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Lu Yuan looked down at Yu Sheng, frowning slightly: "Do you know Zhang Qingpei, the servant of the Ministry of Industry?"

Yu Sheng thought about it for a while, and said, "I know one thing, it's that little old man who has a rigorous style, never smiles, and kills flies with his brows?"

"Hehe," Lu Yuan stretched out his hand and scratched Yu Sheng's nose, "You're the only one who dares to say that about him."

Yu Sheng also followed Lu Yuan's words and said: "That's right, I am now relying on the emperor's favor and lawlessness." He continued to ask: "What happened to Mr. Zhang?"

Lu Yuan pulled Yu Sheng into his arms, and found a comfortable position: "Zhang Qingpei has been cautious all his life, but he didn't expect that the youngest son he raised would rob people's daughters by force and disregard human lives."

Yu Sheng was very disgusted when he heard it, and then asked, "What's going on?"

Lu Yuan: "The youngest son of the Zhang family went to the temple with his mother to pray for blessings. He fell in love with a beautiful woman who offered incense. That woman was already engaged. The little beast of the Zhang family killed the woman's unmarried husband for his own selfish desire. However, that woman also hanged herself with her own man and died in love, leaving her two parents running around in search of justice, and was beaten to death by the lackeys of the right minister."

After Yu Sheng heard this, he asked: "Since this is the case, what should His Majesty want the grassroots to do?"

Lu Yuan squinted his eyes and said dangerously: "Do you know what murder by rumors is?"

Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows: "Is there any place where rumors are more appropriate than No Return Villa!"

Lu Yuan put his head on Yu Sheng's shoulder and said with a smile, "It's really gone."

There is no flesh on Yu Sheng's shoulders. In addition to the cool weather, everyone is wearing very light clothes. Yu Sheng's shoulders are a bit painful. Lu Yuan is obviously uncomfortable, but he doesn't move. He enjoys the feeling of leaning against others. Although he was disgusting, he didn't want to let go. Lu Yuan thought that as long as Yu Sheng never touched his bottom line, then he could indulge this person all the time.

On the second day, no one knew where the rumors came from, but the whole streets and alleys in Wangcheng were discussing the story of the youngest son of this family who forcibly robbed civilian girls and disregarded human lives. Even the storytellers in restaurants and teahouses were talking about it. Things, add oil and vinegar, impromptu clarification, and talk all afternoon, no version is the same, the people who listened to the story below were eating melon seeds, scolding the youngest son of the Zhang family, and applauding the wonderful performance of the storyteller.

The upper courts were also arguing over this matter. Most of the Right Prime Minister's faction believed that rumors should not be trusted, while a group of officials headed by Zuo Muyan, Zuo General, strongly advocated severely punishing the wicked. People's attitude at this time was also very tough, it was evidence and remonstrance, and the right-handed faction was caught off guard and retreated steadily.

Under the tough attitude of Zuo Muyan and others, the little emperor also had no idea and was forced by a group of courtiers to have no choice but to stare at the right minister aggrievedly. He winked at Zhang QingPei expressionlessly.

Zhang Qingpei is not bad as an official, but he was favored by the right minister in the early years, and he worked hard under him. It can be said that he is one of the most powerful arms of the right minister. He never thought that one day he would be implicated by his youngest son. He could only kneel on the ground and gritted his teeth, saying: "Your child robs the daughters of the people, disregarding human life, the crime is extremely heinous, even if the death penalty is imposed, there is nothing wrong with it, the old minister only asks the emperor to remember the old minister's face, and leave the whole body of the child."

Lu Yuan loves to play, and is pampered by the rightist, and ignores political affairs all the year round. Facing such a thing, he has no way to deal with it. Fortunately, Zhang Qingpei himself pleaded guilty to save Lu Yuan from headaches. Just as Lu Yuan was happily preparing to deal with this matter When the conclusion was reached, a young voice was heard from the ranks of generals.

"What? My son has committed a crime, so I have no responsibility at all as my father?"

It was General Zuo who spoke. In such a solemn court, even the Prime Minister of the Right had to pretend to be elegant and rigorous, but General Zuo stood up straight, his tone full of vulgarity.

Naturally, Prime Minister Right would not let go of such an opportunity to stir up trouble, he said sharply: "General Zuo, as an imperial court official, speaks vulgarly, really does not take His Majesty seriously!"

After speaking, he took a special look at Lu Yuan's expression. Anyway, in his eyes, Lu Yuan is also a very easy to fool. Zuo Muyan was only thinking of the emperor, so he just wanted to provoke the relationship between the two.

At this moment, Lu Yuan frowned, looking at Zuo Muyan with serious eyes, Prime Minister Right thought to himself how Zuo Muyan was still thinking about his family and country now.

Of course, Zuo Muyan is not a good person to have a place in the court. He immediately counterattacked, saying: "I am a military commander. I have been used to military camps and battlefields since I was a child. It is inevitable that my behavior will be vulgar. If I provoke you If His Majesty doesn't like it, the minister will definitely change it, but the focus at this time is still on Mr. Zhang!"

After this remark, he neither slapped the right minister in the face, nor promised to correct it, and even brought the topic to Zhang Qingpei, who had been neglected for a while.

