Chapter 199: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
His eyebrows and eyes have not changed much, and on closer inspection, there are more iron-blooded handsome, but he no longer seems to be the Helian Yunnuma who smiled slightly at the family banquet.
He looked sideways at the appearance of the person, a bit like the Western Qi Emperor, and the contemplative appearance was more like.
The son of an emperor, after all, will be like an emperor......
I took a sip of rice dew, and Helian Yunnuma also picked up the cup.
He turned his eyes to look over, and in his deep eyes, a trace of softness slowly swayed, the corners of his mouth were slightly curved, and he shook the cup with it.
"Have a drink." He said softly.
I picked up my glass and bumped into him in the air, taking a sip of sake.
At this time, Zeen King Helian Yunqi had already staggered around, turned around and laughed, "This king is a concubine, it's good that the eighth brother and the county lord are here, how can they still give such a generous gift." ”
He was in the study before, and he gave me a lot of things, in order to return the gift, I picked a lot of rare and rare toys as congratulatory gifts, and those rare toys, although they were more numerous, but they were not alluring. The thickness he was referring to was Helian Yunnuma.
Twelve East Pearls, 12 Ruyi Fang, a box of rare jade ornaments, a box of gold, three boxes of silver, a number of silk satin, and a number of precious ginseng medicines.
This gift list is not only heavy, it is very heavy.
Everyone knows that the two of them are snatching the crown, and this Helian Yunqi has also killed the killer three times and twice, and a few months ago, he almost couldn't return to Shengjing. Helian Yunnuma gave a big gift at this time, which was somewhat surprising.
But when you think about it, it's not so surprising.
He has always been virtuous and generous to his opponents, and if he becomes the emperor of a country, he will naturally be a virtuous corporal.
He is no matter how subtle it is, to earn a reputation for himself.
"The joy of the second royal brother Dengke, how can there be a reason not to give a generous gift, Yun Nuan still thinks that this gift is a little light." Helian Yunnuma smiled lightly.
King Zeen laughed and said, "Eighth brother, if your gift is light, then there will be no valuable things in the king's mansion, so you don't have to be modest." Come on, come on, it's rare for us to get together and have a drink. ”
The three of us clinked glasses and drank the wine in one gulp.
After drinking two glasses of wine, Helian Yunqi casually said something else, and actually talked about my marriage again.
"I said Ning An, this king has already married a side concubine, this wedding is a big event, you must think about it quickly. By the way, aren't you thinking about Prince Dongmu? I think the prince has a heart. ”
Is this a lecture?
Before I could say anything, Helian Yunnuma replied, "Brother Erwang didn't forget, a few days ago, Qian Mu had already made it clear to the court, no matter how good this Dongmu prince is, he doesn't want to marry." ”
Helian Yunqi patted his head, "Haha, that day, my father suddenly coughed, and he didn't talk about it, and this king thought that Ning An just wanted to try the sincerity of Prince Dongmu." It's abrupt, it's really abrupt, come, this king will punish himself with three cups. ”
As he spoke, he took the green jade pot, slowly poured three cups, and drank it all in a row.
This kung fu, there was a sudden sound of the cup falling on the other side, it was the two noble sons who drank happily, and the wide sleeves touched the wine glass on the table, and it happened that the third prince and the seventh prince were also over there, and Helian Yunqi went there.
I sat down with Helian Yunnuma and drank slowly until the three rounds of drinking, and then I took my leave in turn.
After coming out, I glanced back at the palace, and the red of the courtyard was like a cuckoo crying blood.
Just yesterday evening, the person sent to investigate Xie Fanghua had already sent back the news.
Someone came to spread the news that Xie Fanghua was an orphan, it turned out that Xing'er was adopted by a good family since she was a child, and the family lived in a small village. A few years ago, her adoptive parents died of a sudden illness, and they were rescued by the Ministry of Industry on the street after crying.
In order to distinguish the authenticity of my letter, I also went to the village of his adoptive parents, checked the archives of the local security office, and learned that there was really a person named Xing'er, but the apricot was also picked up.
Everything seemed to be seamless, but the more it was like this, the more strange it became, all the people in her past died, how could it be such a coincidence.
