Lintai Storm Record

, or dipped in to eat, all have their own flavor.

Song Qianzhi ate his face flushed.

Lu Guan glanced casually, and his throat moved.

"Is it delicious?" Song Qianzhi asked.

"Yes, Not Bad."

Song Qianzhi thought it was funny, and said: "If Lin Shutong hadn't died, the Pipa Garden would have broken the threshold if it only sold this bowl of noodles on weekdays."

"Master Song is joking." Qin Mingxue took out two pickled plums and put them on the bottom of a white porcelain cup, filled them with fine wine, and distributed them to Lu Guan and Song Qianzhi.

The plum is green with black, and when soaked open, there is a hint of red.

"There are so many officials in Beijing." Song Qianzhi sighed.

Qin Mingxue knew that this was not the time for him to interrupt, so he picked up his chopsticks and began to eat noodles.

"I have raised too many idlers." Lu Guan nodded.

Song Qianzhi smiled, and Qin Mingxue's face flushed slightly when he saw Junrong.

"In the list reported by the Ministry of Officials this year, there are 320 seven officials in Beijing. The new year will be opened, and Enke will be expanded. There are [-] officials on the list. The Ministry of Officials and the Secretary of the Ministry of Households have jointly signed a booklet for the emperor to lay off next year. People. It’s going to hurt your muscles and bones again, but fortunately, our secretary department never messes with these things, otherwise, Mr. Lu, with your efficiency, I’m afraid you’ll have to go home and farm.” Song Qianzhi teased.

Lu Guan was not angry either, he ate his noodles and listened to Song Qianzhi's gossip about the embarrassing things about the officials in Beijing and Beijing last year.Song Qianzhi is in charge of the Ministry of Secretaryship, and all he handles are the secret documents of senior officials in Beijing. What he said are all rumors in the market. For example, a certain "your family" surnamed Lu married No.20 last winter. The five-bedroom concubine has not yet given birth to a son.

While drinking, Lu Guan was sweating all over, his neck was smooth and strong, he sweated easily, so he simply opened his robe to reveal his strong and muscular muscles.

After a meal, one of Song Qian saw that the list of rewards was a foot high, so he gave a receipt to Pipa Garden, packed the book and brought it back to the secretary's office for further investigation.Before going out, Song Qianzhi thought of another thing.

"I remember that officials who travel with singing and dancing girls also need to keep records. Bring that booklet too. It's from the last two months."

Take the good things, and the two go out.

Lu Guan's horse already knew Song Qianzhi, and when he saw him approaching, he glanced at him quietly. Just as Song Qianzhi raised his hand, the horse's head lowered and burrowed into his palm.

Song Qianzhi patted it on the head.

The sky, which had been gloomy for several days, finally dawned, the sky was clear and golden.There are people coming and going on the street, and there are endless hawkers and yells, which really present a part of the prosperous scene of the imperial capital.

The address Wang Zaoguo mentioned was in the northeast corner of the capital. There was a secluded place where many big houses were built.

Lu Guan frowned when he dismounted.

Song Qianzhi saw it and asked him, "What's the matter, have you been here?"

Lu Guan didn't answer, and went up to knock on the door.

Song Qianzhi hurriedly grabbed his sleeve and pointed to the side.

"It's not that one, what happened." Song Qianshang went to knock on the door, leaned his ear to the door, stood up, and signaled with his eyes: there is someone.

The house that Lu Guan almost mistyped just now was not as quiet as this one, quite high-profile, with a branch growing out of the wall.

"A branch of red apricot came out of the wall." Song Qianzhi smiled and looked at Lu Guan.

Lu watched him with complicated eyes.

Song Qianzhi didn't know that Lu Guan had indeed been to this place, and he came to investigate the Song family's affairs. The neighbor's house was the residence of the other housewife who was raised by the Marquis of Anding outside the mansion that he was investigating. place.

Lu Guan took a look at the road when he came and went.

There was no one in the deep alley, his horse pawed its hooves impatiently, Lu Guan stroked its head soothingly, the horse stretched its neck forward, trying to get close to Song Qianzhi, but Song Qianzhi was not enough. shoulder, the door opened.

A domestic servant in his thirties stood in the door and looked out.

Song Qianzhi sighed in his heart, walked forward, pushed the door open, grabbed the servant who staggered a step, scowled, and flashed the token of the Secretary's Department expressionlessly.

