Pei Gonggui

"... Zhang San?" Pei Jun's smile faltered when he heard this, "You want me to give up the position of the Sixth Department of Justice to the Zhang family? How hard did I go to get the Ministry of Punishment out of their hands? , you want me to return it now?"

"I'm not asking you to give the Ministry of Criminal Justice to the Zhang family. I just said that Zhang San might be able to fill the vacancy." Jiang Yue explained, "Zhang San is different from his father, and also different from the members of the Zhang family."

"What's the difference? Everyone in the Zhang family is the same." Pei Jun's voice sank, "Even if Zhang San is your student and has been with you for three or four years, but in the past 20 years, he has been Zhang Ling's more often The son, the grandson of the Zhang family, is bleeding from the Zhang family. It is not uncommon for me to see what he looks like when he is young - he is the same as his two brothers and his mother, and he will never rebel His father meant it. If the Ministry of Punishment is given to him in this way, as soon as he takes the seat of Shangshu, he will invite the whole family of his Zhang family to sit in that seat. At that time, how the Zhang family wants to manage the Ministry of Punishment will not be possible for him at all. It's not something he can resist on his own. So far, the six judicial divisions have changed their surname to Zhang, and everything will be restricted by the Zhang family, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice will try the case with the third division... Don't I have to hope that Pei Yan will be freed? "

Jiang Yue shook his head and said: "Pei Jun, you have a deep estrangement with the Zhang family, so you only think of them badly, but you forget that 'stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade'. Although the Zhang family is different from us, , not conspiring with each other, but if they are placed in the right position, then even if they still do not go with us, they can still help us."

Pei Jun raised his eyebrows slightly: "How do you say?"

Jiang Yue said calmly: "You must know that the Zhang family is a powerful family of legal studies, and they are the pillars of the world's legal studies. Although they are stubborn and corrupt, they still respect the law at the root. The case of Pei Yan is lacking in both evidence collection and documents. Direct evidence, the so-called personal evidence and material evidence are nothing but slanderous statements. Whether they can be cited as actual evidence is another matter. Even you and I know that such a crime cannot be established. Could it be that the Zhang family really Don’t you know? And they knew that the crime was difficult to establish, but they still opposed the release of Pei Yan. They had the intention to refute your six-part judgment in the past. But now, if their own people sit in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, in this case , I thought Zhang Ling would let go..."

"Because if he refute the Six Parts at that time, he will have trouble with his own son." Pei Jun raised his eyebrows slightly, and finally understood Jiang Yue's meaning, and couldn't help feeling that there was something wonderful about it, "But how can you ensure that Zhang San can do it?" How about resisting the pressure of the Zhang family and judging Pei Yan's innocence?"

"Why do I need to protect this matter?" Jiang Yue seemed to want to laugh, "Could it be that you don't realize that...he has been helping you since the beginning of the case?"

"He helps me?" Pei Jun said, "Zhang San avoids me like snakes and scorpions. Even when he was hunting without his father in charge, he said a few words for Pei Yan, which is also his Zhang family's law enforcement. It is dictated by family precepts, and it has nothing to do with whether you help me or not."

"It's up to you what you want to think, but he is in the Zhang family, but he doesn't hurt Pei Yan, and he is already helping you, which is the truth." Jiang Yue sighed, "Jianyi has been with me for several years. Knowing that he has kindness in his heart, he has long wished to break away from Zhang's shackles, but it has been a long time since he had a good chance. You also watched him grow up, so how can you not know his nature? If so, why can't we give him a chance? "

Hearing the words, Pei Jun lowered his eyes and remained silent, and after a while he still said: "But he is currently an official of the fourth rank, and his qualifications are less than five years old. According to the rules, he is not enough to be promoted to a minister."

Jiang Yue asked: "Then Yan Shangshu was directly promoted from Guanglu Temple to the Ministry of Officials last year, so why did someone in the court say anything?"

"That's different." Pei Jun frowned lightly, "Senior brother was appointed by the emperor, after all, it's justifiable. But last year, the emperor was willing to do this matter, but now, the emperor should be 1 people who refuse to— — Not to mention that I am not willing to receive favors from the palace anymore, and if I want to recruit people for Liubu in the future, I need to work hard elsewhere."

At this time, the carriage gradually slowed down, and the driver outside said: "My lord, the Criminal Department has arrived."

