manynovel Chapter 652: The plan started so early
Chapter 652: The plan started so early
"My father originally ignored it, thinking that our Huang family had at least entered the officialdom, and all the wealth and glory in the past were just yesterday's flowers. But how could they let us go? With threats and inducements, they finally dragged the Huang family into the water.
I have also advised my father, but he said that our Huang family is the remnant of the previous dynasty, and the Crown Princess back then was his aunt. If these people expose it, our Huang family will still be destroyed, so it is better to take a gamble. "
"Back then, your Huang family concealed the relationship with the former crown princess, and that's how they survived. I didn't expect your father to be so foolish that he actually wanted to follow the dragon? Now the remnants of the former dynasty can't cause any trouble at all, and everything is wishful thinking."
Jiang Youzhen snorted coldly. Don’t say that the Huang family was just threatened. In fact, they were also tempted.
"It's true that my father is tempted, but if those remnants tell others about what happened back then, will the court let our Huang family go? My future will be ruined. If it were you, what would you choose?"
Huang Mintao was very indignant, Jiang Youzhen just sat down and talked without any pain in his waist.
What would happen? She would kill anyone who threatened her. If those people dared to threaten her, for the sake of the lives of the whole family, she would naturally kill them all!
However, it is understandable that the Huang family would make such a choice. But now that they each serve their own masters, it is useless to say these things.
"There's no need to speculate what I would do. After all, I'm not you. Keep talking!" Jiang Youzhen knocked on the table and said coldly.
Huang Mintao laughed sarcastically, and then continued: "In the few years after I entered the officialdom, perhaps because I had not yet established my foothold, I was not allowed to do anything extraordinary, but I knew nothing about the pawns they had planted in the court.
Until five years ago, when my youngest son was born, they took him away to threaten me. Now my wife has never known that the bastard in the mansion is not her child, and she has been raising him as her own child. "
Everyone couldn't help but sigh after hearing this. She had raised someone else's child for five years without knowing whether her own son was alive or dead.
In order to let fewer people know, Huang Mintao didn’t even tell his first wife, who raised the child as her own!
Jiang Youzhen suddenly had an idea in his mind, and ordered the guards beside him: "Go and bring the child to the Dali Temple in secret!"
She thought of the token and military amulet from before, and had a vague guess. She didn't understand the intentions of those people at first, but now it made sense.
The two guards looked at each other, they were guards of Dali Temple and they only took orders from Dali Temple officials.
However, Jiang Youzhen's cold eyes swept over them, and they were shocked for some reason. Without any hesitation, they obeyed the order and left.
Huang Mintao was a little puzzled, but he didn't think too much about it. Now he has let everything go. He only has one wish, that his youngest son is still alive.
"Then they began to order me around, because they knew I wouldn't dare disobey. Zong Heng's transfer was indeed my doing. Because the academy closed down three years ago, I didn't find an opportunity, so someone else took over.
It just so happened that the three-year term was up last year, and those people couldn't wait any longer, saying that if I continued to slack off, they would show me a piece of my youngest son's finger. I had no other choice but to plot against Zong Heng, but I ended up doing something that would benefit others."
"Did he show you your son's finger?" Jiang Youzhen asked calmly.
The jailers and guards all looked at him with a frown. This gentleman was really heartless. Even they felt that this gentleman was a bit pitiful, but Lord Jiang was still so calm in poking at other people's sore spots.
Huang Mintao's eyes were red and his body was shaking.
"Yes, a piece of my child's little finger. It was bloody. I knew it was my punishment."
Everyone could not help but frown. They were often tortured and had hardened hearts. But they really couldn't bear to do that to a child.
At most, they would just kill me with a knife, but I never tortured anyone.
"How do you know that the finger belongs to your youngest son? If I used someone else's finger to fool you..."
Before Jiang Youzhen finished speaking, Huang Mintao interrupted her excitedly, "Can I gamble? Of course I can't gamble. No matter if it's my youngest son or not, I can only obey them."
"Have you seen your youngest son in these five years?" Jiang Youzhen suddenly asked.
Huang Mintao was stunned, then shook his head, "I only saw him once from a distance. They didn't allow me to talk to my youngest son or appear in front of him. But I saw that he was doing well, and they even found someone to teach him to read.
They said that when we regain our country, they would let my son take the imperial examination and become an official.”
Jiang Youzhen sneered, "Do you believe their lies?"
"Of course I don't believe it. My son is disabled after losing his little finger, and he has no chance of taking the imperial examination. But all I want is for him to be safe!"
Huang Mintao smiled bitterly. Did he have any choice?
Jiang Youzhen had mixed feelings. In this dynasty where one could have three wives and four concubines as long as one had money, it was not difficult to have more children. Huang Mintao was indeed very good to his children.
"From then on, I thought about performing well and took the initiative to look for opportunities to make up for it. So during your examination, I took the exam and became an examiner."
Jiang Youzhen immediately thought of the cheating case in the imperial examination, and asked, "Did you throw that note?"
In the case of Liu Gui's cheating with her developer powder, she thought the plan of the person behind the scenes was very thorough, with one thing after another. If her developer powder had not been different from others, it would have been difficult for her to escape the crime.
"Of course not!" Huang Mintao shook his head. "I couldn't go to the examination room, so it couldn't be me. But I came up with that plan. They wanted to get rid of you, and I came up with the plan. The secret agents in the court and the accomplices outside worked together.
It is to implicate you in the fraud case and the case of treason. Even if nothing is accomplished, it is enough to delay you and postpone the palace examination. After all, if you want to participate in the next palace examination, you have to wait another three years. "
It turned out that Huang Mintao had started plotting against him so early. Jiang Youzhen recalled Huang Mintao's enthusiasm on the day he reported to the Hanlin Academy, and he was suddenly chilled.
"Why did you attack me? Who is the person you are in contact with?" Jiang Youzhen asked calmly.
"Because you are a threat!" Huang Mintao said, glancing at the surprised expressions of the people around him and swallowing back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
"Look, now you have the upper hand over me. If I don't get rid of you, how can I get promoted? You have already threatened them, so I can only follow their orders.
As for the contact person, I have never seen his true face. Whenever he met me, he was wearing a cloak, looking neither human nor ghost. But his voice was old and hoarse, and he must be quite old. "
"Then how are you going to meet him? How do you let him know when you want to meet him? Who are the secret agents in the court?" Jiang Youzhen only cared about this.