Seeing Jin Jing's mysterious look, Shen Cha curled his lips in disgust, put down the official document in his hand, stood up, put on his cloak and walked out.
Having grown up together, Shen Cha is very aware of the bad taste engraved in Jin Jing's bones. Although he looks like a handsome young man on the surface and smiles all day long, he is actually a guy with a particularly bad character. When I usually talk, I like to say half of the words and leave the other half. I really enjoy it when I see others scratching their heads and racking their brains to guess what they really think. It would be even worse if it happened to be during a period when he was extremely excited. If he planned to say ten sentences, he would only be able to say only one sentence, and the rest would have to be guessed by others, or others would beg him to say it.
Shen Cha was too lazy to play this kind of guessing game with Jin Jing. She didn't know if it was because she had too little sleep time recently and had too many official documents and battle reports to deal with. She was feeling groggy and needed to go out. Blow the air and wake up completely.
When Jin Jing saw Shen Cha coming out of the tent, she quickly put down the snacks in her hand, grabbed her cloak and followed her out. She was slightly relieved when she saw that Shen Cha didn't go anywhere, just stood in front of the tent in a daze.
"What are you doing out here in such a cold day?" Jin Jing put on her cloak and put on Shen Cha's hood, "I haven't had a good rest for so many days. What if I catch a cold or get sick? It’s no joke.”
"I've been sitting for too long and my body is stiff. I need to move a little bit." Shen Cha raised his head and looked at the blue sky, sighing softly, "It's too warm in the big tent, and it's hard to use my brain." Now, wake up." She looked at Jin Jing, "Brother Xiaojing also moved a little, after eating so much."
"I only took one bite of a piece of cake, and there's always more." Jin Jing was a little worried, "You've been so preoccupied these days, what are you thinking about?"
"Although we have always known that the internal conflicts in the Jin Kingdom are deep and irreconcilable, and chaos will break out sooner or later, we didn't expect it to come so quickly. According to my previous predictions, Wanyanping would have to find She can use this excuse to fight with us or Liao a few times, temporarily divert the attention of those who oppose her to other places, and seize the time to establish her own power. When those people come to their senses, she has become stronger, and then confront her "The decisive battle. But I didn't expect..." She turned to look at Jin Jing, "I think avenging her mother alone is not enough for her to attack Wanyan Zongcheng so quickly. Wanyan Zongcheng is unconscious at this time, which is actually harmful to her. It’s very unfavorable. So, there must be some reason that we don’t know.”
"The sky is unpredictable, and people are prone to misfortune and good fortune. There are probably outsiders who know about her mother's affairs. Maybe someone used her hand to deal with Wanyan Zongcheng, and also caught Wanyan Ping off guard. "
"Kill two birds with one stone?"
"This is a possibility, but it is not certain. We have no evidence." Jin Jing breathed out, "Maybe the truth of the matter is not as complicated as we thought. Wanyan Zongcheng's body is not as good as In the past, it was impossible all at once, so I gave Wanyanping, the rest of the Wanyan family, and the tribes who were eyeing her a chance, and now it’s up to me who has a stronger fist.”
"Maybe, I wish I was overthinking it."
"Haha, I'm afraid this isn't the only thing you've been thinking about these past few days, right? What else have you been thinking about? Tell me."
"This is really not my focus. I'm not worried about how brutal they will fight now. It's just that in this (situation), it's more difficult for us to find the truth back then, isn't it?" Shen Cha turned his head, She looked at Jin Jing and said, "There are not many close friends from back then who are still alive today. After this war, there are even fewer left. To be more serious, maybe none of them are alive." There aren’t any left.”
"It doesn't matter to us whether there are those people or not. We don't have to worry about it at all." Jin Jing patted Shen Cha on the arm, "Although witnesses are the key in many cases, in such major cases of collaboration with the enemy, physical evidence is the key." The one that plays the most important role. A witness’s confession can be changed, but it is much more difficult to change physical evidence, isn’t it?”
