Xi Yuanxiu, who slipped back from Xinghuayuan, seemed to see himself tamed by Xu Lai in the morning the moment he first entered the yamen.

A face full of horror, kissing tightly with the fertile land in the eastern part of Jingguo.

His hands were tied with ropes, tied behind him, his legs were also tightly entangled, and the whole person was tied to the stone table by a rope, which was naturally Master Liu who had not returned all night.

Xi Yuanxiu looked left and right in the courtyard and didn't see Xu Lai, so he took the money he earned from telling the book just now, walked in front of Liu Xiao gloatingly, and patted his buttocks.

Then he asked proudly, "My poor master, where is the brother who tied you up?" ”

Liu Xiao reluctantly lifted his face on the ground a little, and said to Xi Yuanxiu, who was full of smiles: "That grandson has gone to the backyard, you quickly let the one who suffered a thousand knives come over and untie it for me, my body can't bear it for a while!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu saw Liu Xiao's red face, which was still white, and it seemed that the situation was really average, so he started to untie the rope, but the person still didn't move, and it turned out that Xu Lai had also stopped the acupoint.

Xi Yuanxiu shouted towards the backyard: "I said Xu Daxia, if you don't come to untie him again, my master will be like a pig!" ”

Xu Lai walked out of the backyard unhurriedly, and gently touched Liu Xiao's body with his fingers, Liu Xiao's whole person was like a balloon that had been deflated, and his straight posture directly turned into a soft stomach, and he didn't hesitate to buy his newly bought clothes, and lay directly on the ground.

Xi Yuanxiu, who was holding his stomach and laughing, signaled to Xu Lai that it was okay, Xu Lai glanced at Liu Xiao with a little meaning, and Liu Xiao covered his face tightly.

Xu Lai was like a master, he didn't care about the two of them anymore, and went back to the backyard to practice his sword.

Liu Xiao relieved himself, got up on the ground, sat on the stone bench, took a few breaths, and asked Xi Yuanxiu: "Where did this big brother come from, he tied me up when he came up?" ”

It turned out that not long after Xi Yuanxiu went out, Liu Xiao came back, he heard movement in the backyard, and thought that Xi Yuanxiu was scolding himself against the tree in the back, but when he saw Xu Lai, he thought he was a thief.

He took a stick and tried to give the thief a surprise attack in the back, but the stick was cut off, and then the person was directly pointed, tied up like a pig to be slaughtered, and thrown into the main courtyard.

"The man I mentioned to you before, now that he's here, our plans are ahead of schedule!"

Xi Yuanxiu said as he played with the rope he had just taken off Liu Xiao's body.

"I said what is good about you, although these three grandsons are quite high in martial arts!" Liu Xiao deliberately kept his voice to the lowest when he spoke, and looked in the direction of the backyard.

confirmed that Xu Lai didn't hear it, then took a breath and continued: "Just the three of us, although I am determined to follow you, I don't want to die in vain!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu had already tied the rope into a sailor's knot that only an old fisherman would have when Liu Xiao spoke, and looking at the rope in his hand, his face showed a rare melancholy.

After all, what he wants to do can be called difficult to go to the sky, in Chang'an City, and even in the entire Jingguo, how many righteous people died and how much blood was shed, but what is the use?

His Majesty the Emperor was still so sure that he had done nothing wrong, and now just the three of them could make such waves in Chang'an City!

However, the stunned look on Xi Yuanxiu's face was quickly swept away, he looked up at Liu Xiao, and said seriously: "No, it's not just the three of us, we have a lot of people, many, many, because there are many people who want justice!" ”

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Finally, after Liu Xiao successfully messed up the kitchen for the third time, Xi Yuanxiu, who was too tired with his mouth, gave up the idea of eating at home.

He saw that Xu Lai, who only cared about sword practice, and Liu Xiao, who was grizzled, had no intention of going out, so he went back to the room and changed his pink clothes.

After going back and forth, it was already close to dusk, and Xi Yuanxiu had to go out alone for the sake of his stomach.

Turning around, Xi Yuanxiu, who had already turned to dark, still felt that the noodle stall in the south of the city had the right appetite.

After Xi Yuanxiu sat down, he asked for a bowl of noodles, added a few pieces of meat to the noodles, and poured two taels of loose wine to reward himself after a busy day.

The two people on the table next to him couldn't help but attract his attention, the posture of the man in the moon-white brocade clothes eating was reminiscent of the old-fashioned old gentleman who taught in a private school, sitting upright, constricting the lower abdomen, holding the chopsticks of the noodles, sending them to the mouth, chewing, until the next bite, without a trace of superfluous movement.

After so many years, it hasn't changed, Xi Yuanxiu thought in his heart, shook his head, turned around and sat back, and took a sip of wine.

The man in the Chinese costume also noticed Xi Yuanxiu at this time, stopped the movements in his hand, put down the dishes and chopsticks, took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped the traces left by the noodle soup at the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency looks at me like this, I don't know what's wrong?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu turned his head, arched his hand, and replied: "Xia Guan just didn't expect that he could see such a neat person, and he was fascinated for a while, disturbing His Highness's meal, please forgive me!" ”

With the faint light of the noodle stall, Li Yuanhuan saw the face clearly, and even stopped eating noodles in his mouth, looked down at the chopsticks he had placed, and the handkerchief that he had wiped his mouth and placed neatly on the table, frowned, and said to himself: "Brother! ”

When Xi Yuanxiu heard this, he sighed secretly, took a sip of wine, got up and saluted Li Yuanhuan, "Your Majesty has seen the king!" ”

"Is my brother still going to be so alienated from me, what happened back then..."

