When Bai Lichen's status was high before, there were many people who befriended Mu Qing, but now after the Mu family had an accident, no one came to visit Mu Qing, who was still sick, except for the daughter of General Dong's family, Dong Shu'er.

Dong Shu'er is very cheerful, since Mu Qing helped, she would not easily alienate Mu Qing like everyone else, but ran over as soon as she was free.

"Don't worry, my father and brother will help the Mu family talk, you don't have to worry too much."

Although Dong Shu'er had good intentions, but when it involved the Dong family, Mu Qing still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

After all, if the Dong family provoked the emperor to be unhappy because of the matter of helping him intercede, then Dong Shu'er would definitely have an impact.

The Dong family holds military power, and if the emperor suspects that he is on the side of the three princes, the Dong family will definitely be suppressed.

"Shu'er, I know that you have a good relationship with me, but if the Dong family is suppressed because of my relationship, I will definitely not be happy."

"You go back and tell your brother and father, just say that if the third prince intends to let them help, then trouble the two of them to help, otherwise you must not be able to intercede directly in the court, and the emperor will definitely be suspicious of the Dong family."

Dong Shu'er has always cared about these things in the court, but now that she suddenly heard these words, she only felt that Mu Qing was not using herself and the Dong family, and she liked her even more in her heart.

After returning home, he brought the words to his father, General Dong, and his brother Dong Yunshu.

Dong Yunshu worked in Dali Temple, originally he thought that Mu Qing would ask his sister to ask for his head for this matter, so he also secretly hinted to his sister that he should not go to Mu Qing these days, who knew that what he brought back would be like this.

"Brother, I'll just say that Mu Qing is not such a person, you see that you are not narrow-minded, Sister Mu Qing also said, tell you not to intercede rashly, I am worried that our Dong family will be affected, but she didn't mention you at all, brother, you are self-inflicted."

Maybe it was this self-inflicted sentimentality that hit Dong Yunshu's heart, his face changed, Dong Shu'er knew that she had said the wrong thing, and immediately ran away, for fear of being punished by her brother.

yes, self-inflicted.

Dong Yunshu shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Ever since he saw Mu Qing injured and fell to the ground before, Dong Yunshu's heart couldn't calm down, every time he fell asleep, he would think of Mu Qing's appearance, and his heart was full of ripples.

Parents have already begun to worry about their marriage, but every time he thinks of Mu Qing's face, Dong Yunshu always finds various reasons to prevaricate.

General Dong didn't say anything, he naturally knew that if he pleaded directly above the court now, it would naturally be thankless, so it could be regarded as Mu Qing's intention.

In fact, Mu Qing's guess was right, Bai Lichen finally found General Dong's home in the end.

General Dong is considered an old minister in the court and has a certain appeal, while Dong Yunshu is in Dali Temple, which also has a certain influence on the review of the case.

"Didn't His Royal Highness the Third Prince want to ask me to help Lord Mu and find me innocent?"

Seeing Dong Yunshu's outspoken appearance, Bai Lichen smiled.

It is impossible to be innocent, even Mu Qing said frankly that Mu Chenghai once accepted bribes and promoted many people in official positions.

If Dong Yunshu is Dali Siqing, it would be easy to say, but he is not an official.

"That's not the case, I believe that Lord Dong will not do this, I just hope that Lord Dong will guide the focus of the case in this matter of buying officials."

Compared with corruption, the emperor is much more peaceful in buying officials, which is also a strategy, and it is not difficult for Dong Yunshu, so he naturally nodded and agreed.

Then Bai Lichen went to General Dong again, and roughly said his plan, General Dong's face turned from heavy to relaxed, and there was three points of expectation for Bai Lichen in his eyes.

In the end, he also specially told Dong Yunshu, saying that he wanted him to make more friends with this third prince in the future.

Day 2.

Above the court.

Prime Minister Shen Cheng was full of confidence, he had the intention of defeating the Mu family today, and even wrote a few pieces of evidence against the Mu family.

When the emperor was about to be convicted, Bai Lichen came forward.

"Father, the son has something to say."

The emperor estimated that Bai Lichen was also interceding for Mu Qing, but he couldn't bear to reprimand his son, so he nodded and motioned for Bai Lichen to continue.

"Father, please take a look at the dossier of Dali Temple first."

After saying this, someone below handed over the file of Dali Temple's review of Mu Chenghai.

Prime Minister Shen didn't know what tricks Bai Lichen was doing, but he decided that it was impossible for Bai Lichen to really let the emperor let the Mu family go.

It's just that the emperor above, after reading the dossier, obviously looked much better.

"This Mu Chenghai has promoted a lot of people, and he must have made a lot of money in it, but this is a corruption matter, the prime minister has no evidence to talk nonsense."

