The housekeeper lost all his anger. Since the scandal that he had done with Mrs. Zheng had been known to the emperor and the queen, it would be meaningless to hide it. Now the most important thing is to think about how to save the lives of his son and wife and prevent the incense from being cut off.

"Caomin has all been recruited, begging the emperor to let go of Caomin's family's life. The old lady did kill Mr. Zheng himself. More than 30 years ago, she first laid soft muscles for Mr. Zheng's drink, and then used a hallucination fragrance for him. God finally walked into the pond in the garden, fell directly, and drowned in the pond. But everything was carefully planned by the old lady. She didn't want to die at the hands of the old lady, so she had to do it first."

The housekeeper wiped tears to avoid sobs, and the bone-eroding regret spreading in his heart, making him very regretful why he didn't stop the old lady from doing these things.

Xiao Linye was not satisfied, "The old lady did a shameful thing, right? I looked at the decorations of the Zheng family's old house. Whether it was furniture, porcelain, or antique calligraphy and paintings, they were extremely expensive and priceless. Where did these silver come from? And where did the 500,000 taels of tax and silver that I had embezzled before?

The housekeeper's body trembled for a moment. When he met the gaze that the emperor and the queen were so sharp that they could almost see through, he did not dare to hide anything and told everything he knew.

"There is more than fifty miles away from Qianling Mountain outside Daozhou City. The old lady secretly mined a gold mine. There were gold from where these years, and all the gold belonged to Mrs. Zheng. By the way, the old lady did not dare to use the people in Daozhou City to dig these gold mines, but tricked those from other places, those who were guarding or helpless people to mine. This year, it rained heavily in more than 20 prefectures and counties in the south, and the floods were severe. Water was poured into the mine, and the soil was soft and the mine collapsed. About dozens of people were buried alive in the mine, and they could never get out again."

Xiao Linye and Xu Muqing heard the butler tell the butler that the gold mine collapsed and many people died. Their faces became extremely cold, and a cold murderous aura burst out. "The Zheng family is so bold. This is not to treat the people as lives. Why don't they die!"

Dozens of lives, this old witch is even more vicious than the deposed queen.

"Where is the account book? Where are the lists of those killed? Take it out immediately!"

Xiao Linye asked the guards beside him to go forward and grabbed the butler with his backhand. The bones were clattering. The butler was sweating profusely in pain, and let out a wailing sound like a pig killing. "It hurts so much, it hurts me so much. Your Madam, these are the old lady's ideas. Caomin is just a servant, and even Caomin can't make decisions on these things."

"Take out the account book, don't tell me that you don't know where you are. You are the man that Mrs. Zheng loves, loyal and with your left arm and right arm. Even if you don't make a decision, you will definitely know about these things. Take them out." Xiao Linye really didn't expect that the tax silver would be embezzled, and there were gold mines that were mined privately in Daozhou City. That's fine, but dozens of lives were even caused.

The Zheng family was really brave. They really thought they were the local emperors of Daozhou, and even the prefect could not do anything to them!

The housekeeper was so distressed that his face was twisted together, "Caomin knew where the account book was placed, but he couldn't open it without a key. The key was taken by the old lady himself. Please give Caomin some time to get the account book back."

Xiao Linye turned his head and said to Feng Yi and Feng Er who were following behind him, "Go with him to get the account book. If you can't get it, just chop off his head and don't have to live anymore."

I thought that when I came to Daozhou, I would have recovered the tax and silver I had ever made. Who would have thought that there would be such a deep murder case hidden. The old witch spent gold stained with blood on human blood. Could it be that she would not have nightmares in the middle of the night? How could she spend these silver so peacefully?

When Xu Muqing saw the emperor's face turned pale, she was obviously angry, so she immediately helped him and said softly, "Your Majesty, don't be angry anymore. It's not worth being angry for such a person. She will be punished soon. It's not worth being angry for such a person."

Xiao Linye looked at her concerned eyes, and the anger in his heart disappeared without a trace, "Mu Qing, I feel very heartbroken. Those who were buried in the mine should not have died, but were targeted by the Zheng family."

