The guy turned around and left after delivering the tea, and Xue Ji was about to push the door out, but stopped at the moment when he stepped out of the door.

"That's not right."

Xue Ji turned his head suddenly, just in time to see Qin Xu lifting the teapot and pouring a full cup of hot tea, the fragrance of tea overflowing, rushing to his face.

"Don't drink yet." Xue Ji hurriedly approached and grabbed him and put the tea back on the table.

Qin Xu saw that his face was full of vigilance, and he was a little more vigilant in his heart. "There's something wrong with this tea?"

Xue Ji wasn't sure, but he already had some immature guesses. In any case, it's safer to give it a try first.

He rummaged for a long time and found a silver needle from his bag.

Seeing this, Qin Xu couldn't help but laugh: "You still have this with you?"

Xue Ji glanced at him helplessly: "I don't need it, this is for you."

As soon as the words fell, the silver needle entered the cup, and the tea soaked the tip of the silver needle.

After waiting for a while, Xue Ji raised his hand to lift the silver needle to the surface of the water, and frowned again to examine it carefully.

The silver needle has not changed.

"Could it be that you're suspicious?"

Xue Ji didn't speak, put away the silver needle, turned his head and beckoned Qi Hui to come over.

"Qi Hui, you want to find a way to get a chick, a mole or something like that, and you want a living thing! Don't let anyone see it."

Qi Hui just rested for a while before he took such an errand, and suddenly his face was bitter: "You can't toss me like this, where can I get it......

Xue Ji didn't listen to his wailing, and pushed him out of the door: "You think of a way, if you can't get it back, don't come back."

As soon as Qi Hui left, Xue Ji and Qin Xu were left in the house.

"What do you see?" Qin Xu asked thoughtfully.

Xue Ji walked to the table and sat down, his expression more serious: "That person just now didn't dare to raise his eyes from beginning to end, and besides, his hands were shaking. Send a cup of tea, how can you be so nervous? Unless the tea is unusual."

The faces of the two gradually became solemn, their eyes met, and they looked at each other without saying a word.

If you really want to talk about it, even if you suspect that there is a problem with the tea, it's a big deal to change a pot, or go out to get clean water and come back, if you really can't change an inn, there is no need to toss so hard.

But both of them thought about it, and the point was not how about this pot of tea.

Who would find a way to poison a businessman? This is still a poison that can't be tested with a silver needle, and the price is expensive.

If there is a problem with this pot of tea, it must be that Qin Xu's identity and whereabouts have been exposed.

Moreover, there are people who are plotting against each other.

These are far more important than a pot of tea.

This matter is a bit tricky, but Qi Hui can be valued by Qin Xu, and he is appointed to come out with him, he is by no means an ordinary person who is mediocre. But after a while, Qi Huiti came back with a food box.

From the moment Qi Hui entered the house, Xue Ji's eyes never left the food box in his hand, he did have an idea to find such a thing and pack it back.

Qi Hui put the food box on the table, raised his hand to wipe a handful of sweat, and then opened the lid to reveal a cloud of gray hair inside. "Chicks and moles are not easy to get, just see this gray rabbit, do you think it can be done?"

It's not that it can't be done, it's just a little bigger, if it's really dead for a while, it's not easy to deal with.

Xue Ji frowned slightly, stretched out his hand to lift the gray rabbit's ears, looked left and right, and reached out to tease it twice, confirming that its limbs were sound and fresh.

"That's it."

Xue Ji poured a cup of tea and put it in front of the gray rabbit, this guy was not stunned, moved two steps forward, approached the edge of the cup and smelled it, and then stretched out his tongue and dipped the tea.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly froze, and the three pairs of eyes were fixed on the gray rabbit, who was still alive and kicking.

About a quarter of an hour passed, and I saw the gray rabbit curled up on the table motionless.

"Is this dead?" Qin Xu raised his eyebrows and asked.

Qi Hui stretched out his hand and pressed it on the gray rabbit, sensing that it was still undulating, his eyes paused, as if he was stunned for a moment: "It's still alive, there is movement."

Xue Ji didn't know how to let go for a while

Anger or add a little vigilance.

Qin Xu was a little tired: "Are you suspicious? Maybe the man just came here to do this, and he couldn't help but be nervous."

Xue Ji didn't speak, was he really suspicious? But that man's every move made him suspicious, how could this kind of intuition that made people can't help but be wary of it......

"Like, like I'm going to die!" Qi Hui had not moved at the table all this time, and then suddenly exclaimed, his eyes widened, and his face was full of surprise.

Xue Ji suddenly came back to his senses, approached and took a closer look at the gray rabbit, only to see that its eyes were closed and trembling all over, and after a while, it gradually stopped moving, and when he reached out and touched it, there was no temperature on his body at all, and it was stiff like a corpse.

Or rather, it's a corpse.

"Your Majesty...... Brother, it's dead."

The air was suddenly quiet.

I saw that Qin Xu's brows were tightly locked, and his eyes were mixed with anger, more solemn.

"Do you want to change the inn?" Xue Ji asked tentatively.

