Bastard's Counterattack [Rebirth]

"Please teach me, grandfather!" Zhou Mingjie walked up to Pingnanhou on his knees as if he had found a life-saving driftwood. He raised his face in shock and said eagerly: "I swear that I have sent such an important letter as His Highness ordered! Grandfather, You have to trust me!"

In desperation, Zhou Mingjie blurted out "grandfather", pretending to be the grandson of Marquis Pingnan.In fact, Marquis Pingnan subconsciously never cared about his son-in-law Zhou Renlin.

"Why did the secret letter you handled appear in the hands of the Korean thief? The old man withheld the key and sent a non-essential one. His intention was to force His Highness to make concessions, alas!" Ping Nanhou clenched his fist and pounded the table heavily, hating Iron and steel sighed.

Zhou Mingjie couldn't believe it, and looked at the evidence over and over again.

"Yu Wei and the others have verified that it is indeed a letter from the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at the end of last year." The second prince looked at the landscape splashed ink painting in front of him, but his eyes were empty, and he did not even look at Zhou Mingjie. I asked you to support and reuse your own people. With the heart of filial piety and nurturing, my Highness specially allowed your two brothers to follow me, but what have you done? Ming Hong knows how to eat, drink, prostitute, and gamble, and he has a similar taste with the old seven. Although you are a little better , but he is so negligent in doing things, how can His Highness arrange errands with confidence in the future?!"

"Your Highness, please calm down." Zhou Mingjie couldn't understand it, and he was so anxious that he insisted: "Your Highness, there must be someone who forged it with the intention of slandering—"

"Stupid thing! You haven't understood yet?" The second prince suddenly got up, stretched out his hand and pointed angrily: "This secret letter is authentic, stamped with a special seal made by His Royal Highness, the one that was actually passed on to Cai Leshan was dropped, and the one he received is the original one. Forged!"

"Why, how did this happen?" Zhou Mingjie's lips turned pale with anxiety, and he said cautiously, "It's just an ordinary letter exchange, there is nothing wrong with it, even if Han Feihong got the letter—"

"Stupid!" The second prince raised his foot, kicked Zhou Mingjie on the shoulder, and said angrily: "What do you know? Do you know how much effort it takes to promote and install a governor? The Han thief intercepted the secret letter and blatantly sent it to His Highness's desk , it means that he has nothing to fear, and he has a backup, understand?"

Zhou Mingjie didn't dare to say a word. After being kicked over, he quickly got up and knelt down.

Marquis Pingnan's head was as big as a fight, and he got up to persuade the prince and grandson: "His Royal Highness, please calm down, you sit down first, Mingjie has just learned how to do things, it is inevitable that he will be careless, but he has always been conscientious, this accident must have been planned by the Han thief for a long time. What you did! Cai Leshan is an old man, so he can rest assured that he will not be able to find out any clues. The Han thief can at most get a few letters to win over the party. Seriously speaking, there are not many princes who need to employ people. ?”

The second prince sat down angrily: "Although that is the case, it is hard to rest in the hands of others. Now my highness is in charge of tax collection, and the eldest brother is only helping from the side, but always pointing fingers, deliberately disrupting, and delaying the progress. Already dissatisfied with the supervision, the eldest brother took the opportunity to fan the flames and add fuel to the fire, hmph, he clearly wants to compete for the job and take the credit!"

"His Royal Highness has always been like this, with a smiling face." Ping Nanhou ordered Zhou Mingjie to kneel down with his eyes, and he said solemnly: "King Qing still stays out of the matter, except for the Northwest and Beiying, he cherishes words like gold."

"The third child has such a bad temper! In the early court, he fought like a black-eyed chicken with the household department because of the military salary, which angered the father and severely reprimanded him. It was a favor for me and diverted the father's attention from taxation." The second prince sneered, He gloated and said: "With his temperament, sooner or later he will offend all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty."

