After ten days of driving, Su Jiulin and the three finally arrived at Xibei Town, Wuxi County, on the tenth day.

As soon as he arrived in Xibei Town, Su Jiulin asked an old man passing by in the town about Ge Song's residence. Fortunately, Ge Song also passed the imperial examination and became an official, so he was still very famous in Xibei Town, and the old man also knew Ge Song's residence.

"After leaving the town, continue all the way south, about five miles away, you can see a bamboo forest, and there is a house next to the bamboo forest, which is where Lord Ge lives."

Although it was getting late at this time, Su Jiulin was anxious to find Ge Song, and the three of them then rushed south, and sure enough, they saw a house next to a bamboo forest five miles away.

It's just that the house is very small, with only two rooms. And it is very dilapidated, the courtyard walls have fallen off a lot, and the tiles have fallen a lot in the past, which does not look like it is inhabited at all.

"Could the old man be mistaken?" Yan Xiu looked around suspiciously, "But there's only this one house around here." ”

"Brother, knock on the door and ask if there is anyone."

Hearing this, Yan Xiu also stepped forward and knocked on the door. But he only knocked on the door once, and before he could ask if there was anyone, the door slowly opened a little, and the three of them realized that the door was not locked at all. Then the three of them walked straight in.

After entering the house, the three of them found that the house was even more dilapidated, with thick dust everywhere, and it didn't look like someone was living there.

"Hey! Anyone? Yan Xiu asked loudly.

"Who?"

A room was lit with candles, and a slightly hunched white-haired old man slowly walked out with a candle.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Uncle, we're here to find Ge Song."

"Looking for Ge Song?" The old man walked up to Su Jiulin and the others suspiciously, "What's the matter with him?" Who are you? ”

"The descendants of the Su family came to him to ask about something." Yan Xiu replied.

"Descendants of the Su family?!"

The old man's expression was obviously shocked, because he was Ge Song. Then he looked at Su Jiulin and the three of them carefully one by one, and when he saw Qiu Feng, he was stunned.

"I'm Ge Song, you've finally come to me."

"Alas, uncle, he is not, we are the descendants of the Su family." Seeing the old man talking to Qiu Feng, Yan Xiu hurriedly pointed at himself and Su Jiulin, "I'm Yan... cough, I'm Su Jiuyan, and he's Su Jiulin. ”

"Are you Su Jiuyan? Are you Su Jiulin? Ge Songhu looked at Su Jiulin and Yan Xiu suspiciously, and then looked back at Qiu Feng, "Then who are you?" ”

"My name is Qiu Feng." Qiu Feng said lightly.

.“ Are you really Ge Song? Su Jiulin was a little unconvinced, he didn't expect Ge Song to be so downcast. And he knew that Ge Song should be about sixty years old, and the old man in front of him looked like he was seventy or eighty years old.

"I'm Ge Song. It's too old for people to recognize it......" Ge Song said and walked back to the room by himself, then put the candle on the table and sat down on the stool beside him. Seeing this, Su Jiulin and the three of them also followed into the house.

"What are you looking for me?" Ge Song asked.

Yan Xiu stepped forward and said, "That, my grandfather had a secret meeting with Gao Li, did you really see it with your own eyes?" ”

"Alas......" Ge Song sighed, "I have been a classmate with Su Hehai for six years, and we have been officials in the same dynasty for more than ten years, and he has always been a teacher and friend to me." Ge Song did not answer Yan Xiu's words.

"After the Su Hehai case, I was depressed all day long." Ge Song continued, "With my knowledge of him for so many years, I would never believe that he would do treason!" ”

Hearing this, Su Jiulin's eyes were already a little sharp, and he asked, "Then you still testify against him?" ”

"I didn't frame him!" Ge Song was also a little excited when he heard this, "Although I don't believe that he would do treason, but I saw him have a secret meeting with Goryeo!" ”

"You talk nonsense! You must have accepted other people's favors, so you deliberately framed my grandfather, didn't you! Su Jiulin was also a little excited, so he wanted to step forward and ask.

"Stop, stop!" Yan Xiu immediately grabbed Su Jiulin, "Isn't it that I'm the eldest son?" I'll ask! ”

At this time, Qiu Feng on the other side was still looking at Ge Song carefully, he just wanted the truth.

"That...... Hmm......" Yan Xiu looked at Ge Song but didn't know where to start, and then he looked at Qiu Feng on the other side, "Old Qiu, you come and ask." ”

Qiu Feng didn't postpone it, and asked directly.

"Do you remember the secret meeting between Su Hehai and Gao Li that day, if you do, can you please tell us what happened."

Hearing this, Ge Song stared at Qiu Feng for a while, and then spoke.

"On the fourteenth day of the first month of that year, I went to the Su house at about three o'clock ......"

"What are you going to do?" Before Ge Song could finish speaking, Qiu Feng interrupted him.

"At the time of that day, I found out that the Ministry of Rites had overreported 80,000 taels of silver for the year-end ceremony at the end of the previous year."

"Because the palace has always had an unwritten rule, part of the treasury silver will be diverted to the royal family in the name of six expenses, and I am just transferred from the Hanlin Academy classics, and I am not familiar with the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, and I have never encountered it before, so I went to find Su Hehai, who has served in the Ministry of Rites for many years, and is also the most familiar to me, and the closest to my mansion to understand the situation."

"Why can't you go the next day?" Qiu Feng asked again.

"Because the first month is not discussed, the next day is the Lantern Festival, and I can only see the emperor on the day of the Lantern Festival in the first month, and the next time I see you will have to wait until half a month later. And since I already knew about it on the 14th day, and I had to see the emperor the next day, if the 80,000 taels were caused by fraud, I had to tell the emperor about it when I met the emperor, otherwise it would be a bully. ”

Hearing this, Qiu Feng also thought about it, and then asked Ge Song to continue.

