Chapter 36: This person can get the lifetime achievement award

The Queen Mother at the top always felt that this year's birthday banquet was lively and interesting.

This birthday banquet is really fun because it doesn't involve me and I can eat so many melons.

The emperor's eyes were full of interest. He had just calculated in his mind that the flood relief in Jiangnan would require at least 100,000 taels, and it might not be enough for Wang Jianmin alone.

It would be perfect if the girl from the Lu family could catch a few more of these corrupt officials, and bring them to such an occasion, leaving these old guys who like to smooth things over speechless.

Lu Xinran, who was highly expected by many people, always felt that he had a hard day today as he read the melon-eating system.

"How many days of life are worth now?"

Tong Yin replied seriously, "It's almost fifty days. Do you want to make it two months today?"

Lu Xinran lowered her head and yawned secretly. She found that eating melon was so tiring!

Moreover, the big melons of these court officials seem to be worthless.

In her eyes, Wang Chien-ming was considered extremely greedy, but his melons were not as valuable as Kang's.

Kang gave her five days of life, but Wang Jianmin only had three days.

If the next melons are only given for two or three days, won’t we have to turn over four or five more people?

Eating melons... is so tiring!

Who would want to watch those dirty things? They are really eye-irritating!

[Forget it, let’s just eat one at the end. ]

She scanned the pavilion secretly and suddenly saw Dali Temple Minister Tang Quyan and his wife Liu not far away.

She still remembered Xin Lan's excited expression when he talked about the case in the carriage, and her disappointment at not having to go to Shuntian Mansion again because she had to avoid suspicion.

[This is a rare opportunity. I need to see what Lord Tang likes so that I can create opportunities for Lu Xinlan.]

Not far away, Tang Quyan and Liu: "?!"

What does it mean to create opportunities?

Liu looked at the person next to her with raised eyebrows. This shameless man always said that there were endless cases to handle and he wished he could live in the Dali Temple.

She understands him!

What's the result?

If there weren't so many people watching, Liu would have wanted to pinch Tang Quyan's ears and make him go back and kneel on the washboard.

Tang Quyan's forehead was covered with sweat. He, he had never seen these two young men from the Lu family!

They had never met before, so why would the two kids suddenly miss him? He, he was in trouble!

Just when Tang Quyan felt extremely wronged, that voice, like the sound of nature, finally appeared.

[I don’t know if I can help Lord Tang solve the case. If I can, will Lu Xinlan be able to go to the Dali Temple to help? ]

[This Lord Tang is a workaholic, all his attention is focused on handling cases. If Lu Xinlan wants to enter the Dali Temple, he will not be able to get through him! ]

[No, I need to look through it again. What if this person has other hobbies besides solving cases and looking at corpses?]

The voice stopped here temporarily, and Tang Quyan looked at his wife as if he had survived a disaster.

Did you hear that?

People want to get close to him simply because they want to enter the Dali Temple.

Liu snorted, and considered that this guy had barely passed the test.

However, although the two girls of the Lu family are one dignified and gentle and the other lively, they are both girls of appropriate age for marriage.

How can they think about going out every day and want to go to the Dali Temple?

Liu was puzzled, and the Queen Mother and the Empress at the top were also somewhat puzzled.

"Emperor, if I remember correctly, you mentioned to Lu Jinchuan before that you wanted the eldest daughter of the Lu family to marry the fourth son?"

The emperor nodded, "I didn't know she wasn't a daughter of the Lu family at that time."

If nothing unexpected happens, the marriages of the two children should be arranged after the Chinese New Year at the latest.

And now, he shook his head regretfully.

It seems that neither of these two girls is suitable for the fourth child.

"Empress, I remember that the second daughter of the Zhang family likes to follow the fourth brother and call him fourth brother. Is that girl still not married yet?"

The queen pulled at her handkerchief, and the smile on her face faded.

"Yes, we haven't arranged a marriage yet, but I have heard my sister-in-law mention it several times, and she will be introduced to her nephew from her mother's family."

When she said this, the emperor just smiled faintly.

"Well, there's no rush for the fourth brother's marriage. Let him be busy in Shuntian Mansion first."

The Queen Mother looked at the couple and wanted to say something, but in the end, she just sighed.

Below, Lu Jinchuan half-closed his eyes, already thinking about the changes in the court situation after today.

Zhou Han heard that he might not be able to sit on the position of Zuodu Yushi any longer, but all these things he did seriously were just a loss of virtue, and the emperor would not demote him completely.

But their family might not be able to stay in the capital anymore, as the emperor might very likely transfer him to another province to be an official in a frontier province.

It would be difficult for Zhou Bingshan to stay in the position of Langzhong of the Ministry of Revenue any longer. When Zhou Hanwen left Beijing, he would probably leave with him.

If they succeed as father and son, after a few years when these romantic affairs are replaced by other things, they may be able to come back.

But they, father and son, would have to wait and see what the capital would look like many years from now.

The more Lu Jinchuan thought about it, the happier he felt. The Zhou family suddenly vacated a second-rank official position and a fifth-rank official position.

There is also the Minister of Honglu Temple. Wang Jianmin was not as lucky as the Zhou father and son this time. His property was confiscated and he was exiled because of the emperor's mercy.

Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, fourth rank.

With two lucrative positions, who knows what kind of situation will arise in the court tomorrow.

If Lu Jinchuan can think of these, others can naturally think of them as well.

For a moment, even Lu Xinran's voice and the sounds of toasting were no longer heard in the pavilion.

Everyone is quietly calculating how to arrange these two lucrative positions and who will be able to take them over.

Lu Xinran was still flipping through Tang Quyan's past.

Is this guy crazy?!

【He passed the imperial examination at the age of 19 and entered the Dali Temple at the age of 21.】

[In the same year, I started to learn autopsy from an old coroner. When there were no cases, I would read old files. Since the age of 23, I have been trying to review old cases. When my son and daughter were born, I only went home to take a quick look! ]

[After becoming the Dali Temple Minister at the age of 32, he made the Dali Temple his home. If Madam Tang didn't allow anyone to look for him, he wouldn't be seen for ten days or half a month!]

[For a workaholic like this, the emperor should give him a lifetime achievement award when he retires, right? ]

[One hour is split into two hours. Even my wife is nowhere to be seen. How can Lu Xinlan and I find a chance to get close to her? Is she a corpse? ]

[But now he doesn't care about the autopsy anymore, he just looks at the results...]

She was bald from watching it, the Dali Temple was a copy of hell!

Otherwise, they should just shamelessly go back to Shuntianfu.

At worst, you can just pick a part of the tragic love story and go for it!

At least the fourth prince seems to be a normal person now.

Song Junyan, who was sitting below the emperor, met the gazes of the people above him and calmly raised his glass to toast them.

Lu Xinlan listened to the chaotic voices and felt both amused and moved at the same time.

Her fellow villager was really kind and lovely. She had only shown her kindness a few times, but she took her affairs to heart and helped her with everything.

She waved to the palace servants and asked them to bring over some cold dishes on the table and heat them up.

Lu Xinran came back to his senses and saw her actions, and hurriedly called a few more people over.

"Add one more dish of duck feet in fermented wine, one dish of cinnamon-flavored glutinous rice balls, oh, and one more dish of pan-fried small yellow croaker and a bottle of glutinous rice wine. Remember to bring two glasses."

The palace maid took the order and left in a daze. She rubbed her belly.

I was so busy eating melon just now that I forgot to eat anything. I’m so hungry!