When he walked into Jiao's house, Jia Yucun was not in a calm mood.

After being promoted to governor, he changed from his previous attentiveness and the number of visits to Rongguo Mansion became visible to the naked eye.

The main reason is naturally because once you reach the level of a third-grade Fu Yin, if you want to climb up, the assistance that Rong Guo Fu can provide is quite limited.

If the virtuous concubine in the palace is willing to blow the pillow wind, it may have some effect, but this empress has never been willing to interfere in politics...

Of course, Jia Yucun would definitely not reveal this meaning.

The reason he used to prevaricate Jia Zheng was that Jiao Shun and the civil servants were now at odds with each other, and he could only avoid the confrontation temporarily to avoid making the important officials in the court hate him.

As a result, Jiao Shun suddenly posted a message today, asking him to come over overnight to have a talk.

Doesn't this overturn his excuse for alienating Rong Guofu?

If it had been before the eighth day of September, Jia Yucun might not have been willing to come. Even if he agreed to meet Jiao Shun, he would have asked for a neutral location.

However……

Yesterday morning, Jiao Shun brought down a minister and two ministers in one go!

If you pick one here at random, it will be bigger than the Yin Guan'er of Shuntian Prefecture.

Although Jia Yucun also understood that the emperor must have played a key role in this, he was still timid in the end.

Besides, there must be some special reason why Jiao Shun invited him to his house overnight regardless of his dignity and etiquette.

So after thinking again and again, Jia Yucun hurried over.

As for Jia Zheng...

This cheap uncle of mine is just a fool, and he will just try to deal with it afterwards.

But when he came to Jiao's courtyard, he saw that the maid guarding the door of the living room did not invite him in directly, and there were still a few shadowy people standing in the corridors on both sides. Jia Yucun immediately guessed that he was not the only guest invited by Jiao Shun.

, and most of them have higher status than themselves.

Could it be Jia Zheng or Jia She?

But when I thought about it carefully, I felt something was wrong. Jia Zheng now had a lot of objections to Jiao Shun. Why would someone come to Jiao's house during the festival? Jia Yucun didn't know that Jia Zheng wanted to reconcile.

And Jia She heard that he was imprisoned by the old lady recently, but this time he was not imprisoned in the family temple, but was ordered to reflect at home and not go out.

Just when I was thinking about something, I heard a loud shout from inside: "What a sinister bitch, he really dares to come here!"

Jia Yucun didn't know who the person was for a moment, but there was no doubt that the person he was scolding was him.

He couldn't help but frown more and more, wondering if Jiao Shun was planning a Hongmen Banquet for himself?

"Don't stop me, don't stop me! I have to..."

At this time, the people inside were shouting louder and louder, but suddenly fell silent in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, Jiao Shun took the initiative to greet him from inside, and while walking down the steps, he cupped his hands and said, "It's a sin, a sin, to bother Brother Yucun to take the time to come here so late."

"You and I, brothers, why do you need to be so polite?"

Jia Yucun returned the gift with a smile, pointed inside and said, "I dare to ask..."

"The second wife of the mansion and Mrs. Xue's wife are inside."

Jiao Shun smiled, pointed to the east chamber and said: "Although we are members of my own family, there are differences between men and women, and it is inconvenient to talk. I can only ask Brother Yucun to deign to condescend to me and go to the east chamber to talk."

Hearing that Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue were both in the living room of the hall, Jia Yucun was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said: "That was Xue Wenlong just now?"

Without waiting for Jiao Shun to answer, he sighed again: "But because of the case of Feng Yuan in Jinling? I had just entered the officialdom not long ago. I had never done any serious interrogation of a case, and I was deceived by a villain accidentally.

Something went wrong accidentally."

It seems that he is also well aware of his original fallacy.

Jiao Shun did not comment on this, raised his hand to make a gesture of invitation, and first led Jia Yucun into the east chamber. After the guests and hosts were seated, he said: "Since I have guessed the clues, I will do this here."

Let me get straight to the point - Brother Xue is involved in a human life lawsuit again this time. If it is not handled properly, Feng Yuan's old case may be involved."

After hearing this, Jia Yucun raised his eyebrows and asked: "It's just an involvement, not the culprit?"

After a pause, he asked, "Can't you suppress it?"

Instead of saying that this guy is a cunning man, Jiao Shun just got started and he grasped the key point of the matter. If Xue Pan is the culprit, the top priority now is to solve this case first, instead of worrying about being involved in any old cases.

"Disaster."

Jiao Shun shook his head and said: "The victim is the Mei family, Mei Guangyan who was just invited by the Dragon Guard to investigate the case..."

