Riding the Pheonix Chapter 20: Tealhouse

The two of them secretly avoided the maid, slipped out of Yu Fang Yuan, and met Ming Hao at the back door.

When Minghao saw Mingwei, his jaw almost dropped, and asked Mingxiang: "Why did you bring the seventh sister out? What if something happens?"

Ming Xiang didn't care: "Seventh sister has recovered from her illness, what can happen?"

"But..."

"Okay, okay! Don't be nagging, I will be responsible for anything that happens!" Mingxiang patted his chest.

Minghao was reluctant: "This is what you said!"

"I said so!"

"...Okay!" Minghao agreed hesitantly.

Mingwei followed the two of them, going around the garden, through the passages, and finally stopped at a low wall.

Minghao took out a few bricks from which hole in the wall and piled them up one by one.

Just as he was about to climb up, Mingxiang pulled him off: "Let Seventh Sister go up first, and let's push down below."

"Oh..."

Minghao was about to come down, but Mingwei stopped him: "No, you go up first, I can do it."

"You are going to climb over the wall!" Mingxiang looked at her in disbelief.

"Don't worry."

Maybe she was too determined and the two younger ones didn't insist.

They must be used to climbing over walls. Minghao went up first and pulled Mingxiang. The two of them successfully climbed up the wall, and then both looked at Mingwei.

Mingwei tried the height of the wall and stepped on the bricks.

"Get out of the way."

Leaning forward, he prepared to pull her two to look at each other, then hesitantly moved to the side.

Then, I saw her kicking off the brick, and as she jumped up, her palms borrowed strength from the wall, and she was already sitting on it.

Mingxiang and Minghao stared together.

"Let's go." Mingwei turned around on the wall and jumped down from the other side.

From beginning to end, not even the hem of the skirt floated up.

Minghao leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Why does the seventh sister seem to crawl more smoothly than us?"

How did Mingxiang know? She is even more confused than Minghao!

You know, her wall-breaking skills have been practiced since she was a child. Isn’t this seventh sister always locked up in the garden? You don't even see much sunlight, but you can actually climb over the wall?

"What's wrong?" Mingwei turned around to look at them.

"Nothing..." The two little ones silently walked down the wall.

"Is the place you mentioned far from home? Are there carriages and horses? Or do you walk on two legs?"

Ming Hao scratched his head: "It's not far. There is a donkey cart rental company outside this alley. Every time we go out, we rent their donkey cart."

"..." This is something you both are already familiar with.

"Then let's go. Go and come back quickly, so as not to be discovered."

……

The donkey cart swayed three times, carrying the three children of the Ming family and heading out of the city.

About three miles away from the city, there is a long pavilion, which is where Dongning people say goodbye to their relatives and friends.

At this time, many gentry had gathered in the pavilion, all of them dressed brightly.

Ming Xiang saw from a distance that his second uncle, his father and his elder brother were standing in the crowd, and he poked Minghao: "Let's not go there, let's rest by the roadside."

Minghao was also afraid that his father would see him and he would not be able to escape a beating, so he asked the donkey cart driver to stop next to the teahouse.

"Seventh sister, let's go drink tea." Mingxiang said.

Mingwei followed her into the teahouse and saw that she was familiar with the place and asked for a private seat.

The tea house is built here for people to say goodbye to friends and welcome relatives and friends for a while. The place is large, but the quality cannot be said to be high. The private seats are only separated by bamboo curtains, which is very simple.

Not long after we sat down, someone came to sit next to us, but they were a few scholars on an outing.

"Why are there so many people today? It's almost full." A fat scholar complained while wiping the sweat from his head.

One of his companions ridiculed: "Brother Zhao, you are really deaf to what is going on outside the window. Just look over there and you will see that it is unusual."

The scholar Zhao stretched his neck and looked where he was pointing, surprised: "Is that Mr. Futai? There are also all the gentry... Are they gathering here to welcome someone?"

"Haha!" Another scholar laughed, "Brother Zhao, is this how you know? We came all the way here just for this! We were talking just now, but you didn't hear us?"

"Brother Zhao, how can you hear that?" the person from before said narrowly, "He, he has stayed up late and studied hard for the New Year's exam these days. Reading."

A few people laughed for a while and finally got to the point.

Shusheng Zhao asked: "Master Futai personally welcomed him, but he didn't know who he was welcoming?"

His companion swung his folding fan and said with a smile: "This man is extraordinary. He rode horses and paraded in the streets at the age of eighteen. He was released as a county magistrate at the age of twenty-one. He repeatedly solved strange cases and was known as Qingtian. He was appointed magistrate at the age of twenty-seven. Twenty-eight..."

"Needless to say!" Zhao Shusheng shouted, extremely excited, "Is it Jiang Wenfeng? Jiang Wenfeng, the censor?! Mr. Jiang actually came to Dongning? Why didn't you tell me earlier!"

Across the seat, Mingwei was surprised.

Jiang Wenfeng? This is a famous official who will be passed down to future generations.

This Lord Chiang was, in her time, more famous than the emperors, generals and ministers of his time. Because of his deeds, storytellers compiled a storybook called "Jiang Qingtian's Cleansing of Injustices".

Most of the cases written in it were created by the storyteller and should not be taken as real, but he himself is indeed a wizard.

At the age of eighteen, he was selected as the most beautiful girl, and at the age of twenty-one, he was released to the outside world. He became famous for solving crimes and was transferred back to Dali Temple, and then he was promoted all the way. In the 18th year of Yongjia's reign, he was appointed as the censor to inspect various prefectures. Later, the imperial court was in turmoil, but he had little influence. He continued to serve as an official until he was over sixty.

In his life, he has not been involved in many government affairs. He basically worked in the Dali Temple Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Ministry of Punishment, where he specialized in investigating cases ~IndoMTL.com~ is very "clean".

This year is the 18th year of Yongjia, and Jiang Wenfeng is appointed as the censor.

It turns out that the person greeted by the prefect of Dongning was actually Jiang Qingtian?

That's right, no matter how high the status of Mr. Yang is, he is a relative of the emperor and not on the same level as the civil servants. How could the prefect bring someone to welcome him? Civil servants are very dignified. If you do this, you will be laughed at.

Mingwei knocked on his head and shook his head.

She is a charlatan at heart, and these things are unexpected at the moment.

"Bight sister, did Mr. Yang come to Dongning with Mr. Jiang?"

"Yes! What's wrong?" Mingxiang didn't think anything was wrong at all. Her attention was entirely on Young Master Yang.

Mingwei tapped the table: "When you mentioned it originally, I thought Mr. Yang was visiting a relative's house. Now think about it...how could he be traveling with Mr. Jiang?"

A young man who spends a lot of time drinking and drinking, and an upright civil servant are completely incompatible with each other. Even if they encounter each other, they should keep their distance and go to separate sides.

Ming Hao drawled his drake voice: "Seventh sister, this Mr. Yang has an official position, it seems... the Imperial City Secretary gave me some advice. This time, it was mainly Jiang Yushi who was ordered to inspect various mansions. Your Majesty, by the way. Send him along. In fact, we all know that he just comes out to play for some reason."

Imperial City Secretary, please give me some advice? Mingwei was even more surprised.

This Imperial City Department is not an ordinary yamen, but a private organization that only takes orders from the Holy One. In other words, they are the emperor's eyes and ears, specializing in spying on intelligence and monitoring officials.

It has great power, but its members rarely appear in public. Both the common people and officials respect and fear it.

As for this official position, it should be the second-in-command of the Imperial City Department, and must be the emperor's confidant.

The emperor would give such a position to a dandy as a front?