Jiao Fang beat Xu Yi to the point of despair with a sentence of inappropriateness, and then Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, didn't ask anything more, and stood up directly and said that he would tell the emperor that Gu was broken, announcing the end of today's matter. Even if Xu Yi was unwilling, he didn't dare to quarrel in the hall of this ministry, so he could only glance at Xu Xun angrily, and then walked away angrily. And Xu Xun helped Xu Liang up, but he didn't leave immediately, but looked at the side hall next to him. Sure enough, the next moment, someone inside rushed out in a hurry, but it was not Zhu Houzhao as he thought, but Liu Jin with a smile on his face.

The three pavilion elders were inside, and their faces didn't look very good. Zhang Yong and I persuaded each other desperately, so His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finally didn't come out. You don't know, Your Highness just heard it in a hurry, and is complaining vigorously that you are not well prepared. Liu Jin whispered a few words, and then glanced at Jiao Fang, who had made great contributions today, and then raised his voice slightly, "Fortunately, with Master Jiao's final words, the overall situation is decided." ”

At this time, the other squire and the Lang Zhong of the Wenxuan Division had already left, but Jiao Fang intended to stay, and was pricking up his ears to listen to what Liu Jin said to Xu Xun, but he only heard the last sentence clearly. Although he was overjoyed, he was also an old official for many years, and his face was only silent, until Liu Jin returned to the side hall, he stepped forward unhurriedly, and when he passed by Xu Xun's side, he casually stuffed a letter into the past, but he didn't say a word.

After leaving the yamen of the Ministry of Officials, Xu Xun, who hadn't said a few words since he went to the hall today, finally couldn't hold back a little, and asked in a low voice before he got into the car: "Xun'er, why does this Lord Jiao help us speak?" What did he stuff you? ”

"Dad, Jiao Fang and Ma Wensheng have never dealt with each other, and this trip to help us is probably not because the drunkard is not drinking."

Xu Xun helped Xu Liang into the carriage, and deliberately said this sentence in front of Jin Liu, seeing his eyes, nose, nose and heart, as if he hadn't heard anything, he gently put a ride on his shoulder, and got into the carriage without saying anything. When the car door closed outside, he lowered the curtain again, then lowered his head and took out the letter from his sleeve, took out the letterhead, and handed it to Xu Liang, actually signaling him to read it first. Xu Liang was originally a little hesitant, but seeing Xu Xun's calm face, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to take it and looked at it carefully. In just a few moments, his face changed, and he actually crumpled the letterhead.

"Too much deception!"

"Dad, what's written in the letter?"

Seeing that Xu Xun was about to bend down to pick up the paper ball, Xu Liang grabbed his son's shoulder, and said in a difficult voice after a while: "Don't pick it up, it's all boring bastard talk......"

Sensing that the hand pressing his shoulder was abnormally strong, Xu Xun's heart moved, where to believe this far-fetched explanation, he pulled the paper ball to him with a hook of his foot, and then lowered his head to pick it up, and unfolded it little by little. After only a brief glance from beginning to end, he understood the origin of his father's gaffe, so he casually pinched the piece of paper, and then looked sideways at Xu Liang.

"Dad, what else can't be said between you and me? Not to mention how Jiao Fang is known to the government and the opposition, don't you think it's strange that he has been an official in the capital for more than ten years and can have a relationship with my former father? ”

What's more, I have already used this trick once, Jiao Fang, you are now using it again in front of the master, isn't that Dong Shi Xiaofeng? Xu Xun secretly slandered while saying this, but continued as if nothing had happened: "He helped us today, in addition to not dealing with Ma Wensheng, that is, for the sake of His Royal Highness the Prince, leaving this letter is nothing more than an intention to wake me up, don't get carried away, he can hold us up, let Dad Shunshun be the attack on Xing Anbo, but he can also preach to the outside world that I am not your biological son, let us fall down." ”

Xu Liang has not been messing around at this level for many years, and when he heard Xu Xun's explanation at this time, his face couldn't help but look a little ugly, and he didn't care that Xu Xun had no respect for court bigwigs like Ma Wensheng and Jiao Fang, and he called him by his name all the way. After a long time, he sighed worriedly, grasped Xu Xun's hand tightly, and didn't say anything more.

Jin Liu, who was driving outside, listened to the conversation in the carriage that was foggy but could still feel a little clue, but his face was serious, and he didn't look like he was about to go to the execution ground, but his louder and louder shouts when he turned the corner and crossed the alley revealed the joy in his heart. Therefore, even if Xu Xun got out of the car first at the intersection of Fengcheng Hutong and told him to send Xu Liang back first, he didn't ask a word knowingly.

Once upon a time he was just a porter of a ruined family, but after a while, he will be a man of the Earl's Court!

The old alley of Li Ge in Yongfang is named after Li Dongyang, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion who gave the first place. Although his ancestral home is Chaling, Li Dongyang is a native of Beijing, at the age of four he moved the capital in the name of a prodigy, at the age of eighteen he entered the Jinshi, and in his early twenties he entered Hanlin, and his official fortune was smooth sailing, although he is still only a second assistant, but everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before he succeeds as the first assistant who is more than ten years younger than Liu Jian.