"When I get the list of victims, I have someone to send a pension to their families. If I have wives and children, and elderly parents, it is considered compensation to ensure that they can live a decent life for the rest of their lives. If a person cannot be resurrected, all we can do is compensation." She comforted Xiao Linye softly.

Now, there is no other way except to compensate the victim's family for some money.

More than an hour later, the heavy wooden box containing the account book was taken out and placed in front of Xiao Linye and Xu Muqing.

It was a wooden box made of golden nanmu, which was extremely precious. If it were anyone else, he would not be willing to split it. However, Xiao Linye was so angry, especially after knowing that Mrs. Zheng had killed so many people, he didn't care about so many and split the entire box, and dozens of thick account books were taken out.

Xiao Linye focused on the account book of the gold mine and estimated it quickly in his heart. However, the more he calculated, the rough data made him very angry. In just five or six years, the Zheng family secretly mined 200,000 taels of gold from the gold mine.

Two hundred thousand taels of gold are equivalent to the tax revenue of more than 20 states and counties in the south for half a year. It is really cruel and greedy, and it is outrageous.

Xu Muqing took out the silver earned from the shops of the Zheng family and looked at it. She was good at calculating and simply read it in her mind, and then she understood how much silver had entered Mrs. Zheng's pocket.

Even though she was used to living a life of luxury since childhood, after seeing the old lady embezzled so much silver, she couldn't help but sigh, "Master, the old lady's private money is almost as good as the silver in the treasury. This is the legendary wealth that is as rich as a country, right? In comparison, we are really poor, not even as good as the old lady who has entered the soil with one and a half of her body. I want to cry."

Xiao Linye saw her crying poorly, and knew that she was worried that he would be angry when he saw the account book, which would lead to a big mistake. He deliberately said something irrelevant to calm his anger. He softened his heart and said to her softly, "I will not be so angry that I lost my mind and killed innocent people. I originally just wanted tax silver, but now I have changed my mind. I want the Zheng family's money and all the wealth."

"It just so happened that the flood was hit and the national treasury was almost emptied. Now it's great for me to fill the vacancy."

But Mrs. Zheng wanted to set fire to the couple to death and let the poisonous snake bit their children to death. The account must be settled. He would never be ruthless and would never let the poisonous woman have a good life.

Xu Muqing patted the account books, "These can be taken to the people in other rooms of the Zheng family. The old lady is now ruined and it is indispensable to dirt into a pig cage, but these things don't have to be passed through our hands. Husband, since all the evidence has been obtained, I think it can be closed. Lord Bai and his family have been locked in the cell for a day, and it's time to clear their innocence."

Xiao Linye was more concerned about where the tax silver was hidden, and then someone brought the housekeeper up and interrogated him strictly. The housekeeper was frightened and did not ask much. He told him everything he knew, including the places where the tax silver was hidden, the gold mined in the gold mine, and the ones that had not been transported out.

"Then I want to go and meet the old lady, husband, do you want to accompany me?" Xu Muqing was really curious. Since the old lady already owned a gold mine, why did she embezzle the tax silver? She even wanted to tell her that they had already known about the Zheng family's embezzle the tax silver when they came to Daozhou.

The damp and dark dungeon exudes a decay smell. Walking in it, there are occasionally mice running around, and the environment is very bad.

Mrs. Zheng and Zheng Qingfeng's wife and concubine were locked up together. The women were crying and kneeling down when they saw Xu Muqing, "Empress, the civilian women really don't know anything. Please spare the civilian women."

Xu Muqing couldn't arouse any sympathy for the crying of those women. Perhaps these women did not know about the shameful things Zheng Qingfeng and the old lady did, but were they really innocent, and they were frugal and favoured with delicious food and drink?

"Old lady, have you figured it out? Are you willing to confess your guilt?" Xu Muqing asked someone to move a chair over and asked the person inside through the cell.

Lin's face was gloomy, and his sharp and deep eyes showed a strong hatred, "What's wrong with the crime? Queen, if you want to put the Zheng family to death, you should say it early. There is no need to take out the fake evidence to deceive the world. What I have never done before. No matter how you force me, I will not admit it. The Empress will stop this as soon as possible."

