Although I didn't take the environment here seriously, it was a bit strange.

The courtyard looks very impressive from the outside.

Why can't the inside be cleaned? Isn't it a waste to make such a good yard look like a haunted house?

Although there are some doubts, as Zhu Yuanzhang is the emperor, the city is naturally deep enough.

There was no expression on his face, he just followed the people in Liu Song's house calmly and walked towards the only room in the yard that was still lit.

As for Liu Ji, he seems to have been accustomed to all this and is not moved at all.

Just respectfully, he fell half a step behind Zhu Yuanzhang and followed step by step.

When they arrived at Liu Song's house, the servants of the Liu Mansion did not directly take Zhu Yuanzhang and the others in, but first asked inside: "Master, Master Liu is here."

Liu Song's calm voice came from inside the room: "Please come in."

Lao Zhu never really liked his voice.

Because whenever you hear this voice in a court meeting, it often means trouble.

In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang could only listen honestly.

But this time...

A sneer appeared on the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth.

You, Liu Song, have only been in Yanjing for a long time, and you have already built such a big house.

Although it seems that Liu Song is not enjoying these things, but no matter what, you have always accepted this house, right?

In the past, you were always upright and proud of yourself.

Today we want to see how shameless you Liu Song is to brag in front of me.

Zhu Yuanzhang pushed the door open and Liu Ji followed him in hastily without hesitation.

Before entering the house, he also signaled to Liu Song's servants not to follow him.

After all, the two of them are now the first and second in command of Yanjing, so they naturally have many things to discuss.

This is not the first time Liu Ji has come to Liu Song's house.

The servants in the house naturally thought that they wanted to talk about something particularly important, so they naturally did not dare to stay and get in the way.

He didn't even enter the door, he just closed the door outside.

Liu Song in the room is eating.

When I heard someone coming in, I put down my dishes and was just about to say hello.

But after seeing the people coming in, his reaction was similar to Liu Ji's, and everyone was shocked.

Why does Zhu Yuanzhang appear here?

Although he didn't understand the reason, Liu Song stood up quickly after the initial shock.

After tidying up his appearance, he knelt down respectfully and said, "I have met Your Majesty. Long live the Five Emperors."

Liu Ji, who followed later, knelt beside Liu Song without saying a word, as if he wished he could be regarded as a transparent person.

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Liu Song and slowly came to the dining table with a dark face.

When I looked down, I felt something strange.

Liu Song's dinner was completely different from Liu Ji's.

There is a table full of delicious food, with all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas.

On Liu Song's side, there was only a plate of tofu, a bowl of egg soup, a small plate of pickles, and only rice.

If it were an ordinary family, life would actually be pretty good.

However, this was Liu Song in front of him.

Although he is not yet a high-ranking official, he is still a high-ranking official in the court.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang followed Zhu Han's advice and was never merciful to corrupt officials.

But in other aspects, efforts have been made to improve their treatment.

Even with just his salary, Liu Song's food wouldn't be so shabby?

"Is it all pretending?" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but think.

But soon, he himself overturned this idea.

Because according to Jin Yiwei's investigation, when Liu Song was in Yingtian Mansion, his daily routine was basically the same.

The most I can do is buy some meat at home during the holidays.

Moreover, if Liu Song was pretending like this in Yanjing, it might be for the sake of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang or other civil and military officials.

But now this is Yanjing, which is thousands of miles away from Yingtian Mansion.

What's the point of pretending?

Moreover, if it is pretending, it should be because he is afraid that no one will see it.

Just put it on outside.

After returning to my own home, in this deep mansion and compound, why bother pretending to be so simple and plain?

Or...

Is this guy Liu Song a typical stingy person?

But this doesn't make sense either.

In the past, Liu Song supported many poor students.

Even now, Liu Song has actually been doing this.

His little salary, besides using it at home, is mostly used for this.

A person who is willing to give money to others cannot be associated with stinginess, right?

The more he thought about it, the more Zhu Yuanzhang's head hurt.

Lao Zhu also thinks that he is not a stupid person. If he were stupid, he would not be able to build Zhu Mingxia.

If such people are stupid, then there will be no smart people in this world.

But Lao Zhu really didn't understand Liu Song's various behaviors.

"I really didn't realize that Liu Aiqing, you are so frugal, even in your own home, you can still have cabbage and tofu so light."

Zhu Yuanzhang took the word "home" very seriously.

This is a mockery of Liu Song, who obviously embezzled a priceless mansion but pretended to be so simple when it came to food.

Lao Zhu is not very clear about the price of houses here in Yanjing, but he knows that there are so many people here, and it will definitely not be much cheaper.

With Liu Song's salary, if there were no rewards from the imperial court.

Even if he eats cabbage and tofu every day for seventy or eighty years, he still can’t afford to buy such a large mansion, right?

Liu Song didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in Zhu Yuanzhang's tone, and just said lightly: "Three meals a day are enough to satisfy your hunger. There is no big difference for me between cabbage and tofu and delicacies from the mountains and seas."

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed directly: "Okay... okay!"

"Master Liu, you are worthy of being the Wei Zheng of my Ming Dynasty and the Bao Zheng of my Ming Dynasty. We are truly lucky to have an upright minister like you."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In these words, the meaning of yin and yang is even stronger.

If this doesn't sound like a problem, then Liu Song's job as an official was really in vain.

But he really couldn't understand what Zhu Yuanzhang meant.

He looked at Liu Ji with some confusion.

I hope to get some tips from this colleague with whom I have become increasingly close.

It's a pity that Liu Ji is not the kind of ungrateful and sinister person who stabs people in the back.

However, now that he is in a difficult situation, he still feels that it is better to die as a fellow Taoist rather than to die as a poor Taoist.

So he lowered his head deliberately, as if he didn't notice Liu Song's questioning eyes at all.

Liu Ji didn't give any hints, and Liu Song couldn't figure out why Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry.

So I simply said honestly and according to my inner thoughts: "I am a humble minister, I am just doing my duty."

It's okay if he didn't say it. After hearing what he said, Zhu Yuanzhang was probably furious.

"Liu Song, don't think that because you have a good reputation, we won't dare to kill you. You should know better than us what the Ming Dynasty Laws say about official corruption."

"Don't you pride yourself on having a clean mind? Then tell us, what should be the sentence for a serving official who embezzled a priceless house?"

Liu Song replied without thinking: "Your Majesty, according to my Ming Law, officials who embezzle more than sixty taels of silver will be stripped of their skin and used as grass..."

Halfway through his words, Liu Song suddenly couldn't speak anymore.

Because he suddenly realized why Zhu Yuanzhang asked this.
To be continued...