The next day, Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan got up together. Pei Wenxuan got up first as usual. It was as if nothing had happened to the two of them. Pei Wenxuan served Li Rong and got dressed, and went to court with her.
After the two got into the carriage, Pei Wenxuan pointed out: "Did your Highness sleep well last night?"
Li Rong looked at Zhezi without looking up, and asked instead, "Why do you ask? The concubine didn't sleep well?"
Seeing Li Rong's calmness, Pei Wenxuan didn't know whether she really slept or fake slept last night.
Seeing that he was at a loss for words, Li Rong felt amused in her heart, so she changed the subject and asked, "Who else is still participating in me at the Censor's Desk recently?"
"Only the Chen family are left."
Seeing Li Rong's question, Pei Wenxuan didn't dare not answer, so he changed the subject with her and said, "It's Chen Guang's family from the Ministry of Household."
"He's going to die."
Li Rong put it lightly: "He handled the Qin family's case and the army's salary case at the same time, and the army's salary case was hand-in-hand. The Qin family's case, others can be said to be unintentional, but he saved the Qin family's death. Looking at it now, he is probably worried that the case of military pay will be uncovered, and he wants to take the opportunity to completely seal the Qin family, and he will die without any evidence in the future. "
"The Chen family actually knew that he couldn't be saved," Pei Wenxuan said flatly, "but Chen Guang's family refused to let him go. Chen Guang's mother came to the Censor's Desk several times and cried again in front of Chen Hui's Censor. Another trouble, Chen Hui is afraid that he can't stand his aunt's plea, so although the book is written, it's not a big deal, just leave it to me to deal with it."
Li Rong responded, she thought for a while, then smiled and said, "This case is over, and it's time to celebrate the New Year. The imperial court is going to take a seven-day leave. Have you thought about how to spend it?"
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan didn't expect Li Rong to say such a homely thing. He felt a little warm in his heart and replied, "If your Highness has any thoughts, you can tell Wei Chen, and Wei Chen will arrange it."
"I can't go to a far place," Li Rong said with regret. "After handling these two major cases, I'm afraid that a lot of people will die, so I won't leave Huajing."
"Your Highness is thinking about it."
Li Rong thought about it and sighed: "It's been a long time since I saw flowers, and it's been too long in winter."
"Does Your Highness want to enjoy plum blossoms?" Pei Wenxuan thought deeply, and Li Rong laughed, "Where can't you see plum blossoms? There are in the palace."
"Speaking of which," Pei Wenxuan put his hand on the table and got closer to Li Rong, "I have known His Highness for so many years, and I only know that His Highness loves peonies, but I don't know about other flowers and plants. Is His Highness cute?"
"I like a lot of them, peach blossoms, pears, orchids. They're all good. But my favorite ones are the more vulgar ones, peony, peony, and roses. I like them all."
Li Rong answered casually, and then she remembered: "What are you asking about?"
Saying that, she became vigilant: "Don't give me these, it's a waste of money, now is the time to spend money."
Pei Wenxuan felt a little guilty, turned his eyes to serve the tea, and said subconsciously, "Your Highness is thinking a lot, Wei Chen is reluctant to spend so much money to give His Highness these."
When the words fell, Pei Wenxuan immediately felt that he was cheap again, and hurriedly turned around and added: "If the price is right, I will still send it."
Li Rong didn't speak, her eyes were full of disgust. Pei Wenxuan was swept away by the look and wanted to say something to hate her, but she restrained herself and turned her head away.
Li Rong saw the expression on his face turned and turned, she couldn't help laughing, and poked him with her fan: "If you want to scold me, don't hold back."
"His Royal Highness is joking," Pei Wenxuan raised his head with a smile on his face, "His Royal Highness is Wei Chen's darling, why is Wei Chen willing to scold His Highness?"
As soon as Li Rong heard this, she showed an unhappy expression: "You talk about yourself, you just talk, why are you scolding people?"
Seeing Li Rong bury him, Pei Wenxuan sneered, without saying much, and went to see the book by himself.
