in the sound of swallows

Chapter 39

Shen Guiyan looked at Gu Chaobei in surprise, she was not used to him being so upright.But he was able to share his voice with her like this, and she felt a lot more at ease in her heart.

"Young Master Gu, the refugee made a mistake first, how can you ask me to forgive you?" Jing Zhaoyin said helplessly.

"Your Excellency's words are very true." Mrs. Shen raised her chin and said, "This matter is clearly someone deliberately embarrassing, under the sign of calling for grievances for the refugees, but in fact they want to offend the next, and make things difficult for me. His heart is really damning!"

"The next offense is the one above?" Shen Guiyan said solemnly: "The refugees just reprimanded and spit on them, and did not hurt their mother at all, so why were they put in prison? Didn't mother insult them with words?"

"What is the identity of Madam, if you dare to offend, naturally you should be put in the prison!" Xiurong who was standing behind stepped forward and said, "It's fine if ordinary people scold each other, but it's not right for ordinary people to hurt officials and family members with their words. close?"

"So what about officials and people?" Shen Guiyan took a deep breath and said, "Didn't the emperor once say that officials and people are treated equally?"

Bao Shilan snorted coldly: "It's really ignorant to say anything. Please judge the case, my lord's official seal is placed here. It depends on whether you want to respect the face of an official or protect the life of a pariah. !"

"My lord has the blue sky above his head, so he should be fair and impartial." Shen Guiyan looked up at Jing Zhaoyin: "My lord, please make a clear decision!"

Jing Zhaoyin was extremely embarrassed, looked at the official seal in Mrs. Shen's hand, hesitated for a while, and finally said: "The refugee committed the crime first, so he cut off the tongue of the refugee who insulted his wife and spared his life. Is that good?"

Shen Guiyan's eyes widened: "Cut off your tongue? If you scold an official, you will cut off your tongue. After that, who in the world will dare to speak the truth again? Your Excellency is not cutting off the tongue of a refugee, but cutting off the tongue of the common people." Courage."

"Madam Gu Fourth, don't say too much." Jing Zhaoyin patted the gavel: "This matter has nothing to do with Madam Young, please go back first."

"Why is it irrelevant?" Gu Chaobei said indifferently: "My husband and I are pleading for the lives of the people, can't we?"

Jing Zhaoyin was taken aback for a moment, then glanced at Gu Chaobei, as if he heard some big joke, he laughed for a while.

The dandy and coquettish young master Gu Si said that he wanted to plead for the people, and spread it to the drunken flower shade, don't laugh people's big teeth off!
Bao Shilan also snorted coldly, rolled his eyes and said, "If you can plead for the people, the Yellow River will have to retreat three hundred miles. Today's incident is full of uproar, and the faces of the two families are already ugly. Wait until you go back In the prime minister's mansion, you won't have any good fruit to eat, so let's calm down first!"

"Why can't there be good fruit to eat?"

Bao Shilan snorted: "Protecting the untouchables, going to court, and losing the face of the prime minister's mansion, what good fruit can there be?"

After answering this question, I realized that it was wrong.

Whose voice is this?

Everyone turned their heads to look back, only to see an old man in commoner clothes being put up, he was the one who asked the question just now.

"Bold, you still asked me about it!" Bao Shilan looked at him in embarrassment: "You are a troublemaker who deserves to have your tongue cut off!"

The commoner uncle looked at her innocently: "The next crime is the next one?"

Madam Shen turned her head away resentfully, unwilling to say any more, she will be laughed at for a long time for the humiliation in the street today, and if she talks to the untouchables, she should be laughed at even more.

"Don't the troublemakers kneel down?" Jing Zhaoyin patted the gavel.

Uncle Commoner glanced at the two people next to him, Shen Guiyan looked at him anxiously, and Gu Chaobei next to him lowered his head so that people couldn't see his eyes.

"Can I not kneel?" the uncle asked seriously.

"Why don't you kneel?"

Uncle Bu Yi didn't answer his words, but looked at Shen Guiyan and said, "Madam's words just now made me quite emotional."

Shen Guiyan looked at him in surprise.

"The emperor said that the officials and the people are treated equally. The officials don't listen to it, and the people can't believe it. There is only one woman in the world who believes it and dares to do it." The uncle in cloth sighed: "It's a pity, and it's really a blessing."

Jing Zhaoyin looked at him blankly for a while, but Mrs. Shen couldn't hold back anymore, she winked at Xiurong beside her, and Xiurong stepped forward and said angrily: "In the court, who wants to listen to your emotions. Jing Zhaoyin Master Yin has already ordered the tongue to be pulled out, what are you all doing blankly?"

The yamen servant next to him came up to hold the man down, and the pliers had already been brought up.Shen Guiyan frowned and wanted to say more, but Gu Chaobei held down his hand.

She turned her head to look at him suspiciously, but saw someone from outside barging into the courtroom with something.

"Ouch, what is this for!" The servant with his orchid fingers slapped his thigh, and came up with the guards behind him to surround the courtroom.

Everyone was startled, and Mrs. Shen took a few steps back, not knowing why.

The clothed uncle standing in the middle of the hall moved his tongue and said, "Sanquan, it's a good thing you came quickly, otherwise my tongue would have been pulled out to serve wine."

