In the early morning, the streets of Chang'an after the rain were a little more deserted.

The sun drilled out of the dark clouds, sprinkled a warm light, fell on the faces of the people who were rushing for life, the bustling East Market was full of people as always, the cargo ships on the water were shuttling back and forth, and at the door of the Huguo Mansion, many famous families and mansions came in a hurry, lined up in anticipation, counting how many people were in front.

Thinking that he couldn't buy Zhenguan and get drunk and go back to be punished, he was in a hurry.

A sturdy man ran over, saw that there were too many people in the team, and estimated that it would not be his turn to line up, so he rushed directly to the front of the team and shouted: "Shopkeeper, bring me an altar." ”

There is a bit of arrogance, domineering and superiority in the words.

The people in line were not happy, and one of them looked at each other and said, "How do you cut the queue, the rule here is to queue, first come, first served, and then queue up." ”

"Who are you? Dare to meddle with the affairs of my Wei Palace, and I can't find death. The stout man asked disdainfully.

People who can afford to get drunk have a background, not a prince or a member of the court, but it is too far away from the Wei Wangfu, Zhenguan is strict in law, and the palace also has to talk about the rules, it is said that no one is afraid, but the King of Wei is an exception, too favored, no one dares to offend easily.

When everyone heard that it was the people of the Wei Palace, they were silent.

The other party snorted proudly, looked at the busy Liu family and shouted: "Hurry up, give me two altars, your silver is indispensable, I have delayed the big event, and I will demolish your shop." ”

The Liu family didn't want to cause trouble and bring trouble to the house, but he didn't want to break the rules set by Qin Huaidao by himself, so he quickly weighed it in his heart, and decided to maintain the rules, even if he died, he couldn't fall into the prestige of the young master, and immediately said: "Please line up." ”

As soon as the other party heard that the queue was made, he blew up, and scolded: "I'm deaf, right, I'll tell you again, Lao Tzu is from the Wei Palace, hurry up and get two days of jar wine, otherwise you're welcome." ”

"If you want to buy alcohol, you can follow the rules of the house and line up to buy it." Liu insisted.

The people who were queuing saw that a weak woman in the Liu family was not afraid of power and adhered to the rules, and their courage suddenly became bigger, and someone shouted: "That's right, abide by the rules, line up to buy, no one can be an exception!" ”

"Queue up to buy!"

"Queue up to buy!"

The crowd shouted one after another, and the crowd became excited.

The sturdy man's face changed, and he shouted: "Lao Tzu won't be lined up today, hurry up and get the wine." ”

"The rules set by the Protector of the Country, queue up to buy, first come, first served." Liu insisted.

"Lao Tzu is a person from the Wei Palace, even if the protector sees our King Wei, he has to behave in a proper manner, what's the matter, where are you selling wine so many things, it's not that you don't give you silver, hurry up, King Wei is still waiting to use it." The other party shouted arrogantly, rolling up his sleeves and looking like he was going to do it.

The Liu family was a little panicked, thinking that the status of the palace was higher than that of the Protector Mansion, and he couldn't afford to offend, but the rules of the young master could not be lost, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

"Bang Bang".

The three jars of wine exploded on the spot, the wine spilled all over the ground, and a strong aroma of wine overflowed.

The people in line saw that they moved, and they all retreated, pointing and pointing, but no one dared to jump out and say anything, Liu Shi was also frightened and took a few steps back, his face was bitter, and he didn't know how to solve it, and the strong man roared proudly: "Hurry up, bring two more jars, otherwise you will smash your shop." ”

The two guards who were transferred to be in charge of security reacted and were about to draw their knives in front of Liu, but Liu hurriedly shouted: "Don't do it yet." ”

The two guards looked at the Liu family suspiciously, the Liu family didn't explain, thinking of Qin Huaidao's advice, he said with the arrogant expression of the strong man: "If you want to smash it, smash it, I remember you." ”

The other party is just a strong inward, pretentious, where dare to really smash, thinking of the prestige of the protector of the country, his heart trembled, but when he thought of his master's identity, his courage came up again, and he said impatiently: "It's so troublesome to buy a wine, hurry up and take the wine out, it's not that you won't give you silver, hurry up." ”“”

Liu's temper also came up, and he said coldly: "Either line up or go in and smash the store." ”

"You-"

The other party didn't expect the Liu family to be so tough, it was difficult to ride a tiger, his brows were tight, and he became worried.

