Li Mengzhou's body was a little stiff, he looked at Jiang Tingyu opposite in astonishment, his pupils contracted slightly, but he quickly put aside all his shock, and said unexpectedly: "What is the head of the courtyard talking about?" Do you suspect that I killed Taijing?"

He smiled bitterly and said: "Even if the person who killed Taijing may have something to do with the Sword Courtyard of the Imperial Palace, just because someone died under the "Flowing Clouds in the Sky" at the scene, it can't be related to me, right? Maybe it was some outcast in the Sword Academy, or someone secretly learned the swordsmanship of the Imperial Palace, so as to frame him?"

Jiang Tingyu stared at Li Mengzhou solemnly and said, "You really didn't do it?"

Li Mengzhou denied it, and said with extremely firm eyes: "I definitely didn't kill people." ”

His eyes are very firm and his attitude is very sincere, so that people can't see the slightest flaw.

After all, it was indeed not killed by him, but by Gu Shiyan, he did not lie, and there was no reason to feel empty.

Jiang Tingyu stared at Li Mengzhou for a long time, and gradually when Li Mengzhou really began to feel weak, the corners of his mouth rose and said, "I believe you." ”

As if he didn't come up in one breath, Li Mengzhou's body stiffened for a moment, and then he relaxed, and said with a calm face: "I have something I want to ask the head of the hospital." ”

Jiang Tingyu looked at him a little strangely, all of Li Mengzhou's reactions were seen by him, he was naturally not nothing, hearing Li Mengzhou say a request, he said casually: "Let's talk about it." ”

Li Mengzhou grinned at him, and then spat out two words that were light but heavy to many people.

"Borrow money. ”

Jiang Tingyu's expression became more and more strange.

He frowned calmly and said, "Don't you know that the word borrowed money can't be said casually?"

Li Mengzhou said with a smile: "I am a member of the Heavenly Council, and you are the boss of the Heavenly Council, it is very reasonable for me to borrow money like you, anyway, you can deduct my future income with a word, and you will not suffer." ”

Jiang Tingyu took a sip of wine and said, "In this way, I really won't suffer a loss, and I'm not afraid that you won't repay the money you borrowed." ”

Li Mengzhou raised a finger and said, "I don't want more, just a hundred taels." ”

Jiang Tingyu glanced at him and said lightly: "Do you know that this one hundred taels is your money for several years to come." ”

Li Mengzhou said indifferently: "Anyway, I can't jump out of the pit, this hundred taels was originally meant to be given to me, but I just got it in advance now, it makes no difference." ”

Jiang Tingyu said: "There have been some problems with capital turnover recently, why don't you have a little less, how about fifty taels?"

Li Mengzhou shook his head and said, "Eighty taels." ”

"I thought about it carefully, and I could only take out thirty taels. ”

"Then fifty taels!"

"This is twenty taels, even if I borrow you, it has nothing to do with your future income. ”

“......”

Qingyi looked at the two people under the orange tree blankly, wondering if there was something wrong with his ears?

In his opinion, this is a very strange picture.

After some bargaining, Li Mengzhou finally walked out of Tongming Lane with only ten taels of silver.

Qingyi closed the door of the courtyard, turned around and looked at Jiang Tingyu, who had a calm face, and asked suspiciously, "Is Li Mengzhou really the one who killed Taijing?"

Jiang Tingyu drank silently and said, "Yes or no, what does it matter, just take it as if it wasn't." ”

Qingyi stood hesitantly in place.

"He's tried to change the subject so many times, and he's a little nervous, but that doesn't mean he's a murderer, does it?"

Jiang Tingyu said faintly. Qingyi Zhengse said: "My subordinates understand." ”

......

At the entrance of Tongming Lane, Li Mengzhou stopped, looked back deeply, stuffed ten taels of silver into his arms, and slowly left with a heavy face.

He knew very well that Jiang Tingyu did not fully believe what he said.

And in the end, although it was true that Li Mengzhou was short of money, the deeper meaning was to change the topic.

Jiang Tingyu also cooperated with him to bargain, performing a scene as if buying vegetables in the vegetable market, thus ending today's meeting.

In the face of Jiang Tingyu, Li Mengzhou couldn't be pure and calm, even if Jiang Tingyu looked very good, there was always an invisible aura that wrapped him, making him be careful with every word he said, and even almost told the truth many times.

If this person was not Jiang Tingyu, Li Mengzhou's on-the-spot performance would be better, he himself knew this, but it was precisely because of Jiang Tingyu that it would be very difficult for him to lie quietly.

He knew very well where he had exposed his flaws, and he would not have a fluke mentality, feeling that Jiang Tingyu had not found out.

He had been calm enough to be tempted.

Fortunately, he understood what Jiang Tingyu meant.

Since Jiang Tingyu helped him hide some things and didn't keep asking questions, he had already expressed his attitude towards this matter.

Both parties feel that the best outcome is when nothing is exposed or perceived.

......

Li Mengzhou returned to Chaosi Lane at dusk.

Gu Shiyan sat on the rattan chair under the eaves of the courtyard, staring at him with a frosty face.

