Pei Gonggui

After saying this, Pei Jun threw the portrait of the document at Honglu Siqing, and walked out of the post house.

The minister of Honglu Temple hurriedly picked up the things, hurriedly chased after him and asked: "What do you mean, Mr. Pei? This... this girl is not a princess, once she is sent to the palace gate, we will lose our heads!"

"Who can guarantee that she is not a princess? Sir Siqing, are you?" Pei Jun suddenly turned around and approached Honglu Siqing, causing the latter to take a quick step back, shrinking his neck, swallowing his mouth full of panic, and listening to him in horror:

"Since ancient times, painters have always loved money. Countless beauties have been ruined for one money and two benefits, and countless painters have been whitewashed for a bright future. How clean can our painters be?"

The Minister of Honglu Temple was shocked when he heard the words, and Pei Jun lowered his voice and continued: "If the person sitting in that room is really a princess, but she just bribed our painter before leaving to whitewash the portrait a little, then if you report it to The emperor said she was a fake—not to mention how to deal with the dereliction of duty and accepting bribes in Honglu Temple, but once the emperor reprimands the Haring tribe for deceiving the emperor, it will inevitably cause the Haring tribe to be wronged and furious. When the time comes, the portrait will no longer matter, but the princess will be real, the emperor and the Haring clan will be angry, who should be responsible for this fault?"

Honglusi Qing raised his eyebrows and turned his muddy eyes: "Me?"

"That's right." Pei Jun nodded and smiled, "Even if you take a step back, if the princess is true and false as you said, then if you expose this matter to the imperial court, it is nothing more than to let the emperor know that the prince dared to deceive the emperor. , and let the feudal king know that the deceitful king was hit by someone, then on the one hand, he slapped the emperor, and on the other hand, he stabbed the feudal king with a knife, causing both parties to tear their faces. Who will take care of it?"

The minister of Honglu Temple froze on the spot, his expression almost crying: "It's... still me?"

"That's right." Pei Jun looked at him reproachfully, and lowered his voice even more: "Besides...even if the emperor knows that the princess is fake, what will happen?"

The Minister of Honglu Temple approached him timidly, with trembling lips, he clasped his fists again and again: "I-I still hope that Mr. Pei will make it clear..."

Pei Jun pressed down his fist, leaned close to his ear and said almost angrily: "Think about it, Mr. Siqing, as long as the relative's dowry gift is complete, the Haring tribe and the court will recognize this marriage, then the princess is True or false... who cares?"

Honglu Siqing's eyes were startled, and his expression brightened after thinking about it: "I, I understand... Thank you, Mr. Pei, for your reminder. I will - I will do it!"

Seeing Honglu Siqing rushing back to the post house with the portrait in his arms, the smile that had just formed on Pei Jun's face gradually faded away.He picked up his robe and stepped down the stone steps in front of the post house. He only thought in his heart that there were indeed a group of wine bags and rice bags in the Honghe Temple, and he had no idea about leaving Cai Yang in charge, and he didn't know how he moved with the money in the first place. This official, I am afraid that together with the assessment of the Ministry of Officials' New Deal, all these people should be impeached and stepped down by Zhang Ling.

Seeing Pei Jun coming out with a face full of ceremonies, and the minister of Honglu Temple happily entering, the two chiefs of the Ministry of Rituals who were guarding outside the hall knew that the matter of the princess should have been resolved, and their original sorrows were relieved, and they hurriedly greeted him. Pei Jun picked up the car curtain for him and made a small fuss: "My lord is troubled, and my lord has worked hard. Is my lord going back to the Ministry? Now that Feng Shilang is not here, everything in the Ministry is still up to you—"

"If everything depends on me to take care of everything, what does the Ministry of Rites support you for?"

Pei Jun glanced coldly, and immediately told the two of them to be silent. Just as he was about to get in the car, he saw that there were suddenly more pedestrians on the street rushing behind him like a tide. What's wrong?"

The two principals did not dare to take a breath, one of them said cautiously: "Your Excellency, you forgot, today is the day when Chunwei releases the rankings, and there will be no long queues to watch the excitement?" Said, he invited Pei Jun into the carriage, After saying goodbye, the two asked the driver to set off carefully, and hurriedly followed the crowd to Zhang Bang to supervise the work.

Pei Jun raised the curtain and looked out, his eyes followed the figures of the two men in the green mending coats to the voices of the bustling city, and dazzled among the common people and Confucian scholars walking all over the street, but for a moment he remembered that Mei Linyu and Cao Luan accompanied him The situation of watching the list——

"If you don't go, don't go, people are crowded to death."

