Your Majesty, I am not worthy

The top floor of Zuixianju is splendid, when Rong Mu pushed open the door, he saw a large table made of high-quality red sandalwood and carved lacquer.

I don't know how to do it, but a small piece of emerald bamboo is planted beside the screen, which is bright green and full of vitality throughout the winter.

Pacing away, there was a refreshing "squeak" sound of crisp bamboo branches when he stepped on it. Rong Mu realized that besides the emerald green bamboo leaves, there was also a bamboo surface paved with bamboo tubes under his feet.

There are already six people sitting on the seven red sandalwood chairs, and the main seat is reserved for Rong Mu.

When everyone saw him coming, they got up immediately, they were all wearing private clothes, these people looked completely different from what Rong Mu saw in official robes when he went to court.

The eyes of several officials present were surprised. They were used to seeing the appearance of the prime minister in official robes. They did not expect that the adult looked so immature in private, but no matter how young he looked, the person in front of him still had a prominent position in the court. The important ministers, and the remaining seven people bowed their hands and bowed their hands.

"Hello, Prime Minister."

Song Du has already gone to ask the boss to serve the food.

When Rong Mu walked up to the main seat, his slender knuckles turned flexibly, and after untiing the thick cloak on his body, Rong Muqing said with a slight smile: "My lords, sit down, don't be restrained. Today is also a time when Rong Mou's mind moved." , the condition has stabilized and I remembered that I have not invited all the adults, so I set up a table here to thank all the adults for visiting Rong when he was seriously ill."

Ting Wei Zhou Chengkong also came today, Zhou Chengkong is the one who went to the prime minister's mansion to ask Rong Mu for advice in person a few days ago, and he is also acquainted with Rong Mu: "Your Excellency, you are welcome, but your Excellency It looks much better today."

"After taking so many days of sick leave, I should take good care of myself."

Everyone chuckled again.

After all, it is restrained.

Over the years, they have never had too many negotiations with the Prime Minister in private.

It was previously heard that the Prime Minister was seriously ill after returning to Beijing from northern Xinjiang, and the gift of medicine and gifts was also out of courtesy. They didn't expect to be able to sit at the same table with the Prime Minister today.

Fortunately, Zuixianlou served the dishes very quickly, and Song Du, who had gone out, came back within half a cup of tea time, and at the same time brought delicious delicacies overflowing with fragrance.

Now that there is delicious food, when the bowls and chopsticks are stacked, the coldness of everyone is slowly broken. The main reason is that Zhou Chengkong sees everything in his eyes. During the period, he mentioned the court several times. Several of them then spoke separately.

Some people are happy and some are worried. At the end of the year, His Majesty's control over his subordinates is becoming more and more stringent. Those who make meritorious deeds will be rewarded, and those who make mistakes will be punished.

When the official position was raised or lowered, everyone was frightened.

When everyone was drinking, Rong Mu drank a cup of clear tea alone, using tea instead of wine, with a smile on his lips, Rong Mu quietly listened to them talking about the most lively things in the court recently.

Now it is Zhou Chengkong who is talking, and he is the most troublesome: "But if it is unlucky, it is the son of General Zhenyuan who got unlucky. Wen Li found out the case three years ago. What will happen now? It's pretty tricky."

"The case is indeed complicated, and the major general is helpless now, and he is probably in a state of desperation." Xu Yun, a servant in blue robes, gulped down the strong wine in his cup, frowning.

Rong Mu calmly put down the celadon cup in his hand, the tea juice in it was clear and transparent, and there was still half of it left: "The case three years ago?"

Although he said that he was in control of the government, he had never heard of Hua Huaiyin's crimes three years ago, and he would leave a record.

"The prime minister doesn't know about this?" Xu Yun was suspicious.

Rong Mu shook his head slightly, Liuli's eyes were full of waves.

Zhou Chengkong was surprised, and then he patted the table, suddenly realized and reminded: "Your Excellency was in Tongzhou for disaster relief, so you probably haven't heard of it."

Xu Yun shook his head, sighed, and said: "Three years ago, the young general was walking on the street and seemed to rub an old woman. There was nothing wrong at that time, but when the old man went back at night, he disappeared. Later, the old man's son In the afternoon of the same day, he sued the government, saying that it was because of the major general riding a horse that his mother died.

This case is neither big nor small.

