One

Hearing the emperor's inquiry, Xu Jie's heart was overjoyed, if he wanted to show that he was stronger than Yan Song, he had to rely on this opportunity to show his face.

Xu Jie was a prodigy back then, and he had an extraordinary memory and cleared his throat. Then he recited to the emperor in one breath:

"Last year alone, it was a month, and the captives were imprisoned from the sideways. Plunder Siwu and other forts. More than 10 officers below the command level and nearly 1,000 soldiers were killed. ”

"In April, I led tens of thousands of horsemen into Yingzhou, attacked more than 40 forts, and lost one prefect, two counties, two commanders, 3,000 households, 1400 households, and 4,000 guards."

"July Wuzi. Thousands of horsemen moved from Shuozhou to the south. Attacking Shanxi and plundering, I killed two counties, 300 households, and 1,000 guards. ”

"In November, I captured hundreds of horsemen in Shanxi Shenchi and other places, plundered for several days, I killed 100 households and 700 soldiers,"

The candlelight dances faintly. Jiajing's face became more and more ugly, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore, and interrupted Xu Jie irritably: "Enough! That's enough! Hundreds of light captives can drive straight into 300 miles! Are those Wenchen generals who eat Lian Yulu like this to defend the Lian against the extortion? One hundred and seventy years since the founding of the country, unheard of! ”

Everyone in the retreat hurriedly leaned over and pleaded guilty.

"Who's covering for them?" Jiajing asked with a gloomy face, "Why is there no battle report?" You have to rely on this method to check, what does Xu Lun want to do? "Because the war in the southeast is under the sole responsibility of Hu Zongxian, the main responsibility of the military department is Shangshu. It is the operation of the first line of Xuanda Jiliao. Now it's happening. Of course, we must hold the military department accountable.

Xu Jie said softly: "The emperor is angry, Lord Xu is old and has limited energy, so it is inevitable that he will be fooled by the people below. I don't know if he is saying good things to Xu Lun or instigating.

"What good does a corpse vegetarian meal do him?" Jiajing frowned and said, "You want him to write a recital and give an explanation to Lian." ”

"Yes." Xu Jie said softly.

"And Xuanda also needs to investigate." Jiajing continued: "In the end, it is a false report of losses. Or is it really a loss of troops, what is the situation? Gotta find out! ”

"Yes." Xu Jie responded: "May I ask the emperor, who kind of person to send to investigate?" ”

"It concerns the Governor of Xuanda. You can't listen to and believe. Jiajing gently pressed his eyebrows and said: "Let the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Military Department all send personnel, as well as the people of Jinyiwei, and all the immortals to take a look." When I come back, I want to see these white-eyed wolves in the joint adoption. How do you talk nonsense with your eyes open? ”

"Yes," Xu Jie replied again.

"Let's go down and do it." Jiajing waved his sleeves and said.

After listening for a long time, he finally couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, what about my master, he was retaliated against by the evil forces

"Hmm" Jiajing paused and asked Huang Jin, "Is the list still there?" ”

"Grandpa Ma will bring back the celebrant in the morning." Huang Jin replied: "The slave maid will go and have a look." ”

Jiajing ignored him, but looked at Shen Mo and said, "Aren't you the imperial history of Jindu?" You're the candidate for the Metropolitan Procuratorate. I will give you an edict to postpone the execution first."

Silent and thankful.

"But the ugly words are ahead." Jiajing's voice became stern and said, "If you check and check, it is your master who made a false accusation or he really joined the cult, you can confess the guilt with him!" ”

"Yes!" Silence and solemn salute. Leaned over and said, "The minister is willing!" ”

After getting the emperor's edict, Shen Mo hurriedly left Yuxi Palace. ran straight to the celebrant supervisor, and just happened to meet Ma Quan going out, and greeted him with a smile: "Oh, Lord Shen, what's the urgency like this?" ”

Shen Mo grabbed his sleeve and said, "Old Ma, Ma Gonggong, where is the list of collusions?" ”

"I have already let the Criminal Department take it." Ma Quan still couldn't figure out the situation and said: "I don't know what's wrong this time, He Butang came in person to ask for it." By the way, what's going on? ”

How could he have the time to deal with him, and said with a smile: "Wait to ask Huang Gonggong" said and arched his hand: "Farewell." And he ran away.