I have a feeling that she is Su Tianyue.
Although I don't know why her appearance has become the way she is now, she must have a plot to return this time......
The wind picked up, and a cold wind blew.
The sky that had been gloomy for two days suddenly cleared, and thousands of sunshines shone brightly, the sky was blue like the vast sea, and the white clouds were scattered, like the most beautiful ink painting.
I smiled and stepped on the jade stool and got into the carriage.
Back in the house, green beads for the brewing of a pot of Pu'er, I found a thick book and sat down in front of the window, and only read for more than half an hour, the silent evening suddenly came a deafening sound of firecrackers, the clusters of brilliant fireworks rose to the sky, in the slightly dark night exploded a continuous piece of brilliance.
This firecracker fireworks, from the time of Shen to the time of Xu, the people in the holy capital city are all dressed neatly, wearing a thick cotton canopy to watch. Everyone looked up at the fireworks in the night and pointed at them, all boasting that King Zeen's newly married side concubine was blessed, and they actually let King Zeen spend a lot of money and set off fireworks for a few hours.
The people laughed and made a fuss, very happy to watch the fireworks in the sky, listening to the crackling of firecrackers in the distance, even happier than the New Year. On the second day, I learned that it was not the fireworks set off by King Zeen's concubine, but in a fireworks and firecrackers shop in the east of the city, a new shopkeeper was clumsy, shook his hand and dropped the fire fold on the finished fireworks, igniting the warehouse.
Fireworks, splendid at the same time, but also dangerous.
Crackling firecrackers splash sparks, and when the wind blows, a raging fire spreads.
Who dared to save the fire in the firecrackers, the neighbors of East Street could only watch the fire spread, but fortunately, someone set up a barrier on the periphery of the circle, and the fire only burned down more than 20 houses centered on the fireworks shop.
The more than 20 houses were very coincidentally uninhabited, and the people in the fireworks shop escaped quickly, and no one died, but the owner of the shop was in a hurry to get something in the house and blew up one ear.
A fire burned a cloud of ashes, and the shops and houses were all flattened.
The fire in the east of the city has not been extinguished, and another fire is burning in the north of the city.
The third son of the Jingdaotai family, who does not love his wife and loves men, has been a guest with the Qingfeng son of Yulin Courtyard for many years.
Who knows, there is a son in the Gongzi Pavilion in the north of the city, and he accidentally heard about the reputation of the Qingfeng Gongzi, and he fell in love with it, and he rushed to let the Qingfeng Gongzi enter the scene.
The third son has been pampered since he was a child, and his temperament is abnormal.
People are angry at the crown for the red face, and he is angry for the son.
After a night's sleepover, he was furious, and went to the north of the city, two barrels of fire oil, and one fire, which ignited the Ziqing Pavilion.
The wind was strong in the middle of the night, and the fire was sudden and fierce, so some people in the courtyard carried wooden barrels to put out the fire, but the strange thing was that the fire was getting bigger and bigger.
The wind rose strongly, igniting the small house next to it, and then the money village next to it, burning down a large number of rich houses, and in this house, there happened to be the mansion of Sun Chengying, a Shilang of the Ministry of Works.
The son of the Taoist family set fire in the middle of the night and burned down such a large house, which is the culpability, which should have been directly pressed to the criminal department to judge the crime, but when the city guards helped to put out the fire, the wall of Sun Shilang's house suddenly collapsed, and from that section of the wall, several golden bricks fell out at once.
The city guards did not dare to call the shots, and hurriedly reported to the Dali Temple Division at this time, and the criminal department rushed to give an order, and pushed several thick walls, and from the cracks in the wall, 12 cars of jewelry, 18 large boxes of gold bricks, 36 boxes of silver, and countless precious jade vases and pottery, and even found several houses in Langzhou and other places.
A squire of the Ministry of Works, Feng Lu is only a many, and under this search, the gold and silver obtained have not been filled with eighteen or nineteen carts.
The secretary of Dali Temple knew that it was a big trouble, and handed a party to the palace overnight.
