Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 45

[45. Forty-four chapters]

After Su Jin heard Shen Xi’s words, he was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes and glanced at the dagger again.

A bewildered look appeared on her face, as if she didn’t know what to do with the dagger.

Shen Xi smiled, retrieved the folding fan from Yang Zhiwei and left.

Yang Zhiwei tied up the good man, came over and called: “Su Yushi.”

Su Jin then reacted, put away the dagger, and said, “I’m sorry to be an official, I haven’t met Master Yang yet.”

Yang Zhiwei quickly stopped her.

Su Jin’s current status is not what it used to be, not to mention that the imperial censor of the Imperial Court can leapfrog impeachment. It was even rumored in the palace a while ago that the sage suddenly recruited Su Jin to return to Beijing, in order to promote her to the fourth grade. The imperial censor.

Yang Zhiwei said very politely: “The people are already tied up, the official will send them to the Metropolitan Court tomorrow morning, and I don’t know if Su Yushi has any other orders?”

Su Jin bowed again: “No, Lao Yang Your Excellency has worked hard at night, and you are ashamed of being an official.”

Yang Zhiwei said something, and he also left with the yamen.

Su Jin left the Feng Mansion and suddenly had nowhere to go. He originally wanted to go to the reception temple, but the official seal was not with him, so he had to find a simple inn to rest. Horse, go to Zhengyangmen.

She made an appointment with Qin Zhaolin yesterday to meet you at the main entrance in the south of the city at the fifth watch.

When he got to the city gate, Qin Zhaolin had already picked up his luggage from the inn and waited there. The surroundings were still dark, and suddenly there was the sound of horses’ hooves not far away. Su Jin raised his eyes and looked at the moonlight. Dang a group of people came on horseback, showed the token on the waist to the city gate guard, and left the city.

Su Jin felt a little strange, so he called the censor of the city patrol nearby to ask, and the censor said: “Master Hui Su, I have been rushing your highnesses back to Beijing in the past few days, these people should be the soldiers of the palace who were raised in the palace. , I know that His Royal Highness is near Yingtian City, go out of the city to pick it up.”

Su Jin said “um”.

Tan Zhaolin leaned forward and said, “Sir, I have your official uniform and seal ready for you.” He pointed at Zhengyangmen with his chin, “I used to be the boss here, so I will ask those little bastards to make an empty room for you. Change your official uniform first.”

Soon after Tan Zhaolin left, two little guards greeted her respectfully.

Su Jin followed them up to the gatehouse, his mind suddenly moved, and he looked out of the gatehouse.

The light of the post station not far away had been lit up, and by the glow of the fire, I saw that the group of so-called royal guards suddenly split into two teams at the fork.

Su Jin had doubts in his heart again – if he went to pick up his Highness, wouldn’t he know which way His Highness should come from?

Su Jin Shen Ran asked: “Which highnesses have returned to the capital now?”

The guard on the side said: “Returning to Sir Yushi, some of the highnesses in the north of the domain have already returned, because they are afraid that it will be delayed for a while. , the road is blocked by heavy snow. Right now, the two or three His Royal Highnesses from the south have not arrived yet. The Thirteenth Highness has already sent a letter, saying that a few days later, the rest seems to be the Tenth Highness and the Sixth Highness.”

Su Jin thought for a while. He asked again, “Which palace’s personal soldiers did you just go out?”

Another guard said, “Returning to Lord Censor, it is from His Royal Highness’s mansion.”

Su Jin frowned and glanced at him: “His Royal Highness is already in the capital. , what are you sending your personal soldiers out for?”

The guard immediately knelt on his knees and said, “Go back to Lord Censor, I don’t know, but the royal family’s personal soldiers often borrow and borrow, or the Ninth Highness sends someone to pick them up. Whoever is better may be your Highness. Before the three kings returned to the capital, the Fourteenth Highness sent personal guards to greet them.”

