Fengluo Pingyang

The emperor's dragon eyes glanced around at the two rows of officials at the lower sub-station of the court hall, seeing that all the courtiers were silent and did not dare to make a sound, for fear of being angered by the emperor.

What's wrong?Obviously the levee was kept, the rain cleared, and the ink corruption case was completely solved. The corrupt officials’ wealth copied out made up for all the money spent on building the levee, and a lot of it went to the national treasury.

With so many great good deeds, shouldn't the emperor be very happy?But why is the emperor so angry?It's just unbelievable!

No wonder it is said that accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, and such a moody emperor is even fiercer than a tiger!

All the ministers lowered their heads to pretend to be quails, and even the always bold Marquis Shenwu shrank back with his head lowered.Usually, he dared to pluck the tiger's beard because the emperor was in a good mood, but now he shrinks when it's time for him to come out, it's really contemptible!

Ling Ji stood calmly and low-key, pretending not to know anything.

The emperor's voice slowly rang out in the court hall.

"My dear friends, do you know what I'm thinking right now?"

How do we know?

No one dared to speak out, and the hall was completely silent.

Fortunately, the emperor didn't want to wait for them to answer, so he continued on his own: "What I want is—" He looked around at his loyal subjects again, but the next moment he was furious, and grabbed the teacup handed over by the servant. Throw it down.

"What I'm thinking is, I don't know how many corrupt officials are there who have not been caught?! I can't wait to find them all right away and strangle them to death with my own hands!"

All the courtiers trembled when they heard this, they quickly knelt down, and persuaded in unison: "The emperor calm down."

"Quiet your anger? How can I calm my anger?!" The emperor said angrily, holding his forehead, "Do you know how much silver is in the national inventory? Marquis Shenwu won the battle and brought back countless gold, silver and jewels to fill the national treasury, which is only tens of millions of taels of silver. A lot. I thought I was already very rich, and I was still complacent and contented every day. I didn’t expect it, I didn’t expect it——” The emperor pointed at his courtiers with trembling fingers, “I didn’t expect that more than 1000 copies were copied from the mansion of just one minister of the Ministry of Industry. Thousands of taels of wealth! More than 1000 million taels! In the end, each of you is richer than me, so I know that I just picked up the leftovers from you! On weekdays, I still cry poorly and ask me for money ! I tried my best to raise money and hand it over to you, but what is the result?! Is there any one-tenth of the silver used for my country and my people! Is there any?!"

The emperor slammed the table hard, scaring the ministers into panic.Unexpectedly, the amount of copied money would make the emperor so angry, and even tended to vent his anger. If there were indeed officials with dirty hands and feet, all they could do was fear.

"The wealth of the country!" The emperor finally yelled loudly and loudly. He didn't even yell to retreat, and turned back to the palace after scolding.

Lin Xuanying and Ling Ji looked at each other, and each breathed a sigh of relief.

The ink corruption case was settled, and the highest-level minister arrested was Cui Runuo.

Lin Xuanying has worked in the Ministry of Industry for a long time, so she knows Cui Runuo well.Cui Runuo is a sanctimonious hypocrite, a hypocrite, but he doesn't have such a deep scheming to do such a thing.

"In the end, I still couldn't find those people behind me." Lin Xuanying sighed while holding up her wine glass.

It was autumn afternoon at this time, the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly. Several people held a small banquet in the pavilion in the lake of Marquis Shenwu's mansion and had a few drinks together.

"Back then, the Pingguo mansion was framed by someone. I heard that Cui Runuo was setting fire to the court." Fang Yueqi snorted coldly, "I think it was also ordered by someone. Dare to reach out to the Pingguo mansion. On the head, at least it is a family background above the honorable family, how can it be so easy to be caught out."

Lin Xuanying rubbed her chin and looked at him: "Okay, I'm not stupid."

Fang Yueqi glared at him, too lazy to argue with this person.

Fang Yueqi sat on a stone bench at the edge of the pavilion, staring at the lake below in a daze.

Ling Ji leaned over, picked up some fish food and sprinkled it into the lake, immediately a school of golden fish rushed over from all around, causing ripples in the water of the pond.

"What are you thinking, young master?" Ling Ji asked.

With Master Fang's hard work, Mrs. Ling had already given up her attempt to arrange a marriage for Ling Ji, and she didn't know what method Master Fang used.Apart from silently thanking Master Fang in his heart, Ling Ji didn't express any more.

Now Zheng Mofang has really become the legitimate eldest lady in the Marquis of Shenwu's mansion, Madam Ling's imperial order has also been sealed, and gradually she can receive invitations from other noble ladies.Mrs. Ling often took Zheng Mofang out for visits, made friends with Miss Jingzhong, and also found a few good candidates for niece and son-in-law.

It's time for his young master to let go of that worry, why is he still so unhappy?

Fang Yuesheng looked up at him, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Xu Ruxin sent someone to send me an invitation card." After speaking, he took out a letter and handed it to Ling Ji.

