Prime Minister dare not be

Chapter 30

"Xie Xiang, do you have something to say?"

Xie Shu cupped his hands: "I have nothing to say."

"Very good," the emperor handed the memorial to Eunuch Xiang: "Since this is the case, the position of prime minister should be reserved for virtuous people."

"Think twice, Your Majesty!" Wei Yizhi was the first one to kneel down and beg for mercy: "Although Mr. Xie has done something wrong, the crime does not end here. What's more, it is only a one-sided statement and has not yet been verified. Your Majesty should not dismiss you lightly."

Huan Peisheng and Huan Ting also led the forces of the Huan family and knelt down, begging the emperor to take back his order.

The prince actually wanted to intercede, but seeing Xie Ran and Xie Shu confronting each other suddenly, he couldn't figure out what was right and what was wrong, so he was stunned for a moment.

The emperor did not expect Wei Yizhi to come forward to intercede, his face was ugly, and he said angrily: "Xuzhou's military salary has been embezzled, and Wuling King must know about it. Why do you want to intercede for the prime minister?"

Wei Yizhi said: "I feel that it still needs to be verified. The prime minister is the head of all officials, and the dismissal still needs to be considered in the long run."

"Hmph, you've been talking for a long time, but no one can come up with evidence of Xie Shu's innocence, but the documents in my hand are well documented, and they are all solid evidence that he committed a crime!" The emperor stood up and pointed at Xie Shu: "Okay, I won't dismiss your position as prime minister, but from today onwards, do you have any objections to dismissing your position as Minister of Records?"

Xie Shu glanced sideways at the indifferent Xie family members, took off his virtuous crown, and knelt down on the ground: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

"Hmph!" Emperor Long was overjoyed and walked away in a huff.

The prime minister is just a name, and the seal of Lu Shangshushi is the symbol of taking charge of the government. Now she has been emptied of power, and the position of prime minister is empty.

Eunuch Xiang sang about leaving the court, but none of the courtiers dared to leave first. Even if the prime minister had no real power, the habit of waiting for her to go out first could not be changed.

Xie Shu turned around and walked out of the palace gate without looking sideways.Xie Ran kept staring at her back, expressionless.

Out of the palace gate, Xie Shu saw Mubai and said: "Tell the guards to take extra precautions along the way, don't stop on the way, and go straight back to the prime minister's mansion."

Seeing that her expression was wrong, Mubai hurried into the car and ordered the guards to cheer up.

Che Yu went out of Xuanyang Gate and went straight to Wuyi Lane.Near Taishe, a group of people rushed over from the side, stopped in front of the car and said: "By the order of Mr. Ran, the Prime Minister, please move to the Drunken Horse Pavilion."

Mubai lifted the curtain: "My lord, the Drunken Horse Pavilion is the other courtyard of Master Situ Xie Minghe, do you want to go?"

"No! Go!"

Mubai quickly said yes, and ordered to move on, the team of people had already rushed over.

At this time, it was still on the royal road, surrounded by government offices, and ordinary people dare not approach it, even in the daytime, there was no one there.

Xie Shu ordered the guards to step forward to block the group of people, and asked the coachman to drive over.

The leader flashed his white blade, and slashed at Che Yu, the horse had one leg cut off, neighing wildly, the rest of the horses were panicked, the car was about to fall over, Mubai pulled Xie Shu to jump get off and go.

"Young master, run quickly, your subordinates are blocking them."

Xie Shu immediately ran towards Miyagi.

Xie Minghe's people were afraid that she would run out of control, so they shot an arrow. Xie Shu injured his shoulder blade and fell to the ground, excruciatingly painful.

The leader scolded fiercely: "Who told you to shoot and hurt people! Your lord ordered to capture them alive!" After speaking, he immediately rode his horse to arrest people.

Xie Shu fell on the ground panting heavily, it seems that today is doomed.

The sound of horseshoes from behind gradually approached, and suddenly there was a more rapid sound of horseshoes coming from the front.Xie Shu looked up and saw a masked man in black riding a horse. He pulled her onto the horse with a whip in one hand, rushed forward, and pulled the leader off the horse with another whip.

Seeing this, the rest of the people rushed to stop him. Xie Shu lowered his body as much as possible so as not to hinder the man's attack, but the injury on his shoulder was really painful.

The man also saw it, swung his whip to repel the two attacking people, held her shoulder blade with one hand, and broke the feather arrow with the other hand.

"Your Majesty's Imperial Forest Army is here, who dares to make a mistake!"

