Mr. Ma was very upset. Why didn't he hate his father?

But he forgot that the silk and satin he was wearing, and that he was able to do whatever he wanted in Pingyang Town, all because of Master Ma.

"Mom, don't worry, they won't find anything. My father must not be known as a corrupt person."

The Ma family must not fall like this.

He hasn't passed the exams yet, so he can't be held back.

…

Ye Yunzhou stayed in Mr. Ma's study. After searching in the study for a long time, he could not find any evidence of Mr. Ma's corruption.

"Sir, we have searched the entire study, and there is no evidence of corruption against Mr. Ma."

What Ye Yunzhou wants is evidence of Master Ma's corruption. He also wants strong proof that Master Ma colluded with the two kings.

"Keep searching, don't miss the tiles on the floor, check if there are any hidden grates."

The people in the house continued to search, and Ye Yunzhou was not idle either, carefully checking all the places in the house where things might be hidden.

Searching from noon to evening, still found nothing, Ye Yunzhou frowned.

"Sir, my lord, I found this from Master Jia's home."

Ye Yunzhou took it and read it over. It was a list of people receiving bribes. Most of the list included important officials in the court. Some of these important officials were involved in the Feng, Fan, and Wei families.

However... Feng, Fan, and Wei have been convicted, and the remaining fish that have slipped through the net can almost be caught with this roster.

"By the way, this is from Pingyang Town."

The attendant took out another letter from his sleeve.

The handwriting on the letter is the unique handwriting of Baozhu.

After opening the letter and reading it, Ye Yunzhou looked unhappy: "These people are simply crazy. For the sake of a treasure that they don't know is real or fake, they will kill an entire village at the slightest disagreement."

Although he has no compassion for others, he cannot harm innocent people for his own selfish desires.

"Have you found the flower girl named Peony?"

Ye Yunzhou asked.

The attendant shook his head: "I haven't found it yet, but... I already have some clues. I believe we will know it within an hour."

Less than half an hour after leaving Ma's house, Ye Yunzhou received a report from someone from the Yamen, saying that a female body had been recovered from the river, which was probably the missing Peony.

Ye Yunzhou immediately asked someone to take the bustard with him and they went to the river to identify the body.

riverside.

When the madam saw the soaked white peony, she screamed, fell to the ground, pointed at the female corpse on the ground and cried loudly.

"Yes, she is Peony."

Ye Yunzhou was extremely irritable.

So Peony is dead, and the clue is broken again.

"Is it absolutely true?"

"Sir, I don't dare to lie. She did say peony. If you don't believe it, you can ask other people."

The old bustard insisted that this person was Mudan.

Soon the yamen officials brought other girls from Hualou to identify her, and all of them believed that the female body was that of Peony.

It was already dark at this time, and Ye Yunzhou could not continue the interrogation and asked the Hualou people to go back. He decided to go with Wu Zuo to the place where the body was parked for an autopsy.

…

In the Xuanhe Hall, Baozhu met Jiang Yingxiong and his son alone.

When Jiang Yingxiong heard that Baozhu was back, he happily asked Yu to prepare a family dinner. Mingzhu knew that Baozhu had something to report to Jiang Yingxiong, so he went to Fengluan Palace to accompany Jiang Qiuniang first.

Baozhu explained the situation in Luoxia Village in detail before saying: "Father, from the investigation of my son, it seems that the two kings believed in the treasures of the previous dynasty, so they sent people to the capital."

"Baozhu, do you think the previous treasure is fake?"

Jiang Yingxiong also wanted the treasures of the previous dynasty in his heart. After all, those wealth were enough to fill his Daxia treasury. With money, everything could be done easily.

"If it's true, why didn't Emperor Hui find the treasure? And King Kang in front of him?"

Bao Zhu bit her finger and fell into deep thought: "Dad, you also want this treasure, right?"

Jiang Yingxiong touched his rough face with some embarrassment: "Baozhu, dad is too poor and needs money so much."

He sighed and said bitterly: "Before I was an emperor, I envied him that he kept his word and had no worries about food and drink."

"Only after I became emperor did I realize that although I ate delicacies from the mountains and seas and wore silks and satins, my father and I never had a good night's sleep."

“Whenever I open my eyes every day, the Ministry of Revenue is shouting that there is no money, the Ministry of War is shouting that the Ministry of Revenue is giving money, the Ministry of Industry is shouting that there is no money to build dams, and the people will suffer if it rains next year, and the Ministry of Rites... forget it, let’s not talk about it.

.”

Wiping away a handful of fake tears, he said, "Hey, I'll be in tears if I talk too much."

Baozhu and Jiang Dongsheng couldn't help but twitch their lips.

"Dad, can you be more fake?" Bao Zhu blinked at him with big eyes.

Do you think I will believe you?

"Are you so sure that this treasure from the previous dynasty is real? Didn't the founding emperor of Daliang deliberately release the news to attract some greedy people to die?"

"This... orb, are you so sure it's not real?"

Jiang Yingxiong asked guiltily.

He kept rubbing his fingers: "If you want to blame it, blame your father for being too poor. The treasury is empty, the previous government is corrupt, winter is about to come, and after winter comes spring. It rains in spring in the south. Do you need money to build dams? Don't you still need money?

Do you need money to fight?"

"Hey, after all, I'm sorry for you as a father. I didn't take good care of you when you were young. Now that Mingzhu is getting married, even the princess mansion doesn't dare to make extensive repairs. The wedding date has been set for the beginning of the spring. Your father

I... feel guilty."

This is getting more and more outrageous.

Jiang Dongsheng on the side covered his face, he did not dare to look at Jiang Yingxiong.

I have seen my son and daughter cry out to me about poverty, but I have never seen me cry out to my son and daughter about poverty.

Dad is becoming more and more comfortable as an emperor.

"Baozhu, no matter whether this treasure map is true or false, it cannot fall into the hands of the two kings. Do you understand?"

Jiang Yingxiong said sincerely.

Baozhu's almond-shaped eyes stared at him suspiciously, pouting: "I understand, what dad means is that even if this thing is fake, you can't give others an advantage, right?"

"Yes, yes, Baozhu still understands me." Jiang Yingxiong nodded with a smile.

He smiled and pushed the paper that the courtier recently sent to her: "Since the treasure is here, you can review it together with my father."

Bao Zhu glanced at the pile of folders on the desk like a hill, and Jiang Dongsheng scratching his head with a pen. Bao Zhu finally realized the dangers of the human world.

No wonder the two of them were so happy to see her back in the palace, and quickly said they would capture her and make her a young man.

"No, no, I'm just a girl. How can I handle government affairs? If I want to let those ministers know about it, I have to read it again."

Baozhu's little head shook like a rattle: "It's up to my brother and father to shoulder such a hard task by themselves. I'm young and can't stand the torment of the courtiers."

"No, dad believes you can do it."
Chapter completed!