Chapter 006: The Beauty

Huang Cheng first patted the hall in shock, and then asked, "Who is the woman in the hall, who is the name?" ”

Chen Cao was surprised that Li Xiang came back, and said that he was an important witness, but before his mind turned away, he heard Li Xiang's words that made him have a big head in his life.

"The little girl Li Xiang, whose father is Li Maohui, the current member of the Nanjing Military Department, has now opened a bookstore in the west of the city called Juxianju..."

Yes...

The entire hall was boiling, and the people who were hearing the trial outside the hall also raised their feet to see the situation clearly, but at this moment, Yang Wei opened his eyes and looked at Li Xiang.

"Lord Qiyu, the little woman heard that Chen Cao was arrested, and the crime was rape ** girl, the little girl was anxious after hearing about it at home, the little woman can swear to the sky here, Chen Cao has never done such a hurtful thing, he is not this kind of person."

Chen Cao's heart warmed, it was the first time that a woman other than his own family had spoken to him like this.

Huang Chengxian doesn't think that a woman dares to pretend to be an official's family, let alone a member of the Nanjing Military Department, so he is also very respectful to Li Xiang, but respectful is respectful, and it is impossible for you to say that if you don't have it, there will be no one: "Miss Li also knows that it is not enough to swear to judge the case." ”

Li Xiang's face flushed, then he raised his head and said loudly: "Because... Because Chen Cao had been with the little girl again last night, it was impossible for him to do these things. ”

Ooh...

As soon as these words came out, the entire lobby was completely boiling, and Huang Chengxian opened his mouth and was stunned after the case, what kind of thing is this?

Chen Cao was a little untenable, although he thought that Li Xiang was indeed very beautiful and belonged to the category of beauties, but why would she help herself so much, this is not to put all her reputation on a man, how important it is for a woman like her who has not been out of the cabinet.

Chen Qing looked at Chen Cao strangely, Chen Cao shook his head with a wry smile, and his head turned like a brain teaser for a long time before he realized: Li Xiang likes himself, and then came to save himself...

What to do?

Xu Er and Zhao Li were even more panicked, originally they were lying, but now an official lady came out to prove that Chen Cao was with him all night, which made it clear that Chen Cao had no problems, and there was no suspicion, and his side was falsely accused.

No official lady would joke about her own name, this is the consensus of everyone in the entire prefect's yamen.

Huang Chengxian coughed twice, today this matter is over, even if he gets the 'mention' from the people above, it finally achieves that there is no relationship between Chen Cao and this matter: "Chen Zongqi, I'm really embarrassed," he said and arched his hand towards Chen Cao: "Since there is Miss Li and Zongqi here, it is naturally credible." ”

Yang Wei stood up, patted his flying fish suit and said: "Huang Tongju, in the future, when you take people, you'd better investigate these things before taking people, but don't arrest my Jinyiwei's people at the beginning, otherwise it will be difficult to see each other in the future..."

Chen Cao has a good impression of Yang Wei in his heart, and his words are all about protecting Chen Cao and warning the people behind Huang Chengxian, but Huang Chengxian is dumb and eats Coptis chinensis, and he can't say anything about his suffering.

Chen Cao is not a good stubble, since he has proven that he has nothing to do with this matter, he naturally has to get rid of the black hand, otherwise he will be framed again in the future, and he will not even know who it is.

"Wait..."

"What else is wrong with Mr. Chen?"

Chen Cao pointed at Xu Er and said: "This person is the green skin of Liuye Hutong, this general banner was arrested here, he was wronged, according to the law, and the false accuser sat back." ”

Huang Chengxian had nothing to say, Chen Cao's words were reasonable, that is, he sued the emperor, and that was also the reasonable party, hearing Chen Cao's words, Xu Er trembled, and then cried: "Lord Chen is angry, the little one didn't falsely accuse you of being the murderer, the little one just said that he disappeared when he saw the black shadow enter the alley, but he didn't say that you are the murderer." ”

Depend on...

Chen Cao really didn't think of this statement, but now he has fallen into an embarrassing situation, it is the people of the Xicheng Soldiers and Horses Division who arrested him, and Wang De is the commander of the Soldiers and Horses Division, even if he doesn't look at the monk's face, he has to look at the Buddha's face, and the Xicheng Soldiers and Horses Division dare to come to arrest him, obviously Liu Yong is the first person to be instructed, but there is nothing he can do here, but Chen Cao has made up his mind to repay it twice in the future.

