.Chapter 817: Scare Dad (Part 1)

When Meng Chong shouted, Hai Rui and the other two finally breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly covered it up.

"Bring him back!" Hai Rui ordered.

The Jinyiwei was very obedient and only brought Meng Chong back.

"What are you going to call?" Hai Rui asked in a deep voice at Meng Chong who was kneeling there.

"You can do anything." Meng Chong wanted to wipe his head full of sweat, but the "tiger and wolf condom" was too shady and could not touch his face with both hands. So he sat on his legs and said, "I'm afraid you won't dare to listen."

"If you dare to say it, I dare to remember it." Yang Yushu said coldly: "But you are not allowed to involve the palace or the emperor, otherwise you will be forked out immediately."

He nodded and said, "You ask, I will tell the truth." He murmured in his heart: "If you don't ask, I will say that our family doesn't want to die inexplicably because of this secret in our stomach."

"Is it true, we know?" Hai Rui's eyes crossed him and looked at the wall that was about to fall from the corner of the house and said, "I'll ask you, I'll torture Hu Zongxian privately, what are you trying to do?"

"I just took it from someone." Meng Chong said in a depressed state: "I thought it was a small matter, but who would have thought it would fall into such a field..." After a pause, he began to shirk responsibility and said: "But I just know about this matter. The matter of the East Factory is not my control. Teng Xiang is all about it." He was indeed depressed enough. For the lawless people in the East Factory, killing and robbing people are common activities, let alone just loosening the bones for a criminal.

"Who is entrusted?" Hai Rui asked.

"..." Meng Chong hesitated and said, "Are you sure you want to know?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Yang Yushu shouted.

"Okay, let me tell you," Meng Chong said, "It's Teng Xiang's fellow villager, Li Chunfang, the second assistant of the day!" After saying this, he looked forward to the wonderful expressions on the faces of the two officials, but only saw the calmness of the two of them, he couldn't help but say a little casually: "So I knew it a long time ago."

"..." After a moment of silence, Hai Rui said to Yang Yushu: "Don't rush to remember, so as not to be taken advantage of by him."

"This kind of meaningless confession," Yang Yushu nodded and said, "It can be ignored."

"Don't interfere..." Meng Chong was anxious and said repeatedly: "How did I know you knew it before, and I thought you didn't know it!"

"Speak something fresh." Hai Rui looked at him again: "You said that the torture Hu Zongxian was instructed by Li Chunfang, what evidence is there?"

Meng Chong shook his head and said, "There is no evidence. If you want evidence, you can go and ask Eunuch Teng."

"Don't remember." Hai Rui said to Yang Yushu again.

Meng Chong was about to be driven crazy and whined: "I don't know either. I don't know. Isn't this difficult!"

"No one wants to make things difficult for you," Hai Rui snorted, "You said you wanted to call me, but now you can't recruit valuable things. Could it be that you can't fool us?"

Meng Chong gritted his teeth and thought about it again, and had to play the last card and said, "Although I don't know how they planned it, I know some things that can prove their previous relationship."

Rui looked at Yang Yushu quietly, and the latter raised the pen with a slightly excited expression.

"That guy Teng Xiang is very strict, and I don't know much." Meng Chong first poured cold water and then broke the news: "But after all, I can't hide some things from me when I get along with you day and night."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Hai Rui couldn't help but take pictures.

"This spring, Gaoge was still there. He didn't know what crazy he had done, but he led people to uproot the transactions we started. All our goods were sealed off and they lost all their money." When he thought of the unbearable days, Meng Chong still said in great pain: "Is it easy to make money when we make money? Isn't it just a little bit of saving or a little bit of earning?"

"Tell the point!" Hai Rui said with blue veins on his forehead.

"Okay... Later, Mr. Gao finally left, and we planned to start the transaction again." Meng Chong said quickly: "But just lost all the money and owed a lot of money in the treasury. Although we are a big deal, we have to pay it back. Otherwise, if we follow the example, we must empty the treasury."

Hai Rui was helpless and could only say to Yang Yushu: "Pick up the key points."

"If you want to pay back the money, you have to open the imperial store again. Only after you make money can you repay it. But opening a store requires a lot of money, and the treasury cannot borrow it." Meng Chong said, "Later, it was the way I thought about it. Isn't it now the people who are engaged in loans? It is said that those who do business do not need their own money, but rely on loans from Rishenglong. After earning money, they will be repaid. So they asked the housekeeper to come forward and borrowed money from Rishenglong three times before and after Rishenglong, one hundred thousand at a time and eighty thousand at two times, a total of 280,000 taels..."

