The return of the son-in-law

"My lords, how are you?" Li Chonghao sat high on the dragon chair, looked at the group of ministers below, and had a panoramic view of their expressions and reactions.

Li Shaojin folded his hands in front of his body, but did not speak.Guo Zhan'an did a good job in this matter, he didn't need to come forward to help Guo Zhan'an at this time, lest his father think that they intended to punish Shi Guokang, which would be unsightly.

Yue An was not in a hurry to speak, he was already in the position of Prime Minister, for example, when he was Minister of the Ministry of Officials, he had a lot of eyes on him.One hair will affect the whole body. Soon after Li Shaojun returned to the court, he tried to find a way to win some benefits for Li Shaojun and Guo Zhan'an.

Seeing that the courtiers below had their own plans, Li Chonghao sneered: "Why, don't you talk anymore?"

"Father!" Li Shaojin couldn't hold back anymore, stepped forward a few steps, and said, "This matter is just Guo Zhan'an's side story, father must not listen to slander!"

Li Chonghao looked at the face of his fourth son, who was somewhat similar to his concubine, and couldn't help but think of Liu Pianpian's little actions in the harem that were not on the table during this period of time, and also recalled that Li Shaojin and Liu Yuanheng recommended him back then, and moved out such things as "Xuzhou is located at the border, frequent changes of officials are not conducive to the peace of Xuzhou" and other reasons, he personally issued the order, and Shi Guogan was re-elected.

"Oh?" Li Chonghao laughed angrily, "Then our fourth prince's opinion is that the judge Guo Zhan'an deliberately fabricated this document, and bought many people to give false testimony?"

In the past, Li Shaojin's grandfather Liu Yuanheng was still there. Li Shaojin was reminded of everything by this old stick in the officialdom. He was used to relying on his grandfather, and he didn't grow much brains in the past few years, but Li Chonghao's words were revealing. Li Shaojin still felt the wave of impatience.

He felt a little regretful, he was too impatient, didn't see that Li Shaojun's faction hadn't spoken yet, why did he jump out first!

However, in the past few months, as more and more officials have been dismissed and investigated, there are fewer and fewer people from his faction in the court, not to mention the number of officials who are high enough to go to the early court.Li Shaojun and the others have already seized the opportunity, if he doesn't speak up sooner, he can only let Li Shaojun and the others decide!

Li Shaojin really said nothing right now, but his father, who had always loved him, but who had become more distant recently, was looking down at him from above, so he had no choice but to speak.

Li Shaojin gritted his teeth and said as calmly as possible: "Father and Emperor Mingjian, I just feel that it is inappropriate to just listen to Guo Zhan'an's one-sided words. Shi Guogan has been the governor of Xuzhou for five years. Tatar's harassment. There may be other reasons for this. Maybe, maybe Guo Zhan'an wanted to replace Shi Kokang! Father, don't forget that the post of Xuzhou General Judge originally favored others, but in the end But the father suddenly changed to Guo Zhanan, and please ask the father to be careful."

Li Shaojun sneered in his heart after hearing this.This Li Shaojin, I don't know if he has any brains, but he thought of pouring dirty water on him.

That's right, Guo Zhan'an was recommended by himself. As long as he is associated with Guo Zhan'an, then Li Chonghao will inevitably think more, such as whether he instructed Guo Zhan'an to make such a fuss, so as to get rid of Li Shaojin's influence in Xuzhou.

But Li Shaojin may not know that Xu Laowu, the husband of the deceased, used to be the clerk of the military camp near Xuzhou. He once doubted the military salary issued by the Ministry of War at that time. Tatar colluded, the only son died tragically, and Xu Laowu had to leave the barracks on his own initiative, and returned to Xuzhou to start a small business.

It wasn’t long before the case of Tatar bribing the imperial court officials passed. Guo Zhan’an had already sent someone to talk to him. This case is not so easy to understand, and he was counting on this case to stimulate Li Chonghao, so that Li Chonghao could investigate the matter of military pay!

That's right, Li Shaojun didn't intend to investigate it himself. The military salary issue was probably one of Li Chonghao's subordinates, so he had to send his confidants to investigate it himself.

Sure enough, after listening to Li Shaojin's defense, Li Chonghao turned his suspicious and angry eyes to Li Shaojun.

Li Shaojun was prepared for a long time ago, but he still pretended to be sincere and fearful, and came out and said: "Father, Guo Zhan'an is one-sided, but the fourth brother is also one-sided. Now Xuzhou's judge has informed the state that the people's hearts will not be stabilized if it spreads like this. I am afraid that there will be chaos in Xuzhou. My son begged my father to send someone over to take over this case. My father is wise, and the person I send over must be able to handle it impartially, so my fourth brother can rest assured."

