Chapter 40: Drought and Riots

Duan Jingqi also recognized Tang Meng as the person he met on the flower boat that day, and he panicked suddenly.

"You—You've mistaken someone!"

"How can you admit your mistake!" Tang Meng trotted over and tore off the fake mustache on his face and stuck it under Duan Jingqi's nose with a snap, "Isn't this you!" Look at me again, you saw the flower boat, and then saved me on the street, do you remember? ”

Duan Jingqi hurriedly threw away the fake beard and refused to admit it.

The stern look in Duan Jingyi's eyes eased, but it was still serious.

"Have you been to the imperial capital?"

Duan Jingqi was completely silent, and paused before he retorted, "Don't you allow me to go to the imperial capital at night?" ”

"But you're going to the imperial capital to look for a flower boat."

“…… Right! I heard that there was a beautiful woman on the flower boat......"

Duan Jingqi was still holding on, but even he didn't believe what he said, let alone Duan Jingyi, whose eyes were like falcons.

Duan Jingyi approached, the cold atmosphere spread, Duan Jingqi looked at the side with a stubborn face, and a pair of white fists were faintly clenched beside him.

"You're lying, you've heard something."

Duan Jingqi suddenly turned his head and looked directly at him, and no longer hidden, "The murder case in the imperial city is full of dangers, you actually want to resist alone?" This is the Imperial City, not a battlefield where you can kill enemies at will! ”

Duan Jingyi suddenly felt relieved, but there were still dark clouds in his iron-colored eyes.

"The affairs of the imperial city have nothing to do with you, you just need to close the city gate and guard Longdu."

"The corpse appeared at the junction of the two cities, do you think you can protect me? If you have such a skill, why can't you protect ......" Duan Jingqi became more and more excited, and finally stopped talking at the critical moment, he unwillingly turned his face to the side, and his tone was faintly trembling, "I will handle the matter of Longdu myself, even if it is for that person, I will not let you go into danger alone." ”

The atmosphere in the room froze again.

Tang Meng was confused when he heard this, and couldn't help but pull Ling Qing's sleeve.

"Hey, who's this guy?"

"The sixth son of the emperor, Duan Jingqi."

Tang Meng had a melon-eating expression on his face, so this is a drama of brothers loving and killing each other?

No wonder the two look so similar, and they are both the same.

She stopped between the two with a smile on her face, and gave Duan Jingyi a frantic look, "That, the two eldest brothers are angry, and it's important to do business." ”

Duan Jingyi's eyes were cold when he heard this, and he took out a piece of paper casually, "Dong Cheng has already found out that this ship is coming from Longdu, you only need to provide me with the list of shipping transactions, and don't interfere with the rest." ”

Duan Jingqi glanced at it, and then his brows became lower and lower, he had an impression of this ship.

Longdu was in charge of the economy, so he had more dealings with the household department, and he remembered that when he went to the household department to inspect, he had seen Meng Xiangtian, the secretary of the household department, hurriedly hiding a picture, and the carving of the painting on that picture was exactly the same as this one, so he was deeply impressed.

"This ship has something to do with the murder?" Duan Jingqi was already able to conclude and continued to speak, "I know who this ship is related to, but I want to participate in the investigation together!" ”

"Impossible."

"Why is Lord Yi so arbitrary!"

Seeing that the two brothers were about to quarrel again, Tang Meng hurriedly crossed between the two again, she looked left and right at the men who were several heads taller than herself, they were all quite mature before, why did they quarrel when they met?

Is it positive and negative?

"Rest the rage, stop the rage! No matter who is going to investigate the case, the top priority now is to find out the people related to the ship first, don't hide it, the lives of people in the imperial city are at stake. ”

Duan Jingyi and Duan Jingqi both retracted their gazes indignantly.

After a while, Duan Jingqi sent someone to the study to get the Longdu shipping book to check, this check doesn't matter, this ship not only docked from Longdu, but also built in Longdu!

But there is one thing that is not right.

On the booklet handed over to Duan Jingqi by the Ministry of Households, the picture shows that this ship is right, but the size is almost half smaller, coupled with Meng Xiangtian's strange behavior of hiding the map before, the three of them fell into contemplation for a while.

But no matter what secrets are hidden in this, Meng Xiangtian will definitely not be able to escape the involvement.

Duan Jingyi's eyebrows darkened, "It seems that this Hubu Shangshu is going to make a move." ”

Before the words fell, a long announcement came from outside the door, Duan Jingqi and Duan Jingyi frowned and glanced at each other, made a silent gesture, and went out with their entourage.

Tang Meng was pulled by Duan Jingyi and hid behind the bed curtain.

She leaned her back against the wall and lowered her voice, "Who is coming in the middle of the night?" ”

Duan Jingyi closed his eyes and ears, and heard an unexpected "Father-in-law Su".

After a while, Duan Jingqi returned to the house, his green brows locked tighter.

"Just now, Father-in-law Su sent a message saying that there was a drought in the hinterland, and the people were rioting, and my father ordered me to enter the palace early in the morning."

Except for the prince who lives in the imperial city, he needs to go to the morning court every day, and the rest of the princes who guard other cities enter the palace according to the distance of the road on the third day, seventh day, half moon, and first month.

And tomorrow is not the day when Duan Jingqi is going to go to court, but he came in such a hurry to inform him, in addition to the seriousness of the situation in the disaster area, it can be imagined that there is a shortage of silver in the household.

In recent years, because it has cost a lot of financial resources to repair the palace, the household department has shouted poverty to the outside world at every turn, but it is not a word in front of the saint.

But a few days ago, when local officials reported a major drought, the imperial court had already allocated two taels of disaster relief silver, how could there be a riot in a good manner?

According to Meng Xiangtian's style, there must be a big problem here.

And it must have been instructed by a master.

Dig deeper, Hubu Shangshu's mother is the aunt of the second prince's concubine, and the relationship that these eight poles can't play does not prevent Meng Xiangtian from wanting to hug Duan Jingxun's thick thighs.

Duan Jingyi and the two brothers knew in their hearts that Meng Xiangtian had to move, and it was imminent.

But everything will depend on tomorrow morning after the morning to determine the certainty.

followed by some situation analysis that Tang Meng couldn't understand, it was the first time she had seen these two brothers so tacitly, but the facts of officialdom were too boring, Tang Meng fell asleep after listening to it.

When she woke up again, she was already on top of the carriage, she was lying comfortably, and when she looked closely, she was actually pillowed on Duan Jingyi's lap again, and she didn't know when she came up.

Tang Meng opened his eyes in a daze, and when he saw that Duan Jingyi also closed his eyes, he simply fell asleep again.

A moment later, the carriage stopped in front of the Yiwang Mansion, and the sky was dark and white, revealing the cool chill of early autumn.

Duan Jingyi frowned and looked at the person on his body, took off his coat lightly and threw it on her in disgust, and then beat the person horizontally and hugged her back to the dream garden with a black face.

Tang Meng didn't return all night, and Xing'er was in a hurry when she saw the figures of a few people in the distance, so she immediately knelt down and saluted.

Duan Jingyi put the person on the bed, just wanted to leave, but as if he remembered when, he turned around and returned to Tang Meng's side.