Coming out of the Du family's study hall, Ru Sanshui returned to the main hall and waited, and when Jiang Huai came out, Ru Sanshui followed Jiang Huai out of the Du family.

Jiang Heng waited at the gate of Jiangfu, prepared the carriage and horses, and waited for Ru Sanshui.

"Have you seen it, can you rest assured?"

Ru Sanshui sat on the horse: "Don't worry, some tribulations can't be avoided, who has no grievances in life, and no worries about his life." ”

Jiang Heng pulled her down: "Riding in a carriage, there are not many women riding horses and walking through the streets and alleys like you, it is too conspicuous." ”

Ru Sanshui got into the carriage, and Jiang Heng also got in. She looked at Jiang Heng with her cheeks raised: "Have something to say?"

Jiang Heng nodded: "Just when you go to the fifth uncle's house, someone will come to deliver the letter, and the Night God Sect will gather in the Taiping Mansion, occupy the city, and have the meaning of claiming the king." ”

"Auntie?"

"Yes. ”

The carriage started and walked outside Guangxin Mansion, but Jiang Heng did not tell the destination. Ru Sanshui thought about it again: "The Xue family and Bai Yige are both in their aunts. They are now in an alliance. ”

"Yes. But it's also possible that it's an alliance. ”

The destination of this carriage is not Hangzhou Mansion, but Taiping Mansion.

"Wait a minute, you said someone sent a letter, who?"

Jiang Heng took out the letter paper from his sleeve and handed it to Ru Sanshui: "Look at it in the sun." ”

Ru Sanshui held up the letter paper as he said, and through the outer layer of pulp, one of the familiar Chongming bird lines could be faintly seen. When Ru Sanshui saw it, he understood that the Chongming Bird family pattern was the Ruan family of Yingtianfu.

Jiang Heng: "Now the Xue family, Bai Yige and the Night God Sect are on the side. On the side of the Jiang family, the Bai family, and the decent families, the official families represented by the Ruan family can help. ”

Ru Sanshui raised his sleeves and thought about the current situation, and thought for a while: "The Bai family really can't be said to be clean. ”

Jiang Heng: "The villain with the same position, and the gentleman with the opposite position, who is your ally?"

Ru Sanshui raised his eyes to look at him, and the pattern of the carriage curtain fell on his shoulder through the sunlight. The silhouette of the teenager matured, his eyes became calmer, and his beard fell on his chin.

"You can look down on the villain who has the same position, but you can't draw a line with him, and you can't deprive him of the power and responsibility to fight side by side with you. You can admire a gentleman who is on the opposite side of yours, but you can't have mercy and indulgence for him, and you can't give him the opportunity to fight with you again. ”

Since you have your own firm position, you will firmly implement it. Do not blaspheme your own faith, do not be proud of your allies, and do not despise your opponents.

Ru Sanshui nodded and stared at Jiang Heng: "You're right. ”

"You always like to stare at me with such sparkling eyes, what did I say again?"

"Is there one?" Ru Sanshui tilted his head: "Naturally, I like you and look at you like this." ”

Out of Shinshu, Ru Sanshui changed horses, Ru Sanshui had been used to riding horses a long time ago, and he was still not used to riding a carriage. Before they arrived at the Taiping Mansion, they heard that there was a big case in the imperial court.

The reason is simple, but the relationship behind it is intricate, widely implicated, and has a deep background, and it is even related to the system of the previous dynasty.

Officials from various localities go to Beijing every year to report on the taxes of various prefectures and pay silver taels. The distance is long, the money will inevitably be lost, and if the amount is inconsistent, it needs to be re-reported by the local government office.

Another trip back and forth, time-consuming, money-consuming and manpower-consuming, the gains outweigh the losses, so someone took advantage of the loophole and went to Beijing with an empty official document with a good seal, and the official verified how much silver taels were written.

This habit has existed since the previous dynasty, and it has become a default rule, but the emperor did not know about it, and accidentally learned about it, and was furious and ordered severe punishment. The blunt speaker in the book angered Long Yan even more, which only aggravated the situation.

This stems from the loopholes in the system, and perhaps most people do it for convenience, but it is inevitable that some people will take advantage of the loopholes for personal gain.

Local officials and central finance officials gathered together to discuss how much to write and how much to report, and the rest could be swallowed privately. There are so many benefits that can be made here, and there are so many people who are harmed, and it makes people feel cold behind them when they think about it.

This case alone involved the entire government and the opposition, hundreds of officials in various prefectures and governments, all of whom were beheaded, and countless people were implicated and distributed.

Although financial power is a matter of great importance, those who do not seek personal gain will also be executed, and it is inevitable that there will be some meaning of punishment without teaching. This case touched most of the officials of the entire imperial court, and there was not a single one left that involved finances.

Ru Sanshui and Jiang Heng saw the beheading of officials with their own eyes, including many beloved parents and officials.

It's not that she didn't want to help, but she was afraid that she would ask Jiang Heng's court for revenge and invite death. Now that the situation is troublesome, it's okay for her to be single alone, and she is in the same place with Jiang Heng, so the fewer enemies she has, the better.

Speaking of this, the Bai family has always colluded with the government in Shinshu to levy private tax kickbacks.

On the contrary, when this case came out, the voice of the Night God Sect pushing the imperial system and ruling the world with religion was even worse, and the rivers and lakes even responded, and there was an endless stream of people who took refuge.

On the way, he rested at the post station and fed the horses fine grain and grass. Ru Sanshui and Jiang Heng entered the shop and asked for tea and some simple meals.

Ru Sanshui drank tea: "In the past, we also passed by near Guxiao, but we have never been there. We are going to Gu all the way now, and the mood is inexplicably strange. ”

"I know. ”

Oh, she forgot, Jiang Heng now knows what happened in the past.

"There is one thing you don't know, I still have a layer of bond with my aunt, which is the words 'return safely'. Like a vow, if I go back to my aunt and see someone again, I may have to leave. ”

"Leave, where are you going?"

Ru Sanshui shook his head: "It's okay." ”

She didn't say that if she broke her vow, she might have to end the punishment of reincarnation in this life and return to her right place.

Jiang Heng remembered something: "There is one thing I don't seem to have told you, you don't seem to know." ”

"What?"

"At that time, in the Demon Suppression Tower, you risked destroying the tower and exposing the Demon Breath to the sun, I thought you were going to disappear with the monsters, but then I saw a ......"

Jiang Heng seemed to be recalling: "A rain of roses." ”

Long, beautiful, innocent petals, enveloping her, like a blessing descended from the gods.

"Rose Rain?"

Ru Sanshui still remembers that in that year, in the Sanqing Temple in Luzhou, she offered incense and prayed for her grandfather. There she saw a dreamlike rain of roses.

The illusory petals, flying all over the sky, dispersed into a dotted pink glow when they touched her hands. And that flower rain originated from the "little trick" that Liang Yunshu gave her.

The elder sister returned to her aunt, took her hand before leaving, stuffed her with a rose ornament made of cloth, and nodded the tip of her nose: "Remember, when the border is stable, my sister is waiting for you to come back." ”

Ru Sanshui agreed to this agreement in his heart, but he never went back. The oath left in the rose was to wait until she returned safely.

It was the oath with her sister that remained in her body through the medium of roses, so that she could respond to the power of the oath and mobilize the vitality in her body after the adventure, so that she could survive.

Will she be able to meet her sister, and will she be able to untie the bonds of this oath under the witness of both parties to the contract?