"There must be something wrong with this surname Wan." Gu Zhao asserted, not because he was arbitrarily arbitrarily judged, but by inferring from the results to see who was the one who benefited the most from the whole thing, obviously it was the surname Wan. "Of course, what happened back then probably wasn't something that he could accomplish alone. There might be someone else covering him."

Gu Mu nodded, and he also thought so: "I not only found the original case file, but also traced the events of the year, and found a clue that everyone in the Liu family seems to be dead, but it is very likely that there is still one alive. "

"Is there a living? Who?" Gu Zhao asked in surprise.

"It was when I found out about this incident that I suspected that Liu Shilian was not the real criminal. Just two months before the accident, Liu Shilian's youngest son disappeared and was suspected of being abducted by a kidnapper. Few people are looking for young sons, and it may be because of this that people take advantage of the loopholes."

"Maybe the youngest son was abducted. It was originally instigated by the black hands behind the scenes. It was just to make Liu Shilian mess up, so that the black hands behind the scenes could do various actions, and then plant the crime on Liu Shilian."

Gu Mu nodded: "I have also thought about this possibility, but everything is speculation and inference, and it is nothing without evidence."

Gu Zhao also understands this reason: "Is there any possibility for the youngest son of the Liu family to find it?"

Gu Mu sighed and said, "It's hard, when Liu Shilian was the magistrate of Jiangnan, he couldn't find anyone in his own territory, of course, it may have been deliberately hidden by the mastermind behind the scenes, but now after many years, it is not easy to find him again. But brother, don't worry, paper can't cover fire after all, with so much money, it's impossible for a person surnamed Wan to hide it in a leak-proof manner. If people want to investigate, the money must be found out. There may be fish that slip through the net."

Gu Zhao frowned. He thought about the Qiao family. As a merchant, the Qiao family had a closer relationship with the Wan family than other merchants. Would Qiao's father know something? But when he thought about his relationship with Qiao Huan, he didn't want to. complicate the relationship.

"What is brother thinking?"

This time it was Gu Zhao's turn to sigh: "I'm thinking of Qiao Huan."

Gu Mu narrowed his eyes, hiding the sharpness in his eyes: "Brother, why are you thinking about that guy?"

Gu Zhao glared at Gu Mu: "I'm thinking that Qiao Huan's father knows that Prefect Wan better than we do."

Gu Mu laughed: "The Qiao family is quite interesting. If they really know something, that master Qiao must be hesitating too. After all, the Qiao family has already offended the prefect of Wanzhi. My people told me, then Mrs. Wan is so majestic, she ran to Qiao's mansion and reprimanded Mrs. Qiao, brother, do you think Master Qiao will feel better?"

Gu Zhao said: "The Qiao family took a risk. I will remember Qiao Huan's friendship."

"Let me remember it for my brother. My brother can just do things."

Gu Zhao didn't think too much about it. He remembered that Gu Muji was not the same. He didn't expect that Gu Mu wanted to resolutely isolate the contact between Gu Zhao and Qiao Huan. The farther away the better for him.

Gu Mu didn't tell Gu Zhao that when he decided to thoroughly investigate Wanzhi's mansion, Gu Mu had already sent someone to watch Qiao's house, so he knew everything about Qiao's house.

Father Qiao didn't know that he had become a target. Father Qiao usually slept well, but this time he tossed and turned like pancakes and couldn't sleep, and even alarmed Mrs. Qiao beside him.

Although Mrs. Qiao is earnest to her son, the affairs of the Qiao family are still decided by the man in charge, and it is useless for her to object.

"What's wrong with you? Is it because of Huan'er's brother-in-law? According to me, it shouldn't be..."

"What do you know?" Although Qiao's father loved his wife very much, he was an authentic ancient man. In his bones, he regarded his wife as a woman with little knowledge.

Mrs. Qiao was so frightened that she couldn't sleep anymore: "Don't scare me, my brother-in-law is not the prefect Liu, and the prefect Liu is not a corrupt official, he deserves what he deserves."

Father Qiao snorted twice, and didn't tell his wife the truth. Is Zhifu Liu really a corrupt official?The corrupt officials he has seen are not more greedy than his brother-in-law, but he was angry in his heart, and retorted: "You good brother-in-law has a big appetite, do you know how much money our family has to honor your sister's family?" , but training us is still like training a grandson.”

Mrs. Qiao is used to it. She used to be a concubine in her natal family, but her status was low in front of her aunt and aunt. Some things were engraved in her bones, and after marrying into a merchant, she felt that she was a few heads shorter than her aunt.

Father Qiao knew his wife's temperament, so it's no wonder that she didn't blame her, so none of the sons and daughters in his house were seen. Have you been living like this?"

Mrs. Qiao hesitated. It's okay for my sister to reprimand her like that. Anyway, she has become a habit of being patient. The life in Qiao's house is much more comfortable than in the past in her mother's house. But imagine that my son, especially the well-behaved grandson, will be reprimanded like this in the future. Mrs. Qiao couldn't bear that scene just thinking about it, the son could not bear it, and the grandson couldn't bear it even more.

"But, what can I do?" Mrs. Qiao still didn't know how to resist the change.

