Imperial City

In Maoshi Xinuang Pavilion.

The emperor stood beside the couch, and the court ladies waited in their clothes.

Wei Qi stood behind with a used copper basin.

The former glanced condescendingly, and suddenly remembered something, and his eyes stayed on Wei Qi for a moment.

Under Wei Qi's black rabbit fur-trimmed skirt, a touch of dazzling white was revealed.

The emperor looked at it for a while, with a smile in his eyes.

Trying to cover up, stupid slave.

Inside the study facing the rear.

Yan Zhengji was ordered to go out to Beijing to investigate the case. After more than two months, the matter gradually made progress. He wore the stars and wore the moon and rode galloping horses with two entourages, and finally returned to Beijing last night.

Not long after returning home, my lovely wife and beloved son didn't even have time to see her, so she hastily adjusted her appearance, and rushed into the palace to face the saint before the time came.Now I am reporting what I have gained in the past few months before standing in the foreign study room.

In fact, on this trip, he apparently investigated corrupt ink in Shu, but in fact, the case was handed over to his right-hand man after only two days.

As for himself, he secretly sneaked into the southern border of Yunnan to investigate the bribery of Zhao Taifu's subordinates.

Things were a bit unexpected, much smoother than expected, thinking that the emperor was far away from the mountains, and the emperor in Yunnan was under supervision.

Yan Zhengji, master and servant, noticed something was wrong when they entered a small town on the edge of Yunnan.

In recent years, the weather in Dachu has been favorable, the farming has been prosperous, and every year is a scene of bumper harvests.It is the harvest time in autumn, and the wheat stalks are heavy and bent in the fields along the way.

It should be a good thing, but the faces of the farmers who only work are not happy, and all of them are yellow and hungry.

This is a bit wrong, no matter how poor the farming family is, after three or four years of good weather, how could there be no grain storage? Moreover, the sage, Benevolent, has reduced corvees and taxes since he ascended the throne.No matter how bad it is, eating and living should always be enough.

He took his entourage to the fields, and happened to meet a farmer's wife delivering food to her husband who was working.

Yan Zheng leaned over to greet him, glanced into the vegetable basket, and was also surprised.It's just a plate of pickles, two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge.

"Brother, my younger brother came from the north, and saw that the wheat fields along the way are full of harvests, but why is your lunch at home still so simple?"

The honest farmer had a dark complexion, he hesitated and couldn't answer a word with a look of embarrassment on his face.

On the contrary, his mother-in-law felt sorry for the man, and she had a clever mouth again. Seeing that Yan Zhengji was born with a handsome appearance, even though he was wearing coarse clothes, he still showed some extraordinary bearing, and she believed in her heart that this man was great.

The young and cheerful peasant woman answered, "Officer, you are from outside, so you don't know the hardships of our land."

Yan Zheng was planning to ask carefully, but who would have thought that the peasant woman would explain everything to herself first like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

"Officials, you don't know anything. The mountains in our land are high and the emperor is far away. No matter how rich the grain is, it doesn't matter to us to look at the wealth. It's all the property of the official. The official wants to repair the road today. I want to build a bridge, and I will pay tribute in a few days, but I am willing to spend our money, it is a strange thing to eat well."

The woman was nagging, and wanted to go on, but her husband stopped her.

"What are you doing to stop me!" She opened her husband's hand, very annoyed, "People say that your place is rich and prosperous, and I married into this poor place from Sichuan, thinking that I would be able to look forward to a good life. The official is worse than ours! It’s just a good job on the surface, and it’s all reported to the emperor. Pooh! Pooh his ancestors!”

The man was in a hurry, for fear that disaster would come out of his mouth, and the whole family would be defeated by the mother-in-law's ignorant mouth. He covered his wife's mouth and stopped drinking, and the two husband and wife quarreled. Puzzled, they quarreled and even fought.

The man has a guilty conscience. Back then, his family was poor, and most of the girls in the village married out. It was hard for him to cheat a daughter-in-law back from other places. Because of this, he has always been very kind to his wife and never dared to beat or scold her. Huizi just squatted down and hugged his head, silently letting the woman come and beat him.

Yan Zhengji's master and servant were stunned, and he never expected that the matter of asking a few words would cause the husband and wife to fight.

The peasant woman cried while beating her. She looked ruthless, but she didn't use any force at all. She just vented her dissatisfaction with the poor fate.

The crying woman couldn't be persuaded, and Yan Zhengji and the two of them flirted with each other, threw down the money like burning their buttocks, turned around and ran away.

I could only hear the man's muffled and low voice comforting from behind: "Daughter-in-law, stop beating me."

"My old lady is going to beat you!"

"There is money on the ground."

"What?!"

Yan Zhengji resigned the two couples, kept investigating and questioning along the road, peeled layer by layer, and finally uncovered some clues.

He lured him with a lot of money, pretended to be a fat sheep merchant who was not familiar with his place of life, caught a hooked fish, and used the fish to find out the people under Yan Zheng's family in Yunnan. After more than two months of silence, there was finally a result.

The emperor closed the Minghuang booklet with a snap, and at the beginning of the booklet was written the land of Shu in greedy ink, but if you turn it back, the content has nothing to do with the land of Shu.The bills on the cotton-mixed paper are densely listed in detail.

The emperor glanced at it leisurely, with slender fingers and a calm posture, as if he was reading a script.

He brought the tea to drink, and there was no wave on his face.

