When Mei'er spoke to the saint in the palace, the minister of state, Xiahou Yuanzhi, led Xiahou to the palace.

After leaving the palace, the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion took Xiahou Jie's stretcher from the dragon scale guards and carried him into the carriage.

The prime minister's carriage was naturally extraordinary, a four-horse-drawn carriage, the carriage was wide and luxurious, and the guards carefully carried Xia Houjie to the soft couch in the carriage, and then retreated.

After Xiahou Yuanzhi got into the car, he sat down on the opposite side of the soft collapse, staring coldly at Huaiyang Hou with a pair of eyes.

Xia Houjie was lying on the soft couch, not daring to look at his father, but cold sweat was already oozing from his forehead.

"You've walked through the ghost gate." When the carriage began to move forward, Xiahou Yuanzhi said coldly: "If you are not a descendant of the Xiahou family, this head will definitely be cut off." ”

Xia Houjie hurriedly said: "Father, aunt .....!"

"Shut up!" Xiahou Yuanzhi said coldly: "It is a saint in the palace, not your aunt, from now on, if I hear you say a word about my aunt, I will break your legs." ”

Xia Houjie showed a look of fear, but he still said softly: "The child has written it down." Thinking of something, he hurriedly said, "Father, child..... The child can't go to the north, the Taishi family and our Xiahou family have a feud, the eldest brother competed in the school field, and cut off one of the arms of the cousin of Taishi Cunxuan.....!" Seeing Xiahou Yuanzhi's cold expression, he didn't dare to say more, so he changed his words: "The child is going to the north, if it falls into the hands of Taishi Cunqing, Taishi Cunxuan will definitely do everything possible to torture the child." ”

"You can not go." Xiahou Yuanzhi said lightly.

Xiahou Jie showed joy and hurriedly said, "Thank you father, that ......!"

"You don't want to go north, I don't force it." Xiahou Yuanzhi's voice was indifferent: "After returning home, I will personally prepare poisonous wine for you, if you drink the poisonous wine, tomorrow I will show the saint that you are acting nonsense, feeling guilty in your heart, and committing suicide by taking poison, so you don't have to go to the north again." ”

Xiahou Jie was shocked and said, "Father, do you want me to take poison and kill myself?" ”

"If you can save a life, you are already the ancestor of the Xiahou family." Xiahou Yuanzhi sneered: "Actually, I really hope you can die. ”

Xia Houjie was stunned, and there was a trace of fear in his eyes, but more anger.

"Are you hating me in your heart?" Xiahou Yuanzhi said slowly: "I have been doting on your eldest brother all these years, but I am very, very cold to you, your eldest brother is a dragon scale captain, and you are just hanging an idle position in the household department, you naturally think that I don't want to promote you." ”

Xia Houjie couldn't help but say: "The child doesn't dare, but ..... The father did favor the eldest brother. ”

Xiahou Yuanzhi snorted coldly and said: "Fortunately, my choice is not wrong, I have been training your brother for many years, and pinning the future of the Xiahou family on him, if you really put the Xiahou family in your hands, the Xiahou family will definitely be ruined." ”

"I know my father has always looked down on me." Xia Houjie said angrily: "I went to the north this time, and my father can be out of sight and out of mind." ”

"Do you feel wronged?" Xiahou Yuanzhi sneered: "Let me ask you, who taught you the chief officer of the three divisions in tandem and used ordnance to embezzle military spending?" ”

Xiahou Jie was stunned, his eyes were a little evasive, he didn't dare to look at Xiahou Yuanzhi, and said: "It's the child himself who is confused for a while......!" ”

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To this day, you still don't tell the truth? Xiahou Yuanzhi sneered: "Some people use you as a tool to manipulate, and you still don't know how I gave birth to such an idiot as you." A pair of eyes looked at Xiahou Jie coldly, and said in a deep voice: "What are some ulterior motives behind you and Musk Yue, and you haven't really recruited them?" ”

Xia Houjie changed color slightly, and said in a lost voice: "Father, you ..... You know all about it? ”

"What did she trick you into doing?" Xiahou Yuanzhi asked lightly.

Xia Houjie hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Three years ago, she told me that she could use ordnance to make a fuss. She said that the world is peaceful, the ordnance in the armory is stacked there all the year round, and the imperial court has to pull out a large amount of silver every year to forge weapons ......! Timid Shengsheng glanced at Xiahou Yuanzhi, saw Xiahou Yuanzhi staring at him with a pair of eyes, did not dare to conceal it, and continued: "Musk Yue said that as long as the three chief officers can be connected together, they can be shoddy, and save a lot of military expenses from it, and those silver can fall into my pocket." ”

"So you secretly colluded with the chief officer of the three divisions?"

Xiahou Jie snorted lightly and said: "I found them one by one in private, they didn't dare to disobey, and Musk Yue taught me how to operate, I later found those three people together and planned according to what Musk Yue said, and this matter was done.....!" ”

"With your mind, you can't think of such a plan." Xiahou Yuanzhi said calmly: "The freight of greedy ink, has Musk Yue ever taken a tael of silver?" ”

"Nope." Xia Houjie hurriedly said: "She saw that I was always short of silver in my hands, so she helped me think of this method, and it was ..... It's not a bad intention. ”

Xiahou Yuanzhi laughed strangely and said, "My son is really pure-hearted, and he still thinks that woman is kind-hearted. She is in charge of the inner treasury, and Bao Fenglong will have a large amount of silver delivered to her every year, if she really wants to treat you well, why not just give you the silver flowers, why bother to let you go to the idea of the armory? Giving you tens of thousands of taels a year is a drop in the bucket for her. ”

Xia Houjie's lips moved slightly, but he couldn't speak.