"The secretary will investigate the case, where is your master?"

The owner of this big house is not there, and the janitor doesn't know who owns the house. Fortunately, there is a housekeeper who can ask questions.

The housekeeper was wearing a long blue silk gown, made of high-quality materials, and had a neatly trimmed beard. One could tell at a glance that the master's status was not low.

"Young master came to visit, and I was far away from welcoming you."

Song Qian raised his eyebrows: "You know me?"

"Is there anyone in Beijing who doesn't know Lintai Shaojian, who is also the son of the Marquis of Anding, a villain who has long admired his name."

Song Qianzhi introduced his follower Lu Guanlu.

Lu Guan spread out the hem of the robe, put his right foot on his left knee, and asked the butler, "Is there a woman living in this place?"

The butler smiled and said, "There are dozens of women in the house, I don't know which one my lord is looking for."

Song Qianzhi couldn't help laughing.

It seems that Lu Guan doesn't know the style of the old men in the capital, no matter how hungry and dead people are everywhere outside the city, the capital should also be looking for fun in the same way.This area is the other courtyard of the official, who occasionally comes to relax and relax, just like in his own home, there are a lot of servants and maidservants.

"Isn't your master raising a woman in this other house? Who is your master?"

The housekeeper replied: "Young Master, you are joking, our master never dares to do things that the emperor expressly prohibits."

"That was the first emperor's ban. It has never been said to be abolished or continued today. Many senior officials are still raising it. You must know where Lintai is. Who is the owner of this place? As long as he is above the third rank Officials, I will find out when I go back. Why don't you tell me yourself." Song Qianzhi bowed his head and took a sip of hot tea.

"The owner of the house is Lord Shoufu."

Song Qian spouted out a sip of tea and wiped his mouth in a hurry. The maid next to him blushed and came to wipe his mouth for him.

Song Qianzhi took the cloth towel and came by himself, frowned and said: "Li Xiang is so old, is he also doing this? I remember that Li Xiang's other courtyard is not here?"

"The master of the house has another courtyard."

"Is this place for meeting guests or listening to music?" Song Qianzhi felt strange.Li Yeyuan loved listening to music a few years ago, and even won a few roles. That was before the age of 40. Now that he is over [-], he has long since stopped doing this kind of thing.The chief minister of a country, from dawn to late at night, did not stop for a moment to catch his breath. The last time Song Qianzhi met Li Yeyuan in the palace, he took a quick glance and saw that Li Yeyuan was already full of white hair and thin.

"It's for receiving guests. When the master is worried about state affairs, he occasionally comes to stay for two days, trying to be quiet."

That is to say, Li Yeyuan rarely came to this place, and few people knew about it.

Song Qianzhi thought for a while, then glanced at Lu Guan.

Lu Guan immediately understood, and asked the housekeeper, "Did anyone come to visit on the third day of the twelfth lunar month?"

The butler thought for a while and said, "Morning or afternoon?"

"That whole day." Lu Guan said.

"In the morning, someone came to the master's house to deliver things, but no one came in the afternoon."

"Do you remember what you gave me?"

"It seems to be a book called Women's Code. In the 23rd year of the first emperor, the first edition was written by the female officials ordered by Empress De Yiren."

Lu Guan tapped his index finger on the table.

"Are you sure you remember?"

The steward asked vigilantly, "Is there something wrong with this book?"

"No, he looks like this, the questioning is like interrogating a prisoner." Song Qianzhi smiled.

The housekeeper heaved a sigh of relief, and a layer of sweat broke out on his forehead.

Song Qianzhi thought for a while, and finally asked a question: "Has Mr. Li ever traveled here with the singing and dancing girls from the Pipa Garden?"

The butler seemed hesitant for a moment.

"I have just been to the Pipa Garden, and there are records of officials traveling with singing and dancing girls." Song Qianzhi stopped talking.

The butler said helplessly: "It's not that the villain doesn't want to talk about it, but that something happened to that singing and dancing girl recently."

"It's Lin Shutong?" Although expected, Song Qianzhi was still a little shocked.

Lu Guan's heart trembled even more, and he glanced at Song Qianzhi, who was lost in thought and did not speak.In the Pipa Garden, when Song Qianzhi made gestures to kiss him, he had boldly imagined that Lin Shutong fed Lou Jiangyue that sip of tea.

Sure enough, Song Qianzhi continued to ask: "You know Li Xiang's disciple, Mr. Wang Zaoguo, editor of the Imperial Academy, right?"

