Jinyiwei work report

After Song Yingbai got the approval note from Li Zhen, he didn't leave in a hurry. Seeing that there was no one else in the house, he asked about the current situation of Dongchang.

"The brothers and sisters of the Yu family must have already left the customs. This time Dongchang won't lose money by stealing chickens. Cao Xiang is going to be mad."

Li Zhen said: "It is said that not long after we left, the border guards brought people to the inn, and found the bodies of Pi Shaotang and Xu Jing in the desert, because they brought the official documents of the Ministry of Punishment, and sent people to find the bodies of the Ministry of Punishment at first. , and asked them to identify the corpse, but the Ministry of Criminal Investigation found that it was not his own. After seven rounds and eight rounds, he finally found Dongchang. It is said that Cao Xiang cried a lot when he heard that Pi Shaotang was dead. However, he finally Worried, I still asked the Yu family siblings to run away, because of this, I still had a very unpleasant fight with Shoufu."

Song Yingbai can guess the reason for the two people's hostility. I am afraid that the chief assistant blames Cao Xiang for being impatient. It is only a matter of time before they are tortured to death without knowing it. There is no need to engage in such a big battle, engage in violent assassinations, and attract attention.

These are the two styles of doing things. The first assistant and the literati, when they fight, the front line can often last for decades, and they never get tired of it, so they adopt a low-key and insidious way.

Cao Xiang, the admiral of the East Factory, believes in violence and pursues immediate results.

Song Yingbai said: "The East Factory is used by supervisory officials. Cao Xiang shouldn't have gotten too close to the chief assistant. Now that they have broken up, I don't know how many people are secretly happy."

"Yes, it is estimated that Pi Shaotang and Xu Jing will be replaced soon. By the way, Xie Zhongyu really raised Mao Congxian's monkey. Have you found Mao Congxian's relatives?"

"I sent someone to inquire. He doesn't have relatives, but he has a lot of enemies. Xie Zhongyu took care of Dandan very well. I saw him yesterday. His fur is smooth and glistening in the sun. I still feel emotional, really It's a golden monkey."

Li Zhen felt uncomfortable, but Song Yingbai was a long-legged man, he was free to go anywhere in his spare time, and he couldn't control it, "Didn't Xie Zhongyu be beaten to death by his uncle?"

"He told his uncle that he ran out to save others. When I saw him, he was alive and kicking, so he shouldn't have been punished much."

Even if he was punished, it wouldn’t be surprising for him to see you beaming. Li Zhen looked at Song Yingbai with a bit of melancholy in his eyes. Didn’t this guy have such a brain string? There are no seams.

How about taking the initiative yourself?Or say goodbye, in case you scare someone away?

The most damning thing is that since Song Yingbai was adopted to Song Yuye, the outside world thought that his promotion was due to Song Shilang's relationship, and even rumors about the two of them stopped spreading.

Life is like this, there are nine out of ten unsatisfactory things, when you don't want to spread rumors, they are everywhere, and when you want them to spread them, everyone is like a dumb person.

Li Zhen remembered one thing and reminded: "Yuan Tongzhi will celebrate his [-]th birthday on the fifth day of next month. Don't make arrangements for that day, and remember to make room for it."

"Is he that old?" Song Yingbai saw him last time when he supported Xing Qianhu, and he remembered that he was a little old man. Unexpectedly, he was already 60 years old, and he seemed to be retiring soon.

"Yes, he is so old, so after his birthday, he should retire soon and return to his hometown."

Song Yingbai heard the implication. Once Yuan Tongzhi stepped down, Li Zhen must be taking over. His loyal friend is about to be promoted. "He is not only celebrating his birthday, but also a farewell party."

Li Zhen had never heard of the word farewell party, but thought it was quite appropriate. He poked him on the cheek with a pen, and said with a smile, "You have sharp teeth and a sharp mouth."

Sending off an old comrade like Yuan Tongzhi must not be empty-handed, "I don't know what birthday gift Yuan Tongzhi likes."

"As long as you are not rude, you can give me anything you want."

"Okay, I'll go back and get ready. It's getting late, so you should be busy. I'll go to the imperial prison and interrogate him again."

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"No need, your approval note is enough." Song Yingbai waved his hand with a smile, let Li Zhen continue to sit, put away the note and went out.

When they arrived at the imperial prison, Li Zhen's approval note was shown, and Song Yingbai successfully mentioned the prisoner.

The reason why the note is so useful is not that everyone recognizes Li Zhen's handwriting, but because the note is stamped with the big seal of "Qing Shi", with this seal, it is an order, without it, it is a waste note.

