Xiao Yuan tossed around in the kitchen for an hour, and finally made two famous dishes in Suzhou, one is squirrel osmanthus fish, and the other is soft eel in soup.

The dish was a delicacy, but Fang Yuan's mood was extremely bad now, and he was not in the mood to eat it again, so he put down his chopsticks after tasting a few bites, got up and left.

Before leaving, he also explained to his seventh sister-in-law and sent some of each dish to Cao Huachun.

Xiao Yuan was busy preparing for a long time, but he didn't get Fang Yuan's approval, tears rolled in his eyes, and he looked down at the table.

Fang Yuan went back to his room in a depressed mood, thinking of Xiao Yuan's future residence, the courtyard room was already full, so he could only arrange for her to live in his own room.

After a little thought, he decided to give up the previous bedroom to Xiao Yuan, took the futon and pillow and went to the study, closed the wooden door of the study, spread it on the couch where the study rested, and lay down like this.

Fang Yuan was closing his eyes to recuperate, but he heard Xiao Yuan's low crying outside the study, he was now in a catastrophe, and he was in no mood to comfort this sensitive little girl, so he covered his head with the quilt and fell asleep like this.

The next morning, Fang Yuan, who lived in the study, woke up under the dazzling sunlight.

He got up and stretched, packed up his clothes, and asked the seventh sister-in-law, "Seventh sister-in-law, Xiaoyuan, was she okay yesterday!" ”

The seventh sister-in-law brought a basin of hot water to freshen him up, and muttered, "She cried until the third watch last night before falling asleep." Alas! If the little master doesn't like her, what will he do when he buys her back? ”

The reason for this is that it is a long story, and Fang Yuan had no intention of explaining, so he washed his face, and explained to the seventh sister-in-law, "Seventh sister-in-law, I will get you some broken silver, and you accompany Xiaoyuan to buy some things for your daughter's home." ”

The seventh sister-in-law resignedly went to prepare breakfast, Fang Yuan entered the room, and saw that Xiao Yuan was still in bed, sleeping deeply.

He lifted the gauze tent, sat in front of the little beauty's fragrant couch, and stared at the delicate state of the begonia's spring sleep.

The more Fang Yuan looked at it, the more he liked it, and he reached out to caress her pink face that was still a little fragrant and sweaty, but saw Xiao Yuan moaning softly, as if he was about to wake up.

Fang Yuan hurriedly got up and walked out of the room, and was about to go out, when he heard a rapid knock on the door.

"Who's going to come so early?"

Fang Yuan was startled, feeling an ominous premonition.

The seventh sister-in-law went to open the door, but saw Tian Hongyu and more than 30 heavily armed brocade guards. Fang Yuan, the leader of Jinyiwei, knew that it was his nominal boss, Li Da of Baihu; There is another person, Fang Yuan, who has also seen it, but has not spoken, is the thousand households of Jinyi Wei Qianhu Guard, Zhang Xingcheng.

Behind the three of them, there are Fang Yuan's two brothers, the new Xiaoqi Jingjie, and Qin Zhan, who has just been removed from Xiaoqi's position.

I didn't expect Tian Hongyu to be so well-informed, he just returned to the capital yesterday, and he led the Jinyi guard to the door early this morning.

Zhang Xingcheng and Li Da are Fang Yuan's direct superiors, and the two of them came together, which may represent Jinyiwei's position and attitude.

After Tian Hongyu took his hands on his back, he walked in front of Fang Yuan, and said coldly, "Fang Zongqi, I have been waiting for you for a few days. ”

Fang Yuan returned to Beijing and his entourage took gold and beauties, which was much slower than Tian Hongyu, who arrived in the capital a few days earlier.

Fang Yuan barely squeezed out a smile and said to him, "What is the national master doing with so many brocade guards?" ”

Tian Hongyu looked at him with a smile and said, "Fang Yuan, you have committed five capital crimes, which has caused Your Majesty to be furious, and you deserve death." ”

"Five capital crimes?"

Fang Yuan was stunned, Tian Hongyu would slander in front of Chongzhen, that was what he expected, but it was unbelievable to arrange five capital crimes, "Please teach Tian Guozhang, I will listen to you." ”

Tian Hongyu said lightly, "First, colluded with Xu Hua, the owner of the peach garden, to privately accept bribes such as gold and beauties, in a vain attempt to intercept Chen Yuan, a famous prostitute who should have entered the palace; Second, the blackmail of Jiangnan literati Qian Qianyi and others was too much, and the blackmail failed, and the Qianyun Tower was burned, which provoked the people of Suzhou to revolt; third, embezzling the imperial silver in the treasury of the palace; Fourth, he lied about the exploits of the Golden Tartar after he was killed; Fifth, chanting the poems of the dead country in public, speaking the words of the dead country, and cursing the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Tian Hongyu said one by one the charges against Fang Yuan after returning to Beijing, Fang Yuan gasped when he heard it, and thought secretly, "These five crimes, all of them are capital crimes!" ”

Only then did he know that he had fallen into the trap carefully woven by Tian Hongyu, Qian Qianyi and others. Among these charges, at least three of them are accepting bribes, stirring up popular uprisings, and speaking out words about the country's exile, which must have been fabricated by Tian Hongyu after discussing with those Donglin party members in Jiangnan.