After reading the book for a while, Pei Wenxuan remembered what he wanted to say at first. He wanted to talk about last night and ask Li Rong how he was feeling. It's embarrassing to ask again.
Pei Wenxuan couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He glanced at Li Rong, who was on the opposite side, and saw that he was drinking tea with a smile on his lips and looking at Zhezi. After thinking about the conversation just now, he was sure that Li Rong must have been awake last night. .
It was because I woke up that I didn't want to talk, so I deliberately diverted the topic.
Thinking of Li Rong's shyly turning around last night, and deliberately changing the subject today, Pei Wenxuan tasted something.
He suddenly found out that Li Rong is a person who can't be tit-for-tat, but reminding her so softly seems to have some effect.
In fact, Li Rong seems to have always had this kind of temperament, but it was more obvious when he was young. At that time, he dared to kiss her forcibly. She dared to hold his face and kiss him ten times. The arrogant attitude that can raise ten faces is very cute.
Now that he is older, it seems that his temperament is restrained, and he will not do anything like kissing her ten times, but his bones have not changed at all.
If he dares to kiss her forcibly, she will be able to take him as her face. What really makes her fail is precisely the intimacy that outweighs desire.
When kissing her, she could still hold his hand and refuse.
Kissing her forehead quietly, she blushed and dared not look at him, not even mentioning it.
Realizing this, Pei Wenxuan couldn't help laughing. He didn't ask any further, just lowered his head and looked at the book in his hand, but the smile couldn't fall.
Li Rong took a peek at Pei Wenxuan and saw that Pei Wenxuan lowered his head and smiled and did not speak. The young man under the candlelight had a fair face and a gentle expression.
Li Rong's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly looked away.
I didn't even dare to ask him why he was smiling.
The two went to court together, and after going to court, Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan separated and went straight to the Superintendent.
The Inspector Division was established on the outskirts of the city, and now there are two deputy chiefs, one is Su Ronghua who came over from the imperial court, and the other is Shangguan Ya appointed by Li Rong.
Li Rong came down from the court and just entered the yard of the inspector, when she heard Shangguanya's voice coming from inside: "I said, I didn't hit him, he made the wound himself, and this confession is also He admitted it himself."
"Miss Shangguan is joking, who is good at getting himself a whip?"
Su Ronghua's voice sounded, Li Rong stepped into the main hall, Shangguan Ya saw Li Rong coming, with a bit of joy on her face, and said happily, "Your Highness."
"I heard you guys are arguing," Li Rong walked to the table with a smile and looked down at the paper on the table. Li Rong picked up the paper and glanced at it, "Sir Su seems to say that this confession is useless?"
"Go back to Your Highness," Su Ronghua saluted and smiled, "According to the "Daxia Law", the gentry cannot be punished. Today, I went to visit Lord Chen. He had whiplashes on his body. I am afraid this confession was obtained by torture. "
"A whip to extort a confession by torture?" Shangguanya sneered, "Master Su is coaxing a child?"
"A whiplash is also whiplash," Li Rong said gently. "Since Mr. Su thinks this confession is inappropriate, then try it again. I will come in person."
As she said that, Li Rong put down her confession and led Shangguanya to turn her head to look at the prison and walked away, saying lightly, "Go."
Shangguan Ya got the words, and glanced at Su Ronghua coldly: "Master Su, let's go together, so as not to say that we beat Master Chen, the confession was extorted by torture, and the confession can't be used."
Su Ronghua saluted with a smile, raised her hand and said, "Please."
The three went to the prison together, and Li Rong had the "Master Chen" dragged out.
Li Rong smiled when she saw it, it was Chen Guang who had spoken to Pei Wenxuan in the morning.
This person came from a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River, and was the head of the warehouse department of the Ministry of Households.
The head of the warehouse department is in charge of warehousing. After ten years in this sensitive position, it is considered an old fried dough stick.
Li Rong looked at his confession and asked Shangguanya to ask him to sit down.
After Chen Guang sat down, Li Rong put down the confession and said with a smile, "Master Chen."
"Your Highness."
Chen Guang cupped his hands and said with a smile, "It's just right that your Highness came down, and Wei Chen has something to play on His Highness."
