Cao Yi looked at Chu Mingxuan's cowardice, and complained in his heart: "It is said that a person's level depends on what kind of opponent he has, and why my opponent is all these cowardices." ”

"Chu Mingxuan, you said that if I hand over this 'evidence' to the government, what will happen to you?" Cao Yi smiled at Chu Mingxuan.

The latter's face changed, with a look of fear on his face, "No! Don't, Gongzi Cao! ”

Cao Yi seemed to have heard a big joke, first let out a hearty laugh, and then looked at Chu Mingxuan and smiled again, but his face was full of mockery: "Chu Mingxuan, you spent 30,000 taels of silver to buy a murderer to deal with me, and even asked for my corpse, how do you say I will deal with you?" ”

"Don't ...... Don't, Master Cao, don't sue me! Chu Mingxuan clasped his hands together and kept pleading with Cao Yi.

"As long as I give this evidence to the government, I think Chu Mingxuan will be deprived of your talent status, right? And in the future, I will never be able to participate in the scientific examination, and I will forever lose the opportunity to become an official, right? Cao Yi looked at Chu Mingxuan, with a playful smile on his face, and said slowly.

"And before you went back on your word, you ran away directly after losing the competition, it is said that you knelt in front of your teacher's door for a day and a night before finally asking your master to withdraw the punishment of expelling you from the teacher's door, you said that if you were taken into custody and sentenced by the government because of this matter, and then your master knew about it, would he still recognize you as a disciple?"

Cao Yi's words have always put pressure and burden on Chu Mingxuan, but Chu Mingxuan's psychological tolerance is too weak, Cao Yi still has several questions to ask, Chu Mingxuan has been so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, and begged Cao Yi: "Cao Gongzi, Cao Gongzi, please, please don't do that, I will do whatever you ask me to do, I will listen to you, I will never think about revenge on you in the future, absolutely not!" ”

After speaking, Chu Mingxuan was already crying bitterly, crying while begging.

Cao Yi looked at Chu Mingxuan, a good man, and knelt in front of him sternly at this time, he felt a little disgusted when he looked at it, and he was also in the mood to suppress and teach Chu Mingxuan a lesson, and said: "Chu Mingxuan, you get up first and clean up your face, it's really unbearable to look at now...... It's not impossible for me not to hand this over to the government and sue you. ”

Hearing this, Chu Mingxuan quickly stood up, wiped his face with his sleeve, looked at Cao Yi with sincere fear, and said flatteringly: "Master Cao, you quickly say, how can you not sue the official, no matter what, I promise you!" After finishing speaking, Chu Mingxuan looked at Cao Yi with a nervous expression.

"Promise me no matter what?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I promise you, I can give the 30,000 taels to you, I still have half of the amount not given to Ximen Ba, I will send it to Gongzi Cao after I go back......" Chu Mingxuan said excitedly as if he had found a life-saving straw.

Cao Yi shook his head and said disdainfully: "You should keep your money for yourself, I don't look down on it at all." ”

"Huh?" Chu Mingxuan's eyes widened, and he looked at Cao Yi in disbelief, if he couldn't even look at money, then how could Cao Yi let him go.

"I don't want your money, and I don't want you to make me a cow or a horse, don't come to me if you're okay in the future......," Cao Yi looked at Chu Mingxuan and said slowly,

"No, no, I don't dare to trouble Cao Gongzi anymore, I don't dare anymore!" Chu Mingxuan hurriedly spoke.

"Listen to me first, don't always interject!" Cao Yi glanced at Chu Mingxuan and said coldly.

Chu Mingxuan was so frightened that he didn't dare to move at all, maintaining the posture just now, and looking at Cao Yi in horror.

"In short, when I'm not looking for you, don't take the initiative to find me, you just need to do something, slowly collect some evidence from your teacher and Guo Chao, whether it's corruption or bribery, as long as you can find the evidence, and slowly collect it, and then find a chance to pass it on to me, I say so, do you understand?" Cao Yi asked at Chu Mingxuan.

"Are you...... Let me...... Let me betray my master? Chu Mingxuan looked at Cao Yi and asked suspiciously.

Cao Yi shook his head disdainfully: "It's not for you to betray your master, it's just for you to use your master's identity to collect Guo Chao's illegal things, and your master is just incidental." ”

Cao Yiqian looked at Chu Mingxuan with slanted eyes, and said, "What! You don't want to? Do you want to be imprisoned and disqualified from the fame exam than to do it? ”

"Nope! No! No, I do, I do, I'll do whatever you tell me to do! Chu Mingxuan hurriedly spoke.

