After the Rebirth of the Red Chamber

After another two days, Lin Ruhai naturally did not make any progress, so he handed over the case to the procurator's yamen, and the procurator Xu Deng took over the case officially.

It seems that King Zhongjing really came to Shanxi for inspection. Since he entered the territory of Shanxi, he has never stepped into the Yamen of the inspector.

The chief minister, Cao Yue, was an important minister of the imperial court. Although he was not an official in the capital, he knew a lot about the intricate relationship between the various families in the capital.

As for the disagreement between King Zhongjing and Xu Dengzheng, it was not a secret at all, he was naturally clear about it.

Don't look at how stubborn he is in front of Lin Ruhai. In fact, he is very afraid of Xu Deng, or Xu Deng's staff.

Moreover, Lin Ruhai was in his charge, although Xu Deng's rank was lower than his, but he was directly ordered by the sage, he had no control over others, so he was naturally uneasy.

And Xu Deng is also bad. Every time the case progresses, it has to be publicized in Taiyuan official circles.

——Today I found the orphan of one of the Yaren's families, tomorrow I found the clues left by the missing Yaren, and the next day I found something that looked like a ledger from the Yaren's house in Bie Miemen...

He pressed on step by step, squeezing Cao Yue's defensive line bit by bit.However, Cao Yue has been under the eyes of King Zhongjing at this time, and he dare not act rashly at all.

Perhaps he was really in a hurry, and he actually came up with a trick to bribe King Zhongjing.

Is King Zhongjing so easy to bribe?

This prince is the saint's most trusted younger brother.After the saint came to the throne, he felt that his younger brother's life was hard, so he first raised his title from the county king to the prince, and then gave him all the Huangzhuang and shop that the old saint had bestowed on the third prince.

That's not counting the rewards that change every year and festival.

It can be said that in the entire clan, everyone may be short of money and treasures, but King Zhongjing definitely has no shortage!

Doesn't Cao Yue know about these situations?

Of course he knew.

Therefore, when he bribed King Zhongjing, he was not planning to use money at all, but to use beauty.

It is well known that today's sages love and respect the king, and it is also well known that the old sages neglected the sixth prince.

This also led to the fact that in the backyard of Prince Zhongjing's Mansion, apart from the royal concubine, there was not a single woman who could be given the identity of a woman.

At that time, all the ministers at the bottom were eager to use the East Palace, the Third Prince and the Ninth Prince's residence. Even if they got the best Yangzhou skinny horses, they would send them to several houses. Who would think of being unknown? The sixth prince?

Therefore, in terms of women's knowledge, the six princes in the past and the King Zhongjing today can be said to be superficial.

According to Cao Yue's thinking—in fact, it's also the thinking of most people, if there is an extremely beautiful beauty who throws himself into his arms, King Zhong Jing will be hard to resist.

So, when another dinner was held for King Zhongjing, after drinking three rounds and eating five flavors, Cao Yue smiled meaningfully and clapped his hands lightly.

But seeing where the bead curtain moved, the candlelight was dim, and two beauties came in gracefully, with graceful postures and delicate expressions, one with a Guqin in his arms, and the other with a pipa in his arms.

The beauty bowed her knees and bowed profusely, her voice was like a warbler's cry, and she listened softly: "Minister Wanxia (Zhiqiu), pay homage to the lord, to my lord."

With just this sentence, Cao Yue felt that his bones were brittle, so he didn't believe that King Zhongjing would be indifferent.

King Zhongjing was indeed not indifferent.

To be honest, there really is no beauty of this level in his backyard.

Therefore, at first glance, he is inevitably in a trance.

But only for a moment.

Because, today's King Zhongjing is no longer depressed like when he was the sixth prince.

Now, under the hands of Brother Sage, he has found his own value, found what he likes to do and can do as he pleases.

——Punish corrupt officials and eliminate unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.Share your worries for the king, make decisions for the people, and return the world to a bright and clear sky!

Therefore, before beauty became his hobby, he was ruthlessly suppressed by his ambition.

Now, in the face of beauty, he is just like a normal man, love is inevitable, but more, but there is no more.

But by coincidence, his momentary trance was captured by Cao Yue who was always watching him.

So, no matter how calm and indifferent he behaved next, Cao Yue regarded him as prudish.

He showed King Zhongjing an expression that any man could understand, and smiled obscenely: "My lord, enjoy it at ease, God knows this matter, you know and I know."

King Zhongjing paused slightly while holding the wine glass, and immediately looked at Cao Yue with a subtle look: "Master Cao, what do you mean by this?"

Cao Yue smiled "hehe", and winked at Wanxia and Zhiqiu.

The two women looked at each other and sat down respectively.For a while, the sound of the zither suddenly sounded, floating like a thread, making people feel like falling into a dream, seeming like reality and illusion.

Suddenly, there is another singing voice, and the sound of the pipa is like weeping and complaining...

This was an auditory feast, King Zhongjing couldn't help squinting his eyes slightly, and tapped his fingers on the table in time with the beat.

——Not to mention, this little song from the south of the Yangtze River has a different taste to the ears of this northern place.

At the end of the song, the two girls got up and said Wanfu, then put down their instruments, walked gracefully to King Zhongjing, and sat down on one left and one on the right.

Cao Yue got up very winkingly, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I will retire now, please do so, Your Majesty." After speaking, he winked at the two women again, and walked away triumphantly.

Watching Cao Yue leave, King Zhong Jing lowered his face: "You two girls."

