Record of ups and downs in troubled times

Cheng Nan understood what Fu Xiyuan meant.

In order to be unhappy with the imperial guards from time to time, King Xiao Xiang spent a lot of money; he is usually domineering, and of course he has backers.Speaking of the disciples and servants kept in the mansion, apart from Prince Xiang's mansion, it is really hard to find one among the disciples who practiced martial arts more and valued martial arts more.

But there is only one puzzle: Assassination is a kung fu that emphasizes the courage of skilled people, and it is a kung fu that focuses on the word "independence". It doesn't matter whether there are many people or not.

There are many warriors in Prince Xiang's Mansion, but it doesn't mean that other mansions don't have people with outstanding martial arts skills.

"Fu Zongzheng," Cheng Nan tapped the sandalwood handrail with his fingertips, and the corners of his mouth turned cold, "Do you have a grudge against King Xiaoxiang? To be fair... do you want to sit and watch Cheng's family fight with King Xiao Xiang, so you can benefit from it?"

"Don't dare! Don't dare!" Fu Xiyuan's face turned pale immediately, with sweat dripping from his forehead and hair.He had always known that Cheng Nan was cautious, but how could he be careless and say something out of his mouth? !Is this going to fall short?He took another look at Cheng Nan's half-smile expression, and really wanted to slap himself first.

Not allowing Fu Xiyuan to think about it, he bent his knees and knelt down on the ground, his eyes turned red, as if he was about to shed tears.

"How dare I have a grudge against King Xiaoxiang? He is the proud son of the dragon and the phoenix. I am a mere court official who lives with his head on his head. Even if I am bullied and unhappy, I can only bear it." Hold on, hold on, Prime Minister, even if you lend me eighteen guts, I won't dare to do anything wrong!"

Cheng Nan pulled back the hem of the clothes he was pulling, and said in a cold voice, "Get up and talk."

Fu Xiyuan just cried and knelt on the ground.Looking at that appearance, it seems that he has really suffered a great grievance.

He refused to stand up, but he was willing to speak.After all, the only "sword" he can use is the three-inch tongue in his mouth, how can he not use it to save his life?But this time he was a lot more cautious, taking advantage of the time of crying and crying, he roughly organized his words to prevent Cheng Nan from stepping on his tail again.

"Prime Minister, do you still remember the 17 gold that King Xiaoxiang donated to the South China Sea?" When Fu Xiyuan mentioned the money, tears welled up in his eyes. "Over there, I borrowed [-] from me... You know King Xiaoxiang, to him, the word 'borrow' is better as a free gift! Zong Zhengqing, to put it bluntly, is getting better every day. The daily oil and water are scarce, and my money is not easy to come by!"

Cheng Nan didn't believe it.

He looked Fu Xiyuan up and down, very disdainful: "How much savings do you have in your family? Why does King Xiaoxiang ask you to borrow it?"

"It's not a borrowing after I said it," Fu Xiyuan complained in a low voice, and explained obediently: "He didn't even think about paying it back! Although the position of Zong Zhengqing gradually declined because of the suppression of the late emperor, he was still a high-ranking official in the court after all. In the past few years, the national treasury has been empty, and it has been a long time since I allocated money to repair Miyagi. A few months ago, I finally had an errand of "repairing the imperial temple and sorting out the genealogy". Those who are rich and profitable want to share a spoon Soup!"

Cheng Nan was still very disdainful.

"A total of [-] gold was allocated from above. Of course, you have been the prime minister for so many years, and you have [-] gold. But the people below are different. Even if you see a gold ingot, you have to grab it. The blood won’t flow, or how can they say they don’t know much…”

According to what Fu Xiyuan said, it was the time when the emperor ordered people to collect donations, and King Xiaoxiang was reluctant to pay for it, so he took a fancy to the opportunity to build the Taimiao.He came to beg, but Fu Xiyuan didn't dare not give it, so he allocated [-] yuan, but King Xiaoxiang thought it was too little, so he asked Fu Xiyuan to give the money.Fu Xiyuan had no other choice, and he didn't dare to touch the remaining [-] yuan. He could only take out his own savings and scrape together another [-] yuan.

