A farce disturbed Wanying's quiet afternoon.

At the gate of Ziwei Shrine, Master Shi was wearing civilian clothes and hurriedly came out of the sedan chair with a birdcage. Father-in-law Wei saw it from afar and shouted in a panic: "Master, where are you?" The Queen Mother has been waiting for you all day at noon! ”

Master Shi said apologetically: "I'm okay today, I went to the teahouse to listen to books." ”

Gonggong Wei wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, pointed to Master Shi's clothes and said, "Oh, Master Shi, why did you enter the palace wearing this?" Why don't you go home and change your clothes and come back again! ”

Master Shi also said helplessly: "I am in the teahouse at the root of the palace wall, and then I go home, and I go back and forth for another hour." The little father-in-law was in a hurry, so he came. ”

Gonggong Wei shook his head and said in front of the palace guards, "Hi...... Master, you're too lazy now. That's it! Throw the birdcage outside. ”

"It's a pity that the bird was lost here, the wild cats and wild dogs took it away."

Father-in-law Wei looked helpless: "Okay, okay, let's help you slip away!" Bring such a beast into the palace, and you are also a 'scorpion pull-poop - the only one! ”

Master Shi wiped the beads of sweat from his face with his sleeve and asked anxiously, "What's the matter?" Calling in such a hurry? I didn't even let my breath along the way! ”

Gonggong Wei was in front of the palace gate guards, although he whispered into the ear of the master, but he was still listened to by the nearest guard.

"Your Excellency, you are out of luck again! As soon as the military rations transported by Zhili to the south were loaded onto the truck, they were robbed by the hungry people before they left the border of Hebei. You are the governor of Zhili, and you are responsible for it! ”

After Father-in-law Wei finished speaking, he carried the birdcage, pulled the master, and walked inside in a panic.

Watching the two walk away, several guards finally breathed a sigh of relief, and they couldn't help laughing. The guard said: "Do you say that the emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry?" ”

Guard Yi echoed: "Brother, it's a good point, it's a good point, that's what this bird means!" ”

The guard frowned and sighed and said: "This master is really getting more and more alive, I originally thought that his daughter would climb the high branch of Prince Rong, and he would be able to shake off the bad luck of the past few years, but I didn't expect it to be bad luck to the end!" ”

The guard also nodded and said, "This time, I'm afraid the sixth grade can't be done." ”

"This master is really unlucky, you said that he was also a big celebrity in Zhengyipin back then, leading the Minister of the Guard, and even the current Wu'anhou does not have this scenery. Why has it fallen again and again in recent years. It's really bad luck. Guard B said.

"If a person is unlucky, he can stuff his teeth with cold water. The teacher did not do Zhili supervise the grain road until the year ago, and then the nests of food from Zhili poured into the capital, and Zhili was really exhausted. I don't know how the division raised these military rations, but before they left the border of Hebei, they were coaxed and robbed by the hungry people. Guard Armor said

"How do you know?" B and C spoke in unison.

The guard said softly, "I just secretly heard Gonggong Wei say it in the ear of the master. ”

The guard Yi looked enlightened and said, "No wonder you said that the master can't do the six grades, and the relationship really can't be done." ”

Guard C sighed: "It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind. ”

The three guards sighed in unison.

In the warm pavilion of Cining Palace, more than a dozen ministers crowded a room.

Seeing Master Shi's robe and horse coat, he ran in sweating, and a minister who was standing at the door of the Warm Pavilion and was a little hypocritical with Master Shi whispered, "Brother Zhongyuan, why did you come here wearing this outfit?" ”

Master Shi wiped the sweat from his forehead, sighed, and shook his head silently.

The Queen Mother sat cross-legged on the kang and asked faintly, "Are you here?" ”

Father-in-law Wei immediately replied outside the warm pavilion: "Back to the words of the Queen Mother, Master Shi is here." ”

"Call in."

The master lowered his head and entered the warm pavilion, and more than a dozen ministers made way for a small way. Master Shi knelt on the ground and bowed for a long time, and said respectfully: "Zhongyuan, the lowly and direct superintendent of grain and Taoism, knocked to see the Queen Mother Jin An." ”

The Queen Mother whispered: "Excuse ......"

Before Shi Da got up, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu beside him frowned and said, "My lord, you are dressed like this, did you just come back from visiting the temple fair?" Or are you in a hurry to attend the Queen Mother's peach conference? ”

In a word, there were a few ministers in the warm pavilion who couldn't help laughing. Prince Rong walked up to the teacher, helped the teacher, and said respectfully, "Father-in-law, please get up." ”

Master Shi said respectfully: "Don't dare, don't dare, the prince is serious." ”

The Queen Mother frowned, lowered her eyelids, and said slowly: "Lord Liu, the mourning family has called you, if you have anything to say, you can ask in front of the mourning family!" ”

Pavilion Lao Liu, with an embarrassed face, said: "Queen Mother, it's not the ministers who want to ask the master, it's the 100,000 soldiers in the south who killed the enemy for the country who want to ask the master." ”

The Queen Mother simply closed her eyes and whispered, "Ask!" ”

Liu Shi bowed to the Queen Mother, walked to the side of the teacher, and asked arrogantly: "Master, are you guilty!" ”

Master Shi lowered his head and whispered, "I don't know what Elder Liu Ge is referring to?" ”

"The 100,000 catties of military food in the Zhili Grain Road were robbed by the hungry people."

