Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 746
This morning, Li Xiuyuan went to the palace to attend the court meeting very early.

But as soon as he left, Qiu Rong followed closely and left the government office.

She felt that she had been living in the government office for several days, and she should go back to the Escort Bureau to see if she had received a reply to the family letter she sent last time. If possible, she should urge her father to come to the capital as soon as possible.

Thinking of the matter between herself and Mr. Li, Qiu Rong's beautiful eyes always flashed a touch of shame.

But when she came to the escort agency and returned to the backyard, she vaguely heard the sound of a woman weeping and sobbing from the empty bedroom.

"Miss Xie, is it Xiao Xie, are you crying in the room? What happened? Did someone bully you?" Qiu Rong knocked on the door hurriedly and asked concerned.

Xiao Xie's sad voice sounded: "You haven't returned for several days. I heard from the escort that you live in the government office and are with Mr. Li. I think you have entrusted your body and mind to Mr. Li and got what you wanted." You hate me as a female ghost, I can't get close to Mr. Li, I can't be like you
Serving Mr. Li as usual, now every time I think of it, I can't help crying. "

"Miss Xie, I'm sorry." Qiu Rong said with some shame.

"You don't need to apologize, it's because my fate is superficial and I don't have such a blessing." Xiao Xie's sobs came again from inside the room.

Qiu Rong didn't like it, she knew that Xiao Xie admired Mr. Li very much, she had already been like this before she came here, but as a female ghost, she had the heart of admiration but was helpless She also heard Xiao Xie mention her husband's situation. Ordinary ghosts and gods cannot be relied on.
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"Miss Xie, don't be sad, my husband will definitely find a way to solve your problem, I will go and explain your situation to my husband right now." Qiu Rong was soft-hearted, and couldn't bear Xiao Xie hiding in the house all day sad, so she wanted to go back to the yamen to wait for her husband Come back and explain this.

Xiao Xie didn't reply, only sobs kept coming,

When Qiu Rong was about to leave the bodyguard bureau, a head of the bodyguard stopped her: "Ma'am, ma'am, please stay still, I have something to report to Madam."

"Are you calling me?" Qiu Rong asked.

"Of course I'm calling Madam." The head of the bodyguard saluted respectfully: "Not long after Madam returned to the Escort, a businessman named Qiu Shou claimed to be Madam's father and said he was looking for Madam, and he was in the lobby right now. Wait, if Madam wants to go out, I suggest Madam go and have a look first.
Let's see if this Qiushou businessman is Madam's father, if not, the young one can find a reason to dismiss him. "

"Qiu Shou is my father. Is my father in the lobby? Great, I'm going to visit my father right away." Qiu Rong said pleasantly.

With that said, she hurriedly turned around and walked towards the lobby.

At the moment in the lobby, a plain-looking middle-aged businessman is drinking tea and waiting quietly.

"Father, is that you?" Qiu Rong became very excited when he saw the man.

Qiushou was not surprised at the moment, but immediately put down the teacup and became a little annoyed; "You unfilial girl, you are so careless, you were tricked and sold to the capital hundreds of miles away, do you know that you added a lot of money to your family? What a nuisance."

As he said that, he couldn't help jumping up, found a branch from somewhere and hit Qiu Rong.

"Daughter knows she's wrong, and please father calm down." Qiu Rong hurriedly knelt down, not daring to say more.

But when Qiu Shou was about to fight, the bodyguard at the side walked over quickly, grabbed his hand, and stopped him from teaching Qiu Rong.

"This bodyguard, do you still care if I reprimand my daughter here?" Qiu Shou said angrily.

The bodyguard said with a smile: "If the old man wants to reprimand his daughter for being young, he can't control it, but there is a saying that the married daughter poured water. If the old man wants to beat his wife, he has to ask the opinion of the young master, sir. If the young master disagrees, the father-in-law can't do anything foolish."

"what?"

Qiu Shou suddenly opened his eyes wide: "You, you have become the wife of another family, this, this."

"Yes, yes, father, my daughter is now Mr. Li's." Qiu Rong bowed her head.

"I'm so mad, you unfilial daughter, you have an affair with someone else, see if I don't kill you, unfilial daughter today." Qiu Shou was immediately ashamed and angry. If I knew this, why would I come to the capital all the way? To take back my daughter, simply treat it as if she never gave birth.

He was so angry that he wanted to fight, but he couldn't. The guards on the side kept blocking him.

The bodyguard did not make a mistake, Qiu Rong is now Li Xiuyuan's concubine, a member of the Li family, and other than Li Xiuyuan, no one else has the right to beat and scold her, even if it is his own biological father.

