When the Son of Heaven returned to the palace, he did not live in Kun'an Palace or Shuning Palace, but lived in Yuming Palace. Lu Mingli came to reply, Shi Fangzhen was in good spirits, and he was sitting in the circle chair talking to Liu Guifei.

Hearing Lu Mingli say that Shi Chongren sent a few pots of orchids, Liu Guifei smiled, and Shi Fangzhen also said: "It's rare that he has a filial piety, so he moved in and let me take a look." ”

When the flowers entered the hall, the fragrance was fragrant, Shi Fangzhen felt refreshed, and said with a smile: "It is worthy of being enshrined in front of the Buddha and lit by the high monks. Yes, put these pots of flowers in the temple. ”

Lu Mingli said with a smile: "Long live, the prince sent two pots to the old slave." ”

Shi Fang was really in good spirits, and scolded with a smile: "Don't you also want to learn from Tang Wenzhong to ask for bribes?" ”

Although it was a joke, Lu Mingli couldn't help it, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "The old slave doesn't dare, please calm your anger." The old slave wants to ask Banzai to retract this sentence, whether Tang Wenzhong asked for a bribe, please ask Banzai to find out before sending it out, and he cannot be convicted first. Long live the Lord is Chrysostom, and when it spreads outside, Tang Wenzhong is innocent and guilty. ”

Shi Fangzhen nodded and sighed: "What you said is right, I shouldn't joke, you get up, since there are two pots of flowers that Ren'er gave you, you can move away." Tell me, how do you feel about seeing you this time? Do you think he can see through the heart and handle the matter well? ”

Shi Chongren opened the palace and went out of the palace, Lu Mingli rarely saw King Luo Huai, at this moment listening to the inquiry of the Son of Heaven, Lu Ming should have said: "King Luo Huai has been smart since he was a child, and the old slave has vaguely told him the meaning of long live when he passed the decree, and the prince has already understood it, and he will not let Wan Sui down." ”

Shi Fangzhen nodded and said, "Ren'er is clever, you help me look at him, if there is anything wrong, you might as well say it directly, just say what I mean." ”

Seeing Shi Fangzhen close his eyes, Lu Mingli bowed and retreated. Shi Fang really thought that the three sons had their own strengths, Wei'er was filial piety, Jie'er was brave and brave, and Ren'er was smart. Wei'er and Jie'er competed, and Ren'er defiled herself with amusement, just wanting to be a rich prince. Alas, it is difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs, and I have no energy to take care of it.

In Luohuai Palace, Shi Chongren washed and changed into dirty clothes, and sat down to drink tea. Zhuang Songwei came in and said, "Lord Wang, your cousin Liu Anqi is here and has sent some new tea, and I will let people accept it." Liu Ye is still waiting for you in the study, are you here to see him or go to the study? ”

Shi Chongren smiled and said: "Nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, this year my cousin Liu Anqing participated in the imperial examination, and he was in the second and thirteenth places in the palace examination, didn't he send a post to let me go to drink tomorrow, today the second brother on the Golden Palace made a fuss, I hurried out of the city, and still didn't hide from it." Eighty percent of my grandfather's family heard that my father asked me to preside over the case of cheating in the imperial examination, so I asked my cousin to intercede. Master Zhuang, please tell him to come to the lobby. ”

Liu Anqi is the eldest son of Shi Chongren's uncle Liu Shuxian, when King Luo Huai presided over the Qingtian Division, he was transferred from the Ministry of Officials to the Qingtian Division, and he has been promoted to two levels in just two years, and he is already the head of the seventh grade.

Drinking tea slowly and leisurely, Zhuang Songwei led Liu Anqi to come, Shi Chongren stood up and said: "Cousin, I'm sorry, I just came back and met Gonggong Lu to issue an edict, and I was sluggish." Master Zhuang, prepare the table for a banquet, and I will have a few drinks with my cousin. ”

Now Shi Chongren is in the limelight, he is no longer the prince who was snubbed back then, the Liu family no longer dares to take it as big as it was at the beginning, Liu Xingjie sends people to the palace from time to time to send some things, and several cousins of the Liu family often visit the palace and pull Shi Chongren to fight dogs together.

