Dressed as Su Peisheng

Evening, Ningshou Palace

When Su Wei came back from the palace, he went to the respect room to pick up the errand of delivering silks and satins to the concubines of Ningshou Palace.

The palace where the Empress Dowager lives is in the middle of the Ningshou Palace. It is spacious and warm in winter and cool in summer.

Ever since the Empress Dowager moved into the Ningshou Palace, she has been reciting Buddhist scriptures in the small Buddhist hall every day, except for the emperor's morning and evening meditation, no one is seen.

When Su Wei came over, he met Nian Shi and Geng Shi, and brought his maid to greet the Queen Mother through the door.

"Master Nian, Master Geng."

"Eunuch Su," the two young masters nodded at Su Wei.

"Why bother Eunuch Su to bring someone to deliver things today?" Geng smiled very gently.

"The respect room is understaffed, and when it comes to delivering things to Ningshou Palace, I have to be more cautious, for fear that the people below will not respond well."

"That's right, Eunuch Su handles things properly." Geng Shi echoed.

"The emperor is benevolent and filial, so there is Mr. Laosu," Nian replied with a calm face.

"Master, it's time for us to go." Ling Xi put down the snacks for the Queen Mother and walked to Nian's side.

"The two young masters go away."

Geng nodded at Su Wei again, and followed Nian out of Ningshou Palace.

When they arrived at their respective palaces, Geng took a step first, and Nian supported Ling Xi's arm and walked slowly into his own palace.

Ling Xi saw that Nian was not very happy, so he turned around and said, "My lord, this servant has gone to many places in the past two days. But no matter how you look at it, our Yikun Palace is still the most gorgeous and magnificent. "

"Yikun Palace is intended to assist Kunning Palace, so there are some differences."

The two just walked to the gate of Yikun Palace, and the servant guarding the gate hurriedly saluted the master.

Walking into the gate of the palace, you are faced with glazed screen walls, the stone brick floor of the West Mountain is flat and not slippery, and the main hall has cornices and upturned feet, carved beams and painted buildings.

Nian stopped in his tracks and looked at the huge palace, "Yikun, Yikun, there is no such thing as Kun, what's the use of having Yikun?"

"master!"

Ling Xi hurriedly interrupted Nian's emotion, and glared at the unknown servants around, "What are you looking at? Go to work!"

Ling Xi helped Nian into the Nuan Pavilion, and Cai Xi stepped forward to take the cloak, "Have you seen the Queen Mother today? I don't know if the Queen Mother likes the dim sum we made."

Ling Xi shook his head at Cai Xi, and Cai Xi realized that Nian seemed not very happy.

"master?"

"Go out, I'll just serve you here."

Ling Xi rushed to Cai Xi, Cai Xi nodded, poured a cup of tea for Nian Shi and put it on hand, and left by himself.

"Master, don't think too much about it. Canonization is a matter of time. You see that Long Live God gave you this Yikun Palace, and you know that you will be in the sixth palace of this thing in the future. That is one person who is under one person and above ten thousand people. .”

The corner of Nian's mouth twitched, and he smiled forcedly, "It's because I'm not greedy enough, I always want more."

"Master," Ling Xi knelt down and held Nian's hand, "Now that the second young master has experienced meritorious service, and the eldest young master is also in a high position, our Nian family is in full swing. The emperor treats you as if..."

"It's always different from other people. Besides, it's still a long time..."

"Is it long? 30 years, in terms of time, who can compare with him?"

"Master, no matter how much he is favored, he is still an eunuch, and he will be an eunuch all his life!"

"But he, the eunuch," Nian raised his head, "can make the king of a country drag the entire harem, and he will not be canonized or established for a long time."

"It must be because the Lord Long Live is too busy! Anyway, the servants don't believe it, and the reason why the Lord Long Live does not stand up is because of an eunuch. If the Lord Long Live really has that kind of heart, the whole court ministers will probably be killed. Long Live Lord is not stupid, how could he do such a thing?"

Nian smiled softly, raised his hand and patted Ling Xi's head, "Yeah, Lord Long Live is not stupid, how could he do such a thing..."

Ningshou Palace

In the inner hall burning with sandalwood, the Empress Dowager was sitting on a soft couch, and the dim light from the window shone in, reflecting people with black hair and white hair.

"Slave Su Peisheng, please greet the Queen Mother."

"Get up," compared to the last time the two met, the queen mother at this time put away all her sharpness, like a ball of light that was about to disperse at any time.

"Qingju said, do you want to see Ai's family?"

"Yes," Su Wei stood up, "I didn't want to disturb the queen mother, but this matter must be done later."

"Tell me, Aijia, listen to me."

…………

In less than half a stick of incense, the Queen Mother was already on the verge of collapse.

"The fourteenth master has already made a mistake. No matter what the reason is, the most important thing now is to admit his mistake!"

