Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 197

[197. Chapter Nineteen]

This is the anti-theft badge,

but unfortunately once a person reaches a high position, it is inevitable to worry about gains and losses, and accumulated worries will become scabies.

For more than ten years, Zhu Jingyuan killed all the heroes, and the entire court was shrouded in a stench.

If anyone can walk through this bad wind with difficulty, it is only the former Censor of Zuodu, Mr. Meng Liangmeng, known as the “Old Censor”.

Liu Chaoming stood in the backlight and said to Su Jin: “The old imperial censor has been imprisoned twelve times in his life, and has been in danger countless times. In the fifth year of Jingyuan, he went to Huguang to inspect the case. The local officials and bandits colluded and put a knife around his neck. , he blocked the sword with his hand, and his right hand five fingers were beheaded, and he did not retreat; in the eighth year of Jingyuan, the sage suspected that General Pingbei was conspiring against him. He was tortured, but he did not retreat. In the eleventh year of Jingyuan, the sage dismissed the prime minister, implicated more than 10,000 people with the crime of treason, and as soon as he came out of the prison, he made a direct remark, and the sage wanted to kill him in anger, but he still did not Change the original intention.”

Su Jin said: “I have heard of this. At that time, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty asked the old imperial censor to save his life.”

Liu Chaoming said: “For this reason, he was still tortured with a cane, and his double The legs are necrotic, and the rest of his life depends on the medicine and stone of the sick bed.” He turned around and looked into Su Jin’s eyes: “Su Shiyu, in your eyes, what is Xu Ying’s death? Heaven does not know the strange grievances of ghosts and gods crying? Or not at all, his death is just the sadness of life you have experienced, and this sadness tells you, okay, okay, why don’t you just call gold and withdraw troops?”

Su Jin avoids Opening Liu Chaoming’s eyes, he looked at the incense case with the tablet of the old imperial censor: “Master Liu, I don’t want to retire, I just don’t understand, is it wrong to retreat? If you don’t do your best in everything, if you don’t get what you want, is it better to quit early? Okay? Do you have to be like the overlord of Western Chu who is defeated and flees the Wujiang River and kills himself by the river when there is no way to retreat?”

Liu Chaoming looked at her and suddenly sighed: “Have you heard of Xie Xiang?”

His heart tightened suddenly, and his nails were pinched into his palms so as not to raise his head and show a panicked look, “I heard a little.”

Liu Chaoming said: “In the past, the first great Confucian at the beginning of the establishment of the dynasty, the sage once worshipped him as his prime minister three times. He had long since retired, but it was a pity that the calamity involved too much and spread to him. “Su Shiyu

, you persevered in Chao Qing’s case, making this official seem to see the old imperial censor’s bravery in the past. You know that after the Censor was tortured with a cane that year, his legs could have been saved, but he heard that the only granddaughter of Xie Xiang disappeared in this disaster, and went west to find the land of Sichuan and Shu for the legacy of his old friend. , which delayed the treatment and made both legs necrotic.

Su Jin raised his eyes suddenly and looked at Liu Chaoming in a daze. The Liu Chaoming in

front of him seemed to be different. The thick fog that had accumulated in his eyes all the year round dissipated in an instant, revealing a pair of eyes that were as bright as lacquer, but they were clear and firm, as if At a glance, he can go straight to his heart.

Su Jin suddenly understands what Liu Chaoming’s phrase “the censor who keeps his heart as one” means.

Because he has always been doing this, keeping his heart as one, there are Liu Chaoming

said, “Su Shiyu, I know that you don’t want to retire, but I just want to tell you that Xu Ying’s death was just one of thousands of people who died with hatred. Censor, you can only face such setbacks head-on. Even if your eyes are full of absurdity, you should be like an old Censor, sailing in the dark night, only to the bright moon. Riding the boat in the

dark night, only to the bright moon.

Su Jin smiled in a low voice: “Where the way is, although there are millions of people, I will go. “Then she raised her eyes, her eyes seemed to be burning with burning fire, but her tone was shallow, and she turned around and picked up a stick of incense: “I will be a stick of incense for the old imperial history.” ”

It was also her grandfather’s place to put a stick of incense on an old friend who had been away for many years.

Liu Chaoming looked at her burning incense and suddenly remembered what the old imperial censor said during his lifetime, “If you can get this son, you must keep it by your side and teach him well.” , and the last sentence he said while holding his hand when he was dying – Liu Yun, Su Shiyu’s life is too difficult, you must find him and use your strength to protect him for life.

Liu Chaoming Holding Su Jin’s hand: “I am with you. ”

Then he lit the incense and glanced at Su Jin, looked at the tablet of the old imperial censor, and said, “Respect him with respect to the teacher.” It was

almost time to return to the Supreme Court.

