"Get up, get up. ”

Su Wanning's father, Xiangguo Su Wangjie, is over half a hundred years old and is now fifty-five years old.

His goatee and beard had turned gray, the years had carved wrinkles into his face, and his legs and feet were not as neat as they had been when he was young, and he walked with a limp.

Seeing Su Wanning kneeling on the ground barefoot, he hurriedly helped Su Wanning up, "Get up quickly, it's cold on the ground." ”

Su Wanning and her father Su Wangjie sat opposite each other on the edge of the bed, and Su Wanning cried: "Dad, my daughter is not filial, and it will affect you." ”

It had been fifteen days, and her parents had not visited her once, and she almost thought that they had been implicated and imprisoned. Fortunately, she saw her father standing in front of her, otherwise she would have feared death for him.

"Dad, why did you come to see me?" There was no reproach in these words, only full of worry.

"Alas. Su Wangjie held his forehead and sighed in a low voice, "After you were taken away that day, I have been asking around, only to learn that you were locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department, so I came to see you and wronged you." ”

Su Wangjie found that her daughter was a lot haggard, and she still looked like a vigorous tiger before, but after fifteen days in prison, she lost weight and her spirit deteriorated a lot.

"Then did Your Majesty blame you?" Su Wanning hurriedly asked.

"Since you were imprisoned that day, Yan has spread all the word, foul language, and everything. Soon it reached the ears of His Majesty. I have no way to teach my daughter, and I should be guilty of the same crime, but Your Majesty reads that I am old, and allows me to wear the guilt and make meritorious contributions, and there is nothing at home, so you can rest assured. ”

His Majesty will not easily move his father, because he can't lose this prime minister, and he can't disrupt the political situation in Yan Kingdom, Su Wanning thought to herself.

She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, as long as her home was safe, her hanging heart was put down.

"Harm" Su Wangjie sighed helplessly, "Daughter, you are confused, Dad doesn't believe that you are with ......"

What Su Wangjie wanted to say didn't come out after all, he definitely didn't believe that his daughter was unworthy of being a person, he knew that his daughter had a temperament.

Although she was naughty when she was a child, she was literate since she was a child, and she was self-reliant and self-loving since she was a child.

He asked, "Wanning, do you have something unspeakable, did that person force you to say this?"

Su Wanning choked back tears and kept shaking her head in denial.

She really wanted to tell her father about her past life, but she couldn't say it, because no one would believe that she had been born again, and even she herself felt that it was as unreal as a dream, and that her father would think she was crazy.

Su Wanning shook her head, "No, no one forced me." ”

Su Wanning hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Dad, I am innocent with him, the night before the incident, he was seriously injured and broke into my room, so I left him in my room to recuperate, and the next day I happened to be bumped into by Tian Yiyi." It's only because I don't want to marry His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that I said that I had an affair with him, and we are really innocent. ”

"This ......" Su Wanning said that he was confused, his daughter had been in love with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince since she was fourteen years old when she entered the palace with her mother, and he had always been unwilling to marry, and when His Majesty gave them a marriage, she was still as happy as a flower, why did she suddenly not want to marry?

"Dad, I swear what I said is true, will you believe me this time?" Su Wanning's eyes were unusually sincere, and they didn't look like lies.

My daughter has been reading poetry since she was a child, and she would never be able to do such a thing, she must have something unspeakable. Su Wangjie thought to himself.

"Master, it's important to get down to business!" Cai'er, who had been standing silently next to her, suddenly spoke, her voice was very anxious.

"What's the matter?" Su Wanning frowned and looked at Cai'er.

"Miss, let's change our clothes, I am the same age as you, and my face is somewhat similar, so I can pretend to be you. The master has already taken care of it, you should leave quickly!" Cai'er urged anxiously while undressing.

"Dad, why do you want Cai'er to come to prison to replace me, is it possible that Your Majesty wants to give me the death penalty?"

Su Wangjie was silent for a long time, and then sighed mournfully, "Alas. In the past few days, while I have been inquiring about your whereabouts, I have been begging Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for mercy, but the holy will has been decided, and Your Majesty said: Give Su Wanning death, and the Su family is not guilty. Dad has no ability and can't save his daughter, but coincidentally, Cai'er volunteered to die for you in prison. ”

Su Wangjie turned his back to her and waved his hand, his words were full of helplessness: "The holy will has been decided, and no one can restore it." Hurry up and change your clothes, the carriage out of Beijing is still waiting for you. ”

"Nope. Su Wanning shook her head, "I can't let Cai'er be my substitute ghost." Also, the one who died was not me, and sooner or later it would have to be discovered. If I leave, he will have an incident in the east window, and you and my mother will be unlucky, and I won't leave!"

