Xiaolou listened to the wind and rain all night

In the early morning of the next day, the emperor summoned Shen Yiyang in the Imperial Study Room after he left court.

The emperor buried his head in the memorial, watching the memorial from the border.

"I will see my father." Shen Yiyang bowed and saluted.

"Exemption." The emperor closed the memorial and asked directly: "The person I saw last night is not the person I am looking for." But there was no emotion in the words.

"Father is wise! My son deceived the emperor and was willing to be punished." Shen Yiyang knelt down as he spoke, but there was no fear in his tone.

"Hmph, although I'm sick, I'm not old and dim-sighted. You really think I'm old and confused. He was like that 20 years ago. How can he still look like a boy 20 years later." The emperor said lightly, but he was not deceived. angry angry.

"I don't dare, my father is in the prime of life, wise and powerful. If I can find someone, I will spare no effort to find someone for my father. It's not that the fifth emperor didn't think of a way. It's not that he went to the south of the Yangtze River. He did find someone. Can't you find her? This person is dead, and I have no choice but to find her descendants." Shen Yiyang replied while kneeling, but her waist was straightened.

The emperor sighed: "Get up and answer."

"Thank you, father." Shen Yiyang stood up slowly.

Shen Yiyang said that Si Ren has passed away, so it is absolutely impossible to meet each other in this life.The emperor was a little lonely, and asked, "How many have you found?"

"Return to father, that person's name is Ding Ruo, from Jiangnan. She was originally a woman, but she disguised herself as a man when she met father. Six years ago, she was killed by thieves in Jiangnan. The person father met last night was her son. .”

"Ding Ruo." The emperor pondered: "If she is really a woman, no wonder she doesn't want fame and fortune."

They chatted all night, the emperor felt something different, but Ding Ruo talked loudly and passionately, and in the end the emperor didn't realize that she was a daughter.

"Last night, I promised that young man to give him an official position, but he didn't want to be an official. I gave him the badge of the Imperial City Secretary. Since you know him well, you should mention him a little more. I owe his mother a favor anyway." Fate. I understand that you are also filial in this matter, you brothers, you are the only one who knows what I want."

The emperor's words were a great affirmation, Shen Yiyang was very happy, and replied: "Father and emperor are serious, this is what I should do. This is the duty that I should do as a courtier. Only when you are happy, my son can feel at ease."

"Go down." The emperor waved his hand: "Sun An, send His Highness out."

Sun An shook his whisk and said in a high voice, "Your servant obeys the order."

As soon as he left the imperial study room, Sun An whispered to Shen Yiyang: "Congratulations, Your Highness."

Shen Yiyang pretended not to know, and asked, "Why did Eunuch Sun say that?"

Sun An smiled, and replied: "His Royal Highness is a smart person, so there is no need for a slave to say so."

Having said that, Shen Yiyang probably understood in his heart.

The news that His Highness was summoned soon reached Shen Yihan.He knew that this matter was not good, and he didn't know what Shen Yiyang gave his father.

Yan Yunyou was as usual, still very quiet, his going to the palace was not discovered at all.

The news that Shen Yiyang was summoned by the emperor and personally sent out by Sun An spread quickly.Sun An is the emperor's personal eunuch, and the courtiers are very clear about what this means.

The matter of seizing the heirloom is ready to go.

But at this time, the war in Beiyi was tense, and the Secretary of the Imperial City reported that there was a problem with the accounting books of the internal treasury, the treasury was empty, and the army's salary in the rear could not be supplied.The emperor, Longyan, was furious, and ordered Shen Yiyang and Shen Yihan to investigate the matter thoroughly, and the Ministry of Punishment was the assistant.

Zhou Yu was nervous, for fear that the missing list would suddenly appear.He wanted to find Yan Yunyou, but it was not easy to touch Shen Yihan's soft nails again, so he sent a message to his daughter to discuss.

Concubine Lan Gui didn't know until now that the man in Shen Yihan's residence was so important, she immediately sent someone to summon Shen Yihan into the palace, and Zhou Yu took the opportunity to send someone into the second prince's residence to arrest him.The movement should not be too loud, otherwise, if Yan Yunyou'an is charged with a crime and is arrested in the second prince's mansion, it will always be bad to spread the word.

For a dignified prime minister, it would be a loss of dignity to take someone in person.

The imperial city department is not under the control of the three offices, and is directly under the emperor. The promotion of the imperial city department Liu Zhi is notoriously difficult to talk about, and he doesn't even buy the account of the prime minister.Not only that, but he also has three thousand imperial guards in his hand.No one in the court dared to offend him.Zhou Yu didn't dare to order him, so he had to let the Ministry of Punishment take action.

When those people broke into the house, Yan Yunyou wrote with a pen as usual, and quietly raised her eyes to look at them, as if looking at nothingness, indifferently.

The visitor looked to be in his 40s with a beard.Followed by officials.It's not easy for this person to break into Shen Yihan's residence.Yan Yunyou didn't speak, just took a look.

Seeing Yan Yunyou's indifferent expression, the bearded man seemed to be indifferent.I don't know how the Second Highness met such a person, he cleared his throat and said, "You are Yan Yunyou?"

"Yes." Yan Yunyou put down his pen and asked, "What can you do?"

The man with the beard cleared his throat: "I am Chang Lu, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment. Please come with us."

"Oh?" Yan Yunyou raised his eyes: "I don't know what mistake I made, and I need to trouble the Minister of Criminal Justice to take the person himself?"