"That makes sense." Shen Cha nodded, "However, we have studied the files many times, but we have not found the key evidence that really led to the conviction. The witness's confession was vague. Yes, the physical evidence submitted cannot withstand scrutiny. Even His Majesty cannot understand what the late emperor relied on to execute Aunt Xue so neatly."
"Who says it's not the case? It's just because the verdict of that case was vague and there was nothing, whether it was witnesses or physical evidence, that it couldn't form a complete chain of evidence. That's why we felt it was strange and that's why we spent so much money. It took so many years to find out the truth." Jin Jing stretched out, looked around to make sure that Shen Haolin and Xue Ruitian were not hiding somewhere and eavesdropping, and then said, "Most of the physical evidence used to convict was The notes passed between the eldest prince and Aunt Xue when they were young are just words and phrases used by Dou Chukai's children to express their inner feelings to each other. This should be dealt with in other cases. Inside, it doesn’t even count as physical evidence.”
"That's right. The big guys from the Hanlin Academy studied it for many days in a serious manner, insisting that they hid the news in the poems, but in the end they didn't give a clear answer." Shen Cha sneered, "Maybe they studied I came out and forgot to write it in the file."
"Xiaocha, don't be so mean. Those gentlemen in the Hanlin Academy are not easy either. They forget about food and sleep, and their heads are almost bald. We have to be considerate of them. They are sure to pass on the news, but it's just because those notes are from Xue My aunt wrote in handwriting, and then someone came forward and said that they had witnessed the two of them entangled at the border, so..." Jin Jing spread her hands, "It only took ten days from the incident to the conclusion of the case."
"I always feel that the case is being closed in a hurry, for fear of others repeating the argument. It would be strange if there is nothing fishy in it. In addition, there is another point that I haven't thought about until now." Shen Cha paused for a while, "Logically speaking , for such a serious crime as collaborating with the enemy, it is already a great favor not to implicate the nine clans, even if it is a relative, it will still implicate the empress in the palace. But you see, after Aunt Xue’s accident, the late emperor only dealt with her. "
"Yes, the late emperor ignored the joint petition from the ministers, still trusted Wudinghou Mansion, and still entrusted him with important tasks. Even... the Queen Mother was not implicated. Not only was she not implicated, she was even more favored than before. .”
"You feel that way too, right?"
"The late emperor's approach is so contradictory that it has to make people think deeply." Jin Jing looked at Shen Cha, "Now that we have talked about it today, I will tell the truth. Several times, I felt that the truth of this case was not That's what we think, but it's another possibility. But if that's really the case, it's really terrible, or too terrifying."
"I'm afraid that the hypothesis that Brother Xiaojing thought of has been discussed with my brother many times. As you said, if that is the truth, the late emperor's thoughts are too... He really is not afraid of hurting Xun Xun by doing this. Do you have the heart of a military commander?"
"Rough people like us cannot understand the emperor's mind, but what is certain is that the court needs balance. When the late emperor was still alive, the nobles and generals were too glorious, and the civil servants could not hold their heads up." Jin Jing sighed, "If my guess is right, the late emperor was also worried about this at the time, and what happened to Aunt Xue happened. If Aunt Xue didn't have a sister who was a queen in the palace, maybe she wouldn't Something like this happened."
"Just...for the sake of civil and military balance, are you sacrificing the life and innocence of an innocent woman?" Shen Cha let out a long sigh, "Should we be glad that His Majesty is not such a person?"
"Don't say that. This is just our guess, the most terrifying and impossible guess. We must not take it seriously. If the truth is not like this, wouldn't we have wronged the late emperor? This is disrespectful. Let's Those censors know about it, and they are in trouble again. Let’s slowly look for evidence first. Whatever the final result is, we have tried our best, right?”
"What I'm saying is that if the truth is really what we think in the end, we will have to accept our fate. When the time comes, we will have to comfort Brother Xiaotian."
"The most important thing is that you think about it first." Jin Jing patted Shen Cha, "It took too long to come out, let's go back!"
"……good!"
