The first person to speak was County Magistrate Qi, who said: "When I first took office as Magistrate of Wancheng County, someone sued Mr. Sun.
When Magistrate Wu learned about this, he ordered his subordinates to ask the Sun family to get money to quell the matter.
He said that for an upright and upright official, his annual salary would be less than the Sun family's daily expenses.
In this way, my full ambition became a joke, and from then on I became Wu Zhongli's lackey, making money for him.
But I also kept a close eye on him, fearing that things would come to light, so I recorded every money I sent and everything I did for him over the years.
After His Highness the Crown Prince imprisoned me, I secretly asked the jailer to contact Wu Zhongli and told him about the account book, hoping that he would rescue me.
I didn't expect that he actually wanted to kill someone and silence him. Fortunately, the regent was very good at predicting the situation and we were able to avoid death."
He kowtowed heavily and said, "Everything Qi said is true, and the account book has been handed over to the regent."
The officer who was kneeling on the ground said: "The younger one belongs to Mr. Wu, and it was he who ordered me to set fire to the prison."
The other assassin said: "We brothers are all on death row. It was Wu Zhongli who secretly rescued us, gave us poison, controlled us, and carried out murders and goods for him.
Wu Zhongli ordered us to assassinate His Highness the Crown Prince."
When the people heard these words, they were all shocked. They could not imagine that Mr. Wu, who was usually gentle and kind, could be so cruel and ruthless.
Xiao Chengyi looked at the panicked Wu Zhongli and asked: "Master Wu, do you have anything else to say?"
Wu Zhongli shook his head and refused to admit it: "This is slander. I am unjustly accused."
"It seems you won't shed tears until you see the coffin."
Xiao Chengyi said: "Take the person to the Wu Mansion and ransack his home. Let us see how much wealth Mr. Wu, who has always been upright and upright, really has."
Everyone followed Xiao Chengyi and others to the Wu Mansion. Xiao Chengyi asked Ye Xiuchen to lead people in to search.
Not long after, boxes upon boxes of gold and silver treasures were carried out from the Wu Mansion.
Ling Feng came over and said: "Your Majesty, a secret passage was discovered in the Wu family ancestral hall.
This Wu Zhongli actually dug an underground palace under his house, which contained countless gold and silver, as well as more than a dozen beauties."
When the people looked at the things collected from Wu Zhongli's home, their faith collapsed.
Someone took rotten leaves and rotten eggs and threw them at Wu Zhongli, cursing: "Corrupt official, hypocrite, I always thought you were deceiving us with hypocrisy."
"Kill him, kill him!"
The people were excited and shouted one after another.
Wu Zhongli knew that the situation was over, and he fell to the ground in a state of embarrassment.
Xiao Chengyi said: "Master Zhao, take him down and interrogate him carefully to see if there are any officials in the capital colluding with him."
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Zhao Yushi took the people down, and the people watching the excitement dispersed one after another with full of anger.
Xiao Jue looked at Xiao Chengyi with a depressed look and said, "Didn't you say that County Magistrate Qi and the Sun family were all burned to death?"
Xiao Chengyi shrugged and said: "They are not in the prison at all. I secretly transferred them long before the accident happened."
Xiao Jue frowned. Didn't he play chess with Mr. Su before the accident? When did he do these things?
He asked: "Then why did you lie to me?"
Because of his own negligence, he did not think about food and drinks and blamed himself for a long time.
Xiao Chengyi said: "Of course I want to teach you a lesson so that you can remember it for a long time.
It’s true that Uncle Jiangshan from Nanyue gave it to me, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to do anything.
You have the blood of the Xiao family of Nanyue in your body, so you should shoulder your responsibilities to protect Nanyue and the people."