Tang's dining table

Wen Wenwen slowly opened his eyes, and it was dark all around. He took out a piece of licorice from his sleeve and chewed it slowly.

Then he reached out and touched his neck. It was very good, and he didn't feel any discomfort. Yun Chu's palm only cut off his blood supply and did not hurt him.

Although he couldn't see clearly what was going on around him, just by smelling the smell, Wen Wenrou could guess that he was in a prison.

Recalling what Di Renjie once said, she softly spit out the licorice residue in her mouth and sighed, knowing that she had really become the first of the three to go to jail.

Touching his chest, he found that the memorial in his arms had disappeared, and his grandfather's hard work all night was in vain.

Even in the dark underground, Wen Wen relied on the living habits he had developed in the past to know that it must be dawn because he wanted to pee.

He couldn't remember exactly when he got into the habit of peeing at dawn. Anyway, if he didn't pee at this time, he wouldn't have a chance to pee in the next three hours. Even if he peed in his pants, no one would care about him. .

"Prison leader, give me a light." Wen Wen grabbed the wooden fence and shouted outside.

In a moment, a light, not much bigger than a soybean, appeared in front of him, and behind the light was a terrifying blue face illuminated by the light.

"Be careful, the wick is expensive."

Without saying a word, Wen Wenwen took the lamp and placed it in a hollow on the wall. Immediately, the cell, which was no more than eight feet long and no more than four feet wide, was illuminated by the light, giving it a human-like appearance. .

"Why are you looking at me?" Wenrou looked back at the prison chief with piercing eyes.

Prison head Yan Jiu chuckled and said, "I haven't seen what the prison looks like in a long time. I'm a little curious. The urine bucket is in the corner. No one has used it for a long time. Be careful and don't scare the centipedes inside. Follow the centipede.”

He thanked Yan Jiu gently and politely, and then stood still.

Yan Jiu seemed a little anxious, pointing to the urine bucket and said: "Pee quickly, aren't you in a hurry?"

Gentle said: "Can you please turn around, or simply walk further away?"

Yan Jiu shook his head and said: "The county magistrate said that he wants me to watch you every step of the way to prevent you from suddenly losing your mind and committing suicide."

Gentle shook his head.

"I won't commit suicide, nor will I do anything irrational. Now, I just want to be convenient."

"They are all men, what's the big deal?" Yan Jiu muttered and turned around.

Wen Wenwen relieved herself quickly, shook the hem of her robe and said, "When can I go out?"

Yan Jiu smiled and said, "The county magistrate said he would come to pick you up in person."

Wen Wen sighed and said: "That means there are still two hours left. Does it mean that I have to waste these two hours?"

Yan Jiu smiled and handed another bundle from the darkness. After gently opening it, he found that it was the document he was studying. He sighed with satisfaction, pointed to the oil lamp and said, "Add two more rushes, it's too dark." Yeah, reading like this is not good for your eyes."

Yan Jiu chuckled and said, "A lamp of lamp oil costs fifty cents, and rushes cost twenty cents. It's the same price."

Wen Wen touched her sleeves and found that the money bag in her sleeves was missing, so she pointed at Yan Jiu and said, "Did you search me?"

Yan Jiu nodded and said, "This is natural. Everyone who comes in will be searched."

Wen Wenwen didn't care about Yan Jiu. She waved her hand and said, "Let it be recorded in the account first. When your county magistrate comes back, he will pay."

Yun Chu's name can be used as money, and Wen Wen has learned this a long time ago. Then, he got two new rushes, and the prison suddenly became brighter.

Sitting cross-legged on the tattered mat, a warm smile appeared on Wen Wen's face. Yun Chu should have been preparing to enter the palace to go to court at this moment, right?

Of course Yunchu was in court. Today's court would be very, very lively. How could he miss it?

The only pity is that Wen Wen can't come, otherwise it would be a beautiful thing for the two of them to stand on the Danqi, drink the northwest wind, chat and listen to the huge gossip.

When registering the name with the censor, Yunchu also helped Wen Wen write down his name, which made the censor want to get angry.

Yun Chu whispered: "I was pushed into the latrine. I am so embarrassed to see people now. I am still washing my body."

The censor also whispered: "Who did it?"

Yun Chu cupped his hands and said, "I am the one who asked me to fight for the toilet."

The censor glared at Yun Chu fiercely, waved his robe sleeves and said, "Shu Zi is not enough to make a plan!"

Yun Chu took out a memorial from his sleeve and said: "Originally I was going to write this memorial to His Majesty. The content was to impeach Wen Wenwen for corruption, perverting the law, committing adultery and robbery, and committing all kinds of evil in Wannian County. Fortunately, he didn't come. If he had come, I just took him into the palace to explain everything in front of His Majesty."

The censor said angrily: "You have always been on good terms with Wen Wen, how could you impeach him and make something out of nothing?"

Yun Chu said angrily: "Who asked him to rob the toilet with me? You said it was made out of nothing. Do you believe that with just one order from me, I can get all the witnesses and physical evidence and make the case a solid case?"

The censor was a communicator, and had the power to hear and report matters. Whether he heard or not depends on the emperor and the chief officials.

