Cao Fu waited in the Rouyi Hall all morning, and when the imperial chef brought lunch, he supervised the palace people to taste and serve the food. After lunch, the emperor took a nap, and Cao Fu went to the apse to eat by himself.

After a while, his godfather Wang Gui suddenly walked in alone. Cao Fu hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and stepped forward to greet the cold and ask for warmth.

Wang Gui stretched his hand out of his sleeve and waved it slightly, and the two little eunuchs in the corridor hurriedly withdrew.

Cao Fu stepped forward and bowed, and said in a deep voice: "Back to Godfather, Yin Qing's matter is done." ”

Wang Gui nodded and said, "When he comes back and gets the money, you can keep some for yourself." ”

Cao Fu said: "Thank you godfather for rewarding, but it's useless for my son to take money." He hesitated for a moment, and then said, "My son always thinks that the emperor can guess this kind of thing, and the emperor understands everything." ”

Wang Gui responded, "You're right, of course the emperor understands, but don't be afraid." Some money can be taken, some money can't be taken, our family knows it. ”

Cao Fu asked: "My son is talkative, what does my godfather do with so much money?" ”

Wang Gui glanced at him: "The most dangerous days have passed, when will you not enjoy it now?" ”

Cao Fu didn't say anything, he didn't understand very well. As a eunuch bird, all you can enjoy is to eat, what else is there to enjoy? Cao Fu has no interest in women anyway, he likes to eat the most, but the imperial kitchen is not lacking, he is already very satisfied. In the past few years, I have grown more and more fat, which is the evidence.

He didn't echo his godfather, he really planned to persuade him, but after thinking about it, he forgot it. Yin Qing's money is nothing, after all, there are many eunuchs who honor their grandfather. Cao Fu felt that the hottest thing was Huang Taiping's money at the beginning.

Huang Taiping is the godson of the heinous traitor Huang Yan, who was handed over by King Zhao and made a scapegoat a few years ago. Later, under the interrogation of Yousi, it was found that Huang Taiping was a useless mallet, so he threw it to Fengyang.

As a result, Wang Gui fished out Huang Taiping and sent him back to Zhao Wangfu to continue waiting. Afterwards, Wang Gui took the initiative to tell the emperor; Fortunately, the emperor saw that he had served faithfully for many years, and he didn't care about it with a closed eye.

Cao Fu was silent for a while, and then whispered: "By the way, then Meng Ji was in front of the emperor today, and he didn't mention Wang Jinghong at all, just talked about Liu Ming." He brought Queen Zhenla back, and also found his son first. The son looked at him, although he used to be with Zheng He's gang, but now he and Wang Jinghong are not all the way, and he wants to get close to us. ”

Wang Gui immediately said, "Who do you care he wants to get close to?" ”

Cao Fu was stunned for a moment: "Meng Ji went to the celebrant to serve as a young eunuch, and he did several errands, which made the emperor quite satisfied." And Wang Jinghong and Hou Xian's people supervised the navy, and they were hugged from front to back, and they were in the limelight. ”

Wang Gui frowned and looked at Cao Fu, didn't speak for a while, and then walked to the stool where Cao Fu was sitting just now and sat down there. Cao Fu hurriedly bowed forward.

"Blessed, you can be more bold if you want some money. But power cannot be greedy, power is a bloody knife. Wang Gui said earnestly, "Our family asks you, if you want to talk about your status and power in the palace, how is Wang Jinghong compared to Zheng He at the beginning?" ”

Cao Fu hurriedly said: "I'm afraid it's a lot worse." ”

Wang Guidao: "Then what happened to Zheng He?" ”

"Dead." Cao Fu replied honestly.

Wang Gui said: "It's gone, it's not the emperor's words, it's just the words of Empress Zhang; So, what can Wang Jinghong do? How many years have we followed the emperor, at that time the emperor was still the king of Gaoyang County, Wang Jinghong was in front of the emperor, can he be more reliable than us? ”

Cao Fu pondered and nodded.

