Detective in the Red Chamber

I don't know if the prescription prescribed by the famous doctor in Jinmen Prefecture will work or not...

"Brother grandson."

While smacking the strange taste in his mouth, while thinking wildly, he saw Xiang Yi come in through the curtain, frowned and said, "It's such a time, and there is still no movement from the chief envoy, do you think we should go Hurry up..."

Sun Shaozong raised his hand to stop his words, rubbed his temples and said helplessly, "Brother Xiang, we haven't dealt with that Zhou Ruqing very much, it's not difficult if we only want to take him down, but we have to rescue those For a woman, it is necessary to rely on Lin Fantai to come forward."

Whether it's his understanding of Zhou Ruqing or his bargaining power, Lin Tao, as the political envoy, is obviously the best candidate for the negotiation—and in order to keep the black hat on his head, Lin Tao will definitely go all out.

In fact, Sun Shaozong had already explained this to Xiang Yi before.

"That's right, but..."

But Xiang Yi hesitated for a moment, but he still moved to Sun Shaozong's side and whispered, "In case Lin Fantai also has an affair with Zhou Ruqing..."

Before Xiang Yi could finish speaking, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside, followed by Jia Shanyao's scolding voice, "Who are you? How dare...you...you, you, you... big big..."

In the first half of the sentence, Jia Shanyao was still a bit condescending, but in the second half of the sentence, his voice became sharp and trembling, like a little widow who was wheeled.

The two people in the room exchanged puzzled looks, and Xiang Yi strode out, intending to see what happened outside.

However, just as he stretched his hand towards the door curtain, someone outside opened the door curtain first and rushed in.

"you you you you……"

After bumping into this person, Xiang Yi immediately suffered from the same problem as Jia Shanyao, and said "you" sharply and tremblingly for a long time before blurting out, "Then Lin Tao is really the same as you!"

But it turned out that the person who entered the door was wearing a red official robe, a gray beard, and elegant facial features. He was Zhou Ruqing, the governor of Zhili!

And outside the door, more than [-] officers and soldiers have already squeezed Jia Shanyao and others into the corner!

Finished!

It's all over!

Brother Sun tried his best to stabilize the situation, but he didn't expect that in the end it was a bad move, and he mistrusted that dog thief surnamed Lin!

Thinking like this, Xiang Yi felt completely hopeless at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that the more he was at this time, the less he could lose his integrity and character as a scholar!

So he straightened his chest, put on a face of 'I'm not afraid of being broken into pieces, I want to stay innocent in the world', spat hard, and cursed, "Shameless old thief, don't you..."

"Brother Xiang."

Unexpectedly, before the word 'thief' was uttered, Sun Shaozong said quietly behind him, "Since the governor has let those girls go, why not let him in and let him say something about death?"

Let go of those women?

Words of checkmate?

Xiang Yi couldn't turn the corner for a while, and didn't understand why he could never speak the whole line, but out of trust in Sun Shaozong, he obediently stepped aside.

Seeing that Zhou Ruqing walked slowly, walked to Sun Shaozong and sat down, sighed slightly and said, "How does Mr. Sun know that I am talking about dying? Are you not afraid that Lin Tao will collude with the old man and kill you?" ?”

Sun Shaozong chuckled, pointed to his nose and said, "To say the least, Sun killed 70 or [-] people today. It shouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he has a 'bad name'? Right now, he is my enemy, and he dares to appear ten steps away from me." Those within, except those who are not afraid of death, are doomed to die."

As he spoke, he spread his hands, "No matter which one it is, since you've entered this room, what you're saying is of course dying!"

Zhou Ruqing looked at him for a while, then shook his head and smiled wryly, "The second biggest mistake this old man made in his life was to underestimate Sun Zhizhong—otherwise, this old man would have already been sailing on the East China Sea."

This is obviously a recognition of the four characters of 'words of dying'!

Xiang Yi listened to it, and couldn't help questioning, "Since Mr. Lin didn't get along with you, why did he allow you to come and go freely? And... still let you dress so grandly!"

