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Chapter 67: The Imperial Sister 36 (Page 2/2)

The crime of killing nine clans!

    Yu Tao swallowed the blood in her mouth and said calmly, "Your Highness has been planning for many years and must not have expected such a change. I, like Your Highness, never expected the situation to develop to this extent! Huo Zheng is already very prestigious in the court. Now that he has transformed himself into a prince, he is even more proud. If Your Highness is not in a hurry, he will not summon me to the palace."

    Yu Tao's words hit the sore spot of the Fourth Prince. The Fourth Prince knew what she said, but he was helpless. The Fourth Prince frowned and looked unhappy. Obviously, he had no patience. "You said so much, are you trying to delay time? Don't say these useless things, otherwise it will only make you die more miserably!"

    At this time, the Fourth Prince had already torn off his approachable disguise. The real him was arrogant and cruel, and he would do anything to achieve his goals.

    "Your Highness has misunderstood what I meant. Huo Zheng trusts me very much, and many important tasks are entrusted to me. If I can work for Your Highness in secret, Your Highness can worry less, and this fight for the throne will be much simpler, right?"

    Yu Tao tried her best to prove her worth in front of the Fourth Prince. Only if the Fourth Prince thought she was still useful would he keep her.

    When Yu Tao said this, the Fourth Prince was indeed moved. He had been struggling to find a flaw to deal with Huo Zheng. Yu Tao was like a pillow for him, and she touched the Fourth Prince's heart. Seeing that the Fourth Prince

    was moved, Yu Tao struck while the iron was hot and promised the Fourth Prince that she would help him secretly attack Huo Zheng and put the Fourth Prince in a favorable position to win the throne.

    So, not long after, several officials who were closely related to Huo Zheng were found to have embezzled and accepted bribes. Not only that, the silver used in the corruption had been accounted for by a store in Yanjing, and that store was given by Emperor Cheng Zhao on the day Huo Zheng came of age.

    After a few days, the good shop turned into a tool for money laundering. How could Emperor Cheng Zhao not be furious? He immediately ordered a thorough investigation of the matter. Huo Zheng was inevitably implicated. Fortunately, Emperor Cheng Zhao still trusted him and only confined him to the palace.

    Interestingly, Huo Zheng had always given Yu Tao full authority to manage the shop before. Now that such a big mistake has occurred, Yu Tao cannot escape being held accountable. She was detained overnight by the Censorate for interrogation.

    Poor Yu Tao had not yet recovered from the injury she suffered from the beating by the Fourth Prince not long ago, and now she was injured again.

    All of this was secretly controlled by Yu Tao, but she couldn't get any benefit. She was really dumb and couldn't say anything.

    Fortunately, the truth came out in the end. The shopkeeper was bribed and deliberately made false accounts. The officials involved were exiled or beheaded, but Huo Zheng and Yu Tao were both derelict in their supervisory management. Yu Tao was demoted and Huo Zheng was fined one year's salary, and then he was lightly removed.

    Afterwards, Yu Tao specifically confessed to Huo Zheng and tested his attitude, "It was because I neglected management for a moment that this happened. If I had been more careful, I would not have implicated the general."

    "Go and get fifty military sticks. If there is a next time, I will be punished by military law." Huo Zheng just said lightly that for such a thing, dozens of sticks would be a light punishment.

    Huo Zheng's attitude was the same as usual, and he seemed to have no doubts about her. Yu Tao was a little uneasy. She looked up at Huo Zheng hesitantly and asked again: "You...you don't doubt me? You handed the shop to me for management, but such a mess happened in my hands..."

    "Don't employ people if you doubt them, and don't doubt people if you employ them. What's suspicious?" Huo Zheng raised his eyes and stared at the person in front of him with a deep gaze. The murderous intent flashed in his eyes. If he hadn't been more careful this time, I'm afraid he would have been imprisoned in the Dali Temple.

    What's suspicious about a dying person?