"Min'er's poems are getting better and better! Not to mention, among the nobles in this capital, in terms of talent, if you want to be called second, no one dares to call it first! Lord Jiayue looked at this Jia Min with wide eyes excitedly, and there was a little schadenfreude after watching the joke in his heart.

Xiang Xiaoqin didn't expect Jia Min to be so talented, and she smiled like everyone else and echoed how amazing Jia Min was. scolded himself for being careless, and actually underestimated Jia Min.

"You only know that Min'er's sister's poems are well written, but you don't know that what she is best at is. She and Lord Lin are a perfect match! Xie Shi smiled.

"That's right! Now that Lord Lin is here, wouldn't it be nice to let them play a song together? Go and talk to Lord Lin! Jia Yue clapped her hands and applauded, and immediately called someone to go to the men's side.

Xiang Xiaoqin wanted to take this opportunity to make herself famous and build momentum for her election in the general election. She now regrets that she targeted Jia Min, she really stole chickens and rice. Not only did she fail to become a blockbuster, but she also set up a shelf for Jia Min.

On the male guest's side, Li Jifan listened to the maid's return, so he asked Lin Ruhai, "Would you like to join your younger brothers and sisters here, so that we can open our eyes?" ”

Lin Ruhai also wanted to play a song with Jia Min, so he nodded and agreed. Li Jifan asked people to get a guqin and sent the flute to the female guest to Jia Min.

The female soldier was waiting for the news, and at this time, a maid brought a flute from a tray and said, "Lord Lin's side is ready." ”

Jia Min picked up the flute, played with it in his hand for a while, and tried the sound again, and then the music of "Plum Blossom Three Alleys" sounded, and soon Lin Ruhai also joined in, and the two were separated by a pond, the melodiousness of the flute, the ethereal of the piano, and the two sounds lingered tactfully over the lotus pond. The song, which should not be a scene, with the tacit cooperation of the husband and wife, makes people feel comfortable after listening to it in this somewhat hot summer day. This song "Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms" became famous for a while, and many people imitated their piano and flute ensembles, but no one could surpass the two of them.

In July, the rain on this side of the capital became heavier, and it rained heavily for two days in a row, so that some places in the city began to flood the houses, and the heavy rain did not weaken. Although the heavy rain washed away the heat, the continuous rain made me feel damp and sticky.

In the main courtyard of the Lin Mansion, Jia Min was crooked on the chaise longue, reading a book and eating grapes.

"Madam, Yu Zhuangtou from Zhuangzi outside the city has come over." Dongmei came into the house and said.

"Something must have happened to braving such a heavy rain, let him go to the side hall in the front yard." Dongmei took the order and went out.

Jia Min sat on the Taishi chair in the side hall, with a screen in front of him, and Yu Zhuangtou kowtowed to Jia Min behind the screen. Jia Min knew that he must be in a hurry when he came, so he asked, "Yu Zhuangtou came in a hurry, is something wrong?" ”

"If you go back to your wife, it's a matter of urgency. Yesterday afternoon, a person came up to our Zhuangzi, and this person was a farmer from Xiaoli Village, which is a mountain away from our Zhuangzi. This small Li Village is close to the Grand Canal, and many villagers work on the wharf to earn money when they are not farming. According to him, the Grand Canal burst the day before yesterday, flooding the entire village of Xiaoli, and most of the boats docked at the pier also capsized. ”

"Is this true?" Jia Min asked anxiously.

"It's true, the slave has already crossed the mountain to Xiaoli Village this morning, and it is now a mess."

Jia Min frowned and recalled this last life, she did not have the impression that Xiaoli Village had been flooded. There must be something wrong here. "Yu Zhuangtou, you have made a great contribution in the rain to deliver the news, Dongmei, reward him with one hundred taels of silver."

Yu Zhuangtou hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him, "Does Mrs. have any other instructions?" The slaves had to rush back to the village as soon as possible, and they had to keep an eye on the tenants to release water to the fields. ”

Jia Min asked Dongmei to prepare some convenient food for Yu Zhuangtou, and gave him a new coat, and let Yu Zhuangtou go.

Jia Min wrote a letter and wrote what Yu Zhuangtou said in the letter. Then, she summoned the shadow and asked the shadow to be sent to Lin Ruhai immediately.

Lin Ruhai, who was in the palace, was busy sorting out some drafted holy decrees, and a little palace maid secretly called him by the window. Lin Ruhai checked outside the door, and found no figure, so he walked to the window, and the little palace maid didn't speak, but handed over a letter folded several times to Lin Ruhai, and then ran away quickly.

