After rebirth, I abducted the future minister

Cui's house.

Chu Yingying was writing a prescription on the side of the desk, and Dou Rulan sat on the side, facing the couch, Zhao Qilong was lying on it, still asleep. Because of excessive blood loss, his face showed a dismal pale pale.

The room was extremely quiet. After a long time, Dou Rulan slowly spoke: "I... I really didn't expect Mr. Zhao to come today."

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

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

Dou Rulan smiled bitterly and said, "I can't help, I will only implicate you in vain."

She said, turned to look at Chu Yingying and said, "At this point, Mr. Zhao has been tired of taking care of me. If I still hide some things from you, I am afraid that even I will despise myself."

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 candlelight, and said slowly: "My father is Dou Minhui. Before Bai Songjiang broke the dike, he was the governor of Chizhou. Doctor Chu must have known about the incident later. After Bai Songjiang broke the dike, the Chizhou area was flooded. The government and the people were furious and ordered that the matter be investigated strictly and brought all the officials in charge back to the capital to question. In fact, my father was also going to be taken to Beijing."

Cui Yunhao, who was silent on the side, said, "I have heard of this."

Dou Rulan continued: "The day before entering Beijing, my father...he committed suicide and used a paper cutter."

Her lips trembled slightly, as if she had seen the tragic scene of the day again. After a brief loss of consciousness, Dou Rulan said: "He only left one letter, but I put it away. They all said that my father committed suicide because of his sins, but what is his sin?"

Dou Rulan's voice trembled: "He has always been honest as an official. Our family relies on his salary every year to live on his salary. When the public funds for the repaired river were misappropriated, he did not take a penny and a half cent of the money for that money. At most... at most it would be a crime that would not be reported. Why would it end up dead and die?"

She sobbed gently. After a brief silence, Cui Yunhao asked: "The case of Bai Songjiang breaking the dike has now been concluded. What happened at that time?"

Dou Rulan wiped away her tears, calmed down, and said, "Chizhou is flooding every year. In the middle of last year, the court allocated three million taels of silver to build the river, but you probably don't know that the three million taels of silver had been divided before it was shipped to Chizhou."

Cui Yunhao and Chu Yingying looked at each other: "There is such a thing?"

Dou Rulan sneered: "More than that, three million taels of silver are divided. Everyone was happy to eat meat on the top and drink soup on the bottom. The rest were used to fill in the treasury silver. Finally, the silver was distributed to the Baisong River repair channel, which was less than 500,000 taels. My father did not share the silver, but he was the prefect of Chizhou. The matter of repairing the river will eventually fall on him. If there is no silver, how can he use to repair the river channel?"

She said slowly: "In the end, we can only rebuild the most important section of Bai Songjiang. The other rivers are slowly drawn. As soon as the floods are released this year, my father knew that something is wrong. When we were dividing the money, we had a good deal and quantity, but the money was not so easy to get. At this time, the money we allocated would be bought for life."

As she said, the prefect of Chizhou had no money at the beginning, and it was probably not affected by any influence. There was only one charge of not reporting it. At most, he would be removed from office and dismissed from office and would not die. If he was willing to write a letter and exposed the matter in Chizhou, he might have a chance to redeem his sins, but in the end he chose to commit suicide...

Chu Yingying thoughtfully said, "Is your father threatened?"

Dou Rulan closed her eyes, let out a deep breath, and said, "Since my father came to Chizhou, he has been from a county magistrate to a magistrate. It is hard and inhumane. Our family has lived in Chizhou for nearly twenty years, with his grandmother above and a young family below. If such a thing happens, we have become his weakness."

Having said that, it was already very obvious. In order to protect his family, Dou Minhui was unwilling to return to the capital to commit crimes, so he could only calm down the hearts of some people by dying.

Dou Rulan's voice was filled with regret: "Chizhou is a big quagmire. I have advised him before. If he can, it would be better to write a letter to ask for transfer to other places. It would be like to go to the wilderness and remoteness of the border. Although it was a little bit bitter, it was better than here. He was not willing to join those people and be greedy, nor could he report them. He just kept silent. When things broke out, he had to fill his life."

She gritted her teeth, and said in a tone of regret, "I settled my family this time and came to the capital to reveal the matter in Chizhou. The court investigated and killed only a few irrelevant sesame officials. What's the use? I can't let my father die in vain on his charges. He is guilty, but it is not a crime of greed. Since I have come here, I never thought I could leave alive!"

The air was quiet, the candlelight shook for a moment, and soon returned to calm again. Dou Rulan calmed down slightly and continued: "You may not know that, except for the Bai Songjiang River breaking, Kuyin has been deficit for a long time. It was not until the three million taels of public funds for repairing the river arrived in the middle of last year that it could barely fill most of it. Until now, when my father passed away, it was still deficit."

Dou Rulan paused and said, "There is another thing. Chizhou has flooded every year and the harvest is not good. Since three years ago, the court has ordered the tax to be halved. However, until now, Chizhou still collects taxes based on the usual good years of taxes, and even increases the tea tax since the previous year. For this matter, my father had a long dispute with the governor's yamen and was detained for ten days. When he came back, he was already in a state of disgrace."

Chu Yingying gasped in her heart, and Cui Yunhao said calmly: "Your father is also the governor of Chizhou. Logically speaking, he can write a letter. Why didn't he report the matter to the court?"