Ling Ji frowned as expected.

Fang Yuesheng was hesitant to tell Ling Ji.Ling Ji is busy with political affairs every day, and he just sits and enjoys his achievements with nothing to do, so why bother Ling Ji with these personal matters?

It's just that he couldn't keep his words in his heart after all, and he didn't know how to deal with Xu Ruxin, his former friend, and he didn't want to hide anything from Ling Ji, so he finally confessed everything.

Ling Ji opened the letterhead and read it carefully, Xu Ruxin was earnest in the letter, kept apologizing, and talked about many things about the two people's friendship in the past, and finally begged Fang Yuesheng's forgiveness, hoping to restore the friendship between the two.

Ling Ji read more and more furiously, and the words on the letter gradually turned into green hats floating around maliciously in front of his eyes.

How can Marquis Shenwu tolerate it!

Ling Ji folded the letter paper with unchanged expression, pinched it in his hand, looked at Fang Yuesheng and said, "What do you think, young master?"

Fang Yuesheng bit his lip.It is impossible to say that there is no touch after reading the letter. After all, Xu Ruxin has been a close friend for so many years, and he has talked about so many old things in the letter. The details of the time came one by one, and I was deeply moved.Everything else can be pretended, but those things that happened many years ago must be really intentional to remember so clearly.

Ling Ji looked at Fang Yuesheng's hesitant face, jealousy gradually brewed in his dark eyes.

His voice became more and more gentle: "What is Sheng'er thinking, don't you want me to know?"

Fang Yuesheng sighed softly: "It's nothing important, I just remembered some old things. No matter what mood Xu Ruxin wrote this letter, whether his confession is true or false, these have nothing to do with me. Usually I have already seen clearly about the disaster of the Duke's Mansion, this person has a cold heart and is not worth making friends with."

Ling Ji became happy in an instant, and his gloomy eyes became clear and soft again. He took Fang Yuesheng's hand and put the letter in his palm.

"Sheng'er is right, this kind of villain is not worth your trouble. Just tear up this letter."

Fang Yuesheng looked at the thick stack of letter paper in his hand: "There are so many, it takes a lot of effort to tear it up, just take it back to the study and hand it to the boy to burn."

Ling Ji smiled and said, "What's the point of that? It's better to tear it up now."

Is it interesting to tear it up now?Fang Yuesheng gave Ling Ji a strange look, and gave half of it to him.

"Then you tear it up too."

Ling Ji pushed back seriously: "The young master is still to tear it up." After a pause, he emphasized again: "Young master tore it up with his own hands, and I will watch the young master tear it up."

Fang Yuesheng looked at him suspiciously, but he couldn't resist him in the end, and finally just sat on the edge of the pavilion and tore it up one by one.

"Young master tore it up really well, you're really smart." Ling Ji sat aside and watched, and praised gently.

Fang Yueqi and Lin Xuanying, who were drinking and chatting in the pavilion, were attracted by the movement of the two of them.

Fang Yueqi looked at Ling Ji's appearance, and touched his arm with aversion: "What is Ling Ji's expression?! What are you doing here?! What do you think of my little cousin? I'll go and see!"

After speaking, he stood up and walked over.

Lin Xuanying picked up a small dish with chopsticks and sat there contentedly. As expected, Fang Yueqi came back with a gloomy face after a while.

"It's unreasonable!" Fang Yueqi slapped the table, "Everyone says I'm meddling!"

Lin Xuanying laughed twice, looking like a god who sees through everything.Fang Yue couldn't get enough of the chess, seeing that Lin Xuanying was threatening food and wine, he piled up all the plates and jugs and took them away: "Eat, eat, eat, what to eat?!"

In the end Lin Xuanying had only a pair of chopsticks left in her hand, facing an empty stone table, she sucked the chopsticks innocently.

A few days later, Ling Ji and Lin Xuanying actually saw Xu Ruxin when they were in court.

It was still dark, and the officials' carriages and horses were parked outside the gate of the palace. They dismounted from here, and began to walk into the palace led by the servants.

Xu Ruxin got out of the car, wearing a neat court dress, tugging at the hem of the clothes.

Several people met on a narrow road, and stood outside the palace gate for a moment.

Xu Ruxin smiled, stretched out his hand as a gesture of please, and walked away first.

While waiting in the warm pavilions on both sides of the palace to go to court, they inevitably met again.

Lin Xuanying went to make friends with the boss of the Ministry of Industry, and other officials did not dare to greet Marquis Shenwu. At this time, there were only Lingji and Xu Ruxin.Ling Ji didn't take him seriously at all, and just sipped the teacup on the ground.

Xu Ruxin smiled indifferently, and sat down beside Ling Ji.

"Master Ling, is Yuesheng still used to living in your residence?" Xu Ruxin asked with a normal expression as if nothing had happened.

Ling Ji glanced at him indifferently, his black eyes were dark, unable to reveal a trace of emotion.

"none of your business."