Li Shaojin was so angry that he cursed in his heart, but on second thought, as long as Guo Zhan'an didn't get involved in this matter, he had been in Xuzhou for many years, so he couldn't believe that this matter could be resolved beautifully.

Li Chonghao was really moved: "I went to the Northwest to practice for a period of time, and I have indeed grown a lot. This matter is settled like this, but I hope that everyone will accept those thoughts and stop making troubles of sending people to chase after you." Here comes the joke."

These words are clearly warning Li Shaojin to be a man with his tail between his legs, don't be like Liu Wenhua, who failed to hunt him down, instead he was sentenced to jail, and is still being tortured in the prison.

However, Li Shaojin rested his mind, but he didn't expect Shi Guogan to be so daring that he would find someone to kill Guo Zhanan on his own initiative.

It turned out that although the generals among Li Shaojin's private soldiers had a good personal relationship with Shi Guokang, they knew that they had a special status and must not expose it.Then Guo Zhan'an has the ability to do such a thing, is he not prepared?

At this juncture, it is absolutely impossible for them to make a move.

As a result, Shi Guogan waited until the seventh day, and he still looked in a good mood when he saw Guo Zhanan working in the government office.

This is how Shi Guogan accepts it!

He has been the magistrate of Xuzhou for five years, and he has monopolized all the power. It is no exaggeration to say that he can overwhelm the sky in Xuzhou.

But now?Leaving aside anything else, the entire government office is about to be reorganized by Guo Zhanan!His confidants were all dismissed by Guo Zhan'an with various reasons, or thrown into prison, and replaced by those who were not reused.These people knew that they had no future under him, and Guo Zhan'an promoted them, so they were completely devoted to Guo Zhan'an and obeyed.

Shi Guogan didn't want to sit still, especially when he overheard someone talking about this matter, and knew that Guo Zhan'an had reported this matter to the emperor in Beijing, so he became even more restless.

If the emperor believed Guo Zhanan's words, then his time of death was coming!

Therefore, Shi Guogan hurriedly asked someone to find his subordinates who killed Xu Laowu's wife - they had been hiding before, because as long as Guo Zhanan couldn't find them, there would be no direct evidence to prove that Xu Laowu's wife was killed by him - Let them find a chance to kill Guo Zhan'an.At that time, Li Shaojin will still be in the capital, so he can escape this catastrophe as long as he fabricates a legitimate reason.

Shi Guogan thought about what to do if they were exposed, but right now he is no longer available.After Wang Jiusan was caught in the prison, there was no news. The two confidantes who delivered the letter did not know if they came back. In short, he did not see them, and the original confidantes in the government office were also obstructed by Guo Zhanan, so he could not get in touch with them at all.

In the end, Shi Guogan bought a fireman in the kitchen of the government office and asked him to send a letter to a place. The letter was written with a secret code agreed between him and his subordinates. Even if someone found out, they would not understand it. .

Ever since Shi Guogan was imprisoned in Fuya Zhizhou in a disguised form, many people followed Guo Zhanan. Jiang Yannian specially sent three soldiers with extraordinary skills in plain clothes to follow behind Guo Zhanan on weekdays. not leave.And Wu Xin, because Huo Yu had experienced Liu Wenhua's incident last time, he was extremely sensitive about it, so he wanted Wu Xin and another guard to follow Guo Zhan'an.

Now the Guo Mansion is a lot more lively. After rounds of screening, Huo Yu and Jia Huan finally selected a lot of servants and helpers. It also let Huo Yu and Jia Huan relax a lot.

Before, because there were too few people in the Guo Mansion, Jia Huan, the manager, had to do many things in person. Huo Yu also had to roll up his sleeves to water the flowers and sweep the floor, and even secretly washed Guo Zhanan's clothes.For this reason, his homework dropped a lot.Now he is finally relieved, he has to hurry up to make up for the missed homework.

Guo Zhan'an has been very busy these days, and he didn't come back to stay for several nights. When he came back occasionally, he looked tired, and he knew he didn't have a good rest.

Huo Yu understood that now was the most important moment, so he didn't dare to persuade Guo Zhan'an too much, he could only ask the cook to cook more soup for his body and send it to Guo Zhan'an to drink.

It was the first time Guo Zhan'an saw Huo Yu bringing soup, so he raised his eyebrows and said, "Did you finish your homework?"

Huo Yu was a little embarrassed, and said with a blushing face, "Not yet, but it's almost over. When brother finishes his work, brother will come to check it himself."

"Why are you so nervous, your face is blushing." Guo Zhan'an almost only slept for more than an hour a day these days.Now that he saw Huo Yu coming, he felt a lot more relaxed, and couldn't help reaching out to pinch Huo Yu's cheek, and said, "Treat your brother as a sick beauty? Thinking about bringing soup."

