Pray for rain

Seeing the bandage on Taiwei Xie's shoulder and the blood on his clothes, Mrs. Xie tremblingly said, "Is this matter related to my father?"

Taiwei Xie said helplessly: "How could it be related to father-in-law, don't guess."

Mrs. Xie sat on the bedside, tears welling up in her eyelashes: "Did father embarrass you in court affairs?" Mrs. Xie's intuition was always accurate, and she guessed right.

After hesitating for a while, Taiwei Xie still considered his words carefully and said: "Yue Zhang and I do have some political disagreements, father and son also have two factions, not to mention Yue Zhang has never made things difficult for me..." Prime Minister Bai has never personally made things difficult for him Captain Xie, the ones who made things difficult for him were all ministers from Prime Minister Bai's faction.

Mrs. Xie still started to cry, she was caught between her mother's family and her husband's family, how could she feel better.Captain Xie quickly gave Xie Wei a wink and asked him to coax Mrs. Xie.

Xie Wei wiped away the tears on her face, and said, "Mother thinks we should fight for the South-to-North Water Diversion?"

Mrs. Xie choked up and said, "Of course! How many people are waiting for help..."

Xie Wei said solemnly: "Since what my father and I insist on is a major matter for the country and the people, we will continue to do it even if grandpa opposes it. But no matter what, grandpa is your family member, so mother doesn't have to feel sad about it. "

But Mrs. Xie was still sobbing, and she didn't seem to be relieved.

Taiwei Xie sighed: "You..." Xie Wei just smiled, he believed that Mrs. Xie would understand.

This room is in the study of the White Mansion, Elder Bai anxiously asked: "Is it the Ninth Prince?"

Prime Minister Bai replied: "It's not him. If he is so stupid, why choose him?"

Hearing that Taiwei Xie was injured on the way back to the mansion, the three members of the Bai family who were officials in the court were all in fear.After all, they are relatives of their own family, even political enemies would not act so cruelly.Originally thought it was the Ninth Prince who did it, but now that it is not the Ninth Prince, then it is the Fourth Prince...

Prime Minister Bai asked, "What do you think we should do?"

Grandpa Bai cautiously replied: "Sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight?" It would be great if the fourth prince could dispel the emperor's thoughts, but it would be good if Taiwei Xie could defeat the fourth prince.

Hate that iron cannot be made into steel, Prime Minister Bai said angrily: "We should report this matter to His Majesty, and let His Majesty decide for us!"

Taiwei Xie is an important minister on the frontier that the emperor personally ordered to recall to Beijing. Regardless of whether the hotly discussed matter in the court can be achieved, at the feet of the emperor, someone murdered an important minister in the court.Since the fourth prince is so anxious to present the case to Prime Minister Bai, how can he be worthy of himself if he doesn't pull him off the horse?

Prime Minister Bai snorted, and ordered: "Go and inform Cao Yushi, let him participate in the Ninth Prince's murder of Taiwei Xie tomorrow."

Elder Bai also faintly felt that Prime Minister Bai had other plans in mind, so he left the study silently and ordered his confidants to inform Cao Yushi.

On the second day, Taiwei Xie took leave due to injury and was unable to go to the morning court.When the emperor heard that it was the nine princes who murdered important ministers in the whole court, he threw the crown out angrily and left the Jinluan Hall.The ministers all knelt in the hall, no one dared to retreat.

In the inner hall, the emperor couldn't swallow that breath and drank several cups of cold tea.The eunuch in charge said carefully: "These adults are still waiting in the palace, do you see, Your Majesty?"

"Let them all go." The emperor waved his hand, obviously very angry.The eunuch in charge had no choice but to order the young eunuch to let the ministers go back first, and then pushed down and waited for the emperor to calm down before listening to his orders.

The emperor's rewards and pensions were quickly sent to the White Mansion. Xie Wei was a little unhappy when he heard that Cao Yushi had participated in the book of the Nine Princes today.Not to mention Taiwei Xie was injured, he was still treated as a raft by these people for party struggle.

For several days, Xie Wei was not in a good mood.Seeing his gloomy face, Captain Xie kept moaning and feeling upset, so he drove him out to play with Xie Yuan.

Xie Yuan didn't enjoy going out with his cousins ​​that day, but today he finally went out with Xie Wei, just like a runaway pony.Xie Wei chased her from one end of the market to the other, seeing that Xie Yuan was still in high spirits.Standing in front of a woodcarving shop, I was so tired holding my lower back, I couldn't help but sigh that I was not as good as a child.

Who would have thought that suddenly a hand was attached to his lower back, Xie Wei shuddered, turned around and slashed with his palm.Unexpectedly, that hand belonged to Pei Yu, Pei Yu looked at him worriedly and said, "Brother Xie, what's wrong?"

Xie Wei hastily stopped the slap, because he was not used to eating, drank too much alcohol, and didn't sleep well in the past few days, his eyes showed a faint blue color.Today, I walked more than half of the capital with Xie Yuan, and I was really exhausted.

He said to Pei Yu: "Nothing, just a little tired."

Pei Yu looked at Xie Wei, he was obviously a man from Mobei, but he was as gentle and slender as the water rice in the south of the Yangtze River.He patted Xie Wei's back hard, Xie Wei was in pain, frowned tightly, and looked at Pei Yu, as if asking why Pei Wei was like this.

Pei Yu said nonsense seriously: "Jiaci once taught me that if I'm tired, it's very useful to pat the acupoints on my back."