Shen Xi played with a folding fan in his hand and leaned on the porch to say hello: “Being involved in all kinds of official and mundane affairs, I thought that Brother Yun and I would be suspended from the morning court and the other had their legs broken, so we should make it together to make fun of me. Son, I didn’t think that Brother Yun found a match before me.” He reached out and gave Su Jin a random nod, “Mr. Su, we meet again.”

Su Jin returned a nod: “Hello, Mr. Shi Lang.” I’m about to bow down.

Shen Xi hurriedly said, “No, no.” Then he went to the front hall and said, “Is this person your friend?”

There was still a person kneeling in the main hall. Su Jin took a closer look and found it was Zhou Ping.

She said: “Exactly.” Shen Xi smiled narrowly: “You look at it.” He cleared his throat and said solemnly: “Zhou Tong sentenced, this official forgives

you and orders you to be acquitted.”

Burying his head into the ground: “Don’t dare, I beg the adults to punish you.”

Shen Xi laughed out loud, and quickly put it back, even more serious: “You calm down, Governor Su has already told this official. Now, he will be punished on your behalf.”

Zhou Ping raised her head abruptly, first looked at Shen Xi with a bewildered face, then looked at Su Jin with a reproachful look, and then kowtowed: “Lord Shen, Governor Su still There is an injury, please show mercy, or else Governor Su’s punishment will be doubled for him.”

Shen Xi couldn’t bear it any longer, holding his stomach and smiling like a ball: “What kind of stupid and bad debt is this? ”

Liu Chao knew that he liked to make fun of people, so he stepped into the front hall and said, “Zhou Tong is sentenced to be flat.”

Zhou Ping raised her eyelids and glanced at it, and weighed the official quality in her heart, Nuonuo get up.

Liu Chaoming looked at Shen Xi coldly: “What happened to him?”

Shen Xi sat down on his right hand without being right, and put on a surprised look again: “Your Majesty’s remarks have wronged the common people. Zhou Tongju came to the prefectural court early this morning to find Governor Su, and it happened that you two I’m not here, I’m still a guest who dropped by to help the Metropolitan Court.”

Liu Chaoming glanced at him coldly.

Shen Xi smiled and changed his words: “Hello, greeting guests. Didn’t I break my legs? The official robes were too cumbersome, so I just wore casual clothes. How could Zhou Tongjing recognize me as a messenger?” He walked all the way from outside the palace. He was so hot that he wanted to ask me for a cup of tea. I thought to myself, this is a guest of the Imperial Court, so I can’t be neglected, right?

“I’m looking for a teapot again. The tea-burning shop was busy for a long time, and finally made a cup of tea for Zhou Tongjuan. Who would have thought that Qian San’er, who was short-sighted, suddenly came over and called ‘Sir Shen’ and bowed, and Zhou Tongjuan was choked. He was half dead, then knelt on the ground and couldn’t get up. ”

Speaking, he raised the teapot again, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Zhou Ping: “Brother Zhou, do you think so? ”

Zhou Ping fell to the ground again with a plop.

Shen Xi handed the tea in his hand to Su Jin and said, “Hey, I said, you have such a rebellious body, how can you have such an honest friend? I’m afraid that I won’t call you bullying all day long, right? Su Jin took the

tea and put it aside, turned around to help Zhou Ping: “Shen Shilang’s words can be asked of a lower official, and Master Liu is upright, so he can’t prevent him from interacting with Master Shen?” After speaking, he was too lazy to deal with Shen Xi, and asked Zhou Ping, “Gao Yan, why are you looking for me? ”

Shen Xi knocked on the case with his fan and asked Liu Chaoming, “Hey, he is so arrogant and inferior, but you are used to it?”

Liu Chaoming ignored him.

Zhou Ping looked up at the faces of the two people in the hall, and she didn’t really mean to punish him, so she said: “Yesterday, a grandma came to the yamen to look for you. Brother Yichu and I asked if it was Yuan . Zhe’s grandma, because Yuan Zhe mentioned you in a letter from Yuan Zhe at home, she came here because she couldn’t find Yuan Zhe. ”

Su Jin’s eyes darkened.

Zhou Ping said again: “I asked the Yin of Yang to ask, but I don’t know what happened to Yuan Zhe, so I came to ask you.” After a while, she lowered her voice and said, “Besides I am very worried about you, I came in to see you. .”

After hearing this, Su Jin turned to look at Liu Chaoming, who nodded to her.

Su Jin said: “I’m fine now, I’ll go back with you.” After saying that, he said goodbye to Liu Chaoming and Shen Xi.

When Su Jin’s figure disappeared outside the court, Liu Chaoming thought for a while, thinking that the person who instigated the poisoning that day had not been found, and was about to order the first three to secretly send two people to follow, but he was stopped by Shen Xi’s fan: “No, no, this thief has not been caught, and you are not the only one worried. Governor Su is here, and there are two idiots to follow.”

