Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 148

[148. Chapter One Forty Seven]

This is due to the slaughter of the burglar Zhang

Jingyuan in his early years. Since this matter has been considered a crime, the dust should be settled.

After hearing this, Su Jin asked, “Master Liu, is there really no room for turning this case around?” Liu Chaoming

glanced at her and said, “What?”

If you want to take care of the business that the emperor and Laozi don’t care about, you are not afraid to explain your life.

The white-haired man is just a low-ranking official, with no official position, and no parental grace. Even if there are a few northern ministers behind him, most of whom are of low rank, why do you say that even the emperor doesn’t care about this matter?

Who is the Emperor Laozi?

Su Jin said: “Xiaguan felt very strange when he heard this sentence. He felt that there must be someone hiding behind him, otherwise he would not be so dignified.”

Liu Chaoming also remembered what Zhao Yan said earlier – Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple. A title of the fifth grade, right?

Different people sing different plays, and they have the same effect.

This must be no coincidence.

He couldn’t help but glance at Su Jin again, it was a pity that the pearl was dusty and wasted for years.

No wonder the old imperial censor had to keep her whatever he said back then.

Liu Chaoming’s tone was as calm as water: “Do you know why your injury has not healed?”

Su Jinnahan.

“Worrying too much is one of them; the other is that it will cause too much trouble.”

Su Jin was stunned for a moment, realizing what he meant, and the blueness between his brows dissipated a lot in an instant.

“Xiaguan has caused more than one or two troubles to the adults. The adults are able to work a lot, and Xiaguan pointed at the adults and laughed at them.”

Liu Chaoming didn’t say good or bad, he turned his head to look at the sky, stood up and was about to leave.

Su Jin added: “Sir, Xieguan thinks that the word Xie is too much to say, so I would like to ask the Lord to keep an account book for Xiaguan. If there is any trouble, the Lord will add a few strokes, and Xieguan is also in his heart. Remember, it will be doubled in the future.”

Liu Chaoming knew that she was accustomed to flattery and condescension, which was not serious, but when he turned around, he saw a serious matter in Su Jin’s brows.

He was silent for a while, but after a while, there was a faint smile on his lips: “I’m afraid you can’t afford it.”

Before Su Jin had rested for a while, there was a knock on the door outside the house.

It was a fresh servant with a tray in his hand, and said to Su Jin: “Lord Governor, Lord Liu just said that you were injured, and ordered the miscellaneous family to boil a bowl of medicine and send it.”

Su Jin said: “It’s work.” Put it on the table over the tray.

The waiter paused and said, “Lord Governor, don’t blame Zajia for being sloppy, this medicine should be eaten while it’s hot, it won’t work when it’s cold.”

Su Jin nodded and picked up the medicine bowl, suddenly feeling that it was not big. Right.

It is said that she came to the Supreme Court in two hours. Few people knew the news. Liu Chaoming wanted to order someone to make medicine for her, so why not find someone from the Supreme Court, but a servant?

It was the first time I saw this servant. This servant should have asked, “Is Your Excellency the Governor Su of the Capital Yamen?”, but he not only didn’t ask, but seemed to recognize her.

Su Jin said: “Just now I mentioned to Master Liu that my chest was stuffy, and I felt that I had contracted a fever. Master Liu said that I wanted to use Huanglian to solve it, but I boiled it in this bowl of medicine?

” The good medicine is bitter, and the adults will not feel bored after taking the medicine.”

Su Jin’s heart sank, and he slowly brought the medicine to his mouth, and suddenly he wondered: “Excuse me, father-in-law, I have had a different tongue coating since I was a child. If there is no bitterness, please ask my father-in-law to help me find two candied fruit.”

The servant hesitated for a moment, then said: “It’s done, the miscellaneous family will come when they go.”

Su Jin came to the door quietly, and when the servant disappeared at the end of the porch, she immediately dodged out and hurriedly walked in the other direction.

Su Jin didn’t know who wanted to harm her.

But she knew that with a small servant alone, she couldn’t come and go freely in this heavily guarded courthouse.

