Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 195

[195. Chapter Nineteen]

This is Bao Zhang

and Ren Xuan who returned to the Ministry of Rites and Luo Shangshu. He hunched over and listened to Director Jiang crying for a while. He felt that he was very long-winded, and said, “You deserve it, this old man has taught you a long time ago, kowtow more and talk less. Let your bald mouth cause trouble.”

Ren Xuan heard something suspicious and asked: “Master Liu and Su Jin are old acquaintances? Can’t you?”

Director Jiang wiped a tear: “Why can’t you, the lower official heard Liu personally. My lord, the old man helped Su Jin investigate the case, asked about the date of his disappearance, and said gossip about Yan Zhan, who knew that Zuodu Yushi was an iron-faced Bodhisattva, and he could ask him for help without a strong friendship?”

Ren Xuan for a while He was stunned, but Shen Xi, the servant of the household who came to visit the door first, listened to the corner for a long time, and said with a smile: “Mr. Jiang, I remember that you have a grandson, who is about the same age as Mr. Liu, it is not suitable for you to call Mr. Liu old man. ?” Mr.

Jiang broke the jar and smashed: “What’s wrong? My grandfather is the one who can kill me.”

Shen Xi pulled the third-grade peacock embroidery on his official robe and asked: “Director Jiang, what about me?”

“You ?” With tears in his eyes, Director Jiang looked up at him: “You are in charge of money, my ancestors!”

Shen Xi laughed and Ren Xuan sat down beside Director Jiang, beside the threshold, puzzled. .

The Supreme Court has the power to impeach hundreds of officials, and it is best for them to try the Chao Qing case. If Su Jin and Liu Chaoming knew each other, why would he come to him with a secret letter? Not to mention the near and far, there is still a handle left and right.

He just went to Zhanshifu to inquire about news, and bumped into His Highness the Thirteenth. Only then did he know that Zhu Nanxian had returned to Beijing from the northwest.

Ren Xuan didn’t know that Su Jinji didn’t remember Zhu Nanxian, but when His Highness the Thirteenth made a fuss about the official department for a former Hanlin, it was a momentary talk.

If Chao Qing’s case had nowhere to go, His Highness Thirteenth would be undecided and willing to take care of this business.

Ren Xuan rushed back excitedly, originally wanting to tell Su Jin and Zhu Shisan the good news that he was returning to Beijing, but Liu Chaoming stepped in out of thin air, like a basin of cold water, making his kindness seem superfluous. A Li prepared the sedan chair, came in and asked, “Little Marquis, should I go to the Tianfu

Yamen to find Mr. Su?”

Ren Xuan waved his hand: “No need, let’s go back to the house first.”

It was already dark, and when he returned to the premises, Zhou Ping came out of the main room, grabbed her and asked, “I haven’t seen you for two days, where have you been?”

Su Jin saw that he was sweating profusely and his clothes were messy. Said: “Don’t ask me, what’s the matter with you?”

Zhou Ping sighed: “Don’t mention it, those fallen officials are making trouble at the Confucius Temple again today. I took the yacha to coax people, and there were conflicts. Taking advantage of the chaos, they overturned me on the ground, but fortunately, the soldiers and horses from the five cities came, so they drove the troublemakers away, and I just came back.”

Su Jin walked to the case and poured a cup of tea and handed it to him. : “Everyone in this yamen knows that you are honest. Usually, it just throws tough cases to you. Now it’s better. Someone is making trouble outside and also asks you to go. You are a scholar. Are you going to preach to the troublemaker?”

Zhou Ping took the tea and reassured her: “This time it’s also a scholar who is making trouble. It’s also suitable for me to preach.”

Su Jin thought of the list of tributes he read in the morning, and couldn’t help but say: “If there are more troubles, you can’t I really can’t push it away, so I simply call me ill.”

Zhou Ping responded repeatedly, and asked again, “Have you noticed anything about Chao Qing’s disappearance?”

Su Jin poured a cup of tea for himself: “A little bit.”

Zhou Ping looked left and right, dragged her to the porch, and said in a low voice, “Yesterday you left, and I went to Gongshi’s office to inquire again, but I happened to bump into the maid of the third son of Yan’s family, saying that his son was the one who sent the jade seal. She came to pick it up specially when it fell here.”

“Yesterday?”

Judging from the look on his face, Yan Ziyan only learned this morning that the Yan family had a jade seal that had landed at the Gongshi’s place. Where did this maid come from, who has the ability to predict the future?

Zhou Ping said: “Isn’t that jade seal taken away by you? I told her that Chao Qing has disappeared, and the yamen wants to investigate the case and take away the evidence. If she wants the jade seal, she can only come to the capital yamen in two days. Su Jin asked, ”

Would she like to come?”

