Qin Yuandao smiled coldly: "So you are admitting that it is indeed Lu Gaohong who used power for personal gain to help you exonerate him, right?"

Liang Ji was really surprised after hearing Qin Yuandao's question. He did not expect that Qin Yuandao would start with Yin Renzhao's daughter to break Yin Renzhao's defenses first.

Everyone knows that parents in the world are pitiful, even Yin Renzhao is the same. He originally thought that Lu Gaohong was selling him to save face, or that his daughter Yin Ruo was on good terms with Concubine Ming in the palace, so that the Lu family would help him, but today I heard

Qin Yuandao said this as if there was some personal feeling in it.

Qin Yuandao stared at Yin Renzhao intently, trying to detect any trace of suspicion on his expression. What Qin Yuandao was best at was finding the truth from the details. No clue could escape his fiery eyes.

"No...no...no!" Yin Renzhao quickly denied it. The moment his eyes met Qin Yuandao's, he secretly regretted it. He had been an official in the same court as Qin Yuandao for so many years, how could he not understand some of Qin Yuandao's methods?

, I secretly regretted having been fooled by him, but now that the words were out of my mouth, I had no choice but to lower my head and not look into Qin Yuandao's eyes.

Although Yin Renzhao secretly regretted it in his heart, he also kept wondering what Yin Rui had promised to Concubine Ming, so that Lu Gaohong was willing to help him like this. While he regretted that he shouldn't have said this, he couldn't wait to do it.

Know the truth.

Qin Yuandao was very satisfied with his reaction. He knew in his heart that he had the current situation firmly in his hands. As long as he waited, when Yin Renzhao's defenses were broken, he would speak out himself.

Yin Renzhao lowered his head and his eyes kept moving back and forth, as if thinking about what to do. Qin Yuandao had already suspected him, but he had no idea why Qin Yuandao could still find out that Lu Gaohong's work was watertight.

Qin Yuandao and Liang Ji looked at each other, but did not speak. At this time, silence was better than sound. If they spoke, it would be better to let Yin Renzhao think clearly. After all, it was his daughter, and Yin Renzhao could not be so cruel.

They have been out for so long and still don’t know what is going on in the palace, but they can’t be too anxious right now. Unless Yin Renzhao tells him personally and refuses to go back to identify him face to face, they just bring the pile of documents and pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and they can’t do anything at all.

Not to mention that Lu Gaohong would refute them if he couldn't pay the job. The young minister of Dali Temple would just make it up casually, saying that the document was damaged and copy it himself, but that would still make sense.

At that time, the officials involved in the case, except those who handled the case under Lu Gaohong, were all executed and exiled. At this time, what was important was the confession made by Yin Renzhao himself.

"It's snowing heavily in the capital at this time... I just came out of the palace. During the ceremony, I accidentally saw Mr. Zhi. He was thin and bone-crowned... Tsk..." Qin Yuandao played with the wine glass on the table and accidentally drank half of the glass.

The wine spilled on the table. He picked up the handkerchief on the side and wiped his hands while saying something unconsciously.

Liang Ji looked at Qin Yuandao, secretly admiring Uncle Qin's foresight. At this time, Yin Renzhao was struggling in his heart, and Qin Yuandao's words were like a key, opening a door in his heart that he had been struggling with.

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After hearing this, Yin Renzhao actually raised his head and looked at Qin Yuandao in astonishment. His lips moved, as if he had something to say, but then he remembered his gaffe just now, so he swallowed the words again, as if he wanted to say nothing.

He looked like he was struggling with pain on his face, and his heart was much more tormenting than this.

Qin Yuandao deliberately did not look at him, just to let Yin Renzhao speak first. He poured himself a glass of wine slowly and leisurely, and raised his glass to Liang Ji to invite him to drink. The uncle and nephew were speechless, but drank two glasses of wine.

Only then did the body gradually warm up.

Qin Yuandao stood up, patted the residual snow on his sleeves, sighed, and walked to the window. Through the glass window, he could vaguely see the scenery outside. At this time, the sky was still falling with heavy snow. Qin Yuandao stood up and patted the remaining snow on his sleeves.

Yuandao turned his back to the two of them, looking contented.

Liang Ji couldn't help but follow Qin Yuandao's figure. Looking at the heavy snow falling outside the window, Liang Ji could always think of the days when he was stationed outside the Great Wall during his childhood.

At that time, my father was not a powerful general. He did not have a high-end house, or brocade clothes. The conditions outside the Great Wall were difficult, and even during the Chinese New Year, there was no delicacies to eat.

Whenever it snows, the army will always slaughter a few sheep. The sheep outside the Great Wall are all free-range, and they are much more delicious than the sheep raised in captivity in Beijing. At that time, my mother no longer played the piano, and there was no one to serve her outside the Great Wall.

She is no longer a rich girl, but my mother can always face everything with optimism.

My mother and several cooks stewed mutton soup together. Several lambs were put into the pot and cooked in batches. After a few large pots were set up in the camp, they were steaming hot. The mutton soup made a gurgling sound.

The pot of mutton soup was only enough for the soldiers to have a warm meal.

Liang Ji recalled that when he was a child, his uncles and uncles who fought with his father in the war cut off the mutton with the daggers they carried and stuffed it for him to eat, and he couldn't help but smile.

Later, when I arrived in Shangjing City, the emperor gave him a magnificent mansion with several entrances and exits, which was as magnificent as the emperor's own son's house. He also gave him thousands of hectares of fertile land. His salary was enough to feed and clothe dozens of families in a year, and the daily rewards were countless.

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This is what my father deserves. He helped to level the territory of the Celestial Empire and defeated several invading neighboring countries. He wrote a letter asking for peace and did not dare to step into the Celestial Empire again.

But it was also like this. My mother died of illness, and she died on that snowy night before she even saw her father for the last time.

The smile on the corner of Liang Ji's mouth slowly froze and then disappeared. Now I really don't know how to celebrate the New Year. The memory is always mixed. Later in Shangjing, there were more ways to prepare and eat mutton, which was more refined than outside the Great Wall.

Hundreds of times, but Liang Ji never drank that bowl of thick mutton soup again.

Yin Renzhao couldn't help but turn his eyes to the window when he heard the sound of Qin Yuandao's footsteps.

I once read in a poetry book that I miss my family even more during the festive season. Yin Renzhao disagreed. After all, his daughter Yin Rui had been in the palace for five or six years, but at that time he was still an official of the imperial court, able to serve the country and the people, and able to celebrate New Year's Eve.

When I entered the palace to see my daughter during the feast, I never felt that Yin Zhe had left me for a moment.

Yin Renzhao was successful in his middle age and passed the imperial examination when he was in his thirties. He started from a small official position in the capital and spent many years in the position of a thousand households in the fifth rank.

When Yin Rui was young, he often held Yin Rui in his arms while studying together. Yin Rui also learned a lot of words because of this. At one time, she moved to the capital and was as famous as Qin Yuandao's daughter Qin Ruilan. Later, she was praised by Lu Gaohong as a talented lady.

Virtue.

At that time, he was just a scholar. With some assets in his family, his life was not too poor. He had a house with two entrances and two exits, and several servants at home. He also bought a girl named Ah Xun as a maid for Yin He.

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When it snows in winter, Yin Zhi always likes to eat glutinous rice balls, until Yin Renzhao won the lottery and became an official in Beijing.
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