Chapter 297 Mr. Pei was arrested
According to what the aunt and third aunt said, Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai bought enough wedding candles, red dates, peanuts, longans, melon seeds and other items.
Put them all on the carriage.
After buying all these things, she happened to be passing by a medicine shop. Ye Guoguo dragged her husband in and bought the materials for making mosquito coils: rosin powder, mugwort powder, tobacco leaf powder, arsenic, sulfur, etc.
Then, I went to the academy to find Mr. Pei.
Mr. Pei is now the dean of Mingjin Academy. Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai also came here before. When they returned, Mr. Pei personally sent them to the gate of the academy. The boys guarding the gate of the academy all saw it. Now
Seeing Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai coming again, they didn't even go in to report. Instead, a boy politely led them in to find Mr. Pei.
Mr. Pei happened to be free and was busy serving tea.
Ye Guo Guo is still a big bowl of tea.
The day Mr. Pei became the dean, he already knew Ji Jingbai's identity, but he did not dare to expose it. He just cooperated and pretended not to know.
As soon as he heard that they were going to the church to get married again and were here to invite him to a wedding banquet, Mr. Pei smiled and said, "I will certainly come to your wedding day."
"Uncle, you must drink one more cup when the time comes." Ye Guoguo said cheerfully. She really liked this uncle.
Mr. Pei smiled and said: "Of course." After a pause, he wished with a kind face: "I hope you will have white hair and eyebrows, and a family full of descendants."
Ye Guoguo immediately said happily: "Thank you, uncle!"
"Thank you, sir." Ji Jingbai also thanked him, but he couldn't help but feel a little bitter in his heart. If this is the case, of course it would be good, but it won't be like this.
After leaving Mingjin Academy, Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai went home. Everything was bought, uncle was also invited, and there was nothing to do in the town.
As soon as Mr. Pei sent Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai away, he thought that since he hadn't been home for nearly two months, he happened to be free today, so he should go home and take a look.
So, Mr. Pei went home.
But not long after returning home, he saw the largest official in the prefecture, the prefect, dressed in official uniform, personally bringing people to his house to pick him up. The whole Pei family was immediately panicked.
The prefect asked, "Does President Pei know Zhong Shangyuan, Minister of War?"
Zhong Shangyuan is the new Minister of the Ministry of War who has only been in office for two months. He wrote to Mr. Pei a month ago, saying that he had been promoted and became the Minister of the Ministry of War.
Naturally, Mr. Pei knew that, and he also knew that the person who came was not good, but he still said neither humble nor arrogant: "I know, I was once a student of a lower official, I don't know sir——"
He is the dean of the academy, but the dean is also an official. He calls himself a lower official, which is correct.
But before he finished speaking, the prefect cut him off and said: "That's it! Zhong Shangyuan collaborated with the enemy and treason, and has been thrown into the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. Therefore, the emperor has an order," he said, bowing his hands respectfully in the direction of the imperial capital, "
Anyone who has a close personal relationship with Zhong Shangyuan must be arrested and severely interrogated. Anyone who comes, arrest them."
So, someone came up and arrested Mr. Pei.
Mr. Pei knew that this must be an order from the imperial capital, otherwise the prefect would not have come to his house so blatantly to pick him up in broad daylight.
However, he did not believe that his students would collaborate with the enemy and treason.
And he also firmly believes that those who are clean will themselves be clean.
Therefore, even when he was captured, he did not resist.
Besides, there is no point in resisting.
"Search!" the prefect ordered again.
Immediately, someone searched everywhere in Pei's house, and soon they found many letters written by Zhong Shangyuan to Mr. Pei a long time ago in Mr. Pei's study.
Others went to the academy to search and found many letters written by Zhong Shangyuan to Mr. Pei this year from Mr. Pei’s study room in the academy.
Chapter completed!