Chapter 105: Severance (3)
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Steward Liu's face drooped suddenly, and he turned around to look at Steward Zhang's face, which was also ugly. Steward Zhang broke into a cold sweat, raised his hand and wiped his head, and then he woke up like a dream, and said a little panicked: "What can I do now? I didn't expect the sixth girl to have such a blunt personality, and there is no room for anything! If you wait for Steward Qin to come back, how can you explain it to him?"
Steward Liu hurriedly prevaricated and complained to him: "It's not all you, you have to look down on the sixth girl when she is young, and she still has old tea! Do you think that the concubine girl who is favored by Mrs. Hou Ye in the palm of his hand can casually ask you to bully you like this? I look at the sixth girl like a lady! You have forgotten how Madame killed chickens and set an example for the monkey when Madame was just in power? If the sixth girl goes to Madame to cry and complain about her grievances, don't ask for the errands of the two of us!"
Steward Zhang's eyes flickered, and he looked very uneasy.
He and Steward Liu are the sons of the Qin family in the Cheng'an Hou Mansion, and the younger family lives in the Songguo Hutong behind the Cheng'an Hou Mansion, when the lady was in power, he was just a small errand boy in the front yard, and at that time it was Mrs. Sun's dowry, there were a few stewards in charge of the outer courtyard, thinking that the new lady was not very old, and the means were not hard, and the inside and outside secretly took a lot of good things in the house and got them outside to sell for money.
Those days were not peaceful, Mrs. Sun often entered the palace, and the affairs in the house were not well managed, so she turned a blind eye to the past. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Wang's vigorously and resolutely caught out three stewards, five little maids, and even found out two of the grandmothers with heads and faces in the backyard, and made Mrs. Sun so big and faceless, but because the marquis had just inherited the title, and the lady of the inner courtyard was Liwei, she waved her hand and all of them were at the disposal of the Wang family.
Steward Zhang thought about it at that time, the stewards who usually had infinite scenery were suddenly like prisoners under the stairs, and were driven to Zhuangzi by the Wang family to do farm work, in case the six girls told the Wang family that they were so arrogant and unruly in front of the little master, what would happen to him in the future-
His body was a spirit, and the cold sweat on his head was pouring out.
The two complained to each other for a long time, and Steward Liu said: "So far, we can only lower our faces and go to accompany the sixth girl, while it's still early--isn't your mother-in-law watching the treasury in the inner courtyard? Let's sort out the gift list and accounts, and let her take it to beg the sixth girl, in order to keep the errand!"
Steward Zhang thought about how unkind and impolite he looked at the six girls, he couldn't help but stomp his feet, nodded distraughtly, and the two hurriedly arranged the gift list, and hurriedly asked the mother-in-law of Steward Zhang's family to take it and send it to the six girls' Yuhua Pavilion.
It was also God's help, until after lunch, when it was time to rest, Mrs. Zhang came back and said to Steward Zhang, "The sixth girl accepted the gift list, and a few girls in the house joked and gossiped, and there was no sulking at all, you and Lao Liu can relax." ”
The two stewards were able to put their minds at ease.
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The emperor saw Qin Weien in the Imperial Palace, and Qin Weien took out a letter from his sleeve: "The letter from home that was sent back quickly, the minister hurriedly glanced at it twice, and felt that it was a little strange, so he brought it to the emperor to take a look." ”
The Emperor took the letter and opened it to look closely.
When he silently closed the letter, his brow was full of melancholy.
Qin Weien glanced at the emperor's face, was silent for a moment, and asked, "Does the emperor think that the officialdom in Jiangnan is even more filthy than you think in your heart?"
"When I sent Liang Qing down to Jiangnan that day, I knew with him that this murder was very good, and I am afraid that there will be no return. I asked him at the time, but what did I have to arrange for him, and guess what he said?"
The emperor's tone was a little stunned, as if he had fallen into deep memories, Qin Weien stood beside him, silent.
"He said, 'The emperor trusts Weichen, and Weichen should share his worries for the emperor, and Weichen's family affairs will naturally be arranged properly, and he will definitely not let the emperor worry. If the minister is humiliated by the mission, can not complete the emperor's entrustment, can not come back, but also ask the emperor to secretly send someone to take the little girl to the palace to bless one or two, she has the ability to never forget since she was a child, familiar with the hand, the emperor can from the minister wrote to her family letters, explore the truth one or two. ’”
After speaking, the emperor sighed heavily, "Unfortunately, Liang Qing's words became a prophecy, I never expected that he would change his son's identity early in the morning and take it with him; Only Miss Liang didn't know the details, I sent someone to rescue her into the palace, summoned her, and in the face of great calamity, she was able to be calm in front of me, quite her father's demeanor, and her ability to never forget was really right, and the next day she wrote down the contents of all the letters and presented them to me for seeing. Liang Qing's hidden head and tail were revealed, and I read all the letters, and I probably knew about the difficulties of his investigation in Jiangnan. ”
The Emperor's voice was very low, slowly recalling, speaking slowly. Qin Weien listened quietly, thinking to himself, I am afraid that the emperor has been hiding these words in his heart all along, and he has not been able to say them.
After saying a long paragraph, the emperor seemed to be a little tired, and his voice gradually faded, but his eyes swept over the letter on the table, and his eyebrows were suddenly stained with an angry look: "Liang Qing is loyal and good in governing the world, the Liang family is full of clear streams, Mrs. Liang can calmly die with a weak female stream, Liang Gongzi endured humiliation and burden, and now he still doesn't know his whereabouts! But I can only let the world judge their character, and I can't justify their name! The lonely and capable minister that I have found with great difficulty has been framed to death by such a group of hateful scum, and his family has been ruined, and his reputation has been lost! How can I swallow this breath?"
The indignation is very strong, full of sadness and humiliation, and it is difficult to vent.
Once the Son of Heaven could be forced to look like this by a group of gentlemen, Qin Weien shook his head silently in his heart, and also felt uncomfortable for the emperor, so he stepped forward and comforted him in a low voice.
"The emperor is not angry, be careful of being angry and ruining your body. Xiao Zheng has been in Jinyiwei for many years, so he naturally doesn't have to worry about the means of verifying unjust, false and wrongful cases. The people in Jiangnan don't know much about the dog, and they will definitely despise it, and the dog has been taken by the minister to walk around the rivers and lakes since he was a child, intrigues, fists and feet, and the minister's confidence is not a problem for him. When Lord Liang's case comes to light, the emperor posthumously crowns Mrs. Liang, corrects the name of the Liang family, favors Liang Gongzi, and then chooses a good husband for Miss Liang to marry--Lord Liang knows that he will definitely feel the emperor's grace. ”
The emperor sat at the large table of gold-painted nanmu and nodded obscurely: "I sent them, naturally I believed them." Both of them are young and promising, and the pedantic old bones in Jiangnan will definitely look down on them. ”
That's what I want.
This time, I must pull up the rotten wood and rotten roots that have corrupted the officialdom.
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