When the old emperor found out about such a large amount of Tibetan silver, he was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter.
That Sun Shilang is a person who is afraid of things, and it is said that he has confessed everything before he has been tortured.
His confession involved a lot of people, and he directly pulled out three people from the Ministry of Industry, one person from the Ministry of Rites, and a number of officials from the DPRK and China, totaling a total of 27 people, of which more than a dozen were protégés and subordinates of the Ministry of Industry.
The old emperor was furious, and then thought that a few days ago, the Ministry of Industry Sikong recommended himself to investigate the matter of greed, and he was even more angry, and demoted the Ministry of Industry Sikong to the waiter, and instructed him to assist the Dali Temple Division to deal with this matter impartially.
Long Yan was furious, who dared to think about it again, those twenty-seven people all raided their homes. All the gold and silver in the house belonged to the treasury, and the severity of the crime was judged to be summarily executed.
As a warning, these 27 moths were all pulled to the entrance of the vegetable market.
On that day, the sky was clear, the blue sky was not half a cloud, the executioner's sword flashed, and all the people clapped their hands.
The so-called people's wishes, at this time, not only did not blame the third prince of Daotai who set fire to Ziqing Pavilion and set fire to a large number of private houses, but also went to the Book of the People, asking for forgiveness and commendation.
Caused such a big disaster, the reward is absolutely impossible, Dali Temple Division after research, and asked His Majesty, finally, to compensate for all the burned houses, his father because of lax discipline, the official demoted a level.
This result can be described as an extrajudicial favor. The Daotai family can't wait to kowtow all the time to thank His Majesty the Emperor for his grace. Who knows, before the compensation began, the third son of his family walked on the road at night and was actually cut in half.
Daotai was grief-stricken, and asked the emperor to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The matter is very easy to investigate, someone saw a man, went out in the alley where the third son was beheaded, and the Dali Temple Division investigated again with this clue, and finally knew what was going on.
On that day, the Qingguan was on fire, and after the fire broke out, everyone fled, only Tong Dongrui, the son of the Imperial Supervisor, drank too much wine and slept before he had time to come out.
In the Ziqing Pavilion, this matter is spread out, but it is not a glorious thing, the Tong family thought about it for a while, and finally decided not to report it.
I thought that the third prince of Daotai had caused such a big disaster, it should be the crime of raiding the family and destroying the door, who knew that those people were actually on the Book of the People, and His Majesty was a symbolic crime for the common people.
That Tong Dongrui, that is the only son of the Tong family for three generations, usually messing around, the family is all blind to one eye, so the grievances are burned down, and the owner is fine, so how can you bear it? This is where the alley is cut in half.
As an important minister, even if he has no way to teach his son, he still knows the law and violates the law. The old emperor personally decreed that the imperial supervisor and the director of the department were cut off and investigated, and three generations of his family were not allowed to enter the court.
Three generations, this is a big punishment.
The people of Shengjing have something to talk about after dinner, and they make up these things into stories and repeat them, saying that it is the fire of heaven, punishing evil and promoting good.
The people were happy, but Helian Yunqi, the king of Zeen, was sad.
The degraded Ministry of Industry Sikong is his people, and the twenty-seven people executed are also his people, and even the Tong family, who has been blamed for not entering the court for three generations, is also the maiden family of his concubine Zeen.
A fire burned his front road mottled, and most of his power was cut off at once, and his position was like weeds, swaying.
Today's situation affects the whole body. Those who originally supported Helian Yunqi also changed their direction and fell to Helian Yunnuma.
In addition, Helian Yunnuma was originally a virtuous name, and its momentum is even more like a great day by day. Even the old emperor praised it in the court.
I sat in the county lord's mansion, twisted a pickled plum, and finally sighed regretfully.
It is not easy to set fire to the Ziqing Pavilion, put a lot of fire oil in advance, and put Tong Dongrui in the museum, it is not easy, I thought it would be three birds with one stone, but unfortunately, Baili Tianqi fell the Ziqing Pavilion under someone else's name, otherwise, when the Daotai compensated, it would be more fun to find out that the Ziqing Pavilion belonged to Prince Dongmu!