Chapter 182: His Elderly ……
As soon as Zeng Peiying’s words fell, two rows of sword-wielding, metaphysical-clothed warriors quickly rushed in from the outside of the courtyard, standing overwhelmingly on both sides of the passageway leading from the outer courtyard to the inner courtyard!
Each of these warriors was as powerful and upright as a heavenly soldier descending into the world!
Zeng Peiying immediately stepped out of the threshold and looked at the guards in front of him with fear.
The governor had already been scared to the point that his legs were weak and he was trembling, not knowing where to look.
At this time, the outer courtyard but there are also imposing four warriors walked in, in front of them, this person, the body is strong and straight, young face, all body except the top of the head of a jade crown, between the fingers of a spotted finger, there is only a handheld a mediocre bone fan.
His pace is not very slow, not very fast, but just enough to set off his nine or five of the dignity of the air, as well as his people can not be forced to look at the momentum of the world of the king!
In this pair of phoenix eyes light look askance, the governor as if by the mountain pressure, flopping sound kneel on the ground, forehead touch the ground, has knocked bang bang sound!
“I should be damned, I don’t know that His Majesty has arrived, I hope His Majesty will forgive me!”
Zeng Peiying also knelt down immediately after: “Microchen Zeng Peiying, welcome the Holy Emperor!”
The Emperor stepped across the threshold and looked down at the top of the two men’s heads, “This Yamen is quiet. What are the two adults busy with?”
The governor stammered. Zeng Peiying, on the other hand, could not understand the emperor’s intention behind his sudden appearance here and asking this question, and did not think of how to answer.
Behind him, Han Jun came up and replied, “Back to Your Majesty, before Your Majesty came in, the governor was regretting the 3,000 taels of silver that could not fall into his pocket due to the disruptions caused by Zhao’s guards, and suggested that Lord Zeng, who has a high reputation in the capital, go back to the capital to give Zhao’s guards a bit of color, preferably by offending the face of the Holy Spirit. For his part, Lord Zeng is agonizing over the need to find an opportunity.”
Han Jun said this in exactly the same tone as he used to report back to the emperor, calm and normal. But Zeng Peiying and the governor who heard these words instantly cracked even their guts!
What the two of them had said in the Yamen had actually let the chief of guards beside the Emperor hear them one by one!
“Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please forgive me, Your Majesty!”
The governor kowtowed like garlic! His voice was shaking into trembling strings.
Even though Zeng Peiying was a third-ranked official and not as useless as the governor, he was really flustered! The emperor’s sudden appearance here was already causing hearts to tremble, and his conversation with the governor let Han Jun count listen in, was this just a coincidence?
Of course he wouldn’t be naive enough to think so. The emperor must have already come, that is, everything that happened in Cangzhou in the past few days, the emperor knows all about it?
He swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva hard to stabilize his wildly beating heart, “Your Majesty, please allow me to explain, the micro-chen did not participate in the three thousand taels of silver that the governor said, I simply did not know Lin Zhi Huan before I came to Cangzhou, Lin Zhi Huan himself came to the door through the governor, but the micro-chen did not do anything for him!
“What I said to the governor was just a few words, what Zhao Shiwei did was justified, it was for the purpose of weeding out the strong and supporting the weak, I remembered the king’s law in my heart, and it was impossible for me to make false accusations of retaliation against Zhao Shiwei!”
Although the governor is the first time to see the emperor, but has already been shocked by the might of heaven, at this moment heard Zeng Peiying said so, has guessed that the emperor knows everything, then immediately also for their own defense up: “Your Majesty Ming Jian! That Lin Zhihuan came to me on his own, he made up a bunch of reasons to make me believe that Wu Lanfeng was really ungrateful, and it was only then that I took him to see Lord Zeng!
“But that clause was not added to the paperwork with the Wu family, and instead of confiscating their silver, the Weimchen sent him away! I implore Your Majesty to look into it!”
“Understand?” The emperor took Han Jun’s hand that a large instrument letter paper, let them both on the ground snapped and threw: “Or you two first look carefully, I check Ming Ming is not clear? Or what else is I do not know, you remind me again?”
Thick pile of paper on the ground sprinkled into flowers, exposed on the surface of the handwriting is so familiar, instantly the two of them face blood color are swept away, almost even the breath is swept to a halt!
The Emperor’s feet in the woven gold cloud shoes stepped on that, as if ruthlessly crushing their hearts, livers, spleens and lungs, making them instantly breathless!
“Five years ago you came to Cangzhou to take office, the first money you received was a birthday gift of five hundred taels of silver from the Lin family, and since then, regardless of birthdays, years and festivals, the Lin family has repeatedly paid their dutiful tribute, and even if you are careful to leave no traces of your own, those who are handling the money by your side will not be unaware of it. Do you think they will tell the truth in front of my guards?”
The governor sweated like a pig, his whole body twitching uncontrollably.
“After receiving money from the Lin family, of course they have to do things for the Lin family. That’s why you refused to show up when Wu Lanfeng proposed to merge several times. The death of the child in Wu Lanfeng’s stomach, that dispute between him and the Zhang family, you also pressed on.
“So, right now, you come to tell me, Wu Lanfeng’s brother’s death, is it related to the Lin family or not? What else did Lin Zhihuan do in order to seek to take over our family’s property? How much of this did you participate in?”
The emperor’s tone is not heavy at all, and even light and slow, but the governor is in such a slow tone like a dehydrated fish, gasping for breath like pulling the bellows!
“Your Majesty, please understand! When Wu’s brother died, I hadn’t been transferred to Cangzhou, so I’m really not sure! I only know that the Lin family, in order to get the family fortune that Wu Lanfeng was about to inherit, gave Lin Xie a Liu! It is true that I ignored Wu Lanfeng’s desire to make peace, but I really didn’t get involved again in other matters!”
“Not clear, then go and find out!”
The bone fan in the emperor’s hand as he suddenly cold as a knife words sharp thud supported on the desktop, not a big sound, in the quiet space but like a loud thunder exploded!
He stretched out his other hand to pick up the jade pendant on the table, and then cast a sidelong glance downward: “Before I give the order to escort you to the court, now follow General Han to the Lin family and clear up all the things you don’t understand.”
The governor slumped to the ground unable to move.
Zeng Peiying gritted his teeth and glared at him, “Don’t go yet!”
Only then did he use all his strength to get up from the ground and backpedal out of the threshold.
When he lifted his foot, he tripped over the threshold and fell on his back under the hipped porch, scrambling to get up, holding his hat three steps at a time and heading out of the courtyard!
This side of the movement of the ground to the backyard, is instructing people to pack their bags HeZhong heard that the emperor came, ass lift also immediately rushed to the front, face to face with the road out of the governor collided with each other, each other are shocked, HeZhong glanced behind him HanJun, that is, fast into the courtyard.
“I’m late to receive the emperor, I deserve to die!”
The emperor glanced at him kneeling on the ground, reached out and took the tea handed over by the guards, retracted his gaze and took a light sip, and then looked at the hanging paintings on the wall.
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