"Master Chen wants to sue Master Shangguan for abusing you by lynching you." Li Rong said directly, "Is that so?"
"Yeah," Chen Guang said with a surprised expression, "Your Highness already knows?"
Li Rong nodded: "I heard, I heard that Lord Chen was whipped in prison."
"Yeah," Chen Guang unbuttoned his shirt and hurriedly said, "Look, Your Highness, this wound is deep."
"I don't know when and where did Master Chen get this whip?"
"Just last night," Chen Guang said immediately, "When she tried me, look at the scar, it's fresh."
"Call a doctor over and show Master Chen the injury."
Li Rong raised her hand to greet the person next to her, then turned her head away, and said in a very good-natured manner, "Then Mr. Chen, I'm afraid your confession is useless, so let's record it again."
Chen Guang smiled and raised his hand: "His Royal Highness, please, with His Highness here, Wei Chen will be able to tell the truth."
"Sir Chen," Li Rong nodded, touched the confession, and said slowly, "By the way, you are also an old householder, so you should know a few things."
"What did your Highness say?"
"The first thing is that according to the law of the Great Ming Dynasty, officials who confess will have their punishment reduced, while officials who hide and do not confess will be punished by one rank."
"I know." Chen Guang nodded, "Then what?"
"The second thing is that your current sins add up to nothing more than loss of office, but if you add one more level of sins, it's a loss of life."
"Your Highness is serious," Chen Guang said with a smile, "not to mention that Wei Chen is innocent, even if he is guilty, he is not guilty of it, right? In the past, many ministers' crimes were much heavier than Wei Chen, but..."
"But they are being tried by the Criminal Bureau," Li Rong raised her eyes, slammed the table, and shouted, "This is the Inspector! Do you still think Ben Gong is playing with you?! Ben Gong tells you, it's you If you don't do it, I promise that you won't be able to get out of your way in the market!"
Chen Guang's face changed dramatically, Li Rong raised his hand and grabbed a stack of confessions: "Why do you think I want you to confess? It's just to save your family's face, otherwise," Li Rong raised her head and sneered. With a loud voice, "Master Chen, think about Master Wang who was killed by an unjust soul."
Chen Guang stopped talking, Su Ronghua coughed lightly: "Your Highness, Lord Chen is old after all, he..."
"Is it your turn to speak here?"
Li Rong raised her eyes and said coldly, "Bengong isn't dead. Igong won't let you speak. What did you say?"
"Offend His Highness again," Shangguanya laughed, "but I'll be slapped."
Su Ronghua glanced at Shangguanya coldly, Shangguanya sneered and looked away.
Li Rong waited for a while, quickly read the confession, and then said casually: "When you were in charge of the warehouse department, how much food did you send to Huangping County?"
Before Chen Guang could speak, Li Rong answered "Three thousand" by herself.
Chen Guang didn't look very good, Li Rong frowned, turned a few pages, raised her hand and threw the confession, stood up and said, "Aren't everyone else recruited? Su Lin has already been recruited, why still Do you have to have a confession from Lord Chen? It's just nonsense!"
Hearing this, Chen Guang hurriedly looked at Su Ronghua, Su Ronghua was about to say something, but Shangguanya blocked Chen Guang's sight and said with a smile, "Master Su talks a lot today?"
Su Ronghua's face was a little ugly. Li Rong led the people out. Halfway through, Chen Guang suddenly stopped her: "Wait, Your Highness."
Li Rong paused and turned his head. Chen Guang's face was pale, and he said anxiously, "Your Highness, if I recruit, can Your Highness give me a way to survive?"
"It depends on what you recruit, if you recruit nothing new..."
Li Rong smiled: "I don't like people who waste my time."
"I have irrefutable evidence." Chen Guang said anxiously, "Your Highness, what do you have now are confessions? I have evidence!"
Li Rong folded back, sat down and said, "Let's talk."
As she said that, Li Rong turned her head again and looked at Su Ronghua: "Master Su, the noble children are involved, why don't you avoid it?"
Su Ronghua didn't speak, he stared at Chen Guang, Chen Guang didn't dare to look at him, Shangguanya raised his hand and said, "Master Su, please."