Liu Chaoming was stunned, thinking about who he was talking about, and asked, “How do you know?”

Shen Xi Yi smiled: “In the past, when Hanlin went to school together, the old lady Fu said you were the smartest one.” Then he sighed: “It’s a pity that your brain is usually used for official business, and there are still too few people trying to figure it out. Yes .”

Liu Chaoming raised his eyebrows.

Shen Xi said: “Do you know what all the nerds in this world have in common?” He pointed out a finger: “One, wait for the rabbit.”

Su Jin and Zhou Ping walked over Xuanyuan Terrace, got off the Yunji Bridge, and a person came around behind the bridge.

Another person who couldn’t tell his identity in plain clothes, glanced at Zhou Ping, coughed and didn’t speak, and Zhou Ping knelt down with him.

Zhu Nanxian was startled. He thought it was very appropriate for him to accompany Su Jin to the palace in casual clothes, but he didn’t pay attention to asking an unidentified face to recognize his identity.

Shen Xi compares his second finger: “Second, hide your ears and steal the bell.” Zhu Nanxian

calmed down, determined not to care about his face, and coughed again: “Governor Su, what a coincidence?”

The door slammed, only to hear a “click”, the latch seemed to be cracked, and the two doors clearly opened a gap toward the inner gap, but closed with a “bang”.

Zhu Minda squinted his eyes slightly, his face was very ugly, and said solemnly: “Bring a candle.” The

sky was dark, and the clouds were so thick that they cast a large shadow on the front of the palace. Seeing Zhu Nanxian’s figure silently leaning against the door.

He sneered, and immediately shouted: “Yulinwei!”

“Yes!”

Zhu Minda said, “Bumping the door!”

Yulinwei’s strength was comparable to that of a servant. The four of them slammed into it, and Zhu Nanxian was finally unable to resist.

The huge momentum made his center of gravity unbalanced, and he fell forward while turning over the table on the side. The makeup fell, the bronze mirror shattered, and his knees just stuck on a piece of broken mirror.

Zhu Nanxian couldn’t care less about the pain, looked at Su Jin, and was relieved to see that she had replaced the yisa at the moment when the door slammed open.

Zhu Minda stepped over the threshold, and the first thing he saw was Zhu Nanxian’s bleeding knee. His eyes became more and more gloomy.

The back room was very messy, and there was a curtain in front of the couch, and I didn’t know what Shisan was doing in it.

Zhu Minda walked up to Su Jin and said coldly, “Su Jin?”

Su Jin said: “Go back to Your Highness, this is Wei Chen.”

Five years ago, Thirteen went crazy and made a riot in the Ministry of Officials because of him, and today, It was still for him!

It seems that this child must be removed.

Zhu Minda’s voice no longer had a trace of warmth: “Yulin Wei, take this person out and kill him with the guilt of the lord!”

It was not until Shen Shi that Liu Chaoming and the six ministers withdrew from the Fengtian Palace.

After the early dynasty, Emperor Jing Yuan ordered Qi Qing to stay behind to discuss the case of the Northern and Southern Shizi, but Liu Chaoming actually remonstrated that Qiu Ge Lao and Yan Ziyan would not die if they were guilty. These words not only touched the sage’s inverse scale, but also affected the six ministers and suffered the evil fire of Emperor Jing Yuan.

At the end, Emperor Jing Yuan said: “Liu Qing is young and full of energy, and you can’t see everything in the long run. Go back and think about yourself for a month. You don’t need to see me again.”

He signaled to stop his early morning in January.

After Qiqing withdrew, they went to Chitai in parallel. The head of the Minister of Rites, Luo Songtang, couldn’t hold back and complained to Liu Chaoming: “You said that you are like a stuffy gourd on weekdays, but you want to make your Majesty unhappy at this juncture. What does Your Majesty think? , don’t we feel like a mirror in our hearts? Since the beginning of this case, Qiu Ge’s head is no longer on his neck. Do you still want to pick it up for him and sew it up? The justice that the northern officials want to seek is more than this one. Imperial Examination? What they want is the Sacred Heart, Your Majesty is here to show them!”

After hearing this, Zeng Youliang, the official ministry, mocked: “Lord Luo’s words are different, who is Mrs. Liu? Censor, that is placed in the former court, it is the doctor of Censor, the head of the official, it is my duty to offend Yan Zhijian, and it is also my duty to be involved by him. Don’t you feel like a mirror in your heart, Lord Luo? The end of this case is Injustice or not, you don’t have a steel scale in your heart? How can you be like a gourd without a mouth when you come to His Majesty?”

[End of This Chapter]