"What's wrong? Where can't you understand? Li Yi sensed her emotions and got up and walked over.

Ye Jinyu put down the file, turned around and said embarrassedly: "I, seven or eight times out of ten, I can't understand it." ”

Li Yi looked at her frustrated and pitiful look, shook his head and smiled, patted her shoulder gently, and said, "It's okay, Ben Hou has seen it all, do you want to know what Ben Hou told you." ”

Ye Jinyu smiled, got up and was about to get out of the seat, but Hou Ye took her to the table and sat down, poured a cup of hot water and handed it over, and spoke again: "The Fengzhou ink corruption case took half a year to conclude, a total of twenty-three officials and fifteen businessmen were involved, and the serious crimes have been executed, a total of twenty, and the remaining eighteen people, some of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment, and some of whom were exiled to remote places......"

Ten years ago, Fengzhou was plagued by official corruption, so much so that when natural disasters came, the levees could not withstand floods. When the snowstorm came, the relief money issued by the imperial court was always not in place, and hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation and froze to death.

The people are miserable, and the soldiers stationed in Fengzhou are always short of military salaries, and their lives are also stretched.

There will be repression, exploitation, and there will be resistance, and there are still many bloody soldiers among them, and finally one day this contradiction broke out completely, and the soldiers led the peasants to uncover the uprising.

The news of the riot in Fengzhou soon spread to the capital, and His Majesty was furious in the court when he learned of this, and sent troops to Fengzhou to suppress it on the same day, and issued an order to thoroughly investigate all officials in Fengzhou.

The general who was sent to suppress the riot was the old Wu Anhou, who had accumulated several generations of prestige in the army at that time, and the old marquis personally came forward to persuade him to surrender, and stopped the war without abandoning a single soldier.

Immediately afterwards, the Criminal Department and Dali Temple all sent a lot of people, led by the old marquis to dispatch and supervise, and thoroughly investigated the officials of the entire Fengzhou layer by layer, which took half a year, and finally cleaned up all those moths.

"At that time, it involved Fengzhou Jiedu envoys, Taishou and several high-ranking officials, and their crimes were mainly recorded in the case file, and the crimes of several officials in Yingcheng, which was subordinate to Fengzhou, were all briefly recorded." After Li Sui said this, he picked up the already cold tea and drank it all, and Ye Jinyu hurriedly refilled a cup for him.

"Take your time and have a cup of hot tea."

Her calmness relieved Li Sui, and he looked at her with a smile and continued: "Your father was a Gong Cao of Yingcheng at that time who joined the army, responsible for paving roads and repairing bridges and other projects, and the case file recorded that he embezzled the silver money issued by the imperial court for three consecutive years, totaling more than 5,000 taels of silver. ”

Ye Jinyu gasped, he was so greedy, no wonder he was executed. So how did Ye Rutong's mother die? Even if she is implicated, she will be exiled at most.

"Is there any evidence recorded in the case file? Did my father confess his sins? She asked.

Li Yi nodded, "At that time, a few hundred taels of silver were found from you and the Ye family, and there were meritorious people who denounced and identified them, Ye Li took the initiative to confess his guilt knowing that it was difficult to escape, and handed over thousands of taels of flying money. All this flying money is stored in the name of your parents, and there will be no mistake in the government's verification. ”

"So my father wasn't innocent, he really did those things!" Ye Jinyu lowered his eyes, if it was all the truth, there would be no need to overturn the case.

"At present, the evidence is conclusive, and there is no dispute." Li Yi nodded, and said: "But Ben Hou has already sent someone to re-investigate the accounts of that money bank, but there has been an interval of ten years, and the investigation is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it may not be possible to get accurate results, so you have to be mentally prepared." ”

"Thank you Master Hou, for bothering so much about my father's affairs, no matter what the result is, I can accept it." Ye Jinyu sincerely thanked him.

"Actually, about your father's mother, Qi Yuanjun should know best, if Jin Yu wants to know more details, it is better to ask your uncle more." Li Sui's tone seemed to have changed a little, but his expression was too calm and normal, so that Ye Jinyu suspected that it was his own delusion.

"Okay, I'll ask when I get a chance." Ye Jinyu had no choice but to respond first.

Li Sui drank another cup of tea, tapped his fingers on the table, and said slowly: "Next, I will change Jin Yu to show sincerity to Ben Hou." ”

Sure enough, this person can always pour a basin of cold water on you when you are moved, so that you have to calm down.

"Please make it clear." Ye Jinyu barely maintained Xiao Xiao and nodded at him.

"On the second day of the new year, Ben Hou can't accompany you back to Qi's house because of something, do you have a grudge in your heart?" Li Sui still has the appearance of being light and breezy, but his eyes are very serious.

It's been a long time, and she's forgotten how he still mentions it. So does he want her to be angry, or not?

"There's no resentment, just a little bit of loss." Ye Jinyu observed the expression on the man's face, and saw that his eyes lit up slightly, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that she was right.

"When you returned home, you suddenly wanted to go to Changshengfang, but you already knew that Benhou was in the teaching workshop, what did you go there for?" Li Sui asked again.

Ye Jinyu pondered and said: "Well, I heard that I saw Master Hou go to the workshop, and I didn't believe it at that time, so I wanted to go to the workshop to verify it." ”

"What about after verification?" Li Sui asked rhetorically, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

Ye Jinyu blinked, looking at Hou Ye, this meant to test her mind, but although she didn't hate him so much now, she couldn't talk about liking it.

Feelings are such a thing, it is better to make it clear as soon as possible, so as not to hurt others and yourself.

"I remember that Master Hou said before, you have always admired the Qianzhong girl in the workshop, how can it be rare. I'm just curious if the things that can make Hou Ye value so much are related to Miss Qianzhong, so I'm over. Ye Jinyu's tone was calm, with a slight smile on his face.

