Chapter 169 It's over now

Shen Yu frowned, turned around slowly, and looked in the direction of the drum outside the palace.

It's just that he entered the city yesterday, and today he's beating the drum

Didn't Minister Zhu say that the man was seriously injured and couldn't get out of bed for a few days?

Shen Yu slowly moved his cold eyes to the shivering Minister Zhu.

Minister Zhu met his gaze, his pupils trembled suddenly, and then he quickly lowered his head.

Those bastards clearly told him last night that the mud-legged man was seriously injured and couldn't get out of bed for ten days or half a month, so why would they come to beat the drum!

It's over, it's over now.

But with Prince Yu here, he should be able to protect himself

When Lin You came, he saw the ministers with different expressions.

Of course, the most exciting part was Yu the Turtle and Zhu Shangshu.

[Haha, stinky bastard, pig Shangshu, you never thought that I saved Qianzhu and asked him to come and beat the drum early in the morning to catch you off guard.]

The devilish laughter suddenly sounded in the mind, scaring the doubtful ministers.

Turning around, they saw that their queen had already entered the palace.

In order to cover up their queen's overly devilish laughter, Eunuch Hong hurriedly announced in a shrill voice: "The queen is here."

When he shouted like this, those ministers who could not hear their inner voice turned around.

Shen Yu and Zhu Shangshu also moved their eyes behind the pearl curtain.

The bright yellow graceful figure has already taken a seat.

Zhu Shangshu's forehead has begun to sweat.

After Huang Yuan and Lu Bing knelt down and apologized yesterday, he knew that this queen was not simple.

"Who is beating the drum for reporting?"

After all the ministers finished their greetings, the woman behind the pearl curtain spoke.

Some ministers who could hear their inner voices twitched their mouths when they heard it.

Their queen is really good at pretending.

I'm afraid she is the one who knows this matter best.

However, what kind of serious injustice did that person have that made the queen go to save him in person

But if it is related to Prince Yu and Minister Zhu, it should be very serious, otherwise the emperor would not allow the queen to save people in the middle of the night.

And judging from the two key words of saving people, the person who came to complain should have been ambushed and assassinated by Prince Yu and Minister Zhu. When

the ministers thought of this, they looked at Shen Yu and Minister Zhu with strange eyes.

The sweat on Minister Zhu's forehead was getting more and more.

He seemed to be so guilty that he couldn't be more guilty.

Shen Yu was calm, but there was a heavy gloomy aura around him.

I don't know since when, his gentle and jade-like image disappeared, replaced by such a look of alien proximity and full of hostility.

At this time, a eunuch came into the hall to pass on.

"Your Majesty, Minister Jiang brought a complaint and requested an audience." After

the voice fell, the ministers looked at each other, and finally understood why Minister Jiang did not come to the court today.

Hearing this, Lin You raised his eyes slightly. Eunuch Hong immediately understood and said in a shrill voice: "Announce..."

After a while, Minister Jiang brought a young man into the hall. The young man was dressed very simply, his clothes were patched, and there were bruises on his face and hands.

In short, all the skin was exposed.

It was still a little difficult to walk, and one hand was still stroking the abdomen, which should be the place where he was injured.

He walked to the hall, knelt down, and kowtowed to the woman in the high position, "I have seen the queen, and the queen lives a thousand years."

"Stand up."

The calm female voice came into his ears, and the young man couldn't help but pause.

How come this voice is exactly the same as that of the female doctor last night?

But this voice is very calm, very elegant, and intimidating without anger, while last night's voice was a little jumpy.

[Well, the complexion is not bad, it seems that the rescue last night was not in vain. ]

Qian Zhu's eyelids trembled.

It turned out to be the female doctor last night!

But last night, didn't they call her Madam? How could it be a queen? What

virtue and ability did he have to let the noble concubine who was in charge of government affairs go to rescue him personally

? "Did you knock on the drum for hearing the news?"

Lin You opened his lips.

Qian Zhu came back to his senses, "It's me."

"Since Minister Jiang brought you here, you must have a lot of grievances. Tell me, what's the matter."

Lin You got straight to the point.

"I'm from Zizu Village, Shannan County, Lizhou. My name is Qian Zhu. I'm twenty years old this year."

"I'm here on behalf of all the people of Lizhou, with the whole village, to go to the capital to sue the Lizhou prefect and the Minister of Revenue for privately increasing taxes, withholding food and grass, and taking human lives."

"Moreover, on the way to the capital, I found that the places where taxes were increased were not just Lizhou."

Qian Zhu spoke word by word.

Every word contained great grievances and resentment.

Lin You raised her eyes and looked at Minister Zhu who kept wiping his sweat, "Minister Zhu, is this true?"

Her voice was faint, which made Minister Zhu shudder suddenly.

He knelt down, "I am innocent. Lizhou is so far from Shengjing. How could I possibly reach there!"

"This is clearly a frame-up!"

Looking at Minister Zhu kneeling beside him, Qian Zhu sneered coldly, and then looked at Lin You again, "I have correspondence between Minister Zhu and the prefect of Lizhou, which can be used as evidence."

Qian Zhu took out a letter from his arms, and Eunuch Hong presented it to Lin You for inspection.

Judging from the envelope, it should have been sent this month.

Lin You opened it and glanced at it. There were a few very short words: "Within half a month, receive 30,000 taels of tax silver."

The seal of Minister Zhu's mansion was at the end of the letter, and the recipient was Li Hao, the prefect of Lizhou.

The other one was a letter from the Lizhou governor to Zhu Shangshu, "We may not be able to collect so much tax in half a month. Can we increase the tax?"

Lin You was puzzled. [How did Qianzhu get these two letters? Generally speaking, shouldn't he burn them on the spot after reading them?]

Some people who heard the voice were also puzzled.

How could such a secret letter be so easy to get?

System [Because a girl married Lihao as a concubine in order to get this evidence. She hid for half a year and took the opportunity to get this letter. The letter that was burned was a fake. Later, she replaced Lihao's letter, so there were these two letters as evidence. ]

[And that concubine was Qianzhu's cousin. The brother and sister made this plan from the beginning. 】

Lin You,【Has Qian Zhu's cousin been discovered? Otherwise, Qian Zhu's going to Beijing to file a complaint alone would not have been known to Li Hao.】

【Yes, host. Li Hao's people had an accident while delivering the letter. They found that the letter was fake, so they immediately returned to tell Li Hao. However, at this time, Qian Zhu had been on the road for ten days, and they could not catch up with him for a while. In addition, Qian Zhu was in disguise, which made it even more difficult for them to capture him.】

【And that woman, after being discovered, was locked up in the basement and tortured. They didn't take her life, but just waited to use her to threaten Qian Zhu.】

Hearing this, Qian Zhu's heart tightened, and bloodshot appeared in his eyes.

In the days of being hunted, he escaped from death countless times, and heard those beasts countless times, saying how they tortured his cousin.

His heart was broken, but he couldn't. If he was caught, he would be in vain for his cousin's sacrifice