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Chapter 530 The First Test

Cen Boqing is convicted, which is a foregone conclusion.

"Qingfu Temple?" Bai Ziqi was stunned when he heard this, but immediately turned to Fushanyue and said, "With the confession, the prince can approve Cen Boqing."

Fu Shanyue nodded and wanted to dispatch troops.

Bai Ziqi said again: "Commander Fan, you go and help too."

Fan Sheng immediately stood up and jumped out of the cellar in two steps.

Fu Shanyue's eyes moved slightly, but he did not object.

...

After they all left, Bai Ziqi turned his eyes to He Lingchuan: "The rest, come and examine it."

He Lingchuan nodded and ordered someone to present paper and pen to examine Wu Kai in detail.

Wu Kai asked for a glass of water, and drank it in one breath before wiping his mouth and answering He Lingchuan's question.

It turned out that Cen Boqing's father Cen Qiao had already been engaged in hunting monsters and picking beads. After Wu Kai became his confidant, he became the person in charge of the business. After Cen's father passed away, Cen Boqing's son inherited his father's business and still ordered Wu Kai to take charge of the matter.

"Why did Cen Qiao do this in the first place?"

"The profit is very generous." Wu Kai leaned against the wall, losing all his strength. "You don't know how fast the Cen family can use money in Lingxu City... That place is simply a bottomless pit, and no amount of money is enough to spend. In the early years, the Cen family's storehouse had lost a lot of money. If it were not filled with these income, the Cen family would have been ruined long ago. Where would there be the glory of marrying the daughter of the Grand Marshal?"

"When marrying the daughter of the Grand Secretary, isn't it just a bag of money?" He Lingchuan asked, making Bai Ziqi next to him look at him, "Why did Cen Boqing take the risk to continue?"

"He said several times that he wanted to withdraw, but the buyer of Qingfu Temple disagreed."

"Buyer?" He Lingchuan sneered, "Are you saying, superior?"

Wu Kai whispered: "This kind of thing cannot be quit just by wanting to quit."

He Lingchuan nodded and wrote all the confessions on paper.

He was very slow and had no words in the cellar for a long time.

After a long time of breaking fire here in He Lingchuan, Bai Ziqi had to say: "Who are you trading jelly beads in Qingfu Temple and who are you going to collect money?"

"A temple blessing with the surname Hu." Wu Kai said, "Twice a year, when we meet, we go to the temple to hand over the beads and collect money with the other. Unless the price of purchasing beads changes, we will not communicate with each other."

"You don't recognize other buyers?"

Wu Kai shook his head.

"Speak, can you recognize it or not?"

"I don't recognize it."

Bai Ziqi paused and asked again: "Does the Grand Secretary know what you are doing?"

The answer to this question is very wide.

"We did it in secluded, and the Grandma Nong and his wife never asked about it. Maybe..." Wu Kai shrugged.

Bai Ziqi refused to let him fool him: "So does the Grand Minister know or don't know?"

Wu Kai had no choice but to say, "I think I probably don't know."

He Lingchuan copied the memoirs in a silence, but he just kept silent.

For these deeper questions, just let the envoy from Lingxu City ask questions, and he doesn't plan to join in the fun.

"You have provided perjury to Fu Songhua?"

"Yes." Wu Kai said bluntly, "Cen Boqing accidentally discovered three years ago that Fu Songhua, the fugitive who killed the governor of Bingzhou, actually lived in the northwest corner of Baishazuo, even not far from Cen's mansion."

"When I walk by the river often, how can I not get my shoes wet?" Wu Kai smiled bitterly, "Cen Boqing is also afraid that the matter will be exposed one day, so I asked me to prepare perjury. If the incident is revealed, Fu Songhua will take the blame."

"Who designated the source of the white shoulder carving route you are planning to frame?"

"Cen Boqing."

"Why?"

Wu Kai swallowed his saliva: "I just obeyed the orders and didn't know why."

"Let's talk about Zhongsunmou." Bai Ziqi continued to ask, "Why did he cooperate with you to commit perjury?"

"Zhongsunmou's grandfather's life is about to end and he can't take any tonic. Cen Boqing instructed Zhongsunmou to go to Qingfu Temple to seek medicine, and the code is to 'prolong life and ensure safety'. If the old man from Zhongsun's family eats it, he can live more than ten to thirty years."

"This time Cen Boqing found out that the inspector who investigated the case of the letter and the murder of demons and taking the beads was Zhongsun Mou, so he threatened him with this matter." Wu Kai asked for another glass of water, "Purchasing elixirs privately is a serious crime in Lingxu City."

"So both Cen and Zhongsun families were involved in the case." Bai Ziqi nodded to He Lingchuan again, "I'll finish asking and I'll leave it to you later."

So He Lingchuan asked Wu Kai about the whereabouts of other demon-catching subordinates.

After all this reached this point, Wu Kai no longer concealed it, and revealed the hidden places, methods and results of the other five groups of people, and the secret codes of the crimes.

Before the ink on the paper was dried, He Lingchuan handed the file full of confessions to Bai Ziqi:

"Bai Du's envoy, and the other five groups of demon hunting madmen are all outside the border of Chiyan."

In short, arresting them was not a mission of Chiyan Kingdom, but a matter of his special envoy.

Bai Ziqi took it and put it away, stood up and said, "I'll go to Cen's mansion, you can follow me."

He Lingchuan had no objection.

The inn is very close to Cen Mansion, and you will arrive in a few hundred steps.

