Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 102

[102. Chapter 101]

This is the beginning of the spring rain for the burglar Zhang, and the scorching glow shrouded the world. He could tell from a distance that the person standing outside the mansion was Su Jin. He guessed her intention and was overjoyed for a while, so he ordered his servants to invite him to the hall and serve tea Serve.

Su Jin took out the secret post: “Please take a look at Xiaohou Ye.”

Ren Xuan read Su Jin’s article five years ago. At that time, she entered the Hanlin, and she was very famous for her strategy and theory.

He grinned and said: “Your article is too good, just leave it to His Highness, he can’t use it. I will make some changes in the wording later, don’t worry, don’t let the old Hanlin see it. Clue.”

Su Jin said: “It’s all up to the little prince.”

Ren Xuan carefully took the secret message, thought about it and asked, “You are willing to take this risk, but you can’t stay in the capital’s yamen? I have acquaintances in the official department. , It is said that there is a lack of records in the Zhan Shifu, although it is only a ninth grade, anyway, working under the East Palace is much more respectable than the capital Yamen, do you want to?”

Su Jin was silent for a while, and then he said: “Since Xiaohou is here The Ministry of Rites must know about Chao Qing’s disappearance.”

Ren Xuan said yes, and Su Jin continued: “Chao Qing and the lower officials are old friends. I went to the Gong Shi’s office to ask about him. On the day he disappeared, the third son of the Grand Master Yan came to look for him. He has a jade seal of the Yan family as evidence, and the two have had disputes. But when Lord Shaozhan left, Chao Qing was still there, and he could not find out about Shaozhan. My official is soft-spoken, and I know how to break in. If I can’t get to the Grand Fu’s mansion, I just ask Young Marquis to let me and Young Master Yan meet face to face.”

Ren Xuan didn’t expect Su Jin’s troubles, because it was someone else. Thinking about it carefully, Yan Ziyan is now a young man in the Zhan Shifu. The Yingtianfu yamen probably doesn’t want to offend anyone, so he wanted to put the case down. The government is here.

This is also self-denial.

Thinking of this, Ren Xuan expressed some respect in his heart, and his words were also kind: “Don’t hide Su Xian brother, because of a private matter for my brother, it is really inconvenient to bring Xian brother to the Taifu’s house to visit. Why don’t you do this, tomorrow morning, you pretend to be Zuo’s attendant and Wei-xiong enter the palace together. Yan Ziyan must pass by the Jinshui Bridge at the fifth watch every day, and Wei-xiong will help you stop him, so you can ask more clearly.” That

night, Su Jin relied on Ren Xuan’s words, Rest in Houfu nearby. The next day, he got up at the fourth watch, hurriedly had breakfast, and got into the carriage. Ren Xuan asked again, “In this court, apart from the old Hanlin, who the virtuous brother no longer knows?”

Su Jin replied: “At that time in the Hanlin Academy, I only devoted myself to writing articles on Xiushu, and I had few contacts with people, and I only had a few months, so no one would recognize the lower official.”

Ren Xuan said: “That’s good, you don’t know the newly appointed Zuo Du. Lord Censor Liu, his discipline is very strict, if you let people see the clue and find that my virtuous brother Gangji and I are not in good shape, it will be difficult to clean up.”

Su Jin was stunned for a while, seeing that the imperial city was close to him, he made a move. The pair of eyes looked at the nose, and the nose looked at the posture of the heart: “Oh, I have never heard of this person.” In front of the

noon gate, the carriage and horse stopped. In order to eliminate fire hazards in the palace, the lights of the ministers were prohibited, and only senior officials of the second rank and above could enter by car with lanterns.

Before the fifth watch, there were a few people standing by the Jinshui Bridge, all waiting for the waiter in charge of the lamp to come and lead them into the palace.

Ren Xuan led Su Jin to wait at the bridge, and at the fifth correction moment, Yan Ziyan came with a bang.

Ren Xuan went up to greet one or two, and led Huatou to the palace examination, and said: “I checked the list of tributes yesterday, there should have been eighty-nine, but I didn’t think that one was missing. I went to the yamen to ask. The corpse. The Ministry of Rites has to deal with errands, and the report is to return home in a hurry, but you also know Luo Shangshu’s scrupulous temperament, and when you look back, you are afraid that he will ask, and you have to walk down to the Gongshi’s office to inquire. Now, the military guard said that you had been there before this Gong Shi disappeared.”

