Pei Gonggui

It was Cao Luan who walked out of the Ministry of Punishment at this time.He was wearing a gray silk gown with cloud patterns, and a palm-sized gold and jade abacus was pinned to his waist. He was lowering his head and putting a roll of documents in his cuffs. surprised:

"Ziyu? Today the imperial court releases the list, I still think you are busy in the Ministry of Rites."

"There are people watching from the Ministry of Rites, and I'm the least one. I'm afraid I can't be as busy as my brother if I say I'm busy." Pei Jun exchanged casual greetings with Cao Luan, and looked behind Cao Luan, only to see the suspicious-looking voice in Uncle Dong's mouth. The black-clothed guard was following Cao Luan down the stone steps, and his eyes were also looking at him.

For a moment, Pei Jun's eyes met the guard's eyes, and they both secretly looked at each other.The guard immediately turned his eyes away, Pei Jun was vigilant, and turned his eyes to Cao Luan who was approaching, and Cao Luan said tiredly, "I'm busy with your business, aren't I?"

As he said that, Cao Luan raised his chin towards the courtyard of the Criminal Ministry behind him:

"The Tang family was thrown into prison, but Li Cunzhi suddenly disappeared. I thought you wanted to save Li Si, but I was afraid that you would be too busy, so I went to work for you first. It took a lot of effort to walk around and lobby for the past few days. Mei Sanniang's business has been delayed, and finally she should be released. Li Si should come out in a while. If you happen to come, he will be handed over to you. You also keep this official document. I have to go to Mei's shop. Once, I won’t be with you.”

Cao Luan took out the small document that had just been put in his sleeve, handed it to Pei Jun, and said in a low voice: "This time, the one who signed and released the person is the servant Sun Shihai. At present, Cui Shangshu is not here, and he is the one who has the final say on the Ministry of Punishment." , The way is far behind, the mouth is wide open, and as soon as he stretches out his hand, he is going for thousands of taels of silver. Even if you come to do things in the future, I'm afraid it will cost more than today's price."

Hearing this, Pei Jun frowned, lowered his head and unfolded the two-finger-long scroll, and saw that inside it was indeed the official document releasing Li Si, and there was indeed a piece of paper marked "Commitment to the crime" in it, with "900 Liangzheng" and Li Si's name on it. Citizenship, obviously accepting bribes at a clear price.

He put away the scroll and put it in his sleeve, lowered his eyes to hide the look in his eyes, nodded and thanked Cao Luan and said, "Fortunately, I have my brother's help, but my brother is troubled. I will ask someone to send the money later, and this matter will be settled."

"This matter is over, but I'm afraid you still have the hot potato in your hand." Cao Luan waved his hand to stop him, and frowned, "Recently, there have been many important events one after another, and you slapped Cai Yan in the face again in Dali Temple. You have to be more careful in the future, don't be shot in the back by them."

Pei Junquan smiled with him: "Now the King of Thailand is anxious to bring Cai Yan to Beijing to interrogate him. Cai Yang is still leading the Tang family's case. The third son of the Cai family has just passed the new department and is waiting for an official. The three sons of Cai Yan are all If you don't tell him to calm down, his life is no better than mine, and now he should ask me to be quiet for a while."

Cao Luan heard that he was still able to deal with it, so his expression relaxed a little. He didn't want to gossip with him because of the distracted eyes of the people outside the courtyard. .

Seeing that the black-clothed guards behind him were still following him step by step, Pei Jun felt as if his heart was being pricked by a needle. He couldn't bear it for a while, and suddenly said:

"Old Cao!"

Cao Luan frowned and turned back, looking at him with concern: "Why, there is something else?"

The black-clothed guards behind Cao Luan also followed Cao Luan to look at Pei Jun, their cold and stern eyes cast on Pei Jun, waking him up from the altar, suppressing his emotions, thinking carefully, then shaking his head and laughing: "It's okay. I just remembered that last time you said that Xuanxuan was ill, and I didn't have time to go and see her. I wanted to ask if she was okay now?"

Cao Luan was taken aback for a moment, thinking of this, she quickly laughed: "That's great. Thanks to your busy schedule, you still miss her, so turn around and let her know. You must be happy for a few days."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Pei Jun asked again: "How is the sister-in-law?"

