Pei Gonggui

The night passed, and the next day was sunny and cloudless.

As soon as Pei Jun got up to practice his fists and feet, washed up and sat down in the flower hall, before he could drink the porridge in his hand, Song Yi, the chief inspector of Jingzhao, rushed to the door and said that the demolition signed and approved by the King of Jin had started yesterday. But when he dug it up this morning, he found water in the ground, so he came here to ask Pei Jun if he had built a well.

Song Yi said this very cautiously. After finishing speaking, he only looked carefully at Pei Jun, not daring to say another word.But Pei Jun gradually frowned while listening to him.

Just ask the important point because of this, it is definitely not the well.

He asked Uncle Dong to take Jiang Xuan away and sit alone to think about it. He had read all the documents before the demolition of the building. The building was there in the previous dynasty. There have been no wells around for a long time, and the scattered people nearby have to use water. Go to another village to absorb, and over time, the residents will move to the surrounding area, and a small piece of land will be vacated. This is why Jing Zhaosi wants to transform that place into a granary in the west city.

But there was no water before, but now there is water, and the water is strange.And since ancient times, the rulers of the world have been especially afraid of visions, such as crows hitting doors, city walls catching fire, etc. Water coming out of the ground is also one of them.

Pei Jun raised his eyebrows, and exchanged a glance with Song Yi, both of them looked dignified.

"How many people know about this?" Pei Jun put down the porridge bowl in his hand and asked.

Song Yi replied in a low voice: "Responding to my lord's words, the lower officials rushed to tell you about the water that was pumped out early this morning, and the news is still kept secret."

Pei Jun asked: "Apart from you and me, does anyone else know that this building was demolished by Prince Jin?"

This question got to the point, Song Yi quickly shook his head: "Absolutely not."

Pei Jun breathed a sigh of relief: "Then keep your mouth shut. Although you can't hide the incident, as long as you don't blame King Jin for it, it can be dismissed as a coincidence. If Qin Tianjian wants to investigate , and said that the document was signed by me.”

As he said that, he hurriedly got up and put on his patch coat, and led Song Yi out: "Go, take me to have a look."

Song Yi hurriedly followed, holding the black gauze hat for him at this time, still worried: "My lord, the fortune-telling books always say that water governs the changes in the world, if you take this matter seriously, in case someone in the court arranges this for you It’s about changing the world and changing hands, the emperor will be held accountable, isn’t it that those under us——”

"Nonsense." Pei Jun took the black gauze from him and put it on, and retorted calmly, "Have you read "Book of Changes"? What kind of hexagram does "Book of Changes" say water is?"

Song Yi rolled his eyes: "The hurdle is water, and the next hexagram is fierce?"

Pei Jun raised his head and tied the silk rope, and glanced at him: "That's right. If you spread the word like this, saying that I have a bad omen, then the Cai family and the Zhang family may not be happy in time, and I wish I dug out the water." Yes, why would you want to check the sky?"

After hearing this, Song Yi felt relieved, but after Xu Xu helped him into the sedan chair, he leaned against the window and lifted the curtain and asked, "... But Mr. Pei, this water was originally chiseled by the Prince of Jin, so should it be interpreted as the Lord Jin's initiative? Or is it the Lord Jin's murder? What if it involves our department..."

Pei Jun listened with lowered eyes in the sedan chair, thought for a while, then waved to him tiredly and said:

"That's not something you should worry about. Get up first."

The building to be demolished is located in Xicheng, and construction is still underway at this time.After the old tiles and bricks were transported away, a piece of bare land was exposed, with a gap in the middle, and the workers were squatting on the side with hoes, pointing, talking and laughing.

Pei Jun got out of the sedan chair, looked up, and really saw a trickle of water gushing out of the gap, which had already soaked the surrounding mud, while the workers at the side stretched out their hands to drink a handful, and were still talking to others about the coolness.

Pei Jun stopped, looked at the water that was still coming out of the ground from a distance, couldn't help frowning, and sighed a long time.

I still remember that in the previous life, he supervised the demolition of this old building. From the beginning to the end, Jiang Yue never touched a single word, but in this life, Jiang Yue just helped him sign the last approval , changed the person who sealed the last step, this piece of ground that was demolished and rebuilt in an orderly manner unexpectedly had a vision, and clear water that foreshadowed a big change or a catastrophe appeared...

The figure in front of him was in a trance, and Pei Jun seemed to recall the last time he looked at the world when his soul floated on the execution platform after being killed.That glance once made him see Jiang Yue's soldiers approaching the city because of his death, Jiang Yue's face turned pale because of his head, and he also saw Jiang Yue leading the army to break through the imperial city and force the palace to rebel.

