When Xu Ping, who was peeling open and fleshy, was lying on the bed in the small black house to heal his wounds, the Xu Mansion ushered in a great celebration of the whole house, Xu Jie's three-year Ding worry system expired, and Emperor Yongjia issued a decree to order him to receive the title of secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and return to the cabinet to govern, ranking after the first assistant Yan Song.

The celebrant eunuch Huang Jin personally announced the decree, which shows that the current emperor attaches great importance to Xu Jie. Huang Jin arrived in the afternoon, in order to show respect for the emperor, Xu Jie and Huang Jin discussed, tomorrow before noon to put the incense case and then proclaim, that night Xu Jie set up a feast to entertain Huang Jin and his party.

Smelling the fragrance wafting from the front yard, his ears were full of the joy of silk and bamboo, Xu Ping couldn't help sighing: Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there were frozen bones on the road. Next to the pillow were chicken legs, gold sore medicine and a few idle books quietly sent by Hou Gui, alas, these cost a lot of silver, and poor Hou Gui didn't know how long he had saved.

In Xu Ping's eyes, Hou Gui is definitely a loyal domestic servant, he has never been silent, just silently bowed his head to work, since the day Hou Gui silently touched the medicine for himself with tears in his eyes, Xu Ping identified him as a relative in his heart......

In a daze, Xu Ping's ears suddenly heard noisy footsteps and exclamations.

"God, Hou Gui was killed!"

"Why, I still met him in the afternoon, where is the body?"

"It's true, the corpse is in the backyard of the grain mill." ……

Xu Ping only felt that the sky was falling, struggled to get out of bed, opened the door and chased in the direction of the fire and the crowd.

Xu Ping struggled to push away the crowd, only to see Hou Gui lying on his back, his face covered with blood, and two feather arrows in his chest, the situation was unbearable.

"Wow, Lao Hou, you left me alone, tell me what to do!" Xu Ping screamed, limped over and lay down on Hou Gui's corpse in pain.

"In the future, I will be injured again, who will give me medicine, who will buy me chicken legs, who will buy me idle books to relieve my boredom......" Xu Ping cried so much that his liver and intestines were broken and hysterical, and the sores on his buttocks and thighs burst and flowed out of his trouser legs, and he didn't know it.

The maids, mothers-in-law, and housekeepers present all looked sideways when they saw this, and their eyes gradually became wet and red.

"Who killed Lao Hou, let's avenge him!" I don't know who shouted in the crowd.

"Yes, revenge."

"It's so inhumane to poison the honest Hou Gui."

"Revenge Revenge ......"

The crowd was excited, and people began to get agitated.

"Bah, people were killed by our family, who has the courage to take revenge and rush to our family." When the words fell, I saw Xu Jie and a man with a white face dressed as a eunuch, slowly coming to the field surrounded by a group of guards. Seeing this, everyone was silent and lowered their heads.

Huang Jin, this dead eunuch, Xu Ping's eyes were cracking, and he slammed into him with a low roar and stalked his neck, but he was held by two guards halfway through.

"Woo woo...... I'm going to bite you to death!" Xu Ping landed on his head, and a beastly roar came out of his throat.

"Yo, what a big temperament, the little bastard wants revenge." Huang Jin smiled and kicked him in the chin.

"Ahem, my father-in-law is merciful......" Xu Jie couldn't bear to look over his head when he saw this.

Huang Jin was so smart that he couldn't hear what Xu Jie's words were, so he immediately turned around and smiled and arched his hand, "Don't blame the old man, it's the old slave who lost his manners, I don't know if this little brother is ......"

"Ahem, he's my unsuccessful grandson."

Huang Jin's face was immediately full of folds, and he waved his hand to the guard, "Quickly help the little boy to get up, heck, it's really a big flood that has washed away the Longwang Temple family and doesn't recognize the family." ”

The guards picked up Xu Ping, but still didn't let go of the hand that was pressing his shoulder.

"Yo, the little boy is very angry, do you know why our family wants to kill him?" Huang Jin asked with a smile.

"Why?"

"Hehe, he wants to steal our family's holy decree, do you think our family can not kill him?"

"Framed, he is an honest subordinate, and he is useless for stealing the holy decree?"

Huang Jin frowned when he heard this, and the guards immediately dispersed the crowd, and Huang Jin smiled and said to Jieping: "The little boy is young and doesn't understand the rules of the court, our family doesn't blame you, now there are no outsiders, our family might as well say it bluntly, hehe, if you lose the holy decree, your grandfather will have to enter Beijing at least half a year later, then it will leave time for the ministers to wipe their farts clothes......"

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment, and muttered: "How could it be ......?"

Huang Jin smiled slightly, "That's right, the little boy guessed right, Hou Gui is the eyeliner that the traitor planted in the mansion." ”

Xu Ping's heart shook wildly, "You...... You can't be mistaken. ”

"Can't be wrong, let's see what we have in our hands? This is something that was found in the brick crack at the head of Hou Gui's bed. ”

Xu Ping looked at the situation and saw Huang Jin carrying a waist card, which was impressively engraved with the five-grade captain of the Dazhen Datong General Military Mansion!

Looking at the cold waist card, Xu Ping's intuition was cold from the back of his spine to his heels......

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Under the cold moonlight, Xu Ping limped Yu Yu alone, his brain was numb, his heart was cold, as if everyone knew, and he was kept in the dark like a fool. He really didn't know who to trust by now.

But he remembered the last conversation with Huang Jin.

"Little boy, do you still hate our family?"

"Hate!"

"Hehe, you're a gentleman, but like you now, it's harder to take revenge than to ascend to the sky."

"You have to be a Beijing official in the Jinshi to have a chance to be our opponent, hehe, you have to hurry, otherwise by the time you are in high school, our family will have died a long time ago, and it won't be beautiful, hahaha............"

You wait, I will definitely go to Beijing to find you, Xu Ping secretly swore in his heart that I would definitely find out the real culprit behind the murder of the Ding family.

A month later, people found a strange scene outside the Xu family's private school, every time during class, there was always a teenager who tied the cow to the tree and leaned out of the window to eavesdrop, and this listening was three years.

In February of another year, the county examination is imminent, as the head of the family, Xu Yi wants to take the exam from among the children, for the sake of prudence, he specially invited Yongsong County to order Nie Bao to preside over the family examination, and Nie Bao readily agreed.

The family examination lasted for two days, and Xu Ping, who didn't know what to do, was still herding cattle in the back mountain, and when Xu Jin dragged him to the main hall in a hurry, he was stopped by Xu Yi's wife Qi.

"Xu Ping, what are you doing here?" Qi asked, pressing his finger against his head.

"Take the home test."

"You are a mourning star, you can't even memorize the Analects, and you don't know what the Four Books and Five Classics are, so it's not a shame to say big things with a shy face."

Xu Ping's blue tendons on his forehead burst out and he stiffened his neck and said: "What is the Analects, the Four Books and the Five Classics and those strategies, I can write it with my eyes closed."

Qi was furious and was about to reprimand, the door of the main hall suddenly opened, Nie Bao came out of it, and when he saw Xu Ping, who was ragged and unkempt, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "Little brother, don't talk big, come on, come on, if you can really recite it, this official will ensure that you pass the county test successfully."