"What are you doing in such a hurry?" Looking at his rapidly disappearing back, Ma Quan shook his head puzzled.

Shen Mo knew that Shen Lianxian's goat had entered the Tiger Cave, and Tang Sanzang had strayed into Xiao Lei Yin. There is a possibility of being killed at any time, how dare you slack off for a moment, go out of the palace without stopping, sit in the sedan chair out of breath and say: "Go to the criminal department!" ”

The yamen of the criminal department is in the south of the Baimiao Hutong of the Xidan archway, and it is just a turn from the Xiyuan, and the silence has not stopped. The sedan chair stopped.

Gritting his teeth, he jumped down from the sedan chair silently, and said loudly to the guards: "There is an edict from the emperor, take me to see your ministry quickly!" ”

The guards didn't recognize him, but when they saw Shen Mo wearing crimson and knew that it was impossible to be a big official, they hurriedly took him straight into the yamen. When I arrived outside the Shangshu signing room, I went in to pass the ceremony. He Bin was also taken aback. Hurriedly ran out with the crooked official hat, silent, couldn't help but change his face, glared at the soldier fiercely, and said, "Damn, I don't ask who it is." ”

His vulgar words made Shen Mo frown, and he said in a deep voice: "Lord He, it seems inappropriate to speak disrespectfully in front of the commandment. ”

"Are you Goshi?" There is a way that is close to the ink is black, under the influence of Yan Shifan, He Bin has become dirty and does not feel ashamed, but he said vigorously: "Can you manage it?" ”

"Of course I'm the imperial history, but I don't have time to shrug your stinky mouth!" Shen Mo took out Jiajing's handwriting from his sleeve, straightened his chest and said, "Zuohedu Yushi Shen."

He Bin knelt down and said, "Minister, He Bin respectfully invites St. Ann!" ”

Shen Mo didn't open it, and asked in a deep voice: "The emperor asked, where is the list of criminals who were executed today?" ”

"It's still on the Weichen table." He Bin replied.

"Among them, the person reported by the Xuanfu committed Shen Lian, and because there are still suspicious points, the execution is suspended!" Shen Mo shook his hand in front of He Bin's eyes. Then he put it away and said, "Lord He, please do it." ”

"Back to the emperor" He Bin said with a weird smile on his face: "The copy has been sent out" Chuan

Shen Mo's face darkened when he heard this. He whispered, "Don't chase it back yet!" ”

"I can't get it back." He Bin slowly got up, patted the ash on his knees, and said leisurely: "I sent it out urgently with the military department." It's time to Changping now. ”

"You bastard!" Listen silently. Blood gushed on his head, grabbed He Bin's collar and said, "What intentions!" ”

"What are you doing?" He Bin said sharply: "Do you still want to beat people?" ”

The silent fists and forks were clenched, but the mind was still clear, and he knew that he couldn't make any extraneous branches at this time, so he pointed to He Bin's face and said, "Sooner or later, I will hit you with a full face!" As soon as he said that, he let go, turned around and hurried away.

He Bin's messy clothes looked at the strange eyes left and right, and he knew that he was embarrassed today. couldn't help but blush and said, "Look at what, a group of rice buckets!" ”

Silently walked out of the yamen of the Criminal Department, and Sanchi, who followed closely behind, asked, "My lord, what should we do?" ”

"Look at this posture, they want to cut through the mess quickly." Shen Mo stopped, exhaled a sullen breath and said, "Let's go to Xuanfu, we must arrive before noon tomorrow!" ”

"Ah" Beijing to Xuanfu is three hundred miles away, if the horse is whipped and the horse is changed a few times, it can be arrived in one day, but now is the beginning of the Shen time, the winter days and nights are long, and it will be dark in less than an hour. Then the hour passed before dawn. In other words, the time to travel during the day is less than two hours, and the rest of the time has to travel in the night, not to mention how fast you can go. It's also easy for the horse to stumble, and if you fall down, you have to break your bones, and it's dangerous to lose your life.

Sanchi felt that he had to persuade the adult: "It's too dangerous."

"I'll go from Mao." Silence started a fire and rolled over into his horse.

