When Si Kouxi arrived outside the nine-story building, he didn't even see a doorkeeper, and the door of the nine-story building was wide open. There is also no one in the door, there is only a counter, there is a copper bell hanging on the table, and there is a small mallet and pen, ink, paper and inkstone that knock on the copper bell, and there are six gaps on the table at the same time, and there are six gaps in front of the gaps, which are written "one, two, three, four" There is a wall behind the counter, and the wall is full of prices for each kind of news, as well as the specific grade classification of the news, and then there are all kinds of small drawers all around with numbers.

Si Kouxi felt novel, looked around and said, "You just do this business, and you don't even have a person to collect debts?" Lan Jing said: "The person who comes only needs to see what kind of news he wants to know, and then he only needs to throw the corresponding money through the rightmost gap, and then put the news he wants to find into the corresponding gap, and ring the copper bell, and then he can wait for a small drawer on the wall to open." We never see anyone in our business in the nine-story building. ”

After saying that, Lan Jing wanted to take Si Kouxi in, but Si Kouxi felt very novel just by listening to Lan Jing, she had to try it herself, he pulled Lan Jing and refused to leave, and asked: "What kind of news does the identity of the palace master of Bihai Palace belong to?" Lan Jing thought for a moment and stretched out four fingers, Xiao Xi thought with satisfaction, she was identity and was actually worth level four. She stretched out her palm to Lan Jing again, and Lan Jing was about to put her hand on it when Si Kouxi slapped her in disgust.

Lan Jing had no choice but to take out the money from his arms, and Si Kouxi didn't even intend to see how much money was in it. Then he picked up the pen and ink on the side and wrote: The identity of the palace master of Bihai Palace was stuffed into the gap where four was written. Then she waited to see which little drawer would be pushed open.

After waiting for a while, a drawer numbered Zero Ninety-Nine was pushed out. Si Kouxi immediately walked over and opened it to take a look. Inside, his money was left untouched, along with two rolled-up notes. Si Kouxi took out the money and the note in confusion, she returned the money to Lan Jing, and muttered: "Why did you return it to me?" Don't have news of Bihai Palace? ”

She opened the note to take a look:

The first one: The palace master of Bihai Palace is a smoke-flowing son, with high force and a sword for the soul, ranking first on the list of masters in our building, and the rest are unknown.

The second one: If the person who came is going to defeat the Smoke Boy, I hope you don't go alone, please bring the regent, the odds are better. There are also coins just now that are exclusively for the royal family, so you dare not collect them, so they are all returned. See Regent, Princess.

After reading these two notes, Xiao Xi laughed directly, I didn't expect that Lan Jing's subordinates were such interesting people! Xiao Xi stretched out the note in front of Lan Jing and shook it, Lan Jing took the note and looked at it, and saw that his subordinates had such a playful side. He crumpled the note into a ball, squeezed it into the palm of his hand, and said, "It should be that the secret guard saw us or you threw the official money in, and people remembered what we were going to do, so they naturally connected together." ”

A secret door opened, and Lan Jing pulled Si Kouxi, who was smiling happily, closer to the secret door. The internal structure of Bihai Palace and the nine-story building is completely different, the Bihai Palace is to take the route of wealth and wealth, and the nine-story building is to take the exquisite and meticulous route, but Si Kouxi feels that the decoration of this nine-story building is like this, and it has also cost a lot of money!

I entered the secret door, and there was a hole in it. The exterior of the nine-story building is decorated like a pawnshop, while the inside is like a library with various books and scrolls inlaid on the walls. Si Kouxi said, "What is this? Lan Jing said, "News from the world." If the nine-story building can have the confidence to become the circulation point of the world's news, then it must have something to support, right? "That's true, the news from all over the world should be remembered.

Si Kouxi has always been walking down the steps, so the nine-story building is not just a little bit on the ground, but even more amazing are hidden underground. There were all busy people inside, and when they saw Lan Jing and Si Kouxi coming in, they just saluted and called the master and wife, and then they went about their jobs. Si Kouxi is extremely admirable for such a person, and he is not surprised by the changes!

In the huge nine-story building, everyone is doing their own job, which makes Si Kouxi feel very good. Lan Jing didn't let Si Kouxi stay longer, but went up directly from another staircase, and the scene of the nine-story building changed again, and the walls by the stairs went all the way up, and there were geographical distribution maps pasted everywhere. The more you walked, the quieter it became, until a door appeared, and Lan Jing pushed open the door to create an empty room with a long table.

