Chapter 368 I can only help you this far

The high-spirited Master Liu had to grit his teeth and go back, proving once again the old saying that a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake.

Besides, he was not a strong dragon.

This trick of framing was indeed vicious. But in order to make it perfect, Master Liu's plan was too sophisticated.

Too complicated things are prone to failure, and so are plans. Li Chengxi noticed a crucial point in his plan.

No matter who the mastermind is, all his arrangements are to get himself out, and there must not be any trace of involvement.

This is very important. Since he has gotten himself out, let's use this to make arrangements.

Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan are investigating Wen and Qing's families with great fanfare. If Master Liu still has spies in the two families, he will definitely inform him.

And the message must not be directly to Master Liu for a face-to-face interview, otherwise he will not be able to get out.

Then, the only way to think of is to communicate through letters placed in a certain place.

The rest of the things are much simpler. Just observe which servant has left, track and replace the letter he left.

This is Qin Yan's specialty. The thief is quite experienced in stealing and replacing the pillars.

The replaced letter was dictated by Li Chengxi and written by Yang Yiyi. There are only eight words on it: "Someone is investigating, so be careful of changes."

These words did not reveal any information from Yang Yiyi's side. No matter what the investigation found or who was investigating, they did not know. They did not say something that Mr. Liu would not tell his informants, but gave Mr. Liu a strong sense of oppression.

This sense of oppression came from the possibility of failure of the plan.

Li Chengxi expected that Mr. Liu would have two reactions after receiving the letter. One is to treat it as nothing happened, terminate the plan, and leave Silk City after the storm.

The second is to take a gamble and forcibly pin the crime of keeping tribute privately on the Wen family.

There are actually some uncontrollable risks in doing so. After all, he has not really married into the Qing family yet.

This step is very important. If it is not confirmed, it means that there may be changes. What if Qingliu marries someone else? All the hard work will be for someone else.

Coincidentally, although Qinglinhong wanted to get married, his daughter Qingliu was so resistant that Qinglinhong hesitated. This is also the important reason why Mr. Liu did not take action even though the informants were killed.

Choosing one of the two, Mr. Liu unfortunately chose the latter.

So he took people to dig out the tribute silk he had hidden in the middle of the night, and then reported it himself.

It was expected that the county magistrate would come. After all, Mr. Liu wanted to get himself out of this matter. As the son of the salt transport envoy, he participated in the report. It seemed that he was trying to cover up the truth. If it got out of hand, even his father, who was the salt transport envoy, could not suppress it.

So the report was the report, and the witness was better to be the county magistrate. In this way, in the official document delivered to the capital, it would become that the county magistrate uncovered a case of privately hiding tribute and asked people to come to investigate, instead of Mr. Liu participating in it.

As for setting up a mechanism behind the door, it was Yang Yiyi's way of venting her anger, and it had nothing to do with Li Chengxi.

In terms of the results, the effect was very good.

Not only did he make a wasted trip, but he also had to admit that it was a misunderstanding. It was said that Master Liu returned to Beijing with his servants at the speed of light the next day. He really didn't have the face to stay in Sicheng any longer.

After such a serious incident, did he just leave lightly?

Otherwise.

Master Liu's plan was indeed clean, and there was no real evidence pointing to him. Everything was based on the inference of who was most favorable. Although the result was that he showed up and revealed his true colors, there was no evidence. Even if he told the whole thing to the county magistrate, he didn't dare to arrest the son of a third-rank official without any hard evidence.

Of course, he couldn't let him off easily without any evidence.

Qin Yan followed the servant who informed Master Liu, and there was another purpose, which was to search for letters that could be used as evidence.

As soon as Master Liu left the place, Qin Yan went in to search, but unfortunately this man was very cautious, and Qin Yan did not find anything useful.

But such a cautious guy would definitely carry important things with him.

Remember, when the county magistrate came, Qin Yan was very diligent to help Master Liu who was pushed down by Yang Yiyi.

Just by bumping shoulders with someone, Qin Yan could steal the things that were in the deepest part of the person's arms. The action of helping Master Liu up was enough for her to turn over his underwear.

Finally, she touched several letters between Master Liu and his father, the salt transport envoy. This plan was indeed not participated by him alone. Without the permission of his father, who was the salt transport envoy, many things could not be done.

But it was still not enough as iron evidence. The information related to the whole thing in the letter was probably "do it cleanly", "be careful", "don't make trouble", these instructions. The father and son were very careful, and it was difficult to drag the salt transport envoy into the water.

Based on these few letters and Yang Yiyi's oral inference, even the emperor cannot easily dismiss the third-rank official.

However, Yang Yiyi wrote a letter herself and sent it to Li Yingluo together with these letters.

Wuzhou is also within the scope of Liuzhou State. Even if the third-rank official cannot be removed from office, it is enough to ask Li Yingluo's father Situ to punish the salt transport envoy. It can be seen that the third-rank official will not have an easy time in the near future.

The matter is over, and Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan also stayed in Sicheng for two more days.

During this period, the Wen and Qing families were naturally very grateful and held banquets every day. Yang Yiyi said that she was almost fat...

When they were leaving, the two families also came to the port to see them off in person, and gave them 100 taels of gold, a jade pendant and a family secret book to thank Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan for their hard work.

The gold was easy to talk about. The two families were the richest merchants in Silk City, and this amount of money was just a drop in the bucket.

The jade pendant represented the promise of the two families. No matter what they asked for in the future, as long as they brought the jade pendant, the descendants of the two families would also help them.

It was said that the two families didn't know what was wrong with them. The jade pendant was also given to the crazy monk Du Chun.

As for the secret book, it was fully considered that Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan were Jianghu people.

The two families are no longer in the Jianghu now. The secret books left by their ancestors in the Jianghu would be gathering dust. Considering that Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan might need them, they copied a copy and gave it to the two.

Yang Yiyi didn't refuse the jade pendant and secret book, but she didn't feel comfortable taking the gold. She felt that she had done nothing.

Qin Yan, on the other hand, was the opposite. She accepted all the gold and jade pendants, but was not very interested in the secrets. There were so many secrets in the Sixteen Villages that you could never finish practicing them.

Before leaving, Yang Yiyi did not forget about Wen Yun and Qing Liu, saying that the two families had been entangled for a long time, so why not take this opportunity to become relatives and forget all grudges.

As for the issue of heirs, let Wen Yun and Qing Liu get married and have more children, so that there would be no need to say that the Qing family was annexed by the Wen family.

Outsiders have no say in this matter, but the two families do think that it is not a good idea to continue like this, as it will give outsiders an opportunity to take advantage of it. Generally speaking, there has been some progress. As for the final result, Yang Yiyi has no way to decide, so she can only help the two of them up to this point.