The Cao family's family education is strict, although Cao Songlou does not beat and scold his daughter, he has always had a strict attitude, and his daughter never dares to talk back, let alone question like this.

However, Cao Songlou was unexpectedly not angry, and asked with a sneer: "You should recognize this as a letter of resignation, will you not understand what I am going to do?" ”

Mrs. Cao, who had been stunned, waited for her daughter to give an answer, but after hearing this, she immediately understood what was written on that piece of paper.

Her ears were buzzing, she couldn't hear the content of the father and daughter's argument clearly, her chest was suffocating like a big stone, she couldn't figure out what she had done wrong.

Because she failed to give her husband a son, she felt very guilty, and persuaded her husband to take a concubine and have children many times. She wouldn't be jealous and noisy, how could she get to the point of taking her off?

The father and daughter were still arguing, and Mrs. Cao was weak and fainted to the ground, so they quickly picked her up and went to the doctor again.

When she woke up, only her daughter was by her side, she cried and asked her daughter to beg Cao Songlou not to divorce her, and when the newcomer entered the door, she was not the main mother, and it was okay to be the same wife as the newcomer.

The daughter didn't want to go, but she couldn't help begging, so she went and told her what she thought.

However, Cao Songlou still didn't agree, and he didn't say much about the reason, in short, he insisted on divorce his wife.

The daughter no longer cares about her mother's soft attitude, and after a big quarrel with Cao Songlou, she and her mother took the property to her grandmother's house.

After entrusting relatives to take care of his mother, he brought someone to pull all the family's belongings to his grandmother's house, and Cao Songlou did not stop him.

The family calmed down, Cao Songlou sat in the empty room, hungry and in a daze for a long time, and when the colic feeling came, he rubbed his hungry stomach, his brows gradually stretched, and he said to himself: "It's okay, it's okay...... You can rest assured that you can go to the capital......"

On the night of October 27, Cao Songlou arrived in the capital, and at this time it was no longer a light snow, but a goose feather heavy snow.

On the morning of October 28, Han Zexi reluctantly sat on the cold dragon chair, and the ministers were also so cold that they had no energy.

There is a brazier in this hall, but in order to maintain a solemn and sacred feeling, the brazier is placed in a hidden corner, and it does not play a role in keeping warm in the spacious and somewhat empty hall.

The monarchs and ministers all wanted to warm the pavilion as soon as possible, and the party Ben'an announced loudly: "If there is something to start, there is nothing to retreat." ”

Several ministers said that they were fine, but Gu Sizhe actually asked: "Your Majesty, why didn't you approve the impeachment of Gao Youquan?" "

Du Zhen, a petty official at the bottom of the line, also asked: "Your Majesty, everyone has seen the vicious things that Gao Youquan has done, why has he been suppressing and not dealing with them?" "

Singing every night, Han Zexi had no interest or energy to watch those boring performances, except for particularly important things, which made Gao You fully suppressed, and he didn't see the joint impeachment recital. But in front of the ministers, he couldn't say that he didn't know about it, he touched his nose and came up with an excuse.

"I trust him! These pieces are the same, and I am tired of watching them, and I don't want to watch them anymore. You impeach him because you don't want to see a person who is physically incomplete and more loyal and capable than you. Han Zexi looked at Gu Sizhe impatiently.

Don't have real evidence? Gu Sizhe guessed that he had probably not read the recital, and he dictated one by one on the spot, listing all the charges against him, and Han Zexi had to listen to it in front of the ministers if he didn't want to listen to it.

Du Zhen also presented a joint letter from officials and squires from all over the country, asking the emperor to take a closer look at the music and listen to the boiling grievances of the people.

After they finished speaking, Han Zexi patted the armrest of the dragon chair hard, looked at Dang Ben'an, and asked him to take the joint letter.

Seeing that Gao Youquan was impeached in public, he looked sad and lost, and Han Zexi threw a comforting look at Gao Youquan again.