The emperor also came back to his senses at this time, and cast his eyes on Zhang Qingpei. Although Lu Yuan could not say anything crucial in the court, but in this kind of confrontation between the two sides, his identity also occupies an extremely important position. If he spoke, there would be no turning back.There is another advantage of Lu Yuan for so many years, that is, he will insist on doing what he promised. This is one of the reasons why the Prime Minister is so relieved of Lu Yuan. After all, what Lu Yuan promised him has been done.

Zhang Qingpei clearly felt the eyes of Lu Yuan in the high position, and the unwavering eyes of the right minister, he really couldn't stop bleeding at this moment: "It's the fault of the son not teaching the father, and the minister is not strict in teaching the son, it's really a crime , I voluntarily fined the salary for three years."

Zuo Muyan still didn't give up: "It's not an exaggeration for Mr. Zhang to be dismissed from office for this crime. You just fined some salary lightly and it's gone. Who knows if there is any silver offered in your mansion so that you can still live like a fish in water. "

It is impossible for Zhang QingPei not to be angry when he was insulted by a junior, but he himself was charged with crimes, neither the emperor nor the right minister stood by him, so he could only grit his teeth and swallow this breath: "Mr. All these years of conscientious work, no credit but also hard work, naturally there is no corruption, in addition to fines, I voluntarily shut myself up and think for half a year, and bring the whole family to eat fast and pray for the innocent people who died."

Having said all of this, Zuo Muyan stopped being aggressive, but when Prime Minister Right and his party left, their complexions were not very good.

Zhang Qingpei's punishment was just the beginning, and the right and the others didn't realize that the emperor had started to attack them. They only thought that Zuo Muyan was looking for an opportunity to bite them. Of course, the right and the others relaxed. The consequence is to pay for your own bitter fruit.

Ten days later, Zhang Qingpei's youngest son was beheaded at Caishikou, and the onlookers threw him a basket of rotten vegetables and leaves. It was the first time that the young son of the Zhang family was held in the palm of his hand since he was a child. It was a pity. There is no next time for him.

In the next few days, Lu Yuan often came to Wugui Mountain Villa, and stayed in Mingyueju with Yu Sheng when he came, hugging and hugging, and now Yu Sheng has accepted the emperor's favor without any response.

Of course, not every time Lu Yuan came here he was happy, with a confident smile, but this time when he came, he was drenched, with an angry face, and pushed open the door aggressively to come in.

Yu Sheng was sitting on the second floor by the window at that time, watching the rain, with a delicate wine jug and wine glass at his feet. It seemed that he would take a sip of fine wine from time to time when he was in the mood.

Yu Sheng was startled by Lu Yuan's embarrassed look, and asked him, "What happened?"

Lu Yuan didn't answer at first, and stepped forward to embrace Yu Sheng with his whole body covered in rain, and hugged him tightly: "The right minister has attracted the queen's attention, and wants to push his own daughter up."

In fact, after more than ten years under the hands of the Right Prime Minister and the Queen Mother, Lu Yuan has become familiar with their tempers, and he is rarely angry about their affairs, but this time he was pressured by the Queen Mother to become the Right Prime Minister's daughter-in-law. When he became the empress, he still couldn't help being angry in his heart. One was that he didn't want to be wrapped up more tightly by the power of the right minister, and the other was that no one knew that when talking about the queen's position, Lu Yuan remembered that he was nestled in his arms. the rest of my life.

Yu Sheng stretched out his hand and patted Lu Yuan's back: "If you don't want to marry her, you have to make a long-term plan. There is no use in being anxious at this moment. I'll find someone to boil some hot water. We both should take a shower and change our clothes first."

Having said that, Lu Yuan did not let go of Yu Sheng, and Yu Sheng continued to work hard: "Be obedient, although the weather is not so cold now, it is still easy to catch cold in wet clothes."

Lu Yuan didn't respond, and still buried his head on Yu Sheng's shoulder, Yu Sheng didn't force it, and patted Lu Yuan's back from time to time, trying to calm him down.

This is actually a bit absurd. Yu Sheng couldn't talk about the matter of setting up the empress. If he was really anxious to solve it, he should go to Zuo Muyan, but he subconsciously came to Yu Sheng's place.For Yu Sheng, it was a bit of a surprise, he didn't expect Lu Yuan to trust him so much.

After Lu Yuan calmed himself down a bit, he let go of Yu Sheng. Yu Sheng went out with his body full of tainted water vapor and ordered the servants to boil two barrels of hot water. When he turned around, he saw Lu Yuan pouring wine with his head up. The clear liquid that poured out of the jug flowed down the Adam's apple of his chin because of Lu Yuan's untimely swallowing. The young man was dressed in wet clothes against his thin body. It's really a trick of fate that Lu Yuan escaped the marriage arranged by the right minister.

"My good wine has been ruined by you."

Lu Yuan turned his head to look, Yu Sheng was still smiling warmly, and walked towards him with relaxed eyebrows, as if nothing could trouble him or make him lose his temper.

The rain was pattering outside the window, with the fragrance of green bamboo, the person inside the window held a wine jug, raised his eyebrows with a flamboyant expression, and said: "I will pay you."

At this glance, I never forgot it.