Dressed as Su Peisheng

Kangxi 48 years

June 23, Changchun Garden

It was almost evening, the prince and elder brother who were kneeling in the back hall, and the little eunuchs were guarding the door. Seeing that the sky was getting darker, none of them dared to enter the hall to hold the lamp.

Prince Cheng knelt in front of the elder brothers, and there were a few memorials presented by the Ministry of Internal Affairs scattered beside his knees.

The words "greedy officials" and "blackmail is true" were circled by Zhu Pian, and the names of the people behind them were heavily crossed out.

"Ninth Brother--" Elder Brother Yin, who was kneeling behind Prince Cheng, stabbed Elder Brother Nine beside him impatiently. They had been kneeling for almost an hour. But Ma still didn't send any order, and his heart gradually panicked.

"Be patient a little longer," Brother Nine lowered his voice and said, "When Ama Huang calms down, let's go kowtow to plead guilty. After all, this matter is related to the face of the royal family. Although Ama Huang is angry, she will never be true The blame for that is on us."

"Hmph," the third elder brother who was kneeling in the front row sneered, "Ninth Brother's plan is really simple, but I don't know whether this game is not open to God, or some people with ulterior motives deliberately set it up. trap!"

Ninth elder brother raised his eyebrows, and looked at third elder brother with sharp eyes, "Yinyu didn't understand what third elder brother meant. At the beginning, when the slaves joined forces in twos and threes, third elder brother knew about it. The silver ticket that was bought back , the third brother also put it in his pocket without saying a word. Although the incident happened now, Huang Ama was furious. But we all share the blessings and share the difficulties. Where did this trap come from? come?"

"Share the blessings, share the troubles?" The third elder brother turned his head, with a playful expression, "Did the ninth brother treat the third brother as a fool? From what I can see, there is one less person in the back hall, right?" ?”

The ninth elder brother frowned, but the third elder brother continued, "But it's true, people hide behind the scenes, they don't show the mountains and don't reveal the water, and they have to do everything for themselves. This kind of thing makes Huang Ama hate it, and it's embarrassing to the court. Naturally, people would hide away from them. It’s just that we, who are kneeling in the back hall today, are pitiful. We have become someone’s raft for no reason and ruined our own future. It’s really stupid. "

As soon as the third elder brother finished speaking, the fifteenth elder brother and the sixteenth elder brother all looked over.Only the fourteenth elder brother bowed his head and knelt respectfully, his expression hidden in the shadows, making it impossible to see any emotions.

"Nonsense, this is just third brother's guesswork out of thin air!" Sensing the suspicious gazes of Yinxi and Yinlu, Brother Jiu was inexplicably flustered.

"Do you guess that you know it in your heart?" The third elder brother turned his head and knelt upright, with strong doubts in his tone, "I don't believe that Xifuna himself has the courage to sue. Anyway, now that the fourth brother is imprisoned, we have I lost all face in front of Huang Ama. Anyone with one eye can tell who is the most proud and who has made the most profit!"

The fifteenth elder brother and the sixteenth elder brother looked at each other, their expressions already quite annoyed.Brother Nine wanted to explain, but when he saw the expressions of the younger brothers, he thought for a while and held back.

At night, Enze Garden

The servant led Arson into the eighth elder brother's study, and both parties took their seats after greeting each other.

"Brother, did you find out who was behind Shifuna's instigation?" Brother Eight asked while making tea for Alsunah.

"Not yet," Arsunah sighed, "However, Shifona did come into contact with strangers, but the other party was very careful. We asked many ways, but we couldn't find out who it was."

"Could it be from the fourth brother's side?" Eighth elder brother took the hot tea carefully handed over by Feng Jinchao.

"It doesn't look like it," Arsona also took the tea bowl, "Our people have been staring at Prince Yong's mansion. Now that Prince Yong is imprisoned, and he is still in danger, how can he have the time to work hard on Xifuna. Now, the Ministry of Justice The investigation into the old corruption case of Shifana has already started, and once it is found out, it will be a crime of losing your head! It is not an easy task to persuade Shifana to surrender."

"No matter how difficult it is, that man has done it." The eighth elder brother loosened his hand, and the tea lid fell on the tea bowl, making a crisp sound, "How are Lao Jiu and the others? It's already this hour, Huang Ama should Have you calmed down?"

"The emperor is really angry today," Arsuna sipped his hot tea and said, "When I first came, I heard that Brother Nine and the others have been kneeling for more than two hours, and the emperor still has no intention of forgiving."

Midnight, Caixia Garden

At the side door of the garden, elder brother Jiu was helped out of the carriage. The housekeeper of the garden saw that elder brother Jiu couldn't stand still, so he hurriedly asked for the imperial physician.