The most embarrassing thing is that the old man was rubbed by the black horse of the major general, but his fingers were scratched, and he was fine at the time, and he was able to walk, but after handing over the indictment and returning home, he suddenly left overnight. What's more, the entire family of five, from old to young, all died on the second day after the complaint was filed. "

"Then how was the case decided?"

Rong Mu rubbed the green bamboo carvings on the celadon teacup with the fingertips of one hand, and asked with the other hand on his forehead.

"There is no way for the government to solve it. The members of that family are all dead. As a servant, the lower official is in charge of the imperial horse and Quan Haojing's horse administration on weekdays. The matter of Hua Huaiyin has something to do with the lower official. "

The horse Hua Huaiyin was riding was rented from Xu Yun.

Ma'er hurt people, Xu Yun, as the top leader controlling Ma Zheng, was not held accountable at first, but now he was secretly found out by Wen Li, and he will inevitably be held accountable in the future.

"With witnesses, now Wen Li has uncovered the case again. Regarding the death of the old man, he made it clear that he was going to stand up for the family, and now the witnesses have come forward, which seems to mean that the major general met during the day. After wiping the old woman, seeing that the family dared to sue him, I sent someone to solve the family personally at night."

Zhou Chengkong stroked his beard and interjected: "But just for this matter, the Hua family said that he would invite me to dinner today. Presumably he wanted to use my hand to suppress this case for him."

As Ting Wei, Zhou Chengkong is in charge of judicial trials, and he is Wen Li's superior.

It is reasonable for Hua Huaiyin to ask him.

"If you want me to say, Mr. Zhou, you still don't want to interfere. Now that Wen Li is going smoothly in the court, he can be regarded as a celebrity in front of His Majesty. We know what is more important, and there is no need to hinder Wen Li because of this young general. Eye."

An official present said in a low voice, and what he said caused the rest of the people to nod in agreement.

They are all civil servants of the court, and they have always been at odds with military commanders, so they disobeyed His Majesty if they didn't want to surround the generals.

Zhou Chengkong also nodded, let out a turbid sigh and said, "Wen Li has uncovered more than this one case. Before the end of the year, the baby burying case ten years ago, and the poisoning case seven years ago, he didn't think about it." The verdict is about to be overturned, His Majesty is also on his side..."

Haojing's dignitaries have a lot of dirty things, killing people to silence them is no longer surprising.

But those are the silt that has been deposited under the mud for a long time. Has anyone ever dug out the mud and spread it out in the eyes of everyone? Smelt all over.

Those few people were still talking about the long-silent doubts Wen Li uncovered, Wen Li had ideas and methods.

Even when Rong Mu heard this, he couldn't hide his respect.

Rong Mu admired Wen Li's courage in overturning the case.

But if it is said that Hua Huaiyin is really as they said, not only riding a horse and injuring someone, but also killing people in the middle of the night, Rong Mu is skeptical.

Even though Rong Mu didn't get along with Hua Huaiyin very often, he could still see Hua Huaiyin's sincerity. If he was really a reckless person who hurt someone while riding a horse, then he would certainly not be able to do something that would kill someone.

But Zhou Chengkong's last sentence still weighed heavily on Rong Mu's heart.

It's all because Chu Yuheng was standing on Wen Li's side...

Now Wen Li is protected by someone.

Even though what Wen Li has done has almost violated the family's interests, all the dignitaries here dare not speak too much.

The corners of Rong Mu's lips that were originally slightly hooked gradually flattened, the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, and the thick eyelashes covered his eyes for a moment.

When he joined the court as an official in Lianzhong Sanyuan, when he was the palace cooker in Chuchu, all the officials saw him as only twenty, and he had no prominent family background, nor was he protected by his father and brother. , but Chu Yuheng never publicly protected him.

All the way from the palace weaving to the position of the prime minister, he encountered a lot of nuns; the most serious time, he was framed by his opponent as a collaborator, and in order to draw out the real spy by acting, he was tortured in prison. A whole month of torture.

During this period, Chu Yuheng never said a word for him, nor did he see him once.

But thinking about it, people are different from each other.

In Chu Yuheng's heart, he was far different from Wen Li.

A cup of tea covered the tensed corners of the mouth, and those needle-like fine pains were like a deep pool after the snow melted, and soon returned to calm.

Slightly cold tea juice entered the mouth, Rong Mu smiled warmly after putting down the cup.

He is still the former prime minister of a country who can completely hide everything.