Several people went to Dali Temple and were received by Mr. Wang, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.
"Master Yang, the emperor ordered Master Qi to be detained here. You can find time to interrogate him."
"Introduction... interrogation?" Qi Shilang almost thought that he heard wrongly. When he was in the imperial study room, he only wanted to dispel the emperor's suspicion and did not notice the word "interrogation".
"Since the emperor has given instructions, I will take care of it."
As Master Yang spoke, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation to Minister Qi.
"Master Qi, please!"
Arriving at the prison where important prisoners were held, Yang Wen stopped and pointed to the room next door to Qi's mother and Qi Xuan, "I'll keep Mr. Qi here for the time being."
Qi Shilang walked in slowly. Qi's mother stood up quickly when she heard the noise and suddenly laughed when she saw Qi Shilang.
"You're a murderer, do you think you'll be fine if something happens to us? We're a family. If we don't have a good time, you can't have a good time either."
This man actually didn't care about his and his son's life or death. He didn't have to come in to accompany them now.
"You are the one who killed a thousand swords," Qi Shilang walked to the junction of the two cells, his tone was rare and excited, "Vicious woman and shrew, it doesn't matter if I come in, you just wait and get on your way!"
"You..." Qi's mother was angry and raised her finger to point at Minister Qi.
Qi Shilang snorted coldly, "How am I doing? Do you want to hit me again? Can you do it, poisonous woman?"
"Dad," Qi Xuan frowned and stood up, "can you please stop arguing."
The two of them were still arguing when their lives were almost gone, and they didn't care about the life or death of his only son.
"Shut up," Qi Shilang shouted at Qi Xuan: "You little beast, don't call me dad. I don't have an unfilial son like you."
Qi Xuan recalled what happened a few years ago and closed his mouth angrily.
When he was a child, Qi's mother was more pampered to him, but Qi Shilang was more strict with him. He didn't want to study every day, so when he heard that his father was going to divorce his mother, he ran to confuse right and wrong.
He said that his father not only beat his mother, but also divorced her.
Because he was a child, the adults didn't think he could lie, so they believed him.
After this incident, my father naturally failed to divorce my mother, and was even scolded by my mother's family.
In the past, his mother would carry him on her back when she beat his father. After this incident, her mother no longer carried him on her back, and his father had no time to control him. The relationship between the two became more and more distant, and over time it became what it is now.
"Stop arguing," Yang Wen had had enough of watching the show and interrupted the quarrel among several people. "What are you talking about?"
Qi's mother was worried that she would be tortured if she continued to argue, so she shut her mouth obediently and walked back to the haystack in the corner to sit down.
When Shilang Qi heard this, he felt a little upset when he remembered that there were outsiders there.
I was too angry just now to pay attention, knowing that one more person was beaten by a woman, which was so embarrassing.
Thinking that he would be dismissed from his official position, Qi Shilang felt relieved again.
Anyway, I will never have contact with Mr. Yang again.
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Outside the palace, as soon as King Yueqing picked up a cup of hot tea and put it to his lips, his eyeliner in the capital hurriedly reported back and forth.
"Your Majesty, Minister Qi came to the palace to ask for an audience with the Emperor, and he has been imprisoned in Dali Temple."
King Yueqing's face turned ugly when he heard this. The cup in his hand was crushed into several pieces, and blood was drawn on his hand.
This servant Qi looked timid, but he didn't expect that he would play tricks on him.
"My lord, your hand." The subordinate handed him a handkerchief to remind him of the injury on his hand.
King Yueqing took the handkerchief, wiped the blood on his hand nonchalantly, and threw the handkerchief on the table.
He waved his eyeliner away and looked at his subordinates, "Is the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance here?"
Just as he was talking, he saw the Minister of Hubu walking in.
"Your Majesty."
Shen Huai bowed his hands and saw that King Yueqing didn't look good, so he thought about who had offended him again.
"Master Shen is really difficult to invite. If I don't send someone to invite you, will you not come to see me?"
"What did the prince say?" Shen Huai sneered. "I know that the prince has helped a lot today. I didn't come to see the prince just because I was worried about arousing suspicion."
King Yueqing sneered, "This is best, otherwise I will find ways to make you lose everything."
He originally wanted to use Shen Huai to make Hubu his own, but after so many years, there was still no progress on Shen Huai's side.
"Yes, yes," Shen Huai echoed in a low voice and asked cautiously, "I wonder what the prince's orders are when he comes to this official?"
King Yueqing remembered the business and stopped beating Shen Huai. Instead, he put on a gentle mask and asked Shen Huai to sit down.
"The king asked you to come here because I want to ask Mr. Qi from your household department."
Minister Qi?
Shen Huai was stunned for a moment, so this person made the prince angry?
This person is really annoying.
"Back to your lord," Shen Huai came to his senses, "Qi Shilang came to the palace today to ask the emperor to remove her from her official position. She is now being held in Dali Temple awaiting trial."
He was overjoyed when he heard the news. He didn't have to see this inflexible servant again, so his life was wonderful.
He actually asked to be dismissed from his official position?
You are really cowardly, so afraid of being implicated.
King Yueqing tapped his fingers on the table, and after a while he said in shock: "Since Minister Qi is from your household department, you should find a way to protect him."
Shen Huai was so excited that he almost didn't stand up. The matter of Minister Qi's son involves the royal family's reputation. It is already a great gift for the emperor to keep his life, let alone keep his position as minister.
King Yueqing really thinks highly of him. He is just a minister, not an emperor. He can protect whoever he wants to protect?
Of course, Shen Huai only dared to think in his heart that planning things with King Yueqing was undoubtedly seeking skin from a tiger. He also understood how ruthless King Yueqing's methods were.
"Your Majesty, I don't have the ability to do this."
Shen Huai grimaced, "The reason why I can't serve you is because of the stumbling block of Minister Qi."
This Minister Qi is a well-known stinker in their household department. He has always been a loner and is extremely conscientious in his work so that no one can fault him.
It is said that the Ministry of Revenue is easy to make money, but because of the presence of Qi Shilang, not to mention that the people below can't make money, even he can't do anything.
I remember one time, he wanted to make some money from taxation, and after finishing the accounts, he would disperse the money and return home.
As a result, when he came to Yingmao the next day, this man brought over all the account books he had processed.
"Sir, your account was wrong. I came to Yingmao in advance and found out, so I recalculated it for you. This is correct."
He was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
The most irritating thing is that this person seems to have no understanding of the world, and it doesn't matter to him that the people in the household department exclude him.
He also particularly likes to come to Ying Mao in advance, and he will stay when everyone else has left.
King Yueqing exuded a coldness, "In this case, there is no need to worry about it anymore. If this person can leave Dali Temple safely, deal with him directly, and then find a way to place a useful person to take his place."
Originally, he wanted to use him as a pawn that could be sacrificed at any time, but it turned out that this person blocked his way of making money, so he couldn't keep him.