The atmosphere improved a bit, Zhou Mingjie just wanted to take advantage of the situation to defend himself, but the second prince turned cold after laughing, and said indifferently: "Recently there have been a lot of things, Mingjie is probably too tired, so he neglected his duty. How about this, you go home and rest for a while, Calm down and reflect."

"Your Highness?" Zhou Mingjie raised his head sharply. He has gradually mastered the tax collection and government affairs, and is trying his best to climb up, sharpen his head and drill into the court. How can he be willing to retreat at a critical moment?He pleaded earnestly: "Your Highness, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly and give you a satisfactory answer. I beg you to give me a chance—"

"Go down." The second prince waved away annoyed.Things haven't gone well for him recently, a little spark can stir up raging anger, and seeing his grandfather's face doesn't hurt, but a lesson is necessary: ​​Zhou's brothers follow their father, embroidered pillows, and bringing them around will only lead to bad things!

"You go back first." Ping Nanhou helplessly waved away the erring grandson.

"……Yes."

Zhou Mingjie stood up in embarrassment, with a dirty boot print on his shoulder, and retreated dejectedly, resentful of grievances, and rode home.

At this time, the sky is just dawning, and the shops in the market are opening their doors to welcome customers. The hawkers are quick and quick, setting up their stalls with goods, shouting and greeting one after another. The businessmen are looking for auspiciousness.

Zhou Mingjie felt disgusted when he heard it, which was extremely harsh. He hurriedly rode away, but before he got to the house, he saw a traveling carriage in the distance, and many servants were clamoring and shouting.

"The eldest son is back!"

A sharp-eyed young man galloped to meet him, took the reins anxiously, panted, and said with a mournful face: "Second, something happened to the second young master! The lord has not returned early, and the madam is so anxious, go in and have a look!"

"An accident happened again?!" Zhou Mingjie closed his eyes and looked up, took a few deep breaths, and then forced himself to suppress his temper, walked quickly, and asked angrily, "What trouble did Minghong get into this time? Drinking and gambling? Or fighting?"

"Neither, neither." The servant groaned in embarrassment.

"What are you covering up for him? Tell me!" Zhou Mingjie scolded.

At this time, Yang Ruofang didn't put any makeup on, her hair was only in a simple bun, she didn't have any hairpins or jewelry, her face was ashen, and she was staggered out with the help of a few confidantes.

"Mother, what's the matter?" Zhou Mingjie went up to him with a headache and asked, every time he came back, there were a lot of messes, so he preferred to stay at his grandfather's house.

"My son, you came back just in time, mother is really anxious to death!" Yang Ruofang raised her head, her eyes lit up, she grabbed the eldest son's arm tightly, and told incoherently: "Hong'er, Hong'er has been arrested, Du Wan'er has found the capital!"

"Du Wan'er?" Zhou Mingjie was stunned for a moment, but when he remembered, his face turned pale with astonishment, and he hurriedly asked, "Didn't Du Wan'er have a dystocia and killed two people?"

Yang Ruofang kept shaking her eldest son's arm, her facial features distorted in anxiety: "That's right! Who knows about her? The daughter of a mere Luchuan prefectural governor, how can she be worthy of Hong'er? She is delusional, and she deserves to die!"

"Luchuan is thousands of miles away from the capital, and she came here by herself?" Zhou Minghong frowned and gasped.

"The three members of her family are here! Now I'm going to the city guard, and the yamen is open for interrogation." Yang Ruofang tightened her clothes, with bulging veins on the back of her hands.

Zhou Minghong was about to ask a question, but after thinking about it, he turned around and scolded the maid and the servant:

"Would you like to watch a play? Get lost!"

All the servants hurriedly bowed and dispersed.

Zhou Mingjie asked in a low voice after seeing the servants evading, "Mother, my father and I went out to tour the suburbs and counties back then, and we didn't know much about it. Tell me the truth: Did Du Wan'er have a dystocia? Why did she come back from the dead? gone?"

