"Your Royal Highness......" Xi Nu stood outside the door of the study, holding a book in his hand, and glanced at Yao Lang and hurriedly lowered his head.

Yao Lang glanced at the attendants who were busy in the study, and ordered lightly: "Qingshuang, take them out, you stay outside the hall." ”

Seeing that everyone had withdrawn from the study, Yao Lang looked at Xi Nu for a moment, "You...... Nothing? ”

"It's okay......" Xinu blushed slightly and replied to Yao Lang, "Forgetfulness has worked, he ...... Didn't put me how. ”

Yao Lang seemed to be secretly relieved, "Did you see something?" ”

"Yes," Xi Nu came to the bookcase and placed the book in front of Yao Lang.

"I memorized it, and when I came back, I wrote it all out, and it was all on it."

Yao Lang didn't rush to flip through the book, he looked at Xinu for a long time, wanted to say something but swallowed it, finally sighed, picked up the book and examined it page by page.

The more he looked at him, his brow tightened, and finally he stood up and slammed the book on the desk.

Xi Nu's voice trembled slightly in fright, "Your Highness...... Isn't it...... Xi Nu is not doing well! ”

Yao Lang closed his eyes for a moment, turned his head to look at her, and said in a low voice, "Xinu, you are more innocent than many people in this world, and one day, this king will seek justice for you!" ”

The New Year is approaching, the people are busy preparing for the New Year's goods, sprinkling the kitchen and sweeping the kitchen, and the various ministries of the imperial court are also busy with the officials reporting on their work and sorting the accounts at the end of the year.

In the imperial study, King Zilang flipped through the accounts submitted by the household department, although this year's flood, it was considered to be in danger, if there was a good harvest in the coming year, this crisis would be passed smoothly.

Just as King Zilang was about to let everyone retire, Hubu Shangshu Wang Lian stood up and seemed to hesitate.

"King, although there is no problem on the account, a few days ago, someone quietly sent an account book to the household department...... Is it about the food cost of the Ministry of Industry and Water Conservancy, Wei Chen thought about it again and again, but he still didn't dare to hide it, and brought it to the king today. ”

King Zilang took the account book from the hands of the inner supervisor, looked at it, and it was the record of the grain allocation of water conservancy and labor in the past year, and gradually, his expression became solemn, and he picked up the account submitted by the household department and compared it twice.

Li Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, was getting more and more ugly, and his eyes glanced at Yao Lang from time to time.

Yao Pu took a sip of the teacup, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth that couldn't be hidden.

Finally, King Zilang put down the two account books and looked at Li Qi, the anger in his tone was very obvious, "What's going on?" In the accounts submitted by the Ministry of Households, the amount of food allocated and disbursed is equal. ”

He held up the account book handed by Wang Lian, "The expenditure shown on it is one-third less!" Which is true and which is false? ”

Li Qi hurriedly got up, although he was confused, but from the time Wang Lian took out the account book, he knew that there was something bad waiting for him today!

"King, can you let Weichen see what Wang Shangshu handed over, the Ministry of Industry has always been a set of accounts, where is the small account?"

The inner eunuch took the account book from King Zilang and handed it to Li Qi, he hurriedly looked at the first page, and gradually, his fingertips trembling slightly as he turned the album.

At first, he looked very carefully, but then he only looked at the rough numbers, and bursts of cold sweat soaked the back of his clothes.

"Father!"

Yao Pu put down the teacup, got up and said to King Zilang: "In order to solve the food shortage, the second brother sold the Xiaoxiang Courtyard given by his father, and the sons were greatly moved, and they were also a little surprised, such a big garden was bought in a few days, I am very curious who has such a big financial resource!" ”

He looked back at Yao Lang, who was still sitting upright, and sneered, "Wang Shangshu got this account book a few days ago, Erchen can't believe that under the supervision of the second brother, there is such a thing, it happened that when Erchen sold a house, he accidentally learned that it was a wealthy man in Huating who bought Xiaoxiang Courtyard, Huating is the fief of King Ruining, plus this unclear account, Erchen used the power of the user department, and transferred the bottom sheet of the garden transaction at that time from the official tooth. ”

King Zilang looked at Yao Pu and frowned, "Then who bought the garden?" ”

"Back to my father, it's Xiao Yan."

