Li Shi hurriedly sent it out, a little reluctant, "Zhongshuzi, you have to go back quickly, Shang Shuling is not here, then there are a lot of major events in the court, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince may have to rely on the adults a lot!" ”

The high judge arched his hand, and he didn't have the heart to say kind words, so he got on the horse and left.

Watching Gao Xianxing leave in a hurry, Li Shi sneered.

If there is really no way to book Shang Shuling and Harrier Guogong, then it is not bad to start from the people he is optimistic about.

He recalled the words that Fang had just said with Gao Xianxing, and thought that he had not left any mistakes, so he was relieved.

Xu Jingzong's letter was so timely, as if it had been calculated, Li Shi shook his head and went home, sat down and continued to drink.

……

Anzai Prefecture Protectorate.

Since the move to Qiuci City, Guo Xiaoke, the capital protector, has not been idle for a moment, first the governor of Yaochi Prefecture and Ashina Desire Valley personally went to Qiuci City to visit Dadu Hu.

Then the original administrative seat of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate was changed to the Governor's Mansion, and most of the official offices in Yanqi City could not be moved for a while, so the main ones were selected to move into Qiuzi first, and the remaining materials, furniture, and personnel were slowly reversed.

Qiuzi City is also located in the Governor's Mansion, which is at the same level as Yanqi and Yaochi.

Then, according to the bottom books of each city seized when the Qiuzi was recovered, the households and mouths were surveyed, and the actual number of households was 2,200 and more than 11,000 people.

Guo Xiaoke personally presided over the recruitment and appointment of officials, studied and straightened out the management institutions suitable for the local people's conditions, and worked day and night as soon as he was busy.

Because Guo Zhizhao is already in Qiuci City, and his wife Liu lives in Ranch Village again, it is too far away in two miles, and the newborn can already be carried out of the house, and the Zhao will send a carriage and horse to pick up his wife and son to Qiuci.

Unexpectedly, the spring was cold, and after a toss on the road, the child and Liu's were sick all of a sudden.

Guo Xiaoke is busy, Guo Zhizhao is also busy, even if he is not busy, let these two old men serve the sick children, that is, sewing shirts with mallets.

Liu Shi treated the edict and said, "I have only been in Qiuzi for a few days, and I miss my mother, but I don't know if the child is not used to leaving Mrs. Cui?" Can you bring your wife from Ranch Village for a few days? ”

After asking his father, Guo Zhizhao went to the ranch village again.

Cui Ying has been a little worried since the Liu family and the child left, after all, they are used to being together, and even Tiantian and Gaoshe chicken are talking three times a day.

It happened that the carriage that picked up the people arrived, and the two children climbed up hand in hand without waiting to speak.

When Mrs. Cui arrived in Qiuzi City, she took care of the mother and son without undressing, and Liu's illness was quickly cured, and then the child recovered, and Cui said that he wanted to return to Ranch Village.

Liu was reluctant, "Mother, can you not leave!" ”

Mrs. Cui said, you came to Qiuci City to join your husband, and I still have a large amount of property to take care of in the Ranch Village, and there are still a lot of industries to take care of by the daughters of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

She smiled and said to Liu, "Look at your father-in-law, he is so busy that he doesn't shave his beard, and he can't eat well, I can see that he is a little unbearable and didn't invite me to a meal Thank you, then I have to go." ”

Guo Xiaoke really didn't have time to thank Mrs. Cui, he was ready to set up a drink in the Duhu Mansion a few times, but he was delayed for a while.

Knowing that Mrs. Cui was leaving, Guo Xiaoke rushed back to the house to see him off, "Sister-in-law, I won't say anything if I'm grateful, who and who is Brother Xing in Xia?" Thank you and see you. ”

In the past two days, Guo Xiaoke wanted to go to the Shaya Gold Mine to have a look.

Qiuzi City has just been obtained, the affairs of city defense and stability are the top priority, Guo Xiaoke has already noticed this problem, but the detailed measures have not yet come up with an eyebrow, but as soon as the big thing moves, the money has to keep up, and he is planning to go to Shaya City.

Xie Guang presided over the gold mine, and Guo Xiaoke didn't take the time to take a look after coming over, and he happened to be going there today. Guo Xiaoke said to Cui Ying, "Then the official will take the public and private, and take the virtuous sister-in-law to the gold mine, even if it is for you to see you off." ”

Mrs. Cui wanted to refuse, but Tiantian said yes first, because her eldest and second uncles were in Shaya City. Seeing that her mother-in-law had a posture of groaning, Tian Tian stopped doing it first and set off with her mother-in-law.

In this way, most of the guards Guo Xiaoke took the guards and accompanied Mrs. Cui's carriage to Shaya City.

As soon as he arrived in the village, without waiting for Tian Tian to speak, Cui Shi proposed to take a look at Xie Guang and Cao's family, and by the way, he could also see the mother-in-law who was cooking at Gao Jun's house.

Guo Xiaoke's master was at his disposal, and ordered the guards to inquire, and learned that there was the house of the second master Cao nearby, so most of the guards only brought a few guards and accompanied the Cui family to come directly.