Chen Guang did have iron-clad evidence that Su Lin of the Su family was considered a distant family member of the Su family, and it was not a big relationship, but the Su family had a noble family, and anyone who came out was not a small person.
This Su Lin was in the Ministry of War, in fact, it was helping to open a pass, but when he was investigated, his demotion was inevitable.
Li Rong quietly listened to him confessing everything, signed it, and then she stood up, Chen Guang said eagerly: "Your Highness, my sin..."
"Wait for the sentence." Li Rong's voice was flat, "How to write the law, this palace will not favor favoritism."
Chen Guang didn't look very good, but he lowered his voice and continued to ask: "Your Highness, you are young and you have just entered the court, so you don't know how difficult it is. When everyone is investigated, they are all relatives, and you can't take me seriously..."
"Why not?" Li Rong looked up at him and laughed lightly, "Master Chen thinks, don't I?"
"His Royal Highness," Chen Guang frowned, "If you really killed me, how would you explain to the family?"
"When you're doing things," Li Rong said coldly, "Have you ever thought about giving an explanation to the soldiers who died in the border battle?"
"That's because they are too greedy!" Chen Guang said angrily, as if extremely dissatisfied. Li Rong glanced at him coldly and said, "You all tell me this again, are you bothered?"
After speaking, Li Rong walked out. After a few steps, Chen Guang couldn't control his emotions: "Your Highness, you are courting death for yourself!"
Li Rong paused, she turned her head and sneered: "I'm afraid you are courting death!"
After she finished speaking, she walked out the door. When she got to the door, Shangguanya greeted her. Li Rong glanced at Su Ronghua and couldn't help but ask, "Where's the person?"
"The tip off is gone."
Shangguanya said, took the confession from Li Rong, and praised: "His Royal Highness, I really admire you, you said that you knew that the grain sent from his warehouse was three thousand stone, and you even knew that he was involved. Su Lin? How did you know that?"
"Three thousand stones is the result calculated by Pei Wenxuan after statistics along the way. As for Su Lin..."
Li Rong didn't say anything.
That was in the last life, Su Rongqing once told her.
Su Lin was involved in a case concerning the Northwest Army's salaries, and the Su family later dealt with him internally.
With Su Ronghua here, Chen Guang couldn't believe that he was confessed by others, unless he gave him more than normal details. Exploding Su Lin and Sanqianshi, Chen Guang would guess that he was sold, and Su Ronghua kept lying to him, just hoping that he would not confess Su Lin.
As long as Chen Guang has doubts about Su Ronghua, it is easy to collapse.
Li Rong thought of what Su Rongqing told her in her last life, she was a little tired for a while, and didn't say much. After a while, she instructed: "Go and find out who was on duty last night, he couldn't have been whipped by himself. The person finds out and tells that person to either whip more or whip himself. When the whipping is over, kick the person out."
Shangguan Ya responded, and Li Rong looked at the confession in her hand and said, "Who is left now?"
Shangguan Ya reported a few names, Li Rong nodded and said directly: "Let's go over together."
Li Rong and Shangguanya were busy dealing with the remaining prisoners who had not confessed. In the afternoon, the guard suddenly hurried in from outside and said anxiously, "Your Highness, there is something."
Li Rong sat on a chair, holding tea, and moved her gaze to the guard's hand.
The guard held a kite in his hand, and the word "stop" was written in blood red on the kite.
Seeing the kite, Shangguanya changed her face and said coldly, "Who did it?"
"I don't know," the guard said on his knees. "Just now, the kite suddenly fell into the yard. The subordinates have already sent people to arrest them, but they can't be caught."
Shangguanya did not speak with a cold face, as if she wanted to scold people, but she knew that this kind of thing was really hard to investigate. She looked back at Li Rong, Li Rong was holding tea, and after thinking for a while, she laughed: "I have no other way, so I pretended to be a ghost. When I go back, bring a few more people, just let them go."
After Li Rong finished speaking, she took a sip of tea, put the teacup on the table, turned to look at the official who was being interrogated, and continued to work.
