How could Xu Bangning dare to neglect the old man's summons? He quickly left his friends behind, walked out of Zhanyuan Garden, and entered the main courtyard of the Duke's Mansion through a moon gate.

Duke of Wei Xu Da was the first meritorious official in the founding of the Ming Dynasty. His mansion had been built by his descendants for generations and was already magnificent and huge, with buildings and pavilions interlaced. It was unknown how many depths and rooms there were. If a stranger came in, he would definitely get lost.

Even Xu Bangning needed someone to lead the way to accurately find where his father was.

After a while, the attendant brought him to the Yuanyang Hall next to the water, which was Xu Pengju's study.

There are French doors on both the north and south sides of the hall. There are bookshelves, desks, incense tables, and piano tables in the north, and a platform and sitting rails in the south. Sitting at the desk, you can look up and see the fish swimming in the pond and the rockery and water outside the hall. It is an enjoyment that ordinary wealthy people cannot even imagine.

But at this moment, the old man Xu Pengju, with his white hair and beard, was in no mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery outside the window.

He was talking in a low voice with Ma Yushi, who was in casual clothes, and had a serious expression on his face.

There were actually a few guards on the platform who pinned a father and son to the ground and beat them with boards.

Without notifying anyone, Xu Bangning came in and asked, "Father, what do you want from me?"

"Evil creature!" Seeing his son coming in, Xu Pengju slammed the table and yelled at Xu Bangning, "What you did is going to kill your father?"

"What?" Xu Bangning was confused. "What haven't I done recently?"

"You still dare to quibble?" Xu Peng pointed at the two people who were beaten on the platform. "Are they your men?"

Xu Bangning quickly looked and found that the people who were beaten were Butler Feng and his son Feng Gui.

"Yes, that's right. Why did father beat them?"

"I'm going to hit you again!" Xu Pengju grabbed the teacup and threw it at his younger son angrily.

Xu Bangning dodged in a hurry, but was still splashed with tea.

"Father, what heavenly law have I violated? You'd better let me know the truth." He took advantage of Xu Pengju's arrogance and yelled indignantly.

"You and I are making me die of rage..." Xu Pengju was shaking with anger and couldn't speak clearly for a long time.

Censor Ma on the side hurriedly comforted the old master, and then explained to Xu Bangning on his behalf: "Today, a colleague suddenly submitted a petition to impeach the old master. Fortunately, I gave him a break and brought the impeachment petition to discuss with the old master first."

"Ah?" Xu Bangning was also surprised and asked, "Who has nothing better to do than to eat? Want to report my father?"

"You are the one who caused all this trouble!" Xu Pengju was so angry that he wanted to throw the teapot at him again, but fortunately, Censor Ma held his hand. The old master snorted, "The censor who impeached your father is called Zhao Jin, and he has a younger brother named Zhao Hao. Do you understand now?"

"The Zhao Hao who tastes so delicious?" Xu Bangning blurted out.

"Which Zhao Hao?" Xu Pengju finally suppressed his anger a little.

Today, Censor Ma suddenly came to him with a memorial of impeachment. The contents of the memorial were so damning that the old master was stunned.

Fortunately, Censor Ma had figured out the details on the way here. He reminded the old master that Zhao Jin was probably not really impeaching the Xu family but was trying to warn them.

Censor Ma had read the impeachment letter and found that the things mentioned involved confidential information of the government, which outsiders had no way of knowing. However, Zhao Jin could speak with details and evidence, and it was obvious that he had a very powerful source of information. Why should he go to the trouble of asking him for advice?

The so-called supplementary signature was nothing more than someone trying to use him to pass the impeachment letter to the old master.

So he asked the old man not to panic and think about how he had offended Zhao Jin?

The old master naturally couldn't figure it out. It was the first time he even heard of this man's name, so how could he have offended Zhao Jin?

However, there were many people in the mansion, and the servants were not very particular about their work. It was hard to say who might have offended them by using the Xu family's name. Xu Pengju immediately ordered people to investigate to see if anyone had caused trouble outside in the past few days.

In theory, the Xu family had more than 3,000 servants in Jinling alone, scattered across various properties in and outside the city. Even if they were to investigate, it would be impossible to find out so quickly.

But who could have been so unlucky as that housekeeper Feng, bringing his bruised and battered son to the West Garden to complain to the young master yesterday?

Feng Gui's head was swollen like a pig's, which was very eye-catching. Many people in the mansion still remembered it clearly, so they quickly gave the two of them away.

The two men wanted to deny it at first, but Xu Pengju didn't have that patience and immediately ordered his men to strip them of their pants and beat them.

The father and son quickly put aside the matter of Wei Ji Xian...

Censor Ma knew that Zhao Jin also lived in his uncle's house in Caijia Lane. Coincidentally, he also knew this uncle.

A few months ago, Censor Ma could never have imagined that the second son of Minister Zhao would become the uncle of the old senior. If he had known this, he would definitely not have gotten involved in the mess.

Anyway, now everything is right. The boss of Wei Ji Xian is Zhao Hao, Zhao Hao is the only son of Zhao Shouzheng, and Zhao Shouzheng is the uncle of Zhao Yushi. The young master's people want to rob someone else's cash cow, and they have some dirty information about the old master in their hands. If I don't slap you in the face and make you starry, do you really think that the surname of Jinling City is Xu!

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In the study, Xu Bangning knelt down in front of his father, pointed at the two servants who were beaten half to death, and cried out: "Father, I have been studying and practicing martial arts at home these days, preparing to go to the Imperial Academy. How can I care about these trivial matters? It's these two bastards who are doing this outside without my knowledge!"

"Then you are also responsible for not being strict with your subordinates!" Xu Pengju had learned from the father and son that Xu Bangning was indeed unaware of the situation in advance. He was furious that his son was going to find someone to deal with Zhao Hao today. If he had known about this a day later, he didn't know how much trouble he would have caused!

"Yes, I know I'm wrong. I'll break the legs of these two bastards and kick them out of the house." Xu Bangning hurriedly drew a line.

"Hmph, get up." After all, Xu Pengju still loved his youngest son, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to so much trouble to make him inherit the title.

"Thank you, father." Xu Bangning heaved a sigh of relief and got up. He then dared to ask in a low voice, "What did that Zhao guy say that made father so nervous?"

"Look for yourself." Xu Pengju handed a piece of impeachment on the table to his son.

Xu Bangning took it and looked at it. His face turned pale and he stammered, "Hey, how did he know about this?"

"How do I know how he knew it?" Xu Pengju also looked shocked. The matter of falsifying Zheng's identity was of great importance and extremely confidential. Apart from his family of three, only a few people who handled it knew about it. Those people took the money and were also concerned about the consequences. They were too busy hiding it, so how could they talk nonsense?

"Even if the news leaked accidentally," Censor Ma, one of the people involved, was also puzzled and said, "But Zhao Liben has been gone for half a year, and Zhao Jin was still a thief in the army a few months ago. How could they not know about it?"

"Oh..." The three of them racked their brains but could not figure out that this incident was simply something Zhao Hao saw in a history book.

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