In March, spring is warm and flowers are blooming, full of vitality.
Shi Boyin was executed at such a time back then.
But now this March, the emperor made a fuss about the night raid on the restaurant at home, and it happened that some unsettling things happened in the capital, so the emperor lost his temper when he came to the court, saying that he had been enthroned for three days. Over the past few years, the country has been safe and peaceful, but the recent evils have happened one after another. The officials must have been slack and not diligent, so they ordered the Ministry of Justice to investigate and crack down on all cases that have not been tried in the past. The prefectures and counties must strictly handle all major cases and report them to the imperial court.
When the emperor issued Long Wei, those indolent and inattentive officials were really taken aback, and they quickly got up to deal with it.
It's easy for the government to handle. Serious and important cases have a backlog of cases, and if they can't be solved, they can be reported to the Ministry of Punishment. The Ministry of Punishment was in a hurry. Ding Sheng was originally a person who looked after people and handled affairs. Many things were under pressure before, and he protected others. If he did it in a muddle-headed way, it was naturally in his interest. Now the emperor suddenly put on Long Wei, which caught him off guard. This added a lot of things for nothing, so he had to stay in the Ministry of Justice every day, grabbing his subordinates and factions to make up for the east wall and the west wall.
In fact, he had thought of countermeasures for every thing he dared to do at the beginning, and some of them were buried quite cleanly. It's just that no matter how thorough the handling is, they won't be able to stand being pulled out for interrogation at the same time. This time, those who went up to the court seemed to have made an appointment, and they were all exploring his weaknesses and weaknesses. And no matter how capable he is, if he can tie a single thing beautifully, it will be difficult to arrange all the things in a string. In addition, the private spies raised by the Ministry of Punishment had accidents one after another, which made him a headache.
Ding Sheng started deploying his own spies a long time ago, and it seems that he violated the law and raised a private soldier. But his move was not for treason, but only to protect his rights. The foundation of the current dynasty is too deep for him to move, so he just needs to be stable as his minister of punishment. Just a minister, he can also turn the clouds upside down.
He can know every movement in the rivers and lakes and in the court, and he wants to destroy every person and thing that is not good for him. His faction is getting more and more stable, and his people are getting more and more. Over the years, there has never been a major mistake.
He even thought of many countermeasures for himself in advance.
One of them is that he has prepared many records of private agents who have made great contributions to the court. There are several volumes in the files alone. If it could be done, the imperial court would surely suffer a lot of losses, and he was the only one who shouldered the blame of the world and still devoted himself to the imperial court.
And another countermeasure is, if the way of uncovering the matter is not suitable for calling himself a hero, then he will push Yun Qingxian out. Since Yun Qingxian became his son-in-law, he has handled all these private detective affairs. It's not just Yun Qingxian, it takes several for the dead ghost to be convincing. He has thought about all these.
Ding Sheng was worried about the day when he would be exposed. Although he had great confidence in these spies, he also knew that there was no impenetrable wall in this world, and he was prepared to wait for this day.
The day when Dong Chuang's incident happened finally came, but the result was completely different from Ding Sheng's imagination.
He thought that there would be hostile courtiers who would expose him in court and sue the emperor.
But no. All is very peaceful.
But his spies were quietly killed one by one.
This made Ding Sheng very angry. This is clearly a provocation, as if to say to him: I know your scandal, but I won't do it as you want, so you feel uncomfortable
Ding Sheng felt very uncomfortable, because the opponent's methods made him very passive. He can't use his power on the surface to deal with this. It's one thing to be exposed, but it's another thing not to tell himself.
Ding Sheng felt that this would not be done by the courtiers, because doing so would not benefit them. Moreover, he thought for a while, none of his opponents in court had such power in the arena.
While Ding Sheng was desperately trying to get out of the predicament in front of him, there was another person who was also thinking about it.
That was Ding Yanxiang.
During these days, the Ministry of Criminal Justice was in a hurry, and Yun Qingxian often stayed in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and when he returned home, he looked haggard and frowned. She asked him what happened, he only said that the emperor had ordered the investigation of all cases to be stepped up, and he was a little tired.