As he spoke, he explained the cause and effect of the matter in detail.

He added: "When Mei Guangyan's son climbed over the wall and came out, he happened to be caught by the people I sent to monitor him. Otherwise, I am afraid that the matter would have been brought to Dali Temple by now."

Jia Yucun frowned at this time, stared at Jiao Shun and asked: "Then why did I come to see me..."

"I just want my brother to take over this case."

Jiao Shun looked at him impartially and said: "There is a human life lawsuit on the ground in the capital. It should have been reported to Shuntian Mansion first. Now that I know about it, I won't just sit idly by and ignore it, right?"

"this……"

If he hadn't accidentally cheated the Xue family first, Jia Yucun would have definitely avoided this case.

He was not afraid that the Mei family would bite the Xue family, but that he was afraid that the Mei family would be instigated by others and connect the matter with the Long Imperial Guard.

Who in the officialdom doesn't know that the overall collapse of the Ministry of Rites is secondary at the moment. What really matters is the emperor's reopening of Zhao Prison!

Now that I have the opportunity to find fault with Zhao Yu, no matter what the final result is, someone will definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble. One side represents the imperial power, and the other side is the civil servant group. By then, will I become a rat in the bellows, suffering from both sides?

Therefore, he pondered and did not take the words. He did not answer for a while and asked instead: "Brother, what do you think is the reason why Mrs. Mei refused to report to the official position and finally forced Mr. Mei to climb over the wall?"

Sure enough, he also noticed something fishy in it.

Regardless of this question, Jiao Shun couldn't figure it out for a while, so he just shook his head and said: "I heard from the people below that Mr. Mei was so frightened that he became incontinent, but he was also bitten to death and refused to reveal the truth."

"Then there must be something fishy about it!"

Jia Yucun persisted: "Didn't I try to guess?"

"Is this..."

Jiao Shun couldn't say that he was trying to recall the plot of the original work at that time, so he didn't pay attention to it, so he had to think about it temporarily: "In my opinion, there is probably another hidden reason behind the death of the old lady of the Mei family, and maybe Mei is involved."

Madam, maybe."

"You mean..."

Jia Yucun pondered: "Mrs. Mei killed her mother-in-law for some reason. She didn't dare to tell the truth, and she was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so she stopped her son from reporting to the official?"

Having said this, he suddenly stood up and said: "If this is not the case, there must be something hidden - why don't you, my dear brother, use this as a breakthrough and force the Mei family to promise to voluntarily give up on this matter!"

Jiao Shun also stood up, cupped his hands and said, "This is exactly what I meant when I invited my brother to come. You are the governor of Shuntian. It is reasonable and reasonable for you to take the initiative to intervene in this case."

"this……"

What Jia Yucun said just now was an attempt to keep Jiao Shun in front, but Jiao Shun kicked the ball back in a reasonable manner.

Naturally, he refused to submit obediently and went to wade into this muddy water. He immediately said with a face of duty, "Brother Yu, of course, will not stay out of the matter. But if I don't come forward first, I can still help to deal with the aftermath; if something goes wrong after I come forward,

Xie, it will be difficult to change things again."

"Brother Yucun is investigating the case in the name of Shuntian Mansion. Even if there is disagreement, the Mei family can't find any serious fault - but if someone else comes, but is afraid that the Mei family will resist and refuse to cooperate, then wouldn't it be in vain?

To arouse the enemy?"

"otherwise……"

"still……"

The two of them gave in to each other for a long time. Seeing that this old fox was really slippery, Jiao Shun could only lower his face and threatened: "Actually, even if the case goes to court, Xue Wenlong can still blame it on his cousin——

I simply couldn’t bear to see Brother Yucun offend King Xue Jia’s family because of this, so I came to you overnight to make amends. I didn’t want Brother Yucun to be so pushy and obstructive..."

After that, he rolled his sleeves and said, "That's all, I'll go back and report to the second wife and Mrs. Xue."

"My dear brother, wait a moment!"

Seeing Jiao Shun preparing to leave, Jia Yucun could only smile bitterly and said: "I'm also worried about messing up things again - come on, if that's the case, what if I just leave?!"

After a pause, he asked again: "Then where is the young master of the Mei family?"

"Not far from the back alley of Mei's house."

"Excuse me, dear brother, please take me to see him first."

Jiao Shun agreed wholeheartedly and said that he would go to the main hall to report. Jia Yucun was also anxious to go home to mobilize manpower and change his official robes, so the two of them went separately and agreed to meet in the back alley of Mei's house in half an hour.

Jiao Shun calculated the time, but he missed his appointment with Wang Xifeng.