Li Sui's eyes sank slightly, and he squinted to remind her: "Don't forget the agreement between us, don't deceive and lie." "Guangxi

Ye Jinyu said seriously: "What I said is sincere. ”

A trace of anger crossed Li Sui's face, and he glared at her and asked, "Ben Hou went to see other women, you were just curious, and you didn't have any other ideas?" ”

"Of course there are other ideas." Ye Jinyu saw the man's eyes that lit up again, gritted his teeth and added, "I wonder when Master Hou will be able to take the Qianzhong girl into the mansion?" But at the same time, I'm worried that Miss Qianzhong is from a famous family, and she must be safer and more disciplined than me, and whether the Hou Ye will take back the rights in my hands because of this, then won't I have to live the precarious days again......"

"Enough!" Li Sui interrupted her with a cold face, the green tendons in his fist bulged, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Stand down, go back and reflect on Ben Hou." ”

This little girl always has this ability to "him off with one sentence", is it so difficult to please him?

He must have been blind to fall in love with her, but now it's too late to regret it.

The city of Iris, which is sinking in the sunset, is like an old man with vicissitudes, gloomy and deserted.

Ye Jinyu and the five of them appeared in a room, looking like a flower hall for visitors.

"Could it be that this is the Yamen? All of a sudden, it's here! Jing Xingzhi looked at everything here in amazement, and said with emotion: "What a strange dream." ”

Ye Jinyu looked at Li Yi and said worriedly: "It's getting dark, if that prefect doesn't show up again, it will be troublesome." ”

"Why?" Qi Guanyu sat beside her.

Ye Jinyu turned his head to look at him, both of them were a little embarrassed, and when they hesitated whether they should take this opportunity to recognize each other, Li Yi had already told their last experience on the other side.

"I didn't expect there to be such a big conspiracy hidden here." Qi Guanyu's eyes were condensed, thinking of the innocent people outside the city who were suffering from illness, and he couldn't wait to leave and take out the stupid prefect and beat it well. It's a pity that this is not Yingcheng, he doesn't have such a right, so he can only turn to Qin Miaoyin and ask, "Have you developed an antidote?" ”

Qin Miaoyin lowered her head and rummaged through the medicine pouch, pulled it for a long time before slowly revealing a smile, and said in surprise: "Yes, there is already one, and now the people outside will be saved." ”

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of movement outside, and everyone's expressions froze, Qi Guanyu came to the door first, opened a crack to observe the movement outside.

I saw several officials running out with one of the officials, and the person who was carrying them described as haggard, vomiting and struggling. I don't know where the strength came from, but I quickly broke free from the grip of those people, and fell to the ground with a thud and rolled down.

The officials cursed a few times, and were about to step forward to find someone, Qi Guanyu pushed open the door of the house, pulled out the silver knife and threw it hard, the silver knife was like a crescent moon flying in the air a few times, and with a few bangs, those people were knocked down and sat on the ground.

"Miao Yin, go and save people." He shouted behind him.

Qin Miaoyin immediately ran over, followed by Ye Jinyu and the others.

Qin Miaoyin checked the pulse of the servant on the ground, and after confirming that he was also poisoned, he hurriedly took out an antidote from the medicine bag and handed it over, "Eating it can relieve the poison on your body." ”

The official just wanted to live, and without questioning, he swallowed it immediately.

Jing Xingzhi looked condescendingly at the few struggling people on the ground, and shouted: "Did you hear it, he was poisoned, not cholera, are the people in the yamen so stupid?" You deserve to be calculated, and your prefect will not show up at this time, and you will wait for the soldiers to come to the city later. ”

Several people were frightened by the last sentence and looked at each other in fright.

Not long after, a middle-aged man in official uniform walked in outside, saw the situation in the courtyard, and immediately questioned him. After figuring out the whole story, and then looking at the officials who had been vomiting incessantly, it was just a moment of kung fu people, and hurriedly apologized to them and thanked them, and begged them to save the people of Iris City.

At this time, I remembered that I was still a parent official, and if it weren't for the people and tasks outside, they wouldn't be willing to help such a cowardly and incompetent prefect who cares about people's lives.

"The antidote in my hand is limited, and now I have to gather the strength of the city's pharmacies and medical halls to make the antidote together." Qin Miaoyin said very quickly.

The prefect did not hesitate, immediately nodded in agreement, and ordered someone to do what she asked.

Jing Xingzhi saw that Qin Miaoyin, a weak woman, was going to run back and forth with a few men who were five big and three thick, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to assist her in boiling the antidote together.

The three of them persuaded the prefect to investigate the moles in the yamen, and demanded that the city gate be opened immediately and the people should be allowed to go home.

"It must be the Admiralty City in the west that is making trouble, and there has been a lot of bad fighting between our two cities over the years over the division of land, but this official really didn't expect them to use such a despicable method to want to annex my Iris City, it's shameless." The prefect wanted to beat his chest hatefully, and immediately called his cronies to do things.

"Three envoys, this official still has something to ask for." The prefect saluted them again, and said helplessly: "As the old saying goes: A pure heart is the way to retreat, but it turns out to be forward. If the officials had figured out this earlier, the people would not have had to suffer these sins, and it was all the official's fault. ”

The prefect paused, and then said: "What Admiralty City wants to fight for is the Chime Mountain in the west, and this official promised to cede it to them, but they must promise never to invade my Iris City again in the future. A few of them are envoys from the capital, and with you as witnesses, they will certainly be afraid. ”

Ye Jinyu looked at the two people beside him, and saw that they had no objections, so he asked, "When will you leave?" ”

"I'll leave early tomorrow morning." The prefect replied.