But Ding Yanxiang was shrewd, she knew that a strict investigation of the criminal case would not make her father-in-law go through like this, and he never did this in the past, no matter how difficult or dangerous the case was. After careful questioning, he heard that there was a private spy in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and this matter was known to others, and there might be trouble in a few days.
Yun Qingxian didn't go any further, but Ding Yanxiang understood. Ding Sheng always asked Yun Qingxian to do disgraceful things. This time, if something happened to Dongchuang, Yun Qingxian would be the first one to go out and take the blame.
Ding Yanxiang was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, but Yun Qingxian persuaded her, saying that Ding Sheng never did anything he was not sure of, and he must be ready to do it later. Until the last step, naturally there will be no substitute for the dead ghost.
"Later?"
"It means that he must have prepared evidence to get rid of the crime, such as the use of these private detectives for loyalty, and what important things these private detectives have done to the court and the emperor, etc. But I have searched in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and there is no evidence. Those dossiers."
"Of course he won't put these in the criminal department, they must be at home." Ding Yanxiang gritted her teeth, "I'll go back to my mother's house tomorrow and look for it."
On the second day, Ding Yanxiang went back to her mother's house while Ding Sheng was busy at the Ministry of Criminal Justice again.
Back at Ding's mansion, seeing Ding Yanshan embroidering handkerchiefs, Ding Yanxiang had a good laugh, and said that this younger sister is really calm and sensible now, and she is so calm that she can become a nunhong. The two sisters talked for a while, and had lunch together, then Ding Yanxiang said that she was tired and wanted to go back to her room to sleep for a while.
Ding Yanshan also went back to her room for a lunch break, but she couldn't sleep. Mr. Zhou's family met her by chance a few times, and he sent a message yesterday, wanting to ask her to go swimming in the lake. Ding Yanshan was troubled by this matter. She neither liked nor disliked Mr. Zhou, but she knew that she had a bad reputation and she was not too young. If she dragged on, no one would really want her.
Ding Yanshan was upset, so she simply got up and went to the garden. As she walked, remembering that when she found out in the yard that the two fake arresters were the guards of Ding's residence, she sighed and felt very worried. She didn't know how others felt when they found out that her father had sacrificed her daughter for a certain purpose. Anyway, she was afraid, inferior, angry and helpless. But what can she do? She could only pay attention all the time, hoping that if Tian Tan heard that her father was going to be unfavorable to Ju Mu'er, she would be able to remind her.
Ding Yanshan was standing in a remote corner in a daze when she suddenly saw Ding Yanxiang hurrying past. Ding Yanshan wanted to call her, but was overwhelmed by the expression on her face. She subconsciously followed Ding Yanxiang and saw her sneaking into Ding Sheng's study.
Ding Sheng's study is a forbidden area in Ding's residence, no one can enter unless Ding Sheng asks. Even when Yun Qingxian came, he always discussed matters in the side hall, and rarely had the opportunity to enter the study. But Ding Yanxiang actually broke in while everyone was taking a nap at noon, why
Ding Yanshan waited for a long time, but Ding Yanxiang did not come out. While she was wondering, she suddenly saw a young guard rushing to the door of the study. Ding Yanshan was startled, and was panicking about her sister being discovered, when she saw the guard shouting softly: "Miss, the guards of the inspectorate have changed their guards, and they are coming this way."
Soon Ding Yanxiang came out and gave the guard a piece of silver. The two quickly dispersed, each going their own way, and the quietness returned to the front of the study.
Ding Yanshan was a little dazed, although she was also a young lady, and she had no shortage of shouting and shouting at the servants in the mansion, but she never thought that she could still bribe her father's guards. What can be bought for? What are you doing in the study
Ding Yanshan waited for the patrolling guards to pass by, and then came out from a remote corner. She went directly to Ding Yanxiang's residence. Although Ding Yanxiang is married, the Ding residence still retains her house.
When Ding Yanshan passed by, the guard maid said that the eldest lady was still taking a nap. Ding Yanshan ignored her, she went into Ding Yanxiang's room. Ding Yanxiang was sitting by the bed and getting dressed, when she saw Ding Yanshan coming in, she smiled: "I heard your voice, it's been a while, and it's time to get up, otherwise mother will say that I have no one to go back to my mother's house." Sample."
