After Yu Huiran walked out of the government office, her face was full of hatred!
After getting on the sedan, he thought for a moment, then opened the small window next to him, "Go to the Chen Mansion in the west of the city!"
The sedan chair turned around and headed straight to the west of the city!
After walking for more than half an hour, the sedan turned around and entered an alley! This is the famous Chenjia Lane in Chengdu Prefecture! It is said to be an alley, but it is more than two feet wide!
On both sides of the alley, there are towering blue brick walls, and at the feet are neat square stone slabs. It looks neat and elegant! There is no other door in the alley. The sedan walked forward four to five hundred steps before it appeared.
A tall gate tower!
Yu Huiran got off the sedan, waved his hand for the sedan to exit, leaving only one close attendant beside him!
"Call the door!"
The entourage bowed slightly and came forward, but he stopped at the side door instead of the middle door!
"Bang, bang, bang..." The yellow door knocker knocked on the door leaf, making a slightly dull sound!
After a while, the door opened a crack, and a person looked outside with a somewhat unhappy look, "It's so late at night, are you going to mourn?"
However, when his eyes fell on Yu Huiran, he stopped talking and smiled sarcastically, "Well, I didn't know it was Mr. Yu who came here. Please forgive me!"
"You're welcome, little brother. It's my fault for disturbing people's dreams in the middle of the night! However, I have something urgent and want to see Mr. Chen, so I hope you can help inform me!"
As he said this, he shook his hand and stuffed a banknote through the crack of the door!
As soon as he glanced at the door and saw the numbers on the banknote, the impatience on his face disappeared without a trace!
"Crunch!"
The door is open!
"Master Yu, please come in and rest here for a while. I will go and report it now!"
It's certainly not a good thing to disturb the owner of the house in the middle of the night, but for the sake of the two hundred taels of silver notes, it's worth it even if he gets scolded by the master.
Yu Huiran and his entourage waited in the concierge for nearly half an hour before they saw the concierge return with a sad face!
"Sir, please! I was scolded badly by the master today! The master had fallen asleep just now, and I woke him up by sending a message to him.
Maybe there will be a meal waiting for you tomorrow..."
Although the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister is only a disciple of the Zhao family, he shows no mercy even when facing the prefect! Moreover, there are not just one or two prefects who have been blocked by him over the years.
Asking him?
Yu Huiran stuffed another banknote in the past, and then said with an apologetic smile, "Because of Yu's incident, I let my little brother be punished. I will bear this in my heart! After a few days, I will be free. Please
I’ll treat you to a drink at the Qingyun Pavilion to make amends!”
Menzi's eyes lit up, thinking about the snow-white and tender body of the maid in Qingyun Pavilion, he couldn't help but nod his head!
After walking forward for a while, several people stopped outside a lighted house!
"The master is waiting for you, you can go on your own."
Then, the door opened. The boy from the inner courtyard came to the side, and the door just turned around and left.
Yu Huiran entered the hall. In the hall, an old man with gray eyebrows was sitting on a soft bed. In front of him, a maid in pink knelt on the ground, holding his legs and gently kneading them.
On one side, a woman in green clothes carefully put the tender red cherry into the old man's mouth and threw the spitted core into the glass bowl on the table.
"I am lowering my rank to Yu Huiran and paying my respects to the boss!"
Yu Huiran bows to the end!
The old man ate another three or five cherries, and then waved his hand to ask the woman in green beside him to step back, "Sir, this old man is just a rich man who has nothing to do at home! Get up, you are so panicked in the middle of the night.
He ran to my house in a panic, could it be that someone is looking for his life?"
"Sir, help me!"
Seeing that the old man finally spoke, Yu Huiran immediately fell to his knees and screamed for help!
This old man is Chen Yunwu, the grandson of Chen Yaozuo and an official at home!
Chen Yunwu moved his body and patted the maid in pink on the shoulder, "Go ahead, you and Cui'er will serve the master tonight!"
After the maid in pink clothes left, Chen Yunwu frowned and said to Yu Huiran who was kneeling on the ground, "You are also a high-ranking magistrate, why don't you embarrass yourself?
If you have anything to do, just say it, you cried and worshiped me in my house, what kind of monster are you doing?"
Yu Huiran grabbed the ground with her head, "Sir, the little one really has no way to survive, so I just came to see you for help!"
"Tell me, what's going on!"
Chen Yunwu frowned and asked.
Later, Yu Huiran told Chen Yunwu about the government office and what happened just now!
"Sir, you also know that there is no need for money anywhere in this government office.
Moreover, it was not just the lower official who took the money. How many people in this government office did not get any profit share?
Furthermore, when the lower official took office, the granary and the treasury were not all empty?
This Lord Shen doesn’t know where Xiaguan offended him, but he insists on overturning his old foundation. Doesn’t this mean he wants Xiaguan’s life?”
"It's okay for the official to suffer the consequences, but if his colleagues are implicated because of these things, wouldn't it be the official's fault?
Therefore, I really have no other choice, so I have to bother the boss in the middle of the night and beg the boss for help!"
"snort!"
Chen Yunwu snorted coldly, "You dare to touch the treasury and granary, you simply don't care about life and death!"
After closing his eyes and thinking for a moment, Chen Yunwu asked again, "To be honest, how much money have you earned in the past few years?"
Yu Huiran raised his head, glanced at Chen Yunwu carefully, and then said after careful consideration, "About... about three to four hundred thousand taels!"
"Hey! You're about to die, and you're still hiding it?
Do you have to go to jail to tell the truth?"
Chen Yunwu said disdainfully.
Yu Huiran's face fell, and she gritted her teeth and whispered, "In these... these three years, it's about 1.5 million taels of silver!"
A prefect, during his three years in power, spent as much as 1.5 million taels of silver! This Chengdu Prefecture is indeed a wealthy place!
"However, not all the silver falls into the hands of the lower officials! The lower officials also need to share the profits with the upper and lower officials, so the only money that falls into the hands is only seven to eight hundred thousand taels!"
He saw Chen Yunwu sitting upright with his eyes closed, but he didn't speak.
Yu Huiran couldn't help but grit her teeth, took out a thick stack of banknotes from her sleeve, stood up and put it on the table next to Chen Yunwu.
"Xiaoguan knows that Mr. Lao is kind. This is 200,000 taels of silver! Please help me, Mr. Lao, to make some arrangements to save Xianguan's life!"
The road to Shen Tang was already blocked, so if Yu Huiran wanted to survive, she could only fall on Chen Yunwu in front of her.
Therefore, even though the two hundred thousand taels of silver already caused him pain, he still had to take it out.