Yan Ziyan hummed, “nonsense.” Then he narrowed his eyes and asked, “Young master asked me what I was talking about. What do you mean? Do you suspect that I robbed people?”

He was born with long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and he also wore a court dress with a wide-sleeved long coat, just like the famous Wei and Jin scholars in ancient paintings. It’s just that a great hero can be true to his true colors, a true celebrity is self-righteous, and Yan Ziyan’s eyes are higher than the top.

Ren Xuan smiled and said, “If I doubt you, I’m here to ask you what you are doing? Are you tipping off the news?”

Yan Ziyan lowered his brows and thought for a while, and thought it was true. Has someone changed?”

Ren Xuan said, “Ali was ill, so he brought another one at random. Coincidentally, he was sent to ask Gongshi yesterday.”

Su Jin stepped forward and bowed: “Little man Jia Su, see Lord Shaozhan.”

Yan Ziyan didn’t answer, looked her up and down, and didn’t look away for a while, Su Jin said again, “Sir Shaozhan is probably the one who forgets things too much, but what Gong Shi has done Wu Wei is not without evidence, they say that Shao Zhan has been there, and there is a jade seal of the Yan family as proof.”

Yan Ziyan shook his sleeve robe, thinking he was listening to a joke: “A group of reckless men spread their words, and the jade seal of the Yan family is the identity of the Yan family. It symbolizes that this official has always cherished his life and never took his side, so how can it fall into the hands of others?”

Su Jin looked up at Yan Ziyan and spread his right hand: “Then according to what Shaozhan said, what is in the hands of the villain? This jade seal is fake.”

There is only moonlight at the end of the sky, and the seal made of suet jade is bright and shiny, Yan Ziyan’s face changed instantly, and he reached out to grab the jade seal, but Su Jin took it back one step before him. Holding his hands, he said lightly, “It doesn’t look fake.”

Yan Ziyan said angrily, “What are you, you dare to hold this official accountable!” But under the moonlight, Su Jin stood alone, indifferent and calm, Make him feel a hint of déjà vu, “No, I seem to have seen you before, you are—”

A star of light shone from the other side of the Jinshui Bridge. All scattered as birds and beasts.

Since there is no need to wait for the lights for the second-rank and above officers, there are not many who come early. The only ones who can arrive at the Noon Gate at five watch are probably the newly appointed Tie Mian Bodhisattva of the Ducha Yuan.

Ren Xuan’s heart was not good, and he only hoped that the bodhisattva’s sedan chair could separate the whole world, so that he could not hear any movements. However, the Bodhisattva dropped off the sedan in front of him, and the attendant with the lamp in front of the sedan greeted him in a friendly manner: “Mr. Hou, it’s early for you, Mr. Shao Zhan.”

Su Jin heard the sound familiar, raised his eyelids and glanced at him. It was the one who gave her the umbrella at Dali Temple that day. There is no need to guess, the other person who made the world quiet as soon as he appeared was Lord Liu Chaomingliu, the censor of the Zuodu capital.

Liu Chaoming didn’t say anything, even his expression was calm, and the waiter on the side of the lamp said again: “I heard from a distance that the little prince and Shao Zhan are in high spirits. I don’t know what to talk about, so I asked the villain to join in the fun.”

Ren Xuan is very modest: “Brother An Ran is joking, Shao Zhan is just looking at me with a new face and asking a few questions.” After that, he gave Yan Ziyan a wink, meaning it was a big deal Small.

How could he know that Yan Ziyan would not like this, so he said coolly: “Miansheng? I think the noodles are very familiar.” He took two steps forward and stood in front of Su Jin, “I already remember who you are, Jing Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Yuan Dynasty, but Su Shiyu?” In the

past, Yan Ziyan and Yan Ziyan only had a relationship at the Qionglin Banquet, and they didn’t even say a word, and it didn’t occur to him that he remembered himself.

Right now, there are hundreds of officials, and there is also a censor of the Zuodu, who is an inspector, who pretends to be an official to attend.

Su Jin just thought he was a taller, looked at Yan Ziyan calmly, opened his mouth and asked, “What is Su Shiyu? Did your lord forget it?”

Yan Ziyan sneered: “You can not Yes, but don’t think that I’m the only one who remembers you!” With a flutter of his sleeves, he turned his head and bowed in front of Liu Chaoming: “Master Liu, Enke in the eighteenth year of Jingyuan, you went to Qizhou to handle the case, and after returning to Beijing, At the Poetry Ceremony, the local Jie Yuan Su Jin Su Shiyu was mentioned, and he said that his article has the talent of the champion, and he is the person in front of him!” In the

night there was only one star of light, reflected in the depths of Liu Chao’s bright eyes, flickering gently, as if Quiet water.

