Tibet

Chapter 95
When Li Ye returned to Changlefang, it was already dusk.

Seeing her son come back, Pei Sanniang quickly waved, "Ye Er, come quickly, Mother has something to tell you!"

Li Ye handed the horse to Ah Zhen, walked into the inner courtyard, and saw that his mother was discussing something with his aunt?
"What are you discussing?" Li Ye walked into the room and asked with a smile.

Pei Sanniang stretched out her hand, "Bring it!"

Li Ye took out the envelope from his arms, handed it to his mother and said with a smile, "Has Mother been waiting for this all this time?"

"Who said that, I don't care about it!"

She said she didn't care, but Pei Sanniang quickly took it.

She couldn't wait to open the envelope and took out the counter ticket inside.

Pei Sanniang's eyes lit up, it was actually [-] guan, of course she knew that [-] guan was the income for each game, but the reward was actually [-] guan, Gao Lishi's shot was much more generous than King Si Ning.

She has also heard how Gao Lishi is rich. It is said that when he celebrates his birthday, the officials will give him [-] coins for one ring of the birthday bell. Hundreds of officials compete to ring the bell. Dozens of times.

And when his wife died, gifts from all over the Tang Dynasty filled the street in front of the gate.

Two thousand five hundred guan is money that many ordinary people can't earn in a lifetime, but it is a drop in the bucket for a powerful person like Gao Lishi.

"Ma'am, I'm hungry!"

"Okay! Madam will serve you food."

Just as Aunt Mu was about to get up, Pei Sanniang held her back, "He's not going to die of hunger, wait a while before we go!"

Pei Sanniang said to her son again: "Sit down quickly, mother has something important to say!"

Li Ye sat down, and then Pei Sanniang said to Li Ye: "I sold the land of Yonghefang today for 150 guan. It could have been sold for [-] guan, but it has been burned twice, so it can't be sold. It can only be sold cheaply." Lose."

Aunt Mu sighed, but didn't say anything?
Pei Sanniang took out a few counter tickets and said: "This is the money Ye'er has earned in the past few months, more than ten thousand guan. Except for the three thousand guan money that Yuwen's family lost, I am not very comfortable. I think everything else is at ease. You can buy some land, Yeer, what do you think?"

After all, the son earned the money, and Pei Sanniang wanted to ask his son for his opinion.

Li Ye shook his head, "Uncle told me before that the Tang Dynasty is full of dangers, many conflicts have intensified, and wars are likely to break out. All major families are quietly preparing. I think we should also plan ahead and prepare for wars."

Aunt Mu said from the side: "I also heard that there is no common people's land outside Chang'an City, and all of them have been annexed by powerful people. I heard that the entire Jingzhao Mansion is gone."

Pei Sanniang sighed, once the war breaks out, the most unlucky ones are ordinary people like them.

"Aye, then tell me what we can do to prepare?"

Li Ye thought for a while and said: "If there is a war, everyone will definitely flee to a safe place. I think there are two safe places, one is south of the Yangtze River, around Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the other is Bashu, where the army is very difficult. To enter, it is best to have real estate in these two places, even a small house."

Pei Sanniang nodded. One is Bashu, the other is Jiangnan. If she has a chance, she can go to Chengdu to have a look. She then asked, "Are there any other preparations?"

"The other thing is to find a way to replace copper coins with gold and silver, especially gold. Once the world is in chaos, the price of gold and silver will inevitably skyrocket."

This method is good, and it coincides with Pei Sanniang's idea. Today, she is still thinking about exchanging all the copper coins into gold, packing them into boxes and burying them in her house.

Another three days passed, and before dawn, Li Ye was awakened by a knock on the door.

"Young master, get up!" It was the voice of the maid, A Zhen.

Li Ye put on his clothes and opened the door, and there really was Ah Zhen outside.

At this moment, Pei Sanniang also opened the door and asked, "Ah Zhen, what's the matter?"

"Someone is looking for young master outside, saying that he is from Xiangguo's mansion, and there is an urgent matter."

"I gonna go see!"

"Ye'er, bring your sword!" Pei Sanniang reminded.

Li Ye hurried back to the house, took the dagger and ran towards the door.

Li Linfu's confidant guard Wang Kuan stood at the door. He knew Li Ye, showed Li Linfu's gold medal, and said in a low voice, "Master Xiang is waiting for your son in Xinfeng County. Come with me!"

"What happened?"

"I don't know either, it might have something to do with your father, so hurry up and see the Prime Minister!"

Li Ye was startled, did something happen to his father?

At this time, Pei Sanniang had already brought the horse over, "Ye'er, let's go!"

Li Ye got on his horse and followed Wang Kuan out of the Chunming Gate. He galloped to the east, and after an hour, they arrived at Xinfeng County.

They did not enter the county seat, but came to the post station next to the county seat, where there was a large group of cavalry and several carriages.

It was Li Linfu's carriage with a flag on it.

Li Ye was ushered into the room, and sure enough, he saw Li Linfu pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, with an anxious expression on his face.

"Grandson sees grandfather!" Li Ye bowed at the door.

"Ah! Ye'er is here, come in quickly."

Grandfather was in a hurry, so Li Ye didn't stick to etiquette, so he came in and sat down.

