Red apricots make spring

Chapter 184
Xu Xiucai looked down at the letter in his hand, really wanted to see through the cover to see what was written inside, secretly guessing that maybe Mo Wanjiang led someone to arrest Wen Rou and escort him back to Beijing?However, did you mention your credit for reporting the letter?If not, wouldn't he run away in vain this time?
As if he had read through his thoughts, Lu Ce took a sip of tea from the teacup and said lightly, "This letter is related to your future, so you should keep it carefully. If the sealing wax is damaged, you can just write it as a letter." Can't count!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Xiucai immediately beamed with joy, and replied repeatedly: "Yes! Yes! I will definitely keep it safe!"
He got Lu Ce's handwritten letter, and he thought that he would be promoted and make a fortune when he returned, so he didn't feel like sitting still, so he just said goodbye and quit.Seeing him go, Lu Ce said to Yun Dan, "Follow him, make sure he leaves the city and goes to Yunzhou before coming back to report to me."

Yun Dan nodded knowingly, and was about to follow out when she suddenly stopped and said hesitantly, "Master, I remembered something."

"You said."

"The first time I saw this person outside the mansion two days ago, Miss Shen's personal maid, Lu E, seemed to be following him."

Lu Ce suddenly raised his eyes and said, "You read that right, right?"

Yun Dan shook her head and said: "It's not wrong, she was hiding in the corner of the wall, but she showed a section of her skirt, so I paid attention."

What exactly does Shen Mengyi want to do?Does she know about gentle things?Lu Ce raised his eyes to look outside the door, nodded after a long while and said, "I see, when you go out, let me know to wash bamboo, and ask him to keep an eye on the Shen residence."

Yun Dan agreed to go out, followed behind Xu Xiucai, and saw him happy to buy a roll of oilcloth in a grocery store, tightly wrapped the letter that Lu Ce asked him to bring, and hid it on his body. After stopping for a while, I went back to the inn to pick up my luggage, hired a car, and went all the way out of the city.

Xu Xiucai sat in the rickety mule cart, feeling so beautiful in his heart. Although he spent a lot of money on the trip to and from the capital, the harvest was obviously quite rich. The only regret was that he could not find out who invited him to the teahouse. The first and last name of the beauty you are talking to, but it doesn't matter, it is impossible for such a beautiful beauty to be known by no one. After he gets promoted and gets rich, he can send someone to inquire.

After wandering in the mule cart for five days, Xu Xiucai dreamed of the letter with the letter in his arms for five days. When he returned to Yunzhou, he jumped out of the cart and ran to the government office impatiently.

Mo Wanjiang was having breakfast when he heard someone report that Xu Shuli asked to see him, and he brought a letter from Mr. Lu from Jingdu.He was taken aback immediately, unable to figure out what relationship Lu Ce had with Xu Xiucai, so he put down his chopsticks and said, "Please wait in the hall."

Xu Xiucai sat excitedly and excitedly in the hall, holding the letter wrapped in layers of tarpaulin tightly in his arms, and when Mo Wanjiang came out, he didn't even bother to say hello, and rushed to greet him He handed the oilcloth bag to Mo Wanjiang and said, "Master Mo, this is the letter Master Lu asked me to bring."

Mo Wanjiang only felt that something with a sour smell was thrown into his arms. He looked down at the oilcloth bag that was so dirty that it was almost impossible to tell the color. When it was opened, an intact letter was revealed inside.

Xu Xiucai stood there with his neck straight and watched him open the letter and read it. Mo Wanjiang moved the letter away in displeasure and said, "You sit there for a while, and I will talk to you after I finish reading the letter."

"Okay, okay..." Although Xu Xiucai was impatient, he didn't dare to disobey his words, so he took two steps back and sat on the chair.

When Mo Wanjiang read the first line of characters, he was smiling, and when he saw the second and third lines, his expression was solemn, and when he saw the fourth and fifth lines, his brows were tightly frowned, and he raised his eyes to glance at Xu Xiucai from time to time, and waited until After reading the whole letter, his complexion was already very ugly. He didn't speak for a while, but slowly folded the letter, went to the chair and sat down.

"My lord, what... is this letter saying?" Xu Xiucai knew that he shouldn't ask, but he couldn't help asking, because the expression on Mo Wanjiang's face was really weird, which suddenly made him feel extremely anxious. Uneasy feeling.

Mo Wanjiang looked at Xu Xiucai gloomyly, and said slowly: "Master Lu asked me to give you a future."

"Ah!" Hearing the word "Qian Cheng", Xu Xiucai put all his uneasiness behind him, stood up abruptly and asked joyfully, "What future is it?"

"Come here——" Mo Wanjiang ignored his question, didn't even look at him, and only raised his voice to call for someone.

