Seeing the remorseful old father so sorrowful in front of His Majesty, Qi Yunxiao, like many other officials, couldn't bear it.
Then, like all the other officials, he looked at Hou Xucheng, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, with disdain.
What can Hou Xucheng do?
All he could do was kneel down and cry out for justice!
The new emperor's gaze swept across Qi Yunxiao's face, and then he began to smooth things over: "Order the Ministry of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation and find Minister Gao's son within three days!"
Kid, the rest is up to you.
Qi Yunxiao received that look and lowered his head without making a sound.
After returning to Xinghua Hutong from court, Shen Qingyu inquired about Qi Yunxiao's situation.
Qi Yunxiao explained in a low voice.
Shen Qingyu asked with some concern, "So what are you going to do?"
“I had the Dragon Guards investigate in secret. This Gao Yuanfeng has been wantonly bullying women in the capital. He even killed a married woman and took her husband away. Such a scumbag deserves to die.”
Seeing Shen Qingyu's indignant expression, Qi Yunxiao patted her head and said, "Don't worry about what I do. Just pretend you've never met this person."
"good."
Shen Qingyu really didn't care anymore.
In the early hours of that day, the Ministry of Justice discovered that Gao Yuanfeng, who had already died, was found dead in a secret room of a house under the name of the Vice Minister. There were signs of torture at the scene, and the investigation showed that this was the primary crime scene.
Upon seeing the corpse, Minister Gao fainted on the spot.
Shen Qingyu and Qi Yunxiao were originally planning to leave the capital to purchase a second batch of grain in Daxia.
But the new emperor told them to wait two more days, lest people think they were trying to run away because they felt guilty.
Let's wait and see.
But when Shen Qingyu waited, she learned that Marquis Qingping had been paralyzed by a stroke for quite some time.
Nowadays, nearly half of the servants and attendants of the Qingping Marquis's mansion have left, and many courtyards are closed and locked. Only in the courtyards of a few masters are there still people and doors.
Because the Qingping Marquis's mansion had clearly declined, no one invited Qi Yunheng, a young master who had lost his usefulness, to hang out anymore.
He tried to find someone else, but they all made excuses, so Lady Qingping Marquis decided to keep him at home to take care of her ailing father.
And you know what? This actually reduced the cost of socializing, and the Qingping Marquis's mansion managed to break even!
However, as a result, the Qingping Marquis's mansion was completely ignored by the aristocratic families of the capital.
At this moment, in the Qingping Marquis's residence, the Qingping Marquis's wife was wiping away tears as she looked at Qi Yunheng: "This ungrateful wretch! He's been back in the capital for so long, and he hasn't even come back to visit once. He says he's severing ties, but he's still the Marquis's son! How can he be so cold-hearted?!"
Qi Yunheng's head was throbbing with pain: "Mother, please don't say that in front of my father, otherwise he might get so angry that he falls ill, and our Marquis's manor will have no income at all. You'll have to rely on the few shops and estates we have left to make a living!"
Lady Qingping was choked and couldn't cry for a moment.
Then Lady Qingping grumbled, "Your Majesty is really something. That bastard has already severed ties with our family, so why is he so unwilling to issue the decree for your position as heir apparent?"
Qi Yunheng almost jumped up: "Mother, do you know what you're saying? If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!"
Lady Qingping nearly fainted from anger: "I've been thinking of you with all my heart, and how dare you talk to me like that? I'm your mother!"
Qi Yunheng sneered: "If I weren't your own son, would I care whether you deceived the emperor or not? The execution of your entire family would have nothing to do with me."
Lady Qingping was completely speechless.
Seeing her son so "filial", Lady Qingping felt a little regretful: how could she have raised her son to be like this, after spoiling him so much?
...
Two days later, His Majesty issued an edict stripping Hou Xucheng of his position as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and demoting him to a county magistrate in a remote area. In an instant, weeping filled Hou's mansion, and his wife, Lady Liang, hanged herself.
As for whether Madam Liang really committed suicide, no one cares anymore.
One of Liang's nieces was found dead in a dilapidated temple outside the city, having been raped and abused.
The investigation revealed that Gao Yuanfeng did not want to aid and abet evil, so he rejected the Liang family's idea.
However, the people of the Liang family were worried that Gao Yuanfeng would reveal the truth, so they locked him in a secret room in a mansion under the name of the Vice Minister, and eventually killed him to silence him.
With the matter settled, the new emperor sent Qi Yunxiao and Shen Qingyu on another mission to the Great Xia to purchase more grain.
Qi Yunxiao and Shen Qingyu accepted the order and left, leaving the commotion in the capital behind.
In the disaster-stricken prefectures, Zhao Yuzhu's grain and oil shops somehow managed to get some mixed grains back. The disaster victims could buy up to ten catties of mixed grains per household by presenting their household registration book for just ten coins per catty.
If you add wild vegetables to the porridge, these ten pounds of mixed grains can last for several days!
As soon as the news was released, long queues immediately formed in front of grain and oil shops!
The government officials naturally knew this was a good thing, and even sent clerks and constables to help with the statistics, confirmation, and maintaining order.
These grains were naturally part of the grains piled up in Shen Qingyu's spatial storage.
Shen Qingyu also gave the refined rice and flour to the grain and oil shops under Zhao Yuzhu's name.
In this way, besides leaving enough food for the people of Shenjia Village and Shenjia New Village, Shen Qingyu's space warehouse only contained rice and flour imbued with spiritual energy grown in the space's spiritual fields.
This rice and flour were so good that Shen Qingyu felt bad giving it to others, so she only gave it to her own family. Of course, she also left some for His Majesty the Emperor, telling him that it was the finest rice and flour sourced from the Great Xia Dynasty...
After emptying the warehouse and taking enough gold from the grain and oil shops in various places under the jurisdiction of the Duke of Wei's mansion, Shen Qingyu set off lightly.
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