cabinet first lady

Chapter 92 Who gave her the medicine
Shen Wei's assassination soon caused an uproar in the court.

In the Hall of the Emperor Yuan, Emperor Yuan was furious: "Who is so bold that he even assassinates an official ordered by the court? How is Shen Aiqing now? I want to send the imperial physician to see Shen Aiqing."

Besides Emperor Yuan, only Yin Ji and Zhang Anyi were present.

When Emperor Yuan said that he wanted to pass on the imperial physician, the eyes of both of them moved slightly.

Zhang Anyi said: "Your Majesty, although Lord Shen suffered serious injuries, as far as I know, he has been treated by a doctor last night, and he should be fine now, as long as he rests well. The most urgent thing is to find out the assassin. So as not to panic people in the court." At this point, he glanced at Yin Ji, and a cold light flashed in his gentle and deep eyes.

Yin Ji felt the obvious killing intent and raised his eyebrows.

Emperor Yuan nodded, and said with deep conviction: "What Zhang Ge said is very true. Zhang Ge took the time to visit Shen Aiqing for me, and let him recover from his injuries. I will leave the matter of tracking down the assassin to the two Aiqings." Yes, I suspect that this matter has something to do with the Queen Mother."

Yin Ji was very pleased in his heart.

He also has a credit for teaching Emperor Yuan. Although Emperor Yuan is still a little immature, he is good enough to govern himself.In time, he will surely become a king surpassing his father and his grandfather.

But what surprised him was that Zhang Anyi actually said: "Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to draw conclusions lightly at this time. This is not like the Queen Mother Qiu's style, maybe someone with other wolfish ambitions."

When his voice fell, Yin Ji met his gaze.

In fact, if Shen Wei hadn't sent someone to tell him that the assassin was Yin Ji's, Zhang Anyi would at most suspect Zhang Ji based on the fact that Zhang Ji was impeached before, and it would not be like this now.

His words made Emperor Yuan frowned deeply: "Who else?"

"It's up to Wei Chen to investigate."

Shen Wei has known Zhang Anyi for many years, and knows Zhang Anyi's temperament very well, knowing that he will not act rashly until he sees her face to understand the matter clearly.He's the kind of person who doesn't move, and makes no move.

Emperor Yuan nodded: "If I find out that there is another person who assassinated Shen Aiqing, I will definitely chop off his head to express this anger for Shen Aiqing."

Obviously this matter has nothing to do with him, he is the one who saves people and does good deeds, but when Emperor Yuan said these words, Yin Ji still felt a chill in his neck.

After talking about Shen Wei's assassination and injury, Zhang Anyi said to Emperor Yuan: "Your Majesty, recently, officials have often reported that local officials have embezzled and handed over the grain. With Qi Youguang appearing, I implore you to thoroughly investigate all the accounts of the emperor's household department in the past six years since he took the throne."

Since Emperor Yuan expressed his determination to be in charge of the government, Zhang Anyi, the chief assistant of the cabinet, would ask Emperor Yuan for his will before making major decisions.

When it came to the Ministry of Household Affairs, Yin Ji had an intuition that Zhang Anyi's matter was aimed at him.

The young and sensitive Emperor Yuan was very satisfied with Zhang Anyi's request, he nodded after thinking about it, "What Zhang Ge said makes sense."

Immediately, he looked at Yin Ji and said, "Since Yin Aiqing is the Secretary of the Household Department, I will leave this matter to Yin Aiqing."

Emperor Yuan had said everything, so Yin Ji naturally couldn't disobey the holy will.

It's just that this matter is far more complicated than Emperor Yuan imagined.

It is necessary to thoroughly investigate the accounts of Emperor Yuan since he ascended the throne for six years, and the content is huge.Not to mention the complicated accounts, it also involves many officials in Beijing and other places.Corruption has occurred in all dynasties, especially when it comes to expropriation. Few officials are clean, and everyone knows it well.In fact, it doesn't matter if you are greedy, as long as there is no greed that shocked the government and the public like Qi Youguang did back then.

As soon as the news of the account audit is out, many officials may feel uneasy, and the threshold of Yin Ji's mansion may be broken down soon.

This matter is too easy to offend people, and it almost puts him on the opposite side of most officials in the court and the local government.

