Chapter 342: The Heavenly Family is ruthless
In the end, Cui Xu accepted the one hundred taels of silver given by Su Jiudong, took the carriage rented by Su Jiudong, and embarked on the journey back to his hometown in Xianyang.
The matter of Cui Xu came to an end for the time being, and a little later, Su Fenglan returned to the General's Mansion with a full body of exhaustion.
As soon as Su Fenglan saw Su Jiudong, he said: "In the past few days, I have been arresting thieves and interrogating them overnight, but I am tired of your father." β
"I thought Daddy would have to be busy in the barracks tonight and couldn't come back, I was planning to have someone send Daddy's favorite dish to the barracks." Su Jiudong happily led Su Fenglan to the main hall together, and the aroma of dinner was very attractive to Su Fenglan.
"I've been busy for two or three days, and it's all thanks to the third prince Yun Muyou......" Su Fenglan's tone was slightly dissatisfied with complaints.
"If it weren't for the surprise interrogation of the thieves that night, forcibly demanding the confession of the thief leader, and then taking the lead in reporting the matter to the Holy Lord without waiting for us to react, we wouldn't be busy until now."
Since the evening of the day the thieves were arrested, Su Jiudong personally went to the barracks and told Su Fenglan that he wanted the thief to be the bait and lure Yun Muyou into the game, Su Fenglan thought that with Yun Muyou's character and characteristics in the past, maybe he would not take the bait.
As a result, Yun Muyou rushed to the military camp on the outskirts of Beijing that night, and proposed to participate in the interrogation of the bandits, and gave Su Fenglan a slap in the face with practical actions.
"After Yun Muyou interrogated the thieves overnight, shouldn't Daddy be relaxed, how could he still be busy?" Su Jiudong has never been to the military camp on the outskirts of Beijing since then, and he doesn't know the actual situation in the barracks.
After Su Fenglan took a big gulp of a bowl of beef bone soup, he took a deep breath very comfortably and exhaled a mouthful of turbidity, and continued:
"On the second day of Yun Muyou's night trial of the bandits, he rushed to the palace with those letter evidence and reported it to the saint, who learned that the thief was tried by Yun Muyou, and ordered us to secretly send the confessed thief to Zongzheng Temple for another trial."
"Just this one order to secretly send the confessional thief to Zongzheng Temple is enough!" Su Fenglan was too busy and anxious, and he couldn't stop complaining: "We have to disguise the bandits and choose the time for delivery quietly, so as not to expose this matter to others." β
"After sending those thieves to Zongzheng Temple, I can't feel at ease, and I still have to worry about the results of the interrogation, and I can't know if the thieves can withstand the torture tools of Zongzheng Temple, and whether they will change their minds and deny the evidence of the crime that Yun Muyou forced them to admit before."
"And what was the end result? Did the bandits change their minds and deny what they had said? Su Jiudong grabbed Su Fenglan's arm and stood still, eager to know what the result would be.
Su Fenglan paused, looked at Su Jiudong, and asked, "Guess what?" β
Su Jiudong is the most observant person, and immediately replied: "Looking at Daddy's expression, those thieves must have changed their words." β
The study nodded heavily: "It is precisely because those thieves changed their minds and did not recognize the result of Yun Muyou's interrogation, and the Holy Lord specially issued an edict for Zongzheng Temple to retry the case...... Later, for some reason, the bandit changed his story and admitted the previous incriminating evidence. β
"If those thieves still refuse to admit it, maybe the saint will judge you and me......" Su Fenglan's tone turned into helplessness: "It's all because Yun Muyou is so impulsive!" There is no ward for us before we are reported to the Holy Lord, and let us be prepared. β
After Su Fenglan complained, Su Jiudong helped Su Fenglan to sit down at the dinner table, and when Su Fenglan raised his hand and was about to move his chopsticks, Wen Yiheng also came to the General's Mansion with the news and joined Su Jiudong and Su Fenglan's family for dinner.
"Daddy, Daddy!"
Su Tingan rushed to Wen Yiheng's side excitedly, holding Wen Yiheng's thigh with one hand, and reaching the jade pendant and sachet worn by Wen Yiheng on his waist with the other: "An'er and Sister Ah Rong made sachets for Daddy after class today!" Daddy must wear it! β
Ah Rong immediately ran back to the study to get the sachet made by the two of them and presented it to Wen Yiheng.
Ah Rong was ingenious and embroidered an auspicious cloud pattern on the silver satin, which looked quite decent. The "sachet" made by Su Ting'an is purely made of satin cloth kneaded in one place and made into a round unformed small cloth bag.
"Wow...... This is what An'er and Ah Rong did for Daddy? It's so beautiful."
Wen Yiheng looked at the sachet in front of him with different levels of delicacy but the same intention, tied it around his waist very lovingly, and took Su Tingan and Ah Rong, and kissed the faces of the two children respectively.
Su Jiudong watched Wen Yiheng's loving interaction with the two children, and his heart was also very warm, as if he had suddenly returned to the happiness of the simple and clean family reunion when he was in Qishan County...... However, Liu Yunniang, who loves her the most, is missing.
