Assisting the male partner, he took the female lead route

?? Maoshi the next day, morning.

?? After nearly two months, Guan Lin finally stood in the Golden Palace again.

?? His expression was as indifferent as usual, and he only responded politely and distantly to other people's greetings.Only when he exchanged greetings with Duke Zhen, he specially raised the corners of his lips to make his expression softer.

??For some reason, when facing Lu Yu's father, he always felt a little guilty, so he couldn't help talking too much.

??The Duke of Zhen was a little strange, worried: "Why is the corner of Master Guan's mouth twitching? If it wasn't for this disease, what... sequelae? I know a doctor who specializes in treating facial diseases. If Guan Xiang needs it, I will send someone to invite you to Xiangfu today."

??Guan Lin: "...No problem, thank you for your concern."

?? Guan Xiang resolutely gave up his "soft" expression.

?? Zhang Fu's "Holy Majesty arrives" immediately quieted down the courtiers in the Golden Palace.With the support of Zhang Fu, Emperor Yuankang walked slowly and sat on the dragon chair on the steps.

?? He looked up and saw Guan Lin, asked a few questions about Guan Lin's body, and finally said with emotion: "Guan Qing is not here for a day, it really makes me feel like three autumns away."

?? "Thanks to Your Majesty's love." Guan Lin said lightly.

??If others are praised, they may still worry about whether Emperor Yuan Kang is flattering him or not, but Guan Lin has always been like this, and Emperor Yuan Kang likes his appearance the most. He knows that even if he is praised, he will never Don't be impetuous, just do what you should do in a down-to-earth manner.

??Yuan Kangdi greeted a few old officials who were not in good health. After learning that everyone was in good health, he was in a happy mood for a while, and continued to listen to the performance of the courtiers.

?? Guan Lin was at the end. When Emperor Yuan Kang looked over with a smile, Guan Lin was suddenly stunned, as if he had seen Emperor Yuan Kang smiling like this during the palace examination five years ago, pointing at him and saying, this is the number one scholar I want .

??He took a deep breath and bowed deeply to Emperor Yuankang.

??Yuan Kangdi was taken aback for a moment. When he played in the early court, he obviously didn't need a big gift.

?? Then, Guan Lin paused word by word:

?? "Please, re-investigate the Jiangzhou corruption case."

?? There was an uproar in the Golden Palace, and Emperor Yuankang's face suddenly darkened.

"Guan Qing," he said in a deep voice, "but the two-month period didn't wake you up?"

?? His voice was stern, but Guan Lin was unmoved: "Your Majesty, please take a look at this thing."

?? He took out an old envelope from his pocket, and there was a word "Meng" on that letter.

??Zhang Fu took the things over and handed them to Emperor Yuankang. Emperor Yuankang opened them coldly, only to find a yellowed memorial and a letter with a blood seal on the end.

??The letter seems to have been written recently, but the memorial is obviously from that year.

?? After a long time, Emperor Yuankang looked at the two things over and over again. In the end, he slowly put away the things, his eyebrows furrowed deeply, and his expression was deep:

?? "Where is the blessing badge?"

??The courtiers were startled. Emperor Yuankang's appearance was clearly aroused.

?? And the congratulatory badge he was talking about was clearly the Prime Minister of the Central Committee and the Left who had returned home five years ago!

?? Guan Lin, who was kneeling on the ground, had a long look. For a moment, his thoughts drifted back to several months ago.

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??It was not spring at that time, and the Jiangnan governor's case had just begun to be investigated. When he returned home one day, he happened to pass by a family that looked quite wealthy.

?? Outside the house of that family, a couple with a child shrank and knelt on the ground.It was mid-February, and it had snowed earlier, but their clothes were ragged and thin, and their hands and feet were dirty.

??Guan Lin asked someone to stop, went to the roadside tea shop to buy hot soup for the family of three, and asked why they were kneeling here.

?? The leading man said that they were originally from the south of the Yangtze River, but there was a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River in the past two years.Unexpectedly, my cousin has developed a lot in the capital in the past two years, so he looked down on them, and sent them away with only two hard pancakes.

?? But after running around for days, their only daughter caught wind and cold, and her body was getting weaker and weaker.

?? This couple has not had a child for many years. This girl was adopted by human traffickers five years ago. It is their only expectation. They originally wanted to ask their cousin to help cure their daughter. The door wouldn't let them in, so they could only kneel here and beg bitterly.

??Guan Lin was listening to the Jiangnan accent that he hadn't seen for a long time, and his expression was a little dazed. He looked at the little child who was being held by his wife. He was as thin and small as a little monkey, and there was a red plum blossom-shaped one-inch-sized red plum blossom on his forehead. birthmark.

?? He couldn't help but think that he, who was taken by his father from Jiangnan to Jiangzhou, seemed to be just that old.

