has to hide both Lu Xi'er and Yin Wen, sometimes thinking about it, Shen Xi feels very sorry for the two girls who are sincere to her. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But in order for them to have a carefree and happy life, it is worth being a sinner yourself.

Arrived at Xie Qian's mansion with Xie Fu's family, Shen Xi went directly to the study, Xie Qian was sitting at the desk near the window at this time, looking at the book in his hand, but Shen Xi knew at a glance that the other party was pretending, because the book in his hand was obviously reversed.

"The student has seen Xie Gelao." Shen Xi saluted calmly.

"What Xie Ge Lao, you have long scolded the old man in your heart for not being as good as a brute, right?" Xie Qian said with a straight face, "If you want to scold, you can scold, the old man doesn't care about you today...... You're scolding! ”

Shen Xi did not blame Xie Qian.

Although in Shen Xi's heart, he has slandered the other party more than once, but according to the truth, Xie Qian's help to him is far greater than his own dedication. Sometimes Shen Xi felt that Xie Lao'er was cunning, but if you think about it carefully, in fact, Xie Qian has his principles for dealing with the world, and he has also given many opportunities to prove his ability.

"There is no reason for the students to scold Xie Gelao." Shen Xi replied.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Xie Qian's mouth, and he shouted: "If you don't scold, the old man will scold you." You stinky boy, do you know what you're doing? At the age of thirteen, he won the palace test, and everyone praised the champion Lang, who was even more like a fish in water in Hanyuan, His Majesty often praised you, and he was already a lecturer in the East Palace at a young age, and he was more likely to be a very popular minister in the future...... It's good for you to say that you can pick a pick, but have you ever thought about the dawn people of the Ming Dynasty? ”

This big hat was buttoned down, Shen Xi was a little uncomfortable, and he had to raise being an official to the height of serving the country and the people, which was too fake.

Shen Xi asked: "Xie Ge is an official, but for the dawn of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Xie Qian slapped the table and asked, "Otherwise?" Isn't what the old man wants in his life for the people of Limin, since Hanyuan became an official, he has not dared to have any waste, and he has worked hard to repay the emperor's kindness...... What about you? When you start picking and choosing at a young age, you're going to be the opposite! ”

Shen Xi shook his head: "All the people are the people, and one people is not the people?" If you can't save one people, what can you talk about all peoples? ”

When Shen Xi said this, Xie Qian was speechless for a while, because what Shen Xi said was not a big truth, but a real thing.

The people in the world are the people, but a person is not a people?

Xie Qianyi said solemnly that he was for the people, but when the matter came, he didn't even want to help anyone, so this kind of rhetoric that everything is for the people of Li is just a cover, and it is simply a cliché and empty talk.

"Do you want to say Lu Sun's family? She is a person who treats sins, and she is not a people! Xie Qian pondered for a while before refuting angrily.

Shen Xi shook his head and said: "Merchants have existed since ancient times, and when it comes to my Ming Dynasty, people who do business have not committed crimes. However, officials claim to be honest and love the people, but they have repeatedly bullied businessmen, first there are official ships confiscated without compensation, and then there are seizures of warehouses. ”

"You...... Swear black is white....... She...... She's a bribe official! Xie Qian stammered in anger, almost yelling at this.

Xie Qian wanted to suppress Shen Xi's momentum, but Shen Xi still fought-for-tat: "If the official is honest, why don't the businessmen exist?" Now that the city of Beijing is in a depression, it is estimated that there will not be a year and a half, and it is impossible to restore the prosperous landscape, which is the imperial court's love for the people? Officials are greedy and have real power, and can easily decide the survival of businessmen, but after plundering businessmen, they use the pretext of bribery to push off crimes. I think...... This is not the blessing of the Ming Dynasty, but the evil of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"You...... You kid, how dare you criticize me in the Ming Dynasty? Xie Qian was so angry that he was almost speechless.