Although he was skeptical, but his body was indeed not as sore as before, Xie Wei thanked Pei Zhen and asked, "Why are you here?"

Pei Yu said: "The weather is fine today, let's go out for a walk."

Xie Wei smiled and said, "Could it be that rainy days should be good weather for you?" Pei Wei's heart moved, but she didn't answer, she just smiled.

At this time, Xie Yuan suddenly heard: "Brother, look at this!"

Xie Wei and Pei Yu stepped forward to take a look, and there was an exquisite wood carving on the shelf.The carving is a dragon flying through the clouds and fog, which looks lifelike.The clerk at the side introduced: "This is the Yinglong carved by the master in our shop. It is said that this Yinglong is the rain god of the heavens, who can call the wind and rain..."

The buddy was talking non-stop, but Xie Wei was not moved at all.He didn't believe this, but seeing Xie Yuan's eager eyes, Xie Wei asked, "How much money is this?"

The guy smiled and said, "200 taels."

20 taels of silver is enough for a small family to live for a year, not to mention that Xie Yuan's monthly bill is only ten taels a month, and Xie Wei didn't bring that much silver bills when he went out today.She looked away in disappointment and went to look at other small objects.In the end, Xie Yuan bought a mechanism bird, which looked very small and cute.

Seeing that it was getting late, the three parted in front of the woodcarving shop. Xie Yuan took her mechanical bird and said happily to Pei Yu: "Brother Pei!"

Pei Xuan smiled and patted her head, watching them leave.

At night, Xie Wei had already undressed and got on the couch, when he suddenly heard the voice of Captain Xie's personal attendant outside the door: "Master, Your Excellency wants to see you."

Xie Wei got dressed immediately and went to Captain Xie's room.Mrs. Xie had already fallen asleep, Taiwei Xie was sitting at the table with a letter in his hand.Seeing Xie Wei coming, he handed the letter to Xie Wei.

Taiwei Xie's face was solemn, and when Xie Wei read the letter, he couldn't help but sigh that the Xie family is really in a dangerous situation.Now that the South-to-North Water Diversion project has not been approved here in Kyoto, another accident happened in Yicheng.

The letter was sent by Taiwei Xie's cronies, saying that a Taoist priest came to Yicheng not long ago and led the people of Yicheng to pray for rain all day long, making the whole city of Yicheng smoky.Many people don't even hunt or work any more, they just follow the Taoist priest to recite incantations and draw magic circles as if fascinated.

Taiwei Xie sighed: "Tomorrow I will go to court, and the project must be finalized as soon as possible, otherwise something will happen."

Seeing Xie Wei looking at his shoulder worriedly, Taiwei Xie said in a gentle voice, "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay to settle down as soon as possible, so I can feel at ease as a father."

On the second day, Taiwei Xie went up to court regardless of Mrs. Xie's obstruction. Looking at Taiwei Xie's pale cheeks, Xie Yuan asked Xie Wei in a daze: "Brother, if there is really Yinglong and the God of Rain, why don't you give it to Mo Bei?" How about more rain?"

Xie Wei sighed softly, and said: "Yuan Yuan, you have to know that many things in this world can only be relied on by oneself, and you can't just think about relying on others. It's not like everyone has thought about such a good thing as heavy rain. But It’s because we don’t have it that we’re going south.”

There was a humid breath in the air, the rain fell, and a mist rose on the sultry ground.A bunch of leaves were knocked to the ground by the rain, Xie Yuan's clothes were wet by the wind, Xie Wei took her into the inner room.

Taiwei Xie was almost unable to stand on the Golden Luan Hall.The emperor wanted to give him a seat, but Taiwei Xie refused because he didn't dare to entrust him.A few days ago, the emperor has been investigating who sent someone to hurt Taiwei Xie, and finally found out that it was the fourth prince.The emperor was furious and reprimanded the fourth prince, but he only put the fourth prince in confinement, and did not really punish him.

The ministers of Prime Minister Bai's faction were all dissatisfied. At one moment, they said that the fourth prince did not take the Holy One seriously, and openly murdered important officials in the court;But no matter what they said, the emperor just looked at them indifferently.

In the court today, the emperor really couldn't stand the ministers chattering in his ears all day long, and ordered: "Xie Aiqing will be fully responsible for the south-to-north water diversion, and the nine princes will go to Mobei to assist." Several million taels of silver were paid out, and several ministers who were good at drawing and construction were dispatched from the Ministry of Industry.

As soon as this sentence came out, all the ministers in the court discussed it in the Jinluan Hall.There were still people who clamored to disagree, and were immediately dragged out by the emperor's order and beat ten sticks.

The emperor said coldly: "One by one, it's all right to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Now that tens of thousands of people in Mobei are waiting for water to save their lives, you are still thinking about these things. I think you don't take me seriously at all. Don't take the world seriously at all!"

All the ministers knelt down one after another, saying "don't dare".

Prime Minister Bai suddenly came out and said: "Your Majesty is right. We, as ministers, should be just like His Majesty, thinking wholeheartedly about the people's livelihood in the world." We will do our best to help.”

Now that Prime Minister Bai has expressed his position in this way, all the ministers put away their own thoughts and closed their chattering mouths of objection, saying: "Your servants will obey the holy orders."

The emperor on the seat finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Xie Aiqing will rest for a few more days, and then go to Mobei with the Ninth Prince and other ministers."