vrcanaries Chapter 1842 Someone is still lurking
Chapter 1842 Someone is still lurking
As soon as Lin Jiawen came back from the palace, Lin Jing deliberately looked for him and mentioned the leak of the test questions.
"Someone is taking advantage of this to make a fortune. Jia Wen, you are the examiner. If you don't find out the truth as soon as possible, His Majesty will be furious and you will be blamed."
"Uncle, this matter has nothing to do with me. Someone is trying to harm me." Lin Jiawen's lips trembled as if he couldn't speak, but when he thought of the consequences of this matter, he forced out a sound.
Lin Jing comforted him: "You are my nephew, I know what you are capable of, so I believe this matter has nothing to do with you."
This gave Lin Jiawen an outlet for his emotions: "Uncle, I think the people behind this are related to Chen Changli and his wife. Your Majesty has been betrayed by them."
Lin Jing was just about to guide him and let him blurt out something, but he didn't expect him to say something like this.
"Why do you think so? Or do you have evidence?" Lin Jing stared at Lin Jiawen, his pupils were black and white, and he was extremely vicious.
Lin Jiawen's words were grim: "It would have been fine if the human traffickers had made such a big fuss, but I didn't expect that there was also a missing person involved. How come Chen Changli and his wife happened to run into this incident by such a coincidence?"
The more he spoke, the redder his eyes became, as if he wanted to eat someone. "There is no such coincidence in the world. I think the caravan formed by Wan Shufang and Manager Wang is engaged in smuggling business. Now that Dayong has settled down, Wan Shufang is worried that the matter will be exposed, so she found a few scapegoats under the pretext of traveling around the world."
Lin Jing clenched his fists, as if he was going to beat Chen Changli and his wife to death the next moment. "Wan Shufang is a business woman. She only cares about profit. The smuggling business can make her a lot of money. Given her greedy temper, she will definitely do something that reverses right and wrong and turns the tables."
"Jia Wen, I'm glad you reminded me. Otherwise, I would have asked Chen Changli to help you investigate the leak of the imperial examination questions, and you would have fallen into the hands of the couple."
Lin Jiawen frowned: "Uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Chen Changli have worked with you for so many years, don't you plan to trust them?"
His words were tentative, but Lin Jing had expected this. He met his gaze with a rare sneer on his old face, "Even if he has a good relationship with me, he is still an outsider. How can he compare to the relationship between you and me?"
"You are the pride of my Lin family. With you in the court, my Lin family can prosper for another hundred years."
Lin Jing's thoughts are common among all the noble families. Lin Jiawen understands this very well and looks at him with a moved look.
Seeing the satisfaction in his eyes, Fang believed it a little, but he still felt something was wrong. He specially sent someone to keep an eye on Lin Jing to see what he would do next.
Lin Jing guessed his plan. On the surface, he attacked the person who leaked the test questions, but secretly sent a message to Chen Changli and his wife, asking them to change their plan and deliberately create conflicts with him.
The two sides cooperated well. After Lin Jiawen watched it for two days and made sure there was no problem, he secretly increased the speed of making money. Some poor students realized the problem with the scientific examination questions belatedly.
They originally wanted to report the matter, but as Lin Jiawen took the initiative to accept essays submitted by some candidates, some of them took chances and spent all their wealth to buy test papers circulating on the market.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Chen Changli and Lin Jing immediately did the opposite. They sold more test questions at a low price, and asked Chen Hai to be the leader and sue Lin Jiawen for money-making.
"Lin Jiawen, as the chief examiner, did not consider the candidates, but instead amassed wealth. He even secretly opened casinos and banks to force students who were not confident in themselves to borrow money to buy test questions. This is truly despicable."
"Your Majesty, I implore you to thoroughly investigate this matter and seek justice for the innocent candidates who were deceived and cheated."
As soon as Chen Hai made the complaint, the emperor became furious and ordered Chen Changli to arrest the man.
Lin Jiawen had expected this and took the opportunity to escape with the money. Lin Jing had been watching him and when he noticed his actions, he immediately took people to follow him.
"Boy, who are you? Why are you hiding in Yongzhou City? Where is my nephew?" Seeing him entering the slums and about to jump into the well to escape, Lin Jing quickly rushed over and grabbed him.
"I am Lin Jiawen, uncle, why are you here?" Lin Jiawen pretended to be surprised.
"Are you still pretending? I'll tear off your mask right now and show you your true face." Lin Jing spat at him and tore his face.
Lin Jiawen struggled hard, and Lin Jing found that he was very strong and he was almost no match for him.
His eyes were as cold as an ice cave, without a trace of warmth. "What a great strength! You are really not my nephew, Chen Changli, come and help me."
Chen Changli arrived in time and rushed over, grabbed him with one hand and hit him in the abdomen with the other, causing him to kneel on the ground in pain.
Lin Jing took this opportunity to take off the human skin mask on his face. Looking at the face that was completely different from his nephew's, he raised his eyes slightly and said in a cold voice: "Tell me the truth, where did you hold my nephew?"
During the time he was keeping an eye on the fake, he looked for the real Lin Jiawen a lot, but he couldn't find even a single hair.
The fake looked at him with disdain and said sarcastically, "I can imitate him so vividly, which means he has no use value. What will happen to a worthless person? Master Lin, don't you know?"
Lin Jing looked at him in disbelief: "You killed my nephew, ah, I will kill you to avenge him."
He took the dagger from Chen Changli's arms and stabbed it into the fake's chest, crushing his heart to pieces. Lin Jing pulled out the dagger with a fierce look on his face, then collapsed on the ground and cried, "That's my brother's only child!"
Chen Changli did not expect that the fake would die in Lin Jing's hands. He was surprised for a while before sighing: "Master Lin, you are impulsive."
"I couldn't help it, but I couldn't bear it." Lin Jiawen was indeed the pillar of the Lin family of this generation as he said. If he died, the Lin family would fall into decline.
Chen Changli said kindly: "I will explain this matter to His Majesty truthfully. Don't worry, His Majesty is very observant and he will not hold it against you."
Lin Jing quickly perked up: "He has collected too much money, and one person can't take it all away, so there must be someone waiting outside. Let's go down this well and see who is waiting."
Chen Changli had just this intention, so he took him and jumped into the well. After a while, they saw people. They rushed up to capture these people and interrogated them. They found out that they were spies arranged by Prince Rong to be around the emperor. They were familiar with everything about the emperor and were good at disguise, so they deceived people.
Lin Jing was furious: "When did you guys replace Lin Jiawen?"
"Twenty years ago." The person being interrogated felt that his eyes were cold and frightened. "Besides him, there are many people like him lurking in Yongzhou City."
"Jia Wen, you died so tragically!" Lin Jing no longer cared about the fact that someone else had replaced his identity. He appeared in front of the emperor openly. He felt sad for his poor nephew and cried bitterly.