Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 434

"What time is it?"

Fang Yiai wakes up leisurely, seeing Xie Yaohuan and Qin Jingniang, one on the left and one on the right, sleeping soundly, she can't help smiling slightly, a smug look flashed in her eyes.

Quietly put on her clothes, Fang Yiai pushed open the small window, saw light rain falling outside the window, murmured: "God is beautiful, this scenery is very beautiful."

Looking at the clouds, Fang Yiai's smiling face suddenly flashed a trace of melancholy, looking in the direction of Chang'an, the famous Fang Tongpan couldn't help but think of his relatives and friends in Chang'an.

"Father, mother, are you okay?"

"Shuer."

With the sound of the delicate Gao Yang, Fang Yiai's melancholy face changed into a smiling face, but in an instant, she sighed softly again.

"Hey, Shu'er Lizhi can't do things for the two of them."

Just when Fang Yiai's thoughts were wandering to Chang'an, a soft whisper behind him immediately pulled his mind back.

"Are the officials thinking about the two princesses and the father-in-law?"

Xie Yaohuan's cheeks were flushed, leaning gently on Fang Yi'ai's back, a pair of slender hands straightened her husband's hair, and said softly: "Long live, there should be an imperial decree coming soon, right?"

"Huan'er, are you awake?" Fang Yiai took a deep breath, calmed down slightly, turned around and held Xie Yaohuan in her arms, and said with some melancholy: "You guessed it all, no wonder I was a little afraid of my wife before."

Xie Yaohuan smiled like a flower and said: "Officials are afraid of others? I didn't know how to show pity last night."

"Huh? Huan'er walk up a few steps, let me see." Having said that, Fang Yiai's arms around Xie Yaohuan became tighter.

The two talked about themselves, seeing that Qin Jingniang was still asleep, they couldn't help looking at each other and chuckling, the meaning in their eyes couldn't be expressed in words.

"Huan'er, you've turned bad."

"It's all taught by the officials."

Reaching out to close the small window, Fang Yiai hugged Xie Yaohuan and said in a low voice, "It's a small matter for the magistrate of Caozhou to go to prison. I'm afraid that yesterday's waves will attract a big fish."

Xie Yaohuan paused for a moment, looked up at Fang Yiai, and said vaguely: "The official is talking about the eldest grandson Anye?"

"That's right, the eldest grandson Anye is the governor of Henan Province, and the prefect of Caozhou belongs to the Guanlongmen sect. I don't believe that the eldest grandson Anye would know nothing about the turmoil in Caozhou in the past two years."

Fang Yiai and Xie Yaohuan walked to the tea table arm in arm, poured two cups of fragrant tea, and began to discuss the connection between the eldest grandson Anye and the prefect of Caozhou.

"In the small Meiwu County, the prefect of Caozhou confiscated more than [-] taels of silver. In the huge Caozhou Prefecture, there are more than ten Meiwu counties." Fang Yiai took a sip of tea, held the teacup on the tip of his nose and sniffed lightly. , Jianmei was worried for a while, and I only hoped that Xie Yaohuan could give some suggestions.

Xie Yaohuan hesitated to speak, whispered for a while, and then said: "Didn't the officials let the armored soldiers guard the Caozhou government office yesterday? Just check the ledger, if there are any clues, it will definitely be revealed."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Fang Yiai to respond, Xie Yaohuan opened her lips again, "The reason why Mei Zhusheng can make false accounts is because Meiwu County is thin and sparsely populated. There are nearly ten prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Caozhou. Talent, I'm afraid it's beyond the reach of the whip."

"Well, I'll go to the government office to check the accounts later, but I'm afraid that I will alarm Cai Shaobing, and those armored soldiers who guard the gate are not confidantes after all, so we must be wary of them when using them."

"That's right, most of the clerks and servants in the Caozhou government's yamen are recruited by the Caozhou magistrate, and the only people available to the officials are Master Fan and the servants."

"I didn't mention it, I almost forgot Master Fan." Fang Yiai drank the fragrant tea in the cup, got up and said, "I'll take Master Fan to the government office to have a look, Huan'er's arrow wound hasn't healed yet. , let Jingniang do it if you have anything to do."

They dragged Fan in to the government office, and as soon as the two entered the main hall, they met Cai Shaobing who had been waiting here early in the morning.

Cai Shaobing went to report to his eldest grandson Anye overnight last night, and came back from the Daotai yamen on the fourth watch, without even closing his eyes, he hurried to the mansion yamen to see Fang Yiai coming.

"Brother Cai." Fang Yiai cupped his hands and stepped forward, seeing Cai Shaobing's tired face, he guessed his whereabouts in an instant.

With a sneer behind her back, Fang Yiai said with a normal expression: "Could it be that brother Cai didn't sleep all night last night?"

