It's early summer.

The smoke-blown person was drowsy, in the afternoon, Ling Qi drank a few sips of wine and was taking a nap in the room behind the patio of the winery, now he not only manages the sauce garden and the winery, but even the things on the Zhuangzi have been taken over by the second master, Aunt Li's arrogance is becoming more and more arrogant, the second wife has to pinch her nose and detour when she sees her, where do you dare to find her trouble? has been a concubine for so many years, and she is really proud of herself! In her own words: The old lady's earlier sins must now be repaid with ten times the benefits, otherwise it will be cheaper than the pair in the upper room!

Ling Qi didn't care about her, he still did his part, and the second master also trusted him more in his ability to do things, and in the next step, the leather business might also be handed over to him, and the second wife was angry and crushed her molars.

In a daze, I seemed to smell a burst of aroma, and I slowly opened my eyes and looked at it, and I was startled! In front of him, there was a girl in a white dress, with a long face and a pointed chin, dark eyes, red lips, a worried expression, her hands on her chest and looking at him, she was the second shopkeeper of Longxiang Pavilion!

"Can the girl not be so scary?" Ling Qi wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and sat up straight.

"I was encountering a fragrant thing in my dream, only to hear a delicate voice calling me, who knew that when I opened my eyes, it was a girl standing here, alas, ......" Ling Qi shook his head and sighed.

"Hmph, as soon as I hear this, I don't understand women, not what kind of woman is suitable for the sound of delicate glutinousness, there is a kind of cold like ice, it must be cool without a tail sound to be more attractive, and a mysterious woman, it must be with a sand sound to be unforgettable, what you heard in your dream just now is that I am calling you! It's just the sound of ordinary speech, where is it delicate? ”

"Xiaosheng is wrong, the girl will spare Xiaosheng!" Ling Qi hurriedly stood up and argued with Miao about what girl's voice was more beautiful, wasn't he asking for trouble?

"The girl came suddenly, but what's the matter?" Ling Qi saw that her expression was strange and asked.

"Guo Lingzi is the elder brother of Gongzi?"

"It's my brother!"

"How many days has Childe not seen him?"

"Well, this, it's been two or three days, right? My brother has always been away from home more often, and my father doesn't know where he is, and it's even more unclear below, why did the girl see him? ”

"I haven't seen him, do you know that he's in trouble?"

"What?" Ling Qi stood up, then sat down again.

"It's a tradition for my brother to get into trouble, so I guess it's the same this time!"

Miao Qinqin frowned slightly, looked at Ling Qi and said, "This time is really a monstrous disaster!" I heard that he has been detained and imprisoned! ”

"Detention and imprisonment?! What did he do? Can the girl tell me more? ”

"The two distinguished guests from our place today ......"

Guo Xiangkang stood at the door of the south study and waited for the face saint, and suddenly received a summons from the palace half an hour ago, and the emperor asked him to enter the palace immediately! He didn't dare to delay, he hurried to come, Wang Xian had already gone in to report, taking advantage of this time, he hurriedly wiped his sweat and tidied up his official uniform and hat, so as not to be disrespectful.

After standing like this for nearly half an hour, Wang Xian came out and bowed: "Lord Guo, the emperor invites you in, has Lord Guo brought his entourage?" ”

Guo Xiangkang said: "The entourage is waiting outside the palace gate"

"Hey! Go inside! ”

Entering the study, the emperor sat at the desk, the table was full of folds, and after saluting, the emperor did not speak for a long time, and Guo Xiangkang had to stand with his head down.

"When Guo Qing is free every day, can he teach his children and nephews?" Seeing that the emperor asked strangely, he glanced up at Shengyan slightly, but it was as usual.

"When I return to the emperor, I will teach my children when I am free"

"If the child is wrong, can you, the elder, be responsible?"

"Naturally! Children's mistakes are caused by the neglect of parental discipline. ”

The emperor patrolled in front of the bookshelf with his hands, "Do you remember the disaster caused by the flood in Jiangsu and Zhejiang half a month ago?" ”

"Chen remembers that this year's rainy season is early, the location of the rain belt is abnormal, and the torrential rain is repeated, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have caught up with the flood that occurs once in decades!"

"Well, what is the relationship between Wei Quan, the envoy of the government, and you? Can daily personal relationships be thick? ”

"Back to the emperor, the minister is not familiar with Wei Quan, and he has never had a personal relationship!"

