At this moment, Old Sun's expression was very unpleasant. He never expected that these beggars had planned to betray him from the very beginning.
But then again, what kind of manners do you expect from these beggars? Can you expect them to have any moral compass?
This is inherently unrealistic, so why bother hoping for such a possibility to exist?
So, despite his lifelong wisdom, Old Sun never imagined that he would be outsmarted by these beggars in this matter.
Perhaps they underestimated this beggar and didn't expect him to be so cunning.
At this moment, the old beggar took out a series of envelopes from his body. Although the envelopes were unsigned, there was no indication in the contents who wrote them.
The name "Old Sun" was not mentioned at all.
However, by comparing the handwriting, it can be determined who wrote the letter.
Zhu Yunwen looked at the letters on the table, then turned to Old Master Sun and said:
"Elder Sun, would you like me to have someone bring your handwriting for comparison?"
Old Sun smiled slightly and said:
"Your Highness is probably joking. Even if your handwriting is the same as mine, what does that prove?"
In this world, many people's handwriting is quite similar. If you can prove that these envelopes were written by me just by looking at the handwriting, then you are not guilty of this.
Or rather, relying solely on the contents of these letters to prove that I ordered the digging of sweet potato and potato seeds wouldn't be convincing enough, would it?
Zhu Yunwen nodded slightly and said:
"That's true, but now you're a suspect, aren't you?"
Mr. Sun said, "I have to admit that, given the current situation, I do seem to be somewhat suspected."
Zhu Yunwen slammed the gavel on the table and shouted:
"If you're a suspect, why aren't you sitting there and instead of standing up quickly?"
Old Sun's expression changed, and he had no choice but to stand up properly from his seat and slowly walk to the center of the hall.
At this moment, he seemed to be half a prisoner, no longer enjoying the treatment he had received as a local gentry and landlord.
Zhu Yunwen continued:
"Now the case is relatively clear. These sweet potato and potato seeds were dug up by these beggars. And there's someone behind the beggars. Once we find out who that person is, we can catch the mastermind and close the case."
Old Master Sun smiled and said, "That seems to be the case, but Your Highness, your evidence doesn't seem to be sufficient."
Zhu Yunwen said with a smile:
"No rush. Someone, bring the middle-aged fat man and those bandits up here."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Imperial Guard personally led the middle-aged fat man and the group of bandits slowly to the main hall.
It wasn't until he saw the middle-aged fat man that Old Sun truly panicked.
The middle-aged fat man came up expressionlessly and immediately knelt on the ground.
Clearly, he hadn't had a good time under the control of the Embroidered Uniform Guard during this period. He had been completely subdued and now appeared very obedient.
Zhu Yunwen then spoke:
“The bandits below, you can tell us yourselves.”
The bandit leader and his wife, who were also bandits, spoke up:
"Your Highness, a few days ago, this middle-aged fat man came to our cave and said he wanted to discuss a cooperation with us."
They gave us a deposit of one hundred taels of silver, and left us with nine hundred taels of silver to go down the mountain and dig up the sweet potato and potato seeds planted by the local people.
We were unwilling, so we prepared to leave that very night.
Zhu Yunwen nodded, then looked at the middle-aged fat man and said:
Is this true?
The middle-aged fat man, who had already been dealt with by the Imperial Guards for several days, immediately spoke obediently:
"Your Highness, this is indeed true."
Zhu Yunwen suddenly rebuked:
"Tell me quickly, who ordered you to do these things?"
The middle-aged fat man pointed at Old Sun without hesitation and said:
"Your Highness, it was him, it was Elder Sun. Elder Sun ordered me to do this. I am Elder Sun's subordinate, his henchman."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Old Master Sun again, and Old Master Sun immediately denied it:
"Your Highness, I do not know this person, nor do I have any so-called subordinate of his, nor did I instruct him to go and dig up sweet potato or potato seeds from mountain bandits."
Just now, His Highness the Crown Prince said that these beggars were digging up the sweet potato and potato seeds, but now he's saying he's looking for bandits to dig up the red soil seeds. This contradiction doesn't make any sense at all.
Zhu Yunwen smiled slightly and said:
"You can't reason with me, can you? No problem, I'll explain it to you slowly. To start, have your men contact these beggars."
The reason is that the number of beggars is so large that it would be very convenient for them to secretly dig up the sweet potato and potato seeds planted by the people.
Because they are naturally good at stealing, they are extremely adept at doing such sneaky things.
However, you didn't expect that I would find out about this so quickly, and I had all those beggars beaten and several key figures arrested, thus cutting off your henchmen.
So, realizing the danger, you sent people to find these bandits, ostensibly to get them to continue digging sweet potatoes and potato seeds and doing this blatant crime.
In reality, the intention was to deliberately expose incriminating evidence, making these bandits act as scapegoats and fall victim to the scheme, thus misleading us into believing that the bandits were the ones doing the work, and cutting off the trail from the bandits.
But to your utter surprise, this actually revealed some more evidence and clues, which led us to catch you. Now, both clues point to you.
Truly, you reap what you sow. You've driven yourself to a dead end, yet you continue to act so cleverly. Your methods are truly clumsy and full of loopholes, and now you still want to argue and deny things in this hall? Hmph, utterly laughable.
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