No matter how scheming Cai Shaobing was, the expression on his face could not be changed. Seeing that Fang Yi was puzzled, Cai Shaobing smiled wryly, shook his head and said, "It's an old problem, and I have to ask Tong San to take care of it some other day."

"Brother Cai, you are too polite, how dare you show off in front of Zhizhou with your three punches and two kicks?"

After finishing speaking, Fang Yiai took Fan Jin straight to the study room under the pretext of checking the water conservancy archives. As soon as she entered the door, her target was the master in charge of the money valley.

"Can you have the tax books and files of Caozhou Mansion in recent years?"

Facing Fang Yiai's inquiry, Master Qian Gu rolled his eyes a few times, and finally took out a stack of account books without saying a word, and handed it to Fang Yiai.

"This is the tax account book of the Caozhou government for the past two years, and there are many more sealed in the warehouse. The students will go and get it." Leaving a soft word, Master Qian Gu fled in despair, facing the man who even the prefect of Caozhou dared to beat Fiend, what can he do with a mere staff.

Fang Yiai didn't know anything about the account books, so she had to hand over the account books to Fan Jin, while she sat on the sidelines, emboldening Master Fan.

Because Fang Yiai was in charge, Cai Shaobing did not dare to stop him. It was not because he was afraid of Fang Yiai's talent or force, but because he was afraid that Fang Tongju would conjure up another imperial decree and let him become the magistrate of Caozhou. follow in the footsteps.

The sun was setting, and after a day of checking, Fan Jinlei's old eyes were dim, and his wrists were sore from flipping through the account books. If Fang Yi'ai hadn't been guarding here, he would have to go out for a stroll.

"Master Fan, how about this account book?"

"Report to Duke Ming, this account book is very correct."

"That's right?" Fang Yiai nodded slightly. Although he was a little discouraged, he also knew clearly that the magistrate of Caozhou would never keep his secrets in the open during his two years in office, and it would take a lot of money to check the accounts. Work done.

"Okay, after a day of checking, you are also tired, go back and rest."

Fang Yiai and Fan Jin sorted out the account books, walked out of the study room together, and said to the armored soldiers guarding the door: "After the yamen is locked at night, no one is allowed to enter the accounting room, do you hear me?"

"Yes, my lord."

After ordering the armor soldiers to prevent Cai Shaobing and others from acting as ghosts behind their backs, Fang Yiai wandered out of the government office and went home for dinner with Fan Jin.

For half a month, Fang Yiai checked the account books with Fan Jin during the day, and was busy with rain and dew at night. The life was peaceful, but the eldest grandson Anye and Cai Shaobing were surprisingly quiet. They found faults in the army, but the two of them sat firmly in the army's tent, and they didn't seem to be in a hurry.

Another day of hard work was in vain, Fang Yiai sat on the couch discouraged, and muttered: "What an old loach, half a month has passed, why is there no cheating at all?"

At this time, Xie Yaohuan's arrow wound had healed up, and she sat in front of the desk copying the ancient post, and said with a smile: "Officials, don't be impatient, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find the handle of eldest grandson Anye from Caozhou."

"When I left Beijing, the Empress also ordered me to be merciful to my eldest grandson Anye, but wasn't Long Live sending me to Henan Road just to restrain the Guanlongmen Clan? As the saying goes, if you kill a snake, you must be killed. Now the prefect of Caozhou has already obtained Sin, what can I do if I don’t go to find the eldest grandson Anye’s bad luck next time.”

"Although that is the case, you have to eat every bite. The eldest grandson Anye has been dormant in Henan Province for several years, and most of the officials under him are from the Guanlong faction. It is so-called that one hair can affect the whole body. I want to find his bad luck. , I have to figure it out slowly.”

Just as the two were chatting together, Qin Jingniang's voice suddenly came from outside the door, "Fang Lang! Sister Yaohuan!"

"Why is Jing Niang's tone so panicked? Could something have happened?"

Hearing Qin Jingniang's rare tone, Fang Yi'ai got up and stood up, and was about to go out to find out, when the half-hidden door was pushed open.

"Old brother!"

"brother!"

Bai Jian was dressed in casual clothes, standing at the door with a smile, looked at the housekeeper Yiai, and then her eyes fell on Xie Yaohuan.

"Huh? Could it be that our family came late? We missed the wedding reception of my brothers and younger siblings." Bai Jian gave a smirk, and immediately saw that Xie Yaohuan thought she was a woman from her dress and hair style.

As soon as this remark came out, Fang Yiai smiled awkwardly, and quickly changed the subject, "Why did my brother come to Caozhou?"

"Our family came here specially to announce the decree, telling the son-in-law to return to Chang'an." Bai Jian took out the bright and yellow imperial decree from the bundle behind her, shook it at Fang Yiai, and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)