Cao Miao stared at Zhong Tai and didn't speak for a long time.

He didn't expect it to be this scene, Zhong Tai didn't resist at all, and just lay down and was hammered.

"Looks like you're ready to die." Cao Miao coughed dryly and resumed her ruthless personality.

"Even though I'm stupid, I still have this self-knowledge. Now that the virtuous father and son have arrived in the capital, and the prince has come to the door again, I naturally have only one way to die. As for how the others fight, who wins and who loses, who lives and who dies, it has nothing to do with me anymore. ”

"I heard that you bought Shu brocade, do you want to go to the Hussar General's Mansion to ask for relatives? Do you want to find a hussar general as a backer? ”

Zhong Tai nodded. "Asking for relatives is just in case, if these Shu brocades can make me a guest of the Hussar General's Mansion, it will be considered an unexpected joy." He paused, looked up at Cao Miao, and laughed at himself: "Compared with the prince and Xun Ziyang (Xun Fei), how can I have such an honor." ”

Cao Miao didn't understand for a while, what does Sima Yi's daughter have to do with me, and who is Xun Ziyang? But he didn't ask, that wasn't the point of his focus. "Who instructed you to spread rumors, and what is the reward?"

"Naturally, someone instructed him, but if the prince wants to get his name and identity, he is afraid that he will be disappointed."

"Are you going to carry it yourself?" Cao Miao sneered. "Can you afford it?"

Zhong Tai shook his head, his expression bitter. "The prince is lifted, I don't have that kind of dignity. It's just that I don't know who the commander is, and even if I want to ask the prince to avoid death, I don't have such a bargaining chip. ”

Cao Miao's eyes narrowed. Sure enough, Zhong Tai is just a pawn on the stage, and the real masterminds are hidden behind the scenes, without revealing a clue.

Without waiting for Cao Miao to ask, Zhong Tai took the initiative to explain what happened. At the beginning of this year, on the tenth day of the first lunar month, someone approached him and asked him to spread a rumor during the Son of Heaven's departure from Luoyang, saying that the Son of Heaven had died in Chang'an, and the ministers planned to support King Yongqiu to succeed him. At that time, although he knew that Zhuge Liang was invading the border, he didn't know that the Son of Heaven wanted Chang'an in the west, and he felt that it was impossible to say that this kind of statement was simple, so he agreed.

Shu brocade is rare, and he urgently needs some handy gifts for his boss. Taichang Han Ji has a seventieth birthday this year, and all officials have to go to pay their respects, and the guests are like clouds, and the gifts are too light, so they don't even have the opportunity to show up, so they can only sit at the next table with ordinary guests.

"Wait." Cao Miao interrupted Zhong Tai. "What is Han Ji's birthday?"

"It seems that the first day is May or June, but he did it in advance, the eighteenth day of the first month."

"When was it notified?" Seeing Zhong Tai's puzzled expression, Cao Miao said again: "What day did you know that Han Ji was going to celebrate his birthday on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, and you wanted to prepare a generous gift?" ”

"The sixth day of the first month." Zhong Tai thought for a while, and then said: "But it is the eighth day of the first month to prepare a generous gift, and I have just been promoted to the rank of lieutenant of the assistant law on that day. Originally, I was just a co-ordinator, so I didn't need to pay such a heavy gift, just a few hundred dollars. ”

"How many years have you been a co-ordinator?"

"Five years."

"To be a co-arger for five years, to be promoted to the rank of co-ordinator, fast or slow?"

Zhong Tai smiled bitterly. "It's hard to say. Xielulang is a clear position, and many times it is a transition, and there are few people who really know the rhythm of music. Some were transferred to other positions after a few months, and some were even old for more than ten years. ”

"What about you?"

Jong Tae bit his lip and was silent for a long time. "I knew it was a bait, but I couldn't refuse it. I've been a co-eruron for five years, and if I don't seize this opportunity, I may not even be able to keep it. He took out a handkerchief, wiped the corners of his eyes, and swallowed: "I carried the hope of my parents, and came to Luoyang in high spirits, not wanting to struggle for five years, achieving nothing, and being stigmatized and exempted, disgraced my ancestors." ”

"So you accepted those Shu brocades?"

"Although the price of thirty horses of Shu brocade is limited, Shu brocade is rare, and it is barely a generous gift. Moreover, my brother-in-law is an official in Xincheng, and he is familiar with the route of Shu brocade entry, and he can usually seize some Shu brocade, even if someone checks it, it is only a crime of stolen goods at most, and it will not be linked to collaborating with the enemy. ”

Zhong Tai glanced at Cao Miao ashamedly. "Of course, there is a big reason why I took this commission is that King Zun Yongqiu is not trusted by the imperial court, and even if he is wronged, he can only swallow his anger. I knew that there was today, and I would rather lose my official position than accept it. One misstep becomes a thousand years of hatred, and I take the blame for myself, and I can't complain about it. I only ask the prince to return those Shu brocades to me, so that I can return them, so that my sister will not be in debt for me. ”

Cao Miao ignored him, now is not the time to be soft-hearted. "Do you still have those Shu brocades you received?"

Zhong Tai shook his head. "There are thirty horses in total, and all of them have been given away."

Cao Miao smacked her lips. "I don't believe it."

"The prince can send someone to search for it." Jong Tae has given up resistance. "I only have this place to live in Luoyang, and there is no other place."

"I'll ask the school to search, including your sister's house next door."

Zhong Tai gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement.

Cao Miao squinted her eyes and looked at Zhong Tai intently, carving all his expressions and subtle movements in her mind. "One more thing, what kind of person you are contacting and what is the voice, tell me as much information as you know, the more detailed the better. If I can find that person, I don't care if the court can't trouble you, at least I can spare you death. ”

"Thank you, prince, for your leniency." Zhong Tai thought for a moment. The man was so masked that he couldn't see his face clearly. A little taller than me, on the thin side, with a thin voice, I can't tell the difference between men and women, I don't know if it's the way it is, or if I deliberately pinch my throat, in short, the tone is a little weird. I don't know what it's called, but I occasionally hear people call him Yin Jun, whether it is the Yin of Yin and Yang, or the Yin of Yin Shang, I don't know very well. ”

Cao Miao is even bigger. There's so little information that you can't check it at all. "What about walking?"

"Walks steadily."

"Learn it."

Zhong Tai stood up and took a few steps back and forth in the hall. As he said, the step generation is very steady, every step is very standard, it should be trained, maybe it is deliberate at all, ordinary people do not walk like this.

Finding nothing, Cao Miao was inexplicably anxious, and was not in the mood to talk to Zhong Tai anymore, so she got up and went down the hall.

Zhong Tae was trying to imitate the imitation of the man's walking, and when he saw Cao Miao suddenly have a seizure, he brushed his sleeves away, and he didn't know what to do for a while. By the time he reacted, Cao Miao's figure had disappeared outside the courtyard gate. He stood in the hall in a daze, his strength gradually drained, his mind went blank, and his legs were a little weak. He shook his way, struggled back to his seat, and straightened his clothes.

Yin Mo broke in with a few school affairs, glanced at Zhong Tai, took out his waist card and shook it. "Yin Mo, the captain of the school, received a report from the eldest prince of Yongqiu, and Zhong Tai, the lieutenant of the co-ordination, was suspected of communicating with the enemy country, rumors and disrupting the government, and searched according to the law."

Zhong Tai bowed slightly.

Yin Mo waved his hand, and several school officials rushed into the bedroom like wolves.