Chapter 71 Good deeds are not known
The fatigue of the past few days also came up, and Lan Fang helped him to sleep.
She was sleeping soundly, but woke up in agony after the tyrant grabbed her neck and said, "You..."
Xie Changsheng didn't know why his face was stern: "If you use even a little force, your neck will break!"
Fu Danjun was furious: "Just kill me, do it now!"
Xie Changsheng hissed again, warning, "If you make someone else scream, you won't be the only one to die."
Fu Danjun gritted his teeth and said, "If you want to vent your desire, hurry up. I'm very sleepy."
Xie Changsheng snorted and laughed: "You are too imaginative, you are so beautiful!"
Fu Danjun asked in surprise, "Do you have something serious to talk to me about?"
Xie Changsheng's face darkened. "Xu Yu ran away. Was it you who did it?"
Fu Danjun's eyes widened in shock: "I don't know, don't blame me!"
Xie Changsheng said angrily, "Apart from you, who else has the ability to get her out of the palace? Admit it now!"
Seeing him like this, Fu Danjun had no choice but to blame himself.
If I were to insist, I'd be strangled to death: "They've already said it, no!"
How could Xie Changsheng not see that she was pretending to be weak? But facing her tears, he really softened his heart.
"Don't cry, don't cry!"
Fu Danjun wiped her tears and continued to say aggrievedly, "I'm already married to someone from Northern Xinjiang, why would I bother with Xu Yu? Where else can I go if I get her out of the palace?"
Xie Changsheng pinched her nose: "You have a lot of tricks."
Fu Danjun said tearfully again, "After tomorrow, I will leave Luoyang and marry someone from Northern Xinjiang. I will never come back. Let's spend a good night together tonight, okay?"
What she meant by having a good night was not to quarrel.
Xie Changsheng understood it in a different way and smiled evilly: "You are about to get married, so you should behave like a wife."
Fu Danjun pretended to be very regretful: "Well, that's all we can do."
Xie Changsheng fell silent. He rolled over and lay next to Fu Danjun for a while before saying, "Luoyang is still a long way from Northern Xinjiang. There's still a chance."
Fu Danjun quickly covered his mouth again: "No, no, no, let's not meet again. It would be terrible if we were discovered."
Xie Changsheng pushed her hand away and frowned, saying, "Whether to meet or not is up to me."
Fu Danjun sighed, turned over and lay down.
She fell asleep unknowingly and didn't know when Xie Changsheng left.
The next day, Fu Danjun asked his subordinates to donate food and vegetables to the victims in the name of a wealthy businessman.
She also instructed her subordinates: "Don't mention how much you donated. Just say that there will be a continuous supply of food. That way, the grain merchants will reduce the price of the food because they are afraid that the food will not sell well."
The subordinates did as they were told and saw results.
But the common people couldn't help but ask what the rich businessman's name was and where he lived.
Everyone said that a ancestral hall should be built to commemorate the benefactor, so Fu Danjun had no choice but to announce Wanyan Qi's name.
Wanyan Qi became a legendary philanthropist, but he never showed up.
But he was full of admiration for Fu Danjun: "I knew you had business talent, but I didn't expect you to be so good. Those grain merchants are now frantically lowering prices to sell grain, for fear of losing money if they're late."
Fu Danjun smiled and said, "It's just a trivial skill, not wisdom."
Wanyan Qi took the opportunity to say with a smile: "We have done our best, it is time to hurry on."
Fu Danjun had no reason to refute, so he could only smile and nod.
The people on the street were all praising Wanyan Qi. His subordinates heard this and reported it to Xie Changsheng: "The people are saying that the grain was donated by a wealthy businessman named Wanyan Qi, and they are all going to erect a monument to commemorate him."
Xie Changsheng was stunned for a moment and snorted coldly: "It's not Wanyan Qi at all, it was all done by that woman."
Although his tone was contemptuous, he couldn't help but admire Fu Danjun in his heart.
It is truly remarkable that a woman was able to transport food to help disaster victims without leaving her name.
Then, Xie Changsheng began to regret it.
Why did I lie there quietly that night? Or should I have said something more?
He now treats Fu Danjun as a tool of his desire, unlike in the past.
He felt like he had a lot to say to her and wanted to tell her the secrets in his heart.
However, he realized that his mentality was abnormal and felt very upset.
The next day he went to interrogate the imprisoned county magistrate, and when he brought the man over he learned that his surname was Cao.
Then, Xie Changsheng slammed the gavel and demanded, "Magister Cao, I noticed that the county government's account books not only have no money, but also a lot of deficits. It seems that all the money has been moved to your private vault? Is that right?"
Magistrate Cao wept and kowtowed, protesting his innocence: "I may have embezzled some money, but this loss is not my fault alone!"
Xie Changsheng frowned. "You won't cry until you see the coffin, and you won't release the eagle until you see the rabbit. Come on! Hit me!"
County Magistrate Cao was hit on the buttocks with dozens of sticks, leaving it bloody and mangled.
He thought to himself that if he continued to be beaten, he would surely die. "Your Majesty, spare my life. I have the truth to report."
Xie Changsheng stopped him and said, "Since you are reporting the truth, you cannot adulterate it."
County Magistrate Cao wailed hastily, “Before I took office, there was already a deficit, but now I have already filled a lot of the account, otherwise it would be even worse.
Xie Changsheng couldn't help but frown and asked, "Who was the previous county magistrate..."
County Magistrate Cao hurriedly said, "Xu Changji, County Magistrate Xu!"
Xie Changsheng was stunned because Xu Changji was Xu Yu's father.
Moreover, Xu Changji’s house was indeed searched because of corruption and bribery.
If Xu Changji was really corrupt and accepted bribes, then where did the silver in County Magistrate Cao's home come from? The people in charge of the house search said that County Magistrate Cao was a small official with great corruption.
How much wealth did Luoyang County have in total? Could Xu Changji have embezzled more than County Magistrate Cao?
Was there a false or wrongful conviction here? Xie Changsheng was pondering.
Suddenly, a man rushed in from outside. Although his subordinates shouted at him to leave, he still forced his way back in: "Your Majesty, I have been wronged! It's all wronged!"
Xie Changsheng quickly ordered his men to stop and said, "Bring him in!"
As soon as the man entered, he knelt and kowtowed. "My name is Chen Da. I used to be a close attendant to Lord Xu Changji. Later, Lord Xu was wrongly convicted and exiled. I risked my life to protect this ledger. It contains every account record since Lord Xu became magistrate. This is the only one that is authentic; the others are all forgeries."
Xie Changsheng was shocked. How could someone dare to fool him with a fake account book?
"Show it up!"
The account book was handed to him. When he opened it, he found that every expenditure was clearly listed, a hundred times clearer than the one handed over by County Magistrate Cao.
For a moment, Xie Changsheng was so angry that his head was dizzy: "Chen Da, you follow me first, don't wander around randomly, I will take a closer look at this account book, if there is any injustice, I will definitely avenge it."
When Chen Da heard this, he kowtowed and cried, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Xie Changsheng's eyes fell on County Magistrate Cao and found that he looked ashen. "Take County Magistrate Cao back to the prison first."
In the inn, Xie Changsheng urged his subordinates to find out how many days it would take for Sun Qingli to leave.
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