Chapter 499 Punishment
“What crime should be committed?”
Fu Qingzhou’s eyes darkened: “Are you waiting for me here?”
Zhao Yuan laughed loudly: "Rewards for meritorious deeds and punishment for delinquency. This is a wise king!"
Fu Qingzhou sighed and said nothing. He helped Yue Heng sit down first, and then sat back to the side.
"Brother-in-law knows that you are the emperor. I really didn't say it. He guessed it himself... But Jiaojiao, I did tell her."
He spread his hands: "This matter No need to wash, I admit.”
“Oh?”
Zhao Yuan raised his eyebrows: “You are not a man of faith, why did you reveal my identity?”
"In order to appease her." Fu Qingzhou said frankly: "You also know about her father's case. It has been delayed for almost ten years. Now our investigation is also hindered. If we don't give her some confidence, she will feel very uncomfortable. .”
"Ouch!"
Zhao Yuan slapped the table and his eyes widened: "You sold me just for a woman?!"
"Don't do it to me." Fu Qingzhou rolled his eyes: "You can shout louder so that the entire Zhangjian Academy knows your identity."
"Ahem..." Zhao Yuan cleared his throat and sat back: "You, you You sold me for a woman?”
Although it is the same thing, the momentum is much weaker.
Fu Qingzhou smiled: "Jiaojiao and I have been dependent on each other many years ago. You don't understand."
"Tsk." Zhao Yuan shook his head and brought the topic back: "So, you will I If his identity is leaked, what should he do?"
Fu Qingzhou sighed: "You are the emperor, of course you have the final say."
"Okay, very good..."< br>
Zhao Yuan smiled evilly: "You said this!"
After saying that, he slowly turned his gaze to Yue Heng.
Yue Heng shivered in shock.
"Brother Yue."
Zhao Yuan kept smiling: "I heard that you have been preparing for the minor imperial examination? Do you want to become an official?"
"Yes. ...Yes.”
Yue Heng took a breath, forced himself to calm down, and responded: "Xiaosheng is determined to serve the imperial court and help your majesty govern the country and bring peace to the world!"
"That's it..."
Zhao Yuan is good at holding hands. He raised his head and rolled his eyes.
Looking at his appearance, Fu Qingzhou clearly had a bad feeling.
"So be it."
Zhao Yuan smiled proudly and said: "You brothers are united. Brother Fu made a mistake, and you come to pay for him - I will punish you and not participate in the minor imperial examination."
"What?!" Yue Heng was struck by lightning, His whole body went numb for an instant, his eyes quickly dimmed, and his whole body seemed to have had its bones taken away, and he slumped on the chair.
Fu Qingzhou was also startled and stood up suddenly: "Zhao Yuan, don't go too far!"
"Hey, it's urgent, you are urgent."
Zhao Yuan smiled and said: "It's not easy to make you anxious."
"I'm telling you, you can punish me!" Fu Qingzhou glared: "Don't go after your brother-in-law! How many years has he been busy working for the minor imperial examination? You beat him to death with just one sentence. If you do this, all brothers will There’s nothing to do!”
“Oh, Brother Fu, don’t worry, don’t worry.”
Zhao Yuan still smiled: “I still haven’t finished the second half of my sentence. "
Fu Qingzhou sat back on the chair angrily: "Tell me, I'd like to see what kind of flowers you can come up with!"
Yue Heng, however, had completely collapsed on the chair. The whole person seemed to have lost his soul, and his eyes were extremely empty.
"You can't take part in the minor imperial examination..."
Zhao Yuan said leisurely: "But you can be an official."
"Huh?" Fu Qingzhou was startled.
Yue Heng was also surprised, and his eyes regained some brilliance.
“What’s the benefit of participating in the minor imperial examination and entering the Palm Sword Academy?” Zhao Yuan said quietly to Yue Heng: “You have already learned spells and have excellent talent in spells. If you enter the Palm Sword Academy, you will probably To be assigned to the Spiritual Arts Academy and specialize in magic, is this what you want?”
Yue Heng regained his composure and said in a hoarse voice: "If Xiaosheng is determined to pursue an official career, then... it may not be..."
"What you said doesn't count."
Zhao Yuan hit He stopped him and said with a grin: "The students trained by the Spiritual Arts Academy are all sent to the Pavilion of Mingjiang Pavilion..."
"There is not even one out of ten practitioners in the world. Practitioners, do you know how difficult it is to find a talented and virtuous magician? You don’t know that there is a shortage of people in the Pai Shu Building right now, right?”
