At the end of June in the fourth year of Qingyuan, the scorching sun was like fire, the heat wave was rolling, and the entire Lin'an City was like a huge steamer, and sweaty people could be seen everywhere.

Also because of the scorching heat of Lin'an City, the West Lake at this time seems to be particularly crowded, and the people who have the conditions to take refuge in the summer here also moved to the edge of the West Lake for the first time after the continuous heavy rain in Lin'an stopped.

Many rivers in the city have naturally become the most willing places for the people in the city to visit at this time, especially at night, when the breeze blows across the river, the faint coolness penetrates the comfort brought by the boat, and the faint music and singing are like a portrayal of paradise on earth.

The red candles are swaying, the green trees are shading, the talented and beautiful women meet on the riverside, and when they are full of affection and honey for a while, a round of bright moon hangs obliquely in the sky, just like a poetic and picturesque one.

Under the moonlight like water, on the second floor of a small tea shop, Ye Qing looked at a jewelry shop opposite, watched Xie Daoqing's figure walk out of the shop quickly, beckoned in his direction, and then walked quickly towards this tea shop.

Xie Daoqing didn't wait to sit down opposite Ye Qing, and began to complain: "Although the shopkeeper is a good person, the cost is too high, and one ingot of five taels of gold is only enough to make a bracelet and two pairs of earrings, and nearly two taels of gold were taken away by them." ”

"You can ask them to weigh the bracelet ......." Ye Qing looked at Xie Daoqing, who was a little depressed, and said.

Xie Daoqing didn't wait for Ye Qing to finish speaking, he glanced at Ye Qing and shook his head and said: "He can play a bracelet of three taels, but it's hard to say whether it's pure gold or not, forget it, this shop is still too black-hearted." ”

"Where's the jade?" Ye Qing asked with a smile, obviously, in terms of jewelry and other aspects, even if Ye Qing is shrewd, compared with the understanding of jewelry with women who love beauty, he can be regarded as a complete layman.

Although Xie Daoqing is not very keen on gold and silver jewelry, just as women have a natural understanding of rouge gouache and silk satin, they also have their unique talent in jewelry.

"The gold ornaments are so badly deducted, and the jade ......." Xie Daoqing pouted and shook his head a little reluctantly, then looked at the antique shop next to the gold shop she had just entered, and said, "It's better to sell jade to them to make bracelets." ”

"Maybe in a moment you can go to that gold jewellery shop and pick up some jewellery at random, and I promise, no one will take any money from you." Ye Qing looked at Xie Daoqing, who was slightly depressed, and said with a smile.

A pair of bright eyes looked at Ye Qing suspiciously, obviously not quite understanding what Ye Qing meant, so he glanced at him again and said: "You should be the one who opened the gold shop, and the shopkeeper can be shrewd, it is better to go to other places, I know that a shop is ......." ”

Xie Daoqing thought of a gold jewelry shop on the royal street, his eyes, which were already very bright, seemed even brighter at the moment, and he was just about to continue talking, when he heard the sound of soldiers scolding passers-by on the street, and then he saw dozens of soldiers wearing armor, holding Yanling knives, and hanging bows and crossbows around their waists, and instantly surrounded the antique shop and the gold jewelry store.

As the soldiers in armor surrounded the two shops, they saw the customers inside running out of the shops one by one with nervous expressions.

"What's going on?" Xie Daoqing asked Ye Qing with some surprise.

Ye Qing smiled and said nothing, just silently stared at everything downstairs, watched the two leaders in armor walk into the antique shop and gold jewelry shop, and after there were no more customers running out inside, he turned his head and smiled at Xie Daoqing: "Isn't this normal?" In Lin'an City these days, aren't there some shops being closed by the imperial court every day? ”

"Why did the imperial court close these shops?" Xie Daoqing looked at Ye Qing and asked.

"Maybe it's illegal." Ye Qing looked at the street, a sedan chair was rushing towards this side at this time, and his brows instantly wrinkled slightly.

Hurried footsteps also sounded at the staircase of the tea shop at this time, Li Lifang went up to the second floor to inspect it, and after finding Ye Qing and Xie Daoqing who were by the window, he immediately ran over.

