After Xie Qingheng and Xie Jiaojiao separated, they went to see Xie Yuan.

After Xie Yuanda left from the cross-courtyard on the side of Jintang Courtyard, he did not return to his own courtyard, but went to Yonghe Hall.

When Xie Qingheng went, Xie Yuan was sitting on the rosewood Taishi chair, looking at the teacup in his hand on the table in a daze, and heard the footsteps after the door was pushed open, so he looked up at Xie Qingheng who came in.

As if he knew that Xie Qingheng was coming, Xie Yuan raised his eyes and said, "Is she okay?" ”

Xie Qingheng naturally knows who this "she" is.

He raised his feet and walked up to Xie Yuan and stood still before he replied, "I cried, it's okay now." ”

Xie Yuan fell silent when he heard this.

He had seen Su Ruan cry, once in the outer courtyard, she held the broken tablet and shed tears, and the other time in Bihe Garden, she curled up on the bed and fell on her knees, tears dripping big but without a sound.

Xie Qingheng looked at Xie Yuan and said, "Father, can I ask?" ”

Xie Yuan looked up at his eldest son, who was almost about the same height as him, and his gaze fell on his face that was similar to his.

The eldest son is not as strong as him, and he looks thinner than him, his facial features are slightly green, but his posture is as straight as a green pine.

Compared with a pure military general like him, Xie Qingheng undoubtedly has the aura of a Confucian general, and he has nothing to dislike about this son who has only learned well since he was a child and can be regarded as a martial artist.

Xie Yuan pointed to the chair next to him and said, "Sit down and talk." ”

Xie Qingheng obediently sat on his right side, and after sitting down, Xie Yuan said, "What do you want to ask?" ”

Xie Qingheng originally came with doubts, but when he saw that his father didn't seem to have any intention of hiding it from him, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked directly: "I want to know how Ruan Ruan's father died?" ”

He was afraid that Xie Yuan would deceive him with what he had said to Su Ruan before, so he continued:

"Father, I don't intend to inquire about what you don't want to say, but you can see clearly today's events, Ruan Ruan's temperament is too strong, and she has made up her mind to find out about Jingnan's affairs, so she will never give up."

"Just like she said before, it's Qi Wenfu who came today, he is quite upright, and he is willing to talk to us about the rules, but what if someone else comes next time, will those people act according to the rules at that time?"

Xie Qingheng said: "I know that my father is afraid that I am young and ignorant, and I will not be able to stabilize my temperament if I know too many things, but father, I will be crowned in two years, and when I enter the official position, I will always have to go through this." ”

"And now that Ruan Ruan is in the mansion, even if the account book is handed over, our Xuanping Marquis Mansion may not be able to make it clear."

"Instead of letting me know nothing, ignorant and ignorant that I will be calculated one day, it is better for my father to tell me the whole story, and I can be on guard at that time."

"And if anything, the child can help you."

Xie Yuan originally didn't plan to tell anyone about this matter, and even wanted to cover up this matter as much as possible, but Su Ruan's words before made him a little embarrassed.

Now hearing Xie Qingheng's words, he was a little shaken in his heart, and only after a while did he speak: "Her father did die at my hands, but it was not my wish. ”

Xie Qingheng's expression froze: "What do you mean?" ”

Xie Yuan said: "After the news of the disaster in Jingnan was transmitted back to Beijing that day, it was pressed for a month before it was sent to the Holy Front, and the emperor was furious, and immediately ordered the household department to open the treasury to take money and grain and send it to Jingnan for disaster relief. ”

"Who would have thought that the treasury, which should be abundant, would not be able to produce silver, and no one in the household would know what was going on?"

"Pei Jingyuan, the head of the household, personally went to the palace to ask for guilt, and none of the people in the household could escape at that time, and then Pei Jingyuan promised to raise money within ten days for disaster relief, and the emperor continued to keep him in the position of the book."

Xie Qingheng knew about this.

He and the little fat man Pei Dazhuang have always been classmates, and when they did not enter the Guozijian two years ago, the two of them studied together in the Li Family School in Fuhuafang.

At that time, when the drought broke out in Jingnan, there was a period of time when the Pei family was indeed walking on thin ice, and even Pei Geng, who had always been flamboyant, was extremely low-key.

Xie Qingheng once heard Pei Geng talk about this matter, he said that his grandfather was unlucky and was calculated, if it wasn't for his grandfather Tang Li who came forward and took out the money to fill the hole for the household, I am afraid that the Pei family would have been guilty of that incident.

Later, although the emperor did not punish Pei Jingyuan because he made up for the disaster relief silver and did not ask for a reward, he still fined Pei Jingyuan for five years.

In other words, Pei Jingyuan, the secretary of the household department, is still doing white work for the imperial court, just like saying that Pei Dazhuang often talks about it, although his grandfather guards Da Chen's money bag, he is the biggest poor man in the court.

The kind that can't even afford to eat.

Xie Qingheng asked, "What happened later?" ”

Xie Yuan sighed: "Later, after the household department raised money and grain, the emperor sent people to transport grain to the south, but who knew that when the official ship passed through the Nanhe, it suddenly sank, and all the grain on the ship and the people who transported the grain at that time were all buried in the Nanhe, and no life was lost. ”

Xie Qingheng's pupils dilated violently.

There are more than one or two people transporting grain, even if the official ship really has an accident on the way, it should not be that no one survives.

What about the officials who carry the grain?

What about the accompanying generals?

Among the hundreds of people, is there not a single person who is good at water?

Xie Yuan looked at Xie Qingheng's appearance and said:

"After the accident of the official ship, Jingnan, who had been struggling to support it for two months, had no hope at all."

"Even if Jingzhong raises money and grain again, it will take half a month to say the least, and if it is dispatched from nearby states and counties, the time to come and go, plus the coordination from it, and the delay in sending the Qin messenger to the road, it may not be able to arrive in a month, and for such a long time, I am afraid that by the time the grain arrives, the entire Jingnan will already have no living people."

"After Jingnan learned that there was a problem with the food for disaster relief in the imperial court, it began to cause chaos, and later the Southern Wei Dynasty got the news and took the opportunity to send troops to attack."

"The emperor could only hurriedly order me to lead the troops south to quell the chaos, and when I led the troops to Jingnan, I found that the gate of Jingzhou, which I thought had already been broken, was locked, and Su Xuanmin, the governor of Jingnan, took the remaining more than 800 people to defend Jingzhou City."

Xie Yuan will always remember that day he led his troops to Jingnan, and saw the weak scholar man standing at the city gate, leading the group of hungry remnants of the soldiers around him to defend the city gate, not retreating an inch.

He was covered in blood, with one of his fingers cut off, and a large piece of flesh from his shoulder, but when he laughed, he showed a mouthful of white teeth, and only said to him:

You're coming.