Chapter 19: Bullying

After breakfast, Xue Bai took Du Wulang and Kyauknu to the right minister's mansion in Pingkangfang again.

He picked a rather docile horse to ride in Du Zhai, and walked neither fast nor slow.

Passing by Qinrenfang, I suddenly heard a cry at the door of the fang, but it was a group of men, women and children who were escorted out by the officials, the oldest of them was over seventy years old, and the youngest girl was only five or six years old.

Some time ago, the Du family also encountered this situation, and Du Wulang couldn't help but empathize when he saw it, and got off the horse to ask people what happened.

A small official of the East City Bureau sighed: "It is still related to the big case a few days ago, and most of the houses that have been raided recently have received heavy bribes from the prince's brother-in-law. ”

The owner of the wine shop came over and said in a low voice: "This is Zuo Si Yu led the mansion Cangcao to join the army, how can he accept heavy bribes?" But I often drink with Liu Tao. ”

When Du Wulang heard this, he felt very uncomfortable and asked, "But isn't this case already closed?" ”

"Hey, some people are royal relatives and can get away with their crimes, but innocent people are still being implicated."

"If you kill someone, drink a few drinks, the whole family suffers, and the half-grown female doll will be assigned as an official prostitute."

When the family cried and turned around the long street, everyone sighed for a while.

"Let's go."

"Hmm."

Thinking of going to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion again, Du Wulang's heart became more and more uncomfortable.

He had the intention to scold Li Linfu and his lackeys, but because of the presence of the Jiaonu, he didn't dare to speak, so he was not angry.

When they arrived at Pingkangfang, the three of them tied their horses, reported to the porter, and were soon taken in.

After passing through the courtyard, I saw Jiwen walking out of the middle hall.

"I've seen the girl."

At the sight of the slave, a smile appeared on Jiwen's face, and he stepped forward and gave a cross salute.

Kyauknu hated his bad breath and waved his hand away. In her eyes, this is just a lackey of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

But in Du Goro's eyes, Ji Wen is a vicious and cruel cool official. Glancing at the cold gaze of this cool official, his heart tightened, and he subconsciously shrank his neck.

Then he felt that he could not bow his head in front of this cool official, so he raised his head.

Ji Wen didn't notice Du Wulang's actions at all, he looked at Xue Bai, and said with a slight sneer: "I really didn't expect that you could enter the right phase of the blue eye." ”

"The world is unpredictable." Xue Bai replied with a smile: "But it's my honor to be able to work for the right minister with Ji Facao." ”

Ji Wen stroked his beard and smiled, but his eyes were quite gloomy, and he said seriously: "I hope you and I can serve for a long time." ”

"Definitely."

"Hehehehe."

After a few more words of encouragement to Xue Bai, Ji Wenfang left.

Du Wulang turned his head to look at his back and whispered to Xue Bai, "It was his son who killed Duan Yan." ”

Xue Bai nodded and responded, "No hurry." ”

~~

Today, I am still talking to Li Linfu through the screen.

A stinky boot was handed to the back of the screen.

Li Linfu was silent for a long time and said, "Li Heng actually did it so directly? ”

Xue Bai responded: "We all thought that he wouldn't go straight to the point. He did the opposite, and it can be described as a good method. ”

A beautiful maid turned out, threw the broken boots in front of the slave, walked to the incense burner, and gently fanned it with a small fan.

Behind the screen, Li Linfu said: "What I want is the prince's dead man, not this broken boot." ”

"Slaves are incompetent." The Kyauknu hurriedly bowed down.

"Don't worry." Xue Bai said: "Now that Li Heng has revealed his feet, his unpredictable heart will be revealed." ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Trial."

Xue Bai only spit out one word, neat, concise and powerful.

Li Linfu said: "The prime minister is not qualified to interrogate the prince. ”

"It is enough to judge Li Jingzhong."

"Just a few days ago, Ji Wen and Yang Zhao searched the Prince's Courtyard and found nothing."

Xue Bai refused to give in, and said: "If Ji Wen can't try it, I am confident that I can try it." ”

Behind the screen, Li Linfu did not move.

