In the prison room, the radio was playing the news of Li Ji's visit to Xuezhou County by the commander of Jinyiwei, and all circles in Xuezhou County attached great importance to Li Ji's arrival, and all walks of life held a grand welcoming ceremony.

For more than ten years, the political, legal, military, and clan circles of Xuezhou County have not jointly held a grand ceremony.

The last time it was so lively was when Emperor Gaozu visited Dongzhou more than ten years ago.

In addition to tonight's joint welcome ceremony, all walks of life are also preparing for a separate welcome ceremony, and at least five days, Lee Ki's itinerary will be full.

When Zhou Bei returned to the prison cell, the announcer of the Xuezhou County Radio was introducing the scale of the banquet in the county guard's mansion, and almost everyone who could be ranked in the name participated in the banquet.

Xu Gongcheng and Hou Guiqiang listened with relish, and when they saw Zhou Bei coming back, they just nodded, for fear that they would miss the details when they spoke.

When the dinner party entered the main meal time, the radio began to introduce Li Ji's entourage, and several people listened fascinated.

When Li Ji arrived in Dongzhou this time, he brought with him a delegation of as many as 100 people, with 15 representatives from the military, politics, law, and parliament, and then the four major intelligence organizations also sent 10 people each, and the Jinyi Guard had the largest number of 30 people.

After today, these people will be divided into 10 groups and go to various places to find out the situation.

Each squad has a representative of a different system.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the cell and the sound of banging on the iron bar. "It's time to eat......"

When Xu Gongcheng heard this, he immediately jumped down from the shop and put three rice bowls and three soup bowls at the door.

The door of the prison cell is covered with a transparent fence above and below, and only the middle door lock is separated by an iron sheet nearly one meter wide to prevent the people inside from picking the door lock.

The width of the fence is 12 centimeters, and the rice spoon can be inserted directly, but no one can get out of it anyway.

The prison cell in Dali Temple is the detention room before the prisoner is tried, and it is also the only cell where there is no work.

Of course, all the expenses here have to be paid by the prisoners themselves. If you don't have money, you can only guarantee that you won't starve.

Zhou Bei has money, saved a lot of money in the account, and bought a first-class package, with vegetables, meat and soup for every meal.

There were three prison guards who delivered the meals, one pushing a flatbed cart and two serving food.

There were four iron buckets on the flatbed, one containing white rice, one meat and one vegetarian, and a pot of mushroom soup.

Hou Guiqiang leaned on the door and said with a smile: "Official, if you have a little more rice, you can't eat enough every time......"

The prison guard who served the meal said: "You pay for the first-class meal, and you are given the most money each time, which is not enough......

The expression was disgusted, but when the rice was served, half a spoonful of rice was added to everyone's big rice bowl. Afterwards, half a spoon of vegetarian vegetables and half a spoon of meat vegetables are combined with vegetable soup and covered with rice.

"You're lucky today, you can't finish the mushrooms sent by the prison, I'm afraid of spoilage, so I've made them for you tonight."

Sure enough, the usual mushroom soup only has one or two slices of mushrooms, and many times you don't see the mushrooms, but today, one bowl and half a bowl are full of mushrooms.

Hou Guiqiang smiled and thanked him, and the prison guards who delivered the meal nodded, and then walked to the next cell.

The three of them put the food together, and without thinking about speaking, they devoured it.

Hou Guiqiang is twenty-nine this year, Xu Gongcheng is twenty-five, and Zhou Bei is the youngest nineteen years old.

The shortest of the three of them, Hou Guiqiang, also has 1.8 meters and weighs 18, Xu Gongcheng is nearly 1.9 meters and weighs 200, and Zhou Bei is 1.82 meters and weighs 16.

The three of them are all martial arts practitioners, and they are in their prime, and the amount of food for one person is two or three times that of ordinary people.

The nutrients in it can only be said to be barely enough, and the consumption of meals is even greater.

I have a lot of food every time, but I often feel hungry at night.

After eating a large bowl of food, the three of them let out a breath and began to drink the soup slowly.

There was no news on the radio at this time, but music was playing, and Zhou Bei told them his decision.

Xu Gongcheng was very unhappy, and felt that Zhou Bei's loss this time was too great, but Hou Guiqiang, who had rich experience, persuaded him: "The two palaces have joined forces to deal with Zaiheng, and Zaiheng can't stop it even if he has three heads and six arms, so he reckon with fate."

As long as it does not affect Zai Heng's future, Zai Heng will also become a big official in the future, and he will naturally have the opportunity to retaliate and come back. These palaces are also empty shelves, it is not easy to bring them down, but it is still easy to deal with someone. ”

Zhou Bei was silent for a moment and asked him. "Brother Guiqiang, you are now helping Qinglou to buy and monopolize the solicitation business, and it doesn't hurt the legality to say it, this time you offended the Changjun Lord, I'm afraid she will target you in the future, do you have a plan for the next step?"

Xu Gongcheng retired two years ago and became an entourage for Zhou Bei, Zhou Bei paid him a salary, bought him insurance, as long as the two of them were willing, they could renew the contract for a lifetime.

But Hou Guiqiang was innocently implicated this time, not to mention the loss of his imprisonment, and he will also be affected in the future.