Xu Muqing admired the old lady's courage and courage that was still calm even if she collapsed. "Old lady, if you are the deposed queen mother, you will probably be the one who laughs to the end. Where can I do anything about me and the emperor? This calm and calm courage and courage that even the mountains collapse in front of me will not change my face."

At this point, Lin didn't want to face Xu Muqing with a smile on her face. She couldn't help but sneer, "What do you want to say? You can just say it straight, it's not the way you beat around the bush, do you think so? How did the Empress die if she wanted a woman?"

Xu Muqing was very patient at this time, "Don't be in a hurry. The conviction of crimes requires conclusive evidence. I don't understand the legal level, so I naturally leave it to the Ministry of Justice to deal with it. I am very interested in those secrets. For example, the old lady used shameless means to commit herself to the old master and conceived before marriage. However, Zheng Qingfeng, who was born later, was not the old master's bloodline, but the housekeeper's biological son."

Zheng Qingfeng's wives and concubines changed their faces when they heard the empress's shameful secret, and their emotions almost collapsed. They said to Mrs. Zheng with trembling and disbelief, "Mom, is this true? The master is not the old man's blood, but the son you and others secretly gave birth to secretly."

They were not married to a noble young man from a noble family, but a bastard with a low status. They have been deceived for many years!

The blood on the old lady's face disappeared and she stared at Xu Muqing tightly. Her hideous and vicious posture seemed to be trying to crush her bones and ashes. "You are talking nonsense here? Believe it or not, I will make someone tear your mouth apart. Is the queen so great? Can she just frame others for innocence? Is it necessary to go to hell for making verbal karma?"

Xu Muqing smiled like a flower, "Old Madam, the more excited you are, the more you feel guilty. Who would have thought that you would have a turbulent love story with the housekeeper? I am not interested in making up with you. These are diaries found in the secret room of Mr. Zheng's dormitory. Zheng Qingfeng is indeed not the old man's son. You have deceived so many people in the Zheng family."

"And how did the old man get tuberculosis and cynomolgus disease? The old man obviously wanted to settle the score with you, but killed you, but in the end he killed himself. The housekeeper has all been recruited, do you still deny the argument? By the way, you have made a fortune by selfishly mining gold mines. There are so many people buried underneath. Are you really so at ease when you spend that gold?"

"By the way, those shops in the public middle school have made so many fake accounts and secretly swallowed so much silver. They are in a good mood, right? I don't understand, you are all old ladies who step into the coffin with one foot, why are you still so greedy? Can you spend so much silver? Or do you still want to bring them to the underworld to spend. What do you want to do if you want so much silver?"

Every time Xu Muqing said something, the older lady's face became a little ugly. In the end, she looked as if she was ashamed. As all the secrets were dug out, she was really dead without a burial place.

"What do you want to do? Do you want to cut me into pieces or to crush my bones and ashes?" The old lady was so excited that she lost all her anger and asked quietly.

Xu Muqing also had a cold and solemn look on her face. She said coldly, "The Emperor and I originally wanted to get the missing tax silver back. After all, the treasury is empty now, and there are too many places to spend money. I didn't think about taking the life of anyone in the Zheng family. But who would have thought that you were so cruel that you wanted to burn the emperor and me to death, and even bite the little prince and the little princess with a poisonous snake. Then don't blame me for being rude."

The old lady shed tears of regret, and she slid down the corner of the wall and fell to the ground, not understanding how things turned out like this again.

The shameful things she did were poached by the emperor and the queen. Even if the emperor and the queen kept her life, the furious Zheng family would never let her go. What will she do in the future?

"It was the deposed empress dowager who controlled my weakness and asked me to tamper with the tax bank. She said that the Zheng family had deep roots in Daozhou, and the throne of her son and grandson was stolen by the emperor. No matter what, she couldn't swallow this. However, she now had no real power and could not rebel. Even if it rebelled, it would not succeed. So we embezzled the tax bank and caused trouble for you."

Mrs. Zheng finally told the secret in her heart, "Every year, 20,000 taels of silver will be sent to the imperial tomb to manage the lives of the deposed empress dowager and the deposed king, so they survived in such a difficult and harsh place and were not dead yet. Empress, I was also afraid at the beginning, but the deposed empress dowager knew that Qingfeng was not the blood of the Zheng family. She threatened me, so I could only do as she wanted."

