King Rui glanced back at Wang Xiao and Qin Xiaozhu.

The young man in the room didn't know what to say, causing the girl to lower her head and laugh, her eyes smiling and shining.

The banquet of the total horn, smiling and smiling.

Even though he had a thousand hatreds for Wang Xiao, King Rui couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It's good to be young." ”

He shook his head and made his way to his apartment with difficulty, where he sat down on the broken chair.

Then the old man pulled out a dagger from the drawer and fell into deep thought.

In today's game, Wang Xiao came prepared and led himself into the set. In the end, I did lose, and I had to accept it if I didn't accept it.

However, it is not impossible to turn the tables again......

He turned his head and walked around the public house, and as far as his eyes could see, every corner was old and clean.

The lacquer on the beams and pillars has been peeled off, revealing the old wood inside, and the stone slabs on the ground are smooth and polished by the feet.

I spent most of my life in this office, won a reputation for honesty and integrity, and exchanged a lifetime of hardship for the wealth of my children and grandchildren.

The Zongren Mansion is not a powerful yamen, but it is at least better than those relatives who are raised like pigs.

If you live to be almost eighty years old, you can say enough, and if you don't say enough, it's not enough. If you have a choice, you really want to live forever.

But judging from today's events, Wang Xiao is so deep and vicious, he knows that he can't be an enemy.

If you continue to fight, it is likely to ruin the reputation you have worked so hard to save, and it will be too worthless.

Then let everything be decided.

King Rui slowly picked up the dagger, and a sinister smile appeared on the old man's face.

"The old man in the last years of the wind and candle has a lifespan of only three or five years. For the life of a young man like you, this king is not a loss. ”

The dagger scribbled a few words on the dilapidated tabletop.

The next moment, blood dripped down and seeped into the handwriting on the table, but I saw that the four words were clearly -

Wang laughed and killed me......

At the same time, Wang Xiao and Qin Xiaozhu were sitting in the torture room chatting.

Qin Xiaozhu was originally a little unhappy, but at this time, the sky was sunny after the rain, and he was quite smiling.

"So, if only I had been here at that time. In the past, my grandfather was chased by the officials and soldiers like a local dog, but now you can rob money openly! ”

As she spoke, her eyes lit up with yearning.

Wang smiled: "I will take you next time." ”

Qin Xiaozhu chatted about the rise, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said, "I heard Xuan Ce say that you are beautiful dressed as a girl!" ”

Before she finished speaking, she was already holding his head with her hands, brushing his hair and saying, "I think it must be beautiful when I look at it, Niang Xipi, I really want to see it." ”

Wang Xiao was embarrassed, and quickly tried to break free.

"You're still ashamed." Qin Xiaozhu didn't comply, and wanted to tease him, "One day I will pick up your clothes and change your skirt for you." ”

"Don't mess with me......"

The two were fighting, and Wang Xiao was about to run out of the torture room, but with a "bang" he collided with someone, bounced back and fell to the ground.

"Ouch."

Wang Fang is old, and her muscles and bones are loose, and when she collides with a young man like this, she is dizzy.

After being dizzy for a while, he squinted and saw that Wang Xiao was not dead, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

I didn't care about the 'little skirt' I heard just now, so Wang Fang said, "Your Majesty sent our family to pick up the horses." ”

"Oh." Wang Xiao was pulled up from the ground by Qin Xiaozhu, and arched his hand: "Thank you for protecting me." ”

Wang Fang clearly saw that the two of them behaved intimately, but as if they hadn't seen it, and gave a smile to Song Xiaozhu.

First, Qin Zongbing's granddaughter is really unaffordable to ordinary people. Second, Wang Xiao's contamination of women has been tried three times, and everyone is tired of it.

Then let him be.

- At the beginning, when this kid was not lustful, our family was really blind.

Now that he had picked up the people, Wang Fang planned to leave with them, but after thinking about it, he still said, "Let's say hello to King Rui." ”

"As it should be."

The group walked outside King Rui's public house, but saw that there was not a single guard and attendant.

Qin Xiaozhu sniffed, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

She ran forward in a few steps, glanced in through the crack in the door, turned around, shook her head, and said with a grin: "King Rui is not here, he must have been angry with me." ”

Wang Fang couldn't help but think: "Yo, you are quite self-aware. ”

Qin Xiaozhu walked back down the steps, and pulled the two of them: "Let's go, let's go, that old man's face is so stinky, there is nothing to see, and this office is also gloomy." ”

"Then let's go" For Wang Fang, it is better to have more than one thing anyway.

