The position of Grand Canal Transport Commissioner was a well-known and highly lucrative post.
However, over the past hundred years of the dynasty, there have been many accumulated problems in the canal transport system, and someone needs to carry out a radical overhaul.
Li Han's seemingly lenient transfer has not actually cleared him of suspicion of treason.
It can be said that Lu Xingjian managed to catch the tail.
If they cannot produce satisfactory political achievements to atone for their mistakes, it's hard to say whether they will face good consequences later.
Somehow, news of Li Han's affair got out.
Soon, the Su family's residence became a bustling place, with a constant stream of people coming to visit and seek an audience.
Su Wanwan asked Heying to compile the name cards, and immediately felt overwhelmed.
The name cards list seventy or eighty families implicated in the treason case, and the number is still increasing.
Su Wanwan was too lazy to see them.
The gatekeeper was instructed to reply directly: Go find Liu Jin of the Directorate of Ceremonial.
That day, she felt her vision was much clearer and was about to go check on the guards' recovery.
But then someone came to report that the Grand Princess of Chun'an and her husband, Cai Zhen, had come to visit together.
Su Wanwan frowned, recalling the two times Princess Chun'an had made things difficult for her, and flatly refused:
"not see."
She's not a masochist.
He insisted on seeing that arrogant and domineering princess.
In the back room, Xiao Bin had just finished changing his dressing. Upon seeing Su Wanwan arrive, he quickly straightened his clothes and bowed.
"How are you feeling, young lady?"
Su Wanwan smiled and said, "Restored to its original state."
Xiao Bin's expression relaxed slightly, and he stood with his hands at his sides.
Su Wanwan felt a pang of sadness when she saw that he had lost a lot of weight, but she didn't know what to say.
She knew she could no longer indulge in her relationship with Xiao Bin.
Otherwise, it might really kill him.
The warning barrage from the last time kept Su Wanwan constantly vigilant.
No matter how outstanding a guard's individual abilities are, he cannot stand against the emperor who is high above him.
After a long silence, Su Wanwan finally spoke, but swallowed back the question about his injuries.
"Congratulations, Guard Xiao, on your outstanding achievement. Has anyone mentioned rewarding you with an official position?"
She dared not show even a hint of excessive concern.
"It is said that he will return to Weizhou Guard to serve as a centurion."
The rank of centurion is a sixth-grade military officer position that can be inherited. Given Xiao Bin's abilities, this is naturally not a problem for him.
However, considering Xiao Bin's achievements, it's a bit low.
If Xiao Bin and his men hadn't destroyed the cannons in time, it's hard to say whether Lu Xingjian and her last hiding place would have been spared from the artillery fire.
Lu Xingjian is not a stingy person.
There's only one possibility for why Xiao Bin's reward was so low—
Because of her entanglement with Xiao Bin.
Su Wanwan didn't continue the topic, but instead asked him about the two times he destroyed the cannons:
"Why was the cannon destroyed twice?"
"The first time was in a thatched hut in Changping Prefecture. I found those people acting suspiciously, so I followed them and discovered that the artillery was aimed at the thatched hut where you were trapped."
"The second time,"
Xiao Bin's expression was somewhat serious, as if he didn't want to bring it up, and in the end he simply glossed over it briefly.
"If we don't destroy it, the girl might be in danger."
Su Wanwan immediately burst into tears.
She turned around, tilted her head back slightly, and held back her tears.
After years of getting to know each other, she had long been used to his way of expressing himself.
The more dangerous the situation, the more he would gloss over it.
I didn't want her to worry.
"From now on, prioritize your own safety and don't be reckless."
She fears she can never repay the debt of gratitude he has shown her by saving her life so many times.
"yes."
Xiao Bin responded briefly, but it was unclear whether he had actually heard him.
After a long silence, Su Wanwan spoke with difficulty:
"Lord Xiao will be an official appointed by the court from now on, no longer my bodyguard. Please take care of yourself."
I wish you a bright future.
Xiao Bin finally looked up at her, his eyes filled with shock.
Then his eyes dimmed, revealing understanding, helplessness, and desolation.
Su Wanwan turned away and stopped looking at him.
"Go back once your injuries have healed."
Not dragging him down was the best way she could repay him.
Xiao Bin didn't say anything more, watching Su Wanwan's figure disappear into the distance.
Just as Su Wanwan was about to enter the hanging flower gate, she heard a commotion outside, and she could vaguely hear Gu Ziyu's voice.
"The Grand Princess of Chun'an is really showing off, she's even doing it on someone else's doorstep!"
"You brat, stop talking nonsense and go fetch that girl." Princess Chun'an said, suppressing her anger.
You brat, how dare you turn this princess away!
"Please forgive me, but I cannot enter through this door."
Gu Ziyu said bluntly, his tone laced with sarcasm.
"Why don't you try to force your way in?"
The house was surrounded by imperial guards appointed by the emperor.
He wanted to see how long the Grand Princess of Chun'an could be so arrogant, repeatedly causing trouble in the emperor's forbidden areas.
Princess Chun'an was so angry that she slammed her fist on the carriage seat, her face turning ashen.
How could she, a dignified Grand Princess, force her way into an ordinary person's home?
They've really humiliated her!
Imperial Son-in-Law Cai Zhen gestured for her to calm down, and said to Gu Ziyu with a gentle expression:
"Cheng'an, please go and ask the Su family. My husband and I came here to visit Miss Su sincerely and have no ill intentions."
Cheng'an is Gu Ziyu's courtesy name.
On any normal day, if these two noble relatives of the imperial family were to visit someone's home, the host would certainly open the door wide and burn incense to welcome them.
Who would dare to be so shameless as to turn them away?
They couldn't possibly lower themselves to stay here and refuse to leave.
But right now, there's really no other way.
The youngest son was implicated in a treason case, and if no connections were made to pull strings, the whole family would be implicated.
This is no child's play.
Gu Ziyu glanced casually at the tightly closed gate of the Su family, speaking in a lazy tone.
"But what about Cai Chun's matter? What's the use of going to the Su family? It's better to go directly to the palace to see the Empress Dowager and the Emperor."
Princess Chun'an and Cai Zhen looked extremely grim.
Empress Zhang and the others had tried, but to no avail.
They couldn't even see the emperor.
He had originally hoped to plead for mercy from the emperor on his birthday.
But the emperor only made a brief appearance from afar before leaving.
Cai Zhen tried every possible means to bribe the eunuchs with a lot of money, but nothing came of it.
A few days ago, because it was almost the first day of the tenth lunar month, the emperor sent his son-in-law to pay homage at the emperor's mausoleum.
Ma Cheng, You Tai, and Huang Yong, three of the younger imperial sons-in-law, were all appointed.
Even Zhou Yue, the husband of the Shunyi Princess who was a generation younger, was sent to pay homage at the tomb of the deposed emperor.
Cai Zhen was not among them.
This made Princess Chun'an and Cai Zhen even more nervous.
What is Ma Cheng?
The magistrate's son, of humble origin, was a womanizer.
The guy who was flogged, stripped of his official hat and belt, and twice banished from studying at the Imperial Academy by Emperor Xianzong for having an affair with a maid, now wants to climb over his head and act wildly?
Cai Zhen was greatly dissatisfied.
From a highly respected royal elder to a prisoner implicated in a treason case.
How could he accept such a huge drop in status?
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