Chapter 20

She was about thirty years old, the wife of a local official in Yuliang County who had been scolded and thrown downstairs by yunyuexuan. The woman knelt in the hall and cried: her name is Fang Wang, and her husband's name is Fang Sheng. She is a master book in the Yamen of Yuliang county. This small position was bought by their husband and wife after they spent their family's savings. It belongs to the official position appointed by the local government, and it is not considered to be a court official.

Fang Sheng is the county magistrate's confidant. He often helps the county magistrate to do something immoral. At the same time, he is in charge of the list of officials involved in corruption relief.

Fang Sheng once got drunk at home and complained about the county magistrate's ruthless greed. He told Fang Wangshi about the court's disaster relief. He said that when the money for the court's disaster relief arrived in Yuliang County, most of the money was divided up by the higher authorities, leaving less than one tenth. The county magistrate put nearly one tenth of the silver into his own pocket in private, and only took out a small part of it to help his subordinates. Her husband was given only fifty taels of silver because of his small office.

On that day, chiyun Yuexuan held a banquet for local officials, gentry and celebrities, and Fang Wang's husband also went. When the magistrate saw that he could not get rid of himself, he threatened his husband to make trouble. As a result, his husband was scolded cloud jump Xuan to throw down the building in a rage.

The next day, Fang Wang's husband was brought home. Because the restaurant is not high, his husband's injury is not too serious, just broke a leg, knocked out a few teeth, out of some blood. The doctor came to see it and said it would be cured after a while.

A few days later, the county magistrate came to see Fang Wang's husband with several relatives. Seeing that the county magistrate's face was sinister, Fang Wang hid outside the door to eavesdrop on their conversation. She vaguely heard that the county magistrate said that the incident was so serious that everyone could not get rid of their relationship. The officials above were afraid of causing trouble and wanted to put all the crimes on him. Now he was forced to walk out of his way, only to abandon the general.

Fang Wangshi hid outside the door and watched the county magistrate's entourage. She covered her husband alive with a quilt, but she did not dare to make a sound. There are two young children in her family. She is afraid of reprisals. When the county magistrate left, he warned her, "if someone asks, he will say that your man was seriously injured by general chiyun and died when he went home." The county magistrate lost five liang of silver to Fang Wang.

Fang Wangshi was devastated: "although my husband deserved it, he lost his life just for a mere fifty-five liang of silver. The family is now broken, the minor children do not know how to raise in the future? This time I heard that the emperor was in charge, so the women dared to testify. "

The male witness is a scribe in the county government, and he also has a large number of account books and records between the county government and the state officials, even the court officials.

Yan Feng pinched it on the bridge of his nose with his fingers. He was exhausted. It seems that the underground organization of this case, like the old tree, has been deeply rooted in the court. I'm afraid it's not that easy to clean up. Yanfeng announced that the witness should be supervised by a special person for the time being, and the case should still be handled by the imperial envoy and supervised by the prime minister. He sent his courtiers back to the harem.

Yan Feng is in a low mood and walks towards Qixiang palace. Qi Shangming followed closely with several eunuchs and maids. Yan Feng let everyone wait outside the Qixiang palace. He walked into the Qixiang palace alone.

Qixiang palace has been deserted. The stone path of the courtyard is covered with fallen leaves, which is particularly depressed. The laughter of the past no longer exists. "Around the beam" quietly lies on the stone table in the pavilion, as usual, and beside, there is no graceful posture of the woman playing the piano.

Yan Feng walked past, and stroked the "twirling beam" tenderly, as if he was afraid of breaking a crystal dream. If it wasn't for this Qin, Yanfeng seemed to think that Murong Zhining was just an illusion in his mind, which had never appeared in his world.

Yan Feng sits alone on the steps, touching his thin lips with his hands. There is also a scabby little wound, and the fragrance between Murong Zhining's teeth remains. All of these prove that Murong Zhining is not an illusion he imagined, but once existed in his space, but he lost her and never found her again. Yan Feng buries his head in his knee and makes a very low moan. Even the emperor who is sitting in the world can't pass this little love pass.

