Started to get rich after exile

Chapter 48
"The key to the palace gate has been released. We can't find out the news for the time being, but the person who set the fire has been caught."

"who is it?"

As soon as Ming Lanying raised her head, she felt something soft and moist rubbed against her forehead, then Ye Juelv leaned back violently, pulling away with a blushing heartbeat.

Ming Lanying tilted her head in doubt, "Ye Juelu, your heartbeat is a little abnormal?"

Ye Juelu quickly let go of her, his eyes were a little guilty and erratic, and his lips moved slightly, "The man has been caught, and the emperor will have someone interrogate him overnight. Don't worry, the East Palace may not be cleaned up tomorrow. Let's go and clean it up." Move that box somewhere."

"You, you go to bed early."

Ming Lanying looked at Ye Juelu's fleeing figure suspiciously, "I haven't said who it is yet, why are you running in such a hurry..."

The study was burned, and it was useless to be anxious. Ming Lanying adjusted her mentality and forced her to sleep, trying to recover some losses tomorrow.

The study room in the East Palace was burned, and the emperor happened to be in the Queen's Palace. The lights in Changle Palace were turned on in the middle of the night, and the two of them were woken up. They didn't look very good. The emperor hurriedly put on his clothes and was about to rush out, but the queen grabbed him .

"Don't worry, your majesty. There are guards fighting the fire. You can only watch when you rush away. Let Defu change your clothes first. Disheveled clothes will lose the face of the royal family."

The empress knew the importance of the study in the East Palace, but she was calmer than the emperor. When the emperor was in a hurry, she was easy to get on top of, so she had to take care of the emperor.

The emperor glanced at the half-opened clothes, and came back to his rationality in a hurry. He turned around and kissed the queen, "Fortunately, Zitong is here."

The queen wiped her face helplessly, and pushed the idle emperor. Defu lowered his brows and eyes, pretending not to see, and quickly put on the emperor's clothes.

"Zi Tong is waiting for me here, I will be back soon."

"Your Majesty, hurry up, the concubine will send someone to find out who is so bold."

When the emperor rushed to the East Palace study in a hurry, there were only a few sporadic ideas left, and the account books in the study that the palace people were saving. Most of them were moved out, and some of them could not be rescued. Burned to ashes in the sea of ​​fire.

In the chaos, some guards saw the emperor's guard of honor, and hurriedly half-kneeled to salute, "See the emperor!"

As soon as one person spoke, everyone present saw the gloomy emperor kneeling in panic.

"Participate in the emperor, the emperor forgives the sin!"

The study was built very large. Even though the fire was big and fierce at that time, it was only half burnt. The charred walls and half of the roof ridge of the couch were saved by the wind direction tonight and slowed down the fire, but the other half Blackened by smoke, with sparks.

The emperor looked at the half-burned palace, with mixed feelings in his heart, powerlessness, anger, and irritability made him feel short of breath. Seeing the emperor's shortness of breath, Defu hurriedly whispered a few words of comfort.

"The emperor calm down, don't get angry, it's important to clean up the immediate affairs, the slave didn't see Xuexia and Biyun here, those two sisters are loyal, I'm afraid something happened."

"Come on, go search and find Xuexia and Biyun."

The head guard on the side bowed his head to take orders, and led a group of people in a hurry to find someone.Regardless of the dissuasion of the palace people, the emperor stepped slowly into the half-burned palace and looked around. Most of the account books that had been piled up on the ground had been burned, and the ashes fluttered in the wind, sticking to the corner of his clothes, as if he wanted to keep him.

After Defu asked Gong Zheng*, who was in charge of the palace's fire policy, he walked lightly behind the emperor, "Your Majesty, the fire started from outside the house."

The emperor hummed lightly, and caught a glimpse of a corner of the unburned bookshelf on the other side, a strange box was pressed down.

The East Palace is where he lived since he was a child, and he used to stay in the study every day, and now he comes here every now and then to have a look, but he has never seen this box.

Walking over suspiciously, pushed away the piled-up sundries, dialed the brass lock on the box, and said in a deep voice, "Defu, does this box look familiar to you?"

Defu leaned forward to examine it carefully, and shook his head. His memory is well practiced, and he cannot be said to have never forgotten it, but he still has the impression after looking at it, "The servant has never seen this box before. When did this box appear in the study?" gone?"

The emperor didn't say anything, and waved his hand to be carried to his imperial study.

After a while, the guards came back with two unconscious people.

"Back to the emperor, Miss Xuexia and Biyun were found beside the imperial pond. They were beaten with sap sticks and drugged. There was no serious problem, but they couldn't wake up for a while."

The emperor waved his hand, "Take it down and take care of it. We will be interrogating tomorrow. Has the person who set the fire been caught?"

"Yes, the person who started the fire has been caught. It's a eunuch."

"Interrogate overnight, as long as people don't die."