Yang Ruofang was distraught, fingers clenched tightly, and said lightly, "She is frivolous and shameless, seduced Hong'er into a pregnant woman, delusional thinking that a mother is more expensive than a child. Bah, sparrows also want to climb high branches! Childbirth is a hell, I was very busy during that time , ignored her, who, who knew that she would have a dystocia and fake death?"

Zhou Mingjie's heart sank gradually. He was well aware of his mother's behavior, so he asked in a deep voice: "The Du family dared to enter the capital and let the yamen open, which means that there is corresponding evidence listed in the certificate. Mother, villains have been difficult to deal with since ancient times. So far, are you still hiding it? How can I help?"

Yang Ruofang bowed her head for a long time, took a deep breath, and said helplessly, "Go in and talk."

"It's not too late, hurry up!" Zhou Mingjie cheered up and helped his mother back to the house for a secret talk.If the Zhou family hadn't been destroyed as one, he really didn't want to clean up the mess for his younger brother who was causing trouble everywhere!

at this time

The yamen of the city guards was wide open, and there was a large crowd of good people in front of the court, which was extremely crowded.

The crowd was excited, and the people onlookers were talking and pointing.

"Hmm! Mmmmm!" Zhou Minghong struggled desperately. He was wearing only a pair of short underpants that could not cover his body. Disappear immediately.

"My lord, don't worry, I have already sent someone back to the government to report!"

"Your Excellency and Madam will be here soon!" The servants of the Zhou family who arrived first rushed to comfort each other.

Sitting upright in the hall is Yin Gaoxin, Minister of the Ministry of War and Governor of the City Guard.

Gao Xin was completely enraged. He took another shot of the gavel and ordered: "I am here, how can you wait to bully others! Regardless of whether you are innocent or guilty, as long as you sue according to the law, the two parties must face each other in court. This is the rule set by the imperial court! Zhou Minghong, let alone you whore in brothels, even if you hid in Pingnan Hou’s mansion, the yamen still has the right to summon you for questioning! You should kneel when you see an official, but instead of kneeling, you utter wild words, despise and insult the court officials?!"

"Your Excellency, calm down, it's all due to the mishandling of the subordinate officials, which caused the defendant to be rampant." Fu Cheng Liu Su stood by and comforted the superior endlessly.The case was originally being tried by him, but Gao Xin was on a business trip to the City Protection Department, and happened to see Zhou Minghong insulting the imperial court official, and immediately became furious, ordered the defendant to be gagged, tied up, and knelt down for trial.

Right now

Rong Youtang was admiring his "masterpiece" with great interest.

He pretended to be a middle-aged businessman and sat on the second floor of the restaurant next to the Mocheng Secretary. He asked for a private room, a few dishes of appetizers, a few dishes of dried fruit, and a pot of hot rice wine.

Zhou Minghong, you have today too!

Rong Youtang peeled the spiced hazelnuts slowly, ate them crunchily, and drank a sip of wine, feeling refreshed.

The window was opened halfway, although it was separated from the wide corridor, it was enough to see the bustling scene of the crowd in front of the Moat Secretary.

——Cases that are a little bit peachy can always attract the attention of ordinary people.

After a while, the private room door was gently pushed open, and a person walked in, and the latch was unlocked with his backhand.

"Greetings to Master Tang, why don't you enjoy a glass of wine? I'm thirsty." The voice of the visitor was that of Na Shami from Hongfa Temple.

Rong Youtang stared at the city guard on the opposite side, without turning his head, he raised his hand to push the wine pot, signaling to be free.

"Thank you." The novice grinned, pretending to be an ordinary citizen watching the excitement today, like a hungry ghost reincarnated, without further ado, he first swept away half a plate of sauced elbows, ate and gorged, poured wine glass after glass, and bowed chopsticks left and right Flying around, swallowing loudly, smacking his mouth deliberately, quietly observing the reaction of the wealthy employer——

However, Rong Youtang did not respond.

