After rebirth, I kidnapped the future powerful official

Cui house.

Chu Yingying was writing prescriptions at the side of the case, while Dou Rulan was sitting on the side, facing the couch, Zhao Qilong was lying on it, still in a coma, his face was bleakly pale due to excessive blood loss.

The room was extremely quiet, and after a long time, Dou Rulan said slowly, "Today... I really didn't expect Mr. Zhao to come."

She seemed to be talking to herself: "If he doesn't come, how can I know if I have the fate to sit here now."

Chu Yingying answered, "Brother Zhao is kind and kind, he wants to help you."

Dou Rulan gave a wry smile, and said, "I can't help you, I'll only burden you in vain."

She said, turning her head to look at Chu Yingying, and said: "I have already tired Mr. Zhao, if I keep some things from you, I'm afraid even I will be cast aside."

Chu Yingying said, "Miss Dou, don't say that."

Dou Rulan shook her head, took a deep breath, turned her eyes to the quietly burning candle, and said slowly: "My father's name is Dou Minhui, and before the Baisong River broke its embankment, he was the magistrate of Chizhou. Well, Dr. Chu must also know a thing or two. After the Baisong River broke its embankment, the whole area of ​​Chizhou was flooded. They will be sent to Beijing."

Cui Yunhao, who was silent on the side, said, "I've heard about this."

She said slowly: "In the end, we can only focus on rebuilding the most important section of the Baisong River. The other river courses will be gradually constructed. Once there is a flood this year, my father will know that something is wrong. When the money was distributed, everyone It's a good deal, but the money is not so easy to get, and at this time, the money you share will be life money."

According to what she said, the Zhizhou of Chizhou didn't distribute any money at the beginning, so he probably wouldn't be affected by it. There was only one charge of failing to report if he knew about it. If you poke it out ten times, maybe you can get a chance to redeem yourself, but in the end he chose to commit suicide...

She sobbed slightly, and after a short silence, Cui Yunhao asked: "The case of the Baisong River breaching the embankment is now closed, what happened at that time?"

Dou Rulan wiped away her tears, calmed down, and said, "Chizhou suffers from floods every year. In the middle of last year, the imperial court allocated 300 million taels of silver to repair the river, but I'm afraid you don't know that the 300 million taels of silver have not been transported to Chizhou. It has been divided up."

Her lips trembled slightly, as if seeing the tragic scene that day again. After a brief loss of consciousness, Dou Rulan said: "He only left one letter, but I put that letter away, and they all said My father committed suicide in fear of crime, but what crime did he have?"

Having said that, it is already very obvious that Dou Minhui is unwilling to return to Beijing to take the blame in order to protect his family, so the only way to reassure some people is to die.

Chu Yingying thought about it, and said, "Your father has been threatened?"

Dou Rulan closed her eyes, let out a deep breath, and said, "Since my father took office in Chizhou, from a magistrate to a magistrate, it was hard and inhumane. Our family has lived with him in Chizhou for nearly 20 years. , There is a grandmother on the top, and a family on the bottom, if this kind of thing happens, we will become his weakness."

Cui Yunhao and Chu Yingying looked at each other: "Is there such a thing?"

Dou Rulan sneered: "It's more than that, the 300 million taels of silver is divided, the meat is eaten on the top, and the soup is eaten on the bottom. Everyone is happy, and the rest is used to fill the shortfall of the treasury. In the end, the silver on the Baisongjiang River is not enough. 50 taels, my father didn’t divide the money, but he is the magistrate of Chizhou, the matter of building the river will still fall on him in the end, without money, how can we build the river?”

Dou Rulan continued: "The day before entering Beijing, my father... he committed suicide with a paper knife."

Dou Rulan's voice trembled slightly: "He has always been a clean and honest official, and our family lives on his salary every year. Back then, the public funds for building the river were embezzled, but he didn't take a cent of the money, at most... ... At most, it is a crime of not reporting the knowledge, so how can it end up with a ruined reputation?"

Dou Rulan's voice was full of remorse: "Chizhou is a big quagmire. I persuaded him before that if possible, he might as well write a letter and ask to be transferred to another place, that is, to go to the wild and remote frontier. Although it is a bit bitter, it is worse than here. He is unwilling to collude with those people and be greedy for ink, and he can't report them, so he just keeps silent, and when the incident finally breaks out, he will take his life."

She gritted her teeth, and said in her tone that she hated that iron could not be made into steel, "I settled down with my family this time, and came to the capital just to uncover the Chizhou matter. What's the use of an irrelevant Zhima official? I can't let my father die in vain on the back of the crime. He is guilty, but not corrupt. Since I came here, I never thought I could leave alive!"

The air was quiet, the candle flickered for a while, and soon returned to calm. Dou Rulan calmed down a little, and continued: "I'm afraid you don't know that, apart from the incident of the Baisong River breaking the embankment, Kuyin has been in short supply for a long time. The 300 million taels of public funds for river repair arrived in the middle of last year, and barely made up more than half of it, and until now, when my father passed away, it was still in shortfall."

Dou Rulan paused, and said: "One more thing, the area around Chizhou suffers from floods every year, and the harvest is not good. Since three years ago, the imperial court ordered the tax to be halved, but until now, Chizhou still collects taxes according to the usual good years, and even From the year before last, a tea tax was added, for this matter, my father had a long dispute with the governor's office, was detained for ten days, and when he came back, he was completely broken."

Chu Yingying gasped, and Cui Yunhao said with a serious face: "Your father is also the magistrate of Chizhou, so logically, he can submit a letter, why didn't he report the matter to the court?"