It is now the end of August, and three days have passed since Ye Zhujin and Ye Qishu were interrogated by the three divisions.

Xie stood in front of the main gate of the Ye family, a little complicated.

The person she just said goodbye to was the servant woman of the Xie family in the capital, who came to deliver the news to her, first said that she asked the Xie family to forgive her for closing the door a few days ago and not letting her in, and then told her about the current situation in the court.

The day before yesterday, His Majesty asked several princes about their knowledge, and several princes answered very well, but His Majesty picked the thorn of the three princes and asked him whether he chose to "hide his relatives from each other" or "destroy his relatives with righteousness", and the three princes were so frightened that they were in a cold sweat and couldn't answer at all, so His Majesty brushed his sleeves away.

Some people guessed that the emperor was using this to express his dissatisfaction with the three princes' letter to severely punish the Ye family, but there were also people in the court who speculated that His Majesty was dissatisfied with the three princes' failure to discover and report the Ye family in time.

The court was immediately divided into two factions, one faction supported the three princes' "righteous annihilation", the number of this faction was small, but the mouth was very sharp, most of them were the imperial history and lonely ministers who wanted to leave their names in history, and many officials of the Criminal Department who were not merciful to the law. The other faction supports "relatives and relatives", most of whom are children from families, these people are complex, have many relatives and friends, and they are actually defending themselves.

Above the court, there is a lot of chaos, and few people pay attention to whether the Ye family is involved in the rebellion of King Sheng.

The highest official position in the Xie family in the capital is Xie Boqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of the Cabinet University, who has been an official for many years and is the best at observing the movements of the court, so it can be seen that the Ye family is afraid that they are going to turn over, so they sent a servant woman to persuade the Ye family to make peace, and informed the court of the news.

Xie Shi was very emotional, and informed Mrs. Shen of this matter, Mrs. Shen sneered, and said: "The Xie family in the capital, in the end, does not have the demeanor of the Xie family in Jiangnan, and the trick of seeing the wind and making the rudder is really good. ”

Xie was born in the Xie family in Jiangnan, and he had a deep understanding of Mrs. Shen's words, and he was not angry when he heard the words, but agreed very much.

The two were closing the door and analyzing what the Ye family should do next, when they heard an anxious knock outside the door, and Mother Feng shouted: "Madam, old lady, the second girl has a high fever and fainted in the Buddhist hall, and the slave maid has carried the person to the Qionghua Courtyard on her own initiative." ”

Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Xie immediately sat up and rushed to Qionghuayuan one by one.

In the Qionghua Courtyard, Ye Yao was carefully guarding Ye Qiong, and when she saw that Ye Qiong's face was red and delirious, she only wished that she was lying on the bed.

Mrs. Shen was so remorseful that she pulled Xie Shi to apologize: "It's all my fault, the rain has been non-stop in the past few days and I asked Qiong'er to go to the Buddha Hall to punish and kneel, but as a result, a good person suffered from a cold and had a high fever, all blame me!" ”

Xie's heart ached, but he still tried his best to persuade Mrs. Shen: "Mother, I also agree to the punishment of kneeling, not your fault." Let's get a doctor first and see what the situation is. ”

As a few people were talking, Ye Jin rushed in, followed by Mrs. Lu with an old doctor.

Ye Jin's head was also wrapped in gauze, and blood marks were faintly visible on the gauze.

Xie Shi was very stunned, Mrs. Lu had already crossed the crowd, grabbed Xie Shi's hand, and said, "Don't worry, Jin'er was walking on the road, and was smashed on the head by unknown people with stones. Qiong'er's matter, I also heard the maid who reported Jin'er say, guess you just dismissed the servant woman must be in a hurry, so you brought the doctor over. Rest assured, the doctor is my mother's family, and the medical skills can be trusted. ”

Xie Shi said with tears in his eyes: "It's hard for you to still think about us now......"

Mrs. Lu said with a smile: "If Shaodan hadn't stopped me and said that there were still brocade guards guarding your courtyard, I would have come here a long time ago." When Shaodan and I first came to the capital, Shaodan had a high fever, or did you help me hire the doctor, and now you have to give me a chance to repay the favor? ”

Mrs. Shen cried and laughed, and nodded again and again: "Okay, good!" The Ye family also remembers your kindness! ”

Over there, the doctor had already finished diagnosing the pulse, and scolded the Ye family with a little angry beard: "This girl is tired from running around for days and has a high fever due to the cold. Good girl's house, I only found out when I burned it now, and I will burn out my brain if it is a little later! ”

In a word, everyone in the Ye family was full of shame.

Seeing this, the old doctor's face softened slightly, wrote a prescription, and instructed the two maids, Su Kite and Liuying: "Go and get some spirits, and apply it to the palms of your hands, feet, back, elbow sockets and knee sockets every two hours, and remember to change the cold veil, and stop it when the heat drops." If it doesn't work, go to Lu's house to find me again. ”

The two maids nodded hurriedly and made a note of each other's mistakes, and the other maids brought spirits.

Seeing this, the old doctor nodded with satisfaction, and shouted at the people in the courtyard: "Why are you still staying here, the patient needs to rest!" ”

Mrs. Shen got up immediately, but Xie grabbed her and called Ye Yao again: "Mother, Qiong'er can only hand it over to you first, I originally told Qiong'er that I would go to Dali Temple to see the master and eldest brother, but now that Qiong'er is like this, Jin'er is also injured, so I'll take Yao'er with me." Youlao's mother bothered. ”

Mrs. Shen waved her hand again and again: "You can go with confidence, send Mrs. Lu and the doctor out by the way, and thank you well." ”

Xie nodded in response.