He Lingchuan and Bai Ziqi walked with him, followed by several guards.

He could feel that the man looked at him intentionally or unintentionally, so he simply asked directly: "White, what's wrong with his face?"

The young man seemed very straightforward, and no one dared to ask him this. Bai Ziqi smiled gently: "Nothing is unusual, but seeing that you are young, you are not as good as your master and servant with the prince, but like your peer friend."

"I am not from Chiyan, nor is I a servant of the prince." There is nothing to avoid. Since Bai Ziqi brought Fan Sheng, he must have heard about He Lingchuan's basic information from this deputy commander of Tongxin Guard.

This person is as meticulous as a hair, and is of high power. He Lingchuan always feels that his eyes look strange when he sees him. He is full of energy and dare not be a little careless.

Bai Ziqi said: "I also visited Fuguo in my early years, and the monarch and ministers were like the emperor, but the merchants were very powerful. Basically, they can get you whatever you want."

He Lingchuan remembered the Shimen Chamber of Commerce and the Gan family who had a unique business with Zhu Erniang, and couldn't help but smile: "The poor mountains and rivers are bad, but the people are not in line with each other. We all believe in wealth and honor in danger."

"It's good to say that poor mountains and rivers are poor but not obey the people." Bai Ziqi also smiled, "Why did the Prince Yue designate you to handle the letter case?"

"I am a foreigner, I have few involvements and few concerns." He Lingchuan was very busy, "Otherwise, the officials of Chiyan would not be able to investigate just after meeting Zhongsun Mou."

"If you don't follow the people, there are benefits of not following the people." Bai Ziqi said leisurely, "How can Prince Yue know that this case will be very involved?"

He Lingchuan shrugged: "I have to ask him this. I'm a newcomer and don't know much about Chiyan."

"Let me find a foreigner who doesn't understand the national conditions to investigate the case. Prince Yue's actions are unexpected." Bai Ziqi glanced at him, "How did you and Prince Yue know each other?"

The origin of He Xiao is a mystery. Fan Sheng doesn't know that Fu Shanyue has never mentioned it in his memorial.

"A while ago, the Emperor Liujiu came, and we were all in the wild and fought to grab a piece of pulp paste." He Lingchuan said in a very simple way, "If you don't want both sides to suffer, you won't get to know each other until you fight."

"It sounds like the prince is indeed what he knows about." Bai Ziqi was concerned about, of course, the implication of "not getting to know each other without fighting".

What kind of temperament and means does Fu Shanyue have? He killed his own brother!

Even Bai Ziqi thought he was cold-blooded and cruel.

Only when Fu Shanyue can't kill the boy in front of him can he be friends with him.

But it is obviously glorious to be able to tie Fu Shanyue, so why should this young man be underestimated?

"I have another thing to ask." Bai Ziqi thought for a while and decided to go straight in one go. "Fan Sheng said, Cen Boqing invited the curse master Cheng Yu to plot against you, but he returned in a bad state and was retaliated against and vomited blood. I have also heard of Cheng Yu, and he really has some skills. How did you defeat him?"

He Lingchuan said lightly: "I have some way to save my life. But I don't have the ability to fight back against Cheng Yu. He was injured by his spell back."

"What spell did he use?"

He Lingchuan spread his hands: "He is a curse master, so it should be some kind of evil curse, right? Unfortunately, I am not good at this."

Before Bai Ziqi asked again, he turned his defense and attacked:

"You said just now, 'It's true that the prince is better at doing'. It seems that you know the prince very well."

He Lingchuan has his own secret and cannot be questioned continuously.

"I have had a few dealings." Bai Ziqi smiled, "As the prince of Chiyan, he studied in Lingxu City for more than ten years; I was selected to Zhaixing Tower since I was a child, and I was about the same age as him, and I also had several visits."

Around the age... He Lingchuan scratched his nose.

Yes, that guy Fu Shanyue just looks tender, but in fact he is over forty years old, and he is considered a peer of Bai Ziqi.

Monsters are unique.

"Although the prince's temper is a bit... straightforward." He Lingchuan carefully selected the words, but both of them knew that he was going to say "brutal", "but for the monarch, this is not a disadvantage. On the contrary, he is smart and alert, and wise. Why doesn't King Chiyan like him?"

King Chiyan has always been interested in Fu Shanji and does not want to make his eldest son the crown prince.

He may find it difficult to get the answer from others, except Bai Ziqi. Even Jiao Yu, who has been with him for a long time, was concerned about him when he heard this.

Avoiding taboos is the basic ethics of all officials.

Bai Ziqi was rarely silent, as if thinking.

After a while, he said, "It doesn't matter if you say it, many people in Lingxu City know it."

Of course, the "many people" he mentioned are probably all top-notch circles.

He said slowly: "When the prince was young, he ate his biological mother!"

He Lingchuan was shocked.

But he didn't ask, because there must be some more information.

Sure enough, Bai Ziqi turned his head and observed his expression, and continued: "The two brothers of Prince Yue are from the same mother, and their mother is a civilian woman. Later, King Chiyan sent guards to pick them up and return to the palace. Some accidents happened on the way, a bad accident..."

He did not explain in detail again, but said, "The prince Yue was forced to eat his mother, but King Chiyan cherished this concubine very much. After that, he was worried and displeased with him."

He Lingchuan murmured: "I probably don't like it now."

Fushanei killed his younger brother not long ago. When the old king saw this eldest son, did he suddenly feel hatred of killing his wife and children?

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