Huo Yu had a serious expression on his face, and said, "Brother, take precautions, this is what my brother told me. Now my brother is busy in the government office every day, and all the big and small affairs of Xuzhou are handled by you alone. body, what if my brother falls down again? It’s better to drink soup than medicine, don’t you think, brother?”

Guo Zhanan laughed loudly after hearing this: "Okay, you can teach me a lesson, it seems that you have come out of the mountain."

Now it's Huo Yu's turn to be embarrassed: "Brother is making fun of me, I'm still too early to leave the mountain. Brother, after this busy period, you have to check my homework, I'm still waiting to listen to my brother's teachings .”

Guo Zhan'an looked at the fragrant but not greasy soup, and heard Huo Yu's uneasy words, he felt that his stepbrother was really a pain in the ass, and said softly, "Don't worry, brother will teach you well."

Huo Yu raised his head to look at Guo Zhan'an, and fell into Guo Zhan'an's smiling eyes.

Perhaps it was because he had read too many scripts, Huo Yu was always worried that someone would poison the soup, so he asked Fuquan to supervise him every time, and he carried it with his own hands.But after going back and forth, watching Guo Zhanan drink soup in the middle, it took a lot of time that should have been spent on homework.

Fortunately, Guo Zhanan was not in the mansion these days, so no one dared to speak of him. Huo Yu simply read in the study until late at night, and then fell asleep on the couch in the study.

On this day, Huo Yu was in a daze and was about to fall asleep when he suddenly heard a noise from outside.

"Jia Huan?" Huo Yu thought it was Jia Huan again, because Jia Huan couldn't persuade Huo Yu these two days, so he could only come to the study every night to check whether Huo Yu was honestly covered with the quilt.

But Huo Yu quickly realized that it was definitely not Jia Huan outside, because the noise was the footsteps of several people!

Huo Yu wanted Guo Zhan'an to sleep at home with peace of mind, so he set the rules from the very beginning, and it was absolutely impossible for Guo Zhanan's servants to walk outside.

Who would that be?

After all, Huo Yu was born in a bandit village, so he was surprisingly courageous. He dared to block the sword with his arm, but this time he put on his clothes, took out the knife hanging by the side, and went to check the situation alone.

He carefully opened a slit and looked outside, only to see a few black shadows flashing by, and then a faint voice came: "There is no one here, let's go over there to look for it."

Huo Yu was startled, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and they were actually walking towards the study room!

Holding the knife tightly, he pressed against the wall and hid behind the door.The men in black gave up on Huo Yu's study, and started to search from Guo Zhan'an's next door.

Huo Yu knew that there were many things in Guo Zhanan's study, some of which even he was not allowed to touch.Wouldn't it be bad if these things were taken away by these men in black?

Thinking of this, Huo Yu didn't care about anything else. He hung the knife on his waist, picked up the gong at the side, and rushed out. While beating the gong vigorously, he shouted loudly, "Come here! Catch the thief!" Catch the thief!"

Hearing the voice, the men in black reacted first, and two of them immediately rushed towards Huo Yu, and with their swords raised, they slashed at him, obviously intending to kill him!

Relying on his small size and nimbleness, Huo Yu beat the gong while dodging up and down, narrowly avoiding fatal blows from the man in black several times.

It's just that in the dark night, Huo Yu didn't run for long before he was knocked down by a stone.He threw himself on the ground, his hands and cheeks were scratched by stones, and the gong rolled aside and rolled into the grass.

The two men in black took the opportunity to catch up, raised their swords and slashed.Huo Yu quickly drew his knife to block it, and kicked one of the men in black on the knee, while he slid a certain distance on the ground with his own strength.Although his back was scorched by the stones, Huo Yu didn't dare to delay any longer, he gritted his teeth and stood up from the ground.

Already he could hear another set of footsteps in the distance, and the shouts of the guards on tonight's night watch.Huo Yu cheered up, took a deep breath, and tried to find a way to delay the time as much as possible, and wait for the support.

But after all, he was single and weak, and the opponents were two tall adults. After a while, Huo Yu was defeated and received a sword on his thigh first.

Huo Yu was in pain, and his lower body became unstable. The man in black took the opportunity to kick Huo Yu in the heart, kicking him away, then chased after him and stabbed Huo Yu's vital parts.Huo Yu fell to the ground, lost the opportunity, and was forced to raise his saber to block the opponent's attack.

Fortunately, at this time, the night guards had already rushed over with lanterns.Later, more servants who were sleeping came over with shovels, sticks, clothes anvils, and even embroidery cages!

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the man in black made a last stab at Huo Yu, and immediately retreated.

"Second Young Master!" Seeing that Huo Yu was bleeding from several wounds, Jia Huan made a quick decision, tore off the cloth to bind up these wounds, and asked people to invite a doctor immediately, the more the better, the sooner the better!

Huo Yu held on to his breath, held Jia Huan tightly, and said with wide eyes, "No, don't, tell me, brother... brother..."