The man did not get angry because of Qiu Xiaobei's attitude, but laughed happily, and moved a secret letter in his hand from the other end of the table to this side: "What should you do, it is clearly written here, you just do it." Of course, you can choose to refuse, but the organization will not tolerate you, we have all the unfavorable evidence of you on our side, as long as we go to the prince to expose you, even if Fan Shenxi loves you again, in the face of a spy, do you think, will he continue to love you, or ......" He silently read three words: kill, kill, you!

After pouring himself a glass of wine and drinking it again, the man got up, and when he walked to Qiu Xiaobei's side, he patted her on the shoulder: "Think about it, those terrible rumors about Fan Shenxi are not really just rumors. ”

He then withdrew his hand, walked out of the private room, and when he closed the door, he glanced back, and saw her sitting there quietly, her black back looking extremely lonely.

With a sarcastic laugh, he waved his hand, and the internal strength made the two doors "snap" shut.

After Qiu Xiaobei confirmed that the person was really gone, she slowly stretched out her hand from the black cloak, picked up the chopsticks, sandwiched the ribs she had just taken a fancy to, put them in her mouth and chewed them, and then nodded appreciatively.

Sister Zhao is right, the dishes here are really delicious, although they are expensive, but they are not spending their own money, this dish has already been ordered, it is a waste not to eat, it is a little cold, blame the person just now for talking too much, let her endure until now.

You know, she didn't eat at night, so she was waiting to come here and rub it off.

While eating, she poured herself wine, she couldn't help it, and drank a glass under the pretense of panic, a little spicy and a little sweet, it was really good, she liked it.

It's just that the amount is too small, such a small pot, just drunk several cups by that person, it makes people angry to think about it.

After eating and drinking, and burping, Qiu Xiaobei leaned back on the back of the chair, touched his round belly, and sighed comfortably, next time he will bring Shen Xi here to taste it.

After drinking the last glass of wine without wasting, Qiu Xiaobei's eyes fell on the so-called secret letter, and after thinking about it, he still picked it up and opened it and looked at it.

After reading it, her face sank.

Made!

……

As soon as Qiu Xiaobei entered the house, he smelled that in addition to the baby, there was another man in the room.

She ran over happily, jumped up before she could reach anyone, and threw herself at them, but fortunately Fan Shenxi had kung fu skills and caught her in time.

But Fan's heavy face, dark and dark, completely the rhythm before the storm.

"Where have you been? Still drinking? Qiu Xiaobei, who gave you the courage to let your children run out to drink regardless of them? ”

At this moment, Qiu Xiaobei couldn't sense Fan Shenxi's anger at all, she smiled and grabbed his neck, and hung on him: "Shenxi, hehehehe, you secretly came to see me again?" ”

"Qiu Xiaobei!" Fan Shenxi directly pinched her face, "You'd better explain it to me!" ”

One moment she was laughing, and the next moment she suddenly cried "whin".

The last moment he was so angry, and the next moment he held her face in distress: "What's wrong?" Pinched? Or is it uncomfortable? ”

Qiu Xiaobei saw that he was very worried, tightened his neck and put it on his lips, and buried his face in his neck and cried.

He was very helpless, so he could only follow her back over and over again: "You run out to drink, forget it, you started crying before I scolded it, good, don't cry yet, tell me what's wrong, is someone bullying you?" ”

She really nodded, and said in a thick nasal voice: "Yes, someone bullied me, you have to help me avenge." ”

Just asked casually, but I didn't expect to get such an answer, Fan Shenxi's eyes were cold, but his voice was more gentle to coax her: "Who bullied you?" You tell me that I will definitely help you get revenge. ”

"I," Qiu Xiaobei thought for a moment, "I don't know what his name is." ”

"Male or female?"

"Male."

"Where?"

"Guest House." Qiu Xiaobei now has all the questions to answer.

"How did you bully you?"

After waiting for a while and not replying, Fan Shenxi asked again: "How did he bully you?" ”

Still didn't answer, Fan Shenxi touched her, but she leaned down slightly, the whole person was soft on him, and she fell asleep at first glance.