Xue Bai stretched out his hand and pushed Du Wulang, pushed him forward two steps, and said: "Du Erniang was suspended, but the Du family did not wait for her to return home, and a big living person disappeared; Donggong sent murderers to break into Du's house at night, wanting to kill people and kill people, and the evidence was conclusive. Pile by pile, all illegal things in the East Palace, Gorou came to report to the official today. ”

Du Wulang was slightly flustered, and subconsciously looked at the small window on the side wall again.

Xue Bai continued: "I heard that the right minister revised the law and proposed ten volumes of "Kaiyuan Xinge" to emphasize the justice of the world, so I persuaded Wulang to come to the prime minister's mansion to sue Li Jingzhong for detaining the second mother of the Du family, and sent someone to Du Mansion to assassinate him, and asked the right minister to enforce the law. ”

"Yes." Only then did Du Wulang remember: "I'm here to sue, I'm the bitter master." ”

He took the paper out of his sleeve and held it high in both hands.

"The prime minister had no choice but to take on the case himself." Li Linfu said, "Call Yang Zhao and ask where Li Heng went." ”

"Whoa."

The two beautiful maids took the order and retreated.

Xue Bai said: "Right Minister, I still have a word." ”

"Say."

"As I said yesterday, weakening Li Heng's power again and again without hurting his foundation will only make his position as the crown prince more and more stable, but on the way here today, I have seen someone arrest Wang Xuji, I am afraid that this will only make the sage feel that it has weakened the prince's power again, and he will be more satisfied with it."

"Enough, how good are you to be? Dare to intercede in front of the prime minister every day. ”

"It's not intercession, there are some incompetent people under the right prime minister's door who are good at copying their homes and making a fortune with this, regardless of whether they are causing trouble for the right minister. I'm different, I have a big enmity with Li Heng, and I only think about how to really abolish Li Heng and repay the right minister's great kindness. The more they press now, the more cautious Li Heng is, don't they hear the allusion of Zheng Boke's section? ”

Li Linfu was silent.

Behind the screen, a servant girl explained in a low voice: "It's 'Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan', from the Spring and Autumn Period, which talks about Zheng Zhuanggong's connivance with his brother and uncle Duan, and then crusade against him." ”

In this way, this right minister doesn't seem to have much culture.

"I know what I am!" Li Linfu said proudly: "This is the method used to help Concubine Wu Hui abolish the crown prince back then, but it's a pity that Li Heng is too cowardly. ”

Listening to his tone, it is not taboo, but there is a sense of pride.

At this time, a curtain guest rushed to the outside of the hall and said: "Right Minister, the prince went to Xingqing Palace today to ask for guilt, and he was still kneeling outside the Maolong Gate at this time. ”

"What about Li Jingzhong?"

"I didn't come with it."

"Right Prime Minister, this is a good opportunity to interrogate Li Jingzhong."

Li Linfu said: "You can go to interrogate, but you can't pass by." ”

"Don't worry." Xue Bai said: "I am different from those incompetent, and I will give the right minister a result." ”

He felt that Li Linfu didn't like him to intercede, but he deliberately connived at him to fight with Ji Wen, so he simply stepped on Ji Wen.

After a few more details, when the porter came to greet Yang Zhao when he arrived, Xue Bai retired and followed Yang Zhao to the Ten Princes' Mansion.

As soon as they left, someone came out from behind the small window in the middle hall.

"Grandpa."

"Hmm."

This person is Li Linfu's son, Li Xiu.

Li Xiu saluted and said: "The child thinks that what Xue Bai said is reasonable, grandpa has lived in the phase for a long time, why bother to make enemies on all sides, so that the thorns are full of thorns, in case of disaster, the Manchu Dynasty will attack it in groups, and then what can I do about it?" ”

"Shut up."

"Grandpa, do you know how they all scolded Grandpa behind their backs? First of all, Grandpa is in a strong spirit, often like a 'rope cockfight'. He also said that Grandpa was jealous of the virtuous and jealous, with honey in his mouth and a sword in his belly, and scolded him as a 'meat waist knife'. ”

"Enough!" Li Linfu said angrily when he heard this: "The power of this prime minister is all over the world, and when these people are all killed, no one will dare to slander them secretly!" ”

"Grandpa!" Li Xiu lifted his robe, fell to the ground, and cried sadly: "Grandpa's power is all over the world, the world is just ants, Grandpa only needs to lift his feet to form thousands of good fate, and the child begs Grandpa not to make a senseless enemy!" ”

Li Linfu stepped forward, kicked Li Xiu to the ground, and scolded: "Fool, An doesn't know that people are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden." ”

Li Xiu couldn't help crying.

