Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 4

[4. Chapter 3]

The new sun on this day is not brilliant, the lonely Liao hangs in the sky, the wind is blowing from time to time, and the stratus clouds are getting thicker and thicker.

Su Jin raised his hand and set up a shed, seeing that a torrential rain was coming, and the huge noon gate had nowhere to hide from the rain.

She closed her cuffs and planned to find a corner to squat, when someone called from behind: “Mr. Su.”

It was Ren Xuan’s attendant, and brother A Li came: “This morning, Master Hou and Mr. I also forgot to bring the list of tributes that I kept, so I brought it here, and if I wanted to make some rain, I also brought Mr. Looking down: “Sure enough, I guessed right, Mu Chun said that it will change today.”

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

A Li said, “Oh, this is the list of tributes that Luo Shangshu privately asked to get, and said that it was requested by Master Liu of the Ducha Yuan, not the official scriptures, but more complete than the list of the Ministry of Rites. He took out the

document again and showed it to Su Jin. “There’s nothing shameful about it, but the new head of the Metropolitan Police Department has a lenient management. Even the eighteenth generation of the poor scholar’s ancestors have to find out and tell me.” , what do you do with these things, can you do it if you read it well?”

Su Jin flipped through it, A Li’s words were true, this book is like a genealogy, and it is indeed traced back to the eighteenth 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?”

Scholar, almost all of them are from the south, and the little prince said, there are so many people from the north and south, I don’t know what bad things will happen!”

Not to mention the tributes in this category, just say that before the Spring Festival, the number of people who came from all over the country was also from the South, and after the Spring Festival, when the Xingbang was published, there were 89 tributes, and only seven from the North. People, because some officials in the north were dissatisfied, they went to Gongshi’s place to make trouble a few times, and it was Zhou Ping who led the yamen 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.

Only then did Mr. Jiang notice Su Jin, looked up and down, and saw that she was dressed in plain clothes, standing down, with an extremely elegant bearing. For a while, she was uncertain about the identity of this person, raised her eyebrows and asked humbly: “Who is this person?”

Su Jin delivered After reading the famous post, he greeted him and said, “Mr. Su is with me.”

Director Jiang opened the famous post and saw that it was the Governor of the Eighth Grade from the district of Yingtianfu. He straightened his waist and said lightly, “Oh, Then let’s go inside together.”

Before the three of them were seated, Master Liu of the Supreme Court also arrived, followed by Master Zhao Yanzhao, the second head of the Supreme Court, the Deputy Chief Censor.

Mr. Jiang was startled, and his drowsy head was completely awake. Immediately invited two nobles to sit, served tea, and respectfully said: “The ‘Dragon Tuan’er rewarded by the sage has finished eating in the early ten days, and there are still some ‘silver threads’ left, which were cooked in the morning by the humble post, two adults. Let’s go .”

Zhao Yan smiled and said, “That’s good, we have the ‘Long Tuan’er in one piece, the Ministry of Rites likes to eat it, you can take it to the Supreme Court tomorrow.”

Director Jiang nodded and said yes, thinking After thinking about it, he said in a panic, “How dare you not.”

Zhao Yan waved his hand, indicating that he was not polite, and said, “Master Liu and I are going to the outside of the palace, thinking that the list of tributes that I asked the Ministry of Rites to sort out a few days ago is probably ready. Now , come and pick it up.”

Mr. Jiang bowed: “Yes, both the Shang Shu and the little Marquis have warned about this. Yesterday, the lower official sorted out the roster, and the little Marquis also brought it back to the mansion to check it in person. No, I’m afraid. Fengtian Palace is busy with work, so I specifically told Brother A Li to bring it.” After saying that, he looked at A Li with a smile, waiting for him to take out the documents to hand over.

A Li thought that this time it was bad luck. He first broke up with Su Jin and gave her the roster but didn’t get it back.

Lord Liu’s iron-fisted method, the little Marquis, has been nagging him a lot. If he was asked to arrest him now, he found that he had handed over the documents of the Ministry of Rites to an outsider, and killing him would be trivial, and it would be impossible to implicate the little Marquis.

A Li was sweating on his forehead in a hurry, his knees softened and he was about to kneel. Su Jin took a step ahead of him and presented the document with both hands: “Master Liu, Master Zhao, please take a look.”

A Li closed his eyes, thinking about it, and Director Jiang was also dumbfounded . , I also feel that the game is almost over.

The hall was deadly silent. After a long while, Liu Chaoming asked in a cold voice, “How come the documents from the Ministry of Rites are on you?”

Su Jin didn’t say anything, but Director Jiang suddenly rushed over and said, “This descendant is a new member of the casting and printing bureau of the Ministry of Rites. The ambassador who has come, has been in office for two days, and it is not surprising that he has not entered the stream, and it is not surprising that he has not entered the eyes of adults.”