Therefore, among the twelve eunuchs in the inner court, the eunuch who is in charge of the seal has the greatest power because he is in charge of the seal.

Not everyone can enter the Imperial Prison. Most of the prisoners are those who directly angered the emperor. Ordinary people have no chance to provoke the emperor. Therefore, these prisoners are either relatives of the emperor, court officials, or civil scholars. Bad luck is also rich.

Therefore, the poor scholar seemed out of place in it, and Song Yingbai decided to confess to his counterpart, which was not much different from the first confession, so he let him go home for the New Year.

The prison environment was dirty and messy, and Song Yingbai suspected it was intentional, so that people could "die of illness" without reason when they were locked up here.

He brought Fang Jiamo and two followers to interrogate the poor scholar on the spot, and asked about the case, such as when and where he picked up the doggerel, how to report it to the official, etc., which were consistent with the initial confession.

Song Yingbai saw that this poor scholar didn't even write a doggerel to ridicule the royal family, but he didn't have the guts to read it, and he was purely arrested and used as a scapegoat when the case had to be closed.

After he finished his inquiry, he decided to close the case and release him, but he did not have the final say on releasing him, he had to submit a document for release to the imperial prison, and finally the town governor stamped the release before he could release him.

However, it is generally a routine matter, not an important person, and will usually be stamped and released.

"Just wait, after a while, you should be able to go home." Song Yingbai said this to the poor scholar, and led Fang Jiamo and others out of the prison.

"My lord, you are really the master of Qingtian." Poor Xiucai held the prison door and watched Song Yingbai leave with tears in his eyes.

As soon as Song Yingbai and the others came out of the prison gate, they felt that the atmosphere was not right. They saw people running around, sweeping and sweeping, and lining up. This kind of situation is not unfamiliar. It can be seen that a high-ranking official is coming .

Once before, the commander made a surprise inspection of the drill, and Song Yingbai and other hundred households were so busy.

In addition, Li Zhen told him that the governor of Beizhen Fusi had been reinstated, and he knew it well. It must be this old man who received him so nervously.

As soon as I thought of this, I heard someone yell: "See Lord Zhenfu."

All the people present bowed down and clasped their fists to salute, Song Yingbai and others hurriedly bowed to salute, not daring to overstep.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a young man in a big red flying fish suit striding towards them with his entourage. He looked 25 or six years old, with fair skin, so pale that he didn't have any blood color. The eyes are slightly white, coupled with the expressionless face, the gaze gives people a bit fierce feeling, and it is not easy to get along with.

Seeing him approaching, Song Yingbai was afraid of causing trouble, so he quickly lowered his head and waited for this person to walk past before he dared to stand up straight.

-

After arriving home in the evening, Song Yingbai took out his uncle's collection of calligraphy and painting, looked at it briefly with a knowledgeable person, selected one of the less precious paintings, and finalized it as a birthday gift.

It was the fifth day of the new year in a blink of an eye, Song Yingbai got up early, put on casual clothes, and rode to look for Li Zhen.

He thought there were too many people on the main road, and because he was familiar with the street, he took a small path. When passing by an alley, a young man suddenly ran out of it, and saw Song Yingbai alone. He didn't know where the courage came from. He drew out his dagger and said to him, "Get down quickly and give me the horse."

To be honest, Song Yingbai has encountered everything since he entered Beijing, but he has never been robbed, so he couldn't help laughing, "You want to rob?"

"Come down quickly, or I'm going to stab you." The boy looked back and pulled Song Yingbai's rein.

Song Yingbai was riding on a horse, so he already had a height advantage, and he had some kung fu, so he kicked the boy's dagger away with a blank expression.

The young man was taken aback, and bent down to pick up the dagger. At this moment, he turned his head and saw someone chasing him in the alley. He was so frightened that he gave up the dagger and ran away.

"Don't run—" The three grown men quickly caught up, and one of them kicked him down mercilessly from behind, then picked him up, slapped him left and right, and immediately slapped him until his mouth and nose were bleeding.

Song Yingbai watched coldly, thinking that it was probably because someone came to him for the robbery before. Although it was wrong for three grown men to beat up a teenager, this kind of person would have to learn a lesson.

He was about to leave when he heard a crackling sound, accompanied by the heart-piercing cry of the young man, Song Yingbai heard that the bone was broken.

He turned his head and saw that one of the men was raising his foot, apparently intending to step on the boy's other calf bone.

"Hey!" Song Yingbai said coldly, "You have to forgive him and forgive him, so as not to break both of his legs."