Behind this servant, someone must have instructed him, and he should be a person with considerable power who can put people in the Supreme Court.

It is impossible to stay in this palace. Since “that person” can send an internal servant to the Imperial Court, then he can send people into every corner of the palace to find her.

Why don’t you run into the hands of the patrolling guards and seek safety?

No way, Su Jin thought, maybe which guard is a hidden stake, if you hit it by yourself, wouldn’t you just throw yourself into the net?

The only thing that is fortunate is that the person who wants to kill her is probably also afraid of the Supreme Court, otherwise he will send someone to do it on the spot instead of poisoning.

Since you are afraid of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, why did you choose to poison the Metropolitan Procuratorate?

She is only a governor of the capital’s yamen. If you want to kill her, wouldn’t it be better while she is outside the palace?

Is there something that makes him have to do it at this moment?

The overdrawn body has begun to refuse to obey, every step is like stepping on the cloud, and the tiredness will pull out the pain hidden in the bones like a thread, infiltrating every inch of bone and blood.

But Su Jin couldn’t care about it. She carefully recalled what happened from yesterday to this morning.

Yesterday morning, Ren Xuan first came to visit her, and then she asked Zhou Ping to get a hand letter from the Ministry of Punishment to enter the palace; after seeing the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, she went to Zhan Shifu, where Liu Chaoming burned the policy and saved her life. Afterwards, he went to Zhu Nanxian’s palace to meet Shen Kui, a prisoner on death row, returned to the capital’s yamen, and was taken back to the Imperial Court by Zhao Yan. And the last person she saw was Liu Chaoming.

Just half an hour ago, she told Liu Chaoming that there might be someone behind the troubles.

Could it be that “that person” wanted to kill her because she noticed the clue that the official was making trouble?

This is also not right.

Su Jin recalled the day of the trouble, when she asked the white shirt, “I don’t care about the emperor, what do you mean”, the white shirt was already murderous.

If this is the most important thing, then after the trouble, she was in the capital Yamen for many days to recover, why didn’t the person behind her send someone to get rid of her at that time?

There must be something more important that she missed.

A thought popped out of his mind in an instant – yes, it’s Chao Qing’s case!

If she said what she said, what she did, and what she should not have blocked these days, it would only be Chao Qing’s case.

And from yesterday to this morning, after she inquired about Chao Qing’s disappearance from Zhu Nanxian’s mansion, the only moment she was alone was when Liu Chaoming left the duty room.

And Liu Chaoming left less than half a moment, the servant who delivered the medicine came.

This shows that there may be someone who has been staring at her since she went to Zhu Nanxian’s mansion. No, maybe earlier, from the time she started investigating Chao’s case, she started staring at her.

Since the case of Shizi’s trouble, there is someone hiding behind it; and the case of Chao Qing’s disappearance, there is also a powerful person behind it. So, are these two cases related?

Su Jin felt that all the clues had finally become a thread today. Although there were many speculations to be confirmed, she finally knew where to start.

There are many palaces and pavilions, and every rockery seems to be hiding behind a person. Su Jin can even hear the footsteps chasing behind him.

She rounded a corner, and there were two paths in front of her. One led to Chengtian Gate, and after passing through Chengtian Gate, she could leave the palace, but in front of Chengtian Gate was the endless Xuanyuan Terrace. The second road leads to Gongqianyuan, where flowers, trees and vegetation are overgrown. If you hide in it, although it is not easy to be discovered, it will take time and effort to deal with it.

Her physical strength was running out, and the severe pain from the old injury was like a big hand, stirring her internal organs upside down.

Su Jin thought about it, and immediately walked in the direction of Chengtianmen.

As soon as she was an eighth-rank junior official, the other party might not think that she could escape from the palace, and she might not necessarily set up an ambush outside the palace, so as long as she could pass through Xuanyuantai smoothly, she would be temporarily safe.

Su Jin shook hands into fists, that’s all, and fought for his own life.

Zhu Nanxian had just returned to the palace, and was unloading his horse from Chengtianmen. From a distance, he saw a figure walking towards him on Xuanyuan Terrace, and someone was chasing her behind him. It seemed that the intention was not good.