Wang Gui's voice said again: "Don't make trouble." As soon as the emperor ascended the throne, Huang Yan sent people to try to join us, but we ignored it; If Wang Jinghong is sensible, he should understand our attitude and accept this feeling. Everyone serves the emperor with peace of mind, and the days of harmony are good. ”

Cao Fu bent down and said, "My son must remember his godfather's teachings." ”

Wang Gui stood up, stretched out his hand and patted Cao Fu on the shoulder twice, "Our family has returned to Wuying Palace." ”

Cao Fu said: "Godfather walks slowly, and my son will send you off." ”

Wang Gui looked at the food on the table and said kindly, "Eat well." You know how to eat. ”

Cao Fu whispered: "My son pays attention to looking for a few women for his godfather. ”

Wang Gui smiled: "I don't need you, our family only likes Sister Yao." The humble status and the desire to beg for a life are also successful, but don't forget your surname. Otherwise, what is she trying to do with our family? That's a big problem. ”

Cao Fu still insisted on sending his godfather out of the door, so he continued to do his own thing.

Today, because of the matter of the eunuch Yin Qing, Cao Fu remembered the irrelevant Huang Taiping. Unexpectedly, a few days later, he really saw Huang Taiping. Is this an example of what you want to do?

Cao Fu heard a report from the eunuch guarding the Xi'an Gate, saying that a eunuch named Huang Taiping asked to see him. Cao Fu rushed to Xi'an Gate and saw Huang Taiping. This man is mysterious, claiming to borrow a book to speak.

"Go inside and say." Cao Fu led him into a room of the Xi'an Gate Control Army, retreated left and right, and then called Huang Taiping to talk about things.

Huang Taiping took out a bamboo tube and said, "His Royal Highness King Zhao personally sent us to send something into Beijing, and I want to give it to the prince or the prince Cao with his own hands." The eunuch of Xi'anmen said that the prince was busy, so our family asked people to report to the prince Cao. ”

Cao Fu took the bamboo tube, "What's inside?" ”

"I don't know, the mouth is sealed, and our family didn't look at it." Huang Taiping Road.

Cao Fu flipped things up and down, and saw that the bamboo tube was wrapped in paper stickers, and there was indeed a seal on the mouth and a lacquer seal. Because Huang Taiping said that it was for Cao Fu, Cao Fu tore the seal and took out the contents to see.

While looking at the words on the paper, Cao Fu also raised his eyes to look at Huang Taiping. Huang Taiping said flatteringly: "Thanks to the prince last time, I don't know if the little filial piety is enough?" ”

Cao Fu nodded, took the paper, walked to the door, and shouted, "Someone!" ”

Huang Taiping stood there with a puzzled expression.

Soon a few soldiers came running. Cao Fu immediately pointed at Huang Taiping and said, "Take it." ”

Huang Taiping cried and said with a sad face: "What's wrong? What's up! But the sergeants could not say anything, and immediately threw him to the ground.

Cao Fu said again: "Tie up, send it to the edict prison in Hongwumen, and lock it up first." ”

Huang Taiping hurriedly said: "Father-in-law Cao, can you not hurt your own people by mistake, what happened to our family?" ”

Cao Fu said with a strange expression: "You were sold, and you still care about the number of people you help." He paused and gestured with two fingers, "And twice." Don't worry, there's room for things. ”

Huang Taiping looked thoughtful, and when he heard the last sentence, he hurriedly said, "Father-in-law Cao, we still have some things in our family." ”

Cao Fu said: "Got it." ”

The sergeants found ropes and tied Huang Taiping there. Cao Fu didn't ask any more, took the bamboo tube, and hurriedly walked to the palace.

The emperor, as usual, came to the Rouyi Hall after listening to the government. Cao Fu walked into the Xihua Gate quickly, crossed the stone bridge on the Yuhe River, passed by the Wuying Hall and walked north, and soon arrived at the Rouyi Palace.

