Chapter 591: This Silver-burning Hobby
Chao Haisheng poked his head over and saw the side that Du Chen was looking at. In the middle was an illustration with a green face and fangs, resembling a demon. Thinking of what he had just said, Chao Haisheng's face darkened: "Is this a picture of me?!"
Du Chen coughed lightly and closed the book.
He naturally did not doubt the identity of the person brought by Xiao Mingye. It was just that the real person was too different from what he had imagined, and he found it difficult to accept for a while.
Xiao Mingye also saw the painting and stood aside laughing. Du Chen glared at him angrily, then looked at Chao Haisheng with a dark face and said comfortingly: "Don't blame me, senior. I think the person who wrote this book has never seen your heroic figure, and was afraid that if he painted it too similar, he would be used by others to deceive, so he painted it like this. Anyone who can understand it will understand."
What he said makes sense, but...
Chao Haisheng looked at him: "When I introduced myself just now, didn't you say that I didn't look like him?"
If he felt that he didn't look like this, how could he blurt out the word "disbelief"?
Du Chen: "..."
Xiao Mingye was almost laughing at Du Chen's embarrassed face. It was not
until Du Chen's eyes repeatedly urged him that he stopped laughing and helped him out.
Chao Haisheng didn't care about these people, he just wanted to tease him. Xiao Mingye came to the rescue, so he went down the slope and discussed what happened that day.
Several people integrated the information they knew so far. Chao Haisheng touched his chin, which had grown some stubble after not being cleaned for a few days, and said faintly: "This Nanlong priest is also a big shot. She released the feud just like that and contacted the enemy early. What does she want to do?" What
Ayiduo wanted to do by contacting Dai Qin was also a question in everyone's mind.
If she wanted to rebel, she hadn't taken any action for so many years, and now Nanlong was gone. If she wanted to leave a guarantee for herself, she should have gone directly to Mobei instead of following Jiang Zhiyu and others to Shengjing.
After discussing for a while, Chao Haisheng was left with a lot of doubts. He was a person who couldn't sit still. A quarter of an hour was the limit. Before leaving, he left a piece of calligraphy for Du Chen as he said.
Du Chen felt like he had found a treasure. He told Xiao Mingye to find a shop to frame the calligraphy and hang it back in his house. Xiao Mingye was about to reach out to touch it, but Du Chen changed his mind.
He embraced the calligraphy and touched it tenderly: "Forget it, I don't feel safe leaving it to you. I'd better wait until I'm well and go by myself. Now I have fulfilled one of my wishes. If I can fulfill another one, I will have no regrets in this life."
He touched it and said, looking at Xiao Mingye from time to time, with a hint of meaning.
Xiao Mingye sighed: "Which one is it?"
"Get Mr. Du Chi's painting!" Du Chen said excitedly.
"Don't you have one?" Xiao Mingye was puzzled. He already had at least three paintings hanging on his wall.
Those three paintings alone were enough to buy a house.
"How can they be the same? What I want most is his painting of red plum blossoms. Red plum blossoms in the snow and raincoats, don't let the cold invade the branches of cranes, how well it matches this calligraphy!"
Xiao Mingye: "..."
He couldn't tell whether it matched or not, but he knew that to get this red plum painting, at least they would have to spend all their fortunes.
This hobby of burning money!
...
When he arrived at the imperial prison, Xiao Mingye did not go straight to the place where Ayiduo was imprisoned. It was not that he didn't want to, but...
The Minister of Justice was not just a simple interrogation, and there were various cases piled up. Since he was the Minister of Justice, he had to take care of these.
With piles of files in front of him, Xiao Mingye read them resignedly.
A clerk stood beside him, wanting to say
something but stopping himself. "If you have something to say, just say it." Xiao Mingye flipped through the files without looking up.
The clerk hesitated, but still picked one out of the files and placed it in front of Xiao Mingye: "Your Highness, look at this pile, how should the prisoner be dealt with?"
Xiao Mingye reached out and took it, flipping through it.
It was about a little boy, who was very young but had a very vicious heart. After returning to the village, he took the children of the neighbors and went to places where wild wolves frequently appeared in the mountains, or beside turbulent rivers, lured them there, and then quietly returned home.
In just one week, four or five children died.
This time, the child who was seduced was smart and refused to go forward. The child could not control himself and did it himself. The child's father saw it
and reported it to the government.
Xiao Mingye frowned slightly. Logically, such a matter should be handled by the local county magistrate. No matter what, it should not be sent to the Ministry of Justice.
He questioned the clerk with his eyes.
The clerk smiled flatteringly: "Don't misunderstand, Your Highness. I am not trying to please you. This matter is a little difficult to handle. The county magistrate of this place has some friendship with Lord Xing, so it was sent to the Ministry of Justice. Lord Xing couldn't make up his mind, so he put it aside."
"Oh?" Xiao Mingye was a little surprised now: "This child is evil by nature. If this continues, he will definitely cause trouble to the people. Just execute him and his parents who didn't take good care of him. What's the difficulty?"
"The child's parents are already dead, but the identity of this child..." He approached Xiao Mingye: "It has something to do with the Jiang family."
"What Jiang family?"
"It's the Jiang family that broke off the relationship with Lord Yu Shi."
Xiao Mingye knew this: "Jiang Zhaorong? He is also the blood of Jiang Zhaorong?!"
"That's not the case," the little boy denied, "He is the bloodline of Jiang Jianjin, the brother who was sent to the Dali Temple by Jiang Zhaorong herself. Jiang Jianjin and Gao committed suicide in prison when they learned of Jiang Zhaorong's death. This child is their only remaining bloodline. Lord Xing is worried that Lord Yu Shi will remember their old relationship in the future, so he dare not make a decision easily."
Xiao Mingye: "..."
That's it, he thought it was a big deal.
"Send the message back and let them handle it according to the law, and give an explanation to the parents of those children who were killed for no reason. Don't worry about this person's identity. Your Lord Yu Shi probably has even forgotten who this child is."
This was analyzed by Xiao Mingye based on his understanding of Jiang Zhiyu. If he really cared about it, with Jiang Zhiyu's personality, he would definitely keep him under his nose. How could he send him to such a remote place.
After hearing his words, the clerk breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the file: "Yes, I'll do it right away."
After leaving the house, he first went to the Criminal Court and informed Xing Maozhi of the matter.
Xing Maozhi was lying on the bed. After listening to the clerk's words, he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Finally, this hot potato has been dealt with."
The clerk also agreed: "Your Excellency is still cautious. No matter whether Yu Shi Nian will remember the old friendship in the future, it will not be your fault anyway."
Xing Maozhi did not comment.
He also analyzed it like Xiao Mingye at the beginning, but the human heart is the most unpredictable. It is one way today and another way tomorrow. He does not want to take any risks.
"What has your highness done recently?"