"Yes!"

After tossing for a long time, the sky was a little dim, the emperor returned to Changle Palace exhausted, the queen put on a dress and waited for him at the gate of the palace with people.

"Why did you come out? It's dewy outside, and it's almost dawn and I'm sleeping."

The emperor strode forward and took her hand and walked into the room. The empress smiled slightly, "Wait for you."

The emperor pressed her on the bed, took off his clothes in a few moments, lay down with his arms around her, and rubbed the queen's neck, "Most of the study room was burned down, fortunately I moved your portrait to the imperial study room long ago. "

The queen originally thought that he would be troubled by the account books, but the first sentence she said was this, and she patted him dumbfounded, "Is the emperor not in a hurry for the account books?"

"The fire is gone, what else can I do, those courtiers have ghosts in their hearts, so they are eager to destroy the evidence..."

Corruption of account books has always been a thorn in the emperor's heart. If it wasn't for corruption, he would not have been imprisoned in the East Palace by the late emperor, and the late emperor would not have been killed because of his isolation and helplessness.

And he knew that the person who killed his father was either Prince Heng or the Ming family, but he couldn't do anything to win anyone, because the elders of the three dynasties of the Ming family, because Prince Heng was a brother and brother that his father cherished.Only by weakening their rights little by little, taking back his imperial power little by little, and waiting for strong evidence to be known to the world, can he deal with his enemies openly.

The queen patted him reassuringly, "The concubine found out that the eunuch is from Concubine Ning's palace."

"Concubine Ning? A member of the Ming family?"

"Yes, Wei Yanning, one of the henchmen of the Ming family, the second daughter of the fifth grade Yunqiwei Wei family, has been in the palace for two years."

It is so obvious after finding out that this matter has nothing to do with the Ming family. There are people in the household department that the Ming family wants to protect, and it doesn’t matter whether Ming Lanying’s ability to check accounts is good or not. It was thought that the emperor would end the matter of auditing the accounts, and the Ming family let someone do it.

"I can't find anything even if I look down, that's it." The emperor buried himself in the empress's arms, and said in a muffled voice: "Then just deal with it directly. Concubine Ning has evil intentions and set fires in the palace. As a commoner, the family was confiscated, and the whole family would never be allowed to enter Beijing."

The queen is not a simple woman who is stupid and sweet, and she also understands the truth of this. It is the best result to have another disturbing person in the harem gone. She falls asleep with the emperor, and sleeps lightly for a while.

The morning light is faint, and the sky is white.

Ming Lanying slowly opened her eyes, woke up quickly, washed and dressed as fast as she could, and as soon as she opened the door, she slammed into Ye Juelu's hard arms, holding her nose and taking two steps back.

"Why are you standing here so silently?"

Ye Juelu was just about to knock on the door, but she didn't expect that she would open it suddenly and slam into his arms, "Sorry, let me see?"

Ye Juelu carefully raised her chin to check, but was slapped away by Ming Lanying, "The nose still won't collapse, go to the palace."

"……it is good."

Ye Juelu found that Ming Lanying was more ambitious than him, and in front of her account books, everyone and everything had to be sidelined.

The carriage kicked and ran into the palace, and the guards didn't stop Ye Juelu when they saw that it was Ye Juelu, and stopped outside the East Palace without hindrance.

Ming Lanying hurried to the study, after walking for so long, the way to the study was already familiar.I didn't see the unique eaves of the study from a distance, and my heart skipped a beat. I walked through the corridor and walked out of the Moon Gate. My vision suddenly opened up. The half-collapsed and charred dilapidated building in front of me made Ming Lanying unable to believe that this was the magnificent study yesterday.

There were also guards and palace servants cleaning up the mess. Seeing that Ming Lanying and Ye Juelu had arrived, they continued to work after bowing and saluting.

The two looked at each other, and walked towards the other side that wasn't burned down. It was really hard to find things in a mess.Ming Lanying rolled up her sleeves and was about to search, but Ye Juelv grabbed her.

"I'll come, just stand a little farther and watch."

There were ashes of charcoal all over the floor, and Ming Lanying's skirt was covered with ashes just after she came in for a while. How could Ye Juelu be willing to let her do this dirty work? Next, it revealed the place where the box was put yesterday.

Ye Juelu vaguely remembered that the box he specially asked someone to take was a waterproof leather box, plus some things they covered up on the box, which could have the effect of slowing down the fire. It stands to reason that the half of the study room did not burn down. Basically, most of them were just blackened, and the box was burnt black on the outside at most, and there should be nothing on the inside.

But after digging for a long time, I didn't see the shadow of the box. It could only be that someone found it and took it away.

Ming Lanying was in a hurry, Defu hurried over and bowed to the two of them, "Commander Ye, Mrs. Ye, the emperor's imperial study is here for you."

