Under the support of the eldest grandson Xu Guangzuo, coupled with the belated chief of the Ministry of Rites, who was late to handle the funerals of those old clans, the funeral of Xu Sheng of Xing'an Bo was naturally done smoothly, and there was no more turmoil in the first mourning hall. Even so, Xu Yi took advantage of the little advantage that Xu Sheng's last book was easy to get back, and he was exhausted, and he could only watch Xu Guangzuo methodically clean up the "slippery" villains in Xing'anbo's Mansion, nine of which were Aunt Dai's henchmen, or he had colluded with them.

Under this heavy pressure, coupled with Xu Yi's self-belief that he had opened the door to Ma Wensheng, as soon as the first seven days passed, he was impatient to go to the scribe's department and asked for the title of Earl of Xing'an in the name of his step-grandson. He deliberately found a well-known and gorgeous talent, and the wonderful pen sprinkled a large number of good articles to send up, and then went to Ma Fu, although he did not see Ma Gongzi again, after getting Ma Gongzi's real guarantee from a powerful little man, he was still not enough, and he was a book to the Ministry of Rites, and even tried to buy someone to send a direct to the heavens from the right Shun Door to send a piece of music that went straight to the heavens, in addition to accusing Xu Liang of being unscrupulous, he also had to bluntly say that his son's identity was suspicious. In addition, he sent a generous gift to Li Rong's godson.

Even if he has money, after such a toss, he has already used up a full three thousand taels of silver, needless to say. In comparison, Xu Liang and Xu Xun were much quieter. Except for the father and son who went to Xing'anbo Mansion to participate in various funerals, the rest of the sons went to the house in accordance with the rules of mourning, and did not go anywhere except for the submission of the officials. A few of the guards sent by Fu Rong complained about the detention at home, but after he rewarded it once, everyone was honest.

This time, the father and son were tidying up things in the West House, and in the East House, Mu Huaien, who was sorting out the books on the shelves, saw Jing Bule walking in, and saw that there was no one else, so he smiled and joked: "This master's house is closed, but Father-in-law Jing is panicking when he feels idle?" ”

"It's not enough to panic, after all, our family is under the banner of Fu Gonggong sent to give gifts, and we can go out for a walk. Our family just thinks that Grandpa Fu sent the wrong person this time, that Xu Xun is young, and he is still in his forties, which is simply a refinement. Xiao Jing and Li Rong were given gifts by Xu Xun in person, but Chen Kuan, Wang Yue and the other eunuchs in charge of the eunuchs were not happy to go, so naturally they heard the evaluation of Xu Xun by the princes of the ceremonial eunuchs, their little eyes narrowed, and the mole at the corner of their mouth actually shook slightly, "He braked quietly, compared to jumping up and down over there, it was much stronger." Fortunately, Xu Liang has his son to help, otherwise he would have to be disgusted to death by disgusting people. ”

"I can't imagine that Gonggong Jing, who is rarely convinced, will also judge Xu Gongzi like this." Mu Huaien smiled and wiped the last bookshelf, then put down the rag and turned over and said, "Then Father-in-law Jing, how much hope does this time have?" ”

"He's doing a good job, but the direction of the wind hasn't been good lately." Jing Bule walked around with those well-informed eunuchs, but he was not Xu Xun's personal person, the other party didn't ask, and he wouldn't know everything, so he frowned and said, "The three old gentlemen in the cabinet don't hum or ha, as if they don't care about such a trivial matter." In the six books, Ma Wensheng advocated that the descendants should be different, and Xu Yi should be advocated, and the other bigwigs have not yet expressed their position, as for the emperor, even if he is biased, he has not refuted the results of the ministerial court discussion over the years. Alas, to say that the prince doesn't care about anything after all......"

"Master, young master, Master Zhu sent someone!"

Before they could finish speaking, the two of them only heard a loud shout outside. At this sound of Zhu Xiaohou, the two of them looked at each other for a while, Mu Huaien immediately put down the work that had not been done at hand, quickly stepped forward and pushed open the window, and saw a person walking in the courtyard quickly, so he nodded to Jing Bule on the side. And Jing Bule looked at it carefully for a moment, and immediately his eyes lit up: "It's Zhang Yong of the Prince's East Palace, although he is only in the palace, but he is very favored." ”

The two saw that Xu Xun personally came out to welcome Zhang Yong in, so they stood in front of the window and discussed in a low voice, but after a while, they saw Xu Xun and Zhang Yong come out together, and they actually sent people out of the door. Just as they were pondering Zhang Yong's special trip, what news did the prince let him bring, Tao Hong's voice came from outside.

"Father-in-law Jing, father-in-law Jing is here? Master, please take a trip. ”

"Father-in-law Jing won't be idle now." Mu Huaien smiled at Jing Bule with a smile, and saw that this person nodded at himself, so he immediately opened the curtain and went out, he unconsciously shrugged his shoulders and smiled slightly, and took the floating dust to dust everywhere, but muttered to himself, "Gonggong Fu retreated bravely to enjoy Qingfu, but you are different, if you have the opportunity to find a place in the palace again, you are only afraid that you can't ask for it, otherwise why should the personnel in the palace be so clear?" Gonggong Fu knew it, so he sent you out. ”

Compared with patience, Xu Xun could lie dormant for ten years in his previous life, and now he is bored at home and can't move around, which is nothing to him, the only trouble is that the little girl only has Li Qingniang to pass letters back and forth, and she can't sneak out to meet people. Therefore, Zhang Yong's message this time, he naturally will not wait to ignore it, at this time Jing Bule came, he sat down after meeting with the people, and said bluntly: "Father-in-law Jing, just now Father-in-law Zhang came to visit and said that someone told him that the son of Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, received Xu Yi's money, so his father was Xu Yiyan. Do you think this is really possible? ”

Snitch?

