Xie Chengyin wanted to pull Su Xubai out of this matter, but it was obvious that Su Xubai didn't want to accept the favor. He didn't want to pull himself out, and even wanted to step on this case.
"Aren't you afraid of ruining your reputation? After all, you are still his future son-in-law in name!" Xie Chengyin looked at Su Xubai, as if he felt that he was a bit ungrateful.
"What's the use of a good reputation?" Su Xubai laughed, "I'm not one of those pedantic scholars. I don't care about these so-called reputations!"
"Then you're not afraid of embarrassing your father in the end?" Xie Chengyin looked at Su Xubai in disbelief, "You were not such a person before!"
"What's there to be embarrassed about?" Su Xubai's face was full of disdain, "I won't let him involve our Su family, not to mention that we are not married, even if I am really forced to marry Hao Jiaojiao,
I don’t mind being a widower either!”
Xie Chengyin was speechless.
Meng Shaoqing had a smile on his face: "If you are aware, as the saying goes, shameless people are invincible. Let me tell you, the reputation of a so-called scholar has always been the most useless. Since you can understand this, then
From now on, naturally there will be no weird things to restrain you!"
Su Xubai glanced at Meng Shaoqing and for once recognized his point of view: "I think what you said makes sense!"
Xu Ziqing on the side didn't react for a while, and after a long time, he looked surprised: "How do I remember that the two of them were very difficult to deal with before? Could it be that on this trip south, the two of them became sworn friends because they went through life and death together.
?”
Meng Shaoqing and Su Xubai looked back together in perfect agreement: "No!"
Xu Ziqing looked at the two people in front of him and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Well, indeed not!"
After returning to Beijing, Meng Shaoqing and others sent people to Dali Temple and immediately went to the palace to report their duties. After learning that Xie Chengyin and his party were back, the emperor, who was still discussing with the ministers in the imperial study, quickly asked the ministers to leave first.
Met them first.
As soon as he saw Xie Chengyin and the others, the emperor quickly raised his hands: "No courtesy, no courtesy, hurry up, come here and let me have a look, see if you are thinner!"
Xie Chengyin and Meng Shaoqing both grew up under the eyes of the emperor. These days, the news coming from Jiangnan is very bad. The emperor has trouble eating and sleeping every day, especially when he knows that Meng Shaoqing is injured and cannot do anything.
When I went to bed, I was even more frightened. After all, there was only such a solitary seedling in Ningyuan Hou Mansion!
Then a few days later, news came that Su Xubai was infected with the plague. During that time, the emperor really couldn't eat well, couldn't sleep well, and was very irritable every day. Along with it, he had a bad temper every day.
, even in the morning court every day, the emperor was always angry, causing every courtier to be frightened in these days.
The emperor walked up to the three people, looked at them carefully, and then breathed a long sigh of relief: "Just come back, just come back safely!"
Xie Chengyin looked at the emperor's appearance, thought of something, and asked: "I heard that my father always loses his temper with the courtiers when he goes to the morning court recently, and scolds the ministers whenever there is something wrong?"
The emperor looked at Xie Chengyin in front of him and thought for a while: "Who came to your ears and talked nonsense about things that didn't happen? Am I that kind of person?"
Xie Chengyin looked at the emperor with vague doubts. The emperor moved his eyebrows slightly, then laughed a few times, returned to the chair and sat down: "Thank you for your hard work during this time!"
"This is what the ministers did to you!" Meng Shaoqing and Su Xubai said quickly.
"I have already read the memorial submitted by the prince!" The emperor placed the memorial he received a few days ago in front of them, and then looked at Su Xubai, "Su Aiqing, this matter involves the Hao family, although you and
The girl from the Hao family is not married yet, but she is still engaged after all. It is not good for you to continue to be involved in this case, it is better to avoid it!"
Su Xubai was about to open his mouth to argue when Meng Shaoqing grabbed his hand.
The emperor glanced at the man in front of him who kept making small moves, coughed, and then said: "It's not that I don't want you to be involved in this case. It's the Minister of Dali Temple who came here to report. I hope you won't get involved in this case. Dali Temple will send another person
The person supervising this case is doing it for your own good!"
The Minister of Dali Temple was Su Xubai's superior officer. Su Xubai might be able to argue with others, but since it was the Minister of Dali Temple who spoke about this matter, no matter how unwilling he was, he couldn't say anything else.
When he came out of the imperial study, Su Xubai's face was still not good. As he walked out, his whole person was filled with resentment. When Meng Shaoqing saw his appearance, he put his arms around his shoulders and said, "What a big deal.
Isn’t it just that we don’t have to worry about this case anymore? This is a good thing. You have to think about it. We were as tired as dogs in Huizhou. It would be great to come back and take a good rest for a while!”
"Rest?" Su Xubai laughed, "What's the point of resting?"
"Even if you don't take a break, what will happen if you work on this case yourself?" Meng Shaoqing laughed, "Don't you really think that you can really expand this case infinitely? It's impossible to pull Hao out of such a small matter.
The Prime Minister has resigned!"
"I know!" Su Xubai raised his eyes and looked forward with cold eyes, "I just want to see what kind of excuses Prime Minister Hao will use to explain this matter, and I also want to see how hard he racks his brains to distance himself.
I couldn’t help but look at my son in deep distress!”
"What's the use of seeing this?" Meng Shaoqing laughed, "Wouldn't it be better to wait and see him fall into the quagmire?"
Su Xubai took a deep breath, and then looked back at Meng Shaoqing: "By the way, when I was in Huizhou, I couldn't hide the fact that I had a young lady by my side. I'll have to trouble you a bit about Ah Chun.
Time, I will find a good alternative as soon as possible!"
"Let her live there!" Meng Shaoqing said as he walked forward, "That yard was originally meant for my sister, but it's a pity that she never had the chance to live there. Achun is about the same age as her.
, Forsythia also likes her very much, let her live there during this time in the capital!"
Su Xubai paused, then looked back at Meng Shaoqing: "You seem to be very special to Achun?"
Meng Shaoqing was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Don't think too much, I don't like the kind of daughter's family who looks cute and soft, so don't think too much! What's more, I am not a person with no limits.