Just like going to inspect the Liangjiang and Huaihe areas back then, it was a thankless job.

This time, he was tricked by Zhang Anyi again.

Seeing Yin Ji's silence, Zhang Anyi suddenly looked at him and asked, "Why doesn't Mr. Yin speak?"

Yin Ji knelt down immediately, and said to Emperor Yuan: "I obey the order."

He had a premonition that the person who really tricked him behind this was Shen Wei, who was injured last night and was now recuperating in the official building.Probably remembering his frivolous words last night, I put him here here.

She is really an ungrateful, vicious, and sophisticated woman.

Although he thought so in his heart, there was an imperceptible smile on Yin Ji's lips, and he seemed quite happy at first glance.

Coming out of Emperor Yuan's Huangji Hall, Yin Ji hurried to the household department.And Zhang Anyi was going to Wenyuan Pavilion, and happened to be on the same road for a while.

"Why did Mr. Zhang Ge repeatedly target lower officials today?" Yin Ji suffered a secret loss, and finally felt a little unhappy in his heart.

There was no coldness in Zhang Anyi's expression, he was as gentle as usual, and the old god said: "Master Yin knows it well."

Sure enough, it was Shen Wei.

Yin Ji thought of the fragrant dream of last night for no reason, and was distracted for a moment.Quickly pulling his thoughts back, he smiled wryly and said, "Mr. Zhang Ge should go and ask Mr. Shen in person what's going on."

"Don't bother Mr. Yin to remind." Zhang Anyi's tone was gentle, but his words were extremely arrogant, "If it weren't for this, Mr. Yin might not be going to the Ministry of Households, but waiting for trial at the Ministry of Punishment."

Yin Ji laughed angrily, and decided not to show off his words with him.

In the afternoon, after finishing processing the documents sent to the cabinet, Zhang Anyi took Mo Jian and Mo Wen to the official residence.

The people in the official residence saw Zhang Anyi coming, nodded and bowed, and said very respectfully: "Zhang Ge always comes to see Mr. Shen, right?"

Zhang Anyi nodded and said: "Master Shen is injured and needs to recuperate, and I have ordered no one to disturb her if she is fine."

"Yes, Mr. Shen has already ordered the villain to do so."

Zhang Anyi came to Shen Wei's courtyard and knocked on the door.

Even in the official residence, Shen Wei was still vigilant, and his clothes were well dressed. "come in."

Zhang Anyi ordered Mo Jian and Mo Wen to stay outside, and walked in alone.Seeing Shen Wei lying on the bed with a pale face, he frowned: "Injured back?"

Shen Wei nodded, and said: "It's just a lot of blood, and it's much better after taking medicine." Although she has been disguised as a man for so many years, she is still a woman at the core, and she still feels very soft when someone cares about her. .

She couldn't help comparing Zhang Anyi's gentle tone and slightly frowning expression with Yin Ji's frivolous attitude, and she became more and more dissatisfied with Yin Ji in her heart, until Zhang Anyi's words brought her back to her senses.

"Who gave you the medicine?" As careful as Zhang Anyi, he naturally discovered the detail that Shen Weishang couldn't take the medicine himself behind his back.It was a matter of bullying the emperor, and his tone couldn't help being a little serious.

Who gave her medicine?

Shen Wei was stunned by this question.Thinking of the scene of taking the medicine last night, she couldn't tell.After living for so many years, her body was seen by a man for the first time.

Trying to be calm and calm, she said with a bit of impatience in her tone, "Don't worry, you are a reliable person, why are you a mother-in-law now?"

They have known each other for many years and know each other very well.

Seeing the blush on Shen Wei's face and the unnaturalness in his eyes, Zhang Anyi felt a little doubt in his heart.

Soon, Shen Wei changed the subject and said, "By the way, I asked you to come today to talk to you about something serious. In fact, it was not Yin Ji who sent someone to assassinate me."

Even a calm person like Zhang Anyi was a little confused by what Shen Wei said this morning and what he said in the evening.He felt that something was wrong with Shen Wei, raised his eyebrows, looked at her and asked, "Didn't you send someone early in the morning to tell me that the instigator belongs to Yin Ji?"