"That's it! You have to remember that this evidence is on me, so you can be honest with me, and don't even think about dealing with me! ”

"Nope! No! No! I would never dare! Chu Mingxuan immediately replied.

"Okay, don't expose yourself when you go back, you can collect some bad evidence from Guo Chao by your master's side, if you can't collect it, hehe, think about it yourself." Cao Yi stood up, walked to Chu Mingxuan's side, patted the latter's shoulder, and said lightly, then walked out of the private seat and left directly with Liu Baiqing at the door.

Chu Mingxuan was still stunned in the private seat, and after a while, Chu Mingxuan came back to his senses and left with a worried face, but after walking out of the restaurant, he was chased by the shopkeeper and grabbed his shoulder and said, "What?" In our restaurant, do you still dare to eat overlord meals? ”

When Chu Mingxuan turned his body to look at the shopkeeper, the latter suddenly spoke: "It turned out to be Chu Mingxuan Chu Dacai, what's the matter?" Young Master Chu, didn't you bring silver taels? If you don't bring it, then make up for it next time. ”

"No, no, no, you recognized the wrong person, I'm not Chu Mingxuan!" Chu Mingxuan threw a piece of broken silver of about three taels into the hands of the shopkeeper, and then left quickly without saying a word, Chu Mingxuan was afraid that the shopkeeper would really recognize him, and he was afraid that he and Cao Yi would meet in this restaurant today, after all, he would collect some evidence of Guo Chao's guilt for Cao Yi in the future.

So out of his own inner thoughts, he always felt that he couldn't leak the fact that he and Cao Yi had met here, so he quickly denied it, and then left directly.

The shopkeeper looked at Chu Mingxuan's energetic back, weighed the silver taels in his hand, and showed a smile on his face: "I also said that I am not Chu Mingxuan, I am so arrogant, I just drank tea and ordered a few dishes, and I didn't even have wine. ”

Half an hour later, Cao Yi and Liu Baiqing casually found a restaurant outside to eat lunch, and then returned to Zuixian Building, because at this time, Zuixian Building had not yet begun to open, so the dishes prepared by the back kitchen were only meals similar to the big pot rice in the canteen of later generations, which were provided to the people who trained and prepared for the opening of the Zuixian Building, and the taste was naturally not very good, so Cao Yi chose to eat outside.

When Cao Yi and the others rushed to the Drunken Immortal Building, they were told by the red sleeves that there was a flying pigeon from Yangzhou, and Cao Yi hurriedly didn't care about greeting others after hearing it, and went straight to the elegant seat reserved for him upstairs, just like the Drunken Immortal Building in Jiangning, it became Cao Yi's exclusive "study".

Cao Yi pushed the door and walked in, and sure enough, there was already a small bamboo pipe on the table, Cao Yi opened it and looked at it, at this time Liu Baiqing had already followed, because it was related to the latest situation of Yunqing over there in Xicheng, so Liu Baiqing, who was the deputy commander of the Taibai secret camp, naturally had to know about it as soon as possible.

"What did the Cloud Commander say?"

"We need to send thirty to fifty more people to support them!" Cao Yi took his gaze away from the paper, raised his head and looked at Liu Baiqing and said.

"So much? Is the situation already dire? Liu Baiqing asked with concern.

Cao Yi shook his head and handed the note to Liu Baiqing: "You'll know if you read it." ”

After a while, Liu Baiqing raised his head and asked, "Childe, in its current form...... Is it to send part of the manpower from Yangzhou here, or from Jiangning......"

"It's definitely too late to pass from Jiangning, so let's take fifty secret guards from your side first, so that there are still thirty secret guards at the beginning here in Yangzhou, and now I have completely solved Chu Mingxuan's hidden dangers, and whether it is the Cao Gang or the Yan Gang, they all cooperate with our Taibai Chamber of Commerce, so there is no problem with my safety in the next period of time."

"But......" Liu Baiqing said, but he was interrupted by Cao Yi before he could finish his words.

"It's nothing, what kind of benefits can we get from the Cao Gang next, Mu Hong's existence is very important, so we must keep him safe in Yangzhou, you prepare here, and quickly bring good people over."

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