After a while, two officials walked in from outside the hall. Mo Wanjiang pointed at Xu Xiucai and said, "Take Xu Shuli down and shut up his mouth and punish him for twenty years. He will be exiled to the frontier for five years!"

"What?" Xu Xiucai suspected that he had heard it wrong. He walked up to Mo Wanjiang and stretched out his hand to pull him: "Master Mo, why is this happening? Didn't you say that you want to give me a future?"

Mo Wanjiang stood up, shook off his hand in disgust, and said to the two officers: "Why don't you do it? Quick! Drag him down!"

The two officials agreed, and hurried up to drag Xu Xiucai.

Only then did Xu Xiucai realize that he was approaching a catastrophe. As soon as his legs went limp, he slipped and sat on the ground, shouting, "Lord Mo, this is wrong! That letter..."

Before he finished yelling, he was gagged by the officer, and he could only make a struggling sound of "uuuuuuuuuuuu". He was extremely terrified, and was dragged down to beat the board unwillingly.

Mo Wanjiang held back his anger, seeing Xu Xiucai being dragged down, pacing back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, trying to calm down his emotions.

Who would have thought that other scribes in the government office would clap their hands and cheer when they saw Xu Xiucai's misfortune.Anyway, no one confronted him, and he was not afraid that his bad deeds would be found out. A clerk who had a deep grudge against Xu Xiucai even brought some definite evidence of the crime, and ran to Mo Wanjiang to add fuel to his jealousy, exposing Xu Xiucai to the past. In the name of Mo Wanjiang, he changed his household registration without permission, extorted money from civilians and other evil deeds and sued them one by one. Hearing that Mo Wanjiang became more and more annoyed, he repeatedly asked the officials to hit him with another [-] big boards. After ten years in the domain, he returned to the inner courtyard in a huff.

Mrs. Zhou saw that his expression was not right when he came back, so she didn't dare to ask any more questions for the time being, and just sat beside him silently. After waiting for a quarter of an hour, seeing his expression gradually softened, she asked with concern: "What's going on? You look like Annoyed."

When Mo Wanjiang saw the question, he immediately said angrily: "Then Xu Shuji is really not a thing. Fortunately, I treat him well, but he has done so many corrupt and illegal things, and he is still ruining my reputation outside!"

"What did you say?" Mrs. Zhou stood up, walked behind him and patted his back, "Didn't you say that he brought Master Lu's letter here, why did you get involved in these things all of a sudden?"

Mo Wanjiang sighed and said: "You don't know, Mr. Lu wrote in a letter saying that he saw this guy drunk in a restaurant in the capital, talking nonsense, scolding me for being honest and honest on the surface, but secretly corrupt and accepting bribes, disregarding human life, and vicious. Don't do anything! Lord Lu couldn't listen anymore, so he asked his servants to take this guy back to the mansion. Who would have thought that after he sobered up, he wouldn't remember what he said at all, and Lord Lu was afraid that he would get drunk again after staying in the capital. It would be bad if what he said got into the ears of the censor, so I wrote a letter to lure him back, and let me keep him under strict supervision. It's best to just stay in the government office to copy things and take care of the chores, and then don't let him go out. One step to Yunzhou City."

Mrs. Zhou was also angry when she heard this, and cursed: "This plague-stricken thing is so ungrateful! Where is the capital? Mr. Lu was righteous and brought him back, otherwise we don't know what will happen!"

"That's not it!" Mo Wanjiang said extremely depressed: "Once he said something that he hadn't done, I couldn't even argue it! I sent him to the frontier in a fit of anger. Looking back Thinking about it, it seems that the punishment is a bit heavier, the principal culprit hesitated, and thinking about it, someone brought him the usual evidence of defrauding people and extorting money to sue him, this is not wronging him!"

Mrs. Zhou echoed: "Yes! Such a person should have been sent out! When you treat him well, if he speaks ill of you behind your back and ruins your reputation, it will hit him. If you stay, I don't know how to arrange you. What! Even if you stay in Yunzhou City, it will be a disaster! But since you have punished him, don’t be angry anymore, it’s not worth breaking your body for such popularity.”

Mo Wanjiang nodded silently when he heard the words.

In fact, this result was within Lu Ce's expectations.

Lu Ce knew very well that although Mo Wanjiang was a good official, he also had a fatal weakness, that is, he wanted to be famous forever, and his name would go down in history, and he absolutely couldn't bear to have his reputation tarnished for no reason, so he started writing nonsense to deceive Xu Xiucai back. In Yunzhou City, it is expected that Mo Wanjiang will be beaten or punished in anger.When he calms down, he will naturally think that people like Xu Xiucai cannot stay by his side, even letting him go is not enough. The only way is to send him far away. No one heard what he said.
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(End of this chapter)