So Pei Jun sat up straight with Jiang Xuan in his arms and said: "Okay, Jiang Yue, I will write down the matter of Zhang San first, and I will discuss it with my senior brother later. If you have nothing to do right now, you can take my carriage back first." Forget about the palace. I heard that Zhao Guqing has a bad temper and is never willing to wait for others, you managed to find him, so don't let him run away in anger."

Jiang Yue heard the words, but said: "Then have you ever heard that Zhao Guqing offended the family in Pengzhou because of writing poems, and suffered bullying, so that's why he fled north to Beijing with his whole family? Now he has surrendered to me, and the whole family lives here. In Prince Jin's mansion, there is no other place to go, and what I am worried about right now is not that he will run away." He frowned, looked at Jiang Xuan, then looked at Pei Jun and sighed, stopped talking, just said: " You go in and see Pei Yan, I'll wait here for you to come out."

"Can't uncle go together?" Jiang Xuan asked in a low voice.

Pei Jun patted Jiang Xuan on the back, looked at Jiang Yue, and gently rolled his eyes: "Uncle won't follow. Uncle will come home with us later, okay?"

He didn't know who he was asking, Jiang Yue's eyes flickered when he heard it, and before he could speak, Jiang Xuan nodded and put his arms around his neck, so he got up, hugged the child and got off the car, leaving Jiang Yue to go to the punishment department go.

As soon as he turned into the large courtyard of the class room, he saw a wooden prison cart parked in the courtyard, and around the prison cart were around a dozen Dali Temple officials in soap shirts and armed with knives, handing over the prison documents with the officials of the Ministry of Punishment.

Sitting on the prison car surrounded by them was a woman in embroidered clothes, with dignified eyes under her slender eyebrows. She was looking at the document in the officer's hand with a pale face, her lips were tightly pressed, and she leaned sideways on the prison car. corner of .

Jiang Xuan's eyes were sharp, and as soon as he looked at the woman, he struggled: "Concubine mother! Look, uncle, concubine mother is there!" At this moment, he remembered that Pei Jun told him not to call like that, so he shouted again: "Mother! Mother!"

When Pei Yan in the prison car heard the voice, her back trembled and she turned her head suddenly, seeing that it was really her son calling her, her eyes turned red: "...Xuan'er?" Beside the fence, he leaned on the fence and looked at Pei Jun: "Why did you bring him? Didn't I say it's inaccurate!"

Seeing that it was Pei Jun coming, the officers and soldiers on the left and right looked at each other and gave way to each other.Pei Jun hugged Jiang Xuan in a few steps and walked to the side of the prison car. As soon as he got to the side of the car, Jiang Xuan in his arms stretched out his hand and held Pei Yan's wrist tremblingly. The red scars and new wounds were immediately covered with water, big teardrops fell down, and asked in a childish voice:

"Why did mother's hand break? Did they beat you?"

Pei Yan quickly retracted her hands into her sleeves, and then picked up the cuffs and wiped Jiang Xuan's tears across the fence: "No, no...Xuan'er is good, don't be afraid, this is my mother accidentally rubbing—"

"I don't believe it!" Jiang Xuan interrupted her crying, looking at Pei Yan with tears in her eyes, she almost cried, "You always say that! You always lie to me like that! Uncle lied to me too. Uncle said you are fine here, but why do you Being bullied..."

"Mother is very good here, how could uncle lie to you?" Pei Yan held her son's little face in extreme pain, hersed to comfort him, wiped away his tears with her thumb, and tried her best to hold back her son's tears and express to him. Yan Yixiao choked up and said: "It's just that mother is going to another place soon, and it may be... that it won't be easy to see Xuan'er again. Can Xuan'er stop crying? Let mother take a good look at these days ...Have our Xuan'er grown up..."

Jiang Xuan tried his best to hold back the sound of crying, and raised his little hand to wipe away his tears. At this time, he naturally wanted to see his mother whom he had not seen for many days, and didn't want to just cry in front of her.But the tears he shed were wiped dry, but they couldn't stop pouring out from the bottom of his eyes again and again, blurring the outline of his mother in front of him, making him sadder than ever, but he still couldn't help whining softly, holding Pei Yan's sleeve tightly with both hands Call: "Mother... Mother, don't go. Uncle, uncle, please help mother, uncle, don't let them take mother away..."

This cry made Pei Jun's heart almost crack, and the hands around Jiang Xuan's waist were clenched into fists.And the tears in Pei Yan's eyes also fell at this moment.She hurriedly withdrew her hand and lowered her head to wipe it, but at this moment, she suddenly saw that Jiang Xuan's right leg was bandaged and propped up a small bag in his trousers. He quickly touched it lightly, raised his head and asked in surprise, "Pei Jun, what's going on?"

