This year's snow is particularly heavy and the weather is particularly cold.

Dian Cui was in the prison of Dali Temple, most of the time looking at the small window in a daze. Winter Snow rubbed her hands and feet day and night, but the ground was still damp and cold.

"This soup woman is cold, so I'm tired of changing some hot water from the cell boss." Dongxue begged.

The cell boss glanced at them, took the soup woman, and really went to change the hot water.

"What's going on here? I also asked our cell boss to fetch hot water himself, what an aunt and grandmother. The long-faced jailer at the bottom whispered.

"Hey, you're right," whispered another bearded jailer, "that's our aunt." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"You'll find out in a few days."

"Bother this big brother, call a doctor, our wife can't sleep these days and nights." Dongxue is very worried.

"Oh, it's easy to say, it's easy to say." The bearded jailer hurriedly responded with a smile and went to call the doctor.

The long-faced jailer dropped his jaw in shock, he heard that the imprisoned Mrs. Yuan was a wealthy master, who had opened some first-face jewelry shops and silk shops in various places and was guilty of being convicted of medicinal herb shops.

Thinking like this, the long-faced jailer hurriedly snorted twice, he had only been here to be a jailer for a short time, and there were many twists and turns that he couldn't understand.

Just as I was thinking about it, the doctor invited me.

The doctor took the pulse of Diancui, who had a big belly, and sighed and said It should be just these days, and Mrs. should be ready......

After saying that, I felt that it was inappropriate, this is in prison, how to prepare.

Dongxue responded seriously, and the old lady who returned home had already prepared a stable wife, just waiting for the lady to start. However, Wen Po is an outsider, if the uncle can't enter Beijing and settle in Dali Temple before this, it is not so easy to bring someone in.

Diancui patted Dongxue's hand and told her not to worry, she is also a person who has given birth to a child, and she has some experience.

"Can you please ask the doctor to show the boy over there?" Diancui said softly, and Dongxue hurriedly twisted out two gold beads from her sleeve and stuffed them into the doctor's hand without a trace.

"Ma'am, I'm afraid this doesn't make sense." The bearded jailer helplessly stopped.

Diancui glanced at the doctor, who had two real gold beads in his hand, so he had to speak leisurely:

"Adult, from the point of view of the small, the young man seems to be very sick, if he is not cured earlier, I am afraid that he will ......"

"This ......" that kid is a lone seedling of the Yue family of the military general, because he cut off one of the feet of the little master of the Xu family, he was imprisoned here, and when he first came, because of the greeting from the Xu family, that kid suffered a lot.

Now seeing him lying there dying, it really looks like he is dying. His case has never been arraigned, nor has it been decided, so they have no way of knowing what he thinks, but if he dies in prison, if he is to be arraigned on a whim one day, but finds that he is dead, then these little jailers will undoubtedly become a shield to be pulled out.

"With such a heavy snow today, there shouldn't be anyone else, and it's not good if this person dies in prison, so let the doctor take a look." Diancui knew the jailer's concerns.

At this time, the cell boss finished eating outside, came over with a soup woman, waved his hand at the doctor, and said, look at it, our Dali Temple Yamen is bitter, and the money for this medical treatment and medicine can't afford to give you.

The doctor hurriedly glanced at Diancui, and then said yes, carrying the medicine box to Yue Yao's prison.

Yue Yao was burning, and his whole body was hot. Some of the wounds around the body were scabbed, and some were still bleeding. Dr. Rao has seen many injuries, but injuries like this are shocking.

Fortunately, it was a cold winter day, and if it had been summer, those wounds would have festered and pus. Although this doctor is greedy for some money, his medical skills are not bad, and his hands and feet are also nimble. Take scissors to cut open the clothes that Yue Yao adhered to his body, and the blood stains that were cleaned up were smeared with gold creation medicine.

Come back and talk to Dian Cui, his injury is a little serious, I'll go back and boil him a few doses of medicine, and bring it next time.

