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Just when Li Yao was puzzled, the two had already entered the garden. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Coincidentally, in the garden at this time, An Yuyin was standing in the garden with a handsome man dressed in scholar's costume and white robe, admiring the flowers.

Of course, Li Yao also saw it clearly.

But he didn't say much, just walked forward with a gloomy face and rouge, both of them had already walked behind An Yuyin and the handsome man, and they didn't notice the two, which was enough to see how affectionate the two were at this time.

"Ahem!" Li Yao stretched out his hand to cover his mouth and coughed twice.

An Yuyin and the handsome man quickly came back to their senses, and turned their heads to see that it was Li Yao and Rouge coming, An Yuyin immediately shouted excitedly: "Xiaobao, Sister Rouge, why are you here?"

"It's not idle, waiting for the emperor to appoint, so I specially came to Xiaoyao Villa to take a stroll. Li Yao replied without being salty, without any expression on his face.

Rouge hurriedly introduced Li Yao: "This Zhou Gongzi is the businessman I told you, we bought this Xiaoyao Villa in his name, and now Yuyin is in charge of this huge Xiaoyao Villa, and it all depends on Zhou Gongzi to help often, otherwise she may not be able to manage such a big villa." ”

Rouge deliberately held Zhou Gongzi to the sky.

In fact, she also had her own little abacus in her heart, An Yuyin originally had an ambiguous relationship with Li Yao, if she could make An Yuyin and this Zhou Gongzi get along, then wouldn't she be able to monopolize Li Yao in the future? So this is also the reason why Rouge used the name of this businessman surnamed Zhou to buy Xiaoyao Villa.

As for how she met this surnamed Zhou, Li Yao didn't know.

After listening to Rouge's introduction to this handsome man, Li Yao hurriedly hugged his fists, pretending to greet him enthusiastically: "Thanks to Zhou Gongzi's help! ”

"Lord Xue is polite, in fact, being able to help Lord Xue is also my Zhou Xing's Rongxing, I think when I was an official in the court, I watched Lord Xue climb up step by step, and I admired Lord Xue very much, but Lord Xue is now going higher and higher, but I can't even be an official, only in business. The handsome man said as he told Li Yao his full name.

Li Yao was stunned on the spot, he wondered if his ears were broken, he heard it wrong, the man standing in front of him who looked very handsome and seemed to be Swenwen was actually called Zhou Xing, so is he the same person as Zhou Xing, a cool official recorded in history?

Li Yao was having such questions in his heart, and Zhou Xing said again: "Lord Xue, there is one more thing I want to thank you for." ”

"What's the matter?" Li Yao was puzzled.

"Master Xue, do you remember Zhou Ying?" Zhou Xing asked rhetorically.

Li Yao frowned and nodded.

Zhou Xing said with a smile: "Zhou Ying is actually my long-lost sister, when there was a catastrophe in my hometown, my parents starved to death, I dragged my sister out of my hometown, begging for food and living outside, and then I couldn't live anymore, I couldn't bear to see my sister follow me, so I sold her, hoping that she could live a good life, but I didn't expect her to enter the Seven Killings Hall later, in a killer, I really want to talk about it, I am really ashamed of my sister." ”

"You...... You are actually Zhou Ying's brother. Li Yao exclaimed.

"At the beginning, Lord Xue sacrificed his life to save Zhou Ying, so I owe Lord Xue a favor, and then our brother and sister recognized each other, after I knew about it, I decided to repay Lord Xue, but I have never had a chance, and now I can help Lord Xue You buy this Xiaoyao Villa, and it can be regarded as my return to Lord Xue's grace. Zhou Xing clenched his fists and replied to Li Yao very sincerely.

Li Yao has only completely figured out now, after a long time, Zhou Xing, a well-known cool official in the history of the Tang Dynasty, actually has a long-lost sister, and he himself does not look as cruel as recorded in history, on the contrary, he is a polite and very bookish person on the surface.

