"Meet the two adults." The man cupped his hands.
With a "flattering" flavor.
But who is he
Ji Yunshu looked him up and down.
The man raised his eyes of surprise and joy, looked at Ji Yunshu, and said, "This... is the Director of Prisons, Mr. Ji, who is mentioned by the Ministry of Justice?"
I think it was the little servant who told him just now.
Ji Yunshu nodded.
He immediately said again: "The next is Liu Zhinan, the president of the Central Capital Chamber of Commerce. I didn't expect to meet the famous Master Ji in the capital. Liu is really lucky."
With a smile on his face, he bowed deeply again.
Ji Yunshu smiled at him, this person seemed to have a fire on his body, and he seemed so enthusiastic that she didn't know how to respond.
Liu Zhinan: "I don't know what the lord is coming to Brunei Pavilion today?"
She said, "Come to the president of Xing to understand some small things."
"Oh? But about the president of the Chamber of Commerce?"
"President Liu thinks too much. The affairs of the president of the Chamber of Commerce are handled by the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Personnel, and have nothing to do with the Ministry of Punishment."
Liu Zhinan smiled awkwardly, but guessed in a joking tone: "Could it be... Guildmaster Xun was caught bribing in private, right? That's why Mr. Ji was disturbed?"
Uh
Ji Yunshu's expression changed.
"how you said that?"
"Liu just said something casually, adults don't have to take it seriously."
The old man almost believed it.
Ji Yunshu's head was full of black lines: "This officer still has important things to do, so I won't talk to President Liu any more."
"Go slowly, my lord."
After Ji Yunshu got into the carriage, he suddenly remembered what Liu Zhinan said just now.
"Jing Zhaoyin."
Jing Zhaoyin next to him asked, "Master Ji, what's the matter?"
"Excuse me to go to the imperial censor's mansion and ask them to find out who is in charge of the head of the chamber of commerce in the household department and the personnel department? Look in their pockets... if there is anything more."
"Things?" Jing Zhaoyin was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately, "Master Ji suspects that Xing Xiyang's fifty thousand taels are used for..."
Don't say it directly!
After returning, Jing Zhaoyin immediately went to the Imperial Palace.
Check in secret!
Unexpectedly, there will be news soon!
It turned out that among the people in charge of the president's affairs this time, some people really had more money in their pockets.
As the saying goes, if the mouse excrement in the rice jar is not turned over, I really don't know how many grains there are!
With a single pull, five or six officials were found.
Doctor Censor sent people to ask questions one by one, only to find out that the bribe was actually Xing Xiyang!
In order to become the president of the chamber of commerce, he secretly bribed officials. The sum of those silver taels was just 50,000 taels. The money had already cleared all channels, and he was waiting for the final announcement that Xing Xiyang was the president.
Once verified, those officials were dismissed!
And Xing Xiyang was like being punched in the head by someone, and it was like being stripped of his skin and put it in the sun.
Based on witnesses and physical evidence, the censor ordered Xing Xiyang's home in Lingnan to be copied.
He also told the truth. "I and Jiao Shiniang... are actually good friends. She knows that I want to be the president, and she knows that I want to bribe those officials, but if I use my own money, when the incident happens, I will definitely be found on the head, so Shi Niang I used her money to give it to me, and I promised to pay her back at that time.
With that IOU. "To put it in layman's terms, Xing Xiyang is the chairman of the Lingnan Chamber of Commerce. If he suddenly spends 50,000 taels in order to become the chairman, it will naturally arouse suspicion, just like the reason why a company has to undergo a financial review before going public. In the same way, even if a dime is missed, it will have an impact, so he
I dare not use my own funds to pay bribes, so I have to use a sum of money in the name of borrowing money.
Really only Xing Xiyang's business head can think of it.
Ji Yunshu was worried that he was trying to cover up the traces of bribery, so he killed Jiao Shiniang with a desperate heart, so he asked the Censor to order him to be imprisoned in the Brunei Pavilion, and let him leave after Jiao Shiniang's case was found out. Beijing.
But-
When Xing Xiyang was locked up, he kept shouting, "I didn't kill anyone, the murderer wasn't me, it must be Liu Zhinan, he must have framed me."
Liu Zhinan
Could there be some connection between the two
Of course, this is something.
Ji Yunshu was sitting in the carriage, thinking about Jiao Shiniang's case all the time. Xing Xiyang refused to admit the murder. Who else would the murderer be
The more she thought about it, the more ecstatic she became!
Sudden-
"Hey~" came the sound of a horse.
At the same time, the carriage stopped suddenly, shaking suddenly.
Her left shoulder slammed into the wall of the car heavily, frowning slightly, and it hurt a little.
When the carriage stopped, the groom outside asked, "Master Ji, are you all right?"
"It's okay." She opened the curtain and looked out, asking, "What's wrong?"
"A child suddenly rushed out."
child
She craned her neck to look, and saw a little girl squatting in front of the horse picking up marbles scattered on the ground. She was in a hurry and seemed to be frightened, but she did not forget to pick up those marbles.
Ji Yunshu quickly got off the carriage, walked to the carriage, and squatted down to help her pick up marbles.
The little girl's small, dirty hand suddenly froze!
A pair of round eyes lifted up to look at the little brother in front of him, stunned for a moment, and then continued to pick it up.
The scattered marbles were picked up one by one and put into the girl's pocket.
"Thank you brother." The girl smiled at her.
Ji Yunshu looked down at her dirty face, took out the handkerchief and wiped her, and said, "Be careful next time, you know?"
"understood."
"Do you like marbles?"
"I don't like it, but these are what I won back."
"awesome."
After she finished speaking, she caught a glimpse of the girl's knee. It might be that when she rushed out just now to pick up marbles, she accidentally landed on her knee and was injured.
"Where does your family live? My brother will take you back."
The little girl blinked: "Can you?"
"Um."
The little girl was very happy and climbed into the carriage by herself, very cute.
But this heartless child, if left in modern times, may become the target of human traffickers.
On the way to take the girl back, Ji Yunshu treated her wound with the medicine prepared in the carriage and simply bandaged it.
When he arrived at the girl's residence, Ji Yunshu realized that it was behind the Longfu Inn.
From here, you can directly see the window of the room where Jiao Shiniang was killed.
The windows are closed now!
"Oh, Xin'er, how did you get so dirty?" came a woman's voice.
Ji Yunshu looked back.
I saw the woman come out of the house and grabbed the little girl, angry and disgusted: "Did you run and roll in the mud again?"
"Mother, my heart didn't go, I went to play marbles, and I won a lot, look." She opened her pocket and showed it off to her mother.
The woman was helpless, sighed, and suddenly noticed Ji Yunshu beside her, "Who are you?"
"I… "
Before he could finish speaking, the little girl said, "Mother, this brother brought me back."
The woman hurriedly thanked: "Thank you sir, my child is naughty, I really trouble you." She smiled and said, "It's a great effort."