Shopkeeper Tang smiled bitterly. Seeing his wife bringing in a hot towel, he quickly took it and covered his face with it. His whole body was steaming and he shivered comfortably. He became much more sober. He let out a long breath and threw the towel aside. Then he reminded his brother: "You should use your brain. If it's just an ordinary meeting, why would we be needed? Miss Su means that the Xu family should take the initiative to find her..."
Mr. Tang was still confused, not knowing what Su Yao was up to, but he knew one thing, his brother was right, Su Yao was their only lifeline, so of course they had to hold on tightly. Now that they had something to do, it was naturally the best thing to do. Only when you get things done well can you hope that they will help you.
He wiped his face, and when he saw his sister-in-law go out, he lowered his voice and said, "Brother, tell me, what do you want me to do?"
Shopkeeper Tang lowered his head and paced around the room for a long time before he waved for his brother to come over. He said in a very soft voice, "Young Master Xu is a student studying at the Imperial Academy. He must attend literary gatherings on the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month. So, you can perform in front of him..."
Mr. Tang opened his eyes wide when he heard this, and nodded hurriedly as he listened. It took him a while to understand what was said, and he hurried out to do his work.
Shopkeeper Tang perked up again, took out a box from the secret room behind a painting hanging on the wall, pulled out a few things and smiled bitterly - these things were taken from Lei Yun when he was working for him, and now they were being used to work for Su Yao. He really didn't know how Lei Yun would feel if he knew about this.
Lei Yun didn't have the energy to think about so much at this moment. The environment in the office of the Censorate was naturally much better than the prisons of the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple, but he was a third-rank minister, how could he have lived such a hard life? He hadn't closed his eyes for as long as he had been here. Now he had lost a lot of weight and there was a thick layer of bruises under his eyes.
He sat there silently, ignoring Du Ce who came in, and moved to the side.
Du Ce was not angry, he just laughed and said, "Master Lei, you are also a senior official, you should understand our difficulties. Now that it has come to this, why don't you cooperate and spit out something, at least we can report to the task, don't you think?"
The person who came in with him was the Censor Pang Feng. Normally, the Censorate would try and record each official one by one. After hearing what Du Ce said, he glanced at Lei Yun, and seeing that Lei Yun was still unmoved, he relaxed a little without leaving a trace.
"If you believe I'm guilty, then show me the evidence." Lei Yun was actually already dry-mouthed, but he still looked righteous and smiled at Du Ce: "As for myself, I have nothing to say!"
Du Ce was immediately a little angry. Lei Yun was not moved by any persuasion. He had already spent a lot of time on this case, and the superiors were pressing him. If he couldn't handle this matter well, how could he be sent to Yunnan as a governor next year? Thinking of this, he sneered, "Lord Lei wants evidence, and that golden jade burial suit is the evidence! What is that thing? How could it appear on your son? You can't explain it! Don't think that you can drag it out like this. The emperor is furious. If you are smart, you might as well explain the matter as soon as possible. We can both feel relieved and avoid making things difficult for each other. Don't you think so?"
Lei Yun looked at him blankly, as if he had thought of something. Suddenly, a clerk came in from outside and whispered something in Du Ce's ear. Du Ce's face suddenly changed. He patted Pang Feng, who had been silent, and said, "You watch first. I'll be back in a while."
Pang Feng agreed with a smile, and when he left, he pulled a stool over and sat down, then called out to Master Lei with a sullen face, "Someone outside asked me to bring you a message!"
Lei Yun, who had been like a wooden sculpture, finally reacted. His dull eyes suddenly lit up and he immediately became energetic: "I knew it... What do you mean!?"
Seeing him so excited, Pang Feng hesitated for a moment before coughing a few times: "I'm asking you outside, how can you be so careless? How did it come to this?"
Talking about this matter, Lei Yun was full of anger again and had nowhere to vent. He had already sent a message to Xu Chong, explaining that the golden jade burial suit was obtained from the Shen family. However, at that time, the situation was at its peak and the Censorate was keeping a close eye on him, so he could not say anything.
Now he told the story all over again: "It is said that the ancestors of the Shen family were marquises, so it is not surprising that they have the golden jade burial garment, but the golden jade burial garment is said to be from the Holy Majesty's Nuku... Then how could the Shen family get such a thing?! This is what I fell into! There must be someone behind the Shen family who is plotting against me, and passed the thing to me through the Shen family and then attacked me!"
This is a case of the old man drinking instead of drinking.
His thundercloud was just the chicken used to kill an example to scare the monkeys, and the bait used to prepare for the long-term fishing for the big fish.
Lei Yun pointed this out without hesitation, staring at Pang Feng gloomily: "I am just taking the blame for someone else. You should all understand that. Are you really going to let me fend for myself?"
Pang Feng did not avoid his gaze, but met his gaze and smiled faintly: "Although Lord Lei is not an extortionate, what you have gained in these years is enough, right? But you are still greedy. If you have a sense of propriety, how can you have the opportunity to take the blame for others? You are a sensible person, I will not beat around the bush with you, you are holding on to it over there, and you are not going to let go here..."
Lei Yun's expression suddenly changed.
But before he could continue his outburst, Pang Feng interrupted him, "My lord, listen to me first! This time we have made a big mess, and it has directly reached the emperor. The emperor is furious, and millions of people will die. No matter how hard we try to rescue you, we can't protect you. You know that this thing was used by the former deposed emperor to humiliate the emperor. If it falls into your hands, it will only remind the emperor of that past. How can the emperor let you go? However, outsiders will not really watch you being killed. You only have a pair of children, who are still imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice. How can they have the same determination as you? You are here, and we are protecting you, but they... No one knows better than you how chaotic the prison is. Lord Lei, even if you are thinking about the children, you should think twice!"