Pei Gonggui

The master and apprentice parted ways at the gate of Dali Temple.Qian Haiqing was ordered to run to the residence of the Marquis of Zhongyi, and Pei Jun got into the carriage and ordered to rush to the residence of the Prince of Jin immediately.

When they arrived at the palace, the servants said that the prince was discussing matters with others in the study, and asked Pei Jun to wait a while before reporting to the inner court.Seeing this, Pei Jun was afraid that Jiang Yue would be too busy to get away for a while, so he asked the manager if he could see his nephew first.

The steward agreed and led him respectfully to Jiang Xuan's residence. As soon as he entered the room, he saw that Jiang Xuan had woken up and dozed off, and was obediently sitting on the bed being fed medicine by the maid.

Seeing Pei Jun coming, Jiang Xuan raised his head and called, "Uncle! Where have you been?"

Pei Jun didn't answer, just went to sit on the mahogany stool by the bed, touched his head and said, "You drink the medicine first, and when you're done drinking, uncle will take you somewhere."

Jiang Xuan gulped down the last few sips of medicine, grinned bitterly, but couldn't wait to ask Pei Jun: "Where is uncle taking me...Can't you wait until I recover from my injury?"

"The leg still hurts?" Pei Jun raised his hand and wiped the medicine stain on the corner of his mouth.

Jiang Xuan nodded aggrieved, and looked like he was about to cry again: "It hurts, like a hundred bugs are biting... It's really uncomfortable. I will definitely listen to my uncle in the future and never climb the rockery again. "

The maid took the medicine bowl away.Pei Jun sat on the edge of the bed and gathered the clothes for Jiang Xuan: "Xuan'er, you are a little man now, don't be afraid, this little injury will heal in no time. You won't have to walk for a while, uncle will hold you all the way go, okay?"

Before Jiang Xuan could answer, a reprimand came from behind Pei Jun: "Where are you taking him?"

In a blink of an eye, Jiang Yue was coming in from the outside, raising his hand to dismiss the servants in the room.And he should have heard Pei Jun's words, and his brows curled up:

"The imperial doctor told Xuan'er to rest, and the medicine hasn't been changed twice yet, yet you want to take him outside?"

As he was talking, he had already approached, but when he looked down at Pei Jun, his expression paused, and his tone eased a little: "...Why did you come back so quickly? The matter is clear? Did you see Cui Yu?"

Pei Jun sighed, and couldn't concentrate on repeating Cui Yu's story at this time, so he just nodded and looked at Jiang Yue, and said briefly in a low voice: "Old Cui must have been folded in, and there is no way to save him."

Hearing this, Jiang Yue frowned even deeper, and asked again: "Then what are your plans now? Do you want to take Xuan'er back?"

As he spoke, he glanced at Jiang Xuan at the side, his eyes seemed to be a little clear, and his voice became hoarse: "It seems that because of this, you are worried about Xuan'er living in an outsider's house."

"No, Jiang Yue." Pei Jun immediately interrupted him, "Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to pick up Xuan'er from you, I'm taking him to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to meet his mother."

When Jiang Xuan heard it on the bed, his eyes lit up, and he immediately dragged his right leg and knelt on one knee: "When? Are you leaving now?"

But Jiang Yue heard this, let him think about it for a while, but his expression became more serious: "Could it be, are you afraid that Pei Yan will—"

"Not bad." Pei Jun choked out this sentence, raised his hand to hold Jiang Xuan under the armpit, took the doll out of the quilt and sat on the edge of the bed, took clean new silk trousers from the end of the bed, and carefully avoided the bandaging place to change for him. "It was only when I came out of Dali Temple that I realized that the timing of Cai Yan's move was so well chosen. Today, he personally signed Cui Yu to prison. He said that the cabinet was acting on orders, but in fact it must be." I want to directly save the delay of Dali Temple’s submission to the cabinet. The purpose is to pass the document to the imperial court as soon as possible, so that Cui Yu’s charges can be confirmed. In this way, the case of the Ministry of Punishment can be handed over to Dali Temple faster. After all, the transfer of affairs between ministries , the Ministry of Officials will only record personnel at the end of the month, and only after the records are recorded can they start operating again. Now, in February, the end of the month is tomorrow, and after that, it will have to wait until the end of next month. But Cai Yan’s son is still in prison, and it is late There will be a change, and he will not be able to wait... So right now, the cabinet must have issued a handover document, and I guess Pei Yan will be moved to Dali Temple before tonight."

"Where is Dali Temple?" Jiang Xuan asked, "Isn't it the same as where my mother lives now? I, I hurt my leg, can I...don't go to see my mother..."

Pei Jun put on the trousers for him, paused after hearing this, then bent down to pick up his little boots, and put them on his feet lightly: "...When you arrive at Dali Temple, your mother may not be very happy. It's easy to see you, so today, you must go see her."

