However, Shi Miyuan still regretted his rebuke just now, he needed to use coral to contain Xia Zhen to work for himself, so he should be more patient and hypocritical to her. Otherwise, if Coral is no longer willing to trust himself and get close to himself, I am afraid that Xia Zhen will also follow suit. He needs Xia Zhen, compared to Qin Guoxi's cunning, Xia Zhen is a simple-minded and loyal person, and he is sincere to those who are loyal and those who are beloved.

"Your Excellency." Xia Zhen really replied: "Coral escaped from the chase and traveled a long distance to come here, it must be very hard, and it is normal to see the wrong person in a trance for a while, even if Hou Zhen didn't find it, it may not be true, you can relax." Besides, hasn't Hou Xin already found out about the foothold of those two children in Lin'an? If you want to see these two children, when the lower officials find out the mastermind of kidnapping Sango, we can naturally find an excuse to ask the teacher for the crime, and then we can naturally bring these two children up justifiably, and it is not at this time. ”

Seeing that the four people at the table didn't seem to pay attention to themselves anymore, Bihu wanted to quietly withdraw, so he secretly moved his steps backwards. Shi Miyuan smiled to himself and said, "Xia Zhen is reasonable, and the old man is also anxious. If those two children appear nearby, it means that those who want to frame us behind our backs are coming with us. Perhaps, everyone's every move is being watched by people now, and if you want to do it at any time, you have to guard against it. ”

He was joking, and he wanted to attribute the reason why he scolded Coral to his own concern for the safety of others. Unexpectedly, this sentence made Hou Zhen vigilant, he looked at Bihu seriously, and said: "Why do you keep your head down, you raise your head, I'll take a look." This sentence hooked everyone's defensive hearts.

Bihu knew that he had reached the point where he could not avoid it, thinking that if he insisted on refusing to raise his head, it would mean that there was a ghost in his heart; If you look up, you may be able to escape with the heavy makeup on your face. She raised her head slowly, made a blank look, and looked at Hou Zhen blankly.

Hou Zhen raised his eyebrows and stared at Bihu seriously, causing Xia Zhen on the side to also take a look, and asked Hou Zhen, "What's wrong?" Hou Zhen shook his head and said to everyone: "Judging from the clothes, the villain should be a person he just met at Shengge, so he wanted to identify it, but he didn't expect to recognize the wrong person." Xia Zhen chuckled and said, "It can be seen that your eyesight is really poor, and it is not credible to think about the two children just now." ”

After saying this, Xia Zhen waved his hand and signaled that Bihu could go. Bihu was relieved and hurriedly turned away, but Hou Zhen suddenly patted his head and said, "Wait, where should I have seen her." Bihu pretended not to hear, and continued to walk forward, but the two guards who guarded the door reached out to stop her. Shi Miyuan coughed, seemed to be a little disgusted by Hou Zhen's instability, and said, "Then you should look carefully, don't be so surprised." ”

Compared with his elder brother Hou Xin, although they are the same yin owl on the outside, they are indeed less calm and urban than the things inside. However, such a person often makes people forget to guard him, so they can do some errands to find out the news. It was for this reason that Shi Miyuan sent him to the mansion of Qi Enming, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and wanted Hou Zhen to secretly check who this Qi Enming, who was trying to tie up with him, was closer to him.

Hou Zhen lived up to expectations, not only found out the details of Qi Enming, but also learned that the huge amount of silver taels that Qi used to honor Shi Miyuan was not from the shadow of his ancestors, as he said, but from several institutions under the Ministry of Rites, forcibly withheld. Qi Enming's audacity and recklessness made Shi Miyuan unexpected: although Qi Enming is a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, such a blatant request for bribes will reach the ears of the official family sooner or later.

If Qi Enming is strictly investigated, he will naturally find that half of the money looted from his Shi Miyuan Prime Minister's Mansion has been ruined, which has damaged the image of his painstaking management in the past few years. Although a few years ago, Shi Miyuan only had superficial respect for this emperor who he personally found from the people and helped him to the throne, but he didn't dare to let Zhao Heju know too much evidence of his crimes, lest Zhao Heju be full-fledged in the future, and he was afraid that he would overdo it, so he added the charges together and punished him with a capital crime.

