At this moment, I suddenly heard a sentence from outside:

"Is anybody there? Is anybody there?"

The two of them immediately stopped at this point, then quickly tidied up their clothes, and then walked out of the room together.

At this time, I saw a middle-aged man in green clothes sneaking in and looking around in the courtyard.

Du did not forget to shout at this person first:

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

After the middle-aged man saw Du Buyi and Zhu Qi, he immediately stepped forward and asked:

"You're Du Gongzi, right?"

Du Chu did not forget to nod:

"Brother, do you have something to do with me?"

The middle-aged man immediately continued:

"It was my son-in-law who asked me to invite Du Gongzi and Miss Zhu to the house as guests!"

Don't forget to smile:

"It turned out to be my brother-in-law's Xia Xun's person, then I know, let's clean up and go over immediately!"

The middle-aged man replied:

"Yes, then I'll wait for the two of you outside, the sedan chair is ready. ”

The middle-aged man exited the door after speaking.

Zhu Qi pulled Du Bu to go back to the room and dress up for himself.

Du Buyi combed Zhu Qi's hair and said at the same time:

"Qi'er, you seem to be getting better and better lately!"

Zhu Qi said a little shyly:

"Brother Du, it's the first time I've heard you compliment me on my good looks?"

Du Bu Bu took the opportunity to lower his head and kissed Zhu Qi's face:

"We have nothing to do with each other, if I don't praise you, it doesn't mean that you don't look good in my heart!"

Du did not forget to finish dressing up for Zhu Qi, and then came to the outside of Xia Xun's mansion together.

After Du couldn't get off the sedan chair, he looked at the courtyard in the second half of the year, and first saw a golden plaque in front of the door, using the word 'Xia Mansion' in gold, and asked Xia Qi, the middle-aged man who had just invited him:

"Your son is really rich, and the plaques are all golden!"

Xia Qi smiled:

"The people here in Suzhou and Hangzhou are much richer than our son!"

Du Buyi immediately said again:

"But it's only been a little more than a month since your son came to Suzhou, and this mansion doesn't look like it just been repaired?"

Xia Qi replied:

"This mansion was actually the mansion of Zhu Zhishan, a talented man in the city, and it was bought by our son half a year ago and made a mansion. ”

Then led Du Buyi and Zhu Qi into the mansion, and what caught their eyes was a lotus pond and rockery, and the fish in the pond seemed to be all precious golden carp.

Looking further, behind the rockery is a piece of pavilions, which is much more luxurious than Du does not forget his own Du Mansion.

After walking through the pond rockery, I came to an attic, and at this time, Xia Xun was full of smiles, followed by two beautiful women.

After greeting Du Buyi and Zhu Qi for a while, several people entered the attic.

At this time, there was a scene of singing and dancing in the attic, and the wine and food had already been prepared, but they were all some expensive dishes from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and even the chopsticks on the table were all made of silver, and the bowls were almost all jade bowls.

After Du Buyi and Zhu Qi took their seats, two very good-looking maids poured a glass of wine for each of them, and then walked behind the two of them, rubbed their backs and shoulders for the two of them.

At this time, although Xia Xun was leaning on a woman beside him, his eyes stayed on Zhu Qi, and he couldn't help but ask Zhu Qi:

"Miss Zhu, I don't know where your home is?"

Zhu Qi naturally discovered Xia Xun's eyes on him a long time ago, so he replied:

"I'm from Zhangde, Henan, but I'm now a good sister to Brother Du!"

Xia Xun immediately asked again:

"Miss Zhu, are you and your brother-in-law really just brother and sister?"

Du did not forget to say at this time:

"Yes, it's just a brother and sister relationship!"

Xia Xun shouted three times in a row:

"Good, good, good!"

Then he asked:

"So, can't I pursue Miss Zhu?"

Zhu Qi smiled at Xia Xun:

"Young Master Xia, aren't you jealous of the girl in your arms?"

Xia Xun immediately pushed away the woman beside him:

"You go, you go!"

The woman walked out with a very unhappy expression.

Xia Xun said to Zhu Qi:

"Miss Zhu, she is just a concubine who came to serve me, in fact, I have never married a wife yet!"

Zhu Qi looked at Xia Xun's expression and naturally understood what it meant:

"Young Master Xia, your family background is so good, you must be too visionary, right?"

Xia Xun suddenly said:

"Actually, what I want to marry the most is a woman like Miss Zhu!"

Zhu Qi immediately replied:

"But I don't like you like you at all!"

At this time, the scene was instantly embarrassing.

Du Bucheng naturally knew what his brother-in-law Xia Xun thought about Zhu Qi for a long time, but he didn't know how to say it, and when he saw such a scene, he quickly bypassed it and said:

"Brother Xun, let's talk about Wu Gongzi's case first!"

Xia Xun heard Du not forget to mention Wu Chengen, and his face immediately changed:

"Brother-in-law, what do you say Wu Chengen? This crime it committed is not a small crime, I have already reported it to the imperial court, if nothing else, it may end up being beheaded. ”

Du was not surprised:

"Brother Xun, what are you talking about...... is full of beheading......s, is Wu Gongzi's crime so big?"

Xia Xun smiled and said:

"Brother-in-law, I know that Wu Gongzi is your friend, but I have already reported this case to the court, and I can only do business now. ”

Du Yi was very curious at this time:

"Brother Xun, didn't you just arrest Wu Gongzi today, why are you about to be sentenced so soon?"

