At the same time as the dark clouds were surging in Chongdu City, the heavy rain finally had a tendency to stop.

As the rain subsided, the raging flood waters began to recede, and the breach of the levee was exposed, and several magistrates who were dripping water stood on the shore, their eyes full of shock.

At the place where the embankment broke, a large area of white-flowered river mussel shells were piled up on the bank with sediment, and the places that should have been filled with bluestone were all loose white stones.

Just opposite the adults, Xi Yun also stood in a hidden place on the other side of the river embankment with a gloomy face, taking advantage of the fact that the officials of the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Industry had not yet arrived, he had to finish the last two things.

With a mission on his shoulders, Xi Yun hurried back to the city without staying long after recording the situation after the levee burst.

The water burst the embankment, and as panicked as Xi Qing, there was also Chen Yueze, the official in charge of purchasing materials this time, who sat in the yamen's study like a frightened bird, for fear that an official who would deliver the decree would come to take his life in the next moment.

Just when Chen Yueze was sweating with fear, a small servant entered the study with a cup of tea and saluted him respectfully, "My lord, please use tea." ”

Chen Yueze held the teacup with trembling hands, put it to his mouth and took a sip lightly, seeing this, the little guy quickly took the teacup in Chen Yueze's hand and put the teacup on the table steadily.

Taking a sip of hot tea into his throat, Chen Yueze's heart calmed down a little, and when he saw that the little guy still didn't leave, Chen Yueze suddenly felt a little hesitant in his heart. Just as he was about to send him out, he suddenly coughed violently.

Chen Yueze covered his chest in pain, and for a moment he only felt dizzy and his heart ached, and he pointed at the little guy with a hideous face, "You! Who are you!? ”

The little girl still lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "My lord, your family, Lord Xi will protect you for you." ”

"Xi Qing, I ......" Before he could say the following words, Chen Yueze lost his breath in pain.

At this time, the little guy who had been keeping his head down slowly raised his head, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

Seeing Chen Yueze's breath, he quickly put Chen Yueze's body in a position of lying on the table, then took out an envelope from his clothes, and put it in front of Chen Yueze with great care, then took his hand, dipped some ink, and printed it on the envelope where Chen Yueze's signature was placed

After taking out a handkerchief and wiping Chen Yueze's fingers clean, Xi Yun carefully cleaned up the table again. Seeing that there was no flaw in the house, he hurried out of this place of right and wrong.

After finishing Chen Yueze, Xi Yun quietly slipped out of the yamen and went straight to Xi Qing's temporary office mansion.

After Gu Zhiyuan left, Xi Qing had been anxious, and after surveying the breach of the embankment, his uneasiness was completely transformed into anger. He didn't expect Chen Yueze to be so greedy, he thought that the benefits he gave him were too little, and he actually deducted from it, and took the silver taels that should have bought stones to the people to collect river mussels, and finally poked out such a big man.

Just as Xi Qing was about to go out to ask Chen Yue Zexing for his guilt, he found that Xi Yun was already waiting in his room.

Seeing that it was Xi Yun, Xi Qing showed a very wary look on his face, and he looked at Xi Yun coldly: "What are you doing?" It shouldn't be Xi Yan who told you to fall into the well! ”

"The fourth prince misunderstood," Xi Yun didn't have any expression on his face, he really didn't have any good feelings for this fourth son, so he said coldly, "With your current situation, you don't need others to fall into the well." ”

Xi Qing snorted coldly, and was about to summon his subordinates, but was stopped by Xi Yun first.

"Fourth son, don't you want to hear it, what does your family think of you this time?"

