If this person was really sent by Li Lezhi, the Minister of Personnel did not dare to think about his own fate at all, as it was a serious crime punishable by the execution of nine generations of his clan.
Think of a way, think of a way...
The Minister of Personnel thought of one person who could save him now, and that was only the Marquis of Qu'an.
The next day.
It was just daybreak, and the Minister of Personnel had not even had time to send his visiting card when he hurriedly arrived at the Qu'an Marquis's Mansion in a carriage.
As it was still early, the gate of the mansion was not open. The Minister of Personnel got off the carriage and walked quickly forward. He did not even wait for the servant to knock on the door for him. He walked to the gate in two or three steps and knocked on the iron ring.
The sound of "bang bang bang" was heard. No matter how anxious the Minister of Personnel was, he could only wait in front of the door with his head down after knocking on the door. His heart was extremely anxious, as if it was on fire, and he could not help but pace back and forth in front of the door of the Marquis' Mansion.
If it were in the past, he would have been calm and not as anxious as he is now, but now, the situation is urgent. If he is a few steps later, Li Le will find out about their affairs and the evidence he lost will be presented to His Majesty. By then, it will be too late for him to save it.
Hearing the noise coming from inside, the Minister of Personnel stopped to straighten his clothes and tried to appear as calm as possible.
After a while, the doorman opened the door, rubbed his eyes, stuck his head out, and said, "Who is it? Knocking at the door so early in the morning?"
When he opened his eyes and looked carefully, he saw that it was the Minister of Personnel. The expression on his face froze for a moment, and he immediately put on a smile and said, "It turns out to be the Minister." www.jiangnanxs.com Jiangnan Literature Network
He looked up at the sky outside. It was daybreak, and he was not asleep. The doorman knew that the Minister of Personnel had come to see his master at this time without sending a visiting card, so he opened the door and said, "Sir, please come and see me. Please wait for a moment, and let us pass on the message."
"Well," the Minister of Personnel walked in, and when he entered the Marquis' Mansion, he slowed down his pace and talked about this matter.
After he came into the hall, he sat for a while and drank a cup of tea before Qu Anhou came out.
When the Minister of Personnel saw Marquis Qu'an coming out, he immediately put down the teacup in his hand, stood up to greet him, and then said, "My Lord, I will stand up this time."
"What important thing?" Qu Anhou was a little listless, with drooping eyelids, looking like he had not woken up yet, and his voice was weak.
It was not until he heard what the Minister of Personnel said that he suddenly opened his eyes wide and said in a dignified manner, "Can you repeat what you just said?"
Qu Anhou almost suspected that he had heard it wrongly, or that he was not yet awake, otherwise, how could Tong Xu say such horrifying words in front of him.
What do you mean the letter is lost?
How could something so important be lost?
Qu Anhou couldn't believe it.
The Minister of Personnel shrank his head, then repeated his words in front of Qu Anhou, saying: "The letter is lost, the letter about that matter..." He pursed his lips and said: "It's gone."
Thinking back to what he saw last night, thinking back to what he thought at that time, and now thinking about it again as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, he still didn't know who got the letter. Although Li Lezhi was the biggest suspect, was Li Lezhi really that capable of finding someone who was good at hiding to sneak into his home and take the letter from his study during the time when he was arguing with him and he became the Prefect of Jingzhao and then separated from him?
After thinking about it carefully, it was impossible. The time was too short. He might have seen the black shadow wrongly. It was just a bird flying past the window. It could not be someone sent by Li Lezhi!
Another point is that if you ask him, he doesn't know when the letters were lost. He clearly saw with his own eyes three days ago, when he came back from Jingzhao Yin, that the letters were still stored intact in the original place. There is no way he is wrong.
As for destroying it, that was the amulet that saved his life, and he was asked to destroy it himself. He was unwilling to give it up in his heart. If he really destroyed those "evidences", those people might not protect him if something happened to him in the future.
But he never expected that God would force him to this point and even want his life. The letter that had never been lost before was lost in just three days.
When Qu Anhou heard the words "the letter was lost" again, as well as the words "disappeared" from the Minister of Personnel, he couldn't help but ask, "How could it be missing? Did you forget?"
