[R18] Will drink wine – “About Wine” Chapter 58 [English]

Chapter 56 Blowing Fire

The lights in the Forbidden Army’s mission compound stayed on until dawn, and everyone in the household department was dizzy. Finally, they sorted out the problematic accounts and handed them to Fu Linye.

Shen Zechuan read it all, and Fu Linye attached the memorial and presented it to Li Jianheng’s desk along with the progress of the assassination.

The cabinet discussed the matter together in front of the emperor.

Fu Linye said: “Your Majesty, I have won a fortune. It can be seen from this case that Xiao Chiye has been corrupt and corrupt for a long time. In the past few years, he has controlled the power of the imperial army. I am afraid there are many false accounts like this. Nowadays, the national treasury is tight, and there are endless cases of local tax and money arrears. Keeping people like this around is just a waste of money and may harm the country!”

Kong Qiu also read the brochure, but said: “The assassination case is pending, and it is really not appropriate to add any extraneous matters at this time. I believe that the bribery case can be postponed for investigation, and we must focus on the major assassination case at this time.”

“Weird,” Wei Huaixing sneered, “They are all related to Xiao Chiye, why do they need to be investigated separately? Why not pull out the carrots and bring out the mud, and take this opportunity to find out together!”

Kong Qiu was not moved at all and said: “This case has deviated from the main point. I think you are not trying to find out who is the mastermind of the assassination, but you want to take this opportunity to eliminate dissidents!”

Fu Linye immediately retorted: “The bribery case was discovered by following the clues. Why is it that Kong Shangshu is investigating the case, and we are criticizing it? The post of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is inspector. Now I am impeaching him for accepting bribes. Is it wrong!”

Kong Qiu said: “Wang Xian has not been tried, and the bribery case can be decided solely by your words. Then what kind of three-judge trial will be needed in the future? Why don’t you let Mr. Fu handle the case alone? Now what the Ministry of Punishment wants to investigate is whether the confession submitted by Mr. Wei is true. After this night, my witness has not been reviewed, so you have to rush to convict him. If he is really guilty, what is the hurry? If you want to be sentenced, you must judge it according to the rules and regulations! Otherwise, there is no law of the country!”

The three of them were arguing in front of the imperial court. Li Jianheng couldn’t interrupt, so he could only look at Hai Liangyi.Hai Liangyi sat and listened. After hearing what everyone said, he nodded slightly.

Li Jianheng hurriedly said: “What do you think, Mr. Ge?”

“What do you think, Mr. Ge?” Shen Zechuan played with the copper plate. “Of course it’s the key to rejecting the bribery case. Hai Liangyi has been rigid for a long time, and everyone regards him as a straight-forward and lonely minister, but he is the first person to overthrow Hua Siqian and help Li Jianheng. It would be strange if he hasn’t seen anything yet. Xi Hongxuan and others want to use him as a shield for this time, but they don’t know that Mr. Ge has also been sitting on the Diaoyutai for a long time, watching all the time.”

“You did a good job,” Mr. Qi sat on the other side of the small table. “You didn’t stop Fu Linye, but let him make the decision. This credit belongs to him alone. He will definitely be impatient and unwilling to wait for a good opportunity, and immediately wants to submit it for praise. Hai Liangyi already had a premonition during the imperial attack, and now he must have guessed who wants to take down Xiao Chiye.”

“Because the wind blows the fire, the fire is not burning strong enough.” Shen Zechuan said, “Let alone Xiao Jiming, this fire can’t even burn Xiao Chiye. If the case of Quanchengsi is investigated seriously, it is a confusing account that everyone knows well. The important thing now is not to clear it up, but to make the emperor’s heart biased.”

“Yes, the tag reprimand seems serious, but in fact it is just a superficial slap. The emperor is determined not to take away Xiao Chiye’s military power.” Taifu Qi groaned, and after a while he said, “You have to let him keep it, and you must not let him really want to take down Xiao Er, otherwise even if this is a small victory, it will be a big trouble.”