But he can't let Xu Er go, since this guy dares to come out to testify, it shows that he is also implicated, maybe it is Liu Yong's person, since he can't fix Liu Yong, it doesn't hurt to clean up this green skin first.

So Chen Cao looked at Huang Chengxian coldly, and didn't answer, people like Huang Chengxian are all old fritters in officialdom, and when he saw this look, he knew that he couldn't be good, so he slapped the wood with a cold face, and shouted: "Bold Xu Er, because of your words, Chen Zongqi, who was almost harmed, suffered a big loss, but I think that you are a first-time offender, and you are also a good heart, so I will be punished lightly. ”

Xu Er cried and was dragged down, obviously the final explanation of this farce ended with Xu Er, Chen Cao lifted his skirt, turned around and left, leaving Huang Chengxian, who had a black face, to sit in the hall for a long time.

The development of the matter soon spread throughout Jinling, and there was only one one that everyone talked about the most, the story of Li Xiang, the only daughter of Li Maohui, a member of the Nanjing Military Department, who personally rescued Chen Cao, but the previous heroes saved the United States but changed their identities.

Boom...

Gu Linsheng slammed his fist on the wine table, and Zhao Cheng also looked angrily at Chen Cao, who came out of the prefect's yamen unharmed: "I didn't expect this guy to be so lucky, not to mention Li Fengchun, but also to deceive Li Maohui's daughter, hateful..."

Gu Linsheng looked at Chen Cao who was away with hostility in his eyes, and after pouring a glass of wine, he said angrily: "Brother Zhao, don't worry, it won't work today, there will be a chance another day, I don't believe that he is a small Jinyi Wei Zongqi, and there can be any big man who can protect him." ”

After Chen Cao left the prefect's yamen, he bowed his hand to Li Xiang apologetically: "Thanks to Boss Li today, Chen... Chen... I'm really sorry. ”

Li Xiang's face was too red at the moment, and he didn't talk to Chen Cao, he got into the carriage and left with the help of the maid, not because she was unwilling, but because she saved Chen Cao with this reason today.

"YCIS," Song Che approached Chen Cao and said with a smile, "You are blessed, such a beautiful woman, and the daughter of a member of the military department, you will have benefits in the future." ”

"What about Wai Lang, Lao Tzu has been divorced by the commander of the guard" Chen Cao thought helplessly, and couldn't say it himself, but then he reacted to something, lowered his head and said in Song Che's ear: "Please ask you something..."

Nanjing Liubu Yamen is located on the left side of Chengtianmen, the military department is in the middle, at this moment Li Maohui is on business in his own signing room, a priest walked into the signing room, smiled at Li Maohui and said: "Lord Li, you are a blessed person." ”

Li Maohui is over sixty years old, and he only had his only daughter Li Xiang in his forties.

"What's going on?" Li Maohui frowned.

This is a staff member who walked into a staff department, and also smiled: "Kecang, why is it not a blessing?" Nalan Rongruo is now famous in the entire Nanzhili, and it stands to reason that he is also worthy of your daughter, but it's a pity, this guy heard that it is the general banner of Jinyiwei, it's a pity. ”

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were most afraid of Jinyiwei, and they also looked down on Jinyiwei the most, this kind of person was the eagle dog of the imperial court and the lackey of the emperor.

"What's the matter, why can't the old man hear a reason?" Li Maohui really didn't know what the two were talking about.

"Hey, today the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion tried a weathering case, involving a Jinyi Guard's general banner, called Chen Cao, the first instance only to know that this person is Nalan Rongruo, who has recently swept Nanzhili, and the most important thing is that this person has nothing to do with the case in the end, and the focus of his case is that Kecang your daughter came forward to prove that Chen Cao has been with Kecang your daughter last night." The wailang looked at Li Maohui with a smile and said, "I didn't expect you to hide it so deeply, admire, admire." ”

"Kecang... Kecang..."

With a clang, Li Maohui angrily grabbed his coat and trotted out.

