Lao Cao next door was so frightened that his face was like earth, and he was so panicked that he almost fainted.

Ye Zhiqiu still had a smile on his face, this time he was really smiling. He and Cao's father and son and Li Chongyan sometimes drink with the four of them, although there are jokes during the banquet, Cao Xiwen is mostly afraid of his father, but he still reins in a lot, and he is also the first time to see him without scruples like today. However, he now roughly understands why the prince likes to find Cao Xiwen to drink.

Sure enough, there was silence in the room for a while, and the prince actually relented, and complained aggrievedly: "You guy, you don't know how to start, and you smashed my head red." ”

Cao Xiwen snorted: "Do you have long eyes and brains?" You can even see it red. He looked over and saw that Li Chongyan's forehead was red, and he was a little apologetic at the moment, and said, "Hurry up and rub it yourself." ”

Lao Cao couldn't believe his ears at all next door, thinking to himself, this ...... Is this a thing in the past?

In fact, although Li Chongyan was annoyed in his heart, half of it was used to Cao Xiwen treating him as an ordinary person, and the other half still wanted to ask him for help.

"I only have a lot of friendship with you and me, so I came to you to talk about this, but I didn't expect you to hang up and teach me a lesson, it's really thick and thin!"

"Why didn't I do anything to myself?"

"This matter is in front of me, I can think of you is the only one who can help me, if you don't help me, it is not righteous!"

Cao Xiwen was most afraid that others would say that he was not righteous, he had just finished drinking a glass, and immediately put the wine glass on the table when he heard the words, "How do you want me to be righteous?" Could it be that I will kill the one who stands in the way for you? ”

"Not bad!" Li Chongyan blurted out.

Cao Xiwen said it purely in his words, but Li Chongyan answered unequivocally and stayed there at the moment. Not only him, but the two people next door also looked at each other and were stunned.

Lao Cao thought to himself: The prince wants to kill someone? Is there anything he can't kill?

Ye Zhiqiu was thinking: The prince wanted to kill people but didn't want to use the people in the palace, he must have wanted to keep this matter secret and get rid of it.

Cao Xiwen slowly poured a glass of wine and handed it over: "Brother Li, you are indeed too tired today, after drinking this glass of wine, go back early to rest, what a big deal?" Believe me, you'll be fine when you get some sleep. ”

Li Chongyan sneered: "What, when you hear about killing, you're afraid?" ”

"Phew! I'm afraid of a fart, I've killed more bandits in Jingzhou. Cao Xiwen took back the half-handed wine glass, and drank it with his neck tilted.

"Then why won't you help me?"

"No, who the hell are you trying to kill? One moment you said that your family could cover the sky with one hand, and then you were made by such a person who didn't know who it was like an evil person, and you would kill a bad person with one mouth. ”

"Xi Wen, you look at me." Li Chongyan forcibly suppressed his anger, and pleaded as calmly as possible: "This is really a hurdle that I can't get over, you have to help me, this person is an old eunuch, and he doesn't know martial arts, he is not in the palace at home now, you just need to sneak into his house and kill him with a knife, and this matter will be over." ”

"Old eunuch? How could you have offended the eunuch? The more Cao Xiwen listened, the more confused he became.

"I can't say too much about the details, anyway, this old eunuch is ...... He had to die. In your own right, this is a piece of cake

Saucer. ”

"No way!" Cao Xiwen felt that this matter was not quite right.

"What? Do you hear that he is a eunuch for fear of offending the people in the palace, so he doesn't dare? You can rest assured! Don't say that you just killed a eunuch, even if you kill the second-rank member of the court, I still have the ability to protect you! ”

"That's not the case!" Cao Xiwen's face showed anger: "Brother Li, if you are busy and want me to help me, Cao Xiwen will never refuse, I was willing to take the sword of the female assassin for you before, but even if I am a rough person who practices martial arts, I have to be reasonable in life and work." It is true that I have martial arts, but the original intention of practicing martial arts is to protect my grandmother when I am young, and I want to protect my family and defend the country in the future when I am older, and I will never kill people and commit murder! What you said today is really against my original intention of practicing martial arts, and I can't promise you. ”

"You're really not going to help me?"

"I can't help with such a favor!"

said a word, and Lao Cao next door was unknown.

He never thought that his son, who usually seemed to be a good man, would be able to tell such a convincing truth.

Son, in the past, my father always thought that you didn't understand this and didn't understand that, but suddenly from a certain moment, my father realized that you had become a man who stood up to the sky.

Some things may be more manly than your father.

Lao Cao suddenly felt a sour in his eyes, and forgot for a moment to think about the consequences of rejecting the prince, but Ye Zhiqiu gently patted him on the shoulder behind him and whispered: "...... There's no movement, it seems to be scattered? ”

Lao Cao listened to it, and sure enough, there was no movement at all, and it was clear that the two of them had come out of the warm pavilion at some point.

According to his son's stubborn donkey-like temper, he must not obey the prince when it comes to this part, and the prince must not be in a good mood after eating the closed-door soup, and the ending of not tearing his face and breaking up unhappily is about lucky enough.

