Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 39

[39. Chapter 38]

This is the anti-theft chapter, and Zhu Minda’s heart sank, and it really was for Su Jin again.

He said coldly: “Although this son was passed to the palace by Lord Liu, the mistake he made has nothing to do with the trial of the Supreme Court, and Lord Liu does not need to worry about it.” Liu

Chaoming did not back down: “Dare to ask Your Highness, Su Jin What’s wrong ?” Zhu Minda said displeased: “Why, now this palace wants to kill someone, and I have to ask the Duchayuan for

instructions?” Liu Chaoming said: “His Royal Highness forgiveness, Wei Chen did not mean that. But Su Jin offended His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

, Wei Chen feels that he is to blame, if His Highness wants to punish, even Wei Chen will punish him.” Zhu Minda looked gloomy

, sneered and asked: “What if this palace wants him to die?” Liu Chaoming said with a deep expression:

“Please, Your Highness, and punish.”

Zhu Minda glanced at Zhu Nanxian, who was still struggling desperately on the ground, and at Liu Chaoming, who was kneeling on the side and resolutely begging for his life. He didn’t understand, but he was just a governor of the eighth rank. Even if he had splendid talents in mind, he was just an ant under the majestic imperial power, and he was a prince, so was it so difficult to kill an ant?

After all, Zhu Minda had Zhu Jingyuan’s blood on his body, and the more he determined, the more others blocked him, the more he had to do it at all costs.

He sneered: “Okay, okay, as you wish, this palace will kill him first, and then question the two of you one by one!”

At this moment, a timid voice came from the other end of the hall: “Great Emperor Brother.”

Zhu Minda looked sideways, Zhu Shiqi and a person dressed in a peacock patch were standing on the side of the hall.

Peacock Buzi limped over and called out to Zhu Minda with a smile, “Brother-in-law.”

This person was not someone else, but the one who had his leg broken by his father a while ago because he said, “The difference between the north and the south is probably a misunderstanding.” The minister of households, Shen Xi.

However, it was said that Shen Xi had two beautiful sisters, and one of them married Zhu Minda as the crown princess. Therefore, although he is a courtier, he is fortunate to have the honor of his sister’s beauty, and he has become half a royal family member.

Now that the courtiers are all present, Zhu Minda heard the “brother-in-law” and reprimanded with a dark face: “Presumptuous!”

Shen Xi smiled, and then Shi Shiran bowed down.

Zhu Minda has a strong relationship with the Crown Princess, and is more lenient to this brother-in-law who often comes and goes, and doesn’t care about his indiscretion, but said: “You take Seventeen back to the East Palace first, and wait for this Palace to finish cooking. Let’s go back and have dinner together.”

Shen Shilang has always been a fool to join in the fun, and after hearing this, he didn’t move his legs and feet, immediately dragged Zhu Shiqiyi and knelt in front of Zhu Minda, and said seriously, “Brother-in-law is angry, How can my brother-in-law get away? Well, anyway, my brother-in-law wants to punish someone, why don’t you just take the opportunity to punish me and Shiqiyi?”

Zhu Minda was disturbed by him for a while, and he scolded: “Get out of here. Get out, you’re still making a fool of yourself!”

Shen Xi said in surprise, “Why is this foolishness?” He took his chin and pointed at Zhu Nanxian, and then at Liu Chaoming, “A direct prince, the head of a hundred officials, this palace is all up and down. Apart from your majesty and brother-in-law, the most precious masters are all kneeling and begging for death, if I don’t follow the wind and beg for death, wouldn’t I be too blind to see them?” After speaking, he pushed him and knelt beside him with a blank expression on his face. Zhu Shiqi, who was in the room, urged: “Quick, please, eldest brother, let him give me two deaths, and let us also touch the glory of His Highness the Thirteenth and Lord Liu.”

Zhu Min was furious. He shouted, “Shen Qingyue!” But he didn’t know what to say to him.

Shen Xi climbed up the pole, immediately made a commanding gesture, glanced at Su Jin who was tied to the bench and stared at him, pointed at Yu Linwei beside him and said, “What else do you care about him? Pin Xiaoli, if you want to die, you should rank behind this servant, so you can bring the rope that binds him.”

Yu Linwei stared blankly at the hemp rope in his hand.

Shen Xi raised his head and stretched out his neck: “Yes, just this ball of hemp rope, hurry up and strangle this officer to death.”

