Chapter 377 Qin Chi's Counterattack

"Sir, the suspicious carriage from before belonged to the Wu Bohou Mansion, and only Wu Jingyao and her maid were inside."

The report from the guard outside was transmitted into the carriage.

Qin Chi hummed lightly, indicating that he understood.

Song Jin smiled and said, "Master Qin is very lucky."

"Don't laugh, my lady. My future innocence depends on you." Qin Chi said in a serious and polite manner.

Song Jin retracted his gaze and cursed someone inwardly for being shameless! He must have learned this thick skin in the officialdom. Anyone who is involved in the officialdom will be stained black no matter how clean they are.

Wu Jingyao's carriage was parked near the new house for such a long time that it naturally could not escape the eyes and ears of the Qin family's secret guards. However, the people in the carriage never came out, making it difficult to guess their intentions. The secret guards just waited and watched.

Qin Chi had met Wu Jingyao once in Yan's house last time. After such a long time, he had forgotten what she looked like, but he remembered her name. However, he would never mention what happened that day in front of his wife unless he was crazy.

Seeing that Song Jin didn't dwell on the matter.

Qin Chi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Song Jin said at the right time: "I heard that the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works is from the Zhang family. The girl of the Zhang family suddenly did this. Could it be that the Zhang family wants to tie you to them?"

“Perhaps that is possible.”

Qin Chi didn't dare to conclude whether it was true or not, and then he said jokingly, "When my wife was not in the capital, there was a rumor that I was the illegitimate child of His Majesty."

Song Jin was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

Qin Chi immediately told the whole story.

Song Jin suddenly realized, "Whether this rumor is true or not, there will be people who want to establish a relationship with you in advance. If it is true, they will make a lot of money. If it is false, it doesn't matter. You are worth winning over."

"My wife is so smart."

It gets understood in one click.

Qin Chi was glad that he had married a wife who was easy for him to worry about. Especially with the comparison of his uncle Qin Mingsong, he felt even happier.

The carriage entered Cuihua Hutong.

Song Jin was passing by the Liu family's mansion.

The Liu family kept the door tightly closed, and it was said that the master had already left Beijing.

Originally, according to the law, the crime did not apply to a daughter who married out of the family. However, as a member of the Liu family, Liu Jianfang worked in the Imperial Medical Service, so she was inevitably implicated and was arrested and imprisoned.

The women of the Liu family were sent to the Jiaofangsi.

Liu Jianfang is not on the list.

Liu Jianfang was aloof and arrogant, and could not bear the torture of the Jinyiwei, so she committed suicide in advance. Her trusted maids Xiaoxi and Xiaohuan also hanged themselves that night, choosing to follow their master.

It is normal for the master to die and the servant to die.

This is the privileged class, a mountain that cannot be crossed.

After the death of the founding emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty, all the concubines without children were buried alive with him. A total of 38 concubines and 15 palace maids were buried alive with him. The same was true for all the emperors who succeeded him.

Those who were buried alive were mostly members of the royal family and meritorious officials; ordinary servants were not included in the burial.

But if their negligence caused the death of their master, none of them would survive. In Qin Chi's previous life, many people died in secret due to his unexpected birth, including Old Huo, Old Li, Shopkeeper Tao, Doctor Jing and others, not to mention the group of secret guards who were supposed to protect him.

"What are you thinking about, my lady? So absorbed in it?"

Qin Chi asked in a low voice.

Only then did Song Jin realize that the carriage had stopped, but she had not moved for a long time, which attracted Qin Chi's questioning.

Song Jin said in a gentle voice: "I just passed by the gate of the Liu family, and I thought of Liu Jianfang and Xiaoxi. Compared with Liu Jianfang, I am more familiar with Miss Xiaoxi. She often came to visit me for a period of time."

"Oh, I have some impression of that maid."

Qin Chi has met Xiaoxi at home.

We've only met a few times.

He reached out and helped Song Jin get out of the car.

Song Jin asked softly again: "Did the Liu family's affairs involve the Liu family?"

"Liu Ji wrote a divorce document, severing his ties with the Liu family, and then left Beijing overnight. The Liu family was lucky that the Liu family did not find any evidence of his family's crimes." Qin Chi did not say that after Liu Ji left Beijing, he had people keeping an eye on him.

Qin Chi then continued, "Neither did the Yang family. Yang Lingyu's wife, Liu, secretly divorced her husband on the day he was arrested, took her children with her, and changed the children's surname to Liu when they moved their household registration."

Liu handled the divorce very secretly.

By the time outsiders received the news, Liu and her children had already left Beijing and were nowhere to be found.

Song Jin sneered, "The Liu family is very calculating."

The Liu and Yang families committed such big mistakes, but the Liu family was not involved at all. There must be someone behind this who cleared the sins for the Liu family.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

Song Jin returned home and heard that the child had gone to bed. The food for her and Qin Chi was still warm in the pot in the kitchen, so she washed her hands and ate first.

Wait until after dinner.

Song Jin returned to his room.

Qin Chi went to the study and said that he still had some things to do.

Song Jin didn't ask him what he was going to do, but just told him not to work too hard, and asked the servants to make him a bowl of ginseng tea.

In the study.

Qin Chi sat at the desk, flipping through a file that recorded the Zhang family's information and some past events.

Compared to Song Jin, Xing Lun needs to be asked to investigate.

It was much easier for Qin Chi to get information about the Zhang family. He only needed to give a command and his subordinates would deliver the information. Some things could not even be investigated by the outside world, such as this file that recorded that the Zhang family had sent a daughter of the Zhang family to the late crown prince as a concubine. However, this concubine died suddenly after only one month in the East Palace.

It’s because the concubine died too early.

The Zhang family luckily escaped the reckoning of Emperor Cheng of the Ming Dynasty.

"The Zhang family is actually related to the late crown prince?"

Qin Chi didn't think that the concubine was dead, so the Zhang family and Helian Kai cut off contact.

Old Li said, "Sir, the Zhang family suddenly caused trouble for Jifang. Could it be that it was instructed by the late crown prince?"

"Instructing to steal medicinal herbs? Medicinal herbs…"

Qin Chi murmured softly and fell into deep thought.

Even though Jifang donated tens of thousands of shi of grain, they still dared to jump out and target Jifang and those who had made contributions. This was different from the Zhang family's previous low-key style and was very suspicious.

Qin Ba said on the side: "I will go and talk to Captain Chen when I have time. He is busy tracking down the remnants of the former crown prince. Let's talk about the concubine again."

"We can't expose this matter."

Qin Chi knew that Helian Kai wanted to kill him, but he still chose to avoid him, fearing that he would become desperate and continue to attack the people around him. "Manager Tao is still in Huai'an Prefecture, right? I'll go seal the letter, and you send someone to deliver it as quickly as possible."

The ability to move is still very fast.

Qin Chi asked Manager Tao to contact the prefect of Huai'an who was about to be transferred back to the capital, and asked him to submit a memorial stating that Ming Jifang was immediately targeted by the Zhang family after donating tens of thousands of shi of grain. The text expressed many doubts about the Zhang family, saying that the Zhang family was suspected of being spies from other countries, and asked His Majesty to conduct a thorough investigation.

This counterattack was quite fatal to the Zhang family.

I just don’t know if the Zhang family will regret provoking Qin Chi and Song Jin in the future.