After Zhou Yong died, those who fed him the poison could no longer calm down. They killed the members of the family with their own hands, in front of so many people, that's fine, no matter whether the members of the family are alive or not, they are not. Opportunity to turn back again.
Mo Linyuan finally showed a somewhat relaxed smile, he glanced at Ye Mu, and Ye Mu returned him a smile, but tonight is not over yet, this dinner is really long.
After a while, the last group of people came back. They should have come back long ago, but they were inexplicably ambushed. Originally, they thought they had a large number of people and had nothing to be afraid of, but the group of people was obviously lurking in the hunting grounds. For a long time, they were all dressed in ordinary people's clothes, and they were very familiar with Lin Zi, and they entangled them, so they came out so late.
Originally, Taiwei Zhou had a bad premonition and wanted to send someone to break out of the siege first, but the other party also guarded against his move, and none of the people he sent out to report the message did not come back.
Later, there was a high-pitched whistle in the woods, and all those blocking the road disappeared. They rushed out and found that more than a hundred officials were waiting for them. Fragrance and wine, blood on the ground but no corpses.
Not long after the Zhou family was driven out, the Wen family also came out of the woods. As soon as Wen Ze came out, the girl who was rescued by Mo Linyuan went to him, crying and telling Wen Ze what happened before, and Wen Ze saw Xiang Mo Linyuan's sight suddenly became very complicated.
"What's going on?" The family head Zhou took a dozen people to the table. They were more embarrassed than those who came back before, and their smiles were even crueler. "It's a dinner party, why is there no atmosphere at all?"
Mo Linyuan looked at him and smiled, "The blood on Patriarch Zhou's body is so dazzling, could it be that he is injured?"
The slightly bloated Patriarch Zhou shuddered and said with a smile, "Isn't this a night hunt? It's inevitable that I would run into a few beasts without long eyes and splattered a little blood, so it's not in the way."
The people in the seats shuddered.
It's not in the way, because the Wen family and the Zhou family came back, but none of the Zhong family came back.
Originally, seeing that the family was still alive, the forty or so people who surrendered before were still a little unwilling, but now, seeing the fighting within the family, they suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with joining the emperor.
Mo Linyuan asked again, "Then why didn't you see the Zhong family master? The two of you have always had a good relationship. Don't you walk together?"
Speaking of this, Zhou Gu's eyes were a little excited!
He shook his head, "How can a night hunt be a good company? After all, what should I do if I accidentally hurt them? I didn't see them, maybe they were delayed by something!"
What is delayed, it is clearly dead! All of you here think of the three inseparable families that were inseparable before, and when you look at your eyes again, you suddenly feel a little shudder. Sure enough, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.
Seeing that everyone stopped talking, Taiwei Zhou sneered, "After so long, everyone is hungry, Your Majesty, can we have a seat?"
Mo Linyuan said, "Not in a hurry."
He suddenly asked someone to take out a small stack of folds, and with a wave of his hand, those folds fell like snowflakes.
"Before the banquet, I have one more thing to deal with."
He smiled slightly and stared at Zhou Gu, "Patriarch Zhou, someone accused you of embezzling military pay, buying and selling official positions, and cheating in imperial examinations and other twenty-one capital crimes! Do you know the crime?!"
Zhou Gu was taken aback for a moment, then he stepped out of the queue and knelt down in fear, "Your Majesty is clear, the old minister is loyal to His Majesty, how could you do such a thing?"
He was suffocating in his heart and looked scared. In fact, he was not worried about what Mo Linyuan would do to him at all, he had no evidence.
"Don't admit it? That's right, you can't do such a thing alone, so let's settle the account in the same way."
"Three years ago, during the severe drought in Liangzhou, you embezzled half of the disaster relief funds that I sowed! Can you plead guilty to this matter?"
Zhou Gu scratched his neck and said, "There is absolutely no such thing!"
"Very good!" As soon as Mo Linyuan clapped his hands, he called a few people out, "Zhao Zhuang, Wang Ji, Mu Guangcai, you all come out."
These three people were three of the forty people who had sworn allegiance to the emperor before.
They were startled, and hurriedly knelt down in front of the emperor, when they heard Mo Linyuan ask quietly, "Zhao Zhuang, Wang Ji, when I sent you to disaster relief, honestly, how much money did you take?"
At the beginning, Mo Linyuan broadcasted one million taels, which everyone knew.
Zhao Zhuang and Wang Ji looked at each other, and each saw the cold sweat on the other's head, and Zhou Gu was there, he was not afraid that these people would dare to betray him.
Who knows in the next second, Zhao Zhuang kowtowed, "Go back to Your Majesty! Only, only 400,000 taels!"
Everyone gasped, the family was too cruel this week, right? ! Relying on the fact that he had a son in the household, he cut such a large piece of meat with one knife, exploited it layer by layer, and finally sent it to the refugees, what else could be left
"You are talking nonsense!" Zhou Gu didn't expect this person to betray himself! He stood up abruptly, pointed at Zhao Zhuang and shouted angrily, "You spit blood!"
No matter how he roared, Mo Linyuan asked the next one, "Mu Guangcai, you said that when I sent you to supervise the disaster relief situation, how did you reply to me?"
In fact, everyone present knew what Mu Guangwen said at the beginning. Mu Guangwen said that the victims thanked the emperor for his mighty grace and brought back a book of ten thousand blood to express their gratitude.
Mu Guangcai swayed all over, here we come! What he did in the past is now retribution!
He didn't dare to tell the truth, but at this time, it was difficult for him to ride a tiger!
The emperor's current purpose is obviously to bring down the Zhou family. Although he has done bad things, at this time, if he helps the emperor, he may be able to redeem his merits and save him from death.
If he doesn't cooperate, if the emperor has another move, he will inevitably face the end of life rather than death!
At the juncture of life and death, Mu Guangwen's mind has never been clearer!
From the night hunt, to Zhou Yong, and now, everything is going according to the emperor's wishes. This also shows that Zhou Gu is afraid of death tonight! It was clear where he should stand.
So he kowtowed violently and shouted loudly!
"Your Majesty, this minister should be damned! There was a disaster in Liangzhou, because the imperial court's relief supplies were too scarce, and many people starved to death. When the minister went, there was a plague there, only because the local government was suppressing it, they didn't have it. rebel!"
His words shocked everyone, but Mu Guangcai actually admitted it? Isn't he afraid of death? !
Zhou Gu took a few steps back, but he did not expect that Mu Guangcai would actually admit that it was a capital crime to lie about the disaster and deceive the emperor!