Farming game: raise cubs with equipment

Chapter 857 Bribery
Yan Qinghe walked out of the palace without looking back, Su Ming was waiting beside the carriage outside the palace, when he saw Yan Qinghe coming, he quickly went up to meet him.

"My lord, brother Wang invites you to meet in the store."

Yan Qinghe nodded.

Su Ming raised the car curtain for him, Yan Qinghe was about to go up, suddenly thought of something, turned his head to Su Ming and said: "Now we can release the news that Sheng Fang lost his virginity to the old beggar."

Su Ming was slightly taken aback: "Yes, my lord."

Yan Qinghe got into the carriage, and Su Ming followed him in. His duty was to protect Yan Qinghe, so naturally he followed closely.

When the carriage turned a corner, Yan Qinghe entered a private room on the second floor of the restaurant.

Su Ming opened the curtain for Yan Qinghe, and Wang Linzheng was sitting at one end of it. When he saw Yan Qinghe entered, he quickly got up to greet him.

"grown ups."

Yan Qinghe pressed his hand down, signaling him to sit down.

"Is there any clue to what I asked you to investigate?"

"My lord, according to your instructions, I went to investigate the cases handled by Sheng Shangshu over the years, and found something interesting." Wang Lin poured a cup of tea and handed it over.

Ever since Wang Lin became the Guozijian sacrificial wine, although he had nothing to do with Yan Qinghe on the surface, in fact they all kept it in private.

In order not to arouse the emperor's suspicion, the two families seldom moved around, and only asked Su Ming to tell the story when something happened.

This time Yan Qinghe asked Su Ming to investigate the case handled by Sheng Shangshu, but in fact he asked Wang Lin to investigate in a disguised form.

Originally, it would be enough for Su Ming to tell the story on his behalf, but the matter involved a lot, and Wang Lin was afraid that Su Ming could not explain clearly in a few words, so he came to the meeting in person.

"First of all, Sheng Shangshu's promotion was due to a major event..." Seeing Yan Qinghe taking the tea, Wang Lin said slowly: "When he was still a doctor in the Ministry of Punishments, Chen Yi, the governor of Wenzhou, sued the then Minister of Rites for accepting the imperial examinations. Bribery, that is, the Minister of Rites who caused me to fail the ranking..."

Yan Qinghe stopped drinking tea, looked up, and saw Wang Lin's face was calm: "However, the minister of the Ministry of Rites accused the other party of being corrupt and perverting the law, and Governor Chen remonstrated with His Majesty to death. At this time, those officials who took bribes came forward one after another. His Majesty was furious when he accused Governor Chen, and ordered the right minister to thoroughly investigate the matter. At this time, Sheng Shangshu, who was still a doctor in the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, found 20 taels of silver from Governor Chen's mansion. At the same time, the governor of Governor Chen's mansion also testified that it was Governor Chen Accepting bribes, so the evidence is convincing, all seventeen members of Governor Chen's family were beheaded in half, and I heard that the blood on the guillotine did not fade after three washes."

Wang Lin's mouth was dry, and he poured himself a cup of tea and took a few sips.

"Because of his meritorious service in solving the case, Sheng Shangshu was promoted from the Lang of the Ministry of Punishment to the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Not long after, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment died of illness, and the right minister recommended him to His Majesty, so he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Punishment."

Yan Qinghe stroked the rim of the cup, thinking carefully: "What about the imperial examination bribery case?"

"At that time, His Majesty asked the right minister to check it, but it was finally attributed to framing, and there was no evidence, so the matter was left alone... After that, most of the cases Sheng Shangshu dealt with were wealthy businessmen being robbed , all ended in robbery by robbers..."

"Interesting." Yan Qinghe pursed his lips.

Wang Lin pulled his lips, showing a mocking smile: "It's more than interesting, I think the water inside is deep..."

Yan Qinghe glanced at him and said: "Follow up these two incidents to see if there are any survivors from that year. If you find out, you must protect them well."

"It's been a few years. People who knew about it died for various reasons, and there may be very few people who survived..."

"It doesn't matter, the best way to find out, even if there is no such person, I have to let this person appear..." Yan Qinghe gave him a deep look.

Wang Lin understood: "I will try my best."

……

Pei House.

Pei Xiuyuan was kneeling on the futon of the ancestral hall when the servant sneaked in and called out softly, "Master..."

"Go back quickly, if your father sees it, you will be punished." Pei Xiuyuan said.

The little servant raised his head and smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry, young master, the little one sneaked in while the people around were changing shifts."

"Is it that easy?" Pei Xiuyuan didn't believe it, the rules at home were strict, how could it be so easy to sneak in.

The little servant rubbed his head: "The little one doesn't know, it's because he didn't see anyone that he dared to sneak in."

Pei Xiuyuan was surprised.

"Okay, young master, don't worry about so much, let's eat first, and the patrollers will come back." The boy took out two honey bread wrapped in oiled paper and a few small jellies from his chest, and handed them to him. "I know that the young master likes to eat food from restaurants, so I bought this from the restaurant specially, young master, let's eat it while it's hot."

As he spoke, the boy was still drooling.

Pei Xiuyuan took out one and handed it to him: "I have a small appetite, so I can't eat so much, so you should have one too."

The little servant swallowed hard: "Master, you can eat, the little one has already eaten."

