"Do you remember Grandpa's admonition?"

"The slave and maid dare not forget at all times. In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the grandfather ordered someone to cast a three-foot iron plaque of 'ministers are not allowed to interfere in political affairs, and the offender will be beheaded', which was hung high in the palace gate. When Grandpa Cheng moved the capital, he brought this sign to Beijing and stood in the eunuch duty room next to the Qianqing Palace. ”

"Just remember. I was trapped in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division back then, and you died to report the news, and I also remember it in my heart. But I can't show favoritism, saving the driver is saving the driver, greedy ink is greedy for ink, it's not the same thing, if this matter is true, don't blame me for turning my face and being ruthless! ”

Cao Huachun kowtowed and said: "Long live Lord, if the slave and maid really have such a thing, where can you be worthy of your old man's reward and love, you don't have to move your old man's mouth, and he will die of shame." But the slave and maid saw that this matter was really strange, Mr. Wen was the first to take the lead, but like those Taiwan officials, just based on some rumors, he hurriedly entered the performance, which was very contrary to the norm, and it seemed that this matter had a lot to do with him. The slave and maid ask for a thorough investigation, one is to explain to the Lord of Long Live to understand, and the other can also clear themselves. ”

Chongzhen pondered for a moment before nodding and saying, "It's okay, I'll give you a chance, but this matter is very important, don't disturb it everywhere." Let's go! ”

Cao Huachun returned to Dongchang, discussed with his eunuch Wang Zhixin, sent stall heads and fanzi to pretend to be all kinds of vendors, Langzhong, and warlocks, and investigated around the Wen Mansion, monitored and tracked all the personnel who entered and exited the Wen Mansion, and then went to the celebrant to meet the palm print eunuch Wang Dehua, and asked for orders to go to the inner clerk's room to transfer out the red Zhang Hanru manuscript, and the book was copied and brought back. Although Wang Dehua is dissatisfied with Cao Huachun, this matter is related to the external court, but he can't help but make a single-minded attitude in the inner court, otherwise, I am afraid that some people will gossip.

The sparse manuscript was full of words, listing the six major harms and 58 articles, looking at them carefully, not knowing how to refute them, Cao Huachun racked his brains, repeatedly looked at the sparse draft, was so tired that he was dizzy, and kept wiping his face with a wet hand towel to wipe his sweat. At sunset, the stall came to report: "The two sedan chairs were carried straight into the Wen Mansion." ”

"Who is in the sedan chair?" Cao Huachun came to the spirit when he arrived.

"The sedan curtain is tightly covered, and it is impossible to see clearly, but listening to the accent of the question when entering the door, there is no doubt that it belongs to Wu language."

"Let's go!" Cao Huachun changed into civilian clothes, walked out of the house quickly, and took a few stalls in civilian clothes and went straight to Wen Tiren's mansion.

The Shida Hutong where the Wen Mansion is located was named after the gift of Shi Heng, a powerful minister in the house. During the Tianshun period, General Shiheng, the prince of Zhongguo, supported the restoration of Yingzong because of the change of seizing the door, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and was rewarded with this mansion, which was in the north of the alley, and occupied almost half of the alley. After Wen Tiren became the first assistant, he bought Shiheng's old mansion, repaired and renovated it, and converted it into a mansion.

Cao Huachun ordered a few stalls with him to eat tea at the tea stall in the alley, walked into a small braised fire shop diagonally opposite, ordered a bowl of hot braised fire, covered most of his face with a wide-brimmed cool hat, and looked at the opposite side while eating. In the twilight, the tall elm and locust trees in the Wen Mansion filled the courtyard lushly, and the leaves flickered with golden afterglow from time to time. At the end of the shift, the door in the left corner of the Wen Mansion creaked open, and two small sedan chairs with green cloth came out, leaving quickly towards the southwest.

Without waiting for Cao Huachun's signal, the two stalls had quickly followed, and they followed the sedan car if they left the ground. Cao Huachun paid the bill and went out of the store, and then chased after him. For more than half an hour, the two sedan chairs crossed Qianmen Street, turned to an alley, two people got off the sedan chair, sent the sedan chair back, one took the lantern, one person held a bundle of things, and frowned into the alley one after the other.

