Chapter 671 Huo Yuan's Threat (1)

Huo Yuan came to Yingtian Prefecture and met the prefectural governor Zhao Hongwang.

When seeing Huo Yuan, the governor was very polite and kept assuring Huo Yuan that Mu Zhongqing had not suffered any injustice here. He was just temporarily detained in an independent prison. When the case was investigated, the government would not wrongly accuse a good man!

Zhao Hongwang was not a fool. He could not afford to offend both sides in this case. Although Huo Yuan was just a businessman, he had a sister who was a concubine behind him and an identity that was hard to tell. Naturally, he did not dare to offend easily. As for the Anguogong Mansion, although it had gradually become a sign of decline, the centipede was still alive. Not to mention the intricate network of in-laws that the Anguogong Mansion had established in the court over the years, he could not afford to offend the powerful general's mansion!

Therefore, when Huo Yuan asked about the progress of the case, he could only prevaricate by saying that he was investigating, and hinted that Huo Yuan should seek private reconciliation with the Anguo Mansion, because the evidence of the current investigation was very unfavorable to Mu Zhongqing.

According to Lord Zhao, the Mu family did use silver notes with the seal of the Anguo Mansion when purchasing the Bafu Dim Sum Shop, so it is better to communicate and reconcile with the Anguo Mansion.

Although Huo Yuan did not understand why the Mu family had the silver notes of the Anguo Mansion, he did not believe that the people of the Mu family would steal. If they were the kind of people who had no bottom line for greed, they would have accepted his ginseng shop worth 100,000 taels long ago. Since such a valuable ginseng shop was rejected, how could they risk stealing a mere 10,000 taels of silver notes? Moreover, the payment for purchasing the manor and the cloth shop was all in cash. So much silver must have been locked in the warehouse, and many servants were holding it. The Mu family was either weak scholars or women and children. How could they steal it?

With many doubts, as soon as he left Yingtian Prefecture, Huo Yuan ordered the driver to drive to the Anguo Mansion, wanting to find out what was going on in the Anguo Mansion!

Riding in a carriage, full of doubts, when he arrived at the west corner gate of the Anguo Mansion, he suddenly saw a thin coffin pulled by an ox cart entering from the west corner gate of the Anguo Mansion.

It seems that a concubine in the mansion has died. If it was an ordinary servant, the coffin would not be allowed to enter the mansion. It would only be pulled to the charity cemetery, and the mansion would pay for a thin coffin to be burned and buried nearby; if the master died, he would go through the main gate, not the side door, and would not use such a simple coffin. From this, it can be inferred that the thin coffin must be used to hold a concubine!

When Huo Yuan arrived at the Anguo Mansion, the Anguo Duke naturally had to come out to accompany him personally, and the children of the three houses in the mansion also came out. Because Du Ruhai didn't know that the old lady Wang and her three sons had designed the Mu family, so the brothers Du Yongzhi had to come out to deal with it, so that their father would not be confused and fooled by Huo Yuan.

When Huo Yuan mentioned this matter, Du Ruhai was really shocked, but for the scandals in the mansion, his usual approach was to cover up and hide them. Therefore, after hearing about this matter, in addition to being shocked, his first thought was to ensure the reputation of the Anguo Mansion, and never let people see that the Anguo Mansion deliberately framed the Mu family for a few tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Of course, protecting the shortcomings is one aspect, and on the other hand, the Mu family's property did make him a little tempted. After all, the Anguo Mansion had long been unable to make ends meet, and tens of thousands of taels of silver were indeed a great temptation in his eyes. So, he immediately and decisively stood on the side of his wife and son.

"Master Huo, now that things have come to this, as long as Mu Zhongqing can take the initiative to compensate us for the two shops and the farm, we will not pursue the matter any further. After all, he is my son-in-law. For the sake of my daughter and grandson, I can't kill him!"