"know."

"Did he come in the afternoon of the third year?" Song Qianzhi looked at the housekeeper.

The butler frowned and moved his eyes.

"Master Wang has never been here as a guest. There are many disciples of the master. Nearly half of those who come to Beijing to participate in the palace examination are disciples of the master. Few people know about this other courtyard, otherwise the master would not come here to hide."

"In the afternoon of the third day of junior high school, did anyone else come here to visit your master?"

The butler's face was ugly.

"Secretary don't ask questions, you have to tell the truth, if there is one thing that is not true, then everything may be false." Lu Guan said coldly, his face was gloomy and quite powerful.

The housekeeper sighed: "Master was going to come that afternoon, but the Ministry of War was caught up in an emergency, so the master didn't come. In the past month, there was a person who came here often, but I would like to ask, is the Secretary Department checking What case?"

"The secretary is directly ordered by the emperor, how many brains do you have to inquire about?" Lu Guan said angrily.

Song Qianzhi couldn't help secretly praising Lu Guan, the black face, for singing well, so he came out to sing the bad face.

"It has nothing to do with Mr. Li, but with the person who came here. Lou Jiangyue committed a crime in the palace. It is very important where he is on the afternoon of the third day of the twelfth lunar month. You don't have to be afraid of things that have nothing to do with Li Xiang. It's related to Li Xiang, I'll just ask someone to arrest you and ask the secretary, why come here in person."

The butler looked thoughtful, and said, "Lou Jiangyue came here on the afternoon of the third day of the twelfth lunar month. He and the master had an appointment to meet here, but later the master said that they couldn't come. The master liked Lou Jiangyue's words very much, more than once Invite him to come over and talk about poetry. Every time it takes half an hour, at most an hour. The master didn't come that day, and Lou Jiangyue left when he heard that the master couldn't come, and didn't even have time for tea."

"What's the inconvenience?" Lu Guan asked stiffly.

Song Qianzhi waved his hand and said, "Lou Jiangyue, recommended by Prime Minister Li, is going to write a congratulatory message to the emperor."

Lu Guan: "????"

You don't understand Song Qian's face.He got up and told the butler that he might come over in two days to ask if there was no one at home, so he dragged Lu Guan away.

When going out, Lu Guan squeezed out the door first, looked around, untied the horse, and then waved to Song Qianzhi outside.

Song Qianzhi sat on the horseback, unable to laugh or cry: "What are you doing, you look like a thief."

Lu Guan whipped the horse's back.

On the way, Lu Guan couldn't help asking Song Qianzhi, why the housekeeper couldn't talk about Lou Jiangyue recommended by Prime Minister Li.

Song Qianzhi simply didn't want to talk to him.

Lu Guan kept taking his feet out of the saddle to kick Song Qianzhi's calf.

Song Qianzhi leaned into his arms unbearably, and said in a volume that Lu Guan could hear: "Why do the two poets who write congratulatory messages have to have a folk poet, because the emperor wants to hear what the folk poets have to say. Lou Jiangyue and Li If Xiang Xiang is involved, will the emperor let him enter the palace?"

Lu Guan frowned.

"You Beijing officials are really hard to understand."

Song Qianzhi leaned on Lu Guan's broad chest and felt very comfortable all over, as if he was wrapped in a safe palm.

Song Qianzhi had never felt this way before, his ears turned red, and he wanted to say a few more words to Lu Guan.

"Aren't you the emperor's think tank in Quzhou?"

"Who said that?"

Song Qianzhi cannot be said to be the Queen Mother.

"Don't worry about it, everyone knows anyway, you gave the emperor a lot of ideas, and a lot of people disliked you, so they assigned you."

Lu Guan was puzzled: "I don't even know."

"Then you came up from Quzhou with the emperor, and you have the merit of being a dragon. How could you be left in Quzhou?" Song Qian subconsciously turned his head to see Lu Guan's expression.

The horse wobbled, and his lips brushed past the small square of skin under Lu Guan's lips like a feather.

Song Qianzhi was stunned for a moment, pretending not to feel anything, and lowered his head.

"I told you that I killed a young man. If you don't believe me, I will kill you too." Lu Guan said viciously, with an imperceptible tremor in his voice.

Song Qianzhi: "........." Just brag, you don't even dare to touch a woman's small clothes with that skill.