"This is the one, rushed over and smashed their shop."

Suddenly, an excited voice came.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen students dressed in the costumes of the Guozijian rushed over, holding sticks in their hands, the crowd was excited, and their eyes were fanatical, as if the defenders were doing a pious and important thing.

The two guards wanted to rush up to stop it, but Liu hurriedly shouted: "Don't move, the young master said before leaving, no matter who smashes it, let him smash it, and deal with it when the young master comes back, you will only make a big deal when you go up." ”

"Just let them smash it?" One of the guards said unwillingly.

"Don't worry, the young master will take care of it." Liu Shi hurriedly said.

The two guards stared at the people in the shop unwillingly, but did not make another move, but protected the Liu family to retreat to the corner of the wall to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to hurt people, the strong man was overjoyed when he saw this scene, rushed in, and shouted: "Leave me some, King Wei wants to use it." So saying, he ran away with a jar in one hand, and gave no money.

Liu did not stop it, and silently recorded all this.

A team of Qianniuwei rushed to hear the news, and when they saw this scene, their faces changed greatly, and they actually smashed the shop of the Protector Mansion, which was looking for death, but when they saw that the person who did it was the Guozi Supervisor, the most special group, they were a little more jealous in their hearts, and the team was hurriedly signaling their subordinates not to move, and they took a few steps forward and asked, "Why do you smash the shop?" ”

"It's light to smash the shop." One person came out, crossed his waist and shouted: "There is a shortage of food in the world, the people are hungry, and the dignified Protector Mansion actually uses grain to make wine, which is simply a tyrannical thing, a waste of food, and does not put the life and death of the people in his eyes. ”

"Yes, how precious is the grain, how can it be used to make wine? This is disregarding the life and death of the people in the world, and it is not possible to protect the country, and we and the students of the country will ask for the lives of the people today, even if they step on our corpses, they will not stop us from doing righteous deeds. The other chimed in indignantly.

The team was a little stunned, and asked, "What is the wine of the Protector Mansion hindering you?" ”

"Why don't you care about us? There is a constant amount of food in the world, and the people are increasing, there is not enough to eat, how many people are starving to death, the dignified Protector Mansion actually takes grain to make wine, this is a great waste, it is indifference, it is cruel, it is regardless of the life and death of the people in the world, if there is more food in the Protectorate Mansion, it can be taken out and sold to the people to live, how can it make wine? How can we, the prisoners of the country, study for the world and petition for the people, and watch all this happen? The first to speak shouted, emotional.

The team saw that these people were crazy, so they hurriedly said a few words to one of the people next to them, and the other party nodded and left in a hurry.

At this time, the people in the shop came out after smashing the wine, with an excited face, as if they had won the battle, and one person shouted: "Let's go, let's go to sue the royal court, sue the prince of the country for wasting food, regardless of the life and death of the people in the world, raise the integrity of my scholars, and protect the towering Tang Dynasty." ”

"Let's go, go to the royal court." Many people chimed in.

The group rushed out of the shop and headed in the direction of the imperial city, where the patrol dared to stop, they could only follow.

Liu's face changed greatly when he saw this scene, and he was confused.

The people who bought the wine were not stupid, and when they saw that the matter was getting bigger, they went back to inform the house one after another, and quickly walked away.

"Shopkeeper Liu, what should we do?" A guy in the shop said worriedly.

"Why can't you mess up, clean up, if you don't sell wine, you can sell something else, the young master will hand over the shop to me, I must not let him close the door." Liu said stubbornly.

Everyone took action, silently cleaned up the mess, and held their breath in their hearts.

……

Temple of Manna.

Li Erzheng was discussing things with several confidant ministers, and suddenly heard the sound of drums, his face changed, and he looked in the direction of the gate, and the ministers also looked out of the door in confusion, and the eldest grandson Wuji said: "Listening to the sound is very close, is it possible that someone is beating the drum?" ”

Dengwen Drum has been established for many years, and he almost didn't think about it, Li Er suddenly realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted: "Come on, go see what's going on right away?" ”

"Yes." Someone answered the door.

Everyone stopped talking and waited patiently.