"... Oh." Jiang Xuan nodded his head half-understood, and reluctantly let him put on the shoes, and then let him fasten the buttons for himself, his expression became gloomy after these words.

Jiang Yue looked at Pei Jun dressing Jiang Xuan, and asked in a low voice: "Since the personnel record has to pass through the Ministry of Officials, how about letting Yan Shangshu drag it on? Now that Li Baoxin has become a servant, why don't I let him do it?" ?”

"No." Pei Jun shook his head, "Cai Yan also said today that although the cabinet was involved in this matter, they would not have dared to take Cui Yu without approval from the palace...so the emperor already knew about it, And they were allowed to take down Cui Yu. In this way, if my six departments still carry out the defense, I’m afraid it will be more obvious, and instead I will stick my head at the emperor’s gun—if it’s not enough to pierce the Cui family and the Shen family , and if the entire six parts are lost, it will fall right into the hands of the Cai family..."

"That's right, I'm too careless." Jiang Yue sighed when he heard the words, saw that Pei Jun had stood up with Jiang Xuan in his arms and was about to go out, after thinking for a while, he caught up with him and said, "Forget it, I'll go with you. "

Before Pei Jun turned his head to refuse, Jiang Yue walked up to him and said, "I have something to tell you."

"Is there anything else going on in your house?" Pei Jun assured Jiang Xuan, and asked him softly, "Is there someone waiting in the study?"

Jiang Yue lowered his eyebrows and stepped out of the threshold together with him: "What I want to tell you is exactly this matter."

In this way, Pei Jun followed him, hugged Jiang Xuan and walked out of the east courtyard with him.But just as he was about to go up the porch in front of the Chuihua Gate, he saw a few people coming out from the direction of the west courtyard on the other side.

These people were wearing black gowns in cloth clothes, with noble looks on their brows, they were walking outside, but when they saw Jiang Yue and Pei Jun leading Jiang Xuan out, they all stopped in their tracks, and then held fists with Jiang Yue from afar, very humbly After bowing, he straightened up later, and looked at Pei Jun who was standing beside Jiang Yue with extremely cautious eyes.

Pei Jun frowned slightly under their eyes, and didn't make a sound, Jiang Yue had already pulled his sleeves and continued to lead him away.

In order to save trouble, Jiang Yue didn't wait to prepare the car, and the two big and one peeed into the carriage that Pei Jun came with.Jiang Xuan sat cross-legged beside Pei Jun's lap, holding Pei Jun's arm with both hands, with a bitter face and mouth pursed, without saying a word.Jiang Yue followed and sat opposite his uncle and nephew. Seeing that he was sitting firmly, Pei Jun directed the driver to go to the punishment department.

"Do you want to ask, who are those people?"

As the carriage set off, Jiang Yue looked at Pei Jun quietly.

"That's not true." Pei Jun said, "I've seen some of them before, and I still recognize them—the one standing on the left is Zhao Guqing, a Southern Taiwan Confucian scholar, famous for his prose and poems, and famous all over the world; the one in the middle is tall The two who are not tall should be the Guo brothers from Jiangbei Tanlin. They have heard that they are vertical and horizontal geniuses, but they are so named and do not want to come out of the mountain. Countless, in terms of business, is Mei Linyu's father's number one opponent."

These few people said that they accounted for half of the crowd just now, causing Jiang Yue to raise his eyebrows slightly: "I sent people to search for mountains and rivers for a year and a half, and it took me a long time to find them, but why did you see them so easily? "

"I met the brothers from the Li family at the birthday banquet of Mrs. Mei. The others all met each other at the Zhang family before." Pei Jun smiled wearily, "You have had a hard time finding them. It's because you didn't find the right place. It should be noted that these so-called heroes who are "out of the world" are actually "big hermits". Even literati in this world, if they don't have a picture in their hearts, how can they write any good articles? Needless to say, it is a profound knowledge created with the vision of riding the tide. As long as there is a plan in this world, there is no one who does not want to go to the government, but they chose a It’s just a place I think is the cleanest—every year Zhang Ling celebrates his birthday, they all come to have a banquet, if not, they will occasionally look for opportunities to visit.”

Only then did Jiang Yue smile knowingly: "So that's the case. Zhang's reputation as a clean stream in the world is really famous."

Pei Jun raised his eyebrows, "But they are looking for Zhang Ling to clear their name, why are they following you?"

Jiang Yue smiled and said, "Can't you guess?"

Pei Jun sat up slightly, and said in a low voice: "Since ancient times, the king who thinks about change, gathers talents and masters strangers, seeks them when he visits, for the sake of planning the best plan, the plan of the world...Jiang Yue, what are you thinking?" alright?"

Jiang Yue raised his eyes to look at him, and nodded solemnly and solemnly: "That's right. I'll tell you now, this matter... In fact, I have taken care of it as early as when my father passed away and my eldest brother succeeded to the throne, but Until now, I have been thinking about this for 15 years, but I still haven't made up my mind."

