Chapter 40 Interrogation
In the middle of the night, two figures were sneaking around outside Furong Hall. After looking around to confirm that there was no one around, Madam Yun lowered her voice.

"Ma'am, we're here."

After getting a response from the hall, a person behind Nanny Yun, who was completely covered, entered the hall carefully.

As soon as he entered the hall, the man took off his black coat, revealing a face with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. The man was very excited when he saw Concubine Su Gui, as if seeing a savior, he burst into tears.

"Your Majesty, I beg you to save the villain's son."

Concubine Su Gui raised her phoenix eyes, her eyebrows stood erect.

"Ding Guishuan! Didn't I tell you not to come to me today?"

That's right, this person is Ding Huacai's father. When he heard the young man in the mansion say that the young master was arrested by King Qi, he couldn't sit still. After waiting for three days, he finally found the opportunity to enter the palace and ask Concubine Su Gui for help. .

"During the three days when the child was arrested, the villain did not think about food and drink. Today, I am bold. I hope that your mother will save the child for the sake of our Ding family's dedication in the past. This is the sincerity of my Ding family. I beg your mother to forgive me."

While kowtowing, Ding Guishuan presented all the land deeds and bank notes he had brought, and the stack was astonishingly large.

Concubine Su Gui's phoenix eyes sank slightly, she couldn't care less about saving his son, she didn't know what happened to Yang'er being left in Shuntian Mansion, she didn't even see the Holy Majesty's face these days.

They sent people to Shuntian Mansion to inquire, but failed to bring back any news about Yang'er. The people who came back only said that they were temporarily detained in Shuntian Mansion for interrogation. As for the situation, they don't know.

The more she thought about staying in the deep palace, the more anxious she became, and it was all because of that idiot of him, which caused my Yang'er to suffer too.

Concubine Su Gui looked at Ding Guishuan lying on the ground, staring at him coldly as if her eyes had been poisoned.

"Yang'er of this palace is still implicated and still in Shuntian mansion, how to help you, you know what to say and what not to say, take care of the people in your mansion, don't let anything that should not be said spread out, this palace You can still protect your Ding family from death. Otherwise, there will be no Ding family in the imperial city!"

Ding Guishuan raised his head sharply, with a look of disbelief, his cloudy old eyes also sunk, revealing a fierce light, and his sharp and thin face was gloomy and terrifying.

"Your Majesty is asking me to give up my son."

Concubine Su Guiqian's ten fingers were painted with bright red Koudan, the years seemed to have left no marks on her face, and it was still an indescribable beauty.

But although the beauty is a beauty, she is a poisonous beauty.

"Ding Guishuan, you have to think about it clearly. Do you want your son or the Ding family? If you are obedient, I can protect the prosperity and wealth of the Ding family."

Upon hearing this, Ding Guishuan got up abruptly, stared at her viciously, and gritted his teeth.

"Your Majesty may have forgotten how much money the Shangguan family has collected from the villain these years, and the villain has an account book here."

Concubine Su Gui was furious, she patted the phoenix eyes on the table, and shouted sharply.

"Ding Guishuan, you are so brave, you dare to threaten this palace, do you want the Ding family to have no descendants?!"

Concubine Su Gui threw the booklet on the ground, Ding Guishuan's eyelids twitched, he picked it up uneasily and looked at it, and after only one glance at the content on it, he immediately collapsed to the ground with fright.

He muttered in his mouth, "How could it be, how could it be..."

Concubine Su Gui snorted coldly, and looked down at him in distress.

If it wasn't for the Ding family's usefulness, how could I allow him to be presumptuous!It seems that it is time for the Ding family to get rid of it.

"If you obediently do what I say, I will protect your Ding family."

Ding Guishuan kowtowed frantically as if wanting to grab hold of a life-saving straw, "The villain will definitely obey your majesty's orders, and beg your majesty for mercy."

Seeing this, Shangguanyin smiled with satisfaction, hooked his slender index finger and stepped forward, with ruthlessness hidden in her beautiful eyes, she whispered arrangements in his ear.

In the early morning, when the sky was getting bright and there were no pedestrians on the street, Ding Guishuan returned to the mansion with a tired face.

