Dressed as a man with the eldest son

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After Huai finished speaking, he was about to kneel down to the prince, and the prince strode forward to support him: "Don't worry, old man, I'm here to find out the truth. If it turns out that the magistrate Yang was wronged, I will definitely pay him back." clean."

He winked at Nanruo, and the two joined forces to support Huai Lao.

The prince turned his head and said to the servant who came out: "Go and call those officials over!"

The servants led away, and soon the officials who had been detained for two days hurried over, all of them looked haggard, and when they came to see the situation at the door, they lifted up their clothes and knelt aside one by one without the prince speaking.

"Kneeling Gu, what are you doing!" The prince said with a cold face, "They all turned around and knelt, and opened their eyes wide for Gu to see!"

"This is the south of the Yangtze River that the literati say? Is this what you want to show Gu?! The old man who was forced to carry the coffin to the gate of the yamen to cry for grievances?!"

"Gu will tell you today that Yang Tao's matter is in his own hands. If nothing comes to light, none of you present will feel better about it!"

The prince was furious, and without showing any face to the officials, he yelled at the gate in front of the common people.

The civil and military officers present lowered their heads, and no one dared to jump out at this time to make trouble.

The prince personally helped Huai Lao into the yamen, and told Nan Ruo and Zhou Bao to take Huai Lao, including all the old people, down to settle down.

Nan Ruo was silent and Zhou Bao took them to the east house, which was originally the residence of Yang Tao and his family. Since Yang Tao committed suicide, the Yang family was driven out.

Zhou Bao commanded the little eunuch to go in and tidy up the left and right wing rooms, but Huai Lao insisted not to enter the inner courtyard, and only sent people outside to arrange rooms to make do with it, and insisted on carrying the coffin.

"I'll just sleep in this coffin!" He lifted the lid of the coffin, and the inside was full of pillows and bedding. "If I don't open my eyes someday, I just carry it to bury it!"

"Don't say such things, old man." Zhou Bao hurriedly said, "With the prince here, he will make you safe and sound. You just need to stay here and wait for the letter. You have to take care of yourself, and then you can see Yang with your own eyes. The prefect washes away the grievances."

Huai Lao stubbornly insisted: "If you don't allow it to be carried in, I will sleep in the yard!"

Nan Ruo pressed Zhou Bao: "Let him carry it in, you ask someone to prepare an extra quilt, and ask the little eunuch to be smarter to watch over him, and I will also send two of the guards I brought to help guard the gate." .”

Zhou Baolue thought about it, and said: "Okay, then I will listen to you."

When the people were settled in the front hall, they saw the officials staggering and leaving in a file.

It wasn't until Nan Ruo called for the fourth day that the prince called them in again, knelt in the yard and scolded them, and then called them one by one and went in to talk.

Nan Ruo was considering whether to go in, when Fu Zhuo and Pei Dinggao came back together.

The two were in a hurry, and they should have heard the news on the way.

Pei Dinggao saw his eyes light up and walked over a few steps, and said eagerly: "Tell me what's going on? I heard people talking on the road that someone came to the Yamen Gate to seek justice for the prefect of Yang..."

Fu Zhuo followed.

Nan Ruo said it briefly.

Pei Dinggao said angrily, "It's better to come back earlier."

Nan Ruo cast a questioning look.

Pei Dinggao said a little angrily: "Brother Fu and I were tricked, those flower girls only know how to sell, and Brother Fu and I spent nearly a hundred taels in vain, and we didn't find out anything!"

Nan Ruo looked at Fu Zhuo in surprise, it shouldn't be, Pei Dinggao is inexperienced and he can understand being fooled, but Fu Zhuo is a veteran of the flower field, he has been to the famous buildings in the capital, how can he be fooled and chopped off .

As for the promotion of brothels, this is an old calendar. Empress Zheng had it before, but it was not as open and aboveboard as it is now. Most of them came secretly, and most of the cooperators were rouge and powder shops. Supply brothels.

After Empress Zheng opened the brothel map, the brothel flower girls became the main force to bring goods. The flower girls were gentle or coquettish and recommended to buy, buy, buy, and poured a few cups of yellow soup, and the men spent a lot of money in a daze.

Over the past ten years, this kind of sales method has been criticized from the beginning to commonplace, and more and more shops will cooperate with brothels.

Fu Zhuo's face was flushed, he didn't know whether it was from embarrassment or anger, he gritted his teeth and remained silent.

Pei Dinggao helped explain with a little shame: "This... is really... the soft language of Wu Nong, a woman from Jiangnan..."

understood.

Nan Ruo had no choice but to overcome rigidity with softness. The two of them would not be easy to lose their temper if they found out that they were being fooled. It is estimated that Hua Niang had already figured out the temperament of young masters like them and prescribe the right medicine.

Fu Zhuo probably felt ashamed, turned his face away and asked, "Who's in there?"

Nan Ruo is not in the mood to tease him now, and said: "There should be no one else."

Fu Zhuo strode away, Pei Dinggao looked at Nan Ruo, and invited him to go there together, they walked together for a distance during the day, and got a little closer.

Nan Ruo didn't refuse his kindness, she nodded and followed.

However, the crown prince didn't see them, probably expected that they would not find any useful information, and sent them to rest when he heard the servant's message that they had no useful information to report.

Nan Ruo was indeed tired, he hadn't closed his eyes properly for two consecutive days, and he walked for most of the day today, so he washed up and lay down on the bedding and fell asleep.

