"I recognize people, thank you." Xie Zhixi responded casually, but his eyes never left the figure in the distance.

When he heard this answer, he was a little surprised. In his only understanding of Xue Ji, Xue Ji and Chen Shao don't seem to be very harmonious, and even hate each other......

At this time, Chen Shao, who was drinking and laughing with his colleagues around him, noticed that there was a gaze staring at him all the time.

"Who is that?" Chen Shao keenly noticed Xie Zhixi's strange appearance not far away, so he patted his colleague beside him and asked.

"It should be Lord Xue's student, who came from Qianzhou."

As soon as the words fell, Chen Shao had already frowned, and he seemed to have a little impression when he heard this name, that it was the poor Xiucai who had been off the list for several years, and even Xue Ji had given up on him.

"I see."

Xie Zhixi saw that Chen Shao seemed to be pointing and asking at him, and he couldn't help but panic, hurriedly retracted his gaze, pretended to play with the wine glass in his hand, and pretended that nothing happened.

"Aren't you a good gambler, do you want to bet on how Lord Chen thinks of you?"

The man next to Xie Zhixi didn't miss the communication between the two of them, only to see him leaning lazily on the seat, reaching out to put his hand on Xie Zhixi's shoulder, and asked in a flirtatious tone.

Xie Zhixi's heart moved slightly, and some bold ideas were born unintentionally.

Chen Shao and Xue Ji have been on discord for a long time. Chen Shao has been in the office for ten years, and has won the appreciation of His Majesty, and now he is rising step by step, and he has become the secretary of the criminal department at a young age, and he can be regarded as an upstart in the imperial court, and the people who are attached to him are even more than Xue Ji back then.

And Xue Ji is the old ministry when His Majesty was King Ning, and not long ago he was already the prime minister, ranking first among the hundred officials, which can be said to be above 10,000 people under one person.

Chen Shao's arrogance is definitely not a thing in the pool, how can he just watch from the wall?

Xue Ji had already given up and ignored him, so how could he know if Chen Shao had no way out.

It was a big gamble indeed. However, if the bet wins......

"It's better to bet a little bigger, I bet he will be my nobleman."

He heard a few disdainful chuckles.

Several people around him heard his "bold words". Looking at this situation, I don't believe it.

"Wait."

Xie Zhixi moved back, waved his sleeves, and walked towards Chen Shao with a wine glass.

Of course, Chen Shao saw it, but he didn't rush to look at this nameless person, but talked to the officials beside him for a few words, leaving only his eyes to pay attention to the figure walking towards him.

Xie Zhixi had a humble look on his face, and approached Chen Shao and bowed his head: "Master Chen, student Xie Zhixi, I have admired you for a long time, I don't know if I can give you a drink?"

Chen Shao has been acrimonious since he was a child, and he was not polite at all to the person who greeted him with a smile: "I know you, you have taken the exam four times in the past ten years, and you have failed once, you have set up a gambling game in the teahouse, and you have made a lot of money by relying on Lord Xue, right?"

There were also a few officials around who looked at this side as if watching a play, and for a moment these three words were like a charcoal fire, burning the surrounding air hot and hot.

Xie Zhixi's cheeks were flushed, and the prepared polite words were stuck deep in his throat, and he didn't speak for a while.

At the same time, his heart was suddenly shocked, his bet in the teahouse on Xue Ji and Xu Yan who could worship the prime minister had never alarmed the officials, how could it fall into Chen Shao's ears? If Chen Shao knew about it, then Xue Ji ...... Thinking in his heart, the afterglow dissipated, and unconsciously drifted in the direction where Xue Ji was.

The officials on the side were accustomed to playing round and muddy, and in the face of this embarrassing scene in front of them, they had an extremely hypocritical smile on their faces, and waved their hands to comfort: "Lord Chen has always been upright, and his words are inevitably sharper, don't forget to take it personally."

Xie Zhixi bowed his head and smiled a little embarrassedly: "How dare you, Master Chen is quick to talk, and the students are very admired."

Chen Shao didn't mean to ease up at all, stared at Xie Zhixi, who was obviously full of flowers and intestines in front of him, sneered, and asked, "It's not that I picked you up from the countryside of Qianzhou, nor is it that I gave you to read and study and admire what I did."