Su Wei looked at the queen mother without blinking, "Right now, you are the only one who can obediently and sincerely admit his mistakes."

The Empress Dowager pursed her lips tightly, and put one hand on the kang table, "Is it enough to admit your mistake? Yinzhen, the emperor, will he forgive Yinti?"

Su Wei lowered his head, clenched his hands hidden in his sleeves, "As long as Brother Fourteen honestly admits his mistake and admits his punishment. The rest will be handled by the servant."

The empress dowager's eyes were red, and after a long while, she nodded firmly, "Okay, here is a letter from Ai's family, and let her family hurry up and send it to Yinti. On his way back to Beijing, whether it is a plea for sin, or three steps and one kowtow That's fine, as long as the emperor can forgive him, Aijia will let him do it!"

At that time, Sichuan

He only brought over 40 guards with him to the post house where Yinti rested temporarily, and half of them have been sent back now.

"Master," Lu Rui had been following Yinti all this time, and at this moment he knew that they were about to face a catastrophe.

"Master, we realized it back then and just went back to the camp. Maybe no one noticed."

"how is this possible?"

Yinti stood at the window, listening to the hustle and bustle of people on the street, "There are everyone in the camp, and all eyes are fixed on me. As long as I move, they will know everything."

"Then what's the use of us coming to Sichuan? Sichuan is Nian Gengyao's territory, in case the emperor..."

Lu Rui didn't finish speaking, and looked out nervously.

"Are you afraid?"

"No, with the master around, the slave is not afraid."

The fourteenth elder brother chuckled, "It's okay, it's not as bad as your family members, let alone your servants. In heaven, you just have to find someone else to take care of you."

"master!"

Lu Rui walked behind Elder Fourteen, "No, the emperor won't be so cruel."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

The fourteenth elder brother lowered his head, silently recited this supreme title, and leaned his hands on the window lattice, "Huang Ama, since you have already made up your mind, why should you let your servant have delusional thoughts?"

"Murder to pay for life! Debt and money!"

"Murder to pay for life! Debt and money!"

"what sound?"

A sudden shout from outside the post house interrupted Yinti's thoughts, "Go, go out and have a look!"

"Killing to pay for life! Debts are to be paid..."

"Quick! Drag it away!"

The door of the post house was opened, and Yinti came out, and saw a disheveled old man being dragged into a carriage forcefully.

"What are you doing?"

Yinti's eyes turned cold, and he stepped forward, "Let him go! An old man, how can this be so?"

"who are you?"

The one pulling people, although wearing bunts, but the material is not affordable for ordinary people, "I don't have eyes, do I, and I don't want to see which family's car it is, dare to shout at me!"

Yinzhen frowned, and the peddler beside him couldn't bear to watch anymore, and reminded in a low voice, "This guest officer, this is Nian's car, don't mind your own business..."

"Hmph, did you hear that, does the Nian family know? Governor of Sichuan!"

The bunt boy was holding a whip in his hand, and banged it on the wall of the car, "If you meddle in your own business, I'll arrest you and put you in jail!"

The little fellow just said that it wasn't enough, so he swung his whip in the air, but Yinti caught it empty-handed!

"master!"

Lu Rui was taken aback, and when he came back to his senses, he was furious, "Come here!"

The guards in the post house rushed out, and silver knives were lit on the street.

The peddlers around scattered and fled, and the servants were hacked a few times, wounded and fled.

"master?"

"No need to chase."

Yinti lifted the curtain of the carriage, and the old man who was caught in advance was tightly bound, and was still whimpering there.

"Help him down, take him to the post house, and then find a doctor."

"Yes," a guard responded.

The old man was helped down, shaking all over his body.

"Don't be afraid, old man, those people won't come."

Although Yinti arrived in Sichuan, he never visited Nian Gengyao. Nian Gengyao must have known that he was coming, but he never came to greet him.

The rope on the old man was untied by Lu Rui, and the gag was also taken away.

"Come on, let's go inside and look at the wound."

The old man stared at Yinti without blinking, but was pulled by Lu Rui, but he didn't move.

"Old man? Do you have anything to say?"

"Benefactor, benefactor..."

The old man groped and grabbed Yinti's sleeve, and knelt down on the ground with a plop, "I beg Mr. Benedict to avenge me, for the eight hundred innocent people in Heyang who died tragically!"

Yinti was really taken aback for a moment, and then he realized that he quickly helped the old man up, "Old man, let's go in and talk."

When a group of people entered the post house, Lu Rui had a heart and told the guards not to rest and guard the door.

Yinti helped the old man into the house, and asked someone to serve him refreshments and tea.

The old man tidied up briefly, and Yinti realized that this was not an old man from a poor family. Although the clothes were dirty, the materials were not bad.

"The old man's surname is Fan, and his name is Guangzong. He is a local squire in Heyang. His family has several acres of Susukida and a rice shop."