The smile on Cao Luan's face froze, his eyes turned slightly, and because the black-clothed guards were still there, he tried his best to answer: "What can be wrong?"

But when Pei Jun heard this, he frowned almost imperceptibly, his gaze towards Cao Luan also flickered, and his words slowed down: "Success...then I don't worry. Xuanxuan's body, since childhood It's not good, but you have to take care of it carefully, if you need to see a doctor again in the future, brother might as well send someone to tell me, I will go to the palace and ask the imperial doctor to show her."

What he said was plain, but it made Cao Luan twitch his eyebrows. Cao Luan's eyes suddenly became astonished, and he tried to calm down again, and quickly followed his words calmly: "The child's old problems It's okay, it's not a problem, the doctor said she should be fine when she grows up, so don't worry about it, just take care of yourself."

After speaking, he winked secretly at Pei Jun, said goodbye to Pei Jun again, and finally turned around and walked towards the sedan chair again—but he looked back at Pei Jun as he was walking, with deep meaning in his eyes, and then he got on the sedan chair and joined him. The black-clothed guard left.

Pei Jun watched Cao Luan's sedan chair leave, and looked back in thought, only to see Jiang Yue leaning against the window on his own frame beside him, wearing a mask and looking at him through the curtain: "How is it?"

Pei Jun looked at Cao Luan's away sedan chair and the man in black walking beside the sedan chair again, narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Old Cao is probably in danger."

After he finished speaking, he looked around, first ordered the driver to drive the carriage to a side alley, and then continued to lean on the side of the carriage and asked Jiang Yue: "Just now I asked about the situation of Lao Cao's wife and daughter, did you hear me?"

Seeing Jiang Yue nodded, Pei Jun continued: "I asked that question casually, but when Lao Cao answered, I felt like a riddle. You know, after Xuanxuan was born, Lao Cao and his wife were I'm so happy, because Xuanxuan didn't suffer from his daughter-in-law's asthma, and she looks good. Cao has been healthy since she was a child, and it's rare to see a doctor. So since Xuanxuan was born, Mei Liu and I often asked Cao Xuanxuan how she was. Most of the time, Lao Cao would answer: What could be wrong? But if you ask about his wife Lin, Lao Cao would usually say: "Old problem, it's not a problem."

Jiang Yue was surprised when he heard it: "Then he just answered these two sentences in reverse, isn't this..."

Pei Jun raised his finger to his lips, nodded to him, raised his hand to support the window frame of the carriage, and said in a low voice: "That's right, maybe Lao Cao told me this on purpose. Although I don't know what he is doing right now. However, this matter must have something to do with Jiang Zhan."

"I'll order someone to investigate immediately when I return home." Jiang Yue held his hand by the window, "Don't worry, it's not too late now."

Pei Jun held his finger and was about to say more, but there was a noise from the direction of the punishment department.

Pei Jun guessed that Li Si had been released, and quickly patted the back of Jiang Yue's hand and walked out of the alley, only to see a man with broad shoulders, thick back and dirty clothes standing at the gate of the courtyard.

The man who was dragged out blushed and burst into tears. While being dragged out of the gate by the yamen servants, he struggled to break free and screamed to the sky: "You bastards, stupid officials! You eat, drink, whore, gamble, greedy and murdered on weekdays. No one cares about robbing and cheating, my father went to heaven and earth, and went to the people without shame—but he actually let you bastards die! You give back my father’s life! Come back!—”

"Who are you scolding? Shut up as soon as possible!" A crowd of yamen servants threw him down the stone steps and kicked him a few times. With a stern voice, he taunted him and said: "You brat, don't be ashamed. Your father is really so powerful, why didn't he come to bail you out today, but a litigator came to protect you instead? - Ouch, your father is afraid Didn't you die?"

"Hahahaha!" The four guards laughed in unison, before they could say anything more, they saw a figure in ocher patched coat hurriedly approaching the side, and went forward to help the man.

The leading yamen servant had sharp eyes, and when he recognized this person first, his eyes were wide open: "Hey, Mr. Pei?" Seeing that Pei Jun was struggling to help others, he hurriedly called to several people around him to come forward to help. steps, was stopped by Pei Jun with a wave.

Pei Jun supported the man's arm with one hand, looked coldly at the crowd, and calmly said, "Go in and do something!"