??So he sent someone to take this family to the Prime Minister's Mansion, let them live and work in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and received the same monthly money as others, and also hired a doctor who specializes in treating children to treat the little girl.Only then did the couple realize that the young man in front of them was actually the Prime Minister, and they were immediately grateful and diligent in doing things, and quickly became friends with all the servants in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

??The couple's description of Jiangnan's situation made Guan Lin suspicious of Fan Zhengchu all the time.According to Fan Zhengchu, the people in the south of the Yangtze River live and work in peace and contentment. Even though there has been a severe drought in the past two years, the government opened warehouses to release grain, and the people worked diligently, they still lived well.

??But according to the couple, the Jiangnan officials have not done anything for several years, the people have been displaced, some people are even eating in exchange for food, and some refugees are gathering their hands. It seems that turmoil will break out soon.

?? Empty words are nothing but the words of two refugees, they cannot be used as evidence, and the second prince and his party are trying their best to protect Fan Zhengchu, officials and officials are protecting each other, all the evidence is being covered up as much as possible.On the day Guan Lin was directed by the emperor to go to the Hongwen Palace, he received a letter, and along with the envelope was a plum blossom that had just bloomed.

?? There is no word in the letter, only a small seal on the reverse side, which is a word "wish".

??It is impossible for such fresh plum blossoms to come from afar, and the suburbs of Beijing are mountainous, and there are often cold plum blossoms on the mountains, so the flower sender may be in the mountains.

??Guan Lin went to the mountains on the outskirts of Beijing to search twice, but returned without success. Finally, on the third time, he found a mountain hut.The fence outside the house was simple, and there were two or three fields. A hunched figure was weeding in the yard. Although his beard and hair were white, Guan Lin still recognized the man in the yard—he was the great Yin Zuoxiang back then, Zhu Zhang.

?? When Zhu Zhang resigned, he was over seventy years old. He was old, so it was understandable to resign at this time, but Guan Lin always felt that he might have something to hide.

?? Otherwise, why did Zhu Zhang leave in such a hurry back then? The person who read his exam papers in Chunwei and carried him personally did not leave a word when he left.

??Guan Lin knocked on the courtyard door, with a respectful expression, as if he was still the somewhat immature number one scholar back then: "My lord."

??Zhu Zhang trembled all over. He picked up a piece of weed with his thin hands, put it aside, and went to the bucket to clean his hands before turning around.

??Guan Lin thought that he was living in seclusion in the mountains, living a poor but leisurely life, but when Zhu Zhang turned around, he found that the old man was so thin that he seemed to have only a skeleton left. It was dim, and there were old scars left by large burns on the face, and the whole person exuded the breath of dying.

?? "Master Guan," Zhu Zhang sighed deeply, "The grass people finally waited for you."

??Zhu Zhang invited him to the house, and he didn't even exchange pleasantries, so he just talked straight when he came up.The urgency seemed not to tell the past, but to tell a nightmare that had haunted my heart for many years.

?? At that time, although Zhu Zhang was in his sixtieth year, he was in good health and spirited. It would not be a problem to resign after the old age.

??And his relatives are all in Beijing, his children have already married and established businesses, his children and grandchildren are around his knees, and the four generations live together. It is very lively. He also has the idea of ​​spending his life in Beijing. On the way to Zhengshitang, he was stopped by the second prince.

??He still can't forget that the seemingly elegant and easy-going Second Highness's words are vicious every word.The second prince smiled and assured him that if he was willing to obey his orders and retire after the matter was completed, his family would be safe and sound; but if he refused, then his relatives would not be spared.

??At that time, his second son happened to fall into the water, and he has been recuperating at home recently. It was the second prince who said it. Only then did Zhu Zhang know that his second son's fall into the water was caused by human beings. The second son would not even be seen and saved by passers-by, he would have died long ago.

??He broke out in a cold sweat, but the second prince's actions were too outrageous. If he agreed, it would be almost equivalent to falling into party disputes or even conspiracy.He told the second prince that he was going to think about it, but the day after he thought about it, his great-granddaughter who was still a toddler was abducted on the crowded street, and she could not be found anywhere in Beijing.

?? He broke down for a while and agreed to be the envoy of the second prince.He privately suppressed the innocence statement that Meng Shiqiu had handed over to the capital, and suppressed the petitions from the magistrates, counties, and even the people in Jiangzhou, and then, as a good minister and good minister, he asked the emperor to punish Meng Shiqiu for his crimes.

?? But he clearly knew, how could Meng Shiqiu be corrupt?The box of treasures in Meng's house was originally an ancient agricultural book that Meng Shiqiu found in order to study and improve crops so that the people could harvest more, but they were replaced secretly.

??So Meng Shiqiu became the indirect murderer who led to the defeat of Lujiang, and also became the scapegoat for those real corrupt officials. Zhuzhang I was innocent, and it was all destroyed in the incident in his later years. It was at this time that he suddenly got He knew that his great-granddaughter was not kidnapped by the second prince, but was really abducted by human traffickers.