This is the first time Su Jin has seen Shen Qingyue. The gentleman is graceful, with picturesque eyebrows and a tearful mole at the corner of his eye, which adds a third of a romantic smile. Unfortunately, the appearance of rushing to wrap the hemp rope around his neck is so unpleasant that Every time she thought about it, it was as clear as yesterday.

A few years later, Su was promoted to Ren Shangshu, an extremely high-ranking official. Shen Xi fell into her hands because of a trivial matter, so he asked her in a friendly way, if he could look at the face of his best friend and punish him in private. Su Jin sat high in the hall and said coldly, “Okay.” Then he threw down a bundle of hemp rope and said, “The one that was tied to me back in the day, you can use it to

strangle your neck.”

, but Juminda calmed down in the noise.

Shen Qingyue is right, Liu Chaoming is the head of the hundred officials, Su Jin is only a mere eighth-rank junior official, and it is not worth it to stand in a stalemate with the Supreme Court for such a person.

It was he who was impulsive and almost lost sight of the overall situation.

Zhu Minda stopped Shen Xi and said awe-inspiringly: “A ruler is not a ruler, a minister is not a minister, what are you talking about?” Then he turned to his side and said to Liu Chaoming, “Since there is Lord Liu as bailout, Governor Su is at fault this time. We will not pursue it.” Then he sighed, “Forget it, for the sake of the Supreme Court, let Lord Liu take this son away.”

Yu Linwei loosened the tie for Su Jin, and Su Jin was just beaten . With the staff, her feet were trembling when they landed on the ground. A servant wanted to come up to help her. She shook her head and avoided it.

Su Jin walked to Liu Chaoming’s side and bid farewell to Zhu Minda with him.

The two didn’t take two steps before Zhu Minda called out again, “Master Liu.”

Su Jin’s eyes darkened.

There was a small smile on Zhu Minda’s lips, as if his anger was just a joke: “Master Liu is usually busy with official business, and he has less contact with the East Palace. The end of next month is the birthday of the Crown Princess, and I hope that Lord Liu will definitely come.”

This is the price of buying your life with the East Palace.

Under the tyrannical and tyrannical governance of Emperor Jing Yuan, the overcorrected Chao Gang all showed a precarious imbalance between the monarch and his ministers.

Especially when the founding monarch is already very old, and the crown princes have self-esteem, who does not covet the supreme imperial power?

Under the seemingly calm throne, there are many forces, and they are in the vortex, even if they are extremely officials, they are also duckweed.

Liu Chaoming turned his head and bowed his head with a calm expression: “Thank you, Your Highness, for your invitation. The Crown Princess’s birthday, Wei Chen will definitely come.

” He was still staring blankly at the direction where Su Jin left, a surge of anger surged in his heart, and he threw his sleeves away.

Yu Linwei followed Zhu Minda away in a mighty manner. Zhu Nanxian released his restraints, reached out and took off the towel that was stuck in his mouth, then spat out a mouthful of bruised blood, turned over and lay on his back, staring blankly at the wind and rain coming. .

His bandaged knee oozes blood again during the struggle just now. In addition to the gums, the fingertips are also stained with blood.

What’s the use? Five years ago he didn’t keep Su Jin, and five years later, he still didn’t.

At least it wasn’t him who kept her.

Shen Xi struggled hard, and finally got a good result. He supported the ground and fell to the side. Seeing Zhu Nanxian’s embarrassed appearance, he asked twice, “Zhu Shisan, the one who was tied to the torturer just now. The one on the bench is the one you almost took off Zeng Youliang’s arm for him?”

Zhu Nanxian turned to look at him, as if he didn’t want to say more, he just asked, “What are you doing here?”

Shen Xi giggled , looking in the direction of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment: “I, I have an enemy who is dying. I will give him a meal on the road. After all, it is fate to be an enemy for a lifetime.”

Zhu Nanxian turned back to stare at Tianmu, too lazy to pay attention to him.

Shen Xi looked at him like this, and said lightly: “I know what you are thinking, do you feel that you are high but can’t control your destiny? You feel that you are a prince but you can’t even protect someone you want to protect? Do you hate yourself? You can only watch him die, but there’s nothing you can do. Zhu Shisan, do you think you’ve lived in vain?”

His words were like a sharp blade, cutting through the wind and waves all the way to Zhu Nanxian’s heart.

Zhu Nanxian clasped his fingers together and squeezed the word “roll” out of his teeth.

Shen Xi said, “Do you want to know why?”

Zhu Nanxian’s eyes were hurt, his Adam’s apple moved up and down, and he asked in a hoarse voice, “Why?”

