life in a hurry

It was night, and Yao Yi sent someone to the capital to ask the queen mother what she meant.

The capital city is some distance away from here, the man traveled all night and exhausted a horse, so he hurriedly brought back the Queen Mother's words three days later.

The queen mother told Yao Yi not to be the winner, and that everything was up to King Ning, Chen Feiqing and Qin Zhengwen, the imperial envoy.

Yao Yi listened to these words, knowing in his heart that it was definitely not telling him to do nothing, but maybe letting him sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

And someone brought news that King Ning's secret actions were not small, and everything was pointing to An Guohou's mansion.

The Empress Dowager, or the Yao family, actually didn't really believe that King Ning really wanted to take refuge in him.The old people are not dead yet. They have seen King Ning when he was young and vigorous. The relationship between King Ning and the first emperor was neither good nor bad. I never mentioned it again.Some people even think that the matter of King Ning has something to do with the late emperor, because the mentor of King Ning at that time was recommended by the late emperor to King Ning.

King Ning had no choice, and the queen mother believed that King Ning would not join forces with An Guohou, and this day would never come.

Because of one thing, very few people know that the queen mother is just one of these very few people.

She knew that King Ning's scandal was exposed by An Guohou. Not only did he expose it, but he also captured him and injured another person involved in the scandal with his own hands.The man ran away after being wounded, originally this matter could not be discussed, everyone just kept silent, even if King Ning privately chased the man and ran away, the royal matter could be covered up if he wanted to, but Anguo Hou also chased after him, brought back the dying King Ning, and then reported to the emperor one by one the mistakes that King Ning committed by that person.

The Holy Majesty was so angry that he almost wanted to kill this unworthy son Ning, but in the end he didn't, so he only let Ning Wang cut off the throne and ground him.Later, after the first emperor ascended the throne, he gradually restored King Ning's freedom and title.

At that time, the Empress Dowager had seen King Ning who had just been released by the late Emperor, and he was beyond description.When he was young, King Ning was a very proud and enthusiastic person, with fresh clothes and angry horses, and a high spirits.But after that incident, he seemed to have lost his soul, and was as silent as a walking dead.Later, Emperor Xian strictly forbade people to mention the past, and King Ning slowly recovered the past.

If it is said that King Ning does not hate An Guohou in his life, the Queen Mother would not believe it anyway.

One day later, Qin Zhengwen personally visited the wealthy families in the city, but learned that five of the ten families were seriously ill and infected.

Qin Zhengwen was not annoyed, and said to the housekeepers: "Since this is the case, I have no choice but to let people surround your mansion, so as not to infect others. As for the kidnapped, in order to protect other family members, I have to let people be with you too." Keep watch. For those who want to go back to their hometown to worship their ancestors, the official will send someone to pick them up, so as not to be tied up in case of an accident along the way."

Taking advantage of her age, the old lady in charge of one family beat her cane and said: "My lord, Ming people don't speak dark words. By doing this, you are bullying our duty-minded people, right?"

Qin Zhengwen said: "Old lady, if you slander the court officials like this, you'd better think about it before you say it."

The old lady said: "Your Excellency is going to ransack your house, what am I afraid of? At a young age, it's only a few dozen catties of meat if you chop it up on the spot! Anyway, your adults from Beijing don't take human lives seriously!"

Qin Zhengwen said: "I didn't order the skinner to be killed, but it seems that the old lady thinks he shouldn't be killed?"

The old lady said: "Should I be killed or not? I am a woman and I don't understand. I only know that I always want to wait for the emperor's approval to kill people."

Qin Zhengwen said: "Since you don't understand, please ask the master of the family to come out and talk. I'm afraid the master will understand. After all, he should remember that the skinner collected the rent for him from the Wang's shop in Sanli outside Dongcheng two years ago. He received the wife's bed and forced the husband and wife to death." Two things."

The old lady said: "We haven't heard of this matter. I don't know. Whether it exists or not is all their business. Since ancient times, I have never seen the reason why it is not allowed to ask people to help collect rent."

