Nightwatcher

Wei Yuan picked up the memorial calmly, read it, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

Without saying a word, he knelt down and shouted: "I deserve death for my crimes. I have failed His Majesty's trust. I only want to die."

Wei Yuan's attitude made him stand up and criticize him, asking Emperor Yuan Jing to cut off the dog, and he didn't know how to speak.

Emperor Yuan Jing sneered: "You are honest, Wei Yuan, if you quibble today, I will throw you into the prison."

Wei Yuan lowered his head and didn't speak.

Emperor Yuan Jing snorted coldly: "The one who reported you is none other than Jin Gong Zhu Yang who beat up the yamen."

Wei Yuan still didn't speak.

In that memorial, there were some evidences of crimes committed by the watchmen from Jinluo to Yinluo in recent years of corruption and perverting the law.

Of course, there is also a newly recruited Tongluo among them. The crime is not small. In just one month, he used his position to amass thousands of taels of silver.

At this time, a person from the Ministry of Punishment came out to the matter and said: "Your Majesty, the perpetrators used their power for personal gain and violated the law knowingly. I propose to kill Wei Yuan to deter the perpetrators and eliminate evil spirits."

Immediately, several ministers seconded the proposal.

Emperor Yuan Jing glanced at Wei Yuan, who had pleaded guilty and subdued the law, and said in a deep voice: "This case will be handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs Dali Temple Secretary and the government office to jointly handle it. Within three days, I will have a result."

End of the meeting.

Nangong Qianrou followed behind Wei Yuan with a gloomy expression, and within a few steps, she heard someone shouting from behind: "Duke Wei, stay a step."

The father and son stopped to look back, and the one who caught up was Dali Siqing. He was wearing a robe embroidered with clouds and geese, and he was a senior member of the fourth rank.

Dali Siqing is the same as Jingzhaofu Yin. His position is not too high, but he is an official with great power. He is very important.

In the capital, an official's status and right to speak have never been judged by rank, but by how much power he has in his hands.

Xungui is beyond rank, so he has been squeezed to the edge of the power stage.

The gray-haired, pale-faced old man cupped his hands with a smile: "I would like to know the details of those criminals on the list from Mr. Wei."

Wei Yuan nodded happily and angrily: "I will give someone a copy of Dali Temple later."

The Minister of Dali Temple nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile on his face: "One more thing, I see that Zhu Jinluo is a talent, he is upright, and I want to transfer him to Dali Temple. I will report to His Majesty later, first come and talk to Wei Say hello."

Seeing that Wei Yuan was still calm, Dali Temple Minister took a few steps forward and said, "Wei Gong knows what I want."

Wei Yuan laughed, "It's not a loss."

Dali Siqing looked at Wei Yuan's back with a gloomy expression.

Returning to the carriage, Nangong Qianrou drove to the direction of the policeman's office. In the carriage, Wei Yuan rubbed his brows and sighed:

"Knock your eyes, punch your eyes"

Nangong Qianrou sneered and said, "Father, you know that he may have a different heart, but you still want to miss the old relationship. This is good, you are not as simple as losing your army."

In the yamen of Dagan, apart from Li Yuchun who is so determined, there is also Yang Yan who is a rigid martial idiot who is not interested in beauty and money.

And like a paranoid like Nangong Qianrou, who likes to spend all day in the dungeon tossing death-row inmates, if she doesn't love silver, are women as beautiful as me?

"Do you want to kill him?" Nangong Qianrou said bitterly.

"The settlement will have to wait until after the autumn." Wei Yuan replied calmly.

All the way without a word, Nangong Qianrou drove through the market, entered a secluded street, and continued: "Although this matter is not because of that boy, he is an introduction. You could have avoided it. That boy is worthy of his father." value?"

"There are many golden gongs, but there is only one such interesting person. I am looking forward to his growth." Wei Yuan chuckled lightly, and changed the topic:

"Our Majesty, we won't rest assured that I will grow up."

When he said this, Wei Yuan finally felt gloomy.

"The Minister of Dali Temple just wanted to use that list in exchange for the secret letter in the hands of the foster father, why did the foster father refuse?" Nangong Qianrou asked.

He knew that his adoptive father's last sentence "It's not a loss" was not to agree to the Dali Siqing's exchange, but decided to reluctantly replace the gold and silver gongs, which would hurt both sides.

His answer was silence.

This year is really eventful, no, every Beijing inspection is a big turmoil. Nangong Qianrou let out a sigh.

Every time there will be a winner in the Jingchao, the Royal Party rose up in the last Jingchao. But one thing is unavoidable, that is, when the Jingcha is over, all parties will suffer heavy losses. The winner is also a miserable victory.

"Go back to the yamen, go find Xu Qi'an, let him hide for a few days, and I will find a way to get him out."

"Yes." Nangong Qianrou nodded sourly.

In the evening, Xu Qi'an, who finished looking at the house early, spent an hour shopping with Chu Caiwei, buying whatever was delicious.

The beauty with big eyes was full of interest and had a great time playing, with a sweet smile on her face all the time.

Going shopping is indeed more tiring than fighting. This kind of tiredness is not physical, but mental. Xu Qi'an exhaled, as long as he makes this woman happy, it's worth being a little tired.

I heard a saying in my previous life that there are 70 ways to coax a girl, one is shopping, and the rest are 69.

The latter Xu Qi'an couldn't use it, so naturally there was no way to verify it, but the effect of shopping was indeed good.