Shen Xi said, “Even if you saved him, it was you. Put him in danger. You are your highness, but you have no supreme power. You were even born and raised in the shadow of this supreme power. There are bound to be countless pairs of eyes staring at you behind you. One step, someone will uproot the tree that is blocking your established route. Your protection is a double-edged sword for insignificant people. So if you really want to protect someone, otherwise you are strong enough, otherwise He is strong enough, otherwise, before that, staying away from love may not be a security.”

Zhu Nanxian turned his head and looked at him blankly.

Shen Xi raised his eyebrows and said, “I still don’t understand? Let’s put it this way, His Highness had a cat when he was a child. It was white and fluffy, and it was very human. Do you remember?”

Zhu Nanxian nodded.

“Then one day, the white cat became ill, and His Highness the seventh was anxious about it for a day, and did not go to Hanlin to study. That night, his mother-in-law ordered the cat to be skinned and killed in front of him. .”

Zhu Nanxian’s eyes dimmed, and he finally seemed to understand.

Shen Xi said: “His Thirteenth Highness, do you know what this story tells us?”

Zhu Nanxian asked, “What is the truth?”

Shen Xi stared at him solemnly and said, “Let’s tell us about this, in this deep palace, it is better to keep cats than to keep birds, and it is better to keep birds than to fight crickets, ancient and modern monarchs, tens of thousands of princes, love to fight crickets. There are too many to kill cats and birds because of playing with things, but have you heard of killing crickets?” Then he smiled and said in a low voice, “Your Highness, Wei Chen has newly acquired a cricket and named it ‘Tiger’. General’, a pair of long beards are so imposing, seeing that you are so sullen and intractable, why don’t we give it to you?”

Zhu Nanxian called out expressionlessly, “Seventeen.”

Standing aside For fear that his thirteenth brother couldn’t figure it out, Zhu Shiqi said quickly: “It’s here.”

Zhu Nan said enviously, “Bring the Xiongwei knife, this emperor has to chop up this son of a bitch surnamed Shen today!”

Su Jin followed Liu Chaoming all the way back to the Supreme Court.

Changfeng crossed the border, this long-deliberate torrential rain finally fell at the thin hour, and the sky darkened immediately, and even the sunset did not have time to attach to the clouds.

Just now, Zhu Minda used himself as a bargaining chip to sell people’s lives, how could Su Jin not understand.

Up to now, it seems that nothing should be said. Say thanks? Thank you is too light, don’t say it again. Say something else? But with so much debt in my heart, it’s really hard to speak again.

Liu Chaoming’s footsteps paused, and he looked back at her, frowning and thinking deeply, and asked softly, “What are you thinking about?” The

night rain lantern, reflected in Liu Chaoming’s eyes, turned into a deep and shallow light, Su Jin raised his eyes to look at him, He smiled lightly, the smile not reaching the bottom of his eyes.

She turned her head to look at the night outside the corridor immersed in the water curtain, and said lightly: “I’m thinking, when will this rain pass.”

Liu Chaoming also turned to look at the rain in the night, seemingly inadvertently: ” The wind and rain don’t stop, but it’s a blessing to have one person in the same boat.” Then he paused: ” Su

Shiyu, I have something to ask you.”

In Jin’s eyes, the chaotic raindrops seemed to be opened by a gap, and he could actually see the stars.

And Liu Chaoming’s words were also sent to his ears by the wind.

“You are willing to come to the Duchayuan and follow this official from now on to be a censor who will set things right and keep his heart as he is.” The

servant did not open the door, but replied to Zhu Minda: “Your Highness, the door seems to be locked.”

Zhu Minda In a cold voice: “Break open!” The

two servants slammed into the door together, 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” superior.

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 directly to Su Jin, and said coldly, “Su Jin?

”

Five years ago, Thirteen went mad and made a riot at the Ministry of Officials because of him, and today, it is still because of 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 Are you wronged or not, you don’t have a steel scale in your heart? Why do you look like a gourd without a mouth when you get to His Majesty?”

Gong Shangshu of the Ministry of War made a loud “bah”: “According to the old man, in the future, the seven ministers will face the saints, and we will be seven. Let’s unify the caliber first, so that one will not offend Your Majesty, and the other six will not have a good life.” After speaking, he glared at Shen Tuo again: “You said that you are a minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and the censor of the left capital made a statement, and you followed suit. You are brothers in the yamen. Anyone can help, but you can’t. Don’t you make Your Majesty think that the two of you are putting together a block for his old man?”

[End of This Chapter]