Seeing that the Minister of Personnel was about to speak, Qu Anhou interrupted him, looked outside the door cautiously, and said to him: "Go to the study first."
The rest of the matter is not suitable to be discussed here. I don’t know if Your Majesty has any spies in this mansion.
If what he said to the Minister of Personnel had reached Your Majesty's ears, even without the lost letters, his life and the Minister's life would have been in vain.
The two of them moved to the study. It was his trusted aide who was guarding the door. Qu Anhou was very relieved. After entering the room, he lowered his voice and asked in a low voice: "Tell me in detail what happened before and after the letter was lost."
"This matter has to start from the incident with Jingzhao Yin three days ago..." After the Minister of Personnel explained to Qu'an Hou that he had framed Li Lezhi and had a dispute with Li Lezhi, and that Li Lezhi had calculated the mine, he said, "That day, after I checked, I put the letters back to their original place. I didn't move them. It was definitely not me who moved them."
Marquis Qu'an had a gloomy face. Ever since Li Le only figured out that the Minister of Personnel was related to the mine, his face darkened. He had not expected that this matter was not investigated by His Majesty, but instead fell into the hands of a small Taoist priest.
It was still calculated by the other party, which made Qu Anhou feel fearful. It was always rumored that Taoist Li's calculations were inaccurate and all his calculations were false. And every time he calculated something, he would spread the news. He was afraid that this was a conspiracy of the Ministry of Justice, done deliberately, in order to relax their vigilance.
This is still the least infuriating part. What makes Qu Anhou angry is that they were really fooled by the Ministry of Justice's little conspiracy. They really thought that Taoist Li had no ability and that he was just a pawn pushed out in the open by the Ministry of Justice because he was young. And it was precisely because they did not take Li Le seriously and did not regard him as a stumbling block, allowing him to live safely to this day that he became a thorn in their hearts that could not be removed and had pierced into their flesh, causing them endless pain.
If this thorn is not removed, they will be stabbed to death by it sooner or later. But precisely because of this clarity, Qu Anhou felt even more uncomfortable. Now, the Ministry of Justice has noticed the Vice Minister of Personnel, and he and he were exposed to the Ministry of Justice the moment the Vice Minister of Personnel came to the door. They wanted to take Li Lezhi's life, and the first suspects were him and the Vice Minister of Personnel.
The death of the Taoist priest has made the matter confusing and may even lead to an investigation by the Gongsun family. Once the Gongsun family investigates, the prince will also intervene. Once the prince takes action, His Majesty will also look askance. In the end, their affairs will still be discovered, it's just a matter of dying sooner or later.
This made Qu Anhou's expression even uglier.
"Are you sure you didn't move the letter?"
The Minister of Personnel: "Confirmed."
Qu Anhou asked again: "When did the letter disappear? Is there anyone who suspects it?"
“…”
This left the Assistant Minister of Personnel with no words. He didn't know when the letter was lost. He hadn't met any suspicious people in the past three days. He really didn't expect that someone would lurk in his house and steal the "evidence" he had hidden.
Facing the unfriendly look from Qu'an Hou, the Minister of Personnel hesitated for a moment and then said, "I suspect Li Lezhi was responsible for this matter. It was too coincidental. I suspect Li Lezhi had already figured it out, but he went to Jingzhao Yin on purpose just to stir up trouble. He conspired with Minister Yang to invite me to Jingzhao Yin, so that he could arrange for someone to lurk in my house and take away the evidence when I was not prepared."
"I think that before going to Jingzhao Yin, Li Lezhi had already figured out where the evidence was hidden. It is more likely that he already knew about Huai'an County and knew about our existence."
"Regarding the rumor not long ago, he must have found out that it was us who started it, and thus found out about the matter in Huai'an County, so he set up this trap." Thinking of this, the Minister of Personnel had to admire Li Lezhi. He had actually laid out the plan so early and let him step into the trap without realizing it. He only realized something until this moment.
This kind of scheming is not something a Taoist can possess. Instead, it is more like that of a strategist who plans before acting and has every possible plan in mind, so smart that he is almost like a demon.