Although he is not a good person, and what he does is half black and white, this person is righteous enough and is still very relatable.

In the past, Zhou Bei felt that he was a little slippery, and he couldn't figure out the depth, so he didn't win him over.

This time he was implicated, a little ashamed, and he wanted to make up for it.

Hou Guiqiang stared at Zhou Bei, smiled and asked, "Do you want me to do it with you?" ”

Zhou Bei nodded, and he smiled again: "There are five people under my hand who follow me to make a living, and they also have an income of one or two thousand a year, and they are not managed by others, they are free, why bother to do things for you?" ”

Since Zhou Bei wants to win him over, he won't care about his resistance and temptation.

"I am a person who wants to do serious things, if you have a clean net worth under your hands, you can also call it, and if there is a stain, let him continue to work on Qinglou Street.

Success follows me, not insurance, I give him twenty silver coins every month, and a reward at the end of the year.

When such a thing happens this time, I am also going to give him some salary, and I am going to give him fifty silver coins a month, and if you come, I will be treated the same as him. ”

"What about the others?"

"People want me to look at it, and twenty at most."

"That's not a lot......"

Hou Guiqiang was a little moved, the six of them monopolized the business of the five Qinglou, and although they earned a lot of silver, they had to be dotted up and down, and what fell into their hands was about 1,000 silver coins a year.

Begging for a life in the Qinglou is not only a bad reputation, but the most important thing is that in order to occupy the territory, you often have to fight, and you can only consider yourself unlucky when you are injured or disabled.

Moreover, no one cares about their insurance, they have to buy their own pension insurance, medical insurance.

Hou Guiqiang asked: "You are going to run out of money this time, and you can still bear the life of so many people?" ”

Zhou Bei said with a smile: "Even if the money is lost this time, I still have patent income." Not to mention the previous patents, just the four-wheel drive patent in my hand now, authorized out, at least three or four hundred thousand silver coins, will bring me at least tens of thousands of benefits every year in the future. ”

Hou Guiqiang nodded and said seriously: "I'll think about it." ”

He is not like Xu Gongcheng who has no burden, although he knows that it is a good path, but he also has to consider his brother and family before.

Zhou Bei didn't expect him to agree now, and said: "I was cheated by the Changjun Lord this time, she will also be afraid that she will not die but will suffer from it, and she will definitely suppress me."

I rely on technology to make money, and she can't suppress this aspect, but only my future.

I've decided to transfer to another school, and my first choice is a school in Middle-earth, and if it doesn't work, I will also choose to go to the Governor's City to attend my last year of high school. My sister and brother-in-law teach at the university over there in the Doge's City, so it has something to do with it.

It takes a while to contact the school, and you just need to make a decision before I leave. ”

In the past, Zhou Bei looked down on Hou Guiqiang, but this lesson made him understand that he not only had a relationship between black and white, but also established a force of his own.

This time, 400,000 yuan will be given away for nothing, and when the technology licensing agreement is signed this time, and there is silver, what should I do if I encounter such a thing again?

Will they be extorted and given away their money?

Xu Gongcheng saw that their conversation was over, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll wash the dishes, you take out the cards, and play the cards again before turning off the lights at ten o'clock......

The county guard of Xuezhou County is located in Midtown Manhattan in another world.

This is the political center of Xuezhou, and it is also the economic center.

Opposite the square in front of the county guard's mansion, is the famous restaurant Heming Tower in Xuezhou County.

This restaurant is located in Yingtianfu, which is one of the sixteen large restaurants built by Emperor Taizu in Yingtianfu during the founding period of the Ming Dynasty, and has been passed down to this day.

Tonight, the welcome dinner jointly organized by all walks of life in Xuezhou County was held here, upstairs and downstairs, the front and back buildings are all famous people in Xuezhou County.

They all wanted to make an impression in front of the famous commander of the Jinyi Guard, and for Li Ji, it was already good for one person to meet so many people and remember the main ones.

He was tired of this kind of entertainment, but today he was not only visiting in the name of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, but also in the name of the minister, so no matter how tired he was, he had to make a fuss.

As soon as the dinner was over, he entered the guest room in the backyard of the Heming Tower on the pretext that he was tired from the long voyage and did not see anyone.

In the room, Li Ji changed out of his regular clothes, put on the red command envoy python robe, washed his face again, and asked Huo Yi, the pacification envoy who came with him, to help him comb his hair bun and shave his beard and stubble.

Huo Yi is not yet thirty years old this year, and he is one of Li Ji's favorite heirs, and he thinks that he can still serve for twenty years, and after twenty years, if Huo Yi does not make a mistake, he will be the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

"My lord, sailing for two days in a row, even young people can't stand it, why not rest for one night, and it's not too late to see that one tomorrow."

"You don't understand...... Li Ji looked at himself in the glasses, although he was nearly sixty years old, he looked only in his thirties, full of muscles, and ruddy complexion. Is the car arranged? ”

Huo Yi sighed and replied, "It's arranged." The lowly position of Dali Temple also communicated privately with Tao Chengfang, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, so that he would not alarm anyone. ”

"The fewer people who know, the better, on Jinyiwei's side, except for arranging a driver who is familiar with the road, everyone else will let them disperse."