sheepskin for melon

Chapter 96 It's a matter of human effort

The onlookers were stunned for a moment, and then roared with laughter: Yes!You have to do the math, no one can suffer!

For the sake of their daughter's reputation, the Zhao family originally wanted to calm things down, but now that Mr. Tan is standing up, there is nothing else to dare.

Zhao Yuanwai, who was following Tan Yushu, immediately took a step forward and bowed to the official: "Your servant, my Zhao family has broken up with the Qiao family today, and the dowry and dowry are recorded in the book. Please call the officer!"

While the general was inviting the officials into the house to check the books, one of them stuffed a silver ingot into his hand.

Although official posts also carry an official name, they are not public positions. They do the most tiring work every day and get the least money.

If you want to live a nourishing life, you rely on the oil and water when you run errands. As soon as the money is in your sleeve, you look at each other, and you immediately have an idea.

Is it proper or not? It has nothing to do with small characters like them. If the sky falls, there will be tall ones to support them.

The old men don't have their share when they eat meat, and they can't beat them when they are beaten. There is nothing to be afraid of them holding those two dicks every day.

Fish when you have to fish, the big deal is to take off this layer of skin, and when the time comes, you can't find someone to do the job, and it's not the officials who worry about it.

So don't be afraid of anything, just do it if you have the money!

He bowed his head and said goodbye to Tan Yushu when he went out. Immediately, under the leadership of Yuanwai Zhao, he came to Qiao's house with a simple knife in his hands.

Qiao's mother originally wanted to use the power of the official to force the Zhao family to submit, but she never expected that she stabbed her in her own bed, and immediately went to tear the yamen crying, but was frightened away by the officer.

The common people who watched the excitement also became interested, and followed them one after another, watching this tricky old woman reap the fruits of herself.

Qiao Silang was lying on the bed moaning and moaning, Prince Fu is not polite to attack, after so many days, that piece is still rotten.

Glancing at the little girl who tremblingly came in to deliver the medicine, she raised her eyes immediately: "Bad girl, what are you looking at, see if I don't beat you to death!"

Since that day, whenever Qiao Silang felt uneasy, he beat and scolded his subordinates to vent his anger. He could feel better only when he saw others suffer.

It's just a little girl who came to deliver medicine, because of Qiao Silang's beating, she couldn't help crying, but she didn't dare to speak loudly or run away, so she could only bear it carefully.

When Qiao Shiro was getting more and more energetic, a group of officials rushed in suddenly, dragged him off the bed, and dragged him out with his arms raised.

Qiao Silang was dumbfounded, and immediately shouted: "What are you doing! Do you know who I am!"

The head of the guard went straight up and slapped him to silence him.

A group of servants dragged him, threw him out of the gate, and clasped his fists at the people watching at the gate: "Fathers and folks, witness, now that the liquidation is over, the house, servants and other property of the Zhao family have been returned, and the bracelet of the Qiao family has been returned. I just returned back at Zhao's house, so today's errands are done!"

The people around laughed loudly, and there was a burst of applause, and someone actually yelled: "The ones that are left now are returned, but what about the ones that have been used by this family?"

The guards were used to being poked in the back by everyone, and it was the first time they heard applause, which felt quite comfortable, and immediately asked Zhao Yuanwai in a good mood: "Old man Zhao, what do you say?"

Zhao Yuanwai is a businessman, he accepts what he understands, and sighed: "Although the Qiao family is not kind, I can't be unrighteous. Their orphans and widows are not making a living now. We only pursue private interests, and the rest When I was blind, I fed the dog! I hope this mother and son can take care of themselves in the future."

The others booed all of a sudden, obviously not satisfied after watching the play.

Qiao Silang was thrown out in disheveled clothes. Seeing people pointing and pointing, he was stunned. He shouldn't be. Zhao Pinghui shouldn't be the one who should be pointed at like this!

His mother cried and hugged him desperately, pretending to be pitiful to the people around her in all kinds of ways, but the common people who knew the true colors of these two women would not accept this.

I don't know who threw out a piece of rotten vegetable leaf first, and the others immediately refused to show weakness, and beat up the girl and ran away.

With the support of Qiao's mother, Qiao Silang fled to a place where no one was around. Looking at the situation of being penniless, without a foothold, and being looked down upon by others, he finally couldn't help regretting again.