Fan Shenxi: "......"

What should he do with this drunken daughter-in-law?

He could only pick up his drunken daughter-in-law horizontally, carry her to the bathroom and wash her, otherwise he would sleep with the smell of alcohol, and scolded him for loving cleanliness, but in fact, he also had some cleanliness fetish, and Xiaobeizi had to cry.

However, while helping her undress, an envelope fell out......

……

Out of the Wei Qing file, although the celebration banquet was still held, but the atmosphere was a little weird, the emperor's smile was extremely unnatural, the people below were under the pressure of the Son of Heaven, and it was impossible to let go of eating and drinking, even the dancing girl almost fell down while jumping, if it weren't for the fact that so many generals were here, the emperor estimated that he would directly let the dancing girl out and cut it.

The only one who is comfortable in the whole process is estimated to be His Royal Highness the Prince, and Ying Shurong and Ling Mojue, who have a good relationship with the prince, Ying Shurong is a weak scholar on the outside, and he has the madman gene that is not afraid of heaven and earth, Ling Mojue is cold and lonely, and only cares about what he cares about, what does it matter to him whether the emperor is in a good mood or not.

There are also one or two old ministers, smiling and drinking his wine, enjoying the performance of beautiful dancing girls, and the emperor should have a few words of greeting when he speaks, all of them are old slippery heads.

Finally, the dinner ended, everyone left one by one, Fan Shenxi was in a wheelchair and was about to leave, and a eunuch came to spread the word, saying that the emperor invited him to come over.

Father has drunk a lot of wine tonight, Fan Shen thought with interest, there is still time to find him?

Fan Shenxi naturally responded, and turned around and went to the main hall.

"Father!"

The emperor was leaning on the soft pillow, asking the palace maid to pinch his head, thinking that he had a headache, when he heard Fan Shenxi's voice, he made a faint "um" sound, so that Fan Shenxi waited for a long time, and he seemed to take a nap before slowly opening his eyes.

He looked at the prince, the person who had been waiting for a long time did not appear the slightest impatience and impatience, but there was a faint comfort, not because he was called in the middle of the night and was not taken care of, waiting for the anger at this time, when he woke up, the prince also asked with a light smile: "Father is better?" ”

"What can I do?"

"Erchen still thought that his father was sick and was planning to ask someone to ask for a doctor."

Fan Shenxi's words seemed to be tempting, alluding to his illness, and the emperor glanced at the prince vaguely: "Let the prince worry too much, I just drank some wine, and it's okay." ”

He straightened up, and because of the calculation in his mind, his hand unconsciously patted on the table: "Prince, I asked you to come tonight because I want you to do something." Originally, you just came back from the war, and your health has always been bad, so you should be allowed to rest, but in this matter, except for you, I can't trust others, so I can only bother you to work hard. ”

"Father, please say, sons and daughters should do their best." What to do, only you know.

"One of the things of salt has always been the responsibility of the imperial merchants, but in the past two years, there have been frequent cases of people secretly selling salt, and it can be tolerated by others, but salt must definitely be in the hands of the royal family, which is related to the dignity of the country and the royal family, and if the other party only sells some privately, I can turn a blind eye, but recently, there have been frequent problems with private salt, and several people have died, and even the salt sold by the imperial merchants has been affected. I want you to find out about it, and I will not tolerate those who give or receive private salt. ”

Salt? Illicit salt?

Hearing this, Fan Shenxi's first thought was Zhou Guifei and the Zhou family, there are people from the Zhou family in the imperial merchants, that is to say, the Zhou family is involved in the matter of salt, the emperor does not let the Zhou family investigate the private salt, but lets him, the prince, who never asks about these things, investigate, which is interesting.

Does the emperor trust the Zhou family? Or do you deliberately want to praise him as a prince?

Fan Shenxi thought about it for a while, and then understood the emperor's intentions, and he said: "Father, although the son is the crown prince, I am afraid it will not be easy to meddle in this matter. ”

"It's okay, I will give you a gold medal and a sword, you can check it for me, find out, no matter who it is, you will be severely punished."

