Tao Ji's face turned pale by his questioning.

Shen looked at the local county order calmly, and when he put down the teacup in his hand, there was a "bang", like a death knell, which made Tao Ji jump up from the stone bench.

Jiang Jiancheng stood aside, watching his son-in-law get angry, and Tao Ji stood there tremblingly, although he was afraid, he didn't open his mouth to admit his mistake, and he felt bad.

His son-in-law has always been unaccustomed to these tricks in the officialdom, but this is not the capital, and the son-in-law is not an inspector and governor, so he is not qualified to interrogate the local trial.

If Tao Ji is cowardly, it will be fine, but if he really tears his face, the son will also be suspected of overstepping his authority.

Shen looked at the cups on the table, he actually knew that he was impulsive after he got angry.

Hu Shenglin and Jingzhong Hu Shilang are cousins, the Hu family has been accumulating prestige in Qizhen for a long time, Hu Rong is the culprit has been abolished, and what Tao Ji does is just what local officials are used to doing.

The scene was deadlocked, and no one spoke.

At this moment, there were footsteps approaching outside the pavilion, and Xue Nuo, who was dressed in cyan, was holding a tray with a few stacks of snacks on it, and walked over directly: "Childe, Uncle Luo knows that there is a visitor, let me send some snacks over." ”

The original stalemate atmosphere was punctured in an instant, but Shen glanced at the dim sum on the table, and then at Xue Nuo.

Xue Nuo turned his back to Tao Ji and winked at him, praising me with a quick face.

Shen Ke: "......"

He suddenly couldn't get angry in his heart, and after glancing at her, Xue Nuo retreated with a smile.

After she walked away, Shen Ke said to Tao Ji, "Uncle Luo's master is in the imperial dining room, and he learned a good craft, and the best thing is all kinds of dim sum, and Master Tao also tastes it." ”

Shen gave the steps, Tao Ji naturally hurriedly followed, he sat back at the table and took a bite of a snack, and before he could swallow it, he praised first: "It's really a good craft." ”

Shen looked at Tao Ji's sleek appearance and sighed lightly: "What I said just now is that I said a little too much, Master Tao don't mind, it's just that I'm also for Lord Tao's good." ”

"Hu Rong has a few lives in his body, even if the Hu family settles the bitter master, they may not be able to cover up the past, and Master Tao knows, why did the Hu family suspect that it was someone from Liu Yuan who injured Hu Rong before?"

Tao Ji frowned: "Isn't it because of Xue Yan's death?" ”

"Yes and no."

Shen said, "I have never told Master Tao that the person who kidnapped Xue Yu before was named Chai Chunhua, a person from the Chengguo Mansion, and he had a chance encounter with Hu Rong in Su Yang and then corresponded with him, and this time he used the Hu family to recruit thin horses and plunder beauties. ”

"Lord Tao should know some things about the Hu family in Beijing, now that Chai Chunhua is in my hands, Hu Shenglin instigated Lord Tao to come to Liuyuan to ask about the crime that night, and wanted to find the real murderer for his son, and the most important thing is that I am the prince's companion."

Tao Ji's officialdom is an official, he was at a loss at first, but after Shen finished speaking, he went through it in his heart, and he felt that something was wrong.

He was born in a family, and he also has a relationship in Beijing, and he can come to the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River to accumulate qualifications, which is not something that casual people can do, Tao Ji also knows some things in Beijing.

That Chengguo Gong is the maternal ancestor of the third prince, but the Hu family is the fourth prince.

The people of the three princes used the people of the four princes to search for beauties, which obviously wanted to drag the four princes into the water, and the concubine of the Shen family in front of him was the prince's henchman, and the people of the three princes fell into his hands again.

Hu Shenglin insisted that Liu Yuan hurt people that day, where the hell was he looking for a murderer, obviously he wanted to test the attitude of Shen Ke and even the prince behind him.

Tao Ji's face turned blue.

Shen said with a sincere expression: "I originally wanted to hand Chai Chunhua over to Lord Tao for disposal, but this matter involves several princes. ”

"If you hand over someone to Master Tao, it will hurt you, but if something happens to Hu Rong, Hu Shenglin will definitely go to Jingzhong, and Chai Chunhua was arrested in Hu's house, and Beijing can't hide it."

"If Master Tao is impartial in the Hu family's case this time, it will be forgotten, even if someone in Jingzhong knows that someone will be angry after he knows, he will only think that you are unaware, but if you are biased towards the Hu family......"

