[Chapter 8 Liufu Changes] Praying mantis catches cicadas

At the end of spring, when the farmers were busy farming, the people recuperated all winter, and they were all full of energy. Passing through many towns along the way, both sides of the canal are bustling with people, and it looks like a prosperous world.

Chu Yuan saw it in his eyes, and his heart was also a little more relaxed.

"Your Majesty." On this day, Sixi's father-in-law stepped forward to add a cloak for him, and said, "The next place should be in Yunshui City." ”

Chu Yuan nodded, did not say much, and continued to look at the distance in a trance.

The magistrate of Yunshui City is named Liu Bi, and he is a distant relative of Liu Gong. Although it is only a small seven-pin, there are many people in the court who are hot on this position. As soon as the canal is opened, you can get rich, the salt from the south and the grain from the north, and the tea and porcelain transported to the West, but they all have to pass through this small Yunshui City, even if you don't want to be greedy, there are opportunities to come to silver everywhere, compared to other poor and remote places, I don't know how many times fatter.

Knowing that Chu Yuan was going to Jiangnan, Liu Bi didn't worry too much. There is no problem in the accounts, and the government is all its own people, and everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, so they are naturally not afraid that anyone will sue the emperor. Moreover, there is a Mrs. Liu in Wangcheng, who is the big backer of the Liu family, and he will not fall for a while. So early this morning, he bathed and changed his clothes, and took his subordinates to the dock to pick up the driver. A lot of people also gathered around, all of them were excited, waiting to see the emperor.

At noon, the big ship finally approached slowly, the bright yellow flag fluttered fiercely on the mast, and the royal guards on both sides of the ship stood with swords, and the blades shone with cold light under the sun, which made people feel jealous.

"Greetings to the emperor!" Liu Bi led the crowd to kneel on the ground to greet each other, and the people also knelt down in an uproar.

In the small courtyard not far away, Ye Jin was still drying medicine, as if he hadn't heard the noise.

"Don't you really want to see it?" Bai Laicai was very itchy.

"If you want to go, you can go, and I didn't pull you." Ye Jin stood up with a small basket, "The emperor is also a human being, with two eyes and one nose, why do you have to go to kneel to watch." ”

"That's right." Bai Laicai squatted on the chair, thought for a while and stood up again, "But I still have to go and see, in case there is a silver collar." "After all, that's the emperor.

Ye Jin regretted that he had rescued him from the mountain.

Chu Yuan stepped off the boat, and Liu Bi raised his head with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty." ”

There was silence all around, and some bold people peeked at it, and then couldn't help but praise it in their hearts, the emperor was so good-looking. The jade crown had black hair standing up, his eyebrows and eyes were as bright as stars, the bridge of his nose was handsome, and his temperament was luxurious and not angry, so he hurriedly lowered his head honestly.

"Aiqing, let's get even." Chu Yuan personally stepped forward and stretched out his hand to help him up.

Liu Bi smiled with a wrinkled face, and greeted again: "Sixi father-in-law, General Shen." ”

"This Yunshui City is really lively and prosperous." Shen Qianfan said, "Lord Liu really has a good way of governance. ”

"General Shen has an overreputation, this is a matter within the Xiaguan Division, a matter within the Division." Liu Bi turned sideways to get out of the way, "A banquet has been prepared in the mansion, and the emperor is invited to move." ”

In the crowd, an old man was eating melon seeds to watch the excitement, and he stretched his neck and tiptoed, looking like a good person. It wasn't until Luan drove away from the people that he reluctantly returned home.

"Didn't get any money?" Seeing him enter the small courtyard with his head down, Ye Jin teased.

"The emperor can be so stingy?" Bai Laicai sat back at the stone table and said indignantly, "You look very similar to the doctor, and you should be a kind-hearted person, but you don't even have a bun." ”

"Who do you think looks like him?" Ye Jin's eyes showed a fierce light.

Bai Laicai quickly said: "I! ”

Ye Jin snorted coldly, raised his chin and went back to the bedroom.

Bai Laicai patted his chest and let out a sigh......

Chu Yuan doesn't like extravagance, Liu Bi naturally doesn't dare to put on a feast, although there are many dishes, they are all home-cooked tastes, and the wine is also the most ordinary Shaoxing yellow. Chu Yuan chatted with the rest of the people about the diversion of the canal, and did not ask much else, and went back to the bedroom early to rest after the banquet, and even officials from other places were not summoned.

Liu Bi breathed a sigh of relief, and he still had to check the accounts, but he didn't expect to mention it.

According to the previous plan, Chu Yuan would only stay here for two days, and when the ships were fully supplied, he would continue all the way south to Chiba City. Unexpectedly, it was probably because he was cold from the wind blowing on the river a few days ago, and he began to have a fever on the second day after he came to this Yunshui City, and he accompanied the imperial doctor to recuperate for five days before he finally came to some spirits.

"I heard that the emperor was infected with a cold." In the small courtyard, Bai Laicai pounded with his elbow, "You are a doctor, but do you want to go to Mao Sui to recommend yourself?" If you are cured by luck, you may be able to enter the palace to be a royal doctor. ”

"Lao Tzu is going to be the imperial doctor for him?" Ye Jin slapped a scoop of silkworm sand over angrily, crossed his waist and said, "Think beautiful!" ”

Bai Laicai ran out with his head in his hands.

Doctor, this is going to eat people......

Liu Bi was also a little panicked about this, he wasn't afraid that Chu Yuan would have an accident here, after all, it was just a wind chill. He panicked, because he didn't know whether this cold was true or not, and if it was false, what was the purpose behind it.