"When I went to Su's house, there were guests in Su's house, and Su Hehai was meeting guests in the study. After the butler led me to a side room and served tea, he went to report it. After a while, I saw Su Hehai and a man in his thirties walking out of the study through the window. After the two said goodbye, the butler sent the man out of the house. ”

Then Su Hehai came to me, and I asked him about the accounts of the Ministry of Rites. During this period, I also asked who that person was, Su Hehai only said that he knew a poet two months ago, and he met again a few days ago, and he made an appointment to discuss the poetry meeting together for a few days today, but it was because something was late. Knowing that there were no problems with the accounts, I left. ”

"On the evening of the second day, on my way home from dinner in the palace, a man suddenly passed me in a hurry and knocked me to the ground. After knocking me down, the man just looked at me, and then left, only to realize that the man was the poet who had appeared at Su Hehai's house the day before. I was trying to get up and chase him for a reason, only to find that he dropped a letter on the ground when he hit me. When I picked up the letter and tried to look for the man again, he was nowhere to be found. ”

"Originally, I wanted to give the letter to Su Hehai and ask him to return it to that person, but when I turned the letter over and patted the dust, I saw that there were six big words written on it, 'His Majesty Li personally enlightened'!"

"You must know that Li Yu was the king of Goryeo at that time, and I was worried that the man was a Goryeo fine worker, so I immediately put away the letter and opened it when I returned home. But what I didn't expect was that this letter was actually written by Su Hehai to the king of Goryeo, Li Yu! ”

Hearing Ge Song say that it was written by Su Hehai to Li Yu, Su Jiulin was a little unhappy again.

"I still remember the contents of the letter clearly." Ge Song continued, "'Your Majesty Li, the minister has prepared everything, and Tumen Jiang Hui Ningwei can be easily broken. On the day when Huiningwei was broken, the ministers would inform the protégés who infiltrated Zhongcheng and Wencheng to pretend to go to the rescue, and when the gates of these two cities were opened, His Majesty could take two more cities. ’”

"I couldn't sleep for a long time that night, and for days I struggled with whether to submit the letter to the cabinet, and I didn't even dare to ask Su Hehai. But only four days later, the border pass where Huiningwei was lost was sent to the capital in an emergency, and the capital then posted a portrait of the person who had a private meeting with Su Hehai, saying that it was a fine work of Goryeo. Seeing this, I had to hand over the letter to the cabinet, and I also reported Su Hehai on the record! ”

"Fake! Fake! It's all fake! You lie! Su Jiulin became excited again when he heard this, but fortunately he was stopped in time by Yan Xiu, who had already noticed it. Qiu Feng, on the other hand, frowned, as if he was thinking about something.

"I don't know how many times I've read that letter back and forth, I have been friends with Su Hehai for more than 20 years, how can I not know his handwriting!" Ge Song was also a little excited, "I still don't believe it, but I can't help but believe it!" ”

"I've been thinking back a lot over the past 20 years, wondering if I've become someone else's pawn. But no! If you want to blame it, you can blame Su Hehai for not knowing what he was carried away by and did such a wrong thing. It was providence that made me discover all this! ”

"It's not! You're all nonsense! You are absolute nonsense! Are you being blackmailed? Did someone capture your family? You tell me, I'll help you get them out!" The more Su Jiulin spoke, the more excited he became, and Yan Xiu couldn't hold it anymore.

"The Su Jiulin I know is not like this." Qiu Feng said lightly, "If you only want the results you want, then you continue." ”

Hearing this, Su Jiulin finally calmed down a little.

Seeing that Su Jiulin was no longer so excited, Qiu Feng began to ask again.

"How did you find out that there was a problem with the year-end festival accounts?"

Ge Song turned his head to look at Qiu Feng and replied, "It was Ma Dare, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites who had not been in office for a long time, who personally brought it to me after discovering the problem. ”

"The daily duties of the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites are already to check and count the accounts, and the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple are not like the other five departments and eight qing, and there are eighteen days of rest at the beginning of each year plus the tenth day of rest. The annual year-end festival and the Lantern Festival feast must be completed by the Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites, so the rest of the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple are after the first month, and the wax moon of the previous year and the first month of this year are the busiest two months of the year for the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple. Ma Dang found out that there was a problem with the accounts at that time, and handed it over to me, the department that supervised the Ministry of Rites, and there was no problem at all. ”

"I've thought about these for a long time, no matter how much you ask, it's God's will! It was providence that made me discover that Su Hehai colluded with Goryeo! Ge Song said and looked up at the roof.

"Not providence."

Hearing this, Ge Song was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed the sound, but found that it was Qiu Feng who was talking just now.

"What do you mean?" Ge Song asked as he stood up with trembling feet.

Qiu Feng glanced at Ge Song again, turned around and walked out.

"Let's go."

Seeing that Qiu Feng was leaving, Ge Song immediately chased after him and grabbed Qiu Feng in front of the door.

"Don't go, what are you telling me is not providential? Yes... Yes? Why isn't it providence? Isn't it providential? Tell me. Ge Song knelt on the ground as he spoke, "I beg you, tell me where it is not the will of heaven......

Seeing Ge Song's appearance, Su Jiulin, who was still aggressive before, couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Qiu Feng didn't look back at Ge Song, and secretly wiped the tears that slipped from the corners of his eyes.

"Let's go."

After Qiu Feng finished speaking, he left again.

Seeing this, Su Jiulin and Yan Xiu immediately followed.

Seeing that Qiu Feng was about to leave again, Ge Song immediately grabbed it again, but only caught the door frame.

"Don't go! Please, tell me where it is not providential......"