Jinyi Night Walk

23 offering sacrifices to the Kitchen Heaven.

On this day, Xia Xun's family also prepared sacrifices and incense candles for the festival. Xia Xun led the whole family, arched the Stove Lord on the stove, and pasted couplets on both sides of "God says good things, and the world keeps safe". Let's do obeisance to the eight scriptures.

Afterwards, Xia Xun went out.

Today is the day when the last batch of servants from the Dabaoen Temple return home. The homes of these servants are the closest to the capital, so they are arranged at the end. Xia Xun has to go and watch, and don't make any mistakes.

There is already a New Year's atmosphere on the street. Those who sell and buy New Year's goods, those who sell firecrackers and couplets, are full of joy and joy.

Some people have pasted door gods, couplets, and lucky characters, while shopkeepers have hung strings of red lanterns, and posted banners saying "Jiang Taigong has no taboos here" on prominent places on the door lintels, selling fried rice, stove candy, Candied haws are full of people shouting in the street.

The officers and commanders of the five city soldiers and horses affiliated to the Ministry of War led the patrolling soldiers and yelled and wandered around with the patrolling imperial envoys, fighting, petty theft, defecating everywhere, and beside the firewood piles Those who set off firecrackers, they have to take care of everything.At this time, they are the busiest.Everyone on the street was beaming with joy, but they were the only ones who were looking at each other.

Daming’s [holidays] were already few, and there were fewer soldiers and horses in the five cities. Other government officials could take sick leave when they were sick, but soldiers and horses in the five cities were not allowed. If their officials were sick, they couldn’t work. I can only retire and take care of my family, and I am not allowed to take sick leave, so as long as I don’t want to go home to eat some Dailu, I have to stand up for a little illness and disaster, so my temper is so good.

Xia Xun rode on the horse and watched all kinds of weather on the street as he walked.It's been seven or eight years since Ming Dynasty, and this is the first time he spends the holidays with his family in a peaceful manner, the feeling in his heart is different from previous years, and he also has an inexplicable joy in his heart.

All of a sudden, many people heard the commotion and rushed over to watch the commotion. Xia Xun reined in the horse and looked around. He saw a few policemen in soap clothes and gauze hats walking down an alley. Come on, the two people in front of you wield iron rulers and drive away the onlookers. There is a catcher in the middle lazily with his hands behind his back, holding a thin iron chain in his hand. The iron chain is tied around a man's neck. It seems that you are traveling leisurely.

The prisoner was about forty years old, with three long beards and a clean face, but he didn't look like a villain.He was wearing Songjiang Mian's small clothes and trousers, his face was blue and shivering from the cold, but his head was covered, as if he was afraid of meeting acquaintances, looking very pitiful.

Xia Xun was a little curious, because ordinary people were arrested, and they could be locked up directly. There was only one possibility for those who took off their outer robes and only wore small clothes like this. Wouldn't being on the chain of imprisonment be an insult to the state?

Xia Xun looked at the man in surprise before picking up his horse and leaving.

Behind, someone was discussing: "Hey, isn't that Mr. Wu? What happened? How did you get arrested?"

"Which Master Wu?"

"Oh, you don't know this? The fattest yamen supervisor in our capital, Mr. Wu Bi and Mr. Wu, I saw many officials sneaking large and small boxes to his house last night. What about things, hey! This time, the bamboo basket was empty.

When Xia Xun rushed to Dabaoen Temple, Huang Ligong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, had already arrived.

The personnel adjustment of the imperial court is imminent, and the officials seem to be working hard, and no one wants to make mistakes at this time.

With the help of Huang Ligong, an expert, Xia Xun can just sit here, drink tea, and refresh his mind. Huang Ligong's affairs before and after running are almost done. If he comes in and reports, Xia Xun's errand will be accepted.

Xia Xun had a cup of tea and was very bored. He ran to the intact Zen rooms in Bao'en Temple, found the abbot old monk, and set up a dragon gate array with him.Just as the old monk was listening to the story of how he was a novice novice here during the Zhishun period of the Yuan Dynasty, another old monk ran in and said to the abbot: "Brother, there is an official named Huang outside, looking for the Duke of the State."

"The one surnamed Huang..."

Xia Xun made some guesses, smiled at the old abbot, and said, "Master, let me use your Zen room to meet a guest."

"It makes me so, the Duke sit down slowly!"

The old abbot quickly stood up, and followed his younger brother back out.As soon as they went out, Huang Zhen twisted in like a big yangko, and said happily: "Master Guo, you can ask Xiaguan to look for it. I went to the Duke's mansion and said that the Duke is in Dabaoen Temple. Xiaguan I went to look in the shed built by the Ministry of Industry again, and said that you came to the temple, hehe..."

Xia Xun sat on the Zen bed and didn't come down. She pointed to the opposite side and said with a smile, "Zuo Zuo, what's the matter in such a hurry to find me?"

Huang Zhen sat down in a hurry opposite him, took out a memorial from his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Duke, look at it, the lower official has already written it. Do you think it can be done like this?"

Xia Xun unfolded it, not to mention, Huang Zhen's small script was correct, and after reading the content carefully, Xia Xun raised his head and asked, "Where can I find out about the things mentioned here?" Arrived, is it true?"

"Duke! The officials have never been ordered to go to the East China Sea to investigate. The rumors are true, the rumors are true! Five points are true and three points are false!"

"What about the remaining two points?"

Huang Zhen pointed to his head: "This needs to be supplemented by myself."

Xia Xun was very speechless. After thinking for a while, he said: "Forget it, you can submit it like this first. Later, I will help you check the detailed information over there, and then provide it to you."