Ding Yanshan looked at her sister, and suddenly felt that she was strange, just like she felt that her father was strange when she saw the two guards.
"What's wrong with you, why are you unhappy?"
"I..." Ding Yanshan met her sister's smiling face, and finally laughed, "I want to ask my sister to help me with an idea. Someone wants to invite me to swim in the lake, and I'm hesitating whether to go or not."
"Hey, which family is it?" Ding Yanxiang dressed, and sat down with her sister, as if she was very interested in this topic. Ding Yanshan tried her best to maintain a smile, she knew she had to smile, she had to act like her sister, pretending nothing happened.
She remembered that Ju Mu'er had told her that she had to be calm and pretend to be stupid. She was right.
The days passed while everyone was fighting openly and secretly.
In April, the brand new home wine shop was repaired and reopened. And the Ministry of Punishment continues to be battered.
In May, Ya Lili visited the capital in a private capacity and found a few piano friends to discuss piano skills. One of them was Ju Muer, the second wife of the Dragon Mansion.
This month, the emperor clearly expressed his dissatisfaction with the recent performance of the Ministry of punishment. The hostile factions took advantage of the chaos and uncovered several scandals in which the Ministry of Criminal Justice handled sloppy cases in the past and made people die unjustly. For a while, all the ministers were indignant at the unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and they appealed to express their feelings one after another. They all felt that the work of the Ministry of Punishment had humiliated the emperor. The emperor was deceived and deceived by the incompetent Ministry of Justice, and for a while he seemed to be the biggest sufferer.
In June, it was finally revealed that Ding Sheng had secretly raised a secret agent. It was Yun Qingxian who killed his relatives righteously, and led more than a dozen loyal officials from the Ministry of Punishment to reveal the secret agent. The dossier reported by Yun Qingxian recorded in detail the process of Ding Sheng's organization, training and deployment of spies, as well as the witnesses of several spies. Everything was so clear that Ding Sheng couldn't argue with it. As for all the things that Yun Qingxian handled, he explained that because he obeyed the orders of Yu Ding Sheng, he didn't know that these spies were privately raised and violated the law, so he led the spies to do many things for the court, and finally found out The truth, but repeated persuasion was ineffective, so he had to collect evidence and report it to the court.
Ding Sheng has a bad reputation in the court, but Yun Qingxian is a serious and well-behaved person. In terms of reputation, this son-in-law is many times better than his father-in-law. Coupled with the fact that he was overturned by the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and was involved in many scandals and evils, Ding Sheng was exhausted in the end. He was dismissed from his official position and put in a criminal prison. He will be convicted after investigation.
In the eventful autumn, people are in panic. Yun Qingxian solved two old cases in the chaos, which made the Ministry of Punishment proud. The position of Minister of the Ministry of Punishment was vacant. Although he was not appointed as the post, everyone in the Ministry of Punishment had already followed his example.
The sky in Ding's mansion has collapsed.
Ding Yanshan seems to know how it all happened. She was silent, calmer than other people in the Ding residence.
Ding Yanxiang will never return to her natal family. And Yun Qingxian brought people to Ding's mansion to copy Ding Sheng's study and various places in the courtyard. When Mrs. Ding scolded him, he just said lightly: "I'm just doing it first."
Ding Yanshan heard this clearly from the side, her heart trembled. After staying for a while, when the wind was not so loud, she quietly went to Longfu, and she came to warn Ju Muer and Long Er to be careful in everything. Although she didn't know what would happen, she still reminded them to be careful.
It's July.
Long Er doesn't like July very much, the last time he was tricked was in July.
Yun Qingxian is busy every day and has no time to spare. Ding Yanxiang stayed alone in the empty room, and she was in a good mood. Because she knew that the most dangerous level had passed. No matter how busy Xianggong is now, his official career is bright, and the future is promising. If the husband can't accompany him, she will have fun by herself. So that day, she took her maid to the street to buy makeup and new clothes, but when she was resting and drinking tea, she heard a young couple bickering next to her.
The content of the bickering was actually Ju Muer.
