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Chapter 74: Unpredictable Disaster

At this time, the night was already deep, and the cold wind was blowing on my body, making people tremble. The crowds in the streets gradually dissipated, and the noisy Kaifeng City slowly calmed down.

Duan Shaolian's passion for rushing to his head was slowly calmed down. After hearing Liu Huan's words, he just shook his head: "The servant who came out just now has said that only the wife is in the county marquis's mansion. If what he said is true, we will go up and fight each other and disturb the female family, and we will cause criticism in the future. And how could Xu Ping give up?"

Liu Huan refused to give in: "When is it now? Still considering those! After today, the empress was deposed and despaired became a foregone conclusion. We censors will be subject to the slightest criticism! At this critical moment, if you want to accomplish great things, you don't need to care about the minorities!"

Seeing that Duan Shaolian was still hesitating, Liu Huan pulled Jiang Tang and went straight to the door of Xu's house, and slapped the door vigorously.

After a while, the previous servant opened the door again and looked at the three of them and said, "What else does the official do?"

Liu Huan asked loudly: "Let me ask you, did Xu Ping hide in the house and dare not come out to see us, and asked you to come out and say these excuses to send us away?"

The servant was confused: "Where does the official start?"

"I don't know where to start, so I don't need to say it. Just let Xu Ping come out to see us!"

Since Xu Ping was promoted, anyone who came to the county marquis's mansion was polite. Liu Huan knew that his official robe was not very high, but he kept calling Xu Ping's name, and his tone was extremely strange. Although the servant was a servant, he felt angry.

After looking up and down, the servant said, "Official, I have already made it clear to you that our county marquis will rest in the city's mansion tonight. If you want to find one, just go out of the city!"

Liu Huan sneered: "Did you find such a saying when you know the city gate is closed? Xu Ping is outside the city, why is the wife in the mansion again? How can this make sense!"

The servant suppressed his anger and said, "Today, the lady went to my sister's house as a guest. She came back late and stopped in the city. Tomorrow is the festival of "Junior New Year". Our county marquis naturally had to go to the mansion outside the city to host the presidency, so she went out early."

"It's all excuses! I don't believe it! Just let Xu Ping come out, I have something to say!"

Seeing that Liu Huan was unreasonable, the servant got up and glared and said, "If you are not here, you are not here. Where is my county marquis Xie? I still have to ask if you believe it? If the county marquis is not here, it will be late. The official will come back soon!"

After saying that, the servant flashed into the door and opened the door with a "bang".

Liu Huan glanced at Jiang Tang beside him and said, "This guy is obviously feeling weak. Xu Ping must be inside! Let's just shoot the door. If you don't come out tonight, don't think about resting safely!"

After saying that, he and Liu Huan and his two sides rushed to the Xu family's door together.

Since becoming a county marquis, the gate of the Xu family has been much larger, almost facing half of the yard. When I hit the door like this outside, I could hear the whole yard clearly.

Lin Su Niang was in a bad mood. When she heard the "pong-pong" sounding outside the door, she became more and more irritable. She called the servant who came to answer the door and asked, "Who is there outside? Why are you entangled?"

"There are several officials. I have never been to the mansion before, and I don't know anyone. I said I was here to find the county marquis. I have told them that the county marquis are not there. These people don't believe it, but they just kept pestering them and refused to leave."

Lin Suniang said: "I am a female family member at home alone and being entangled like this, how can it be? Go out quickly and send them away. If you don't leave, just come to Kaifeng Prefecture."

The servant turned around and went out.

After opening the door, Liu Huan and Jiang Tang were overjoyed, looked at each other, and whispered: "Xu Ping is indeed inside, I think he can't hide it anymore!"

The servant went out and closed the door with his backhand, saluted to the two of them, "Official, our wife said that the county marquis is not in the mansion. If you are entangled, I will call the people from Kaifeng Mansion to come!"

Liu Huan looked at the servant and laughed in anger: "Did Brother Jiang hear that? This servant actually said he was going to call the people from Kaifeng Mansion! I won't laugh to death!"

As he said that, he turned around and looked at the servant: "Go and go quickly, come and find the people from Kaifeng Mansion. I think Xu Ping can hide at home! You do this, which will take us a lot of effort!"

The servant said, "Although you are officials, you are harassing good families like this, there are officials who rule you! Do you think I dare not? You are here to wait, I will go to find the people from the government!"

After saying that, he turned around and ran out of the alley quickly.

Liu Huan and Jiang Tang looked at each other and laughed. After the Political Affairs Hall had a fight, even the palace had passed, and were still afraid of Kaifeng Prefecture?

Seeing the servant leaving the alley, the two of them still slapped the door.

Outside the Chuigong Hall, a group of censors were blowing the cold wind, and their mood became more and more anxious. Many people came to Kong Daofu and pounded the closed door together.

The guards guarding outside the door dared not provoke these censors who even the emperor hid? They just stood by and watched coldly, guarding the passage tightly.

I don’t know how long it took, Li Zhang finally appeared in the gate.

Fan Zhongyan hurriedly came up and said in a deep voice: "How? Is there an imperial edict?"

Li Zhang raised his hand and said, "The official handwriting is issued by the censors, please come to the Political Affairs Hall, and the prime minister will tell you all!"

This handwritten edict was given to Prime Minister Lu Yijian, and Li Zhang didn't know what it was.

Fan Zhongyan also felt that this stalemate was not a solution, and said loudly: "If there is a handwritten edict, let us go to the Zhengshi Hall, and the Prime Minister will argue with us. Let's go back to the Zhengshi Hall and listen to what Mr. Lu said!"

After saying that, he took his subordinates to the Censorate to return to the Political Affairs Hall first.

At this time, the night was already deep, and the palace gate would not be opened easily. Most of the people knew that the emperor would not see everyone today. Seeing that the matter was pushed back to the prime minister, they had to rush back to the Political Affairs Hall with Fan Zhongyanzhong.

The palace gate did not open anyway, so it would be meaningless to call Xu Ping at this time. An official who was close to Duan Shaolian and others hurried back to the front office and ordered a minor official to call the three of them back.

Everyone rushed back to the political affairs hall. Lu Yijian, who was sitting alone inside, felt a headache. When he received the edict from Li Zhang, he saw that he was asking everyone to explain why the empress was deposed, and he felt more helpless. This was obviously because the emperor did not want to face the censors, so he kicked the trouble to him again.

Many specific matters in the palace cannot be described in the Ming Dynasty, such as the queen being jealous, or even accidentally hitting the emperor, these cannot be reported to the world, and they can only be discussed in private by the ministers. If the Ming Dynasty tells the world, it will completely destroy Empress Guo, and even her mother's family will be implicated. Although the emperor was temporarily angry and determined to abolish the queen, he did not hate her so much. Zhao Zhen was like this. When he became tough, he would be soft-hearted, but he often got angry when he was soft-hearted. This temperament was elusive.

The question is if the emperor thinks that these reasons can convince the censors, why don’t they let them go into the palace and tell them? It is obvious that he thinks that these reasons can’t make the censors shut up.
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