"No need, there is no need to ask the imperial doctor," Brother Jiu waved back the servant, and helped the butler to get on the soft sedan chair carried by the servants, "Don't spread the news about my master's injury! If anyone talks too much, I will turn around and let people know." Cut out his tongue!"

"Yes!" The servants leaned over to obey the order, and lifted Brother Jiu to go in.

Just at this time, a carriage galloped over, the groom tightened the reins, and barely stopped at the gate of Caixia Garden.

"Master! Master!" Before the guards stepped forward to question him, Mi Renxue, the second shopkeeper of Tianhe Company, had already scrambled off the carriage, ignoring other people's obstruction, and threw himself at Brother Jiu's feet with disheveled hair, "Master, it's not good ,problem occurs!"

"What's the matter? Talk calmly!" Brother Jiu frowned, his knees hurt badly, and his heart was quite irritable. At this moment, could something worse happen?

"Back to the master, it's our family's business name," Mi Renxue wiped the sweat off his face, and took a breath of composure, "Someone set fire to our family's Tianhe business name!"

"What?" Brother Nine stood up in shock, his knees suddenly hurt, his whole body shook three times, and he passed out on the spot.

early morning, suburb of beijing

Yang Tai stood disheartened in front of a ruined building. This was the warehouse of Tianhe Company. It was in a remote location, and there were only farmhouses far away.

When the guys watching the warehouse were drowsy, a group of thieves were sent to the neighborhood without a sound.When the surrounding farmers discovered that the fire was on fire, the fire was beyond rescue, and the soaring flames dyed half of the night sky red.

The warehouse is full of priceless cloth, satin, spices and tea. Even though a few guys tried their best to rescue them, it was just a drop in the bucket in the end. Tianhe Company's harvest of this year has now been wiped out.

"Shopkeeper, I've been busy all night, let's go and have a rest." The clerk in Beijing helped Yang Tai aside, "The second shopkeeper has already gone to inform the master, no matter who did it, I must call him this time." I can't eat and walk around!"

"I know who did it," Yang Tai said with deep eyes, "except him, who in this capital has such courage?"

"What the shopkeeper said is—" the man asked curiously.

"Su Dacaidong of Jishengtang," Yang Tai sneered, "Prince Yong is in danger now, but fortunately he still has the guts to do anything wrong! Well, if you dare to break ground on Taisui, I'd like to see him. How much is there now!"

Prince Yong's Mansion, East Courtyard

"This is really reincarnation, retribution is not good," Su Wei sat on the couch in the study, listening to Fu Nai report the news from the outside, "I just said that Long Live Lord is still a little soft-hearted, how can such a big matter of blackmailing courtiers be done?" Just kneel for two or three hours."

The fourth elder brother pinched the center of his brows speechlessly, and waved Fu Nai back, "Xifona's matter sounds serious, but in fact it won't cause much trouble. Huang Ama won't let the royal family's face be damaged."

"Cut," Su Wei turned his head away in disdain, "the courtiers are not all fools, people with discerning eyes have already seen what's going on. Anyway, they have lost all their face now."

The fourth elder brother chuckled, picked up a fruit from the table and threw it to Su Wei.

"It's not ripe yet." Grandpa Su took a bite, wrinkled his nose in disgust, "I'll bring you some good fruit when I go out."

"Let's go out again," the fourth elder brother opened the book, with a very helpless tone, "Now we can't go out, so you can stay by my side obediently."

"Who says you can't go out?" Su Wei cocked his eyebrows proudly, "Just wait, someone will invite my father-in-law out."

West Hospital

Niu Hulu really watched Shiyue drink medicine every day, but fortunately there were not many other things in the mansion, and the medicinal materials were indeed enough.

"Physician Cheng's medicine is also useful." Seeing Shiyue put down the medicine bowl, Niu Hulu hurriedly picked up a candied fruit and handed it to her, "I see that my sister's complexion has improved a lot, but it's a pity that it's not convenient for Physician Cheng to come in now, otherwise you should Give my sister a pulse."

"I'm not so delicate, it's not really a serious illness." Shiyue put the candied fruit into her mouth, with a hint of worry in her eyes, "Now the prince is imprisoned, Fujin is also ill, we'd better be safe. "

"Oh," Niu Hulu sighed, and pulled his handkerchief with one hand, "I don't know when the Long Live Lord will be able to relieve the confinement of the prince. We have been confined in the mansion for less than a month. Everything started to be perfunctory. I am not blessed, so I stay in a daze wherever I stay, but Hongpan is still young, if he enters the palace in the future, I don't want him to be laughed at."