"Why do you still have the heart to ...... here?" After glancing at Xie Daoqing, Li Lifang deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Don't drink tea, the Criminal Department has already received the news, see?" Han Yanjia's sedan chair had already rushed over, and there was a fast arrest from the Criminal Department behind him. ”

"Han Yanjia is not easy to offend." Ye Qing continued to look at the sedan chair downstairs that came quickly, and sighed slightly: "Why don't you go down and test it first, and see if Han Yanjia rushed over, whether it was because of himself or because of others." ”

"What do you mean?" Li Lifang was stunned, shouldn't it be him, the king of Yan, who came forward at this time?

"Han Yanjia has never had any intersection with Shi Miyuan, but now he has come over, guess who it can be?" Ye Qing only turned around at this time, looked at Li Lifang and asked.

Li Lifang thought for a moment, and then shook his head silently at Ye Qing.

"Li Xinchuan, Lou Key, Shen Jizu and others are all ill now, and they haven't been to the court for four or five days, right? Who is the most diligent person running to the palace these days? Ye Qing asked for a long time.

Li Lifang almost blurted out: "The one who has been running to the palace the most diligently in the past few days is naturally the ...... of the national abbot Yan Keji." ”

"So I guess that the reason why Han Yanjia came over tonight should be because it has nothing to do with Yan Keji. Anyway, whether it is Han Yanjia, Yan Keji, or you Li Lifang, they are all relatives of the emperor, so at this time, if you don't come forward, who will come forward to mediate? Ye Qing said lightly.

"I ...... Lord Ye, isn't it a bit too ruthless for you to use people and offend people! Do you really want to seal the entire city of Lin'an? Do you know how many people you have to offend? Don't forget, the Holy One has not summoned you to the palace yet, but today...... The Holy One has already begun to go to court since that time. The imperial history of the court impeached you, and flew like snowflakes into the palace of Qinzheng! Li Lifang looked at Ye Qing a little speechless and said.

Since the day after the incident of the Xinwang Mansion, Lin'an City has suddenly fallen into an invisible panic, large and small shops, whether they are conspicuous or inconspicuous, and even some official offices of the imperial court, have been sealed by Ye Qing a lot in the past few days, which has made everyone in the entire Lin'an City in danger for a while.

"Don't talk nonsense, go quickly, I can't see Han Yanjia get off the sedan chair." Ye Qing looked at Han Yanjia on the street and slowly walked out of the sedan chair, and subconsciously pushed Li Lifang, who had just sat down next to him and was drinking tea with a teacup.

"Your uncle ......." Li Lifang hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand, and hurriedly got up and shook off the tea that was spilled on his body after being pushed by Ye Qingyi.

Xie Daoqing was a little surprised that Ye Qing had done the thing of blocking the store in the past few days, and similarly, he also felt very funny and funny for Li Lifang angrily scolding Ye Qing and watching the scene of the interaction between the two.

"Another day, Ye Mou will come to the door in person to compensate you, let's go." Ye Qing looked at Li Lifang, who was not angry, and put down his Yan King figure and pleaded.

"If the Holy Lord asks about it tomorrow, you have to bear this matter yourself, don't blame me Li Lifang for being ruthless and unrighteous when the time comes, this is all your own fault!" Li Lifang said helplessly, but finally walked to the street.

Xie Daoqing looked at Li Lifang reluctantly and quickly left, turned his head to look at Ye Qing for a while, and suddenly asked, "The reason why Lord Li is so obedient to you is probably because of something, right?" ”

Ye Qing was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile: "I didn't expect even you to see ......." ”

"It's Lord Li who is showing it too obviously, I'm afraid now only Lord Li thinks it's a secret." Xie Daoqing said with a smile, while Ye Qing's expression became slightly solemn.

Xie Daoqing was just looking for a topic by accident, but unexpectedly, he completely said what Li Lifang thought was a secret purpose.

Li Lifang has always wanted to be able to make achievements in the title, as for the dispatch, in fact, he himself knows very well, no matter how hard he tries, it is almost impossible to become the left and right ministers with his own ability, not to mention that he himself has no interest in taking charge of the phase, as for the back and forth between the six departments, he is still the vanity, making him incapable, but he is a little reluctant to give up the vanity and sense of accomplishment brought by the right.