Not long after, Wang De hurriedly entered the hall and shouted with a nervous face: "Holy Lord, the Guozi Supervisor sounded the Dengwen drum and said that he wanted to sue the emperor and sue the protector of the country for wasting grain and making wine, and ignoring the people of the world to eat. ”

"Sue whom?" Li Er looked at Wang De in disbelief.

Wang De hurriedly said again: "Tell the Duke of the Protector to waste food and make wine, so that the people of the world will not be able to eat." ”

At this time, Li Er heard it clearly, but he still couldn't believe what he heard, and looked at the ministers, and everyone looked at Wang De incredulously, in order to save food, Datang banned winemaking, except for those who obtained permission, it was not absolutely prohibited, and there were still people doing it, and no one came to sue the royal court, why did he suddenly sue the protector?

There were all human spirits present, and they immediately smelled the smell of conspiracy, and they didn't say anything.

Li Er also smelled the breath of conspiracy, thinking that someone was preventing the construction of the road, I am afraid that there was something behind it, his face sank, and he asked, "How do you think Aiqing should deal with this matter?" ”

Fang Xuanling was the head of the hundred officials, so he was naturally the first to come out and make a statement: "Holy Lord, the Guozi Supervisor is the future of the imperial court, and his identity is special, this matter cannot be dealt with rashly, when the truth is found out, slowly figure it out." ”

In the end, it's just one word, drag!

They are all experienced old horses, how can they not understand, the eldest grandson Wuji saw that Li Er's face was pale, obviously dissatisfied with this treatment, he had an idea, and said: "Shengshang, it is better to take the royal writ, ask the reason, and then hand it over to the three divisions for interrogation, and then make a decision after ascertaining the situation, one is to stabilize the students, the other is fair and open, all parties are convinced, and the third is to give the protector an explanation." ”

"Say, what's the way?" Li Jing was furious when he heard this, and he arched his hand at Li Er and said: "Holy Lord, the minister thinks that he should accept the royal complaint, but if it is falsely accused, he will deal with it seriously, and he will protect the innocence of the country." ”

"Oh, what do you mean?" Li Er heard that there was something strange behind him and became curious.

Li Jing knew about the wine-making, but he didn't want to explain, so he said coldly: "The Guozi Supervisor petitioned on the grounds of the life and death of the people in the world, the public is selfless and reasonable, how can the imperial court chill their hearts?" It is better to hand it over to our criminal department to ensure that it will be handled impartially and will not be protected. ”

Everyone could see Li Jing's anger, but their hearts were full of curiosity, once it was handed over to the Criminal Department, there would be no room for maneuver, what was this protection? Or take the opportunity to fall into the well and liquidate Qin Huaidao?

"Wei Guogong, do you know what you're talking about?" Fang Xuanling reminded.

"Of course, the minister must be fair and strict and find out the truth." Li Jing said solemnly.

Li Er saw Li Jing's confidence and anger, and smiled tacitly: "Then hand it over to your criminal department to deal with, you must enforce the law impartially, deal with it strictly, and not show favoritism." ”

"Yes!" Li Jing solemnly agreed, and smiled, since someone wants to jump out to make trouble, Li Jing doesn't mind playing with each other, it may be difficult to do it for another reason, this reason for brewing wine is too lame, and there is no pressure.

At this time, Wang De added: "Shengshang, according to Qian Niuwei, who rushed to pay respects, first the people in the palace of the king of Wei went to buy wine, refused to line up, asked for it strongly, kicked over the table if they didn't give it, smashed the three altars of Zhenguan drunk, and when they were about to start, the students of the Guozijian rushed over, smashed all the wine in the shop, and then came over to beat the Wendeng drum. ”

"And the people in the Wei Palace's mansion have also done it, how is it possible?" Li Er asked incredulously.

"The old slave never dared to say anything, the Qianniuwei who told him did say so, there were still many people watching at the scene, and there was no shortage of people from various prefectures who used to buy wine, but fortunately it didn't hurt anyone." Wang De hurriedly said.

Qian Niuwei would never dare to lie about such a big matter, but Li Er still couldn't believe that there would be someone in the mansion of the obedient, sensible, benevolent, and intelligent big fat man who was so arrogant and dared to move the shop in the mansion of the protector of the country, wasn't the big fat man in his memory trying to win over Qin Huaidao?

