life in a hurry

Chen Feiqing entered the palace with a sullen face and prepared to go to court, which is very unusual.He is different from his father Anguohou, his father has a serious face all year round, but Chen Feiqing loves to laugh and talk since he was a child, and rarely blushes with others.

There was still some time before the court, and all the officials stood outside the hall, talking in twos and threes, or talking, or staying silent, or leaning against the pillars for a while longer.

Seeing King Ning coming from afar, Chen Feiqing hurriedly walked over and said, "His Royal Highness Ning, can I take a step to speak?"

King Ning stopped, looked at him for a while, and said, "You feel that Fu Nansheng has been wronged, and you are eager to stand up for him?"

Chen Feiqing was indeed for this matter. He heard his subordinates report what happened last night early in the morning, and those people were definitely sent by King Ning to monitor the posthouse.

Seeing that he took the initiative to speak up, Chen Feiqing said, "I don't want to stand up for anyone, but just want to ask clearly, why did I do that?"

Ning Wangdao: "This king still wants to know who did that. In the middle of the night, two figures slipped into the posthouse. I don't care about it or not? If you care, you have to go in. Once you go in, you have to search. What do you find?" Things are out of the king’s control. No matter, if it’s a Mo country spy, or someone is going to assassinate the Mo country mission, who will be responsible if something goes wrong?”

Chen Feiqing said: "But we found that kind of thing..."

King Ning snorted: "This king is not going to use this method to humiliate Fu Nansheng. Whether the thing belongs to him, or someone else in the posthouse, I don't care, and I won't care."

Chen Feiqing said: "But why did you put the princess's clothes in the post house and deliberately lead people to check? Could it be that all this trouble is just to humiliate him?"

King Ning said: "It is also possible that the thief shouted to catch the thief, playing tricks, at least, you now believe that the disappearance of the princess has nothing to do with him."

Chen Feiqing said: "No, I didn't say that. I just think that what happened last night was too embarrassing. If you want to arrest someone, you can arrest them. Sentencing is better than humiliating people like that. By the way, what about the princess?" ?”

King Ning said: "What else can I do? Keep looking."

When the palace was full of people looking for the princess, Young Master Zheng was lying on the screen of his room and peeping.

The other side of the screen is the bedroom, which has been replaced with a brand new bedding, and the princess is lying on it and sleeping soundly.

Young Master Zheng leaned against the screen, held his breath, and stared intently, until now he still felt that he was dreaming.

That night when he was sitting in the room thinking about Chang'e, Chang'e stepped on the moon and said to him, "You haven't rested in the middle of the night?"

Young Master Zheng was stunned.

When he finished his bewilderment, he pinched himself hard, and almost cried out, but someone covered his mouth.

The princess hurriedly made a silent gesture to him, and then asked in a low voice: "Can I go in and talk?"

Young Master Zheng nodded quickly.

The princess said to the man who covered his mouth again: "Don't cover him, he won't bark."

The man let go.

Young Master Zheng looked back, he was a masked man in night clothes.

The princess opened the door and entered the room, and asked, "Is there anyone living around your room?"

Young Master Zheng Xiao said: "I want to rest on weekdays, so there is no one living next to me, afraid of disturbing me, only Wangcai lives with me."

As for Wangcai, who had already been restrained by another man in black, he calmed down when he heard the princess' voice.

The princess nodded: "Then you and Wangcai will receive the order together."

Young Master Zheng was stunned, and was about to kneel on the ground, but was stopped by the princess: "Don't kneel, it's just a verbal order. Brother Huang asked me to stay with you for a while, and you are not allowed to tell anyone, even your parents." Don't say anything."

Young Master Zheng said: "Why?"

The princess said: "I don't know, but the emperor must have his reasons for doing things. He said that your place is clean and safe, and your house protects you tightly. In summer, even a mosquito cannot fly into your yard." , maybe the palace is not as safe as yours."