"Your mother and I are old, but you are still young, and your mother and I only have one daughter in our lives, and we can't send white-haired people to black-haired people. As for Cai'er...... Su Wangjie sighed again, "Wanning, you owe Cai'er a life, and you will repay her even if you are a cow or a horse in your next life." ”

"No, Dad, maybe there's another way. Su Wanning suddenly remembered that Tang Yu gave her a jade pendant before leaving, and he said that if her father came, let her give him the jade pendant and let him transfer it to His Majesty, so that no one would dare to touch her.

Su Wanning thought about it for a while, as if she had made a lot of determination, she took out the jade pendant from her sleeve. No matter what, a dead horse is a live horse doctor, you have to try.

"Dad, that person gave me a jade pendant before leaving, and he asked you to pass it on to Your Majesty. With that, Su Wanning handed the jade pendant to him.

"This jade pendant...... Where did you get that?"

Su Wangjie was shocked when he saw the jade pendant, he suspected that he was dizzy and misunderstood, so he hurriedly came to the light and looked at it carefully.

How is this possible!

Su Wangjie wanted to look for the traces of the jade pendant's counterfeiting, but after looking at it carefully for a long time, he was willing to admit this fact, this jade pendant was real, and that person had already come to Yan Kingdom!

"Wanning, do you know who that person is?" Even if there was a glimmer of hope, Su Wangjie was unwilling to admit that it was him.

"I don't know who he was, he was seriously injured at the time, I took him in and healed him, and he gave me his jade pendant in return for me. He said, if you come to see me, let you give the jade pendant to Your Majesty, so that no one will dare to touch you. ”

"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Su Xiangguo was so anxious that he stomped his feet.

Didn't you just come...... , Su Wangjie was in a hurry like this, of course Su Wanning didn't dare to say this.

"Dad, who the hell is he?" asked Su Wanning.

She is becoming more and more curious about his identity, her father, as the prime minister, saw that this jade pendant was in chaos, if Tang Yu was just an ordinary person, who would believe it?

"You are a little girl, it has nothing to do with this matter, don't ask so much, I will hand over the jade pendant to Your Majesty, with this jade pendant, Your Majesty will definitely let you out." ”

Su Wangjie looked at the jade pendant for a long time, how did he not know the owner of this jade pendant, he was the crown prince of Qi State, the real ruler of Qi State - Xie Chengxuan!

Let's say that He Yu has been busy with Su Zigui's affairs recently.

Su Zigui had mixed feelings in his heart, why did the country that was so rich when the emperor was in the first emperor ascend the throne now, and it became what it is today in just five years?

He secretly swore in his heart that no matter how long he could do this official position, no matter what His Majesty's purpose was, but since he sat in this position and took the money given to him by the imperial court, he must be worthy of his conscience, do his part well, seek his own government in his position, and become a good official for the benefit of the people.

The mansion was very close to Su Zigui's home, and he walked there, but it took time for two pillars of incense to arrive.

"The son returns, the son returns to the ......"

Su Zigui heard someone calling him, so he looked around for the source of the sound, and he saw He Yu standing at the door of the mansion and waving to him.

He walked up to He Yu and bowed to him, because he asked, "Why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince here?"

He Yu also returned the salute and replied: "You don't have to be polite, my father ordered me to wait for you at the door of the palace." ”

"You must not be familiar with it for the first time, so my father asked me to show you the way, and by the way, I will take you to meet your colleagues who know the government office. ”

Su Zigui's face was a little moved, His Majesty was so concerned about his affairs.

"Let Your Majesty bother. ”

He Yu grabbed Su Zigui's arm out of sight, and said with a cheap smile: "Actually, I can still support you in the scene, so that some self-righteous people who rely on the old and sell the old look down on you." Let's go inside. ”

He Yu led Su Zigui to a wing room of the mansion, the wing room is divided into two rooms, the outside is Su Zigui's office, the furnishings are very simple and elegant, a desk, a few chairs, and a bookshelf stands behind.

Inside, there is a different cave, Su Zigui is the secretary of the criminal department, and he is an important subordinate of the imperial court, in charge of household rent, prison lawsuits, and other matters. He is also in charge of miscellaneous matters such as money and food, justice, etc., so all the inside of this wing room is a bookshelf, which displays various case files and confessions of the imperial court, as well as the accounts of taxes and expenditures over the years.

