At this year's court meeting, the emperor changed the rules, only allowing the royal family, officials above the third grade, and a few nobles to enter the palace, but Guo Yong, who was the head of the dynasty, did not show up, and some things could not be concealed, plus before that, there were rumors that Guo Yong died unexpectedly, so on the third day of the Lunar New Year, the Guo family officially reported the news of his death, saying that Guo Yong had become ill from hard work and died without a spirit.

In fact, Guo Yong's body has been parked in the house for many days, and Jinyiwei sent people to guard Guo's house, not allowing Guo's family to go out casually, let alone mourning.

Now that he can hold a funeral for Guo Yong in a bright light, Guo's family has been under house arrest for many days, and they have long had nothing else to ask for, where do they dare to speak out.

There are a lot of rumors about Guo Yong's death on the street, some say that he was punished for being corrupt and perverted the law, and some say that he offended a colleague and was bought, and there is even a saying that Guo Yong is young and windy (anti) flow (screen), and the green (defense) building (screen) woman swore an alliance, and after the official treacherously did not go to pick up the woman to reunite, the woman did not know that he had changed his mind, and he committed suicide after waiting, and refused to be reincarnated after death, turned into a resentful ghost and searched hard in the sun, and after a search was more than ten or twenty years, he finally found him in the capital, found that he was not only in a high position, but also had married a wife and taken a concubine, and the female ghost was angry and demanded his life.

Most people are very interested in the world they are not familiar with, and for ordinary people, the most popular thing to talk about after tea and dinner is the affairs of the royal family and the official family. Among them, men and women are the most popular, so among the many causes of Guo Yong's death, the most widely spread is the saying that female ghosts ask for their lives.

If it is a person who is still alive, maybe people still have some restraint, but Guo Yong is dead, will the court still arrest gossip for a dead person? Of course not.

Therefore, what the streets and alleys and restaurants and tea shops talk about the most is not the major event of King Rong's rebellion, nor the happy event of a certain high-ranking official accepting a concubine, but the affair of the former Lord Shoufu who went to Huangquan with a female ghost not long ago.

Of course, these rumors also reached Zhao Xu's ears, and he scoffed, what is Guo Yong's identity? If there is really a Qing (defense) building (screen) woman who is unclear with him, it has already been settled when the woman was alive, and there is still a need to let the woman commit suicide? Saddling yourself with a love debt?

There is no need to ask, this is the nonsense of the small people in the market.

However, since Guo Yong's death, Zhao Xu has been like a headless fly that is difficult to sleep, to put it mildly, he and Guo Yong are grasshoppers on a rope, without Guo Yong, his future life in the cabinet can be imagined.

Today, he was suddenly sent by the emperor to see Huo Jiang, and he felt that something was wrong.

Because just a few days ago, the direction of the wind outside suddenly changed, and the female ghost who was rumored to be boiling a few days ago suddenly became Zhan Wugongzi murder.

Zhan Wu Gongzi is Zhan Huai, the youngest son of the Duke of Min.

And the reason for this incident is even more incredible, that is, Huo Jiang's eldest son, Huo Yan, disappeared out of thin air in broad daylight.

I don't know where the news came from at first, saying that Huo Yan was captured by Zhanhuai, and then it was rumored that Zhanhuai not only captured Huo Yan, but also killed Guo Yong.

It turns out that there are no female ghosts, and the so-called female ghosts are actually from Fujian.

Zhao Xu also didn't believe the news.

The Zhan family of the Fujian Mansion, whether it is with the Guo family or the Huo family, has no grievances, if Zhan Huaizhen wants to kill people and kidnap people, it is also aimed at the clan and the nobles, what is the matter with these two civil officials?

Now that Huo Jiang was sitting in front of him, Zhao Xu only felt awkward. Although Huo Jiang resigned from the cabinet, Huo Jiang threw off him a lot in terms of reputation and status in front of the emperor and the queen mother.

After a few polite words between the two, Huo Jiang took out a letter and said to Zhao Xu: "The dog is unfortunate and was kidnapped, yesterday the dog spent a lot of effort to send a letter to a woodcutter who chopped wood, and the dog said in the letter that he had already seen the person who kidnapped him, and he also knew who it was."

Zhao Xu frowned, his gaze stayed on the letter in Huo Jiang's hand, although Huo Jiang took out the letter, he didn't hand it to him, he couldn't figure out for a while, what medicine was sold in Huo Jiang's gourd.

"Oh? Huo Gongzi suffered, but he actually let him meet a kind woodcutter, and that woodcutter was able to deliver the letter to Lord Huo, which was really favored by God and a blessing in misfortune. ”

As soon as his words fell, Huo Jiang's face turned pale, and he stood up and said sharply: "Lord Zhao is saying that my letter is fake?" Or is it fake that the dog was captured by bandits? ”

Zhao Xu and Huo Jiang are not familiar with each other, in his opinion, Huo Jiang is a humble son, but he has a bit of a scholarly spirit, but he is not a difficult person to get along with.

But he never expected that he just said a few words, and Huo Jiang was full of emotion.

He is not a sesame mung bean official, he and Huo Jiang are both second-grade members, and they are on an equal footing, what qualifications do you Huo Jiang have to yell at me.

"Master Huo, what's wrong with you? I didn't say anything, besides, the handwriting can be imitated, and of course the letter can be faked, Lord Huo only relies on a letter, how can he conclude that this must be written by Ling Gongzi? At this juncture, Lord Huo should be cautious, and he might as well hand over the letter to Dali Temple, so that they can distinguish it according to Huo Gongzi's manuscript. Zhao Xu also stood up.

Huo Jiang sneered: "The dog is the head of the case in Beizhili, and six out of ten of the articles he does on weekdays have been printed as model texts for students from all over the world to refer to." If Lord Zhao still doesn't understand, you can go to the street and find a few random candidates for the exam, and let them distinguish whether the wording and sentences of this letter are the style of dogs? ”

Zhao Xu was stunned, he didn't expect Huo Jiang to refute him from the style of the article!

Not only that, but he also insinuated that he didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, and he couldn't compare to the exam-taking students he found casually on the street.

Although he is not as good as Huo Jiang is the champion and the first, but he is also from a Shujishi, is he not as good as those lifters?

"Master Huo, why don't you show me the letter?" Zhao Xu said.

Huo Jiang stretched out his hand holding the letter forward, this is the study room for the elders outside the Wenhua Palace, since there is no one to serve, so Zhao Xu thought that Huo Jiang was going to hand the letter to him, so he reached out to take it.

But Huo Jiang's hand only stretched forward, and when Zhao Xu's hand reached over, he retracted his hand again.

Not only that, but he also tucked the letter into the sleeve of his official uniform preciously.

Zhao Xu's hand stopped in mid-air, stretching forward or retracting, just like a dancer who walked in the wrong place, embarrassed and embarrassed.