Young Master Zheng Xiao said with a dry smile: "I'm afraid it's not that safe. Isn't the princess and these two masters like no one in the land?"

The princess smiled and said: "That's true, but Xiao Jiang's kung fu is the best in the world, and you can't find better than them anywhere else, and your guards are not bad."

In this way, the princess inexplicably settled down in Young Master Zheng's yard.

Young Master Zheng was continuing to watch, when he heard the sound of the door behind him, he hurriedly turned around, he was relieved to see that it was Wangcai.But soon he came to his senses, and hurriedly grabbed Wangcai and dragged him outside the door: "I told you not to come in if you have nothing to do. Men and women can't get along with each other. Lonely men and widows should avoid taboos. Don't you understand?"

Wangcai said expressionlessly, "You're here too."

Young Master Zheng choked, and said: "Why are there so many nonsense, I am the young master and you are a servant, can I be the same as you? What about things?"

Wangcai silently took out the oiled paper bag from his arms and gave it to him.

Young Master Zheng opened it to look at the two strings of candied haws inside, smiled, and said, "Nobody found it?"

Wangcai said: "Madam saw it. I said the young master wanted to eat it, but she said that you are only allowed to eat one a day."

Young Master Zheng Xiao said: "Oh, just tell her that I only ate one in two days. It's fine, it's none of your business, and I'll bring you breakfast later."

Wangcai hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can I—"

"No."

The urge to leave once again sprouted in Wangcai's heart.

In order to prevent people from discovering, the princess ate young master Zheng's meals these few days, and young master Zheng shared Wangcai's meals, and Wangcai was not allowed to take more, saying that a sudden increase in appetite would be suspicious.

Wangcai thought to himself, I endured you not leaving just to have enough food, and now the food is not enough for people to eat, ha ha.

Above the court hall, An Guohou and Ning Wang stared at each other for a while, then looked away indifferently.

Today may be a bad day, not only Chen Feiqing's black face, but also the two of them just had a quarrel.

It was nothing more than a disaster in a place in the south of the Yangtze River that starved the people to death, and there was a backlash, and the two people scolded each other.

The news of the locust plague came a long time ago, and it happened in previous years, so in fact, preparations have been made long ago-it should be like this.

The problem is that this defense seems to have not been taken.

After the locust plague, there was no food for hundreds of miles, and the victims were displaced. They lodged complaints all the way to Beijing, saying that the local parents and officials not only concealed the disaster, withheld relief food, but even chased and killed the victims who reported the disaster.

But after the victims came to the capital, they failed to go to Datianting smoothly. If Qin Zhengwen hadn't helped his mother go to the market to buy vegetables and heard the whispers of the people, and followed the whispers to find the dying victims in the beggar's cave. It is not yet known when the matter will explode.

Qin Zhengwen is a member of the Imperial Academy, so he doesn't have to go to court on weekdays, but if he wants to go to court, no one stops him. After all, there is no rule that says he cannot come.

So he came, and brought with him a memorial which he had been writing all night.

Qin Zhengwen is the No. [-] scholar, and the No. [-] scholar is one of the best talents in the country, so the writing style is naturally good.

And Qin Zhengwen has always been sharp.

After listening to him reciting the memorabilia, the whole court was silent, and no one spoke, as if whoever made eye contact with Qin Zhengwen at this time was the man-eating devil in Qin Zhengwen's memorabilia.

Qin Zhengwen's speech is usually ugly, but now when he writes memorials, it is ugly and ugly, and he can't listen to it at all.

The emperor almost crushed the memorial, and lost his temper as usual. He called out the household department in charge of this matter and scolded him severely.

Hubu Shangshu was also very wronged, he looked at An Guohou frequently, but he didn't dare to say that he was wronged.

He knew that the emperor always attached great importance to people's livelihood, and he calculated that there would be locust plagues in the south of the Yangtze River this year, so he made arrangements for this matter half a year earlier, but the household department was responsible for allocating grain, not transporting grain, or distributing grain!

