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Chapter 282: Dengzhou Governor Hangs Himself

The officials in Heya who were kneeling on the ground and crying were driven aside by the inner guards.

The evil spirit held a steel knife in his hand and stared at the officials of the Heya government who might be the murderers with his evil eyes.

Everyone should continue crying, they just cry in a different position.

Li Cunxi successfully arrived at the main hall of the governor's mansion from the path that these people had led to the lobby. After walking around the main hall, he saw a white silk hanging on the beam of the second hall, with a man hanged on it.

The scene was extremely messy. Under the man's feet was a square table, and near the side of the table facing the door was a high stool. The tea table was knocked over to the ground, and the teapot was broken into pieces and scattered everywhere. The tea that had leaked out had already soaked into the ground, and the tea leaves were stuck together in clumps.

In addition, there was a letter on the table of another table in the second hall. The letter was written, but not bound, and the envelope was placed aside.

In the second hall where the deceased hanged himself, several people carefully checked but found no clues.

Hu Jinghui and Li Yuanfang came to the desk, picked up the letter which was addressed to someone unknown, and began to read it.

"Cunxi, there is something wrong with this letter."

Before he even read two sentences, Hu Jinghui immediately shouted at Li Cunxi.

"Let me take a look."

Li Cunxi put down the clay pot in his hand and turned back to Hu Jinghui.

There was indeed something wrong with the letter. Li Cunxi discovered a big problem as soon as he read the first sentence.

"I heard that Your Majesty sent an envoy to the south on a tour and passed through Dengzhou. I have committed a heinous crime and dare not face the Shao Yin. I hang myself to thank Your Majesty for your grace."

Wu Yanhao and Lu Dayou came over after hearing the sound and read the letter next to Li Cunxi.

"Cunxi, there's something wrong with this letter." Wu Yanhao said seriously, "How could someone write a letter like this? There's definitely something wrong with this person."

"Don't interrupt me, I'll continue reading." Li Cunxi held the letter and continued reading.

The content of this entire letter roughly tells the story of how the governor of Dengzhou accepted a bribe of 200,000 taels of silver while in office. When he heard that Li Cunxi was coming, he did not dare to face Li Cunxi head-on, so he hanged himself.

However, Li Cunxi searched over and over again but could not find out from whom the governor of Dengzhou received the 200,000 taels of silver.

Li Cunxi narrowed his eyes, looked back at Zhao Hai who was guarding outside, and asked:

"Captain Zhao, have you, the people from the Inner Guards, searched the Dengzhou Governor's Mansion?"

Zhao Hai came in with his sword, bowed respectfully, and then answered seriously:

"In reply to Li Shaoyin's words, our Internal Guard Office did not search this place before Li Shaoyin arrived."

Li Cunxi raised the letter in his hand again and asked:

"Has anyone from your Inner Guards seen this letter?"

Zhao Hai shook his head repeatedly and said:

"Li Shaoyin, we in the Inner Guard also know the rules. How dare we look at the letter in your hand?"

Li Cunxi nodded. The death of the governor of Dengzhou was full of doubts, and the origin of this letter was even more strange.

Next it’s time for the Internal Guard to take action.

"Zhao Geling, find the official in the governor's mansion who doesn't get along with the governor of Dengzhou the most. It must be a high-ranking official."

"Also, send a copy of the governor's message to me."

……

After a cup of tea, in the second hall of the Governor's Mansion, Li Cunxi was drinking tea while looking through the information of Yu Lei, the Governor of Dengzhou.

Not far away, Dengzhou Beijia Gao Chi was trembling all over, and only two feet away from him was Dengzhou Governor Yu Lei who was still hanging on the beam.

The coroner's report has come out, and Yu Lei's time of death was probably around midnight last night. The medical report is now placed next to Li Cunxi.

Hu Jinghui and Li Yuanfang changed into the standard uniforms of the Qianniu Guards, and Lu Dayou transformed himself into a mentor, always following Li Cunxi and Wu Yanhao.

Outside the second hall, Dengzhou Chief Clerk Mi Qing and Dengzhou Sima Peng Hai were also trembling constantly. The evil spirit stared at them, and his cold eyes seemed to express that he wanted to eat them alive.

Li Cunxi in the second hall had been looking through Yu Lei's information and was not in a hurry to ask Gao Chi. Wu Yanhao, who was standing aside, was bored, so he opened the coroner's report and flipped through it casually.

Not long after, Li Cunxi put down the information in his hand, held his cheek, and looked at Dengzhou Beijia Gao Chi who was trembling below with a smile.

"Don't be afraid, Gao Beijia. Sit down."

Li Cunxi smiled and pointed to the bed beside him.

Gao Chi shivered, bowed to Li Cunxi, and said, "Thank you, Li Shaoyin."

After Gao Chi sat down, Li Cunxi asked, "Boss Gao, I have a question and I would like you to tell me about it."

"I will never conceal anything that Li Shaoyin asks me!"

"Then I would like to ask... When Yu was the governor, who was his closest friend?"

"He, I am closest to you." Gao Chi wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead. "Although I have some differences with Governor Yu in terms of political views, we can be considered half-partners if we put aside our political views. After all, we both know each other well."

"Oh." Li Cunxi immediately looked at Gao Chi with a higher opinion. "Then I have a problem. Do you think Governor Yu is a corrupt official?"

Gao Chi swallowed and shook his head again and again.

"Li Shaoyin naturally doesn't know that although Governor Yu disagrees with me in politics, he is definitely not a greedy person. He married into a local family in his early years and later became a governor of a state. The local families dared not disobey him and even claimed to be marrying their daughters to him. They paid a lot of dowry as compensation, so he was not short of money."

Li Cunxi compared the information in his hand and found that what he saw was exactly the same as what the Dengzhou Beijia said.

Yu Lei was indeed a poor scholar in his early years. In order to make a living, he had no choice but to marry into a local wealthy family.

only……

A poor scholar can actually marry into a wealthy family. Do you think this is the reverse version of Wang Baochuan and Xue Pinggui?

Although Wang Baochuan was stubborn and Xue Pinggui was a good person, Wang Baochuan's family definitely did not agree with it.

In this shitty era, Li Cunxi now thinks that he is the Shao Yin of Henan Prefecture, and his status is not low. When he returns to Taiyuan, he dare not easily meet Miss Wang. It's nothing else, the concept of family background is too important.

In his early years, Yu Lei was just a poor scholar, with nothing but a lot of knowledge. Did the wealthy people collectively lose their brains, or were they all brainless? Or was it that the wealthy lady was too stupid to fall in love with this idiot and finally married him?

So magical!

If this happened to Wang Xiao from the Wang family, let alone marrying Li Cunxi, the Wang family would have to find a big family to send Wang Xiao to marry overnight.

In this era, ladies from wealthy families have to find a man of equal status. How could Yu Lei have such good fortune?

Wu Yanhao's eyes were bright: "I wonder, which family is this Governor Yu's wife from?"