Since entering the cabinet, Li Dongyang has been on duty with Liu Jian Xie Qian in the palace cabinet for most of the month, and there are all kinds of urgent matters that need to be dealt with from time to time, and there are only a handful of days when he goes home for the night. Therefore, even if it was Li Dongyang's saying that he should rest, the family did not have any expectations, but the sedan chair waiting in the old alley of Li Ge in front of the door did not give up, and it gradually dispersed until the evening. Just when a few old family members came out to hang the lights in front of the door as usual, a sharp-eyed person saw a mule cart slowly coming from a distance, and after a closer look, he found that it was his master's car.

Suddenly, the news came in, and Mrs. Zhu, who thought that her husband would not be able to come back, was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly instructed the kitchen to cook a few more good home-cooked dishes, and immediately went out of the main room and called Li Zhaofan to welcome him out. Before the mother and son arrived at the second gate, she saw Li Dongyang, who was dressed in a rain-soaked blue shirt, had already entered, and had to take a few steps forward quickly.

"The master is back."

"I've seen Daddy."

"It's late autumn, it's cold in the morning and evening, why does Madame come out in person?" Li Dongyang supported Mrs. Zhu, and then nodded gently to Li Zhaofan, and after asking a few words about family affairs and homework, he learned that Li Zhaofan had already had dinner, so he said in a deep voice, "Go back and warm up the books you have read recently, and I will test you when I go back." ”

It wasn't until Li Zhaofan retreated according to his words and deeds that Li Dongyang and Mrs. Zhu walked side by side to the main room, and only casually asked the visitors these days along the way. Knowing that most of them were asking to see and give gifts, Mrs. Zhu didn't see any of them, and only a few of his protégés had left posts, so he nodded slightly.

"There's Mrs. Law. Ming said that I still have a vacation, so I let people send posts everywhere, and there has been no literary meeting at home for a long time. ”

"The master thinks about government affairs outside, and thinks about the Wenhui at home, which is too busy! It's Zhaofan's business, in addition to your homework, don't forget to bring him more with you when you meet guests in this article. ”

Li Dongyang's face suddenly froze when Mrs. Zhu said this, and he actually remembered his biological son Li Zhaoxian, who was as young and talented as himself, but died young, and then nodded slowly. Back to the main room, the food in the kitchen has not been delivered, he took advantage of this to gossip with his wife, learned that his wife went to Lingji Palace again today, he smiled, was about to make a joke, Mrs. Zhu talked about meeting an interesting girl in Lingji Palace, from the moment of acquaintance, suddenly the conversation changed: "She just came from Nanjing, I left her for a conversation, and unconsciously mentioned the previous sensational case in Jinling." ”

"Is it Zhao Qin's case?"

Of course, Li Dongyang knew about the contest between the Yanguan and the eunuch. As an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, he naturally will not be like those science and Taoist officials, one only thinks about participating in one another, but Zhao Qin's matter is the turning point of the previous victory and defeat, of course he knows it. At this moment, listening to Mrs. Zhu talk about today's hearsay, he was still careless at first, but after all, because the details were far richer than Nanjing's recital, he gradually became more concentrated, and in the end, although the meals had been arranged, he had no intention of using them at all. Fortunately, Mrs. Zhu remembered her surname very well, and even the words that Shen Yue recounted when Xu Xun interrogated Zhao Qin were almost word for word. And Li Dongyang waited until Mrs. Zhu finished speaking, and then he sat down at the table absentmindedly.

Today, although he and Liu Jian Xie Qian were observing, they couldn't see the expressions of those people, but just listening to those words, they could roughly distinguish a rough idea. Jiao Fang put down the earth-shattering words, and then Xu Yi argued for a while, but after all, he couldn't come up with other evidence to decide the surname, so this battle between the elders and the young became a battle between the elders and the young, and the outcome was already very clear.

As soon as he returned to the cabinet, Xie Qian said that Jiao Fang's move was aimed at inviting the prince, and Liu Jian, who was surnamed Gengzhi, almost directly sent the secret revelation of the plea to remove the title of Earl of Xing'an, Xie Qian planned to secretly play Jiao Fang's sycophant prince's intentions, or he was so easy to persuade him temporarily.

It is not necessary to turn a small thing into a big one. What's more, the character of the Xu family's father and son seems to be good now, especially Xu Xun, who can ask Zhao Qin in such harsh words in Yingtianfu to vomit blood, but he doesn't say a bad word in the public court today, but he has a kind heart, which is very rare.

"Master, master?"

Hearing these two sounds in his ears, Li Dongyang suddenly came back to his senses, and when he looked down, he found that he had been pulling the chopsticks in the empty rice bowl for a long time, and immediately smiled awkwardly. Put down the bowl and stand up and say a few more words to his wife, and then went out to the study. Hurriedly handwriting a text in front of the desk, he sealed it in an envelope, and took out a silver medal given to him by the emperor. However, just as he put down his pen, he suddenly remembered something, and then his brows tightened more and more, and he actually got up and went out with the secret in his sleeve.

Seeing that Li Zhaofan happened to enter the courtyard, he nodded apologetically to this heir, and then said loudly: "Come on, prepare the car, and go to Beizhen Fusi!" ”

(To be continued)