Chapter 140: Powerful Minister【10】
After Meng Xie left the Zhenbei Gongfu in a rage, the servant who came out with him caught up with him and warned him in a low voice: "Master, your behavior in Zhenbei Gongfu today is very inconsistent with the master's intention, how can you How about leaving in anger?"
Meng Qi turned to look at the servant sent by the emperor. Although the servant's unremarkable face was full of respect, and his tone was also respectful, he addressed him with 'you', but he could still feel it. The warning and disdain in the words of man.
This little boy looks down on him!
Meng Xiu was keenly aware of this, and the self-respecting Meng Xiu wanted to get angry, but considering that he also depends on the owner to beat the dog, he couldn't afford to offend the owner behind the dog, so he could only bear it: "Just now, Mrs. Yan Didn't you hear what Meng Yuanjia said? They all made it clear that they didn't welcome me there, so why am I still licking my face and staying there?"
For Meng Xian's strong self-esteem, this little servant just thought it was ridiculous, and he respectfully said: "Master, even if Duke Zhenbei beat you out, you have to climb in for the sake of the master."
Meng Qi's face twisted, and he gritted his teeth, "What did you say?"
Facing Meng Qi's anger, the little servant said lightly, "Don't forget the task that the master gave you. If you can't finish it, you won't want to know the consequences."
Meng Qi's face suddenly turned pale. Perhaps when he first came into contact with the emperor, the emperor was too gentle, which made him forget the emperor's majesty and strength for a while.
Now, after being reminded by the servant, Meng Qi couldn't help but think about how the emperor would deal with him if he broke the emperor's affairs... He is a commoner, and the only thigh he can hug is the emperor. Who can save him?
Meng Qi was silent for a while, then lowered his voice and said, "I know, I will handle it."
He returned to his house unhappy. The house that was originally cold and lonely was left alone, but now there are several servants to serve, and the house that was overgrown with weeds and dust has long been cleaned.
Meng Qi didn't feel comfortable after walking in, because he had just returned from the gorgeous and magnificent Zhenbei Gongfu. Compared with the Zhenbei Gongfu, what was there to like about his small shabby house?
"Son, you're back!" Lin hurried out to greet him, looking at his hands and the hands of the servant behind him with anticipation. Seeing that both of them came back empty-handed, an uncontrollable expression appeared on his face. Disappointment.
Why did I go to Zhenbei Gongfu and didn't get anything back?
In Lin's heart, she felt that the Zhenbei Gongfu must be full of gold and silver mountains, and it would be worth a lot of money to buckle a stone and bring it back.
As a result, Meng Qi finally made a trip, but he didn't get anything?
When Meng Qi saw Lin Shi, he remembered what Yuan Jia said just now. When he was depressed, he didn't have a good look on Lin Shi: "What are you doing here? Come to fight the autumn wind again? I have said it before, it is impossible for me to support your husband's family. family."
Lin Shi was also dissatisfied: "That's your younger brother and sister, how can you ignore it?"
Meng Qi has a cold heart, but he is not easily suppressed by his biological mother's filial piety. He sarcastically said: "I am still your own son, didn't you abandon it when you said it was abandoned? They are just my half-brothers and sisters. , I haven't seen it a few times, and you still expect me to be kind?"
Lin Shi saved others by himself, and felt that Meng Qi couldn't raise his younger siblings, so he said, "I am your own mother, you have to be filial to me, or I will go to the government to sue you!"
Meng Xian was not afraid at all, and even encouraged him: "Then you go! Before you go to sue me, it happened to publicize your behavior of abandoning your parents and children. It happened that my adoptive mother likes me very much, maybe I can return to Zhenbei Gong again. Where is the government!"
Seeing that the only threat was useless, Lin was suddenly at a loss. She couldn't really offend this only promising son to death. She immediately softened her attitude and started crying to Meng Qi without rain.
Meng Xi was in a irritable mood, and she was impatient to entangle with her more, and asked a maid to take a string of copper coins to Lin, and sent the person away.
A string of copper coins was not a small amount for ordinary people, so Lin Shi happily took the money and went back.
On the way home, Lin was suddenly stopped by a young woman. The woman was covered in a veil and couldn't see her face, but she reached out and handed Lin a piece of silver.
Lin Shi subconsciously took the silver in his hand, took a bite, looked at the teeth marks on it and was overjoyed, looked at the young woman and asked, "Is this silver really for me? If you have anything, just tell me!"
The young woman said indifferently, "This piece of silver is just a deposit. I just want you to go to Meng Xi's house every day to make a fuss, whether it's crying and complaining about his unfilial piety or asking him for money, anyway, you just want to make trouble so he can't rest."
Lin Shi was stunned, rolled his eyes, and said, "Girl, I will ruin our family's reputation by doing this."
The young woman took out another piece of silver and placed it in her hand.
Lin Shi's eyes could only see the silver, and he replied in a loud voice: "No problem! I promise you will do it properly for the girl!"
What is fame, is it important to have money? Fame can't be eaten!
Small people like the Lin family don't care about reputation as much as big families. She is the best at Sapo and making trouble.
When she finished biting the second piece of silver and looked up at the young woman, she found that there was no one in front of her, and the young woman had disappeared at some point.