Dian Cui made a look, and Dongxue put two more gold beads with him. The doctor couldn't help but be overjoyed, others didn't like to come to the prison to treat these people who had committed crimes, and felt unlucky, but he didn't dislike it. Just because they can afford to invite a doctor here to come in for treatment, they are not ordinary people, and occasionally giving a little reward is enough for their family to eat and drink for more than half a year.

Out of the prison door of Dali Temple, the cell boss patted him on the shoulder, the doctor laughed twice, and quickly took out a gold bead from his pocket to touch the cell boss's hand with both hands, the cell head saw that it was gold, and waved his hand with satisfaction. The doctor's heart was relieved, he craned his neck, put his hands around him, and walked away in the wind and snow.

Counting the days, Diancui is also ready to start. Yuan Zhiheng was anxious outside, and several righteous brothers got together, and their expressions were very solemn. But what they planned was so great that they couldn't tolerate the slightest difference, and now they have to hold back.

"Fifth Brother Qin, he hasn't heard any news yet?" Li Sang asked.

Yuan Zhiheng was silent, the disaster relief in the three places in the south this time was very unsmooth, Qin Ruofu focused on and inspected the situation when the river embankment was built over the years, and Yuan Zhiheng secretly checked the files of the year in the household department. At the beginning, the two of them were still in contact, but later, I didn't know what Qin Ruofu had found, so there was no movement. Xiaotao Chinese

"Fifth brother, he should be fine, although the Qin family is now losing power in the court, but the power in the south is still there, and others can't help him, now that there is no contact, I am afraid that something has been found out, and the traces are deliberately hidden." After Yuan Zhiheng calmed down, he said softly.

Not only Qin Ruofu, but even Qingyun, who went to help, also lost contact, Xue Dachuan was driven away by the Luo brothers, and was not allowed to participate in disaster relief, so he had to wait for an opportunity around Anqing in Huangzhou.

"Now that the fifth brother has no news, the third brother has not arrived for a long time, hey!" Yue Xu sighed, it is winter now, the snow in the north is heavy, and it is difficult for Gui Bonian and his family to travel from Xuzhou Mansion to the capital.

"I don't believe that the door of Dali Temple is an iron wall, and after the fourth sister enters, she will not let anyone visit, how can it be so reasonable?" Li Sang slapped the table and said angrily.

"Not to be allowed to visit, it is the will of the saints, Dali Temple is helpless, today the county lord went to visit the master, but he was also blocked outside." Gu Guangyao said softly, but it's a pity that he can't help much when he works in the Hanlin Academy.

The county lord that Gu Guangyao said is naturally his wife who has not passed the door, the county lord of Nanping, the county lord of Nanping is the only daughter of the late Prince Xiang, who has been raised in the palace since childhood, and the heirs in the palace are scarce, so he is very favored by the emperor. Gu Guangyao is a young champion, handsome and talented, and is favored by the county lord, and it is normal for him to be married by the emperor.

"Even the county lord of Nanping dares to stop him? It's just unreasonable," Yue Xu muttered in a low voice: "I don't know what our majesty means, Yue Yao of the Yue family in the north of the city in front of him entered the Dali Temple and did not interrogate or ask questions, and now the fourth sister is like this!" ”

"This time, I have to ask questions," Yuan Zhiheng said coldly: "When Brother Bonian comes back from Xuzhou Mansion, I will have a way to let Dali Temple hear this case." ”

"The pharmacies in those three places can be guarded by Cui Youliang and the Luo family brothers, even if the medicinal materials are real, it is inevitable that they will adulterate themselves to frame the fourth sister." Yue Xu said again.

"Hey!" Li Sang sighed deeply, although he is now a dignified official, but for many years, under the intentional or unintentional suppression of his boss Lord Xu, the road of officialdom is also walking on thin ice, and at this time, there is a little green matter, and the grievances in his heart are pouring out like a flood.

"Big brother, don't be upset, everything has a certainty." Yuan Zhiheng was so calm at this time, it seemed that he had prepared for some things.