Yang Yushu wrote down as he said, and his face turned dark after writing. Fortunately, there was a way to remedy... He put a hat on the last "eight" and changed it to the word "six".

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"Who knew that when people were unlucky, they would get stuffed their teeth when they drank cold water. I didn't expect that the seniors would open the royal shop business, and there would be many disasters when they came to us." Meng Chong said depressedly: "In August, the inner court and the censors had a big fight. We beat their people, and they sealed our shop again, and all the goods were confiscated. This time..." Speaking of the sadness, Eunuch Meng said in tears: "To be honest, we both made the creditor force us to hang ourselves."

"Nonsense," Yang Yushu said disbelief: "You two eunuchs, can you still be afraid of businessmen?"

"Oh, that's the sun rises." Meng Chong said with a look of a real rustic expression: "The Shanxi Gang's business, let alone us, even the emperor can't rely on the account..."

"Later." Lord Yang suddenly realized that he was taken away by him, so he quickly coughed and returned to the topic.

"Just when he was desperate, it was Mr. Li who helped us pay back the Risheng Long-term debt." Meng Chong said this time: "You guys think, how can we not repay such a big relationship? So when Li Chunfang said that when we needed help, we agreed without thinking."

This is a very valuable clue. Hai Rui silently waited for Yang Yushu to finish recording, and then continued: "If you want evidence, what's the use of not having evidence?"

"This is really not..." Meng Chong thought for a long time, then lowered his head helplessly and said.

"After doing so many things, nothing is left?" Hai Rui didn't believe it.

"It's really!" Meng Chong thought harder, and suddenly raised his head and said, "Teng Xiang never came forward to this kind of thing, so he handed me the silver bills of Ge Lao and asked me to go to Rishenglong to pay back the money. I have never seen so many silver bills in my life, a box full of one, five hundred taels per bill, which can make people greedy..."

"You just hid a few pictures?" Yang Yushu asked.

"How is that possible?" Meng Chong looked at him like an idiot and said, "I didn't give me one tael of silver, why did you pluck my hair?" He said smugly: "But I exchanged some of my scattered and worn silver notes for me, and I hadn't spent it at home yet."

"How many pictures? Where are you hiding?" Hai Rui glanced at Lu Lun, and the latter nodded invisibly.

Meng Chong was about to say less, but when he heard him ask about the location, he had to tell the truth: "Ninety-six..."

"Forty-eight thousand taels." Yang Yushu prompted first because he was afraid that he would make a mistake again.

"I don't know my own money?" But the kindness was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs. Meng Chong said with a bitter face: "There is a toilet in my study outside my house that I have never used before. There is a mezzanine on the toilet, and all the money is hidden inside."

Lu Lun nodded to his subordinates, who walked out quietly.

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Although Meng Chong spoke in a long and whispering manner, he finally provided useful clues. Hai Rui and Yang Yushu looked at each other and saw the same meaning from each other: 'Forty-eight thousand taels are enough to convict Li Chunfang!' Li Chunfang was a first-rank official who used the money and rice in his salary to earn 240 taels of silver a year. He had to spend a penny without eating or drinking or spending two hundred years to save this huge sum of money. It was obvious that the money was not from the right way!

Seeing that he could never ask anything valuable again, Hai Rui ordered someone to ban Meng Chong and ban him, and then he brought Teng Xiang, who had been outside the door for a long time, in.

The belt on Teng Xiang's mouth was still firm. As soon as the Jinyiwei untied him, he moved his chin and sneered at the person in the hall: "What a trick! First find someone to pretend to be Liu Laosan's relative, then lock us up next door, and listen to you play a double act. Finally, he deliberately pushed me out first and attacked the idiot Meng Chuzi! He is really a must-see!"

"What else do you have to say?" Now that things have come to nothing, he said nothing. Yang Yushu said lightly: "If you don't have it, you will really give up."

"You win, I'm not wronged." Teng Xiang smiled bitterly and said, "But I will never betray Mr. Li, but I can tell you that Mr. Li is from Tsinghua University and is honest in his official position, so he will never be able to get these money."

"Who gave it to him?" Hai Rui asked in a deep voice.

Teng Xiang curled his lips and said, "Who else can be there except the cabinet?"

"Who is in the cabinet?!" Hai Rui raised his tone.

"I don't know the specifics," Teng Xiangcai stopped taking this trick and sneered: "You won't check it yourself?"