Lan Jing asked Si Kouxi to sit on the main seat, and he asked Yinyue to invite some people. Si Kouxi was still very interested in what she had seen and heard along the way, and when Yinyue went to invite someone, she kept grabbing Lan Jing and asking questions, what she was most interested in was who Lan Jing was going to invite next.

The door opened, and an old man with silver hair and Silver Frost walked in, along with a few people that Si Kouxi didn't know. What is certain at a glance is that this old man with silver threads is the eldest of these people, and maybe even Lan Jing will have to respect him a little.

Xiaoxi stood up with Lan Jing's support, and she greeted the old man obediently. This old man was very serious when he walked in, which naturally made Si Kouxi inevitably restrained and well-behaved. But who knew that the old man's movements in the next second would surprise him.

The old man sat casually on the chair closest to Lan Jing, and as soon as he sat down, he lifted his legs and shook them. The rest all looked at Lan Jing and Si Kouxi in embarrassment, and Si Kouxi looked surprised. At first, I thought it was an old-fashioned boy, but I didn't expect it to be an old naughty boy. When he saw that everyone was not sitting down, he stared at him and said, "Sit down, why are you all standing!" Even if you respect the old and love the young, I have already sat down, so sit down! ”

Yinshuang felt that Xu Lao's behavior at this time was a little inappropriate, and quietly said: "Xu Lao, in the end, the princess is here for the first time, you should also pay a little attention to your image!" When Xu Lao heard this, he seemed to be unhappy and said: "What to pay attention to, I am the same as her father Si Kouzhan, I don't need to pay attention to the image." "Silver Frost was going to say something. Xiao Xi spoke out first and said, "It's okay, everyone sit down." ”

Xiao Xi was very interested in that Xu Lao, he actually knew his father. After Xiaoxi sat down, he asked the old man with a smile: "Old Xu, do you want to introduce yourself, I don't know you yet!" When the old man heard this, he sat up straight and said, "You don't know me?" Xiao Xi nodded blankly, thinking to herself that she needed to know him?

Xu Lao said with disgust: "Your father, that old guy, I am the same batch of candidates as him, and I have been classmates for many years, I want to take care of him so much, but he didn't even introduce me to his daughter!" This sentence is a bit informative, and Xiao Xi couldn't react for a while. Yinshuang said disgustedly, "You're embarrassed too." You were originally a literature candidate, and General Si Kou was a martial arts candidate. One with a pen and the other with a sword, why are you two classmates! ”

Xu Lao was not convinced, and said to Lan Jing: "Boy, you say, Si Kouzhan and I are not candidates at the same time, and you say that we are not classmates!" Lan Jing didn't intend to pay attention to the old man, but said to Xiao Xi: "Xi'er, this is Mr. Xu, in the early years, he participated in the first civil and military examination held by my father at the same time as your father. He is the top of the literary exam, and your father is the top of the martial exam. Now he is in charge of the information management of the nine-story building. "

Xu Lao patted Lan Jing and said, "Don't call me old man, I don't like it, why don't you remember?" Little girl, let me tell you, it's good if you call me Xu Bangshou! Xiao Xi muttered "Xu Bangshou" twice in her mouth, she felt that this name was not as good as Xu Lao, why did he like this name?

Yinshuang saw the princess's helplessness on the side, and immediately said, "Princess, don't care, he is like this." What he is most proud of is that although he won the title of top of the list, he stubbornly did not go to the palace to be an official. He has always been proud of this matter! But we really don't know what to be proud of. ”

Xiao Xi thought that Yinshuang didn't say that the old man was very good, so she tried her best to make a round, and said seriously: "Old Xu must be proud that he is not confused by fame and fortune, right?" Xu Lao looked more serious and said, "No! When Xiaoxi heard this, she almost didn't bite off her tongue, she felt that she shouldn't ask, how good it was to pretend to be stupid!

Xu Lao: "I'm just proud that I'm better than your father, think about your father who was the top of the list at the beginning, and then obediently went to be an official, and then climbed up a little bit, tired to death." Lan Jing sat on the side and couldn't help but scold him: "Then General Si Kou is already a famous general of Tengxiao Country, what about you?" ”

Xiao Xi felt that Lan Jing's unkind words were not good, so she quietly pulled Lan Jing's sleeve, and Lan Jing noticed it and didn't say anything more. But if he doesn't say it, it doesn't mean that others won't say it, and Yinyue started again: "He." In the end, I didn't go to be an official, but then I couldn't be an official anymore, so I came to the nine-story building and became a clerk. It really deserves to be the top of the literary exam, and you should deal with words for a lifetime! ”

What's the situation, didn't you say that you didn't become an official, why did you go again now? Xiaoxi was curious, but she didn't want to ask, so as not to repeat the previous embarrassment. Yinshuang smiled: "Isn't it, wasn't it driven to the court by Old Madam Xu in the end?" I haven't seen how chic you are. ”

In the back and forth of their words, Xiao Xi knew. Xu Promise turned out to be a filial son, and when her mother learned that her son was so arrogant that he refused to be an official, she beat and scolded him. promised to be beaten since he was a child, but his mother was old after all, and she couldn't compare to that year. He gave in and ran to become an official, felt the ups and downs of officialdom for several years, and always felt that he was not the material to do this, so he resigned decisively and left.