The two sat down, Li Linfu sighed and said, "Your father has been arrested and imprisoned!"

Li Ye was taken aback, "When?"

"It was just midnight last night!"

"Grandpa, can you tell me more about it?"

Li Linfu said slowly: "Last night, your father was on duty at the Ministry of Accounts. As a result, the document storeroom of the Ministry of Accounting suddenly caught fire and burned all the account books of the Ministry of Accounting for more than ten years. Some people said that your father appeared near the document storeroom before the fire. serious suspicion, your father was arrested as the first suspect."

Li Ye was really surprised, and asked again: "Then why is grandfather in Xinfeng County?"

"I was ordered to go to Huazhou and Tongzhou to check the disaster situation. I left the city before dawn. I heard the news that your father was arrested as soon as I arrived in Xinfeng County!"

"Is this a coincidence?"

Li Linfu shook his head, "How could it be a coincidence, your father was arrested as soon as I left, and once your father is convicted, I will be implicated too!"

"My father won't set fire for no reason! Is there any deeper inside story here?"

Intuition told Li Ye that this matter is not that simple.

Li Linfu nodded, "This matter should have something to do with the two Yang's struggles for the position. Yang Guozhong and Yang Shenjin competed for the position of Minister of the Household Department. The warehouse of the Household Department burst into flames. The Minister of the Household Department, Yang Shenjin, must be blamed!"

"Then Yang Guozhong set the fire?"

Li Linfu pondered for a while and said: "I suspect it has something to do with the emperor. The emperor wanted to bring down Yang Shenjin. Your father just happened to frame your father and involve me in it. The opponent's timing was perfect!"

Li Ye closed the door and asked in a low voice: "Grandpa means, is the emperor going to do something to grandpa?"

Li Linfu sighed, "It's not that we can guess the emperor's mind. He may just be testing me, but if he has the opportunity, he will definitely go along with the flow and dismiss me. The current situation is weird, and I can't see it."

"What does grandfather want me to do?"

"I'll ask you to go to Gao Lishi and send him a letter for me. It's best to find out some more inside information. I will use the excuse of feeling ill and stay in Xinfeng County for two days to wait for your news.

"Will something happen to my father? The grandson means, will he die suddenly in prison?"

"That's the problem. I'm afraid that someone will persuade him to commit suicide, so don't get me involved? I'm more worried that someone will make a fuss about him and involve me, so you'd better meet your father and tell him that anyone Don't believe it, and ask him to resist the interrogation for me, and don't confess indiscriminately!"

After finishing speaking, Li Linfu handed a wooden box to Li Ye, "There is a letter and a sign inside, the letter is for Gao Lishi, the sign is your token, you go to Yushi Jiwen, he is my confidant, he will arrange You go to see your father!"

Li Ye pondered for a while and said, "Grandfather, what if Ji Wen secretly joins the Yang family?"

"Impossible, he was single-handedly picked by me, and he is loyal to me!"

"If he finds out that the Son of Heaven is going to deal with his grandfather, then nothing is impossible."

Li Linfu was secretly taken aback, lowered his head and thought for a while, it was really possible.

"What do you think?" Li Linfu unconsciously began to rely on this grandson.

Li Ye pondered for a moment and said: "I still go to him, but I don't need my grandfather's brand. I said I would send clothes and quilts to my father, and then play it by ear. It really didn't work. I bribed the jailer with a lot of money, and begged them to take me to see my father.

But Sun Er believes that the key person in this case is Yang Shenjin, the minister of the household department. If he can be kept, then my father will be fine, and the case of arson is also the key to the whole case. "

"and then?"

"Grandson believes that grandfather does not need to pretend to be sick, but should return to Beijing openly. The household department is on fire. As the Prime Minister, of course, he has the duty to investigate the case.

Moreover, the grandfather had to tell the emperor upright that his father had just joined the household department for three days and was unfamiliar with everything, so he had no motive for setting fire. How could it be him who set the fire?Someone must have framed his father, begging the emperor to make the decision, and clear his father's grievances.

As a minister, he doesn't want to be wronged by Chao Gang, and as a father, he can't bear to frame his beloved son. Regardless of Chao Gang's ethics, it is reasonable and reasonable. The grandson believes that the emperor cannot refuse his grandfather's appeal! "

Li Linfu looked at this grandson who had sparkling wisdom in his eyes, and his heart was full of emotions. What more could a husband ask for if he had a grandson like this!

He patted Li Ye on the shoulder, "Just according to your words, this time you will be your grandfather's military adviser, and we, grandparents and grandchildren, will clear up your father's grievances together!"

Li Linfu wrote a letter to Gao Lishi again, pointing out various doubts, and changed the previous plea for help to appeal for his son.

He gave Li Ye another counter ticket of 3000 taels of silver, which he used to take care of the jailer's needs.

Li Ye rode back to the capital first, and Li Linfu turned around and returned to the capital at noon. Sun Tzu was right, the household department was on fire, and as the right minister, it was his duty to rush back.

　[The case of Yang Shenjin happened in the sixth year of Tianbao. This book is borrowed again, and the history is made up, so there is no need to entangle the historical facts. 】

　　
　
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