The sister-in-law was wrong, please forgive her, my black-bellied brother-in-law

"Brother-in-law!"

There was a hint of surprise in Qiao Xi's eyes.

"Did sister-in-law find anything?"

Hearing this, and thinking of what she had discovered, Qiao Xi nodded quickly.

Xu Yi raised his eyes and looked at the crowd, his eyelashes slightly pressed down, and a fine cold light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and disappeared in an instant.

He lowered his head and whispered something in Qiao Xi's ear, and Qiao Xi frowned and nodded.

"Sister-in-law, do you remember what Yan Zheng said?"

Xu Yi looked into Qiao Xi's eyes with an extremely serious expression.

"Remember, don't worry, little brother-in-law."

Qiao Xi patted her chest to assure him.

"Okay, I'll take my sister-in-law in."

As he spoke, Xu Yi extended his hand to Qiao Xi.

At first, Qiao Xi didn't understand what he meant.

Xu Yi raised his chin slightly towards the crowd, and Qiao Xi realized that with her small body, she really couldn't squeeze in.

She tactfully extended her hand, allowing Xu Yi to hold her wrist, and then pulled her into the crowd again.

After squeezing through layers of crowds, Qiao Xi finally reached the innermost part of the crowd.

"boom!"

As soon as she stood still, she heard a loud noise, which scared her.

Then a voice was heard coming from the yamen court.

"Nie Shufeng, why don't you confess the truth? Do you want to experience my punishment?"

"Sir, I really don't know what I want to confess. Please tell me clearly!"

Shen Qingyan looked at the people in the hall without changing his expression, a flash of sarcasm in his eyes, but it was covered by his lowered eyelids.

His voice was cold and unyielding, "Nie Shufeng, I see you won't cry until you see the coffin. If that's the case, I'll make you convinced. Kuzhu!"

He stretched out his hand as he spoke.

Seeing this, Kuzhu hurriedly took out the things in his arms and presented them with both hands.

Shen Qingyan threw the thing in his hand in front of Nie Shufeng without even looking at it.

"Nie Shufeng, look at what this is."

Nie Shufeng lowered his head and reached out to pick up something on the ground.

When he saw clearly what was in his hand, his eyes flashed and his body stiffened, but he quickly returned to normal.

His movements were extremely subtle and most people couldn't notice him, but Shen Qingyan kept an eye on him and took in everything he did.

Seeing him holding it without flipping through it, Shen Qingyan said coldly: "Nie Shuofeng, open it and see if the 'Nie Shuofeng' mentioned in the memorial is you."

Nie Shufeng followed his instructions and slowly opened the memorial in his hand. Soon he saw three words that were very familiar to him.

However, he was not panicked at all. Instead, he raised his lips slightly and looked up at Shen Qingyan, neither humble nor arrogant: "Sir, there are so many people in Tianle Country. It is not surprising that there are a few with the same name. Why do you think that the person in this memorial is me?"

"Also, privately mining in Tianle Country is illegal. I'm just an honest merchant. How could I have the guts to mine silver? I beg you to investigate and clear my name."

Hearing this, Qiao Xi couldn't help but roll her eyes.

He thought to himself that Nie Shufeng was really the thief crying "stop thief". The adult inside, you must not be fooled by him!

"Nie Shufeng, I'm giving you a chance. Do you think such a large silver mine can be hidden? Or are you confident that I can't find any evidence?"

Shen Qingyan stared at Nie Shufeng who was kneeling below and asked back.

Nie Shufeng lowered his eyes and put his forehead to the ground: "Then please find evidence, so that I can be convinced!"

Shen Qingyan looked at Nie Shufeng in front of him, who still had a righteous look on his face. He frowned slightly and was about to speak when he was suddenly interrupted by a "bang".

Everyone in the court looked at the same place.

I saw a shiny object lying quietly on the floor of the court.

Before everyone could react, Shen Liuguang had already stepped forward, picked up the thing, and sent it to Shen Qingyan.

"Sir, look!"

Shi Yuanshan was closer to Shen Qingyan, so he could naturally see clearly what was in Shen Liuguang's hand.

That was a silver ingot.

The bottom of the silver ingot was facing upwards, with the word "Nie" printed on it.

As for the other people in the court, they could only see that it was a piece of silver, but could not see the words on the ground.

Shi Yuanshan's expression changed slightly, but soon returned to normal.

A faint smile appeared on his face. "It seems that Lord Shen is truly a noble man in Lingxiao City. As soon as he entered the government office, silver began to fall from the sky."

Most people like to hear good words. Shi Yuanshan feels that even the high-ranking officials in Baidi City are no exception.

But just as he said this, he saw Shen Qingyan's eyes looking at him coldly.

"In court, Magistrate Shi, please be careful with your words!"

He paused and signaled Shen Liuguang with his eyes to show the silver to Shi Yuanshan.

"County Magistrate Shi, please take a look at the words on this silver ingot first!"

As such a serious matter as someone illegally mining in Lingxiao City, he, as the county magistrate, cannot escape blame, whether he really didn't know or pretended not to know.

"By the way, County Magistrate Shi should show it to him after he finishes reading it."

Shen Qingyan moved his fingers slightly, pointing at Nie Shufeng who was kneeling in the hall.

Shen Liuguang followed orders.

Shi Yuanshan now looked carefully at the words printed on the silver, then he turned his gaze and fell on Nie Shufeng. He pursed his lips and for a moment didn't think of what to say.

As for Nie Shufeng, when he saw the silver, he was obviously stunned, then he kowtowed several times and kept shouting "unfair".

"Unjust? But I don't think you are wronged."

Shen Qingyan lowered his eyes and looked at Nie Shufeng, who didn't even raise his head, wanting to hear how he would argue.

"Sir, I just said that there are many people with the surname Nie in Tianle. Just because there is a 'Nie' on this silver, I say it belongs to my Nie family. Can I also say that someone is framing me? Or that this is the work of the Nie family from another place?"

Shen Qingyan raised an eyebrow, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth, but that smile was full of coldness: "You mean that I deliberately took this silver to frame you in order to find evidence of your crime. Nie Shufeng, what virtue and ability do you have that makes me go to such great lengths to target you?"

"this--"

Hearing his anger, Nie Shufeng's breathing stagnated, his head lowered even lower, and he hurriedly explained, "I dare not. I just want you to be less biased when handling this case."

"Bias? You'll know in a moment if I'm biased." Shen Qingyan turned his head and called to the side, "Kuzhu, how's the progress over there?"

Hearing him being called, Kuzhu hurriedly stepped forward to salute and replied very respectfully, "Your Excellency, the search area is too large, so our people will need some time."

"boom!"

Just as Kuzhu finished speaking, another unidentified object suddenly flew in and happened to land at Kuzhu's feet.

Seeing this, Kuzhu didn't bother to check the things on the ground, and raised his sword to protect Shen Qingyan.

Seeing him so nervous, Shen Qingyan smiled and comforted him: "Kuzhu, don't be so nervous. That person can clearly know what happened in the court and was able to send things in twice. He must be a person with great martial arts skills.

Such a powerful person is just giving us evidence, obviously he won't attack me. Go and see what's on the ground!"