Chapter 340: A nest of snakes and rats
It wasn't until the sun was sinking that the other two got up one after another to say goodbye. Today's meeting was originally to pave the way for the place where Ye Linchen would go in the future, Lu Lingshan admired Ye Linchen and was naturally willing to give it to him, and Li Qi loved Ye Linchen and Wu, and also analyzed some ways to deal with government affairs with him.
After personally sending Lu Lingshan and Li Qi away, Xie Yaoguang, who turned around and returned to the village, looked up at him when he saw Ye Linchen sitting on the fence and looking at him with a smile. How do you know that Ye Linchen jumped down from the pavilion, then grabbed Xie Yaoguang and hugged him horizontally, and flew to an eaves with his feet and overlooked the sun.
The slanting veins and veins, the bamboo shadows are swaying. No one bothered him, Ye Linchen lay on the eaves with his hands behind his head, looked at Xie Yaoguang gently, and said softly: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen the sunset scene like this for a long time. When I was in Yanmen before, I only saw the sunset under the boundless grassland, which was not so mild but very desolate. In the final analysis, it is the four seasons of Gusu that are the most beautiful. ”
"I've never been to Yanmen, and I don't know what the scenery is like when Your Highness speaks. But I don't think it's worse than the sunset in Gusu, right? Hearing this, Xie Yaoguang raised his head and then lay side by side with Ye Linchen, and the afterglow fell on her face and cast a layer of light and shadow, "I don't know if I will have the opportunity to see the vast grassland and the vast desert in the future." ”
"Maybe there's a chance in the future?" After saying this, Lin Chen chuckled, but his eyes were still looking at Xie Yaoguang very softly.
Being looked at by Ye Linchen like this, Xie Yaoguang inevitably felt uncomfortable, and got up in a hurry and turned his head away, his face was scarlet, "Your Highness, it's not early, we should also go back." ”
After saying this, Xie Yaoguang looked at the scenery under his feet with an embarrassed face, and when he looked back at Ye Linchen, he saw that the other party was looking at him narrowly, holding his hands on his chest as if he was watching a play. Seeing him like this, Xie Yaoguang couldn't help but sneer, how could he not know that Ye Linchen still liked to tease people like this.
After thinking about it for a while, Xie Yao glanced at Ye Linchen and stretched out his hand to pull his sleeve, with tears in his eyes and a look of wanting to cry, Ye Linchen's heart flickered. Seeing him like this, Xie Yao's smile became more and more flattering, and the wind came south to blow her shawl, and there was a vague sense of fairy death.
The two did not move, but stood against the wind. There was silence all around, and only the birds of the empty mountains were heard. Others didn't know that Xie Yaoguang's phoenix eyes were actually similar to her biological mother Cui's, looking very graceful but extremely sharp, and when she was angry, it made people feel extremely powerful. At this time, she has no defense, and she is cold to outsiders on weekdays, but it makes people feel gentle and soft. The pupils are as deep as ink, and as clear as glass, and they are embedded in the abyss against the background of their thick eyelashes, and they will be dragged underwater by the evil spirits in the pool just by looking at them.
It took a long time for Ye Linchen to come back to his senses from his stunnedness, grabbed Xie Yao's waist and jumped down, and the two of them returned to the ground safely. As soon as Ye Linchen let go of himself, Xie Yaoguang took advantage of his unpreparedness to step on his boots and then walked away very proudly. Battle
Looking at Xie Yaoguang, who gradually disappeared from his line of sight, Ye Linchen couldn't help but smile dumbly. How could he not have found out that Xie Yaoguang would have such a cute side before, he was used to seeing her calm appearance and suddenly saw Xie Yaoguang like this, which really made him feel happy for no reason.
The itinerary of the four people's deliberations was very secretive, and Xie Yaoguang had sent someone to contain the Xue family earlier, and the tea house was located in a remote area, so King Yishou didn't know about the private meeting of these people. After returning that day, Xie Yaoguang immediately came to discuss the matter with his father Xie Yingdu at his home as a scholar.
And Xie Yudu, who has always doted on his daughter, almost replied to the letter as quickly as possible, and arranged everything by the way, so as not to worry about these things for his precious daughter. Several brothers in the family naturally became the best candidates to run errands for these things. With his father and brother taking over the matter, Xie Yaoguang is also happy to live such a quiet life, except for the occasional few days of asking, he is basically the shopkeeper.
Driven by the Xie family's secret, the national grain price is getting worse day by day. As for the Xue family's greed for such huge profits from grain prices, they collected another batch of grain and deposited it in Changping under other names, and then secretly sold the grain to make a profit. The Xue family collects grain and puts it into the warehouse, and the people are also happy to do so, and other merchants also like this kind of business very much.
Looking at the steady stream of money pouring into the family, the Xue family laughed extremely excitedly, and their actions became more and more arrogant. This lasted for a month, until the time of the birthday of King Shou. The Xue family, who had accumulated a lot of wealth, specially prepared some good gifts to enter Beijing by land and give them to King Shou as congratulatory gifts. It's just a pity that the car birthday gift was hijacked before it arrived in Gusu, and such a case naturally alarmed the Criminal Department. The case was solved very quickly, and all the birthday gifts that were robbed were recovered, and the robbers were also caught, so the case was successfully closed.
Originally, this case should have been a big or small matter, but unfortunately, the officer of the criminal department responsible for investigating the case was a careful person. He found that most of the robbers were yellow-faced and thin-skinned, and there were many old and weak women and children in the so-called bandit village, and only after many inquiries did he know that they were nearby villagers. Due to the drought for several months, there was no harvest, and all the grain was deposited in Changping, but it was not possible to take out any of it, and then it was forced to fall into the grass.
And the dart team they intercepted happened to be a congratulatory gift from Cangzhou Thorn Shi Yu Wenkang, which was worth about 1,000 taels of gold, enough for the people of several counties to eat for several years. When the matter was found out at this point, the senior member of the criminal department naturally did not dare to investigate it carefully, sorted out all the information he knew, and rushed back to Beijing in person to face Emperor Li.
Not long after the senior member of the criminal department returned to the capital, he was assassinated at the gate of the imperial city, but fortunately, King Ding rescued him in time and survived. Emperor Li was furious because of this incident and ordered the torture of the assassin, and learned that he was actually sent by Yuwenkang, otherwise Emperor Li knew about the disaster in Cangzhou, and did not know that there was a great drought in the world, and there was no harvest, and the local state capital was full of hunger. As soon as these words came out, Emperor Li couldn't bear to order Yu Wenkang to be arrested.
Then Yu Wenkang was arrested, and many things surfaced one after another, and Cangzhou is one of the most severely affected state capitals this year. But he never reported the matter to the court, but repeatedly deceived and allowed the people to starve to death. Those who survived the disaster were forced to become bandits, and they were not angry with Yu Wenkang's actions, so they committed the robbery, and only wanted to use these ill-gotten gains to save the people who were affected by the disaster.
Upon learning the news that they had been arrested, the people of the state capitals wrote 10,000 blood letters one after another to send them to Beijing to present Emperor Li. Although they also knew very well that those blood books might not be able to reach Emperor Li, they still wrote them.