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Chapter 6 Sleepless Night

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    ps. Okay, okay, I¡¯ll give Zhao Hao back to you, but you¡¯re not allowed to do that joke again~~~

    Zhao Liben ate three bowls of porridge in a row, and finally sat on the threshold with his belly in his hands, satisfied, and no longer angry at his eldest son.

    Zhao Shouzheng then gained courage and asked in a low voice tentatively: "Dad, they said you hated Gao Gong, are you also trying to deceive us?"

    "That's not true. I really offended Gao." Zhao Liben smiled and said with a sense of loneliness in his tone: "Who would have thought that with his stinky temper, he could also climb to the position of deputy minister of the cabinet?  On your seat!"

    Hearing this, Zhao Hao trembled with fright Gao Gong was a nearly invincible figure in the Long Qing Dynasty!  It's only February of the first year of Longqing, so how can the old man get ahead now?

    "But this time, it has nothing to do with the surname Gao. This is just an excuse for them to use me as a scapegoat!" But Zhao Liben spat fiercely: "Otherwise, why would they just join in as soon as you grit your teeth and refuse to pay?  Yinzi, released me?"

    "Ah, they put together the fifty thousand?" Zhao Shouye was shocked when he heard this.

    "Of course! If they don't bleed, they will be unlucky together!" Zhao Liben sighed gloomily: "In the past, most of the capital inspections were just a formality, so this time in Nanjing, I originally wanted to follow the rules. Unexpectedly, the situation in the capital changed suddenly.  , the intensity is unprecedented, and more than 100 officials of seventh grade and above have been dismissed in just one first month"

    Zhao Hao is a Ming history major, so he can naturally understand what Zhao Liben said.

    The so-called Beijing inspection refers to the assessment of Beijing officials conducted by the imperial court every six years.  Officials who were deposed in the capital inspection department were never reused, so every official in the capital was treated like a ghost gate.  But precisely because of this, the big guys in charge of the Beijing Police Department are generally not ruthless.  This is especially true here in Nanjing. After all, everyone is sitting on the bench, so why bother to make things difficult for each other?

    ??According to convention, there were two sets of teams in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. The Beijing inspection of Nanjing officials was reviewed by the Nanjing Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Metropolitan Inspectorate. Only the final results were reported to the capital and accepted.  It was the same at first this time, but who would have thought that there would be a bloody storm in Beijing, and how dare Nanjing continue to deal with it?

    "How can the bad debts of the Southern Household Department stand up to careful inspection? For the first time in these years, I found out a deficit of one hundred thousand taels in a few seconds. This is not a small amount. If it really goes to Beijing,  Not only will the Southern Household Department be in trouble, but the Nandu Procuratorate will also suffer!" Zhao Liben smiled at himself and finally said:

    "The hole must be repaired, and someone has to take the blame so that most people can get through safely. At this time, some bastard revealed the grudge between me and Gao Gong. Those people decided that I was somehow  I want to be in bad luck, so I thought of such a sinister trick, trapping me in the south courtyard to defraud you two idiots!"

    Zhao Shouzheng hurriedly defended himself: "Dad, I don't know anything"

    "Shut up!" Zhao Liben glared at him, but he didn't have the strength to get angry, and sighed: "This is my plan, I can deceive as much as I can. Alas, it's also our fault for the deep love between father and son"

    Hearing this, Zhao Hao glanced at his uncle and said to himself, he mainly thought that you could be reinstated

    Sure enough, I saw that my uncle was so distressed that he was about to faint, and he murmured: "That's twenty thousand taels, where can I earn more"

    Zhao Shouzheng became excited when he heard this. He patted his eldest brother on the shoulder and said, "Just have fun secretly. If it weren't for my son's sensible advice, we would still be carrying a huge debt of fifty thousand taels"

    "You're so happy!" Zhao Shouye was hurt by the slap and blocked his brother's hand.

    "Oh? My dear grandson, you don't know a few Chinese characters, but you actually have such knowledge?" Hearing this, Zhao Liben looked at Zhao Hao in surprise.  I didn't expect that this incompetent grandson could actually see through the truth.