"Oh?" Xi Qing raised his eyebrows, his words were still full of suspicion, "So you were sent by your family to help me?" ”

Xi Yun nodded in affirmation, "Once something happens to you, it will naturally affect the family." Although you have a long-standing grudge with the third son, at this time, both the head of the family and the third son have to help you. Do you think so? ”

Although after listening to Xi Yun's explanation, Xi Qing was still skeptical, and then asked: "Then since it is my father's intention, why is it you who came?" ”

"The fourth prince doesn't have to worry too much," Xi Yun said with a clear expression, "At this time, whoever the family sends is the same." But you have to understand that the one who is staring at you now and wants you to have an accident is still the Jing family. ”

Xi Qing's pupils contracted suddenly, and he hurriedly asked, "What's going on with the Jing family, tell me quickly!" ”

"As early as when you first arrived in the water, the Jing family began to pay attention," Xi Yun glanced at Xi Qing secretly, and continued to say unhurriedly, "Your greed for ink is so big, do you still want to cover the sky and hide it from everyone with one hand?" ”

"Enough!" The sore spot in his heart was poked again, Xi Qing's eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire, he gritted his teeth and looked at Xi Yun, "I didn't want to listen to you say this!" ”

Xi Yun didn't mind, and continued: "Then I'll talk to the fourth prince about the Jing family, among the officials who came with you to collect water, there are several who are involved with the eldest prince of the Jing family. “

Speaking of which, if Xi Qing doesn't understand anymore, then he is not worthy of being the son of the Xi family who has been supporting him for several years. Xi Qing had no choice but to suppress his anger for the time being, and asked Xi Yun, "What are the countermeasures at home?" ”

After a pause, Xi Yun said an answer that he couldn't accept word by word: "Abandon the car and protect the handsome!" ”

"Nonsense!" Xi Qing suddenly jumped like thunder, "It was Xi Yan who sent you to harm me!" ”

"Hasn't the fourth prince woken up yet?" Xi Yun is still neither humble nor arrogant, Xi Qing has never found that he also has such a bearing, "As early as the moment you started to be corrupt and pervert the law, you were destined to be an outcast in the Xi family, for the sake of the overall situation, for the interests of the Xi family, now it is time to sacrifice you." ”

"Impossible!" Xi Qing looked incredulous, glared angrily and denied loudly, "Father won't give up on me, it must be Xi Yan who sent you to confuse the public!" ”

"Okay, since you don't believe it, then I'll tell you a story......" Xi Yun lowered his eyes, still quietly, "I wonder if the fourth prince has heard the story of Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan in the first year of the Yin Dynasty?" The mother blindly favors the youngest son, and ignores the family and the eldest son, but in the end? Xi Yun paused, and Fang continued, "Fourth son, if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself......

"You are presumptuous!"

But Xi Yun still stared at him, and continued to finish his words: "Whether you are greedy for ink or selling smuggled salt, the head of the family doesn't know it, the reason why he indulges you is just like Wu Jiang dotes on his young son, and he refuses to be too harsh." But today's you, just like the old Gongshu Duan, are hard to return. ”

Xi Qing closed his eyes weakly, he was too familiar with this story. Now, this allusion is so appropriate to use on oneself. But he still struggled to defend: "I am not Uncle Duan, and my father is not Wu Jiang." Father will help me! ”

"Fourth son!" Xi Yun accentuated his tone, his tone was still cold, "So far, do you still have illusions?" Greedy for ink and even bursting the embankment, what will the emperor do? Give up on you...... It is equivalent to preserving the entire Xi family, if you are the head of the family, what will you choose? ”

"If I am the head of the family, if I am the head of the family......" Xi Qing kept repeating this sentence, but the light in his eyes dimmed little by little, he knew that it was not impossible to do this kind of thing in the family to abandon the chess pieces.

"No, my father will never, the love between father and son is thicker than water, how could he give up on me like this. I am the son of the Xi family in charge of family affairs, and without me, the future of the Xi family is uncertain! ”

"The fourth son, although there is not much difference between the family and the family over the years...... But you are just a concubine, you must know that there are other reasons in the family. Xi Yun sneered, shattering Xi Qing's last hope, "Besides, without you, there is still the third son, and the worst is the eldest son." In the past, the third prince went out to do things and had no time to take care of the family, so it has long been a move to let you take care of the family affairs to this day. ”

"You talk nonsense!" Xi Qing almost shouted out this sentence in a heart-rending manner, "You get out of here!" Come! Get him out of here! ”

"Someone? No one will come, and I have already instructed you to take the family order to do so, and no one is allowed to disturb you. Xi Yun glanced at Xi Qing lightly, and said slowly, "You better accept your fate, the matter of greedy ink has no room for turning around from the beginning." ”