"Hey, what are you, asking you to meddle in your own business?!" One of the men said fiercely.

Song Yingbai was not willing to listen, "If I really wanted to meddle in my own business, it would be as simple as stopping you with my voice. No matter what crime he committed, he will be convicted by the government himself, and it is not your turn to lynch him."

At this time, a man whispered: "It's Song Yingbai from Jinyiwei, let's go."

Although his voice was very low, Song Yingbai could still hear his name clearly. Who were these people and how did they know him?

The other two men exchanged glances, and stopped attacking the young man, spat, "Roll as far as you can, if you pester him again, your other leg will be broken." After speaking, he walked away with his arms crossed.

The boy hugged one leg, wiping tears from the pain. It could be seen that he felt more aggrieved than the leg injury.

At this time, two teenagers with bruised noses and swollen faces came out from the alley, supporting each other, and it was obvious that they were seriously injured. One of them had a broken leg and the other a broken arm, and they cried and murmured: "Xiao Wuzi has changed... no Recognize us..."

They came to the young man, crying and complaining: "It's you who said that Xiao Wuzi has developed. If you want to come to him, you can't help but not get rich, and even get beaten. Do you pay for the soup and medicine? Huh, huh, it's all to blame." you."

The boy didn't say a word, and kept wiping away his tears.

Song Yingbai curled his lips. It seems that the young man just wanted to rob the horse just to escape, not to ambush and rob for money. It was understandable. He touched his sleeve and threw a few pieces of silver at them, "Buy soup and medicine Drink it, and, relying on others is worse than relying on yourself."

The young man looked up at Song Yingbai. In fact, he had recognized him from just now. This was the Jinyiwei Baihu who let him and Xiao Wuzi go when they were in the temple, but obviously, the other party did not recognize him.

After all, he is not a great person, there is no reason to have an impression after meeting him once.

With tears in his eyes, he picked up a piece of broken silver and thanked him repeatedly.

Xiao Wuzi is not as moral as a stranger. Everyone swore before that he has the same blessings and enjoys the same hardships. He has developed, so it's fine if he doesn't pull them, but he turned his face and sent someone to beat them.

Song Yingbai still had business to do, so he turned his horse around and left.

When he arrived, Li Zhen had already made preparations and was waiting for him while drinking tea in the front room. As soon as the servant informed him, he hurried out.

Li Zhen got on the horse, looked Song Yingbai up and down, and praised: "You look really nice today."

Unexpectedly, Song Yingbai would buy it all, and said in a very unpleasant way: "I'm not a woman, it doesn't matter if I look good or not, it's fine if I don't just look at it."

Li Zhen stared at him, "...you are amazing, you will kill me as soon as you meet."

Song Yingbai smiled and said: "Then how do you want me to answer? If it was someone else, I might be polite, but you are not an outsider, so of course I will tell the truth."

Li Zhen felt much better when she heard the words "not an outsider", "That's right, whoever we are with whoever."

The two of them walked to Yuan Tongzhi's house. His house was not far away, and they arrived soon.At this time, many carriages had already parked in the alley, and it seemed that many people had already arrived before them.

The house of Yuan Tongzhi's family is not big. As an old fox who gained his position as a Tongzhi by his qualifications, he behaved very clean and simple to the outside world. The whole family lived in a two-entry mansion.

For this birthday celebration, the house could not be opened, so a pergola was set up in the front yard to house the guests.

Song Yingbai first saw the most familiar Xing Qianhu, and immediately went up to say hello. Xing Qianhu forced a dry smile at him, "You are here, are you tired recently? Although you are young, you should pay attention to your body."

Faced with the concern of his immediate boss, Song Yingbai had only one feeling. Xing Qianhu seemed very clear that Yuan Tongzhi was going to retire and return to his hometown. This was to resolve the conflict between the two.

Song Yingbai must not be so narrow-minded, but he was not sure about Li Zhen's thoughts.

At this time, the birthday star Yuan Tongzhi came over and greeted Li Zhen. Song Yingbai's grade was too low to come forward, so he just waited by.

Suddenly, he saw a familiar face, his eyebrows and eyes were a bit like Cai Feng's nameless white, but he couldn't remember his name for a long time.

He stood beside Cao Xiaochuan, holding a tray in his hand, which seemed to be a congratulatory gift.

Song Yingbai raised his eyebrows, he is quite capable of exploiting, last year he was still unknown, but this year he jumped to Cao Xiaochuan, this kid is very developed.

