It's time for a showdown, all the powerful officials in Beijing are my students!

In the garden of Prince Liang's Mansion, Li Ziyu and Kong Xun finally got rid of a group of women. Now they were looking at the decayed lotuses in the pond after winter at the waterside pavilion.

The two of them looked at each other and felt that there was a pair of eyes in the dark that was always monitoring their every move.

Although Li Ziyu was brought into the county magistrate's house by Xin Weiwei as a retainer, he and Feng Yuxiu, who was with him, still felt like someone was spying on them secretly.

Kong Xun was not under constant surveillance, but Si Lingling sent someone to forcefully invite him into the mansion where he had good food and drink but was not allowed to wander around. The entire Liang Prince's mansion regarded him as a plaything of their little princess.

The servants were all polite to him on the surface, but could turn around and look down upon him with disdain.

Fortunately, the boy Shan Yongzhen who followed him was quite clever. He often helped some of the low-level servants in Prince Liang's palace to do some work and run errands, and he got along well with them.

Inquiring about when King Liang would come back gave Kong Xun a chance to meet him, and pretended to explain the situation to him, hoping that King Liang would let him leave the palace and give him freedom.

The King of Liang saw that Kong Xun had a handsome appearance and a gentle and elegant manner, and he looked like a scholar.

He actually heard from the housekeeper that her daughter, a good-looking man came from outside and said she would stay in the house for a while.

Now the two of them were standing in the waterside pavilion, surrounded by water on all sides. There was only a wooden covered bridge built to lead here. They were talking without fear of being heard.

Kong Xun: "I was asked by Prince Liang to leave from Princess Si Lingling, and now he has arranged me to live in the front yard, where several aides from the palace still live."

Li Ziyu looked at the water and saw the koi fish floating up and down. He picked up some bait placed in the box next to him and let them fight for it. Then he said, "I discovered something strange in the Sheriff's Mansion."

Kong Xun, who was standing with his hands behind his back, looked sideways at him, indicating that he should continue speaking.

"It's just that Sheriff Xin never goes to the backyard to rest."

Kong Xun was slightly stunned, "..." How could the person in front of him talk about other people's private lives without any expression on his face.

"I also found that he also let Xin Weiwei, his daughter who was rumored to be very fond of, let it go. No matter what he did was right or wrong, he never disciplined her. There was no so-called love in his eyes when he looked at her."

Li Ziyu didn't even raise her eyes and continued: "Do you think this is a normal reaction of a father who loves his daughter?"

Kong Xun paused. At first, he thought that what Li Ziyu heard was the gossip of the governor's house, but when he thought about it, he felt something strange.

Not going to the backyard can be said to be a sign of discord between the couple. If he was treating a child he didn't love, Governor Xin's behavior would be justified.

However, they found out that Xin Xuyao, the county guard, had a good fortune the year Xin Weiwei was born. He was promoted successively and within a few years, he was sent here to be the county guard and became a high official.

Although Lingnan is not a wealthy place, the sky is high and the emperor is far away here, and no one who is poor can be poor.

Therefore, County Sheriff Xin believed that his daughter was his father's lucky star, and he loved her very much since she was born. This was indeed not a sign of true love for his daughter.

The two of them didn't say much, after all, there was still someone watching them secretly.

As soon as Li Ziyu and Kong Xun returned to the garden pavilion where a group of young ladies and their brothers or fiancés were, they saw Si Lingling, a maid, stopping a servant who was rushing to the main hall to report something.

"The princess asked a question, but you still didn't answer."

The servant lowered his head slightly. After thinking about the matter for a moment, there was nothing he could not say, so he reported back: "A large group of people came to the gate of the palace, praying to our prince to make the decision for them. They said that the newly harvested grain this year was stolen by bandits again. After the robbery, the county magistrate's office increased the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people hoped that the prince could save them."

Si Lingling originally lost interest in listening after hearing this, but she saw Kong Xun frequently looking towards the gate.

So he opened his mouth and took everyone to the gate of the palace to watch the excitement.

This is a matter of dire straits for the common people, but in the eyes of these wealthy young ladies and gentlemen who don’t have to worry about food and drink, it is only worthy of being watched as a spectacle.

"Please, Chief Butler, let us meet the prince. The prince is kind-hearted, and he will definitely make the decision for the little ones."

"Yes! Please, butler, if the prince cannot save the common people, we will starve to death this year."

"Bang bang." Suddenly, in front of the door of Prince Liang's Mansion, hundreds of people in ragged clothes were lying on the ground, banging their heads, and their foreheads were red and swollen.

It can be seen that life cannot go on anymore, otherwise no one will be able to eat enough and torture themselves.

"Hehehehe" Si Lingling pointed at the thin child and said with a smile: "Look at that little guy, his head is bigger than his body, his eyes are sunken, and his cheekbones are high. How can he be so ugly?"

"That's right, that's right." Another rich lady who doesn't like the fireworks of the world is in line with Si Lingling: "Look at that person, the clothes he wears are not only longer and shorter, but also have so many patches. He doesn't change them when he goes out. A new dress."

The young masters from Lingnan City who came out behind the ladies were from wealthy families. It was already winter and they were holding a folding fan in their hands.

He lightly fanned his nose and said with disgust in his eyes: "We'd better go back. The sour smell on these people is so disgusting."

When Kong Xun heard what these high-ranking young ladies said, a cold light flashed deep in his eyes.

He remembered that when An Xin once took them on a trip, they passed by a wealthy family's house and saw several little beggars waiting there shivering in the winter.

At that time, Chen Qibao asked curiously: Why didn't those beggars find a place to hide from the wind? What were they doing standing at the back door of that house?
That's when he heard An Xin's unmistakable reply: Waiting for food.

Sure enough, soon the back door of the house was opened from the inside, and a servant came out. The words he spoke were even biting than the cold wind at that time.

“My master said that beggars like you often hang around outside our house, which will affect the feng shui of our house.

From now on, even if the leftovers in our house are fed to pigs and dogs and thrown away, they will not be given to you again. "

In the end, those beggars who did not receive food were forcibly driven away by the guards of the home with sticks.

Kong Xun remembered that he and Yuchi Yi, Gaotai and Chen Qibao were both so angry that their eyes were red.

At that time, only Chief Xiao Shan, who had a cold face, said something in a faint tone that still remains fresh in his memory.

"The wine and meat of the rich family stinks, and there are bones frozen to death on the road. The prosperity and decline are so close to each other..."

An Xin said that it was written by a person named Du. She read it by chance and felt that it was very relevant to the situation at that time, so she couldn't help but tell it.

But before they left, that family heard that all their money had been stolen, and they quickly fell into ruin due to poor management and insufficient liquidity.