Shen Zechuan pushed the arranged copper plates into chaos and re-folded them one by one, enjoying it and said: “Hai Liangyi controls the cabinet. Although he reuses Xue Xiuzhuo and others from aristocratic families, he also establishes an imperial college and promotes humble ministers. Sir, he wants to proceed step by step and slowly confront the aristocratic family. Based on this alone, he cannot let Xiao Er fall.”

“The Xiao family is not in a hurry because they understand these reasons. Xiao Jiming sat back and ignored it in order to limit the battlefield this time to the capital, not even a little bit away from the north. This way it can be solved easily, so that Xiao Er can have less worries.” Taifu Qi said,”Everyone is now happily adding insult to injury. The emperor is still angry and thinks of Xiao Er as an unfaithful, unfilial and unrighteous person. But when the fire is strong enough, things will turn against each other at the extreme, and the emperor should change the status quo and pity his ‘lonely’ brother.”

* * *

Li Jianheng hasn’t seen Mu Ru for a few days. After the murder, he must light up his surroundings brightly when he sleeps at night.No eunuchs are allowed to enter the dormitory, and now all the palace maids serve inside.

It snowed heavily again today, and Hai Liangyi was ill and could not get close to the emperor.Li Jianheng asked the hospital to go to the house to take a good look at him, and gave him some tonics, repeatedly promising that he would study hard as usual and would not fall behind in his studies.

Minglitang had some leisure time. Li Jianheng turned through a few pages of the book and felt a soreness in his back.He stood up and looked out the window and saw snow flying all over the sky. Suddenly he became interested and asked the palace maid to dress him and put on a cloak, so that he could go out to enjoy the snow.

Li Jianheng was driving around the park and saw the ice on the lake, which reminded him of the ice bed he used to play in the palace.

“The water is icy in winter, it’s the time to play.” Li Jianheng asked, “Why didn’t you mention it to me this year?”

As soon as he said these words, he remembered that this year Emperor Xiande had a distinguished guest, and he could not cause trouble during the national mourning, otherwise he would be scolded by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.Thinking of this, Li Jianheng was disappointed again. Xue didn’t want to see it anymore and asked someone to call Mu Ru.

When Mu Ru came, she was wearing a cloak and was supported by others, walking gracefully in the snow.Li Jianheng saw him through the window and immediately went out to greet him.

“What a sweetheart,” Li Jianheng said, “you walking in the snow are just a scene! I have to ask someone to draw it and mount it in the temple to look at every day.”

Mu Ru lifted up her cloak and said with a smile, “How can that be done?” She took the food box from the maid’s hand and said, “It’s cold, I made soup for Liu Lang.”

Li Jianheng felt good when he heard her call “Liu Lang”. He led her inside, dismissed the attendants, and sat on the dragon chair where government affairs were handled.

Mu Ru served Li Jianheng soup, and Li Jianheng complained: “Last time, the eunuchs assassinated me. I was so scared that I couldn’t sleep well these days.”

Mu Ru coaxed him: “There are only two of us at this time, why is Liulang calling me ‘me’ again.”

Li Jianheng lightly slapped himself in the mouth and said, “My husband is stupid!”

Mu Ru held He’s face, looked at it carefully for a moment, and said, “He looks really haggard. I’ll stay with you tonight, okay?”

“You are the only one in the world who cares about me… I originally regarded Ce’an as a brother, but who would have thought that he would now be involved in the murder case.” Li Jianheng sighed, “Just come and accompany me.”

Mu Ru said: “The Queen Mother also misses Liu Lang very much. She has been chanting sutras and eating vegetarian food these days to pray for Liu Lang’s peace in the new year.”

Li Jianheng stroked Mu Ru’s hand and said, “I was not close to my mother in the past and regarded her as a bad person. Who knew she could treat me like this now? I, I… I blame that old dog Hua Siqian!”

“Who says it’s not the case,” Mu Ru looked at him lovingly, “Liu Lang suffered a lot because of Hua Siqian’s troubles. The Queen Mother warned him in every possible way at that time, but after all, it was a woman’s family, and people’s words were so slight that he ignored them and instead complained about the Queen Mother.”

“Hearing is false, seeing is believing,” Li Jianheng said bitterly, “If I could get along with my mother earlier, there wouldn’t be so many misunderstandings.”