If God gave him a chance to do it again, he would definitely accept it as soon as it was good, and never let himself fall to the present situation!

Of course, the words of confession after the event are nice to hear. If God really gave him a chance to do it again, he would not remember what he said today, and would only use the prophet to make everything more seamless.

……

This incident quickly became a topic of conversation on the streets and alleys, and everyone who saw the Qiao family's mother and child would not fail to spit.

However, the thoughts of the common people in the market are completely different from those in the court.

After the Emperor Gaozu of the Yong Dynasty built the country, in order to prevent the officials from monopolizing power and future generations from being foolish, he specially established a speech official system.

The eloquent officials can hear about the rumors without being punished for their words, so as to "observe the mistakes of the officials and remonstrate the mistakes of the emperor".

The original intention is naturally good, but any system that has been passed down for more than 100 years will become strange.

As a spokesperson, there is a minimum impeachment indicator every month, which means that even if there is nothing wrong, you have to find something to impeach, or you should be impeached by your peers.

But officials are also human beings, like Uncle Zhuangzi, he doesn't care about it, anyone dares to talk about it, of course it is a rare animal, so who to play, how to play, and what to play, there is a lot of knowledge in this!

As for Tan Yushu, he might have been born specifically for speech officials.

Wu Zhuanwen's background is not orthodox, and this kind of principled problem can't be changed even if he becomes the prime minister, and he can play it for a lifetime.A student of a traitor, standing in line with a traitor, is not in the right position, and it is only right and proper to criticize him.Trying to curry favor with the emperor every day, never daring to remonstrate with death, not having the strength to be a minister, you should be fired!After suppressing a rebellion, he hooked up with local officials and big local businessmen, which is not a good style, bomb!

All in all, it's too suitable to brush up the performance of the officials!

The most important thing is that he is young and has no foundation. He has only relied on His Majesty's favor along the way. He is not afraid of offending him afterward, and he can also earn a reputation of not being afraid of power.

Because of this, Tan Yushu has been placed on the desk of every speech officer as a classic case since he succeeded in Wu Zhuanwen, and he would catch it from time to time to check his performance.

Why don't you marry a wife when you are so old, it's unfilial!Hooking up with the oiran, disorderly!Even when his cat went to the cat food store to eat Bawang's meal, he had to flick it. After all, the cat follows the owner, and the owner must be what the cat is like!

And that cat is so ugly, please tie it up at home and don't let it out casually to scare people!

This kind of trivial matter has to be discussed, and such a big event as helping the Zhao family to withdraw their marriage naturally needs to be discussed even more.

What "not following the etiquette" and "abuse of power" are all added!

This month's performance is completed again~

……

After Tan Yushu stopped pretending to be sick, he offered Emperor Jiaming the new medicine given by the eminent monk Du'er, but this time it was not for Emperor Jiaming, but for Lu Meiren.

Emperor Jiaming curiously asked Lu An why he didn't give him the medicine, and Lu An bowed his head and replied, "The eminent monk Du'er said that the medicine is useless to His Majesty, and it is Lu Meiren who needs medicine now."

Emperor Jiaming was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly realized that the medicine was actually used for this purpose!

Although it wasn't the longevity medicine that made Emperor Jiaming very disappointed, it was a blessing from heaven to have heirs.

So Emperor Jiaming began to praise the eminent monk Du'er and the immortal master Bingchenzi even more. One gave him magic medicine to improve his physique, and the other brought him the blessed daughter Lu Meiren.

But now is not the time, when the prince is born, he will wantonly reward these two families!

Having a son in old age, he was very happy at first, but when King Fu came to congratulate him, Emperor Jiaming's heart sank suddenly.

Lu Meiren is only more than a month pregnant, and the fetal image is still unstable. Emperor Jiaming just ordered the imperial physician to take care of her every day, and did not reveal anything to the outside world. Where did the news of King Fu come from?

Looking at this younger brother whom he loved so much in the past, Emperor Jia Ming committed a sudden offense for the first time in his heart.

However, Fu Wang's smooth life for many years has already corrupted his brain. He didn't realize at all that the elder brother who had his own child was already different from the elder brother who blindly favored him. He was still thinking about himself. There are sour words in the intersection:

"Brother Huang, this Lu beauty is really not in vain, and his stomach is really competitive. I don't know if I will add a prince or a princess to Brother Huang. If she is really born, I can't make her a queen."