Shi Miyuan knew in his heart that supporting the new lord was the same as raising tigers, so he often told Qin Guoxi such a story: Orion was afraid of the big tiger in the mountains, so he killed the big tiger with a beast clip, but the mountain could not be without the king, so he picked up a lone little tiger and went back to raise it.

When the tiger was young, it did not hunt by itself, so it naturally obeyed the words of the hunter, and the hunter could also rely on his kindness to give orders to the beasts in the mountains, and live a beautiful and carefree life for a few years. But when the little tiger grows up one day, it may not be so tame. If you have a grudge against it at this time, you will inevitably be eaten by it, so the best thing to do is not to expose any mistakes as an excuse for the tiger to exert its power.

However, Shi Miyuan seems to ignore one point, even if Orion does not reveal any flaws, or his merits outweigh his faults, when the little tiger grows up, he may take Orion's life on trumped-up charges in order to avenge the innocent and tragic death of his own clan. Perhaps, Shi Miyuan thought of this, and had already begun to quietly arrange preparations for his future escape.

In short, no matter whether Shi Miyuan thought about the consequences of raising tigers in this way, he decided to personally get rid of Qi Enming, a corrupt official, as his own credit. After all, the greater the credit and the more he accumulates, the more it is like a pair of armor, and when Song Lizong decides to eat him, it is not easy to eat. Since then, when Shi Miyuan learned where Qi Enming had deducted the silver taels, he would send someone to quietly use Qi Enming's banner to ask for a large bribe again, and squeezed all the departments under the Ministry of Rites to the bitterness.

Under the double blackmail of Qi Enmingli and Shi Miyuan, only a few months later, the Salesian Bureau personally ordered by Song Lizong was the first to be overwhelmed, and it was difficult to prepare even the daily vegetable food and clothes needed by the children in the bureau. The Zhang family, who undertook the Children's Charity Bureau, joined forces with the Ritual Department, the Ceremony Department, the Ancestral Department, the Casting and Printing Bureau, and the Fine Diet Bureau, and handed the complaint to the Yushitai and the Second Division of Dali Temple, crying and accusing Qi Enming of his heinous crimes.

This incident caused an uproar in the court for a while, and Shi Miyuan, who knew the cause and effect of this incident, found Qi Enming for a long talk before the incident: on the one hand, he criticized him for deceiving himself and being too greedy, which had caused the officials to be extremely dissatisfied, and on the other hand, he comforted him and said that he would intercede for it, so that he would not be killed. Qi Enming knew that he had scavenged a lot of money, but he didn't know that he had already fallen into Shi Miyuan's trap, and when he heard the words, he thanked him again and again, and after a few days, he confessed all the charges in the court, and let Shi Miyuan fall for him.

Li Zong originally wanted to kill Qi Enming to enforce the law and discipline of the dynasty, but Shi Miyuan was worried that once Qi Enming was forced to a dead end, it would inevitably be difficult to find a lawyer to judge the case, but it would be difficult to deal with it, so he used the reason that "killing the big man is easy to make the court situation turbulent, and besides, the imperial court is the time to employ people, and the jurisdiction of the southern states and counties still needs capable people", so that Li Zong demoted Qi Enming's mansion to Enzhou, which can be regarded as saving Qi Enming's life.

At that time, Hou Zhen, as a domestic servant of Qi Mansion, was registered and had to be sent to Enzhou. Shi Miyuan naturally didn't want to put his chess piece next to a person who had lost his role; He was even more reluctant for a person who knew too many of his secrets to be too far away from his sight, so he instructed Cao Kechun to designate Hou Zhen and several other domestic servants in the Qi Mansion as non-compliant personnel and pull them to the market to sell, so as not to let Hou Zhen also follow him to Enzhou, which is like the end of the world.

Shi Miyuan originally sent a letter to Hou Zhen, telling him that no matter where he was sold, he would wait for a year and a half, and it would not be too late to come back after the rumors had passed. Otherwise, the house slaves of the Qi Mansion appeared in his Shi Miyuan Mansion after the incident, so that those who were not with him could see it, and they didn't know what suspicions they had to spread to the official family. Unexpectedly, less than a year later, Hou Zhen returned to his eyes and saved his other chess piece-coral.