Xia Xu replied:

"Because Wu Chengen committed a serious crime, this crime is even more serious than the case of Wei Guan and Gao Qi, our prefects of Suzhou, I have been an imperial historian before, of course I will not frame him. ”

It turned out that Wei Guan, the prefect of Suzhou, was reported to the then emperor Zhu Yuanzhang by an imperial historian named Zhang Du because he built his mansion on top of Zhang Shicheng's palace.

And Zhu Yuanzhang was in the midst of killing heroes to stabilize the situation at that time, so naturally he would not let go of this bold Wei Guan, so he directly ordered someone to arrest Wei Guan and bring him into the capital city of Nanjing at that time.

And this case is also widely implicated, even Gao Qi, one of the four heroes of Wuzhong at that time, who wrote poems for Wei Guan's mansion after the completion of the mansion, was also implicated because of the word "dragon and tiger in the Liang Wen of the County Governance", and was directly beheaded in the city together with Wei Guan.

Du didn't forget that he had naturally heard about this matter, so he asked:

"Now that the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 160 years, since the Hongwu Dynasty, there has hardly been a literary prison, Brother Xun, why do you so casually believe that Wu Gongzi is guilty of great disrespect to Emperor Taizu?"

Xia Xun returned:

"Brother-in-law, think about it, if Wu Chengen's 'Zhu Bajie' was written in the article, if he saw it when Emperor Taizu was there, I'm afraid Wu Chengen would have died a long time ago!"

Du Bu Bu took a glass of wine at this time and drank it, and asked:

"Brother Xun, then you mean that Wu Chengen will definitely die?"

Xia Xun nodded:

"Yes, I think there will be a reply from the Criminal Department tomorrow, no surprise, it must be the same as my decision, to behead this Wu Chengen's whole family. ”

Du Cheng Cheng said:

"Brother Xun, you should know what your brother-in-law and I mean, right? Can't you give your brother-in-law a face to help Wu Chengen? He is your brother-in-law and my best brother!"

Xia Xun shook his head:

"Brother-in-law, I can't help you with this!"

Du did not forget to sigh:

"Okay, since that's the case, then I'll leave Miss Zhu. ”

After speaking, he pulled Zhu Qi and walked out of the summer mansion quickly.

After the two returned to Du's mansion, they sat in the room and discussed together, and it was already the third watch in the middle of the night.

I only heard Zhu Qi say first:

"Brother Du, what are you going to do?"

Du did not forget to reply:

"Wu Gongzi has been caught in this matter, I think it is indeed a bit difficult to save it!"

Zhu Qi said:

"Brother Du, if it doesn't work, let's go to the prison and save them!"

Du did not forget to hurriedly reply:

"Don't worry, the prison robbery is a last resort, I think there should be a way to keep it at this time!"

Zhu Qi was a little indignant:

"Didn't Wu Gongzi just write a person's name, how could he cause such a big disaster, not only was his own capital crime inevitable, but even his family was also affected. ”

Du did not forget to sigh:

"Brother Wu's case is actually because of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, after all, the name it uses is too similar to Zhu Chongbajie, which makes people suspicious when they see it, so I think it's better to find a way to see if Brother Wu can turn this Zhu Bajie into another person who has nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang. ”

Zhu Qi also looked melancholy at this time:

"Although Zhu Yuanzhang is my great-grandfather, I also have to say a word about him, he is indeed a little excessive, and he should not set a precedent for this kind of literary prison. ”

Du did not forget a wry smile:

"Now that Brother Wu has been caught, the most important thing is for us to think about how to save Brother Wu. ”

The two talked like this for a long time, but there was still no result.

Du Bu Bu saw that Zhu Qi was a little sleepy, so he persuaded Zhu Qi to go to bed first, and Zhu Qi naturally wanted to insist on accompanying Du Bu Buyi.

Seeing this, Du did not forget to say to Zhu Qi:

"Qi'er, are you really unwilling to go to sleep?"

Zhu Qi replied:

"Brother Du, if you don't sleep, I won't sleep either!"

Du didn't forget to hug Zhu Qi all of a sudden:

"Qi'er, since we can't think of a way tonight, let's go to sleep!"

Zhu Qi looked at Du and nodded.

So after some lingering, the two fell asleep with sleepiness.

The next day, the two of them came to the government early in the morning.

At this time, Xia Xun was sitting in the hall interrogating Wu Chengen, and Wu Chengen was obviously embarrassed a lot after sitting in prison with the scholar next to him for a day.

However, seeing that Yu Du did not forget his face, Xia Xun did not punish Wu Chengen in any way.

I only heard Xia Xun slap the board heavily and shouted loudly at Wu Chengen:

"Wu Chengen, are you guilty?"

At this time, Wu Chengen replied:

"Since I, Wu Chengen, have ended up like this, I can dispose of it as you like, anyway, I just didn't slander Emperor Taizu of the current dynasty. ”

Fu Cheng still walked up to Wu Chengen with the indictment paper and said:

"Wu Chengen, I advise you to be honest and sign the pledge, otherwise your family will have to be implicated by you, if you sign and draw now, maybe the prefect will intercede with you and spare the lives of your family members. ”