She was never afraid of assassination. She had lived like this all her life in her previous life, and she was used to it.
After all, Shangguanya had just encountered this kind of thing. She paused for a moment, calmed down, and finally calmed down.
The two were busy all the way until midnight, and Pei Wenxuan finally finished his own business. He came out of the palace, got on the carriage, and went to the princess' mansion.
Pei Wenxuan was a little tired. He leaned against the wall of the carriage and closed his eyes. He had little time to rest, so he had to take all the time he could to rest.
Halfway through the carriage, it stopped suddenly. Pei Wenxuan put his arms together and slowly opened his eyes. Tong Ye rolled up the curtains and said in a low voice, "My lord, I stopped the street and sued the imperial court."
Pei Wenxuan frowned. As a censor, it is indeed a common thing to receive an imperial letter. He nodded and said tiredly, "Bring the letter up."
Tong Ye responded, jumped out of the carriage, and walked to the child who stopped the street and complained to the emperor.
However, at that moment, the arrows flew out from the crowd and fell directly into Pei Wenxuan's carriage from the window.
At the same time, Yinjian opened the curtain of the car and rushed in. Pei Wenxuan looked at the long sword in front of him with cold eyes. Pei Wenxuan raised his hand and grabbed the sword hidden under the position. Taking a step forward on the waist, a sword pierced through the opponent's abdomen. The man slashed at him desperately, and Pei Wenxuan tried his best to push him out, but the sword edge still slashed across his arm, and blood spread instantly.
Although Pei Wenxuan seems to only bring a child industry, but in fact, his hands are everywhere in secret. As soon as the other party makes a move, Pei Wenxuan's people rush up. Except for this fish who slipped through the net, everyone else was stopped outside. , In no time, the murderers were restrained.
Tong Ye hurriedly lifted the curtain and came in, holding the sword: "Young Master, are you alright?"
Pei Wenxuan covered the wound on his hand and didn't say much. He stepped out of the carriage. Everyone else was already dead. Only the child who first complained to the emperor was left. He went directly to the child, but when the child saw Pei Wen Xuan came and gritted his teeth, but he really broke free from the guard's control and rushed towards Pei Wenxuan. Fortunately, the guard's reaction was very fast, and he caught up with him with a sword.
Pei Wenxuan said in shock: "Slow..."
Before the words were finished, the child was already dead. The guard squatted down, glanced at his mouth very quickly, then raised his head and said, "Sir, it's a dwarf."
The killers on the rivers and lakes like to use training dwarfs as killers. These people look like children, it is easy for people to relax their vigilance, but in terms of strength and action, they are authentic adults.
Pei Wenxuan's face was a little ugly. After staring at the killer for a while, he could only say: "Go check, and send more people to protect His Highness."
"Yes."
The guards responded, and immediately rushed to inform Li Rong.
However, Li Rong's informant went to the Supervision Department one step earlier. Li Rong just walked out of the Supervision Department and was wiping her hands with a hot handkerchief, talking to Shangguanya about the follow-up matters.
As soon as the two walked out of the lobby, they heard Jinglan walk in and said anxiously, "Your Highness, it's not good."
Li Rong raised her eyes, and Jing Lan hurriedly said, "The concubine was assassinated."
Hearing this, Li Rong suddenly opened her eyes.
Shangguanya also showed a look of shock, and then she reacted immediately and said hurriedly: "Don't panic, Your Highness, you go back to the palace to see the concubine first, I will check."
Li Rong calmed down, rushed out immediately, pulled the horse and turned on the horse, and said loudly: "Dig the people out for me, I'm going to slaughter them!"
The author has something to say: [Small Theater]
Pei's family: "Pei Wenxuan, we are going to bully you."
Pei Wenxuan: "I have a wife."
Boss: "Pei Wenxuan, officialdom is not easy, please sigh."
Pei Wenxuan: "I have a wife."
Killer: "Pei Wenxuan, we are going to kill you."
Pei Wenxuan: "I have a wife."
Everyone: "Can you say anything else besides this sentence?"
Pei Wenxuan: "You run away, my wife is here."