General Hussars Yang Qiao came hurriedly with his men, Xie Minghe's men thought they had alarmed the emperor, got on their horses and left, not daring to stay any longer.At this moment, Xie Shu was held down by the man in black and galloped away.

Mubai watched his young master disappear before his eyes in broad daylight, dumbfounded.

The horse is a war horse, and it travels extremely fast. It took a shortcut from Taishe to Wuyi Lane, and rushed straight to the side door of Wei's old house before stopping.Xie Shu was knocked to the ground and almost vomited immediately, because he lost too much blood and fainted.

Fu Xuan followed closely in his carriage and jumped down the driveway: "General Yang led people to stabilize the place, and no one saw that it was the county king who rescued him."

Wei Yi got off the horse, carried Xie Shu into the mansion without even taking off his face scarf, "Go and tell Mu Bai secretly, and ask him to bring someone to pick up Xie Shu at night."

Fu Xuan took the order and left.

Wei Yizhi put Xie Shu on the couch, and wanted to call the doctor, but he decided to do it himself after being careful.

The couch was already stained with a lot of blood, Xie Shu didn't run too far at that time, the arrow shot too deep.

Wei Yizhi brought hot water, afraid of hurting her, he cut the cuffs of the court clothes vertically with a dagger, and then went to untie her skirt.Xie Shu was dressed very thickly, apart from the heavy court clothes, there were two layers of middle clothes.It was only then that Wei Yizhi realized that she was thinner than she looked.

Before the last layer of clothes was lifted off, his hands paused, and he continued when he saw that the bleeding was not stopped.

Despite identifying her gender, actually seeing that thick corset left him breathless.

Xie Shu, she is really a woman...

At this moment, there were mixed feelings, joy, surprise, and anger, all mixed together in the end, and the impact was almost blank in my mind.

When Fu Xuan returned, Xie Shu's wound had already been bandaged.Wei Yizhi closed the doors and windows tightly, and sat in front of the couch, looking at her sleepy face.

No wonder the last time I felt her chest was as flat as a man's. It turned out that the chest protector was as tight as armor. The reason why she was injured this time was because the feather arrow just hit the shoulder blade and the joint of the arm.

He opened Xie Shu's placket, looked at the white strips that were faintly exposed under the breastplate, and knew that she was still wrapping her breasts inside.

His hand was suddenly held, Wei Yizhi raised his eyes, and Xie Shu was looking at him coldly.

"Have you seen it all?"

Wei Yizhi pursed his lips: "I saw it, and I guessed it a long time ago."

"I knew you would guess."

Wei Yizhi looked at her in surprise.

"You have been asking the bottom line, and sooner or later it will be exposed to you." Xie Shu sat up holding his wound: "What do you want?"

"What do I want?"

"What do you want in exchange for keeping the secret?"

Wei Yizhi laughed: "I want you, will you give it too?"

Xie Shu suddenly untied his chest with one hand.

A large piece of fair skin fell into his eyes, Wei Yizhi suffocated slightly, couldn't help but reached out and touched her collarbone, his fingers slowly slid down to the edge of the white cloth wrapped around her chest, saw Xie Shu turn his face away, and retracted it hand.

"It seems that you are very guarded against me. After all, you still don't believe that I am sincere to you."

"I believe it." Xie Shu looked at him and sneered: "I just don't believe that sincerity can last long. My father was also sincere to my mother back then, but when we were starving in Jingzhou, where was he?"

Wei Yizhi was slightly stunned: "So that's the case."

Xie Shu mocked, "How long can you be sincere to me?"

"I don't need to answer, because you don't believe what you say." Wei Yizhi covered her clothes, "If I'm not wrong, you transferred Wang Jingzhi back to Jiankang just to guard against me. Now the Wang family has plans to revitalize it. The situation has not yet become a climate, if I get rid of you at this time, His Majesty will support the Wang family to deal with me, right?"

Xie Shu smiled: "It seems that I don't need to commit myself to perfection."

"Of course not." Wei Yizhi leaned forward: "This kind of thing, of course, is yours and my wish."

Xie Shu looked as usual, but a slight blush appeared on his face uncontrollably.

Wei Yizhi smiled and sat back: "Don't worry, if I really want to expose you, why should I intercede for you? Since you became prime minister, although the Xie family's power is not as prosperous as Xie Mingguang was alive, the family tends to be balanced. Fewer fights. I don't want to break this balance yet, so I don't want to change the prime minister yet."

"I hope you are telling the truth."