This seems to be the final ending of a ridiculous drama in his previous life, which made him still brood after waking up in this life, and he did not hesitate to speculate about what Jiang Yue had done to him with the worst malice, but now looking at the water, thinking about it... He couldn't help but think of the album that Jiang Yue sent to him last night:

The emergency document for demolishing the building was originally signed by Jiang Yue on his behalf, so should the vision of water emerging from the ground be blamed on him or Jiang Yue?And if Jiang Yue in the previous life had long been interested in him as he was in this life, and had also been slow to make up his mind to rebel, then the soldiers he saw approaching the city and forcing the palace in a rage, could it be Jiang Yue's original intention?If Jiang Yue's original intention at that time was not to rebel, but just to save him, and the iron cavalry broke the city if he failed to save him, then should it be said that Jiang Yue's rebellion brought about the absurd and bleak ending of his previous life, or should it be said that Jiang Yue's death was due to his tragic death? Changed the life of that life?

——It is more likely that the two of them have been connected in their fortunes for a long time, one after another, or the prosperity of yin and the decline of yang, or the two phases are involved, or they reflect each other from a distance, but they never move as if they are involved in business, and they are not in harmony , not seeing, difference, separation...

Thinking of all kinds of things with Jiang Yue in the last few years of his previous life, Pei Jun frowned, lowered his head, and when he was young, he only called Song Yi and said, "It's a good thing for the people when the water comes out. If the Ministry of Industry checks that there is no danger of subsidence, then the Let’s open the well, and the building will be repaired accordingly.”

"Yes, yes, what your lord said is true." Song Yi responded quickly, and then asked in a low voice next to him: "The document that was handed to the cabinet, the reason for the digging..."

Pei Jun turned around and walked back to the sedan chair, sat down, and said lightly: "Everyone who handles it will remember my name, and hand it to me for signature when it is finished. Don't go to the Prince Jin's Mansion again."

Song Yi instinctively felt that it was quite difficult to be caught between the governor of the hall and the young minister, and he refused to let go of the hand holding Pei Jun's sedan chair curtain: "Then if the prince asks..."

"My lord, I'll explain myself, and you don't have to worry about it." After Pei Jun finished speaking, he frowned and waved Song Yi away. Song Yi finally put down the curtain and reported the recent business affairs of Jingzhao Division all the way. Followed the sedan chair to the main road in the city.

From here, it goes straight to the southern city gate of Jingnan, and to the north is the Forbidden Palace of the Imperial City. The road is straight and wide, dividing east and west, and it is laid flat under the blue sky and white sun.

The noon sun was just right, and the floor tiles on the road exuded some hot spring warmth.Vendors are preparing to open by the side of the road, and the military defense patrolling the city has just been replaced by the first shift of the day.

Pei Jun had just finished speaking with Song Yi and said goodbye to each other, before he lowered the curtains to call for people to get up the sedan chair, he suddenly heard horses neighing and people rushing towards the south with the clatter of hooves.

He searched for the sound, and saw an old man covered in travel dust, who was galloping towards him on a bony and skinny horse. In the blink of an eye, he had already galloped past his sedan chair, heading straight for the Nangong Gate.While walking quickly, the hoarse voice of the old man tried to choke: "Get out of the way!————"

How dangerous is it to run a horse in a busy city?Pei Jun's intuition was different, so he quickly lifted the curtain and got out of the sedan chair.At the side, Song Yi also hurried north with him a few steps, looking up at the direction the old man was walking.

After seeing clearly, Song Yi's complexion changed: "No, Mr. Pei, that man is going to Wengutang!"

Wengutang, located in the Nangong Gate, is under the jurisdiction of Yushitai. There is a single gate next to the main gate of Nangong, and there is a big drum inside, named "Dengwen Drum".People who have been wronged and victimized in the past dynasties but have nowhere to accept them, if they come here to beat the drum surface of Dengwen, they can use the bang of the drum to startle the heavens, and report their grievances to the emperor in the forbidden palace. The emperor made decisions for the people and appeased his own grievances.

If the galloping old man went to the Wengu Hall with all his heart, he would definitely be beating the drums to complain.

"……broken."

Pei Jun thought for a moment, and suddenly felt that the old man galloping over was probably Li Cunzhi, the prefect of Wuzhou who hadn't entered the capital for a long time. Without thinking too much, he pulled a pony from a vendor by the side of the road, jumped up and grabbed the horse's belly. With the exclamation of Song Yi and the surrounding crowd, he took the rein and ran towards the old man.

Outside the gate of the imperial city, a galloping horse is only a few hundred steps away.Pei Jun rushed again and again, but he still didn't have time to enter the Wengu Hall. At this time, he was still outside the Nangong Gate, and he heard the drums coming from the hall, and the sound was like thunder, resounding through the sky.

During the gap between the drums, a hoarse old voice yelled sadly through the palace wall of a hundred feet. This yell was more heartbreaking and heartbreaking than the thunderous drum:

"Heaven above! Please accept the crime! Li Cunzhi, the prefect of Wuzhou, brought the injustice of all the people in the south to sue! Sue Ningwuhou Tang's family for misappropriating work, embezzling food, being greedy and detaining people, and imprisoning the people unjustly! Terrible, the crime deserves to be punished! The guilty minister looks to the saint to listen to the inquiry, to question him, and to return the common people...justice!"