It seems that I have to try to make up for this hottie afterwards.

After sending Jia Yucun away, he had just moved to the living room of the main room when he saw Xue Pan, who had been stopped by his mother and sister, suddenly jumped up, puffed up his cheeks and asked: "Brother Jiao, what did Jia Yucun say?! But

Did you ever explain why you tried to trap me in the first place?!"

"He said it was because he was a newbie and was deceived by villains."

Jiao Shun said, seeing that Xue Pan was about to jump again, he quickly made a calm gesture and said: "Now is not the time to offend him. I have already discussed it with him, and then I will go to Mei's house to bluff.

Try to keep this case under wraps."

As he said that, he turned to Xue Biao and said, "Wouldn't it be a pity if the reputation that you brothers and sisters have built so easily in recent times is damaged by this unreasonable disaster? It would be best if the big things could be turned into small things."

Immediately, he briefly recounted the exchange between the two in the east chamber.

Only then did everyone understand why he was in a hurry to find Jia Yucun.

Aunt Xue's heart became more and more grateful. Although she always doted on her son, she was never willing to wrong her nephew because of her son, especially when her seriously ill brother and sister were in Rongguo Mansion. If Xue Bian was really allowed to take the blame for Xue Pan, how could she do it?

Do you still have the nerve to see your sister-in-law?

It’s a shame that Brother Shun is willing to work so hard for himself...

"Then what should we do with the criminal records?"

At this time, Xue Baochai suddenly raised a question.

"There's no need to rush this matter."

Jiao Shundao: "Actually, as long as Brother Wenlong is willing to follow the rules, what if he has a criminal record? The Ministry of Punishment will not dig out these old cases for no reason, right?"

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Xue Pan. Xue Pan was a little embarrassed at first, and then he patted his chest and said shamelessly: "I am not a fool. Now that I know such things happen, I will naturally not dare to do anything wrong in the future!"

Although he swears so confidently, who among the people here dares to believe him?

Then they all turned to look at Jiao Shun.

Jiao Shun spread his hands: "When this matter is over, it won't be too late for us to urge Jia Yucun to try to destroy the archive."

No one has any objections.

Xue Biao took the initiative and suggested: "Why don't I go with you? If the Mei family has any conditions, I can make the decision on the spot."

This Xue Erlang is quite responsible.

In the original work of Wei Dao, he finally got a good girl like Xing Xiuyan who knew both cold and hot.

Xue Pan heard the words and wanted to follow, but Mrs. Wang and Baochai rejected them in unison. In the end, he had to follow his aunt, mother, and sister out of Jiao's house unhappy.

Not to mention how Jiao Shun and Xue Biao prepared.

But it was said that Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue returned to the Grand View Garden and were too lazy to go to the banquet room. They just sent someone to complain that they were not feeling well, and went back to the Qingtang thatched cottage.

After entering the main room, Mrs. Wang immediately dismissed the maid and mother-in-law, and teased her sister who was still distracted: "What? After going to Jiao's house, you have lost your soul, right?"

"No way!"

Aunt Xue turned away shyly and hesitated: "I, I just feel that I owe Brother Shun too much, but I can't give him anything."

Mrs. Wang saw that her snow-white neck was stained with blush, so she didn't know that she was actually very willing?

In the past, Mrs. Wang's first thought was what kind of negative effects would be caused by her sister's affair with Na Jiao Shun.

Now that I think about it again, I just feel sour in my heart.

He secretly said that he had volunteered himself, but he didn't see Jiao Shun change his face and look at her, but he was so devoted to his sister, and he wished he could give her his intestines!

Even though I am a few years older than her, I may not be that much different...

At this time, Aunt Xue suddenly turned around and asked shyly: "Sister, you, what do you think I should do?"

Facing that gentle and pleasant face, which was in the same vein as Baochai, looking at the white and firm skin that looked like yokan, and the majestic figure that stood out from the crowd, Mrs. Wang could no longer continue to deceive herself.

.

At that moment, he said angrily: "You have to listen to what I said!"

As he said that, he took a handful from his sister's lapel and said in a sour voice: "I don't know what kind of blessings you accumulated in your previous life. At such an age, you can still be so obsessed with a young boy that you are heartbroken.

"

"Then I..."

Aunt Xue couldn't help but feel happy when her sister's words seemed to be indulgent and encouraging.

"There's no rush."

Mrs. Wang shook her head slightly: "Even if you are absolutely determined, there is no reason to promise yourself out easily. Please be patient, I have my own concerns here."

He couldn't fight, but he could still make Jiao Shun submissive in front of him by using his sister's name.

wrong……
Chapter completed!