Listening to his words, Fu Qingzhou He seemed to understand a little bit: "You mean, if Brother Yue really enters the Zhangjian Academy, he will definitely be assigned to the Spiritual Arts Academy because of his excellent talent in magic? In the future, he will only be able to enter the Mingjian Pavilion Pai Shulou? There is no other way. "The owner of Pai Shu Building, Ning Wuwang, is Ning Baimei's son. He was also a good brother who helped me avoid classes from the teacher when I was a child and took me to see women at the intersection of Baishi Street when I grew up. .”
Zhao Yuan said leisurely: "If he opens his mouth, even I have to give face."
Fu Qingzhou was silent.
Yue Heng, however, gradually regained his composure. He leaned on the armrests of the chair and sat upright again. He said softly: "So... Your Majesty thinks that young students can not take part in the imperial examination and directly... enter the court as an official? ”
“That’s right.”
Zhao Yuan tapped his fingers lightly on the armrest of the chair and said proudly: "But since it is punishment, of course it cannot be so simple."
Fu Qingzhou was no longer angry at this time, and said helplessly: "You What bad idea are you planning to come up with?"
Zhao Yuan chuckled: "It's not a bad idea, Yue Heng... I remember that you had a daughter with Lin Zhongwen, the prefect of Qingyang City in Shu. Engagement?"
"...Yes." Yue Heng responded softly.
"Then do you know whose son-in-law Lin Zhongwen is?" Zhao Yuan asked maliciously.
Yue Heng looked confused, but Fu Qingzhou reacted: "Yuan family!"
"Yes-"
Zhao Yuan smiled and said: "Lin Zhongwen's father-in-law is the real power of the Yuan family. Character, Yuan Ye!"
"Yuan Ye?" Yue Heng frowned: "This name...Second Assistant to the Cabinet, Master Yuan?"
"That's right. Said: "Now, do you know how tough your background is?"
Yue Heng opened his mouth in shock.
He had no idea that an official of this level could be involved behind the beautiful girl he accidentally picked up!
"I...I..."
He murmured: "Am I a member of a noble family?"
Fu Qingzhou frowned: "Brother Zhao , during our debate in the academy last time, you showed great hostility towards the aristocratic family..."
"As for hostility, of course I can't say it."
Zhao Yuan smiled and said: "But the family has not controlled the government for a long time. Of course I want to reduce their power."
"Then you still..." Fu Qingzhou was halfway through speaking when he suddenly realized: "You want to use your brother-in-law's identity to deal with the aristocratic family?!"
"How to use it, I haven't figured out yet."
Zhao Yuan smiled and said: "But wouldn't it be interesting for a child of a noble family to climb to an important position in the court and then turn his head against the noble family?"
Yue Heng opened his mouth wide and muttered nothing.
Fu Qingzhou thought for a moment and turned to him: "Brother Yue, what do you think?"
"I...I want to drink some wine." Yue Heng whispered.
Zhao Yuan laughed loudly: "No problem! There is wine!"
He immediately stood up and ran to the other corner of the second floor. From time to time, he fetched a bottle of wine. Putting it into Yue Heng's hand: "Liangshan wine, all the officials in the court like to drink it, you can have some too."
Yue Heng didn't care about the emperor personally handing him the wine. He raised his head, put the spout into his mouth, and started drinking.
Probably because of his excitement, he drank quickly and quickly, and drank the entire bottle of wine in a short time.
With a bang, the empty wine bottle was thrown to the ground by him.
His face turned red after drinking, and the red light even spread to his neck and arms. The whole person looked like a cooked prawn.
"Your Majesty! Let me ask you!"
He suddenly stood up, held his neck and said in a deep voice: "If I were to be an official, I would only care about the well-being of the people and punish injustices. Do you still want me to be this official?"
He is so reckless, Zhao Yuan was not angry at all, and asked with a smile: "If you punish an injustice and find that the source of the injustice is a noble family, will you care?"
"Care!"
Yue Heng slapped his chest: "No matter who it is, I don't care!"
"Oh?" Zhao Yuan smiled even more happily: "In other words, if you are simply asked to deal with others, you are not willing; But if there is an injustice that needs to be vindicated by you, no matter who is behind the scenes, will you not be afraid of the powerful or the trouble? ”
Fu Qingzhou sighed lightly.
He knew that Zhao Yuan was clearly leading Yue Heng into the pit.
But... he also knew that with Yue Heng's character, even without Zhao Yuan, if he became an official one day, he would inevitably follow this path.
So, he said nothing in the end.
“Don’t be afraid!”
Yue Heng clapped his chest even louder: "You are worthy of heaven and earth, so why should you be afraid!"
"Hahahaha! Okay!" Zhao Yuan clapped his hands and laughed: "Then Yue Heng Brother, just go back and wait quietly - it won’t be long before you can become an official!”
(End of this chapter)