Lin Ruhai closed the window and quickly opened the letter. When he saw the content of the letter, he also frowned first and recalled whether there was such a thing in his previous life, and the answer he got was the same as Jia Min's. He closed his eyes and thought for a long time, he felt that the problem should be with the third prince. Lin Ruhai found out a few holy decrees from the Ministry of Industry and went to the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, when Weichen was drafting the holy decree just now, he found that the Ministry of Industry didn't seem to allocate money to the canal on this side of the capital this year."

The emperor stopped the pen in his hand, raised his head and asked: "No, I remember that because I should have allocated the silver before the beginning of spring, the canal on this side of the capital must not have an accident, otherwise it will threaten the people of the entire capital." ”

The emperor held his forehead and wanted to carve for a long time, "Shi Youfu, go and call me from the Ministry of Works." ”

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu soon arrived at the imperial study, and the emperor asked directly: "The canal on this side of the capital, has there been any money allocated to strengthen the embankment this year?" ”

Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry was stunned for a moment, and thought for a long time before he thought, "Emperor Qiqi, the canal on this side of the capital has been in charge of the third prince since last year. The household department directly sent money to the third prince, and it didn't go through the Ministry of Industry at all? ”

"Why don't you go through the household?" The emperor's face was very ugly, and the head of the household was lowered, and he couldn't answer for a long time, so he suspected that there was a big problem. "It's been two years, tell me why you haven't gone through the Ministry of Industry."

"It was instructed by the right prime minister Wang Xianrong, and Weichen didn't dare to hide it!"

The emperor was very angry in his heart: this is how the silver in my treasury was lost. The needles in the imperial study can be heard, and Lin Ruhai is silent enough to be silent. After a long time, the emperor spoke, "You step back first, and you can do what you need to do in the future!" Got it? ”

Shang Shulian of the Ministry of Industry claimed that he was secretly sweating for Wang Xianrong.

After the Ministry of Industry Shangshu left, the emperor glanced at Lin Ruhai and said, "Say, what happened." ”

Lin Ruhai kept pursing his lips and thinking, and when he heard the emperor's question, he raised his eyes and glanced at the emperor, "Wechen found that there was no record of silver allocation in the canal on this side of the capital in the past two years, so he suddenly remembered that Weichen Neizi had a wedding Zhuangzi who was very close to Xiaoli Village on the other side of the canal wharf. At the beginning of spring, Weichen accompanied Neizi to Zhuangzi, and heard Zhuangtou say that his income in the past two years has been less. After careful questioning, Wei Chen learned that the tenants on the Zhuangzi would go to the canal to repair the embankment in the winter when they were not farming, and earn some silver to subsidize their families. But no one has been there in two years. ”

The emperor was silent for a long time after hearing this, and finally he waved his hand weakly to let Lin Ruhai go.

"Alas, the children have grown up and their hearts have grown!"

"The emperor is in full bloom, and the prince is smart and sensible, and he never causes trouble."

"Old thing, you also learned to say half and keep half."

"The minions are telling the truth!"

"Okay, you personally go to the Three Princes' Mansion to deliver the decree, let him study hard at home, and all errands will be waived. Then he went to Wang Xianrong's house and told him to let him be a member of the office for a month. ”

The next day, the third prince quit his errand on the grounds that he was still young and had to study hard. Three days later, Wang Xianrong was seriously ill, and after another half a month, although Wang Xianrong's illness was almost better, his health was not as good as before, so he simply proposed to buy a place. The emperor kept him three times, and at Wang Xianrong's insistence, he finally agreed to let him go. That's for later.

The emperor had already sent someone to the canal to see it, and he also knew about the tragic situation in Xiaoli Village. He sighed and ordered Jing Zhaoyin to deal with it as soon as possible and not cause the plague.

"Shi Youblessed, I should have slaughtered them. But I didn't want to do it, and I didn't want outsiders to see the joke. I didn't expect that if I set up the prince so early, and I spent a lot of effort to teach the prince and other princes, there will still be people who are unwilling and will still do wrong things. The emperor's tone was very lonely.

Gonggong Shi didn't know how to answer this, so he had to remind: "It's time for the emperor to have dinner!" ”

The emperor glanced at Gonggong Shi, "I'm going to Qifeng Hall today, I want to go and see the queen." ”