Zhou Ping said, “She said she couldn’t get out of her body the next day, and she would come before dawn the next day.”

Zhou Ping saw that Su Jin was silent, and added: ” I thought this maid was acting strange, so I wrote down what she looked like, and when Lord Yang returned to the mansion, I could ask him about this person.”

Su Jin shook his head and said, “No, I already know who she is.”

Mrs. Yan had to have one wife . The fourth son, the eldest son and the second son are not in the capital. Apart from the third son Yan Ziyan, who is usually in the house, there is also a young lady who has been sent back three times and is waiting for her.

Yan’s jade seal is only passed down to the direct line. Since the three young masters have no time to spare, the only person who left the jade seal at the Gong Shi’s that day can only be the infamous Miss Yan, Yan Ziqi.

On duty the next day, there was always talk about the officials making troubles in the government office. Seeing Zhou Ping coming, he hurriedly grabbed and questioned the details.

Zhou Ping answered them one by one, and finally said: “The chief examiner of Chunqi is Mr. Qiu Ge, who is fair and honest, and everyone in the world knows that it’s hard to feel bad, let these officials make trouble, and when they calm down, they will dissipate. Now , it’s not a big deal.”

Liu Tuiguan laughed and said: “At the moment, Zhou Tong will judge you for being lenient. Did you know that last night, the Supreme Court came to invite Master Yang to drink tea, so he discussed it all night and returned it. He didn’t come back.”

Zhou Ping was shocked: “The Metropolitan Court is also in charge of this troublesome official?”

Liu Tuiguan said: “Do you think it’s a trivial matter? Last year, Mr. Gao from Quzhou was transferred to the inner court. Just because he was born in Division B, the people inside didn’t even look at him, so he couldn’t stand it a while ago and decided to become an official.” After speaking

, he glanced at Su Jin, who was a copycat in the corner, “If you don’t believe me, ask him, he is from Division A. At that time, he was Jieyuan in Qizhou, a second-class jinshi, but now I am subordinate to you and me, I am afraid that I will not be reconciled in this life.”

Zhou Ping’s face was stern: “Brother Yichu’s words are different. Bailixi paid homage to the prime minister at 70, Huang Zhong surrendered to Shu to defeat the enemy at 60. Shiyu is still young, and he will not know what he will do in the future.”

Liu Yichu said: “You just love to preach. He has offended the officials. It’s good fortune to no longer be demoted, and he

still wants to be promoted?” Zhou Ping wanted to argue again, but Su Jin had finished copying the case and presented it to Liu Yichu , said solemnly: “Your Excellency is joking, Xiaguan has no ambitions, he just wants to be humble, this place is my hometown. It’s very good for Xiaguan to stay in the yamen, as long as Master Liu is accommodating, he will go outside to fight from time to time. It’s good to be at the top.”

Liu Yichu slanted at her: “Why, it’s not enough to go outside for two days, and you have to go out again?”

Su Jin said: “Yes, it’s a personal matter, I’ll be back before I apply.”

Liu Yichu said. Although there is no door on the top, he is lenient to the bottom, and he knows how to open one eye and close the other, so he said: “You can go anyway, if you are captured by the old thief Sun, you don’t need to intercede with my lord, Ben. Your Excellency will not care about your life or death.” When

Su Jin left the yamen, he heard Zhou Ping call behind him: “Shi Yu, wait for me.”

Su Jin asked in surprise, “Why did you come out?”

Zhou Ping looked back. The Yan Fuya sighed and said, “Liu Yichu can’t speak his mind. I don’t want to stay with him.” After a while, he asked again, “Are you going to go to the Gongshi? Well, I’m going too. .”

Zhou Gaoyan has a principle, when talking to Liu Yichu, he only speaks lightly.

When he mentioned Luodi Shizi in the morning, he didn’t agree on his face, but he didn’t have a bottom in his heart. When I thought about the group of troublesome generals, I told him to wait and see, and I couldn’t hold my stomach full of sadness.

Su Jin said: “You are worrying about eating radishes, and Chunwei is not handled by the capital’s yamen. Even if the situation gets bigger, the emperor will be held accountable, and there is a cabinet on top, and the Ministry of Rites will bear it.”

Zhou Ping said gloomily: “Although it is such a reason, I still go to the Gongshi’s place to take a look. As long as the Ministry of Rites can safely invite all the gentlemen on the Xingbang into the palace today, and tomorrow I will sing the corpse and seal the official, My heart can go back to my stomach.” Before he spoke, he had reached

the Gongshi’s office, and Wu Wei checked the official posts and went in to report it. After a while, Xu Yuanzhe came out in a hurry, and asked urgently all the way: “Su Sir, is there any news about Brother Yunsheng?”

[End of This Chapter]