As soon as the door was closed, a burst of icy cold stuck to his neck, Ding Guishuan was so frightened that he was so exhausted that he flew away, and his whole body immediately became sober.

"The hero has something to say, don't do it, I have money, you can give me as much as you want."

Ding Guishuan turned around tremblingly, and saw that the huge mansion was surrounded by officers and soldiers, his maids, attendants and concubines were all arrested, trembling in the yard.

The surrounding officers and soldiers seemed to be waiting for him for a long time, with eerie long knives on their faces.

He wanted to run but couldn't run away.

Ding Guishuan was forced into the house by Du Ruo to meet King Qi, while Bei Jinchuan drank tea in the chief seat and waited for him to throw himself into the trap.

The moment he saw King Qi, he was extremely flustered and couldn't help shouting.

"You are breaking into a private house, you are breaking the law!"

Bei Jinchuan sneered indifferently, and slowly put the tea on the table.

"Patriarch Ding, please don't slander this king, it is a death penalty to slander the prince in Bei country."

Zhou He, the transparent man on the side, also took advantage of the situation, "King Qi came to assist the official in investigating the case, so Master Ding is careful."

As he spoke, he also took out the token of Shuntian Mansion.

This time, Ding Guishuan completely panicked.

"The villain doesn't know what the two adults mean, and I hope the adults will find out."

Seeing that he didn't shed tears when he didn't see the coffin, Zhou He waved his hands and asked his subordinates to present the tokens they found.

"This is the token that was found on the assassin that day. This is the token that was found from your house. What else can you say?"

With trembling hands, Ding Guishuan picked up two identical tokens. They were definitely not from his house. Just as he was about to refute something, he suddenly thought of something, and he slumped on the ground powerlessly, as if accepting his fate.

"Grassman pleads guilty."

The four words seemed to exhaust all the strength of the whole body, and the whole person suddenly aged a lot.

Zhou He didn't expect it to go so smoothly. Logically speaking, shouldn't Ding Guishuan try to deny it?

He looked at King Qi and asked for the next step.

Bei Jinchuan pursed his thin lips and said nothing, looked at the decadent man on the ground and suddenly smiled again, got up and walked to stand in front of him.

"Where did Patriarch Ding go if he didn't return all night?"

A cold voice sounded above his head, Ding Guishuan flinched, and immediately pretended to be calm.

"The villain drank too much outside last night, so he just woke up this morning."

"Drink?" Bei Jinchuan paced back and forth in front of him, and Ding Guishuan knelt on the ground with his heart in his throat.

Suddenly, Bei Jinchuan's words became harsh, and the oppressive feeling of the superior came to his face.

"There is no trace of alcohol on your body, and you speak clearly. Do you think this king is a fool?!"

He was so frightened that his face was pressed to the ground, cold sweat slid from his forehead to his face and fell to the ground, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

"The little man dare not."

"Or did you ask some noble person for help last night?"

After Bei Jinchuan finished speaking slowly, ignoring his astonished expression, he turned and sat back on the main seat.

Ding Guishuan still wanted to defend himself, but Bei Jinchuan became a little impatient, and casually threw down the account book he found in the study.

There are detailed records of his bribery with various families in the imperial city, including of course the Shangguan family.

"Bribing and colluding with officials, do you know what crime it is!"

Ding Guishuan knew that everything was over, and he sat on the ground ashamed. He didn't expect that the account book he used to threaten Concubine Su Gui last night had now become a life-threatening weapon.

"It's not too late to tell the truth, how did you collude with Shangguan and other aristocratic families, and how did you pay bribes!"

Ding Guishuan did not know what he thought of as King Qi asked questions in his ears, and his originally dim eyes suddenly became fragmented.

he explained eagerly.

"I was deceived by the lard and gave gifts without permission. It has nothing to do with the Shangguan family. I was also the one who failed to teach the assassination. It hurt His Highness. I am willing to be punished."

Bei Jinchuan frowned. He didn't expect that Ding Guishuan actually gave up his son and pleaded guilty directly. It was really unexpected.

(End of this chapter)

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