The alley is dark and dark, especially deep. Cao Huachun carefully followed in the shadows of the alley, and by the faint light of the lantern, he found that the alley was no more than a zhang wide, with dead and living bends; There are straight bends and oblique bends; There are also bends and turns, which are like a labyrinth, without the hustle and bustle of Qianmen Street, and extremely secluded.

The two stopped in front of a slightly higher gatehouse, and the lantern-wielding man stepped forward and tapped the door twice, and the black lacquer door opened a crack, poking out a head, and greeted: "The master is back, the young master was still talking just now!" ”

"Hmm!" The man burped a few times, handed the things he was holding in his arms to the house slave who greeted him, and beckoned: "Han Ru, go to the study first, presumably the little dog is still thinking about it." ”

The two men went in with lanterns, and the house slaves closed the door tightly. Cao Huachun waved his hand, and the stalls and fans jumped into the courtyard, quietly opened the courtyard door, and Cao Huachun walked in lightly. Here is a small courtyard, three main houses in the north, two side rooms in the east and west, the flowers and trees in the courtyard are sparse, and for a time I can't tell what flowers and plants are, only smell the sweet fragrance of roses.

Cao Huachun looked at the lights and shadows in the west wing, there was just a grape under the flower window, growing luxuriantly, flashing under the grape trellis, sure enough, he heard someone laughing, and was about to attach it to the window to listen carefully, suddenly heard a sound of footsteps, hurriedly hid his figure, but saw the slave cooking tea, entered the house, came out in a moment, and went back the same way.

Cao Huachun waited for a long time, and there was silence all around, before he got out from under the grape trellis, approached the flower window, and heard only one person say: "Brother Luqian, you are still thoughtful, and you have found such a secluded place." ”

"The thirteen twists and turns of the nine-bend alley, more than one zhang wide place, only one person can live in the narrow place, ordinary people are impatient to walk, it is a good place to be quiet in the middle of noisy, and it is more convenient to talk and do things."

Cao Huachun gently soaked through the window paper and saw three people sitting in the room, two middle-aged scribes in their forties, and a junior in his early twenties. A stall head whispered in his ear: "Governor, the tall, fat and long-haired man is called Chen Luqian, and the thin and slightly bearded man is called Zhang Hanru, and the young descendant is Chen Luqian's only son." ”

I only heard the young descendant say with envy: "What a noble figure Wen Ge Lao is, he is so polite and virtuous, leaving his father and uncle in the mansion to eat, it is a pity that such a glorious junior can't bow down!" ”

"Virtuous nephew, it's not just a meal, Elder Wen Ge also took out the imperial wine rewarded by the emperor for the two of us to drink! The royal wine is really fragrant, I have traveled from south to north, and I have eaten countless wines, but it is the first time I have drunk such good wine. ”

Chen Luqian said: "Can that Ge cloth be put away?" ”

"Put it away, I see May and June, and tomorrow I will find a tailor who is good at craftsmanship and make a robe for my father and uncle to wear."

Zhang Hanru pinched his sparse beard and said with a smile: "Good nephew, you have thought about it thoroughly, and your uncle is also stained with some light." It's just that I can't wear such a good kudzu cloth and make it into a robe! Don't be careful, and when you return to the township in the future, you can boast. ”

The three of them served tea and ate, and Chen Luqian said: "Qian Qianyi really has some ways, and he actually bought off the lord and the prince Zhu Guobi, and participated in the impeachment of the old man of Wen Ge for bullying the monarch and misleading the country. ”

"Although Zhu Guobi is the founding minister, his words have some weight, but he only has such an excerpt, there is no evidence, there is no evidence, and the emperor will not be moved. Over the years, have there been fewer people involved in impeachment? Who's got it? Ni Yuanlu, Huang Jingfang, Chen Zizhuang, Liu Zongzhou...... Even the cabinet ministers Wen Zhenmeng and He Wusu were not all demoted or cut because they offended Wen Gelao. Brother Xuqian, you can wait for this great wealth with confidence! As soon as Qian Qianyi beheaded the West Market, Wen Ge Lao would not treat us badly. How many taels of silver is your old house worth? Zhang Hanru said with a smile.