Huang Zhen was overjoyed, thanked him again and again, and then asked with a salivating face: "Duke, what about the matter of being an official?" Xia Xun shook his head: "No wonder Huang Zhen hasn't made much progress after being around for a lifetime, so restless, and so unhappy." Knowing how to communicate, it's no wonder that the Metropolitan Procuratorate has changed chief officials like a lantern, and no one has taken a fancy to him. "

To this person who doesn't know the slightest bit of skill, I really can't say subtle words, Xia Xun had no choice but to say helplessly: "Don't worry, I've already helped you to know the people who can talk about it. Tomorrow's court will be indispensable." You have a place.

"Thank you, Lord Guo, the Duke is really kind to Huang Zhen, and Huang Zhen didn't follow the wrong person!"

Huang Zhen thanked him with tears of gratitude, and said joyfully, "Duke, have you heard that? Wu Bi, the doctor of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was just arrested by the Ministry of Punishment, hahaha "..."

Xia Xun was startled, and wondered: "Arrested? Didn't it mean that he asked for bribes?" Are all the officials so angry that they dare not speak?Which envoy of the procuratorate impeached you? "

Huang Zhen said with a smile: "Duke, this is not impeached by our people from the Procuratorate. Mr. Chen, the imperial envoy of Zuodu, has a close relationship with him. He doesn't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face. No envoy is good for him." , offend my lord Dutang, hehe, this time, Wu Langzhong has committed the wrath of the public!"

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"Miss, miss" miss..."

Qiaoyun flew into Ming'er's boudoir like a h1a butterfly.

"Such a big girl is not steady at all, you can lift her skirt, understand?" Why panic! "

Ming'er scolded a few words angrily, and Qiao Yun froze at that moment: "Yes, miss, this servant realizes his mistake!"

Ming'er rested her chin in boredom, played Go with herself, and asked lazily, "What's the matter?"

This question "Qiaoyun regained her energy, and suddenly raised the tone" and said excitedly: "Miss, do you still remember the Wu Langzhong that Lord Dingguo mentioned a few days ago?"

Ming'er picked up a chess piece, and while considering the position of the chess piece, she said: "Oh, what doctor? Who is sick?"

Qiao Yun said anxiously: "Oh, it's not the doctor who sees the doctor, but the doctor of the Ministry of Officials' Examination Department. The empress empress is the son of Mr. Wu Ziming, whom the empress has chosen for the young lady, isn't he the son of Wu Langzhong?"

Ming'er pressed down the chess piece with a "snap", raised her eyes, and asked lightly, "What's the matter?"

Qiaoyun clenched a pair of small fists and said excitedly: "I'm grabbing it, I'm really grabbing it."

"Ok?"

Ming'er rolled her eyes and became suspicious: "For what crime, who impeached?"

Qiao Yun said: "Ha, he is really capable, a small examination doctor, the person who offended him is not small."

"It's all Dan"

Qiaoyun counted with her fingers: "King of Zhou in Kaifeng, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment Zheng Ci, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Jian Yi, and..., oops, I secretly heard what Duke Ding said to others, but I don't remember clearly. Your Majesty Hearing that he blackmailed all the officials by taking advantage of the merit test, he was furious and wanted to behead him and take away his son's honor, and the whole family was exiled to Yunnan Yuanmou!"

She patted her chest and said, "It's so risky, it's fortunate that Miss didn't really promise to his family!"

Ming'er's delicate eyebrows frowned slightly. She knew where Xu Jingchang had found out about Wu Langzhong's greed and extortion for bribes. Does he need to worry about his aunt's marriage as a junior?Ming'er became suspicious at the time, and as soon as she asked, how dare Xu Jingchang hide it from her?

now……

Ming'er's clever eyes narrowed slightly: "King Zhou of Kaifeng is very friendly with Yang Xu. I have heard from Jing Chang more than once that King Zhou sent him special products from Kaifeng. What kind of friendship is this? Zheng Ci, Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, was fished out of the prison by Yang Xu, otherwise, he would have been killed by Chen Ying and Ji Gang back then.

Others have too small official positions and just follow suit.A local vassal king and a minister in the imperial court, all of a sudden, at the same time, they fought against a small bureaucrat named Wairo?In the officialdom, how could they act for no reason, they did this..., they couldn't be instigated by Yang Xu..."

Ming'er held her chin and sat there in a daze. For a moment, she didn't know whether she wanted to cry or wanted to be in Wuda Baoen Temple. Xia Xun didn't know that she was shot while lying down. He was sighing to Huang Zhen: "Hey, these corrupt officials come and go, they just want to buy Ziqie an inexhaustible family property, but in the end, they hurt Ziqie instead. Mr. Wu's family was originally a raiser, but now his fame is reduced and he is relegated to a lowly status. , but I will never be able to turn over again. When I was in Qingzhou, there was a member of the Geng family who entered the family, because "..., why bother to come, why bother to come! "

Xia Xun sighed, but secretly laughed in his heart.He couldn't help but condemn himself: "It's too bad, how can my mind be so dark? No, I'm happy because a juicy cabbage didn't let the pigs kick me. Yes, I'm pity Everyone has the heart of h1a! Hehe, haha..."

However, soon, when the overjoyed Empress Xu chose a second son of a good official for her younger sister, and the family was thrown into jail with lightning speed within two days of being happy, Xia Xun I can't stop laughing.

Ming'er was very angry, and the consequences would be serious! r

[...Chapter 475 Shot while lying down...] ah! !