Chapter 368: This can only help
The high-spirited Mr. Liu had to grit his teeth and go back, once again confirming the old saying that a strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake.
Besides, he is not a strong dragon.
This trick of frame-up is really vicious. But in order to do it perfectly, Mr. Liu's plan was too precise.
Things that are too complex are prone to failure, and the same goes for plans. Li Chengqi noticed a crucial point in his plan.
No matter who is behind the scenes, all his arrangements are to remove himself, and there must be no trace of involvement.
This is very important. Since he took himself out, let's use this to make arrangements.
Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan conducted a high-profile investigation in the Wenqing family. If Mr. Liu still had an informant in the two families, they would definitely report him.
And the reporter must not go directly to Mr. Liu for an interview, otherwise he will not be able to get it out.
Then, the only way that can be thought of is to communicate through letters placed in a certain place.
The rest is much simpler, just observe which servant has left, track and replace the letters he placed.
This is Qin Yan's specialty, and the cat thief is very experienced in stealing and replacing others.
The replaced letter was dictated by Li Chengqi and written by Yang Yiyi. There were only eight words on it, "Someone is investigating to prevent changes."
These few words did not reveal any information about Yang Yiyi. No matter what the investigation revealed or who was investigating, they did not say anything that Mr. Liu would not tell the informant, but they gave it to Mr. Liu. A strong sense of oppression.
This sense of oppression comes from the possibility of failure of the plan.
Li Chengqi expected that Mr. Liu would have two reactions after receiving the letter. One was to pretend that nothing happened, terminate the plan, and leave Silk City after the situation calmed down.
The second is to take a chance and forcibly pin the charge of keeping tribute privately on the Wen family.
There are actually some uncontrollable risks in doing this. After all, he has not really married the Qing family yet.
This step is very important. If it is not confirmed, it means something may change. If Qingliu marries someone else, he will spend a long time making a wedding dress for someone else.
Coincidentally, although Qinglin Hong wanted to get married, his daughter Qingliu was so resistant, which made Qinglin Hong hesitate. This is also an important reason why Mr. Liu has not taken action even though all the informants have been silenced.
Given the choice between the two, Mr. Liu unfortunately chose the latter.
So he took people to dig out the tribute silk he had hidden in the middle of the night, and then reported it himself.
It was expected that the county magistrate would arrive. After all, Mr. Liu wanted to remove himself from this matter. As a salt transport envoy, Mr. Liu participated in the report. No matter how you look at it, it seems that there is no silver in this place. This means that if things get serious, even his father, who is a salt transport envoy, will not be able to suppress it.
Therefore, a report is a report, and it is best for the county magistrate to be the witness. In this way, in the official document delivered to the capital, it will be said that the magistrate uncovered a secret cache of tributes and invited people to investigate, instead of Mr. Liu being involved.
As for setting up traps behind the door, it was Yang Yiyi who came up with a bad idea and had nothing to do with Li Chengqi.
In terms of results, it works very well.
Not only was the trip in vain, but he also had to admit that this was a misunderstanding. It was said that Mr. Liu returned to Beijing at light speed with his servants the next day. He really had no shame in continuing to stay in Silk City.
After such a serious quarrel, did he just let him walk away lightly?
Otherwise. Mr. Liu's plan was really clean. There was no evidence that really pointed to him. Everything was based on the inference of who was most beneficial. Although the result was that he himself showed his true form, no evidence means no evidence. Even if he told the whole story to the magistrate, he would not dare to arrest the son of a third-rank official without any solid evidence.
Of course, he can't feel too good without evidence.
Qin Yan followed the servant who reported the message to Mr. Liu for another purpose, which was to search for any letters that could be used as evidence.
As soon as Mr. Liu left the place where he stayed, Qin Yan went in and searched, but unfortunately the man was very cautious and Qin Yan didn't find anything useful.
But such a cautious guy will definitely carry important things with him.
Do you still remember that when the county magistrate arrived, Qin Yan very attentively helped Mr. Liu up who was knocked down by Yang Yiyi.
Just by bumping someone's shoulders, Qin Yan could steal the deepest things in someone's arms. The act of lifting Young Master Liu was enough for her to turn through someone's underwear.
In the end, I found a few letters between Mr. Liu and his father, the salt transport envoy. It turned out that he was not involved in this plan alone. Without the permission of his father, who was the salt transport envoy, many things could not be done.
But it is still not enough as ironclad evidence. The information in the letter related to the whole matter is probably to "do it cleanly", "be careful" and "don't cause trouble". The father and son were very careful, and it was difficult to put them into practice. The salt transporter was also dragged into the water.
Based on these few letters and Yang Yiyi's oral inference, even the emperor cannot easily remove a third-grade official.
However, Yang Yiyi wrote a letter by herself and sent it to Li Yingluo together with these letters.
Wuzhou is also within the scope of Liuzhou State. Even if the third-rank official cannot be brought down, it is enough to ask Li Yingluo's father Situ to beat the salt transport envoy. It can be seen that the life of this third-rank official will not be too easy in the recent period.
The matter was finally over, and Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan also stayed in Silk City for two more days.
During this period, the Wen and Qing families were naturally grateful and hosted banquets every day. Yang Yiyi said that she was almost getting fat...
Before leaving, the two families also came to the port to see them off, and each presented a hundred taels of gold, a jade pendant and a family secret book to thank Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan for their hard work.
Gold is easy to talk about. Both of them are the largest wealthy businessmen in Silk City. This amount of money is at the level of water.
The jade pendant represents the promise of the two families. No matter what you ask for in the future, as long as you come with the jade pendant, the descendants of the two families will fully help.
Speaking of which, the two families didn't know what was wrong with them. The one they gave to the crazy monk Du Chun was also a jade pendant.
As for the secret book, the identities of Yang Yiyi and Qin Yanjiang Lakers were fully considered.
The two families no longer travel in the world at all, and the secret books left by their ancestors in the world are gathering dust. Considering that Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan might need them, they made a copy and gave them to them.
Yang Yiyi did not refuse the jade pendant and secret book, but she was embarrassed to take the gold. She felt that she had done nothing.
Qin Yan, on the other hand, does not refuse gold and jade pendants, but is not very interested in secret books. There are so many secrets in the Sixteenth Village that you can't even finish them with practice.
Before leaving, Yang Yiyi did not forget about Wen Yun and Qing Liu, saying that your two families have been entangled for a long time, why not take this opportunity to get married and forget about the grudges with a smile.
As for the issue of heirs, just let Wen Yun and Qing Liu get married and have a few more children, which would save the Qing family from being annexed by the Wen family.
It doesn’t matter what outsiders say about this matter, but the two families really feel that continuing like this is not an option and will give outsiders an opportunity. Generally speaking, there has been some progress. As for the final outcome, Yang Yiyi has no way to decide. This is enough to help two people.
(End of chapter)