Chapter 229 Stick to each other and complement each other
No matter how afraid Wei Yulin is, Hu Qizhang's request is unacceptable. Do you want to take everyone in Guide Building to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for questioning? Do you want him to hand over the guest list that night of Guide Building? This is simply a joke. Now that the matter is not big, Wei Yulin knows that his Guidelou can't be preserved, but even if he throws this hen that lays golden eggs, he must not offend the customers.
Turning his head with him and looked at Hu Qizhang. The old man looked righteous and spoke so hard. Nine times out of ten, there was something behind him.
"Lord Hu, you must also know the difficulties I have in here. Why don't you see if you can be accommodated? Besides, the poisoner may not be related to my Guide Building. Wei Yulin said cautiously and tentatively.
How cunning Hu Qizhang is. He suddenly heard what Wei Yulin meant. He intended to force this guy who had been pressing his head in front of him, but on second thought, this matter actually had little to do with the Wei family. In case the Wei family was in a hurry, it was not good for him.
"Alas!" Hu Qizhang sighed with an embarrassed face and said to Wei Yulin as if he had sold a lot of favors, "Don't tell you the truth, Lord Wei, this is not that I'm stuck here, but there are two sons of Xiaohan and An's parents stuck on my head." Hu Qizhang told Wei Yulin the words left on both sides, and then said, "Lord Wei, what should you do if it were you?"
After hearing this, Wei Yulin sweated on his forehead. When he thought that this matter might involve Leng Chengqi in those years, he also felt that his head was big twice.
It seems that it must be investigated, but now is the time to decide whether to make things bigger or smaller. If he really wants to investigate Guidelou, he is indeed trying to make things smaller, but his method is also to sacrifice Wei Yulin to get big things. Even if the matter is finally settled safely, Wei Yulin will still be on fire under his own eaves.
No!
Although the incident happened to Leng Chengqi in the Military Affairs Department, there are also the responsibility of the Criminal Division and other places to investigate it. What's more, that matter also has the instructions of the prime minister. Even if it is shaken out, it is not my business for me, Wei Yulin!
Wei Yulin weighed the pros and cons, crossed his heart, and said to Hu Qizhang with a straight face, "Lord Hu, I have sealed the Guide Building for the time being. I will try my best to help you find out what you want there, but you can't take everyone away, and I also ask you and your people of the Criminal Division to keep your mouth shut."
Wei Yulin's concession is very big. Hu Qizhang thought about it and decided to do it for the time being.
After Hu Qizhang left Wei's house, Wei Yulin hurried to the study and wrote a letter for someone to send it out.
This letter passed through the hands of a person and arrived in the hands of the Empress Yanling in the harem before evening.
This Yan Lingniang is 28 years old, which is the time when she is in full bloom. She has been in the palace for three years, which can be said to have a stable position now. In the harem, in addition to the newly canonized Empress Yanling, there are also three concubines of the same level as her, but compared with the family power and personal beauty, the Empress Yanling is the leader, so now she is the most likely candidate to be canonized.
The emperor is generous by nature, and his biological mother, that is, the current empress dowager, has almost no temperament with the emperor. Although this mother and son are in the royal family, they always have a little sense of no quarrel with the world. Such a prince finally became the emperor, and on the contrary, the king Xiaohan was violent and violent, but he did not compete with his royal brother when he inherited the throne, but assisted the royal brother to remove the stumbling block and successfully ascended the throne. On this point, Yan Lingniang is somewhat puzzled. However, what her father told herself before entering the palace has always been remembered. In the palace, she should ask less and know more. Everything should be the emperor first. It is because of this practice that she can have her current status and great prospects smoothly.
When she received the letter from her father, Yan Ling was dressing up, and a message came from the front that the emperor would come to her palace in the evening. Although they have served the emperor for three years, the two still respect each other. Every time before the emperor comes, they will be informed, and Empress Yan Ling will also carefully prepare for it.
The little eunuch put the letter on the dressing table in front of Mrs. Yanling and withdrew. When Yanling saw the letter with her own fire paint mark on it, she hurriedly opened it to read the contents of the letter. After reading it, Yan Ling's mother frowned. She didn't expect that the family's business had encountered such a reckless disaster. Reading the words in the letter, her father was really a little embarrassed. Naturally, Mrs. Yanling knew that places like Guidelou could not be checked casually, and she also knew how much impact it would have on their Wei family if they were investigated. It seems that you have to find a way to deal with this matter.