He rested on the window sill with his left hand, held the wine glass with his right, and only touched his lips from time to time, engrossed in watching the grand occasion downstairs.

"Ahem, there is a saying, I don't know if I should say it or not."

Rong Youtang smelled the aroma of the wine, didn't dare to drink more, and said slowly: "Song Fei, aren't you an old Jianghu? Don't say what you shouldn't say."

Seinfeld waved the chicken leg and reminded in a low voice: "Hands, your hands."

Rong Youtang looked down at his hands in doubt——

It turned out that his left hand was on the window sill, and his spring shirt was wide and thin, exposing a part of his wrist. His skin color was completely different from his face and neck.

"Oh." Rong Youtang lowered his hands as if nothing had happened, and pulled his sleeves to cover them.

"Be careful, don't get me involved." Seung Fei muttered, grabbed half of the roast chicken, sat down beside Rong Youtang, tore off the leg and handed it over: "Do you want to eat?"

Rong Youtang shook his head, and lightly instructed: "Be careful, don't get me involved."

"Don't worry, according to the rules of the Tao, even if I get caught by mistake, I won't confess to my employer, so as not to ruin my brother's job." Sein Fei threatened and asked: "You are so bold! If you dare to find me, you are not afraid of endless troubles?"

Rong Youtang smiled, and calmly reminded: "You are so bold, you dare to take my job and offend Ping Nanhou. Be careful to implicate all your senior brothers, come out to mess around, is it really more at ease than me? "

"You—" Seinfeld stared, unable to refute.

It's really not easy to mess around to make a living, everyone has weaknesses.

"In addition, I have sealed the secrets related to 'Flying on the Grass' in many places. Once I am unlucky and my relatives and friends find out, you will not be able to please me."

"Hey, it's just a joke. Why is Master Tang so serious?" Seinfeld hastily apologized and said with a smile, "We'd better abide by the rules: you pay, I do things, and each goes its own way when it's over!"

"So best."

After a moment of silence

Rong Youtang lowered his voice, and asked with great interest: "The surname Zhou is a relative of the Duke after all, why was he left with a pair of underpants?"

"Hey, it's simple!" Although Seinfeld has made it difficult for him, he has a habit of raising and lowering his eyebrows when he speaks.He stabbed closer and revealed: "Before the yamen servant took him, I was waiting in the brothel, looking for an opportunity to put some small things in his underwear."

"What little thing?"

"Here, look." Sein Fei took out a small porcelain vase from his pocket, and his technique was so fast that afterimages appeared, and as soon as it passed by, several pinky-finger-long, rice-grain-thick reptiles with flesh-colored bodies and jet-black heads appeared on the pine wood table. After being released, I saw them dormant for a while, then suddenly wriggled quickly, biting the table fiercely.

Rong Youtang instantly got goosebumps all over his body, and waved his hand: "Hurry up and take it!"

The employer had an order, and Seinfeld carried it out with a smile, and put away the little reptile in the blink of an eye.

"So, he took off the remaining pair of underpants by himself?" Rong Youtang asked holding his breath.He has just cooperated with Seinfeld not long ago, but he already understands that the other party is cunning and treacherous.

Seinfeld was overjoyed, he slapped his thigh, and said softly: "That's right! When he was escorted to the court by the yamen guard, he went crazy in the street, took off his clothes, trousers and boots, and couldn't be stopped or persuaded. It's so interesting!"

"It's really yours." Rong Youtang smiled.

Seinfeld took it for granted that the next sentence would be a compliment——

"It's okay, my money is not in vain." Rong Youtang said, with a barely satisfied look.

Song Fei resented, straightened his neck and swallowed a big mouthful of meat, and said solemnly: "I take money to do things, and I don't kill myself for money. Regardless of his family background, that person will be a lunatic stripping and rolling around in public from now on! These news will spread throughout the city within three days."

"We can't just spread romantic anecdotes, but rely on the aspects of 'frauding poor classmates by cheating, and being arrogant'." Rong Youtang made a request.

