Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 125 It’s broken, come for me!
In the Gao family mansion, Mr. Gao was pacing back and forth, looking up towards the gate from time to time, his face unable to hide his anxiety.

"Why hasn't Big Brother come yet?"

Master Gao was just wondering in his heart when a servant from the mansion came hurriedly to report:

"Second Master, the Master is here."

Master Gao immediately showed a look of joy, and said hastily, "Go and invite her quickly... No, I will go and welcome her myself."

He lifted up his clothes, took two steps at a time, and walked hurriedly towards the gate of the mansion.

As soon as I arrived at the front courtyard, I saw that Mr. Gao had already entered the corridor in the courtyard and walked over quickly: "Brother."

When he got closer, he realized that there was a young man in white clothes beside Mr. Gao. He was wondering who this person was. When he looked up at his appearance, he was immediately surprised: "Princess, why are you here?"

Ji Mingyue pouted in dissatisfaction: "Uncle, do you not welcome me?"

Master Gao looked helpless and said with a smile, "No, I miss you so much, but your uncle and I have some things to do. Would you like to go to the backyard and play dominoes with them first?"

Ji Mingyue was not interested: "None of your concubines dare to beat me. It will be boring if I let them win. It's not fun."

Master Gao said, "My dear little ancestor, they are rushing to give you money, isn't that good? Well, you play with them for a while, and tomorrow your uncle will take you to the imperial farm in the suburbs. A rare animal from the Western Regions has entered the zoo recently, a white-haired monkey. I guarantee you have never seen it before, so I will let you see it for yourself."

"Really?"

"Of course. How could my uncle lie to you?"

"It's settled then. I'll go tomorrow and stay at your place tonight."

"Row."

Seeing that Ji Mingyue had been coaxed, she walked towards the backyard with familiarity without waiting for Master Gao to order the servants to take her there.

Ji Mingyue was very familiar with the Gao family mansion. There was even a courtyard reserved for her in the mansion, which was even more magnificent than the one where Mr. Gao lived himself. It could be said that it was like returning to her own home.

The Gao brothers treated the third prince's only daughter like the apple of their eye. They held her in their hands for fear of dropping her, and held her in their mouths for fear of melting her.

She is closer to me than my own daughter.

Both of them watched Ji Mingyue leave with smiles on their faces, until she walked around the corridor and disappeared, and then the smiles on their faces gradually faded.

Master Gao asked, "Brother, why did you bring the princess here?"

"It's boring in the palace, and the princess wants to go out for a walk. What? Are you not welcoming?"

"Of course I welcome you, but this is really not the right time."

Master Gao also looked helpless. Right now he really didn't want to spend a few days with the princess.

The two brothers soon got down to business, and Master Gao asked, "Brother, do you know about the settlement of the lawsuits by the royal relatives?"

Grandpa Gao nodded.

Master Gao sighed and frowned, "I can't figure it out after thinking about it. What method did the Astronomical Observatory use?"

"That's right, you can't figure it out. This wasn't done by the Astronomical Observatory."

Hearing what Grandpa Gao said, Second Grandpa Gao's eyes widened immediately: "Not the Astronomical Observatory? Who else dares to go against our Gao family?"

Grandpa Gao glanced at him, frowned slightly at the hostility on his brother's face.

Over the years, my second brother has been in charge of these shady matters. Relying on the support of his backer, he has become more and more domineering and has a more and more bad temper in recent years.

He said with a cold face: "There are many people in Jingdu who dare to go against the Gao family. Do they really think of themselves as local emperors?"

His face became serious, and the anger on Mr. Gao's face disappeared immediately. He smiled and apologized: "Brother, that's not what I meant. But... every wrong has its perpetrator, and I have to know who is behind this, right?"

Grandpa Gao's expression softened and he said, "Zongzheng Temple." "Zongzheng Temple? Duke Yingguo? This old man has received many benefits from us, how dare he openly trip us up?"

"It's Zhao Qi'an!"

Master Gao was shocked when he heard this: "Zhao Qi'an? He...didn't someone in the palace say that Your Majesty arranged him in the Zongzheng Temple unintentionally?"