But seeing that Zhu Gaoxu was inside with Qi Tai, the secretary of the military department, Cao Fu stretched out his head and poked at the door, just waiting outside the door. After a while, Zhu Gaoxu's voice called him, and he hurried in.

Cao Fu put the bamboo tube on the big case, bowed his head and said in Zhu Gaoxu's ear: "Huang Taiping sent it." ”

"Huang Taiping?" Zhu Gaoxu looked thoughtful.

Cao Fu said in a low voice: "Huang Yan's godson later returned to King Zhao's mansion. ”

"Oh......" Zhu Gaoxu nodded, then poured out all the paper in the bamboo tube, and then took it to see.

Cao Fu had already read the contents before, one was a letter from King Zhao, and the other was Huang Yan's handwriting, the original secret letter sent back from the Tatar tribe. Cao Fu only read King Zhao's letters.

King Zhao said in the letter that the Wuliangha messenger (flower boy) came for the first time and wanted to take out Huang Yan's belongings in the money village, and the chief Shi Gu Sheng had reported to Guo Ang, an official of the Northern Department of the Imperial Division; At that time, the eunuch who was responsible for receiving the messengers of Wuliangha was Huang Taiping.

Recently, the Uliangha people came to Zhangde Mansion again, and Huang Taiping went to receive him first, but he agreed to help people without authorization, and received a secret letter from the Uliangha people and one hundred taels of gold. King Zhao was outside the palace at the time, and when he came back and found out, he didn't dare to act rashly, for fear of ruining the main business of guarding the imperial department, so he ordered Huang Taiping to bring a secret letter to Beijing to ask for guilt. Please ask the imperial court to immediately arrest this eunuch and torture him for crimes.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at it, handed the letter to Cao Fudao, "Let Qi Butang also take a look." ”

"Yes." Cao Fu bowed down and took it.

Zhu Gaoxu said again: "That Huang Taiping is really a mallet, he didn't kill him at the beginning, but it's not wrong." ”

Cao Fu gave the letter to Qi Tai, then turned around, bent down and said with a smile: "The emperor is right, he sent it to the door to ask for arrest, and the slave and maid almost didn't laugh out loud when they saw the letter at Xi'an Gate." King Zhao is really good at having fun. ”

"My third brother didn't want to have fun." Zhu Gaoxu said, "He may have a big head. ”

Cao Fu didn't understand too much for a while, so he said: "Since King Zhao is loyal to the emperor, it would be good to send the secret letter from the Tatar side to the Beijing Division." ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "How does the imperial court know the truth of the secret letter? ”

Cao Fu was stunned for a moment: "Why didn't the slave think of it!" Huang Yan may have written two letters, true and false? ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded lightly: "It's just an objective inference, there is such a possibility." Although Gao Sui can't lead troops to fight, he is not a stupid person. He continued to read the secret letter that Huang Yan had written from the Tatar tribe.

After a while, Cao Fu took Huang Yan's secret letter to Qi Tai according to Zhu Gaoxu's meaning.

Qi Tai saw it, and immediately said: "When Gonggong Cao saw Huang Yan, what kind of demeanor did he have?" What about when you want to arrest him? ”

Cao Fu expressed Huang Yan's appearance in detail and said it again.

Qi Tai asked, "Are you sure he didn't pretend on purpose?" ”

Cao Fu thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid it's not pretending." Our family has known him for many years, and this person has always been a fake clever, how can he pretend to be so similar? ”

Qi Tai bowed his hand to the upper position and said, "Holy Lord, please release Huang Taiping immediately and let him return to Zhangde Mansion to resume his life." ”

Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and said, "Then follow the Qi department's plan, Cao Fu, you go to pass the decree." ”

Cao Fu hurriedly said: "The slave obeys the order." ”

(Tianjin)