"But what does Lord Wei want us to do?" Bai Erlang asked.
Bai Shandao: "It should be said that the emperor wants us to do something." The number of places in the Imperial Academy is what we asked the emperor for. Could it be that Wei Zhi would give them all his only places?
The three of them couldn't guess it together, but they thought it must be related to King Yizhou.
The three of them couldn't guess, so they decided to go back and ask their grandmother. It turned out that Mrs. Liu felt unwell and had gone back to her room to rest.
Bai Shan didn't even enter the house. He stood outside the yard and thought for a while before saying: "Grandma must have been moved. My father also spent a lot of effort to get into the Imperial College, and he was admitted to the four majors in the Imperial College. Forget it.
, let’s not ask, lest grandma feel distressed again.”
Man Bao: "Then go ask Mr. Yang."
Magistrate Yang was leading Master Wei around the village. The three of them found a relatively high ground and squatted down, staring at Magistrate Yang in the distance as he led Master Wei around the fields.
He raised his head and asked: "Do you think Mr. Wei is a good official or a bad official?"
Bai Shandao: "Who knows? I think you can't look at people by their superficial appearance. Sometimes even looking at what he does or says is not enough to judge whether he is a person or an official. Adults are very complicated."
Manbao thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "What you said makes sense."
Bai Erlang's head was about to grow, "I don't know if adults are complicated anymore, but I know you are very complicated now."
Man Bao and Bai Shan sighed together: "It's not complicated. They didn't say anything about King Yizhou after we entered the house. Obviously the case is still unsolved, and they even encouraged us to go to the capital. Alas, adults have more complicated thoughts.
We just said what we were thinking, but they said it without understanding."
Bai Shan said thoughtfully: "Next time we will also hide our thoughts from them."
The two friends nodded together, then continued to squat and look at the two adults below. Feeling that their legs were a little tired, they simply sat down on the grass and asked, "When will they finish talking?"
"I don't know, let's wait a little longer." Bai Shan picked up a piece of grass and played with it, "It won't be long anyway. It's almost time for dinner. Our family doesn't want to eat, but other people in the village also want to eat."
Well, they can't have dinner at someone else's house."
Man Bao and Bai Erlang thought it was reasonable, so they continued to wait. Unexpectedly, Wei Zhi actually turned around and went to eat at someone else's house in the village.
The three friends sitting on the high slope were all stunned. Daji reminded: "Master, Master Tang, Miss Man, it's time for us to go back for dinner."
Man Bao jumped up and stood on tiptoes to take a hard look. After making a distinction, he said: "It seems that they are going to my house. Let's go to my house for dinner."
Man Bao took the lead and rushed down. Bai Shan and Bai Erlang also rushed down the hillside and followed Man Bao to Lao Zhou's house.
Sanya was about to go out to find her sister-in-law when she came back for dinner. As soon as she arrived at the door, she bumped into her and said, "Sister-in-law, the official is here at our house. The eldest aunt is about to kill the chicken. Grandpa is talking to the official in the main room.
"
Man Bao agreed and was about to go into the house to take a look when Magistrate Yang came out of the hall. He stood at the door and glanced at the three people, nodded slightly to them, and then walked out.
Man Bao glanced at Mr. Wei's entourage standing at the door, and then at Magistrate Yang who was wandering around for a walk, and then entered their small courtyard with a sway.
Manbao rushed into the kitchen and said to Qian who was chopping chicken: "Sister-in-law, Shanbao and Bai Erlang are also having dinner here."
Qian laughed and said, "Okay, just now when Magistrate Yang brought the senior officials, we cooked another pot. It must be enough to eat."
Only then did Man Bao come out of the kitchen. Bai Shan and Bai Erlang had already bowed and said hello to Mr. Wei and Lao Zhou in the hall. The three of them naturally slipped into the small courtyard. Magistrate Yang was standing in the courtyard with his hands behind his back.
Next to the tree, when he heard the sound, he looked back at them with a smile, "I remember there were no pear trees here when I came last year. When were they planted?"
"My fourth brother bought it this year and planted it. He said that there were too many boys in the family and he wanted a girl, so he planted a peach tree to attract a girl."
Magistrate Yang was confused, "Why do you need to plant peach trees to recruit a girl?"
Man Bao said with a heavy face: "Because my fourth brother feels that there are too many boys in the family, so planting peach blossoms, even if you can't find a girl, is still a good idea to find a wife."
Magistrate Yang:......
Bai Shan brought them back to the topic they had strayed from, "Master Yang, why are Master Wei here?"
Magistrate Yang glanced outside and then said, "Didn't you ask Mrs. Liu?"
"Grandma is not feeling well, so we can't disturb her."
County Magistrate Yang can naturally guess why Mrs. Liu is feeling unwell. I'm afraid it's not physical discomfort, but emotional discomfort, right?
He glanced at the three young girls who were still looking at him simply, thought for a moment and said, "Master Wei is here to investigate King Yizhou's affairs. If we get the evidence..."
Seeing the three people's eyes brightening, Magistrate Yang paused and then said: "Now that we have obtained the evidence that King Yizhou is still evil, the emperor will definitely hold him accountable."
The three of them said in unison: "Then ask."
County Magistrate Yang couldn't help but flick Bai Shan's head, "If you can ask, of course you have to ask, but I'm afraid that as soon as the official's report is published, people in the palace will know it before it is brought out in the court."
The three of them couldn't figure out what the connection was. Shangzhezi was meant to be known to everyone in the world.
"The Queen Mother is still here, and Mr. Dou is also in Zhongshu Province. I'm afraid the documents have been intercepted before they can be brought to the court. Therefore, if this case is to be exposed, the momentum must be large, and it cannot be from top to bottom. It must be from top to bottom.
Go from bottom to top, and spread the news throughout the court before people in the palace know about it. In this way, the emperor will do something even if he doesn't do it, and the court will do something even if he doesn't."
Man Bao and the other three were stunned for a while and asked, "Is this what the emperor means, or is it what Mr. Wei and his group want?"
Yang Heshu glanced at them approvingly. He grasped this key point very well. He said: "I originally thought it was what Mr. Wei and Mr. Old Tang meant, but now it seems that it is what your Majesty meant."
Manbao and the other three understood, "So they want us to file a lawsuit to serve as a prelude?"
Yang Heshu nodded.
In this case, it is Man Bao and Bai Shan's business, because they are the ones who suffer, and Bai Erlang is the one who is jointly involved. He looked at the two of them and said: "It sounds so powerful and majestic."
Bai Shan and Man Bao glanced at him and said, "Are you going then?"
Bai Shandao: "If you want to file an imperial complaint, you must first have a killing blow. When the time comes, will you hit me or Manbao?"
Man Bao nodded and said: "The stick they used is not the cane we usually use for punishment and beating. It is a big wooden stick as thick as a leg. If you hit it with a stick, there will be no blood, but the internal organs may be broken."
Thinking of their small bodies, the two people controlled by the wooden stick shuddered together, and Bai Erlang couldn't help but tremble.
Yang Heshu: "...I won't really let you kill me, but it's good for you to realize this. The danger in the capital is not limited to this."