Although he was amazed, he had to solve the current crisis and expressed his worries. "I'm afraid that Li Le only told Gongsun Miaoran about Huai'an. If Huai'an's affairs are exposed, none of us can escape. Compared with the evidence in my hand, Huai'an has an account book with our names clearly written on it. If Li Le also figures out where that account book is and Gongsun Miaoran gets it, none of us can escape."
Qu'an Hou's face turned completely black, he never expected that there would be something more thrilling waiting for him than the evidence lost by the Minister of Personnel. Just as the Minister of Personnel said, if this matter was really calculated by Li Lezhi and planned early, then their Huai'an affairs could not be hidden from Li Lezhi's eyes.
Qu Anhou said angrily: "You have already thought of this situation, why are you still looking for me? Can I clear you from this matter?"
"My Lord, you can't just stand by and watch me die. You are the only one who can save me now," the Minister of Personnel said hurriedly when he saw that Marquis Qu'an looked unhappy. "There is still room for maneuver in this matter. As long as we find out what happened to those letters and intercept Gongsun Miaoran to make sure he has no evidence, we will be able to rest easy."
"This matter still needs the full support of the Marquis, and only then can we have an 80% chance of success," the Minister of Personnel made the gesture of the number eight, and then said with a smile: "If the Marquis does not help me, it will be a fate of waiting for death. If those letters are passed to His Majesty and I am imprisoned, I can guarantee that I will not betray the Marquis."
"You..." Facing Tong Xu's threat, Qu Anhou also knew that this man was the kind of person who would destroy bridges after crossing them. There was no friendship between the two of them where one person would guarantee the other's life. They were just using each other to seek the credit of being a follower.
At this point, it was impossible for Qu'an Hou to sit on the sidelines and watch. He had no choice but to investigate thoroughly, find those letters and destroy them in order to save his and Tong Xu's lives and have a chance.
Not only that, but someone must be arranged to stop Gongsun Miaoran from returning to Beijing, and preferably to destroy the evidence of his investigation without endangering his life.
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If this person was really sent by Li Lezhi, the Minister of Personnel did not dare to think about his own fate at all, as it was a serious crime punishable by the execution of nine generations of his clan.
Think of a way, think of a way...
The Minister of Personnel thought of one person who could save him now, and that was only the Marquis of Qu'an.
The next day.
It was just daybreak, and the Minister of Personnel had not even had time to send his visiting card when he hurriedly arrived at the Qu'an Marquis's Mansion in a carriage.
As it was still early, the gate of the mansion was not open. The Minister of Personnel got off the carriage and walked quickly forward. He did not even wait for the servant to knock on the door for him. He walked to the gate in two or three steps and knocked on the iron ring.
The sound of "bang bang bang" was heard. No matter how anxious the Minister of Personnel was, he could only wait in front of the door with his head down after knocking on the door. His heart was extremely anxious, as if it was on fire, and he could not help but pace back and forth in front of the door of the Marquis' Mansion.
If it were in the past, he would have been calm and not as anxious as he is now, but now, the situation is urgent. If he is a few steps later, Li Le will find out about their affairs and the evidence he lost will be presented to His Majesty. By then, it will be too late for him to save it.
Hearing the noise coming from inside, the Minister of Personnel stopped to straighten his clothes and tried to appear as calm as possible.
After a while, the doorman opened the door, rubbed his eyes, stuck his head out, and said, "Who is it? Knocking at the door so early in the morning?"
When he opened his eyes and looked carefully, he saw that it was the Minister of Personnel. The expression on his face froze for a moment, and he immediately put on a smile and said, "It turns out to be the Minister."
He looked up at the sky outside. It was daybreak, and he was not asleep. The doorman knew that the Minister of Personnel had come to see his master at this time without sending a visiting card, so he opened the door and said, "Sir, please come and see me. Please wait for a moment, and let us pass on the message."
"Well," the Minister of Personnel walked in, and when he entered the Marquis' Mansion, he slowed down his pace and talked about this matter.
After he came into the hall, he sat for a while and drank a cup of tea before Qu Anhou came out.
When the Minister of Personnel saw Marquis Qu'an coming out, he immediately put down the teacup in his hand, stood up to greet him, and then said, "My Lord, I will stand up this time."