Under his scrutinizing eyes, Shen Wei tried hard to maintain calm and righteousness, and replied: "Actually, Yin Ji saved me last night. In fact, it was the person sent by Queen Mother Qiu. She wanted to provoke our relationship. This is the result of my discussion with him, and I decided to follow suit."

"Aren't you afraid that I'll arrest him immediately?" Zhang Anyi thought of the errand imposed on Yin Ji in the Huangji Palace today, but he didn't feel any guilt in his heart.

"I don't know you yet?" Shen Wei spoke very confidently, everything was under her control, "Did you trip him up today?"

Zhang Anyi nodded, and said frankly: "I asked his household department to clean up the accounts of the Holy Majesty since he became the throne."

Shen Wei exclaimed: "Zhang Er, you are too cruel." There was a hint of schadenfreude in her tone.

I'm afraid Yin Ji will have to bear it next.

From his tone, Zhang Anyi couldn't hear the meaning of praise.He looked at Shen Wei who was not quite right.

His eyes were bottomless, as if nothing in the world could be hidden from him, Shen Wei felt a little guilty for no reason, frowned and said, "Zhang Er, you even have a son, so why don't you have a son?" Doesn't it look good to look at me?" After finishing speaking, she froze for a while.

She suddenly found that she could tell about Zhang Anyi getting married without any disturbance in her heart.

Although she let go of it in the past, she still feels a little bit sad and emotional when she thinks about it occasionally, and she always ignores it on purpose.

Now it seems to be finally relieved.

Putting aside the wild thoughts in his heart, Shen Wei became serious: "Let's talk about what you plan to do next? Queen Mother Qiu provoked our relationship with Yin Ji, most likely because she wanted us to lose both, and she took the opportunity to kill them all. This is for us It's also an opportunity."

She and Ruan Muyang are both women, but because she has disguised herself as a man and served in the court for many years, she is different from Ruan Muyang in many ways.

Ruan Muyang is actually not good at seeking power, and most of the time he is forced to do nothing.But Shen Wei is good at this, and most of the time he is active rather than passive.She is not only for survival, but also for the sake of the country and the common people, just like many men who have ambitions to enter the court and become officials.

"That's right." Zhang Anyi nodded, "Since the Empress Dowager Qiu wants to provoke us, it's best to use the same plan to deal with all changes. In this way, the account check at the Ministry of Accounts just became the basis for us to thoroughly investigate Qiu's relatives. Chance."

Shen Wei once again sighed in his heart that Zhang Anyi is so wise and close to a demon.

If Yin Ji really wants to deal with them, he will be able to make trouble for him and make him unable to get away. If he has no intention of dealing with them, he will take this opportunity to thoroughly investigate the officials related to Queen Mother Qiu. .

"Zhang Er, Zhang Er." Shen Wei shook his head, weakly.

Zhang Anyi was unmoved, and the expression on his face did not change. He continued: "It is important that you recover from your wounds first, and leave the other matters to me. I will report back to the Holy Master tomorrow that the person who assassinated you was Yin Ji, and then pretended Confronting Yin Ji made Empress Dowager Qiu feel that it was true."

"it is good."

Both looked extremely serious.The Holy Majesty just wants to be in charge. No matter what the Empress Dowager Qiu does, she is still the biological mother of the Emperor Yuan and the person who helped him to the throne. No matter what, the Emperor Yuan will not harm the Empress Dowager Qiu, so they can only try their best to get rid of the Queen Mother Qiu's followers , leaving her with no one to use, and finally forced to delegate power.

Not long after Zhang Anyi left, the guard outside the door said, "My lord, editor Chu is here."

Hearing Chu Qi's name, Shen Wei frowned.

What is he doing here?
"I'm a little tired, I'm going to rest, let him go back." Naturally, she would not see Chu Qi.

It was about You hour, and in the dead of night outside, there was another knock on the door.

At this time, Shen Wei was lying on his stomach reading a book.She slept too much during the day, so she didn't feel sleepy at this time.

"What's the matter?" She frowned and asked outside the door.

It's so late, could it be that Chu Qi's unwillingness to give up came again?

But there was no response from the guard outside the door.

Just when Shen Wei was a little confused and felt something was wrong, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

She was startled and asked in a cold voice: "Who! How dare you break into my room?"