"Take the liberty to interrupt Your Highness, and let the officials eat the hot noodle soup first!"

"Good"

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At this time, the bright moon was already hanging high in the sky, and the bright moonlight shone on this stall, and the light of the lanterns in the stall was completely compared to the moonlight.

Xi Yuanxiu's noodles hadn't finished yet, and he asked the boss to add half a pot of wine, Li Yuanhuan felt that it was nothing, and on his side, the young guard who looked weak and young couldn't sit still.

He shouted angrily at Xi Yuanxiu, who was still pouring wine for himself: "What kind of identity do you have, dare to let His Royal Highness Xianwang accommodate you like this!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu didn't care about his words, and still continued, Li Yuanhuan waved his hand and asked the angry Bian Ying to sit down.

"Sure enough, His Royal Highness is the most similar to our Emperor Majesty, surprisingly patient!" Xi Yuanxiu chewed the last piece of meat in the bowl and took another sip of wine, because there were too many things in his mouth, so he said a little vaguely.

Li Yuanhuan looked at Xi Yuanxiu intently, and said, "Brother's calmness now is also quite the style of Xi Xiang back then!" It's just that now I'm greedy for this drunken thing! ”

Xi Yuanxiu sneered and said, "Your Highness didn't come to me on purpose to catch up with me, the son of a criminal minister!" ”

"Brother still calls me Yuan Huan, call me Your Highness, it sounds very awkward. This tour of the southern border, it was set at the beginning of the year, I didn't want to highlight this case, but it was a coincidence, I also wanted to go to Yangzhou City to have a look, thinking that my brother was an official here, Yuan Huan naturally wanted to come to visit, and I met my brother here, so as not to disturb me! ”

"The case is handled by people from the court, Your Highness?"

"This case interferes with a wide range of people, and without the support of the big figures in the DPRK and China, these people dare not be so presumptuous, and it is a bit tricky to rely on people from the DPRK and China to investigate the case alone!"

"Well, the lower officials know?"

"Yuan Huan will go to Yangzhou early tomorrow morning, brother, do you need me to bring anything or something to the capital!"

"Don't bother Your Highness!"

Three people, two tables, a pot of wine, Xi Yuanxiu drank his wine one by one, and didn't want to answer Li Yuanhuan's words again, Li Yuanhuan didn't say anything again, just watched him drink.

Xi Yuanxiu finally drank the pot of wine, put the silver on the table, got up and turned his back to Li Yuanhuan, waved his hand, and said as he walked: "The lower official will invite His Royal Highness to the house as a guest on a certain day, and I will not send it far!" ”

Li Yuanhuan held down Bian Ying, who was about to teach Xi Yuanxiu a lesson, sighed, bowed to Xi Yuanxiu, who had already walked to the end of the street, and then left with Bian Ying.

"Your Highness, why didn't you let me teach this person a lesson just now, so there is no one in my eyes, in Chang'an, this kind of person would have died under my knife a long time ago!" Bian Ying, who had just entered the inn, said to Li Yuanhuan, holding the handle of the knife, and the green tendons were bulging.

"Do you know Xi Fang?"

"The former prime minister Xi Fang no one in the world knows, Emperor Bao Xian pacified the rebellion of King Ning, helped the current saint to take command to break the country of Dongyue, implement the law change, waste the well field, heavy agriculture and mulberry, award military merits, the government and the opposition, and even the people, all admire, and then because of the private use of the treasury, the saint was furious, but between the people and the government and the opposition in the pressure of public opinion, did not carry out the death penalty, but was put into the prison of Dali Temple, and has been imprisoned for seven years! Why did His Highness mention this person? ”

Bian Ying, whose face was still a little immature, asked with some puzzlement.

"They are father and son, Xi Yuanxiu, the elder brother who taught me to read when I was a child!"

Li Yuanhuan sighed, and said: "Where is Prime Minister Xi greedy for money and profit, but he is a master of high merit, and his father is suspicious, so he is worried that in the hearts of people in the world, he only knows Xi Xiang, but not King Jing." After the implementation of the new policy, I got this trumped-up charge, my brother was originally the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and now he is serving here, and I don't know whether it is a curse or a blessing! ”

Bian Ying suddenly felt that he was a little embarrassed to his Royal Highness, and everyone knew that the Xi family's father and son were loyal and patriotic courtiers.

And coincidentally, Xi Fangluo is a few years older than His Majesty today, and Xi Yuanxiu is also a little older than these princes who have just been crowned princes a few years ago.

Therefore, the big names in Chang'an City all know that in private, these princes all refer to Xi Yuanxiu as a brother.

"It was Bian Ying who was abrupt just now, and the next time I see Lord Xi, I will accompany him!"

"It's okay, this little thing, my brother won't take it to heart, go to bed early, tomorrow morning, I have to rush to Yangzhou!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"