"What?"

Ye Yongjia stood up in an instant, his eyes widened, and he stared closely ahead, speechless for a long time.

Cai Xianqing was also stunned for a moment, but his reaction was quite timely, and he said to everyone with a calm face: "You all go down first." The officials looked at each other, saluted, and then retreated.

When the official who reported the news saw that everyone had gone, he pretended to be sad and sobbed and said: "When the little one was instructed by you to get the papers, I saw Cui Shilang hanging from the old locust tree in the courtyard, and I don't know where he found the hemp rope...... Little struggled to save him, but unfortunately it was too late, and the man was already dead. ”

"Is there a suicide note?" Cai Xianqing leaned forward and asked anxiously.

"Yes," the little official pulled out a piece of paper from his bosom, the ink not yet completely dry, "here. ”

"I'll take a look at it first." Cai Xianqing took the paper and leaned on the circle chair to look at it carefully; After looking at it for a while, he let out a laugh and threw it on the table.

He ...... What was said? Ye Yongjia was a little curious, and glanced over.

"It's written in a crepe," Cai Xianqing picked up the suicide note again, put it in front of his eyes and shook it, "Actually, to put it simply, it probably means this: he said that he had read the books of sages all his life, so he had two big dreams in the Spring and Autumn Period, one is the career of promotion and wealth, and the other is the idea of loyalty and patriotism; He had torn between these conflicting dreams, and he had struggled for so long that nothing had been accomplished. ”

"Like this group of scholars, they are all like this," Ye Yongjia couldn't help but hug his knees and sigh after hearing this, "I have the truth of the saint in my heart, but I see that everything doesn't work, and I can only go against everything when I start doing things; After doing so many evils, it is really pitiful and hateful to still be intoxicated with ideals and aspirations! Ye Mou was not like this at the beginning......"

Cai Xianqing smiled and said: "In this way, I am at ease, I am in elementary school, and I don't understand what the sages said and what they asked." The old man wondered, why did he always have to dream about it? We should also be sober and sober and see where we are lying, right? ”

"Yes, yes......" Ye Yongjia muttered to himself as if he was talking in a dream, his eyes were serious, but he didn't know what he was looking at.

"Then Lord Cui's business......" The little official looked up at the two of them.

"Oh, Lord Cui's corpse will be reined in," Ye Yongjia came back to his senses, looked at him and said, "I'll help out more than twenty taels of silver, build a good coffin for him, and send it to his house." …… I just don't know what the situation is at home? ”

The little official knocked his head again: "Back to your words, Master Cui lost his old wife and eldest son a few years ago, and only one son and one daughter remained. Daughter Cui's husband died and she was widowed at home, and only her younger brother Cui Yi earned some money, but unfortunately he was just a showman, running a school outside the city, and teaching Tongmeng. ”

Ye Yongjia sighed slightly: "After all, Cui Shilang has been your chief for many years, and if he dies today, his family will have no livelihood, how can it be feasible?" So let me give them fifteen taels of silver more, so that they can take care of their livelihood. I'll leave it up to you. ”

"The adults are so benevolent and righteous, and the little ones are extremely admired!" The official thanked him with tears in his eyes, "Your great kindness, I must inform my colleagues so that they are all extremely loyal to you!" ”

"Alright, alright," Ye Yongjia waved his hand, "Loyalty is for the emperor, not for me." Go ahead. ”

The officer got up, just took a few steps outside, and turned back in a panic: "There is another question, who will take his place?" ”

"Bright light." Ye Yongjia said the name word by word, in case he couldn't hear it really.

In the past few days, the Qinglius, the Chen Party today, have not embarked on a major reckoning as outsiders had speculated, but have taken over the situation relatively peacefully, and everything has been steadily advancing.

The eunuch Lu Xinzhong, who was imprisoned on the day of the mutiny, was of course released, but fortunately he was not injured in the big tent, but was tied up a little painfully, and finally returned to the Inner Servant Province safely. According to the original plan, the first thing he did when he came back was to kneel in front of the door of Shen Jing's house, denounce himself for the great crime of interfering in politics without permission, and burst into tears, begging for forgiveness from Shen Gonggong.

Shen Jing, as a confidant of the Liu Party, was not expelled after Qingliu came to power, but still served as his chief eunuch. In fact, he had already made the consciousness of killing his head, but he was saved by the emperor, so he escaped death in the catastrophe. Although he has always been loyal and grateful to Liu Zhennian, after all, this person has fallen, and there is no point in forcing it, so he lowered his head knowingly, and was willing to be an honest and obedient character, so as not to panic all day. Therefore, he did not dare to speak out against Eunuch Lu, who had been forgiven by Qingliu, so he had to calmly pardon all the other party's crimes.

Eunuch Lu put on his official uniform again, and after taking power, he found that one of the conditions given by Cunzhao had been lost, that is, "no foreign ministers are allowed to pass the music into the interior"; fortunately, the other two can still continue to progress, so he transported the paperwork of Liufu to the Inner Province through this oath relationship with Cunzhao, claiming that he would strictly investigate the 'people who attached to the Liudang Party', this trick frightened many ministers, and they gave bribes to Shen and Lu, so that the two of them earned enough silver, almost a lot of money. Seeing Chief Manager Shen happily counting the silver, Eunuch Lu also felt a little proud, these are all obtained by relying on him, even if he wants to control everything in the Inner Servant Province, what is wrong? But he still retains respect for Mr. Shen and doesn't make himself too presumptuous.

Not only in the palace, but also inside and outside the capital, there are indispensable sounds of celebration, which is simply a celebration all over the world. Every house hung up colorful silk, one street was connected to another, the crowd looked at each other, and the fireworks were set off for three or four days, without stopping. Cui Yi, who teaches in the village, also felt happy, and deliberately gave the children a few days off to visit the market and watch fireworks in the city. I had a great time that day, and I didn't go home until the evening, and after asking my sister for safety, I changed into a coarse cloth dress and walked around the yard alone.

"Brother Cui, open the door!" The official was dressed in black and came to knock on the door of Cui's house.

"Is it Brother Zhou?" Cui Yi heard the voice very familiarly, stepped forward and pushed the door, and when he saw his sad face, he glared at him, took half a step back, and was stunned.

"Brother Zhou...... Y-How do you dress up? He staggered, barely stopped, and asked as he looked at him.

The official held his hand tightly: "Brother, I know that this matter is also very painful, please take a look at it...... I won't hide it from you, Cui Shilang hanged himself in the yamen yesterday! ”