"That house is not worth much, but I can't swallow this bad breath. I prepared a gift and begged the old thief to speak for us, and he promised to do it well, but when I arrived at the county office, he sold me, spoke for others, and lost the lawsuit. Annoying, you say? ”

"Daddy, now let's use the power of Elder Wen Ge to send him to the prison of the Criminal Department, which can be regarded as removing the thorn in the eye of Elder Wen Ge, killing two birds with one stone, and what are you thinking about in that house? The capital is much better than Changshu's hometown. ”

"Yes, yes, yes...... Makes sense. Let's stay in the capital, there is the big tree of Wen Ge Lao, no matter how you say it, it is good to enjoy the shade. ”

"There are a lot of interesting places in the capital, how can you do it without seeing it?" Cao Huachun pushed the door in, startled the three of them and stood up suddenly, and said with a change of color: "You, who are you?" How do you trespass on a private house? ”

Cao Huachun sneered: "Needless to say, who we are, you will naturally know the Tao when you get to the place." ”

"Where?"

"Beizhen Fusi Prison or Dongchang Prison, you can choose whatever you want."

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are enough to make people famous, not to mention the cruel punishment of Beizhen Fusi Prison and Dongchang Torture Room, although the emperor ascended the throne, this Dongchang and Jinyiwei are not as good as before, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the torture has not been abolished, the three of them are scared and trembling, their faces are colorless, and when they see that the person is dressed in Confucian clothes, like a down-and-out scribe, he can't see the appearance of the fierce god at all, and he is relieved, Zhang Hanru said in a sullen voice: "This brother Tai is in Confucianism, I think it is a waste of the field, and he is in the capital division, and his life can't go on, so he made this decision, Breaking into a private house and blackmailing. If you ask loudly, you can't see the feelings of your colleagues, and give you a few taels of broken silver to save the emergency, but you are so rude, we have to send you to the official for punishment. ”

"Hahaha...... You framed Qian Muzhai, but you can't frame us! Which yamen do you want to go to, we must accompany you, but you have to go to Dongchang first. ”

Chen Luqian is more stable after all, he heard that the fans of Dongchang often disguise themselves and enter everywhere, and said with a smile: "Brother Tai has something to say, the three of us are ordered by Wen Ge Lao to do things, and please ......."

"What are you doing? I'm going to take you back and ask for an explanation. Cao Huachun waved outward, and the stall head and fanzi hula outside the door rushed in, surrounded the three of them, and could not be separated, cut their hands back, put them in a big pocket, and carried them away. Cao Huachun took the rest of the fans to search the house carefully, and found the draft of the unveiling post, which was circled and dotted, and the six characters of "Cao, Chen, and Wen" were vaguely visible, and the word "Chen" was smeared, and the word "and" was changed to the word "hit", which was written by Wen Tiren himself.

Seeing this, Cao Huachun couldn't help laughing, four years ago, when Zhou Yanru was the first assistant, he supported Wen Tiren to fall Zhou, and the relationship with Gao Qiqian was extremely stiff for this reason, but Wen Tiren has been in power for four years, the country has become more and more difficult, and the Liukou have burned the ancestral tomb of Fengyang, the emperor has long wanted to change the first assistant, and he has not completely eradicated the restoration society in Suzhou, and the emperor has a comment that he is incompetent, so in public and private, Cao Huachun has to think about himself, if he can actively pour the temperature, the emperor will definitely change, After all, his loyal emperor knows the truth, otherwise he would not have impeached himself. However, after pouring Wen Tiren, he can't be cheap Qian Yi, he Donglin Fushe is not a good bird, he has to find a means to kill two birds with one stone, Hugh wants to make Donglin think that if Wen Tiren is poured, then Zhou Yanru will be able to recover.