These people are worthy of being old fritters in the officialdom who play politics, and they all have found Chongzhen's mind, and they have also hit Fang Yuan's death hole, so they must cause Fang Yuan to die.

Fang Yuan forcibly hid his shock, and laughed angrily, "The national master is really painstaking, in fact, one is enough for my Fang Yuan's life, why do you need five?" ”

Qin Zhan, who had not spoken for a long time on the side, suddenly spoke, "Master Guo, I also went with me on this trip to Jiangnan, Fang Zongqi is loyal to the country, and the counterattack against the Jiangnan literati is also the arrogant words of those people, Fang Zongqi can't bear it, maybe there is a misunderstanding in the middle!" ”

Jing Jie also opened his mouth and said, "I can testify that it is true that Fang Zongqi killed Houjin Tartar with fewer victories and more battles, and it is definitely not a false report of war exploits." ”

Fang Yuan looked at the two of them with emotion, at this life-and-death juncture, it was a great luck not to fall into the well, and the ones who could send charcoal in the snow were real brothers!

Tian Hongyu glanced at the two of them obliquely, rushed to Zhang Xingcheng of the thousands of households in Jinyi, and Li Da of the hundred households made a look.

Li Da pointed at Qin Zhan and Jing Jie with a whip, and scolded sharply, "We are here to investigate Fang Yuan on the order of the Fusi of Beizhen, here is the point where the two of you speak?" Get out of here! ”

Qin Zhanchang must have been silent in normal times, but Fang Yuan had a great favor for him, these people obviously wanted to kill Fang Yuan, he couldn't help but muster up the courage and continue to speak up, "Li Baihu, even if it is the general banner of Jinyiwei's survey, our testimony is also a rhetoric, we shouldn't believe Tian Guozhang's side of the rhetoric!" ”

"What kind of thing are you, compared to Tian Guozhang, Tian Guozhang's fingers are thicker than your waist pole!"

Seeing that he was still fighting, Li Da whipped him in the face fiercely, and immediately cracked his skin and flesh, and a bright red blood mark was punched on the left side of his face.

Qin Zhan covered his cheeks, but he didn't dare to resist under the watchful eyes of the brocade guards.

Fang Yuan saw that Qin Zhan was beaten for himself, and his head exploded violently, and he rushed forward and grabbed Li Da's collar and dragged it fiercely, "Li Da, you dare to beat my brother?!" ”

Fang Yuan is the righteous son of Fang Zhenghua, the master of ceremonies, before he was convicted, Li Da was dissatisfied with him, and he didn't dare to make a move on him, he pushed him away heavily, and said sharply, "Qin Zhan and Jing Jie colluded with Fang Yuan, come here!" The two were sent to prison, first punished with a cane of 50 canes, and then tortured. ”

Several strong brocade-clothed guards took Qin Zhan and Jing Jie into custody and dragged them down, and Qin Zhan and Jing Jie shouted and scolded outside the wooden door.

Fang Yuan was so angry that he gritted his teeth, pointed to Li Da's door and said, "Li Da, you are looking for death!" If you dare to beat them, we will pay them back tenfold in the future! ”

Li Da was so frightened that he didn't dare to look at him, and took two steps back.

Tian Hongyu sneered and said, "Mr. Fang, what a great majesty." Zhang Qianhu, search for me and see if the Fang family has gold. ”

At the signal of Zhang Xingcheng, Li Da ordered Jinyiwei to start searching Fang Yuan's courtyard.

The wolf-like Jinyi guard searched room by room, including Fang Yuan's room, the seventh sister-in-law's room, the kitchen, the utility room, and even Cao Huachun's suite.

Cao Huachun knew about the disaster that Fang Yuan had broken into this time, and he did not stop Jinyiwei's forcible search.

Fang Yuan's four large boxes containing gold stored in the room were rummaged through, dozens of taels of gold in his house, more than a hundred taels of silver, and even the thousand taels of silver that Cao Huachun had left in the room were also searched out and placed together in the courtyard of the courtyard.

Several brocade guards spent an hour counting the gold and silver in the box, and reported to Li Da of the hundred households, and found a total of 35,000 reams and 50 taels of gold, as well as 1,112 taels of silver.

Li Da respectfully reported to Tian Hongyu and Qianhu Zhang Xingcheng, waiting for the instructions of the two.

Tian Hongyu said coldly, "There is one less person!" What about the little beauty that Xu Hua gave to Fang Yuan? ”

Li Da hurriedly rushed into the room and forcibly dragged out Xiao Yuan, who was hiding in the room.

"Let go of me!"

Xiao Yuan's struggling and pleading voices kept coming, "Childe, help!" ”