"Of the [-] miles, half of it was bet with Yuexia Mountain Villa. That's why I called the chicken tail was watched by the weasel - I owe a debt!"

Under the moon villa?

Cheng Nan thought about it for a while, and was a little skeptical.

Shen's illness needs strong medicine and medicine, and if Cheng Nan, an old fox, is to believe, he has to add more fire.

Fu Xiyuan pursed his parched lips, glanced at the teacup on the table next to him, but did not dare to pick it up to drink after all.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. When he asked me for money, I really thought he was going to donate it to Nanhai County. The money from the court, whether it's building the Taimiao or supporting the disaster victims, is all serious business, right? Who knows that King Xiang He took the money, but he didn’t put a tael into the relief cart! Forget it, he actually swallowed the money and stuffed the cart full of straw! Tell me, I can tell him No hatred?!"

"Unexpectedly, Fu Zongzheng is still a person who cares about the country and the people." Cheng Nan said sarcastically.

"It's not about worrying about the country and the people..." Fu Xiyuan couldn't hold back, "The officials, big and small, in my Zongzheng's mansion are also taken care of by me. I finally got a pot of meat, and I gave all the big pieces. King Xiang, we can only eat oil foam, what's the matter? I was scolded by someone poking my spine!"

Both of them were silent.

"With Fu Zongzheng's temperament, it's impossible to be bullied for nothing, right?" Cheng Nan thought about it again, and felt that there was something strange about it.

Fu Xiyuan was waiting for these words.

There is a knack for telling nonsense, if it is all false, even a fool can hear it.The reason why it is called "blind" is because my own eyes are smeared, I don't know the truth, half truth, half false, sometimes true, sometimes false, this is called foundation.And what makes Fu Xiyuan so powerful is precisely that when he tells nonsense, even he himself is in a trance, unable to tell the truth from the fake.

"To be honest, I didn't want to bother you with this matter. Does the prime minister still remember the incident of Zishui bursting the embankment? I actually did it. I wanted to flood the grain cart. You think, the grain cart with straw , Where can it sink? I planned to show the victims of the South China Sea a clear look and ask them to punish this little King Xiang who stole the sky and change the sea for me, but things didn't go as expected, and King Xiang himself was thrown into the flood Go in...he deserves not to drown this weasel that steals chickens!"

While Fu Xiyuan was feeling sorry for himself, Cheng Nan turned his head and remembered the assassination of King Xiaoxiang and King Yundian who was the regent.

"Then I didn't do it!" Fu Xiyuan did not admit this.If he dared to assassinate King Xiang, he would also have the courage to go to court prison and assassinate Luo Ke. "He is domineering, and I am not the only one who offended. The old King Xiang was stabbed to death in front of the palace gate, and it is said that he was also seeking revenge. Sure enough, my son and I have the same virtue."

"One more thing, I don't understand very well." Cheng Nan saw that he answered clearly, and asked again: "You are not the person who is directly in charge of the treasury regarding the restoration of the imperial temple and the restoration of the genealogy. Why does King Xiang go far away and only persecute you? "

Speaking of this matter, Fu Xiyuan immediately became frowning. "Isn't it because of my good son? He broke the leg of the young son of Prince Xiang's mansion, and he will only cause trouble all day long."

A few months ago, the seventh son of King Xiang's Mansion got drunk in Fengchun Pavilion, walked alone in a daze to a back street with few pedestrians.He was walking staggeringly when suddenly a sack was put over his head and he was severely beaten.When he came back, his mouth was cracked and his eye circles were also purple. How could he use only one word to describe him?

The man who beat him was also clean. After many days of interrogation by the Beijing officials, he killed a few innocent boys for nothing, so nothing happened.

But it turned out that the young master of the Fu family did it.

