Time is slow

   Chapter 532 Invite the Champion at night

   After a while, everyone was sitting in the room silently, their expressions sluggish.

  Today, all the materials that have been sorted out have been burnt. The most important thing is that the two account books have all been burnt down. When it is dawn, how can they explain to the emperor!

   "What's going on with this fire?" Kou Xing, the minister of punishment, was violently pinched by Dali Siqing for a while.

  The room was dead silent.

   "Speak!" Kou Xing slapped the table.

   A young official said cautiously: "We are busy, a small official came to deliver us a late-night snack on your order, and the subordinate officer fell asleep at some point after eating the late-night snack—"

  Others echoed: "Xiaguan too, he seems to fall asleep soon after eating a late night snack, and then wake up, that's it..."

   The Dali Temple Minister and the Censor of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Court all looked at Kou Xingze, the Minister of Punishment.

   From the words of these officials, it is not difficult to hear that there may be problems with those late night snacks.

  Kou Xing's hands trembled violently, and said angrily: "What little official? I was sleeping at that time, why did I order someone to bring you supper? Don't you use your brains?"

   A group of people were trained to bow their heads, wanting to refute but not daring.

   They were so sleepy at that time that they couldn't keep their eyes open, and their stomachs kept ringing. Who would have thought that there was something wrong with the clerk who delivered the supper?

   This is the Xingbu yamen, not a restaurant.

   "Do you still remember what that little official looked like?"

  Everyone lowered their heads.

   "Are you all dumb?" Kou Xing was getting old, and now he was a little dizzy when he was angry, so he had to force himself to calm down.

  He calm down, who can be calm, when the emperor knows that he must kill them!

   "Sir, that little official kept his head down, the lower official didn't pay attention at that time..."

   "Didn't pay attention? I think you were thinking about eating at the time, right?" Kou Xing was so angry that his beard was twisted.

   The Dali Temple Minister sighed: "Kou Shangshu, let's think about how to deal with the aftermath."

   He said, and looked at Zuodu Censor, both eyes full of helplessness.

  The account book was burned in the Xingbu yamen, their responsibility is a little smaller, and it is only a little smaller.

  The three judicial divisions jointly reviewed the case, and no one would be able to walk away if something went wrong.

   "That little official is definitely not in the yamen at this moment. I don't think we should waste time on him for the time being." Dali Siqing said.

   "The account book was burned, how should I explain it?" asked the censor of Zuodu.

   Dali Siqing gave Kou Xingze a deep look: "Kou Shangshu, let's go and talk next door."

   The top chief of the three judicial divisions went to the next door to discuss.

   "Kou Shangshu, how do you think we should explain to the emperor?" Dali Siqing asked.

   Kou Xing opened his mouth, and suddenly raised his hand to rest on his forehead: "My head hurts so much, it's useless when I'm old."

  The other two: "..." Without such a thing, who stipulated that you can be shameless when you are old?

   "Does Zhang Siqing have any ideas?" Kou Xing looked out the window while asking, and muttered, "It's almost dawn."

   Zhang Siqing's mouth twitched.

How did    become his business?

   Of course, no one can run without a solution. The three of them are grasshoppers on a rope.

   Zhang Siqing euphemistically said: "Natural disasters are much easier to accept than man-made disasters."

   Having reached their current status, some words need not be said too clearly, and they will be clear at a point.

  The officials investigated the case overnight, fell asleep due to drowsiness, and accidentally overturned the oil lamp and set the account book on fire.

  The former pushes directly to the accident, and the latter has more things to grab.

  What is the identity of the clerk?

   If he was an outsider, how could he sneak into the yamen of the Punishment Department? Are those guards just decorations? If it is really from the Ministry of Punishment, who recommended this little official in the first place? Who was instructed to do such a thing?

   Where is Xiaoli now? If they can't hand them over, is there something wrong with their ability?

   The resulting series of problems was enough for the emperor to strip off the official uniforms of the three of them.

   "What do you two adults think?" Zhang Siqing asked tentatively.

   The censor of Zuodu's face was sinking like water. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Even if it is a natural disaster, the emperor may still be furious."

   "That's also impossible." Zhang Siqing sighed.

   Their bad luck is certain, it's just a matter of bad luck.

   "Kou Shangshu, what do you think?"

  Kou Xing closed his eyes and said nothing.

  Zhang Siqing twitched the corner of his mouth and intensified his tone: "Kou Shangshu!"

   Is this old thing asleep?

   Kou Xing then opened his eyes, glanced at the two comrades in arms, and said solemnly: "Why don't you invite the champion over here and see if there is a way."

   "The account book was burned, what's the use of inviting the champion Houlai?" Zhang Siqing was puzzled.

  Kou Xing thought that his grandson-in-law Shao Mingyuan was also a dead horse and a living horse doctor, and explained with a sigh: "After all, one of the account books was brought back by the champion, what if the champion wrote it?"

   Zhang Siqing and Zuodu Yushi looked at each other and shook their heads.

  Champion Hou Yijie Takefu, can you want to get the transcript?

  No, even they wouldn't do such a troublesome thing when they were away from home.

   "No matter what, please ask him first." Kou Xing rubbed his eyebrows.

  Champion Hou's mansion, Shao Mingyuan was fast asleep, and the guard whispered: "General, wake up, there is someone from the Ministry of Punishment."

  Shao Mingyuan opened his eyes alertly, rolled over and got out of bed: "What's going on?"

  The personal guard handed over the robe, Shao Mingyuan took it and put it on, put on the fox fur cloak that was placed on the screen, and walked out.

   The yamen of the Punishment Department was brightly lit, and Shao Mingyuan followed the officials sent to invite him and glanced at it, and knew that something had happened.

  Kou Xing and the three of them were waiting inside, and they all stood up when they saw him come in.

After saying hello, Shao Mingyuan looked at Kou Xingze and asked respectfully, "Kou Shangshu asked me to come, what's the matter?"

On occasions like   , he would naturally address Kou Xingze by his official position, not his grandfather.

   "The study was flooded at night, and those two crucial account books were burned." Faced with this amazingly powerful grandson-in-law, Kou Xing's mood was quite complicated and he got straight to the point.

   When Shao Mingyuan heard this, his face did not change much.

   When he came over, he could see that there was water passing through here, and the ground was still dripping with wet black water. When he thought of calling him in the middle of the night, he already knew something.

   Seeing that Shao Mingyuan did not change his face, Zhang Siqing looked surprised: "Could it be that Mr. Hou has prepared something else?"

   "Huh?" Shao Mingyuan raised his eyebrows slightly.

   "The account book of Xing Wuyang Tongwa was brought back by the Marquis. Could it be that Marquis has written another copy?" Zhang Siqing asked with hope.

   There is no way to do another account book. It’s okay to keep one, so that the emperor will deal with them lightly. To know that what really made the emperor really angry, it was originally the account book that Xing Wuyang communicated with the Japanese.

   Shao Mingyuan shook his head: "This Marquis did not transcribe it otherwise."

   Kou Xingze's last hope was completely broken, but he heard Shao Mingyuan's tone change: "However, the account book can still be found."

   (end of this chapter)