Chapter 63 I Summoned the Governor
Hei Er is here.
He looked much more haggard after not seeing him for many days, and seemed a little dazed when the prefect suddenly came to see him.
It was not the governor's job to explain this. Zang Wenwu knew this and explained the situation to Hei Er. He added, "Hei Er, you have to think carefully before you speak in front of the governor today."
Lin Xi clearly heard the threat in Zang Wenwu's words.
But He Zhen, who was already in a state of trance, didn't care much at the moment, "Second Master, everything today was planned by you and Master Zang, I was just an executor. You said that as long as I help you complete this job, you will give me one thousand taels of silver as a reward!"
Hei Er didn't even raise his eyelids, "When did I ever promise you this?"
He Zhen was stunned. Could it be that Hei Er wanted to turn against him?
"Second Master, how can you not recognize what you promised with your own mouth!" He Zhen roared.
"He Zhen," Hei Er said coldly, "You said I promised you these, do you have any evidence?"
He Zhen fell silent, and of course he had no evidence.
He and Hei Er have known each other for almost twenty years, and in all this time Hei Er has never broken a promise, so He Zhen has complete trust in him.
Who knew that the only time Hei Er's credibility collapsed was at this moment. If he denied it and pushed all the blame for today onto He Zhen alone, he would surely die.
The governor finally spoke, "Hei Er, you really didn't participate in the poisoning of the food today?"
Hei Er knocked his head heavily on the ground, "Sir, I have no grudges or hatred against these people in the past or in the present, so there is really no need to do this."
No grudges or hatred? Lin Xi sneered. This Hei Er really dared to say that.
"But I heard that you were severely punished by Zang Wenwu during this period. Are you really not planning any revenge?" The governor seemed a little unconvinced.
Hei Er shook his head repeatedly to deny.
At this point, it seems that He Zhen is the only one who is unlucky.
The governor's eyes lingered on Zang Wenwu and Hei Er for a few circles, and suddenly he laughed, "Zang Wenwu, He Zhen said that you were involved in today's incident. Do you admit it?"
How could Zang Wenwu admit such an accusation? He denied it immediately.
However, Lin Xi felt that what He Zhen said was mostly true, and it was very likely that the two of them had teamed up to harm her.
"Lin Xi, what do you think?" the prefect asked Lin Xi again.
Lin Xi cleared his throat and expressed his opinion slowly and steadily.
"Sir Governor, I think what He Zhen said might not be a lie. A few days ago, He Zhen came to my shop and said he wanted to buy all the bacon. I didn't want to sell it, so I deliberately asked for a high price. I didn't expect that he would agree in the end. Five hundred taels of silver, I thought, He Zhen couldn't afford it by himself."
After Lin Xi reminded him, He Zhen suddenly had an idea and said quickly, "Sir, it's like this. The five hundred taels for buying bacon were all provided by Hei Er. How could I afford so much money?"
Hei Er immediately shouted, "Boss He has been doing business for many years. It's not easy for him to find a place to borrow money. How can you say that he must have borrowed from me?"
He Zhen was determined to break up with Hei Er at this moment. "Hei Er, it's obvious that you took the money. And I remember that the three of us conspired in Rong Heng Restaurant. The guys there can testify!"
Zang Wenwu felt something was wrong.
The governor was interested, "Things are becoming more and more complicated."
"Please look, sir." Lin Xi suddenly stood up, walked to the place where Zang Wenwu was sitting at that time, picked up a small piece of bacon from the ground with chopsticks, put it in a clean bowl, and handed the half piece of bacon that Zang Wenwu had bitten off to the prefect.
"This is the so-called poisonous bacon that Lord Zang just ate. But now it seems that he clearly did not eat it. I don't know why the doctor insisted that Lord Zang was poisoned." Lin Xi stared at the doctor with a sharp gaze.
Although the doctor was bribed, he had never seen such a scene before.
The governor looked at the two pieces of bacon that fit together perfectly in the bowl and sternly looked at the doctor, "What's going on?"
Zang Wenwu felt a chill in his heart. He knew very well that this doctor was not trustworthy at all. He would definitely confess everything under the pressure from the prefect.
As expected, faced with all this, the doctor could no longer bear it, and he shouted for mercy and confessed everything.
The governor's eyes were extremely sharp, and he looked at Zang Wenwu as if he was looking at a dead man. "As a county magistrate, you actually tried every possible way to murder the people and even used all means to frame them. It's a shame for the court to have a local official like you! Come on, take these people away!"
Zang Wenwu, the doctor, Hei Er, and He Zhen, none of them escaped and were all taken away by the prefect.
The case was solved, so there was no need for him to stay any longer and he stood up to leave.
When passing by Lin Xi, he suddenly stopped and asked curiously, "Your bacon is worth five hundred taels of silver?"
Lin Xi smiled and said, "If it were placed in the capital, it would also be worth it."
It is impossible for it to be sold at a high price in a remote area, but if it were in the capital, with her means, it would not be impossible to raise the price to five hundred taels.
The governor paused and said, "From now on, it's better to talk less about the capital."
After saying this, the governor led his men away in a mighty procession.
Lin Xi pondered over the prefect's words and always felt that there was something wrong. Did the prefect know that she was an exile?
While thinking, Lin Xi walked out of the Chamber of Commerce door, and suddenly someone pulled him aside.
Looking closely, the person coming was actually Xiao Yongyan.
Lin Xi looked at Xiao Yongyan excitedly, "You know, it was really dangerous just now..."
She described in vivid detail everything that had just happened, and was extremely excited. However, Xiao Yongyan had already taken advantage of this opportunity to carry Lin Xi onto his donkey cart and was driving the donkey towards Taoli Village.
Not far away, the prefect was sitting in a carriage. He lifted a corner of the curtain and just happened to see Xiao Yongyan's back as he hurried away.
"I really didn't expect that Xiao Yongyan has adapted well to life here." The governor chuckled, "He is flexible and adaptable. The Regent taught him well."
As for Zang Wenwu and Hei Er being sentenced to death, He Zhen being imprisoned, and the doctor being beaten with ten boards, those are all stories that happened later.
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Taoli Village.
Lin Xi talked all the way and finally felt tired. When he got home, he drank a large bowl of water without saying a word. Finally, he felt that his sore throat felt better.
Xiao Yongyan just watched her every move.
Finally, Lin Xi couldn't stand it anymore. She felt frightened by Xiao Yongyan's gaze.
"Husband, if you have something to say, just say it. Can you please stop looking at me like that?" Lin Xi said.
Xiao Yongyan hesitated several times, and finally seemed to have suppressed a lot of emotions before saying, "In the future, you can't do anything risky, and I will never agree to it."
Lin Xi nodded obediently. What happened today was indeed beyond her imagination. Maybe Xiao Yongyan was also scared by her.
"Fortunately, the prefect is here." Lin Xi sighed. If it weren't for the prefect, she would have been dead today.
"I was the one who called the prefect." Xiao Yongyan said.
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