Father Qiao was not so much convincing his wife as he was convincing himself. He simply got up and said, "Let me think about it again. Go to bed early. I'll go to the study so that you don't sleep well."

Father Qiao didn't close his eyes all night when he went to the study. When Qiao Huan saw his father the next day, he was startled. Slap, since having a son, Qiao Huan's status in the eyes of his parents has plummeted.

"Father, what are you bothering about? Put yourself in this state."

Father Qiao glared at his son. It wasn't for the sake of his children and grandchildren. Does he need to worry so much?After staring at him, he asked again: "Are we, the Qiao family, going to stand completely against the Wan family?"

Qiao Huan frowned and asked, "Is it because of Mother's business?"

"Not only that," Father Qiao shook his head, "Your mother can bear it, but can you and my grandson bear it? I'm used to pretending to be a grandson with your mother, but you can't even bear your cousin's anger." , but you can’t get into your studies, and you have been trained for so many years, and you haven’t even passed the exam, let alone entered the officialdom to change our family’s lintel.”

Qiao Huan finally felt embarrassed, and scratched his face in embarrassment: "Why did Dad bring up these things again? It's not that I don't want to study well, but what should I do if I don't have this brain?"

No, just because I knew it, I didn't want to criticize my son too much, and for many merchants, the fact that Qiao's family was able to climb up the relationship with the Prefect of Wan has already made many people envious and jealous.

After dark that day, Father Qiao went to the street, came to a wonton stand alone, and called for wonton.

The stall owner was a middle-aged man with a limping leg. He paused when he saw the person coming, and then he cooked wontons for Father Qiao as if nothing had happened. After the cooking was done, he delivered it to him, and asked in a low voice, "Why is Master Qiao condescending?" You come to my small stall? Are you afraid that the food will be dirty?"

The middle-aged man looked at Father Qiao with complicated eyes, grateful but also a little mocking.

Father Qiao looked at the wonton in front of him, sighed and said, "Liu Chang, do you know who has come to Jiangnan recently?"

The eyes of the middle-aged man changed: "You mean Gu Zijue and Pingnan Viscount? How useful can they be? Aren't they still being pinched by that bastard?"

"But their backing is strong enough, who is behind them." Father Qiao pointed to the sky.

The middle-aged man's hand tightened unconsciously: "I will think about it."

Father Qiao watched the middle-aged man turn around and limped away, lowering his head to eat the wonton in front of him. It wasn't until he got up and left that the middle-aged man who was busy behind the stove looked up at Father Qiao again.

As I said before, Gu Mu let people go at Qiao’s house, especially those who were staring at Qiao’s father. Qiao’s father suddenly ran out alone and ate wontons at a small stall. This is very unusual in itself, so this matter is reported. When they arrived at Gu Mu's place, it was only because the person staring at him didn't hear the conversation between Father Qiao and the stall owner, so it was impossible to find out the identity of the stall owner for a while.

But after a few days, the guards guarding the construction site caught a lame middle-aged man who behaved suspiciously. Gu Mu immediately asked someone to bring him in. When he saw this man, Gu Mu knew that he was Joe. The owner of the wonton stall that my father went to meet on purpose.

"Who are you? Why are you hiding outside and spying on our construction site?"

The middle-aged man looked timid, and said in a low voice, "I, the young one, is just curious."

Gu Mu sneered, got up and walked in front of him: "I don't have that much patience, if you don't tell the truth, I will directly throw you into prison, because I suspect that you are spying on the court's secrets."

The middle-aged man's face turned pale, and he knelt down with a thud: "There are no small ones, there are no small ones at all."

"Okay, what did Qiao Xianqing talk to you that day? Can you tell me the truth?"

This time Liu Chang was completely paralyzed. He never expected that Master Qiao went looking for him, and everyone would notice him, and even knew that Master Qiao was going for him, but in a blink of an eye, he suddenly raised his head again, took two steps forward and kowtowed. "Liu Chang, a grassroots man, has a grievance and wants to be promoted. He dare not hide it from the adults. The younger one came to report the case for my master. My master was wronged. It was all the bastard surnamed Wan who framed my master. I beg the master Qingtian to make the decision for my master." , Master, they died so badly."

Bang bang bang, Liu Chang kowtowed loudly, Gu Mu signaled, and someone nearby immediately stopped Liu Chang, Gu Mu was worried that if he kowtowed again, his heart would see blood, and seeing blood would affect his mood.

"Liu Chang?" Gu Mu sat back and turned the thumb on the thumb. The name was beyond his expectation. Before he could find out the identity of this person, he brought it over by himself. "What's your relationship with Liu Shilian?"

Liu Chang quickly said: "That's my master. The youngest's father is the housekeeper of the Liu family. There is no one alive in the whole house except for the young one. They are all killed by a bastard named Wan. He slandered my master."

"Then how did you survive?" Gu Mu was also a little surprised by Liu Chang's identity. There is still such a person alive, and he is still living under Wan Zhifu's nose. What surprised him was that Qiao Xianqing and this There is a connection between them, could it be that Qiao Xianqing has been secretly protecting this person all these years?Is it because Qiao Xianqing has long had a dissatisfaction with Prefect Wan?

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