zhao Liangchen and Su Qin had expected.

This is also a gamble for them, a gamble on Tong Zhongqian's ability.

Before, Zhao Jian was still quite confident, because he was the one who arranged for Zhao Kuo and others to be replaced. He was quite confident in himself and felt that no one would have thought that Zhao Kuo and others were still in the Imperial Guards camp.

But now he was not sure, because what Zhao Liangchen could think of, Tong Zhongqian might not be unable to think of. In addition, so many servants in his house were in the Ministry of Justice prison, so he would definitely be able to find some clues.

If Tong Zhongqian really found Zhao Kuo among the imperial guards himself, he would not be able to clear himself of suspicion. After all, he was from the Ministry of War, and it would be easy for him to bribe a few imperial guards to hide people for him.

But if Zhao Kuo was found by Zhao Liangchen, then his suspicion would be much smaller. After all, Zhao Liangchen is his son and represents him. He can't hide someone himself and then let his son find him.

After weighing the pros and cons, he finally said, "Okay, tomorrow morning, have Lai Fu report to the Ministry of Justice."

Zhao Liangchen: "Father, there is no time to lose. I want Lai Fu to go now."

Zhao Jian frowned slightly. "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, and Master Tong is also going to celebrate the festival. He must be no longer in the Ministry of Justice. Let's talk about it tomorrow morning."

He also wanted to find someone to talk to the higher-ups about this.

Zhao Liangchen advised, "Father, Master Tong made a promise to the victims. Ten days is not a long time. He will not waste time going back to celebrate the festival.

The longer we delay, the greater the chance that others will discover Zhao Kuo and his men, and the more disadvantageous it will be for us. We have no time to waste now."

Zhao Jian hesitated for a while, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, go ahead."

Zhao Liangchen nodded, stood up and left the study, said a few words to Lai Fu, and Lai Fu left the house.

It was already night. Normally, there was no curfew in the city during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but today there was a curfew in the city because they were searching for Zhao Kuo and others, and there was no one on the streets.

Lai Fu was stopped as soon as he walked out of the street where Zhao's residence was located. "Who are you? It's curfew now. Don't walk around freely."

Lai Fu was frightened and said nervously, "Sir, I am the servant of the eldest young master of the Zhao family. Our eldest young master asked me to go to the Ministry of Justice to report to Master Tong."

The person who stopped him was the one in the Ministry of Justice who was in charge of monitoring the Zhao residence. Therefore, he knew Zhao Liangchen. He frowned and asked, "What case do you want to report to Master Tong?"

Lai Fu shook his head: "The eldest master only said that it was a case about disaster victims, and the younger one didn't know anything else."

When the person who stopped him heard that the case was about disaster victims, he knew it was the case of disaster relief silver. This person was Tong Zhongqian's confidant. Recently, he saw Tong Zhongqian working day and night to solve the case of disaster relief silver. He thought that maybe the Zhao Mansion had any clues, so he took Lai Fu to the Ministry of Justice.

When they arrived at the Ministry of Justice, Tong Zhongqian was there as expected. After the man went to report, Tong Zhongqian met with Lai Fu.

"What is the matter that your eldest young master asked you to come here for?"

Lai Fu: "The eldest young master didn't say anything else, he just told me that he could help the master solve the case."

Tong Zhongqian raised his eyebrows: "Help me solve the case? Why didn't he say it before, but only now?"

Lai Fu: "After the eldest young master came back from outside the city that day, something happened in the mansion. Many servants ran away. The master blamed the eldest young master for this and made him kneel in the ancestral hall. He was just released from the ancestral hall by the master. He had thought some things through in the ancestral hall, so as soon as he left the ancestral hall, he sent me to the Ministry of Justice to find you."

Tong Zhongqian looked at Lai Fu in disbelief: "Your eldest young master was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall?"

He knew that it was Zhao Liangchen who caused the servant to escape. At that time, he thought that Zhao Liangchen used the servant to attract the attention of the people he arranged to monitor in order to leave the house. In addition to sending silver notes to Qi Lusheng, he must have secretly arranged other things. This must have been instructed by Zhao Jian behind the scenes.

But the fact that Zhao Liangchen was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall shows that this was not ordered by Zhao Jian.

Zhao Jian didn't know that Zhao Liangchen had secretly left the house. So what was he doing?