At the beginning, the Gao family thought that Zhao Qian'an was arranged to work in the Zongzheng Temple as the temple secretary because His Majesty wanted to check the accounts, which made the Gao family really nervous for a while.

But later, news came from the palace that this was not the case, and His Majesty just did it at will. In addition, the Astronomical Observatory was investigating the imperial fields because of the death of Ji Hengyi, the secretary of the Zongzheng Temple. As a result, the Gao brothers focused their attention on the young tiger captain of the Astronomical Observatory and neglected the new secretary Zhao Qi'an for a while.

Mr. Gao asked, "Is the palace maid you bribed the Fifth Marquis?"

Master Gao smiled awkwardly, "Of course not. The Fifth Marquis is such a great man, how could he look down upon a small person like me?"

Master Gao snorted, "That's it. If you're not the Fifth Marquis, which palace servant can say he can figure out the emperor's intentions?"

"But Zhao Qi'an has been staying at his house recently. I sent someone to check."

"Zhao Qi'an didn't get involved, but his staff, the hyena officer Gou Xiangxi, accompanied the young tiger captain to the imperial fields outside the capital these days. You didn't even find out this?"

Master Gao was scolded repeatedly and couldn't even raise his head.

But he suddenly thought of something: "That young tiger captain also has the surname Zhao, could he be from the Zhao family?"

But Mr. Gao shook his head: "Zhao Guanxiang joined the Astronomical Observatory. Except for this imperial land case, there is no trace of the Zhao family's involvement in his other experiences. If the Zhao family supported him, with his talent, how could he only be a lieutenant?"

Long before the Huangtian case, the Gao family had noticed Zhao Guanxiang, a thorn in their side who always had issues with them.

However, even with the relationship with Bai Yuchuan, the Major General of Patrol, it is impossible to find out Zhao Guanxiang's background.

But it is not difficult to check Zhao Guanxiang's resume after he joined the Astronomical Observatory.

Even Gao Qirui, after seeing Zhao Guanxiang's resume, had to admit that this was a young talent with extraordinary aptitude in martial arts, and that he would surely reach the realm of heaven and man before the age of thirty.

Not only that, he is also proficient in solving cases, and has solved many strange cases with great achievements.

It's a pity that he is too upright and does things without any taboos. He has violated the rules repeatedly and was about to be dismissed from his post and punished several times. It was always Major General Qilian who protected him to the death. There was no sign of the Zhao family's intervention behind his back.

Therefore, Gao Qirui felt that although Zhao Guanxiang’s surname was Zhao, he should have nothing to do with the Zhao family of Donghai.

After all, Zhao is a big family. In Kyoto alone, in addition to the Donghai Zhao family, there are also the Bolin Zhao family and the Rongyang Zhao family. These two Zhao families are not small and have members who have come to Beijing to serve as officials. Their influence is not small.

Hearing what Master Gao said, Master Gao Er did not suspect anything, but just asked, "After all, how did the Zongzheng Temple get those royal relatives to stop the lawsuit?"

"Do you still remember that the Zhao family donated a sum of money to the Zongzheng Temple not long ago?"

"Yes, I heard that the silver covered the entire Zongzheng Temple. Many people were talking about it, saying that the Zhao family had too much money to spend."

This matter became a hot topic among Kyoto's upper class circles.

Master Gao thought that the Zhao family was really stupid and rich, so what was the point of currying favor with the royal family? This was not the previous dynasty.

But Mr. Gao snorted coldly: "You have money but nowhere to spend it? Do you know how the Zhao family uses this money?"

"Besides distributing it...how else can we use it? Are we trying to teach a man how to fish? Finding a way for the royal family to make a living?"

"You are wrong. The first step of the money the Zhao family donated to the Zongzheng Temple is to help the orphans of the royal family redeem their land!"

Help the orphans of the royal family to redeem their land? !

Upon hearing this, Mr. Gao stood there in a daze, and then his face changed drastically.

Oh no, this is aimed at their Gao family!

(End of this chapter)