After entering the Guiyue Tower and ordering a sumptuous dinner worth five taels of silver, Xu Qi'an let go of his stomach and fought Chu Caiwei in order not to lose money.

At this time, the feeling of heart palpitations came.

He stopped eating calmly, took out the small jade mirror, and checked the information.

[One: Something happened to the watchman's yamen. Jin Gong and Zhu Yang reported Wei Yuan's embezzlement and perverting the law. This case involved four Jin Gongs, twelve Silver Gongs and thirty Tong Gongs. It is jointly handled by the government office, the Ministry of punishment, and Dali Temple. Does this mean that Wei Yuan is about to fall out of favor and fall during the Jingcha? 】

Zhu Yang became a second-five boy, so many people were implicated in the report letter, Xu Qi'an stared at the text message on the mirror, and his heart was full of turmoil.

During this period of time, factional struggles in the capital were in full swing, with each winning or losing. Because Xu Qi'an didn't have enough rank, he usually used it as a topic of conversation after dinner, so he didn't care when he heard it.

Originally thought that the special position of the watchman would be able to sail steadily in this turmoil without being squeezed out, but it seems that he still doesn't understand the situation in the court and the party struggles enough.

"Zhu Yang is a golden gong, and he must have a lot of black material in his hands. Now that he suddenly rebelled, the prisoner must be hurt."

"Unsurprisingly, it must be because of me. I heard that Zhu Yinluo's internal organs were injured by that knife, and the root cause of the disease has fallen. In the future, there is no hope for martial arts. Not only did I have nothing to do, but I was promoted and raised my salary."

"Indeed, if I were Emperor Yuan Jing, I would definitely not watch Wei Yuan sit on the throne. From the tax and bank case to the Sangbo case, and then to the struggle during this period, the civil servants' brains were blown out. Keep it intact, but this is because they don't have enough power in their hands, and they don't have the confidence to tear it apart."

"Wei Yuan told me that the royal party and the Dagan people are the most powerful in the current dynasty. Now the royal party has lost troops and lost generals. The eunuch party represented by Wei Yuan must be weakened."

"I should be damned for a small gong. It's no wonder that Zhu Yang will let me go."

As Xu Qi'an's thoughts flickered, No. 4, who was once an official in the court, passed on a letter: [Corruption and perverting the law are just superficial excuses. If you say that corrupting the law is corrupt, Wei Yuan is in charge of the watchmen. How can there be beasts in the court hall who are ugly?

【Emperor Yuan Jing just took this opportunity to suppress some Wei Yuan. 】

No. 4 is worthy of being an old man in the officialdom, who is thousands of miles away, and his analysis is very penetrating. Is this similar to what I thought? With the No. 1 rank, can't you see through such a simple truth? To ask such a stupid question, Xu Qi'an entered the information:

[If Emperor Yuan Jing meant it, then Wei Yuan can't do anything, right? No matter what, these subordinates have to be abandoned. 】

[Four: Hehe, it depends on the attitudes of Emperor Yuan Jing and Wei Yuan. If it is just corruption, the punishment will not be too big, but there will definitely be a group of people who will be expelled from the yamen. 】

Shuanggui? Xu Qi'an suddenly worried about his future.

"What are you writing and drawing in front of the mirror?" Chu Caiwei ate the sauced pig's trotters.

That's why women are big pigs. Xu Qi'an put away the mirror and said, "It's okay. After dinner, let's go and see that ghost house."

No matter what, I bought the house first, and owning a set of real estate is more important than anything else.

Chen Fuyin of the government office has a good relationship with me. If I were really on the list, I would not be afraid of entering the government office, but I would be afraid of falling into the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. How will Wei Yuan arrange it.

After leaving Guiyue Tower, Xu Qi'an handed the small jade mirror to Chu Caiwei: "Keep it for me for a few days."

"Oh." Chu Caiwei took it and stuffed it into the deerskin pouch on her left waist.

After dark, they came to the haunted house, and the two climbed over the wall to enter.

"Can you tell me now? Why did you come here at night?"

The footsteps of the two echoed in the desolate abandoned house. There was no wind tonight, no insects chirping in the middle of winter, and the silence was terrifying.

Chu Caiwei held a candied haws in her hand, and her voice was crisp and clear: "In the daytime, when the yang energy is abundant, the female ghost in the well will not appear. To get rid of her, you have to wait for her to come out.

"In addition, I suspect that there is something weird at the bottom of the well, and I plan to go down and take a look later."

Going down to see Xu Qi'an, who has a deep-sea phobia, was immediately frightened, especially when he knew that there was something strange at the bottom of the well.

Waiting and waiting, the night was getting dark, Chu Caiwei wondered: "Go straight down, are you going or not?"

"If I don't go, I won't worry about you jumping into the well alone."

Chu Caiwei nodded, supported the edge of the well, and jumped down with a plop.

Xu Qi'an, who was still very timid when this silly girl heard the ghost story, held the black gold long knife in his hand and jumped into the well. The water in the well was cold. Twisting her waist, like a flexible mermaid.

That bright light is the gossip disk on her waist.

After swimming for about ten minutes, Xu Qi'an suddenly saw Chu Caiwei stop, and she took off the gossip tray from her waist, as if she was confronting something.

Xu Qi'an swam over, followed by the light from the gossip plate, and saw a woman in white lying on the bottom of the well.

She seemed to be aware of it, and slowly raised her head to look over. It was a bloody face with eyeballs hanging on her cheeks, and maggots were wriggling in the black eye sockets.