The selection is in full swing, and the streets of Kyoto are discussing this matter, and various gambling games have been created accordingly, and everyone is speculating about who will be the head of the Imperial Court this time.

"Eh, Lao Wang, who did you just bet on?" The two people who had just come out of the casino couldn't help but start discussing the bets they had just placed.

Lao Wang pretended to be mysterious, "How can this be easily said?" ”

Lao Zhang patted him on the shoulder, "You kid, don't pretend to be with me here, I don't know what virtues you have?" Hurry up, tell me, who do you fancy and what's going on now? ”

The reason why Lao Zhang said this is because Lao Wang has a relative who is on an errand in the palace, and the people in this palace naturally have channels for understanding the news that they don't know, so he came to Lao Wang to inquire.

Lao Wang's face was proud, and then he looked around to make sure that no one was eavesdropping, so he whispered: "I told you that you can, you must not tell others, now, the son of Master Li, Li Jisi, should have the greatest chance of winning." ”

Lao Zhang looked incredulous, "How is this possible?" Master Li is just a fifth-rank official, and his son is only a seventh-rank military attaché, how can he be the biggest winner now? Are you lying to me? ”

"Tsk, how can you think of my old king like that? What's the relationship between the two of us? I can't lie to you, okay, since you don't believe it's Li Jisi, who do you think? ”

"I think that Wang Yu, the nephew of the right prime minister, has a bigger win, think about it, his father is the right prime minister, and his grandfather is the founder of the country, and there are countless protégés under his hands, and he himself is also angry, and he sat on the four-rank official position at a young age, this imperial commander, and he must be him in the end." Lao Zhang said what he thought, and he did bet on Wang Yu just now, but there were not many chips under him, mainly he still wanted to hear the news of Lao Wang again.

After Lao Wang listened to his words, he sighed and shook his head, making Lao Zhang feel irritable, and gave him another punch, "What's going on with your kid today?" Do you even say it? ”

"I just said it, but you don't believe it, what's the use of me saying it again?"

"Gotta come on, I'm scared of you, can't I? Then tell me, why is it Li Jisi? Even if it's not Wang Yu, there are so many sons of other families in Kyoto, Zhang Lao's grandson, and Lord Wang's son-in-law, which one is not a dragon and phoenix among people? Why should it be his turn? ”

Lao Wang pulled Lao Zhang to a corner, and this time he was more cautious.

"I don't tell others easily, do you know who hosted this audition?"

"I know this, Xie Chengli Xie Taifu."

"Eh, that's right, I heard that a few days ago, Mrs. Xie invited this Li Jisi to dinner in Wangjiang Tower, isn't this obvious? This Li Jisi is obviously the person that Mrs. Xie has a crush on, and he is the host of this selection, you say, can Li Jisi not win much? ”

"Is that true?"

"Absolutely!"

Lao Zhang thought about it for a while, and finally decided to believe Lao Wang's words, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I'll go home tomorrow to get the money, I'll bet on Li Jisi!" ”

Lao Wang stopped Lao Zhang again, and continued to advise: "You can't tell others about this matter, you see that we have such a big chance of winning now, do you know?" ”

"Then you can rest assured, okay, I'll go first, and I'll invite you to dinner when I turn around."

The two parted ways and went home separately.

Not far away, a tall man in black listened to all their conversations.

North County.

Sun Tong looked at the letter from Kyoto and fell into deep thought.

Sun Zhiruo, who was on the side, stepped forward and asked, "Grandpa, what happened?" ”

Sun Tong didn't speak, but directly handed over the letter in his hand, "Look at it yourself." ”

After Sun Zhiruo read it, she thought that it was not true.

This morning, she received a secret letter from Xie Chengli, saying that Sun Tong might do something about the selection.

"Grandpa, what are you going to do?" Sun Zhiruo asked.

"The position of the Imperial Commander is very important to us, even if Lin Yi is dead, we must not give this position to others, Zhiruo, what do you think about this matter?" Sun Tong asked rhetorically.

Sun Zhiruo was thinking about how to answer, and after a long time, she said: "Grandpa, Zhiruo really doesn't know what to do, we have little power left in Kyoto, and the selection time is in a hurry, and we don't have time to plant our chess pieces in Kyoto, I'm afraid you will have to take action in person, grandpa." ”

Sun Tong smiled, pointed at Sun Zhiruo and said, "Hahaha, you are still too young, although we don't have time to arrange people in Kyoto, but there are ready-made ones inside." ”

"But grandpa, will those people be willing to help us?"

"Zhiruo, there is nothing in this world that power and money can't do, I haven't let you go to Kyoto before, just because I'm worried that you don't have enough experience, but then I thought about it, if you don't let you go out to practice, how can you improve? So this time, you should follow them to Kyoto as well. ”

"Thank you grandpa, Zhiruo will definitely live up to grandpa's expectations."

"Hahahaha, good boy, grandpa is waiting for your good news."

This matter was handed over to others, and Sun Tong was not at ease, so he finally let Steward Sun go, and by the way, he also took Sun Zhiruo with him.

Sun Zhiruo originally thought that Sun Tong was beginning to trust herself, after all, she was willing to take such a thing with her, but one day, when they were resting at the post station, Sun Zhiruo wanted to go to the market next door to buy some daily necessities, but she accidentally found that someone was secretly following her.

She was just about to force that person to act, but found out that this person turned out to be Sun Tong's person.

"This old fox still refuses to believe in himself, and he still says that he exercises himself, but in fact, it is just a temptation again and again."

Thanks to Sun Zhiruo's early discovery, otherwise, she would really have to relax her vigilance, if Sun Tong found out because of this, then their previous efforts would be in vain.

In the following journey, Sun Zhiruo never behaved out of the ordinary again, and stayed by Steward Sun's side obediently until she came to Kyoto.

Returning to the old place after a long absence, Sun Zhiruo still felt a little emotional, she said to Steward Sun: "Butler, can I go to Sun's Mansion to see, I haven't been home for a long time, Zhiruo misses it very much." ”

Sun Zhiruo said this sentence to awaken Steward Sun's empathy, after all, he had also lived in that place for decades.

Sure enough, this time Steward Sun didn't refuse again, "Miss Zhiruo, if you want to go back over there, go back and have a look." ”