Chen Cao naturally didn't know that Li Maohui would look for his own affairs, but now, he was looking at a piece of rice paper and worried, and the reason for his worry was the content on the paper: "How can this be?" ”

This thing is very familiar, it is exactly the same as the marriage letter that I returned to Miss Zhang's family before, with the woman's name, place of origin, birth date and the situation of her parents at home.

As soon as this woman is handed over to the south, then this woman is the man's person, from this point of view, Li Fengchun is already Chen Cao's person, as long as she is willing, no one can marry except Chen Cao in this life, of course, Chen Cao has this piece of paper, even if Li Fengchun marries, it is also Chen Cao's person.

Now that the two women have fallen in love with Chen Cao together, it makes Chen Cao, a bastard who likes to play with women, a little uncomfortable.

As a result, before the evening, Chen Cao was invited, and the person who came claimed to be the housekeeper of Master Li Maohui, a member of the Nanjing Military Department, and invited Mr. Chen Cao to Juxianju for dinner.

'Dinner? This is the Hongmen Banquet. ’

Chen Cao beat a drum in his heart, go, that is, he went to send the head, Li Xiang only came forward to help him prove during the day, and when he didn't get to anyone in the evening, he invited himself to dinner, and it was clear that there was fraud, don't go, the key people have already reported their homes, the officials of the Nanjing Military Department, from the five grades, if you don't go, you don't give face, and you can get a small shoe to wear in the back, and you will still have to take off the skin if you don't die.

It's just a matter of getting out of the way, and the soldiers are coming to block it...

Outside Juxianju, Chen Cao's old acquaintance Zhou Decai, who had not seen him for many days, was standing at the door of Juxianju to greet him, Chen Cao saw Zhou Decai, smiled and arched his hand, only to find that Zhou Decai's face had a lot of blisters: "Huh... Shopkeeper Zhou, are you scalded by water? Why are there so many blisters? ”

Zhou Decai's face changed, and he said viciously: "Chen Zongqi doesn't know, a few days ago, I don't know which killer mixed into my Juxian Residence, and poured a bowl of hot tea at me. ”

Chen Cao was shocked, didn't he spill a bowl of hot tea a few days ago? Then he cautiously asked, "Ouch, why are you so careless, you can't hide?" ”

"Saying that is angry," Zhou Decai was very angry: "That killing took advantage of the fact that when I went to the thatched house, I poured a bowl of hot tea coldly and came in, where can I hide, you look at my nails, I scratched the door of the thatched house when it was hot." If he lets me know who did it, and I catch him, I will definitely pour a bowl of hot oil on him to relieve the hatred in my heart. ”

Chen Cao shuddered, and immediately laughed, but heard Zhou Decai smile and said: "Chen Zongqi, you Jinyiwei don't have many ears and eyes, we are all old acquaintances, or you help me inquire, there will be a lot of thanks." ”

Chen Cao refuted awe-inspiringly: "Lao Zhou, although you and I are old acquaintances, we can't set this precedent, forget if you suffer a loss, when will you repay your grievances, in this way, I will give you five taels of silver, which is considered the cost of soup and medicine, and you can rest the matter." ”

Looking at Chen Cao's distant figure, Zhou Decai put five taels of silver into his sleeve, and secretly slandered: "It's none of your business, why are you paying me for the soup and medicine?" ”

In the main hall, the old god Li Maohui was sitting on the main seat and sipping tea, and when he heard that the housekeeper told Chen Cao that he was coming, he waved his hand, and the figures behind the screens on the left and right sides of the hall shook, and finally calmed down.

Chen Cao walked into the lobby and felt that the atmosphere was not right, this body exercise for many years allowed him to inherit the awareness of danger, and then his eyes wandered around, and finally found the abnormal movement behind the screens on the left and right sides, and then calmed down and arched his hand towards Li Maohui on the main seat and said: "Xiaguan Chen Cao, I have seen Lord Li." ”

Chen Cao came to wear Jinyiwei's flying fish suit today, with this dress, Li Maohui weighed Chen Cao's identity even if he wanted to do it, and Li Maohui was secretly frightened when he saw Chen Cao coming in in a flying fish suit.