"What about Liu Tongen from the household department, he always has some friendship with him, right? You are a jinshi of the same department as him."

"Liu Tongen and his ministers do have the same friendship"

"How often do you go on weekdays?"

"Back to the emperor, I rarely communicate on weekdays, and the ministers are not good at socializing......"

"It's a good one who is not good at socializing, what about Guo Lingzi? You can't say that you never communicate with this person, right? The Emperor slowly paced back to his desk.

"Lingzi?" Guo Xiangkang looked confused.

"Guo Lingzi is the eldest son of the second brother of the minister, and he is the nephew of the minister, I don't know why the emperor asked about him?"

The emperor looked at his surprised face left and right, and if he didn't really know it, he hid it too well.

"Originally, these three people, I would not have linked them together no matter what, but now they are a nest of snakes and rats to do this big thing of deceiving the upper and lower levels, and bringing disaster to the country and the people, I am afraid that they will not be able to pick them up!"

Guo Xiangkang was taken aback and said: "Your Majesty, the nephew of the minister is a grass citizen, and he does not have an official position, how can he join forces with the political envoy and the household servant to commit the crime?" ”

"Yes, what does it matter if he has no official position, isn't there still your uncle, as long as you open a convenient method, or even introduce him to him, what else can't you do?"

After speaking, he slammed a fold on the table on the ground, and said angrily: "This is the fold handed over by Liu Jingzhong, the right imperial historian, and you connived at your nephew, colluded with the officials of the household department and the general administration department, and used the floods in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to forge various evidence, make a fortune in the country, and defraud the imperial court of as much as 300,000 taels of disaster relief silver...... See for yourself! ”

Guo Xiangkang felt like he had been hit on the head, he couldn't believe his ears at all, he knelt on the ground, and stretched out his trembling hands to the book.

"Your nephew Guo Lingzi, Wei Yanping, the son of Wei Quan, and Liu Miao, the son of Liu Tongen, colluded with local officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to falsify and falsify the post-disaster briefing, disaster reporting, disaster survey, household review, and distribution of relief, and fabricated disaster scores, changing from level seven to level ten! falsifying declarations, overreporting the number of extremely poor victims by tens of thousands, overreporting the number of deaths by tens of thousands, fraudulently obtaining relief food, firewood, salaries, and relief funds, and fraudulently obtaining tax reductions and pensions......"

Ahem, when the emperor said this, he choked due to excessive excitement.

Wang Xian hurriedly stepped forward to hand over the tea, "The emperor speaks slowly, don't be in a hurry"

The emperor took a sip of tea and said in a loud voice: "Have you finished reading?" What else do you have to say now? If your nephew hadn't relied on you, the superintendent of the imperial history, how would he have befriended Wei Yanping and Liu Miao? Your brother is the political envoy of Xuancheng Zhili, and there are two important members of the imperial court in one door, and he has been favored by the emperor for many years, so he serves the court like this? ! ”

"That official Shangshu was greedy for thousands of taels of silver, and you impeached him with righteous words to show that you were an official and claimed his position, and now your nephew's big case involves hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, affecting people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang counties, prefectures, prefectures, and even the central ministries, all kinds of crimes, to name a few, how should you deal with it?!"

Guo Xiangkang was sweaty and dizzy, completely defeated by the sudden questioning, and just muttered: "This is impossible, impossible, how dare Ling Zi...... To commit such a heinous sin? ”

"You sell the name of righteousness, but secretly befriend the tiger and wolf, do the disadvantages of greed and cruelty, indulge in desires, and it is difficult for the common people to complain about the anger of the people without dismissal, and it is difficult to correct the discipline of the court!"

After Guo Xiangkang heard this, his face turned pale, and his body shook a few times before he could hold on.

The emperor returned to his desk and said coldly, "That's what I want to say, do you have anything to say?" ”

Guo Xiangkang said with a dead face: "The minister has no place to be ashamed, and he has nothing to say......

"In that case, let's go!"

It wasn't until Wang Xian came in and urged him twice that Guo Xiangkang came to his senses, and it was not easy to stand up after kneeling for too long, Wang Xian helped him out of the south study, he looked up, the sky was already dark, and the spicy afternoon sun made people feel stuffy, and now they felt cold on their bodies.