Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

On the second day, Qi Heng arranged for Gu Tingbing and Gu Tingdi to copy files and did not let them participate in the affairs of the Qingcha Niwang's mansion.

Three days later, Qi Heng indeed found records of Ting Bing and Ting Di helping the Rebel King to buy women from Jiangnan in a pile of Rebel King's newly found notes. Moreover, most of these women were sent to the residences of ministers and generals in the court as recruits.

Qi Heng waved his hand and had the two rebellious sons of the Gu family arrested and put in jail.

His impartial law enforcement immediately won praise from Han Qi and other ministers. The emperor was so happy that he even praised the Qi family for having a good son. The empress dowager was so angry that she almost scolded Princess Pingning to death.

Since Gu Tingbing and Gu Tingdi were recommended by the Empress Dowager, it became much more difficult for the Empress Dowager to recommend officials to the court after they were imprisoned. Not only did officials from Zhao Zongquan's faction have something to say, but even some ministers who originally stood on the Empress Dowager's side changed their attitudes and stood by and watched, no longer speaking up for her as frequently as they did at the beginning.

The Queen Mother had originally taken the initiative in this plan, hoping to support a group of new people, but she didn't expect that she would shoot herself in the foot in the end. So she took her anger out on the fourth and fifth branches of the Gu family, and left Ting Bing and Ting Di in prison without any care.

The fourth and fifth rooms requested to see Zhu Neiguan several times but were rejected, so they had to turn to Gu Yankai for help.

Fourth uncle: "Big brother! Qi Heng has imprisoned your two nephews like serious criminals. He is so wild, you have to come out and take care of him!"

Gu Yankai: "I know, I know, but now I am retired and no one will listen to me."

Fourth uncle: "I didn't ask big brother to go in person! I just hope that big brother can ask Ye Ge'er to speak well of his two cousins ​​in front of the emperor. He is now respectable in front of the emperor. Can the emperor not listen to his words?"

Gu Yankai said, "Hey, fourth brother, you can't say that. We are all ministers of the government. We are the only ones who listen to the government. How can the government listen to us? If others hear this, our whole family will be guilty!"

Fourth Uncle was so embarrassed that he shut up for the time being.

Uncle Wu continued, "Will we let others laugh at our Gu family like this? We rise together and fall together. If we lose face, won't your eldest family also be embarrassed?"

Gu Yankai said, "To be honest with you two brothers, I have already told Erlang about this matter earlier, but Erlang said that Tingbing and Tingdi were not wrongly accused."

The fourth uncle and the fifth uncle looked at each other in bewilderment: "What do you mean?"

Gu Yankai asked coldly, "When I was in the army, I promoted many young people. Many of them became talented people. During the period when the Rebel King was rampant, some of them were also favored and recruited by the Rebel King. Fourth brother, fifth brother, tell me honestly, have you tried to recruit them?"

Fourth uncle stood up suddenly: "Absolutely not!"

Uncle Wu slammed the table and said, "No, absolutely not! Doesn't our elder brother know what he is like? We are just sending gifts to Prince Yong to seek his protection. How could we recruit people from the army? That is a taboo for a family of military commanders like us!"

Gu Yankai sighed and said, "I'm afraid that the two brothers know it in their hearts, but they haven't told it to the two nephews?"

Uncle Wu said angrily, "What are you talking about, big brother? Just because you can't teach your son well, do you think we can't teach him well either?"

Gu Yankai was struck by his words and started coughing. Seeing him coughing so hard, his two younger brothers offered him a cup of tea to moisten his throat. As soon as he took a breath, they asked, "Brother, what did you mean by that? Tell us so we can know the answer!"

Gu Yankai's voice was much weaker, and he shook his head and said, "I still have some respect with Liu Zhengjie, who is now in charge of the imperial prison. Yesterday I went to his house to ask for information. He didn't dare to say much, but only said that the beauties that Tingdi and Tingbing bought for the rebel king were sent to the homes of court officials and military generals, and many of these people participated in the conspiracy of treason that day. Whether Tingdi and Tingbing knew about it or not, they can't get away from this crime."

The one from room four fell back into his chair with a thud, while the one from room five slapped his thigh and shouted "Impossible!"

Gu Yankai was so angry that his face turned blue. "The account books in the Niwang Mansion are clearly written. What's impossible? I usually advise you to pay more attention to your two nephews, but what about you? You only care about yourselves outside every day. What are these young people doing and thinking, do you care? Do you persuade them? Take the matter of buying these beauties, for example, if you want to buy them to curry favor with the Yongwang, then you should have counted the number of people and explained the pros and cons to your two nephews. How can you not even know that they are cheating behind your back?"

The Fifth House had always had a hot temper. When she heard Gu Yankai lecturing them, she retorted, "Big brother, you know how to teach your son, but you brought family affairs to the late emperor, and brought disaster to the whole family. If it weren't for your good eldest son, we wouldn't have to go to such lengths to curry favor with Prince Yong, and would we have bought these beauties? In the final analysis, it's all because of you, big brother, who didn't teach your son well and brought disaster to the whole family!"

Gu Yankai's face suddenly turned from blue to purple. He opened his mouth to refute several times, but he couldn't say anything. Gu Tingyu's matter had become a disease in his heart. It had been attacking him all the time in the past two years. He felt both distressed and angry towards Gu Tingyu. He couldn't express his melancholy and anger, which ran rampant in his lungs.

Suddenly, with a "puff" sound, Gu Yankai spat out a mouthful of donated blood and fell to the ground.

……

When Gu Tingye and Minglan rushed over after hearing the news, the people from the fourth and fifth rooms had already fled back home out of fear.

Gu Tingye was furious and was ready to go to their house with a gun to kill people. The aunt from the fifth room secretly asked the maid to go out and report to the police.

When the people from the government office arrived and saw Gu Tingye, they immediately bowed respectfully. Then, seeing that Gu Tingye's face was ashen, they knew that it was Marquis Gu who was handling family affairs, so they left without saying anything, leaving the uncle and aunt trembling on the ground.

Gu Tingye cursed: "Every one of you always pushed my father to take the blame when something happened. He always protected you, so you took it for granted, right? He thought you were brothers, and this is how you repay him?"

The fourth roommate was so frightened that he became brave. He stood up and pointed at Gu Tingye and cursed: "You still care about your brothers? Now your two cousins ​​are imprisoned and tortured, can't you help your brothers and give them a hand? If this crime is proven, your career as Ningyuan Marquis will be over! They are all descendants of the Gu family, why don't you help them?"

Gu Tingye: "Descendants of the Gu family? When you and Xiao Qin came to slander me and alienate my father and son with evil hearts, did you think I was a descendant of the Gu family? I was displaced and homeless, did you think I was a descendant of the Gu family? Oh, now that your son is in trouble, you come to talk to me about descendants of the Gu family? Fourth uncle and fifth uncle, I am not my father. I don't have such a big heart to forgive you again and again. Today, I will put my words here. Tingbing and Tingdi should be punished for what they did. I will never say a word for them in front of the government."

His eyes were red, and he smiled cruelly and resolutely: "If my father can't wake up this time, my two elders, I will settle all the bad debts with you one by one. By then, I hope you can still stand up straight and talk to me like you do now."