In order to prevent being thrown off the horse by Lu Guan halfway, Song Qianzhi didn't say this.

☆, Lou Jiangyue (pick up four)

It was almost Shenshi, and someone was selling steaming glutinous rice balls on the road. The moment the pot was boiled, white air was overflowing.

"Hey, Mr. Lu, stop, stop." Song Qianzhi who was sitting in front of the horse suddenly called out.

Lu Guan never imagined that Song Qianzhi wanted to eat a bowl of glutinous rice balls at this time. Didn't he eat a bowl of seafood noodles at noon?Not a single scum was left.

"The old master Chen's brown sugar glutinous rice balls are the best. No one in Dachu can find such delicious ones." Song Qianzhi rubbed his hands, his nose a little runny from the cold.

Lu Guan felt his heart soften, and when he realized it, he had already found a seat to sit down.

"Here, a bowl of eight-treasure sesame seeds and a bowl of rose brown sugar. Take it easy, both of you."

Song Qianzhi couldn't wait to bite it down, inhaled hotly, narrowed his eyes in satisfaction, and let out a mouthful of white air.

Lu Guan frowned.

After taking a bite, his expression became very subtle.

Song Qianzhi asked him with a smile: "Is it delicious?"

Lu Guan hummed.

"Sell from Lidong to Lantern Festival, and after the [-]th day of the first lunar month, there will be no stalls." The brown sugar in this shop is secret, with a faint aroma of roses, and the taste of sugar is sweet but not greasy, smooth but not greasy. Fat.Song Qianzhi scooped one up and handed it to Lu Guan.

"?" Lu Guan glanced blushingly, and opened his mouth stiffly.

"Is it delicious?" Song Qianzhi looked at him with complacent and expectant eyes.

"Yeah." Lu Guan hesitated whether to return him a sesame stuffed one, but Song Qianzhi had already buried his head in eating, and finished a bowl of twelve glutinous rice balls in two or three mouthfuls, and at the end he even drank the soup. Clean and clean, urge Lu Guan to hurry up.

"It's all right, what's the rush?"

"Accompany me to Bird Clothes Lane."

Lu Guan seemed a little displeased. After eating the glutinous rice balls in two or three bites, he got up to pay, and after a long time touching it was still the money from Song Qianzhi.

The entrance of Wuyi Lane leads to a small rice noodle shop. Outside the shop is an old and dilapidated cart. Four children are playing on the cart. The garland, the boy turned red and bowed to her.

Song Qianzhi asked Lu Guan to tie the horse outside.

Lu Guan threatened the two boys who ran over and turned around, his mouth was as clear as thunder and deep.The two children scattered like birds and beasts, and kept turning their heads to look at the scary uncle after running away.

The two walked side by side into Bird Clothes Lane, and there was a smell of rotten vegetable leaves in the air. There was a bamboo basket placed at the door of every house, and the two walked side by side and were a little crowded.

Lu Guan stubbornly refused to move forward or take half a step behind.

Song Qianzhi didn't talk to him on the way, but every time he went outside the door, he looked up at the house number, and finally stopped outside the door with No. 140 written on it, and patted him.

A woman's voice from inside the door: "Come on, who is it?"

"Song family." Song Qianzhi replied.

A flushed woman's face appeared from the crack of the door, her eyes were both surprised and embarrassed, she opened the door and called out to the head of the house.

This is a small house with four rooms and a small courtyard. There is a large khaki water tank in the courtyard, which is full of blue algae.

The woman brought them two bowls of water, and then turned back to the house, where the old man coughed.

"Uncle went out to borrow rice and hasn't come back yet." The man who spoke was the man Song Qianzhi met that night when he went to buy wine that night and came to seek refuge with relatives in Rongzhou.

"Have you made clothes for your daughter-in-law?" Song Qianzhi asked.

Xu San was full of embarrassment: "The old mother is taking medicine when she is ill, and the child is not doing well these two days, so we should save some flowers."

Song Qianzhi thought for a while, and said: "A daughter-in-law is also important, and everyone in the family needs her to take care of her, so she can't be treated harshly."

The big man didn't expect to be taught a lesson by such a young master, but he knew that what he said was right. If there was no woman in the family, he would have nothing to do, so he nodded in agreement.

"You know each other?" Lu Guan asked.

"It's from Zhuangzi." Song Qianzhi only said this, Lu Guan didn't ask any more, Song Qianzhi asked about Xu Sanrongzhou's situation.

