Lu Lao stroked his beard, pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "If you really want to give an explanation to your dead guards, but you won't let the behemoth of the Shen family do all your best to deal with you, you can only take a compromise approach." ”

"What's the solution?" Cao Yi asked anxiously.

Lu Lao glanced at Cao Yi and said slowly: "Because the key person is Shen Yan, so let's see, can you find an opportunity to ask Shen Yan out alone, he is a person who is not brave enough, not knowledgeable enough, and the pattern is not high, you will use the letter he wrote to scare him again, let him admit this fact, and promise to make you a relatively large compensation, and will not fight against you again in the future!" ”

"It seems like that's all there is to it." Cao Yi said unwillingly.

"Then there is no other way, but when you and Shen Yan meet in private, it is best to find someone else to witness, and then this person's words still have some weight, otherwise Shen Yan will not admit or falsely accuse you at that time, saying that you violently coerced him, so that he must not first pretend to admit that he did these things, and then be forced to agree to your compensation demands...... "Lu Lao added.

Cao Yi nodded, it is not wrong to think about everything to the worst first, as for who to find to witness, he already has a candidate in his heart, and the most suitable person is Yang Xingwen. is an official himself, but he is not under the Jiangning government system, and he is the son of Yang Zhifu, his identity and background are sufficient, and his speech in Jiangning City is still very weighty.

After talking, Cao Yi stayed in Lu Mansion in the afternoon, and drank well with Lu Lao in the evening, Lu Lao's children are older, they all have their own families, and the two sons are also on the ruling side, and they did not come to reunite during the Spring Festival this year, originally Lu Mansion was still a little deserted, and now with Cao Yi, the younger generation, Lu Lao, Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang are naturally very happy, and they are happy at the banquet, during the banquet, Mrs. Qin still muttered that she wanted to give Cao Yi New Year's money, but Cao Yi refused, according to ancient sayings, Cao Yi is actually an adult, How could he still accept this red envelope, after eating and drinking, Cao Yi stayed and drank two cups of tea ordered by Ya Niang before going back.

"Official, I finally know today why you keep praising Cao Yi, this kid is indeed a genius in a million, congratulations to the official for accepting a good protégé!" After Cao Yi said goodbye and left, Mrs. Qin said with a smile to Lu Laoyan.

"Yes, yes, when I was young, I thought I had seen a lot of amazing talents, but I really haven't seen someone like Cao Yi, writing lyrics is as easy as drinking water, in such a short period of time, the three lyrics are all created on the spot on the topic that the official just said, the key is that each word can be called a good word with excellent quality, and it really deserves to be the first talent in Jiangning."

"Hehe, when I first saw him, he was wandering around the street with a maid and a guard, at first I thought he was just a gentleman, and then one of my chess friends had something to do at home, and left halfway, and Cao Yi was sitting next to him drinking tea, I casually asked him if he wanted to play a game, but I didn't expect his chess skills to be much higher than me......" Lu Lao shook his head and smiled.

"Oh? And such things

, how come I have never seen an official mention it. Ya Niang covered her mouth and smiled.

"I just met at the beginning, and Cao Yi's chess path was very weird at that time, from the chess style, it seems that he is acting very extremely, unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, and he must compare, he would rather be miserable than refuse to let the slightest thing, at that time I was still thinking about how to preach, but the kid guided me in turn......"

"In this way, I really want to know how Cao Yi replied to the official in the first place."

"Huh...... He said, 'One move is not enough to see wisdom,'......," Lu Lao recalled.

"Haha, from now on, it's really the official who looked like he was at the beginning," Mrs. Qin said with a smile.

"Yes, who would have known that the little hairy boy who looked like a gentleman and walked around with maids and guards at first glance would be the number one talent in Jiangning now. Now it seems that he just lives according to his own heart, not too rigid in the rules and regulations of the world and some existing social rules, and does live his own way, not bound by all kinds of stereotypes, and unwilling to bend his waist for five buckets of rice, I don't know what Cao Xiangxiang and Mrs. Han will think after they know that Cao Yi is not willing to take the road of official career at all? ”

"I heard that the one in Cao Fu and the capital was married at that time, but unfortunately the first few parties were sons, and when the only daughter of the Cao family was born, there was no son of the right age to marry, so the daughter of the Cao family married Zhao Xiang's grandson, and now the one in the capital is finally old and has a daughter, and only Cao Yi is just the right age and not married, so this time it should always be matched. I don't know if Cao Yi knows that he still has a fiancée waiting for him in the capital, hahaha, I don't think I know it yet, otherwise he wouldn't have redeemed himself for Jiangning's No. 1 Oiran Yu Youwei in such a high-profile manner......" After Mrs. Qin finished speaking, she and Lu Lao looked at each other and smiled, both with a smile that they were about to see their juniors embarrassed.