******

"My lord." Master Lan hurried into Xu Deng's study with a green leather bundle in his arms, with a look of excitement on his face.

Xu Deng put down the book in his hand, and asked calmly, "What's wrong?"

"Look, my lord, what is this?" Master Lan put the green leather bundle on the table and carefully unwrapped it, revealing a stack of account books inside.

Seeing the account book, Xu Deng already had a guess in his heart, but he still couldn't believe it. He really found what he had been looking for for so long.

"It's true." Master Lan nodded emphatically. It was sent by King Zhongjing, and all the gentlemen under his door had already seen it, as well as the orphan of the Liu family. It's true.

This Master Lan is also one of Xu Deng's staff members, and the gentlemen he is talking about are all the staff members that Xu Deng invited.

And the Liu family was one of the two families who were silenced by Cao Yue.When they arrived, they found the young master of the Liu family who was already hungry and dying in the cave under the kitchen water tank.

According to the young master of the Liu family, his father had already found out that something was wrong, and asked his valet to pretend to be him, but it was too late to send him away, so he dug a hole under the water tank in a hurry and asked him to bring some water to hide. went in.

When he was found by the inspector's yamen, he had been hungry for two days, and two more nights later, he was afraid that he would starve to death in the cave.

It stands to reason that Young Master Liu is already 12 years old, he is considered half an adult, if Liu Yaren kept the account book, he should teach it to Young Master Liu.No matter how bad it is, let him know where the ledger is.

However, Young Master Liu didn't know the slightest bit, and he looked confused when asked.

Xu Deng specially sent a person who was good at torture to ask him to make sure that he really didn't know where the ledger was, only that his father did keep the ledger.

This Liuya man seems to be afraid that his only blood will die too slowly!

Just imagine, if Young Master Liu was not found by the inspectors, but by Cao Yue's people or his opponents, in order to get the account book, he would definitely use some special means to Young Master Liu.

When they find out that he really doesn't know, they will use him as bait to catch the person who holds the ledger.

Regardless of whether the account book can be fished out in the end, in order not to leak the news, this young master Liu can only be silenced.

The staff member was not polite at all, and told Young Master Liu the whole analysis.

This made the young boy very depressed, and then, under the guidance of his staff's words, he was grateful to the inspector who saved his life.

Therefore, when the account book was found here, and when he showed it to Young Master Liu for identification, he wished he could do something for his benefactor. He carefully read it from the paper to the notes to make sure that it was written by his father himself. thing.

"My father is used to using this kind of rice paper. Every year, he sets a sufficient amount at Hongxing Bookstore. This handwriting is also my father's. He practiced the handwriting by himself and did not describe any famous artists, but I recognize his handwriting. handwriting."

With Young Master Liu's identification, there is [-]% certainty that this account book is real.

This time, Xu Deng did not startle the snake, but sent someone to keep an eye on the three families with the latest date on the account book.

Ming Zhiyuan, Xiao Chong, Cao Li.

Among them, Cao Li is Cao Yue's nephew. The reason why Cao Yue showed his flaws this time is because he was too impatient when he was fishing for Cao Li.

It can be seen from this that Cao Li is a hard-working man.No way, the achievements this time will fall on him!

Sure enough, Cao Li didn't run far, and Xu Deng's men found him in Daizhou.When I found him, he was on his way to the casino.

Master Lan twirled his beard and gave a few instructions. The yamen servant who had found someone went to Daizhou and met up with the people who were watching him. Then he went to the local ruffians on the street and asked them for a little favor.

Soon, Cao Li could no longer hang out in Daizhou.

First he kept winning in the casino, and after winning for three days in a row, he started to lose.

Then, winning or losing made him feel extremely exciting, and he didn't realize that he lost more and won less every day.

In the end, if it wasn't for the boy who followed him to persuade them, saying that if they continued to gamble, they would have no money, and threatened to tell the master that he didn't know that he was almost lost.

But it doesn't make any difference whether he takes it or not.Because within a few days, his remaining silver and valuables were stolen.

Because "Cao Li" was dead on the surface, and he had died not long ago, the Cao family couldn't get in touch with him too closely, and only sent him money every three months.

Just half a month ago, the person who gave him the money just left.In other words, in the next two months, he will not have a penny.

How can this work?

Cao Li was originally a pampered young master, otherwise, he would not have committed the crime of beheading.For him, without money, he cannot live a day.

Who is he?

He is the nephew of the dignified Chief Executive!

Could it be possible that he should be allowed to eat corn-bread pickles for two months with the servants?

Not to mention his habit of eating or not, the servants who followed him complained secretly.

——Because of his unrestrained spending, they couldn't even afford corn bread and pickles!

As a result, the servants also began to tease him secretly.

Finally, after holding back for two days, Cao Li couldn't bear it anymore, and sent a confidant boy to go home to get the money.

However, this little servant is gone forever.Cao Li had been waiting for half a month, and seeing that he didn't even have corn bread to eat, there was still no news of the boy.

Cao Li panicked, and he began to wonder: Has the family given up on him?

The author has something to say: focus: add a new chapter at [-]:[-] p.m. for the following reasons:

Yesterday, I received a dive bomb.

Before that, I always thought that Jinjiang's Lei was the most expensive five yuan (yes, I'm just so hopeless).Until today, when I checked the income, I saw the income of my Overlord ticket, and felt that the increase was too much, so I went to the group to ask the seniors.Then I……

Nothing to say, only Jiageng can express my excitement!

Special thanks to: Goofy Girl for throwing a dive bomb for me!