The originally chaotic Qionghuayuan was instantly quiet again, and the maids were quietly considering their steps when they walked.

Su Kite and Liuying lowered the temperature for Ye Qiong with red eyes, while Ye Jin walked to a corner not far from the main entrance of Qionghua Courtyard and said to Lu Shaodan, who was waiting there, "The doctor has seen it." ”

The autumn rain continued, even if he stood under the eaves, Lu Shaodan was still wet for most of his body, and he should have waited for a long time.

Hearing Ye Jin's reply, Lu Shaodan bowed his head sideways, and was about to get up and leave, but was stopped by Ye Jin.

Ye Jin asked, "Shaodan, are you ......?"

Lu Shaodan turned around, his eyes were dark, so that Ye Jin could not say the second half of the sentence.

Lu Shaodan suddenly laughed and said, "I helped you out of a heart to repay your kindness, and also because your Ye family is kind." ”

After speaking, Lu Shaodan stepped on the eaves corner and jumped back to the Lu family's courtyard.

Ye Jin exhaled a long breath, but even he didn't know what he was nervous about, he only felt that his heart was very chaotic.

Lu Shaodan's heart was also very chaotic.

He knew he hadn't told him the whole story.

He helped the Ye family, but also for Ye Qiong.

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At the same time, on the other side, Ye Yao followed Xie to the gate of Dali Temple, and it was Du Siheng of Dali Temple who received them.

Du Siheng specially snatched this errand from the right tuicheng who was in charge of Dali Temple Prison.

He has a younger brother in his family, who was just promoted to the third grade of Wenshan Academy yesterday, and he admires the Ye family very much: "Brother, you don't know, Sister Ye Qiong, like me, was also admitted across the level, and she got the first place in every exam." Ye Fuzi is also very powerful, I always thought that my memory was strong, so I challenged Ye Fuzi in class, but I was asked by Ye Fuzi. ”

Du Siheng is not very interested in the talent and learning of the Ye family's daughter, but only admires the Ye family's style and bones.

Ye Qiong, the youngest daughter of the Ye family, built a bridge to protect her father, and he naturally knew about it as Dali Temple in front of many people. Unlike his colleagues, he appreciated the move.

Dealing with cases all year round, Du Siheng knew that the people were susceptible to incitement, and the situation at that time was not broken or established, otherwise it would not only be the bridge that would be demolished, but also the safety of the Ye family and several officials of the Ministry of Industry would be threatened.

can teach a resolute and filial daughter like Ye Qiong, the Ye family is worth befriending.

The carriage stopped in front of Dali Temple, and Du Siheng was a little disappointed when he saw that it was not Ye Qiong who got off the car.

The girl in front of her is as soft as a mist, gentle and beautiful, like a smile quietly hidden in the branches and leaves in spring, reserved and elegant, but the fragrance is far away.

Ye Yao was a little surprised to see Du Siheng, this person she recognized was the official of Dali Temple when the three divisions interrogated that day.

Ye Yao and Xie Shi saluted Du Siheng and said, "I've seen Master Du." ”

Du Siheng also saluted and said, "The two of you want to see the two Lord Ye, please come with me." ”

Dali Temple Prison is located in the corner of Dali Temple, walk through the entire atrium, although there is an umbrella, in the end wet shoes and socks.

Ye Yao looked into the atrium, where several scribes who were responsible for transporting the files to various parts of the Dali Temple were holding the high files and walking through the corridor with difficulty.

After the rain, the ground was slippery, and a scribe holding the file did not stand firmly, and slipped forward, and the file fell to the ground, and the tarpaulin that had covered the file to keep out the rain was also broken, and the file was wet a lot by the rain that drifted into the corridor.

Du Siheng was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to sort out all the files for the scribe, and instructed: "The road is slippery on rainy days, so I'd rather slow down." These dossiers are very important, and if they are dirty, they have to be re-copied, which is too time-consuming and laborious. ”

After the instructions, Du Siheng walked back to Ye Yao and Xie Shi, and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry to delay for a while, let's go." ”

Ye Yao didn't move, but said to Xie Shi: "Ah Niang, we still have a few coats and clogs in the car, I think it is better to give them to the scribe of Dali Temple." ”

Xie Shi agreed very much, so he asked his mother-in-law to go to the car to pick up the objects.

Du Siheng's eyes lit up, and he bowed his hand to Xie Shi and Ye Yao: "Thank you for your generosity, I will ask someone to settle the price for you." ”

Xie Shi smiled: "But with a little effort, there are many in my family, and there is really no need for this." ”

Du Siheng stopped persuading each other, and looked at Ye Yao and Xie's eyes softer.

Sending the two to the gate of Dali Temple Prison, Du Siheng said goodbye to the two: "I still have a file to read, just listen to the jailer's arrangement, and say goodbye first." ”

"Lord Sizheng." Ye Yao stopped Du Siheng and handed his umbrella to Du Siheng, "I see that the adult's umbrella is a little old, and there is even some rain leakage at the handle of the umbrella." Adults might as well use my hand, I'll use one with my mother, and there are more in the car. ”

Du Siheng was a little surprised, but he didn't refuse.

I never cared about this, but I didn't expect to be discovered by Ye Yao.

Du Siheng raised his umbrella and couldn't help but glance back.

Ye Yao was waiting for the jailer to let her go, she was aware of Du Siheng's gaze, glanced back at him, and bowed slightly to him.

Du Siheng clenched the umbrella in his hand and walked back into the rain.