    "Oh, people have to grow up" Zhao Haoxin said!

    These days, he has been holding a manuscript and preparing a full set of rhetoric.

    ¡°As a result, my father and uncle, two living brothers, didn¡¯t notice anything unusual at all.  But Zhao Liben is worthy of his age and maturity, and it is obviously not something that can be easily muddled through.

    Zhao Hao raised his heart to his throat, preparing to deal with Zhao Liben's cross-examination.

    "Well, this can be regarded as a little bit of luck for my old Zhao family." Unexpectedly, Zhao Liben didn't care about this at all. Instead, he tugged his beard happily and said: "In the future, our family will probably have to rely on you.  Boy."

    Seeing that he had passed the test so easily, Zhao Hao was thankful, but he also felt a sense of disappointment that he had missed everything with one punch.

    Zhao Xian, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke when he heard this: "Grandpa, you mean you have no official position and are reinstated?"

    "Reinstatement of the official position is nothing! This time there is such a big mess, how can I just be reduced to a lower position?"? If you don¡¯t harm your descendants, you will have burned high incense.  " Seeing that his eldest grandson was not opening or lifting any pot, Zhao Liben became angry for a while. After a while, he calmed down and asked the children and grandchildren beside him:

    "I have to leave Beijing within three days. Do you think about it, should you leave or stay?"

    The two brothers Shou Ye and Shouzheng looked at each other, and the eldest brother spoke first: "Father, the court has not dismissed me from my position, so I'm afraid I won't be able to return home with you."

    "You're taking it seriously after shading a corrupt official. If you don't leave, you won't leave!" Zhao Liben pouted, thinking that he had become a commoner, and couldn't help but feel sour.

    Zhao Shouzheng was a little undecided. He looked at his son and saw that Zhao Hao didn't speak, so he whispered: "Anyway, it's about one night. When we get back, Zhao Hao and I will work it out."

    "Yeah." Zhao Liben nodded, but didn't hit him.

    ??~~

    By the time the five members of Lao Zhao¡¯s family finished speaking, the watch drum outside had already been beaten twice.

    "It's better to go to bed early, otherwise you may wake up hungry in the middle of the night." Zhao Shouye reminded him with experience.

    ¡°I¡¯m sleeping here?¡± Zhao Liben stood up, pointed to the kitchen where the fire was still on, and said, ¡°It¡¯s warm here.¡±

    "Uh, okay" Zhao Shouye twitched the corner of his mouth. This was where his father and son slept.

    "I'm going to get a quilt for my father." Zhao Shouzheng gave his father his quilt from a hut not far away, helped him settle down, and then went back to the house to sleep.

    ??~~

    At night, Zhao Hao and his son were wrapped in a quilt and lying on the broken wooden bed left by the servant.

    The two of them tossed and turned, making the bed creak under pressure, making it increasingly difficult to fall asleep.

    Zhao Shouzheng stayed up until the middle of the night, listening to the thunderous snoring next door. Then he sat up and whispered to Zhao Hao, who had his eyes wide open:

    ¡°Son, you¡¯re not full, right?¡±

    "Yeah." Zhao Hao nodded with a wry smile. There wasn't much dinner to begin with, and he asked the old man to finish three bowls. Of course he wasn't full.

    "Hey, look what this is?"

    Then Zhao Shouzheng took out a greased paper bag from his arms like a magic trick, unfolded the greased paper gently, and a yellow roast duck leg appeared in front of Zhao Hao.

    "Where did it come from?" Zhao Hao was shocked.

    "Shh! Eat quickly" Zhao Shouzheng quickly made a silent gesture and whispered: "I went out to buy it secretly at noon. Eat quickly, don't let your uncle smell it, he has a sharp nose  ¡­¡±

    "Let's eat together." Zhao Hao swallowed hard. He had been drinking vegetable porridge every day for the past few days, and his eyes were turning green.

    "You are growing, and I wasted it." Zhao Shouzheng also swallowed, but without hesitation, he put the duck leg into his son's hand.

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