Jing Bule originally thought that Zhang Yonglai today must be the crown prince Zhu Houzhao who had something to say to Xu Xun, but the truth was even more shocking. He almost just asked in his heart, "Does the prince know?" ”

"Father-in-law Zhang was in trouble, so he came to me to remind him. I told Gonggong Zhang that such hearsay does not need to be mentioned in front of the prince. Xu Xun paused, and then said sincerely, "I don't know who Ma Shangshu is, and I don't know whether this whistleblower is kind or malicious, so I asked Gong Jing to teach me." ”

Xu Xun met the prince by coincidence, and was summoned by the Son of Heaven because of this, even if the title was missed this time, there would be another chance to decide, so Jing Bule made up his mind to make more calculations for this one even for his own future. However, in the face of Xu Xun's humble attitude, he was still very useful, and the smile on his face became more kind.

"I don't dare to teach, I can only say one or two for Xu Gongzi. The Ministry of Officials is the head of the six departments, and the situation is quite complicated, and now Ma Shangshu is nearly eighty years old, and he has repeatedly asked for Zhishi but he has not been allowed, which naturally hinders the path of others......"

After analyzing the long speech, Xu Xun nodded thoughtfully. It seems that this seemingly unimportant little thing has become a stage for the big guy to wrestle. Even so, he still holds the previous purpose to static braking, and it is good to respond to all changes without change! If you use it as a gunman, why bother!

The noble minister has no heir behind him, how to inherit this title, the court has always had a precedent. If this person has a bad reputation in his life, or if the Son of Heaven already has a pimple in his heart, then most of the titles end here; And most of the other people wait until the funeral is done, and then slowly look for immediate family members, it is not strange that a title is empty for three or five years, it is common to be empty for more than ten years, and it is common for decades or even hundreds of years to be empty...... You don't see that Tang He, the Duke of Xinguo, and even the Hu Weiyong case and the Lanyu case escaped safely, but because of the struggle between the sons of Tang He after his death, it is clear that there are countless descendants, but this Duke of Xinguo is stunned and there is no more explanation?

Therefore, the hereditary title has always had the practice of being in a hurry and not in a hurry, especially the officials who sit firmly in the Diaoyutai, and they have to find out the mistakes of the inheritors when they have nothing to do, let alone when something happens. However, this time it was the opposite, on the one hand, Xu Yi was jumping up and down to do his best, and on the other hand, Xu Liang's father and son were serving filial piety and mourning at home behind closed doors, as if they had forgotten about it; After the old secretary Ma Wensheng was promoted to the table once, Jiao Fang, the servant of the ministry, couldn't sit still.

He has already quietly asked people to send a letter to the eunuch of the East Palace, how can there be no movement at all until now! Could it be that Prince Zhu Houzhao really doesn't care about this lawsuit? Or do the Xu family father and son really not care?

After waiting for three or four days without news, he finally broke the kettle and sent it directly with thousands of words, and bluntly said that now Xing'anbo has gone suddenly, and there are a lot of rumors and rumors in the streets and alleys, and the inheritor should be determined as soon as possible to calm the hearts of the people.

The excerpt was sent to the celebrant supervisor, whether it was Xiao Jing or Li Rong, he couldn't help but have his own little Jiujiu in his heart, and he immediately mentioned it when he reported in front of the emperor, so Emperor Hongzhi nodded, and when he sent the excerpt to the cabinet to vote, the celebrant wrote Sun Bin and arched his hand to the three pavilion elders with a smile.

"Long live the Lord said, this matter has not been resolved for a long time, it is better to let the officials summon two groups of people to have a good review, there is a result, and it will save the people from talking endlessly. Long Live Lord also said that if the three gentlemen are free, they may wish to go and observe the hearing. ”

Sun Bin said this, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian couldn't help but look at each other. They are the elders of the pavilion who have all the opportunities, and they are not enough for twelve hours a day, to listen to this boring lawsuit, they are full of food? However, to their surprise, Sun Bin followed up and said something even more earth-shattering.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also said that he wanted to go and see the excitement, and the three gentlemen were also the prince's East Palace officials, and the justifiable masters, accompanied the prince on a trip, so that the prince could understand the world."

Can you understand the world by watching this kind of lawsuit? Isn't that a joke?

Even though Liu Jiandang, who was impulsive, wanted to stand up and speak, as soon as his hand pressed on the armrest, he was pressed down by Li Dongyang. And Liu Jian hesitated for a long time, and saw that Sun Bin hung his head and restrained his hands very respectfully, and finally said in a deep voice: "You go back to report to Father-in-law Xiao and Father-in-law Li, please ask the emperor, and say that the three of us will obey the order." ”

As soon as Sun Bin left, Li Dongyang bowed slightly to Xie Qian, who was frowning on the side, and said, "Mu Zhai, it's just a busy day, why not take a trip?" The prince has not been to the Wenhua Hall for a long time to listen to the lecture, this rare opportunity is not seized, and the next time I see the prince, I don't know when it will be. ”

Liu Jian also nodded: "What Xiya said is, besides, let's take a look at who that Xu Xun is, what kind of three-headed and six-armed ability he has, in Nanjing, he can make the civil and military and the lieutenants praise each other, and when he arrives in the capital, he can not only make the prince love him, but also impress the emperor." ”

(To be continued)