Su Jin nodded and said lightly: “You two go.” After the guards left, Su Jin called out, “Zhaolin.” After thinking for a while, he raised his chin at the fork outside the station: “You Bring a few people and follow me.”

Tan Zhaolin said: “Okay.” After thinking about it again, he asked, “Sir, what should I look at?”

Su Jin took a deep breath and said, “Where should I settle down ? Have stayed, have you said anything, have you ever changed.” Then she paused and glanced at Tan Zhaolin: “What is the most important thing?” Tan

Zhaolin approached and said, “What?”

“No progress.”

“Why did I let you follow?”

“Go and see what these people are doing?”

Su Jin said: “They claim to be the royal guards of the palace, and they are there to pick up people. If they pick up people, how can they be? Divorce? Therefore, they use the name of Kinbei, and most likely they want to conspire.”

She asked again, “What will happen to the conspiracy?”

Tan Zhaolin immediately replied: “I know, can use a knife and see blood!”

Su Jin was speechless. After a moment of silence, he said: “To plan to do something wrong is to do something shameful. Something shameful can only be done in a place where it is not visible. It is impossible for so many people to do it together, so they will definitely do it. Break it into pieces.”

She instructed: “You bring people to follow, and once their hands are scattered, they will come back and forth to me immediately.

” He bowed his hands and left immediately.

Su Jin changed into his official uniform from the empty room and glanced at the sky.

After getting down from Zhengyangmen, the former imperial censor was still waiting in front of the city gate, she thought for a while, and said, “You can send someone to the Secretary of General Affairs to get the latest news of the residence, and look at His Royal Highness who has not yet entered the capital. Where are you going? After seeing it, you don’t have to go back and forth. Your highnesses must be very close to Yingtian City. You can go around and see where your highness is, and then come back to this official.

” Avoid being a false alarm.

The imperial censor who patrolled the city handed it over and said yes.

Su Jin took a few steps forward, and suddenly paused again: “That’s right.” The city inspector said

, “What else do you want to tell me?” The

dawn wind raised her cloak and flew back, Su Jin raised his eyes Looking in the direction of the palace building: “Help me prepare a fast horse.”

An Ran sat on the stone table in the front yard and listened to Aliu’s ramble with his hands on his cheeks, thinking that he was probably suffocated at Su Jin, It has been said all night without stopping.

The door of the mansion suddenly “creaked”, An Ran got up and turned around and asked in surprise, “Why did your lord come back at this hour?” He walked into the main hall with Liu Chaoming, helped him take off his cloak, and said, “Did your lord hear about it? , Su Yushi has returned to Beijing.”

Liu Chaoming said lightly: “I know.” He glanced at Aliu who was following behind An Ran, staring at him in surprise and joy, frowned and said, “Why are you here? This?” Looking around again: “Where is Su Shiyu?”

Aliu knew that Liu Chaoming was used to being taciturn. Except for killing a maid in his early years, he was not harsh to the servants in the house these years. What’s more, after so many years of master-servant friendship, he still hopes that his family can gently accompany him to say a few words when he sees him, but he doesn’t know that it means accountability.

Aliu was so wronged that he burst into tears: “Sir, how can you say that? You don’t know how much Aliu has missed you over the past year. Usually in the mansion, you can at most let the third brother block Aliu’s mouth. But you know that Young Master Su, he What did he do to me? He left Ah with a two-hour ban on speech every day. Do you know how he would treat me if he violated the ban? We had just arrived outside the Wuchang Mansion at that time…”

He didn’t say anything. After that, Liu Chaoming’s cold eyes swept across him, and he immediately shut his mouth in fright.

Liu Chaoming looked at An Ran again.

An Ran lowered her eyes and said in a low voice, “Listen to Aliu, as soon as Master Su returned to the capital yesterday, he went to Dengwen Gu to inquire about what happened. Later, he said that something was wrong, so he ordered Aliu and guard Tan to leave first. The little one thought about Su. The adults will rest at the reception temple, and have already ordered Li Huyuan to pick them up, who knows…”

Liu Chaoming’s eyes fell on Li Huyuan at the entrance of the main hall, and asked, “Where’s the person?”