Hearing these words, Emperor Jiaming was furious.

He dotes on his younger brother so much, knowing that he finally had an heir, shouldn't he expect him to have a prince?What are the words of the princess!And if that sentence is really born, whose child is he hoping will not be born!

Suppressing her anger, she smiled calmly and said, "You're right. Lu Meiren conceived a dragon descendant for the widow, and she has made great contributions to the country. The widow really wants to give her a promotion recently. How do you think it will be rewarded?"

King Fu hesitated for a long time before he hesitated and said: "The younger brother said casually, it is natural that we should consider the long-term plan."

Emperor Jiaming smiled and said, "Then we will discuss this matter at the court meeting tomorrow."

The appearance of King Fu made Emperor Jiaming fully understand that his palace was just a sieve for air leakage, so there was no need to hide it.

So at the next day's court meeting, Emperor Jiaming asked his ministers to discuss Lu Mei's status, but this time the ministers were silent, and even Song Ming, his confidant in the past, did not immediately stand up to share his worries.

Emperor Jiaming's heart sank for a while, and he asked again and again, only a few people stood up sparsely, and they just said that according to the custom, we will discuss after Lu Mei gave birth to a child.

After getting this result, Emperor Jiaming, who was sitting high on the dragon throne, involuntarily clenched his palms.

At this time, Tan Yushu came out in front of the crowd, bowed to his superior, and said with clear eyes: "Your Majesty, I believe that Lu Meiren has made great contributions to the community and deserves to be rewarded. If you have a master, why don't you have another concubine in addition to the four concubines, named Concubine Chen, as the title of Lu Meiren."

Other courtiers: ...

You are really a mediocre flattering little genius...

The emperor and the others didn't dare to attack, but Tan Yushu didn't dare to attack him. A group of people immediately jumped out and attacked him citing scriptures.

Tan Yushu was scolded bloody by all the veterans for his submissiveness. He looked pitiful, weak and helpless.

Hey, I was scolded again, everyone doesn't like him, it's really pitiful.

However, looking at Tan Yushu who was attacked by the officials, Emperor Jiaming's eyes lit up: Loyal minister!Great loyal minister!I really didn't promote him in vain before!

After coming down to the court, Emperor Jiaming had already seen through the meaning of the officials in the court, and his face was gloomy.

He finally realized that not everyone in the court was looking forward to this child, so without any hesitation, he immediately sent someone to protect Lu Meiren's three layers inside and outside, and no one was allowed to touch her!

After doing all this, Emperor Jiaming sat slumped on the chair, a little confused.

After living for so many years, he realized that his own younger brother and the officials who were "loyal" to him all had different thoughts behind their backs, what should he do now...

If Lu Mei gave birth to a princess, how happy these people would be laughing behind their backs!Even if it is a prince, he is already old, but the child is so young, will those courtiers with different thoughts really assist him faithfully?

When Emperor Jiaming was in a state of mind, Lu An suddenly came over and offered him a cup of tea. Emperor Jiaming glanced at him, a little annoyed: "What's the matter?"

Lu'an reported cautiously: "This servant is here to ask His Majesty, do you want to deal with the last batch of papers?"

"Is there anything urgent?"

As the king of a country, there are too many trivial things that are played in front of him every day. Of course, Emperor Jiaming has no patience to do it himself.

Therefore, it is usually Lu An who will go through it on his behalf first, and send it to Song Ming for important state affairs, and send it to the department for handling the matter, and just let him know.

Listening to Emperor Jia Ming's question, Lu An lowered his eyebrows and said pleasantly: "Thanks to Your Majesty's blessings, the world will be peaceful. There is only one thing. Recently, there have been a lot of impeachment stories about Mr. Tan. How do you think His Majesty should deal with it?" "

Hearing Lu'an mention this, Emperor Jiaming couldn't help but think of Tan Yushu, the only one who stood firm against him in the court hall, his face was slightly pale, and he asked with great interest: "Why are you impeaching him now? Could it be that his cat is too ugly again? Are people scared?"

"puff--"

Lu An couldn't help laughing, and quickly confessed: "That's not true, but does your majesty still remember what happened to Prince Fu's son a few days ago? The father-in-law of the culprit at that time, Qiao Shiro, happened to be there to see the unbearable After the scene caught my eye, I didn't want to marry my daughter, and offered a huge amount of gold and silver, begging the Qiao family to divorce their daughter."