"So that's the case," Yinti nodded lightly, "Then how did the old man end up like this?"

Fan Guangzong took a deep breath, and forced himself to suppress his emotions, "Grandfather, the old man's hometown is Heyang. It's not easy to eat salt, and the official salt is not lucky to come in. Usually, there are many people who sell private salt. But I just pick a pole. It's a small business, and everyone is just in need of help."

Yinti nodded, "There are many places like this, especially in the southwest."

"That's right," Fan Guangzong sighed again, "Heyang is actually not a poor place. When people can eat official salt, they don't buy private salt. I don't usually hear that there are any salt lords. People. But for some reason, in August and September last year, a group of officers and soldiers suddenly came and said they wanted to search the Yanxiao, which disturbed every family and made the chickens and dogs restless."

"We didn't dare to say anything, we thought about bearing it and it passed. But who knows," Fan Guangzong's face turned pale after finally turning rosy, "I will always remember that day, just after the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month Every family is full of joy. The moon is still very bright at night, but a group of officers and soldiers suddenly surrounded our village castle!"

Yinyu frowned, and Fan Guangzong's voice trembled, "The officers and soldiers all carried knives and said they wanted to search for the Yan Xiao, but after they entered the fort, they hacked anyone they saw. It didn't count if they were hacked to death. Everyone cut off their heads. Come down!"

Lu Rui gasped as he listened.

"There are nearly a thousand people in our fort, more than half of them are old and weak, women and children. How can we beat officers and soldiers? Occasionally, if there is resistance, they immediately call for friends, hack them to death, and shout loudly, they have found Yanxiao!"

Yinti tightly clenched the hand on the armchair.

"For a whole night, there were more than [-] people who were hacked to death with knives, trampled to death by running around, and fell into the ditch!"

"Oh my God," although Lu Rui followed Yinti to the border to fight, but he had never even seen the dead body.

"They killed people and beheaded them," Yinti breathed out slowly, "Is it to receive credit?"

"Yes," Fan Guangzong nodded, "I found out later that the salt owl they were looking for disappeared in the Xiayang area. They searched for a long time but couldn't find it, so they didn't dare to go back empty-handed, so they kept their eyes on him. our village."

"Didn't you report to the officials?" Lu Rui couldn't help asking.

"Report," Fan Guangzong's eyes were bloodshot, "but those local officials didn't pay attention to us at all. They were pushed into a hurry by us, and they also said that our village is a nest of salt owls. If they continue to make trouble, they will arrest us all!"

"The rest of the people in our village have sued all the way from the county magistrate to the magistrate, and from the magistrate to the governor's office, but no one is willing to avenge our grievances!"

"I know a lot of people, so I thought something was wrong, so I asked around, and someone told us later. The soldiers who were sent to wipe out the salt lords were appointed by the governor of Sichuan, Nian Gengyao. The leader of the army was Jin Qixun, the envoy of the Hedong salt transport. He is Nian Gengyao's confidant. Nian Gengyao overwhelmed the sky in Sichuan and won the emperor's trust. Therefore, no one dared to control, no one dared to ask. We have more than 800 lives in Heyang. The ground is not working."

"No one dares to control, no one dares to ask?"

Yinti narrowed his eyes, "Okay, anyway, I made this mistake too, so I'll add another one today, who can stand me?"

At night, the Hall of Mental Cultivation

When Su Wei came back, the hall was already lit.

"Where did you go wild today? Did you come back at this time?"

Lord Yongzheng raised his eyes from a pile of booklets.

"I didn't go anywhere, I just settled the accounts in the business."

Eunuch Su walked around Grandpa Yongzheng, "It's getting dark, don't critique papers, go to the apse and rest."

"There are still some things to deal with, and I have to announce Li Wei later."

"Li Wei? What is Xuan him doing?"

"I'm going to send him to Zhili, to practice first."

"Zhili," Su Wei weighed in his heart, "It's okay, give him an official position with room for promotion, and it's best to be promoted quickly."

"What is this nonsense?"

Grandpa Yongzheng turned his head to look at Grandpa Su, "Whether he is promoted quickly or not depends on how well he does. If he is an idiot, no matter how good the official position is, it will be useless."

"I, am I afraid that it will be too late..."

"Why is it too late?" Master Yongzheng was even more puzzled.

"It's nothing, I'll just say it casually," Grandpa Su lay down on Yongzheng's desk, he was full of thoughts, and was thinking about how to speak at this moment.

Master Yongzheng frowned, and suddenly sniffed, "What's the smell on you?"

"What's the smell?" Su Wei raised his cuffs and smelled it, "Oh, I went to deliver materials to the Queen Mother, and it smelled like sandalwood."

"It's not just the scent of sandalwood." Master Yongzheng narrowed his eyes, "Why do I smell a smell of rouge?"