Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 511 Moving forward together
Relatively speaking, Xia Lin really likes his current life under house arrest. He lives a happy life without much pressure. Besides, he gets along well with An Zi. Although An Zi is a little old-fashioned, he has a lot of knowledge. His understanding of the legal code and the logic of the case are even very close to modern concepts.

"You have given me some inspiration. I plan to sort out all the previous unjust, false and wrong cases if I can still serve in the Dali Temple after I leave this time."

When An Zi said this, Xia Lin's eyelids suddenly jumped: "Are you saying that even those political struggle cases have to be dug up?"

"Ok!"

After Xia Lin heard this, he felt his head buzzing. He said with a smile, "An Zi, are you crazy? Do you know what it means to overturn those cases?"

"Deny the late emperor and question the powerful ministers. I know that I am a top scholar after all. If I don't understand these, wouldn't I have lived in vain?"

"So do you think you can do it?"

"If I can't do it once, I'll do it twice. If I can't do it twice, I'll do it three times. I'm going to overturn all of Hongbao's decade-long fraud cases."

"Gao Shilian is not dead yet!" Xia Lin slapped his thigh: "You are playing with your life!"

"You save me." An Zi turned his head and looked at Xia Lin: "Do you dare?"

After hearing this, Xia Lin realized that An Zi was not stupid. He really knew how to judge the situation. But if he did this, there might be a big chaos in the capital. But if the case could be overturned, a large number of people would have to come from the Ministry of Rites and the central government. Coupled with this commotion, the old ministers of the previous dynasty could basically be cleared out.

But the risk is too great...

"I can't guarantee it, but if you want to do it, then go ahead." Xia Lin pursed his lips and said, "By the way, can a case from more than ten years ago be overturned?"

"Yes!" An Zi said firmly, "As long as there are files, we can turn them over!"

"There's a complicated case..." Xia Lin hooked An Zi's neck and pulled him aside: "Do you know about the former Minister of Personnel Feng Mao's big case of forming a clique?"

"Yes, the whole family was wiped out on the way to exile."

"Can you turn it over?"

An Zi frowned and pondered for a moment: "I'm afraid it's difficult to handle. There's no one at home. If this is the case with an old case, there's almost no hope of overturning the verdict."

"What if there is another one?"

Xia Lin's words made An Zi suddenly straighten up. He turned his head to look at Xia Lin: "Are you serious?"

"Of course I'm serious."

"Who?"

"The youngest daughter of Minister Feng, she luckily escaped."

An Zi's eyes lit up after hearing this. You know, for people in their line of work, being able to overturn an old unjust case would leave a huge mark in the law.

"This case has been debated for years. My mentor and I have long wanted to review the matter. Can you..."

"I understand." Xia Lin rolled up his sleeves and shouted to the outside, "Shi Tou, come here!"

"Brother-in-law!"

Xia Lin took out a pen and paper and started writing a letter on the spot, while instructing: "Shi Tou, brother-in-law will write a letter. When you go out, help me deliver the letter to the courier, and then brother-in-law will introduce you to a pretty girl."

"How beautiful is it?"

"You little brat, you are looking down on your brother-in-law's taste." Xia Lin slapped his thigh and said, "How about the second daughter of Minister Cui?"

"Okay, okay, okay! That's great!" Shitou was all smiles: "Thank you, brother-in-law~!"

Xia Lin finished writing the letter, turned around and delivered it. The letter flew all the way to the Jiangbei station at an extremely fast speed.

The whole process took no more than seven days, and Dong Niang had already received the letter. There was only one word "come" on the letter, and the rest of the sentence was not written.

But Dong Niang has been with Xia Lin since she was sixteen or seventeen years old. She knows Xia Lin's style too well. If he writes a lot of things in a hurry, this matter is definitely not very important. But if it is just a sentence or even a word, the fewer words, the bigger the matter will be.

So Dong Niang prepared her horse and set off as soon as she received the letter, heading towards Jinling City. She didn't know what the matter was, but she still believed in Xia Lin very much.

Arriving in Jinling City, she was stopped by someone waiting at the top of the city wall as soon as she got off her horse: "This way, please."

Dong Niang was taken to the house arrest center of Zongzheng Temple exhausted. At this moment, Xia Lin was digging a hole in the yard with a shovel.

"Master Xia, the person has been brought here."

Xia Lin turned around and saw Dong Niang, who was exhausted. He groaned and quickly got up and went to the door. He reached out and searched for the key to open the padlock, then opened the fence: "Come in and have a rest. Shitou, get some food and drink."

"Okay, brother-in-law."

When Dong Niang saw Xia Lin's location and his current condition, an expression of confusion appeared in her eyes.

"You seem to be less and less talkative."

Xia Lin walked to the water tank and scooped some water for Dong Niang. Dong Niang raised her head and drank without saying a word. Xia Lin quickly stopped her: "Hey! I asked you to pour water for me so I can wash my hands. What are you drinking? There is tea in the room."