When Yanfeng left, he took away the "detour beam". He ordered the Qixiang palace to be sealed off. Without his order, no one could step into it.

Chiyun Yuexuan is sitting alone in the meeting hall of the general's mansion. He has been refused to see Yanfeng these days. In addition to Yan Feng in the court, refused to see him alone, chiyun Yuexuan full of deep guilt for Yan Feng.

Deputy general Wu Siyuan went to chiyun Yuexuan in silence, stroked his shoulder and comforted him, saying: "the general doesn't have to blame himself too much. The emperor is just confused for a while, and will forget it in a few days. The emperor and the general are brothers and sisters, and will not hold a grudge against the general for this matter. "

Chiyun Yuexuan looks lost: "the emperor has a clear sense of public and private affairs. I don't worry that he will suppress me because of this. But the emperor won't treat me as a friend any more. " Wu Siyuan enlightened him and said: "since ancient times, only kings and ministers, emperors will not have friends, and generals do not have to take care of them. Is it time to work for the general and formally accept Murong girl? At the end of the day, I will know that the general has his own heart, but it is reasonable to take a concubine first. "

Chiu Yun Yuexuan made a fist at the table: "I don't even care to give her the name of my concubine, she doesn't deserve it. If it were not for her, the friendship between the emperor and the general would not have reached this stage. "Murong Zhi Ning and Cai sang sit side by side on the stone steps in front of the house. Murong Zhi Ning heads will lean on the mulberry shoulders and watch a sycamore tree in the corner. She touched the scene and touched the Biwu hanging on her chest with her hand. She took it off slowly and rubbed it in her hand.

Caisang didn't know how to comfort her: "are you thinking about that little brother again?" Murong Zhining's face was sad: "I have no right to think about him. I am ashamed of myself. I just want to return Biwu to him as soon as possible, and I have this wish. "

Murong Zhining thinks of the dark spots on Biwu in the moonlight. She looks at Biwu in the noon sun. There are indeed some black spots on Biwu. Those spots are distributed in the veins of Biwu's leaves. You can't see what it is. Murong Zhining moves Biwu close to her eyes and finds that there is a very fine line of characters in the veins of Biwu.

Murong Zhining once heard that there are experts in the folk who can carve characters on rice grains. To see the characters clearly, a special person must enlarge the characters by hand-made glass slices. Is there any mystery hidden in this jade? Think of this, Murong Zhining and some frustration, these with her what is the relationship? She just wanted to find her little brother and return Biwu to him. She and her little brother seem to be two vertical and horizontal lines of longitude and latitude, destined to have only a short meeting.

Murong Zhining had the idea of running away. She often had such an idea when she was in the palace. However, there was no chance for her to escape from the forbidden area. Now, however, there are not so many guards in the general's palace. She plans to take Caisang out and start their new life.

Murong Zhining and Caisang started to take action that night. Caisang packed a small package. They took advantage of the protection of the night and crept out of the door to the courtyard. The gate of the courtyard was not locked as it used to be. It opened with a slight push.

They hid in the shadow of the trees and approached the gate slowly. A group of guards on duty happened to pass by. Murong Zhining lowered the head of mulberry picking. They crouched down behind a row of neat bushes. As the bodyguard passed by, Murong Zhining heard Caisang's heartbeat. She touched Caisang's head and wanted her to relax, so she laughed and teased her in a low voice: "you are brave. If you are a thief, you must starve to death."

Caisang gasped and covered his chest: "you are brave, aren't you afraid?" Murong Zhining shook her head: "every time I'm afraid or in pain, I think of my mistress. As long as I think of her, I forget the fear and pain." Caisang nodded thoughtfully: "I think brother Daniel."

Murong Zhining and Caisang, under the cover of the tree shadow, successfully touched the gate of the general's mansion. Murong Zhining suppresses the ecstasy in her heart and slowly opens the huge bolt.

The gate of the general's mansion was opened by Murong Zhining, and they stepped out of the mansion with their feet raised.