??After this incident, Zhuzhang was devastated. He felt that he was not worthy to be a courtier anymore. Regardless of his family's doubts and opposition, he insisted on going his own way to retire, and moved his family south to his hometown.It's just that when they were resting at a post station outside the capital city, the post station caught fire that night, and Zhu Zhang's family members all died in the fire. It's ridiculous that only the oldest one survived.Only then did he realize that the second prince never wanted to let him go back.

?? "I know I'm guilty... But why did my wife and children create such a disaster because of my fault?" Zhu Zhang burst into tears, "But I can't go back to the capital... let alone see His Majesty."

"After that fire, I was seriously ill. I was able to get out of bed and walk recently, and I heard about the things in Beijing, so I gave you a token. All the crimes were caused by my momentary unconsciousness... It's just... "

?? His throat moved slightly: "If Master Guan sees a female doll with a plum blossom birthmark on her forehead in the future, please don't implicate her because of the grassroots fault."

?? Guan Lin's expression moved slightly.

?? He was silent for a while, and did not tell Zhu Zhang about the girl in the house.

??Zhu Zhang's family members are family members, so the family members of other people implicated by his mistake are not considered human beings?The Meng family, the Zhen Guo government, and the tens of thousands of soldiers who died in northern Xinjiang, didn't their families feel sad?

?? It is true that Zhuzhang was not the one who initiated the crime, but the one who is the accomplice of the tiger is also unforgivable.

??But before leaving the small courtyard, he looked at the old man's skeleton figure, and suddenly thought of Meng Shiqiu, who was hunched over in the field looking at the crops back then.

??Meng Shiqiu smiled and said to him, we are a family.

??Family, whether it is for him or Zhuzhang... are the most important and irreparable existence.

??So Guan Lin stopped at the door, and he whispered something, if he saw that child, he would treat her kindly.After all, He Gu is the youngest son.

??He didn't look back, he only knew that he should have heard the blessing and thanked him, and then there was a "plop".

?? Guan Lin turned his head suddenly, but there was no one in the courtyard, only the well water sloshing.

"Guan Qing, where is the blessing!" Yuan Kangdi's angry shout brought Guan Lin back to his senses, "I want to punish him for his crimes! Kill his nine clans!"

?? "Your Majesty," Guan Lin replied, "Zhu Zhang knew that he was ashamed of His Majesty, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into a well when I left. Before that, all his relatives died and his nine clans were separated. Please also ask Your Majesty to investigate other issues of the year, such as Why is he loyal and good all his life, but in his later years he will not discern his innocence, and stop the memorial of the prefect of Meng regardless of his reputation."

??Guan Lin's gaze lightly swept over the second prince who had been bowing his head beside him: "Did he do it voluntarily, or was he coerced by others?"

?? Emperor Yuan Kang slapped the armrest of the dragon chair hard. He couldn't bear such a big mood swing, so he coughed a few times. Zhang Fu tremblingly wanted to help him, but he waved him away: "Check! Here you go!" Check it out carefully! Who was it that framed my loyal ministers back then!"

?? "Found it," Emperor Yuankang said angrily, "I will punish his nine clans!"

?? "Guan Qing, you must avoid suspicion on this matter... But I promise you, I will definitely seek justice for Meng Shiqiu!"

?? Guan Lin bowed deeply: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

?? "And Lu Qing..." Emperor Yuankang turned his eyes to Lord Zhen Guo, but was speechless for a while.

?? After all, he has treated this Zhongliang family badly from the very beginning.

?? Zhen Guogong was clear in his heart, and immediately knelt down and said: "The matter of Lujiang, the old minister depends on His Majesty's decision."

Emperor Yuankang took a deep breath: "Don't worry, Lu Qing... I will not treat loyal ministers badly, nor will I let anyone who has ulterior motives go unnoticed."

?? "I am old, but I am still here."

?? Emperor Yuankang's voice was hoarse, but in the golden palace, the second prince's body was already a little stiff.

?? At the same time, three hundred miles away from the capital.

?? Lu Yu fed a piece of bean cake to Wu Ti, and patted the horse's head.Wu Ti exhaled lightly from his nostrils, and rubbed his hand affectionately.

?? He tied the horses together with the pedestrians in the forest, and changed the night clothes that were a bit too obvious during the day, revealing the coarse cloth clothes that ordinary people were wearing inside.

??In the dense forest not far away, a small Zhuangzi loomed—that was the place the Fan Manor carriage was driving to.

??The author has something to say: Interviewer Ah Jiu: Mr. Lu, what do you think about the fact that everyone in the comment section is calling your wife but no one misses you?

?? Lu Yu: I also miss my wife very much. I heard that I won’t see him until the next chapter. Do you know what it means to not see each other every day? It’s been two days since I’ve seen him. It’s been six years How will you pay for this autumn...

??Interviewer Ajiu: Security!security guard!Please cross him out, I suspect he was infected by Tan Zile's tuberculosis.

?? At this moment, His Royal Highness the Sixth Highness who was far away in the palace sneezed three times in a row, thinking that someone was thinking about him, so he was much happier and ate two bowls of rice.