The gold medal represents the emperor, the sword represents the ability to cut first and then play, the emperor gave him supreme glory and favor, Fan Shenxi grew so big, it was the first time for the emperor to value it so much, and he also gave such a heavy "gift".

Fan Shenxi looked at the tray brought by Mr. Chen, there was only a gold medal on it, showing the supreme honor, the corner of his mouth raised a sarcastic smile slightly, and then reached out to take the gold medal in his hand.

He only hoped that one day, his father would not regret the two things he had given him today.

"Son, I will live up to my father's father, expectation, hope!"

It was already late when Fan Shenxi returned to the East Palace, and Gonggong Li asked him if he still wanted to "go out", Fan Shenxi thought that it was so late, Xiaobei might have slept.

But a heart has been lifted, unable to settle down, after washing and lying down, he can't sleep peacefully, after thinking about it, he still turned over, opened the mechanism and dodged in.

"Heavy!"

As if expecting him to come over at this time, Qiu Xiaobei, who was waiting at the exit early, threw himself into his arms the moment he just came out: "You're really late today, but you're still very good, I just had nothing to do, I cooked bird's nest porridge, you hurry up and eat." ”

It's idle and nothing to do, obviously seeing that he didn't come over so late, guessing that he must be busy with something, afraid that he will be hungry when he comes over, so he specially cooked it and waited for him.

Fan Shenxi was pressed to sit on the chair, looking at the porridge bowl that Qiu Xiaobei personally brought to him, the violence and exhaustion that were false and aggrieved with everyone dissipated in an instant, leaving only a warm porridge with a hint of sweetness, the sweetness spread in the mouth, and the warmth filled the spleen and stomach.

He was glad he was so late, but he still came in time.

……

"What did you say?"

Zhou Guifei was furious and glared angrily at the eunuch kneeling in front of her.

"It's true, Niangniang, the master has already passed the word, let you think of a way."

"What can Hongu think of?" Zhou Guifei, who was the most calm, was out of proportion, "The emperor, the emperor has made it clear that he wants to get rid of the Zhou family!" ”

The Zhou family participated in the extraction and sale of salt by the imperial merchants, and then sold some of the salt from the middle and sold it themselves, drawing huge profits from it, when there were only the imperial merchants selling in the whole world, the profits that another secret seller could earn can be imagined, because there were no other competitors except the imperial merchants, and not everyone could afford or buy the items sold by the imperial merchants, especially salt was indispensable in life.

Don't blame the Zhou family for being greedy, if you want to gain a firm foothold in the court, what kind of thing does you need to take money to do?

Fan Shenxi has a large number of supporters left by Empress Ling, even if he becomes a wasted person, when he is the most depressed, the emperor does not dare to abolish him lightly, not to mention that now Fan Shenxi has grown step by step to the point that the emperor is afraid, if they want to fight him, how can they do it without spending a little effort, this is the same, one by one, it takes money, a lot of money!

What makes Zhou Guifei's heart ache is that the emperor supports the Zhou family, they sell illegal salt, she doesn't believe that the emperor doesn't know, but the emperor has always acquiesced and supported the Zhou family to fight against the prince.

Now let the prince investigate this matter, what does it mean? Won't the emperor compromise with the crown prince, and plan to let the prince inherit the unification, and then pave the way for the prince, the first to bear the brunt of it is the Zhou family?

"No, it can't be." Zhou Guifei herself shook her head and rejected this speculation, her body shook for a moment, and she was helped to sit down by the palace maid who was close to her, she propped her hands on her frowning brow and thought, "The emperor's resentment and jealousy towards the prince is not a day or two, how can he compromise because the prince is strong now?" ”

She thought of something, and suddenly put down her hand and sat up straight: "Is it ......?"

……

Qiu Xiaobei and Sister Zhao went out shopping for nothing, she successfully found a store, both the geographical location and the store conditions are good, suitable for her to change into a pharmacy, the owner of the store has not had a good business in the past two years, and wants to sell the store and take the money to other places to start again.

