Rich Peasant Girl: The General's Wife Has Space

The Zhang family's matter seemed to be over, Zhang Xicai was dead, there was no evidence, and the case was closed, but Duan Hongyi always felt that something was wrong.

Because the Zhang family was quite wealthy, Duan Hongyi and the fifth prince were sincere in their efforts to win them over, and had the most frequent dealings with the Zhang family.

Therefore, Duan Hongyi always felt uneasy, fearing that the evidence would be exposed and he didn't know whether his father-in-law's family could protect him.

Of course, he also guessed other situations, such as the fact that Zhao Mingyuan, Zhao Wenqing and others had already found evidence related to him, but considering his father-in-law's family, the Duke of Qin's Mansion, they did not dare to offend his father-in-law, the Duke, and could not do anything to him.

If this is the case, of course it would be the best. You just need to ask your father-in-law to come forward and do a favor in exchange for the evidence.

If it really doesn't work, he can offer a generous reward to get the evidence back. I don't believe they won't be tempted.

There is also a possibility that Zhang Xicai might have destroyed the letters, tokens and other things they exchanged that day, so he was not taken away for interrogation.

If neither of these two situations was the case, Duan Hongyi really couldn't understand why the court didn't punish him.

The decline of the Zhang family and the subsequent confiscations of property by wealthy businessmen in various places have made the Fifth Prince furious, and he blames himself for most of the problems.

Thinking of the Fifth Prince's angry face and threatening expression, Duan Hongyi was filled with anger.

But he is a prince after all, and I am just a businessman. How dare I challenge the Fifth Prince?

He dared to say that if he really cursed or fought back at the Fifth Prince, the royal guards guarding the door would kill him instantly and would never consider the feelings of the Duke's Mansion.

After all, no matter how powerful the Duke's Mansion is, it cannot be as powerful as the Royal Prince.

This is also the reason why he defected to the Fifth Prince. He wanted to get rid of the Duke's Mansion that was oppressing him, to be the master of his own destiny, and no longer be controlled by Qin Wuqing!

But it was impossible for him to really turn against the Fifth Prince and drag the Fifth Prince into the water.

No matter how bad the fifth prince is, he is still the emperor's biological son. It is impossible to kill him. At most, he will be imprisoned, and he will still enjoy his wealth and glory.

He was just a mere businessman, or to put it nicely, an imperial merchant, but after all, his status was at the bottom of the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans. It would be easy for the emperor to kill all nine of his clans.

Thinking of the threats the Fifth Prince had made to him, if he could not remove the Fifth Prince from these matters and clear up all the problems, what awaited him would not only be the killing by the secret guards around the Fifth Prince, but also the revenge of the Yilan Kingdom.

Duan Hongyi shuddered unconsciously. Once he got on the Fifth Prince's boat, he couldn't get off. Instead of doing that, he might as well take a gamble and fully support the Fifth Prince in ascending the throne.

Only in this way can he have a chance to succeed!

Thinking of this, Duan Hongyi regained his composure and concentrated on searching for evidence. He didn't know if there was a secret passage in Qu Hongsheng's room. There were only some useless things such as copybooks and paintings on the table, and no useful letters could be found.

Duan Hongyi fretfully searched with the tinder in his hand, occasionally feeling the wall to see if there was any mechanism that could open the secret passage.

But after searching for many times without success, Duan Hongyi could no longer control his irritability. He suddenly turned around and ran to the bed of Qu Hongsheng and his wife. Duan Qing understood and lifted the couple's quilt.

Duan Hongyi was prepared to put a knife to the necks of Qu Hongsheng and his wife to force them to tell him where the evidence was hidden, and then kill them.

The moment the quilt was lifted, a knife shadow emitting a cold light swung towards Duan Qing and Duan Hongyi. Duan Qing was better in martial arts and reacted in time. He pulled Duan Hongyi back and swung his knife to fight back.

The two people on the bed jumped up and rushed towards the two men with their knives. Seeing this, Duan Ze also rushed over. The two men protected Duan Hongyi, who had just recovered, behind them, shouted to Zhuzi to go first, and they went forward to meet him.

Duan Hongyi gritted his teeth, looked at Duan Qing and Duan Ze, feeling a little sad, but still turned around and rushed out.

Ignoring the fight in the room, Duan Hongyi quickly covered his face with the scarf around his neck, opened the door and prepared to escape.

However, they didn't expect that torches had already been lit outside, and the people leading the fire were Fu Mingxuan and others, and behind them were the tied-up Qu Hongsheng and his wife.

After seeing this, Duan Hongyi had nothing to understand.

I don’t know what Fu Mingxuan’s identity is, but he is definitely an official appointed by the imperial court.

It seems that they had already known about the affairs between me and the Qu family, so they set a trap for me today, just waiting for me to be fooled.

Duan Hongyi held the hilt of the knife tightly in his hand, as if he would feel safer if he held on tighter.

"Young Master of the Duan Family, please come out." Fu Mingxuan, who was in the lead, spoke. The light from the torch illuminated Fu Mingxuan's, no, Li Mingyue's face, which looked uncertain and secretive.