The important box disappeared, Ming Lanying was upset, Ye Juelu gently took her hand and followed Defu to the imperial study.

"Don't worry, it's better to be taken away than to be burned, and there will be a turnaround."

Ming Lanying nodded, her mind was full of how to rescue the consequences, but she didn't realize that she was being led by Ye Juelu all the way.

When she got to the imperial study room and saw the familiar big scorched black box next to the desk, Ming Lanying suddenly came to her senses.

"Why is this box here?!"

Defu coughed lightly, "Mrs. Ye, the emperor is here, and the emperor moved here."

As soon as Ming Lanying looked up and saw the emperor's foolish and irrelevant smile, she was relieved, and hurriedly bowed her body to salute.

Seeing the expressions of Ye Juelu and Ming Lanying, the emperor knew that the box was related to them, probably those important account books, and he was relieved.

"Excuse me, get up and get up." The emperor lightly kicked the box, "I don't want to thank you yet. As soon as I took this thing away, someone searched the whole study and took away some irrelevant things."

Ye Juelu took out the key from his sleeve and opened the copper lock. Ming Lanying looked at the big box with a smile, "Your Majesty is wise, thank you Majesty."

The emperor glanced at a box full of account books, "Is all the important ones here?"

"Yes, the important ones are here. It's fine to burn the others. Anyway, there will be a backup at the Ministry of Finance."

The account book will be backed up when it is given out. The Ministry of Accounts will give it a printed copy, and the original is still in the Ministry of Accounts. As for whether it will be given later by the Ministry of Accounts, that is another matter.This is something she only remembered on the way. After all, most of the backups in her previous life were in electronic form, and she is not very familiar with the household system here.

Hearing this, the emperor nodded reassuringly. He recognized Ming Lanying's ability. The study in the East Palace can no longer be used, and other studies in the palace are not suitable for casual entry. The emperor simply waved his hand and asked them to take these accounts home. Continue to investigate, and sent [-] more imperial guards to guard the courtyard.

"The arsonist has been caught, and the chief envoy has been confessed. I have already dealt with her. This matter probably has something to do with the Ming family. There are people from them in the household department. Ye Juelu, I will give you three months to deal with her. Get that guy out."

"Yes."

Now that the murderer has been dealt with, Ming Lanying doesn't care about it anymore. The Ming family's roots are too deep, even if they know it's related to him, there's nothing they can do. It's better to stop here and wait for the opportunity.

"Brothers and sisters, I limit you to sort out the corruption accounts within this year and find out the truth, is it feasible?"

The emperor's younger siblings shouted, and Ming Lanying was no longer afraid to look him in the eye, and looked at him with burning eyes, "Don't worry, the emperor, there are clues to the accounts, as long as no one interferes, I will definitely give the emperor an explanation within this year."

The emperor nodded in satisfaction, and from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Ye Juelu staring at Ming Lanying obsessively, and cursed in his heart that he was worthless.

Ming Lanying suddenly thought of the two court ladies guarding the study, "My wife has something to ask the emperor, where are Xuexia and Biyun? Aren't they guarding the study overnight?"

The emperor frowned slightly, "I was beaten with a sap and drugged, and I have been handed over to the imperial guards for interrogation."

Ming Lanying was a little worried, after all, they had been together for a while, and they tried their best to take care of her during the time in the East Palace, so that she would not be depressed because of the square and high walls of the palace.

But the matter was so important that she couldn't intercede. She only went to visit after the interrogation by the imperial guards. Ye Juelv seemed to know what she was thinking and squeezed her hand.

"Don't worry, interrogation by the Guards is not a trick, but a little fright and physical pain."

Ming Lanying nodded her head in understanding, and after finishing the matter, she returned to the mansion openly and aboveboard with a large box of account books.

Along with the account book, there were also several boxes of gold, silver and jewels, which were said to be rewards, to appreciate Lanying’s hard work during this period, and when I opened it, it was indeed full of gold, silver and jewels, so no one cared about being mixed in The box of account books.

Ming Lanying touched the boxes of gold, silver and jewels, her eyes glowed like hungry wolves, the same as the eyes of snow wolf cubs when they were hunting.

Ye Juelu heard Ming Lanying memorize the value of these several boxes of treasures in her hands, and said in pieces: "50 taels of imperial gold, 100 taels of silver, a bucket of white jade pearls, ten pieces of top-quality Shu brocade, two gold hairpins Yes, a pair of jade wishes, a pair of concentric jade pendants... plus the gifts from those corrupt officials before, tsk tsk tsk, I made a lot of money..."

Ye Juelu: "..."

　*Gong Zheng, who is in charge of the fire policy in the palace

　　I remember that there seems to be such a thing, which is the highest official position of firefighters in the palace. If there is no such thing, just take me for nonsense_(:з」∠)_
　　The logic is dead, I can only write in a simple and popular way, don't be serious, I love you! (ˊˋ*)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)