webnovelfull Chapter 474 Listen to your granddaughter
Chapter 474 Listen to your granddaughter
When the black sack on the first person's head was taken off, Lu Sui was shocked when he saw the man's face clearly. Why did this person look so unfamiliar?
The man had a square face, and as soon as he opened his mouth he looked like he was going to confess his guilt honestly.
"I forged this account book of Marquis Zhaoping."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was in an uproar!
Lu Sui was on high alert, but he never expected that the person causing trouble would actually come from the Dali Temple!
He wanted to stop it, but he didn't know how to stop it in public. The man had already spoken. If he asked the General of Cavalry's men to shoot him in public, wouldn't it just prove that there was something fishy about the case?
"My name is Mi Ya. I used to be the shopkeeper at Haiyun Bank. Many people should know me."
"I received money from a centurion from a military camp. He brought the original account book of the Marquis of Zhaoping's mansion and asked me to forge it according to the original, but only added the expenditure of 300,000 taels of silver."
"You knowledgeable people can take a look. Although this newly added account book has traces of aging, it cannot be exactly the same as the original account book of Zhaoping Marquis Mansion."
"The red seal on the original account book of Marquis Zhaoping's mansion has irregular jagged edges around it. Even if I have great skills, I can't imitate it."
Then another woman in her forties limped out of the Dali Temple, holding in her hand a ledger that looked almost identical to the one on the evidence table.
"I used to work in the mansion of Marquis Zhaoping. I was a cook in the small kitchen. Marquis Zhaoping was kind-hearted. After learning that I was going to be exiled, he dismissed the servants and gave each of us a resettlement fee."
"But as soon as we left the Marquis Zhaoping's mansion, we were hunted down. I managed to escape with the original account book of the Marquis Zhaoping's mansion, but I only had a broken leg."
Everyone was surprised after hearing the woman's statement.
"This is murder to silence the witnesses!"
"Wan Niang, you are the Wan Niang of Zhao Ping Hou Fu. Before Zhao Ping Hou Fu betrayed and was exiled, you and your husband often came to me to buy fresh side dishes!"
"I remember you! You often shared the leftovers from the kitchen with beggars in the suburbs!"
The woman nodded with tears in her eyes: "My husband is not as lucky as me. He has been killed."
The people were both sighing and angry: "What kind of world is this? Good people really don't get rewarded!"
"Everyone in Zhaoping Marquis's mansion is almost dead! God is blind!"
Wanniang took out the account book in her hand and handed it to Zhang Yuan.
"If anyone knows anything about this, please look carefully for the differences between these two account books."
"I entered the Zhaoping Marquis's mansion as an assistant when I was thirteen years old. I watched the Marquis rise to higher positions and the Crown Prince, the Second Young Master, and the Third Young Lady grow up. If the Zhaoping Marquis's mansion had any rebellious intentions, even if they had been on guard, it would not have become the situation it was back then, where it was slandered and slaughtered by others!"
——"I am a woodcarver. I can observe the difference between these and seals carefully!"
Someone immediately came forward to look at the account book.
Zhang Yuan took out a magnifying glass given to him by his master from his sleeve: "I have a rare item here called a magnifying glass. All you have to do is put one eye on the mouth of the mirror and you can see the seal after it is magnified!"
The magnifying glass was passed to the people. The first person who got the magnifying glass compared the two account book seals and exclaimed: "They are really different!"
"The jagged edges around the seal on this fake account book used to embezzle military pay are very neat, as if they were deliberately made to imitate the jagged edges on the real account book!"
At this moment, a man in black suddenly stepped forward from the crowd and rushed towards the account book!
The general's men who were in the crowd immediately stepped forward and pushed the man in black down, asking, "Who is he?"
"Catch him! He wants to destroy the account books! Destroy the evidence!"
Lu Sui was dumbfounded when he saw his undercover agent being held down by the General of Cavalry's men. He quickly walked into the Dali Temple and found the General of Cavalry who was doing his job.
Lu Sui asked angrily: "General Bai, your people don't maintain order in the venue, why are you arresting people at random?"
Hou Xiaoxiao's grandfather, General Bai, was drinking the latest jasmine tea from Xiaoran Teahouse. Hearing this, he put down the cup in surprise and said, "What's going on? What medicine did my men take wrong? Who did they arrest?"
Lu Sui recounted what had just happened.
General Bai was confused. "Why are you arresting people randomly? It was you who ordered my men to maintain order in the venue and pay special attention to those who suddenly jumped out."
"Isn't that person who jumped out to grab the account book disrupting the order of the venue?"
--"this!"
Lu Sui really couldn't explain it clearly. Was this old General Bai really senile or was he just pretending to be confused?
Can't you see that the people he wants him to arrest are the powerful witnesses who came forward to redress the injustice for the Marquis Zhaoping's Mansion?
However, this General of the Cavalry and the ancestors of the Marquis of Zhaoping's Mansion had been enemies for a long time because of a lot of things like fighting for military merits and disagreements. The grudges had been passed down from generation to generation, so it was impossible for him to help the Marquis of Zhaoping's Mansion!
There is no point in dwelling on this issue at this point, because the window paper has been broken in full view of everyone, and nothing you do will help.
Lu Sui was like a mute eating Coptis chinensis, unable to express his pain.
At this moment, he wanted to bang his head against the stone pier in front of the Dali Temple and die!
What should I do next? If Zhang Yuan continues to judge like this, the verdict will be overturned!
When you pull out a radish, you will bring out the mud, and even the person who handled the case back then was not spared.
I was sent here to support Zhang Yuan. Now I am publicly accusing Zhang Yuan of making a wrong judgment. Isn't it even more strange?
General Bai looked at Lu Sui who was running around in a hurry, and took a sip of jasmine and pear tea. Not bad, not bad, the tea made by his granddaughter's tea shop is fragrant.
Although he does not get along with the Zhaoping Marquis Mansion, his granddaughter's words come first!
Ever since he was helped by Hou Xiaoxiao to save the emperor after the palace coup, he has listened to his little girl in everything, and there is nothing wrong with that!
Outside Dali Temple.
Magnifying glasses were passed to the people one after another, and after looking at the account book on the evidence table, everyone exclaimed that the account book was a fake one.
The black cloth on the second witness's head was also taken off. He was blind in one right eye and his index finger on his left hand was missing.
The first witness, Mi Ya, was surprised: "It's you!"
He quickly said to everyone, "Everyone, this is the man who asked me to forge the account books! I don't know whose general he is, but judging by his aura and gait, he is very similar to the Xin family army!"
"He must be the traitor who betrayed the Marquis!"
The second witness was silent for a moment, then said to everyone, "I am a member of the Xin family army and a close confidant of Tiger General Yao Chengping."
"Five years ago, Yao Chengping was unwilling to be subordinate to Marquis Zhaoping, so he led a group of men he trained to go out on his own and headed to Haiyan City in the east of Dasheng to clean up the rampant pirates on the sea."