"But the emperor, this buying and selling official position is also a big crime, if everyone is like Mu Shangshu, the court will not be in chaos."

Shen Jinshi was obviously unwilling to let Mu Chenghai go, so he argued with reason, and it seemed that the emperor must convict him.

"Father, please take a closer look at the names of the officials who bought and sold official positions written on the file."

The emperor was looking down to check, and Bai Lichen read out a few names.

This Zhang Zhou assassin Shi Song Li, as well as Liu Tingyu, the envoy of the Huaizhou Festival, and the remaining official positions, large and small, the emperor has a little impression in his heart.

Especially this Song Li.

"I remember this Song Li, when Zhangzhou was flooded before, this Song Li didn't know where he learned the ability, and he actually managed it well, originally Zhangzhou spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year to appease the people affected by the disaster, but this year it was less than half."

At the mention of this matter, the emperor's eyes obviously softened a little.

Bai Lichen took the opportunity to continue.

"Father must not know, according to the ordinary, this position is for those students who have passed the imperial examination, although Mu Shangshu recommended this Song Li for personal gain, but it is also because of Song Lihuai that he did not meet, although he has the ability to deal with floods, but the results of the imperial examination have not been very ideal, if no one recommends it, it can only be ignored."

Speaking of this, Prime Minister Shen Cheng understood what Bai Lichen meant and why he suddenly mentioned this Song Li.

But by the time he reacted, it was too late, and the emperor really picked out a few names from this list, and he had a little impression of them, all of whom had made meritorious contributions in the court.

"It seems that Mu Chenghai's vision is not bad, it's just that, since there is no corruption, it is certainly wrong to accept bribes, but the officials who were promoted saved a lot of money for the imperial court, this matter is over, and he is fined three months' salary, and this matter is over."

Prime Minister Shen is in a hurry now.

A little Shangshu, if he can't be defeated, he won't become the laughing stock of everyone in the future!

But Bai Lichen spoke first.

"Prime Minister Shen, before criticizing others, let's face up to what I did, if I'm not mistaken, Xu Chi, the secretary of the military department who was strongly recommended by Prime Minister Shen Cheng before, seems to have embezzled military salaries, resulting in insufficient salaries in the Northwest Army, and almost wiped out the whole army."

As soon as these words came out, the emperor's eyes suddenly became a little unkind.

was reminded by his third son, and he remembered this incident.

At the beginning, his anger was sprinkled on Xu Chi's body, but now that Xu Chi has been beheaded to show the public, he has nowhere to vent his anger, so he can only say a few words to Prime Minister Shen.

"It seems that Lord Shen needs to ask Mu Shangshu for advice, this is a good person's ability."

These words are knocking on Prime Minister Shen, how could Shen Jinshi not understand the emperor's words, but if he continues to say anything now, he will only provoke the emperor's dissatisfaction for no reason, it is better to honestly not say anything.

It's just that even so, his eyes when he looked at Bai Lichen were still full of unkindness.

When Mu Chenghai was released and found out that the emperor had only punished him for three months, he was stunned.

"You should thank His Royal Highness the Third Prince for this incident, Lord Mu."

It was Dong Yunshu who came to release people, and he was worried that someone would do something in it, so he came over by himself.

Hearing this, Mu Chenghai breathed a sigh of relief, choosing to marry Mu Qing to Bailichen had a lot of benefits, and he himself thought that he would definitely die this time.

After returning home, neither Liu nor Mu Wan reacted.

When the next person reported that Mu Chenghai came back, the mother and daughter were still stuffing their gold, silver and jewelry into the ground.

When Mu Chenghai came in, he saw the two of them looking like they were crazy and wanted to hide things, and their faces turned black all of a sudden.

He is not dead yet, the mother and daughter don't want to save themselves and dredge up the relationship, but they actually want to hide the gold, silver and jewelry to pave the way for themselves?

"Sir...... It's great that you're back! ”

The Liu family still wanted to pretend to get up, but was pushed away by Mu Chenghai.

Mu Wan was also glared at by her father, and she couldn't say a word of explanation, and the whole person fell to the ground in despair.

In the next few days, the Mu family has not been peaceful, Mu Qing heard that Mu Chenghai married a few concubines and aunts in just one month after returning to the house, and the Liu family was snubbed by Mu Chenghai, and I heard that they had not had sex together for half a month.

What the people of the Mu family didn't know was that one of Mu Chenghai's most favored aunts was Mu Qing's subordinates.

The reason why it was sent to Mu Chenghai's side was to avenge the Liu family's abuse of Mu Qing back then, and the other was to monitor the movements of the Mu family.

The mother and daughter of the Liu family did something to Mu Qing because of the so-called hatred.

Fortunately, there is no such time and energy to think about those sideways now, just the two new aunts in Mu Chenghai's mansion are enough for the Liu family and Mu Wan to toss.