At that time, 17-year-old Mei Linyu was sitting in a tea shop on the street with melon seeds, and she didn't want to move when she got down: "Besides, Lao Cao and I can't take part in science. What's the point of being red-eyed? Brother, why don't you come with Qingyun Supervisor? The kid named Fang will definitely chase after you to read the list for you."

"I hide from my master, how can I read the list with them? If I am arrested, I should be asked to kneel in the ancestral hall." Pei Jun saw that Mei Linyu really didn't want to squeeze into the crowd, so he "forget it" and flipped it off After leaving him, he immediately turned to Cao Luan who was on the other side: "Good brother, why don't you go and see for me?"

Cao Luan got goosebumps all over his body after being pushed and shoved by him. He was so disgusted that he couldn't help it, so he sighed and knocked out the cigarette pot in his hand, and kicked him: "I'm really convinced!" You. Okay, I'll show you the list." He pointed the cigarette stick at his nose and said, "You'd better win for me."

"Why not?" Pei Jun grinned, "Aren't you going to give me a erotic palace in the future?"

Cao Luan laughed and pushed him away, but when he walked towards the crowded place, he turned his head and sighed, "If you don't win, it's really as good as your sister said..."

……

"—My lord, my lord?"

The coachman's cautious voice came to Pei Jun's ears through the curtain of the car, pulling Pei Jun back to his senses, and he asked, "My lord, should I send you to Jingzhaosi or enter the palace?"

Pei Jun restrained his thoughts, put down the curtains, and then ordered after a pause: "Don't go to either place, let's go to Prince Jin's Mansion first."

"That's it." The head coachman flicked his whip, and the driver started to drive away.After wandering into the east of the city, turning left and right along the bluestone brick wall, you can see the gate of Jinwang Mansion, which is opened three times and opened once, with red lacquer and copper nails standing at the end of the street, and the door is half closed.

Because of the funeral, the entire Jinwang Mansion was hung with white, not only a seven-foot-long and nine-inch-wide dismounting flag was hung in the middle of the gate, but the stone lions on both sides were also covered with pale cloth.The left and right plain linen mourning banners are filled with scriptures and hang vertically on the top. Even the palace plaque on the door lintel is piled up with layers of palace-made snow gauze, tied into white flowers one by one and hanging down to the door. On the Wolong Danchi of the front stone steps.

Today, Hongyuan Temple came to the palace to perform rituals for the funeral of King Jin, and an altar incense burner has been set up in front of the main hall.A group of monks sat around the stove among the grass and trees in the courtyard, dialing beads and singing scriptures, while the guards and ministers of the Ministry of Rites were preparing for expenses.According to a rough count, there were more than a hundred people crowded here, standing or sitting, together with the green smoke from the incense burner and the sound of chanting in the courtyard, Jiang Yue, who had always been deserted in the mansion of Prince Jin, was shocked by this accident. False funerals, but with a lot of fireworks popularity.

Pei Jun stopped in front of the hall to inquire about the funeral expenses, signed and printed a few documents, then took the path he remembered, and walked straight to the small courtyard where Jiang Yue was.

Unexpectedly, he was turning around the corner of the last corridor, and ten steps away from the gate of the courtyard, he saw a man in a blue coat coming out of the courtyard...

Taoist priest?

Pei Jun thought that his eyes were blurred after staying up all night, but when he stopped and took a closer look, he saw that the person walking out of Jiangyue's small courtyard was really a blue-clothed Taoist priest with long coat and wide sleeves.

The Taoist priest has a tall figure and a clear look, with black hair half tied into the crown, and the hair that hangs down is softly placed on the white straight collar in the front, which complements his broad shoulders and full chest. He was a handsome young man, but his face was covered with a mahogany mask with ferocious eyebrows - very similar to the general Tongtian who shouted to be beaten and killed in the Nuo opera, with a completely fierce look.

However, in the hands of this fierce-looking Taoist priest, he took a rope and led a fluffy puppy with black fur and bean eyebrows.The dog was the first to notice Pei Jun's presence, and barked wildly as soon as his eyes sharpened. After a few barks, Pei Jun realized—isn't this the dog that Mei Linyu caught for Jiang Xuan?

For a moment, the Taoist priest leading the dog turned his head and saw Pei Jun, which made Pei Jun stunned. He felt an indescribable familiarity in this Taoist priest.

Before he could recall the next moment, the Taoist priest had already raised his hand and stretched out his index finger, silently ticking him off.