Yan Zhengji couldn't help peeking a few times, but he still couldn't see any anger on the emperor's face. He almost wondered if he stayed up late the night before and made a mistake in his writing.

There was a long silence, before long, the emperor put tea, leaned back, closed his eyes as if thinking.

Yan Zhengji felt uneasy and his forehead was sweating.

He was only promoted last year to be the deputy envoy of the fourth-rank General Administration Department. Although he is highly valued by the emperor, he has served the emperor not long ago, and he is not sure about the emperor's intentions. The key.

"Aiqing has worked hard, and you have made great achievements in this journey. I have seen Zhezi, and Aiqing should step down." A deep voice came, Yan Zhengji trembled slightly, it was actually two wars.

The emperor didn't say how to deal with the Zhao family, but Yan Zheng hesitated to speak, he was really anxious, he just muttered a few words, finally swallowed the words, and bowed to leave with a full stomach of confusion, "I am willing to do my best for the Holy One, and I will leave. "

After people left, the emperor opened his eyes, looked down at the folder on the case, and his eyes gradually showed coldness.

Before that time, the old fox is cunning, and the greedy evidence of a capable member of his sect still can't bring him down.But it's almost too soon, the chess game is about to start, it's up to him whether he enters the urn or not.

The emperor dialed the string of beads and wrote the order.

The events of the previous dynasty started, but the harem was as quiet as water.

At night, Wei Qi thought about it, and finally decided to make a gadget for the Holy Majesty.

It's a good thing, it's not as suspicious as eating, and it's not as over-the-top as underclothes, you can see if it's hidden or not after a little inspection.

He thought it would be best to return this gift during the Lantern Festival.The time is just right, if it is too fast, it seems to be sloppy and perfunctory, and if it is too late, it seems neglectful.

I put my heart and soul into doing it seriously, and let the Holy Majesty know my sincerity in wanting to live a good life. Maybe in the future, the Holy Majesty can read this kind of cleverness and let me go out of the palace earlier.

Wei Qi stayed at the bed, and took out the reward money he got these days from the drawer of His Excellency Babao's head.

He felt that although it was just a gift, it was something for the emperor and could not be sent away casually.

Looking down at the silver naked son, if you don't bring it with you when you die, you don't lack anything in front of the imperial court, and if you don't have any land to spend, it's better to force it out.

On the second day off duty, Wei Qi asked Anxi for leave, saying that he would go to the House of Internal Affairs for a visit in order to pay back the gift.

Anxi got his two pairs of good boots with thick soles and cotton linings inside, and heard that it was a return gift for the saint, so she naturally agreed.

Wei Qi and Xiao Qianzi went to the House of Internal Affairs together.

He is no different than before, because he offended a lot of concubines last time, he has to ask people to follow him wherever he goes, in case something happens to him, no servant will know and report.

Wei Qi was no longer as cowardly as before, as if he couldn't lift his head up for fear of being looked down upon by others.

He is nothing to be afraid of now, anyone who wants to offend will be offended thoroughly, and there are people behind him to back him up, if he does not make mistakes, no one will dare to provoke him.

Therefore, although the head was drooping along the way, the back was straight, and the eyes were not squinted. Every time I greeted and greeted everyone, Ansheng accepted them all, and responded with a faint smile.

No one was bullying and looking for trouble, so he came to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in a smooth and majestic manner against the prying eyes of others.

Qian Side of the Storage Department received the report from his subordinates, so he waited in front of the side room early.

Wei Qi, Wei Qi, even if he has never seen anyone, he has already heard his name.

The thousand-year-old blood jade might be hanging on this tender father-in-law right now, no one dares to underestimate it.Others may not know it, but the eunuchs in charge of the house of internal affairs are very clear in their minds.

When Qian Si saw the person approaching him, he could only sigh inwardly for his amazing appearance and outstanding bearing. If he really wanted to praise him, a slave who has never read any sage books, he could only compare him to a green bamboo and make a picture of a water red lotus. .

The superior has a good vision, although such a person is only an eunuch, but it takes a thousand years of blood jade to call him average.

The skin is white, Qian Si stepped forward and sneaked a peek at Wei Qi's chest, covering it tightly, but he didn't know what it was like to see the bright red blood jade supporting the white skin.It's a pity Luo, such a good thing has been watched by my staff for several years, and I can't take a look at what it looks like when I send it out.

The old man regretted it carefully, but smiled flatteringly on his face, and even Wei Qi couldn't stand it with a few words of flattery.

The two went into the house to drink tea.

On the face of it, Wei Qiming was ordered by Anxi to lead an inkstone that existed here, but in fact, he had another purpose.

As soon as the business was over, he went straight to the point, and suddenly took out a large bag of silver coins from his pocket, and when he took it out, he was about to stuff it into someone's hand.

Qian Si gave him a good scare.

Ancestor, how did the little eunuch hide such a conspicuous bag of things in his arms so that no one could see it?

"Please don't back down, Eunuch Qian, this time I have something to ask for." Wei Qi was also the first time to throw money at someone, he was very unfamiliar, his face was a bit thin after all, and now he was flushed.

"How dare you be a little one, how dare you, Mr. Wei, you are polite, just give orders if you have something to do, and there is nothing wrong with the little one."

"Eunuch Qian, you are the one who is more polite. This is just a small gesture of kindness. Besides running an errand, I also came here to ask you for a better piece of wood."