Not only was it grand, Zhou Ruqing looked like he had just taken a bath, and the bright red official robes on his body were full of light, and they were freshly cut from high-quality silk.

"Let go?"

Zhou Ruqing seemed to have heard some joke, laughed a few times, then straightened his body, and said solemnly, "I am the majestic governor of Zhili, the head of the governor's office in the world, why should he be let go by a chief envoy?"

Xiang Yi was dumbfounded when he heard it, and felt that the man's words were extremely absurd, but he didn't know how to refute them for a while.

At this time, Zhou Ruqing took out a memorial from his sleeve, handed it forward, and said, "This is a memorial drafted by the old man, Mr. Lin, and the prefect of Wang. I also ask Sun Zhizhong to look at it and see if there is anything wrong with it." place."

Sun Shaozong didn't move yet, but Xiang Yi snatched it with his hands, opened it and scanned it with a glance, but the more he looked at it, the more annoyed he became, and finally he trembled with anger, blood pouring into his pupils!

"This is sheer nonsense!"

He yelled angrily, lifted the memorial above his head, and then fell to the ground hard, but he heard Sun Shaozong stretch out his hand and greeted, "Brother Xiang, please excuse me."

Xiang Yi had no choice but to stop the momentum, and sent the memorial to Sun Shaozong resentfully, and reminded him with reassurance, "The absurd remarks above are really shameless, Brother Sun is just a joke, don't Getting angry hurts your body."

Sun Shaozong took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and found that all the remarks in it were really shameless and absurd!

First of all, in this memorial, the mastermind who was going to defect to the sea today became the dead Hu Jietai, but Zhou Ruqing was coerced by him and had to pretend to be a snake.

As for the intention to hijack North Korean envoys, it is not even mentioned in the whole article.

Not only that, the previous battle with one enemy and one hundred on the street also became Zhou Ruqing's secret message, and Xuan Fu envoy Lin Tao's command was determined-and Sun Shaozong was only credited with fighting the enemy bravely and taking the lead!

The following topic changed, but it became Zhou Ruqing's monologue, saying that although he was obsessed with money for a while, he would never dare to turn his back on the court and become a lonely ghost of a foreigner.

In the end, he asked the imperial court to cut him into pieces in order to warn the hearts of the governors of the world.

It's really a good one who reverses black and white, and a good one who turns a deer into a horse!

Chapter 256

Seeing that Sun Shaozong finished reading the memorial and looked up at himself playfully, Zhou Ruqing asked solemnly, "What do Sun Zhizhong think of this memorial?"

"Of course it's nonsense!"

Xiang Yi scolded again, "It is clear that you intended to kidnap the North Korean envoy in order to escape with the stolen money. It was only because of Brother Sun that he risked his life to stop him that he failed!"

"As for Lin Fantai, he turned a blind eye to your various actions at first, and when I went to ask for help, he kept delaying and refusing to send troops. It is clear that he has done nothing!"

"Everything like this is really ashamed to be a minister and not a son of man!"

"But you guys are fine, and you are shamelessly saying something about secret information and command decisions--I'm bah!"

Despite his gentle and slender appearance, this perseverance was full of confidence, and a thick phlegm sprayed out for about ten feet, and it was falling on Zhou Ruqing's black gauze hat!

Zhou Ruqing was not annoyed, and calmly took off the black gauze hat, put it on the tea table beside him, sighed, and said, "Master Xiang is clearly in his thirties, but why is he so frizzy?"

Xiang Yi was about to retort, but he heard him say again, "If you report today's events according to what Master Xiang said, how many of the officials in Zhili Province and Master Lin can survive alone?"

"There is a saying that you must forgive others and forgive others. Since the old man is ready to plead guilty, and Hu Jietai has already died full of crimes, why do you two insist on holding on to small things and insisting on offending this provincial official? "

Hearing his sophistry, Xiang Yi was even more annoyed, but Zhou Ruqing kept saying that he was putting himself to death, as if he was just pleading for other officials in the province, so although he wanted to refute, he didn't know where to go. set about.

