Chapter 218: The Law and Human Affection

There are nearly fifty names on the list that the emperor handed over to Yan Liu after Sun Pei presented it to the emperor, and there are one hundred and sixty-eight names on the list posted after the examination, and the list in Yan Liu's hands accounts for one-third of the candidates on the list, although the list has not been announced, and the candidates brought into the Criminal Department are also confidential from the outside world, but after Yan Liu's interrogation for several days, there are still some candidates whose names have begun to be known.

The title of the gold list should be the glory that everyone wants, but today, it has become a haze that everyone fears, after the candidates on the list entered the criminal department one by one and never walked out, the candidates who were stranded in the capital all terminated the party of drunken dreams and death, and waited for the sentence of the criminal department in horror.

If there was no fraud case this time, Ding Wencai would have been the glory of the Ding family and the light of Yongde County, but in Dahe, who has the heaviest reputation among scholars and literati, a scholar who was involved in a fraud case and was deprived of his fame, that is, he was worthless.

Although Qin Huai only said that it would not be dangerous for Ding Wencai to give evidence for a case, his grandfather, who had been honest and dutiful all his life, still failed to cross this hurdle after seeing Ding Wencai not returning for a day, and passed out in a coma that night.

Fortunately, Qin Huai found a doctor for treatment in time, so that there was no irreparable loss.

Forsythia cried swollen eyes and cried hoarsely, Du Yiyi did not use her identity to help Forsythia save her brother in addition to appeasing, when she knew that Ning Zhiyuan was going to do this, she had thought of Forsythia's younger brother, she thought that her poor background would make Ding Wencai more able to withstand these temptations, but she didn't expect that Ning Zhiyuan would be able to lead Ding Wencai into this crooked road in just two months, this time there are many people involved in the case, the punishment should not be heavy, if he can survive, Ding Wencai should be able to be rich and noble even if he can't shine in the courtAt this point, she didn't want to reach out and intervene to let her appearance add to the case.

Although Forsythia was looking forward to it, she also knew the importance of this case, and after the persuasion of Xu's mother and others, she finally straightened her mind and began to wait with everyone for the day when the case was solved.

The small calligraphy and painting shop at the end of Choma Street has been closed for a few days, and many people are speculating whether the shopkeeper, who also participated in the examination, will also be in prison at the Criminal Department.

The housekeeper of Chengyuan Mansion has been in a trance recently, yesterday because he was reprimanded by the prince for not doing a good job, and he was scolded by the prince with a cane early this morning, and an old life was almost not thrown under the wooden stick, after a cane scolding, the housekeeper who stayed in Chengyuan Mansion for several years was swept out of the door and carried back to his hometown by his family on a stretcher.

The Ministry of Rites is busy with the wedding of King Chao, the Ministry of Rites Lang Hu Zhengli has been busy for two days, and yesterday he took leave to recuperate at home with the Ministry of Rites.

Hu Zhengli is the prince's right-hand man, and the housekeeper is even more loyal to him, one of the two was cleaned out, and the other was scolded, all because of the Chunfu fraud case.

The housekeeper's nephew and Hu Zhengli vigorously recommended the person who was also included in the list in the prince's hands and was imprisoned in the Criminal Department yesterday, and the two provided another strong and reliable evidence for the prince's favoritism and fraud.

The list that had been cut by half of Leng Qingjian was lying quietly on the bookcase.

On black and white, the red lines connect the names together, and the people represented by the names marked by the red lines are now locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department.

Some have already confessed, confessed to the fraud, and pointed out the prince behind it, while some of them did not let go, but they were temporarily detained because of major suspicions.

This is a big game of chess, reading the names in his heart that have long been remembered by him and have not yet been imprisoned, the prince's heart is dripping blood, it is not easy to win over a candidate with merit and fame, the name of the prince did give him a lot of help, but he didn't expect that the people he worked hard to win over were actually some white-eyed wolves!