"Oh." Dong Niang helped Xia Lin wash his hands, and they went into the house. As soon as they entered the house, Dong Niang looked at Xia Lin vigilantly, and then looked at the surrounding environment. It was not until she heard Xia Lin close the door that she was startled and turned to look at him.

"What are you doing?"

Xia Lin turned around and found that Dong Niang had taken off her shoes and socks, and was sitting on a stool trying to shove her feet into Xia Lin's face.

"Smell it, it stinks."

"You're getting sicker." Xia Lin sighed, "No... Do you think I asked you to run over a thousand miles just to fuck you?"

Dong Niang was silent for a moment: "What else?"

"Shit..." Xia Lin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What? So you came here in a hurry this time, actually you are mentally prepared, right? I can't believe that you, a taciturn person, have become so excited?"

Dong Niang lowered her eyes: "No."

"That's enough." Xia Lin walked up and pinched Dong Niang's cheek. "If you really want to have sex, you have to wait until night. I'm afraid I won't be free during the day. You should take a short rest, eat something, take a shower, and I'll take you to see someone later."

"Are you peeking?"

"Do you want me to peek? Look at what perverted questions you ask. Dong Niang, you should see a doctor." Xia Lin sighed and said, "Stop saying weird things."

“You can look, but you can’t touch.”

"I can't help watching that."

“Chop your hands!”

Dong Niang was actually really exhausted. She ate voraciously and even fell asleep in the bathtub while taking a shower. In the end, Xia Lin thought she was taking too long and called her out from outside.

Seeing that she was so tired, Xia Lin didn't let her recall her most painful memory today, but asked her to have a good night's sleep.

"Let's talk about it tomorrow. You can't even speak clearly like this."

Dong Niang was still looking at Xia Lin with full suspicion at this moment. After all, she ran more than a thousand miles to get here, and he just asked her to eat, take a shower, change clothes and sleep on his bed. It was like a person got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and accidentally stepped on a cat's tail, but from the cat's perspective it was as if this person suddenly got up in the middle of the night and deliberately stepped on itself.

"I'll give you a surprise tomorrow." Xia Lin sat down on the bed and rubbed Dong Niang's face with both hands: "Go to bed now."

Dong Niang narrowed her eyes and looked at him. Although she didn't say a word, all the questions were contained in her eyes.

"Oh, I won't do anything, that's all."

After saying that, he really got up and went out. Dong Niang waited for a while and found that he didn't come back, so she simply pulled the quilt and fell asleep.

At this moment, Xia Lin and An Zi were sitting under the osmanthus tree in the backyard, drinking wine, with meat stewing on a small red clay stove next to them.

"I didn't expect you to have such a warm and affectionate side."

"What are you talking about?" Xia Lin patted his chest and said, "I am well-known for being kind and gentle to women. I am not greedy for money or lustful, and my will is as strong as steel."

"Ha ha……"

"What do you mean by this?"

"Nothing." An Zi raised his eyebrows and said, "She is the granddaughter of Minister Feng?"

"Yes. He is the key witness in this case. But I have to be frank. Anzi, if you mess up this, I will burn down your Dali Temple."

"If you mess up, don't bother me to burn it. I will do it myself. I will take the last glory of the Fa family and turn it into ashes together."

In the past, Xia Lin thought Anzi was a conservative, but now he realized that Anzi was the kind of conservative who would push the intensity to the extreme and burn everything down, and who thought that radicals were too conservative.

He is indeed a member of the French family, and he is really a man of iron will.

"An Zi, why did you choose to be so radical at this time after all these years? I can do whatever I want because I have a disease on my hands and I have followers. It's very difficult for you to fight alone, and once you make this decision, I can't help you legally."

Facing this question, An Zi chuckled: "The emperor needs to weigh the pros and cons, but you just need to take revenge. Some things cannot be done by the emperor because the court will be in chaos, but the court is already in chaos under your leadership, so I am just taking advantage of this opportunity to set a fire, and this fire is destined to burn me as well."

"Alright, alright. I'll see how angry you can get. Will the court be enough for you to cause trouble?"

"I want to kill Gao Shilian. This is a battle to establish my authority." An Zi said firmly: "Although he has stepped down, Gao Shilian has many cronies. The Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Personnel are all his people. This time I don't want to kill them all. I just want to let them know that the Dali Temple is not easy to mess with. The Legalists have been around for thousands of years and have never been spineless."

Xia Lin nodded: "Okay, I'm ready to rescue you at any time."

"If I can't save it, then forget it. You want me to die in the midst of the storm. Only a code soaked in blood can stay in people's hearts forever. I figured it out. Since someone is destined to die, why can't it be me?"

"Then think about it, this could really kill you."

An Zi silently picked up a glass of wine and said, "There are thousands of ways to die, and I chose the most worthwhile way. Xia Daosheng, you should raise your glass to congratulate me!"

(End of this chapter)