Out of the Zongren Mansion, Qin Xiaozhu waved his body and turned away, looking a little chic.

Over there, Wang Fang took Wang Xiao back to the palace to resume her life, but she went around in a circle, found a secluded and uninhabited place, and quietly returned to the Zongren Mansion......

Emperor Yanguang did not receive Wang Xiao again.

Wang Xiao knelt outside the Qianqing Palace for half an hour before he was sent to Cining Palace to pick up his daughter-in-law home.

After leaving the palace and getting into the carriage, this time the matter was finally settled.

On the carriage, Chunning and Wang Xiao sat side by side for a while, and couldn't help but turn their heads and say, "Husband is such a powerful method." ”

"yes, I think too."

Unexpectedly, Wang Xiao was not modest, with a deeply appreciative expression.

Chunning smiled slightly, and said: "On weekdays, the husband and the gentleman are calm and calm, and there is no sense of exhaustion, but when did he lay out the strategy?"

"I'm not alone." Wang smiled: "Big brother, second brother, and ...... And I, who laid the groundwork before letting Ruan Qia go. That Hu San'er is Jia Ningbo's person, and the second brother has already found out, so he will plan it. ”

"Then we're going to deal with the Xue family next," Chunning said.

The Xue family is the prince's party, and they are mortal enemies.

Chunning pondered the possibility and pros and cons of copying the Jianingbo Mansion with brocade clothes.

If it can be done, first, the momentum of the prince and his side will disappear and the other will grow; second, it can affect the perception of the imperial father; Three, if you leave a sum of money and food, strengthen the brocade guard. In addition, after Brother Yan opened the palace, he also needed to raise some private soldiers......

Wang Xiao shook his head: "Don't worry, the Xue family Zheng Party will deal with it." The next top priority is to guide the court to control the epidemic. ”

Chunning was stunned.

She brushed her hair, feeling a little ashamed in her heart.

After a while, she couldn't help but ask: "Husband doesn't seem to care much about power"

"Hmm," Wang Xiao was a little puzzled.

"Since ancient times, in officialdom, the first thing to consider is often your own power, how much power you can have, and how many people you have under your hands." Chun Ning pondered and said, "But the husband really doesn't seem to care about this."

Speaking of this, she hesitated a little, but still bit her lip, and continued: "My husband said that he wanted to cure the epidemic, but in fact, everyone didn't believe it, they all thought that you wanted to use this to invite fame, use this to seek power, or use this to establish yourself. ”

"Why don't you believe it" Wang Xiao was a little surprised: "Isn't this a matter of course?"

"The first thing you learn to be a superior is to think of people as numbers. How many people in a state and county are numbers, and how much taxes these people should pay are numbers. In this court, there are not only those who cry out for the plague, as if every time there is a disaster, whether it is a drought or a flood, there are always people crying. But they didn't cry purely, they wanted their father to see them crying, they wanted their father to see their numbers, and fewer people died in my state than in your state. The better the number, the higher the weight. ”

"This is true for civil officials, and it is also true for military generals. How many people died in defeat, and how many people were killed in victory. It is for this reason to kill good people and take risks, and it is for this reason to eat empty pay and drink the blood of soldiers. The better the numbers, the more you can pay. The more private soldiers you recruit, the greater your momentum. It may not sound good, but it has always been like this. ”

Wang Xiao smiled slightly bitterly and asked, "Does the lady think I should be like that?"

"I don't like that, either." Chun Ning thought for a while and said, "But the more power you have, the more you can do for this Chu Dynasty, isn't it?"

"My father is powerful," Wang said with a smile: "Zheng Yuanhua, Lu Zhengchu, and Zuo Jinglun are powerful, and even in the west, Tang Zhongyuan and Zhang Xianzhong are also powerful...... However, they did not make it easy for people. I'm not smarter than them, and I can't do a lot of things that might not be better. People first have to see themselves clearly. Since ancient times, there have been too many arrogant people. ”

"So," Wang said with a smile, "I said that my original intention to do all this was just that I couldn't get used to seeing the people of this era living too hard. Not for the sake of how much power I have and how many soldiers I have. I'm not trying to tell you, but I really think so. ”

In the carriage, Chunning looked at her husband and was a little stunned.

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Wang Xiao was also a little stunned.

- When the words come to the mouth, why does it become bragging, I seem to have blown up the cowhide. If you don't engage in Jianingbo, in fact, you just want to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight......