Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Whether it should be rolled or not, Master Su finally slept peacefully.

When I woke up the next day, the swelling in my ankle had subsided a lot, so I applied the ointment again, pushed and kneaded it randomly, and stuffed it into my shoes and socks.After walking a few steps, he felt that the pain was bearable, so he straightened his clothes, washed himself with the hot water brought by the waiter, and walked out of the room.

Breakfast is still served in the hall.The few officials who stayed overnight, except for the good couple, Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, each had a corner.Every time Liu Shaozhan and Jia Yushi took a sip of porridge, they would slash and kill each other for three rounds with their eyes.

Cui Zhuangyuan monopolized the main table with a big horse.His official position is not high, and he is quite arrogant. He feels that the whole room is full of filthy things that are not suitable for him--Yun Tanhua is not a filthy thing, but a strange flower made of ice.

Seeing Su Yan's appearance, he smiled and waved: "Brother Qinghe, sit here."

Su Yan took care of his unhealed leg injury, walked over slowly, and sat down opposite Cui Jinping.The palace man served him porridge.He didn't like porridge in the morning, so he asked, "Do you have buns? Pancakes are also fine. It's better to have a bowl of hot and spicy soup."

Cui Jinping smiled: "Are you addicted to eating market stalls? It's a pity that the food in this hall is uniformly prepared. I asked before, and I don't cook small stoves—"

"Yes, yes! Mr. Cheng Sheng has told you that all the food and clothing utensils ordered by Mr. Su must be provided by the younger ones. Even if you don't have any, you have to find a way to conjure them up. Please wait a moment, Mr. Su." Palace servant He bowed and retreated, trotting all the way out of the palace gate.

Cui Jinping was slapped in the face on the spot, it was unavoidably embarrassing, and his complexion was not very good-looking, he forced a smile and said: "This should be the grace of the young master. It is said that Qinghe, you are quite favored by the East Palace. In Brother Yu's opinion, this is too light. He simply treats you like a brother and sister, and even these little things are covered."

In his heart, he was happy to see Su Yan gaining power. After all, the two hit it off, and their friendship was pretty good. Su Yan gained power, and he would definitely be able to support him in the future.But he also faintly tasted the taste of jealousy, like an unfrosted persimmon, sour and astringent, thinking about what Su Yan has that deserves so much attention from the East Palace?The writing may not be perfect, and the impeachment in the palace examination is more like a slap in the face. Even writing a doggerel at the Enrong Banquet is suspected of sensationalism.

However, as the number one scholar, he wrote splendid articles, knew astronomy and geography, was quick-witted, and had a good memory. However, he has not been taken seriously until now, and is still buried in the pile of old papers in the Imperial Academy.Either the head is rich and the experience is poor, or it will be transferred to the Sixth Ministry in a few years or sent to the outside as an official, and it must start from the grassroots.

Prime minister, prime minister, to put it nicely, how many hundreds or thousands of Hanlin scholars can produce a cabinet minister?Not to mention Shoufu!

Thinking of this, Cui Jinping couldn't help feeling a little disheartened, and secretly sighed: "As expected, "being an official has no time, it all depends on the thick antenna"!Didn't Su Qinghe rely on a thick antenna to be so comfortable?It turns out that no amount of serious knowledge is worth playing with the little prince.

Just when his mood was fluctuating, the palace servant brought in a food box and took out two drawers of big crab roe soup dumplings, a plate of fried spring pancakes, a bowl of hot pepper soup, and a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup, and finally there was a plate Lin Lang placed half of the fried sausage on the table.

The smell of meat and meat is no more attractive than the ascetic white rice and millet porridge paired with stuffed steamed buns. The rest of the people in the hall stretched their necks, especially the two young ministers of Honglu Temple, their eyes were about to fall into ducks. Blood vermicelli soup.

Seeing that they were all his favorite breakfast dishes, Su Yan thought that the brat is usually domineering, but he is considerate at critical moments. Last night in the cabinet, he overheard him talking about the young minister of Honglu Temple complaining about poor food, so he went to Don't worry, it's already ready.