"Don't worry," Shiyue patted Niu Hulu's hand comfortingly, "The prince will definitely find a way, the children of our palace are the most blessed."

"My lord," while the two were talking, Xu'er lifted the curtain and entered.

"What happened?" Seeing that Xu'er was a little nervous, Shiyue hesitated.

"Back to my lord," Xu'er pursed her lips, lowered her head and said, "I just heard that people from Shuntian Mansion came to our house and took away Eunuch Su."

East courtyard

Standing in the center of the room with his head bowed, Ku Kui told the fourth elder brother the conflict between Tianhe Company and Jishengtang in detail, including the amazing decision Su Wei made not long ago to burn Tianhe Company.

The fourth elder brother leaned back on the teacher's chair, his face was still a little pale, after listening to Ku Kui's words, he was silent for a while before saying, "Prepare the pen and paper for the master, and the master will fold it for Huang Ama."

"My lord," Fu Nai frowned and hesitated for a moment before saying, "The matter of Xifuna has not been resolved, and even Prince Cheng has been blamed by Long Live Lord. This is really not a good time to recover. Subordinate Seeing that Eunuch Su is very confident, the new governor of Shuntian Prefecture is not a fool who only wants to follow suit, maybe, Eunuch Su can really get out of the way."

"Maybe?" The fourth elder brother pressed the center of his brows with one hand, and a wry smile appeared from the corner of his mouth, "I can't stand that little possibility. This man's courage is about to break the sky. If you don't care about it, he won't take it." Shuntian Mansion is in a state of turmoil? Besides—"

The fourth elder brother put down his hands, his eyes gradually became sharper, "Who said that now is not a good time to recover?"

Shuntian government office

Tu Yi just took over as Governor of Shuntian Prefecture. The former Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, Shi Shilun, was transferred to be the Governor of Water Transport, which was highly valued by the emperor.

Tu Yi knew that he didn't have Shi Shilun's talent, but he didn't want to spend his term doing nothing.But who knew that not long after he took office, he encountered such a difficult case.

In the back hall, Yang Tai was carrying the token of Brother Nine, his face covered with frost.Tu Yi waited carefully, serving tea and snacks, and begged the yamen to bring the person involved in the case as soon as possible.

"Lord Tu," Yang Tai put the tea bowl on the table, and placed a jade plaque beside it. Tu Yi lowered his head unconsciously when he saw the words on it.

"My master has said beforehand that arson in the capital must not be tolerated," Yang Tai stroked the wrench in his hand and said, "Back then, the King of Dun County was in a hurry and burned an unruly restaurant, and was punished by the Lord Long Live. This time, our Tianhe Company suffered innocent victims, so I think Mr. Tu should know how to deal with the person who set the fire."

"Yes, yes," Tu Yi laughed and cupped his hands again and again. Seeing that Yang Tai's expression softened, he tentatively said, "I just don't know, what evidence does the arsonist have left? What if the other party refuses to admit it—"

"Is there any prisoner in the world who would take the initiative to admit his crime?" Yang Tai interrupted Tu Yi, his voice turned cold again, "Master Tu has been a magistrate for a long time, so how to make a prisoner confess his crime must not be taught. of."

"Yes, yes," Tu Yi replied hesitantly, then raised his head and glanced at Yang Tai, "But, but, the other party is from Prince Yong's mansion after all. I'm afraid it's not good for the officials to use torture. Prince Yong—”

"Prince Yong is still under confinement," Yang Tai stood up and said, "Prince Yong is also to blame for his subordinates committing arson and hurting people!"

"Ouch," Yang Tai hadn't finished his sentence when there was a yell from the door, his voice was extremely clear, "Who cares about my prince so much? Could it be that some royal family member has arrived at the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion?"

Yang Tai's face darkened, and Tu Yi also followed the prestige.

A few yamen were leading the way, but the one following behind was not a timid and erroneous servant.

Huang Yingbuzi's eunuch's palace uniform was decorated with suet jade around his waist, and his black brocade lacquered boots were embossed with cloud patterns.Standing tall and handsome, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his mouth after entering the door. When he saw Tu Yiwei, he smiled and said, "This is Mr. Tu Yitu. I have admired him for a long time. Our family was with you earlier. Lord Shi still has some kind of friendship, and now seeing Lord Tu, I feel very cordial."

"Ah, easy to say, easy to say, father-in-law is too polite," Tu Yi asked tentatively after returning the gift, "I don't know your father-in-law's name—"

"Oh, our Su Peisheng," Eunuch Su lowered his head slightly.

Tu Yi immediately froze on the spot, tortured this person, did God really not joke with him?