"In the end, the Qiao family was not forgiving, and wanted to arrest the daughter of the Zhao family to be seen by officials. After being caught by Mr. Tan, he not only forcefully dissolved the engagement of the two families, but also instructed Qiao Silang's Yue family to take back all the dowry previously given to the Qiao family. Let the mother and son of the Qiao family have no place to stand."

"This move is contrary to etiquette, and it is suspected of relying on power to deceive others, so all the great people have come forward to impeach this matter."

After hearing this, Emperor Jiaming sneered: "There's nothing to impeach. That Joe did such a scandal. What parent in the world is willing to marry their daughter? If the Qiao family wants face, they should take the initiative to let their wife go. He can cruelly arrest his daughter and bring him to the court, so what's wrong with punishing him!"

Lu An laughed and said, "This servant also thinks it's the same reason, but because Mr. Tan got involved with Qiao Silang's innocence and hurt his heir, I'm afraid there is some public revenge in it~"

Emperor Jiaming couldn't help laughing, no one really could bear this kind of thing.

Even if Tan Yushu really retaliated privately, it's only human nature, and it's not a big deal.

Wouldn't a person become a saint without selfish desires?

But Tan Aiqing was so restrained in avenging such a big revenge, her temper was too gentle, no wonder she was bullied by those old guys in court.

Thinking of this, he suddenly looked at Lu An suspiciously, could it be that he is also giving Tan Aiqing eye drops?

Immediately narrowing her eyes, she said with a half smile but not a smile: "You said that Tan Aiqing hurt her son and harbored resentment, but you are an eunuch, do you also have resentment?"

When Lu An heard this, he was in chaos immediately, and knelt down and kowtowed: "Slaves don't dare! Slaves don't dare! No one would dislike people like slaves. Only when the master doesn't despise slaves and brings slaves by his side can slaves live like human beings." , such a great kindness, even slaves and servants will follow the master in the next life, how can there be any complaints!"

This is true, Lu An will not betray anyone.

Smiling and waving his sleeves: "Okay, I don't know you yet, I'm just kidding you, get up quickly."

Lu An raised his head and wiped his tears with his sleeves: "Master, this joke is not funny, this servant is about to die of grievance, woo woo woo."

"Okay, okay, isn't it okay for me to compensate you?"

Emperor Jiaming laughed and patted Lu An's shoulder to comfort him. After laughing, his expression became a bit intriguing again: "Go and call Tan Aiqing. Since he recovered from his illness, I don't seem to have summoned him alone."

Hearing the order, Lu An immediately suppressed his tears and bowed his head in response.

After Tan Yushu was called into the palace, Emperor Jiaming told him about his impeachment as if joking.

When Tan Yushu heard this, he hurriedly confessed in fear.

As soon as Emperor Jiaming saw him, he felt that the eyes were full of autumn water, the room was full of fragrance, and he was in a good mood, so he stopped teasing him and said with a smile: "That's all, it's good that you know your mistake, just pay attention to it a little later."

Tan Yushu immediately bowed to thank him, but his expression was somewhat hesitant, as if he was engaged in some fierce ideological struggle.

After thinking for a while, Zhan Yi knelt down, put his hands on his forehead, and fell on the ground: "Your Majesty Wanwang, forgive me, for what I just mentioned, I am guilty, but not wrong."

Emperor Jiaming received a big gift unexpectedly, and was a little surprised: "Why did Aiqing say that?"

Tan Yushu got up, as if he had made up his mind, and looked at Emperor Jiaming with clear eyes: "Your Majesty, the reason why I did this is because I feel pity for Miss Zhao."

"Weichen has a very close personal relationship with Master Miaofa of Erfa Temple. Ms. Zhao once wrote the article "The Young Master" anonymously in "Efa Temple Weekly", and Weichen met her through this."

Emperor Jiaming was taken aback: ""The Young Master" was actually written by a woman?"

Tan Yushu seemed a little surprised that Emperor Jiaming knew about this article, and nodded immediately: "Exactly, but this article is just for entertainment, but for Miss Zhao, it is a portrayal of her real situation."

"The Zhao family has only one daughter, Miss Zhao. Although she has tens of thousands of family assets, she is also under the watchful eyes of her uncles and brothers. Miss Zhao's uncles and brothers eat, drink, prostitute and gamble every day, and do not work properly. Zhao Yuanwai can only be controlled by these relatives because he has no children. Spend a lot of gold and silver to support these relatives."