"What are you going to sell?" Sister Zhao followed Qiu Xiaobei into the store, and watched Qiu Xiaobei wandering around the store, she asked curiously.

was calculating how to renovate the store, and when he heard this, Qiu Xiaobei turned around and said with a smile: "I plan to open a pharmacy." ”

"Pharmacy?" When Sister Zhao heard this, she said disapprovingly, "Then you better forget it." ”

Qiu Xiaobei was surprised: "Why? Are pharmacies bad? ”

"It's not bad, it's ......" Sister Zhao stopped talking, looked left and right, and made sure that no one had passed here, before she approached Qiu Xiaobei and whispered, "There is already a pharmacy on this commercial street." ”

"So what, I see that there are several ready-to-wear stores alone, what's wrong with opening an extra pharmacy?"

"You didn't know when you first came, that store ...... The scale is large, and many drugs can be bought there, but they are sold very expensive. ”

Qiu Xiaobei said with a smile: "Then it's not good for me to open a pharmacy, I am sure that the price is fair, and Tong Su is not bullied." ”

"It's not a problem, why do you say that the medicine in that store is so expensive, and there is no second pharmacy here? That pharmacy has a deep background, not only this commercial street, but also in the southeast district of Kyoto, there is only one of him, anyone who tries to open a pharmacy is finally forced to close, the people in the southeast district, the family is richer, the poor either go all the way to the north of the west district to buy medicine, or go bankrupt to buy medicine for their relatives to treat the disease, or, can only endure it, go to the mountains outside to pick some herbs to deal with the past. ”

But this is Kyoto, a bustling city, and you have to travel far to collect herbs in the mountains, and not everyone understands herbs, so if you pick them and eat them indiscriminately, it is likely to aggravate your condition.

As a pharmacist, he regards making medicine as his own pleasure, and Qiu Xiaobei is the most reluctant to joke with the lives of the people.

She smiled coldly, "Really? Then my pharmacy will open even more," she pursed her lips rather confidently, "and see if he can get my store closed." ”

Sister Zhao looked at her in astonishment, and the suddenly shocking momentum and frosty Xiaobei in front of her made it difficult for Sister Zhao to believe that this was the Xiaobei who was a little shy when talking to people.

Qiu Xiaobei slowed down: "I'm sorry Sister Zhao, I'm just too angry, it's normal for people to take medicine when they're sick, and opening a pharmacy should also be for the welfare of the people, it's too much for them to use this to make huge profits, I ......"

"Okay, I know, I know." Sister Zhao also slowed down, she felt that she should be angry, she was also angry about this matter, but the manpower was thin, there was no way, she could only endure it, she persuaded Qiu Xiaobei seriously, "Sister, you really want to open this pharmacy, I can't stop you, but I still hope you can think about it clearly, the people behind that pharmacy really can't be provoked." ”

"I see, thank you, Sister Zhao."

Qiu Xiaobei thanked her sincerely, but would she really not open this pharmacy because of this?

That's impossible.

After Sister Zhao went back because of something at home, Qiu Xiaobei asked people to find craftsmen and handed them the design drawings she had drawn in the past two days, while asking people to investigate the situation of opening the first store and the only pharmacy at the front of the commercial street.

The efficiency of the shadow guard is very high, and it didn't take long to bring her very detailed information.

That pharmacy is called Baicaotang, because of the abundant resources, whether it is finished medicines, ointments, etc., or most of the medicinal materials alone, of course, what is sold is already available in this world, including some rare, and not all medicines are so exaggerated, it can only be said that compared to other pharmacies, it is relatively complete, at least some very rare medicinal materials that Qiu Xiaobei knows, and the medicines she made herself, there are definitely no in the store.

The shopkeeper's surname is Qi, but this is at most a shopkeeper, the real boss behind the scenes is linked to the royal family, and the shadow guard found that the clues pointed directly to a certain prince after investigation, but the strange thing is that the shadow guard felt that it might be not only that, except for the prince, there must be other people involved, but the other party is very careful, and there is no way to know who it is for the time being.

