Su Qingyu was a little surprised. After sitting down, she asked, "What do you mean?"
Shen Zhixiu picked up a stack of confessions beside him and handed them to Su Qingyu. "I interrogated Zhou Buren all night yesterday. This is his confession. The rest is a deduction of the whole story based on what happened that year and Zhou Buren's confession."
Because the other party was Su Qingyu's father, Shen Zhixiu couldn't describe the unbearable events and could only let her read it herself first.
Su Qingyu took the stack of confessions and began to read them one by one, her expression becoming more and more solemn.
By the time she saw the whole story, the bones of her fingers that were pinching the edge of the rice paper had turned white.
It turns out that Su Chengye and Gu Ruoyun grew up together and were childhood sweethearts. Su Chengye had originally intended to marry Gu Ruoyun. However, before the marriage could be arranged, the Su family's second master, Su Chengyan, became involved. To save his brother, Su Chengye married Lin.
After Su Chengye got married, he often had affairs with Gu Ruoyun outside, and this relationship continued until Gu Ruoyun got married.
Gu Ruoyun married into the Cheng family of the Fujian Governor's Mansion, and the two gradually lost contact.
It was not until the end of the eleventh year of Xuande that Su Chengye was exiled to Fujian and their old love was rekindled.
In the summer of the 12th year of Xuande, Fujian was hit by a flood, and the task of disaster relief fell on Gu Ruoyun's father-in-law, Cheng Xuewen, the then Governor of Fujian.
Zhou Bu Ren was the former housekeeper of the Cheng family, and he was deeply trusted by Cheng Xuewen. However, unknown to the Cheng family, Zhou Bu Ren had long been secretly in a relationship with Gu Ruoyun, the head of the family.
These two people set their sights on the benefits of disaster relief, so they tried to incite Cheng Xuewen and encouraged him to take away 20% of the money without anyone knowing.
Cheng Xuewen thought this was a good idea. Disaster relief was costly, so taking only 20% wouldn't have much of an impact. Since it was also the season when Japanese pirates were invading the border, Cheng Xuewen and his son were busy with military duties, so they handed the task over to Zhou Buren.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Bu Ren took away not 20%, but 80%. Some links in the process required the cooperation of the Ministry of Revenue, and Gu Ruoyun also privately asked Su Chengye for help.
When the matter was discovered by Chen Zheng, the then Minister of Revenue, Gu Ruoyun and Zhou Bu Ren were completely panicked. They pondered for an entire night and finally decided to use a trick to kill someone else.
Zhou Buren first hid the silver, and Gu Ruoyun went to Su Chengye to ask for his help, willing to use the evidence in his hand to exchange for her own safety. Su Chengye was naturally reluctant to let Gu Ruoyun get into trouble, and since Gu Ruoyun said she was pregnant with his child, he took the evidence to Chen Shangshu to ask for credit.
Afterwards, the Cheng family was exiled, Su Chengye was promoted, Gu Ruoyun moved into the Marquis' Mansion with her children, and Zhou Bu'ren used the money to come to the capital to open a trading company.
As for the two children's origins, according to Zhou Bu'ren, the daughter was probably of the Su family, conceived the night before Gu Ruoyun got married. The son was Zhou Bu'ren's, and after Gu Ruoyun found out she was pregnant, she deliberately went to have sex with Su Chengye to leave herself a way out.
The confession also asked why the child couldn't be the eldest son of the Cheng family. Zhou Bu Ren's answer was that the eldest son of the Cheng family was infertile. It was just that they bribed the doctor, and the Cheng family didn't know.
After Gu Ruoyun entered the Marquis' Mansion, she repeatedly threatened the Cheng family with the fact that Su Chengye had helped them embezzle money, and she was determined to let her son inherit the title of the Marquis' Mansion.
After reading it, Su Qingyu slammed the confession in her hand directly on the table.
Lin Wuchen already knew all this. He walked closer and pushed the teacup towards her hand, then jokingly said, "Be gentle, or you'll hurt your hand."
Su Qingyu gritted her teeth and said, "Gu Ruoyun is really a troublemaker."
"Fortunately, she didn't succeed. There's still time." Lin Wuchen comforted.
Su Qingyu thought of the ending of her previous life and a wry smile appeared on her lips. In her previous life, this mother and daughter had really succeeded. Gu Ruoyun became the mistress of the Su family, Cheng Rujin became the eldest young lady of the Shen family, and Su Yuanche inherited the Marquisate.
She gathered her thoughts and looked at Shen Zhixiu, "Where is Zhou Bu Ren now?"
"The Ministry of Justice's prison." Shen Zhixiu said softly, "I personally interrogated someone at the Ministry of Justice last night. Don't worry, I handled this matter personally, and no one else knew about it."
The two sat very close to each other, separated only by a square agarwood table. Su Qingyu's nose twitched twice, and she could faintly smell the blood on Shen Zhixiu's body.
"Did you come here directly from the Ministry of Justice prison?" Su Qingyu asked.
"After interrogating him, I went to the Dali Temple and checked some files." Shen Zhixiu then asked Su Qingyu, "What are you going to do? Is there anything else I can help you with?"
Su Qingyu looked at the tiredness between Shen Zhixiu's eyebrows, and her heart warmed slightly. She said in a gentle voice: "Can we release Zhou Bu Ren first?"
Shen Zhixiu pondered for a moment and asked her, "Do you want to let him go back to fishing?"
Su Qingyu raised an eyebrow. "My father is a little confused. If we don't make him give up completely, we won't be able to eradicate the problem completely."
"Since he caused this, he should do it himself."
It was a good opportunity for him to see how the woman he was protecting with all his heart cheated on him and how she schemed against him to the core.
After hearing what she said, Shen Zhixiu thought about it and nodded slightly, saying, "Okay, I'll have him released. When he and Gu Ruoyun meet in private, I'll send someone to notify you."
He even took on the job of surveillance.
Lin Wuchen, who was sitting on the side, sighed deeply, "Ah, these were all my jobs before. Now I have fallen out of favor, and my cousin doesn't even remember me as her cousin anymore."
Su Qingyu knew he was joking and rolled her eyes at him with a smile.
Shen Zhixiu said seriously, "How about you go to the Zhou family and keep an eye on them yourself?"
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