Rich Peasant Girl: The General's Wife Has Space

When they returned to the county government office, it was already bright. Zhao Mingyuan and Li Mingyue had not returned yet, so Zhao Wenqing took the Zhang brothers straight to the prison.

As soon as he entered the prison, Zhang Shannian met the jailers' teasing gazes, as if he was looking at a clown. The young jailer who gave him the key had already been locked up.

Zhang Shannian looked at the people in front of him and smiled bitterly.

I was careless and miscalculated after all.

You think you are smart, but in fact, others are just playing the cat and mouse game and teasing you!

The pathetic and ridiculous Young Master Zhang!

Zhang Shanchun's crime was unforgivable. He called out "Big brother, goodbye" for the last time, and was then taken to the death row by the jailer, awaiting execution.

Zhang Shannian felt a pain in his heart as he watched his brother being taken away, and he smiled bitterly with helplessness.

He suddenly seemed to have lost all his strength.

He felt like a monkey being played with all night, and he accepted his fate!

"Sir Zhao, just tell me if you have anything you want to ask. I will tell you everything I know! I just hope you can give me a quick death!" Zhang Shannian closed his eyes with a dead heart and said slowly.

Zhao Wenqing smiled and said, "It won't be a pleasant experience. As long as you cooperate, I will ensure that you survive."

Zhang Shannian suddenly opened his eyes and met Zhao Wenqing's eyes that were looking at him seriously. He suddenly smiled.

Zhao Wenqing did not go to court, but interrogated him directly in the prison, and instructed the bailiff to ask Zhao Mingyuan to come to the prison to listen to the trial when he returned.

Before he finished giving the instructions, Zhao Mingyuan and Li Mingyue walked in. Seeing their happy faces, Zhao Wenqing knew that they had gained a lot from this trip.

He smiled and asked someone to prepare stools for the two of them to sit aside and listen to the trial.

Zhang Shannian rolled his eyes back and forth, looking at Zhao Mingyuan and Li Mingyue.

Zhao Wenqing waited until the two of them were seated before he began to ask questions.

"Master Zhang, who instructed you to forge weapons privately? Or you can tell us the whole story of your involvement."

Zhao Wenqing asked directly without hesitation.

"Okay, it's just the identity of the person behind the scenes. Lord Zhao, you may not dare to provoke him. At the beginning, my family was just an honest businessman." Zhang Shannian said slowly.

Zhao Wenqing and others couldn't help rolling their eyes. Thinking about those innocent women who died, how could they still be responsible?

"Tell me, who is the person behind this?" Zhao Mingyuan said with a faint mocking smile.

Zhang Shannian didn't care and continued.

"We are just ordinary merchants with no background. After we became rich, we relied on giving gifts to the mayor and the county magistrate to gain some support, but it was never a big help."

"Until one day, a man in a black cloak came to my father and said that if my family could help them with something, he would later promise to turn us from merchants into officials."

"My father was very enthusiastic about this, and I was also somewhat tempted. The black cloak also revealed some of their identity information at the time. Later we found out that what they wanted us to help do was to privately forge weapons."

"At first, my father and I were so scared that we wanted to withdraw. But the man in black told us that if we withdrew now, our Zhang family would know his secret and would be unkind to us!"

"My father and I are just merchants. Although I have practiced martial arts since I was young and can kill the man in black and silence him, I have no chance of winning against the guards around him."

Speaking of this, Zhang Shannian couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He had made one wrong step at the beginning, and then he made another. His greed was like a snake swallowing an elephant, and his greed killed his entire family!

"We had no choice but to agree, but my father also said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows. So even though we made the weapons, we still secretly divided them up and hid them in several places under their supervision to leave ourselves a way out."

"What is that person's identity?" Zhao Wenqing couldn't help but ask anxiously.

"I don't know what his specific identity is. We all call him Lord Lan. I vaguely know from his words that he might be working for... the fifth prince." Zhang Shannian said hesitantly.

"How dare you! How dare you frame the prince!" Zhao Wenqing scolded hurriedly.

Li Mingyue behind him was shocked. Although it was a little hard to accept, she felt it was reasonable and it also confirmed her guess.