Yao Pu took out a slip from his sleeve and handed it to the inner supervisor to forward it to King Zilang.

"Xiao Yan?" King Zilang felt that this name was somewhat familiar, and for a moment he couldn't remember where he had heard of it.

Yao Pu said quietly: "Father, this person is King Ruining's adviser in Huating, known as Mr. Huating!" ”

Everyone present suddenly realized that the real name of the famous Mr. Huating was Xiao Yan!

"Even if King Ruining's advisors bought the Xiaoxiang Courtyard, what does that have to do with this account?" King Zilang glanced at Yao Pu and said in a cold tone.

"Father, the sons didn't understand it at first, but after careful calculation, I felt that if the account book that Wang Shangshu received was true, then King Ruining would gain fame and fortune!"

King Zilang's eyes were gloomy, he glanced at Yao Lang, who was silent, and Li Qi, who was fidgeting, and turned to Yao Pu, "How do you say this?" ”

"Father, you think, how much is the one-third of the grain allocated by the household department, and how much is a garden worth, not to mention that the Xiaoxiang Courtyard is still in the hands of his people, but it is just a small amount of money to buy a good reputation...... It can also divert the attention of others. ”

There was silence in the study, and the air seemed to be as silent as frozen.

King Zilang broke the silence, "Lang'er, you haven't opened your mouth from beginning to end, don't you want to explain?" ”

Yao Lang got up slowly and saluted King Zilang, "Father, the sons and daughters can listen attentively, I didn't expect that Brother Wang's level of storytelling is so high, he is really comparable to Mr. Storyteller......"

After speaking, he turned his head and smiled contemptuously at Yao Pu, "His Royal Highness the prince has hands and eyes all over the sky, just did the king a great favor, a few days ago, the palace account room reported, the Xiaoxiang courtyard sold the bottom list for no reason, this king has always been regardless of these trivial matters, if it wasn't for today's prince to bring the bottom list, this king would not know that it was Mr. Huating who bought this garden." ”

Yao Lang turned to King Zilang, "Father, when the sons asked themselves to deal with the food shortage, Xiao Yan mentioned that some wealthy families in Huating wanted to raise funds to fund the sons, but the sons politely refused, but they didn't expect that they really took over this garden, which can be described as well-intentioned, and the sons were also very moved when they heard it......

Yao Lang looked aggrieved, "Father, it's been half a day, and the sons and daughters have not seen with their own eyes what the account books handed over by Wang Shangshu are, how do you want the sons to answer!" ”

King Zilang signaled, and the inner eunuch hurriedly presented the account book to Yao Lang again.

Yao Lang roughly flipped through from front to back, and in the second half, his brows gradually furrowed, and finally, Yao Lang finished reading the entire account book and smiled helplessly.

"Father, this account is too fake, most people make fake accounts in order to level the accounts, and make a fake account with such a big gap, there must be only one purpose, that is, to frame!"

Yao Lang pointed to the back page of the account book, "Take this page as an example, if you don't look at the total number first, just the location of the grain distribution is not right, there is no embankment in this place that needs to be repaired, how can there be a record of the distribution of grain?" As long as you take a look at the map of Zilang, you can find out what's wrong, Erchen has traveled all over the rivers and lakes in Zilang Country over the years, and Erchen has a good memory since he was a child, and his father knows it, so someone made up this thing to frame Erchen! ”

Yao Lang lifted his robe and fell to his knees.

"Father, the son has been working hard this year, but he didn't expect to be falsely accused, and the son begs his father to thoroughly investigate the accounts of the Ministry of Industry to repair the water conservancy this year, and return the son to a clean house!"