If Ji Chengfeng had not personally intervened, the matter would have been investigated by the officials under him.

The autumn examination is approaching, and several scholars have gotten into trouble. In such a hurry to close the case, it is very likely that there will be no detailed investigation.

Anyway, the evidence is conclusive, the victim and the perpetrator are all clear, and all we need to do is to make a judgment.

Li Wenhan is probably destined to be the scapegoat.

In the courtyard, two people sat opposite each other, and on the small round table in the middle, hot tea was gurgling.

Xie Wan Ning listened quietly, and suddenly asked an unrelated question.

"The Lin family that ordered Xu Xiucai to poison the people is the Lin family of the Lin's Trading Company in Bianzhou?"

"Know him?" Ji Chengfeng was pouring tea for her. Hearing this, he glanced at her, thought for a moment, and said, "Is the matter entrusted by the mother and daughter related to the Lin family?"

Xie Wan Ning: “…”

This guy is incredibly perceptive.

But there was nothing to hide, she nodded slowly, "That lady's husband is the second son of the Lin family in Bianzhou."

The Lin family has been doing business for generations. In terms of wealth, although they are not considered a wealthy family in the prosperous Bianzhou city, they are by no means unknown.

After Xie Wan Ning arrived in Bianzhou, he tentatively inquired about the second son of the Lin family.

I didn't expect that he was also a celebrity. It didn't take much effort to collect almost all the information about him.

The second son was born of a legitimate wife. Although the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children was not so clear in merchant families, his status as a legitimate wife still made his marriage more important.

Mr. and Mrs. Lin had arranged for him to marry the daughter of a scholar named Liu very early on. Since they were from the family of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, this marriage could actually be considered marrying up.

Since the beginning of his education, Mr. Lin has stayed at the Liu family almost every day, studying with his future father-in-law and cultivating a relationship with his fiancée.

The two grew up together as childhood sweethearts and have a very deep relationship.

If they could get married successfully, it would be a match made in heaven. However, unexpected events happened. On his way to Beijing for the imperial examination, Liu Juren met with disaster, leaving his family behind and never came back. Life was hard for the orphan and widow, but fortunately, there was the marriage with the Lin family. The Lin family was honest in business, and the marriage had been planned for many years, so it was already a done deal, and no one dared to cheat them.

But just when the marriage was about to be put on the agenda, the second son of the Lin family passed the imperial examination and became a scholar.

Everything is different.

Every merchant family dreams of changing their ownership.

A scholar is indeed nothing, but a teenage scholar is very important.

If resources are allocated, the future will be limitless.

If one could pass the imperial examination and spend some money to bribe people, it would not be difficult to get an official position with real power in the Khanate, which is in urgent need of talents.

If it is said that before, the Lin family had no other thoughts about the marriage with the Liu family, then after the second son of the Lin family passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, Mr. and Mrs. Lin began to secretly regret the hasty arrangement of the marriage.

But even if they regretted it, the Lin family could not do something like breaking off the engagement.

After all, once you break off the engagement, you will be drowned in the spit of the villagers.

Not to mention, Mr. Lin will embark on a career in politics in the future, so he certainly cannot have such a stain.

When they were in a dilemma, Miss Liu went to the temple to burn incense, where she met thieves and lost her reputation.

It has been so long that there are many different opinions about what exactly happened, but Miss Liu's reputation is indeed ruined.

The Lin family took advantage of the situation and called off the marriage.

Who would have thought that the second young master Lin was such a lovesick man that he refused to cancel the marriage even though the girl from the Liu family had a bad reputation and even though she disobeyed her parents.

Unfortunately, filial piety is the most important thing, and parents make the final decision on marriage matters, and even Mr. Lin II himself has no right to make a comment. (End of this chapter)