The door was pushed open completely, and a man with a hood covering his face walked up.Under Shen Wei's vigilant gaze, he turned around and closed the door, took off his dark cloak, and said with a smile: "Master Shen's room is a bit too tightly guarded, even more inaccessible than the young lady's boudoir in the Shenzhai compound. What was exposed under the cloak was Yin Ji's delicate and handsome face with a frivolous smile, like a scholar in a Jiangnan opera.His frivolous words and lazy smile seem to be a romantic scholar who visits women's boudoir at night.

Seeing that it was him, Shen Wei breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with a cold face: "Master Yin is very familiar with Miss Shenzhai's boudoir, and I think he has been there a lot."

Suddenly feeling like shooting himself in the foot with a stone, Yin Ji laughed and said, "I haven't been to Miss Shenzhai's room, but tonight I visited Lord Shen's boudoir."

The two words "adult" and "boudoir" are extremely contradictory, Shen Wei heard the meaning of flirting from it, and his voice couldn't help but become colder: "Where is my guard?"

A soldier can be killed but not humiliated.

Besides, by talking about her crime of deceiving the emperor, isn't it trying to harm her?

"It's inconvenient for people to see my face, and the guards are always guarding the door, so I had no choice but to send someone to stun Mr. Shen's guards. I'm so offended. Please forgive me, Mr. Shen."

To stun her guards?With such reckless behavior, Shen Wei was so angry that the wound on his back ached.

"What are you here for?"

Yin Ji curled his lips into a smile, walked slowly to the bed and looked down at Shen Wei lying on the bed.Seeing her looking up at herself with a pale face and cold eyes, she couldn't help but think of the extremely long dream last night. In the dream, there was indeed a posture of her lying on the bed, and the red official uniform under her body perfectly complemented her. His skin was white and glowing, and the softness in front of him was crushed and deformed...

Feeling a gurgling heat flow slowly gathering towards his lower abdomen, he immediately withdrew his thoughts, and said with a bit of gnashing of teeth in his tone: "I'm here to settle accounts with Shen Da." Since he went to the Ministry of Accounts in the morning, he has been busy until now When he was free, there was an endless stream of officials looking for him to take care of him, leaving him with no peace at all.

Mentioning this matter, Shen Wei's pale and cold face flashed with complacency, and said: "Master Yin, what are you talking about, don't we just agree to plan?"

Yin Ji laughed angrily at her.It's clear that she deliberately didn't tell Zhang Anyi about this before, making Zhang Anyi mistakenly think it was really him, and that's why he had to check the accounts for the past six years. Do you think he didn't know?
"Smart words!" he said.

Not to be outdone, Shen Wei replied: "It's not as good as Master Yin."

The depression in my heart since I met the assassin last night and was rescued by Yin Ji finally disappeared at this moment. Shen Wei's heart was extraordinarily happy, and there was a bit of joy in his eyes, and he explained: "Master Yin happened to check the accounts. Thoroughly investigate Queen Mother Qiu's party members, presumably few of them are clean, and a large number of them can be caught, isn't it just a trick?"

Yin Ji was sure that Zhang Anyi really wanted to punish him in the Huangji Palace today, so he didn't listen to Shen Wei's explanation.

At some point, his attention was drawn to her pale pink lips.He was standing in front of the bed, and she was lying on the bed and talking to him with her head up, as if she was facing somewhere under his lower abdomen.As she opened and closed her small mouth when she spoke, it seemed as if she could feel her exhale in the place where his heat gathered.

Shen Wei didn't realize what was going on in Yin Ji's mind at all, but somehow felt that there was something wrong with his gaze, which made her feel uncomfortable.She instinctively felt that what he was thinking at the moment must be something bad.

"Master Yin, it's midnight, shouldn't you be leaving?" she said.

Yin Ji came back to his senses, met her frowning suspiciously, curled his lips in embarrassment, and then said nonchalantly: "It's getting late. Then, Mr. Shen, take good care of your wounds, and I'll come back tomorrow."

"What are you going to do tomorrow?" Shen Wei's tone was full of disgust.

Yin Ji himself didn't know what he was going to do tomorrow, so he didn't explain, but said: "Master Shen will withdraw the guards outside the door tomorrow night."