Xu San's face turned pale.It was not allowed to come to the capital. Uncle posted a lot of money and found an old friend who guarded the city. Then he helped Xu's family into the city. It was because his mother was sick and the child was too young to be fed. It was really pitiful, Xu Three do not want to implicate the uncle.

"You belong to my Zhuangzi. You went to the Song Family Courtyard in Rongzhou to ask for a seal during the Spring Festival the year before last. Don't you remember?"

Xu San narrowed his eyes, then opened his mouth wide in surprise, stood up immediately, and knelt down to Song Qianzhi with a plop.

"Don't kneel, I still have something to do, I'll leave after asking you a few words."

Xu San shouted for his daughter-in-law to come out and kowtow to Song Qianzhi.

When she came out again, the daughter-in-law had obviously combed her hair with water, and kowtowed to Song Qianzhi with her husband downcast.

Song Qianzhi couldn't stop him, so he had to accept it. Xu San asked his daughter-in-law to make tea, but Song Qianzhi refused with a serious face.

Lu Guan said from the side: "Don't be a mother-in-law, just ask you a few words and leave. It's a waste of time to make tea. What kind of good tea has your young master never drunk?"

Xu San was embarrassed.

"Tell me, what's wrong with Rongzhou?" Song Qianzhi went out of the city on the second day of the twelfth lunar month. He hadn't reached Rongzhou on the fourth day of the lunar new year. On the way, he was called back by someone from the Secretary's Ministry. What's more, what's more, he was walking on the official road, and there were rocks and cliffs beside the road, and he had to cross Ma Yinshan to see the fields.It was Lou Jiangyue's love letter that made him think of asking this person from the Song family village what was going on outside the capital.

"Snow disaster." Xu San sighed, his eyes were red, "I have nothing to eat, I can't pay the rent this year, and it won't be sunny after autumn. I was spared. The remaining seeds are all gone. The big guy asked the county magistrate to ask Beijing to plant, and planted the land after the Chinese New Year. Two more mouths, the whole family will be hungry. And there are many sick people, the weather is not right, in our county, nine out of ten elderly people are sick and cannot get out of bed. I don’t know what is wrong. It will die in the sky, and it will be passed on to others.”

This is the plague.Song Qianzhi glanced at Lu Guan, and saw a trace of fear in Lu Guan's eyes. Song Qianzhi was feeling puzzled when he heard Lu Guan ask, "Did the county magistrate report it?"

"I don't know how to report it." Xu San said with a bitter face, "The emperor has just issued an edict of sinning himself. Isn't he looking for death when he writes the letter at this time? We can only wait, wait for the relief from the court, and when high officials like Li Xiang will be able to read it. Go to Rongzhou. The government office of the state government has people seal off the official road to the north, asking for money to clear it.”

"I came back before I arrived in Rongzhou City." Song Qianzhi thought for a moment and asked him, "What does the state government say?"

"I went to Beijing and haven't returned yet. Our county is full of dead people. No one cares about them. No one dares to touch people who died these days. People who visited Yizhuang were all sick and died. People with some connections ran away. It's better, the counties below are all empty." Xu San gritted his teeth, his eyes were filled with mist, and his right hand clenched into a fist.

"Did the surrounding counties and prefectures hear what happened?" Lu Guan interjected.

"This year has been difficult. The snowstorm in Binzhou destroyed several dams and arrested many people to repair them. They couldn't wait until the end of the new year. Many died on the dams."

Lu Guan said: "If you don't rush to repair it at this time, it will be another catastrophe when the spring flood begins."

Song Qianzhi frowned, just listening.

After autumn, at least four or five prefectures have no food for the winter. First, the weather is bad, and the rice and wheat are all rotten to varying degrees. Forget it, the seeds have not been saved, and the court needs to distribute them, otherwise there will be no food next year.The second is the snowstorm after winter, roads, dams, and bridges were all damaged to varying degrees. There are not a few people who are sick, and it is not known how many places have the disease.The third is the September earthquake in the south. Before the houses could be rebuilt, the weather became colder. The earthquake caused water pollution and changes in the terrain. There is a danger of landslides at any time.The people living in those places have no way to move out, and the government offices of various state capitals have surrounded their cities to prevent people from entering and leaving at will.

"How do you know about disasters in other places?" Song Qianzhi asked.

Xu San was stunned.