Qiushou recovered a bit of reason after a brief rage, and his lips moved slightly: "I will definitely not agree to this matter, how can my daughter be made a concubine by someone, this must be forced by that guy , Report to the official, I must go to report to the official, go, if you wait for me to be your father, then just go
I went to report to the official, and then left the capital with my father. After returning home, don't mention what happened today to outsiders. "

"Father, Mr. Li did not force his daughter. The daughter is willing to be with Mr. Li. He is an upright and kind man, and he is worthy of entrusting my daughter for life. It's something." Qiu Rong pleaded.

"No, I haven't had a woman who has been a concubine for others in the three or four generations of my Qiu family. Don't say anything when you get to the court later. My father will report this matter to the magistrate. When the time comes After the Yamen's trial, you will have no contact with that Mr. Li, and I will take you as a father

go home. "

Qiu Shou sternly refused, and insisted on holding Qiu Rong to report to the official.

Qiu Rong is also shy and anxious, her husband is the magistrate, if she really went to report to the official, what should they do when they meet?
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan still doesn't know that such an incident happened in his backyard. He is now in the Zichen Palace, watching his nose and nose, standing motionless in a remote corner in a daze.

On the court hall, all the princes are there.

The Minister of the Sixth Department, Mr. Yang, the Minister of Zhongshu, as well as the admonishing civil servants, and the generals on duty, there should be many of them, except for a few who asked for leave.

If you really don't want to go to the court meeting of the Song Dynasty, you can take sick leave.

If someone is lazy, it is okay to ask for leave five or seven times in a row, or even not go to court for half a year.

Of course, the premise is that your background is strong enough, and you don’t want to be seized by those admonishing civil servants to impeach you and lose your official position.

The official still looked like that, sitting listlessly on the dragon chair, yawning casually, obviously very dissatisfied with the five-day court meeting.

"Officials, I have this report. I want to impeach the prefect of the capital, Li Xiuyuan, Lord Li."

An admonishing civil official said: "There are many rumors in the capital. In order to solve the case of Fang Shengyu's assassination, Mr. Li pointed a deer into a horse, turned black and white, and forcibly identified a young maid in Fang's mansion as the murderer. Case closed."

"The minister also impeached Li Xiuyuan for corrupting the law and neglecting human life. Many families in the market were ransacked and arrested by Mr. Li because of the Wutongjiao case. The families were ruined and the people were in dire straits. Last night, he personally led troops to surround Ruyifang, so Dozens of people were killed, and the officials were asked to severely punish Li

Xiuyuan, dismiss him and investigate. " Another civil official said.

"Last night, I was in Ruyifang, so I can testify." Huang Shilang nodded in agreement.

Li Xiuyuan's eyelids moved slightly in the corner, and he had long expected that many people would impeach him in this court meeting.

"Oh. Is this really the case?"

The official raised his eyelids slightly, and asked with an unsurprising look.

Immediately, Yan Kuan of Six Doors, Lord Yan stood up and scolded: "The officials, I think this is a bunch of nonsense. The assassination of Fang Shengyu was originally the work of the Wutong Sect demon Wang Erxi. This man disguised himself as a woman to sneak in." Fang's family murdered for money, Mr. Li saw through his identity and arrested him.

It is conclusive and cannot be disputed. Here is the file of the case, as well as the pleadings that Wang Erxi pleaded guilty. If any adult does not believe it, he can go to the cell with six doors and interrogate him in person. "

"I also agree with Master Yan's statement. The case is closed. According to the law, Wang Erxi should be executed. The list has been shown to the officials. The hearsay of the adults is not credible."

"Indeed, the case has been closed, so why argue? Mr. Li solved the case quickly, and he should be commended."

Several other civil servants whom they didn't know actually stood up and spoke well for Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan took a look, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He knew that Fang Shengyu was definitely not the one involved in Wang Erxi's case. There were also several officials in the capital involved. Those who helped to speak probably suffered from Wang Erxi's loss. Bar.

If he continues to investigate, he will definitely reveal all the details of Wang Erxi's case.

Anyway, Fang Shengyu's family had already been killed, so he didn't need to worry about other people's reputation.

"Well, that's the end of Fang Shengyu's assassination case. Li Aiqing solved the case very quickly. As a reward, I will give you a jade belt, a pair of wishful ones, and ten pieces of brocade." The official waved his hand and said.

"Thank you, official." Li Xiuyuan stood up and bowed his hands in salute.