"Damn the slave!" Sanquan knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The escort came late, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

The people in the hall turned pale when they heard this, Shen Guiyan was startled, and looked at the uncle in common clothes in shock.

It turned out to be the emperor?
Jing Zhaoyin shivered and got down to kneel down. Mrs. Shen looked at the man suspiciously, and had no choice but to kneel down too. Only Gu Chaobei was not too surprised, and pulled Shen Guiyan to salute slowly.

The commoner uncle smiled and glanced at the people around him who suddenly fell short, and his eyes fell on Jing Zhaoyin: "Xu Wande?"

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Xu Wande's back: "The minister is here."

"I remember when Fu Xueshi recommended you last time, he said that you are the reincarnation of the blue sky, and you are not afraid of power." The smiling face turned cold: "That's really good."

"Your majesty, my humble minister..." Xu Wande knelt tremblingly, his teeth began to chatter.

Who knew something like this could happen?The emperor is not in the palace well, why did he come out?Even if you come out, you are still mixed with the refugees, and you are caught in a cell?
After Madam Shen realized it, her face was also pale, she looked around and didn't know what to do.He glanced at Shen Guiyan, feeling a little flustered.

Shen Guiyan never let go of her brows. She had seen this uncle before, and she only regarded him as an ordinary citizen, but she never thought he was the emperor.

This is miserable, and things are really messed up.

"Madam of Shen Shilang's family?" The emperor walked up to Mrs. Shen, and reached out to take the official seal she was holding.

Mrs. Shen hurriedly kowtowed: "The emperor forgives the sin, the concubine offended, the concubine didn't know it was you, today I really misunderstood..."

"Oh? Now you're the one who's 'low' again?" The emperor raised his eyebrows: "I used to say that others were untouchables, but now I call myself a lowly concubine. Sure enough, there is no such thing as absolute high or low in this world."

Mrs. Shen looked up at the official seal, wanted to reach out to take it but dared not, so she kowtowed, "Your Majesty, forgive me!"

The emperor snorted, threw the official seal and said: "I just came out to wander around by chance today. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. It's a novelty. The next crime, Mrs. Gu Sishao is right, the crime does not end with death. "

Shen Guiyan was taken aback for a moment, she lowered her head and dared not speak.

It is true that common people commit crimes against officials and do not deserve to die. Officials commit crimes against the emperor, but there is no good way to survive, and the emperor is quite open to it.

"Okay, I'm tired too." The emperor sighed and said, "The Empress Dowager's birthday is approaching, and things in the palace are very busy, so I'm going back. I won't get into the details of today's affairs."

Mrs. Shen breathed a sigh of relief, her body almost went limp.

It's like a disaster.

"But let's put this official seal here first." The emperor smiled, and took down the official seal from the trial hall by the way: "Master Xu's is also kept by me."

The heart that had just been let go lifted again, Madam Shen was almost out of breath, and looked up at the things in the emperor's hand with wide eyes.

Accepting the official seal...does it mean dismissal?

"For the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, Lord Shen is still resting at home, so there is no need to come." The emperor smiled gently, and turned to look at Shen Guiyan and Gu Chaobei: "You two are coming, I still have something to say to you." Tell me."

After speaking, without giving anyone a chance to react, he left with Sanquan.

The people in the hall flashed clean in an instant.

Mrs. Shen fell limply on the ground, and Xiurong behind her quickly came up to support her: "Madam!"

Shen Guiyan hadn't recovered yet, but Gu Chaobei smiled.

In the past, someone said that Miss Shen San had the fate of Wang Fu, but he still didn't believe it, but now he believed it a little bit. It took a lot of trouble to enter the palace, but now he got the chance by accident.

With his head down, Fourth Young Master Gu smiled indescribably happily.

Shen Guiyan looked at Mrs. Shen's appearance, but was a little worried.The matter of confiscating the official seal is too big. Although it is my father's fault to give the official seal to a woman at will, but if she is really dismissed, she should also have some responsibility.

"Let's go, let's go back." Gu Chaobei pulled her up: "You have done everything you should do, you didn't harm anyone, and you must be saved if you are saved, so what are you doing here?"

"Sir." Shen Guiyan frowned, and looked back at Mrs. Shen.

"Don't always take all the burdens on your shoulders." Gu Chaobei said: "It's very tiring."

Those who are capable will work hard, but if you worry about everything, you are afraid that you will become like Zhuge, and your life will not be long.

It is very lucky to be able to get the emperor's sideways glance today by mistake.For the rest, let's take a step at a time.

The news that the emperor was imprisoned by Mrs. Shen's family for a private visit spread quickly. Master Shen was so angry that he locked Mrs. Shen in the ancestral hall without food and drink, and went to the gate of the palace to kneel for a long time.

As a result, the emperor said he couldn't see him, and was busy with the queen mother's birthday.

Prime Minister Gu tried to intercede, but the emperor didn't have any ugly colors on his face, but he said: "My daughter's family is sensible, but an official makes me feel chilled. Shouldn't I be taught a lesson?"

So Prime Minister Gu knew that only Shen Guiyan could solve this matter.

The fourth son of the Gu family also had good luck, and was allowed to enter the palace. You know, even Gu Chaodong couldn't get in to the birthday banquet this time, and the prime minister actually wanted to take Gu Chaobei himself.

"Why?"

(End of this chapter)