Xiao Cunyu was not interested in court affairs, but he also hoped that the future successor would be a benevolent monarch. If the people's grievances were too severe, those ghosts would become more powerful, and it would be impossible to coax the resentful souls to reincarnate with just a few words.
As soon as the imperial edict was issued, people from the Ministry of Justice went to the Wu family to arrest the person.
Xiao Cunyu had nothing to do at home, so he went out to watch the fun.
There were quite a few people watching the excitement. After all, the Duke of Wei's Mansion was once frequented by nobles. In the eyes of many, apart from the prince, the most noble young man in the world came from this family...
It was still prosperous the day before, but today, the plaque at the door was taken down.
Wu Deshen is in Jiangding, and the officers and soldiers will go to capture him. Wu Deshen's wife and children are also in the Duke of Wei's mansion.
They were all captured by people sent by the Ministry of Justice, put in shackles, and thrown into prison. During the process, many brave people threw rotten vegetable leaves and small stones at them. After a while, those glamorous ladies were so embarrassed that they could hardly raise their heads.
Each of them looked quite pitiful, but Xiao Cunyu did not feel any extra sympathy.
This is a case of "prosperity for all, loss for all". The other branches of the Wu family were lucky enough to survive or even remain almost unaffected.
"Serves her right! I heard that the young lady from the third branch of the Wu family had a tailor buy several Vietnamese birds for a dress at the beginning of the year. They had all the feathers plucked and sewn into the dress. When she put on the dress, she was praised as a fairy from heaven!"
"The lady and daughter of this family are regular customers of Cui Yu Zhai, going there several times a month. They buy up all the best and most expensive jewelry there, making countless people envious. Who would have thought that all this money was swindled from the national treasury!"
"They committed such a heinous crime, yet they are still alive! And those officials of the Wu family are all still fine!"
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The people watching still felt very uncomfortable.
Did the Wu family only steal silver? Besides hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and grain, they also stole the people of Jiangding!
I heard that Wu Deshen did not allow the officials sent from the capital to investigate the case to find that the disaster was not serious, and he even deliberately created a disaster!
This is the case even when there is no disaster. If the disaster is really serious, the Wu family will lose countless lives!
Xiao Cunyu listened to people on the street talking indignantly about the Wu family with a calm expression. He just glanced around and saw three men hiding behind the crowd.
They were the legitimate sons of the Wu family's eldest branch. Xiao Cunyu had met two of them, Wu Yezhi and Wu Yanming.
Xiao Cunyu looked too eye-catching and was sitting there leisurely drinking tea, so the other party saw him at a glance.
The eyes are piercing.
Wu Yanming strode directly towards Xiao Cunyu with great momentum, as if he was here to settle a score with her.
But Xiao Cunyu thought about it and realized that apart from not treating him well at the banquet at the Prince's Mansion that day, he didn't seem to have done anything else to offend him. Why was he angry?
"Are you satisfied, Mr. Xiao Qilang?!" Wu Yanming rushed up and asked.
Xiao Cunyu was confused: "Satisfied with what?"
"Are you still pretending to be stupid? Your Xiao family is investigating a murder case on the surface, but you are actually playing tricks behind the scenes. If it weren't for your eldest brother, would my third uncle's family have ended up like this? My third uncle's youngest son is only five years old now, and he is about to be exiled three thousand miles away! My fifth sister was about to be arranged to get married, but now everything is ruined!" Wu Yanming's eyes were red, and he had completely lost his mind.
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