Chapter four hundred and sixty first
Li Yanqing said goodbye from Liang Shicheng's mansion. Yang Guang and others had already had dinner and were waiting at the door. "Where is Zhang Hu?" Li Yanqing saw that two of them were missing, and Zhang Hu and Zhang Ying were gone.
"They will come soon!"
Yang Guang took Li Yanqing's horse in front of him as if nothing had happened, lowered his voice and said to Li Yanqing: "Someone is following us!"
Li Yanqing was slightly stunned. He turned over and glanced around without showing any expression. There was a street outside, with many pedestrians, and big trees were planted on both sides, but he did not notice any abnormalities.
"Where are the people who are following us?" Li Yanqing asked lightly.
Just in the alley diagonally opposite us, Zhang Hu and Zhang Ying had already gone to encircle.
Li Yanqing looked back at the alley. At this moment, there was a movement from the alley. He immediately turned over and urged the horse to run towards the entrance of the alley. Yang Guang and Zhang Bao also found that there had already taken action. The two immediately rushed over like arrows.
Everyone rushed to the entrance of the alley and saw Zhang Hu and Zhang Ying pressing a man in gray to the ground. The man was struggling desperately. He suddenly saw Li Yanqing, and his face suddenly showed a look of despair.
"It's you!"
Li Yanqing suddenly recognized the man, who turned out to be an employee of the Censorate, and seemed to be named Zheng Yi.
"Cithie Li, it has nothing to do with me!"
Li Yanqing suddenly became angry and stepped forward and pulled him to the ground with a backhand. "Who asked you to monitor me?"
Zheng Yi covered his face and looked at Li Yanqing in horror. Yang Guang suddenly reached out and grabbed him, pulled out a sharp dagger, and said viciously: "General, cut off an egg first to show punishment!"
Zhang Hu and Zhang Ying almost burst out laughing. They did not bring long weapons, and each of them had only a dagger, so Yang Guang began to play the role of a dagger.
Li Yanqing didn't show any expression. Although it was a bit of a spoof, it might be useful. Sure enough, the person who was engaged in the work was so scared that he shouted: "It's Zhang Zhubu, it's Zhang Zhubu who asked me to follow Jingshi Li, and give me a subsidy of 300 cents a day!"
"Let him go!"
Li Yanqing waved his hand and Zhang Hu threw Zheng Yi to the ground fiercely. Li Yanqing squatted in front of him and sneered coldly: "Are you just doing three hundred cents?"
"Yes! Yes! My son is sick and needs money to see a doctor. Zhang Zhubu came to my house last night and asked me to monitor the activities of Yu Shi Li after he went to court, and subsidize me three hundred cents a day."
“When will it be monitored every day?”
"I'll monitor the policeman Li to sleep at night, and then I can go home."
"I don't understand why Zhang Xun asked you to monitor me? Is there no one under his command? Or are you his confidant!"
Li Yanqing said coldly: "I advise you to tell me the truth. Once I find out that you are lying, you will be on the moat tomorrow morning. There are not ten thousand people who die at my hands, Li Yanqing, and there are eight thousand people. I don't care about you one more."
Zheng Yi knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, "The villain is not Zhang Xun's person. He has only recruited him into the Censorate this year. The reason he came to me was because the villain was once a scout in the army."
"Are you an army scout? Whose subordinate?"
"The villain was once the imperial guards of Taiwei Gao and has always served as the head of the scout team. A few years ago, the villain was defeated in the attack on Liangshan Army. The villain was injured and returned home. After healed, he worked as a guard in the capital to make money. At the beginning of the year, the censor recruited the censorship with a knife, and the villain successfully applied for the recruitment."
"Are you a local?"
"Yes! The little man is in the city. His son was sick last month and urgently needed money to treat him. I borrowed money from the Censorate two days ago. Zhang Xun knew this, so he came to me last night and begged Censor Li to spare his life. The villain would never dare to do it again."
At this time, Zhang Hu smiled and said, "This guy should be a scout and is very good at following. If I hadn't accidentally found him in the crack of the Taifu Mansion, we wouldn't have known that someone would have been followed."
Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said to Zheng Yi: "Didn't he give you 300 cents a day? I give you 500 cents a day, so you tell Zhang Xun the news as I told me, how? You will have a consistent income every day."
"The villain dares not!" Zheng Yi was timid in his heart. He didn't dare to take Li Yanqing's money.
Li Yanqing took out a ingot of twenty taels of silver from the horse bag and threw it in front of Zheng Yi, "These twenty taels of silver will first save your son's life. Be obedient. I will give you another five hundred cents a day. This is your chance to save your son. Do you want it?"
Zheng Yi was so moved that he shed tears, "Li Jingshi's kindness is remembered in his heart and will definitely repay the great kindness of the Censor!"
"You do what I said to repay your kindness. Zhang Hu will explain to you every day in the future. You can tell Zhang Xun what happened today, but I don't allow you to say that when I come to Liang Taifu's mansion, you just say that I went to Pan's mansion later. Do you understand?"
"The villain understands."
Li Yanqing said to Zhang Hu and Yang Guang again: "You two accompany him home to see his son's situation. If you can help, try to help him as much as possible and find a good doctor for him. I will bear all the expenses."
Speaking of this, Li Yanqing winked at Zhang Hu and Yang Guang, and they bowed together, "Abide by the order!"