After a long while, he said indifferently, “Really?” He took the lantern and held it in front of Su Jin and looked at it for a while. She is eloquent and stubborn, just like the one she saw in the wind and rain at Dali Temple that day.

Liu Chaoming handed the lantern back to An Ran, turned back to the sedan chair, and said indifferently, “I don’t know this person.”

Ren Xuan did not expect that this stubble would fall under Liu Chaoming’s eyes and be taken by a stroke. After the luck of the rest of his life, he hurriedly pulled Yan Ziyan to bid farewell to the official sedan chair of Lord Censor.

Yan Ziyan took another look at Su Jin, snorted, and flung his sleeves into the palace.

Ren Xuan turned his head and stared at his back, and waited for the others to walk away before saying to Su Jin: “Yan Ziyan has a bad temper, but he is still a daredevil, I see his reaction just now, it really doesn’t look like he has been to tribute. Shi’s office, but the jade seal in your hand is clearly real.”

Su Jin said, “Yes, I also suspect this.”

Ren Xuan took a few steps back and forth and said, “In this case, you wait here first. , I will send the secret message for my brother later, and take time to go to Zhan Shifu to inquire about what Yan Ziyan did on the day Chao Qing disappeared.”

It was Ren Xuan’s attendant, and brother A Li came: “This morning, Mr. Hou and Mr. were in a hurry to leave. They even forgot to bring the list of tributes they kept. I brought them here. If I wanted to make some rain, I also brought Mr.’s umbrella with me.” The oil-paper umbrella was handed to Su Jin, and he looked around: “Sure enough, I guessed it right, Mu Chun said that it will change this day.”

Su Jin thanked him, seeing the corner of the booklet in his arms, he couldn’t help asking : “I remember that the documents of the Ministry of Rites are inlaid with blue and green cloud patterns, how is this different?”

A Li said: “Oh, this is the list of tributes that Luo Shangshu asked in private, saying that it was requested by Master Liu of the Ducha Yuan, no? The official scriptures, but more complete than the list of the Ministry of Rites.”

He took out the documents and showed them to Su Jin, “There is nothing to hide, even the new head of the Duchayuan has a lenient control, even the eighteenth ancestor of the poor scholar. The generation has to touch the door and ask me to tell me, what to do with these things, can you do it if you study well?”

Su Jin flipped through it casually, A Li’s words were true, this book was like a family tree, and it was indeed traced back to the 18th generation of the ancestors. Seeing Su Jin’s gloomy

face, A Li came up and asked, “Mr. Su, when you look at this book, you find something strange?”

Su Jin said, “Why?”

The scholars, almost all of them are from the south, and the young master said that there are so many people from the north and south, and I don’t know what bad things will happen!”

Not to mention the tribute scholars in this category, just talking about the people who came from all over the place before the Spring Festival. It is also the southerners who make a lot of numbers, and after the Spring Festival, when the apricot list came out, there were 89 tributes, and only seven people in the north. That is why some northern officials were dissatisfied, and they went to the tributes a few times, or Zhou. Ping took the yacha to coax the people away.

Su Jin avoided the important and lightly said: “Little Marquis thinks too much, Jiangnan is the most talented person in the world, and it is not surprising to raise more sons and

tributes .” A place under the eaves was instantly wet.

A Li held up his umbrella and said to Su Jin: “The rain is so fast that the area under the eaves can’t cover it, so why don’t you go to the Ministry of Rites with me, sir, and the little Hou Ye will come back to the Ministry of Rites if he doesn’t see anyone when he comes out. ”

Su Jin also thought so, so he held up his umbrella and went to the Ministry of Rites with him.

This day was the palace examination, and the people from the Ministry of Rites went to the Fengtian Temple, leaving a chief of the rites system alone on duty.

The principal, surnamed Jiang, was leaning on the desk and dozing off. In a trance, he heard murmurs from outside the corridor. He stuck his head out to recognize the person, greeted him, and said, “What wind is blowing Brother Ali here?” Kuo A Li’s umbrella was drying aside, and half bent over to invite people in: “But you brought documents for the Marquis?”

“Yes, the little Marquis left in a hurry in the morning, and forgot the list of tributes requested by the Court. , I’ll bring it here.” Ali replied, reaching out and comparing “please” with Su Jin.

[End of This Chapter]