Emperor Jiaming frowned, and couldn't help but think of himself.

"Zhao Yuanwai wanted to marry a son-in-law because of this, so he chose Qiao Silang, who had nothing, and he promised well. After Qiao Silang passed the exam, he didn't want to. Instead, he married a daughter of Zhao's family, and later won again. Scholars don’t pay much attention to the Yue family, they always boss around and shout around.”

"When something like that happened later, Zhao Jiawan didn't dare to marry the only daughter. Unexpectedly, the Qiao family not only swallowed up the Zhao family's dowry, extorted money, but also sent Miss Zhao to the government."

"According to the Law of Dayong, after the appointment, if the man repents, he can recover the dowry, but the woman repents, but she will be punished for sixty sticks. How can Miss Zhao, a delicate woman, bear the sixty sticks? Didn't you force her to die?"

"This kind of wolf-hearted people, I feel that there is nothing wrong with handling them like this."

Emperor Jia Ming was taken aback, then smiled and said, "I never thought that Tan Aiqing would be so impulsive, so according to what Aiqing said, who is wrong?"

Tan Yushu continued to plead guilty, and said firmly: "My minister thinks that the law is wrong."

Emperor Jiaming: ...

"Tan Aiqing, do you know what you are talking about?"

Tan Yushu looked at Emperor Jiaming without giving an inch: "Your Majesty, I know! Originally, I was a little hesitant, but since I found out that Lu Meiren is pregnant, I no longer have any doubts."

"Nowadays, in the court, all the adults are hesitant about the promotion of Beauty Lu. They just don't know whether the fetus in Beauty Lu's womb is male or female. Your Majesty, if Beauty Lu really gave birth to a princess, what should I do?"

"presumptuous!"

But Tan Yushu continued boldly: "So I would like to ask Your Majesty to amend the law so that women and men have the same inheritance rights!"

Emperor Jiaming: ...

"How dare Tan Aiqing say such rebellious words! How can the law of the ancestors be taken lightly!"

But Tan Yushu continued to speak: "Your Majesty, in my view, there is no law of the ancestors, only the law of the emperor! And your majesty is the emperor of the real dragon!"

Emperor Jiaming picked up the inkstone and threw it at the side of Tan Yushu, obviously out of breath. Seeing this, Lu An quickly knelt down together with Tan Yushu, waiting for his punishment.

I don't know how long it took, but Emperor Jiaming's voice was full of joy and anger: "I don't know what happened today, Tan Aiqing, please kneel down."

Tan Yushu finally stopped talking back. He seemed a little scared, bowed his head and apologized, and retreated obediently.

When Emperor Jiaming and Lu An were the only ones left in the room, Emperor Jiaming laughed suddenly: "Tan Aiqing is young after all, she always has some fantastic ideas."

Unexpectedly, Lu An said: "Your Majesty forgives the crime, and the slaves also feel that there is some truth in what Mr. Tan said."

"Ok?"

Lu An immediately apologized, but continued: "Your Majesty, don't you see clearly? Who in this court loves you like your biological parents?"

Emperor Jiaming looked at him with bitterness in his heart, but there was no one there!

Maybe not, at least when Tan Aiqing was expecting him to have a daughter, he actually had the idea of ​​letting his children inherit the throne regardless of gender.

"I know he is loyal, but the idea is too absurd. How can those eyes staring at me allow such a violation of etiquette to happen."

Seeing his expression, Lu An opened his mouth slowly: "Your Majesty, this servant once heard a story: If you boil a frog in hot water, the frog will be scalded and jump out of the pot immediately. However, if you put the frog in warm water, the frog will not feel the temperature." , they will not struggle, and after a little bit of heating, even if the water is boiling hot in the end, the frogs will only be cooked unconsciously."

Emperor Jia Ming suddenly looked at him, because this story suddenly moved his heart.

Lu An knelt on the ground and said softly: "Your Majesty, however, don't worry too much. This is just the next step. I think Lu Mei will be blessed with great blessings, and she will definitely give birth to a prince."

Emperor Jiaming: ...

Does it really happen?

Whether it will or not is not important.

After Tan Yushu left, he smiled slowly.

It's up to people.