Sanchi smiled bitterly and grabbed the reins of the horse and said, "Obey it, let's go, let's go." As he spoke, he turned back to the palanquin men and said, "Go back and inform the brothers, let's gather in front of Zhuocheng, and there is another one." The hour closes. Malari point. ”

"The palanquin drivers responded with a smile, and then carried the empty sedan chair and walked away quickly.

"Hehe, it's a good time." Sanchi scolded with a smile, looked up at Shen Mo and said, "My lord, don't be in a hurry at this time." Let's get somewhere first. ”

Where? The silence gradually calmed down, and he asked in a muffled voice.

"Zhu Shisanjia" whispered: "It's still his waist card." ”

Silently remembered that a few years ago, when they went straight to Huayin to find Li Shizhen, it was Zhu Shisan's brocade clothes and waist cards that were used, all the way unimpeded, all the best horse rotation, and said softly: "How did I forget this stubble." ”

"You've got to think big." Sanchi led the horse to Zhu Shisan's house: "These little things." Just let the little ones worry about it. ”

Shen Mo was silent for a moment when he heard this, and said softly: "It was me who was wrong just now."

Hearing this, Sanchi smiled and said, "My lord is in a hurry, we know." ”

"I'm so sorry." Shen Mo sighed and said, "Let you go on an adventure with me again."

"We can't ask for it!" Sanchi smiled: "Didn't you see them laughing? It's been rusty for half a year. Just take the opportunity to let the wind out. He scratched his head and said, "My lord, what's wrong with you today?" Why do you see it so much? ”

Hehe, it's nothing" Shen Mo shook his head and said softly: "It's good to have you brothers"""

Speaking of returning to Xuanfu, inside the prison of the Governor's Palace. In the deepest cells.

It was dark inside the cell, and there were no lights in the cells. In the outdoor cloister. A butter lamp hangs. The faint light cut through the bars of the cell, reflecting the equally broken mattresses and straw on the ground.

The air here was so polluted that even rats didn't want to patronize it, but Shen Lian, father and son, who were inside, were unaware of it and were talking face to face.

"You shouldn't have come" Shen Lian looked at his son, and said with some sadness: "For my father, I fought against Yang and Lu and the two thieves, but I didn't want you to come in with you."

"Daddy can come in, why can't the kid come in?" Shen Yu said stubbornly.

"If you are an official for one day, you will be a minister for life." Shen Lian shook his head and said, "But you are not an official of the imperial court, there is no need to suffer this crime!" ”

"But I'm Daddy's son!" Shen Xiao said emotionally: "If I run away in fear of sin, if my father dies and there is no collection of bones, I will be scolded for being an unfilial son for all generations, what face will I have to live in the world?!" ”

The relief on Shen Lian's face flashed for a moment, and he said with a cold face: "Confused! This prison is easy to get in and hard to get out! If you don't die, you have to peel off the skin! ”

Shen Yu pouted and said, "You said it all, you can't get out anyway, so don't complain about the child anymore." ”

"Alas," Shen Lian sighed helplessly. Bow your head and stop talking. He felt that as a father, he was too unqualified. Shen Yu didn't speak anymore, although he came in without hesitation. I'm still scared. :, two and two sat in silence like this. I don't know when. There was a second "lock" sound in the cell, and it was the jailer who struck the rice bucket with a rice spoon to remind the prisoners to prepare their rice bowls. Wait for them to come across the station. After it was densely placed on the edge of the corridor, the two jailers who delivered the rice scooped a spoonful of the cabbage leaf soup into each bowl, and then dropped a black noodle nest that could bounce up when it smashed to the ground, and it was considered for today's dinner.

In fact, it was only at this time that the prisoners knew whether it was morning or evening, because every morning they ate porridge with a few grains of rice, and "black noodles."

Seeing that the food delivery was coming, Shen Xin hurriedly got up, went over with two broken bowls, and waited by the fence to get food. The advantage of staying in a single room is: There is no prison bully to rob you" Although he would never eat this kind of thing when he was outside, after two days of starvation in the prison, he no longer felt that it was difficult to swallow at all.

But what disappointed him was. The jailer brought food to the next cell, but turned away. He was so anxious that he shouted, "We haven't eaten yet."