The smile on Xie Zhixi's face did not change, and he still looked respectful and modest. "Lord Xue is a student's grace

But they are not necessarily the nobles of the students."

"According to you, he is not, I am?" Chen Shao looked at him coldly.

"The world is unpredictable."

The officials next to him either looked at them with inquiring eyes, or sighed softly and turned their heads to talk to others, but the two of them looked at each other and did not speak again.

Chen Shao looked at the person in front of him without saying a word for a long time, and finally looked away, filled a glass of wine casually, raised his eyebrows at him with a deep smile, and then raised his head and drank it.

After a moment, he turned the glass upside down with his backhand, but he didn't mean to speak.

At this moment, Xie Zhixi breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that he had won the bet again. Even if Chen Shao didn't say anything explicitly and didn't leave him an olive branch, he drank this glass of wine and already gave the answer.

"What, losing ugly?" When the man next to him saw him return, he looked up gloatingly and asked.

Xie Zhixi returned to his place and sat down, and put the wine glass on the table very casually. He raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, and his smile was indifferent.

"I've never lost a bet."

In the blink of an eye, Xue Ji has been worshipping the prime minister for two years, and the early summer of Changning for ten years is not peaceful.

Xue Ji sat in the room and didn't sleep, saying that it was an ordinary thing for a new official to take office with three fires, but he had three fires...... It took too long to burn.

In the past two years, many families in Beijing want to marry their daughters into the Prime Minister's Mansion as concubines, regardless of whether they follow Xue Ji or Xue Chen, but if they climb up to the family, they will not lose.

But Xue Chen's wife is a princess, and she is newly married, and the two of them are like glue, where is it so easy to take a concubine. And Xue Ji was busy with government affairs all day long, and even Su Yu, the original second room in the house, rarely saw him, let alone take another concubine.

At this time, only Shen Yurong can still go into the study to accompany him from time to time, and the two have respected each other for decades, which has become a habit.

"Where are you taking care of so many things, and you are more laborious than the long-lived lord in your posture this day?"

Xue Ji didn't raise his head, his eyes were always focused on the comic volume of official documents. "Your Majesty's old illness recurs from time to time, where can I work hard, and I am greedy and idle, won't the government really be wasted?"

Shen Yurong brushed his sleeves on the table, and insisted on attracting his gaze to himself, and said with a little complaint: "There are still so many officials in the three provinces and six ministries, and the imperial court is doing everything to support the idlers? If that's not enough, there are so many scholars in the world who have unpaid ambitions, why are you so busy alone?"

Xue Ji was helpless and comforted her: "It'll be fine in a few days, it'll be fine in a few days......

"You don't do it." Shen Yurong glared at him impatiently, and then changed the subject: "I have to remind you, I heard Wang Qu say that Zhixi doesn't read books lately, and he doesn't do anything serious and runs to Chen Shao's mansion all day long, you picked up such a good seedling from Qianzhou, it looks like it's going to be crooked."

Xue Ji frowned slightly, and memories gradually poured into his mind, and he was not unaware of several old things about Xie Zhixi...... I just feel that Xie Zhixi has passed the age where he needs to be stared at everywhere, and he should know right and wrong.

From setting up a gambling game with the position of prime minister back then, to clinging to Chen Shao on the day of Xue Chen's wedding banquet, a few years have passed, and he has never asked about these things, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't know. It's just that if he didn't ask, then Xie Zhixi became more and more out of line, and he had a posture of going to the black one way to the crooked road.

"Everyone has their own aspirations, so let me be clumsy and look at the wrong person."

Shen Yurong felt a little unbearable, Xie Zhixi was only a teenager when he came to Xue Ji's side, at that time, Xue Chen happened to be admitted to the capital by His Majesty to study, and there was only one child by her side, Xie Zhixi, and she treated him very kindly. After so many years, even if there is no blood relative, it is inevitable that there will be affection, and now Xue Ji said that she would give up if she gave up, she was ruthless.

She sat down sideways beside Xue Ji and stretched out her hand to wrap her arms around his forearm: "Since he has already married a wife, let his family persuade him a few words, maybe he can walk back to the right path."

Xue Ji didn't care, shook his head, and reached out to flip through the paperwork on the table.

"If she had the heart to admonish, she wouldn't have accepted him from gambling to win

Money to go back."