Ye Qing silently watched as he hooked up with Han Yanjia on the street, and after the two walked to a secluded place, they began to look serious and didn't know what they were discussing.

At this time, in the palace, Han Ying walked quickly to the imperial study of the Qinzheng Palace, and in the main hall not far behind her, there was the Yan family who stood and came to see Zhao Kuo.

After returning to the palace from King Xin's Mansion that day, Zhao Kuo first locked himself in the Qinzheng Palace alone, and then went to Deoksugung Palace alone until the early morning of the second day.

Han Ying and Jia Shi stayed outside Deokshou Palace until the early morning of the second day, Zhao Kuo walked out of Deshou Palace, while Li Fengniang and Zhu Ye'er also did not sleep well all night in Cining Palace.

Li Fengniang thought that Zhao Kuo would come to Cining Hall to look for her after going to Deshou Palace, but this time she guessed what Zhao Kuo was thinking.

Zhao Kuo not only did not look for her, nor did he leave the palace, nor did he even go to the Qinzheng Palace, but as he had just returned to the palace, he locked himself in the Qinzheng Palace again for five days, during which neither Han Ying nor the Yan family, nor Li Fengniang and Zhu Ye'er could enter the Qinzheng Palace to see Zhao Kuo.

locked himself in the Qinzheng Hall and saw no one, which made the court meeting cancel for several days, but when the courtiers came to the Daqing Hall with the intention that they might not see the saint yet, Zhao Kuo had already arrived in the Daqing Hall early.

After Li Fengniang heard the news, she was surprised and happy for a while, but there was no other news except for the news of Zhao Kuo's visit to the court today.

Han Ying walked into Zhao Kuo's imperial study quickly, looked at Zhao Kuo in a daze against the wall, coughed slightly, and said after Zhao Kuo came back to his senses, "The queen is asking to see her in the main hall." ”

"What is she doing here?" Zhao Kuo raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, at this time, the raised eyebrows and questioning demeanor looked extremely similar to Ye Qing in Han Ying's eyes, and even ...... If it weren't for the fact that the two of them looked completely different, Han Ying would have thought that it was Ye Qing who was sitting in the imperial study.

Han Ying hesitated slightly, but still said, "Empress...... The queen has something to ask for the saint, yes...... It's about the ...... of the university scholar Yan Keji. ”

"Yan Keji?" Zhao Kuo's heart moved, and he subconsciously asked, "What's the matter, but it doesn't matter." ”

"I'm afraid the Holy One doesn't know ......." Han Ying glanced at Zhao Kuo, who looked calm, and after a pause, he still said truthfully: "Since the matter of the Xinwang Mansion was concluded that day, Ye Qing has sealed many shops in Lin'an City in the past few days, even including some government-run workshops and shops. And today, the university scholar Yan entered the palace to ask to see the queen, it is said that Ye Qing will seal a few shops tonight, and these shops have something to do with the university scholar Yan, and the university scholar Yan had no choice but to enter the palace to plead with the queen ....... ”

"Leaf ...... Why did King Yan close these shops? Zhao Kuo frowned and asked.

Han Ying subconsciously shook her head and said, "The slave doesn't know if these shops have committed something, but ...... What the queen just said is that the reason why Ye Qing is like this now is precisely because you let Ye Qing have full authority to dispose of the matter of the Xinwang Mansion, so Ye Qing will take this opportunity to wantonly eliminate dissidents in Lin'an City, and even take the opportunity to make money ....... ”

"Let her go back and tell her I'll be over later." Zhao Kuo stroked his chin and thought for a moment and said.

Han Ying glanced at Zhao Kuo deeply, then nodded and turned around to leave, but as soon as she turned around, Zhao Kuo's voice came from behind her: "No matter when you want to call King Yan in the future, not his name." In any case, he is the first person who can make the Great Song Dynasty have today's weather, not to mention the king. ”

"Yes, the slave knows." Han Ying frowned slightly, lowered her head and walked towards the main hall.

Although she never saw Zhao Kuo's expression explaining to her in the end, she could still feel that Zhao Kuo's tone was ...... seems to be very dissatisfied with calling King Yan by his name.