"What?" After hearing Tang Feng's words, Xu Cang was a little moved, "What are the serious crimes do you think this Wang family committed?"

Seeing that he was not as fake, Tang Feng just found it funny. Xu Cang traveled thousands of miles to Shexian to say this to him before he even figured out what happened, which made him unable to even get angry. After stabilizing his emotions, Tang Feng told Xu Cang about the hatred between him and the Wang family and what the Wang family had done.

After hearing everything, Xu Cang became silent. Before coming, he did not ask about the specific situation of **xing and others. He just thought that there was some conflict between the Wang family and the local people. He thought that with his friendship with Tang Feng, and the other party was also an ambitious person, he would not watch the treacherous party in the court control the government affairs, but now he was a little difficult to say. After a long time, Xu Cang asked Tang Feng with some embarrassment: "What should you deal with them?"

Tang Feng said truthfully: "Of course, we must report the matter to the court, let the court make a common judgment, and give justice to the victims, and at the same time, we must not lose face from the county government. Brother Maolin, I am afraid I will not be able to satisfy you this time."

"But in this case, Yizhi, you are not afraid that the adults in the court will cause trouble..."

Tang Feng shook his hand and interrupted him: "I said before that the struggle in the court has nothing to do with me, a county magistrate. My duty is to manage She County under my rule. Moreover, this matter is not groundless, but because the Wang family is too self-righteous. If I stop, the people in the county will suffer again. I don't want the hard work of the past few months to be wasted. And I have a little bit of forgiveness. If I let the Wang family escape from the law this time, it is not a good thing for the adults in the court. They cannot even be fair and strict in themselves. How can they convince the public? Therefore, I, Tang Feng, cannot obey this order. Please ask Brother Maolin, you go back and tell those adults." Tang Feng said as he stood up and bowed to Xu Cang.

At this time, Xu Cang lost his momentum. After thinking for a while, he said, "Since you have made up your mind and are for the people, I can't persuade you anymore. Alas!" As he said that, he sighed heavily, got up and left. Tang Feng hurriedly stepped forward and stopped him and said, "Why, I don't want to listen to your advice. Are you unwilling to admit me in the same year?"

"I am Wuyan and I'm meeting you again." Xu Cang looked ashamed and said after a while, "I just think this is for the country and the people, but I don't want the Wang family... to be ashamed of their old friends."

Tang Feng hurriedly advised: "Brother Maolin, you did this for the people and the government, and you don't know much about the case, so I will naturally not blame you. Moreover, you and I haven't seen each other for a few years, and it's just a short time since my wedding. I will never let you go today." At this point, Tang Feng has changed his expression and has become as enthusiastic as if he had just met.

Xu Cang asked him to comfort him, and thought that this was the truth, and then smiled and said, "Yizhi, you are right. Even if you don't talk about important things, you should drink a few drinks. And you are a happy event, so I, as my brother, should pay a few drinks to you." Although he said that, his smile was still a little reluctant.

Tang Feng was just aware of this, and immediately ordered people to set up a round table in the hall, and asked someone to book a banquet at Taibai Building, and then called several clerks in the yamen to drink with him. In this way, several people gathered around the table and had a good meal. Then they chatted with Xu Cang and sent him back to the inn. After all, the county yamen was an official, and Xu Cang came to Tang Feng as a private person, so it was not good to stay here for accommodation.

When Xu Cang came to the county government office, the Jinyiwei who was monitoring the yamen did not take it seriously. There were too many people entering and leaving the county government office in one day, so they could not pay attention to it. Moreover, they were Nanjing's Jinyiwei who could not recognize a Hanlin Academy in Beijing. However, when Tang Feng held a banquet and sent Xu Cang out in person until dusk, these people became suspicious of Xu Cang's identity, and immediately someone was behind him and went to the inn to investigate.

After a while, Xing Qi received the news that the man brought back. He knew Xu Cang's identity and that he came from Beijing. As for whether he was an official or something, he could not tell. He only knew that he had a good relationship with Tang Feng. Xing Qi's right hand gently hit the table, which was his habitual action when he was thinking. After a while, he said: "This person named Xu Cang must not be a person sent by the Beizhen Fushi Office by Eunuch Wei, otherwise he would definitely know our existence. Since he came from the capital, there was only one possibility, that is, he was a person sent by the Donglin Party, in order to let the Tang County Magistrate let the family named Wang go."