In fact, Xie Shu also understood that if he really wanted to expose himself, he would not save himself today, and the doctor would see his injury and it would be obvious to the world.She just always has some precautions, which is the cautiousness that has been cultivated over the years.

She suddenly thought of something: "By the way, you seem to have known about the Xie family's infighting for a long time. Who told you?"

"I knew it a long time ago, but I was afraid that it would be too late to reveal my identity, and I didn't expect to hurt you." Wei Yizhi took out a letter from his sleeve: "You can see who told me after reading it."

Xie Shu lowered his head and read the letter, unexpected but reasonable.

In the middle of the night, Mubai rushed over and saw Xie Shu sitting on the couch with a pale face, extremely nervous: "Young Master, is the injury serious?"

"It's okay, is there something going on in the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

"It's okay, but Mr. Ran is not here. Taiwei Huan and Mr. Huan rushed over, worrying about your safety, and have been waiting until now."

Xie Shu nodded, holding his hand to prepare to go out, Wei Yizhi stood outside the courtyard and sent him to the gate of the mansion.

Mubai helped Xie Shu into the car, and asked in a low voice, "My lord was injured, did the King of Wuling find anything?"

Xie Shu sat down and sighed: "He already knows."

Mubai was shocked, and when the car started to drive, he said quietly: "Do you want my subordinates to take him..."

"can you do it?"

Mubai lowered his head: "Then...invite other experts?"

"If he dies, the Xie family will still be unlucky, and even the whole Dajin will be unlucky."

Mubai scratched the carriage with hatred: "Could it be that he is allowed to hold the young master's handle?"

Xie Shu clutched his wound: "Don't worry, just wait and see."

Huan Ting and Huan Peisheng were still in Xie Shu's study, one was already drooling on the desk, and the other was worried while holding a teacup.

Xie Shu went back to his room first and changed his clothes. When he arrived in the study, Huan Peisheng immediately stood up: "The prime minister is probably back. I heard from Mubai that you met an assassin on your way down today?"

Huan Ting was woken up, and he rushed forward without even wiping his saliva: "Is my cousin okay? Have those assassins been caught?"

"It's not an assassin, it's Xie Minghe's." Xie Shu sat on the couch clutching his wound, "He didn't do it alone, it was just led by him. There are several elders in the Xie family, and none of them are missing."

Huan Peisheng was very surprised: "What are the elders of the Xie family doing against the prime minister?"

Xie Shu ordered Mubai to make tea first, and then said: "It is because I am worried about killing Xie Min and Xie Chun, but it must be because there is a dirty background, and even everyone is taking advantage of the embezzlement of tax money. , worried about being caught out by me."

Huan Ting said bluntly: "How could this be? Aren't they harming their own people? How is it different from a mess of loose sand?"

Huan Peisheng immediately winked at him, saying that it is not respectful enough to talk about the rights and wrongs of his family.

"You are right. When I went to Kuaiji, what worried me most about the Wang family was their family unity. As for the Xie family, because of my background, those elders never accepted me. Now they want to re-elect someone to do it. The prime minister." Xie Shu sneered twice: "It's a pity that your majesty is not a fool, he didn't really abolish my position as prime minister, he only took back my power to take charge of the government, so that as long as he doesn't change people as prime minister for a day, he can control the government by himself Great power."

Huan Ting looked worried: "Then cousin, can you regain power in the future?"

Xie Shu took the tea offered by Mubai, staring down at his own eyes in the tea: "Who knows."

Candles were brightly lit in the Drunken Horse Pavilion. After the elders of the Xie family sat at the table, the dishes had hardly moved since the evening banquet, and almost everyone frowned.

Xie Minghe had just punished the people who went to catch Xie Shu in the daytime, and returned to the hall angrily: "Hmph, these servants are becoming more and more useless. If they can't catch anyone, they will say that there is a black-clothed masked boy who saved them." Man, I think it's all excuses!"

Xie Mingzhang, who was sitting on his right hand, said, "Brother, have you ever thought that the news might have been leaked? Otherwise, how could Xie Shu not be able to catch us if we acted so quickly?"

Xie Minghe frowned: "No way."

Xie Ran, who was playing the piano leisurely at the last table, suddenly said: "I heard that cousin Jun went out to drink with Yang Saw yesterday?"

The cousin Jun he was talking about was Xie Minghe's eldest son Xie Jun.Yang Saw made friends with Huan Ting, Xie Ran knew there was something in his words, Xie Jun jumped up immediately: "What do you mean? Do you mean that I leaked the news?"