Li Huyuan said, “Go back to your lord. , Master Su is not

at the reception temple.” Liu Chaoming’s face suddenly became very ugly.

Su Jin didn’t have her own mansion. She used to have a capital yamen to live in. Now that she has just returned to Beijing, she can only rest at the reception temple. There is no one in the reception temple. Where can she go? an inn?

Liu Chaoming said coldly, “Then where did she stay this night?” When

An Ran and Aliu heard Liu Chaoming’s tone, their expressions changed instantly. Aliu’s lips trembled, but he was speechless.

An Ran grabbed his sleeve and knelt down, bowed his head and said, “Sir, An Ran was negligent this time. Aliu thinks less and

is ignorant. If your lord wants to punish me, just punish me.” Liu Chaoming said nothing . Glancing at the two of them with expressions, he stepped out of the threshold and threw a cold sentence: “Prepare the carriage and go back to the palace.”

The clerk of the Metropolitan Court brought Su Jin into the court, where Zhao Yan and Qian San’er happened to be discussing matters. When Jin saw the two of them, he hurried up and was about to bow down when Zhao Yan raised his hand to stop him and said with a smile, “Get up quickly, it’s okay to be outside. We are in the Metropolitan Court, so we don’t pay attention to these polite manners.”

Qian San’er also bowed . With a pair of crescent eyes, he said with a smile: “Yushi Su, you have been handling cases outside for a year, but I have checked the dean’s face.”

Although he did not pay attention to politeness, Su Jin still gave the two of them a bow before asking: “Aren’t the two adults going to court today?”

Zhao Yan said: “The emperor asked us to discuss the case of Deng Wengu from yesterday evening to the fourth watch today. It’s really boring, and we stopped today’s court discussion.” He continued, “Come back in the morning, Yan Xiu will return. I met you yesterday and I mentioned this case to you roughly.”

Su Jin nodded and said, “Yes, yesterday I went to Feng’s house to find out what happened, but I met Shen from the Ministry of Housing. My lord, the words were not right, and I accidentally hit the grass and startled the snake. I was afraid that Feng Mengping would run away, so I had to let Master Yang of the capital yamen tie him up and hand it over to the prefectural court for interrogation today.”

She looked around and asked again, “Since there is no need to court Why don’t you see Mr. Liu?” The

words came out, but the guard outside said: “See Mr. Liu.”

Zhao Yan pointed out and said with a smile: “No, here it is.” After speaking, he walked outside the courthouse go.

Qian San’er also smiled at Su Jin, nodded and said, “Come.” The

two walked out of the court one after the other. Su Jin followed behind the two of them. When he looked up, he saw Liu Chaoming walking past the capital. The main entrance of the procuratorate came.

He was still the same as before, like a cold jade, but he didn’t know why, his eyes were a little cold, and he didn’t know what to think when he lowered his eyes.

Zhao Yan said loudly: “Liu Yun, look who is back.”

This winter has been raining for a long time, and it is rare that the sky is sunny on this day, and the sun is especially dazzling.

Liu Chaoming raised his eyes and saw Su Jin standing at the door of the hall, and stopped slowly.

She seemed to have lost some weight, but her face was still very pale, but her eyebrows became clearer, and when she saw herself, there was a rare smile in her eyes.

Liu Chaoming was stunned, the coldness in his eyes gradually faded away, replaced by a little softness.

Su Jin hurried up to meet him, and raised his official robe to kneel down to greet him. His knees were about to fall, and Liu Chaoming suddenly supported his elbows.

Su Jin raised his eyes to look at him, Liu Chaoming’s fingertips suddenly shrank from her elbows, looked away, and said lightly, “No need to kneel.”

Su Jin said yes, stood up straight, and was about to speak, when someone outside the house suddenly called out with great joy: “Master Liu.”

[End of This Chapter]