Xia Mu saw Liu Nushi, who Xu Jue had taken away, and knew that he was going to have a showdown, so he was not busy, and drank tea by himself.

Xu Jue saw Xia Mu's lukewarm look, smiled awkwardly, and didn't know how to speak, at this time, he listened to Liu Xianglan pointing at Sang and scolding Yahuan downstairs, so he carefully put it on: "Lord Xia, your way of pitying incense and cherishing jade seems to be different from ordinary people." ”

Xia Mu blinked his eyes and said slyly: "No matter how good a woman is, she can't spoil her." Otherwise, she'll overwhelm you. ”

"Lord Xia is tall!" Xu Jue praised, "You are Sun Tzu's art of war against women." ”

"Lord Xu, I'm a fast-talking person, and I like to say things clearly, now please tell me, what are you doing with me?"

Compared with the attitude when he spoke to Liu Xianglan just now, Xia Mu was already judging the two of them at this time. Only then did Xu Jue realize that this person was not an idle person. He subconsciously raised his eyes to look at him, only to see that his two sharp gazes were also shooting towards him.

After all, Xu Jue is a veteran of officialdom, so he naturally flashed that gaze, smiled slightly, and said, "Lord Xia is like this, but it looks like a trial case." ”

"Officialdom is complicated, I have to be careful. What's more, the Wucheng Terracotta Division only had a death case last night, and the Gyeonggi City Defense Map was lost, it is impossible for Lord Xu not to know about this matter! ”

Hearing Xia Mu's words, Xu Jue couldn't help but think in his heart, and secretly said that this Xia Mu oil and salt are not entering, and it is not easy to win them over.

"Lord Xu hasn't said it yet, what is the matter with me?" Xia Mu began to ask again.

Xu Jue looked at Xia Mu's domineering appearance, and he was already a little unhappy in his heart. I thought to myself, why is this person so ignorant of the rules, he is a five-grade official of the imperial court, how can you allow you to interrogate like this. But when he thought of Feng Bao, he had to leave his own use.

"There is nothing special about the lower officials, they just admire the reputation of adults." Xu Jue smiled, "Although I met with the adults today, I have heard of it for a long time. ”

"Lord Xu, you and I understand that people don't say secret words, so please tell me if you have something!"

"Okay, Lord Xia is a cheerful person. Although the lord was promoted to the governor of the capital camp and the government, the twelve regiments and battalions were so poor that even the rats in the house ran away. If you want to recruit soldiers, how much silver can you have? Speaking of this, Xu Jue paused, saw Xia Mu thinking about it, and continued, "My lord, I want to remind you of something contemptible people have, and I think of meeting for the first time, and it's hard to speak. ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Xia Mu raised his head.

"Then forgive the contemptible and rude," Xu Jue looked out the window and said in a low voice, "Although you are also an old officialdom, you haven't yet figured out the Tao of the Tao." ”

"I don't want to hear about it." Xia Mu came to be interested.

Xu Jue said: "Those who can use money will be allocated a thousand catties in four or two, and those who will not use money will be exchanged for a thousand catties." ”

"Oh?" Xia Mu was shocked in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "What is a person who can use money, and what is a person who can't use money?" ”

"Those who can use money will burn the cold stove, and those who can't use the money will burn the hot stove." Seeing Xia Mu's puzzled expression, Xu Jue simply pierced through and said, "Let's say, you gave Yan Song a lot of silver, this is the hot stove that burns, and he has a blazing flame there, do you still need this fire?" You rushed to throw firewood, but people didn't appreciate it. It's those cold stoves, relying on your fire, fluttering and burning hot gas, people will remember you. ”

"That's right," Xia Mu thought for a while, and said slowly, "It's just that people's hot stoves can do things, if it's a cold stove, it can't be cheapened after all." ”

"My lord's words are wrong," Xu Jue smiled coldly, "Being an official is a lifelong career, how can you care about the success or failure of a moment." You burn the cold stove for three years, and it seems that you are at a loss, but in the fourth year, it may come to operation from time to time, and the cold stove becomes a hot stove. Didn't you also jump over the dragon gate with the carp and fall into the golden hole! ”