"Zigui, this is where you work, see if there is anything wrong, I will ask people to change it. ”

"Thank you Your Highness the Crown Prince for your trouble, I think everything is fine. ”

"That's good, this is the official seal, the official uniform and the appointment documents. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince, for your trouble. ”

After completing the induction process, He Yu took Su Zigui to meet his deputy and visit other officials in the government.

After a morning of polite greetings, Su Zigui could see that although many of them greeted him with a smile and even flattered him, Zuo was just because He Yu was present and personally sent him over, although he was not convinced, but on the surface, he always had to give him a little thin face, and he didn't dare to offend him.

Su Zigui knew in his heart that how many of them could look down on him?

In their eyes, he was born in a poor family, just a small guy in the Linxian Pavilion, and now because he saved His Majesty's life, he ascended to the sky in one step, and relied on His Majesty's cultivation to become a high-powered Shangshu Lord, and he is young, and many of those people have not sat in the position of Shangshu of the Criminal Department for more than ten or twenty years in the government, Su Zigui, a hairy boy who just came here, turned out to be their top boss, and anyone would feel uncomfortable.

But how many of them do nothing, do not seek the welfare of the people, and even think about searching for the people's fat and ointment all day long?

He Yu helped Su Zigui arrange everything and left here. After he left, Su Zigui went back to his office to do his own work, because he had just taken office and was not familiar with this place, so he had to check many case accounts, although he had a deputy, he was still busy.

Su Zigui was very devoted, and unconsciously he was busy until noon, although it was the first time to do such a job, but he got started quickly, did it easily, immersed in his work, and even forgot to eat, maybe Wenzhi martial arts is the most suitable destination for Su Zigui.

"Buckle Buckle ......"

"Lord Su, do you want to go out for a drink or two, Lord Su is a new official, so the lower official will prepare a thin wine for you to catch the wind and wash the dust, you must reward the lower official face." The man had the greasy middle-aged man's oily, pot-bellied, and face-full of meat, and after coming in, he stared at Su Zigui with a cunning smile, and he didn't feel good at first glance.

Su Zigui got up and invited him to sit down, poured him tea, and said politely: "Today is my first day in office, I should have invited you to have a drink, but there are still many accounts in my hands that have not been sorted out, and I will definitely invite you to drink another day." ”

"Lord Su is young and promising, and his future is limitless, even I, who have been in the government for more than ten or twenty years, are not as good as you, today my old man has a little thin wine, Lord Su must give me a face." ”

"Another day, another day, the juniors will definitely invite you to drink. ”

"Lord Su, do you want to talk to the lower officials about this ......?"

Su Zigui understood his code words, and his "this" referred to how to loot the people's fat and people's ointment. Su Zigui didn't want to just do nothing here and eat for nothing, let alone be a notorious corrupt official and do those things that had no conscience.

Although he didn't know how much time he could spend in the imperial court, since he sat in this official position, he had to be worthy of his conscience.

Su Zigui didn't want to drink with him, let alone go with him, so he refused, the officialdom was complicated, and various forces were intrigued, Su Zigui knew this delicate relationship, and there was still a little politeness in his words after weighing.

"The little sister at home doesn't like me to drink outside, and I don't like me to talk about this with others, I'm afraid the adults are hungry, it's time to eat, I still have some things, so I won't send the adults, the adults please. ”

The man felt that Su Zigui was difficult to speak, and he had a tendon, and he pointed out to him the way of wealth, and people didn't appreciate it at all, so he could only leave disappointed.

Originally, because I heard that Su Zigui was His Majesty's savior, His Majesty valued him very much, and he gave him such an important official position just after he came here. That's why I want to win him over, it seems that he has a hot face and a cold ass, and people don't give you face at all, he is a hairy boy, relying on His Majesty to pick up an official position, the world is as black as a crow, and no one needs to dislike anyone, so that person is more and more unaccustomed to Su Zigui.

On the first day Su Zigui took office, he felt that the glamorous appearance of the government was actually ruined, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a miasma. Most of the officials here are inactive, and they do not seek political power in their positions, but only know how to win connections, squeeze the people's fat and ointment, and live a chaotic life. The officialdom of a court is still like this, not to mention what kind of miasma the officialdom of the entire Yan Kingdom is.

Especially the things that Su Zigui gave to his deputy, although they were verbally submissive and said that they would do it immediately, but these people did the grinding work to the fullest, and kept delaying it, and it was not as good as his resolute work style.