Of course, Li Yanqing would not believe the same thing. If Zheng Yi was telling the truth, he could help him and buy him to do things for him. If Zheng Yi was telling a lie, don’t blame him for being cruel and vicious.
At this time, Zhang Hu and Yang Guang were going to leave with Zheng Yi. Zheng Yi suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said to Li Yanqing: "The villain has another thing that he dare not hide from Jingshi Li!"
"you say!"
"Zhang Xun said before leaving last night that he would go out for business in a few days, and asked me to report to Chief Tao, under the commander Li, during the period when he was not in the capital."
Li Yanqing's face immediately became gloomy. It turned out that Tao Ye was the spy that Zhang Xun had placed beside him. No wonder Wang Fu knew so quickly that he went to the Heavenly Prison of Dali Temple in the morning.
"I understand. As long as you do things for me, I will not treat you badly."
What is very interesting is that Wang Fu's mansion is next to the Liang Shicheng mansion. However, since Wang Fu betrayed Liang Shicheng, in order to express his intentions to Li Yan, Wang Fu sealed the original gate and changed the gate to the east. He never passed by the Liang Shicheng mansion's gate, and became two families who lived next to each other, but he never talked to each other.
Not only that, Wang Fu also received the approval of Emperor Zhao Ji and began to build a huge house covering an area of 500 acres outside the East City. The reason why he wanted to build a large house of 500 acres was because Cai Jing's mansion covered an area of 500 acres, and Wang Fu must be on par with Cai Jing.
Now Wang Fu's house is still the official house he obtained when he was the Chief Censor of the Censor. It covers only thirty acres of land, and it is far from showing Wang Fu's identity.
When Wang Fu returned to his mansion, it was already dark. He was very powerful and had a lot of things. In order to surpass Cai Jing, he has worked extra hard in the past few months and had to deal with a lot of government affairs during the day. Even at night, he still had to consider how to continue to expand power, how to install a confidant, etc.
Wang Fu's carriage had just arrived at the door of the mansion when suddenly someone shouted in front of the door: "Prime Minister Wang, I have something to report to you."
Wang Fu heard the voice of Zhang Xun, the chief clerk of the Censorate, and ordered: "Take him to report to the door!"
Zhang Xun was only a low-level official of the sixth rank, and played a role in monitoring other censors in the Censorate. However, his position itself had no power. Although he was considered Wang Fu's confidant, his importance could not be ranked in Wang Fu's mind. He was not qualified to go to Wang Fu's study to report. At most, he could only be led into the mansion and report the situation in front of the carriage.
Wang Fu had already received a report from the Kaifeng Prefecture Young Mentor Du Jinsheng before returning to his home. They warned Li Yanqing as they told him. However, the two words Li Yanqing asked Du Jinsheng to tell him made Wang Fu a little confused. Could it be that Li Yanqing's intention to go to the Heavenly Prison of Dali Temple today? Does Liang Shicheng want to continue to wrestle with him in this case again?
"What are you going to tell me about?" Liang Shicheng asked instead of getting off the carriage, but opened the curtain.
Zhang Xun bowed and bowed, "Li Yanqing just returned home today and learned that something happened to Baoyanzhai, and hurried to Baoyanzhai, Hongqiao again."
"I know about this, and then, where did he go?"
"Then he went to Pan Mansion again!"
Wang Fu was stunned, "Which Pan Mansion?"
"The mansion of the General Pan Xu of the State Supplementary State was there for about half an hour."
The news was beyond Wang Fu's expectations. He thought Li Yanqing would go to Liang Shicheng to complain. He pondered for a while and asked again: "Is this news accurate?"
"The news is absolutely accurate. According to the requirements of the prime minister, Bei Zhi specially selected a Deli subordinate to be responsible for following him and understanding his every move. This is the news that Bei Zhi just got."
If the news is true, Wang Fu felt it was necessary to reassess Li Yanqing's motivation for going to the Dali Temple Heavenly Prison today.
In fact, Wang Fu didn't quite believe that Liang Shicheng would re-oppose him in this matter. Liang Shicheng was severely defeated by the Prince's Secret Letter Case. He was very tolerant and low-key during this period. He did not even make any appointments from Taichangqing. How could he start to sing a counter-topic with him in this case? This does not conform to Liang Shicheng's style of doing things.
If the Pan family was behind the scenes, it would be reasonable. Li Yanqing got the benefits of the Pan family and went to Tianzhu to visit Pan Yue and exchanged him a cell with good conditions. Isn’t this the Pan family’s requirement?
Wang Fu suddenly felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier that it was the Pan family who was exerting their efforts behind him, there would be no need for him to use the power of Kaifeng Prefecture to warn Li Yanqing.
However, after a second thought, Wang Fu felt that it was necessary to warn Li Yanqing so that he would not know the truth and really start to deal with this case and go against him!
Thinking of this, he said to Zhang Xun: "Continue to monitor Li Yanqing, especially pay attention to how he will deal with the case of Taoist Lin in the future. Report any progress to me immediately."
"I understand!"
Wang Fu encouraged Zhang Xun a few more words and sent him away. Wang Fu quickly put Li Yanqing's incident behind him. These days he has been trying hard to figure out how to defeat Yu Shen, but he really has no energy to pay attention to other things.
Wang Fu was very clear about the hints that the officials gave him that Cai Jing was too powerful in the court and was intricate, so he had to dig out Cai Jing's foundation in the court as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!