Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

Qin Yunhe nodded: "One of you must be lying. If you are sure that the document is fake, find evidence as soon as possible. Otherwise, you have made a false accusation..."

Zhao Huan certainly knew the importance of the matter.

Because he reported this matter, the county magistrate and the teacher were both dismissed from their posts and punished. Although it was true that the county magistrate and the teacher took money, if it was finally discovered that he had made a false accusation, his crime would certainly not be light.

Zhao Huan was now in a state of anxiety and restlessness. He bowed with a serious face and said, "The student will take his leave now and go find evidence."

After Qin Yunhe agreed, Zhao Huan walked out and ordered Zhao Baoshuang, "Come on, take me to find Zhao Qi."

Zhao Baoshuang quickly looked at Qin Yunhe: "Sir..."

"Go ahead and find evidence as soon as possible."

Zhao Huan strode out with a gloomy face. Zhao Baoshuang groaned inwardly. He wanted to stop him but didn't dare to. He could only follow him hurriedly without daring to breathe.

Zhao Huan came here on foot, so of course he couldn't walk to the Zhao family's house which was so far away.

"Go and get a carriage."

Zhao Baoshuang was just a servant after all. Even if Zhao Huan was not the real master, he was still a relative and elder of the master's family, so he certainly could not be neglected.

Fortunately, it was easy to find a horse-drawn carriage near the City God Temple. They hired one, asked Zhao Huan to get in, and hurried back to the Zhao family.

The Zhao family's old house was on the other side of the county town, and it took the carriage two or three quarters of an hour to arrive.

As soon as he arrived at the place, Zhao Huan jumped out of the car and rushed home without caring about anything.

Naturally, everyone in the Zhao family knew this so-called "old man", and no one dared to stop him when they saw him breaking in.

"Xiaobao, run fast and tell the master that the fourth old master is here."

While giving instructions, Zhao Baoshuang quickly paid the fare and chased after him.

Zhao Huan was the elder, and every time he came back he would go straight into the inner house.

The master was most annoyed and afraid of seeing this "old man". Although he couldn't stop him, he had to at least inform the master before Zhao Huan broke in.

"Old Master, please slow down. There is no rush for this matter."

Zhao Qi in the inner house got the news quickly. When he heard that Zhao Huan was coming, he quickly got up and went out to greet him. Finally, he stopped Zhao Huan before he entered the inner house.

Zhao Qi bowed and saluted: "Fourth uncle, why are you here? Please come in and sit down."

Zhao Qi led Zhao Huan to the main hall for receiving guests. He thought Zhao Huan was going to give him a lecture with a big display of the elders' genealogy, but he walked into the main hall without saying anything.

Zhao Qi was a little surprised to see Zhao Huan was different than usual. He turned around to look at Zhao Baoshuang, who quickly came up to him and said, "Master Xu took a copy of the ransom document to the inspector to appeal for justice. The fourth old master came to look for the family's ransom document as a copy."

Zhao Qi's face suddenly looked helpless and irritated.

"Zhao Qi, I just want to ask you, where else are the documents placed in your house? If you don't help me find them, I can just look for them myself, right?"

"Fourth uncle, it's not that I won't look for it for you, it's just that it's been too long and I really can't find it. Didn't I look for it in front of you last time?"

Last time, Zhao Huan insisted on looking for it.

Zhao Qi couldn't push him out because he was his elder, so he could only take him to the room where the old documents were kept and searched through them. As expected, he found nothing.

In fact, Zhao Qi was very suspicious that his fourth uncle had remembered it wrongly.

He loves to brag, show off, and compete with others. Maybe he really thinks he is a rich young master because of his bragging.

"Fourth uncle, this happened so many years ago. Are you sure it was Xu Zhao's grandfather who redeemed him? My father is a little older than you, and he has never heard of this."

"Your father has a bad memory. I remember it clearly. When I was a child, I came to pay New Year's greetings and saw Xu Zhao's grandfather working as a steward at home. Otherwise, why would he call me Young Master when he saw me before? Forget it if you were unwilling to find someone last time. Anyway, I found a witness myself and got the matter done.

This time is different. This time Xu Zhao actually forged a redemption document and went to the inspector to plead his innocence, saying that his family had redeemed him 76 years ago. If he overturns the case, I will be considered a false accusation and will be sued and beaten."

Zhao Qi was speechless.

This fourth uncle loves to compete with others, but he is older than others and no one in the Zhao family can do anything to him.

This time, the dispute finally caused trouble.

Zhao Qi sucked his teeth and said, "But I couldn't find it last time."

"I've thought about it. Last time we were mainly looking for the main courtyard. It's still too close these days. I think we need to go a little further. Take me to the back courtyard. I didn't look carefully enough last time. I need to look more carefully. And find a few more people to help me look."

Zhao Qi was very annoyed.

Even though he was an elder in the clan, he was not his biological uncle after all. Seeing him coming to their house again and again and going straight into the inner house at every turn, he really wanted to chase him away.

"Fourth uncle," Zhao Qi took a deep breath and said unhappily, "Although you are my elder, this is my private residence after all. It is inconvenient for me to ask you to go in and search again and again."

When Zhao Huan heard Zhao Qi actually spoke to him like this, he immediately jumped up and said, "Zhao Qi, you didn't dare to speak to me like this when your father was alive. You think you are so great just by being the head of the family that you even disrespect your elders?

He is the head of the family, but not only does he disrespect his elders, he even disregards the family's honor?

You let your servants act like masters outside, and you let your servants bully your elders! Now you even let your servants fabricate documents to frame your elders. You are really awesome..."

Zhao Qi was also a little angry: "I don't care about the honor of my family? Who is it that doesn't care about the honor of the family and makes enemies everywhere? The Zhao family has always been kind and generous, and releasing the slaves is also for the sake of doing good deeds.

You have repeatedly brought up matters that happened hundreds of years ago. I don’t know how many people have been implicated and how much sin has been committed. Even if our ancestors were here…”

Zhao Huan was used to acting like an elder, so when he was disobeyed, he was immediately furious: "You are so disrespectful, Zhao Qi..."

Zhao Huan muttered to himself as he fumbled around. He saw a feather duster and rushed over to pick it up and was about to hit someone.

The servants all around him had been paying attention to his every move. As soon as he moved, they rushed over and surrounded him, but Zhao Qi didn't move at all.

Qin Yunhe has been reviewing the case files since Zhao Huan left. The current magistrate of Qi County seems to be quite capable of handling county affairs. Although he has only been in office for a few months, his handling of cases and filing of case files are quite surprising.

Qin Yunhe was busy reviewing the case files for three days. It was not until the fourth day that an official came to report that Zhao Huan came to ask for a meeting.

"Please come in."

Zhao Huan quickly followed the official in and said, "Sir, the redemption document of Xu's ancestors has been found. The one Xu Zhao submitted is a forgery. Please take a look at it carefully!"