My heart sank.

There are many people who know me in Yangzhou Mansion. Even in this prison, when I was imprisoned for so long, many jailers have seen me. However, the emperor, the courtiers, and the governor of Yangzhou all changed, so naturally the people below also changed.

There will be some movement, and the path I am looking for this time is also for new people.

But unexpectedly, he was hit by someone.

However, I didn’t panic. After all, I was very haggard at that time and my hair was unkempt every day. But now I am pregnant and although I am poor, I am dressed cleanly and neatly. I am very different from the past.

So I raised my head and said with a smile: "Brother Chai is joking, this is the first time for a peasant woman to enter the city."

"Oh?"

The man looked at me doubtfully, and I said: "Brother Chai may have admitted the wrong person. However, the husband of a civilian woman is an honest man and has never done anything bad in his life. This time he was implicated and imprisoned. I hope Brother Chai will take care of him."

."

After saying that, I took out a piece of silver and sent it over. The man's eyes immediately showed a greedy look, he took it and put it in his arms, saying: "Okay, okay, I will take care of it, you can go."<

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"Thank you."

I smiled at them, and those people ignored me, turned and walked away. I slowly raised my head and breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking up at the familiar iron gate of Yangzhou Prison, I turned around and prepared to leave.

Just as I turned around, a very soft voice came from behind me, saying with a hint of uncertainty: "Yue... Qingying...?"

Yue Qingying!

These three words were like a thunderbolt from the blue, suddenly exploding in my ears unexpectedly, and I was stunned.

I didn’t expect anyone to call out this name, and I had deliberately avoided people in the state capital, but now, someone recognized me?

Can't look back!

I subconsciously told myself this, pretending not to hear anything and wanting to keep walking forward, but I heard the voice behind me say again: "Yue... girl, it's me."

This voice is——

A somewhat vague figure appeared in my mind. When I turned around slowly, I saw a young man in Tsing Yi standing behind me, with a look of doubt on his handsome face. When I turned around

, a smile appeared on his face: "It's really you, Miss Yue!"

"Master Ningyuan..."

Maybe it’s because it’s been so long, so long, that I haven’t met people from the past, especially those from Yangzhou Prefecture. Holding hands with those people whose artistic conception is buried deep in my memory, until I sit in the Accord of the restaurant, I still have some feelings.

Trance.

Wei Ningyuan, on the other hand, said with some joy: "You are actually still alive!"

I smiled and nodded.

"At that time, the emperor's dragon boat returned to Yangzhou, and we found out that he had other arrangements, but among the people who came back, you were never seen. Later Zhaoyi told me that you -"

At this point, he seemed to realize something and didn't say any more.

I held the teacup in front of me with both hands and smiled.

There is a bit of bitterness in the smile.

When people are happy, they always have more tolerance for the past and the hurts they have suffered. So these days, I have almost forgotten what kind of purgatory I have gone through and how devastated I am. I originally thought I could

Death ended everything, but I didn't expect the lucky rebirth. I had almost forgotten it. However, one person and one word made me think of it all.

Looking at me, Wei Ningyuan was a sensible person and seemed to understand something. He said nothing more. Just as the waiter came in to deliver tea, the two of them fell silent. Until the waiter walked out, the atmosphere was still a little quiet.

He seemed to have been thinking about how to speak. I looked at him and smiled: "Now, I am married."

Wei Ningyuan's expression changed several times.

He is Liu Yi's man, and he can talk to Liu Li. In addition, he didn't hide many things from people in the state capital. He also knows the relationship between me and the emperor very well. Now he looks at me with a big belly and said this.

I understood the sentence, and after pondering for a while, he hesitated and said: "Then - Your Majesty -"

"He is the emperor."

"..." Wei Ningyuan looked at my calm face, understood, and nodded.

This time I spoke again and asked: "By the way, I wonder if Mr. Ningyuan is in the state capital now——"

He smiled bitterly and said: "As you can see, I am just a small clerk in the state prison."

I frowned suddenly.

He was Liu Yi's favorite disciple. When Liu Yi was appointed governor of the south, many of the policies that were beneficial to the south were implemented with his efforts. Even Pei Yuanhao's later actions in the south also had his share of credit.

Why is he now demoted instead of promoted, and has become a prison clerk?

