Chapter 406 Physical Evidence

Cang County -

Lin Zhangjing finally got to the place, and his men had already grabbed a few children at the entrance to the city and couldn't wait to say, "Hey, kids, do you know that there is a very good opera singer here, in the Rongsheng Opera Troupe, named Lan Xiaolou."

The children looked at each other, and one of them took the copper coins they gave him and said, "I know, it's Lan Xiaolou, you Just go from here, turn left when you see a fork in the road, and it will be there after three villages. But the noble man hasn't been back for a long time, so you may not be able to find him if you want to look for him."

The guard pushed the child and said, "Go away, why do you care so much? Take the money and leave quickly."

A group of children ran back to the alley, divided the money and dispersed. The guard stepped forward and led Lin Zhangjing the way.

"No hurry!"

Lin Zhangjing was more thoughtful than them and opened his tired eyes: "Go to the stalls and ask those uncles and aunts, the children's words are not allowed."

The guard hurried over and took out a bag of copper plates: "Auntie... I want to ask you something."

"What uncle?"

"Auntie?"

"What mother?"

This old woman is hard of hearing!

After waiting for the guard to make it clear, the road pointed by the lady was the same as those of the children.

The guard went back to report, and Lin Zhangjing flicked his whip: "Go over quickly."

The emperor must be getting impatient.

"Tut-tut-tut..."

Ma Yiyang felt that it was a long time before he heard the muffled sound of horse hooves. He quickly gave a hand order, and Xiao Zhong and Luo Cheng disappeared in a flash.

"Pray--"

"Damn it!"

Someone cursed, "How dare those kids and old women deceive us? The next door is clearly Jijia Village. They made us waste so much time. When I see them on my way back, I will definitely catch them and beat them up."

Lin Zhangjing was particularly irritated. He kicked away the mumbling guard who was asking for directions: "Is this Lan Xiaolou's home? Go in and take a look."

If he really had a cousin who depended on him since childhood, there would always be traces of a woman's life in this house.

"Squeak--"

The dilapidated wooden door was pushed by someone, and half of the lock broke. Dust fell from the top of the head, making Lin Zhangjing and others cough.

The room was gray and dark. Two guards came forward and opened the window. Another cloud of dust flew.

Lin Zhangjing fanned with his hands and took a long time to see the scene in the room clearly. It was

a simple wooden bed, but there was a light blue gauze curtain above the wooden bed, and on the wooden bed was a wedding quilt embroidered by a woman.

How did he know that it was embroidered by a woman?

Because no man in the Great Yan Dynasty could embroider, and the pattern on the quilt was not beautiful at all. It should have been embroidered by a beginner with a lot of energy.

In the center of the room was a round table, on which there were teapots and cups for drinking water.

Looking around, the woman's dressing table looked relatively new, perhaps because the owner had taken good care of it before.

"Clang!"

The sound of the wood falling apart startled Lin Zhangjing who was observing the environment, and the guard quickly explained: "Zhangjing, there are women's clothes in here."

It was called clothes, but it was actually a set of red wedding dress. It

was wrapped in black cloth and had been there for who knows how many years. It was slightly faded, but because it was wrapped in something, it was the only thing in the room that looked clean.

Lin Zhangjing used his scabbard to pick up the wedding dress and took a look. This dress seemed to be older than the Empress's... Bah bah bah... He couldn't be disrespectful to the Empress.

After saying "I'm sorry", he asked the guards to pick up the wedding dress and put it on his body: "This is evidence, take it back and let the emperor take it away."

"Zhang Jing, come and see, there is a grave here, it has been dug up."

Someone actually dug up a grave?

Lin Zhang Jing rushed out of the back door with a "whoosh" sound, and saw a mess.

The coffin was violently pried open, and the bones inside disappeared. There was a wooden tablet broken into two pieces on the ground, and it was written on it: the tomb of my wife... something... Dong... something...?

The name engraved on the tablet was scratched with a knife and it was unrecognizable. It was impossible to recognize what the words were.

But it can be seen that the person who destroyed this place wanted to change the word "Dong" on the wooden tablet to "Jiang".

Someone wants to frame the Empress, so they deliberately arranged those kids to point them in the wrong direction!

Fortunately, Lin was smart. When he saw the villagers outside Jijia Village, he realized that he had taken the wrong road, so he quickly turned his horse around and headed for Loujia Village, which the villagers mentioned when he asked for directions.

The previous flower name of Lan Xiaolou was Cuiyulou, and it couldn't be separated from the word Lou, so it must be Loujia Village.

Lin Zhangjing was enlightened, picked up the broken wood on the ground and ran: "Quick! Go back to the palace and tell the emperor that the Empress was wronged."

It was Concubine Tong who wanted to harm her!

If he had been more careful, he would have found that the soil that was dug out was actually newly filled.

Jiang Xinyue asked Jiang Yankun to arrange people to come to Cang County, not to build a fake tombstone, that would be too easy to be discovered. They were not so powerful that they could conjure up a corpse and build an old tomb from three or four years ago.

So, how could a new tomb be built without being discovered?

Jiang Xinyue said in the letter that she asked her father to send people to dig up the non-existent tomb, dig out the coffin, and steal the non-existent corpse.

The soil dug out from the ground was new, and no one could tell the newness of the soil.

Anyway, whoever wanted to harm her would be held responsible for digging up the grave of Lan Xiaolou's "fiancée" cousin.

After another six hours of quick riding, Lin Zhangjing and his companions returned to the palace in a hurry. When presenting the things to the emperor, they said, "Your Majesty, the Tong family is really despicable. They actually dug up other people's graves and stole the bones. If our subordinates had not discovered the trick in time and rushed to Loujia Village, they would have even changed the name on the tombstone."

"Dong?"

Lan Xiaolou's parents died early, and he had no relatives at home except the cousin he mentioned. The cousin also had no relatives, so there was no way to investigate their identities.

But a person's lie cannot be planned so early, so it should be true.

The clothes that Lin Zhangjing brought back were two sizes larger than Yue'er's, and it was obvious at a glance that they were not hers.

He knew that Yue'er had always loved him the most.

The Tong family was really despicable.

"Wang Dequan, convey my decree that the Tong family intended to discredit the empress and frame the empress. From today on, the Minister of Works Tong Bingchen will be dismissed and investigated to serve as a warning to others."

Wang Dequan didn't know whether the empress would fall or not, but he felt that the emperor was about to fall.

The emperor frequently summoned ministers to the study, and he hadn't returned to Chengqian Palace to sleep for several days.

The harem said that he was frustrated in love and put all his energy on state affairs.

The concubines in the harem were all waiting for the empress to fall out of favor, and they used all sorts of tricks to win the emperor's favor.