When Li Linfu saw his son like this, his anger gradually subsided, and finally he sighed.

"Well, how can the Father not know the truth? It's a pity that it's difficult to ride a tiger, and besides, it's good to be a father and destroy people...... I can't help it. ”

~~

Pingkangfang is close to both the East Market and the Imperial City, and has the joy of silk and bamboo, which is one of the most prosperous places in Chang'an, and the road to Yongxingfang is full of pedestrians.

Although it was a cold winter, there were still women in full makeup who traveled with their necks open, and Yang Zhao rode a high-headed horse, every time he rode forward, condescendingly looking at the scenery under their belts, and was proud of it.

Xue Bai only started to learn to ride a horse today, and barely kept walking with him.

"Is the poem of the virtuous brother ready? How about you and I go to Guangzhai Fang to see Xu Hezi in the past few days? ”

"I thought of two poems, which were still written by a poet friend in my memory."

"Hey, Xu Hezi didn't hear it." Yang Zhao swallowed his saliva and was in a good mood.

Xue Bai cooperated with him and smiled slightly, and asked, "Uncle Guo hasn't seen the concubine recently?" ”

"Is the concubine so good-looking?" Yang Zhao sighed slightly, and said in a deep voice: "I have been working for many years, but I have a good relationship with the three ladies. The New Year is approaching, but I don't know what gift to give them. ”

Xue Bai was quite interested in this and asked, "I don't know what the three ladies like?" ”

Yang Zhao couldn't help but smile and asked, "Do you want to please them too?" ”

Xue Bai said calmly: "I want to be motivated, and I also want to give ideas for Uncle Guo." ”

"Motivated?" Yang Zhao chewed on the word, nodded endlessly, and said: "You use this word well, and it is not vulgar, and you tell your ambition, which is deeply in line with my heart, good, good." ”

He turned his head to look at Xue Bai, and saw that this young man was never humble or arrogant, even if he explicitly asked for meritorious service, he did not show vulgarity, and he was elegant and lofty.

"Speaking of which, you have the gift that Mrs. Qiu Guo wants." Yang Zhao couldn't help but smile mysteriously and said like this.

"Oh?" Xue Bai said: "I want to hear about it." ”

"Don't worry, I'll take you to Mrs. Qiu's mansion another day."

While speaking, the group had already arrived at the prince's courtyard of the Ten Princes' Mansion.

Now even Yang Zhao looks down on the prince who divorced his wife twice, and he doesn't get off the horse, and with a wave of his hand, his own right guard stepped forward and knocked on the door.

A little eunuch opened the door, looked at it, and subconsciously exclaimed: "Come again!" ”

"Right Xiaowei take people, get out of the way!"

The soldier pushed the door straight in, and Yang Zhao, Xue Bai and others turned over and dismounted, and rushed into the prince's courtyard.

In this situation, even the guards at the door did not dare to stop them.

Now that the prestige of the prince has fallen to the bottom, many people think that the saint intends to abolish the prince, and there are many fewer people who are willing to offend the right minister by working for the prince.

Boots rustle on the gravel ground.

The eunuchs hurried from the other end of the corridor and exclaimed, "Who is presumptuous? Do you know what this is? It is the residence of the prince of the Tang Dynasty! ”

"What I searched was the prince's residence!" Yang Zhao shouted: "Take it!" ”

Li Jingzhong heard the movement, rushed out in a panic, raised his hand and pointed, and was about to scold Yang Zhao. The next moment, the right guard pounced on him like a wolf and knocked him to the ground.

Seeing that dirty boots stepped on the spotless corridor, leaving a lot of sand and snowmelt, he couldn't help but feel sad, how can the prince of a country be humiliated to this extent, and how can the face of the heavenly family exist?

Xue Bai and Du Wulang stepped in, and they couldn't help but think of the day when the official sent to the Du family to get people......