"But what did Master Li say about the Ruyifang incident yesterday?" Huang Shilang sternly reprimanded; "Does dozens of lives just go unnoticed like this?"

Li Xiuyuan said: "Those people were not killed by this official, but by the great thief Shi Hu. When the official family, Nine Mountain King Li Liangjin rebelled, this great thief Shi Hu was the leader of one of the thieves. Suspected of treason, the minister did not dare to be careless, so he was suspected of treason, and dispatched

The arresters from the six gates, as well as the minister's [-] personal soldiers, and General Yaksha helped out, and the soldiers surrounded Ruyifang to kill him. "

When he heard this, the national teacher who was waiting beside the dragon chair narrowed his eyes slightly, and his eyes flickered.

Shihu is dead?

Although he had received the news very early, he didn't think that the old Black Mountain demon would be wiped out so easily, but after yesterday, the breath of the stone tiger did not exist.

Let's just pretend he's dead now.

"The officials and ministers believe that the stone tiger was charged with rebellion, and the crime is unforgivable. It is a great achievement to be wiped out now, and casualties are inevitable."

At this time, Fu Tianchou, the servant of the Ministry of War, stood up and said: "Even if the merits and demerits balance out, I still feel that the merits outweigh the demerits."

"Hmph, you are Li Xiuyuan's father-in-law, so you naturally spoke for him. Do you need to mobilize so many soldiers to deal with a thief? What about the suspicion of trespassing? People from the Six Doors plus your own soldiers, and Yasha The general's men and horses already number in the hundreds, and two people will be mobilized in the capital.
The one-hundred-thousand troops need the order of you, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the mobilization of the five-hundred troops requires the official's will. "

"Li Xiuyuan has mobilized more than [-] people, and the officials don't know about it. Mr. Fu, you didn't stop him. I don't know how Mr. Fu will explain this matter?" A civil official snorted coldly.

Li Xiuyuan glanced at it, and found that this civil servant was actually the one who paid homage to Fang Shengyu that day. Later, it seemed that Fang Shengyu fainted from fright because he was deceived by his own magic.

It is estimated that there is still resentment in my heart, and I want to get revenge.

How narrow-minded.

At this time, Lord Yang of Zhongshu Province also took the opportunity to stand up and said: "The minister also believes that Master Li has made great contributions to destroying Shihu, but the crime of usurping is not small, especially when it comes to using swords. According to the court law, he should be dismissed from office and permanently Not available."

"Master Yang, he is working for the imperial court. He has uncovered this case. At this moment, the transfer of the six gates was approved by the officials before, so it cannot be said that he is messing around with weapons in the capital." Fu Tianchou was furious road.

Master Yang said: "It is precisely because of the official's permission that I believe that the merits and demerits of Mr. Li's actions should be equalized, and neither should be pursued nor rewarded."

As soon as these words came out, Fu Tianchou's face became slightly better.

But Li Xiuyuan remained unmoved, because he knew that if someone really wanted to deal with him, he would definitely not use such a small crime.

"In this way, according to what Yang Aiqing said, the merits and demerits will be offset." The official said.

Although civil servants impeached ferociously, Li Xiuyuan was not afraid of being crooked in the shadows. The weak impeachment would not have a substantial effect, and it could only be said that it was just a means of civil servants.

It's like eating and sleeping. See who doesn't like it and impeach it a few times, and then impeach it a few times if it doesn't like it.

"It's a good thing that the group of scholars were settled yesterday. If those scholars in the court meeting today came to a deadly remonstrance and jointly signed a letter, the situation would definitely get out of hand." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.

It can be said that this invisible crisis has been resolved.

A seemingly dangerous court meeting ended in anticlimactic conditions.

Although Li Xiuyuan was impeached, he was rewarded in the end, and he himself was safe.

However, after the court meeting ended, he did not leave in a hurry, but planned to take this opportunity to go to Daojun's temple to retrieve the book of life and death.

But after asking for a while, I found out that Daojun's temple is in the harem of the imperial city.

This made him a little embarrassed.

The harem is the place where the emperor's queens and concubines live. Miscellaneous people are not allowed to enter or leave unless there is permission from the emperor.

But when Li Xiuyuan was walking and thinking, an eunuch suddenly came hurriedly from somewhere, and said, "Is that Master Li?"

"Huh?" Li Xiuyuan became vigilant when he saw the eunuch subconsciously, but then he recognized the eunuch again. He was actually the one who sent the beautiful girl into the palace last time. he,
"It turned out to be the father-in-law from last time. I don't know if I have anything to ask me for?"

(End of this chapter)