"Your Excellency is too worried." The housekeeper in the yamen was named Liu Man, and he seemed to be much calmer than him, and he rolled up his sleeves and said slowly, "The emperor is sick, you and I should take care of it wholeheartedly, how can we think about anything else?" ”

Liu Bi wanted to speak and stopped, and for a while he couldn't figure out what medicine was being sold in his gourd. I wanted to ask more but didn't dare, and the whole person was anxious, until I rested at night, and I was still worried, tossing and turning, making my aunt's face full of complaints. It wasn't until dawn that he finally fell asleep, but he closed his eyes and was picked up from bed by the Guards.

"General Shen, what does General Shen mean by this?" Liu Bi was shocked.

"Someone, throw this traitor into the dungeon." Shen Qianfan coldly ordered.

Traitor? Liu Bi's face was pale, and he wanted to cry out for injustice, but his jaw had been removed and dragged all the way to prison.

The Imperial Forest Army surrounded the Yamen of Zhixian County, and some people who got up early saw it, and they wondered what was going on. When I went home and talked to my daughter-in-law, I thought that it was probably because Liu Bi's crime of embezzlement* in recent years was exposed, so he was arrested and imprisoned by the emperor, and it was not until the evening that news spread, saying that it was because the imperial doctor found poison in Liu's food.

Poison the emperor...... The people's faces turned pale when they heard this, and some people dared to risk the world's condemnation to do such a crime of exterminating the nine clans?

When the news reached Ye Jin's ears, Bai Laicai stared at him cautiously: "The emperor is poisoned, and the doctor won't go to take a look?" ”

Ye Jin put down the medicine pestle fiercely: "I'm not familiar with him. ”

"There are more patients in the world, how can doctors be familiar with all of them." Bai Lai Caidao, "It's not that whoever is sick will look at it." ”

Ye Jin was so disturbed by his quarrel that he simply went out on the street by himself.

The yamen has long been surrounded by an iron wall, not only the Imperial Forest Army brought by Chu Yuan, but also the garrison transferred by Shen Qianfan from elsewhere. Ye Jin was still a little confused when he first heard the news, but then he gradually thought clearly-if he was really unsuspecting and poisoned, who would arrange such a large number of people and horses to be nearby in advance, just waiting to capture the traitor today?

……

Hum!

Doctor Ye stomped his foot angrily, and went to eat the restaurant to extinguish the fire.

When he was a child, he pretended to be sick and bullied Lao Tzu, and when he grew up, he was still a virtuous person, and this person really couldn't sympathize.

"Your Majesty." In the Yamen study, Shen Qianfan said, "The confession has been written, Liu Bi has also drawn a charge, and the last general will immediately lead people back to the royal city." ”

Chu Yuan nodded: "This trip is dangerous, there is General Lao." ”

"That's what the last will do." Shen Qianfan said, "It's just that if the king of the southwest is still in the royal city......"

"He won't embarrass you." Chu Yuan interrupted, "If he is really not interested, let him come to Jiangnan to find me in person." ”

"Yes." Shen Qianfan bowed his head and took orders. After exiting the study, he led dozens of men and horses, set off overnight, and secretly returned to the royal city.

Liu Bi committed suicide in prison, and his family was all exiled to Hainan, and the new magistrate took office within ten days. The garrison replaced the original city gate guards, and the people entering and leaving were carefully checked every day, and even a fly could not enter and exit freely. For a while, the atmosphere in the city was strict, and I felt bored when I walked on the street.

Ye Jin began to think about whether he should go out to other realms for a turn first, and then come back when this place stopped.

"The doctor can't go." Bai Laicai pulled his package and didn't let go, "I watched the sky last night-"

"You still watch the sky?" Ye Jin interrupted in disgust.

"Naturally." Bai Laicai nodded.

Ye Jin asked, "What did you observe?" ”

Bai Laicai said: "The sheep enter the wolf's den." ”

Ye Jin shook his head: "If you go to the street to tell fortunes, you will definitely not be able to earn half a penny." "I don't know how to talk about lotus flowers, and I can't even say what it means to be a sheep into a wolf's den.

"The emperor copied Liu Bi's house, but he didn't find much silver." Bai Laicai sighed, "That's a big corrupt official, and the goose has plucked its feathers." ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Ye Jin frowned.

"Where did the silver go, ask Lord Zeng, the leader of the southwest garrison who was transferred this time, I'm afraid it will be much clearer." Bai Laicai continued to eat melon seeds.

Ye Jin stood up suddenly.

"I heard that General Shen has returned to the royal city." Bai Laicai said unhurriedly, "Liu Bi is dead, but who said that he was the one in charge of the yamen of the county before?" ”

Ye Jin stomped his foot, turned around and ran out of the yard.

In the yamen, Lin Yong, the newly transferred county commander, was tied up by Wuhua and thrown into the dungeon. Most of the southeastern garrison mutinied overnight, quietly trapping Chu Yuan in the mansion.

Chu Yuan stood in the courtyard with his hands in his hands, looking coldly at Liu Man and Zeng Xuan, the commander of the garrison in front of him.

"Bold!" Sixi's father-in-law stood in front, "Don't hurry up and retreat." ”

Liu Man's tone was neither yin nor yang: "Now that the matter is over, please ask the emperor to stay here for a while longer, and when there is news in the royal city, it will not be too late to go out." ”

"Good." Chu Yuan ignored him, just looked at Zeng Xuan coldly, "I really misjudged you." ”

Zeng Xuan didn't say a word, his face was a little pale - he was originally a young man in the southeast garrison, and he relied on Chu Yuan's support to climb to the position of commander step by step. It's just that when you have more power in your hands, you will inevitably be greedy, so you will be caught by Liu Bi. Chu Yuan has never been soft in punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and he will die as a last resort, but he didn't expect the other party to be so bold.

It's just that he has already gotten on the thief ship, and even if there is a dead end ahead, he can only sit down.