"It seems that people from other places said that before September, Rongzhou was fine, and the disaster was not serious."

"Since people are not allowed to enter and leave at will, how can people from other places enter Rongzhou City?" Lu Guan also heard it, and asked again following Song Qianzhi's words.

"This... Maybe when the city was besieged, people from the disaster area had already run into Rongzhou City..." Xu San hesitated.

"What's wrong with your mother?" Song Qianzhi glanced at the room, and the coughing in the room had already died down.

"It's not a disease." Xu San hurriedly said.

Song Qianzhi stood up and clapped his hands: "Tomorrow morning, I will find a doctor to come over to see your mother. The medicine will be obtained from the Song family. You are also helping the Song family to cultivate the land, so you will not be treated badly."

Xu San's eyes were filled with tears, his nose was red, and he wanted to kowtow again.

"Stop kneeling. I have other things to do. Let's go first. If you have any difficulties, go to Andinghou Mansion to find me."

Xu San sent Lu Guan and Song Qianzhi all the way out of Bird Clothes Lane. He was still standing at the entrance of the alley after he had walked a long way. superior.He is like a lost dog sitting on a scooter at the entrance of an alley. When a child throws a stone at him, he doesn't react at all, just staring at the sparsely pedestrian street.

Song Qianzhi and Lu Guan came out from Bird Clothes Lane and went back to the secretary's province. Zhou Xian didn't know where he went.

Song Qianzhi took a sip of hot tea and felt he had come back to life. He had the travel and reward books brought back from the Pipa Garden at hand. He gave the reward book to Lu Guancha, and he leaned over the table and started looking for Qin Mingxue and Lin Shu. The travel records of Tong and Fu Yunying.

Lu Guan flipped through it casually, looking absent-minded.

"You said that in Lou Jiangyue's love letter, did you mention the disaster situation in Rongzhou?"

Song Qianzhi turned a page without raising his head: "How do I know?"

"Lou Jiangyue has been in the capital for more than a year. How did he know about the disasters in other places and suddenly wanted to write a love letter to the emperor? Li Xiang knew Lou Jiangyue and admired him very much. Li Xiang recommended Lou Jiangyue It wasn't accidental. The two had contacts in private, did Wang Zaoguo know about it? Did Wang Zaoguo give this address because he wanted us to find Li Xiang's other courtyard."

Song Qianzhi put down his pen.

The cook and the book office outside seem to be talking, but they can't really hear it.

It was too cold, a brazier was burned in the main room, the door was closed, and Song Qianzhi's face turned pale in the dim light.

"Wang Zauguo and Lou Jiangyue didn't go together. If Lou Jiangyue had a private relationship with Li Xiang, he would definitely not let Wang Zauguo know. What the housekeeper said is very interesting.

"Li Xiang has a lot of students. Nine out of ten candidates who come to the capital will go to visit Li Xiang first to see if they can make some connections. Wang Zauguo is just an editor, and he is devoted to learning. The Imperial Academy doesn't care about anything, just read dead books. How did Wang Zaoguo know this place? He followed Lou Jiangyue to go there, but Lou Jiangyue was inconvenient to take him in, Lou Jiangyue told him. For example, when he was going out, Wang Zaoguo asked him where he was going, and he said it casually As for the answer, few people in Li Xiang’s other courtyard knew what the housekeeper meant. Wang Zauguo didn’t know about it, so he remembered such a place. That afternoon, at least when Lou Jiangyue went to Li Xiang’s other courtyard, Wang Zauguo Not with him. Where did Wang Zaoguo go?"

Lu Guan: "Where should I wait for him, or just hang around on the street."

"I think so too." Song Qianzhi raised his head and glanced at Lu Guan, his eyes became subtle.

Lu Guan became vigilant: "What?"

"Finding out these two cases, Mr. Lu will really become my immediate boss and put him on top of me. You said that I spent so much effort making wedding dresses for others, it doesn't seem to be very cost-effective." Song Qianzhi's lips cornered With a slight arc, he looked at Lu Guan with a smile.

Lu Guan: "..."

"But if you don't figure it out, the emperor really cut off Master Lu's head, and I can't bear to be with you. How can you thank me?"

Holding the booklet, Lu Guan got up and wanted to go out, but then came back and sat down as firmly as Mount Tai.

Song Qianzhi stopped teasing him and sketched while watching.

