CHAPTER XXIV
After they left, the county government was still very lively, and in the open space three feet square behind the desk in the study, a figure in a dark green official uniform paced back and forth, as if to grind out a hole in this small place. The master in front of the desk was dizzy.
"Your Excellency...... My lord. Master Yang stopped Xu You, who was walking around, "What are you anxious about?" You didn't participate in repairing the river embankment left and right to make money, and no matter how big the fire was, he couldn't burn your head, right? ”
As he said this, he attracted a dissatisfied look.
"You know what! Marquis Shen can suddenly bring two embankment bricks from Gushui Village today, and he can take you and me with me tomorrow. He sat down with us for today's meal, and he was pressuring us to do our best! Don't look at Wu Song is still the prefect now, it will be difficult to say in two days. ”
Master Yang didn't believe it, "Are you talking too much, that Hou Ye didn't forget to bring a woman to accompany him when he came to investigate the case, and he doesn't look like a real master." ”
"You know the." Xu You scolded directly, "I can tell you, be careful when you talk in the future, don't mess with the girl next to Marquis Shen." If you offend Marquis Shen, it's okay to say, if you offend that girl, there are a hundred ways for you to die! ”
He can only remind his subordinates that they are here, the eldest princess is here, and this case must be handled thoroughly. After such a toss, not to mention this Qingyuan County, the entire Yunzhou and even the entire court are afraid that they will change the sky.
Thinking of this, Xu Yu sighed, "This person, I don't know how much silver money is enough." With all this money obtained by deception, many schools can be built for the people. ”
Master Yang also got upright, "I just calculated in private, a river embankment with the best materials, and then reported as the best materials, can send out 10,000 silver inside and out, not to mention whether other water conservancy has been adulterated in recent years." Not to mention the school, it can repair all the roads in the entire Qingyuan County. ”
"Come, you and I don't sleep, find out all the water conservancy construction files in Qingyuan in recent years and check them one by one, tomorrow I will send the official to bring people who understand water conservancy to each village to investigate and visit, and be sure to report all the useless projects in the county to Shen Houye as soon as possible."
Xu You is a man who does what he says, and after staying up all night with Master Yang, he personally took charge of the matter of visiting the village, and presented a list of useless water conservancy in Qingyuan County to Shen Yuzhou in two days.
"This Xu You is really a bit of a skill, and Wu Song must have worked hard to hide him from him at that time." Xiao Yunjiao closed the list and said satisfied.
Shen Yuzhou has not been idle for the past two days, "When he took office in Qingyuan County two years ago, the construction of the river embankment in Gushui Village had already started, and he was also a practical worker. ”
"With him helping us to study it carefully, in less than three days, we can calculate how many such phenomena there are in the entire Yunzhou."
Xiao Yunjiao counted the days, she had been "closed" in the princess's mansion for half a month, and in this case, it would take about three or five days to return, plus the time of the return trip, I don't know if Jiang Yiheng can hold on.
"Hurry up, find out the evidence of Wu Song's dealings with people and go directly to Yunzhou Mansion. I'm afraid that the princess's mansion won't be able to hide it anymore. ”
She has always been worried these days, and Shen Yuzhou also knows how many eyes are staring at the princess's mansion, but it is not a taste when she thinks of the people she saw in her room that day.
He digressed the topic, "Don't think about it, you have to wait for them to reply now, why don't you go to the street?" ”
After cultivating for several days, the fatigue on his body finally faded, and Xiao Yunjiao also wanted to move, so he responded in one bite.
The market in Dongjie is the most lively market in Cheongwon County. The scale is not large, but because it is backed by the county government, it is very prosperous.
They walked from the direction of the inn, which was the area where snacks were sold, and the vendors everywhere enthusiastically advertised their snacks and made one after another shouting and selling.
The clamor was very eye-catching, and the content was varied, and Xiao Yunjiao walked to a stall where he was drinking black rice and mochi and stopped.
"Taste?" Shen Yuzhou saw that she wanted to eat, so he directly bought one and handed it to her.
"Why is it dark inside?" Xiao Yunjiao had never seen it, and asked Shen Yuzhou in a low voice.
The vendor smiled and said, "Hey, you're from out of town, aren't you?" ”
"The stuffing of this black rice mochi is steamed with our unique black rice leaves pounded into juice and glutinous rice flour. You taste it, it's sweet and glutinous, but it's delicious! ”
The soft and glutinous lumpy mochi was wrapped in lotus leaves by the vendor, and Xiao Yunjiao was carefully given a bamboo stick. Xiao Yunjiao picked up the bamboo skewer and passed through the mochi, and took a bite gently, the entrance was soft and glutinous and sweet, and there was an indescribable fragrance.
"Delicious, right?" The vendor asked her with a smile.
She only felt that her teeth were stuck with the mochi just now, so she only smiled and nodded to indicate that it was delicious, and pulled Shen Yuzhou away.
After taking a few more steps forward, Xiao Yunjiao swallowed the piece of mochi completely. She suddenly wanted to see how Shen Yuzhou would react after eating this sticky tooth pastry, so she handed him the piece that was left on the lotus leaf.
"It's delicious, would you like to try it?"
Shen Yuzhou saw that she was smiling at the corner of her eyes, obviously she still had soybean flour outside the pastry on her lips, but she looked very cute when she lifted the lotus leaf in front of him, so she pretended not to know her careful thinking and took the black rice mochi, and took a bite of the lotus leaf.