Not long after dinner, the emperor came.
The Empress Yan Ling knelt at the gate of the hall to welcome the emperor in. But when she got up and looked carefully, she found that the emperor's face was very ugly.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, and your majesty has lost a lot of weight. The state affairs are busy. The emperor should take care of the dragon body." Empress Yan Ling followed the emperor and whispered as she walked to the inner hall.
When the emperor heard the words, he suddenly stopped, sighed, looked back at the Empress Yanling who also stopped with him, and said, "My concubine is too worried. I'm in good physical well."
Yan Ling naturally knows that the emperor is telling lies. Who else in the harem doesn't know why the emperor is worried every day? An Longyi, the first assistant prime minister, took control of the government. The emperor has been in the throne for eight years, but Prime Minister An still does not want to return to the emperor. There are few people around the emperor who can be trusted, and Yan Ling even knows that even her father has had a lot of contact with An Longyi in private.
Although the emperor always has something on his mind, he has never said anything more about the court in front of the Empress Yan Ling. From this point, it can also be seen that the emperor also distrusts himself.
Yan Ling has long thought that she must do something so that the emperor can open his heart to herself. When she gets the emperor's trust, she will really dominate the harem, and the queen's position will definitely be her own. To do this, it is probably more important than being pregnant with a dragon now, and you must not let others take the lead.
After changing clothes, the emperor still didn't seem to be in a mood, and the Empress Yan Ling was not worried. She asked someone to bring the prepared things on the table, and then sat down to the emperor and whispered, "Your Majesty, today the Prime Minister's Office sent some cherries to my concubine, saying that they were specially sent from Wuming County thousands of miles. I had heard that Wuming County was rich in cherries before, and this was the first time I saw them delivered there. Your Majesty, it really seems to be a little bigger than the fruits on the cherry trees in the imperial orchard.
"Well...it's really..." The emperor picked up a cherry, looked at it, smiled, and put it in his mouth and ate it. "It's sweet and sour, living up to the title of Wuming cherry."
"Is it really so famous?" Yan Ling Niang also ate one, and then smiled and said, "It seems that the Prime Minister's mansion should give it to my concubine every year in the future."
At this time, the emperor heard that there seemed to be something wrong in the words of Mrs. Yan Ling. He asked softly, "Does the Prime Minister's Mansion go to Wuming County to buy cherries every year?"
Yanling shook her head with a smile and said, "I don't know, but the wife that the prime minister's eldest son is going to marry is the daughter of the governor of Wuming County. Mrs. An specially asked someone to send this news to the palace with the cherry... The marriage will probably be soon. There must be this marriage, and there will be martial arts every year in the future. Let's send the bright cherry to the imperial city.
The emperor nodded relievedly after listening to the explanation. He pinched a cherry and looked carefully. The red cherry looked crystal clear under the candlelight, which was really beautiful.
However, the emperor couldn't help sighing when he thought that this thing was sent from Wuming County and passed through the prime minister's mansion before moving to the harem.
If An Longyi's son marries the daughter of the governor of Wuming County, his power will increase again. This matter must not escape the ears of his brother Du Yilin, and I don't know if he has any countermeasures. Now the harem is full of the emperor's eyes, and the emperor does not dare to declare Du Yilin to enter the palace often. Even if he enters the palace, the emperor does not dare to say a lot of words to him directly. Occasionally, the two people have paper and ink, and they write secret words that only their brothers know.
The emperor's mind echoed the scene of his father's death. The two brothers hid in an empty room and curled up their knees. The emperor opened his mouth and said, "You are the emperor's brother. Naturally, you have to do the difficult things, and leave the rest to me."
The difficult thing he said is to ascend the throne, and the rest is to keep the throne and the world of Du.
In eight years, the emperor really felt the difficulty of being an emperor, but he knew better that the emperor's brother was more difficult than himself. It is also because of this that although the two brothers rarely communicate, they can always communicate with each other. The emperor sometimes feels incompetent and lets his brother do everything, but sometimes he feels that he is strong enough, because he is silently enduring the unbearable and silently insisting on what he can't insist on. He is gentle, the most patient, and his younger brother is violent and the most courageous. The two of them do what they are good at, so they can deal with those old slippery people for eight years at a young age.
It's almost time to break this stability.
The emperor put the cherry in his mouth, and the sweet and sour juice spread in his mouth. The emperor couldn't help frowning.
"Delicious..."