Chapter 029 Can Zong Zheng Xiao hear my thoughts?

Rong Yin's accusation could be described as a mixture of grief and anger, but Zong Zhengxiao felt that he died innocently.

He didn't realize at all that the mermaid liked these things!

In his eyes, his mermaid loves to eat, sleep, play, show off, and complain. Apart from that, it seems that she has no other hobbies.

But only now did he realize that it was not that it did not exist, but that he had not discovered it.

Zong Zhengxiao silently added a note to the mermaid raising manual in his heart: love of money (this characteristic is limited to my mermaids and is not universal)

Once you know the crux of the problem, it will be easy to solve.

Zong Zhengxiao used both kindness and force to coax the man ashore, and found an excuse to reward Si Xi with a bag of golden melon seeds. When he noticed that Rong Yin had been staring at the bag, he pretended to ask casually, "Do you like it too?"

Rong Yin was so excited that he almost nodded directly, exposing his disguise. Fortunately, he held back in the end. However, his eager expression had already expressed his true thoughts.

Zong Zhengxiao laughed and gave an instruction to Si Xi. After a while, Si Xi came over with a red lacquered wooden box that was half an arm's length and height.

"Take it and play with it if you like it." Zong Zhengxiao pushed the box to Rong Yin.

Rong Yin opened the lid, and inside the box were piled all over with gold, silver, jade, pearls, agate, and glass jadeite, emitting dazzling light under the sun. Even the wooden box containing the treasures looked very valuable, which seemed to be a clear declaration: We are valuable! Very, very valuable!

The sparkling jewelry did not blind Rong Yin, but instead made his eyes widen and his mouth open wide, revealing his sharp teeth.

He looks funny yet a little scary.

It took a long time for Rong Yin to recover from her surprise. She looked at Zong Zheng Xiao with shining eyes: Really? Are you really going to give this to me?

Zong Zhengxiao smiled indulgently: "I can see that you like it very much. I will give you all the good things in the future."

The mermaid saved his life, gave him the opportunity to change Dasheng's tragic future, and brought him wealth.

These treasures are not even one ten-thousandth of his merit. Zong Zhengxiao is very happy that he has the ability to give the merman things he likes so that he can stay by his side happily.

Thinking that he would be a wealthy man in the future, Rong Yin was excited and moved.

Rong Yin: No matter what I think, Zong Zheng Xiao always responds in time. If I didn’t know it was a coincidence, I would have thought he could read my mind.

In fact, it is possible. Zong Zhengxiao: "..."

He didn't even dare to think about how Rong Yin would react if she knew the truth one day? Would she get so angry that she would bite him?

Considering Rong Yin's temperament, this is indeed possible.

Rong Yin really likes these treasures. She even puts them next to her head when she goes to sleep at night, for fear that someone might snatch them away. Seeing this, Lu'e and the others couldn't help laughing.

In the capital, Rong Yin was dreaming of a huge sum of money, but someone in the prison was not so happy.

But he deserves it.

Because all the students who cheated in the exams have not been caught yet, Su Qian has to be locked up in jail. Not only does he have to be interrogated every day, but he also has to endure a damp cell, vicious rats that can bite people, and rotten food.

What made him most anxious and painful was that he might have to spend the rest of his life in a place like this.

Before this, Su Qian had only suffered once, when he fled back to his hometown with his master's treasures. He was afraid that exposing his wealth would bring disaster, so he had to disguise himself as a refugee, drink dirty water and eat tree bark, and he starved himself to the point of losing more than ten pounds.

He was born into a small family. He studied when he was young and entered the master's house after he had learned enough. After the establishment of the Xin Dynasty, he returned to the capital and used his money to get into the Imperial College.

Normally, I make money by cheating on others, and after my daughter gets married, she gets financial support from her in-laws. It’s really a comfortable life.

Now that he has fallen to this point, Su Qian has no regrets about having done the wrong thing, and only has malicious calculations in his heart.

The Ning Prince's Mansion was his in-law, but they refused to save him, causing him to suffer so much in prison. He hated the Ning Prince's family to death.

Since they are so unkind and unjust, don't blame him for trying to find another way to save himself.

The reason why Su Qian had this idea has to be told from the very beginning.

When he was found out about helping students cheat, before he was thrown into jail, he immediately sent someone to Prince Ning's mansion to deliver a message to his daughter and son-in-law, hoping that they would ask Prince Ning to save him.

In Su Qian's view, Prince Ning was a member of the royal family, and saving him was just a matter of words.

But until the matter was reported to the emperor and he was thrown into prison, there was no reply from there.

What doesn't he understand? Prince Ning is simply unwilling to take action!

Su Qian was so angry. He hated King Ning for not saving his relative, and he also hated his daughter for being useless and not being able to ask King Ning for help.

Knowing that there was no one behind him, Su Qian closed his mouth even more tightly. No matter how the people sent by the emperor interrogated him, he remained silent.

All the students who study in the Imperial College are from wealthy or noble families. Those who have been caught so far are considered small-time people, and those he has not mentioned yet are the big fish.

If those big fish are exposed, he will really be killed!

Fortunately, he hid the account book very carefully, not even telling his wife. As long as he kept silent, the officials handling the case would not be able to find the account book, and he would be safe.

He had been planning to continue to fight with the investigators like this, but a few days ago, the officials interrogating him suddenly changed their tactics, from oral questioning as the main method, supplemented by simple criminal law, to the current severe torture.

First he was whipped with a whip soaked in salt water, then he was hit with a stick, and then his fingers were pinched.

They didn't have to use their full strength in any of the torture, leaving him awake to feel the pain. If he didn't give up the names of the other students the next day, they would continue to torture him.

After three or four days, Su Qian couldn't hold on any longer.

He heard the guards in the prison whispering that the two officials sent to interrogate him this time were from the emperor's side and the other from the aristocratic family.

The reason why he was tortured was because the officials on the emperor's side requested it, saying that the case must be closed as soon as possible to give an explanation to the emperor.

The officials from the aristocratic family tried to persuade them, saying that Su Qian was a teacher and they should at least respect him, but they were scolded in the end.

Knowing who was the culprit who caused him to suffer, Su Qian had one more person to resent.

He was well aware of the discord between the royal family and the aristocratic families. As a relative of Prince Ning, if he did something wrong, it would be easy for the aristocratic families to attack the royal family.

But he just took some money and didn't kill anyone or rob anyone. Why did the emperor treat him like this?

Su Qian felt unconvinced!

A few days later, when Su Qian was beaten to death again, the officers who dragged him back to the cell thought he had fainted and discussed his case in front of him.

It was heard that the emperor was angry and even Prince Ning was implicated. Both of them felt that Su Qian had brought discredit to the royal family, so once the case was concluded, he would not only go to jail, but he might also be silenced.

Su Qian's wound was inflamed at the time and he felt dizzy from the fever. He was so frightened when he heard this that he broke out in a cold sweat.

He doesn't want to die, he wants to live.

Currently, the only ones who can fight against the royal family are the aristocratic families.

But it is impossible for the noble family to help him without reason. Su Qian thought for a long time and finally decided to use his biggest secret as a bargaining chip, that is, his daughter's life experience and the list of remnants of the previous dynasty.