The members of the palace looked at the infinite scenery, but once they participated in the battle for the heir, no amount of money was enough, but the royal family members couldn't do business, so they turned around and let others do it in their own name.

Many people understand, but what is the way to do it, and they can still sue the emperor?

"Which pig's trotter is this Prince Yu?"

"He is the youngest brother of the emperor, the uncle of the current saint, but he is one year younger than the emperor, and he has always been committed to being a gentleman, eating, drinking and having fun, and is not interested in fighting for power and profit." But if he was really a harmless prodigal, he would not have survived until now, and he would not have been safe after two waves of palace fighting, let alone open such a pharmacy that only wanted to make profits.

Qiu Xiaobei nodded understandingly, and had a prejudgment in his heart.

"Master, what about our pharmacy?"

"Open, not only open, but also prosperous." Qiu Xiaobei touched her chin and smiled slyly, "The No. 1 Pharmacy in the Southeast District of Kyoto...... " She shook her head with a sigh, "It's too much, I don't like it, Kyoto No. 1 Pharmacy, this name is good, hey." ”

When Qiu Xiaobei came out of the inner room, the craftsman began to measure and prepare for construction, and she asked a servant in a house to watch here, and she was ready to go home to see the baby.

But as soon as he went out, he was hit by a person who rushed over, and the force was not heavy, so it was considered to be brushed over, and then the person ran away, without even showing his face.

Qiu Xiaobei thought that she had met a thief, so she hurriedly checked the money bag, but as a result, there was no shortage of money bags, but more notes, Qiu Xiaobei opened it and looked at it, and her face, which was still happy, immediately pulled it down, and crumpled the note into a ball and held it in the palm of her hand.

……

In the Dafan Dynasty, April 28 every year, it is a major festival, called heavy sacrifice, the nature of it, a bit like the Qingming in Qiu Xiaobei's hometown, but it is more grand, and there are many activities.

Ling'an Hall is not in the royal palace, but a palace built in the royal forest farm.

The emperor advanced into the Ling'an Palace, with his children, concubines above the concubine position, and the royal family relatives in the worship inside, the courtiers knelt outside, after worshipping, out of the Ling'an Palace, in front of the Ling'an Palace, is a very wide and huge square, on the platform is the throne of the emperor's family, on both sides are the courtiers who stand according to the official rank, in the middle, is the place where the activities will be played for a while.

I won't perform any songs and dances today, and even a little revealing of my clothes is a felony today, and the activities performed today are to show that the Dafan Dynasty is rich and strong.

So speaking of which, is this a combination of Qingming Festival and National Day? The difference is that people's National Day military drills, but here, it is violent and bloody.

First, hundreds of pigeons were released in one breath, and then they must be shot down before the lattice flew out of the Ling'an Temple, and the pigeons flew into the sky, and the black pressure pressed a black shadow, falling one after another like rain, sprinkled with blood and water on everyone, and everyone could not dodge, and must bear the cleaning of the blood rain.

This is the opening of the prologue, after which there will be various duels, sword competitions, knife competitions, gun competitions, and doubts with bare hands.

Finally, there is the duel between man and animal.

A large circle was formed in the middle of the field, and hungry wolves were driven from their cages into the circle, and they pounced on the rings, holding on to the iron rings, and bared their terrible fangs at the onlookers.

After the wolves are in place, it is the turn of the condemned prisoners, and they will be thrown into the circle if they are unwilling, and if one of them can kill more than three wolves, it means that God is willing to give him a life, then not only will he live, but his sins will also be written off, and he will be a free man from now on.

This is a half-excellent and half-happy thing for death row prisoners, because they have committed a capital crime, the only chance to live, of course, to avoid martial arts people have a deep martial arts foundation to cheat, their internal force will be sealed, clavicles are nailed like iron nails, no matter how powerful the moves can not be used, can only use the most primitive escape and moves, to get life, at the same time, the wolves are not domestic dogs, they are really fierce and wild wolves.