When Shen Wei wanted to refuse, he continued to add: "It saves me from having to make them stunned, and I can still say that they fell asleep once. If there are too many times, the guards will probably be suspicious."

After putting on the cloak to completely cover his face and figure, Yin Ji opened the door and left the room.

The evening wind blew away the dry heat from his body a lot.Turning around and looking at the closed door, he narrowed his eyes.

Probably because the past two years have been too comfortable, there is nothing to worry about, and I am so free to think about sex.

After returning home, Yin Ji had another dream at night.He dreamed of Shen Wei kneeling in front of him, with those pale pink lips hesitating.When he woke up in the morning, his face turned black and he changed another pair of pants.

After getting up, he went directly to the household department.It was only an hour after he arrived at the household department, and someone from the palace sent him into the palace.

When Yin Ji arrived at Huangji Hall, Zhang Anyi was also there.

"Yin Aiqing, Mr. Zhang Ge told me that the Empress Dowager bribed people in your house to assassinate Shen Aiqing, with the intention of provoking trouble." Emperor Yuan's tone was rare and serious.

Regarding whether to tell Emperor Yuan about this matter or keep it from Emperor Yuan, Zhang Anyi and Yin Ji did not communicate in advance, but agreed that they should tell Emperor Yuan.

Because one day in the future, Emperor Yuan will know that they are pretending to be against each other. Although they are trying to get rid of Queen Mother Qiu's party members, they are hiding it from Emperor Yuan after all.The king's heart is unpredictable, and after the Empress Dowager Qiu retreats to the harem and the Emperor Yuan takes charge, it is inevitable that old accounts will be turned over.

Yin Ji knelt down and said: "Return to the emperor, it is true. I have never sent anyone to assassinate Mr. Shen."

"Yin Aiqing get up quickly, I believe in Aiqing." Emperor Yuan looked at Zhang Anyi and said, "I'm afraid Zhang Ge will be wronged in the days to come."

Although Zhang Anyi was the auxiliary minister handpicked by the first emperor, Yin Ji was the prince's lecturer when Emperor Yuan was still the prince, and his relationship with Emperor Yuan was even closer.And what Empress Dowager Qiu wants to see is that Yuan Emperor trusts one and alienates the other, so the alienated one is naturally Zhang Anyi.

Zhang Anyi said respectfully: "The emperor is serious."

After reaching a consensus, Emperor Yuan slammed down the table and said to the eunuchs outside: "Call me the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, the Minister of Dali Temple, and the Yushi of Zuodu! I will thoroughly investigate this matter."

After a while, the chief of the Sanfa Division came in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Shen personally said that he saw the assassin was from Mr. Yin's residence on the night of the assassination. This matter has something to do with Yin Ji." Zhang Anyi said.

Yin Ji looked at Zhang Anyi and said, "Your Majesty Zhang is going to accuse the court officials wrongly with empty words and no evidence?"

The two faced each other.

The chief of the Sanfa Department looked terrified.

In the end, Emperor Yuan said to the three of them: "The assassination of Shen Aiqing is very strange, this matter should be handed over to the Sanju Division for a thorough investigation, and there must be no mistakes!"

"Yes."

In less than half a day, Zhang Anyi sued Yin Ji for sending someone to assassinate Shen Wei, and the news that the two confronted each other spread.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment is a member of Queen Mother Qiu, and he personally told Queen Mother Qiu what he saw in the Huangji Hall.

A smile appeared on the face of Queen Mother Qiu's exquisite makeup: "Is what you said true? There was a rift between them before, and now there is a good show."

"The empress dowager is wise."

The Empress Dowager Qiu then instructed the people around her: "Let the people who are placed in Yin Ji's mansion keep a close eye on them, in case they play tricks."

In this turbulent court, there is no one who is not cautious.

In the official residence, although Shen Wei was recovering from his injuries, people kept asking what was going on outside.It was getting dark slowly, she remembered Yin Ji's words last night, she hesitated and let the guards go down.

She knew what people like Yin Ji could do to stun her guards.But at this time yesterday, Yin Ji hadn't come.

Shen Wei's face was a little ugly.She suspected that she was played by Yin Ji.

Until Xu Shi, there was finally a knock on her door, but it was not Yin Ji who came.

(End of this chapter)