The ministers also felt incredible, the subordinates of the Wei Wangfu actually smashed the shop on the Protector's Mansion, there is no reason, could it be that there is a conspiracy behind this, and the royal family is involved, and they are all silent.

The main hall became eerie.

After a while, Fang Xuanling secretly threw Li Jing a look, Li Jing nodded knowingly, and said loudly: "Holy Lord, if there is nothing else to do, the minister will deal with the students who sue the emperor outside." ”

Li Er waved his hand and motioned for everyone to go out, his mind was full of things about the Venerable Master of King Wei's Mansion smashing the shop, maybe he was in the bureau, he couldn't understand why, and after everyone left, he asked, "What is King Wei doing?" ”

"Back to the saint, King Wei is studying in the mansion and has not been out of the mansion recently." Wang De hurriedly said.

"Did anyone come to the door?" Li Er asked.

"Early in the morning, the great Confucian Kong Yingda went to the mansion and said that it was the King of Wei who asked for knowledge, and there was no one else."

Li Er became more and more puzzled, Kong Yingda is a great Confucian, Li Tai, the king of Wei, is studious, please come to the door to ask for teaching, it is not strange, how can such a studious person smash the shop, it must be the people below who bully people, and it has nothing to do with the King of Wei, thinking of this, Li Er felt a lot better, and said: "Go and ask the King of Wei why he smashed the shop." ”

"Yes!" Wang De hurriedly agreed and hurried away.

Li Er put things aside for the time being and continued to review the recital.

Half an hour later, Wang De ran back sweating profusely, bowed down and said: "Shengshang, I have asked, the king of Wei asked his subordinates to buy wine and prepare for a banquet to invite the prince of the country to sacrifice wine Kong Yingda, saying that his subordinates did it privately, not by his order, and he has already killed his subordinates with a cane, and sent someone to send double compensation, and said that when the protector of the country comes back, he will personally come to the door to apologize." ”

"I said that Tai'er wouldn't come nonsense, and sure enough, it was a subordinate who did nonsense, and the disposal was appropriate, so go down." Li Er said with satisfaction, he was very pleased with King Wei's disposition, and did not think deeply.

Wang De wanted to speak and stopped, seeing that Li Er had no intention of continuing to investigate, he sighed secretly and bowed out.

……

Wei Wangfu.

After Li Tai returned to the mansion after sending Wang De away, his enthusiastic smile disappeared in an instant, and became gloomy, and a brocade-clothed boy came out of the side room, bowed his hand, and said with a smile: "King Wei kills three birds with one stone, not only eradicates the spies that the prince is lurking around, but also shows his benevolence and righteousness, and is liked by the saints, and he can take the opportunity to make friends with the protector of the country." ”

"I don't dare to say that I have a different temperament from ordinary people, and this king is not sure."

"King Wei said with a smile, everyone is greedy for money, and the protector of the country has made so many livelihoods to make money, and naturally it is no exception, and I, the Zheng family, am willing to give ten thousand gold to help King Wei."

"Hahaha!" King Wei was overjoyed, pulled the other party's arm and said with a smile: "Make friends with ten thousand gold to protect the country, worth, if it can be done, your Xingyang Zheng clan has a great favor in this king, and this king will not dare to forget." ”

The other party waited until this sentence and saluted again: "It is the blessing of the Zheng family to be able to share the worries of the King of Wei, so that he will retire first, and ten thousand gold will be given when it is dark." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, come on, send Zheng Lang out of the house through the side door." King Wei bowed.

Immediately someone came up and led the man in brocade to leave.

King Wei hurried to the direction of the backyard, came to an attic, pushed open the door and entered, and said with a smile: "Let Kong Lao wait for a long time, this king deserves death." ”

It was Kong Yingda who was sitting at the top, holding a book and looking at it with relish, without raising his head, and said suddenly: "It's okay, what's the matter with calling the old man, let's talk about it." ”

Seeing that the other party was so supportive, a touch of unhappiness flashed in his eyes, but he concealed it very well, and said with a smile: "Old Kong, this king heard that the Duke of Protector once made a poem about the military at the poetry meeting, which can be called a masterpiece, I don't know what Old Kong thinks." ”

Kong Yingda became angry when he heard this, put down the book and asked dissatisfiedly, "What does King Wei mean?" ”

What King Wei wanted was that Kong Yingda was angry, and the smile on his face became even bigger, and said: "Don't worry, according to this king, the military is nothing more than that, in front of Kong Lao, it is just a childish showman, don't mention it, although the protector of the country is brave, but he is just a martial artist, how can he be compared with Kong Lao, who is respected by a generation of Confucian masters." ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Kong Yingda asked, but her face looked much better.

