Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 612

Xiaowan Village is a relatively wealthy village on the outskirts of Ancheng. There is a wealthy family in the village who built a large five-courtyard house made of blue bricks.

Most of the embezzled funds collected by the Xing family were hidden in the basement of this house, amounting to more than three million taels of silver.

Now that such a large sum of money has been targeted, it's impossible to move it out and hide it elsewhere. Therefore, the Xing family has no choice but to take a desperate gamble: let Huo Jinghuai's investigation stop here first, and then take advantage of the chaos to transfer the embezzled funds later.

Mo Chonggui, accompanied by a group of officials from the Ministry of Justice, stormed into the mansion, detained and took away all the dozens of people living there, and began a search.

Inside and outside the house, a large amount of firewood had already been hidden, and kerosene had been secretly poured in many places.

Several men sent by the Xing family who were lying in ambush outside the house saw the Ministry of Justice officials go in and guessed that they had already gone underground to search for the stolen money, so they started to set fire to the area around the house.

It was winter, the weather was dry, and with all the preparations made beforehand, the fire, once started, shot into the sky and quickly engulfed the entire house.

The house was engulfed in flames in an instant. Perhaps because the fire spread too quickly, no one inside escaped.

The entire village was alarmed, and villagers rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire, but the fire was too big to be contained.

The fire burned until late into the night, completely destroying the house before gradually extinguishing itself.

Fortunately, the house was detached and not adjacent to other houses in the village, so it did not affect other places.

The arsonists, disguised as villagers, went inside after the fire was almost extinguished to check if "Huo Jinghuai" and the others had been burned to death.

But at that moment, Mo Zhonggui appeared outside the ruins unharmed, leading a large number of soldiers who caught them red-handed!

After confirmation by the village, it was found that these people were not villagers at all, and that they were the ones who started the fire in the house.

A huge sum of silver was unearthed from the cellar of the house. Most of it had been melted by the high temperature of the fire, but it was still recognizable as military pay allocated by the imperial court.

Caught red-handed, the officers and soldiers brought the arsonists back to Ancheng and interrogated them under torture. It turned out they were all members of the Xing family.

Xing Feng was implicated as a result. He was currently in Ancheng and was arrested the next day.

When Consort Xing learned the news in the palace, she was struck dumb.

how so!

Was Huo Jinghuai not inside the fire at the time?

He's set a trap for them, just waiting for them to start the fire so he can catch them red-handed.

In other words, he clearly knew the Xing family's plans!

But how did he know?

Consort Xing immediately thought of "Cheng Wu"!

Could it be that Cheng Wu told Huo Jinghuai?

Wasn't she afraid of dying from the poison? Or was she willing to risk dying from the poison, but ultimately still sided with the Seventh Prince?

Consort Xing's mind was in complete turmoil, and she realized that she had been too confident and too certain before.

She always felt that "Cheng Wu" came back from a country village and was no different from a village girl. From the beginning, she never thought that Cheng Wu had any scheming or cunning.

She thought that by poisoning "Cheng Wu" and holding her life in her hands, she could control her.