Xu Muqing only believed half of the old lady's words, "I'm afraid it's more than that. You also want to get the money yourself. In just three or four years, you embezzled 500,000 taels of silver. You are such a big talk."

"I will not take your life. It is too cheap to behead you directly. I want to ruin you, betray you, and I want to make you lose your reputation, be insulted and despised, and taste the taste of being bullied to the end. Old lady, you should never be plotted against the emperor and the palace. Wait for your punishment."

After finding out that this matter had such a close connection with the deposed empress dowager, Xu Muqing left.

In the prison, Zheng Qingfeng's wife Hong grabbed her hair in pain and embarrassment, and let out a shrill wail, "Drug woman, you have ruined my life. Your son is a bastard, why do you deceive me? Why do you marry me? I was killed by you!"

Hong could not control the anger in his heart and rushed forward directly. His sharp nails pinched the old lady's flesh and blood hard, and kept pulling her hair, crying while pulling, "Your son is not a noble man at all. Why are you cheating on marriage? I was killed by you, and I have been ruined by you all my life."

She also came from an official family. Although her family is not as powerful as the Zheng family, she grew up with all her spoils. After getting married, she suffered all the harsh treatment and sorrow of the old witch, and was not favored by her husband. Now the queen told her that Zheng Qingfeng was not the blood of the Zheng family, but a bastard, and she could not bear it. The anger in her heart could almost burn everything.

The old lady was caught with blood marks on her face and neck, and she couldn't help but wail in pain, "Why are you crazy? Who told you to bully your mother-in-law's head? Why don't you let go of your hand quickly? Hong, are you going against the will?"

Hong's tears were like a flood that broke the dam. She had been angry for more than ten years and no longer wanted to endure it. She grabbed the old lady's hair fiercely again, hoping to pull her flesh off.

The other concubines were also collapsed and desperate. They were almost dead now and didn't want to go down with the old lady at all. They rushed forward and punched and kicked.

The old lady who was pampered and lived in poverty had never been bullied like this after she got married. She screamed in pain and said angrily, "You all stop me, it's a rebellion, right? Believe it or not, I will kill you."

Hong raised his hand and slapped two loud slaps on the old lady's face, "I still want to show off my mother-in-law's style to me, but you don't open your eyes wide. Are you worthy of it yourself? Old Witch, you ruined my life, I hate you so much!"

Those concubines also vented all their anger on the old lady. If they had not been implicated by this old witch, their lives would have been very good now and would never be imprisoned in a prison, and they might even be beheaded.

Xu Muqing thought of something, and when she turned around and came back, she saw the scene of Mrs. Zheng being beaten to the point of bruising and swollen face. She wanted to whistle.

"Old lady, remember to apologize to Lord Bai tomorrow. Lord Bai is much smarter than you. As early as when the palace and the palace arrived in Daozhou, Lord Bai had confessed the crimes he had committed. The emperor forgave him and asked him to continue to manage Daozhou, so you missed the best opportunity. The things you do tomorrow will be posted on the imperial list and spread throughout the streets and alleys to repay the sins you committed."

Xu Muqing's words made Lin regret so much that her intestines turned blue. She used her head to hit the wall in pain, and tears fell like beads that kept wiping. However, there was no regret medicine in this world, and time could not pass. She still had to pay the price for the crimes she had committed.

Since he found out the hidden place of the tax bank, Xiao Linye did not delay any further. The next morning, he asked someone to move out all the tax bank hidden in the warehouse of the other courtyard and pulled more than a dozen carriages.

Mrs. Zheng privately mined gold mines, and there was a mine accident. Zheng Qingfeng was not from the Zheng family's bloodline. Mrs. Zheng was killed by the old lady's design, and more shameful things were written in words and posted on the streets and alleys of Daozhou. The people of Daozhou were shocked.

For a moment, the entire Zheng family changed from a prominent noble family to the most dirty existence, becoming the topic of conversation for everyone after dinner.

