"Finished?"

Qin Xu patiently listened to the long speech of the person in front of him, and finally waited for him to pause for a while, immediately interrupted in a deep voice, and looked at him with cold eyes.

Cheng Bujing was unaware of the anger of the Son of Heaven, and he was still ready to continue chattering.

Qin Xu was impatient, picked up a pile of pieces on the table, slapped it on the table, and scolded angrily: "You keep saying that I am deceived by female cadres, can I not know why I am on patrol!" According to you, it is I who have confused myself, and I am the woman who is the man?"

"The minister didn't say that." Cheng Bujing restrained a little, but he didn't mean to back down. "That minister dares to ask Your Majesty, why did Shang Shuling Xue Ji disappear for two months and still haven't returned?"

I don't know if it's an illusion, Chen Yu always feels that there are two more eyes on his body.

The expression on Qin Xu's face was very strange, like anger, like sneering, and a little heavy. "I asked him to go with him. He did a good job, and without him, I might have died in an inn in Ningzhou, or at the hands of the Assassins outside Xucheng. What, what dirty water does Master Cheng want to pour on him?"

Cheng Buxin opened his mouth but couldn't speak, and looked at his colleagues on both sides with some embarrassment, and no one planned to pull him.

He retreated to his place and said nothing.

It's rare to see it, Cheng Bu was speechless.

As for where Xue Ji is now, there is still no answer, and no one dares to continue to ask.

Qin Xu retracted his gaze, and didn't have time to entangle with this old man anymore, so he immediately suppressed the annoyance in his heart, and threw the other pile of documents in his hand to the bottom of the steps with a cold face.

"Lord Yu, you have been in the Ministry of Rites for more than ten years, and you ...... about these things I think you know a thing or two, right?"

The paper spread out on the ground was messily scattered, and the paper clearly wrote all kinds of chaos in the Jiangnan imperial examination, and clearly dissected and laid out the pickled deeds hidden in the depths of the bureaucracy from each other.

Yu Huan picked up the paperwork on the ground with trembling hands, and his face turned pale at a glance, and a little bead of sweat oozed from his forehead.

No one could have imagined that in the blink of an eye, the spearhead changed direction, and he was so caught off guard and so ruthless that he slandered Zhongshu Ling Yuhuan.

"Your Majesty, the minister heard about it, and at the time I only thought it was a rumor, but I didn't expect the officials below to be really bold! If the minister has neglected to overlook, please condemn your majesty."

Sure enough, it was an old woman who was involved in officialdom and was a cunning guy, and the word "negligence" pushed herself cleanly, and how many crimes were reduced.

Qin Xu frowned tightly, a pair of eagle eyes stared at his face, and deliberately accentuated his tone: "Just neglected?"

Yu Huan forced himself to calm down, bowed his head and kowtowed again, repeating: "The minister is negligent, and the minister is guilty."

"Good!" Qin Xu laughed loudly: "Lord Yu is so bold." At this point, his eyes turned to Feng Mingjian, the secretary of Dali Temple in the crowd, and ordered in a deep voice: "Lord Feng, this matter is presided over by Dali Temple, and I want you to find out all the officials involved, and no one will be left behind!"

Feng Mingjian was surprisingly calm, as if he had expected it. "Obey."

Qin Xu lowered his gaze, and a thought arose in his heart, it was time for the officials in Jiangnan and even the whole country to rectify and rectify.

On the other side, Xue Jiben wanted to find a medical hall to bandage his wounds at will, and left Xucheng at dawn the next morning.

But when he arrived at the infirmary, he showed the doctor, who groped for his beard and talked earnestly for more than half an hour, just to warn him that he was seriously injured and should not hurry. Under the repeated persuasion of the doctor, Xue Ji finally compromised, stayed and recuperated, and did not dare to leave until his injuries stabilized.

With Qin Xu's words in the court, rumors about how Xue Ji would save the car spread in the capital, and even whether he was alive or dead was privately speculated by the people in the capital.

At noon at this time, Xue Ji rode a BMW on his crotch, wearing a newly bought black robe in Xucheng, and stopped outside the gate of the capital.

"Who?"

Xue Ji looked at the pawn in front of him, turned over and landed on the ground and led the BMW behind him, and responded with a smile: "I am Shangshu Ling Xue Ji."

The pawns guarding the city were taken aback when they heard this, and they stumbled

Only then did he utter a whole sentence: "Yes, what is the proof?"

Xue Ji took off the jade pendant on his waist and handed it to him: "Everyone will recognize this jade pendant if you take it to the Xue Mansion."

The pawn looked at the jade pendant, and after hesitating repeatedly, he turned around and found a few people.

"This person claims to be Lord Xue of Shang Shuling, you go to Lord Xue's mansion and invite someone to come."

But in a quarter of an hour, Wang Qu's figure appeared not far away.

When Wang Qu saw Xue Ji, tears were raining down, Xue Ji had never seen him like this, he looked funny, but he was really emotional.

"Okay, I still have to enter the palace to face the saint."

"The minions will send you."

When Xue Ji arrived in front of the door of the imperial study, Xu Yan happened to be inside, and as soon as the next person saw him coming, he immediately went in to spread the word, Qin Xu was shocked when he heard this, and he was immediately pleased, so he was announced.

"Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live your Majesty."

When Xue Ji leaned down and bowed, he was in a trance, it was really a long-lost etiquette of a monarch and a minister...... He hadn't saluted or called His Majesty for more than two months.