Liu Anqi is more than ten years older than Shi Chongren, and has been training in Huanhai for many years, knowing that although Shi Chongren is his cousin, his identity is different, and he can't be casual in small places. Liu Anqi bowed his hand and said: "The prince is polite, long live sending Father-in-law Lu to deliver the decree, I should have waited." ”

Shi Chongren said with a smile: "My cousin is too polite, my own brother is casual, you are not as good as An Ming and An Xian." "Liu Anming, Liu Anxian and Shi Chongren are about the same age, and they play with Shi Chongren on weekdays, and they are much more casual with each other.

As Shi Chongren expected, Liu Anqi came for Liu Anqing's imperial examination, Shi Chongren promised to help, and Liu Anqi returned satisfied. Zhuang Songwei has been accompanying him, and after Liu Anqi left, he said: "Lord Wang, Banzai asked you to investigate the case, you still don't know the circumstances of the case, how can you arbitrarily agree to help, what if Banzai knows how to blame?" ”

Shi Chongren said with a smile: "Just now Gonggong Lu conveyed his father's will Mr. also heard it, Gonggong Lu said twice in a row 'stabilize the court', the court imperial examination fraud case is a big case, in the first year of the establishment of martial arts, many examiners and lifters were punished, and the court situation was unstable. Lone guessed from the words of Father-in-law Lu that his father did not want to stir up the army, so he casually investigated and dealt with a few people. If I guess wrong, it is nothing more than letting my father scold me for not doing things well, I just wanted to be an idle prince, but my father didn't let me be lazy, and I couldn't be idle with a holy decree on the left and an edict on the right. ”

These words are half proud and half annoyed, Zhuang Songwei savored what Gong Lu said when he announced the decree, it was casual but implicit, he ignored the past at that time, it seems that King Luo Huai is more sensitive than himself. Zhuang Songwei was a little ashamed, his disciple was already stronger than his master in some places.

Newspapers from outside the door, there are guests visiting. In the next time, the Luohuai Palace, the people who came to visit one after another, there were a few people sitting in the lobby, everyone knew what each other was doing here, but no one was able to speak in public because of the situation. Shi Chongren was happy to pretend to be confused, accepted the gift, and gave a vague sentence of "rest assured", as for whether the people who sent them away were really relieved, it was none of Shi Chongren's business.

At the beginning of the next day, Han Zhi, the governor of the Dragon Guard, and Huang Xi, the acting governor of the Dark Guard, came to the Luohuai Palace, asking for a meeting. Shi Chongren walked into the lobby with a yawn, and said with a smile: "The two adults came early, Gu slept late last night, got up late, and waited for a long time." ”

Long Wei and Dark Wei are well-informed, of course they know that there are many people who come to Luohuai Palace's mansion to give gifts and intercede last night, but neither of them will break it. Long Wei and Dark Guard were originally under the command of King Ning, but in recent years, the Son of Heaven trusted Dark Guard more, and asked King Chu'an to help, this time let King Luo Huai investigate the case of fraud in the imperial examination, Long Wei and Dark Guard helped, and its intention was to strip the power of Long Wei and Secret Guard from King Ning's hands.

Han Zhi was friendly with King Ning, knowing that King Ning was disheartened, so he rarely even asked about Long Wei's affairs, Han Zhi understood that when King Ning was absent from the post of government official, it was also the time for him to leave Long Wei. Since he knew that he would not be doing it for a long time, Han Zhi simply mixed up his life, and he also made up his mind when he came to Luohuai Wangfu today, and he would do whatever Shi Chongren told.

Shi Chongren took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, and said: "Father asked Xiao Wang to investigate the malpractice of the imperial examination, Xiao Wang's ability is known to the two adults, except for eating, drinking and having fun, how to investigate the case depends on the two adults." ”

Han Zhi and Huang Xi even said that they didn't dare, the three of them politely said a few words, Huang Xi said: "Long live the day of the dictatorship from the champion Xiang Kaijie to check whether Tang Wenzhong bribed Tang Wenzhong, the lower official thought that obeying the will is, the lower official knew that Tang Wenzhong had a house in Guangfufang, his righteous son Tang Changfu lived there, and his person ran a teahouse to deliver news for Tang Wenzhong, and Xiang Kaijie and others contacted Tang Wenzhong through him. Xiaguan received the command of Banzai yesterday, and he had already sent someone to seal up the teahouse, and took care of the house, and no one was allowed to enter or leave, just waiting for the prince to order the raid. ”

Shi Chongren nodded, Huang Xi is doing things well, he is the second brother's person, the second brother directly reprimanded Tang Wenzhong for accepting bribes to help Xiang Kaijie become the champion above the Golden Palace, of course Huang Xi will not let Tang Wenzhong go. Since my father said that it started with Xiang Kaijie and Tang Wenzhong

, that is, I don't want to protect Tang Wenzhong, since this is the case, let Huang Xi investigate.

