On a very cold day, Li Jinglong got up early and started cleaning from the door of his house. He was the only one who cleaned it seriously and meticulously. When his head was covered with sweat, he finally swept it clean.
But as soon as I turned around and came back, the streets were crisscrossed with... shit.
There were even yellow urine stains on several of the piled snow piles, and some of them were quite spectacular, like fucking maps.
At this moment, he no longer cares about the honor of the Duke, and has forgotten his upbringing since he was a child. Standing on the street, he scolded, "Do you need some tutoring? Ah? People have no right to criticize you for raising a dog, but you lead the dog out."
, take care not to let it poop or pee everywhere!"
"A dog is ignorant, but you are also ignorant? You are happy, and others suffer! Why should others help you clean up your shit?"
In the Li family's concierge, the housekeeper heard their master's voice and ran out quickly, "Sir, what's going on?"
"What do you think? I just swept the street!" Li Jinglong pointed at the dirt on the ground and cursed angrily, "You are all dead people, and you are eating in the concierge? On the street in front of your house, people...
.Let the dog cause such trouble, and you can’t see it?”
"Master, please calm down. I'll let you clean me right now!" the housekeeper nodded and bowed.
"Get out!" Li Jinglong cursed again, and then said aggrievedly, "It's not you who are ordered to sweep the streets, but me!"
With that said, he walked into the door room aggrievedly, took a handful of spoons and a small broom, and started walking along the street with a disgusted look on his face to clean up the dog poop on the floor.
"Damn it, don't let me know whose dog it is, I'll eat it for you if you find out!"
While Li Jinglong was cleaning up, he was cursing in his mind, "Damn it, I will ask two servants to guard the street in front of the door. No one is allowed to pass, I will let you pull it!"
As he was talking, the broom in his hand might be weak, or maybe the dog poop hadn't frozen solid yet. As soon as the broom went down, the stuff suddenly changed from a firm puddle to a sticky puddle with yellow streaks.
.....
"Ugh!" Li Jinglong couldn't bear it anymore and squatted on the ground and retched.
After two blasts, tears and snot came out all at once. Looking at the dirt all over the floor, I was about to cry without tears. "Sir, when have I ever suffered like this? Who am I messing with?"
But it's uncomfortable, and you have to do what you have to do.
I finally suppressed the turmoil in my chest and abdomen, and just started cleaning when I heard the sound of ruts coming from the long street behind me, and...
Li Jinglong turned around in surprise, and saw a group of arrogant Imperial Guards, as well as dozens of officials from the Ministry of Punishments, escorting a long motorcade from that side.
Although the guards on horseback were tired, they were still wearing bright clothes and angry horses. The prisoners in the prison cars all had dull faces and livid faces. Some even wore only single clothes and huddled in the prison cars, shivering.
There are also people who look at the sky with empty eyes, as if they are the living dead, without any life in them.
Li Jinglong looked at the prison cars and the people in them, and suddenly shuddered violently.
"Get out of the way and escort the imperial prisoner out of the way!" A guard in imperial robes said angrily to Li Jinglong, "Get to the other side!"
"What are you doing?" Li Jinglong didn't care about the Jin Yiwei, but shouted to a criminal officer in soap uniform, "Where are there so many prisoners?"
The officer looked at him and said, "The prisoners just taken from the Central Plains will be sent to the Zhenfu Department and the Criminal Department!"
Li Jinglong was shocked and thought to himself, "Is it all because of King Zhou's involvement?"
Then he looked at the prison cars, counting them in his mind.
The more he counted, the more wrong his expression became, because there were so many people that he couldn't even count them.
Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the horse pulling the cart swinging its tail, and large amounts of horse dung fell directly onto the street he had just cleaned.
"Who told you to take this road? Go to the Ministry of Punishment and the Department of Zhenfu over there!" Li Jinglong was furious. This was a street he had just swept.
"Which road is difficult to walk on? Which way do you like to go?" A guard in uniform looked at him sideways and said rudely, "What are you doing? Street sweepers, get out of here!"
"This is..." Li Jinglong was trembling with anger, "This is the street in front of Cao Guogong's house, you did it..."
"What's wrong with Mr. Cao Guo? Their house is on the street?" Jin Yiwei glanced at him and said, "Get out of the way quickly and don't block the way, or grandpa will whip you!"
"you....."
Suddenly, a prisoner in a prison car wearing a white singlet with disheveled hair shouted, "It's unfair! It's unfair! Jin Yiwei framed him..."
"Shut up!"
Immediately after two bang-dong sounds, the water and fire stick in the officer's hand was stabbed along the fence of the prison car. The shouting prisoner was directly knocked over, wailing in pain.
"I am the fifth-grade prefect..."
Boom, boom, two more blows from the water and fire stick, and the prisoner rolled in the prison car in pain.
"Fifth-grade official? Ha, even if you are the Duke of the country, you have to be obedient if you fall into our hands!" A guard in Jin Yi cursed angrily, "If you dare to scream again, I will cut out your tongue!"
Creaking and creaking, the prison car moved slowly away on the stone road.
Li Jinglong, on the other hand, seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit. He stood there without moving for a long time, just staring blankly at the prison van going away.
But in my mind, there was a sentence that kept echoing.
"Even if the Duke and Lord fall into our hands, we must obey our orders!"
The emperor can take his official position back.
Life also depends on the emperor's thoughts.
"I..." Li Jinglong wanted to say something in his heart, but his mind went blank and he couldn't open his mouth.
After another long while, he lowered his head and used a broom to clean up the horse manure along the street.
This time, he was more cautious and used extra force.
After cleaning, he returned to his concierge in a somewhat listless manner, where he was immediately greeted by the housekeeper.
"Sir, do you want someone to help you wash and eat?"
"No need!" Li Jinglong said calmly, "Bring me some clothes, I'm going to the Criminal Department!"
The housekeeper hurriedly said to the people around him, "Hurry, prepare the python robe..."
"Just ordinary clothes!" Li Jinglong said, looking back at the long street, the direction where the prison van disappeared, "Be low-key, just ordinary clothes!"
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In the Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace, the curtains block the sunlight from outside and the light is dim.
Zhu Yunxi sat cross-legged on the Arhat bed, while Mao Xiang stood leaning against the door with his hands hanging down.
Neither the monarch nor the minister spoke, only shallow breathing.
"Do you know about King Zhou's case?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
"I heard something!"
"What do you think?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
Mao Xiang was silent for a moment and said, "Whatever the emperor wants me to see, I will see it as you want!"
Then the palace fell into silence again, and neither the monarch nor the minister spoke.
After a long while, Zhu Yunxi said, "Have you been quite free recently? I see you have gained weight."
"I am lazy. I eat too much and don't like to move, so I am fat!" Mao Xiang whispered.
"It's time to move around!" Zhu Yunxi smiled.
"I obey the instructions of Lord Long Live!"
After he finished speaking, Zhu Yunxi took out a piece of paper from the drawer of the kang table and placed it gently on the table.
"Check these people!" Zhu Yunxi said softly.
Mao Xiang took a step forward, glanced at the densely packed names on it, then folded the paper carefully and put it in his arms, "I obey the order!"
"That's what I like about you, you talk less!" Zhu Yunxi looked at the other person and said.
Mao Xiang lowered his head, "I am here to share the emperor's worries, not to speak!"