In fact, Xiao Wuzi had seen Song Yingbai a long time ago, but because of the scene, he could only watch with his eyes and mind at this time, and did not dare to make any eye contact.

At this time, Li Zhen had exchanged greetings with Yuan Tongzhi, and turned to Song Yingbai.

Song Yingbai looked at the people present, and said in a low voice: "This person is well enough, not only people from Dongchang, but even several princes' mansions have sent people here."

"Yeah, like me."

"Stop coming, aren't you an insider of Jin Yiwei?" Song Yingbai smiled.

People came and went, Li Zhen and Song Yingbai sat quietly in the corner, whispering something that only the two of them could hear. He enjoyed this feeling very much and couldn't help but get closer to him.

"Li Zhen——" Suddenly someone hooked his shoulder from behind, and happily said, "It's really you!"

Li Zhen turned his head in disgust, "It's you, Zhou Xuan, why did you go back to the capital?"

Song Yingbai looked at this man who was shoulder to shoulder with Li Zhen and seemed to be very familiar. He was in his early twenties and had a pair of peach blossom eyes.

"My father felt that he was going to die soon, so he told me to come back to attack the prince, and I came back." Congee Xuan said with a smile: "I planned to look for you in two days, but I didn't expect to meet you here. I heard that you Working in Jinyiwei?"

Li Zhen shook Zhou Xuan's arm away, "I'm busy here, let's go."

"Why didn't I see that you have something to do, don't you just chat with others?" Zhou Xuan smiled to Song Yingbai: "What are you talking about, can I join too?"

"No!" Li Zhen said mercilessly.

Zhou Xuan made a very hurt look, "Li Zhen, after all, we grew up together, so you treat me like this?"

"It's close, it's just that the grandfathers have a little friendship, and we met a few times when we were young." Li Zhen said indifferently: "By the way, why are you here?"

"My father was helped by Yuan Tongzhi when he was young, so he ordered me to celebrate his birthday." Zhou Xuan said with a smile, "I didn't expect to meet you. When you are free, I will be the host..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Zhen said, "No time." He took Song Yingbai's shoulders, shook off Zhou Xuan, turned and left.

Song Yingbai looked back at Zhou Xuan, saw that he was still staring at Li Zhen's back, and couldn't help thinking that the reason why Li Zhen had no friends was not because he couldn't make friends, but because he didn't want to make friends at all, "You seem to hate him?"

"Isn't it obvious." Li Zhen didn't want to hide it, "I'm familiar with it."

Song Yingbai snorted, and pouted in the direction of the stage, "Let's find a place to sit first, the concert is about to begin."

The two found a place to sit down, and Li Zhen glanced at Song Yingbai from the corner of his eye. From just now, he had carefully observed his expression, and it could be said that there was no disturbance.

Song Yingbai didn't have the entangled and displeased expression when he saw that he had other "friends" back then, and Zhou Xuan's appearance didn't affect him at all.

Fortunately, he was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he tried his best to appear ruthless.

Li Zhen didn't give up, and while observing his subtle expression, he said, "If I call Zhou Xuan over to sit with me, do you object?"

Why object?If Li Zhen is willing, he has no objection. He and Zhou Xuan met for the first time, and there is no like or dislike. "Then sit still and let me call him."

"No!!!" Li Zhen slammed his shoulders and pushed him back to his seat, "Sit honestly! Act like I didn't say anything."

"...Okay, let's go to the theater." Song Yingbai said indifferently.

Even when the flowers were sung on the stage, Li Zhen didn't even bother to watch. She wondered in her heart, should she be more obvious?Song Yingbai was "numb" to a certain level.

-

In the back kitchen of Yuan's family, Ye Xian held up a kitchen knife and couldn't get down for a long time.

Beads of sweat on the forehead slid down the cheeks to the chin, and finally fell into the fish basin in front of him.

She suspected that she had hysteria, otherwise, how could the carp talk?

"Don't kill me... Please..." Li Yu opened and closed his mouth, crying, "...you spare my life, and I will repay you..."

As the rough envoy of the Yuan family's kitchen, she was in charge of killing the fish for the birthday banquet. According to the plan early in the morning, the fish should have been killed by this time, but when she was about to cut the knife, the carp actually spoke.

Ye Xian looked around, the other maids were busy with their own work, no one noticed her and the fish.

"I...I can't help but kill you...that's what I do. If I don't kill you, the master will blame me." Ye Xian said in a difficult way.

"As long as you can save me from dying, I can help you realize your wish...Really, believe me..." Carp opened his mouth and cried.

