The fox went out, and it seemed to be raining. It was late spring, and the rain was no longer cold. It blew in through the window, and it was cool. Su Ziji looked at it thoughtfully, and Wen Xunpeng came in again. Seeing that the sky was getting dark and the cabin was even darker, he lit up again.
candles.
"Lord, Zhang Dai has sent news."
"Oh, after waiting for a few days, did you finally send a message?" Su Ziji smiled, turned around and sat down, and breathed out, "What's his reason?"
In this investigation, I originally assumed that I was the chief imperial envoy and Zhang Dai was my deputy. Whether it was an errand or a grandson's request, it was natural for Zhang Dai to come to see him. I didn't want to wait for several days until we were on the waterway before any news came.
"Zhezi said that Zhang Dai was ordered to rush back to Fanyuan County and received the holy order halfway. In order not to delay the errand, he went to Jielu Mansion to wait for his grandson to arrive."
Wen Xunpeng handed over the documents to Su Ziji, muttered, and then added with a smile: "It has been seven days since he came to Beijing, and he did not pay homage to the lord, but he used this as an excuse."
"Are you really so surly that you don't even care about etiquette?"
"Where is Jielu Mansion?" Su Ziji looked at the map and found that it was the next stop. He couldn't help but smile: "Maybe he is determined to only do errands and not be a human being anymore."
"It's extremely rare to be able to do this."
"My lord, I heard that Zhang Dai is also ill." Wen Xunpeng stopped laughing. He thought for a while and said, "There are also rumors that he has coughed up blood. This person is probably not going to die soon."
"So, I have no scruples, I just want to leave some name and achievements behind me."
"Yes, it turns out that his life is not long."
Su Ziji thought about Zhang Dai's image and his career in life, and couldn't express his feelings. After a long time, he smiled and said, "You are right. To be honest, I understand him."
"I was born in a regular imperial examination. I have made meritorious service in the military camp, worked in local government, and experienced many ups and downs in the capital. Now that I am a grandson, I can understand things better."
"That is, those who have talent basically have no reputation, and those who have reputation basically have no talent."
"Why, if a person is talented, he doesn't need to have a clear name to gain a foothold in the officialdom. Moreover, when it comes to getting things done, he can't do it without a clear name."
"On the contrary, for those without talent, some of them are based on flattery, some are based on hard work, and some are based on this pure name."
"It's just that ordinary Qing can't settle down and live in peace, he has to go to extremes."
"According to rough records, even the walls in Zhang Dai's home were broken and there was no money to repair them. For his mother's birthday, he only bought two kilograms of meat. One time during the Chinese New Year, colleagues came to his home and saw rice bran being used to make porridge. They asked why. The family was poor.
There is no more rice.”
When Su Ziji said this, he felt a little emotional and asked: "Do you think Zhang Dai's life was miserable, and did his family suffer?"
"This is naturally extremely miserable." Wen Xunpeng didn't understand what he meant, so he just leaned forward and answered.
"People can live a hard life for one or two days, but after twenty or thirty years of hard life, even a hardened person will not be able to endure it." Su Ziji suddenly remembered a famous person who was called a model of dedication and sacrifice.
, but couldn't endure it, so he committed suicide and martyred his country under the guise of work. He sighed: "I can guarantee that Zhang Dai can't endure it anymore. Others can't endure it. He can change his career. Not to mention being a corrupt official, just become a regular official or a regular official."
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"But over the years, Zhang Dai has offended many people in the name of his integrity. It is all because of this iron-clad integrity that he can stand upright. Not to mention corrupt officials, as long as he has normal human relations - if he dares to accept a penny or a glass of wine, he will die without a burial place.
——So this time, he actually has the will to die."
"I can't live anymore and I don't want to live anymore. I just want to die on duty deliberately. Therefore, it is not possible for people to make trouble, but they will definitely make trouble."
Wen Xunpeng had a thorough understanding, but he didn't expect his grandson to be even more thorough. Listening to his talk, his tone was light and his words were heart-breaking, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable chill.
Taisun Dong saw this, and I am afraid that life will be difficult for his ministers in the future.
"If a person is not afraid of death, how can he force him to die? The emperor found him by your side and gave him the position of deputy imperial envoy. It is really terrifying when you think about it."
"Grandson, you have to guard against this person."
"nothing."
Su Ziji smiled: "No matter how strong your integrity is, you can't be as strong as a sword. Zhang Dai has no talent, but he insists on being honest and settling down his life. This is his fault."
"If I can't stand it any longer, I want to die. If I have to die in office, I will be left alone."
"It's just that if you want to be beautiful in everything and achieve great success in life and death, but if you implicate me and blow me up to the sky, this thought alone will stink."
"Loyalty to the emperor and service to the emperor. Is this how loyalty can be done?"
"Gu's sword likes to kill people like this the most."
Su Ziji said quietly, with a cold tone. Wen Xunpeng shuddered, his face turned pale, and he forced a smile: "Of course, this kind of seemingly loyal and honest minister not only commits an injustice to the king, but even cooperates with the conspiracy, he is really killable."
, not only can he be killed, but he can also kill the whole family."
"There's no need to kill the whole family!" Su Ziji's smile turned into a bitter smile, a little helpless, and he said after a while: "After all, his family may not actually want this reputation, but they have lived a hard life all their lives and have not enjoyed his blessings.
Why should I be implicated by him?"
"Yes, my lord is wise." Wen Xunpeng felt a little cold for no reason. He didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he responded: "Then, I will go and make arrangements."
"Go for it!"
Just after Wen Xunpeng went there, in the dimly lit cabin, Su Ziji was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed to relax, when he suddenly felt a slight pull.
"Huh?"
When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was no longer in the cabin of the imperial envoy's ship.
What appeared in front of us was an atmospheric and gloomy mansion, with a blood-red sky hovering above it. The ghostly aura was so heavy that even the ghosts did not dare to approach it easily, for fear of being contaminated by this overwhelming resentment.
With the bloody atmosphere!
"It turns out to be the prince." Su Zi understood clearly.
The building in front of me is not the Prince's Mansion that I have visited more than once, so where is it?
Su Ziji was standing ten steps away from the steps of the Prince's Mansion at this moment. Except for the Prince's Mansion, which was clearly visible, the surroundings were filled with mist. It seemed that except for the Prince's Mansion, there was nothing else in the world.
I raised my head and glanced at the sky. Just like the previous times, the sky was still unclear. If I could see "below" at the end, it would probably be similarly gray below.
In fact, even the Prince's Mansion in front of him was dim, but based on his previous experience, Su Ziji knew that he had to go in because the "person" was luring him over.
As Su Ziji took steps, the crown on his head swayed slightly, attracting attention.
"Hey, it's Taisun Mianfu."
The royal crown of the crown prince and the grandson are the same, with a nine-pin crown, a mysterious robe and a sash, and the clothes are painted with dragons, mountains, flowers, insects, fire, Zongyi five-stripe patterns, Shangxiuzao, pink rice, embroidery, and black embroidery.
, nine chapters in total.
Su Ziji was a little surprised by the fact that he was wearing a crown robe, but he was not too shocked.
"Gu now appears here in a form similar to that of a soul. Now that Gu is a grandson, he is naturally wearing a royal robe."
Just thinking about it, the door creaked open by itself as I approached.
When Su Ziji, who was wearing a royal robe, walked into the mansion, the corpses in the mansion seemed to be aware of it. The corpses that were originally lying on the ground got up one by one, stood respectfully, and shouted.
"The prince has returned home!"
"My servants (servants) and others are waiting to greet you."