It was dark early in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and it lasted for less than half an hour. Song Qianzhi almost finished it, and said to Lu Guan: "Lin Shutong has traveled with Qin Yuning for the past two months, a total of five times. Fu Yunying once, with the one from your family. Master Lu, yes, the one with 25 concubines."

Lu Guan couldn't bear it anymore: "Can you stop bringing him with me?"

Song Qianzhi smiled and said: "Yes. Qin Mingxue is very interesting. In the past two months, she traveled seven times, but she didn't mention who she was with."

"Did you miss it?"

"Except for her, no other singing and dancing girls who go out with others have 'missed'. Besides, if they missed, they simply don't remember anything."

"What do you mean?" Lu watched, Song Qianzhi already had an idea.

"Master Lu, guess who Qin Mingxue went out with, will it be written in this booklet?"

Lu Guan's breath was stagnant.

Song Qianzhi smiled.

"Can you find out which empresses in the palace received the health-preserving tea that Lin Shutong took?" Lu Guan asked.

"There is always a way to investigate. I'm going to call on Prime Minister Li tonight."

"I'll go with you."

Song Qianzhi shook his head: "Mr. Li will not see you."

"I'll wait for you outside, you go in and ask, what you ask, after you come out, you can say what you want, if you don't want to say it, forget it."

If Lu Guan said this, he believed him, otherwise he was confident that he would be able to find out the truth without relying on Song Qianzhi's identity.But Song Qianzhi vaguely touched the vague outlines of the two cases, and Fu Mingshao still couldn't sit still.It's just that the attack this time was too hasty, with too many omissions, and it was difficult to shake Li Yeyuan.

Song Qianzhi's eyes fell back to Lu Guan's face, and Lu Guan was also looking at him, as if thinking.

Song Qianzhi blushed.

"Master Lu, what do you see me doing?"

Lu Guan sneered: "Master Song doesn't look at me, how would he know that I'm looking at you?"

"Lord Lu, in the end, is a friend rather than an enemy." These words touched a tight thread in Song Qianzhi's heart. He paid close attention to Lu Guan's face, but it was a pity that the sky was getting darker and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Just when Song Qianzhi got up, he heard Lu Guan's voice saying: "In the account in my hand, Qin Mingxue's rewards for this month include ten East China Sea pearls, 300 taels of gold, and Nanwu submarine tomb." The jade cards that come out. A singing and dancing girl, from the beginning of November to the beginning of December, the rewards, just these three pieces, are enough to feed the victims of the disaster in several cities."

Song Qianzhi could hear the anger secretly surging in Lu Guan's tone, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart as those few things confirmed his guess.This is where Fu Mingshao was not thoughtful enough. He chose Lu Guan to investigate and sent Zhou Xian to help him clean up.But he forgot that Lu Guan is a "person" with flesh and blood and thoughts.

In the dark sky, Song Qianzhi stared at Lu Guan, his face was mixed with the darkness, but his eyes were bright.

"You go to see Li Xiang tonight, and I will go to the palace to see the emperor." Lu Guan changed his mind, and his tone revealed firmness.

This idea is nothing more than a thunderbolt, slanting towards Song Qianzhi's eyes, after the glare of the strong light, it is short-lived snow blindness.

"You're crazy!" Song Qianzhi couldn't help but say.

"Let's do it like this." Lu Guan could not refuse the final word, "Go after dinner, what do you want to eat?"

Song Qianzhi was dumbfounded by Lu Guan, but there was nothing he could do. Whether he agreed or not, he couldn't stop Lu Guan.

"Then I won't go to see Li Xiang tonight."

"It's up to you, what do you want to eat? How about haggis soup?"

Song Qianzhi: "...Let's go, let's not wait for Zhou Xian?"

"Wait until he frees up his hands to make trouble?"

The corners of Song Qianzhi's mouth twitched uncontrollably, and he followed Lu Guan out to eat on the street. Lu Guan was about to leave, and he wanted to persuade him, but Lu Guan suddenly raised his head, and when their eyes met, Song Qianzhi came back to his senses Come.

Lu Guan is going to seek death, what does it have to do with him?What's more, he was sent by Fu Mingshao, Fu Mingshao would not call him dead tonight.I don't know what kind of relationship these two people had when Fu Mingshao was in Quzhou back then, monarch and minister?Fu Mingshao had only been emperor for a while, and he had to ask the Queen Mother for advice on everything, and he couldn't bear the airs of "jun".friend?A person like Lu Guan who can't speak, will be pissed off when he is a friend, right?