"You'll know when you get there. If you have anything to say, go to the Ministry of Punishments to talk about it!" Chang Lu said coldly, "Come on!"

It is really unreasonable for him to take people like this, Yan Yunyou paused, guessed seven points in his heart, and secretly said: It seems that Zhou Yu has no patience, what happened to force him to openly come to the second prince's mansion to take people Woolen cloth?

"I'd like to see who dares to touch him today!" A crisp voice came, followed by a pale yellow dress.This man's eyebrows are like distant black, his body is like a light willow, and the tassels on his slender waist are dangling with his footsteps.

Whether it was her words or her person, it was enough to make people in the room stare at her.

Hua Chang took a bowl of medicine and put it gently on the table. As soon as Yan Yunyou saw the medicine, she felt sick for no reason and couldn't help frowning.

The majesty of the Ministry of Punishment is still necessary, and Qi Neng was suppressed by a girl in the residence of the Second Highness.Chang Lu raised his voice and said, "Who are you? How dare you obstruct the Ministry of Criminal Justice from handling the case!"

Hua Chang did not show any weakness: "You are such a daring dog! How dare you come to the Second Highness's mansion to take someone! Are you tired of working?"

The servant of the Ministry of Punishment shrank his head when she yelled at him, and felt that he was too rude. Neither the second prince nor Prime Minister Zhou could be offended, so he took out his badge and said angrily, "The Ministry of Punishment is ordered to arrest people, and anyone who dares to obstruct them will be arrested! Come! Take this wild girl down for me!"

"Wait!" Yan Yunyou who had been quiet all this time suddenly said.He is a man anyway, and he must never stand behind a woman.He stood up, straightened his clothes, and said indifferently: "I'll go with you, there's no need to do anything."

"Master!" Hua Chang called out to him in embarrassment.She was able to stay by Shen Yihan's side, so she was naturally extremely intelligent, and in today's situation, she more or less knew the reason.Give the Ministry of Criminal Justice a lot of guts, and they wouldn't dare to make trouble in the Prince's Mansion.

Yan Yunyou gave her a comforting smile: "Don't be embarrassed, the Second Highness came back to say goodbye to him on my behalf." Then he turned to Chang Lu and said, "Let's go."

Hua Chang did not chase after him.Yan Yunyou has already reminded her with one sentence.Shen Yihan hasn't come back since he went out in the morning, and the Criminal Department wouldn't dare to come to arrest someone if he wasn't fully prepared.

The sun outside the Prince's Mansion was warm and comfortable, but it was also a bit dazzling.This is not the main street, but you can see many ordinary people. Yan Yunyou raised his hand to block the sun, and laughed at himself: "I never thought that the first time I went out of this door was to go to the Ministry of Punishment."

Chang Lu mentioned someone, and he was in a good mood.Before the end of a street, another group of people stood in front of him.Wearing black clothes and hair, he is actually a member of the Imperial City Division!

The emperor once issued a decree: the Imperial City Division follows the ancestral law and is not under the Taicha.Seven years ago, nearly ten thousand people were executed because of a major case detected by the Imperial City Division.After that incident, no one in the government and the public dared to confront the Secretary of the Imperial City, and tried not to provoke him.

The young man in the lead looked very clean. His name was Ye Mochu. He was the chief of the palace, in charge of the imperial army, and he was Liu Zhi's favorite student.The servant of the Ministry of punishment certainly recognizes it.

The Minister of Punishment worships the fourth grade, and the official in front of the palace worships the third grade.Therefore, it is reasonable to be polite, and there is no way to avoid this.

"Master Ye."

"Changshilang."

Chang Lu saw that Ye Mochu didn't seem to let him go at all, so he could only say: "I don't know how Master Ye has time to come to the street today."

Ye Mochu glanced back: "Do you think I have time like this?"

Behind him stood a group of people, standing neatly.

"To tell you the truth, Mr. Chang, today I am here to arrest someone from the Second Highness's residence." He tilted his head and pointed behind Chang Lu: "Unfortunately, Mr. Chang took the lead, and you were the one who caught him."

Yan Yunyou stood still, as if the matter had nothing to do with her.

"Ah, that's it." Chang Lu said with embarrassment: "But, I am also handling the case according to the order. I just mentioned someone, and I have to go back to deal with the matter."

"Oh." Ye Mochu elongated his voice, with a look of understanding, and then asked: "According to the order to handle the case? Dare to ask where the imperial order is?"

"This..." There is no imperial edict in Chang Lu's hand.

"No?" Ye Mochu smiled: "I don't know which piece of paper Chang Shilang served. Otherwise, let's go to the palace and ask the emperor's will together."

The Imperial City Secretary does not enter, and has always been at odds with all the officials. He is born to be the emperor's personal guard, and no one dares to provoke him.The supervisory assistant had a long-standing grievance with the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but it was the first time that he was blatantly right in such a way of robbing people on the street.

"No need." Chang Lu's teeth itched with hatred in his heart, this is not only a matter of one person, it is the face of the Ministry of Punishment!But it is really not legitimate to take people, how can it be put on the stage?

"It's all for the court, so leave it to Mr. Ye. I dare not bother the emperor with such a trivial matter."

Ye Mochu got someone, and said lightly: "It's easy for Chang Shilang to leave." Then he led the person away.

Chang Lu's face darkened, and he ordered to the people next to him: "Send someone to tell Xiang Ye that the Imperial City Secretary will intervene in this matter."