Fu Mingrui suddenly became curious. Once he was curious, he had to find the answer immediately, so he stood up impatiently: "Prepare the ladder." Instead of guessing here, it is better to ask directly.
Zhao Chengwangquan immediately winked at him ambiguously. They were already used to Fu Mingrui's climbing walls.
Zhao Cheng immediately said, "Sir, if you want to see Miss Lian, just say so. You are not like a man if you always make excuses."
Fu Mingrui paused, and her beautiful face immediately flushed. Is Zhao Cheng a little bit arrogant recently? How dare he make fun of him for not being a man!
"That's right, sir. Men in the capital should be manly! You should just go find Miss Lian and ask her out to play. Oh, it's almost Mid-Autumn Festival! What a great opportunity!" Wang Quan also cheered on the side, "What do you think of climbing the wall every day?"
Fu Mingrui lowered his flushed face and said, "Are you guys too idle? Go get the ladder!"
Zhao Cheng and Wang Quan immediately tightened their gazes, lowered their heads and suppressed their laughter: "Yes!"
Just as Zhao Chengwang Quan was about to go out, Li Lidao hurried in, looking a little nervous: "Sir, Lord Lin, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is here to report a case." He deliberately lowered his voice.
"What?!" Fu Mingrui was surprised. A third-rank official suddenly came to report the case. This matter was of no trivial matter!
Look, even Zhao Cheng and Wang Quan looked nervous.
Moreover, everyone knew that Lord Lin, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was concurrently serving as the Minister of Revenue. It was only a matter of time before he became the Minister of Revenue. The fact that the Minister of Revenue suddenly came to the Eight Gates to report a case must mean something big had happened.
The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is coming up, and the security of the capital cannot be compromised! Not to mention that it was the future Minister of Revenue who came to report the case!
Fu Mingsu's brows knitted together and he asked Li Li, "Master Lin, what case do you want to report?"
Li Lidao's face was solemn: "Master Lin didn't say anything, he just said he wanted to see you."
This is a big deal. Fu Mingsu was already worried and immediately sat back in his seat: "Please come in!"
"Yes!" Li Lidao immediately went out to invite Lin Zhengying.
King Cheng of Zhao looked at each other and nodded, then left the study and stood guard at the door, not allowing anyone to approach.
Led by Li Lidao, Lin Zhengying strode into the study. Li Lidao then closed the study door and stood outside.
"Lord Lin." Fu Mingrui stood up to greet him.
Lin Zhengying was also humble and polite: "Master Fu, thank you for your help."
Fu Mingrui asked Lin Zhengying to sit down, and said sternly, "What are you talking about, Lord Lin? Protecting the security of the capital has always been the primary mission of our Eight Gates. I wonder what case Lord Lin wants to report?"
Lin Zhengying frowned, showing his worry: "Doctor Wang Yi from our company has been missing for five days. This is really too weird."
Fu Mingrui was shocked. A doctor from the Ministry of Revenue had suddenly disappeared for five days?! Five days was indeed a long time for an adult, especially an official.
"The Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet is coming soon. If the emperor knew that a doctor from our Ministry of Revenue has been missing for five days, I would definitely be punished. So, Lord Fu has to find out the truth." Lin Zhengying bowed to Fu Mingrui again. Obviously, his official rank was higher than Fu Mingrui, but like the right prime minister Lin Jingzhi, he did not put on airs.
Fu Mingrui's face straightened: "Master Lin, do you know anything about this Master Wang?"
Lin Zhengying shook his head: "I don't know Lord Wang very well. This Lord Wang Yi is..." Lin Zhengying raised his eyes to look at Fu Mingrui, "He was recommended by Lord Zhang Lidong."
Zhang Lidong...
Fu Mingrui's eyes flickered and he looked aside. Although he never asked about family affairs, he had heard about it. This Zhang Lidong was his father's right-hand man. In other words, this Wang Yi was his father's man.
"There are many possibilities for officials to go missing, so please keep a low profile, Master Fu." Lin Zhengying frowned and hinted, "There were officials who were absent from work for seven days before, and ended up living in a brothel, so..." Lin Zhengying stopped talking here, stood up and bowed again, "I'll have to trouble Master Fu this time."
"Lord Lin, your words are too polite." Fu Mingrui escorted Lin Zhengying out the door, and Li Lidao immediately came forward and escorted Lin Zhengying out as well.
Zhao Cheng and Wang Quan stepped forward: "Sir."
Fu Mingrui's face was gloomy: "Go to the home of Mr. Wang Yi, the doctor of the Ministry of Revenue!"
"Yes!" The two looked at each other. Who is Wang Yi? To be honest, there are so many officials in the capital. Except for some high-ranking officials, other officials in the department, such as Zhao Cheng and Wang Quan, usually only know the existence of this official when some official gets into trouble.
Wang Yi's home is also in the southeast area, it is a quadrangle courtyard, which is the configuration of the court for officials of their rank. Wang Yi went to Beijing this time, because the residence arranged by the court was small, so the old and young in his family were still in the big house in his hometown. In addition to the old slave he trusted, he also had a beautiful concubine with him.
Because when officials in the capital gathered together, it was not customary to bring their wives, but it was popular to bring beautiful concubines. If an official of a higher rank took a fancy to a woman, he could directly give her a concubine as a gift to bring them closer.
In the Qian Dynasty, a concubine was equivalent to an object, a kind of sexual bribe.
Zhang Lidong also advised him not to rush to buy a big house when he first arrived in Beijing and to be more low-key. He listened to his advice and only chose his most beautiful concubine to go to Beijing.
When Fu Mingrui brought people to Wang Yi's house, the concubine was crying.
Her master suddenly disappeared, and she was a concubine, so she was at a loss and didn't know what to do. The old servant in the family had already taken a letter back to Qinzhou to inform Wang Yi's wife, but it would take at least ten days to come back and forth.
“Wu~~~ My Lord... My Lord... Where on earth have you been... Wu~~~~” The concubine Yin Yin was crying in the hall, and the maid beside her didn't know how to comfort her.
The servant was cleaning the yard when he saw the people from the Eight Gates coming and hurried to greet them.
"grown ups!"
Hearing the servant calling the master, Yin Yin thought it was Wang Yi who came back, and immediately went out to greet him: "Master! Master! Where have you been~~~~" She ran out and saw that it was a handsome and elegant stranger boy. She immediately stopped in her tracks, stunned, and forgot to cry. Instead, her face turned red.
Fu Mingrui looked at the people in the courtyard with a gloomy face: "I am Fu Mingrui, the leader of the Eight Gates, and I am here to investigate the disappearance of Doctor Wang Yi. Are you Doctor Wang Yi's servants?"
After all, the old servant had seen the world, so he immediately asked everyone to kneel down and kowtowed in front of Fu Mingrui: "Yes, that is my master's Sixth Wife, and we are all servants brought by the master. Please come in, sir." The old servant welcomed Fu Mingrui into the hall and ordered a maid to pour tea.
Yinyin was still in a daze in the courtyard. As a concubine, she had not seen many men. The men she had seen with Wang Yi were middle-aged officials with big bellies and shining foreheads like Wang Yi. Where had she seen such a handsome and heroic young official? At this moment, she was no longer panicked. She only felt her heart beating like a deer, and her heart was stirring. (To be continued)