"Hurry up." Qin Xu beckoned him to come forward, his eyes looked back and forth on him, and he couldn't help but be surprised, this injury didn't seem to be serious, how did he do it?

Xu Yan avoided a few steps, and congratulated him with a smile: "Congratulations to Qingzhi, this is a great fortune to get out of danger."

It was at this moment that Qin Xu raised his eyebrows and looked at him, and asked intentionally or unintentionally, "I am also very surprised, how did you get out of danger?"

These questions were expected by Xue Ji a long time ago, and how to deal with them had already been fully prepared, but if he really wanted to talk nonsense in front of the palace, it still made him break out in a cold sweat and be restless.

"Thinking that he would die anyway, he would not fall into the hands of the assassins, so he jumped off the cliff. It was His Majesty's dragon qi that blessed him, and when he fell off the cliff, he was fortunate to hang on the trunk of a tree in the mountain, so he was able to survive."

As soon as the words fell, Xue Ji's heart was already sinking, how could he not know that he was bullying the king if he made up nonsense.

Under this heavy pressure, Xue Ji was empty in his heart.

He was afraid, afraid of His Majesty's suspicion, and even more afraid of His Majesty's questioning, even if he asked one more question, "How did you climb up from the cliff?" I'm afraid he won't be able to answer.

Xue Ji was uneasy in his heart, and Qin Xu's face was even more gloomy when he heard it.

The two of them didn't speak, and Xu Yan didn't ask a word, sorting out the messy notes and official documents on the imperial case by himself.

After being silent for a long time, Qin Xu didn't say anything more, only raised his eyes to look at him and smiled softly.

"You have made a lot of meritorious contributions this time, go back and recuperate well."

Xue Ji quietly raised his eyes to look at the Son of Heaven on the seat, there was really nothing unusual on this face, he could only force himself to breathe a sigh of relief for the time being.

"The minister retired."

Seeing Xue Ji's figure leave the door of the imperial study, Qin Xu turned his head, looked at Xu Yan on the side, and asked in a deep voice. "Do you think what he said is true or false?"

"Flawed."

Xu Yan said truthfully, but he was faintly worried in his heart.

Xue Ji's character is not bad, but on this point, he attaches too much importance to affection...... Chen Yu is already self-inflicted and can't live, such a person who has buried his eyebrows in the soil, can he be rescued by trying to deceive the king with his Xue Ji's words?

I'm afraid it's wishful thinking.

"Don't talk about him." Qin Xu sighed heavily. "You just said that Chen Yu is holding a talisman in his hand?"

Xu Yan came back to his senses and remembered the matter of entering the palace to face the saint today, so he temporarily scattered the fragmentary thoughts in his mind, and said, "Exactly, after hearing the news, the minister privately ordered someone to investigate, and Chen Yu really had a talisman hidden in his hand."

Qin Xu's gaze gradually cooled: "In other words, that boss is very bold and dares to use fake talismans to fool me?"

"Presumably, seeing that His Majesty is not in the capital, I think the prime minister is so confused." Xu Yan lowered his voice and said.

Qin Xu couldn't help sneering, Jiang Yan is a good skill, and being a prime minister to achieve his appearance is also unprecedented.

"Did King Ann tell him to do it, or still

What did he do to bewitch King Ann?"

Xu Yan hesitated for a moment, and said with some hesitation, "I think ...... I'm afraid King An doesn't know yet."

"What?" Qin Xu was taken aback, and his tone involuntarily increased a little.

"I'm afraid King An doesn't know yet."

That's too daring!

Chen Yu has always been loyal to King An alone, this is something he has known for a long time, but he never imagined that Chen Yu could be so bold as to hide from King An and make personal friends with generals, and even steal military talismans!

Qin Xu's face was extremely heavy, and there was a thousand feet of ice in his eyes, in his heart, Chen Yu was already a person who had been sentenced to death.

"The poisoning of the Ningzhou Inn and the assassin of the dead soldiers outside the city, these are all related to him, right?"

"The minister does not dare to draw conclusions."

Xu Yan didn't dare to say it, and Qin Xu didn't need to listen to him, who else could there be besides An Wang's party who could be bent on taking his life at such a time? And among King An's party, the most thief is not Chen Yu.

A hint of fierceness flashed in Qin Xu's eyes, but after a moment, he chuckled again: "Ruqing, the one you said personally came to you to report this matter...... What's your name?"

Xu Yan owed a debt and said truthfully: "It's from the Criminal Department, Chen Shaozi Jie'an, a person from Jiangling."

"Chen Shao? Gangneung people?" Qin Xu paused, as if he remembered something. "What does he have to do with Chen Yu?"

Xu Yan sighed in his heart, when Chen Shao reported his home, he noticed that something was wrong, and immediately ordered someone to check Chen Shao's life experience, and sure enough, he used it today.

"Chen Shao and Chen Yu are cousins, Chen Yu's biological father died young, and Chen Shao's father brought him up...... Chen Shao can come to the door to denounce Chen Yu, I am afraid that he has accumulated a grudge for many years."

Qin Xu probably understood when he heard this, but the words 'Jiangling people' went around in his mind, and he remembered something again.

"What is the relationship between him and Xue Ji?"

"I can't find out if it's too detailed, but Chen Yu is Xue Ji's cousin, so Xue Ji and Chen Shao should also be cousins." Speaking of this, Xu Yan suddenly chuckled: "It's interesting to say, the word Chen Shao's 'Jie'an' was given by Xue Ji."