The thing he dealt with most in his life was money, and he noticed something was wrong after just one glance.
"Sir, I only have three hundred taels of silver, and the remaining two hundred taels have not been found yet." The officials reported back.
Lin Fangyuan slapped the gavel hard.
"Wu Shan, hurry up and get the money. Where are you hiding the two hundred taels of silver?" he asked sharply.
Wu Shan looked at the pile of silver and kept blinking.
"It's unjust, sir, I'm unjust!" He was shouted at by Lin Fangyuan, and suddenly came back to his senses, shouting out that he was unjust again.
"You're still shouting that you're wronged!"
Lin Fangyuan was furious and shouted: "Now that both the stolen goods and the evidence are conclusive, you still want to deny it!"
"My lord, my lord, Xiaomin is really unjust. This money is not stolen money at all!"
Wu Shan's eyes flashed brightly, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and shouted loudly: "This silver is not something that flew overnight, this, this, this... this belongs to Xiaomin's family."
"Your family's money? Humph, that's nonsense!"
Lin Fangyuan picked up a silver ingot and turned it over. He saw two words cast under the small silver ingot: Dongbai.
He threw the silver ingot in front of Wu Shan and sneered: "This is obviously official silver cast by Dongbai Mansion. Do you dare to say it is your family's silver? Your family's silver will be cast with these two characters? This is not official silver." What is it! Are you blind?"
Hearing this, Wu Shan's face suddenly turned pale.
He picked up the small ingot with trembling hands and looked at it carefully. When he saw those two words, his whole body was shaken.
"Official silver? Are these really official silver?"
"The facts are all there, what else do you have to say! Hand over the whereabouts of the remaining two hundred taels of silver!" Lin Fangyuan shouted heavily.
"It's unfair, it's unfair! It's unfair, the villain!"
Wu Shan was stunned for a while, and then shouted his injustice again.
"Your Excellency, this money was not stolen by the villain, and it was not the villain who colluded with the gangsters, but Liu Shi! The villain was wronged, and the one who really harbored the stolen goods was him, the villain's son-in-law, Liu Shi!"
Everyone was stunned.
Liu Shi? How could he become Liu Shi
The people all looked at Wu Shan with contempt and booed everywhere.
"Wu, please stop spitting blood!"
"You think you can clean yourself by pouring dirty water on Liu Shi? Bah!"
"A guy with a human face and a beast heart, he broke the law and wants to frame him!"
The common people scolded Wu Shan until he was bloody.
Even Lin Fangyuan wished that someone would give Wu Shan another big mouth. He dared to talk nonsense in front of the imperial envoy. He really didn't take himself as the county magistrate seriously.
"Shut up! If you keep talking nonsense, I will have all your teeth pulled out!" He yelled viciously.
Liu Shi looked even more stunned. He looked at Wu Shan and couldn't say a word.
Wu Shan, however, became excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He raised his head and pointed at Liu Shi.
"Sir, the villain is not talking nonsense. What the villain said is all true. These small silver ingots are not from the villain's family, they belong to Liu Shi! These are all Liu Shi's!"
Hearing this, the people immediately burst into an uproar.
"What? Is it Liu Shi's?" Lin Fangyuan stared at Wu Shan with a look of disbelief on his face, "That's nonsense. The money was obviously found from your home, how could it be Liu Shi's!"