Seeing such a scene, Gu Sizhe and Du Zhen were a little cold, the emperor didn't take this joint impeachment seriously at all, ignoring their fierce loyalty.

Han Zexi was about to ask Dang Ben'an to announce his retirement from the court, and the guards outside the palace rushed to the door to report, and Lei Madness listened to the report, and then turned it to the emperor.

"Cao Songlou, the prefect of Wanzhou, brought the blood book of Wanmin to the Golden Palace to admonish the monarch bluntly, the emperor, is he allowed to come and give advice?"

Han Zexi's face was expressionless, but there was anger hidden in his eyes, and the direct minister said bluntly to the golden palace? Are you a faint king? This Cao Songlou is not good to stay in Wanzhou, what kind of limelight does he have when he comes to Jinluan Treasure Palace?

He didn't say whether it was accurate or not, and looked at Cao Beidao with a very meaningful expression, he knew that Cao Songlou was Cao Beidao's brother, and he saw what the attitude of the current national teacher was.

Cao Beidao didn't say anything, and looked at the ministers of Lei Mad, Gu Sizhe, and Du Zhen with humility and pleading in his eyes.

They were "upside down", and they asked the emperor to see Cao Songlou and hear what he had to say.

This is the second time that Cao Songlou stepped into the gorgeous and solemn and strict Golden Palace, the first time was on the occasion of the palace test, he was a relatively low ranking Jinshi, only to get a word of encouragement from Emperor Hongcheng back then, but that sentence made him so excited that he didn't sleep well for a few days.

This time, he came to the Golden Palace with the mentality of throwing his head and spilling blood, he thought that he would be nervous, and when he stepped into the palace, he was actually calmer than he imagined.

Before coming to Beijing, Cao Songlou had driven his wife and daughter away, and also put the official hat, official uniform, and official seal in the Wanzhou silver treasury and locked it.

Clean and ironed blue cloth cotton robe, thick and durable cotton shoes, Cao Songlou's appearance is no different from that of an ordinary old man in the countryside, he is peaceful and down-to-earth, and the robes, clothes, shoes and socks on his body are all made by Mrs. Cao.

He was very grateful to Mrs. Cao, but also a little guilty, his wife was the prefect's wife, but she had never enjoyed the blessing of wearing gold and silver.

Han Zexi asked, he answered one by one, mechanically, he was already familiar with those crimes about Gao Youquan, and he didn't need to think much about it to answer them fluently.

It is said that he is pedantic, and he does like to act according to the set of principles in the books, he talks about loyalty and patriotism, filial piety and integrity, not to talk about the wind and snow, he is boring about the relationship between husband and wife, but at this moment he is thinking about Mrs. Cao.

Cao Songlou didn't dare to imagine what would happen to Mrs. Cao if he died? Whether it is out of the public heart of serving the country and the people, or because of the selfishness of being instigated by his younger brother, this golden palace direct advice must be done, but who will really care about his life and death? Few people care.

While answering the emperor's question, while thinking nonsense, he remembered that he had attended Sun Zhanou's funeral not long ago.

Just because Sun Zhanou has always been in love with Qiao Chushi in his heart and does not leave his heart at home, Mrs. Sun thinks that Sun Zhanou's final death in a foreign land is also retribution, and she also thinks that it is natural for Qiao Chushi to buy a house for them.

At that time, Cao Songlou deeply wondered, is the hatred of women so incomprehensible? Sun Zhanou didn't do anything out of the ordinary, how could it be that even when he died, his wife didn't want to grieve and cry for him?

After that, he had too many things to do, and he forgot about these little things, but now he remembered for some reason.

Maybe I'm afraid that if I die, Mrs. Cao will treat me indifferently? He didn't want his family to grieve too much for him, but if he was too indifferent to his death, he would not be able to rest in peace.

He doesn't have a delicate concubine, no confidante, and no one he secretly admires in his heart, but he really didn't have any warm feelings for Mrs. Cao in the past, and I don't know if his wife will say: An elm pimple is dead when he dies......