All the yamen servants first expected that this man was bailed out by Pei Jun, and when they remembered that they had made a mistake just now, their spines shuddered, and they hurriedly confessed and hid back to the courtyard, for fear that Pei Jun would remember him and cause trouble.

Pei Jun withdrew his gaze, bent down again to help the prostrate man on the ground, but the man broke free from his hand, and asked with red eyes, "Who are you! Why did you bail me out of prison?"

Pei Jun raised his long eyebrows and asked him in a soft voice, "Are you Li Si?"

The man wiped his tears with his hands horizontally: "So what?"

Pei Jun pulled him up by his sleeve, pointed at the carriageway parked in the alley: "If you are Li Si, follow me. I will take you to Yushitai and pick your father back home. "

As soon as the word "Father" was uttered, Li Simu immediately turned even redder. It was only a blink of an eye away, and tears as big as beans welled up from his orbits and dripped down his cheeks. After opening his mouth several times, he couldn't cry at all. To take a step, there is no strength in the whole body.

Pei Jun hurriedly recruited the coachman to help Li Si into the carriage with him.Jiang Yue helped Li Si to the seat, and Pei Jun also got into the car, and told the driver to drive to Yushitai.And Li Si in the car knew that he was going to pick up the spirit for his father, the redness on his face had faded to white, and the anger in his eyes had only turned to sadness. At this moment, he pulled up his sleeves and wiped his face. Even the sleeves were dirty and the face was dirty, neither side was clean at all. Occasionally looking at Pei Jun or looking suspiciously at Fan Jiangyue's clothes, he seemed to feel that the two of them were weird, but they seemed to have lost their minds. Out of all curiosity, he had no intention of making an inquiry.

Not long after, Yushitai arrived.Pei Jun got out of the car, held Shaofu's seal in his hand, and led Jiang Yue and Li Si straight to Yushitai's internal shift, only saying that he wanted to find Zhang San.

The handyman led Pei Jun through the corridor to an ear box in the backyard, knocked on the window edge of the wooden door and said cautiously: "Master Zhang, Master Pei is here."

I only heard a rustling sound inside, and the sound of footsteps approaching.The next moment, Zhang San opened the door to the ear chamber, and Pei Jun leaned on the wooden pillar by the door and looked at him and said, "Master Zhang, I want to ask you something today, can I speak for a while?"

Zhang San looked at him for a moment, frowned coldly, and immediately closed the door and said, "Master Pei, please go back—"

"Listen to me." Pei Jun stretched out his hand between the two door panels he was about to close, and Su Rong interrupted him, "What I want to entrust today is not my business, but Li Cunzhi's business."

When Zhang San heard the words, the hand that closed the door trembled, and his eyes followed Pei Jun's body to look behind Pei Jun, only to see a Taoist priest wearing a mask helping a man in grief standing in the corridor, he couldn't help frowning, Looking at Pei Jun suspiciously: "Who are they?"

Pei Jun took out the official document with Li Si's name in his sleeve, and explained: "This man is Li Si, and he was released today by the Ministry of Punishment. Look, he is the son of Li Cunzhi who was wrongfully imprisoned."

Zhang San followed Pei Jun's words and glanced down at the Chinese book in his hand, his eyebrows twitched immediately, and his eyes turned to Pei Jun: "What do you want me to do?"

Pei Jun said, "I want you to let Li Cunzhi go."

Zhang San gathered his eyebrows together, pursed his thin lips tightly, looked behind Pei Jun hesitantly for a long time, then raised his hand again to open the door, stepped aside and said, "Come talk first."

Pei Jun hurriedly supported Li Si with Jiang Yue to walk into the wing, but Zhang San stretched out his hand to stop Jiang Yue, and asked Pei Jun with a cold face, "The Yushi Terrace is an important place for the government, why is this Taoist priest here?"

Before Pei Jun could answer, Jiang Yue had already snorted coldly under the mask: "I'm here to deal with injustice."

When Zhang Sanyi heard that it was Jiang Yue, his eyes were startled, he hurriedly retreated to let the three of them into the compartment, quickly closed the compartment door, and hurriedly said to Jiang Yue: "How can Master go out and walk around at will? To be seen by others, that's a big deal!"

But Jiang Yue heard the words, but he took Li Si to sit on the stool in the room, and then took off the mask with his back to Li Si, looked at Zhang San with majestic eyes and said: "See you, kneel down first. "