Xia Mu heard that there was a sound outside Xu Jue's strings, so he simply copied it and said: "The cold stove that Lord Xu said, I don't know if it is King Yu or King Jing?" ”

Xu Jue saw that Xia Mu had already fallen into the way, so he no longer covered it up, and blurted out: "My master is King Yu." ”

"Father-in-law Feng, he?" Xia Mu was stunned all of a sudden, "He is so powerful, is he still a cold stove?" ”

"There are a total of twenty or thirty thousand eunuchs in the north and south capitals, compared to those general steward brands, of course he is a big hot stove, but ......" Speaking of this, Xu Jue deliberately sold a pass, blinked his eyes, shook his head and said: "Forget it, forget it, it's better not to say it." The heart is separated from the belly. ”

"When Lord Xu and I met for the first time, it was reasonable that he couldn't believe me," Xia Mu smiled leisurely, and then said, "However, if Lord Xu swallows half of the words in his stomach, even if he doesn't say it, the lower officials can guess it." ”

"Really?" Xu Jue moved.

"What you want to say is that there is a King Jing under King Yu, although King Jing is only one month younger than King Yu, but King Jing's uncle is Xu Pengju, the Duke of Xu Guo, the garrison of Nanjing!"

Xu Jue smiled and looked reserved: "Lord Xia just asked me why I invited you, and I can answer now." ”

"Please."

"It's just to burn the stove."

As soon as the words ended, the two of them laughed at the same time. After laughing, Xia Mu said solemnly: "Lord Xu, the gentleman has no jokes, can you speak seriously?" ”

"Really?"

Xu Jue was happy when he saw that Xia Mu was interesting, the matter was done, and he and Feng Bao also had an explanation, so he couldn't help but continue: "Lord Xia, I have prepared a generous gift, please accept it." ”

"What treasure?"

"Do you know the person Bodhidharma?"

"Know" Xia Mu nodded, "He is a great monk who came to China from India and is known as the first ancestor of Chinese Zen Buddhism. ”

"I heard that when he came from India, he first went to Guangzhou, and then came to Nanjing from Guangzhou to meet Emperor Wu of Liang, the emperor of the Liang Dynasty at that time, and gave a Buddhist bead to Emperor Wu of Liang. This hanging Buddha bead is made of one hundred and eight relics of enlightened monks, and was regarded as a national treasure by Emperor Wu of Liang. More than 1,000 years have passed since the Liang Dynasty, but this hanging Buddha bead is still in Nanjing. ”

"It's a national treasure."

"Yes, this hanging Buddha bead is now in my hands, so I borrowed flowers to offer Buddha and gave it to Lord Xia!"

When Xia Mu heard this, his expression was stunned, the Buddha bead secretly said that it should be in a garrison eunuch surnamed Sun in Nanjing, but yesterday I heard Xue Hua mention that the eunuch seemed to have died in the hands of the Japanese slaves who broke into Nanjing, and now this Buddha beads are in the hands of Xu Jue, so he and the Japanese slaves ......

Thinking about Xia Mu, he deliberately probed him: "Lord Xu, I heard that you have made a lot of money from the disaster relief food in the outer city!" ”

Xu Jue looked stunned, and when he saw Xia Mu's appearance, he was a little mustard, but when he thought that the two of them were already grasshoppers living in a line of mountains, he smiled and said: "Brother Xia, you don't know, I mixed eighty percent of the grain with dregs, and used twenty percent of the new rice to boil porridge for those beggars in the outer city, and the remaining eighty percent of the new rice, changed the packaging, smuggled out of Beijing, and resold in the hands of rich merchants, I will sit and wait to collect the money!" ”

Xia Mu saw that Xu Jue didn't tell the truth, and he didn't ask questions, looking at Liu Xianglan who came in to serve the wine, he couldn't help asking: "I heard that you have a top brand named Yu Jinlian here, who is very good at the piano, where is the person, call it out and show me." ”

Liu Xianglan's face changed when she heard this, and she secretly stabbed Xu Jue, Xu Jue's face was not very good-looking, and she hurriedly said: "Lord Xia, this Golden Lotus girl is not feeling well tonight, she is not a guest, and Liu Nushi is no worse than the Golden Lotus girl!" ”

"Hmph" Xia Mu slapped the table suddenly, so frightened that the two of them trembled, only to hear the sound of messy footsteps downstairs, and not long after, Xue Hua led a group of brocade guards to rush up.

