"Pa..." A crisp and loud slap sounded in the study. Lin Zhe's face immediately swelled up and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
But at this time, this famous official in the imperial capital city said nothing, and did not even dare to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. Instead, he lowered his head with a look of fear on his face.
"Do you know where you went wrong this time?" Lin Qingtian, who had slapped Lin Zhe, stood in front of Lin Zhe with his hands behind his back and asked calmly.
Lin Qingtian was not a big man, and there was hardly a wrinkle on his pampered face. He did not look angry at this moment, but it was this kind of Lin Qingtian that made Lin Zhe feel panic. Looking at Lin Qingtian's calm eyes, Lin Zhe felt that the man standing in front of him was a mountain, and he himself was so humble and insignificant. Every movement of this mountain would make him feel trembling.
“Pa pa pa pa…” Lin Zhe slapped himself four times before he spoke. “My uncle always said that we should plan things before we act. This time… I was really impulsive… I thought that as long as I informed the Ministry of Justice, I could get rid of Yan Liqiang… I wanted to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys. I didn’t understand Yan Liqiang’s situation clearly. I thought he was just an insignificant little person, and ended up like this…”
"Tell me what you planned to do before? I want to hear..."
“I think, first… first take Yan Liqiang to the prison of the Ministry of Justice… Let’s not talk about whether he is guilty or not… just find an opportunity to kill him in the prison… then pin the blame on Xu Lang and the others, saying that he committed suicide in the prison… Doctor Chen is very familiar with this matter, as long as he brings Yan Liqiang here, he will have no choice… He is just a small lieutenant, and once Sun Bingchen leaves, he will have no backing in the Imperial Capital, and killing him is as easy as killing an ant…” Lin Zhe swallowed his saliva and said…
"The Lingshan Sect's number one mechanical master testified for Yan Liqiang. Yan Liqiang spent the entire night in the Heavenly World chatting with him in the Imperial Capital. Yan Liqiang returned to the Deer Garden at night. There are also many witnesses. If you say that Yan Liqiang did that, you are cursing the entire Imperial Capital City guards for being good-for-nothings. How can you allow people to come and go as they please after the night curfew?"
"I... I didn't mean that..."
"Yan Liqiang is only a Dragon-Tiger Warrior. Among the five people including Xu Lang who were killed, there were two great martial artists, two martial artists, and the one with the lowest cultivation level were all Dragon-Tiger Warriors. These people were all on my side, and a random teenager next to Sun Bingchen, a Dragon-Tiger Warrior, killed so many masters with ease. Do you know how people outside would laugh at us if they knew about this? What would they say?"
Under Lin Qingtian's gaze, Lin Zhe's face turned pale.
"Not only did you scold Xu Lang and his gang for being good-for-nothings, you also scolded me and the officials who followed me, such as Minister Qu. Those who can employ these good-for-nothings are either good-for-nothings or have no vision. Is that what you mean?"
Lin Zhe's whole body was shaking.
"The worst thing you can do is that even if you want to set up a murder, you should do it seriously. Even if a lion fights a rabbit, you should use all your strength and not make any mistakes. If you have such a big handle on the Criminal Department, you won't be caught. Don't you even have time to arrange someone to wait at the Criminal Department to be the plaintiff and witness?"
"I... I have already arranged it, but the person I arranged thought that he just had to go through the motions at the Interrogation Department, show up and say hello, so he left before Yan Liqiang and the others came back. The people at the Ministry of Justice knew that the person was arranged by me, so they didn't stop him when he left, thinking that Doctor Chen would be able to put him in jail as soon as he arrived... so... so..."
"So now even the Minister of Justice was called by the Emperor to be reprimanded for a full half hour. He was scolded bloody and humiliated, fined a year's salary, and had to write a self-examination. Doctor Chen was dismissed from office in the afternoon and is awaiting trial. The entire Ministry of Justice is in an uproar. The Emperor is now making a big fuss about this matter and wants to rectify the Ministry of Justice. He has asked the Dali Temple, the Supervisory Office, and the Ministry of Justice to jointly try Yan Liqiang's case. In just half a day, this matter has spread throughout the Imperial Capital, causing a sensation in the city. Everyone is laughing at me, Lin Qingtian, and pointing fingers behind my back. Is this the result you want?"
Lin Zhe's mouth was dry, his palms were sweating, and he couldn't say anything, "I... I..."
Lin Qingtian suddenly sighed, returned to his desk, and waved his hand gently, "It seems that you have lived too comfortably in Imperial City in the past few years, and have forgotten where Imperial City is and how to do things. Go back to Haizhou tomorrow!"
"Yes... Uncle..." Lin Zhe staggered out of Lin Qingtian's study, feeling distraught. Even he himself had not expected that such a small matter, after fermenting, would become what it is now in just half a day. Today, it became the biggest Waterloo of his life almost without any warning.
Haizhou is the Lin family's old nest. Returning to Haizhou is like going home. Because Lin Qingtian has no children, his status in the Lin family is completely different when he is with Lin Qingtian and in Haizhou. Only the Lin family members understand the subtleties. When Lin Zhe thought of the looks of his cousins and the looks of the elders of the Lin family after he returned to Haizhou, his heart couldn't help but twitch. With red eyes, gritted teeth, and a distorted face, he roared three words from his throat and teeth like a beast that wanted to eat someone, "Yan Liqiang..."
In Lin Zhe's logic, I wanted to kill you, but you dared to resist, not following the script I gave you, and caused so much trouble for yourself. This is your biggest sin, and you deserve to die...
Just when Lin Zhe was leaving Lin Qingtian's study, a steward in the Prime Minister's Mansion passed by Lin Zhe in the corridor, nodded slightly at Lin Zhe, and then went straight to Lin Qingtian's study and knocked on the door. After hearing the person in the study asking him to come in, the steward walked into the study, took out a memorial from his sleeve and placed it in front of Lin Qingtian.
Lin Qingtian didn't say anything, just waved his hand, and the manager bowed and left.
Then, Lin Qingtian's eyes fell on the memorial, he picked it up, opened it, and read it carefully -
Yan Liqiang, male, 15 years old, from Liuhe Town, Qinghe County, Pingxi County, Ganzhou. His father, Yan Dechang, was a blacksmith in Liuhe Town, Qinghe County, Pingxi County, Ganzhou. In XX year of Yuanping…
…
The words on the memorial were all in tiny regular script, neat and dense, and it was all Yan Liqiang's personal information, detailed and rigorous. He ranked first in the county exam, taught the method of saving drowning people, and was a Yan coal, Yan furnace, and Yan Dao. The merits he made by Yan Coal, Yan Lu, and Yan Dao to Sun Bingchen, the first confrontation with Xu Lang and others in the classroom, and even the Han Empire Times that Yan Liqiang and Fang Beidou started were all recorded on it.
After reading this, Lin Qingtian raised his eyes from the memorial, his eyes flashed, and he tapped the table lightly with one hand, "Yan Liqiang, interesting, interesting, no wonder Sun Bingchen took a fancy to him..."
…
At the same time, the eunuchs who served the Emperor in the palace found that His Majesty was in a good mood today and had a big appetite. He ate about one-third more of the imperial meal than usual...
It was just that the joy in the Emperor's heart was shared by almost no one in the entire Han Empire, except for Sun Bingchen who had already left the Imperial Capital...
Lucky general, lucky general, he is indeed my lucky general, hahahaha…
(End of this chapter)