Shen Xi did not back down in the slightest, and continued: "If the elder of the pavilion thinks that the student is a fool, he can let the student be driven out of the mansion, and the student guarantees that in the future, not only will he not set foot in your mansion, but he will no longer be nostalgic for the rights and wrongs of officialdom. ”

Xie Qian originally thought that Shen Xi was a teenager's heart, and two sentences would make Shen Xi's mind turn a corner, after all, Lu Sun's family was dead, and Shen Xi had no reason to be persistent.

He didn't expect that Shen Xi would be angry with the Ming system because of Lu Sun's "death", which showed in disguise that Shen Xi would not listen to any dissuasion now.

"You...... Go back and calm down! ”

Xie Qian suddenly felt powerless to argue on this issue, because many of the situations that Shen Xi said were actually the truth, not that the businessman had to accept bribes from the officials, but because if he didn't accept bribes, the businessmen would have no way to live at all. This is like the government forcing the people to rebel, the businessman is doing the business of buying low and selling high, and he communicates with each other in various places, which can be said to be an indispensable part of the Ming Dynasty, but it is indeed not kind to find the businessman as soon as there is any disaster in the court.

Shen Xi saluted: "Elder Xie Ge, farewell." ”

Shen Xi actually found that his attitude was wrong, after all, Xie Qian was an old man in the court, and he would be a high-ranking official at the prime minister's level in the next generation, if he could persuade himself so calmly, could he ask for more? However, he was now full of resentment in his heart, and he just wanted to go home to rest and calm down, so he left Xie Mansion without hesitation.

"This kid!"

Witnessing Shen Xi's back disappearing at the gate, Xie Qian sighed, "It's almost unreasonable to wrap me in...... Alas, I hope he can get through this, otherwise I really don't worry that he will inherit my mantle! ”

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Shen Xi didn't see Peng Yu again, because at this time, the wind was tight, and on the side of the Criminal Department, the people from the six doors and the factory guard were investigating the case with great fanfare.

Peng Yu couldn't get more news from the Criminal Department, so he didn't dare to come out to see Shen Xi, so as not to leak the news.

In the prison of the Criminal Department, Hui Niang experienced a night that she would never forget.

When the second watch rang outside, the night was already very dark, and she had just fallen asleep when she heard a slight sound of footsteps, and the two jailers did not even mention the lanterns, but came directly to open the cell door.

Hui Niang was about to shout, but a mother-in-law came out behind her, it was that Liu Po, who took out a white handkerchief and blocked her mouth.

"Madam, don't shout, we're here to help you. Please move. As Liu Po spoke, two jailers next to her came over and walked out of the cell door with Hui Niang.

At this time, Hui Niang felt a kind of dying despair, and she regretted that she should not have listened to Shen Xi's persuasion and acted recklessly. She wanted to shout loudly, but because her mouth was blocked, she couldn't even make a sound, and she was reluctant to move under her feet, but after all, she weighed less than 100 pounds, and she was easily carried out of the prison.

But what Hui Niang feared did not happen.

Eventually, she was simply moved to a cell close to the outside, where she saw someone outside fumbling for something in the night, like someone was pouring oil on the straw in the cell.

"Be smart, remember not to go wrong, or we'll all die!" A vicious-looking man whispered a warning, and soon someone raised a torch and went into the cell to the depths of the cell.

Hui Niang's mouth was still covered with a white cloth, and even her body was tied up, and she couldn't even move, her eyes widened, and she wanted to know what those people were going to do.

After a while, Liu Po came over again, holding a bowl in her hand, and there was something black in it, so she wiped it on her face, and said while wiping: "Madam, you can bear it, if you want to live, just endure it." It's a little dirty, but after you go out, you can wash it clean, and you can still be a beautiful person. ”

Hui Niang felt a choking smell in the black ash, and thought it should be the black ash at the bottom of the pot, she didn't know what these people were going to do, but soon, the sound of "on fire" came from the depths of the cell.