It seems that his image of a gentle, kind and harmless good brother is really fabricated!

Li Mingyue felt a little sad, but then she felt relieved.

It is hard not to be tempted by the throne, which also explains why the Yilan Kingdom is restless and in constant turmoil.

"Sir, my family has fallen into such a state, how dare you frame and accuse the prince?" Zhang Shannian said with a wry smile.

"And according to my observation, although Lord Nalan works for the fifth prince, he doesn't seem to be from our Yuan Dynasty. Judging from his behavior, he seems to be from Yilan. Because I have been to Yilan, his language and some of his actions have the shadow of Yilan." Zhang Shannian continued to think and said.

Zhao Wenqing and the others looked at each other. Zhang Shannian noticed that Zhao Wenqing, Zhao Mingyuan and the other two seemed to respect Li Mingyue, so he couldn't help but look at Li Mingyue.

This young man was born with a noble appearance, and his status was either rich or noble. When he heard me talking about the fifth prince just now, he saw surprise and disappointment in his eyes. Why did he have such an expression?

For a moment, Zhang Shannian began to speculate in his heart.

"Do you know that framing the prince is a serious crime, enough to get you torn into pieces by five horses and die a miserable death?" Zhao Wenqing pretended to threaten and intimidate.

In fact, at this time, several people had already believed what he said. Zhao Mingyuan recalled what he heard the man in black cloak say, and sometimes he unconsciously brought out the language of Yilan.

It seems that the Fifth Prince is not as simple as he seems.

If you think about it carefully, he had actually been contacting merchants in various places and privately casting weapons a long time ago.

This is a big move by Yilan Kingdom!

Zhao Mingyuan immediately recalled the intelligence he had received that there seemed to be civil unrest in Yilan Country.

The previous emperor of Yilan was critically ill, and the crown prince Ming Xiao was framed and ran away. Now the person in control of the government is the crown prince's uncle Ming Zhanting, an ambitious man.

Now Shu Guiren is his biological daughter, which means that the Fifth Prince is Ming Zhanting’s grandson.

This also explains why the Yilan Kingdom tried its best to help the fifth prince ascend the throne.

I am afraid that even if the fifth prince ascends the throne in the end, he may not be able to hold the throne firmly!

Ming Zhanting is ambitious and an old man who has fought for many years. He is also particularly good at military affairs. If it were not for the Zhao family, I am afraid that Ming Zhanting would really be able to accomplish something. Although it would not shake the foundation of the Yuan Dynasty, it would also cause a certain impact on the Yuan Dynasty.

The former monarch of Yilan Kingdom had previously submitted a letter of peace, expressing his willingness to submit to the Yuan Dynasty and pay tribute annually!

Ever since the old monarch became critically ill, the crown prince fled, and Ming Zhanting took control of the government, the country of Yilan has been in turmoil.

In addition, the Zhao family of the Yuan Dynasty was exiled, and the Marquis of Zhenbei was stationed in the northwestern border and could not leave, so Ming Zhanting began to feel restless.

His daughter and grandson are the imperial concubine and the prince. If he doesn't support his grandson to ascend to the throne now, when will he do so?

He was not a fool, and he had inquired privately. He knew that the Zhao family had indeed been exiled, and that no one in the court could compete with him except the Marquis of Zhenbei.

As long as his grandson came to the throne, he could let his grandson directly issue an edict in his capacity as emperor to depose the old emperor, and he could then ascend the throne legitimately.

As long as he ascends the throne, I'm afraid that the Yuan Dynasty will also follow the Ming family of Yilan!

This Yilan country, this Ming Zhanting, what a big appetite!

How dare a small border country covet the Yuan Dynasty!

Zhao Mingyuan sneered unconsciously, which made Zhang Shannian feel panic in his heart.

Why does this young man have such a murderous aura? Who is he?

The small city of Jiyun is truly a place of hidden talents! It's a pity that he's already trapped, with no chance of a fresh start!

"My Lord, I only came to this conclusion based on my own judgment. Believe it or not, it's up to you. I'm already doomed to death, so why would I bother dragging the Fifth Prince, who has nothing to do with me, into this?"

Zhao Mingyuan and the other two looked at each other, already convinced in their hearts.