【Huh? Why is nobody talking?】
Chuanwen sensed the silence in the hall and looked back. He saw that the ministers standing in front of him were trembling and their faces showed a suppressed panic.
What happened? Did I miss something?
Chuanwen was puzzled, and his eyes lit up. He quickly tried to find out what had happened in the main hall. After he finished, the light in his eyes went out and he was filled with doubt.
Nothing much happened just now, Xu Yunfei just praised Yi He's bravery!
At this moment, the emperor coughed and looked at Yi He, "Minister Yi, you are brave and skilled in battle, you deserve to be rewarded!"
To be honest, Yi He really sacrificed a lot for the Great Jin!
The emperor bestowed a pile of gifts upon Yi He, who quickly stepped forward, kowtowed, and expressed his gratitude.
[Speaking of which, this feng shui master learned the trick of putting strips of cloth inside fish bellies from Yi He, but he didn't quite master it. Yi He conspired with the fishmonger to spread the rumor, but this master... sigh...]
The post reads with a sigh, "That fish was thrown into the latrine by an illiterate old woman!"
Sizzle—!
Yi He, who was returning to the line, lost his footing and slipped. His shoes scraped against the floor with a hissing sound, but he didn't fall. He was quite agile and managed to regain his balance.
However, the emperor's face twitched, speechless. He'd been thrown into a latrine? No wonder there weren't any rumors circulating!
Sigh, but is that master really a descendant of Princess Jingmin? It's said that Princess Jingmin was very intelligent and married a talented man. How come her descendant seems a bit dim-witted?
The ministers, finally learning the result, were speechless. However, their attention was now more focused on Yi He—a devil! He was simply a devil!
After the court session, all the ministers avoided Yi He, fearing that he would cause them trouble.
But Yi He didn't care. He walked away swaggeringly, not thinking of causing them any trouble. In any case, he was not only not blamed by the emperor, but also received a lot of rewards.
But before she could even leave the palace gates, Yi He was summoned away by an imperial eunuch who had rushed over.
Under the evasive gazes of his colleagues, Yi and the eunuch left with a question mark hanging over their heads.
When Yi He came out of the palace again, he had a long face.
Waaaaah! He was demoted two ranks by the emperor and had his salary reduced by half a year!
"Have you heard? Yi He was demoted two ranks and had his salary docked!"
On a bustling street in the capital, at a window seat on the first floor of a teahouse, two old men, the Imperial Censor Zhou Menglin and the Minister of Works, were huddled together talking.
The Minister of Works trembled, spilling some tea from his cup, but he paid no attention and looked at Old Man Zhou opposite him, "I haven't heard anything about it. Didn't they reward him quite a bit at the morning court? Why was he punished again?"
He had a suspicion: Could it be that the emperor ultimately punished Yi He because of the miracle?
Seeing the guess in his eyes, Zhou Menglin agreed with him and nodded, "The reward is because Yi He is indeed brave and skilled in battle."
When the topic turned to his bravery and skill in battle, the two men inexplicably blushed, feeling embarrassed.
"The punishment, I guess it's that matter."
Zhou Menglin continued.
Just then, a person passed by the window. The person was dressed in a refined and otherworldly manner, with his hair tied up with a wooden hairpin carved with a Tai Chi pattern, and he was carrying a large carp in his hand.
The two men merely glanced at the passerby as they brushed past them, paying him little attention. Zhou Menglin continued, "The emperor only punished the person, without specifying the reason. However, it would be a remarkable story of a monarch secretly investigating a miracle and gaining the assistance of a renowned minister and general, which would be recorded in history."
Every minister knew that their emperor loved fame. The emperor punished Yi He so severely without giving a reason, which was surely because of the miracle. But the emperor didn't make it public, which was precisely because he wanted to preserve this good story.
The Minister of Works was a shrewd man; as soon as Zhou Menglin explained it, he understood what was going on and nodded in agreement.
The two picked up their teacups and took a sip. Hmm... wait a minute! Something seems off!
The two men turned to look at the person who had just passed by almost simultaneously. The person hadn't gone far, but the two old men were incredibly excited.
With an air of otherworldly grace!
Big carp!
"That feng shui master!"
The two shouted excitedly, attracting the attention of other customers in the teahouse.
Um?
A big carp?
"He wouldn't be thinking of putting strips of cloth inside the fish's belly, would he?"
Old Chen looked at Zhou Menglin and asked, and the other replied, "If he didn't take that fish back to eat, then it should be him."
Their gazes returned to the master who was walking further and further away, and finally settled on the large carp he was carrying. Their expressions were indescribable.
Su Xiu, the ethereal master carrying the large fish, overheard the conversation between the two people inside the teahouse as he passed by the window. They were talking about how Yi He had been punished for something. He was puzzled; what had he been punished for?
But he didn't want to think about what it was about. After carrying the big carp back to his residence, he rolled up the small cloth strip he had written on and stuffed it into the carp's mouth. Then he took the carp to another market and sold it to a fishmonger.
On the way back, I was full of confidence. Surely I would be discovered this time!
He and Yi He were from the same hometown, so he had heard about the discovery of the memorial in the fish's belly and how Yi He was subsequently favored by the emperor and granted an official position for over ten years. It had become a legendary tale in their area, passed down with great fanfare.
Hehe, there's a famous story in their hometown about a famous general appearing on a fish belly, so he'll create a similar tale in the capital about a white silk ribbon being returned to the imperial family from a fish belly!
But after waiting a day, there was no news; after waiting another day, there was still no news!
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