Cao Yi, who was on the way home on the other side, obviously didn't know that after he left, Lu Lao, Mrs. Qin and Ya Niang were talking about him, and they didn't know that because he also had a fiancée in the capital, the three of them were waiting to see him laugh. After Cao Yi returned home, he had a temporary solution to the matter for the time being, and he did drink a lot of wine at night, and he fell asleep after returning to his room.

At midnight the next day, Cao Yi rushed to Yang Gong's house to pay New Year's greetings, which was sent yesterday to confirm the time and made an appointment in advance. I only gave gifts a few years ago, and today Cao Yi didn't bring anything else, so he brought the main things in the Drunken Immortal Building, Qinglian wine, rich eggs and potpourri soap, which were the same as yesterday's when I brought them to Lu Mansion.

Because it was a luncheon at Gong Yang's house, and there was still a long time in the afternoon, it was not good to get drunk during the day, so the three of them just drank and didn't drink too much. Although Cao Yi is a junior and Yang Gong is an elder, there is Yang Xingwen, a peer, who is obliquely intervening during the banquet, and the relationship between Yang Gong and his son is still very talkative, some talk and laugh, so the atmosphere of the luncheon is also very good, Cao Yi did not discuss the matter of Shen Yan and the bandits of Soul Mountain during the banquet so as not to destroy it.

When everyone finished lunch, they moved to the courtyard to bask in the sun, which was also very comfortable

Comfortable, because I had just finished eating, I didn't arrange for the maid to order tea, so the three of them sat in the courtyard and chatted and basked in the sun.

"Virtuous nephew, you told me a few years ago that you were going to encircle and suppress the bandits in Soul Mountain, is there any progress?" was chatting, Yang Gong suddenly asked.

"Yang Gong, I came here today to report this matter to you." Cao Yi restrained his smile and replied seriously.

"Oh? In this case, the matter has already come to an end, how? What else is there to be surprised about this? Yang Gong also asked seriously.

"Huh? Father, Brother Yi, what are you talking about, what bandits from Soul Mountain? Why did Brother Yi go to encircle and suppress, and the government didn't send troops? Yang Xingwen asked in surprise, he hadn't come back before about the bandits in Soul Mountain, so he didn't know about it.

So Cao Yi told Yang Xingwen what he had talked about with Yang Gong before.

"So what's going on now, the Soul Mountain bandits have been done?" Yang Xingwen asked with excitement, although he was a civilian official, he was still full of interest in marching and fighting.

"It's done, but now I don't know how to hand over the robbers to the government, because it also involves Shen Yan's handling, I haven't made a decision yet, I have to discuss it with Yang Gong." Cao Yi said with a smile, and then handed the two letters in his arms to Yang Gong, "Yang Gong, you take a look at these two letters first!" ”

"Sure enough, it was Shen Yan who was behind this matter, have you thought about how to deal with it in your heart?" Although Yang Gong was angry, his emotions were well controlled, and he was not as violent as Lu Lao, after all, Cao Yi had already informed him before, and Shen Yan had a great possibility that the bandits would attack the convoy of Drunken Immortal Tower, but there was no evidence at the time, and now the evidence has finally been found.

"Yesterday, I actually got angry with Lu Lao, and also consulted him about this matter, I and Lu Lao both felt that although these two letters were signed by Shen Yan and the seal was also Shen Yan's, the Shen family could have pushed these two letters to their family's family, just say that the family wrote them in the name of Shen Yan, and the seal was also stolen and stamped by himself, which was a personal act of the family and had nothing to do with the Shen family, so that Shen Yan could be completely removed from this matter......"

"What do you mean?" Yang Xingwen asked.

"I naturally want to report to the official truthfully in my heart, but I am afraid that my current business power at this stage will not be able to withstand the next revenge of the Shen family, and now Zuixianlou and Taibai Chamber of Commerce are in their infancy, and they can't help their Shen family's financial resources, so I thought about spending time with Brother Xingwen in the afternoon, and then make an appointment with that Shen Yan alone, scare him with these two letters, and let him privately promise some conditions and compensation, and then Brother Xingwen will come forward as the intermediate witness, he promised to compensate me for something, and promised not to be against me in the future, Then I will return these two letters to him, and I will not accuse him again!" ”

"That's a good idea, and it seems like that's all it needs for now." Yang Gong thought for a while and said slowly.

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