Chapter 98: A Worthy Prime Minister Wisdomly Breaks the Jade Corruption Case (Part 1)

Because the itinerary was agreed upon, a group of people separated in Yangcheng City - Pei Rongxuan, Qiao Zeyu and Ming Kong returned to Beijing, while Pei Rongbai and Qiao Songyu stayed in Yangcheng City temporarily.

After seeing off Qiao Zeyu and others, Pei Rongbai and Qiao Songyu returned to the residence.

It was hot in July, but it was still a little hot during the day. Qiao Songyu was afraid of the heat, so he hid in the house and refused to come out. His clothes were also cool. The old cook soaked watermelons in well water for him, so when he arrived at the houseI took off my socks and half lay on the cool mat to eat watermelon.

Pei Rongbai looked over at him, and only lamented that the beauty of his appearance is good—this disheveled, indecent sitting posture, and the appearance of eating watermelon with relish, if it were someone else, don't know how ugly it is, but his SongerIn this way, it is a picture of beauty eating melon.

Qiao Songyu, who was trying to eat watermelon, also noticed her husband's fiery eyes, couldn't help wiping the watermelon juice from her lips with her hand, and said, "What are you doing looking at me like that? If you want to eat it, you can take it yourself.I didn't finish it for you."

Pei Rongbai couldn't help laughing: "I only see you when I want to eat, and I'm not you."

Qiao Songyu glared: "What's wrong with me! Why don't you keep talking about me, I'm stupid, I'm greedy, I provoked you!"

Pei Rongbai laughed out loud: "Okay, I'm looking at your beauty!"

"Tch, do you think I'll believe it?" Qiao Songyu didn't believe his nonsense. Thinking about how beautiful he is half sitting and half lying down now with his socks off?It must be Pei Rongbai teasing himself again!He ignored him, and said while eating melons, "If we don't go back to the capital, won't His Majesty accuse you of dereliction of duty? After all, there are so many affairs in the court. If you are not here, I don't know what will happen."

Pei Rongbai is the prime minister, everyone can see how busy the recruiting center is, now that he is not here, there may be some troubles.

Hearing this, Pei Rongbai smiled and said: "I am not the only one who maintains the operation of the recruiting hall, there are many ministers and officials, besides, His Majesty is now able to handle political affairs with ease, and now June and July is also a yearly eventAt the very least, there won’t be any serious problems if I’m missing, and if there is, it’s the same as sending it to me in eight hundred miles.”

"That's it." Qiao Songyu finished eating a piece of watermelon, wiped her mouth with a sweat towel, laughed, and said, "Then we can stay a few more days, and it would be great to hide for a few more days."

"Song'er is absolutely right." Pei Rongbai laughed brilliantly, "I'm afraid these few days have been the most leisurely time I've had in the past twenty years... It's hard to wear a golden-winged shirt."

Qiao Songyu was quite moved when she saw him, and she knew that he was tired after a long time of ups and downs.He thought for a while, then changed the topic and said, "By the way, what did you mean when you said 'Japanese pirates' to my second brother earlier?"

Hearing this, Pei Rongbai looked around, but seeing no one, he said: "Xia Xuan found out that the large amount of cash in Xie's bank seems to be related to Japanese pirates."

Qiao Songyu was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help asking: "The Xie family is a bit too courageous, how dare they do such a thing of beheading and punishing the nine clans?"

"Do you think it's the Xie family alone that dares to do such a thing?" Pei Rongbai looked at Qiao Songyu with a hint of sarcasm on his lips, "There must be someone manipulating it behind the scenes. This Xie family is just a marionette."

Qiao Songyu thought for a while, and her eyes lit up: "Could it be..."

"Well, that's right, as long as you know." Pei Rongbai said with a smile.

Qiao Songyu understood and stopped talking.

At this moment, there was a boy outside who told Jiang Shang:

"Brother Guard, is the Lord Prime Minister here? There is a case in the yamen, and the interim governor cannot handle it. I want to invite the Lord Prime Minister to take a look."

Jiang Shang asked, "But a homicide case?"

"It's not a homicide case, but those two people were arguing endlessly. The temporary master really doesn't know what to do!"

When Jiang Shang heard that it was not a homicide case, he wanted to reject it, but he felt a little curious and didn't know what the case was, so he said, "Then wait a minute, I will report to Lord Prime Minister."

Qiao Songyu listened to all this, got up quickly, put on socks and shoes, and said, "I don't know what the case is, I'm quite curious."

Pei Rongbai smiled lightly, it happened that Jiang Shang came in at this time, so he didn't wait for Jiang Shang to speak, and said: "I heard everything, you go and reply, just say that I will go after changing clothes."

"Yes." Jiang Shang hurried out.

The two changed their clothes and cleaned their faces, and went to the yamen together. They entered through the back door of the yamen, but as soon as they entered, they heard the noise of the front hall.

Immediately, Chen Fang, the police officer, came over and said to the two of them, "Lord Prime Minister, ma'am, there is a case in the yamen, please go and settle it!"

"What case? Let's talk to the two of us first." Pei Rongbai said.

So the two walked into the back hall of the yamen, and Chen Fang said to the two of them: "It's like this. Just now, there were two people who talked and scolded each other, beat the drum of injustice, and said they were wronged. One was from a pawn shop.The shopkeeper, Li Furen, and a businessman, Luo Da, said that he went to Li Furen's pawnshop to pawn the heirloom jade. When Li Furen was looking at the appearance, his uncle passed by, so he left the jade and went out.Talking to his uncle, who would have thought that after finishing speaking, Li Furen took his jade and said that he had never seen any jade;The business has been lost for a few days, and today I came to his shop to exchange a few words, went out to meet someone and came back, and insisted that I gave him the jade just now, and asked him to pay, obviously trying to extort money from him to pay off the debt.One of the two said yes, and the other said no, both of them have plausible words, and no one else has seen it, so this Fuyin master can't make a judgment."

When Qiao Songyu heard it, she found it quite interesting, and quickly looked at Pei Rongbai, and said, "Why don't you try it?"

Anyway, Pei Rongbai will definitely have a solution!He was watching a play.

Pei Rongbai also raised the corners of his lips, and said: "Interesting, I'll go and have a look."

Chen Fang hurriedly followed behind the two of them.

Seeing that Pei Rongbai came in wearing an official uniform, the deputy of the interim government governor hurriedly got up to greet him, and was about to exchange greetings when he saw Pei Rongbai wave his hand and said:

"The truth of the case is already known, so there is no need to say more, I will judge it."

"Thank you, Lord Prime Minister." The deputy wiped the sweat from his forehead and got busy.

Qiao Songyu hid behind and watched, only to see Pei Rongbai sitting down, slapped the gavel, and said: "Luo Da, you said it was your family heirloom, then you must know what this jade looks like?"

"That's natural, Mr. Xiang!" Na Luo Da was wearing a brown bunt. He didn't look like a rich businessman. He was about 30 years old, with a sad face, and said anxiously, "Mr. Xiang, the jade in my houseIt was carved from a whole piece of sapphire, the size of a child's fist, and it was carved into a horse with a monkey on it, implying "immediate feudal lord". Although it is not priceless, it is worth tens of hundreds of taels.Now, this unscrupulous Li Furen actually took my heirloom, and I went back empty-handed, but how can I be worthy of the whole family who are waiting for me to become an heirloom to buy rice!"

As Luo Da spoke, he wiped away tears sadly.