Cheng Nan thinks that there is nothing impossible when he thinks about it: Mr. Fu is used to being self-willed and reckless, and it is reasonable for him not to like the behavior of the seventh son of Prince Xiang's Mansion, and to beat him up secretly; , to move out the money from the imperial treasury, and to relieve the disaster for his son, and he can do it completely.

If this is true, then it shouldn't be King Xiaoxiang who forced the Fu family to take the money, but the Fu family was afraid to find out the fact that the young master had beaten someone, so they took the initiative to send the money to Prince Xiang's mansion.

The atmosphere gradually relaxed, and Fu Xiyuan also let out a sigh of relief.

He saw that although Cheng Nan's doubts were still there, he had no intention of killing him, so he chatted a few more words, showing that he wanted to say goodbye and leave.

"Why should Fu Zongzheng be in a hurry?" Cheng Nan smiled, "The Fu family is under my family, so I can't let you bear a lot of debts for nothing. Just wait a little longer, I have sent someone to go to Yuexia Villa to take care of you. Pay off the debt, wait for him to come back, and leave before it’s too late.”

Yuexia Villa has a separate residence in the imperial capital, the Cheng family should have sent someone to investigate the authenticity of Fu Xiyuan's words.

Just right.

Hearing this, Fu Xiyuan felt relieved: No matter whether the reason for borrowing money is true or not, at least the borrowing is true, Fu Xiyuan is not guilty.

On the other hand, Cheng Nan was also weighing in his mind: he sent two groups of people, one to visit Yuexia Villa, and the other to the palace to plead for orders.If what Yuexia Villa said was consistent with Fu Xiyuan's, then by the way, Fu Xiyuan would be given the position of doctor of imperial history;

On the one hand, the salaries of senior officials, and on the other hand, the death of people.

Although these two things are in heaven and earth, there is no eagerness on the faces of the two of them.Fu Xiyuan knew the truth, of course he could still drink tea; as for Cheng Nan, it wasn't his head that was chopped off, so why should he be in a hurry?

"Jingyang, why don't you run to the palace these days?" Cheng Nan was not only not in a hurry, but even joked about Qi Jingyang.In the whole court, there is really no one else who can let him have a friendly chat with Qi Jingyang.

And every time he talked about this matter, Qi Jingyang was always thin-skinned, but this time he just straightened his back, with a dejected expression on his face.With a bitter face, he replied sullenly: "She has left the capital."

"Gone?!" Cheng Nan was a little surprised.Qi Jingyang was embarrassed to tell who his favorite girl was, so Cheng Nan didn't care about it, always thinking that with Jingyang's character and appearance, which girl can't be tempted?I don't think there are women in this world who don't like his Jingyang family!

The two were talking, completely forgetting about Fu Xiyuan next to them.However, how could Fu Xiyuan keep his mouth idle?He likes to gossip the most on weekdays, and at this time he was not far behind, and interjected: "Young Master Qi also has a woman he likes? That's right, it's not too young, it's time to get married. My kid is younger than you, All day long, it seems to be hanging on the waistband of my daughter's house..."

"Where did she go? You're such a big boy, you won't chase after a woman is gone?!" For some reason, this matter seemed to hit Cheng Nan's deep pain.His tone was almost scolding, and there were many annoyances that hated iron but not steel.

"Prime Minister, what you said is wrong," Fu Xiyuan drank tea from the Cheng family, and Yi Yiran made jokes about the troubles of the Cheng family. "If people don't like it, how can we force it? Friendship in the world is destined, it still depends on the meaning of the little girl and the boy."

Both master and servant gave him an extremely unhappy look.

At this moment, Cheng Nan even thought in his heart: What are you waiting for the people from Yuexia Villa to come back?Just hang Fu Xiyuan, who is full of head and mouth, and speaks true and false words!Working with Fu Xiyuan is really putting yourself in the way.

Fortunately, when the sword on Qi Jingyang's waist was about to be pulled out, and when Fu Xiyuan's head was about to drop, a man with the appearance of a domestic servant strode in, and Cheng Nan said in his ear: "The person sent to Yuexia Villa People are back."