King Wei continued: "Confucius Lao, Confucianism advocates governing the world with benevolence and teaching all the people with etiquette, then the world is peaceful, the people are happy, and Yao Shun is prosperous. ”

Praise Confucianism first, and then invite professors, the deep meaning is self-evident.

Kong Yingda is a generation of Confucianism, and no one can match the scriptures, how can such a person be a fool? Naturally, he understood it, but he didn't say anything right away, but looked at the other party quietly.

King Wei knew that he was still almost on fire, so he solemnly bowed with his disciple salute and said, "The student is willing to worship Mr. as a teacher, and ask Mr. to take him in and teach him day and night." ”

The ancients respected the teacher, a teacher for one day, a father for life, Kong Yingda's mind was alive, thinking that if the King of Wei ascended to the great treasure in the future, he would be the emperor's teacher, and then Confucianism would be able to go to the next level and become a state religion that no one could shake, so he got up quietly and walked out.

If there is no statement, it is a statement.

King Wei understood and said excitedly: "The disciple will enter the palace to persuade his father to agree." ”

Kong Yingda still didn't say a word, but waved his hand.

King Wei was even more ecstatic, respectfully watched Kong Yingda go away, took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, and then shouted: "Prepare to drive, this king is going to enter the palace." ”

As soon as he walked to the door, a carriage hurriedly came, and two beauties came down from the carriage, it was Yuzhang and Jinyang, Jinyang took the lead and rushed to King Wei and scolded: "Fatty, your people smashed the shop of the Protector's Mansion, you instructed this matter, right?" ”

King Wei didn't dare to be careless about Jinyang, in terms of favor, Jinyang was higher, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Imperial sister, how could your fourth brother do such a thing, it was the people below who did nonsense, and he has been killed by your fourth brother." ”

"A subordinate dares to be so disrespectful to the protector without the consent of his master? Do you think I'm stupid? ”

As soon as he said this, King Wei's face changed greatly, and he suddenly realized that he had miscalculated one point, that is, people's hearts, his fat eyes narrowed into a slit, and he quickly thought about remedies.

"What, I told you to wear it?" Princess Jinyang continued unceremoniously: "Fatty, don't think that it's okay to deal with the next person, you have to bear the consequences of what the people in your house do, I have been to see it, the shop lost about 10,000 yuan, you take out 100,000 yuan, this matter is over, otherwise I will go to my father to sue you for murdering a loyal minister." ”

Others sue King Wei and don't care at all, but Jinyang is different, if he really sues, his apprenticeship with Kong Yingda will be delayed nine times out of ten, and even yellow, so he hurriedly said: "Son, the fourth brother sincerely apologizes, but where is there so much silver compensation in the house?" ”

"I don't care, give you five days to prepare, otherwise we won't be finished." Jin Yang got into the carriage in a huff, and the convoy turned around and left slowly.

King Wei looked at the departing convoy and smiled—five days was enough to operate.

"King Wei ......" The captain of the guard came up to ask for instructions.

"Get in the car and enter the palace!"

The convoy slowly left and headed straight for the palace.

On the other side, in the princess's carriage, Jin Yang no longer had the anger just now, but fell into a state of contemplation, Yu Zhang couldn't help but ask, "Sister son, what are you thinking?" ”

"The fat man's reaction just now was wrong."

"What do you mean?" Yu Zhang asked in some surprise.

"It's not good, the fat man must have something to hide, no, this matter can't wait, we have to go to my father and tell me, how dare a subordinate provoke the Protector Mansion? There must be something strange behind it, if there is no problem, the fat man will not be in such a hurry to deal with that subordinate, there is no proof of death, he is a thief. ”

"But we don't have evidence, so we rushed to find our father, and my father will only blame us for not caring about brother and sister affection, and you also know that my father attaches great importance to family affection and does not allow anyone to cause conflicts." Yu Zhang smiled bitterly.

"Yes, we have to find a way." Of course, Jin Yang knew Li Er's character, and he looked distressed.

The carriage fell silent, except for the creaking of wheels.

Drift away!