Just as he was thinking hard to find a breakthrough point, he heard Zhou Ruqing say again, "Furthermore, according to Mr. Xiang, the fact that someone intends to kidnap the North Korean envoy should be reported according to the facts so that everyone knows about it?"

Xiang Yi said angrily, "Why is there someone's intentions, it's obviously you..."

"Master Xiang!"

Zhou Ruqing interrupted him once, and asked harshly, "Do you know that the North Korean country, because of the repeated invasion of the Blackwater Mohe, but the court was unable to stop it, has already developed resentment towards me Da Zhou?!"

"If the North Korean envoy finds out about this, the North Korean country will definitely become even more alienated from us!"

"At the moment, the North Korean envoy is not aware of it, and Zhou is already a death sentence, so why does Mr. Xiang want to make a big deal out of it?"

"Could it be that Mr. Xiang has to fall into the dilemma of the court for the sake of credit, fame and fortune?!"

Xiang Yi was really taken aback by this quick-talking and slapping, he is not a person for fame, and naturally he is not willing to put the Great Zhou Dynasty in a disadvantageous position for some 'credit'.

Therefore, he hesitated to speak, but was a little shaken by Zhou Ruqing's words.

"Ha ha."

At this moment, Sun Shaozong shook his head and said with a laugh, "Governor Zhou really has a strong mouth. Hearing your inversion of right and wrong, it seems that we are going to make trouble for no reason."

As he said that, his face suddenly sank, and he sniffed, "If you want to save your family's life, you might as well just say it, and use these flimsy excuses to fool Sun?!"

Yup!

This time Xiang Yi also came to his senses. This guy kept saying that he was willing to accept the law and punish him, so it didn't matter how big or small the crime was - but how can the two be compared if only punishing the head of the crime and beheading the whole family? !

Thinking of how foolishly he got around him just now, Xiang Yi couldn't help saying angrily, "What a thief, you dare to do this now..."

puff~

This time, he still couldn't finish his sentence, because just halfway through his speech, Zhou Ruqing, who had been as immobile as a mountain and full of majesty, unexpectedly gave a soft knee and knelt down in front of the two of them!

The majestic governor of Zhili actually knelt down to himself? !

Xiang Yi was a little dazed at the time, and stared blankly at Zhou Ruqing walking a few steps on his knees, crying loudly, "My lords, I have an eighty-year-old mother, and a grandson who is waiting to be fed! Zhou himself is not a pity to die, just ask for two My lord, hold your hand high and be merciful, please let my Zhou family go!"

As he spoke, he grabbed the ground with his head, and the bluestone slab he hit made a loud bang.

Seeing that within a few strokes, his forehead was already bleeding profusely, and Xiang Yi couldn't help but waver in his heart.

No matter how you say, this is also the majestic governor of Zhili, but now he is like this...

Just as his heart was softening, he heard Sun Shaozong sneer again and said, "Master Zhou is the second-rank official, isn't he even familiar with the laws of the Zhou Dynasty? The Taizu of this dynasty respects the elderly and cares for the young the most, so it is stipulated that, in addition to the serious crime of treason, Those over eighty and under the age of six are not included in the beheading list."

As he said that, he leaned down slightly, stared at Zhou Ruqing with a gloomy look and said, "So the governor doesn't have to worry about his mother and grandchildren at all, and he can go to hell with the whole family at ease!"

When Zhou Ruqing heard this, he immediately collapsed to the ground, raised his head like a plague chicken, and said in grief and indignation, "This old man begs so much, but Sun Zhizhong wants to kill them all! Could it be that I have some grudge against you?!"

"No grudges, no grudges!"

Sun Shaozong straightened his back and said with a sneer, "But when you act recklessly and withhold money for disaster relief, you should know that today is here!"

After a pause, he couldn't help but add another sentence, "If the court really wants to say that they are innocent, I'm afraid they won't be able to pick out many—but if you want to pocket the life-saving money of ordinary people like you, you will die more than enough." !"