Song Fei nodded readily: "Okay! I understand what you mean, it will definitely make him unable to lift his head up and walk in the capital again."

At this time, Zhou Renlin and his eldest son arrived in a carriage, and the yamen guards rushed out to protect them, and worked together with Zhou's family servants to separate the turbulent crowd, and the group squeezed into the yamen with difficulty.

"Hey, his family has come to protect him?" Seong Fei shook his head: "It's a pity, it's too late! Hey, Master Tang, are you the one who murdered the mother and baby—"

"The case is true." Rong Youtang said solemnly: "If you are interested, you can go down and listen to the case." After he finished speaking, he took out a 200 tael silver ticket, handed it over and said, "I will go to the street to listen to the last one in two days. Listen to the rumors and then pay."

"You're absolutely satisfied!" Seinfeld took it with a smile, checking it over and over again.

Rong Youtang watched enough of the show, put half a glass of wine on the table, got up and said, "Look slowly, I'm leaving first."

"Hey--"

"The bill for the food and drinks has been settled, thank you for your hard work." Rong Youtang opened the door and left without looking back.

for a while

Sein Fei smiled playfully, picked up the half glass of wine left by the other party, first smelled the aroma of the wine, then stretched out his tongue to lick it, and finally drank it down with his neck up.

Hmph, return Master Tang?Looking at the snow-white wrist with thin skin and tender flesh, it is clearly a young man!

a few days later in the evening

Rong Youtang studied for a whole day, dizzy, his eyes were sore, he closed the book, squeezed the space between his brows, got up and walked around for a while, after thinking about it, he went out for a walk.

"Tang'er, where are you going?" Rong Kaiji, who was discussing with the manager of the cloth village about the summer materials, asked.

"Father, I'm going out for a walk, so I can refresh my mind."

Rong Kaiji instructed: "I heard that there are lunatics out there, running naked in the street, spitting and biting people, covered in insects all over their bodies, be careful, don't walk in the dark alleys."

Zhou Minghong!Hahaha~

Rong Youtang smiled and agreed: "Understood, I'll be back in a few hours."

Leading the horse out, trotting briskly, dismounting the horse and walking slowly on the street, buying a bowl of sweet bean curd to eat, and a bunch of candied haws, hearing "Pingnanhou's grandson is crazy", "crazy man biting someone", "man has reptiles in his mouth and nose", etc. There are countless folk legends that have been passed on and passed on.

Rong Youtang couldn't help laughing, shook his head and sighed: Hey, what about the part about Zhou Minghong framing poor classmates and poisoning Du Waner's mother and son in Luchuan?Hmph, that guy Seinfeld... did he miss it?Or are ordinary people not interested?

Rong Youtang was in a good mood and looked radiant, holding up a candied haws, eating one from time to time, swaying, and unknowingly walked to Prince Qing's Mansion.

Want to go in and say hello?

While hesitating, the familiar doorman rushed out to greet him enthusiastically, took the reins of the horse as a matter of course, and said familiarly: "Young Master Rong is here, please come in quickly, your Highnesses are here."

The "Second Highnesses" in the population of the Wangfu refer to King Qing and the Ninth Prince, which are clear references.

"Okay." Rong Youtang let go of the horse's rein, took out the broken silver left over from buying candied haws, handed it to the boy and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you, please pass it on to me."

"Thank you, Young Master Rong!" The servant smiled openly, and took the broken silver with both hands.Prince Qing's Mansion has a decree: outsiders are not allowed to receive rewards, only those "insiders" such as Guo Da and Rong Youtang can receive rewards.The servant enthusiastically said: "I didn't run a few times at all, and now you don't need to communicate when you enter the mansion. Please hurry up, don't blow the cold wind outside, and the housekeeper will scold us for not doing our best."

"Then you are busy, I'll go in first." Rong Youtang smiled, and brought half a bunch of candied haws into the house.