The courtyard of Cao University is more magnificent than when it was in the old village of the ranch, with a large number of rooms, and the doors, walls, and tiles are all brand new.

Tian Tian and Gao Sheji ran over, and saw that the door was halfway open, so they pushed the door in, and it was quiet inside, the door of the inner house was not locked, but it was bolted from the inside, and there were obviously people.

Tian Tian knocked on the door and shouted, "Second uncle, second uncle, guess who I am?" and Ah Weng and Grandma have come to see you. ”

No one squeaked in the room, and the door didn't open, but there was a scramble inside. Then, listening to the "bang" in the back of the room, someone jumped out.

Guo Xiaoke waved at the guards and said, "There are thieves, go and see!" ”

The guards were all carefully selected, and they were quick, and in the blink of an eye, they caught a person behind Cao Da's room and pushed him in front of Dadu Hu and Mrs. Cui.

The man had only a jacket on his body, not even a shirt inside, only socks on his feet, and no shoes.

Guo Xiaoke recognized the other party at a glance and shouted, "Xu Jingzong, what are you doing!" ”

Then, Cao's second sister-in-law opened the door from the inside, although her clothes were slightly neater than Xu Jingzong's, her sideburns were scattered and her eyes flickered, and it was clear to the clear-eyed people at a glance.

Xu Jingzong squeaked and couldn't speak, and several people entered the room, revealing the men's shirts and shoes that had been hastily stuffed under the bed.

Guo Xiaoke snorted, "Lord Xu, you are exiled, you don't work in the place where you live, but you come here to gangster, how can you tell this official?!" ”

Xu Jingzong salivated and replied, "Lord Hui, the villain heard that the window paper of Wen Tang Cao's housekeeper was broken, so he came to help paste it." ”

The second sister-in-law was ashamed, and Mrs. Cui said, "Lord Guo, let's mention this matter later, and spare them first in front of the children." ”

Guo Xiaoke shouted, "The official sent off the guests, but you deliberately found bad luck for the official, the official knew that you were feeding the horses in the Liuzhong Ranch, how did you come here?" ”

Xu Jingzong replied, "It was after going to the Winter Prison Decree that the villain arrived at the gold mine, and now he is in charge of the accounts under the hands of Lord Xie." ”

Guo Xiaoke shouted, "Your Majesty is worried about being imprisoned, and you are not among them, don't you know why you were convicted?" Xie Guang actually let you take care of the gold account, it's really confusing! ”

Xu Jingzong realized that it was not worth coming to this trip today, and if he was held accountable by Guo Xiaoke, it was estimated that he would need yellow cabbage.

Most of them didn't look at Xu Jingzong's sallow face, and turned to Mrs. Cui, "Sister-in-law, Guo is really sorry not to go, and I brought you to this bad luck!" ”

Cui Ying said, "Why did Lord Guo say this, it seems that there are a lot of troubles here, so I don't want to stay, just go back to Ranch Village immediately." ”

The matter has come to this point, Guo Xiaoke was embarrassed to say even the words politely to keep at this time, and immediately sent Cui Shi out of the hospital.

Mrs. Cui got into the car, Guo Xiaoke personally hugged Tiantian and went up, and said to the girl affectionately, "When will you come here to play again?" ”

Mrs. Cui picked up Tian Tian and got into the car, and said with a smile, "When Lord Guo settles down here, I will bring Tian Tian and Sheji over to visit my daughter and children." ”

Dadu Hu said with emotion, "Guo's family doesn't look like home, thanks to Mrs. Care!" As he spoke, he bowed deeply to the car and waved goodbye to Cui's.

Guo Xiaoke led Xu Jingzong to the gold mine, first scolded Xie Guang, and ordered Xu Jingzong to be immediately relieved of his errand in charge of the gold account, "Such a person who has lost his morality, can you rest assured that he has made an account?" ”

Xie Guangdao, "My lord, what should he do then?" ”

Guo Xiaoke said, "Since it has been reduced, this official has no time to take care of his abuse!" I'm not going to delve into it, let him dig into the mud. ”

In this way, Xu Jingzong had just been at ease for a few days, and he went to work as a coolie again.

Lord Guo had established official duties on this trip, and it was a complete accident to capture Xu Jingzong alive. But he thought that as long as he chased one more sentence, then a series of officials below would be affected by the surname Xu.

At the moment, it is a plan to use people, he doesn't plan to chase it, he is busy with big things first.

Xu Jingzong waited for a few days with fear, but the Duhu Mansion did not overturn the case for his commutation, so he was worried that the matter with his second sister-in-law would be revealed to Cao Da, and he trembled for a few days.

Later, even this was fine, except that the second sister-in-law did not contact her for many days, and after the Wentang steward Cao Da met, she was as polite to Xu Jingzong as before.

