"No!!"
Mo Zechen spoke very quickly and did not give Lin Qing time to think.
Lin Qing was overwhelmed by Mo Zechen's continuous questioning and retorted without thinking.
"I didn't lie. They did embezzle, and the amount was not small."
"Three years ago, people in Xuancheng often went missing. The government never found them because they were taken away by people from the government!!"
"The disappearance of people in the city and corruption are actually both..."
The more Lin Qing talked, the more excited he became, until he inadvertently raised his head and saw Mo Zechen's cold eyes with a hint of understanding. His throat seemed to be strangled, and he could not say a word.
Lin Qing covered her mouth and lowered her head, looking a little flustered.
Mo Zechen chuckled, stopped tapping, and said calmly, "You are indeed hiding something."
"Now that you know why the officials took away those young adults, can you tell me now?"
Lin Qing pursed her lips tightly and said nothing, a trace of annoyance flashed across her eyes.
It seemed that he was complaining that he had not calmed down just now and was actually provoked by Mo Zechen's words and said something he shouldn't have said.
"The person disappeared three years ago. In the following two years, Xuancheng has never had a large-scale disappearance of people."
Lin Qing didn't say anything, so Mo Zechen just guessed by himself.
His eyes were always on Lin Qing, and he judged whether he was right based on the changes in Lin Qing's expression.
"Maybe your relatives are among the missing people. You accidentally discovered that this matter is related to the government. But you, a commoner, can't go against the government, so you can only find another way and choose to go to Beijing to file a complaint."
Mo Zechen saw the flash of disdain in Lin Qing's eyes and frowned.
"Did I guess wrong?"
"That's strange. If you're not a relative, you shouldn't risk your life for a group of unrelated people and almost die on the way to Beijing to complain."
"Are you sure you don't want to make it clear to me?"
"The villain has nothing to say."
Seeing Lin Qing's uncooperative look, Mo Zechen felt a faint sense of irritation in his heart.
It was obviously Lin Qing who went to the capital to complain on his own, which meant that Lin Qing also hoped that he could find something.
But when things came to a head, Lin Qing seemed to be shrinking and refused to say anything.
"Lin Qing, if you don't say anything, if I don't find any problems, I may report this matter to Your Majesty at any time."
Mo Zechen suppressed the irritability in his heart. He told Lin Qing in a cold voice the consequences of continuing to hide what he knew.
"If His Majesty agrees to let me close the case, you will be imprisoned for reporting false cases and slandering officials."
"As for the officials in Xuancheng, because this investigation did not find any problems, they will not be punished in any way. Your Majesty may even let them be promoted because of this misunderstanding. Is this what you want? "
Mo Zechen originally thought that what he had said had reached this point. If Lin Qing was a smart person, he would know what the most correct thing to do was.
Who would have thought that Lin Qing still lowered his head and had no intention of explaining anything.
"Forget it, if you change your mind, just come to me and get out."
Mo Zechen let out a breath and waved his hand, letting Lin Qing go out.
He didn't want to see Lin Qing now, and he would feel bad if he saw him!
"Your Majesty, what are we going to do next?"
After Lin Qing walked out, the shadow guarding the door came in.
He had heard the conversation between the prince and Lin Qing just now. Lin Qing did not cooperate with them for some unknown reason and hid something from them.
When the person who reports the crime conceals something, the direction of their investigation may deviate at any time, which may very well lead to the result that they are now doing useless work.
"Shadow, go investigate the case of the disappearance of people in Xuancheng three years ago and find out what happened. Find out more specifically."
Mo Zechen paused and continued.
"If you can't glean useful information from the people's mouths, I will allow you to sneak into the government and check the government's files from that year, but you must ensure that you will not be discovered."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
With the prince's instructions, Shadow also had a direction for the next thing.
Mo Zechen didn't wait for news at the inn. He left a few people at the inn to pay attention to Lin Qing's movements, and then took others out to inquire about the news.
"Master, where are we going?"
When he went out, the guards also changed their names for Mo Zechen.
Mo Zechen said, "Go to the village where Lin Qing's family is located."
Before coming to Xuancheng, they had already investigated Lin Qing clearly, and naturally knew Lin Qing's original residence in Xuancheng.
When Mo Zechen and his people arrived at Lin Qing's village by carriage, Mo Zechen arranged for two people to join the group of ladies at the entrance of the village talking about the family's shortcomings.
After a while, the guard came over and told Mo Zechen where Lin Qing's family was located in the village.
The group of people went straight to Lin Qing's house. Lin Qing's house seemed to have been uninhabited for a long time, and there was a thick layer of spider webs at the door.
Mo Zechen pushed open the door and walked in. He gave his subordinates a look, and they immediately chose a room and went in to see if they could find any useful clues.
Mo Zechen did not enter the house, but looked around the yard. Finally, he found some unburned paper money by the well behind the yard.
Mo Zechen bent down and picked up the burned paper money with only one third left. After looking at it for a while, he frowned.
strangeness.
Lin Qing's house has a thick layer of dust on both the gate outside the yard and the rooms inside the yard.
This means that no one has lived in Lin Qing's house for a long time, so there is so much dust.
In the half month since he came to Xuancheng, he had the impression that there had been two heavy rains in Xuancheng, and there was no shelter in the backyard.
If this was paper money burned before, it would definitely not be so clean.
Could it be that someone came here recently to burn paper money?
But when he came in, the spider web at the door was intact. If someone came in through the door, the spider web at the door should be damaged.
If you didn't come in through the main door, where did you come in from?
Mo Zechen frowned slightly, looked around, and suddenly noticed the short wall, and he instantly had the answer in his heart.
Could it be that they got in by climbing over the wall?
What kind of person doesn't open the door, but insists on climbing over the wall to get in? This is a shameful person?
Or is it that what you do is shameful? !
"who!!"
While Mo Zechen was deep in thought, he suddenly heard the scolding of his subordinates. He came to his senses and quickly turned around and walked back.
"What's going on?"
When Mo Zechen walked over, he saw his bodyguard restraining a dark-skinned middle-aged man to prevent him from escaping.
