You thought your hiding was airtight, but you didn’t know that you had been threatened with this a long time ago, so you had no choice but to quickly choose a new place to live in the outer room. Am I right?"
The Lord Zhou he was talking about was Zhou Ruhai, the imperial eunuch who had accused Mu Yun'an of bribing him that day.
Xiao Chengyi always felt that the letter in Zhou Ruhai's hand was extremely suspicious, so he sent someone to investigate him secretly.
I didn’t expect that the results would come out in just a few days.
It turns out that Zhou Ruhai had an outer room this week and had a young son. After the incident, he moved his residence to this outer room.
It's okay for ordinary people to have an outhouse. The key is that Zhou Ruhai's wife is a shrewd woman. Back then, it was because of the support of his wife's natal family that he was able to sit in the position of Qin Tianjian.
Zhou Ruhai was afraid of having a concubine, so he raised a concubine outside.
He had been very careful to hide it for so many years, but somehow he was caught.
Just like the current scene, he felt that his life was at risk.
"You...who are you?"
Zhou Ruhai didn't know the other party's identity or his purpose, so he felt extremely panicked.
Xiao Chengyi smiled: "Don't be afraid, Mr. Zhou. I just want to ask you a question today. That day, you accused Miss Mu's third daughter of writing a letter to bribe you. What is the truth?"
Zhou Ruhai immediately understood when he heard the name of Miss Mu's third daughter. He trembled with his legs and said, "The letter was indeed written by Miss Mu's third daughter."
"Yeah?"
Xiao Chengyi's face darkened, and he said in a cold voice: "It seems that Mr. Zhou doesn't want to have a good talk with me. I heard that the youngest son born to you by your wife is not yet one year old? I think if Madam Lai knew about it, she would definitely
very happy."
Zhou Ruhai was frightened, and he hurriedly said: "I said, I said, please be so noble as to not tell my wife about this."
He rubbed his hands together, with a pleading look on his face, and truthfully told what happened:
"That letter was indeed not written by Miss Mu San, but someone asked me to do so.
I didn’t know his identity, but I just received a letter in which he threatened me that if I didn’t follow his instructions, he would expose the matter of my raising an aunt, so I was afraid and helped him.”
Xiao Chengyi squinted his eyes and asked with a cold face: "Where is the letter? Is it still there?"
Zhou Ruhai was stunned for a moment and then reacted: "Yes, I've been keeping it close to you."
He hurriedly took out a letter from his arms and handed it over shakily.
Qingying stepped forward to get the letter, and then handed it to Xiao Chengyi through the curtain.
Xiao Chengyi pinched the letter and asked: "When did you receive this letter? And who sent it?"
Zhou Ruhai thought for a while and said: "The day before I went to Mu's house, it was sent by a beggar when I was leaving my job. The letter contained the letter from Miss Mu San to bribe me.
To be honest, I also found this matter very strange, so I kept this letter and planned to find clues from it."
Because something about him fell into the hands of others, Zhou Ruhai wanted to find this person and get rid of him so that he would have no future troubles.
But unexpectedly, the murderer was not found, and there was another person who knew his secret.
Xiao Chengyi snorted: "Master Zhou, do you know what will happen if you slander the county lord? Are you deceiving her because she is young and not taking her seriously? Or are you not taking this general's residence seriously?"
"I don't dare, my subordinates."
Zhou Ruhai plopped down and knelt on the ground: "I am also afraid. Once the wife of the family finds out about this, she will definitely not be able to tolerate Yun Niang and the child with her temper."
Xiao Chengyi said: "If you dare to do it, you must have the courage to bear the consequences. I will wait for Mr. Zhou to give a satisfactory explanation to the county boss and General Mu."
After leaving these words, he ordered Qingying to drive away, leaving Zhou Ruhai kneeling in the night in despair.
The carriage left the alley and headed towards the spacious road.
Xiao Chengyi sat in the carriage and unfolded the letter in his hand. The curtains of the carriage swayed slightly, reflecting the lights on the street, which fell on the letter in his hand.
When Xiao Chengyi saw the handwriting on the letter, his expression suddenly changed.