"What important thing?" Qu Anhou was a little listless, with drooping eyelids, looking like he had not woken up yet, and his voice was weak.
It was not until he heard what the Minister of Personnel said that he suddenly opened his eyes wide and said in a dignified manner, "Can you repeat what you just said?"
Qu Anhou almost suspected that he had heard it wrongly, or that he was not yet awake, otherwise, how could Tong Xu say such horrifying words in front of him.
What do you mean the letter is lost?
How could something so important be lost?
Qu Anhou couldn't believe it.
The Minister of Personnel shrank his head, then repeated his words in front of Qu Anhou, saying: "The letter is lost, the letter about that matter..." He pursed his lips and said: "It's gone."
Thinking back to what he saw last night, thinking back to what he thought at that time, and now thinking about it again as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, he still didn't know who got the letter. Although Li Lezhi was the biggest suspect, was Li Lezhi really that capable of finding someone who was good at hiding to sneak into his home and take the letter from his study during the time when he was arguing with him and he became the Prefect of Jingzhao and then separated from him?
After thinking about it carefully, it was impossible. The time was too short. He might have seen the black shadow wrongly. It was just a bird flying past the window. It could not be someone sent by Li Lezhi!
Another point is that if you ask him, he doesn't know when the letters were lost. He clearly saw with his own eyes three days ago, when he came back from Jingzhao Yin, that the letters were still stored intact in the original place. There is no way he is wrong.
As for destroying it, that was the amulet that saved his life, and he was asked to destroy it himself. He was unwilling to give it up in his heart. If he really destroyed those "evidences", those people might not protect him if something happened to him in the future.
But he never expected that God would force him to this point and even want his life. The letter that had never been lost before was lost in just three days.
When Qu Anhou heard the words "the letter was lost" again, as well as the words "disappeared" from the Minister of Personnel, he couldn't help but ask, "How could it be missing? Did you forget?"
Seeing that the Minister of Personnel was about to speak, Qu Anhou interrupted him, looked outside the door cautiously, and said to him: "Go to the study first."
The rest of the matter is not suitable to be discussed here. I don’t know if Your Majesty has any spies in this mansion.
If what he said to the Minister of Personnel had reached Your Majesty's ears, even without the lost letters, his life and the Minister's life would have been in vain.
The two of them moved to the study. It was his trusted aide who was guarding the door. Qu Anhou was very relieved. After entering the room, he lowered his voice and asked in a low voice: "Tell me in detail what happened before and after the letter was lost."
"This matter has to start from the incident with Jingzhao Yin three days ago..." After the Minister of Personnel explained to Qu'an Hou that he had framed Li Lezhi and had a dispute with Li Lezhi, and that Li Lezhi had calculated the mine, he said, "That day, after I checked, I put the letters back to their original place. I didn't move them. It was definitely not me who moved them."
Marquis Qu'an had a gloomy face. Ever since Li Le only figured out that the Minister of Personnel was related to the mine, his face darkened. He had not expected that this matter was not investigated by His Majesty, but instead fell into the hands of a small Taoist priest.
It was still calculated by the other party, which made Qu Anhou feel fearful. It was always rumored that Taoist Li's calculations were inaccurate and all his calculations were false. And every time he calculated something, he would spread the news. He was afraid that this was a conspiracy of the Ministry of Justice, done deliberately, in order to relax their vigilance.
This is still the least infuriating part. What makes Qu Anhou angry is that they were really fooled by the Ministry of Justice's little conspiracy. They really thought that Taoist Li had no ability and that he was just a pawn pushed out in the open by the Ministry of Justice because he was young. And it was precisely because they did not take Li Le seriously and did not regard him as a stumbling block, allowing him to live safely to this day that he became a thorn in their hearts that could not be removed and had pierced into their flesh, causing them endless pain.
If this thorn is not removed, they will be stabbed to death by it sooner or later. But precisely because of this clarity, Qu Anhou felt even more uncomfortable. Now, the Ministry of Justice has noticed the Vice Minister of Personnel, and he and he were exposed to the Ministry of Justice the moment the Vice Minister of Personnel came to the door. They wanted to take Li Lezhi's life, and the first suspects were him and the Vice Minister of Personnel.