"He fell off a rockery by himself." Pei Jun raised his hand to wipe the tears from her eyelashes, feeling endless guilt in his heart, "It was my fault that I didn't take care of him. Don't worry, the imperial doctor said he would be raised soon Just fine."

After hearing this, Pei Yan stared slightly, her lips trembled, she looked at Jiang Xuan, who was sobbing and choking with tears on her face, she spoke again and again in the prison car, but she still couldn't say a word, and finally she was separated again through the wooden fence. He hugged the son outside tightly, and the hands on his weak back gradually turned white, as if he wanted to rub the son into his body and never separate him. No matter how brave he is usually, he still has two hands at the moment. He frowned, closed his eyes and cried out.

Pei Jun only felt his eyes astringent, and took a hard breath and said, "Pei Yan...you have to hold on, I'm still thinking of a way."

Pei Yan red-eyed, looked at her son for a moment, frowned when she heard this, gritted her teeth and said: "...Okay. I will hold on, I will hold on...Then you take good care of Xuan'er, Pei Jun...you promise me that no matter what happens in the future, you will take good care of Xuan'er..."

"Okay..." Pei Jun held her finger, looked at her with painful eyes and said, "Okay, I will definitely take a fancy to him."

At this time, the documents were handed over, and the officers and soldiers on both sides took a step forward holding their knives, said respectfully and softly, "Master Pei, don't blame me", then put the rope in front of the prison cart on two mules, and asked the guard to open it. The gate to the backyard.

"No, don't..." Jiang Xuan saw that they were going to take away his mother, so he hugged Pei Yan tightly and did not let go, "You are not allowed to take my mother away...this son will not allow you to take her away!"

Pei Yan's tears became more and more intense, she let go of Jiang Xuan and said to Pei Jun, "Take him away, quickly take him away..."

Hearing this, Pei Jun tugged Jiang Xuan's arm with Shen Mei, then tore off the child who was holding the prison cart, and hugged him in his arms.In the midst of Jiang Xuan's tragic cry, he took two steps back, no matter how Jiang Xuan kicked and beat him, he only pinched Jiang Xuan's knee with one hand to hold his right leg, and the other hand firmly held his ribs, hugging him. He quickly followed the departing prison car and walked out.

At this time, a familiar voice came from outside the gate, and said with a smile: "Oh, sir, why are you not allowed in today? I come here every day... What? Transfer? Where are you going?" ?”

Just at this time, Pei Jun held Jiang Xuan in his arms and went out of the compound with the prison car. He saw Mei Linyu standing outside the door with a bouquet of flowers in his arms, as if he happened to come to visit the prison.

As soon as Mei Linyu saw Pei Yan in the prison car, her eyes widened, her complexion changed immediately, and she rushed to the side of the prison car in two steps and called, "Sister! Where are you going, sister?" In the back, his face became even paler: "Brother, what's going on here? Where are they taking him?"

Jiang Xuan was weeping on Pei Jun's shoulder, and Pei Jun answered exhaustedly in the middle of the crying: "Mei Liu, Cui Yu was arrested for committing a wrongdoing, and the current case of the Ministry of Criminal Justice...will be reviewed by Dali Temple. "

One can imagine what it means for the case to be moved to Dali Temple.Mei Linyu stared at her eyes, let go of her hands in shock, and the red flowers and green leaves in her arms fell all over the ground: "Why, how could it be..."

He is no better than Pei Jun and Jiang Xuan, he is not a close relative, no matter how rich he is, he is just a low-level merchant, so he was quickly pushed away by the officers and soldiers, staggered a few steps and stepped on the flowers on the ground, step by step Only when the red and green were scattered, he retreated to Pei Jun's side. After a short breath, he had already watched the prison cart pulling Pei Yan, and ran away and turned around the alley.

At this time, Mei Linyu's eyes flashed, she didn't know what she thought of, and suddenly she wanted to catch up again like crazy, but Pei Jun freed up a hand and grabbed the belt, her breath was stagnant, and she couldn't run Far.

"Let go!" Mei Linyu opened his hand angrily, and roared with red eyes, "That's how she was picked up ten years ago, and it's been ten years of suffering since then, and she's even had to suffer... Now I can no longer send her away a second time!"