After another moment there was the sound of bowls, as if servants were cleaning up the table.

Lao Cao then made a gesture at Ye Zhiqiu and said: "Lord Ye, thanks to your thoughtfulness, I let Lao Cao and I listen to some important words, and I will discipline my son well when I go back, and let him stop speaking disrespectfully to the prince." ”

Ye Zhiqiu waved his hand and said, "Old Cao, these are actually trivial, in fact, I am thinking about another thing now...... It's a very important matter. ”

“…… What Lord Ye said is not ...... The man the prince wants to kill? Lao Cao's face was a little unnatural, to be honest, he could probably guess who this old eunuch was, there were two powerful old eunuchs in the palace, one was Gonggong Li next to Emperor Wen, and the other was Gonggong Wang next to the prince. The prince is the prince's confidant, and he obeys the prince's words, so the only one who wants to kill is Gonggong Li. For such a person, although the grade is not high and there are only four grades, but he is a person close to the saint, how can he afford to provoke him......

Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said: "Exactly, Lord Cao can't turn a deaf ear to this matter, I know that Lord Cao doesn't want to cause trouble, but there are some things you want to hide, but you may not be able to hide from it." What's more, if you take the lead in everything, maybe your old Cao family can still be blessed by misfortune? ”

"What do you mean by Lord Ye......?"

Ye Zhiqiu looked around: "That's it, Gongzi Cao is still close, and it's not convenient for us to talk." Why don't you go to my house, let's heat another pot of wine and talk about it in detail

？ ”

Lao Cao said that he didn't want to go in his heart to be honest, and the people and things in the palace would not be provoked if they could not be provoked. But Ye Zhiqiu's words always made him hesitate, because this person's words always seemed to help him dissect some textures that were the head of the Dao, and these textures could always save him from danger. If you don't listen, you miss it.

At the moment, he responded: "Okay, Lord Ye is willing to give advice, how can I miss it, then I will bother." ”

Ye Zhiqiu smiled slightly, and the two of them walked out of the Winter Warm Pavilion, and still quietly walked out of the Cao Mansion from the side door, when the street was empty, and the car of the former prince of the Cao Mansion was long gone. Powder snow gradually drifted in the sky, and the whole street of smoke and waves was deserted.

The two turned the corner and arrived in front of the Ye Mansion. Ye Zhiqiu knocked lightly on the door, and the door immediately opened a crack, revealing Uncle Kang's old face that was shivering from the cold.

When he saw that it was Ye Zhiqiu and Lao Cao, he didn't seem surprised at all, and hurriedly opened the door to greet him: "Master, you're back." ”

Ye Zhiqiu let Lao Cao in: "Lao Cao, I still have some treasured good wine, just say what you want to drink, I'll let them take it." ”

"Lord Ye's wine must be good wine, and anything is good to drink." Lao Cao's mind is not on wine, so naturally it doesn't matter. He re-examined the courtyard, and there was almost no change from the last time he bought Taishi Mo, the mansion was not small, but there were few subordinates, and there was more and more an indescribable loneliness.

Ye Zhiqiu asked Uncle Kang, "What about Madam." ”

Madame said that she was still tired, and went to bed without dinner. Oh, by the way, the people have already prepared it in the West Flower Hall according to the instructions of the master......"

Ye Zhiqiu suddenly shot a gaze at Uncle Kang, and Uncle Kang was so frightened that he immediately shut up.

However, Lao Cao was looking around and didn't notice Uncle Kang's words.

"Lord Cao, the snowy night is long, just warm the stove and put the wine, please!" Ye Zhiqiu stretched out his hand and bowed, always with such a humble gentleman's demeanor.

Lao Cao hurriedly responded: "Lord Ye, please!" ”

In fact, Lao Cao sometimes mutters, although this Ye Zhiqiu treats him politely, he never uses the official rank of a product to suppress people, and he doesn't even have a little bit of a shelf that is revealed by the way when he speaks, he looks very kind, but if he wants to take the opportunity to get close, even if he sometimes uses the strength of the wine to get close, but he finds that it is difficult to move forward after getting close to a certain extent. Ye Zhiqiu can always grasp that subtle distance, making you feel as if you are very intimate and at the same time completely incommunicative.

But tonight, he's really a little extra heart-to-heart.

Lao Cao actually thought about the reason, and officialdom for many years made him understand a truth.

There are only flying disasters for no reason, and there are no blessings from heaven for no reason.

There must be a reason why Ye Zhiqiu bothered to get close to him so much, and he was wary of this.

But he thought about it again and again, and could only attribute the reason to the fact that his official fortune was prosperous, and his son and the prince were brothers, Ye Zhiqiu must have wanted to cling to the prince and plan for the new emperor to be vassals in the future.

Hehehe, if you say anything about people who don't participate in party struggles, it's just that they don't look forward to the party leader. Now that he has climbed the prince, that is the princeling, isn't the future bright? So in a sense, whether Ye Zhiqiu helps me Lao Cao or checks for my son, it is all for himself, and it is natural to be dedicated.