He thought that instead of sitting still and waiting for death, he would go back to lying and find a way to survive. Chaoming had already met twice, once at Dali Temple, where she was the governor of Yingtianfu from the Eighth Grade, and once at Midday Gate, where she was the attendant of Houye’s residence.

Liu Chaoming’s voice was indifferent: “Oh, now it’s the ambassador of the Ministry of Rites?”

Su Jin was speechless. She thought that A Li was afraid that the roster would be wet by the rain, so she helped to hide it. Shrimp, Liu Chaoming just asked, but he was in a mess.

At present, he was driven to the shelves and forced to recognize the identity of the ambassador. Liu Chaoming

took the roster and flipped through it casually: “Since he is a member of the Ministry of Rites, he must have sorted out this roster. Which ones are you authoring?”

: “Lord Liu, the first few people on the roster are the ones who wrote the subordinates.”

Liu Chaoming said: “I don’t want to read it, you can memorize it and listen to the official.”

Su Jin had no choice but to answer.

Mr. Jiang thought that death was imminent, and his back bowed like an old ginseng, but when he heard Su Jin’s back, the more unbelievable, he could not help but slowly straighten up and stared at her dumbfounded-name, place of origin, family lineage, ancestors made a living, for The official is a businessman, and there is nothing wrong with being relocated or relegated, as if the book was really written by her.

Liu Chaoming listened for a while, then interrupted: “Okay.” He closed the roster, stared at Su Jin, and said leisurely: “I have the ability to remember it.” After that, he covered the tea bowl. , stood up with Zhao Yan.

Seeing that the two adults were about to leave, Director Jiang wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuffs, and bent over to send them off.

Liu Chaoming stopped at the threshold again, and asked without end, “Which day did your old man disappear?”

Su Jin was stunned, then bent over to give a bow: “Master Hui, yes Five days ago, the ninth day of the fourth lunar month.”

Liu Chaoming gave a faint “Oh”, and then said: “On the ninth day of the fourth lunar month, Yan Ziyan went to the East Palace after the meeting, and returned at night. ”

In other words, it wasn’t the third son of Yan who went to Chao Qing that day with the jade seal of the Yan family.

In fact, after stopping Yan Ziyan to ask questions in the morning, Su Jin also guessed this, but he did not expect that the person who confirmed this guess for himself was actually Liu Chaoming.

Su Jin hesitated for a while, not knowing what Liu Chaoming wanted to do. He also wondered how to thank such an unpredictable and unpredictable person, so that he would appear decent and sincere.

That Liu Chaoming had already stepped over the threshold, and said indifferently: “Su Jin.”

Su Jin was stunned: “Yes.”

Liu Chaoming said coldly: “Still relying on it? Waiting for the inspection by the official. Did the imperial censor drive you out of the palace?”

There was only one way out of the palace, Liu Chaoming and Zhao Yan walked in front, and Su Jin followed not far or near.

The shower had stopped, the iron horse on the corner of Chengtianmen was rusted, the wind was blowing, and the bell sound was hoarse. Zhao Yan glanced behind him and said in a low voice, “This is Su Jin.”

Liu Chaoming, “Yes . “A sound.

Zhao Yan shook his head and said, “It’s a pity, when the old imperial censor read his article ‘Copying on Qing Silk’, every word, every word and every word of the time, he said that the article on governing officials in the world, no one can beat him, he thought that Hanlin would not He, it happened that I was accepted by the court, how did you know that you and I drove to keep people, and it was only one step too late to kill the officials from the Ministry of Justice.”

Liu Chaoming said: “It may not be good to walk smoothly, and it may be said that it is benevolent.”

Zhao Yan smiled and said: “I’m afraid that the old imperial censor will only be among the crowd, because you and I are one step behind, and people will give up.” As he spoke, he had

reached Chengtianmen, and the junior officials of the Duchayuan waited outside the door with a carriage . , Su Jin took a few steps and said: ”

Master Liu.” He raised the umbrella to his eyebrows with both hands, and said solemnly: “Xiaguan, thank the Lord for borrowing the umbrella.” He stopped, but Yun didn’t leave, and said lightly: “No need.”

He got on the carriage, remembered what Zhao Yan had just said, and said again: “Listen to what you mean, there have been people who asked Hanlin to beg Su Jin?”

Zhao Yandao: “I also heard from Qian San’er later that after Su Jin was sent to Songshan County, His Highness the Thirteenth asked him about his whereabouts, knew what happened to him, and even had a fight with the officials, which scared Zeng Youliang that raccoon dog. I thought I stabbed something serious, so I almost resigned, but fortunately, Zhu Shisan followed the army to the Northwest Guard Station, and this matter was over.”

Liu Chaoming opened the back curtain while listening to him. After looking at it, Su Jin stood there for a while in a serious manner, and when he saw the carriage go away, he put the paper umbrella behind him, took a short path, and walked away.

“His Royal Highness?” Liu Chaoming lowered the curtain and frowned slightly, “Zhu Nanxian?”

[End of This Chapter]