Only Su Fenglan looked at the sachet made by the two children for Wen Yiheng, and couldn't help but feel jealous in his heart, and immediately pouted in displeasure: "Hmph!" Whose house do you live in now, whose food are you eating, you only have Daddy in your eyes, and there is no Grandpa and me anymore! β
After the blatant "jealousy" was over, Su Fenglan stretched out his hand in front of Su Tingan and Ah Rong, and announced in a commanding tone: Feidu
"Grandpa is a military attachΓ©, so he doesn't need to wear any Rausch sachets...... The two of you will make a cloth bag for Grandpa with wormwood and mosquito proof, Grandpa will go to the barracks the day after tomorrow, you remember to do it before the day after tomorrow and send it to Grandpa, you know? β
"A cloth bag with wormwood and mosquito repellent is a sachet!" Su Tingan replied with a smile on his face.
Su Tingan only thought that he was stating the facts, and he didn't know that his words sounded like talking back to him to Su Fenglan.
Su Fenglan immediately pinched both cheeks of Su Ting'an with both hands, but he didn't dare to pinch the child too hard for fear of pinching the child, and his mouth was still unforgiving: "Grandpa said it was a cloth bag, that is a cloth bag!" Don't talk back! β
The five people at the dinner table laughed again and enjoyed themselves.
After dinner, Su Fenglan ordered the housekeeper Uncle Fan to take Su Tingan and Ah Rong to the back garden for a walk to eat, and he took Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng to the study of the second courtyard to discuss matters.
After Su Fenglan took his seat, he stared at Wen Yiheng and got straight to the point: "If you have nothing to do, you will go to the Three Treasures Palace, what news did you bring today?" Let's talk about it. β
Wen Yiheng first looked at Su Jiudong who was sitting beside him, and then looked at Su Fenglan opposite, and said slowly: "Previously, the prince Yun Mulin and some of the senior officials of the court secretly colluded with foreign merchants, and the Holy Lord has already dealt with Yun Mulin as a result..."
"Before, the saint originally wanted to build a new temple of Wu Anjun, but later he was persuaded by Jiu Dong'er to come down, saying that he only needed to repair the original Wu Anjun Temple in Liyou County, Wu Anjun's hometown in Gyeonggi Province... Now the Holy Lord has given this task of repairing the old shrine to Yun Mulin. β
"What? Renovating an old shrine? Leave it to Yun Mulin to do? β
Su Fenglan immediately tasted Emperor Tianduo's intentions: "Where is this punishment for Yun Mulin, it is obviously to re-'repair' Yun Mulin's reputation in the court by repairing the old ancestral hall, and it is not as good as 'turning merit into sin" on the surface." ββ
Wen Yiheng nodded in agreement: "I think so too." β
Among the courtiers who knew Emperor Tianduo, everyone had seen Yun Mulin get into trouble more than once, and Emperor Tianduo silently followed behind Yun Mulin to clean up for him.
"There's no way, who made the Holy Lord value Yun Mulin so much, and he was willing to clean up the mess for him several times......" Su Jiudong was also very helpless about Emperor Tianduo's decision.
Su Fenglan was particularly dissatisfied with Emperor Tianduo's actions: "No matter how much the Holy Lord values Yun Mulin, there must be a boundary, right?" How can there be a reason to wipe his ass three or four times, infinitely indulgent? β
Su Jiudong leaned back in his chair and reminded, "Daddy, don't forget, Yun Mulin is the biological son of the Holy One, isn't his father infinitely indulgent to his children......
"There are more biological sons of the saint, what are the three princes, the four princes, and the five princes...... There is no shortage of him Yun Mulin. Su Fenglan replied.
Su Jiudong immediately stood up and retorted: "Huh! Daddy is wrong, the saint still lacks Yun Mulin, because Yun Mulin is the only concubine of the current queen, and it is naturally much more expensive than other princes. β
"On this point, Jiu Dong'er is only partially right." Wen Yiheng also has his own opinion: "The saint is the Son of Heaven first, and then the father, Bai Lotian has a saying, the most ruthless emperor's family, the Heavenly family fights for the imperial power, we don't know ......"
"No matter how much the Holy Lord values Yun Mulin, there will always be limits to patience and trust, and we are not seeking to bring down Yun Mulin in one fell swoop, forcing him to consume the Holy Master's trust and patience little by little, but it is the most suitable choice at the moment."
"That's a good idea." Su Fenglan agreed with Wen Yiheng's opinion, "Since there is no way to beat Yun Mulin with a stick, then we can also find an opportunity to disgust him and make him ugly in front of the saint." β
Su Jiudong immediately said vigilantly: "Are you going to joke about the repair of the Wu'an Jun Temple?" This is serious and sacred, absolutely not, if you study any bad plans, you should destroy them quickly, beware of Wu Anjun getting angry and going to you. β
The corners of Su Fenglan's mouth hooked, and he thought about it: "Of course Daddy knows that repairing the Wu'anjun Temple is a serious matter, and we don't plan to do anything on the Wu'anjun Temple...... At most, it was to delay the building materials for a few days, delay his construction period, and let him be scolded by the saint. β
"That's a good idea." Su Jiudong was also very interested in such a petty and disgusting behavior of Yun Mulin: "What is Daddy going to do?" β
Su Fenglan stretched out his hands: "Daddy is only responsible for providing ideas, and the rest is not clear, after all, Daddy is not familiar with the operation of repairs and building materials...... You are counting on Daddy, you might as well ask Wen Zichu directly! β
Wen Yiheng thought for a while, lowered his voice and told Su Jiudong and Su Fenglan his preliminary plan.
After listening to the plan, Su Fenglan exclaimed: "Okay, good!" That's it! I don't believe that this will not fix him! β
So after dinner today, during the hour when Su Fenglan must take a walk after dinner every day, Su Fenglan discussed with Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng in the study how to rectify Yun Mulin's "small plan" for dinner.