Xu Jue sweated on his forehead, looking at the unsheathed embroidered spring knife, his legs trembled, what people like him were most afraid of was Jinyiwei, but today Feng Bao invited the head of Jinyiwei.

How can this Xia Mu say that he turned his face and turned his face?

"Summer ...... Summer...... Lord Xia, why be angry for a cousin, this Golden Lotus girl is not here, aren't there other girls? ”

The corners of Xia Mu's mouth rose, and he came to the curtain, lifted the bead curtain in front of him, looked at the rooms on both sides of the corridor where men and women loved, and nodded at Xue Hua. But he shouted arrogantly: "I'm going to accompany Yu Jinlian today!" ”

Xue Hua got the hint and waved his hand, and suddenly Jinyiwei launched a large-scale search. Xia Mu just wants to take advantage of Yuzi to take a good look at whether there are any Japanese slaves in this plain building!

Seeing this, Liu Xianglan hurriedly pulled Xia Mu's sleeve: "Master Xia, what are you doing!" We are all responsible families, but we haven't done anything to break the king's law! ”

"Duty?" Xia Mu snorted coldly, "Yu Wenlong, the deputy commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, was killed, and what he was looking for at night was the girl in your building, the defense map of Gyeonggi City was lost, Lord Xu, do you still have the heart to ask this official to come here to have fun?" ”

Xu Jue saw that Xia Mu turned his face and didn't admit it, and his face turned pale: "Lord Xia, Deputy Commander Yu was killed, but it has nothing to do with me at all!" ”

"Is there any, I won't know until I search!" Xia Mu embroidered the spring knife and slapped it on the table, and a large number of brocade guards surrounded the entire curtain alley.

For a while, the whole Sulou chickens and dogs jumped, men and women who did not cover their clothes were kicked off the bed by Jinyiwei, and how many dignitaries and nobles in the entire curtain alley stood shirtless in the cold wind and shivered, but when they saw Jinyiwei's shiny embroidered spring knife, they didn't dare to put a fart, for fear of being caught in Jinyiwei's edict.

But at this moment, when Jin Yiwei entered a room, Meng Chong walked out with a few fans from Dongchang.

I saw Jinyiwei confronting those factories.

Meng Chong is the housekeeper of Yuwang Mansion, and his godfather is Li Fang, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and the official rank suppressed Feng Bao to hear it, and he was in charge of Yuwang Mansion.

At this moment, I saw that Meng Chong looked angry, and shouted at the throat of the male duck: "What a brocade guard, he dares to spread wild in front of the miscellaneous family!" ”

Xia Mu saw Meng Chong here, turned his head and glared at Xu Jue fiercely, and said coldly: "Is King Yu in the Su Building?" ”

Xu Jue's legs shivered and nodded.

This Meng Chong is really bold enough to lead King Yu to this dirty place.

He had also heard that Yuwang was lustful and was often taken in and out of the Eight Hutongs by Meng Chong, but he didn't expect that he would sleep in this plain building tonight!

Where Meng Chong shouted, Xia Mu walked out of the room with a cold face.

The moment Meng Chong saw Xia Mu, his whole face suddenly turned the color of pig liver.

"Gelding!" Xia Mu snorted coldly, stepped forward in person, and looked at the door of King Yu's room: "His Royal Highness King Yu, the minister Xia Mu arrested the suspect impartially, and invited King Yu to come out." ”

After a while, I heard a slightly panicked voice from a man in his thirties in the room: "It turned out to be Lord Xia, I'm ...... I'll go out. ”

At this moment, Feng Bao, who was belated, finally appeared, he looked at the battle of Su Lou, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly walked to Xia Mu's side: "Lord Xia, what's wrong?" ”

Xia Mu didn't speak, but his expression was surprisingly cold. Feng Bao glanced at Meng Chong and knew that something bad was wrong, this dog thing had hooked up with the prince to come to this dirty place again!