The former emperor still vigorously retained it, but he never kept it. Lan Jing later invited him out of the mountain to manage the thousands of news of the nine-story building for himself, anyway, I don't know what kind of tricks Lan Jing played, and even the official hat said that he would lose it, but he stayed in this nine-story building for several years.

Xu Lao couldn't listen to them continue to ridicule himself, and said as a scoundrel: "Oh, what the hell are you here for, aren't you here to make fun of me!" Lan Jing cleared his throat, looked at everyone sitting at the table and said, "I plan to hand over the nine-story building to Lan Qiong to take care of, I don't know what you think?" ”

The crowd, who had been lively just now, fell silent all of a sudden. Lan Jing's words were like a stone thrown into the sea, causing ripples. In the end, it was Yinshuang who spoke: "Master." Could it be because we didn't protect the princess a few months ago, so we ······"

Yinyue immediately interrupted Yinshuang's words, and said in a cold voice: "Yinshuang, the prince doesn't mean this, you think twice!" Lan Jing also looked at Yinshuang coldly, and Yinshuang realized that she was speechless, and silently lowered her head. Xiaoxi thinks that maybe there are still many people who think so in their hearts. How could he accidentally become an existence similar to a demon girl, making them think that the prince was because he gave up the throne, and even the nine-story building.

But the truth seems to be the same, but she only admitted that she let the prince give up the throne, but she also gave up the nine-story building in disguise. It seems that there is a reason for it, but it doesn't mean that she wants to wear this hat, she glanced at Silver Frost but didn't say anything. She actually wanted to hear what other people thought.

Xu Lao, who has always been in the form of an old naughty boy, is the most generous one at this time. He still said lazily: "It's okay for the nine-story building to give Lan Qiong, after all, the purpose of the nine-story building was to assist the emperor, although you are still the regent at this time, but you are not the emperor in the end." You can only assist the emperor, and some things are not easy to pass the emperor and ask us to do them. After all, the investigation of some things should still be known to the emperor himself. It's okay, isn't it just to give the nine-story building to Lan Qiong, I support you, and I'll persuade the rest of the old men! ”

Xiao Xi rarely felt that this old man was a person who understood right and wrong, and she smiled and said, "Elder Xu is right. As the saying goes, brothers settle accounts, especially brothers in the royal family. As a regent, it is not good to know too many secrets and handles of ministers. In this way, there are many things that Lan Jing can't hand over to the Nine-Story Building. Lan Jing has always held the nine-story building in his hands, and he has lost the meaning of the existence of the nine-story building. ”

Xu Lao nodded in agreement, it is indeed so. In the final analysis, Jiushulou is to assist the emperor, as long as it is a virtuous monarch, it doesn't matter what the name is.

But having said that, it should be difficult for everyone to accept the change of master for a while, and Yinshuang is not a good example. was originally a calm and loyal person, but when he heard that his master was going to give up the nine-story building, he was so excited that he said the wrong thing. But no matter how difficult it is, you need to accept it, Lan Jing looked at the people at the table and said, "Are there any objections?" If not, let me know, and I'll go out and meet you later. ”

Xu Lao and Yinshuang Yinyue didn't speak, is it still the turn of others to speak? Xu Lao quickly went out, Yinyue also followed, and Yinshuang took one last look at Lan Jing and Si Kouxi before going out. The rest of the talent went out one after another. Si Kouxi covered his mouth and snickered as soon as they left, Lan Jing didn't think the atmosphere just now was funny.

Xiao Xi looked at Lan Jing's bitter and bitter appearance and said, "Have you noticed that Yinshuang completely sees me as a demon concubine, and he thinks that what you are doing now is confused by me." Tut-tut! I didn't expect that I would have such a day. When I used to be in Bihai Palace, I dressed as a man, and I called the palace master of Bihai Palace a young son, just to prevent everyone from criticizing me because I was a woman, but now I am being said after becoming your princess. It's funny. ”

Lan Jing didn't know if the answer was really funny at this time, or did she be wronged? Because she did look quite happy.