Chunguang Brocade

Chapter 24 Are you leaving
In stark contrast to the bustling long street, this small alley is still dark and cold in May.

It took a long time for the old fool to respond, "Little brother finally thinks of me?"

As if she didn't hear his sneer, Shen Chuxia sat across from him, "I failed to enter Dali Temple, but my father told me that he didn't collude with rebels."

"You mean it's done?"

Shen Chuxia smiled slightly, "What I mean is not important, what matters is whether you think I have succeeded or failed."

Eyes met, the two confronted each other.

The old fool's drooping eyes almost covered the cloudy eyeballs, leaving only one slit to see people, like an old ghost hiding in the dark, very penetrating.

Shen Chuxia was young and clean, like a ray of wind blowing into a dark alley, the alley seemed to be opened up as a path leading to the sun.

"My father's relationship with friends and colleagues is very simple. Except for the office work and general entertainment in the Ministry of Rites, he almost stays at home teaching his concubine son. Why was he arrested by Dali Temple?"

Old Hantuo laughed: "I've got all the dirty news here, nothing about your father."

"Even you don't have any news about my father, which shows that my father didn't collude with the rebels."

"But he was arrested on charges of colluding with rebels."

"Collude with the King of Chu?"

"Collude with that king, what's the difference?" Old Hantuo sneered.

Shen Chuxia was about to go crazy, turned around and turned back again: "Are you helping or not?"

The old foolish camel said leisurely: "I heard that the charges of colluding with the rebels in the prison of Dali Temple are basically convicted, and they will be beheaded when the regent returns and gives an order."

"Since they are rebels, they will be punished. The least implicated are immediate relatives. Why didn't the Dali Temple arrest our family? Doesn't the Dali Temple know that we are going to Beijing?"

"What do you say?"

Shen Chuxia cheated and made money so blatantly in the capital, how could no one know: "You mean..."

The old camel laughed, bowed his head and tied the paper figurine.

Shen Chuxia pursed her lips in silence.

Coming out of the old foolish camel, Shen Chuxia disbanded the group.

"Why?" The little rabbit had just repaid the sweetness, and was about to do a big fight, but it turned out that he didn't want to come to her recently.

"Yes, Xia'er." Yuan Shao'an was also puzzled.

Shen Chuxia didn't answer, but said, "You guys stay at home and don't run around."

"What about you?" Yuan Shao'an asked worriedly.

Shen Chuxia raised her eyes and looked into the distance, "I'm going to find someone."

"Who?" Several people asked in unison.

Shen Chuxia didn't tell them either, he took the fat brother and waited for a few days before stopping the official servant - Geng Qiru.

"Little brother looking for me?"

"Yes, my lord, Xiaomin invites you to have a cup of tea. I wonder if it's convenient for you, my lord?"

Geng Qiru looked meaningfully and nodded in agreement, but the address was chosen by him, and it looked like a place with a lot of money.

Shen Chuxia's heart aches for pocket money.

Geng Qiru glanced at the little brother, said calmly, "Say something, little brother."

Shen Chuxia hastily kowtowed and saluted, "Xiaomin is the eldest daughter of a former member of the etiquette department—Shen Chuxia."

Geng Qiru was calm, he had already been inquired about, it doesn't matter if he didn't inquire, but he was really shocked when he inquired, the little brother directly became a little lady, and she was also a little lady that Ji Chong treated specially.

"It turned out to be the eldest daughter of the former Master Shen."

"My lord, Minnv's father was wronged. He did not collude with the rebels."

"What about the evidence?" Geng Qiru smiled a little, "Besides, I am not the Ministry of Punishment, nor Dali Temple. Miss Shen came to find me, did she find the wrong person?"

"But my lord is the official in charge of the officials!" Shen Chuxia showed a youthful and innocent expression, "Your official was arrested without making mistakes, shouldn't you advocate for him?"

"Haha..." Geng Qiru raised his head and laughed.

"Also ask the adults to be the masters of my father."

Geng Qiru stopped laughing and shook his head, "Forgive me for being helpless, but please ask Miss Shen to find someone else."

"My lord, who should I find?"

Geng Qiru's eyebrows moved slightly, "You can find both the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple."

"My lord, which official from the Criminal Department or Dali Temple is in charge of my father's affairs?"

Geng Qiru frowned slightly, this little lady wouldn't really go to the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple, would it be useless to go to anyone for the person Ji Chong asked to arrest.

Should he remind me?
"This... Dali Temple Prison has imprisoned so many officials who colluded with the anti-thieves. I really don't know who is in charge of the former Mr. Shen's case." After thinking about it, Geng Qiru didn't help.

As expected, why should a big man help her, a small ant who can't even pay her money? Shen Chuxia just tested his tone, hoping to find some way out of it.

"My lord, for a person like my father, what kind of person is the presiding judge?"

"This..." Inquiring in disguise, Geng Qiru is a veteran in the officialdom, how could he not be able to hear it? It feels a little funny, but he should be tight-lipped, and he can't reveal anything.

"It seems a bit embarrassing to my lord!" He didn't say anything again.

"Miss Shen is eager to save her father, I can understand it, but this is a major court matter, and I can't do anything about it."

"Thank you, my lord!" It was already a great honor for him to sit down with her and say a few words.

"Young lady, you're welcome." Geng Qiru got up, "I've already settled the money for the tea."

"That's so embarrassing, my lord—" Shen Chuxia got up, looking at a loss.

Geng Qiru waved his hand and left.

Shen Chuxia glanced at the untouched tea in front of his table, lowered her head and let out a breath, sat down, drank all the tea on the table, and didn't drink it for nothing.

Hiccup, and leave with a heavy heart, evidence, how can she prove Shen Jinlin's innocence?
"Miss Shen..."

Are you calling her?Shen Chuxia raised her eyes blankly.

Eyes meet someone.

"Grand...Your Highness, why is it you?" Shen Chuxia was surprised when he found the driftwood like a drowning kitten.

Mu Tong rolled his eyes, obviously he was the one calling for someone, so he just stared at his master, there is no woman in this world who doesn't want to cling to her master.

Ji Chong stood with his hands behind his back, in an elegant black brocade robe, inlaid with gold and silver, with dark woven lotus branches looming on the corner of the robe, his eyes met Shen Chuxia, in the corridor of the teahouse in summer, it was quiet and poetic, his dark black pupils were hidden In the half-dark light, the luxury and indifference make people feel daunted.

Shen Chuxia's warm feelings descended rapidly, she restrained herself casually, stepped forward to salute politely, "Minnv has seen Your Highness!"

Ji Chong turned around.

How could Shen Chuxia give up this golden opportunity, she stretched out her hand and pulled him, "Your Highness—"

Ji Chong lowered his head and looked at her.

As he looked down, his small white hands were pulling a handful of his robes.

I haven't seen her for a few days, and her slender and delicate hands seem to be less rough. The nails are light pink, soft and shiny, and the fingertips are like bamboo shoots.

His eyes met hers.

Her fingers curled up involuntarily.

Obviously weak and weak, but his robe was gathered tightly and wrinkled by her, as if grasping a life-saving straw, full of dependence.

"Your Highness, do you want to go?"

(End of this chapter)