The man seemed to be very tired, and seemed to be injured. He staggered, but was very firm. He supported the stone pillars of Yunji Bridge and walked forward step by step. Even with the sound of swords killing him, he never turned back timidly.

Zhu Nanxian was stunned for a while, but suddenly, he found that this firm appearance seemed familiar.

He took a step forward and called out, “Su Shiyu?” But

Su Jin didn’t hear it.

Zhu Nanxian shouted again: “Su Shiyu—”

Su Jin felt that she could no longer walk, she tried her last strength to support the stone pillar of Yunji Bridge, trying her best not to let herself fall.

In a trance, she seemed to hear someone calling her, but when she turned her head, it was dark and she couldn’t see anything clearly.

There was finally a hint of bitter helplessness in my heart.

Su Jin thought, so be it.

Zhu Nanxian ran over desperately, but a corner of Su Jin’s clothes was rubbing the back of his hand by an inch.

He watched helplessly as she fell back into the Yunji River and jumped down without a moment’s pause.

As soon as dawn broke, the cold Yunji River flooded Zhu Nanxian’s mouth and nose, and the night was finally over.

He hooked Su Jin’s wrist and pulled her into his arms with all his strength. His clothes were already messy by the river, and Su Jin’s shirt fell off his shoulders, revealing his thin collarbone.

Zhu Nanxian pushed her ashore, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a slight strangeness in his palm.

He moved his hands away in a daze, landed on the shore in a daze, and then fell down beside Su Jin, staring blankly at the faintly visible straps on the chest of her shirt.

The predicament that had been lingering in Zhu Nanxian’s mind for several years finally exploded at this moment.

Gong Shi’s disappearance was due to go to the Dali Temple to report the case, but unfortunately, Tiangong is not beautiful. Halfway there, the spring thunder rumbled, and it rained in an instant.

Su Jin traveled all the way through the rain and crossed the Suzaku Bridge. Seeing that the Dali Temple was right in front of her, someone stepped ahead of her and got off the sedan chair outside the official office.

The big sedan chair was carried in all directions, and the officer who got off the sedan was dressed in black casual clothes, and someone next to him held an umbrella for him. After getting off the sedan chair, he took a short step and looked towards the rain screen.

Su Jin was stunned for a moment, and then greeted him through the rain curtain.

This is an eventful spring. There are several cases of water transportation and corpse storage in Hyogo. The Dali temple minister is so busy that he spends his days tying his head to the waist of his trousers, so the yamen outside the department saw Su Jin’s famous post. However, a district governor of the capital yamen said: “Your Excellency is discussing matters, please ask the officials to wait a moment.” He did not invite anyone to the office.

Su Jin didn’t have to wait, and handing the document to the top was considered a transaction.

But the missing Gong Shi and her are friends of righteousness and righteousness. She was expelled from Hanlin more than four years ago.

The rain slowed down for a while, and there was a row of people sheltering from the rain standing next to each other under the eaves of the corridor. Looking at the patterns of the official robes, like Su Jin, they were all sesame officials who were sent to wait.

Su Jin was thinking about whether to squeeze with them, and the sky above his head was resting. He turned around and saw that a living Bodhisattva had come to hold an umbrella for her, dressed as a servant, and said: ” The official is careful to catch a cold.” She shoved the umbrella into her hand and went straight to the yali.

The umbrella surface is azure, and the whole body is awe-inspiring. The yacha of Dali Temple has already taken her to the office looking for the extravagance of this umbrella. Su Jin then remembered that this distinguished umbrella was the sedan-laden lord just now. use.

It is also surprising that in this world, the face of an umbrella is easier to use than the face of a person.

Seeing the Dali Si Qing, Su Jin bowed his head and saluted: “I’m an official Su Jin, I have seen Master Zhang.”

Zhang Shishan knew Su Jin.

He was born in Hanlin and was transferred to Dali Temple last year. At that time, Su Jin was the second-ranked student, and he was still in the Hanlin Academy to repair the “Biography of Lie Zi” with him for a while. Unfortunately, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. Now I will see the next generation. A little mildly, he pointed to a chair of the Eight Immortals and said, “Sit down and talk.”