As soon as dawn dawned, he opened his eyes and stared blankly at the unfamiliar beams for a while, then quickly got up, wiped his face and hurried to the front hall.

The crown prince had already woken up, or he didn't sleep at all, he was drinking porridge, he picked up the bowl without using a spoon and drank it cleanly, which made Nan Ruo's heart feel refreshed.

"Sit down." The crown prince wiped his mouth, "Since I'm up, I'll help Gu sort out the notebooks."

It was only then that Nan Ruo saw the memorial placed in the box next to the desk case, and he lifted his spirits: "Yes."

He was afraid that he would be coaxed to write essays as a child again. He couldn't lead people to investigate like Tan Ying, and he was very satisfied if he could participate.

Immediately took out a stack to look at it, and found that it was handed over by the officials who were scolded yesterday.

This time, basically all the respectable officials from the south of the Yangtze River came. They went up to the chief envoys, inspectors, and commanders of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and down to the doctors of the weaving bureaus of the three provinces.

But don't look at the lowest grade of doctors in the Weaving Bureau, only the fifth grade, but the Weaving Bureau can directly talk to the emperor, and the local officials dare not offend, including Queen Zheng's people. big relationship.

In fact, after a closer look, it was not Emperor Yongzhao and the men who brought Empress Zheng to the front of the crowd at first, but the first emperor.

The first emperor was regarded as the ruler of success. Although he had been in power for a long time, his achievements were mediocre. Suddenly, an empress Zheng came down from the sky, what cement glass briquette, who cured plagues, discovered overseas high-yield crops, and helped improve fire/powder/guns/cannons.

At that time, the first emperor wanted to pursue merits to the point of urgency. After all, he had already passed the ear, and there were not many emperors who lived to be over sixty in the past. Empress Zheng, who produced the real thing, was called Xiangrui by the first emperor himself.

In the original text with a [-]% discount, because she was the only one who dared to treat Xiandi as an ordinary grandfather and would care about him, telling the truth in front of him made Xiandi feel very grateful, and became friends with her.

Empress Zheng also unlocked the Jiangnan map at that time, where she had a vigorous triangular entanglement with Emperor Yongzhao and the villain Hengwang.

At the same time, she saved many people because of various things, and these people have obviously become her subordinates now.

For example, Li Han, the doctor of the Huating Weaving Bureau, was rescued from the kidnapper by her, and Empress Zheng almost recognized him as her foster brother.

Nan Ruo flipped through a few letters, some said that he and Wenzhi were not in the same province, so he didn’t know about it; The chief envoy of Ning'an Province, where Zhi belonged to, admitted his mistake very simply, and did not mention Yang Tao at all, only saying that he was not strict in governing, which caused Zhen Cai to make a mistake.

The excerpts of several doctors in the Weaving Bureau are even more amazing. I don’t know if I don’t know or participate in it.

Turning it down in one breath, apart from lamenting that the literary talent and calligraphy are good, there is only one feeling: perfunctory.

A sense of sight that you asked me to answer and I answered it and the test paper is full of what you want to do, but the words are humble and full of praise, so that people can't make mistakes.

As expected of a literati, he can play word games like a slippery one.

Nan Ruo looked at the prince, the prince didn't seem to be angry, and took a pen with great interest to write him a few replies.

Sensing his gaze, he didn't raise his head: "Why, are you done tidying up?"

Nan Ruo handed over the last letter in his hand: "It's over." After hesitating for a while, he said, "Your Highness, these notes..."

The prince looked up at him and smiled: "Normally, the prince is not the son of heaven, and he has not officially entered the court, so he can't just scold them and recruit them all. If so, the word corrupt officials will not appear." gone."

"Don't worry." He tapped the booklet of An Ning's Chief Envoy, "If they don't say it, there is always a way to get them to say it."

Nan Ruo seemed to understand what he was going to do, and was about to invite Ying to see if he could contribute, but the prince changed his voice: "You don't need breakfast when you come here?"

What does that mean?Nan Ruo nodded hesitantly: "Yes."

The prince rang the bell and waited for the servant to come in: "Bring breakfast for Nangong Zongqi."

Nan Ruo immediately thanked him, feeling once again that the contemporary bosses are good, and there are not many bosses who can think about their employees not eating breakfast and ask someone to deliver meals.

When Nan Ruo was having breakfast, the crown prince called Tan Ying and Chang Qing over, and he planned to avoid it, but the crown prince stopped him and told him to eat here.

Nan Ruo understood that this was to prove that he was indeed taken care of according to the instructions.

So the prince and the three were talking about business, and Nan Ruo was holding the porridge and drinking it slowly to prevent making a sound, but the two of them kept looking at him.

And sure enough, as he thought, the crown prince gave the two people the booklet of An Ning's chief envoy, telling them to hold Zhen Cai accountable for his mistakes.

At the same time, I also knew what Tan Ying and Chang Qing had found out in the past two days.

To Nan Ruo's surprise, Yang Tao actually committed suicide. He hanged himself by hanging a stone on the meritorious cliff by the seaside of Wenzhi, and the confession letter he left behind was also written by himself!

The reason why it is so certain is that apart from the autopsy results, his housekeeper and wife personally admitted it.

When Yang Tao wrote the confession and hanged himself, the two were watching with their own eyes!

Nan Ruo didn't react for a while, when the prince picked up the booklet at hand and fell heavily to the ground, an unspeakable anger welled up from his heart, stuck in his throat, and he couldn't make a sound for a long time.