But maybe, maybe this stuffy gourd happened to be of Fu Mingshao's interest.

"Would you like to visit Rongzhou tomorrow?" Lu Guan asked casually.

"No, I'll go after the case is over."

"I see that when you heard what Xu San said, you really wanted to go to Zhuangzi to have a look." Lu Guan said.

Song Qianzhi said with a smile: "The people in Zhuangzi must make arrangements, and the disaster situation in Rongzhou must be reported to the imperial court as soon as possible, but the most important thing in front of us is Master Lu's head. Don't worry, with me here, I will not let the emperor have it." Opportunity to cut off Master Lu's head."

Lu Guan's pupils dilated slightly, and he frowned.

At dusk, on a rare and clear night, thousands of bright lights on the long street are suddenly lit up one after another, as if the flowers that bloomed at the same time in an instant spread out, stirring up thousands of shining dust.

"I am your enemy." Lu Guan said.

"Oh." Song Qianzhi didn't take Lu Guan seriously at all, what's the secret secretary?With no money and a lot of pressure, he wiped the emperor's ass all day long, and he wanted to change his job a long time ago.The dissatisfaction at seeing Lu Guan for the first time has been completely dispelled in the past few days. Think about it, if he is running errands under Lu Guan and Lu Guan is responsible, he will be able to free up his hands and take Enke in April. If you pass the exam, if you fail the exam, you will stay in the secretary province.Song Qianzhi was both excited and guilty at the thought of going to study. The past four years have been a lot of waste, so he should visit Li Xiang sometime.

At that moment Song Qianzhi was thinking about his bright future.

Lu Guan had been watching him seriously, Song Qianzhi was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't care.

After eating two bowls of haggis soup on the street, the two separated, Song Qianzhi went to Li Xiang's mansion, and Lu Guan went to the palace with the emperor's special approval.

☆, Lou Jiangyue ([-])

In the evening, Fu Mingshao and the empress had dinner at the Empress Dowager Zhou's place, and went to sit with the empress in Fengqi Palace for a while.

The belly of Ximai who just got out last month has not yet appeared. Fu Mingshao's empress is very neatly dressed. She is not from a high family background. While chanting scriptures, reciting Buddhist scriptures, and copying books, she wanted to imitate the former emperor De Yiren and the first empress, and she was dedicated to being a palace that would allow future generations to praise the virtuous and virtuous.

Fu Mingshao talked to the queen a few words, and the queen seemed very nervous, and she didn't speak speculatively. Fu Mingshao shook her hand with a smile, and told her to take good care of the baby.

Stepping out of the empress' bedroom, the almost cold smile on Fu Mingshao's face disappeared immediately.

"Brother Shunqin."

Suddenly hearing this sentence, Lu Guan put down his tea and got up to salute, but Fu Mingshao held his hand.

"Entering the palace so late, but what's the progress of the case?" Fu Mingshao left all the palace people outside the Chengyuan Hall, and changed from his usual high-ranking holy driver. Before he came, he changed into casual clothes, dressed in white, and went The crown, only the black hair is tied with green hosta, his face is the same as before, and he still looks like a handsome young man.

From Lu Guan's point of view, only his eyes were different from before. Under Fu Mingshao's dark eyes, there was an unspeakable sorrow, and he was energetic.

Lu Guan withdrew his hand calmly, and said: "The truth of the case has not yet come to light, but it has basically surfaced."

"That's good, that's good." Fu Mingshao smiled slightly, with reddish cheekbones, and sat next to Lu Guan just like when he was a classmate with Lu Guan.

"Does Your Majesty know that Lou Jiangyue has written a letter of love to submit?"

Fu Mingshao was taken aback for a moment, and asked calmly: "Why? I know." Then he showed pain, "That's why I called you back to thoroughly investigate this case. Is it as I guessed..."

Lu Guan was a little distracted, and his memory flashed back to the gloomy snowy day a few days ago. He came back from Quzhou in a hurry. He and Fu Mingshao hadn't seen each other for seven years. Imagine until he pushed open the door.

Outside the door is freezing cold winter, the young man inside the door took off his dragon robe, just sitting on the couch in white single clothes, with a book in his hand, no different from when they were classmates in Quzhou.

Fu Mingshao said that in order for the Queen Mother to agree to keep him in the capital and by his side, Lu Guan must investigate these two cases.