Zhou Ruqing looked at him for a while, and the resentment on his face gradually disappeared, and turned into a lifeless look.

"Ah~"

He leaned back, changed his kneeling position to a sitting position, wiped the blood off his face with his sleeve, and said with a wry smile, "I'm not bragging. moveable."

"Unfortunately, there was a sudden news from Beijing last fall, saying that His Majesty is dissatisfied with me, and intends to choose another person to be the governor of Zhili, and is seeking opinions from important ministers in the court!"

"This is the number one governor in the world! How many years have I waited for this opportunity, how can I be willing to miss it?! So I can only covet this terrible money and go desperately to make a pawn!"

"In the end, I'm still greedy, but what I'm greedy for is not money, but power!"

"Are you not greedy for money?"

Xiang Yi couldn't bear it when he heard this, and raised his eyebrows and said, "If you are not greedy for money, you just need to run away overnight, how can you still have today?!"

Zhou Ruqing knew that what he was talking about was the act of sending people around to hunt down the gentry, so he couldn't help but smiled wryly and spread his hands and said, "Without the official position, and if I can't offer a lot of rewards, what will I use to win over my cronies? If the hearts of the people below are scattered, I'm afraid the old man's fate at sea in the future may not be better than pleading guilty."

As he said that, he said to Sun Shaozong again, "Master Sun, the old man has no extravagant hopes now. If you have anything to ask, just cross-examine him."

Sun Shaozong looked at his 'sincere' eyes for a while, but shook his head decisively and said, "Sun has nothing to ask."

Xiang Yi said anxiously from the side, "Brother Sun! You..."

Sun Shaozong raised his hand to interrupt him, turned the memorial upside down in his hand, and said, "In addition, Sun will also return this memorial to the chief political envoy, and then he will present it to His Majesty."

"Brother Sun! This..."

"but!"

Sun Shaozong interrupted Xiang Yi again, and continued, "I will also draft another secret performance, and invite Mr. Lin, who is 'commanding Ruo Ding', to sign it together, and then report the matter through Beizhen Fusi."

After all, he finally compromised a part, and hung up the word "commander Ruo Ding", and was not going to fight the official of the whole family.

"Ah~"

Zhou Ruqing was silent for a while when he heard the words, and then shook his head and sighed, "Sure enough, he knows how to advance and retreat—it's a pity that Zhou is not blessed, and he will never see the day when Sun Zhizhong is an extremely human minister."

Saying that, he staggered and walked out.

Sun Shaozong had been watching him walk out of the gate of the Dongkuayuan under the 'surrounding' of those officers and soldiers, then he looked away and smiled at the aggrieved Xiang Yi, "Brother Xiang, what did you want to ask just now?"

"Of course I have something to ask!"

Xiang Yi said angrily, "That Zhou Ruqing just confessed that he bribed the governor's position with the embezzled money for disaster relief. Brother Sun should go all out to clean up the court's original source. How can we stop?"

"Clarify the source?"

Sun Shaozong laughed, shook his head and said, "Brother Xiang, don't think too highly of me. I also have one head and two shoulders, and I have a wife and children to support at home. I can't afford to be like that Hai Rui!"

As he said that, he leaned back lazily, "We were able to win Zhou Ruqing this time, and it was only at the right time. As for those second-rank high-ranking officials who have to be careful to curry favor with the master, we should wait until I reach the second-rank or above, and then we will be with you." Let's break it down."

Hearing this, Xiang Yi couldn't help feeling a little discouraged, and sat down sullenly, but suddenly wondered, "Who is Hai Rui? Why don't even Brother Sun dare to imitate him?"

Chapter 257 Discussing Fame and Telling Secrets

After being injured, he was caught with the wind and cold, and later he argued with Na Lin Fantai about some details in the memorial, and they argued until midnight.

When he got out of the Chief Secretary's Yamen, Sun Shaozong felt that his eyelids were so heavy that he felt fluttering when he walked, and he was finally supported by two subordinate officials into the carriage. As soon as he leaned on the soft cushion, he lost his awareness.