Turning his face, Shi Chongren asked Han Zhi, "What does Han Dutong think?" ”

"What the prince commands, the subordinate will do." Han Zhi made it clear that he didn't want to do much.

Shi Chongren thought for a while and said: "At present, the north and west borders are not very peaceful, my father said that the court should be stable, and the two adults might as well act safely, first raid the Tang Mansion and the teahouse, see if there is any evidence, and store the confiscated property in the courtyard first, waiting for the long live to be released." ”

The three of them discussed for a while, and agreed to come to the palace every day to meet to exchange information and discuss how to act. Han Zhi and Huang Xi said goodbye and went out of the mansion, said goodbye to each other, and went back to the yamen to bring people, Long Wei raided the Tang Mansion, and secretly raided the teahouse.

Sitting in the carriage, Huang Xi thought that King Chu An invited him last night and asked him to make things as big as possible, cut off the prince's henchmen, and make the scholars lose their favor with the prince. Huang Xi's selfishness only wants to get rid of Tang Wenzhong and clear himself as a hidden danger of Zhang Bojin entering the palace under his false name, and now that the situation is out of control, since the prince wants to make a big fuss, he is acting secretly at his behest of orders.

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In the harem, Tang Wenzhong was confined in a dark room, so that every day was not spiritual. On weekdays, he is a very poor person, and the eunuchs and maids in the palace are not less bullied by him, at this moment the wall is falling down and everyone pushes it, Tang Wenzhong is locked up in the house for a day and a night, and no one comes to answer him, let alone send tea and food.

Knocked on the door of the house and was reprimanded, and became a water dog today, Tang Wenzhong shrank in the corner of the house, still holding a glimmer of fantasy in his heart, hoping that the Son of Heaven could remember the old love, and let himself go with a light punishment, these dog-eyed minions will definitely clean them up after they go out.

The sunlight shone obliquely through the window lattice on the west side, and it was almost Shen Zheng, who had been imprisoned in the house since yesterday, and had not eaten water and rice for a day and a night, and his stomach was "cooing", and he was really hungry. The footsteps outside the door stopped in front of the door, Tang Wenzhong hurriedly rushed to the door, patted the door and roared: "Open the door quickly, I want to see long live, open the door quickly." ”

The door lock was removed, the door was pushed open, and the sunlight came in, Tang Wenzhong was dazzled by the sun, and heard Liu Weiguo's voice in his ears: "Brother Tang, I came to see you by the will of Long Live Order." ”

Tang Wenzhong stretched out his hand to cover the sun, saw that it was Liu Weiguo who was standing in front of the door, and said happily: "Weiguo, you are here, long live forgive the old slave, the old slave should die, discredit the long live master, the old slave is sorry Long live, woo." ”

As he spoke, Tang Wenzhong wiped away his tears, then looked at the two eunuchs guarding the door and said, "These two dog slaves, they didn't even give me saliva to drink, Weiguo, pull these two dog things out and beat them to death." ”

Liu Weiguo frowned, looked at Tang Wenzhong with an embarrassed face, and sighed in his heart. Before that, King Luo Huai came to face the saint with a list of the results obtained from the seizure of the Tang Mansion, as many as 3.2 million taels of silver, as well as jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, shops, fields and other things, which were converted into more than 3 million taels of silver, which was only obtained from the seizure of Beijing.

When Shi Fangzhen saw this list, he was so angry that he spurted blood, fainted on the spot, and when he woke up, he ordered himself to come to see Tang Wenzhong, listen to what he had to say, and then move Tang Wenzhong to Dali Temple to be imprisoned. The rabbit died and the fox was sad, Tang Wenzhong and Liu Weiguo had been friends for nearly 50 years, and seeing him in a catastrophe, Liu Weiguo was inevitably sad.

Hearing that Tang Wenzhong's water and rice had not entered, Liu Weiguo instructed: "Go and prepare some food for him." Tang Wenzhong, I came to ask you for Banzai at the behest of Banzai: Tang Wenzhong, I treat you very thinly, the annual reward is not enough for you to eat, where did your family property come from, and what did you do without me? Tens of millions of taels of silver, I didn't expect to have a huge greed around me? ”

Tang Wenzhong heard a series of questions, rolled his eyes, and fell to the ground softly.