"I know you have a bad idea of her." Xiahou Yuanzhi said coldly: "You treat her as a cousin, but she only treats you as a stupid pig." Using the armory to embezzle military spending, she doesn't benefit at all, so why should she help you with advice? You covet her and are fascinated by her beauty, how do you know that she is a real poisonous snake. Raising his hand and stroking his beard, he said indifferently: "He knows that you are stupid, so he planted a disaster on you early, and you became a handle in her hands, just to deal with your father." ”

Xia Houjie was surprised: "She..... She's going to deal with her father? ”

"It's me who is so stupid that I didn't know that you and her had such a thing in private." Xiahou Yuanzhi said lightly: "But since she wants to use this as a handle, she naturally tries her best to hide it from me. Staring at Xia Houjie, he asked, "She taught you to do this, can you get evidence that she instigated it behind her back?" ”

Xia Houjie thought for a moment and shook his head in embarrassment.

"You don't have any evidence that she instigated it, and she'll clean it up." Xiahou Yuanzhi looked at Xiahou Jie, and there was a trace of pity in his eyes: "She is only one year older than you, but you are not as good as a three-year-old child in front of her." ”

Xiahou Jie seemed to come back to his senses at this time, and said angrily: "That slut, she ..... How dare she fool me. ”

"If it weren't for Qin Xiao's sudden revelation this time, who would your cousin be

If you don't have to take advantage of this time at any time, you will definitely catch me off guard. The corners of Xiahou Yuanzhi's eyes twitched slightly: "This time the ordnance case was exposed, but your cousin was caught off guard, and he couldn't come back to his senses immediately, we can take the lead tonight and take the initiative to ask the saint for guilt, if it's a little later, your cousin won't be polite to us." Staring at Xiahou Jie and said, "At that time, not only will your life be lost, but the reputation of my Xiahou family will also be severely damaged." ”

"He's trying to kill me?" Xia Houjie was shocked.

"Your life or death doesn't matter to him, the important thing is that she needs to use you to fight the Xiahou family." Xiahou Yuanzhi was really helpless about Xiahou Jie's hindsight, and asked: "The three principal officials were murdered in Dali Temple, are they also her instructions?" ”

Xiahou Jie glanced at Xiahou Yuanzhi, his heart was empty, and he said honestly: "Musk Yue didn't let me kill people, but the child was worried that the three people would really confess, if they were handed over to the criminal department by Dali Temple, it would be too late to do it again, so the child felt that he had to kill their mouths before they were handed over, and it just so happened that Si Nongfeng of Dali Temple was friendly with the child, so ..... Therefore, the child sent a secret letter to Si Nongfeng, ordering him to kill the three people. ”

"I don't blame you for this." Xiahou Yuanzhi said calmly: "After the incident, you can think of decisively extinguishing your mouth, non-toxic and non-husband, which is also one of your rare strengths." ”

After receiving his father's praise, Xiahou Jie showed a hint of joy, and said as if he was invited: "The secret letter sent by the child to Si Nongfeng has not been paid, so even if he keeps the secret letter in his hand, it cannot prove that I sent someone to send it." ”

"It's okay to kill the three principals, why did you kill Qin Xiao?" Xiahou Yuanzhi's face was ugly.

Xiahou Jie said: "This matter was exposed by Qin Xiao, child...... Naturally, the child could not let him go. The child inquired that after he entered Beijing, he took over the grudge with Tsing Yi Tang, so he ..... So the child wanted to use Tsing Yi Tang to kill him. ”

"Have you been in collusion with Tsing Yi Tang for a long time?" Xiahou Yuanzhi's face became more and more cold.

Xia Houjie stubbornly said, "Yes..... It was Musk Yue who once told me that Jiang Qianxing of Tsing Yi Tang was her person, and if she wanted to do something that was not easy for others to know, she could ask Jiang Qianxing for help. Jiang Qianxing took the initiative to find me a year ago, saying that he wanted to do some small business in Kyoto, as long as he invested 5,000 taels of silver, he could earn 20,000 taels of silver every year..... So he gave him 10,000 taels of silver, and at the end of the year he really gave the child 20,000 taels of silver. ”

"Good business." Xiahou Yuanzhi looked indifferent, and said unscathed: "Why did he bring you for such a good thing?" Tsing Yi Tang is missing your five thousand taels of silver? ”

Xia Houjie hurriedly said: "Father, you ..... You can rest assured, my business with him is a secret deal, no one knows that I am doing business with him, and ..... And the child has always been very wary of him, and has never told him about the Peace Society. The child knew that he was approaching me, probably trying to find out some things about the Taiping Society from me, but the child was tight-lipped and never said a word about everything about the Taiping Society, the child ..... The boy just wanted to get some money from him and ......! ”

"Sharp Mind Faint!" Xiahou Yuanzhi sneered: "The backer behind Tsing Yi Tang is Musk Yue, who lets you get 20,000 taels of silver for nothing every year, do you really think that Musk Yue is as stupid as you?" Set a trap with the intention of getting rid of Qin Xiao, this is Musk Yue's mind, but I borrowed your hand to do it, you still don't understand what's going on? ”