Treating the Concubine, Eliminating the Wife: Reborn, I Refuse to Marry the Scumbag and Marry the Pr

When Xie Tingzhou walked out of the hall, he felt that the court and the Great Zhou were already rotten.

He stood there and didn't leave because he didn't know how to explain to her. This was the result of running around.

Shen Yu didn't sleep all night. Xifeng kept urging her to go back and wait, but she didn't listen and kept waiting outside Yongning Street.

The court officials dispersed one after another, and it took a long time before Xie Tingzhou appeared at Guanghua Gate.

Xie Tingzhou had always kept his face quiet, but Shen Yu could tell from his expression that things were not going well today.

Xie Tingzhou approached, "Why didn't you go back?"

"Don't worry." Shen Yu said.

Xie Tingzhou nodded, "Let's get in the car and talk."

"I will hand over Liang Jianfang's confession to Wan Ruixian, who will come forward to impeach Ge Liangji, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, for colluding with Liang Jianfang and causing the defeat."

Shen Yu looked at Xie Tingzhou's face and asked, "Did something go wrong?"

Xie Tingzhou looked at her and said after a while: "Liang Jianfang is dead."

"What?" Shen Yu was shocked.

Xie Tingzhou said coldly: "After hearing the impeachment, Emperor Tongxu prepared to interrogate Liang Jianfang on the spot. Those who went to arrest people will report that Liang Jianfang committed suicide in prison out of fear of crime."

"This is nonsense!" Shen Yu said angrily: "Liang Jianfang was so afraid of death. Who would believe that he committed suicide out of fear of crime?"

"Some people believe it," Xie Tingzhou frowned lightly, "The most important thing is that before he died, he left another confession letter, which is completely different from the content of the one you handed me."

Shen Yu's brain exploded with a bang, and she said urgently: "Someone forced him to write a confession, and then killed him and pretended to commit suicide out of fear of crime."

Xie Tingzhou said: "The two testimonies came from the same person, but they were completely opposite. Emperor Tongxu was so worried that he could only detain the two groups of people together for further examination."

There are two testimonies from the same person, and neither one of them can be justified. It seems that the confession can no longer be used as evidence, and we have to find another way out.

She left the Dali Temple Prison, and someone went to kill Liang Jianfang. It seemed that someone in the Dali Temple was keeping an eye on her, and maybe her movements were also noticed.

Shen Yu pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "I want to go to Lu's clothing store."

Seeing Xie Tingzhou staring at her, Shen Yu asked, "What do you think I'm doing?"

"Nothing." Xie Tingzhou looked away.

Shen Yu tilted her head and looked at him.

There seems to be something wrong with this prince recently. When he was on the road before, he would argue with her no matter what, but he seems to be much calmer recently.

The carriage stopped in front of a clothing store.

Before Shen Yu got off the carriage, she turned back and said, "Your Highness and Xifeng should go back first. I will go back to the palace by myself."

Xie Tingzhou didn't get out of the car and watched Shen Yu enter the store.

Xifeng leaned back, tilted his head slightly and said, "Now that he doesn't avoid His Highness, I think he is starting to gain trust."

Xie Tingzhou lifted a bit of the curtain with his index finger, and through the crack he saw the shopkeeper welcoming Shiyu into the inner room.

Shen Yu asked: "Is there any news about green medicine?"

The shopkeeper shook his head heavily, walked to the table and opened the drawer, "But there is a letter from Hezhou, which was just delivered this morning."

Shen Yu nodded, opened the letter, read it and asked, "Is there any news from Shen's house?"

"This..." The shopkeeper hesitated.

"Say it."

"Yes," the shopkeeper said, "I personally sent the letter. I reminded the second lady by the way, she said..."

The shopkeeper said cautiously: "She said that the eldest daughter of the Shen family has died in Yanliang Pass. Where did Xiao Xiao dare to pretend to be the eldest daughter of Shen? Could it be that she wanted to defraud money."

After Shen Yu finished reading, the hand holding the letter dropped on her lap.

"Do you want to send another one now?" the shopkeeper asked tentatively.

"No need," Shen Yu said, "I will go find her myself."