"How? Is it tasty? Xiao Yunjiao saw that he had eaten, leaned in front of him and asked, watched him with satisfaction that his mouth was stuck in the pastry, and walked a few steps faster to the front with a smile.
This pastry seemed to open Xiao Yunjiao's appetite, and then she tried sugar and oil fruits, plum blossom chaos, Jiang rice noodles, and rock sugar sour plum ......
She has big eyes and a small belly, she wants to taste everything, and she always aims at the next one before she finishes eating the things in her hand, so most of those snacks go into Shen Yuzhou's stomach.
It wasn't until her stomach was round that she returned to the inn satisfied.
When she was in the capital, a group of people looked at her, for fear that she would have a bad stomach if she ate something outside, except that Shen Yuzhou took her out twice when she was a child, she hadn't enjoyed it so much on the street for many years.
If you eat well, your mood will naturally improve. Xu is luck will also be good when he is in a good mood, and as soon as they returned to the inn, the person sent to Yunzhou to investigate will come back.
"Master Hou, his subordinates sneaked into Wu Song's study and found the letters he hid in a wooden box and exchanged letters with people. In addition to this, there is also the account book of the bribes he received during his years in office. The subordinates were afraid of startling the snake, so they made half of the fake account book to steal the beams and change the pillars, and the remaining half was here. ”
Thanks to this Wu Song's habit of keeping accounts, many officials really didn't guess it.
The night was long and dreamy, Shen Yuzhou and Xiao Yunjiao immediately decided to leave for Yunzhou Mansion, half a day's journey, and when they arrived, it was already the middle of the night.
"Come on, surround the government and private house of the Yunzhou prefect for me." Shen Yuzhou gave the order, and the well-trained soldiers immediately took action.
I don't know who alarmed the loyal dogs of the gatekeeper's yard, and for a while, the alley was full of dog barking.
Wu Song, the prefect of Yunzhou, was still asleep on the concubine's bed, and the next moment he was frightened by the soldiers who kicked in the door.
His concubine screamed again and again, and wanted to hide behind him, but was pushed away by Wu Song impatiently.
"Who are you? I'm the prefect of Yunzhou! You intrude into the home of the four-grade official at will like this, I'm afraid it's not that you don't want it! Wu Song shouted at the guards in the house, but no one paid attention to him.
"Lord Wu is so majestic!"
Shen Yuzhou walked in from outside the door, didn't take a second look at the bed, and sat directly on the Eight Immortals chair in the room.
"Who are you? Trespassing in the middle of the night is a big crime! ”
Shen Yuzhou didn't answer him, Chen Congshan gave him a disdainful look, "Don't be rude to Shen Houye." ”
"Master Hou......?" Wu Song's momentum has gone for most of it, and there is a panic that he doesn't know why the other party is in trouble.
"Why did Master Hou visit? didn't say hello in advance, and sent someone to greet him. ”
Shen Yuzhou sneered, "Did you say hello and let you hide the evidence of the crime?" ”
He threw the things in his hand in front of Wu Song, "Lord Wu, did you confess your guilt by yourself?" Or wait until you return to Beijing and walk around Zhao Prison before you confess? ”
Looking at the familiar account books and letters scattered all over the place, Wu Song rolled his eyes and fainted.
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The next interrogation progressed with a devastating trend, Wu Song was just a pawn, and many officials in the capital who used water conservancy to make money, and even involved Li Siyou, the head of the household department, all benefited a lot.
After Shen Yuzhou returned to Beijing with the evidence, the raid and dismissal of officials caused a stir in the capital for ten days, and everyone in the entire court was in danger.
Although the Cui family was not implicated this time, Cui Jin was demoted several levels because he handed Wu Song a fold back then, and the good right minister has now become an idle official, and he is more than fifty people and now he is not as high as his nephew Cui Fenglang, and he was angry and did not get out of bed for three days.
Xiao Yunjiao finally pushed open the door of the dormitory when the case was almost disposed of.
The princess's mansion, which had been silent for a month, seemed to come to life, and everyone up and down was busy serving the eldest princess who had "thought" for a whole month.
It's just that out of nowhere, the news that "the eldest princess and the male pet in the house have been messing around for a month" has become a lively topic of folk chatter.
Although Xiao Yunjiao is back, the matter of proton poisoning in Northern Xinjiang is still a mystery, so she is still "grounded" in the princess's mansion. She ordered someone to move a recliner to bask in the sun in the yard, enjoying the little warm spring breeze left in spring.
"Princess, you can figure it out, seeing that you have been holding back in the house for so long, everyone has lost weight." Primrose looked at Xiao Yunjiao's pointed chin with some distress, and brought her a bowl of bird's nest stewed in the small kitchen.
"Okay, I know you're worried, didn't I come out." Xiao Yunjiao took a sip, felt that it was not too sweet, and put the bird's nest aside.
"Has anyone come to the palace during this time?"
Primrose shook her head, "No, Princess, Your Majesty won't be really annoyed, right?" It's been a month, how long are you going to be locked up? ”
Xiao Yunjiao was also helpless about her, saying that she grew up with her in the palace, but she always seemed to be missing a heart, and she couldn't hide anything.
"You go to the door and wait, maybe you can get out today."
Primrose really ran to the door and waited, Xiao Yunjiao was joking casually, but after a while, Primrose ran back with a snort.
"Princess, Grandpa Kang has come to deliver the decree!"