“There were opportunities in the past,” Mu Ru seemed to hesitate, “I heard that many years ago, when Liu Lang was still an infant, the Queen Mother had already raised the late prince. However, seeing that Liu Lang had no one to rely on, she wanted to take Liu Lang back to the palace and raise him well. Lord Guangcheng also nodded.”

Li Jianheng had never heard of this incident and couldn’t help but ask: “What happened next? Why didn’t you hug me again?”

Mu Ru comforted him for a moment and then said: “Later, Xiao Fangxu, King of Libei, reported that the Queen Mother had the important task of raising the prince of the East Palace by adopting the first prince. The prince is already old. If he raises another prince, he may suffer from elbow and armpit problems.”

Li Jianheng said: “Li… is King Li Bei!”

He had already had a rift with Xiao Chiye. Now that he heard about this old incident and thought that Xiao Chiye had never mentioned it, he immediately had mixed feelings. He felt that Xiao Chiye was too deep in the city and had never had anything to do with him.

“He is like this… after all,” Li Jianheng said with hatred, “he, like others, treats me as a stepping stone. It’s pity that I was originally a noble man, but now I don’t even have a brother I can rely on!”

Mu Ru hugged him and said: “After all, if we are not biological brothers, who can treat Liu Lang better than the late emperor?”

“It’s a pity… it’s a pity that the Li family has so few heirs. Now, I’m the only one left.” When Li Jianheng said this, he suddenly asked Mu Ru, “Your brother has been hiding in Xue Xiuzhuo’s house since Pan Rugui was beheaded. How is he doing now?”

Mu Ru said “Okay”, then turned around and covered her face and started sobbing.

Li Jianheng hurriedly asked: “Good Mu Ru, what’s wrong? Why are you crying?”

While Mu Ru wiped her tears with a handkerchief, she looked at he with pear blossoms and rain, and said: “It’s good, but after all, I’m not around, and I can only see him every few months. He is no better than other brothers, and he can also make contributions and serve his father. Now… he can only serve others.”

Li Jianheng couldn’t bear to see her cry the most, so he immediately said: “Wouldn’t it be better if you told me earlier? We are of the same mind as husband and wife, and I am willing to do anything for you! Besides, this is human nature. Stop crying, crying until my heart is about to break, Hao Muru, I will ask Xue Xiuzhuo to send he back tomorrow, and he will be an errand by my side, okay?”

Mu Ru said with tears in her eyes: “How can that be done? How can Mr. Ge be justified? No one else will agree, and I can’t bear to make it difficult for you.”

Li Jianheng hugged her and said: “I am the emperor, and I have the final say in everything in the palace! Besides, if we ask him to change his name, who can really hold him back? Pan Rugui is already dead!”

Mu Ru let he coax him for a while, then he broke down in tears and smiled, saying, “Fengquan also wants to kneel down and thank you.”

Li Jianheng said generously: “This is what I should do for my family, both emotionally and rationally.”

* * *

A few days later, the murder case was still under investigation. Yuan Liu was tortured and his confession was reversed, but he insisted that he had not sent golden peaches to Xiao Chiye and that he had no idea about the activities of Donglong Tooth Shop.However, under severe punishment, he also wanted to relent many times, but as soon as he thought about it, he would remember that Xiao Chiye still had the lives of his family on his hands.

Yuan Liu has been in the Forbidden Army for a long time and knows that Xiao Chiye is two people externally and internally.When the second young master said that he would take care of his son, he really meant that he would take care of his son. If he said one wrong word, his son would be gone.

Yuan Liu was caught in the gap of this power struggle, unable to survive or die. He only hoped that the case would be settled as soon as possible and he would be happy.

The time for closure will come soon.

Things are getting more and more intense, and there are endless and bizarre stories to impeach Xiao Chiye. After Li Jianheng personally wrote a pen and scolded Xiao Chiye bloody, the head of the Criminal Department submitted a case to the imperial court, saying that they had found a person.

This man’s name is Yin Zhu, and he is the eunuch of the dessert room.According to he’s oral account, two hours before the official banquet started, he distributed sweets to the palace masters. At the edge of the Caiwei Palace, he saw someone scolding Poria.

Caiwei Palace is where Mu Ru lives.