Shen didn't speak again, but Tao Ji was in a cold sweat.

If he is biased towards the Hu family, it is obvious that he will tell the Chengguo Mansion and the three princes that he voted for the four princes, and with the domineering nature of the three princes, how can he spare him?

Tao Ji's face was pale, and he suddenly got up and hugged his fists towards Shen and made a big salute: "Thank you Shen Gongzi for mentioning it, it is the lower officials who are confused, and the lower officials will definitely handle the affairs of the Hu family impartially, and will never show favoritism to others." ”

Tao Ji came in a hurry, and left in a hurry, and when he left, the image on his back seemed to be ghostly.

Jiang Cheng watched his back disappear into the garden, and then spoke: "With the words of the son, Tao Ji probably won't do anything about the Hu family." ”

Shen said "um", holding a teacup and about to drink tea, when he saw the lookout some distance away, the child who was supposed to leave was lying on the railing and didn't know what he was looking at.

He frowned, remembering that he had just mentioned the Chengguo Mansion, but in an instant, looking at the distance between the lookout and this side, he felt that he was thinking too much.

He didn't speak loudly just now, and he was so far away, how could the kid hear it clearly.

Xue Nuo looked at Shen and Tao Ji with his lips, smacking the words "Chengguo Mansion" in his mouth, and when he was thinking about how to kill the people of Chengguo Mansion with a gloomy face, he noticed that Shen was looking over with some surprise.

Her eyes rolled, and half of her body reached out of the lookout to pull the locust flowers from the branches.

Over there, Shen was about to raise his voice to call Xue Nuo down, but who knew that he saw that the kid was pulling the branches too hard, and the locust flowers on the treetops were not torn off, but he also pulled the thin Xue Nuo out directly, and planted it directly from the lookout with a crooked body.

"Xerno!"

The teacup in Shen Ke's hand was almost thrown out, and his heart almost stopped in fright.

He walked a few steps outside the pavilion in a panic, and saw that the little bastard who had fallen down was like a monkey, grabbing the railing next to him, and the other hand climbed the top of the locust tree by the lookout, and then the whole person was hanging in the air.

Shen Ke's hand was red from the tea, and he said angrily with a black face: "Jiang Cheng, go and take down that little bastard!" ”

Jiang Cheng didn't go up to the lookout, he walked directly to the tree and jumped up lightly, and he clicked twice on the tree to Xue Nuo's side, and then grabbed her by the collar and jumped down with someone.

Xue Nuo screamed twice like a weightless person, staggered after landing on the ground, and wanted to slip away when he saw Shen Qi's dark face, but Jiang Cheng grabbed his belt, his hands and feet still maintained a posture of running forward, but his waist was bent backwards, and he was directly dragged back.

"Bang!"

Shen slapped Xue Nuo on the head, "You don't want to die, run so high to find death?!" ”

Xue Nuo's head was buzzing when he was beaten, and when she looked at Shen Ke's eyes with fire in her eyes, she knew that he was really angry, she covered her head from the bottom of her heart and said, "I was careless......"

Seeing Shen raise her hand again, she hurriedly hugged her head and shrunk her neck and shouted,

"Uncle Luo said that the south of the Yangtze River is humid and rainy, the son is hot and humid, his eyes are a little swollen, and the acacia flower can be used in medicine!!"

Shen was stunned.

"And Childe's appetite is not good these days, my sister used to cook for me with acacia flowers, fragrant and appetizing, I thought about picking some and making it for Childe to taste......"

She was cowardly and pitiful, looked at Shen Qi cautiously, and said in a low voice,

"I just accidentally didn't stand firm just now, and I'm so good at climbing trees, if Brother Jiang doesn't save me, I can come down."

Shen looked at his hands above his head and covered his head, shrunk his neck and looked at him pitifully, his peach blossom eyes were watery, the anger in his heart suddenly dispersed, and his hand still fell on her head, but he didn't knock her, just rubbed it hard.

"Are you hurt?"

Xue Nuo shook his hand and stood firm before muttering, "No." ”

Shen Ke's eyes swept over her hand, and he saw the fine scratches on it.

Xue Nuo hurriedly stuffed his hand behind his back: "It's really okay...... Hey, Childe! ”

The wrist was grabbed, but Shen pulled her directly and left, Xue Nuo hurriedly turned his head to Jiang Cheng for help, but Jiang Cheng's wood was pestle in place and turned a blind eye with a smile.

She could only glare at him, turned her head and was half-dragged out of the garden by Shen Ke, and walked towards the study.