Qin Xu hesitated for a long time, and finally shook his head, exhaled heavily, and had the meaning of gambling: "No need, just the courage of that person, if he can't do it once, he will definitely not dare to do it a second time." Anyway, Ningzhou should go back to Beijing after two days of watching here, and I want to see what other means they have."

Xue Ji threw the corpse of the gray rabbit back into the food box, motioned for Qi Hui to take it out and dispose of it, then turned his head to look at Qin Xu, and said, "Do you want to find out who it is?"

Who is it? Qin Xu sneered, if there are only a few people who are looking forward to his death today, come and go?

"Investigation is to investigate, I will let Xu Yan pay attention, the focus is not on who it is, but who came up with the idea."

Dingguohou said well, fish can't live without water, and eagles without claws are not as good as pheasants.

There are too many minions around him.

Qin Xu guessed well, the ill-intentioned guy in the inn was indeed as cowardly as a mouse, this plan failed, and he didn't dare to act rashly.

At this time, the sun was three poles, and it was the summer heat, Xue Ji followed Qin Xu and walked on the edge of the construction site where the river was being dug, only to feel that the gusts of wind were coming, but they were all hot winds, steaming people sweating, which was really unbearable.

Qin Xu happily walked back and forth, his plain cloth clothes were really abrupt walking in this place, but after a while, someone came to block the way.

The man was shirtless, dark-skinned, covered in dust, and his hair was loosely tied, and he pointed at people and shouted, "What are you doing? The imperial court is repairing the river, how can you be allowed to snoop at will!"

Xue Ji was about to step forward to explain, but was secretly stopped by Qin Xu.

Qin Xu personally approached a few steps forward and said with a smile, "There is a merchant below, and he happened to pass by here. I don't know what the court is not court, but I have some doubts, and I hope that the little brother will answer one or two." Then he handed him a purse of broken silver.

The man was stunned for a moment, and immediately looked around to make sure that no one saw it before he dared to respond: "What doubts? If I had known, I would not have hidden it from you."

Qin Xu pointed to the construction site behind him and asked, "The work of the imperial court, just give you these things?"

Xue Ji listened from behind, and when he heard this, he was puzzled, and looked around, only to see a mountain of masonry, mud and sand, and the workers who came and went were either bare hands or holding a shovel.

It seems to be a little chilly.

Before the man could answer, Qin Xu asked again, "Besides, don't you have an official here?"

The man scratched his head and said with some disdain: "The court is busy fighting, how can we have the money to toss this and not have it. You have to ask Master Zhang, where do you look, he is the one who is drinking tea in the shed."

Qin Xu looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, he saw a small figure in the distance that was almost invisible.

Xue Ji asked again, "How did I hear that the imperial court did not allocate a lot of funds? Besides, the war with Hu Rong has also stopped."

"Huh." The man squinted and sneered: "I don't know if the imperial court has allocated funds, anyway, that's what it says, the imperial court has no money, let's make do with it, this river is dug out for merchants to transport goods, and it can't hinder the errand of the official family, why bother so much."

It's arrogant.

Xue Ji was speechless for a while, so he did

is from a merchant family, and this is the first time I know that businessmen have to be excluded so much openly and secretly.

Qin Xu didn't ask any more questions, he turned around and was about to leave, and finally looked at the figure in the distance, and pressed his evil anger in the bottom of his heart.

This way back, Xue Ji has not said a word. After returning to the inn, Qin Xu called him a few times in a row, but he didn't respond.

"Xue Ji!"

Xue Ji was shocked, and finally came back to his senses.

"What's wrong?"

Qin Xu had just handed over the sealed letter to Qi Hui and motioned for him to take it and send it. Then, his gaze moved back to Xue Ji's body, and his tone was a little more solemn than usual: "Pack up your things and prepare to return to Beijing."

Kyocaka

Soon after the army returned to the court, it stands to reason that the main general should enter the palace to face the saint and return the talisman.

At this time, Qin Xu was not in Beijing, and he was said to be sick and unfit to go to the court, and only Jiang Yan and Xu Yan could enter the palace to face the saint, so it was obviously not so easy for the lord to return the talisman.

The DPRK and China have different opinions and discussions.

In the end, in front of everyone, the chief general personally handed over the talisman to Jiang Yan, and then Jiang Yan entered the palace to return the talisman to the 'saint'.

Besides, for Qin Xu's serious illness, rumors have long spread in the court, and people's hearts are like smoke, and no one has time to pay attention to such a formality.

Among the hundreds of officials, Chen Shao was the only one who couldn't take his eyes off the whole time.

After the end, Chen Shao hid in the crowd and looked in the direction of Chen Yu from a distance, as he expected, Chen Yu and the main general who had just returned triumphantly glanced at each other.

After the crowd dispersed, Chen Shao took off the official robe outside and let his subordinates take it back. He left the palace quietly in his usual clothes, and followed the lord all the way to the city and bustle.

He carefully avoided the flow of people and followed his gaze closely until he reached the outside of a teahouse.

The master stopped, and Chen Shao immediately hid aside, standing in front of a hawker's stall and pretending to pick out objects.

When he looked back again, he saw a familiar figure appear in front of the main general.

As he expected, it was Chen Yu.

"You brought about your own destruction." Chen Shao muttered to himself.