Regardless of whether the candidates who are still holding on to confess or not, he can't escape the charge of favoritism and fraud, the day Yan Liu closes the case, it will be the time when he takes off the tasseled hat on his head, the prince meditated in the study for two days, and the network transmitted all the news from all aspects to his ears one by one, and after the blood in his heart drew these names on the red line, he couldn't sit still anymore.

He entered the palace, not to ask his mother how he could break through the layers of fog, but to beg his father.

Outside Ningyuan Palace, Concubine Chang was kneeling and crying.

The Dali Temple of Shen Ke's case has already had a result, but because the emperor deliberately delayed, Rao Su Dongyi could only temporarily suppress the case and wait for the emperor to deal with his family before filming the case.

Because Ning Cheng was canonized as the crown prince, Concubine Chang was in the harem for a while, and even the queen could only avoid her edge, but recently, because the evidence of her murder of Shen Ke's wife and child in the womb surfaced, this woman who had already survived could only wash her face with tears every day, and she could not meet the emperor many times, so she could only kneel outside Ning Yuan Palace and shout grievances.

The book is like a sea like a mountain in front of Concubine Chang.

There were two rows of national flags outside Ningyuan Palace, hunting in the empty square, and Concubine Chang was prostrate on the ground in thin clothes in early spring, her trembling shoulders and back, and the light veil fluttering in the wind, making her look like a poor butterfly swept away by the wind.

The crown prince has been taking care of himself for the past few days, and he has no ability to take care of his mother's case at all, thinking that the purpose of the two of them now is to beg the relatives in Ning Yuan Palace, Ning Cheng's heart is bitter and sore, and tears welled up in his eyes.

He didn't do anything, everything was done for him, he just took advantage of his position to do a little trick like others, why did he have to suffer such serious consequences! The word prince really weighs a thousand pounds.

"Father-in-law, please let me know, I have something to ask to see my father!"

Concubine Chang, who no longer cried, looked up at her son and regarded him as all hope, she had been kneeling in Ningyuan Palace for a day, the emperor had already made up his mind not to see her, decades of husband and wife, many years of sharing the same bed, the emperor did not see Rao Su Dongyi, she knew that the emperor was still soft-hearted, except kneeling, she had no other way!

Of course, she knows the situation that her son, who has always been all her hope, is facing now, and she can't guarantee that she can't make any demands on him, she has always regarded him as the pride of this life, and she just wants to keep her distance from him, so as not to let the emperor's anger burn on his head, so as not to make his situation even more embarrassing.

"Please wait a moment, His Royal Highness the Prince, the old slave will report for you!" Shu Ruhai bowed respectfully, and immediately turned around and entered Ning Yuan Palace.

In addition to the early dynasty and that day Xi Zhengai returned to Beijing and the Suzhou army returned to the dynasty, the emperor did not leave Ningyuan Palace an inch, and the momentum outside the palace gave him a headache, on the one hand, he was the concubine who had shared the bed with him for many years and the successor he had painstakingly cultivated, on the other hand, the law and the voice of the people formulated by the ancestors, he was just an ordinary person, with inseparable feelings, these two cases were like cutting his heart and drinking his heart's blood.

He chose to burrow into his nest like an ostrich, looking for the last peace and spiritual comfort.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is asking to see you outside."

Books stop at the threshold like a sea.

The emperor, who was lying on the soft couch, put down the book that he had read for a long time and had not turned it all night, and turned it over. What does the prince mean when he comes to him at this time, he knows, he has always unswervingly believed that the law is above all else, but now, the concubine Chang who is kneeling outside the palace, and the prince who is asking to see him, are all impacting the law he adheres to, the law is nothing more than human affection, but the prince and Concubine Chang are walking on the road that deviates from people's hearts and does not tolerate human feelings, he is a husband and a father, what should I do?

"Zhu Ge, what do you say I should do?"

Zhu Ge, who was standing like a pillar, bowed down and said, "The slave doesn't know!" ”

"The law is above all else, I have always set an example, I really touched the human affection I care about, but I am a little confused, their mother and son, have given me a lot, I can't bear to see them too miserable." On the soft couch, the emperor turned his back to Zhu Ge and the book like a sea, and his tired eyes slowly closed.

