The Kaifeng Prefecture Government Office covers a large area, almost equal to Daxiangguo Temple. It is located in the southwest of Kaifeng Prefecture’s inner city, not too far from Daxiangguo Temple and Zhouqiao Night Market.

The government office faces north and south, and the tall and majestic main entrance is located on the Bianhe Street. The main entrance is usually closed, and the side doors on both sides are for the people like Wu Haogu, Feng Erniang and others entering and leaving. However, unlike later generations' imaginations, the access control of Kaifeng Prefecture is not strict, and the guards and military patrols do not make things difficult for the people to enter and exit. They just a rough check whether the people have weapons.

Wu Haogu and Feng Erniang only brought some food, clothing, a few silver tins and a scroll. After Feng Erniang stuffed a few small amounts of money, they quickly passed the main entrance of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Behind the main entrance of the government office is a two-story drum tower, which is the place where drums and injustices are beaten. Behind the drum tower, there are three ceremonial gates on the left, center and right, leading to the three halls on the left, center and right of Kaifeng Prefecture. Among them, the central hall is the main hall of Kaifeng Prefecture, which is the place where the prefect works. The left and right of the hall is the office of the judge and the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture. The judge and the prefect are both civil officials who assist the Qingtian Master of Kaifeng Prefecture. Among them, the judge is in charge of the prison lawsuits, but Wu Chengzhi, who was detained in the Kaifeng Prefecture Prison, was not under the jurisdiction of the left hall of the judge, but under the jurisdiction of the Kaifeng Prefecture Prison, the capital of the Kaifeng Prefecture Prison, which is in charge of the military affairs of the Kaifeng Prefecture Prison.

Kaifeng Prefecture Department is abbreviated as the Fushi, also known as the Fushiyuan, and is collectively known as the Three Courts, together with the Left Army Patrol and the Right Army Patrol, the Three Courts. The status of the Three Courts in the Kaifeng Prefecture system is very important. There is also a Fushixi Prison under the Fushiyuan, which is the so-called Kaifeng Prefecture Prison.

Those who were detained in the Sixi Prison of the Mansion were all suspects and witnesses awaiting trial. Wu Dalang's father Wu Chengzhi was detained in the Sixi Prison of the Mansion in the name of a witness. Therefore, the treatment was much better than that of the suspect in the detention. There was a small single room, and Feng Erniang also used money to bribe several wardens and yamen runners, sent beds and beds, and delivered food and replacement clothes on time every day. It did not make Wu Chengzhi suffer much.

Led by Ai Si, the surname Zhu who was beaten by Feng Erniang, Wu Haogu and Feng Erniang walked to a clean prison room. Through a row of wooden fences, Wu Haogu saw a fat man wearing a gray robe, bald and unscarved hat sitting on the bed with his back to him.

"Official..."

The man sitting in the prison cell stood up and turned around when he heard Feng Erniang's call. He moved a little slowly. After turning around, Wu Haogu recognized that the man was his father Wu Chengzhi in this life.

"Dalang, you are here too." Wu Chengzhi's complexion was not very good and his voice was a little sad.

"Dad... I'll raise money to save you soon."

Wu Haogu looked at the middle-aged man who looked very depressed behind the wooden fence, and suddenly felt sad in his heart, and his eyes became wet.

"Oh, is that?" Wu Chengzhi slowly walked to the wooden fence and looked at his son and smiled bitterly, "Darang, these days are really hard for you..."

Wu Haogu looked at his father and found that the other party's face was a little strange, and there was an uncontrollable pain.

"Dad..."

Wu Chengyi raised his hand, stopped his son's words, and then whispered his wife Feng Erniang.

A small Yinying immediately stuffed it from Feng Erniang to Zhu Aishi on the side. Erniang said in a coquettish voice: "Aishi, the father and son have not seen each other for many days. I wonder if I can borrow a cleaner ear room for them to talk for a while?"

The Ai Si, the surname Zhu, took Yin Ying, so he naturally could speak. He immediately ordered the prison guards to open the door and asked Wu Dalang to go in and help Wu Chengzhi out. Then he took the two father and son of the Wu family and Feng Erniang to a small ear room near the cell.

However, only Wu Chengzhi and Wu Haogu and his son were in the room, while Feng Erniang had a chat with Zhu Ai Si in the small courtyard outside the ear room.

"Dalang, the day before yesterday I heard Er Niang say, "You have closed the Huazhai and moved to the academy?" Wu Chengzhi sat down on a chair in his ear room and asked in a low voice.