The emperor personally wrote the imperial list to clarify the charge of Mr. Bai's murder of the emperor and the empress. Everything was designed to lead Mrs. Zheng. Mr. Bai was still a loyal minister and did not hurt the emperor at all.

After Zheng Qingfeng knew that he was actually a bastard and was not the Zheng family's bloodline at all, he completely collapsed. He couldn't stand the stimulation and committed suicide in the cell.

The men of the Zheng family did not expect to be played in the palm of their hands by an old poisonous woman for thirty years, and even let a bastard be the head of the Zheng family. They were so angry that they came directly to the emperor and the queen.

"The Emperor of Love handed over the old poisonous woman to the grass people for handling. The things she did had nothing to do with the side branches. We are also victims. Please spare our lives. The grass people are willing to hand over most of their property to compensate for the loss of the tax silver."

Several elders of the Zheng family knelt on the ground. When they mentioned Lin, they felt a strong hatred, and they just wanted her to die, together with the butler who confused the Zheng family's bloodline.

Xiao Linye felt anger in his heart, "Of course she wants to leave it to you to deal with, but the collapse of her gold mine killed dozens of lives. For such an important crime, she must accept punishment, parade in the streets, so that the people of Daozhou know her face. The Zheng family embezzled so much money, and you side branches also enjoyed some of it. In this way, each household has paid 100 taels of silver as punishment. If the family is not good, they will pay 5 taels to twenty taels according to the family's situation."

"I don't want your lives, so I ask you to do things that are harmful to the world in the future, otherwise I will never spare you. I will never want you. I will never want you, and I will never force you to death. But Mrs. Zheng's life must not be kept, so you can deal with it slowly."

The elders hated Lin's family to death. Not only did they kill Mr. Zheng, but they also made the reputation of the Zheng family so bad. The patriarch said immediately, "The Lin family and the housekeeper secretly talked about the secret song. According to the rules, they wanted to soak the pig cage. She killed the old master, which was even more guilty. She would either burn it alive or soak the pig cage. She would never let her live. Please rest assured."

Xiao Linye then showed a satisfied look, "Then I will see your performance."

The management rights of the gold mine fell back to Xiao Linye. He also obtained the list of victims from the old lady and handed them over to Bai Yanshi, asking him to find a way to contact the victims' families and handle the compensation and pensions in detail.

Bai Yanshi was frightened by the resolute and decisive way of handling the emperor and the queen. He did not dare to have any thoughts. He personally gave someone a reward and tried every means to contact the families of the victims.

In the early morning of the next day, Mrs. Zheng was pulled into the prison car by the jailer, with heavy shackles on both hands and feet, paraded along the busiest market in Daozhou.

The angry people and the people from the Zheng family stood on both sides of the road, smashing the old lady with rotten vegetable leaves and mud, slamming them while smashing them, calling her an old witch, calling her an indecent and unconventional manner, and calling her a bad heart, which made the whole Daozhou feel shame.

The old lady closed her eyes in pain and despair, and tears slid down the corners of her eyes. She thought of the scene when she first met Mr. Zheng, attracted by his handsome appearance, and fell in love with her at first sight.

At that time, she vowed to marry that romantic and talented man, and did what she imagined, and did whatever she wanted to use despicable means to make her pregnant before marriage, forcing the man who did not love her to marry her.

Perhaps she had made a mistake at that time. If time could be repeated, she would rather not marry into the Zheng family than marry someone who loved her deeply, than ending like this now.

Even later, she felt that she was less and less like herself, so ferocious and distorted that even she felt scared.

The rotten vegetable leaves hit her face, causing pain, and she even heard all kinds of vicious insults.

"Bitch--"

"Woman with a scorpion heart, why have you lived for so long? Why haven't you died? Killing someone to pay for your life, you will give your life to Mr. Zheng, and return your life to the innocent people who died in the mine disaster."

"Drug woman, you do bad things. Why don't God come and thunder strike you to death? Why can God let you live a life of glory and wealth? You are not even as good as a beast, and you are not worthy!"

Mrs. Zheng wanted to die, but the emperor and the queen refused, and the members of the Zheng family refused. They wanted to seek justice for the young and premature death of Mr. Zheng.
Chapter completed!