I hurriedly asked: "What's going on?"

He smiled bitterly and said, "Do you know who the governor of Yangzhou is now?"

"Who is it?"

"Yang Ji."

A knot suddenly appeared on my brow.

Yang Ji - Shen Gongyou's nephew. This man once worked as a minister in the Ministry of Household Affairs for two years. Later, he was dismissed by the Supreme Emperor because he was involved in some corruption cases. I only listened to some concubines gossiping about Shen Rou in the harem.

When I was young, I used this incident as a joke, but I thought, now that this man has been reinstated, he has actually become the governor of Yangzhou?!

But if you think about it carefully, you will understand.

When Pei Yuanhao ascended the throne, Shen Gongyi made great efforts, and with the addition of the imperial concubine Shen Rou, it was not difficult to re-enable members of his own family. In this way, the fraud in the imperial examinations in Yangzhou would be traceable; in addition, Shen Rou

Gong Yi, a group of veterans, do not want the imperial court to turn against Shengjing, nor do they want to abolish the untouchability system in the three provinces of Jiangnan, because this will slowly affect their interests, so of course they will not be lenient in exploiting the people of Yangzhou

.

It’s just that Pei Yuanhao worked so hard to achieve something in Yangzhou. How could he hand over such an important official position to such a person so easily?

I was still confused, but Wei Ningyuan already smiled bitterly and said: "You must have heard of this person Yang Ji. I just don't want to join in with him, so I was squeezed out here."

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"Damn it!"

Maybe others don't understand, but over the years, I have seen clearly how much effort and sacrifice the imperial court has spent on Yangzhou and caring for the people here. I didn't expect that this corrupt official would

Such nonsense!

Wei Ningyuan continued: "This time, he apparently wanted to arrest those who rebelled against the party and quell public complaints, but in fact, he deliberately arrested these students in Yangzhou who were dissatisfied with Enke's fraud and punished them in the name of rebelling against the party. In this way,

No one dared to speak anymore, and the matter was naturally suppressed by him."

I said angrily: "Aren't he afraid of arousing public resentment by doing this?"

Wei Ningyuan smiled bitterly and said: "Miss Yue, this is the real south. The confrontation between officials and the people started many years ago and has always been like this. The darkness in Yangzhou Mansion is not something you can imagine, not even the emperor who visited the south in person.

It can be imagined, because what the emperor can hear is what the officials asked him to hear, and what the emperor can see is what the officials did. As long as they deal with it for a while, when the emperor returns to Beijing, their

The methods will be more ruthless, the people in Yangzhou will be even more afraid to speak, and the situation will be even more chaotic."

I said angrily: "Don't they know that it is better to defend the people's mouth than to defend the river!"

"This river does not belong to him."

This sentence made me speechless.

Yes, this world does not belong to these officials, or even to the courtiers who live in the court and worry about the emperor, but to the Pei family.

He will regard the people in the south as his subjects, but these people will not.

I asked: "Mr. Ningyuan, the emperor has a special regard for Mr. Liu and understands you. Why don't you report the situation here to the court?"

Wei Ningyuan smiled bitterly and said: "When Yang Jigang went to Yangzhou, I was still a scribe, but now he can only guard the prison. Do you know why?"

"Why?"

"It's because I asked people to deliver letters to the capital several times, but I was stopped halfway. Once I was stopped, I was demoted one level. As of today, I have no chance of lowering myself, and I only have this life left."

"..."

I gritted my teeth.

This kind of worm in the country is so arrogant and domineering. It's a pity that all the hard work of Liu Yi and his son in Yangzhou was wasted in vain.

Ning Yuan took a sip of tea and sighed: "Now, I just hope that when the emperor goes south, he will still have the opportunity to meet the emperor. This life can only be used for this purpose. I can't look at Mr. Liu's face.

A lot of hard work——"

When I heard this, I was immediately shocked: "What did you say? The emperor - he wants to go south again?!"

He nodded: "If this news has been passed down, otherwise Yang Ji would not do such a thing. However, the emperor's schedule is still uncertain, so I don't know when he will come again."

My mind suddenly felt like thunder flashing and buzzing, and I could no longer hear what he said.

Pei Yuanhao is going south...

He is going south!
To be continued...