The death of the Taoist priest has made the matter confusing and may even lead to an investigation by the Gongsun family. Once the Gongsun family investigates, the prince will also intervene. Once the prince takes action, His Majesty will also look askance. In the end, their affairs will still be discovered, it's just a matter of dying sooner or later.
This made Qu Anhou's expression even uglier.
"Are you sure you didn't move the letter?"
The Minister of Personnel: "Confirmed."
Qu Anhou asked again: "When did the letter disappear? Is there anyone who suspects it?"
“…”
This left the Assistant Minister of Personnel with no words. He didn't know when the letter was lost. He hadn't met any suspicious people in the past three days. He really didn't expect that someone would lurk in his house and steal the "evidence" he had hidden.
Facing the unfriendly look from Qu'an Hou, the Minister of Personnel hesitated for a moment and then said, "I suspect Li Lezhi was responsible for this matter. It was too coincidental. I suspect Li Lezhi had already figured it out, but he went to Jingzhao Yin on purpose just to stir up trouble. He conspired with Minister Yang to invite me to Jingzhao Yin, so that he could arrange for someone to lurk in my house and take away the evidence when I was not prepared."
"I think that before going to Jingzhao Yin, Li Lezhi had already figured out where the evidence was hidden. It is more likely that he already knew about Huai'an County and knew about our existence."
"Regarding the rumor not long ago, he must have found out that it was us who started it, and thus found out about the matter in Huai'an County, so he set up this trap." Thinking of this, the Minister of Personnel had to admire Li Lezhi. He had actually laid out the plan so early and let him step into the trap without realizing it. He only realized something until this moment.
This kind of scheming is not something a Taoist can possess. Instead, it is more like that of a strategist who plans before acting and has every possible plan in mind, so smart that he is almost like a demon.
Although he was amazed, he had to solve the current crisis and expressed his worries. "I'm afraid that Li Le only told Gongsun Miaoran about Huai'an. If Huai'an's affairs are exposed, none of us can escape. Compared with the evidence in my hand, Huai'an has an account book with our names clearly written on it. If Li Le also figures out where that account book is and Gongsun Miaoran gets it, none of us can escape."
Qu'an Hou's face turned completely black, he never expected that there would be something more thrilling waiting for him than the evidence lost by the Minister of Personnel. Just as the Minister of Personnel said, if this matter was really calculated by Li Lezhi and planned early, then their Huai'an affairs could not be hidden from Li Lezhi's eyes.
Qu Anhou said angrily: "You have already thought of this situation, why are you still looking for me? Can I clear you from this matter?"
"My Lord, you can't just stand by and watch me die. You are the only one who can save me now," the Minister of Personnel said hurriedly when he saw that Marquis Qu'an looked unhappy. "There is still room for maneuver in this matter. As long as we find out what happened to those letters and intercept Gongsun Miaoran to make sure he has no evidence, we will be able to rest easy."
"This matter still needs the full support of the Marquis, and only then can we have an 80% chance of success," the Minister of Personnel made the gesture of the number eight, and then said with a smile: "If the Marquis does not help me, it will be a fate of waiting for death. If those letters are passed to His Majesty and I am imprisoned, I can guarantee that I will not betray the Marquis."
"You..." Facing Tong Xu's threat, Qu Anhou also knew that this man was the kind of person who would destroy bridges after crossing them. There was no friendship between the two of them where one person would guarantee the other's life. They were just using each other to seek the credit of being a follower.
At this point, it was impossible for Qu'an Hou to sit on the sidelines and watch. He had no choice but to investigate thoroughly, find those letters and destroy them in order to save his and Tong Xu's lives and have a chance.
Not only that, but someone must be arranged to stop Gongsun Miaoran from returning to Beijing, and preferably to destroy the evidence of his investigation without endangering his life.
The author has something to say
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: 20 bottles of Fugui Meimeiyan; 5 bottles of Yaoyu; 3 bottles of Duduhaha Stimulate You; 1 bottle of Xia Ye Buli, Lululula, Ling, and It's Momo Cat;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!
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