He generously pushed the dishes in front of Cui Jinping: "I can't finish all this, come, brother Pingshan, let's eat together, eat together."

Seeing his enthusiasm, Cui Jinping was a little ashamed of the jealousy he had just aroused, so he quickly pressed down hard, thanked him, and took a bowl of vermicelli soup and a few rolls of spring pancakes.

"How about crab roe soup dumplings?"

"No, no, I can't eat crabs."

Su Yan remembered that at the Enrong Banquet, Tan Hualang seemed to like eating crabs, so he brought a drawer of dumplings in soup with crab roe, walked to Yun Xi's side, and placed them on the table in front of him.

Yun Xi glanced at him unmoved, and continued to scoop up the porridge.

Su Yan smiled and said: "This is a thank you gift. Thank you for helping me last night, so that I won't fall down."

Only then did Yun Xi look into the cage.

A big crab roe soup dumpling is as big as a palm, plump and round, snow-white and crystal clear, the paper-thin skin is almost transparent, and the wrinkles in the center are delicate and even. A kind of softness that is ready to break.

He was a little dazed, he didn't know what to think of, and the roots of his ears were slightly red.

Seeing that the other party did not refuse, Su Yan handed him the bamboo pipe for sucking soup: "Pierce it first, and be careful not to burn your mouth."

Yun Xi took the Di Guan and said softly, "Thank you."

After Su Yan returned to his seat, Cui Jinping looked at him in amazement: "I really believe it now."

"Believe what?"

"It's gossip in the market. It is said that when Jinshi paraded through the streets, all of them were good-looking in the world, but you, Su Qinghe, walked on the Jade Mountain, shining on people, and said that you were the reincarnation of Dong Jun. You see, isn't it? Aoxue Hanmei has been pushed away by you."

As far as there are rumors in the market, how can ordinary people talk about "walking on Yushan Mountain", it is clearly made up by Cui Zhuangyuan himself to ridicule him.Su Yan knocked on Cui Jinping's forehead with a spoon, and scolded with a smile: "You are so narrow-minded!"

After breakfast, several officials waited in the hall for investigation. Unexpectedly, they waited and waited for half a day, but no servants came to summon them to see them, and even the investigators did not appear.

Anxious Jia Gongji wanted to go out of the small south courtyard to see the situation, but was politely stopped by the guards at the gate, saying that the adults could move freely in the hall, but they could not leave this gate.

Jia Gongji asked, when can I be summoned?Or send someone to inquire?

The guard replied, I don't know, just wait.

After lunch, they sat there until the evening, when several officials realized that the emperor had not forgotten about yesterday's murder, but that he didn't want to see them at all, so he went directly to the Xiaonan courtyard to close the matter.

As for how long the house arrest will be... who knows!

The young ministers of Honglu Temple were in a hurry, and Liu Weiyi and Jia Gongji couldn't sit still anymore. After two more quarrels, they went back to their rooms angrily.Even Cui Jinping became anxious, and asked Su Yan privately: "You said, would the emperor hold the idea of ​​'I would rather kill by mistake than release by mistake'..."

Su Yan laughed: "Your idea is quite a conspiracy theory, but the emperor is not Cao Ahan."

Cui Jinping sighed: "I'm not afraid of being tortured by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but I'm afraid of being imprisoned here for no reason, until I die of old age."

"Then you weren't here yesterday, what did you do?" Su Yan asked.

Cui Jinping said: "I went to drink. I'm not interested in Sheliu. Seeing that the calamus wine was easy to drink at the banquet, I thought of going to the servant who prepared the wine to secretly buy a few bottles. These palace banquets are all prepared by Guanglu Temple. , They have always been taking advantage of the purchases, collecting money from top to bottom."

"Have you bought it yet?"

"Where is the money? Before the wine arrived, I heard that there was an accident in the field, so I hurried back."