Qin Zhengwen said: "That's true. Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of things that increase the rent and force people to sign death contracts when the harvest is poor in drought years."

The old lady looked at him for a while, and said: "My lord, according to your opinion, we should all spend our wealth and do good deeds? I heard that your family was poor since you were a child, but it doesn't mean that rich people deserve to follow everyone. You are an imperial envoy, not a green forest hero who robs the rich and helps the poor. According to you, the first person who should spend all his money to help the victims is the emperor, the eunuchs in the palace, rare treasures, They should all be sold first. What’s the matter, don’t dare to move the top, don’t dare to move the bottom, trying to catch our barely-fed wool?”

Qin Zhengwen said expressionlessly: "The old lady can say that if she is a man, she should go for the No. [-] examination."

The old lady gave a sharp laugh.

Qin Zhengwen said: "I didn't ask you to dissipate your wealth, and it is impossible to let you dissipate your wealth. I just asked you to lend half of the rice, and the IOU will definitely be established. How can it become the green forest you mentioned?" Bandits?"

The old lady said: "Your Excellency, don't lie to us. Who can we ask for the IOU in the future? Otherwise, the IOU that comes back is just a piece of waste paper. Now that the harvest is poor in a bad year, there are dozens of people in our family. Is it possible that we don't have to eat?" ? In short, we have no food, please borrow it from other places, my lord."

Qin Zhengwen received similar words in other homes.

He was vaguely irritated. These people were just using the fact that Chen Feiqing killed the skinner as an excuse, but he couldn't rob him clearly.

When he was getting irritable, Lu Ding came to him: "Hey, Mr. Qin, you still lost weight after eating two bowls of dry rice every meal? Do you miss the meals your mother cooked?"

Qin Zhengwen glanced at him and didn't want to speak.

Lu Ding asked again: "Where's your little pillow, Wenwen? The little pillow with 'Wenwen's pillow' embroidered next to the little tiger."

Qin Zhengwen got up abruptly and walked out.

Lu Ding hurriedly tugged at him: "I envy you, I don't have a mother to make this for me. Speaking of business, it was my elder brother who asked me to come. It's your little master who has business."

Qin Zhengwen said indifferently: "There is something to talk about."

Lu Ding said: "Brother guesses that you will not be able to borrow food, and the trick of making a fuss is probably not going to work for them. They are all ghosts and ghosts."

Qin Zhengwen asked: "What can young master do?"

Lu Ding said: "If you ask Yao Yi to borrow it, he will definitely be able to borrow it."

Qin Zhengwen said: "Why is he willing to go?"

Lu Ding said: "It's his business if he refuses to go, you give him an imperial decree, if he still doesn't go, you don't care about him."

Qin Zhengwen asked: "Has the imperial edict come?"

Lu Ding said: "How can it be so fast?"

Qin Zhengwen frowned and said, "Do you dare to forge the imperial decree?"

Lu Ding said: "Don't say it so ugly, what a forged imperial decree, big brother, he has a blank imperial decree, which was given to him by the emperor before he left, and he is asked to take it out and fill it in if necessary."

Qin Zhengwen was almost stunned there, unable to recover for a long time.

An imperial decree for Chen Feiqing to fill out, this is almost unthinkable.

Does the emperor really trust Chen Feiqing so much?

Lu Ding took out a blank imperial decree from his bosom, and said, "That's it, Mr. Qin, you can think about how to write it yourself. Brother and I don't read as much as you, so you still have to write it."

Qin Zhengwen looked at the imperial decree, and only stamped the jade seal on the place where it was signed, and there was nothing else.

He looked at it carefully, and said with some doubts: "Is this true? False preaching of the imperial decree is a death penalty."

Lu Ding said: "You are not afraid of death when you are my elder brother? It is true and fake. If you dare not write it, I will take it home and write it for him. He can go and give it to Master Yao."

Qin Zhengwen hesitated for a while, and said: "This is not a trivial matter, I have to ask King Ning first."

Lu Ding laughed and said, "You are quite close to King Ning recently."

Qin Zhengwen glared at him: "Don't be rude."