Ding Yanxiang looked sideways, she recognized the man in the couple, he was Ju Muer's childhood sweetheart Chen Liangze, and the one who scolded him in a low voice because he cared about Ju Muer was probably his wife Liu Yu.
This scolding thing is very boring, but Chen Liangze sent fruit to Old Man Ju, and visited him.
Ding Yanxiang looked at Chen Liushi's fierce look, and couldn't help sneering, the face of a jealous woman is really ugly.
That Liu Yu scolded a few unpleasant words, seemed to be furious, and flung her sleeves away. Chen Liangze followed, and the two walked further and further apart.
Ding Yanxiang looked at the backs of the two and silently wrote them down.
Ding Yanxiang lives leisurely, but Ding Yanshan is with her mother struggling to support the predicament of her father's downfall and the disappearance of her family. If the disaster of being hijacked by robbers made her mature, then her father's dismissal from office and imprisonment made her stronger overnight.
She comforted her mother, stopped her aunts and wives' shouting, discussed the follow-up of the matter with her grandfather, dealt with all kinds of people who came to inquire about the news, managed the servants, and cheered up the Ding family.
Together with the steward, she figured out the wealth left in the mansion. Half of the servants were dispatched, and all the guards were summoned, leaving behind the most loyal group to the Ding family.
She also found out the guard that Ding Yanxiang bribed when she saw it with her own eyes. Under torture, all the guards were recruited. But he only knew that the eldest lady asked him to watch out to ensure that others would not find out that she had sneaked into the study, and he didn't know anything else.
Ding Yanshan sat in her room all night. On the second day, she arranged the arrangement, entrusted her relationship, entered the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and met Ding Sheng. There are some things that she found difficult to tell her father in the past, but now, she has to ask.
On the day Ding Yanshan went to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, a major event happened in the Dragon Mansion.
Ju Mu'er just woke up from a nap, Xiao Zhu helped her wash up and combed her hair. But Long Er wanted to join in the fun, he insisted on giving Mu'er thrush himself.
Ju Muer hid with a smile. Every time Erye Long gave her thrush, the result was a mess. Either she painted and washed her hair again and again, or she had to untangle her hair to play with while painting, and said that she also wanted to practice combing her hair. In the end, she made people look like ghosts and ghosts, and once even scared Xiaozhu. Or else, just painting and going back to bed.
This time Long Er was full of confidence and said that he would definitely draw beautifully for Ju Muer.
Regarding this, Ju Muer has no confidence at all. It's just that her family's father-in-law has such a taste, so she has no choice but to cooperate. But sitting idle had nothing to do, and Long Er had been drawing for a long time, but it didn't get better, so Ju Muer had nothing to say.
"Why didn't Xianggong go to patrol the shop these two days?"
"The sun is so big that it has sunburned your husband, don't you feel bad?"
"Is it okay to let the business go like this? If you earn less, won't your husband feel bad?"
Long Eryi poked her forehead with his finger: "Are you so obsessed with money?"
Ju Muer blinked, but didn't dare to say "yes", but said: "Sir, I know why your eyebrows are always uneven."
Long Er stopped his hands, frowned at the eyebrows drawn by him one high and one short, he was always out of alignment.
"Why?" In fact, he didn't want to know, he just asked casually.
"Because Xianggong always looks at the abacus, and the beads of the abacus rise and fall, so Xianggong is not aligned."
Long Er dropped the thrush pencil, turned around and walked away with a "hum".
"Sister-in-law stopped painting?" Ju Mu'er touched her eyebrows, thinking, can I rest now? But Long Er came back, took a wet towel in his hand, and wiped off her two twisted worm-like eyebrows vigorously, then picked up the brush and continued to draw.
Ju Muer sighed inwardly, she also made an appointment with Xiaozhu, Bao'er and the others to play blind fisherman, and she doesn't know how long it will take to draw.
"Draw until it is aligned." Long Er seemed to hear what she was thinking, and said angrily.
"Then it's aligned, so what if it's thick and thin?" Ju Muer obediently let him draw with her face up, but she poured cold water on him very seriously.
Long paused and stopped. Not only thick and thin, but also flat, what should I do