Xu Jingzong turned to resent Guo Xiaoke's nosy affairs, allowing himself to be humiliated in public, and when writing a letter to Chang'an, Xu Jingzong's old mistake was committed again, and he wrote to his son in the letter:

"As my father was in Shaya City, I actually saw Mrs. Cui Shi, the assassin of Qianzhou, and she was really beautiful. No wonder Guo Xiaoke took her with him when he went to the gold mine office. Ah, don't you know, the two of them said goodbye temporarily, and even a girl took over the delivery, and she didn't shy away from it in front of her subordinates. ”

After sealing the letter and sending it to the post station, Xu Jingzong felt angry.

When he went to dig again, he was as tired as a donkey with a collapsed crotch, panting with a shovel, and regretted that he didn't arrange the surname Guo again in the letter.

"I think at the beginning, Lao Tzu is also a figure with a head and a face, if it weren't for Gao Jun who made Lao Tzu fall into blood mold, how could he fall into Pingyang and be bullied by dogs, and listen to your humiliation in public! Let you taste Xu's awesomeness, let you sleep and have nightmares, eat and sneeze, and walk with corns. ”

This is a sentence, villains are like scorpions, you don't mess with it like a good worm, but there is always a reason to sting you.

There is only one right and wrong in their hearts: don't make me unhappy, if I make me unhappy, you will hurt the principles of heaven, and if I hurt the principles of heaven, I will have the opportunity to harm you adults, I will damage your adults, and I will have the opportunity to damage your children, and I will damage your children.

Originally, Guo Xiaoke was tolerant enough to Xu Jingzong, and he did not pursue his violation of the system and other things, and after Cao Dafang arrested Xu Jingzong, Guo Daren did not mention a word, but this offended Xu Jingzong.

……

On the evening of the 27th day of the first month of the 23rd year of Zhenguan, the huge horse team of the prince's concubine Gao Xianxing blew west from the ranch village like a strong wind.

At this time, there were actually no people on the street, but the guards were still immediately shouting, "Idlers avoid Chang'an Gao's business, don't get in the way!" ”。

Cui Ying had already returned to the old village from Qiuzi, and just happened to lead Tian Tian and Gao She Chicken home from the weaving silk field.

When they heard the movement and turned back, the village saw only a puff of wolf smoke, and the horse team had already passed.

Mrs. said to Tian Tian, "Look at this posture, could it be that your father is here?" ”

As soon as Tian Tian heard this, she was about to go to the west to chase people immediately, but Mrs. Cui coaxed her, "It looks like it's in such a hurry, there may be something urgent, and we can't catch up." And wait patiently here, and I'll come back sooner or later when I'm done with business. ”

Just from this scene, you can also see how anxious the high judge is.

It stands to reason that it is dusk at this time, and the ranch village is the place where Gao Shenxing lived, and there are many acquaintances, so he should always stay overnight and then leave after passing here.

But he read Xu Jingzong's letter and decided that Cui Ying was in Qiuci City at this time, and he was going to rush to Qiuci day and night to see what was going on.

From Ranch Village to Qiuzi, the official road is 1,100 miles, and the prince who was born as a civil official rushed over in only two and a half days.

On the morning of the 30th day of the first lunar month, at breakfast, the high trial party had arrived at the Shayacheng gold mine.

Xie Guang hurriedly came out to greet him, "Shibo arrived overnight?" It's really hard work for official business, I wonder if my sister Jin Lian is okay? ”

The senior judge went to sit in Xie Guang's office, said a few polite words, and then instructed Xie Guang, "I heard that Xu Jingzong is here, go find this official!" ”

Xu Jingzong was digging under the cliff of the gold melting furnace, and was directly twisted up by a roller and carried in front of the middle concubine.

One of the current prince's middle concubines, and the other is the former prince's right concubine, and the two met.

Gao Xianxing had a calm face and waved everyone away except for him and Xu Jingzong, and there was no one left.

"You wrote the letter?"

Xu Jingzong said, "My lord, which letter did you say?" ”

"Which letter have you written?"

Xu Jingzong said, "Oh, the little one remembered that after coming here, the little one only wrote a letter, which was for the villain's son...... But how do you ask this, my lord? ”

"Maliciously slandering the wife of the current dynasty and slandering the Anxi Metropolitan Protector, do you know what the result you are facing!"

Gao Xianxing's voice was not high, because he was worried that he would be heard by unrelated people outside the house, but the anger in his words was like a breath of fire, straight to Xu Jingzong.

Xu Jingzong was taken aback, the idea of denial was not firm, and then he saw the high judge silently slapping the letter on the table, he knew that he was in trouble again.

"You used to be the person who came out of the prince's side, and the official was doing things beside the prince, and you dared to maliciously slander the official's wife, Zhuzi! Do you want to live? Believe it or not, I shoved you into the molten gold furnace so that you didn't have a bone left? ”

Xu Jingzong fell to his knees and said, "Lord Gao, how dare I talk nonsense, how can I also be a person who has made words, I know the importance of black and white!" ”

"Did you see what you said in the letter? Say it! Dare to conceal it, the official really stuffed you into the furnace, do you think that a prisoner, someone will inquire about your whereabouts? ”

"Great! My pro is big, and the villain doesn't dare to talk nonsense! The words in the villain's letter were said to his son, and he didn't plan to spread them out, who would make something out of nothing! ”