Seeing that he still didn't answer, Pei Xiuyuan had no choice but to eat by himself.

"Young Master, eat slowly, the little one will go back first." The young servant tiptoed to look outside, and found that there was still a distance, and the patrolling people were coming back, so he hurriedly said.

Pei Xiuyuan nodded: "Be careful, go back quickly."

While there were not many people, the servant ran out lightly.

Pei Xiuyuan tore a small piece of bread and slowly chewed it in his mouth.

After the boy closed the door, the ancestral hall fell into darkness again, with only two sporadic candles flickering. These two lights were specially left for those who made mistakes to reflect on themselves.

After quickly passing through the corridor, the boy came to the front yard garden, and saw that Father Pei was watering his flowers and plants, and hurriedly said: "Master, the food has been delivered."

Father Pei put down the kettle and sighed: "This child, why doesn't he like Fang'er? This is a marriage arranged by his mother..."

Since Pei Xiuyuan came back, he directly told Father Pei that he didn't like Sheng Fang.

This surprised Pei's father, who had always been optimistic about the two children, and accused him of treachery, but he didn't explain it. In the end, Pei's father locked him in the ancestral hall and thought about his mistakes behind closed doors, saying that he would let him out after he thought it through.

The boy wanted to defend his young master, but when he opened his mouth, he remembered Pei Xiuyuan's warning, clenched his fists, and finally shut up.

Father Pei said to himself: "You think Xiuyuan has a concubine, right? Otherwise, why would the marriage be ruined all of a sudden?"

As he said that, Father Pei turned his head and looked at the boy: "You have always been close to him, tell me the truth, is there someone outside Xiuyuan?"

The servant hurriedly waved his hands, thinking about excuses for his young master: "Master, don't worry, the young master is definitely not that kind of person, maybe it's the young lady of the Sheng family who is not worthy?"

His voice became lower and lower. Father Pei was old and his ears were not very good, so he couldn't hear the last two sentences clearly.

Just as he was about to ask, the guard ran over panting suddenly, and said loudly: "The big thing is bad, master, the Sheng family... the young lady of the Sheng family lost her virginity to an old beggar... the whole capital spread the word! "

Father Pei was so startled that the kettle in his hand spilled all over the ground without realizing it, he hurried over and grabbed the guard's collar: "What did you say? Who is it?"

"The Sheng family... Miss Sheng Fang of the Sheng family!" The guard was held tightly by Father Pei, and he choked and replied with difficulty.

Father Pei quickly let go of the guard, staggered backwards, and the servant quickly caught him: "Master, are you alright?"

Father Pei pushed his hand away, and continued to ask the guard: "When did this happen?"

"Back to the master, it happened to be the day when the young master came to propose marriage!"

Father Pei's pupils shrank suddenly, and he looked at the boy: "You also know about this?"

"Back to the master, the young one came to propose marriage with the young master that day, but was rejected by Sheng Shangshu. The young one listened to the meaning between the lines that the young master's family background is not worthy of Miss Sheng's family. The young master is afraid that if you tell you the truth, you will go find her." Sheng Shangshu's theory, and at that time, Sheng Shangshu happened to know that his beloved daughter was defiled, and his spirit was hit, so the young master asked me to help and said that he himself didn't like Miss Sheng's family, so you would feel guilty for breaking the contract , I dare not go to Sheng Shangshu to confront, doing so will prevent the two of you from colliding and hurting the peace of two generations." The young servant did not dare to hide anything, and explained the matter completely.

"Xiuyuan, why is he so stupid!" Father Pei exclaimed in pain.

"The young master said that if Mrs. Sheng hadn't saved our wife back then, he wouldn't have been born, so it's just to repay the kindness of saving my life." The boy explained.

Back then, Father Pei had a higher official position than Father Sheng. When Mrs. Pei was traveling, she was bitten by a poisonous snake in the forest. It was Mrs. Sheng who rescued her. Became a handkerchief hand for many years.

Pei Xiuyuan was born a few years earlier than Sheng Fang, and he often played together when he was young, and always regarded himself as an older brother. Later, when he learned of this verbal engagement, he treated Sheng Fang even more carefully.

If things continue to develop, it will be a childhood sweetheart, and it will be a beautiful thing.

But later, as Father Sheng's officialdom became bigger and bigger, gradually, the two families became inactive.

When it was time for Pei Xiuyuan to get married, Father Pei originally wanted to find someone for Pei Xiuyuan, but suddenly remembered the childhood engagement, so he asked Pei Xiuyuan to ask the Sheng family what they meant. If the woman had no intentions, the marriage would be discarded. Then getting married, after all, fulfilled the friendship at that time.

Who knew it would be such a thing.

"Xiuyuan, this child, thinks a lot since he was a child. Just like his mother, he always thinks about others, but he owes himself. I never thought that the Sheng family would do this. The family has no intentions, that's all!" Father Pei couldn't help sighing when he remembered that his son hadn't said a word about Sheng Fang, but instead took all the blame on himself.

"Master! Someone from the Sheng family is here!" Just as he was speaking, the porter came to report.

Father Pei asked, "Who's here?"

"It's Sheng Shangshu!"

"I didn't look for him, but he came to look for me instead!" Father Pei sneered, "Do you really think that I, Pei Yong, have no temper? Let him in, I want to see what Sheng Quan has to say !"

(End of this chapter)