"Our brothers, you are the smartest and the most promising, you have to say what you will do in the future." Li Sang said from the bottom of his heart.

"Yes, fourth brother, let's say, what should I do to rescue the fourth sister, I will listen to you." Yue Xu said hurriedly, and everyone looked at Yuan Zhiheng.

"The Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Soldiers, the Qin Tianjian, and even the Luo family, come one by one!" Yuan Zhiheng said coldly.

At this time, the shopkeeper knocked on the door outside, brought dinner and came in, and everyone was silent.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky.

The queen was sick and worried about King Gong's illness and was unable to go to the altar with the emperor. The emperor allowed the imperial concubine to accompany the king of Qi, and the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens was naturally presided over by the warlock who was still well-known and favored in the world, and the warlock has now become a national teacher.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the ceremony, when the emperor and Emperor Xu raised fireworks in the burnt wood stove, the ashes in the furnace suddenly erupted, causing chaos in the ceremony.

The ash sprayed out of this furnace is not very dangerous, but it is unlucky and unsightly, and the original white face of Emperor Xu Guifei is sprayed all over her face, and the Jinluan Pavilion on the head is even more crooked.

The emperor is old and suspicious, in the past, it has always been smooth and smooth to worship the heavens with the queen, how can it be ...... this time

Many matters of this heavenly sacrifice ceremony are personally in charge of the national teacher of Qin Tianjian, and the Ministry of Rites assists, but now that something has happened, the Ministry of Rites and Qin Tianjian naturally shirk each other's responsibilities.

The ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens, how important, but this master has two brushes, after all, he is a high-ranking monk of the Tao, and occasionally there is a mistake, although the emperor is unhappy and feels unlucky, but after all, he only blames the head of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu was reprimanded and punished by Yulu. After a few days, the emperor felt more and more unlucky after thinking about it, and directly took off the black gauze hat of the Ministry of Rites.

Lord Du Yu Shi Lu recommended the young and promising Tang Daren like the emperor, but the emperor thought that he was still young, so he chose someone else, but Tang Daren also went from the position of the fifth grade to the waiter of the third grade, which is considered the youngest waiter.

With his promotion, the people of the Tang family's big house, who had long since lost contact, came cheekily to congratulate him. The Tang family was originally the king of Qi, but because of trivial things, he angered the king of Qi, and the momentum has not been very good in recent years. As a concubine, Second Brother Tang finally raised his eyebrows.

But the road is long, and their righteous brothers have not yet reached the time when they can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and now that the fourth sister is still in prison and has not cleared up their grievances, he has nothing to celebrate.

On another second day, the emperor and Emperor Xu's concubine went to the Great Xiangguo Temple to incense. A monk in rags made a noise in front of the temple gate, claiming that he was the master of the current national teacher.

The country has always respected monks, and the forbidden army guarding the gate did not want to rush them away, so they had to go in and report it.

The emperor saw that the monk was dressed in tatters, exuding a disgusting stench, and he was still crazy between his words, and he could not believe that he was the master of the national teacher. The great Xiangguo temple who recommended the national teacher to Emperor Xu and Concubine Xu earlier insisted that this crazy monk was not the master of the national teacher at all, but a nameless person who deceived the world and stole his name.

"You don't believe it, my apprentice was raised by me since I was a child, and our master and apprentice have always relied on each other for their lives. I also said that I would be able to rely on him to eat well in the future, but who expected that I woke up a few days ago and disappeared from him...... Don't believe me...... When he was a child, he was disobedient and peeked at Zhuangzi to take a bath with his daughter, and then the tip of his buttocks was hooked by his daughter's brother with an iron hook, and now there is a scar. ”

The mad monk shouted.

The emperor's face was pale, and Emperor Xu's concubine was even more embarrassed when she heard him say these foul words.

"Come on, check!"

If it was before, the emperor would definitely not be like this, but since the ashes incident on the day of the sacrifice, the emperor has some suspicions about him. Although this mad monk is crazy now, his words are credible.