“……”

"How did you act as a grain governor?"

“……”

"100,000 soldiers in the south are waiting for this cart of military rations, you are good, it is cheap for the hungry people, do you want the soldiers who are fighting to starve to death?"

“……”

"You're talking!"

“……”

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it, I just ask you, did you deliberately give the military food to the hungry?"

"Old Liu Ge, you can't say that." Master Shi said cautiously.

"You know that Zhili is now in a famine, and such a cart of military rations should be escorted by heavy troops to ensure that nothing goes wrong."

“……”

"Now it is rumored that Master Shi and Fang Songding have a very close personal relationship, Master Shi, you can't mean it, right?"

Prince Rong interrupted Elder Liu Ge and said, "Lord Liu, just talk about things, don't talk about things. ”

Liu Ge Lao walked up to Prince Rong, looked serious, and said: "Lord, Master Shi is the prince's father-in-law, and the prince cannot bend the law for personal gain. The Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, which is the ancestral system handed down from the hands of the ancestors. ”

Prince Rong was teased and speechless.

Liu Ge Lao turned around and continued to challenge the master: "100,000 catties of grain, just so cheap for the hungry, what kind of heart do you have?" Do you have to be hungry and defeated to be satisfied? ”

The beads of sweat on Shida's forehead became bigger and bigger, and Prince Rong took out a white handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Shida.

"Old Liu Ge, I don't understand what you're saying, aren't you using the topic to play?"

Master Shi looked up, it was Wu Anhou who pinched the wrench in his hand and said uncertainly.

Elder Liu Ge has always been afraid of Wu'an Hou in the court, and today he was unusually stiff, stretched his neck and said: "Lord Feng, now is the time for the imperial court to use troops, you have led troops to fight, and you will not know the importance of military rations. ”

Master Shi wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, and immediately understood the mastermind behind this crisis. Thinking about Wu Anhou's desperate efforts to win himself over last year, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, there is really no stable alliance front in this world, only the same competition of interests.

Last year, in order to resist the emperor's sanctions, consolidate his own power, Wu Anhou did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to bribe himself, and at the birthday banquet, he gave a full 100 catties of pure gold longevity peach as a birthday gift, and the peach stalks below the longevity peach were inlaid with countless jewels and jade. At that time, the housekeeper couldn't help but say: "This longevity peach is decent and expensive." Peaches are just ordinary thousand pure gold, and a hundred catties are worth at most ten thousand taels of silver. The jewels below are hard to find. If you are really a small family, estimate the price, but I am afraid that there is nowhere to buy 100,000 taels of silver. ”

Later, Wanying entered the palace and sent two inlaid treasure Ruyi, a set of emerald heads, not to mention 30,000 taels of silver.

One after the other, but only a few months, people's hearts are cold, and it is really faster than turning a book.

"Lord Liu, this matter is not your business, nor is it mine. I can't get used to you civil officials, it's okay to eat all day long, and clean up these useless idleness. Last year, there was a food shortage in Zhili, and the former Zhili Governor of Grain Road you introduced resigned, patted his ass and left a mess behind. The court was anxious for half a year, and finally put this charcoal hat on the head of the master, and the master burned his eyebrows to take office, and went around to help you wipe your buttocks and plug the holes. Just in the spring, the people who came to the capital to ask for food blocked the official roads, why didn't you jump out and toss? Last year, most of the counties under Zhili were almost out of harvest, and the division was getting 100,000 catties of grain, but it is conceivable that a lot of effort was wasted, and you don't look at the credit to see the hard work. I finally handed over the imperial food for you and solved your urgent need. If you want to talk about this matter in detail, let's simply go deeper, if you don't kill a few big rats, you can't block the mouth of the world. Moreover, if the military rations were robbed, it was better to distribute them to the hungry than to be intercepted by bandits. ”

Master Shi went to the prestige, it was Wu Anhou's younger brother Feng Xiuyao. This Lord Xiao Feng served as the deputy commander of the infantry of the Nine Sect Admirals for ten years under Master Shi, and it was not until this year that he was promoted to the orthodox leader. Master Shi and Master Feng have been safe for ten years, and they are not friends or enemies. Ten years in the same yamen, the two have never had a heart-to-heart, listening to this today, every sentence is heartfelt. It was both touching and surprising to the teacher.

"Lord Xiao Feng, listen to what you say, these 100,000 catties of military food have been looted, and the imperial court has to reward Master Shi for his merits?"

"Lord Liu, don't take it out of context, do I mean that?"

"Xiao Feng, Lord doesn't mean that, so what does it mean?"

"I mean, don't move to the platform, Master Shi is a hero of the imperial court, following the first emperor in and out of the pile of dead people, you rely on an eight-strand article, white-collar the court for a lifetime. The court is in trouble, you are a turtle with a shrunken head and a king, and now the master is cleaning up the mess for you, you are aggressive, and you are going to the death every word, what kind of thing are you? Why are you pointing fingers at the heroes, and the court is raising you, a despicable villain who eats a vegetarian meal. ”

Liu Ge Lao stiffened his neck, stretched out his hand, looked at Feng Xiuyao's majestic and upright sword eyebrows, was so angry that he couldn't speak, and said vigorously: "You, you, you ......" After that, he foamed at the mouth and was unconscious.