"My Lords, what do you think? I have already moved Empress Dowager Yuanyou here. Should I treat both of them equally and invite the two retired emperors to live together?"
The ministers were helpless, and seeing that Hu Yin, who had been silent all this time, was getting a little angry, Emperor Zhao finally sneered, shook his head and turned away.
After they came out of the door, all the ministers naturally followed Yang Yizhong to the Wende Hall to perform the ritual of hanging from the beam. This time there was no so-called official to disrupt the fun, which made people feel extremely fulfilled.
The matter was completely settled, and the ministers dispersed with their own thoughts.
However, just outside the Wende Hall, Yang Yizhong suddenly called out to one of them:
"Minister Lin!"
Lin Jingmo turned his head in surprise.
"May I ask if any of your relatives have settled in Xinghua Army, Fujian?" Yang Yi Zhong asked a question that completely lost the interest of the other ministers.
"Yes." Lin Jingmo paused for a moment, obviously remembering the strange look from Emperor Zhao before, but he waited until the other ministers had gone far away before he looked at him seriously. "My Lin family is very large, and Fujian has a small area, so we have many branches and leaves. There is a close cousin with the same grandfather who has settled in Xinghua Army."
"Then may I ask Minister Lin, before the Jingkang Incident, your cousin bought a maid when he was an official in Tokyo. The maid was pregnant, but her mistress was extremely jealous, so she was forced to leave the master and marry your cousin while pregnant...Does Minister Lin know about this?"
Yang Yizhong's questions became more and more absurd.
"I really don't know the inside story of this matter." Lin Jingmo was silent for a long time before continuing to respond. "But this kind of thing was common before the revision of the criminal code two years ago, and it was even more common before the Jingkang Incident... Commander Yang, this involves the private affairs of my cousin's family, so I don't want to answer more. If the emperor asks you to ask this question, please speak frankly."
"The child is called Lin Yifei, he is almost an adult, and was accidentally found by Cao Yong during this investigation..." Yang Yizhong also became cautious, he had to respect Lin Jingmo. "The emperor obviously does not want to implicate innocent people, and I came to find Minister Lin without authorization... But please rest assured, Minister Lin, I just hope that Minister Lin can verify the origins of his mother and son, and it will not affect them, because if it is true, as long as one side sends a single word to the north, it may be able to change the overall situation with a small effort... That jealous woman will have no descendants."
Lin Jingmo was so smart that he realized it almost instantly after hearing these words, but he raised his head and sighed: "Yifei is not well-educated. After I returned to the capital, he worked as a manager in my house as a nephew... I knew that there were some stories about his life, but I never dared to think that he was the only blood of the prime minister of the enemy country."
Yang Yizhong remained silent.
Lin Jingmo turned around and shook his head, about to leave, but then stopped and looked back: "Commander Yang, tell me, if that person had known that his only child was safe here, would he have been so calm to become a traitor to the Song Dynasty that day?"
Yang Yizhong finally spoke calmly: "There is a saying among officials about this matter. It says that some journeys are like carrying a heavy load down a mountain. Once you start, you can only go all the way to the end... just like some journeys are like carrying a heavy load up a mountain. After taking ninety-nine steps, the last step will only throw away all the previous efforts."
Lin Jingmo nodded and turned away.
PS: Thanks to Xiahou Ningyuan for the third cuteness, thanks to Liuliqin for the twenty-seventh cuteness...', '... Thanks to Piglima Weng for the top cuteness. This is also the 155th cute person in this book.
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