The children of the Bai family achieved a very good ranking in the spring festival, and at that time, there were rumors spread all over the capital, saying that the Bai family bribed the imperial history and knew the exam questions in advance, so the article could be written smoothly, which made people applaud.

At that time, this fraud case was handed over to the Ministry of Rites for thorough investigation, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu would review it with all the chief examiners, and in many interrogations, Tixue Yushi insisted that he did not accept bribes, let alone leak the examination questions, and the court had no direct evidence, and the Ministry of Rites had an inseparable relationship with the king, so the matter was closed, and only a few officials were symbolically dismissed.

I thought that this matter would end here, but when the Ministry of Rites was preparing for this year's spring, someone brought up the old matter again, pointing directly at the Bai family for bribery.

In fact, in Beichu, before the exam, it is a trick that everyone is used to privately sending some special products and strange things to the examiner, not to inquire about the exam questions, but because the examinee's name on the exam paper is not sealed, so as to avoid the examiner from being angry with the examinee himself because of some gossip, and it is not good to mark the paper and wear small shoes for himself.

There was once an examiner who was amazed by his rhetoric and talent to invite him to his home, thinking that he would be a graceful and humble gentleman, but after meeting and talking, he found out that he was an arrogant and unattractive young man. Angering the examiner by his verbal rampage, the examiner deliberately wrote his name at the end.

"The children of the Bai family study hard, and they are worthy of their position, and they will never allow anyone to defile my Bai family like this, ruin my Bai family's reputation, and damage my Bai family's family style!"

Bai Yi coughed angrily and hurriedly.

Bai Zihua hurriedly stepped forward and handed over a glass of water, and asked in embarrassment: "Grandfather, if there is a big brother, the eldest brother must have a way, but now that the eldest brother is sick, he has not woken up until now, and this time, the Ministry of Rites and Wu Desi jointly handled the case, I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with." ”

"It's really been for nothing that I've raised them for so many years, and it's useless at critical moments."

After several people discussed, Bai Zihua took the gift to the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Mansion to meet the Ministry of Rites, Bai Zhiya took the maid to Wude Si to ask to see Guan Di, and the two of them returned in vain for most of the day, and ate the closed door.

When the two returned home, the housekeeper hurriedly said that the master had been taken away.

It turned out that the Ministry of Rites and the Wu De Division cooperated to review the case of Chunfu fraud, and the inspector Yushi led people to specifically check the Bai family's properties in various places, and when searching the Bai family's Zhuangzi outside the capital, several Bai family's family members copied the guy and the inspector Yushi's people moved, and there were a few small officials who lived in the market since childhood, and they could understand the jargon between them, and determined that this group of people was a bandit kidnapper.

arrested several people and tortured them, and found that the Bai family, an official of the imperial court, had colluded with the bandits and bandits and Hualou, and the Bai family was inseparable from the sensational case of abducting young children and girls in the capital.

As soon as the news came out, Xuan Zheng was furious and asked the inspector Yushi to investigate the matter thoroughly.

At this point, the situation of the Bai family has become even worse.

"Oh no! The lord is in prison! ”

Originally, the housekeeper and others only thought that the master was taken for questioning and would come back soon, after all, although the Bai family did not reach the power of the capital in the capital, ordinary people did not dare to offend, why was they put in prison? !

The housekeeper's eyes were blackened, and he couldn't stand, and now there was no one in the family who could call the shots, and the family was in chaos.

"Is Big Brother awake?"

Bai Zihua asked eagerly, the eldest brother has to be in charge of such a major matter, he wants to send some money to the prison, so as not to make his grandfather suffer, he is old, let alone tortured, even if he spends the night in the dark and damp place in the prison, he will have to take half his life.

The housekeeper shook his head helplessly: "Second son, do you want to leave the palace and beg to leave the king?" ”

Bai Zihua smiled bitterly, the Bai family was originally a pawn of the king, but now that the king has just been punished by His Majesty, it is difficult to protect himself, how can he stand out for the Bai family?

"Go and call the house doctor, hurry up and see when the eldest brother will wake up?"

Bai Zihua thought about it and finally decided to take the silver money to the government office, and when he arrived at the government office, the people in the government said that Bai Yifeng was taken away by the people of Wu Desi, and he was shocked and quickly went to Wu Desi with the silver money.

When he arrived at Wudesi, Bai Zihua made a dot with silver, and in the end he didn't even see the face of Guan Di, the commander of Wudesi, or the small officials around him, the Ministry of Rites, the inspector Yushi, and the commander were personally interrogated, and if they were innocent, they would let people go back.

Bai Zihua euphemistically said that their Bai family was willing to give money, and they only wanted him to meet the old man.

The little official shook his head in embarrassment: "Bai Gongzi, I shouldn't have told you this, so let's do it myself." ”

Bai Zihua sighed with a slumped head, now it seems that he can only wait, this time, the Bai family is really a big deal.

In the Wu De Division, Bai Yifeng did not admit his guilt, no matter who asked, he said that his Bai family had not done these things, even if it had something to do with the Bai family, it was done by the low-level minions without telling their masters, and those minions were numerous, and they were all sold by human teeth, and it was impossible to verify what they had done one by one.

Three days later, Bai Yifeng was released, and Bai Zinian and Bai Zihua went to pick up the old man.

Even though Bai Zinian had a grudge against him, when he saw his old face, his heart was still tight.

Different from the high-spirited, majestic and noble, glamorous and courageous in the house on weekdays, Bai Yifeng at this time is a thin and tired little old man, his eyes are sunken, his eyes are blank, his dry and gray hair is scattered at random behind his head, and the apricot brocade clothes on his body are wrinkled and dirty, and he can't see the lines on it clearly.

His legs were weak, and he could barely walk with the support of Bai Zinian and Bai Zihua.

Bai Zihua wanted to ask his grandfather how he became like this, and wanted to enter the Wude Division to theorize, but was stopped by Bai Zinian's gaze.

He understands without asking.

I was interrogated in the dark prison for several days, I couldn't eat a mouthful of good food or drink a sip of hot water, I had to think about every word I said with a high degree of mental concentration, for fear that saying the wrong thing would affect the entire Bai family, and I would be intimidated and frightened from time to time, not to mention an old man who was about to enter the ground with half of his body, even if he was a young man in his prime, he couldn't bear it.

"The Bai family's hand is stretched too long, and it offends people who shouldn't be offended......"

Bai Yifeng only said such a sentence, his eyes were full of remorse, and then his eyes went black and fainted.

The two hurriedly urged the carriage to go back to the house quickly, and when they arrived at the house, the doctor took Bai Yifeng's pulse, and after being quiet for a while, they sighed and shook their heads.

"How?"

Bai Yibong lay on the bed and let out a painful moan from his mouth. groaned, his brows furrowed tightly, and his breathing was painful.

"The old man was in a hurry a while ago, his liver qi was stagnant, and he already hurt his heart, and recently such a big thing happened, and he stayed in the cold and damp prison for a few days, and his mood was also up and down, and he had already hurt his heart." The house doctor sighed.