The jailer looked back at him and said angrily, "Wait." ”

Obviously, there was still a nest head Shen muttered, and sat back to say.

Fortunately, after a while, a jailer went and returned, still carrying a tray of fragrant rice. When the prisoners who were struggling to swallow saw this, they shrugged their noses greedily, licked their tongues with envy, and then looked at Shen Lian and his son with sympathetic eyes.

You can get this kind of hospitality in this hellish place. There is probably only one possibility, and that is to cut off the head.

Although Shen Jiao had never been in prison, he had already known about this by peeking. All of a sudden, his face turned pale and said, "What does this mean?" ”

The jailer put the food tray in the prison and said, "Your father will be on his way tomorrow." Waiting for him to have a good meal, he put down the food box again, glanced at the two of them, and turned to leave.

Shen Xiang was stunned. Look at the tray. There are meat, vegetables and steamed buns, compared to the soup wotou. It's a rare delicacy indeed. But when I thought it was Daddy's guillotine. How can he have a little appetite?

Shen Lian was calm in his heart. But seeing his son's teardrops, he felt uncomfortable.

The father and son sat opposite each other for a long time, and then Shen Xin wiped his tears and choked up: "Dad, the child is waiting for your last meal." ”

Shen Lian shook his head and said, "Dad has no appetite, you can eat at this time, what he is thinking about is what if he dies and Shen Yuan?" If you can go out safely, how can you still have the heart to eat.

Although Shen Zhen was hungry, how could he eat his father's severed head meal, he also shook his head and said, "I can't eat it either." ”

The prisoner in the next prison kept his ears on his ears, and when he heard that none of them could eat, he said loudly at this moment: "Hey, don't waste if you don't eat, it's not good if it's cold." Saying that, he smiled at Shen Xin, "Give it to us."

That man's name is Wang Si, and he is a tyrant in the prison next door, and he is doing business outside to rob houses and houses. When I came in, I also took pleasure in bullying people. Shen Zhen ignored him, but he didn't give up and said: "I don't lose you, can't I exchange it with you?" Look, I haven't moved this dinner

Shen Xiang ignored him, but Shen Lian said loudly: "Change it, it's rare to have a good meal, if you don't want to eat, don't waste it." ”

"Then dad still wants to eat, Shen Xiang said with tears in his eyes.

, "I'm not eating". Shen Lian shook his head and said, "My stomach is empty, and I am dead." ”

Shen Zhen glared at the prison tyrant, and then brought the tray to him.

The prison overlord swallowed his saliva and carefully took the food through the fence. He began to eat with his head bored.

Shen Zhen asked him to make a nest, Wang Si punched through the fence and hit him in the face, Shen Zhen hugged his head in pain, only to hear him laugh and say: "People who are about to die, what kind of nest do you eat, let's save it for my uncle." ”

Shen Xiang was so angry that he wanted to reason with him, but was stopped by Shen Lian and said, "If you are like him, you have the same knowledge." Don't you think you're as cheap as him? Shen Xiang stopped angrily.

"I'm cheap, I'm full." Wang Siman said indifferently: "You are noble, you can't eat until you die, so you don't pay attention to this pedantic father and son, and bury your head in eating."

Someone on the side kindly persuaded him, saying that this was a severed head meal and that he had eaten bad luck. But Wang Si was beaten and scolded: "I won't give you food even if I die of bad luck." After speaking, eat the plates and bowls clean, and lick them shiny before stopping. Only then did he pat his round belly and sighed with satisfaction, "Since I came in, the first time I have eaten so much and fallen into the straw pile,

Everyone looked at it and said, it's really enough, eat and sleep, and they didn't care, but after a while, they found that his posture was twisted, but he didn't move. Someone went over to take a look, patted him carefully and said, "Fourth Master." I want to remind him that the posture is not right, get up and go back to sleep.

Who knew that the hand net would touch his body. Wang Si turned over softly, revealing a bleeding face!

Screams of fear rang through the cell.

One one...... I should have eaten this meal with Shen Xin, but later I felt that the monks were merciful and there was no need to add this blockage, so I shook my hand and gave it to the fourth brother Wang to eat.

This story teaches us that when someone gives you something, don't eat it indiscriminately.

I don't know how much more I can write, float by,