Lu Ding said, "You can do whatever you want."

Qin Zhengwen really took this blank edict to find King Ning, and repeated Lu Ding's words.

Ning Wangzai carefully identified it for a long time, and said: "The jade seal should be real."

Qin Zhengwen said: "This is too risky."

King Ning seemed to be used to it, and said with a smile: "The emperor has always trusted Fei Qing, it's nothing."

Qin Zhengwen frowned and said, "Nonsense."

He actually wanted to say "Ning Xing", but he still didn't say it.

King Ning looked at him in surprise for a while, before hesitating to speak.

Seeing that there is not much relief food left, the number of victims is increasing, and it will take several days for the new relief food to be delivered, Qin Zhengwen repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of the imperial decree to King Ning, so he had to write on it and let Yao Yi go Borrow food.

Yao Yi was also very surprised when he received this imperial decree, and said to Qin Zhengwen, "Master Qin, it is a crime to exterminate the nine clans by falsely preaching the imperial decree."

Qin Zhengwen said with a straight face: "Master Yao is threatening me?"

Yao Yi said: "Of course not, I just remind you."

Qin Zhengwen said: "This decree is from the emperor to the young master. If Master Yao has any doubts, go ask the young master."

Of course Yao Yi didn't want to ask Chen Feiqing, since Qin Zhengwen had already said that, obviously he couldn't be lying.As for Chen Feiqing, what he saw with his own eyes that day was a violent murderer, it was simply unreasonable, God knows if he would kill himself if he didn't agree with each other.

Two days later, Yao Yi did successfully borrow food.

Five days later, new relief food arrived one after another.

Half a month later, Qin Zhengwen's investigation into the case of embezzlement of food and ink for disaster relief made some gains, and he dug out some people involved in the case one after another.

One month later, the disaster-stricken people returned to their hometowns that had been arranged by the imperial court one after another, and started their lives again.

Two months later, King Ning, Chen Feiqing, and Qin Zhengwen returned to the capital to reinstate their orders. As soon as they entered the gate of the capital, Chen Feiqing was detained on the charge of falsely preaching an imperial decree.

Qin Zhengwen was extremely surprised, and asked Ning Wang: "But the prince said that the jade seal is real."

King Ning said innocently: "I said it should be true, but I'm not sure. Nowadays, the ability to forge seals in the streets and alleys is very high. What's more, I didn't expect him to be so bold."

Qin Zhengwen looked at him suspiciously, and asked again: "My lord has always been close to the young lord, why is he not in a hurry now?"

King Ning said: "Of course this king is in a hurry. If Mr. Qin has nothing else to do, I will go to the palace now to ask about this matter."

Qin Zhengwen said: "The lower officials also entered the palace together."

King Ning said: "Lord Qin, I have something to tell you."

Qin Zhengwen looked at him warily.

King Ning said: "You have done a good job in disaster relief this time. It is not possible to be promoted to a noble, but it is certain to be promoted. You are upright, so you have not been reused in the past because of this, but now the Jiangnan party, I think you are actually in your heart." It is very transparent, maybe it was just disdain to join forces in the past. But I have to tell you that people who are full of enthusiasm and talent but don't get opportunities, he can't do anything for the well-being of the people. Officialdom is like this If the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government. I hope Lord Qin can understand these two sentences."

Qin Zhengwen was silent for a while, and asked: "Why did the lord say these things to the lower officials? Did he want to warn the lower officials not to care about this matter?"

King Ning said: "I feel that I am destined to be with you, so please say a few more words before parting. Lord Qin doesn't have to think too much. Don't say anything, Lord Qin should go back and reunite with the old lady. This king has to enter the palace. By the way, Qin Even if your lord doesn't think about yourself, think about the old lady more."

After King Ning finished speaking, he rode his horse forward, but heard Qin Zhengwen say from behind: "Thank you, my lord, for your care, but my mother once said that you should not be an official if you are afraid of trouble, and don't study if you do evil. You don't have to go home, and you don't have to be named Qin anymore."

King Ning looked back at him for a while, smiled lightly, and rode away without saying anything.