Walking outside the heavily guarded courtyard of King Qing, after the notification was approved, he entered the study to have a look:

In addition to King Qing, Guo Yuan, Guo Da, and Wu Sipeng, there are also two middle-aged people who were born face to face.

The two middle-aged men looked at each other, looking at Rong Youtang in amazement.

Uh, there are outsiders?Why are they looking at me so strangely?Am I being disrespectful?

Rong Youtang lowered his head in bewilderment, looking at himself——

Only then did he realize that since he was still carrying candied haws!

Simply, simply outrageously casual, this is Prince Qing's Mansion...

Rong Youtang was immediately embarrassed, subconsciously hid the candied haws behind his back, and saluted King Qing and the others.

"Why only one string? There are only two pieces for each of these people." Guo Da asked jokingly.

Rong Youtang laughed dryly in embarrassment, and said dully: "Your Highness, forgive me, my lords, I was confused for a while."

It's all Zhou Minghong's fault!He made a fool of himself, which made me so happy that I couldn't find Bei, so I brought the candied haws here!In other words, I met so many people along the way, why didn't they remind me?

In fact, the servants of the palace have long regarded Rong Youtang as King Qing's favorite confidant - what's the point of mentioning candied haws?Not swords and weapons.

"Don't take this as an example." Zhao Zeyong ordered seriously because of the presence of guests, and a smile appeared in his eyes when he saw Rong Youtang.

"This was Xu Huai, the doctor of Qing officials in Guangnan, and Qin Haoliang, the doctor of Qing officials in Yunhu. The two of them are now the newly-appointed military storehouse officers of the household department, Wailang." Guo Da introduced.

Rong Youtang hurriedly saluted and said hello: "The student has met the two adults."

Xu Huai and Qin Haoliang hurriedly got up to pay their respects. They were magistrates transferred from Jiangnan to Beijing, and they brought their top peak, Guo Yuan, to pay a visit to King Qing tonight.

"Sit down, sit down, sit down." Guo Da urged.

After everyone was seated, Zhao Zeyong attached great importance to the military storage warehouse, and patiently talked with the two little sixth-rank officials, with some words of encouragement.

Two quarters of an hour later, Guo Yuan felt that it was almost done, and left with his subordinates. Seeing Rong Youtang present, Guo Da and Wu Sipeng also resigned wisely.

There are only two people left in the study

"Enke's exam is about to start, you don't need to review your books anymore? Why come here when you have time?" Zhao Zeyong asked with a smile.

Rong Youtang told the truth: "I have a headache from reading. I went to the street to get some fresh air. I didn't expect to disturb you again."

Zhao Zeyong smiled and said, "Come here."

"doing what?"

"come over."

Rong Youtang stood still.

"Disobedience again?" Zhao Zeyong raised his eyebrows, he immediately got up, tall and long-legged, he walked over to hug him a few steps, pretending to be angry and said majesticly: "You have repeatedly disobeyed orders, do you want to be punished?"

Rong Youtang raised his face, couldn't hold back, and showed a hint of a smile.

"Still laughing? I really owe a lesson."

With a straight face, Zhao Zeyong wrapped one hand around the other's waist, tightened it tightly, kissed him down, was intimate and lingering, tasted sweet and sour candied haws, went deep again and again, almost pushing him into his arms.

at the same time

Xu Huai and Qin Haoliang shared a small carriage and returned to their residence.

"resembles!"

"It's very similar!"

Xu Huai was curious and puzzled: "Master Rong's wife and children are all in his hometown, how could there be a young man who looks so similar to him?"

"Then the younger generation must be Prince Qing's cronies." Qin Haoliang said cautiously: "The capital city is deep, and you and I are newcomers, so be careful. You will know the details when Zhengqing enters the capital. He received the letter of appointment later than us, and he is probably coming soon. "

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Xu Huai: I accidentally picked up a vest.

Qin Haoliang: Should it be handed over to the state?