Su Jin sat down according to his words, and then he noticed that the sedan chair master was drinking tea on the other side of the seat. She knows a lot of people from a young age. Although the person in front of her looks like she can’t pick out any flaws, her eyes are covered with fog, and she doesn’t know what is hidden.

Su Jin remembered a sentence, and Xiao opened a smoke wave.

Zhang Shishan said: “I have already read the documents you entrusted to Liu Sicheng. You can rest easy on Chao Qing’s case. After all, he is a tribute to the court. I will make another official document to be handed over to the Ministry of Rites, and I must find someone.”

In the difficult years, when the three judicial divisions encountered thorny cases, they all pushed it out. It is a great feeling that Dali Temple is willing to take over, but when the Ministry of Rites has finished reviewing the official documents, when will they start looking for someone? Scholars look forward to the title of the Golden List all their lives, and the day after tomorrow will be the palace exam, Chao Qing can’t afford to wait.

Su Jin thought of this and said, “Don’t hide it from your lord, the capital’s yamen has also investigated this matter. Chao Qing has been working hard at the place for the past few days, and there is nothing suspicious. Only on the day of his disappearance, the third son of the Taifu’s house came to him. It seems that there has been a dispute, and it’s not always obvious after that.”

Yan Ziyan, the third son of the Taifu’s mansion, who is currently the prince’s attendant, has been promoted to the post of Shao Zhanshi in the Zhanshifu. Zhang Shishan asked, “How to prove that it was Shaozhan’s affair?”

Su Jin said, “Holding a jade seal of Yan’s family, it was checked by the military guard at the Gongshi’s place.”

Zhang Shishan became embarrassed. The matter was related to Yan San. How should he handle it? Is it possible to take a jade seal to the Taifu’s house to get someone? It’s enough to offend the Taifu, and if you offend the East Palace, you can’t eat and walk around.

Zhang Shishan was speechless for a moment, looking at the dark sky through the window gap.

On the other hand, the man sitting in the sedan chair opened his mouth leisurely: “Yan Ziyan came here before, and then left again?”

“Gone.”

“When you left, was Chao Qing still there?”

“Still.”

That one He held a cup of tea and looked at Su Jin calmly: “If that’s the case, it’s not like doing anything with Yan Ziyan. The capital yamen doesn’t want to accept this hot potato, so you come to Dali Temple and ask Master Zhang to look at the past. , take the mere resignation to try Shao Zhan?”

Su Jin was blocked by this, and after a while he spat out a “yes”, his knees fell to the ground, and he kowtowed heavily, “Please, Master Zhang help the students once. ”

In the end, he is a scholar, and he is full of poetry and books, and he has read it to the core, and he has turned into a proud. It is said that there is gold under your knees, and if it is not for old friends, you will not ask for it in your life.

Seeing her like this, Zhang Shishan was already moved, and he wanted to get up to help, but was stopped by a hand stretched out from the side. Lord Lujiao held tea, walked slowly to Su Jin, looked at her condescendingly: “This official will tell you a few truths, listen carefully.”

“This year’s new year is not smooth, you should know what the world is. Not to mention losing a person, even if someone died, and a few temples were burned down, as long as the world is generally peaceful, it will be exposed if you can open it up. You should be an official. For the official, talk to Dali Temple about love and business, and look at your own identity first.”

At night, Su Jin returned to Yingtian Palace’s premises and sat on the couch in a daze.

Zhou Tongjuan from the next house saw it and asked, “Did that Master Zhang reject you?” He shook his head and sighed, “I persuaded you, these old officials who don’t cultivate, live like stones in a stinky pit. One is pedantic, and the other is addicted to ‘fly’, so why should you bring shame on yourself.”

Zhou Tong sentenced the word Gaoyan to a single name with the word “ping”. Su Jin turned to look at him, and suddenly said: “Gao Yan, in the imperial court, you are young, and you are a member of the third rank and above, how many do you know?”

[End of This Chapter]