Xie Ran bowed his head and plucked the strings, the sound of the piano was not disturbed at all: "I just said that cousin, you went out to drink with Yang Saw, as for whether you said anything after drinking, I don't know."

"you……"

Xie Minghe was upset when he heard that, and glared at his son: "It's okay to go out recently!"

Seeing that his father also doubted him, Xie Jun gouged Xie Ran angrily.

Xie Mingzhang said: "Originally we hoped to capture Xie Shu alive and force him to write a memorial and take the initiative to let the virtuous, but this time we failed. The Prime Minister's Mansion is very strict, and we have no chance."

Xie Jun sneered: "Tomorrow I will take someone there personally, will he still go to court?"

Xie Minghe shook his head: "The same trick won't work anymore. Xie Shu will definitely take more precautions, not to mention it's already very risky to do it near Miyagi in broad daylight."

Xie Ran answered: "That's right, Yang Qiao has ordered people to guard the road, so it must be the King of Wuling who helped him. The King of Wuling and the Prime Minister have always been brothers in private. Didn't he plead for the Prime Minister today? If you want to move the Prime Minister, I'm afraid it will be difficult."

Xie Mingzhang said angrily, "Why didn't you say that before?"

Xie Ran held down the strings, with a look of surprise on his face: "Huh? My nephew said it, don't you cousins ​​remember?"

"..." Several old people looked at each other in blank dismay. Could it be that they are getting old and forgetful?

Xie Ran sighed, looked at Xie Ming and congratulated him: "Don't worry, Uncle, there are so many people in the Xie family, most of them listen to the elders, with their support, the position of prime minister must be yours."

Xie Minghe waved his hands again and again: "What are you talking about? I'm already old, and I agreed to recommend you in the first place."

Xie Ran shook his head: "My nephew has neglected his talents and virtues. Although he is loyal to Xie's family, he is not his own. My cousin is the most suitable."

Xie Minghe pointed at him with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, not many people know that you are not your own, you are flattering me." Having said that, he smiled happily.

The people present also laughed together, Xie Minghe is Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it.

Back then when Xie Mingguang was on his way to the sky, Xie Minghe, a concubine cousin, had a bumpy career.He had always thought highly of himself, and finally got through until Xie Mingguang fell ill, thinking that there was no one in Xie's family, and Xie Mingguang would hand over the position of prime minister to himself, but he didn't expect that he would have an extra grandson.

Now that Xie Minghe is old, he just wants to win for his house. If he gets the position of prime minister, his house will also be prosperous.

Xie Ran is a smart person and did not disappoint him.Now he began to think about how to get the emperor to hand over the position of Lushang Shushi as the prime minister.

It was almost time for Huan Ting and Huan Peisheng to leave, and soon it was time for the morning court. Although Xie Shu was injured, he insisted on going to the court, and he only got up after a while.

Mubai is very worried, if this continues, when will the injury heal.

Just as he was about to change the dressing, Fu Xuan came suddenly, bringing with him a lot of wound medicine.

"The prince said that these medicines have a miraculous effect on arrow wounds." He took one of the bottles and handed it to Mubai: "This must be used, it can relieve pain, and it can also relieve itching after the wound scabs."

Xie Shu said with emotion: "Zhongqing has a heart, he is willing to help me like this, I really didn't expect it."

"Naturally, the king of the county wants to help the prime minister. He told the prime minister..." Fu Xuan realized halfway through his speech that he should not talk nonsense, and changed his words: "Yesterday, Captain Xiaoqi Xie Yun led the Imperial Forest Army to seal off the roads near Taishe. The king of the county In order to save the prime minister, he ordered General Yang Qiao to lead the guards of the capital to pretend to be the Imperial Forest Army and forced them to retreat. I don't know if this move will cause His Majesty's suspicion."

Xie Shu was taken aback, he didn't expect things to be so twists and turns, Wei Yizhi didn't say a word.

Speaking of this Xie Yun, she was the one who single-handedly selected him.Because of his good martial arts, even though he is a distant relative, he has been reused.Xie Yun is an upright person, and he doesn't seem like a person who will repay kindness and revenge. It seems that these elders are really powerful in the family.

After Fu Xuan left, Xie Shu handed over the list written before going to bed to Mubai: "Tell Qi Zheng to meet the people above, no matter what method you use, you must persuade them to come to see me at the prime minister's mansion tonight."

Mubai took it over and asked: "Young Master has not said how to deal with Young Master Ran, so you just let him treat you like this?"

"Don't worry about him, it's important to do business first."

Go out and go to court, everything is as usual.

(End of this chapter)