"The emperor is the lord of a country, and he can be above the law, why doesn't the emperor talk to General Shen?"

"They are all parents, they all have the same thoughts, if they can't make him feel at ease, I can't be at ease, he is a rare general in Dahe, Concubine Chang has been with me for many years, ups and downs, a hundred days of husband and wife overnight, not to mention that it has been twenty years, I am very difficult to do. No matter how difficult the decision is, I have to make it, and I must give an explanation to the military and the soldiers of the world in these two cases. ”

In the end, the sound from the soft couch had already had the sound of gold and stone, and the emperor hesitated for many days, and finally made up his mind when the mother and son outside the palace asked to see each other.

"I am the lord of a country, I can be above the law, it is still possible to save their lives, books are like the sea, go and bring the folds of Rao Su Dong Yi in the imperial study!"

The book standing outside the threshold obeyed the order, quickly passed through the main hall of Ningyuan Palace, and took out the bottom two folds in the stack of folds that had not yet been approved in the imperial study.

The crown prince Changfei watched the book like a sea running back and forth in the main hall, and saw the two folds in his hand in the golden splendor, and their fate hung on this line.

"Your Majesty, the concubine has been wronged!" Concubine Chang, who had an ominous feeling, tore her throat and shouted with all her strength, and the sound of a miserable whimper was as astringent as a crow's chirping.

The crown prince knew the emperor's intentions, and after a moment of silence, he lifted his placket and knelt outside the palace.

The spring breeze is like the hem of the girl's brocade, gently and smoothly blowing through the square, the national flag that was crumpled into a ball by the violent wind unfolded at this moment, and the righteous and heroic congratulatory words are like the black characters in the fold that is opened in the Ningyuan Palace, and there is righteousness between horizontal and vertical skimming.

Lifting the pen and falling red, under the righteous black characters, a line of vigorous and powerful red characters began to fly, the emperor frowned, between the Sichuan characters, there was already blood as if it was about to break out of the skin.

"Send it to Dali Temple! Books are like a sea, call Concubine Chang in to see me! ”

Zhu Ge took the fold and left with the book.

However, in just a few days, Concubine Chang's cheeks have lost a lot of weight, and her unadorned cheeks no longer have the sparkling of her eyes, let alone the delicate dripping of red lips.

The emperor did not ask the prince to enter, and the prince could only continue to kneel.

He counted the moment when Concubine Chang entered Ningyuan Palace, guessing where the emperor should be at both ends of the scale, and in just a moment, Concubine Chang walked out of Ningyuan Palace, her tears were still there, her grace was gone, and her stumbling steps were as weak as stepping on cotton.

Without words, without eyes, Ning Cheng already knew the choice of the head there.

"Mother!" It was difficult to suppress the grief in his heart, he rushed forward and helped Concubine Chang, who seemed to be collapsing to the ground at any time.

"Cheng'er, don't do stupid things, don't care about your mother, your father asked you to go in, you tell your father well, don't be resentful, your mother has today, and she is also self-inflicted. It's hard for your father to do it, for so many days, the mother concubine has been in the eyes, but the identity of the concubine has been removed, there is nothing to care about, although the Luoxia Palace is deserted, it is better than the prison of the Zongren Mansion, and the mother concubine is already content! Concubine Chang looked up at Ning Cheng weakly, and warm tears fell silently, wetting her red clothes.

Luoxia Palace, hearing these three words, Ning Cheng could already think of his fate, is a nameless prince whose mother concubine was beaten into the cold palace still a prince? As soon as the prince lowered his head, he only saw that Concubine Chang in his arms was already unconscious.

"Father-in-law, go and call the imperial doctor!"

Shu Ruhai didn't dare to be careless, so he hurriedly called a maid to go to the imperial hospital, and called two father-in-law and maidservants to send Concubine Chang back.