His household department only needs to check the amount of disaster relief food, submit it to the court for approval, and then distribute it to the grain depots in various places to allocate and transport the food, which has nothing to do with the household department.

Of course, the Minister of the Household Department also knew the key to this. It was nothing more than the fact that the relief food was greedy by the people, big and small.This is a common thing in all dynasties and generations. It is not new at all, it will never stop, and there is no way to stop it.So at best, he managed to control himself so that he didn't dare to be greedy. As for the next step, he really couldn't control it anymore, so he was even more wronged.

I dare not say I am wronged.

Why?Because the army is responsible for transporting disaster relief food, the army is under the control of the Ministry of War, and the Minister of the Ministry of War is the favorite student of An Guohou.

Going further down, when the food arrived, it was distributed by the magistrate. The magistrate of the disaster-hit place was surnamed Yao.

Going deeper... The Minister of the Ministry of Finance dare not pick it up.

Not only the Minister of the Ministry of Households knew it well, but few civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty didn't know it, so they all put clay-bodied wood sculptures with their eyes and noses carefully.

Chen Feiqing also knew the key to this matter, but he naturally didn't believe that this matter would have anything to do with his serious and strict father, so he wasn't worried, and just waited for the emperor to speak.

Seeing that everyone was silent, the emperor laughed angrily: "It's usually very lively, why is no one talking now?"

King Ning stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Jiangnan to undertake this matter."

The ministers were not without surprise.Everyone is unwilling to take the lead in this matter, simply because it is not easy to take the lead. If the matter is not done well, offending the emperor is still a small matter, that is, the emperor thinks that he is unbearable and cut off his official career in front of the palace. If something is found out and offends An Guohou or the Yao family, it is a matter of whether one's life can be saved.

But it is not very surprising. After all, King Ning and Marquis An have not been friendly for many years. One said that he wanted to go east and the other had to go west. At this time, King Ning stood up and was willing to take over this matter. stubble.

An Guohou suddenly said: "I object."

Everyone looked at An Guohou again.

Marquis An Guo stood up, glanced at King Ning, and said: "Late at night two months ago, someone visited Prince Ning's mansion and brought two sandalwood boxes. I wonder if the prince still remembers it?"

King Ning stared sharply, and said: "What An Guohou said is ridiculous! Two months ago, in the middle of the night, I was not in the mansion. I don't know who sent the box and who opened the door? Why didn't Lord Hou say anything at that time, but suddenly came here now? Two boxes? Why not replace them with two black pots? Your Majesty, I suddenly remembered that the Ministry of War is responsible for transporting food. The Minister of the Ministry of War is An Guohou's favorite student. I don't know where the two boxes came from and where they went. Yes, but the Minister of the Ministry of War will go to the Marquis of Anguo's mansion every year to pick up a few loads of large jars, which is obvious to all."

The Minister of the Ministry of War hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I have something to say. My lord, it's true that I am a disciple of Lord Hou. This official will never deny it. It is also a good idea to go to the mansion of Lord Hou to pick pickled vegetables during the holidays." That's right, but there are indeed only pickled vegetables in it, which were made by the lower official's mother and wife. Why don't you say that the lower official is a man, but the official has never done anything wrong, and he can't say that he has nothing to say, but he has been in Beijing until now. Years, the house is still rented! If the prince doesn’t believe it, why not ask the landlord of the official, during the festivals, the official not only sends pickles to Lord Hou, but also to the landlord!”

King Ning looked at him: "The landlord's may be pickles, but not all pickles are in the pickle jar."

Chen Feiqing hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "It's really a pickle, it's very delicious, and I even brought it to the emperor to eat."

Everyone: "..."

Look at the occasion, my lord!

An Guohou scolded: "Shut up!"

The emperor said with a headache: "Shut up."