Su Yan glanced sideways at Yun Xi who was watching the fish under the tree by the pool, and said, "I don't know where Yun Tanhua went at that time. He has a cold personality, and he seems to be impatient, so he was wearing a patchwork suit yesterday." Ordinary clothes, I guess I have no plans to end up shooting willows."

Cui Jinping said: "I don't know about that. You also know that I have no friendship with him, and I don't pay attention to his whereabouts."

Su Yan nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

When it's time to light the lamps, the servants invite all the adults out for dinner.Seeing that everyone was in the main hall, Su Yan only ate two mouthfuls, so he left alone on the pretext of being too full at noon.

After entering the corridor, he did not go back to his room, but quietly turned to the rooms of Liu Weiyi and Jia Gongji.

In the case of Ye Donglou, if the murderer used his outer robe to cover the spurted blood, he must have disposed of it afterwards.But in a short time, he was too hasty to bury the murder weapon, so how could he have time to deal with the bloody clothes carefully?If he had left the bloody clothes casually, he would have been found out by the brocade guards raking the ground three feet long ago.

It is speculated that there is only one possibility as to why this bloody gown could not be found—this gown is double-layered, with water-proof treatment in the middle.

The murderer took off his coat, and after committing the crime in a uniform of the same color as his, he turned the robe over and continued to put it back on his body, so as to hide the blood and traces, and return to the crowd unobtrusively go.

Last night, all the officials who were not present took a bath in the small south courtyard, and the changed clothes were handed over to the maids of the house to wash them, but they did not see the blood-stained robe and Yisha.

There are many people in the Chongzhi Palace, and these officials will be followed wherever they go. If they burn or bury the bloody clothes, it is impossible not to be discovered, so it is very likely that they were replaced by the murderer and hid in the secret of their room, waiting Calm and then destroyed.

So Su Yan decided to use this dinner time to search one by one.

He first searched the rooms of Liu and Jia up to the bottom, and found nothing suspicious, and then sneaked into the rooms of the two young ministers of Honghe Temple, but found nothing.

Only Cui Jinping and Yun Xi's room remained unsearched, Su Yan thought about it and decided to search Yun Xi first.After all, this man abides by the etiquette of a gentleman who eats without saying anything, eats very quickly, he is no more fond of drinking than Cui Jinping, and he will wait at least another quarter of an hour before returning to his room.

What's more, Cui Jinping went to buy wine from the servants of Guanglu Temple at that time, and he had an alibi.

Yunxi's room is very simple and clean, and all the objects are placed in the right place, meticulous.Incense was burned in the room, but the aftertaste is not strong. It is the quiet and cold fragrance of Wei Gong plum blossoms, which complements the temperament of the owner.

Su Yan didn't quite believe that Yun Xi was the murderer, but he still checked the room carefully, but still found nothing.

He frowned and thought, could it be that I guessed wrong?Stretching out his hand to open the door, he bumped into Yun Xi who was dressed in plain clothes.

Yun Xi was startled, and asked, "What are you doing in my room?"

Su Yan lowered his eyelids guiltily, seeing a branch of black plum embroidered on the hem of his tea-white clothes, lonely and cold, with a noble and pure disposition, a word came to his mind: "Scattered into mud and dust, only the fragrance remains the same."

Seeing that he didn't answer, Yun Xi closed the door with his backhand, took a step closer, and asked again: "You know that I am in the hall, and you are not looking for someone, then you are looking for something. What is it?"

Su Yan was forced to take a step back, and in desperation, he replied in a strange way: "I'm here to find trouble."

"what?"

"It's that...Yu, Xu jumped in from a gap in the wall, and I caught one last night. That beast likes to eat melons. If there is no melon to feed it today, it will go somewhere."

Yun Xi looked at him coldly: "I don't have melons to eat here."

Su Yan hurriedly cupped his hands: "Then I'll look elsewhere, I'm sorry to bother you."

As soon as his fingertips touched the door, the person behind him grabbed his wrist.

Yun Xi said: "The one you are looking for is not Yun, but the murderer?"