"We will check it." Hai Rui looked at him with a lightning look and said, "Eunuch Teng, I will summarize your confession just now, you have heard it clearly. You said that Hu Zongxian was instructed by someone, and combined with Meng Chong's confession, the reason you did this was because you accepted the huge bribes from that person. Meng Chong said that the man was Li Chunfang, but you said that he was a poor official and didn't have that much money at all. You said that the money was actually paid by another person in the cabinet. Ask you who the other person is, you said you didn't know. Actually, you know!" Hai Rui emphasized and said, "Li Chunfang is the second assistant of the cabinet. If you can let him come forward to do such a thing, except the emperor, there is only Mr. Xu in this world. The emperor is definitely impossible, so the person you mentioned in the cabinet is Xu Jie, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, right?" After saying that, he said to Yang Yushu, "Have you written down all my words?" Yang Yushu nodded, saying that there is no problem.

"Slowly... don't remember, don't remember." Teng Xiang widened his eyes and said, "I...I didn't say that..."

At this time, a Jinyiwei hurried in and said softly in Lu Lun's ear. Lu Lun then made a gesture of touching Hai Rui's lips and beards.

Hai Rui stood up and slapped the canopy and said, "I'll ask you the last time, who is that person!"

Teng Xiang saw everything, his face changed and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"I want to know? Why don't you tell you that Feng Bao arrived with the imperial edict." Hai Rui seemed to hear the footsteps outside, so he could only give a last try: "I want us to stop the interrogation and take you back to the palace immediately."

Teng Xiang's face stagnated and he almost vomited blood. If he had heard this news half an hour ago, he would have been happy; but now... he and Meng Chong were deceived by Hai Rui, and he had already said what should be said or not. Then this imperial edict is the destiny of the King of Hell.

"Feng Bao is here, the interrogation is about to end." Hai Rui thought he was not messy enough and made trouble for him: "But you still have to make a note!"

"Print!" With Lu Lun's order, the Jinyiwei brought the confession to Teng Xiang.

Under these waves of pressure, Teng Xiang finally couldn't stand it and kept saying: "I have a hidden message!"

"Everything goes down first." Hai Rui waved his hand and persuaded him to retreat. Only Teng Xianghe and three interrogators were left in the interrogation room.

Lu Lun suddenly smiled and said, "You ask quickly, I'll stop Feng Bao." After witnessing this thrilling political struggle for several days, the former young man has matured quickly.

Hai Rui and Yang Yushu looked at each other and nodded, "I'm working hard."

Lu Lun nodded and walked out to close the door.

There was really a noise outside the interrogation room, but the three people inside ignored it.

Hai Rui is asking questions calmly and clearly, Teng Xiang is answering in an orderly manner, and Yang Yushu is recording quickly...

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I don’t know what the hell I ate yesterday, but Feng Bao pulled his stomach all night and couldn’t get up in the morning. He had to take a leave and thought about resting for the whole morning before going to Dali Temple for trial... Although he lacked confidence in Meng Chong, he knew that Teng Xiang was a difficult bone to crack, and with the limited time in the morning, he still had some questions about whether the trial could be opened, so he was not too worried.

So he took the medicine with peace of mind and lay down in the house. At noon, he really recovered some strength. Unexpectedly, before he could stand firm, he heard the eunuch come to report the letter and said that the emperor had an oral order for him to convey it.

At first he was still lamenting that he was working hard. It was not until he received the order that Feng Bao realized that this matter was extraordinary and could not be delayed for a moment. However, his legs were really not effective, so he had to let someone leave the Forbidden City on his back and then he got into a sedan chair, saying in a weak voice: "Go to Dali Temple quickly..."

The big yamen were all close to the palace, and arrived in a moment. Feng Bao got off the sedan chair and saw the Jinyiwei guards guarding each layer. He went straight forward and said sharply: "There is an imperial edict, please dodge it!" The big red python cloak on his body and the pure gold whisk in his hand all showed his identity as an angel. Sure enough, he successfully entered the Dali Temple and arrived at the lobby without any obstacles, but saw no one.

Feng Bao was dizzy and then he remembered to grab a clerk and asked, "Where is your lord?"

"It's in the room review."

"Let's lead the way!"

After a small episode, he finally arrived at the cross-yard where the interrogation room was located. As soon as he was about to enter, he saw a tall and big young man greeting him and said with concern: "Eunuch Feng, what's wrong with you? His little face is pale and he is sweating so much?"

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Didn't brag? It's said that good habits will take twenty-one consecutive days to develop. This is the second day. In order to keep me going, everyone should use it vigorously!
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