Lao Cao also made such a sense when he heard it.

"Then the next official will go to Chen Qianhu."

"Wait!"

Zhu Song stopped Chen Zheng, thought about it, and took out his purse from his arms, which was full of silver and a few pieces of gold.

"This king plans to use the gold and silver in his purse to buy some New Year's goods today, isn't this seeing that the New Year is approaching? You take this purse and hand it to Chen Zheng, if you can't come back before Chinese New Year's Eve, stay in Shandong for the New Year, and it's too late to come back after the New Year. ”

Lao Cao took the purse and arched his hand.

At this moment, the princess walked over from the harem of the palace and came to the front hall.

"Your Highness, shall we go out today? Father and mother had just come to find a concubine, and father and mother wanted to go out and rent another yard. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Song asked puzzledly: "What are you doing with all that unjust money when you rent another courtyard?" This king's palace is very large, so why should he go out and rent another courtyard? ”

Princess Han sighed: "Your Highness, the concubine also said the same, but the father and mother said, how can a mother-in-law live in the daughter's son-in-law's house after her daughter gets married?" The father is a military general, and the mother follows the father's temperament, and the two of them don't want to live in the palace, so they want to rent a courtyard outside. ”

Only then did Zhu Song understand that the old man and his mother-in-law cared about their reputation, although in Zhu Song's opinion, it was nothing to live in his own house, not to mention that his own house was very big, so many empty houses, let alone two more, even if there were twenty more and two hundred, they could live.

But the ancients paid great attention to these, the old father-in-law and the mother-in-law moved to the house of the daughter and son-in-law after the daughter got married, it is not very good-looking, if the old couple has nothing else to make a living, the daughter and son-in-law support the two elders, it is worth saying that it is a good story.

But the second elder is obviously not without a living, the most important thing is Zhu Song's identity, Zhu Song is the prince, the prince is the boss, and the boss of the old man, in addition to the identity of relatives, there is also the relationship between superiors and subordinates.

And this palace is the palace of King Han, not the mansion of their two elders, this can be regarded as a kind of parasitic fence, the old couple are used to walking on thin ice in Beijing, and it is understandable that they want a piece of their own world.

"You go and tell your father-in-law and mother-in-law that you don't need to rent another courtyard, you can temporarily live in the palace before the year, and after the New Year's pass, the king will buy a courtyard for the second elder to live in."

"By the way, princess, you must say that this is the intention of the two of us, and the king's money is your money! Remember! ”

Princess Han was overjoyed in her heart, Her Royal Highness favored herself so much, she was so moved.

"The concubine understands, the concubine will go!"

Zhu Song smiled and watched the princess leave, today is the first day he came back, all the official affairs in Kaiyuan City and the palace have Lao Cao Zuozhen, Zhu Song is very relieved, but today he came back for the first time, and he has a lot of business to deal with.

But before any official business came to the door, I heard that someone came to report that Song Guotao, a subordinate official of the Liao Palace, was here again.

Zhu Song also thought that the King of Liao was planning to sincerely repent and hand over his younger brother of the side concubine, so he asked his subordinates to bring Song Guotao in.

After Song Guotao came in, he saluted first: "Your Majesty Song Guotao, meet His Royal Highness King Han!" ”

Zhu Song looked at Song Guotao and nodded.

"Lord Song has worked hard all the way, how is it? Is my fifteenth brother willing to hand over his concubine's younger brother? ”

Song Guotao obviously didn't answer Zhu Song's topic, but directly talked about another thing.

"Your Royal Highness, His Royal Highness the King of Liao knows that after His Royal Highness returned to Kaiyuan, he misses it very much, but there is a rule in the imperial court that the vassal king is not allowed to meet in private, so His Royal Highness the King of Liao asked the lower officials to deliver it on his behalf, and His Royal Highness the King of Liao gave His Royal Highness the King of Han a full 2,000 stones of grain and grass, as well as more than 60,000 treasure money!"

Zhu Song looked at Song Guotao and snorted coldly: "This king didn't ask your fifteenth brother what gift he brought me this time, this king asked you that the fifteenth brother is willing to hand over his younger brother who is a side concubine?" ”

Song Guotao smiled flatteringly: "Your Royal Highness, you are close to His Royal Highness the King of Liao, and you are a younger brother, you should understand the hard work of His Royal Highness the King of Liao, His Royal Highness the King of Liao is not unwilling to make friends, but Dong Chengshou is the younger brother of His Royal Highness the King of Liao." ”

"This is a little related to His Royal Highness King Han, please look at the brotherhood, for the sake of this bit of kinship, Your Highness, you will turn a blind eye and don't report this matter!"

Zhu Song stared at Song Guotao, Song Guotao didn't dare to look at Zhu Song, so he could only hurriedly lower his head.

"Lord Song, do you think that this king is scaring you by putting you to death last time? This king thought of one more thing, why do you have to risk being Ling Chi, and you have to help the person surnamed Dong speak, do you also have a part in this matter? Are you afraid of being found out by the imperial court, so you have been mediating it? ”

Song Guotao was startled when he heard this, hurriedly knelt down, and begged for mercy again and again: "Your Highness! Your Highness doesn't have it? Xia Guan didn't have it, Xia Guan and the surname Dong have always been at odds, but the surname Dong is Concubine Dong's younger brother, and His Royal Highness the King of Liao likes it tightly! There is no way to do it! ”

Zhu Song snorted coldly: "You have no way, he has no way, no one has a way, the people have a way, right?" You don't want to endure hardship, he doesn't want to endure hardship, so let the people suffer, anyway, the lives of the common people are like mustard in the eyes of you dog officials. ”

"Lord Song, I don't know if you have heard of it, Your Majesty once said a sentence, my Ming Dynasty is with the people, not with the Shilin doctors, the lives of the people are very important in my Ming Dynasty!"

"This king has given you a chance, since you have been unwilling to do things according to the laws of the court and the orders of this king, then this king can only do what he says!"

"Come on, take Song Guotao to this king and take Ling Chi!"

The guards of the palace immediately stepped forward and dragged Song Guotao down, Song Guotao kept struggling and begging for mercy, and his voice was about to burst.

Zhu Song beckoned to a subordinate in the palace, and the subordinate immediately ran in front of Zhu Song.

"You go and tell the executioner, pick the place on his body that can't be cut, and it's about ten knives, let him know that it hurts, and take good care of his wounds!"

"The villain obeys!"

The man hurriedly went to find the execution pass, and after the time of three incense sticks, Song Guotao was dragged back, and his buttocks and thighs were cut several times.

Ling Chi strangled the person with a fishing net, and used a knife as thin as a cicada's wings to cut the flesh out of the net one by one.