The Golden Palace's direct advice may not be dead, but Cao Songlou always thought about the afterlife, and then he was in a trance, and he didn't even hear Han Zexi call him a few times.

Gu Sizhe and Du Zhen secretly sweated, Cao Beidao lowered his eyelids to hide his inner anxiety, they and the ministers all thought that he was timid, so he gradually responded slowly, and his reaction became sluggish.

"I will ask you one last time, who instigated you to slander Dai Xiaogong?" Han Zexi asked majestically.

Cao Songlou finally came back to his senses, he had made a choice in this life, he couldn't spend the rest of his life with his family, and he chose to stay by his family's side in the next life.

"Back to the emperor, it was the people of the world who asked me to expose Gao Youquan's true face, and I was not instigated by anyone, nor did I slander him." The tone was faint, but what no one dared to say.

Han Zexi leaned down, stared at Cao Songlou for a moment, and then raised his eyes to stare at Cao Beidao, "You said that the evil things you did on behalf of Xiaogong are too many to write, and they must be strictly investigated, so let your younger brother take charge of the examination certificate, okay?" ”

"I just have to list all the charges and how to deal with them, all of which will be judged by the emperor. Moreover, corruption should be dealt with by the Criminal Department, not by the national teacher, please don't get involved in personal relationships. ”

This is a lesson that the emperor does not understand government affairs, and should not distinguish between public and private? Han Zexi opened his mouth slightly in shock, his face was hot.

The emperor's face was gloomy, he didn't say a word, and others didn't dare to say anything, Cao Songlou knelt so hard that his legs and knees hurt, but he hoped to kill and kill him.

There is a thick carpet in the center of the hall facing the dragon chair, but Cao Songlou is a small official who is not a proclamation, and he is not qualified to kneel on the carpet, kneeling on the gold bricks on the side.

The gold bricks in the hall are paved with the ground, this gold brick is not cast by gold, it is made of a kind of cement firing, the hardness and toughness are comparable to gold, it looks good, but it can make people's knees hurt.

said one by one about Gao Youquan's crimes, but Han Zexi's attitude still didn't say that he wanted to deal with him, not that Han Zexi didn't understand those things, but he didn't want to deal with them.

Han Zexi didn't want to be controlled, and he didn't want to shrink behind his ministers to be an incompetent emperor, Cheng Haofeng was more prestigious than him back then, and he didn't want the matter of being strong and weak to happen again.

Also, he trusts Gao Youquan more than the minister. Eunuchs can't have offspring, so they won't have the heart to rebel, right?

Moreover, Han Zexi thought that Gao Youquan relied on his mother to accept him as a righteous son, and he relied on himself to have a high-ranking official, and he would definitely be grateful to Dade, and he would never betray himself or take away his own light.

"Dai Xiaogong is loyal to me, even if he does something inappropriate, I will send someone to visit him and discipline him more, why should the Qing family put on such a posture that wants to kill him?" Han Zexi felt that it was the ministers who were in trouble.

Cao Songlou and some other ministers sneered, how can Gao Youquan's deeds be finished with "more control"?

Seeing the ministers like this, Han Zexi deeply felt that the imperial power was challenged, and raised his voice and said: "You are all learned and talented, you can speak like a river, and you can write brilliantly, I respect you, but governing the country is not just a matter of saying and writing can be done well, when encountering a crisis, who can solve my worries and difficulties?" ”

In the emperor's heart, the minister will only talk rhetorically, and Gao Youquan is the one who does practical things? If the monarch and the ministers continue to argue, it will evolve into a situation where the monarch does not believe in the ministers, and the ministers are disappointed in the monarch, and Cao Songlou does not want to see this situation.

He can't let the world have the impression that Wenchen is a group of hypocrites who just talk but don't practice, ready to wake up Han Zexi with blood.

So, he kowtowed his head heavily, his forehead touched the ground, and blood immediately oozed out, and he raised his head again to make a generous statement.