Chapter 118

After receiving the order, Eunuch Gao hurried away from Qin Yuan's side and went to the entrance of Taihe Hall to pass the order.

At this time, the confession document had already been passed to Lin Jiaojiao's hands. She silently opened the confession document and lowered her head to read it carefully.

She didn't know until she looked, but she was really shocked when she did!

As Xu Xiao's dead soldier, Wuding did a lot of dirty work for him!

The first case was the murder of people related to the Lin Ye case, totaling thirty-five people! Among them, besides Qin Liuye who was murdered yesterday, there were other powerful people in the capital whose names could be mentioned!

It was just that Lin Jiaojiao didn't know these powerful people. She thought that the reason it didn't come to light early was that they used extremely high-level methods to deal with it when killing people!

Qin Liuye was murdered, and she almost died under his bow and arrow. It must have been a desperate move when he was cornered!

Since she came to court to beat the drum and complain, she had been directly detained in the Huang Gong by Qin Yuan. She thought the palace was heavily guarded, and Wuding had never found a chance to take action, so he had to resort to this bad move, waiting at the palace gate and waiting for an opportunity.

Although she had met Lu Zhenting at the palace gate before, she was with Lu Zhenting at that time, so he wouldn't act rashly, right?

Lin Jiaojiao continued to read down and was shocked to find: This Wuding had also participated in many cases of Dali Temple!

Some witnesses in the cases were quietly taken out by them! Doing this could make Dali Temple appear to have a very high case-solving rate on the surface! It could even gain the Emperor's trust, and these events had never stopped since Xu Xiao entered Dali Temple to serve!

This directly allowed Xu Xiao to be promoted from an ordinary registrar of Dali Temple to the Minister of Dali Temple in just ten years!

If it were an ordinary person, the possibility of being promoted from an ordinary registrar of Dali Temple to the Minister of Dali Temple would be slim!

That dog official Xu Xiao could do this step, and he didn't know how much manpower, material resources, and silver he had spent!

His embezzlement of silver was all to pave the way for his official career!

Lin Jiaojiao continued to read and found that Wuding was involved in twenty-seven cases! The cases involved by the other three dead soldiers must be more than that!

She couldn't help but click her tongue: If she hadn't beaten the drum to complain, the actions of that dog official Xu Xiao would probably have been known much later!

Using pufferfish toxin to poison that dog official Xu Xiao could be considered as eliminating harm for the people!

The listed cases also mentioned the Ministry of Justice explosion case back then!

Lin Jiaojiao couldn't help but secretly glance at the Minister of Justice Wen Yushu. Only then did she notice that his standing posture was slightly tilted to the left, and on his left wrist exposed in the sleeve, there was a faint scar of skin melting, and a piece was sunken under the scar...

Could these old illnesses be caused by the Ministry of Justice explosion back then?

At this time, the Minister of Justice Wen Yushu felt Lin Jiaojiao's gaze. He looked over, and Lin Jiaojiao had to bury her head quickly, pretending to read the confession document.

When she looked down again, she was already absent-minded, so she handed the confession document to a minister next to her and refocused her gaze on Su Hongtu.

She saw him kneeling and reporting to the Emperor, "Emperor, this subject has already gathered the former servants of Xu Fu together and plans to send these witnesses to the Ministry of Justice after the court session to provide clues about the whereabouts of the military pay back then!"

"That's very good!" Hearing Prime Minister Su mention the clues about the whereabouts of the military pay back then, Qin Yuan's brows finally showed a trace of joy, "Be sure to find back the silver embezzled by Xu Xiao back then, refill it into the national treasury, and use it for military purposes!"

Other ministers nodded one after another. One old minister stroked his beard and praised, "It is not easy to trace silver. If there are account details and relevant clues, we can find the root and bottom. Prime Minister Su is worthy of being the pillar of our dynasty, to have such a comprehensive arrangement!"

But how could Lin Jiaojiao believe that this old fox Su Hongtu could have such a kind heart?

She thought deeply and quickly understood Su Hongtu's intention!

It turned out that the Lin family's case back then was reported by Su Hongtu, which meant he must have profited from Xu Xiao!

Now that he was named to talk about the situation of the case back then, rather than being investigated, it was better to bite Xu Xiao back hard!

Even taking the opportunity of Wuding being caught, he shook out all the cases Xu Xiao was involved in and raised it to the royal court. The Emperor would surely believe his words!

Although clearing the injustice back then was not false, it was more about making a big deal out of the royal regime and throwing Xu Xiao's whole family into death row in one fell swoop!

As for herself, she became a stepping stone for Su Hongtu to claim credit!

Lin Jiaojiao speculated here and fully understood Su Hongtu's motive this time.

But she couldn't say much now, because the injustice involved many old cases, and each one could nail Xu Xiao's whole family to death!

And he was so cunning that he must have completely removed himself during this period, so he dared to provide "witnesses" in the court like this!

As for how much truth there was in the words of these witnesses, it was unknown.

Even if Lin Jiaojiao had no sensitivity to court politics, she still felt that at least half of the civil and military officials were his minions!

Those students didn't do anything stupid this time; they must have been guided by experts in secret!

But these things had nothing to do with her, Lin Jiaojiao!

At this time, a guard hurried to report, "Reporting to the Emperor, after Xu Chengpeng poisoned Xu Xiao to death, he committed suicide by taking poison at home!"

"What?" Qin Yuan was shocked and stood up from the dragon chair, "Poisoned his father to death, and committed suicide?! When did he commit suicide?!"

Even Lin Jiaojiao was deeply shocked: This person actually poisoned his father to death before committing suicide by taking poison!

The civil and military officials looked at each other: Although tigers don't eat their cubs, sons will kill their fathers!

The guard reported back: "It was about the hour of the dragon this morning. The servants of Xu Fu said that when they went to deliver breakfast in the morning, he was reading a letter. When they went over again, the breakfast had been moved a few times, but both Xu Xiao and Xu Chengpeng were bleeding from seven orifices and died of poisoning!"

Qin Yuan frowned, "Since they died of poisoning, how can there be talk of suicide by taking poison?"

"Emperor, his servants saw a suicide note with wet ink on the desk in the study, so the little ones brought the suicide note." The guard said, presenting a piece of white paper with black ink with both hands.

Eunuch Gao took Xu Chengpeng's suicide note and presented it to Qin Yuan with both hands.

After he opened it and finished reading, his expression was startled, and then he handed it to Eunuch Gao, signaling him to pass Xu Chengpeng's suicide note to the civil and military officials to read.

Prime Minister Su was the first to receive Xu Chengpeng's suicide note. He opened it and read it out directly.

"Criminal Xu Chengpeng, I know in my heart that the evil committed by my father and me is too numerous to record, and the sins are heavy. We can no longer escape the severe punishment of the Heavenly Dao. Criminal Xu Chengpeng is willing to bear all the crimes with my father. I have already poisoned my father to death and committed suicide by taking poison. I hope the Emperor will be lenient and let go of my younger sister Xu Yuanzhi and the innocent wife and children in the family."