"You're welcome," Li Maohui waved his hand, "sit down." ”

Chen Cao was not polite, and after doing it straight, he arched his hand towards Li Maohui: "I don't know what Lord Li will invite the lower officials to come to the banquet, but the lower officials remember that they don't have too much intersection with the adults?" ”

Hum...

Li Maohui snorted coldly, he was dissatisfied with Chen Cao, this guy went straight to the point as soon as he came up, there was no implicit reading at all, he even wondered if Chen Cao, Nalan Rongruo, was fake: "Chen Cao, do you know why the old man called you?" ”

I really don't know, Chen Cao can only bow his hand to Li Maohui.

"What misunderstanding do you have with my old husband's daughter Xiang'er?" Li Maohui also directly clicked on the theme.

If this is the case, Chen Cao finally understood, so he sneered: "Master Li didn't remind the juniors, the juniors really forgot this important thing. ”

So he took the initiative to tell the cause and effect of the incident, and took the initiative to clarify his relationship with Li Xiang: "I and Ling Yan are just a cooperative relationship, and there is no misunderstanding. ”

Li Maohui is very satisfied with the answer, but now half of Jinling has been spread, and at most tomorrow, it will spread throughout Jinling, and then his daughter's reputation will be completely gone.

"Do you know why she came to save you in such a disregard for her honor?" Li Maohui then asked.

Like yourself, this Chen Cao is still a little conscious, and then arched his hand and said: "Don't hide it from the adult, the background of the younger generation is not good, presumably the adult already understands it clearly before coming," Chen Cao is still self-aware, and he must not pretend in front of an old man in the officialdom, otherwise it will backfire, and it is not wrong, after the incident, the first thing Li Maohui did was to ask Chen Cao for all the information, he was a member of the military department, although he did not deal with Jinyiwei, but it was still very easy to inquire about Chen Cao's affairs from the side.

"My father died in the war, I inherited my father's business in my life, and I met the great grace of the grandfather of the country, and I shaded the official position of a Jinyi Wei General Banner, although the younger generation is a person in the army, but it is also a good sage, and the knowledge is slight, I have made a few crooked poems, and I have written a few novels that are not in the stream, that's all," said Chen Cao again: "When cooperating with Miss Li, thanks to Miss Li, Miss Li can afford the juniors, if the adults are willing, the juniors also want to marry Miss Li, after all, Miss She came to solve the siege for the juniors, this love, naturally let the adults raise your love." ”

"You want to be beautiful." Li Maohui sneered, and then said: "Okay, the old man doesn't talk nonsense with you, he said that if you come to dinner, you will be asked to eat." ”

The dinner was very relaxed, even when old friends saw each other, the flattered Chen Cao's amount of wine was still not good, only four or five glasses of old wine were eaten, and the whole person was fluctuating again.

I only heard Li Maohui ask: "Chen Cao, who is your mentor?" ”

"Graduated from college..."

Answering the question, Li Maohui frowned: ""University"? Have you only read "University"? What is graduation? ”

Chen Cao shook his head and pouted, and then said: "Master Li is funny, I don't even know after graduation, hey, drink... Drinking..."

This kid is so bad at drinking...

Li Maohui shook his head secretly, and then asked, "Which teacher taught you your knowledge?" ”

"Teacher? Professor? Chen Cao squinted his red eyes and said with a smile: "In four years, Lao Tzu has been self-taught. ”

Now Li Maohui is clear, Chen Cao has a teacher, he has studied for four years, but he is self-taught, so it's okay, but this guy has only read "University", and he hasn't read all the four books and five classics, and he is not influenced by Confucian culture enough.

"Dad..."Li Xiang, who had never been on the road, trotted into the lobby, and when he saw Chen Cao, who was already drunk, a wave of love and pity floated in his heart, looking at his father Li Maohui, and said angrily: "Dad, my daughter has said, Chen Cao is not that kind of person, don't underestimate people, why do you make people so embarrassed?" ”

Li Maohui looked at Xiaochun and the others who followed, and knew that these girls couldn't control their precious daughter, so they also said solemnly: "If you don't want to be famous, I will recognize your father, who doesn't like to find a person from a factory guard for your father, do you know the murderous name of those people?" Even if your father and I can't screw you, but before this matter, your father and I must investigate, otherwise how can we be the son-in-law of the old man? ”

Li Xiang was very happy when he heard this, and asked directly: "Dad, has Chen Cao been in your eyes?" ”

"Drunk and spit out the truth, this guy just admitted that he has studied with a teacher for four years, Confucian culture has only read one "University", and other basic classics are not at all, the key is that this kid is still self-taught, which is acceptable, counting the factory guards, there are only some literary talents in the period of Emperor Wen Ji Ganger," Li Maohui stroked his beard, and then changed his face and said: "The last few words, the old man asks again." ”

"Ask..."Chen Cao drank all the wine, and then said with righteousness and awe.