And a few years ago, he was still an official in the Tang Dynasty, but Li Yao doesn't know what the reason is now, he was demoted, and now he has to live in business in Luoyang City, but looking at what he is wearing now, Li Yao can also see that this Zhou Xing is actually quite smart, otherwise he wouldn't be so good.

Besides, when Li Yao heard Zhou Ying talk about her brother selling her, Li Yao was angry for a while, but now that he understands the reason why Zhou Xing sold Zhou Ying back then, Li Yao is also relieved, if Zhou Xing didn't do that at the beginning, it is estimated that both of them would have starved to death on the streets.

Thinking about this, Li Yao also sighed: "It's better to meet than to be famous, Zhou Gongzi, Zhou Gongzi, you really gave Master Ben another view." ”

"My lord, what do you mean by this?" Zhou Xing asked puzzled.

"Let me ask you, why were you demoted?" Li Yao asked instead of answering.

As soon as he asked about this, Zhou Xing's face immediately became ugly, and he stood there silent for a while.

An Yuyin and Rouge also stood quietly on the side, looking at Zhou Xing curiously, in fact, the two got acquainted with Zhou Xing because of Zhou Ying, but they also had doubts about why Zhou Xing, a talented and polite person, ended up being demoted.

After a period of silence, Zhou Xingcai opened his mouth to explain to the three of them: "In the past few years as an official in the court, because I have been in charge of the Criminal Department to interrogate and encrypt the matter, there are too many people who have offended, and Lai Junchen even framed me for conspiring with Qiu Shen to kill the emperor, and then the emperor was angry and demoted me to an official, but I was not allowed to go out of Luoyang City for half a step, because I can only live in business in Luoyang City now, and I can be regarded as a prisoner!"

In the past few years, they have helped the emperor do bad things, but these two people are very blatant, compared to Zhou Gongzi, they are really not tactful. Li Yao raised his feet and replied to Zhou Xing in a mocking tone.

But don't look at Li Yao as if he was joking, he counted Zhou Xing into the cool officials in his words, no matter what Zhou Xing is, what he has done over the years, he must not say that he is doing good deeds, if it weren't for what kind of whistleblowing mechanism they have made in this group of cool officials, Wu Zetian would not be so suspicious, and if there is a threat, he will get rid of it directly.

Isn't it, including the current Li Yao, that they are also bound by such a whistle-blowing mechanism? Yan Hong and Ling Hong are not exactly the secret detection tools that Wu Zetian uses under this whistle-blowing mechanism.

Zhou Xing heard Li Yao's words, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and sighed: "Being in the court, I can't help myself, I must know this, Lord Xue, I secretly did so many things for the emperor a few years ago, and now that she has ascended the throne, it is natural to eliminate people like us who know too many secrets about her, so we will let the historian remember us fiercely, and then completely push us out of the government, and if it is serious, you will die without a place to be buried, and the dead will never speak." ”

"That's what you said, I'm in this situation now, it seems that there is not much difference between you and me, in fact, in the past few years, I, like you, have also secretly helped the emperor do a lot of bad things, but I am not as cruel as you do. Li Yao spread his hands and nodded noncommittally.

At this moment, he suddenly felt very sympathetic to Zhou Xing.

The character of Zhou Xing can be said to be a victim of Wu Zetian's manipulation of the regime, and he was used by Wu Zetian, and then he was thrown aside, if it weren't for the fact that he himself was not as bad as the outside world rumored, maybe Wu Zetian would have gotten rid of him by now, and how could he imprison him in Luoyang City.

And what Li Yao knows is that Zhou Xing's mouth said before that another cool official Qiu Shenzhi was killed, as early as last year, when he was still eating the Buddha in the White Horse Temple, he was killed by the bastard Lai Junchen, of course, Qiu Shenzhi blamed this person's death, Li Yao didn't feel pity at all.

He doesn't do things as tactfully as Zhou Xing, let alone Zhou Xing is good at using his brain, as if he is on top of extorting confessions, he doesn't know how to arrest people, but blindly fights to the death, like Zhou Xing is smarter, basically he wants to force a confession, as long as he makes a move, there is no one who does not confess obediently.

At this point, Lai Junchen, a cool official, learned from him.