Flipping the lunch box in his hand, Li Mengzhou completely ignored the other party's cold and piercing eyes, and said, "I brought you dinner." ”

Gu Shiyan followed Li Mengzhou into the house and said coldly: "Next time you go out and can't come back early, give me the silver." ”

opened the lunch box, and the food inside was placed on the table one by one, Li Mengzhou said lightly: "Let you live here for free, you must be content, don't have so many requirements, and be a qualified guest obediently." ”

Gu Shiyan sat at the table, ready to eat, and said in the same plain voice: "I don't beat you every day, so I have to be content, or do you like to be beaten?"

Li Mengzhou took a step back, bowed down, raised his palms high, and said, "You are the eldest lady, you have the final say, please smile at eight taels of silver." ”

"Good. ”

Gu Shiyan unceremoniously took the silver, put it on the table casually, and said: "I won't live here forever, I still have my own things to do, but when I'm here, you have to be obedient, because I really don't like to beat people." ”

Li Mengzhou sat lazily on the stool and hummed heavily, his eyes full of resentment and disdain.

It's ridiculous to say that you don't like to beat people, and the ghost believes this kind of thing.

While eating, Gu Shiyan picked out a tael of silver and threw it to Li Mengzhou, and said: "There is always a decoration for the New Year, it takes money, and I promised that Taijing would not target his family, you choose a time to send some silver to his wife, which can be regarded as compensation." ”

Li Mengzhou was picking up the rice in his mouth, and when he heard this, he didn't raise his head, and said neatly: "Don't." ”

After thinking about it, he felt angry again, put down his chopsticks suddenly, glared at Gu Shiyan, and said angrily: "Don't go too far, live in my house, just spend my money, and want to give my silver to others, you treat me as a money bank!"

"Besides, you killed Taijing, you want to compensate his family, and you also want to take your own silver, what right do you have to dispose of my money so arbitrarily?"

"On top of that, I don't have any money. I risked my life to get the eight taels of silver, a total of ten taels, but you have already spent more than one or two for dinner, how can you also be in the imperial history, there is a lot of silver at home, it would be good if I didn't rob it, not to mention that people are not short of these eight taels of silver, right? Do you plan to make yourself hungry in the future?"

Li Mengzhou said a lot, in short, it all meant the same thing, that is, he didn't give money and didn't agree.

No matter what role Taijing played in that matter, in Li Mengzhou's opinion, he deserved it, even if there was a pair of poor mother and son left in his family, Li Mengzhou couldn't use his own money to help, except for a dead husband and a dead father, they casually threw away more silver than Li Mengzhou's entire family property, and he was absolutely unwilling to do such a stupid thing.

Although Li Mengzhou did have the purpose of killing Tai Jing, but in the end, Tai Jing died under Gu Shiyan's sword, and the person who caused the status quo of the mother and son was Gu Shiyan, why should he be asked to pay it back?

It's not that he is ruthless, when he knew that he had a disabled son, he could think of the miserable life of the mother and son in the future, and it was true that he served in the imperial history, but as soon as he died, his wife and children had no support, and it was difficult to keep the family business, but this was not the reason why Li Mengzhou had to give them silver.

Gu Shiyan didn't seem to expect Li Mengzhou to have such a big reaction, and naturally there were some of Li Mengzhou's grievances against Gu Shiyan, and she took the opportunity to vent it.

She thought about it very seriously and said: "I have never broken my trust in others, even if I killed Taijing, but I promised him, I will do it." ”

Li Mengzhou smiled coldly and said, "That's what you promised, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

Gu Shiyan said: "This is what I decided, and you have to do it whether you agree or not." ”

Li Mengzhou said angrily: "Even if your old man cuts off all hope in people's families, and then has a good heart, but helping others is not the only way to send money, right?

Gu Shiyan said blankly: "What else can you do besides sending money?"

Li Mengzhou looked at her speechlessly, and muttered: "Looking at this posture, I must have given away a lot of money, do you have to send some money to his family every time I kill someone? What kind of bad taste is this? Is it a good person or an evil person? It is definitely the worst evil person!"

He looked at the table full of dishes very helplessly, suddenly lost his appetite, sighed lightly, and said: "The people of Tangtai Jing cannot be resurrected when they die, and in addition, any help you give them cannot deny that you are the culprit who pulled them into the abyss." ”

"With a weak woman and a disabled teenager, it is impossible to keep the family business, and the only way out for them is to leave the capital. ”

"But the Xuan Zheng Division is still investigating this case, and it is impossible for them to leave at this time, if I go to deliver the money and accidentally bump into the Xuan Zheng Division's people, what should I do? ”

Gu Shiyan obviously didn't think about it so much, she said with some difficulty: "Then do you have any ideas?"

Li Mengzhou looked at Gu Shiyan silently.

There was a strange feeling in my heart.

It seems that it is the first time to see Gu Shiyan helplessly asking him for help, and I feel a special illusion of a serf turning over and singing.

Although this is the third day he has known Gu Shiyan, this feeling is extremely full, as if he has been suppressed by Gu Shiyan for a long time and is finally about to counterattack.

I don't know which tendon didn't match correctly, Li Mengzhou said: "I'll go to Taijing's house tonight, whether it's to send money or what, find out their situation, and then I can prescribe the right medicine." As long as no one falls into the well, the people in the house will not take the opportunity to bully their orphans and widows, and going with the flow is the best way. ”