After walking out of the store, Xie Tingzhou and Xi Feng had not left yet, and parked the carriage to one side so as not to block the customers entering the store.

Shen Yu got on the carriage. She was a smart person and would not ask embarrassing questions.

You can't ask him why you haven't left yet, and then wait for him to say "I'll wait for you."

The horse-drawn carriage drove along the noisy streets.

Shen Yu remembered Hongqiao's letter, so she asked Xie Tingzhou: "That batch of grain and grass, it was said that the grain transport officer died on the road, and that batch of grain and grass was missing."

Xie Tingzhou said "Hmm", "It is said that the food and grass were robbed by bandits in Qichang Mansion."

In the past few years, the situation in Dazhou has become increasingly bad. Corrupt officials are rampant and the people are in dire straits. Some farmers have worked hard to farm for a year, but after paying the public grain, they still don't have enough to eat.

There are more and more victims of the disaster, and many of those who have no food to eat have simply turned into bandits, hoping to find a way to survive.

This has also led to the proliferation of bandits in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"Which bandit dares to rob the food and grass on the front line?" Shen Yu snorted coldly.

"So I said it was rumored." Xie Tingzhou said slowly: "Now the imperial court is short of people, and even a single person who suppresses bandits has not been able to come up with a regulation."

"Can't we let the vassal kings from all over the country suppress bandits?"

Xie Tingzhou shook his head, "Emperor Tongxu is suspicious by nature. Does he dare to let the vassal king lead his troops to leave the country?"

"That's true."

When it comes to candidates, there is one readily available. Xie Tingzhou only dared to take two thousand Qingyun Guards with him when escorting him, and he turned around and returned to Beilin fifty miles away from the capital, just for fear of being dragged by Emperor Tongxu's pigtails.

Shen Yu thought about it, and suddenly an idea came to her mind, "Qi Chang, Qi Chang."

"What's wrong?" Xie Tingzhou asked.

Shen Yu suddenly grabbed his hand and said excitedly: "The location of Qichang Mansion! Why was the food and grass lost in Qichang?"

Xie Tingzhou said nothing, staring blankly at the hand holding his.

My heart seemed to be lightly touched by something.

Why do her hands look so small? How could such a small hand wield such a long knife?

He looked at him for so long that Shen Yu instantly noticed something strange and quickly retracted her hand and said, "Your Highness, I'm offended."

Seeing the hand retracted, Xie Tingzhou felt a hint of disappointment in his heart.

"It doesn't matter."

Xi Feng suddenly heard an offensive sentence outside the car, but he didn't know how Shigure offended His Highness.

"What did you just say?" Xie Tingzhou concentrated.

Shen Yu said: "If I remember correctly, the location of Qichang Mansion is very special."

Xie Tingzhou thought for a while and nodded, "Qichang Mansion is adjacent to the two vassals, and the official road on the other side leads directly to Shengjing."

"Yes," Shen Yu was a little excited, "In a place like this, if things are lost, it will be difficult for the three parties to send troops, so they have not been able to draw up a charter. From which state is the food and grass dispatched? Why was it lost in Qichang Mansion? Woolen cloth?"

Xie Tingzhou was silent for a moment, "I have to ask the Ministry of Finance."

Shen Yu thought of Jiang Lianzhi. This case must be closely related to the Ministry of Household Affairs. So, was Jiang Lianzhi, the minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, involved in it?

Looking at her thoughtful expression, Xie Tingzhou asked, "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking about Jiang Lianzhi." Shen Yu replied subconsciously.

Xie Tingzhou raised his eyes to look at her, straightened his lips and turned his head away.

Shen Yu could now barely feel some of Xie Tingzhou's temperament. It seemed that he was unhappy, but she couldn't figure out why he was unhappy.

After thinking about it, it was probably because of Jiang Lianzhi's sentence. Could it be that they are political enemies?

"What I mean is," Shen Yu thought for a moment and said, "He is the Minister of Household Affairs. I am wondering if this matter has anything to do with him."

"No need to explain to me." Xie Tingzhou said calmly, then leaned against the car wall and closed his eyes to fall asleep.

Shen Yu looked at his silent face, why did she suddenly feel that he was having trouble?