"I'll ask..."Li Xiang grabbed the words, looked at the drunk Chen Cao, and said seriously: "Chen Cao, do you have a fiancée?" ”

"Hey..."Chen Cao waved his hand, stepped on the bench with one foot, and waved a sword trick with the other, which made Li Maohui frown: "My father gave one before his death, and he was the daughter of the commander of the right guard in Nanjing, but unfortunately my father died in battle, and her family immediately came to ask for a marriage letter and wanted to regret the marriage." ”

"Ahh They all knew Zhang Tiande, the commander of the right guard in Nanjing.

"And then?"

"And then?" Chen Cao put away the sword trick, and said with a momentum that swallowed the world: "Naturally, you can't give it for nothing, are you a fool to me Chen Cao?" The marriage book is returned, where will my Chen family's face go? ”

The father and daughter nodded in unison, this is true, the marriage book was returned, that is a shameful thing, in the case of people like Li Maohui, who suffered such a great humiliation, they must hang themselves to thank the world.

"Then you have a fiancée..."Li Xiang was gloomy for a while, Chen Cao originally had a fiancée, although there is no monogamy in this era, but he is also an official eunuch, and he is a small one for the daughter of a commander, which naturally hurts the face of his father Li Maohui.

Li Maohui was determined, slowly picked up the wine glass, squinted his eyes and tasted it, but Chen Cao's next sentence made him squirt out all the wine in his mouth.

"So, I, Chen, went to negotiate with the future Lord Taishui, and finally sold the marriage book to their family at a price of 10,000 taels of silver."

it...

Li Xiang was first shocked when he heard this, and then turned happy, but said with a little pity: "Isn't that also damaging the face of your Chen family?" ”

Li Maohui, who squirted out a sip of old wine, felt that Sven was swept away, where in the world could there be such a reason to sell his marriage book for silver, and was about to refute it, but saw Chen Cao wave his hand and said: "Such a woman, don't give it to me, you can't be with the afflicted, how can you be rich and noble?" It's just 10,000 taels of silver, they don't lack it, but I, Chen Cao, lack it, 10,000 taels of silver, I Chen can buy ten young girls in Jinling City to go back as concubines, it's too much more comfortable than the Zhang family woman who has never met, hahahaha..."

Li Xiang and Li Maohui both had a black line floating on their heads.

Who are these people...

Seeing that Li Maohui was about to open his mouth to scold, Li Xiang hurriedly asked, "Then what do you think of me?" ”

Chen Cao stared at Li Xiang hard, and he was embarrassed to see Li Xiang, Li Maohui coughed, Chen Cao put away his unfriendly eyes, and said in a humble and gentlemanly tone: "The first time Chen saw Miss Li, he thought Miss Li was good-looking, to be honest, if Lord Li didn't dislike it, Chen Cao really wanted to propose to Lord Li and marry your daughter to me Chen." ”

Li Xiang blushed, and his heart blossomed, such a talented person, who doesn't like it, but the act of selling the marriage book for money is really immoral, giving people a disgusting feeling of treating money as life.

"Chen Cao," Li Maohui didn't want to answer, obviously tonight's matter came to an end: "Do you have anything else to say?" ”

Chen Cao rolled his eyes and thought for a long time and said, "It would be nice if I invited the Hongmen Banquet..."

"Hongmen Banquet?" Li Xiang frowned, not knowing Chen Cao's words.

Li Maohui's face was red, and then he said that Chen Cao was drunk or something, and then ordered the housekeeper to send Chen Cao back, but he was very surprised by Chen Cao in his heart, this kid actually saw the doorway, and he would not be able to do it in the future.