"Why?" Pei Jun asked.

Jiang Yue answered frankly, "For you."

Pei Jun's eyes moved, and he smiled and asked again: "Then why have you made up your mind now?"

Jiang Yue didn't smile, and replied solemnly: "It's still for you."

Pei Jun finally shook his head and laughed loudly. He hugged Jiang Xuan beside him and sat on his knees. He looked at Jiang Yue with a slightly tired eyebrows and said, "Jiang Yue, you know how to make people happy. Thank you very much. But Every move and change is related to the community, you can't take it lightly as a joke. When I ask you like that, I mean it seriously, and I'm not seeking favor with you—"

"How do you know I'm not answering you seriously?" Jiang Yue interrupted him, the seriousness in his expression remained unchanged, but his eyes were stained with desolation, "Pei Jun, my father passed away 15 years ago, and he left me alone at the end of his life." Three things: to fix the rivers and mountains, to live in peace and prosperity, and to spend the Huanian. But after the emperor succeeded to the throne, the rivers and mountains became more chaotic, the prosperous times disappeared, and the Huanian became empty. What you can see is the strife between the ruling and the opposition, excessive rule, foreign relatives taking advantage of the situation, and the cabinet stealing. Power. Until ten years ago, the emperor’s brother was seriously ill, and I was able to hold the military power for the first time... At that time, I wanted more and more changes in the world, but I knew that I couldn’t do it, so I worried all day long and didn’t know why. After the ceremony, Qing Yunjian and Gongxue went out for an outing. I once asked you outside Sui Zhongshan Temple, asking if people in the world need a full moon... It was only after hearing your answer that I realized the meaning of the world. Change is not about tampering with the imperial power and one person ascending to the throne, what is needed is spring breeze to transform the rain and educate the people."

Pei Jun was puzzled: "My words? What did I answer that made you think so?"

Jiang Yue glanced at him, shook his head helplessly, and smiled as if he was used to it: "...It seems that you really don't remember." Then he slowly deciphered it for him: "You said at that time: What do you want the moon to do? Everyone has a lamp in their hands—only when the lamp is on can we really see clearly.”

This sentence sounded like a slender gavel in Pei Jun's heart, causing him to think back all the way after these words, and he still couldn't believe it: "...I said this?"

——It should be noted that in his previous life, he was a person who monopolized power and infamy, so that he was beheaded in the end.

But Jiang Yue nodded firmly: "Yes, you said it yourself."

"Then I definitely didn't mean that at the time." Pei Jun turned his face away, not admitting it, "How did I understand that at that time? I said the moon was the moon, and I said the lamp was just a lamp. Everything else was figured out by you. Yes, none of my business."

"Rationale resides in the heart, and everything is connected." Jiang Yue said, "If you speak like this, your heart must be like that. Pei Jun, I believe you on this."

Pei Junxie: "Then is it because of my little boy's words back then that you abandoned the great rivers and mountains? Who will believe it?"

Jiang Yue said with a slight embarrassment: "Of course it was just the beginning, not the whole reason. In fact, with what you said back then, I just kept the vision of recruiting you to conspire with the rivers and mountains at first, but later... I gradually sent out something else Thoughts, but before I could talk to each other, there was another fight in northern Xinjiang. After three years of fighting, I will return. You are already the emperor's teacher. At that time, I will see you across the hall. Thinking about a change, I am afraid that you will be involved, for a long time Weighed it up, and shelved it."

As he said that, he looked deeply at Pei Jun: "But now, if you stand with me, this matter... I can think about it again. Pei Jun, I just ask you, do you want to?" Fight this with me?"

"I am willing." Pei Jun met his eyes without any hesitation, "But if you win this fight, you will be the Ninth Five-Year Honor. What will I be at that time, and how is it different from the current situation, the two of us How to deal with yourself... have you thought about this too?"

Jiang Yue asked back: "Do you really think we can win?"

"—either win or die, do you want to lose?" Pei Jun stared at him and said in a low voice, "Jiang Yue, I won't allow you to lose."

"Then let's think about victory first. After we win, we will be ordered to say something later." Jiang Yue glanced out of his eyes, assuming that the Ministry of Punishment was approaching, he lowered his voice, "We can talk about this in detail later, but right now There is one more important thing: since Cui Yu is gone, Mr. Shen will be implicated, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of War are all vacant, do you have someone to fill in?"

Pei Jun shook his head: "I just came out of Dali Temple and thought about it. Among the people who are suitable for promotion... none of them think it is suitable. Do you have a suggestion?"

Jiang Yue said: "Since you don't have anyone to choose, then I will mention someone. Don't be angry when you hear this."

Pei Junwei felt helpless: "Why am I angry? Tell me about it."

Jiang Yue thought for a moment, and said, "I'll mention Zhang San for the position of Minister of Punishment Department."