"Don't move, wait for the fire to burn before going in."

Someone was talking about something in the cell, and Hui Niang felt that there were not many people, but soon the shouts of the prisoners inside sounded intensively.

The cells in the back of the cell were all women, and the women were crying loudly, as well as the cries of children.

Because of the drying of the air and the use of tung oil during the previous ignition, the fire spread rapidly after the fire started, and it was already a monstrous fire in the back.

"Look, go in and save people, remember, no one is allowed to go over there on Tianyi!"

Hui Niang "sighed" in her heart, there are three prison numbers in Tianyi, in addition to him, there is also a concubine of an official eunuch's family, who is very beautiful, and after entering, people don't cry or make trouble, it seems that it is not the first time to enter this kind of place.

As for the mother and daughter next door, they were miserable, the mother suffered from tuberculosis when she entered, and her body could not be conditioned in this place, and she became terminally ill in only a few days, and the little girl cried every day, but coughed in the back, and was obviously infected by her mother in a relatively closed space.

Every time she heard the sound of mother and daughter hugging and crying, Hui Niang thought of her daughter. She was thinking, if she had any three strengths and two weaknesses, then Lu Xi'er would be like that girl, and she would be helpless from now on.

But she was a little glad in her heart, because she knew that Shen Xi was very good to Lu Xi'er, and that was her last hope.

The fire spread rapidly, the cell door gradually opened, many people ran out, some unfortunately fell to the ground, and the rest stopped and trampled directly on her. Some were burned in the fire and ran to safety to let out a miserable howl, while others were injured by collapsed beams and drowned in the fire.

The jailers were generally responsible, and most of the female prisoners who fell were helped or carried out, but later the fire inside was too big and could not be controlled, and in front of Hui Niang alone, there were no less than ten people killed in the fire.

"Open the door and send her out...... Mrs. Qin, don't talk nonsense when you go out! Someone opened the cell door and said a word to Hui Niang.

Hui Niang suddenly understood something, her current identity is no longer Lu Sun's, but "Mrs. Qin", but why she was mentioned to the outer cell, she didn't know very well, why these jailers set fire to death, she didn't understand.

A group of female prisoners were escorted out of the cell area of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and outside was an open space, and all female prisoners were required to squat on the ground, and whoever got up would be beaten with sticks.

I heard one person say: "A lot of people died, and when I went back to report it, I said that five people died." ”

The person who spoke seemed to be a high-ranking official of the Criminal Department, and after the man finished speaking, he left, and the fire was still being put out in the fire, and even the people from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies were also alarmed and rushed over to help put out the fire, but unfortunately there were not many wells in the cell area, and the Criminal Department did not prepare many water tanks for water.

After some hard work, the fire was finally extinguished after more than an hour.

How many people died in this fire, Hui Niang couldn't know at all. But she heard a sentence clearly: "Fujian is in Beijing, and the Sun family of Jia Lumen is buried in the sea of fire!" ”

Someone carried out a horribly burned corpse, and Hui Niang could hardly believe that the person was herself, and she was now a "dead person".

"What's going on? Why do you say I'm dead? Hui Niang couldn't believe what was happening in front of her, she even wanted to go up and explain to those people, I didn't die, I was alive and well. But she seemed to understand something in her heart, and only when she died could she be liberated.

"Mrs. Qin, don't move!"

Next to the other female prisoners, there was no need to be taken care of at all, and those female prisoners didn't even dare to move. Only Hui Niang is here, not only is Liu Po there, but also two jailers are sent to watch not far away to prevent Hui Niang from making any rash moves.

A fire broke out in the prison of the Criminal Department, and soon the high-level was alarmed, and they continuously sent people to investigate, and many experienced servants also entered the fire area, and after about an hour, the results came out: "Five people died, including the former big boss of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, the Lumen Sun family!" ”

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