Yunchu was the county magistrate, but he was responsible for the county magistrate of Wannian County. Although his official position was not high, he was one of the few officials with real power among the officials of the Tang Dynasty. He ruled more than 500,000 people, more than 100,000 people. The population of any other province or state is larger.

At that time, it was because of Gao Deru, a small Xihe County magistrate, that Li Yuan was forced to postpone his plan for the Eastern Expedition and sent his son Li Jiancheng to lead an army thousands of miles away to quell Gao Deru. It can be said that this person was the reason for the confrontation between Li Shimin and Dou Jiande. Falling behind.

If Li Shimin hadn't erupted in that battle with such brilliant light that no one could look up to, it would have been hard to say who would win and who would lose.

If Yunchu really wanted to frame someone regardless, even a higher-ranking censor would have difficulty escaping from the trial of the three divisions.

Even if he can escape from the joint trial of the three divisions, he will not be able to escape a negative comment in the next year's selection of the Cleaning Division, and his fate of being demoted or dismissed from office is right in front of him.

After Yun Chu finished his harsh words, he leisurely went to Tai Chi Palace with his hands behind his back, looking for a place where he could stand and hear the conversation in the hall.

When a middle-aged official in red passed by Yun Chu, he silently raised his hands and cupped his fists to salute. Yun Chu bowed slightly, expressing that he did not dare to accept the etiquette of his elders.

Seeing a large group of big men in purple and red robes enter the main hall, Yun Chu took out an exquisite small copper stove from his sleeve, and took out two fist-sized pine stoves from the other sleeve. fruit.

The officials standing in front and behind him watched helplessly as Yunchu took out a set of cans and tea sets and placed them on the waist-high steps next to him. It looked like this man was going to make tea here.

The low-ranking officials who were originally very surprised by his behavior suddenly found that the four heavy vermilion doors of Taiji Hall were closed. Some officials who were familiar with Yun Chu came over to ask for a cup of tea.

After all, they have been out since before dawn, and now they are exhausted. Now, the door of the main hall is closed, which means that the things in the main hall are not suitable for these minions to listen to.

Since they are not allowed to listen, if those censors are too troublesome, they will attack them in groups.

Yunchu was actually not very interested in what happened in the hall. It was just that Chu Suiliang was unlucky.

This matter has actually been doomed for a long time. It has been doomed since Li Zhi did not allow him to retire and return to his hometown. It was just to calm the situation in all directions that it was postponed until today.

In the morning, I saw Chu Suiliang walking by with a sad and angry look on his face. It is estimated that he will come out of here even more sad and angry later.

Wen Wen's participation in the impeachment of Chu Suiliang is indeed a good opportunity for speculation. However, anyone who impeached Chu Suiliang will be written down in history books.

And all of them are labeled as a sycophant.

Even if there are benefits to impeaching Chu Suiliang, the big ones are people like Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu. There is no point in scooping up a little bit of water.

It's just that this matter is useful to the Wen family. It can be used to clarify to the emperor that the Wen family is facing the emperor and has no intention of opposing any of the emperor's will.

However, Rou Wen will be finished with the name of a sycophant from now on, and will be despised by many, many people. Even the child he had with her wife will be called the son of a sycophant.

The reason for this is that Chu Suiliang never did anything that was sorry for the Tang Dynasty. In fact, even if he opposed Li Zhi's abolition, he did nothing wrong.

Just when the pots of tea brewed in Yunchu lost their flavor and the pine cones in the small copper stove were burned out, a man in a purple robe, with a bare head and a face full of blood staggered out of the main hall. Come out.

His official hat was gone, and so was his wat. There were scars on his forehead and blood was flowing profusely.

"God knows I -" Chu Suiliang stood at the top of the steps and roared at the sky, with too much unwillingness and anger in his voice.

"God knows I -" Chu Suiliang roared without stopping and left Chang'an and went to Tanzhou to take up the post of governor.

Just when many people felt sorry for Chu Suiliang's generation of ministers who cared about life, Yunchu, who was dumping the ashes of the copper furnace into the flower bed without flowers, knew that this was not the end of Chu Suiliang's tragic fate, but the beginning.

"So Chu Suiliang is finished like this?" Wen Wen stood in front of an iron pot and watched Yun Chu pluck some noodles into the pot. The two of them planned to have a meal of mutton noodles here before going out.

"It will be even more unlucky in the future, because many people are complaining about Chu Suiliang. I heard that even Duke Zhao begged His Majesty to show mercy, but Chu Suiliang was ordered to leave Beijing immediately and take office.

How about it? Do you regret that I didn’t join the army to impeach Chu Suiliang this time? "

Wen Wen looked at the mutton and noodles tumbling in the iron pot and shook his head: "I can only imagine how other officials looked at Xu Jingzong and his group, but I can't stand it anyway.

Hey, why is there such a stove in the prison? "

Yun Chu looked at Yan Jiu who was huddled in the corner and said, "This is the stove they use to burn the soldering iron to burn people. It has good firepower."

Yan Jiu chuckled and said, "Sometimes I use it to roast people directly."

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