The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Zeng Fu, who was kicked in the back by his "good brother", fell to the ground in front of several officials in charge of the case with his slightly false deeds of filial piety and integrity, in a dog-eating-shit posture.

Because it involved the possibility of fraud in the selection of filial and honest officials by the Ministry of Rites, and also implicated the subsequent arrangements for filial and honest officials by the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple decisively threw this hot potato to the Lizheng Hall with a memorial.

At this time, it was already a common thing for the scholars and ministers to go in and out of the Lizheng Palace to assist in the administration of state affairs. She took the memorials submitted by the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple, flipped through them casually, and then ordered: "Send someone to check the deeds of Zeng Xiaolian to see if there is any fraud or trickery."

He closed the memorial and said, "If there is, then we will deprive him of his official position. We will first discuss the previous case, and then the case of falsifying the deeds of a filial and honest official. We will impose the sentences for both cases together."

"Just do as the Queen says." The emperor's posture was lazy, as if he was just a human-shaped jade seal.

Every time Xie Yuzhen said something about political affairs, he would only say this and there would be no further context.

Xie Yuzhen couldn't help but glance at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, the palace examination will be held tomorrow."

The emperor had always set the questions for the palace examination in Dasheng, but this one had obviously not picked up the pen yet. Upon hearing this, the emperor waved his hand lazily: "Xianming, don't worry about me. I have already made up my mind. Why don't you tell me something fun?"

He sat up straight at once. "This Xiaolian Zeng has been unlucky recently. I heard from Emperor Li Zong that he went to the mountains to get medicine after his mother became seriously ill, and he was not afraid of danger. He returned after escaping death and cured his mother's illness. That's why he got the title of Xiaolian."

"But it wasn't long after his mother recovered that his father fell ill again, and I'm afraid he's seriously ill. Fortunately, the selection of the filial and honest official was quick, otherwise the Zeng family kid would have missed this opportunity because of his father's filial piety."

Xie Yuzhen still had some impression of Zeng Fu. Listening to the emperor's undisguised gloating tone, she said, "It is indeed bad luck. I don't know what kind of precious medicinal material it is. It grows in the mountains around the capital. Many pharmacists and doctors have never heard of it."

The emperor laughed twice: "A filial son should be different from ordinary people."

The emperor and the empress were talking to each other, but the ministers below could not help but break out in a cold sweat - how many truly filial sons can there be in this world?

And how many of them just happen to generate good stories and good reputations?

Moreover, it just happened to happen at this juncture of selecting filial and honest officials. One could tell there was something fishy going on just by using one's toes... Even though selecting filial and honest officials has become a good opportunity for some children of officials who are neither good at civil nor military affairs these days, everyone's resumes are very down-to-earth, and some have honestly done good deeds for several years.

This kid from the Zeng family does things so... so unkindly.

Zeng Fu, who was criticized by court officials for his poor work methods, actually did not know what he had done specifically as a "filial and honest" official. He only got this official position from his "loyal" "good brother" Huang Ming as a "gift" to comfort him for failing the imperial examination.

At that time, Huang Ming said with a proud look on his face that if he had not been so unsuccessful in everything he did, he should have been an official long ago. This time it was a good opportunity for Zeng Fu.

However, after being imprisoned, Huang Ming seemed to be stimulated by something and insisted on digging out the truth about this matter.

Zeng Fu was feeling uneasy and couldn't understand the purpose of Huang Ming's doing this.

And Huang Ming... was indeed stimulated, stimulated by his dear cousin, his brother-in-law.

Since Yuan and Huang were imprisoned, they were detained in the same cell. They were relatives and inevitably worried about each other's families. Somehow they started quarreling. After Yuan Juren was punished, the quarrel not only did not stop, but became louder and louder.

By the end, almost all the prisoners on this floor had eaten the melons from their families.

It turned out that Huang Ming's penis had not developed well since he was born, and several doctors predicted that he would not be able to have children in the future. His current wife, Liu, was originally engaged to a cousin of Huang Ming, but later the cousin died of illness. Because the families had always been close, the two of them were childhood sweethearts. Liu also said that even if she had no children in her life, she was willing to marry Huang Ming.

So the two families continued the engagement.

Who would have thought that only three years after Liu married Huang Ming, she gave birth to two sons.

Huang Ming was of course ecstatic, and told everyone he met how good his wife Liu was. But he never expected that today he and Mr. Yuan would be in trouble together, and the latter would lose control of his emotions during the argument and shout out the truth that he had been having an affair with Liu for many years and that she and he had two sons.

So Huang Ming went crazy.

He had never thought that Yuan, with whom he had always been close, would actually have an affair with his bedmate Liu, and put cuckolds on him one after another. His defenses were greatly broken, and he did not care about "brotherhood" anymore, and bit Zeng Fu out with his mouth.

Zeng Fu, who finally learned the whole story, was in tears.

The investigating officials had already come to the Zeng family's door. When they saw Mrs. Zeng, they questioned her carefully and then went into the house to search. They were shocked by the investigation - how could such a small mansion of a doctor of the Ministry of Revenue hide so many dirty things? !

The investigating officer had no choice but to write a note and submit it to his superiors for a decision.

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Inside the Lizheng Hall.

The ministers passed the note around and all of them showed expressions of dismay.

Xie Yuzhen wanted to laugh when he saw this, but he held it back because of the situation. He frowned and said in a surprised tone, "How can there be such a cruel and crazy family in this world?"

The emperor on the side sneered: "The father is not a father, the mother is not a mother, the son is not a son... He is just a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue, but there are so many dirty things in his mansion. I wonder how many more things in the capital I don't know about?"

"Your Majesty forgive me."

"It is because we are useless and unable to supervise. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

At once, many people in the palace knelt down. Xie Yuzhen pretended to step forward and held the emperor's hand, patting his back to comfort him. The emperor cleared his throat and called everyone up, saying in a cold voice: "The matter in Zeng's mansion is also related to Anguo Marquis's mansion. Li Zong, go and bring Anguo Marquis and his wife and the prince in person."

After saying this, he pretended to be weak and leaned into Xie Yuzhen's arms: "How could they do such a terrible thing? It really scared me. Xianming, do you think it would be too harsh for me to kill his entire clan? Why not send him to the northwest to dig coal?"

Are you afraid that he will die too easily?

Xie Yuzhen couldn't help but turn his head away and rolled his eyes.