"Then do you want to rob the prison van or the big prison? Do you want to kill her and set fire to get her out?" Pei Jun tugged at his sleeve and growled, "Mei Linyu, I'm still holding the baby, everything is going wrong right now. Enough, can you stop messing with me!"

Mei Linyu then looked at Jiang Xuan on his shoulder, and when he saw the child's tearful face, most of the hostility on his face dissipated, but after a short moment, the sadness in his eyes became even worse, and his nose twitched. Red, tears flowed out, lips trembled, but in the end he didn't say anything, wiped his face away from Pei Jun's hand, stood aside and didn't make a sound.

Pei Jun had just seen Pei Yan and Jiang Xuan cry, and now he still has to see him cry, and his head felt swollen, so he didn't care to persuade him, so he just stopped and patted Jiang Xuan on the back, and walked to the front door: "Mei Liu , are you driving?"

"No." Mei Linyu followed behind him with tears in her mouth, and breathed out her nose, "I heard the old Taoist priest at Erwang Temple say that walking is a step that accumulates merit... I never believed it, I just thought he was going to lie I have sesame oil money. But since sister Yan had an accident, she can believe everything now, and she has never been in a car... Every day I come from the building to see her, and I see small gadgets and delicious food on the street I bought them all and brought them to her...seeing beggars and money, I gave them all..."

When Pei Jun heard his words, his chest became heavy. He hugged Jiang Xuan and turned to look at him. He didn't know whether to call him stupid or stupid, so he had to endure it, and waited until he came to the side before saying: When this happened, I was going to look for you, and it just happened to happen now, so you go back with me, we have to think about a way, and we must rescue Pei Yan as soon as possible. Lao Cao also called."

"Old Cao is not easy to invite, and I don't know what I'm busy with recently. My third sister has been looking for him several times but can't find anyone." Mei Linyu sighed, "But that's okay. If he doesn't care about Sister Yan this time , then I will be in a hurry with him..."

The two said that they had already walked back to Pei Jun's carriage. Mei Linyu opened the curtain and was about to climb up, but she saw someone inside, and she was shocked immediately:

"——Jin, why is Prince Jin here, Cao, Caomin kowtowed—"

"Stop knocking, hurry up!" Pei Jun kicked his ass behind him, "I'm afraid people won't know."

Mei Linyu staggered from being kicked by him, knocked her forehead on the car door, and there was a bang sound, which was considered a knock on her head. She quickly grabbed the curtain and climbed into the car, picked up the corner of the car opposite Jiang Yue and shrank, Not daring to say a word.

Pei Jun followed him and hugged Jiang Xuan up, sat next to Jiang Yue, frowned and raised his eyes for a moment, and saw that Mei Linyu was covering her head with her eyes raised, her eyes like a monkey spirit were still in the gap between him and Jiang Yue Fleeing back and forth on the face.

"... What are you looking at?" Pei Jun glared at him, "You haven't seen Prince Jin?"

At this time, Jiang Yue was hugging the humming Jiang Xuan from his hand. It was a very common move, but in Mei Linyu's eyes, the scene of the two big and one young sitting in the same car and coaxing the children...but how do you look at it? Why is it wrong, I can't help but mutter to myself: "I have seen it, I have seen it before, but... I have never seen it like this..."

Jiang Yue didn't hear him muttering, and didn't feel any difference. He patted Jiang Xuan and said, "Young Master Mei is polite. We may meet more often in the future, and my friendship with Mr. Pei needs to be concealed, so between you and me, the etiquette will be very low." As little as possible."

When Mei Linyu heard this, his heart beat even more, but compared to Pei Yan's transfer, this was not enough for him to think about it now.He just cupped his fists and said to Jiang Yue: "Don't you dare. Cao Min sees the prince is always showing his brother's face, how dare he disrespect him in the future? Cao Min just keeps his mouth open, and he will never dare to be less polite."

After Jiang Yue heard this, he silently glanced at Pei Jun, as if he wanted to ask his opinion, but seeing that Pei Jun was thinking about something else, he couldn't help calling out: "Pei Jun, are you going back to your house now?"

Pei Jun nodded, and said back to his senses: "Tonight... I think maybe we should invite Liubu along with us."

Mei Linyu used to be ignorant of Pei Jun's official affairs, at this moment only Jiang Yue asked, "Do you have any new plans?"

Pei Jun nodded slightly, and sighed thoughtfully, "I'm thinking, this might be a good time..."

Jiang Yue asked, "What's a good time?"

Pei Jun looked up at him, then at Mei Linyu, and said two words in a low voice: "Resign."