"Dad," Wu Haogu replied, "After I want to leave the Painting Dian, I will calm down and read some books."

"Reading?" Wu Chengzhi was stunned. His eldest son did not like to study, but his second son Wu was good at literature and had some talent in Confucianism.

"It's good to read some books," Wu Chengzhi frowned slightly. "My family has been out of the way since your father-in-law (referring to Wu Haogu's great-grandfather Wu Zongyuan) and has left Confucianism and specialized in painting. When he was a father, he had no official position and could not defend his family business."

"Can't hold on?"

Wu Chengzhi nodded and sighed: "It's the "Eighty-Seven Immortals Picture"!"

"Wu Daozi's "The Eighty-Seven Immortals"?" Wu Haogu certainly knew this masterpiece that was famous in the history of Chinese painting.

"right."

"But isn't this painting placed in Wanshou Temple?"

In Wu Haogu's memory of this life, there is also a situation in "The Eighty-Seven Immortals".

"The one placed in Wanshou Temple is a fake... it was your father-in-law."

Wu Haogu was breathing coldly. This painting was a national treasure even in the Northern Song Dynasty! In order to get it, the powerful people would probably not give up easily.

However, Wu Haogu was still a little unwilling to give up and asked, "Who saw it?"

"It's Mi Xiangyang!"

It seems that it is Mi Fu, it seems that he can't be wrong!

Wu Haogu shook his head repeatedly, "Dad, what should we do now?

Will the palace come to ask for the "Eighty-Seven Immortals"? If we can't take it out, will we punish us for our sins?"

"The official family is afraid that he doesn't know about this?" Wu Chengzhi shook his head, "If the official family asks about it, it's okay... This matter was not done by my father-in-law. If it's your father-in-law's fault, what else can he do? Open the coffin and kill the corpse? How could the official family do such a thing for a painting?"

Just stealing a painting... It cannot be called stealing. The affairs of scholars are not considered stealing.

It’s just a fake that replaces a painting, not a rebellion. What a matter of a literary scholar who is from the sixth rank of literati and official court? Even if Wu Zongyuan was arrested, he would be demoted at most.

Even the main culprit himself is fine. What else can his uninformed descendants commit crimes? If this matter is reported to Emperor Zhezong, at most, he will send someone to the Wu family to search. It would be fine if he can't find it. If he doesn't have any such ability, how can he be considered a good official?

So what is really terrifying is not the official family of the Song Dynasty, but the official who is eyeing the treasures of the Wu family...

Wu Haogu thought of leaving, "Dad, should we leave?"

"No," Wu Chengzhi shook his head, "Kaifeng is at the foot of the emperor, and the most royal place in the world... If my father and son hadn't been staying in Kaifeng, they might have been caught and tortured long ago!"

The Song Dynasty had human rights! Although it cannot be compared with modern society, it is definitely an era when human rights were talked about the most before New China, no doubt about it.

In the Kaifeng Prefecture City of Tokyo, the Northern Song Dynasty, it was the most reasonable place in the entire Song Dynasty. If you want to look at the current world, it will definitely be the place where ordinary people can be most protected.

Therefore, those who covet "The Eighty-Seven Immortals Picture" are only legally framed the Wu family and have not broken up to get people.

But this does not mean that those nobles will spare the Wu family easily. They still want to "eat people", but they just want to eat up the Wu family's business civilized, gentle and elegantly.

If Wu Chengzhi and Wu Haogu and his son were dealing well, they might be able to leave some things and add their lives. Fortunately, they will make a comeback in the future... If the panic Song Dynasty can still have a future!

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu handed the scroll he brought to his father with both hands.

"Dad, how do you see this thing?"

Wu Haogu took the scroll, spread it gently, and only glanced at it, his brow moved.

"The Drunken Arhat Picture? You also got a copy...No! This is, this is..."

Wu Chengzhi's eyes widened, staring at the scroll in his hand, and then looked at it.

"Is it the original... is this the original?"

"Dad," Wu Haogu asked slowly, "What era do you think this painting is from?"

"It should be from the Tang Dynasty." Wu Chengzhi said without hesitation.

"Is it the Saint of Painting?"

"No, it is mostly painted by the disciples of the Painting Saint," Wu Chengzhi said, "and he is also a disciple of the Painting Saint who is better than the blue."

When Wu Chengzhi said, Wu Haogu felt relieved. His son Wu Chengzhi was also the number one figure in the calligraphy and painting business of Kaifeng Prefecture, and he was also famous for his ability to identify "Wu Family Style".
Chapter completed!