Lin Shi didn't care either, she put the silver in her arms dearly.
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The next day, under the urging of the servant, Meng Qi planned to go to Zhenbei Gongfu again with a cheeky face.
As a result, early in the morning, before he had finished his breakfast, he heard a loud knock on the door and Lin's signature loud voice: "Son, open the door, open the door! I'm your mother. !"
Meng Qi frowned, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and motioned for a servant to open the door.
After Lin entered the door, he sat on the opposite side of Meng Xiu without looking at it, reached out and grabbed a crystal dumpling and ate it. Meng Xi's brows jumped, and he had no appetite.
"Can you not grab it with your hands?"
Lin stuffed his mouth full, and said vaguely: "The nest is like a mud mother, and the next thing needs a mud pipe?"
Meng Qi watched with a cold face as Mrs Lin picked up the porridge bowl and snorted to her fullness. When she was done eating, the table of exquisite breakfast was in a mess.
Lin wiped his mouth with his shiny black cuff, and said to Meng Xi, "I'm here today to ask for money. I'm your mother, and you have to give me money to honor me."
Meng Xi said coldly, "If you don't have money, go out!"
If it was before, Mrs. Lin might have softened her attitude in order to continue to seek favors from Meng Xi in the future, but this time she was taking money to do things, and she immediately cried and made trouble: "Unfilial son! My mother was pregnant in October that year and left at the gate of hell. I only gave birth to such a wicked hindrance, I knew that you are so unfilial today, and I might as well drown you in the urinal! Heaven has no eyes, how could such an unfilial son be brought up by others? I'm going to file a complaint with the government, and if the government doesn't give a sentence, I'll file a lawsuit against the imperial court..."
The servants sent by the surrounding emperor were stunned. It was the first time they had ever seen such a shrew who threw around, cried and made trouble.
Meng Qi's face was ashen with anger. Under the onlookers of so many servants, Lin's face was extremely embarrassing, and even he was embarrassed.
He had to grit his teeth and said, "Okay, stop howling, shame on you! I'll only give you a tael of silver."
Lin Shi immediately shut up and got up from the ground as if nothing happened, "A tael of silver will do."
Meng Qi gave her a tael of silver. She wanted to use this to get rid of people. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Lin suddenly found herself making trouble with him in a place where there were people. Instead, Mrs. Lin humbly asked for more money than usual. Asking for money again...
This time Meng Xian refused to give it. Lin Shi not only made trouble in his house, but also went to the gate to sit and cry and complain that his son was unfilial, that he did not recognize his mother, and that his mother would not ask him to borrow some money when he encountered difficulties. …
In this world, filial piety is paramount. Parents can kill their children, but children cannot fight back. There are many examples of parents who are not kind, but people around them do not allow their children to be unfilial.
Lin's family abandoned their parents and remarried, of course, some people would point at them, but if Meng Qi refused to be filial to his biological mother, he would definitely be flooded with spittle and stabbed in the spine.
Yuan Jia was sitting in his study, listening to his servant's vivid retelling of the scene of Lin's riot at Meng Qi's house, and laughed in a happy mood: "The wicked need the wicked to grind!"
Once someone like Lin's got entangled, they couldn't get rid of them.
Meng Xi gave her a lot of benefits in order to appease Lin, and even if no one paid her to make trouble with Meng Xi, she would take the initiative to do it in order to get benefits from Meng Xi.
So Yuan Jia instructed: "Since she has received benefits from Meng Qi, then there is no need to pay her the balance."
Thinking of Lin's smearing of the Zhenbei Gongfu, Yuan Jia still feels a little distressed about the two ingots of silver that he sent out as a deposit.
Meng Qi was entangled with the Lin clan, and now one of the two elders has no intention of coming to Zhenbei Gongfu to do things, and Zhenbei Gongfu can also spend this period of filial piety peacefully.
Yuan Jia was seduced by the emperor's decree, and he still served as an official during his filial piety. He seemed to be just a left servant in the Ministry of War, but in fact, he also developed the right servant into his own.
The Minister of War was overtaken by his left and right hands.
Everything is going in the right direction.
The emperor endured it for a while, but couldn't bear it any longer.
When Yuan Jia learned that the Zhenbei Army had been deducted two-thirds of his salary, he immediately went to the Ministry of Household to ask the Secretary of the Ministry for money: "Master Li, you can't do anything about deducting the army's salary, otherwise it will easily lead to a mutiny in the army. "
The Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce listened to Yuan Jia's implicitly threatening words, and he couldn't stop laughing.
Because Meng Qi's side was entangled by the Lin clan for a long time, the emperor couldn't wait to think of a bad idea to deduct the military salary of the Zhenbei Army.
When the emperor thought that the 300,000 Zhenbei Army was paid by him, and that the army was loyal to Meng Yuanjia, and the 200,000 Zhenbei Army was stationed outside the capital to threaten him, he became angry.
He deducted his army salaries to see where Meng Yuanjia could get money to pay his troops.
However, the emperor hadn't been happy with his brilliant idea for a long time, when Yuan Jia came up to him and threatened him very frankly: "Your Majesty, you deduct the pay of the Zhenbei Army. If the army mutines, Wei Chen will also control it. Can't stand the situation!"