At this time, the daughter-in-law in charge of the kitchen came in and saw that Ye Xian hadn't killed the fish yet, and scolded: "You son of a bitch, you are still lazy here at this moment, waiting for the fish to go into the pot, why don't you hurry up?!"

"Yes! Yes!" Ye Xian kept bowing her head and apologized, "I started killing fish." When the people left, she said in embarrassment: "You see, there are so many people staring at me, I can't save you at all, I am just a lowly servant girl, how about this, I will collect your bones and offer them every day."

Carp said in pain: "Why are you, who can understand what I say, just a low-level servant? It seems that my doom is really coming, move the knife, remember what you said, and definitely put my bones away as an offering! If I'm lucky, I won't die completely." After speaking, he closed his mouth tightly and stopped pleading.

Ye Xian gritted her teeth and dropped the raised kitchen knife.

-

Song Yingbai sat at the same table with Li Zhen, and there was a lot of pressure, because this guy was only inferior to the commander and the birthday fellow. This caused basically every member of Jinyiwei who came to celebrate his birthday, after meeting the birthday star and the commander, , have to come to their table to meet Li Zhen face to face.

But Song Yingbai is only a member of a hundred households, and every time he faces a visitor, he has to stand up and salute. Li Zhen has the privilege of sitting and receiving an audience, but he does not, so every time a visitor comes, he almost has to stand up and salute. It was troublesome and tiring.

After seeing a large group of people coming this way again, Song Yingbai finally couldn't hold back the idea of ​​running away, "You sit down first, I'll go get some ventilation." After finishing speaking, he left Li Zhen, left the table, and went to others. I went to a few places.

Before Li Zhen had time to chase him, he was stopped by others and couldn't get away for a while.

Song Yingbai walked out of the pergola and walked towards the vertical flower gate. There were only a few people in the courtyard at the moment, so he planned to find a shady place nearby to sit for a while.

"Hahaha, you can't catch me."

"I caught you!"

At Yuan Tongzhi's age, three generations have been living under the same roof. Today he is celebrating his birthday, and the grandchildren are the happiest, chasing and playing in the courtyard. It happened that when Song Yingbai walked to the Chuihua Gate, three or five children came running and wanted to squeeze out the door. All the laughing and joking bumped into Song Yingbai's back, and he was caught off guard and pushed him out.

Song Yingbai bumped into the person who wanted to enter.

The brats of the Yuan family didn't know what happened, they squeezed out the door, joking and joking, and ran away one after another.

At this time, Song Yingbai waited to see the face of the person opposite, his face changed in fright, he bent down and bowed his hands and said: "See Mr. Pei."

As soon as he lowered his head, he saw a clear footprint on the opponent's boot. Needless to say, he stepped on it just now.

If the degree of fright just now was just a change of face, now the hairs are standing on end.

I heard Pei Huaixuan say without any emotion: "Lick it clean." He lifted the stepped on right boot and put it on his knee.

Song Yingbai said: "If you lick it, it will leave water marks. It's better to wipe it off."

This attitude obviously angered Pei Huaixuan, and he kicked towards Song Yingbai, but Song Yingbai, who had a backer, was more courageous, how could he be kicked, stepped back, and avoided.

Pei Huaixuan didn't expect that the other party would dare to dodge, and rushed forward in one step.

Song Yingbai originally wanted to dodge again, but it is no exaggeration to say that this time Pei Huaixuan was as fast as lightning. He suspected that he only saw the afterimage of Pei Huaixuan, and he grabbed the skirt of his shirt.

Song Yingbai thought to himself, bad luck, today it seems that he will be beaten inevitably.

But the fist that was supposed to land did not reach his face for a long time. He couldn't help but look at Pei Huaixuan, and he saw him looking directly at him.

The raised fist slowly unfolded, turned into a palm, and lightly touched his cheek, and said in a hoarse voice: "You, what's your name? Where are you from?"

What are you doing, why are you so nervous, Song Yingbai didn't answer, just want to get out of here quickly and go back to Li Zhen's side.

But Pei Huaixuan was tugging at his skirt, so he couldn't get away.

Someone in Pei Huaixuan's entourage urged loudly: "Our lord is asking you something, if you want to survive, please answer quickly."

Who knows, as soon as the words fell, he was kicked and flew out by Pei Huaixuan, and said fiercely: "Don't talk to him like that!"

Song Yingbai swallowed nervously, isn't that your own person?

Pei Huaixuan restrained his ferocious expression, and forced a smile on Song Yingbai, and asked in a trembling voice: "Don't be afraid, tell me, what's your name, where are you from?"