"Master Qi, the friend surnamed Xu and County Magistrate Tang seems to have a good relationship. If he changes his decision, it will probably be very unfavorable to us.Master Qi, what should we do?" One of the subordinates asked with concern.

Xing Qi continued to tap the table with his hands: "Let's watch here first, and let someone send the news of the change back to Yingtian Mansion, and let the people above decide. Looking at Tang Feng's actions recently, I don't think he would be persuaded to go back in a few words, so we can't make him feel dissatisfied with us."

At this time, Tang Feng had already returned to the back house. Liu Hui knew that he had drunk wine in the afternoon, so she had prepared tea to sober up. After drinking a bowl to make her drunken mind completely awake, Tang Feng said to his newlywed wife with apologies: "You and I have just gotten married, so I have made you so hard. I am really sorry for your husband."

While handing the empty bowl to the maid, Liu Hui said angrily: "I am already your wife, and serving you is a matter of doing, so why do you say that?" At this point, she saw that Tang Feng had something in her mind and hurriedly asked.

Now Liu Hui is Tang Feng's closest relative, so he told Xu Canglai about his own affairs without hiding it, and finally said: "It turns out that I just thought I had made up my mind, but today's words from Brother Maolin made me a little shaken. If this eunuch party takes advantage of this momentum, the world will be in chaos again, and the people of my Ming Dynasty will also suffer disaster. I am afraid that I will really become the sinner he mentioned by then."

Seeing that Tang Feng was uneasy, Liu Hui hurriedly advised him a few times, and then said, "I am just a wife and I don't know much, but I also know that there is a saying that a prince breaks the law and commits the same crime as the common people. His Wang family has always been lawless in She County. The people in the county dare not speak out because of their power. Now, husband, you can persevere and put their sons in a prison. Many people are praising you for being a good official for the people. If you are shaken by the struggles in the court and let the people of the Wang family go, I am afraid that the people of the Wang family will not be grateful to you for this. Even the people who originally supported the husband will be disappointed with you, and husband, you will be really isolated and helpless."

Tang Feng had never thought about this in this direction, and he felt it was right when he heard it. In fact, after all, he lived not for others, but for himself and his relatives. If a scholar who had accepted the ancient idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor would only say that she was a woman's opinion after hearing Liu Hui's words, but Tang Feng did not have this idea. Although he was also considering the future of the Ming Dynasty, if he had to choose one between himself and the court, he would still choose himself without hesitation. Moreover, he clearly remembered that in history, the eunuch party had to wait for another year and a half to fully control the government of the court, and the case this time should not have much effect, so he had a final decision in his heart.

When Liu Hui saw Tang Feng listening to her words, she fell into deep thought and looked at him nervously, not knowing what he would think of herself. Just when she was full of anxiety, Tang Feng's frown stretched out: "Hui'er, you are right. If you are poor, you will be safe, and if you are prosperous, you will be able to help the world. What I can do now is to give the people a stable life in the county under my rule. As for other major affairs in the court, it is not something I can consider." Seeing that Tang Feng had figured it out, Liu Hui was also happy for him.

At noon the next day, Xu Cang came to the county government again. This time he had bought some things from the county as a gift for Tang Feng's wedding. Tang Feng did not refuse to give up his blessing to this friend, but happily accepted it. Then Xu Cang expressed his intention to come back: "Yizhi, I thought about it all night last night, and today I asked a few people in the city. The answers from them were the same as you said. The Wang family was indeed doing evil and deserved this reward, so I don't advise you, just hope that you don't expand the case and implicate the adults in the court who are dedicated to the country. In addition, I came here today and I can't convince you. I am ashamed of Lord Zhao's instructions, and I will only stay in the Hanlin Academy as an editor for this life in the future." As he said that, he bowed and stood up and left, and even Tang Feng couldn't stop him.

After a long time, Tang Feng vaguely guessed Xu Cang’s thoughts. His mood was very complicated. He was guilty of not only being unable to complete the task, but also being resentful to these adults. Because they knew what the Wang family had committed, they still asked him to persuade Tang Feng, which made Xu Cang, a person with ideals and integrity, lose their original respect to them.
Chapter completed!