In the sixth year of auspicious charm, in the middle of July.

Yangzhou Thorn History Mansion.

Yu Linwei walked around every corner of the house with a serious expression, and his wife, concubines, and subordinates hugged in horror. Several large camphor wood boxes and golden silk sandalwood boxes were piled up in the hall, and occasionally one or two were not closed, and the gaps were full of pearles.

It's like a posture of copying a house.

Chu Zhixia bit the fruit, stepped on the overturned chair, and spread out an account on his lap. Cheng Yuan walked over quickly and handed Chu Shixia a stack of letters that had been sealed after being unsealed. Chu Zhixia casually tore open one or two envelopes, and couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

"Dare to ask the distinguished guest, which royal law did my lord commit, and he wanted to thoroughly inspect the mansion and confiscate the family property?" Mrs. Thorn asked with her arms around the young child and pressed her fear.

"What royal law did he violate? If you don't know, just go to the prison and ask yourself. Chu Zhixia didn't raise his head, and waved his hand to signal Cheng Yuan to turn on the lamp, "If Madame doesn't know the way, I will send Yu Linwei to take you there." ”

"My lord has an official!" Mrs. Thorn Shi was shocked and angry, "How can I allow you to be humiliated at will!" ”

Chu Zhixia impatiently put a finger in front of his lips, "Shhhhh ”

Chu Zhixia slapped the accounts and secret letters in his hand on Cheng Yuan's chest, showed a snake-like smile at Mrs. Thorn Shi, and knocked on her heavenly spirit cover word by word, "Give things to His Highness, he will understand at a glance." Li Yu, the assassin of Yangzhou, colluded with businessmen to raise grain prices, intending to obstruct Qincha's disaster relief and counterinsurgency. ”

Chu Zhixia glanced at Mrs. Thorn Shi, who was wearing gold and silver and was surrounded by jewels, and reached out to dust off the golden silk sandalwood box full of pearls and jade, "Yangzhou is really rich." Lord Thorn Shi probably has some indescribable income, don't you say? Mrs. Thorn. ”

"Go to the imperial capital and tell the truth." Chu Zhixia walked to the hall with his hands in his sleeves and sat down steadily, Shi Shiran said, "Let Your Majesty fall." ”

A Yu Lin Wei hurriedly walked in from outside and said to Chu Zhixia, "Miss, Yu joined the army and led troops to surround the Thorn History Mansion. ”

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Changshi stumbled in from the encirclement of the soldiers, and when he saw the stubborn Yu joining the army, he patted his thigh and sighed.

"Yu joins the army, what are you doing here?" Changshi sighed again and again, "It's His Royal Highness the King of Qi and the eldest lady of the Chu family in this Assassin's Mansion, you don't want to die?" Evacuate everyone! Do you really want to send them down? ”

"The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people." Yu joined the army and stiffened his neck and said, "What about the King of Qi, and what about the Chu clan in the clouds?" She detained Sanpin officials without evidence and without evidence, which violated the laws of the Great Zhou! If I hadn't released the assassin today, I wouldn't have withdrawn my troops. ”

Changshi was so angry by this elm head that his heart hurt, and he couldn't scold him for a long time. At this moment, the door of the Thorn Mansion slowly pushed open.

Cheng Yuan was dressed in gold armor to open the way, with a golden knife pinned to his waist, and a mediocre lantern in his hand. He stood respectfully to the side, like a stone figurine.

Chu Zhixia walked out in a moon-white shirt, with a pearl and a bright moon in his ears. She is like a daughter who walks on the moon at night, smiling lightly at everyone, which is very different from the appearance of the previous wanderer.

"What is this for," Chu Zhixia smiled unabated, "Does Yangzhou have a habit of evening military parades?" ”

Chang Shi just wanted to go down this step, but he didn't hold it, and Yu joined the army and said, "Please also ask Miss Chu to let Master Thorn Shi go." It is a grave crime to detain an official of the imperial court without reason. ”

"I thought I was talking about people." Chu Zhixia's voice was cold, "Forging fish scale books, annexing land, colluding with officials and businessmen, I can make it clear and clear." I just found out a new one, do you want to listen to Yu joining the army? ”

"You don't have any evidence." Yu joined the army and said righteously, "How can you use the power of the Qin Cha to bully local officials? ”

The temperature on Chu Zhixia's face completely dissipated. She raised her hand behind her, and Yu Linwei presented the carved bow and feather arrows with a smile. Changshi looked at Chu Zhixia in shock, and then at Yu Jianjun, who was frozen in place and had to hold on for the sake of face.

It wasn't until Chu Zhixia didn't blink his eyes and opened the bow and drew the string fluently and beautifully that Changshi realized that this eldest lady was really not afraid of heaven and earth, and even crawled to the side. What Yu wanted to say in the army was drowned in the wind set off by that arrow.

With a "dang" sound, the feather arrow shot down the hairpin on the top of the army's head. He stood there with his hair disheveled, reminiscing about the momentary loss of voice, and then consciously raised his hand and touched his neck. Only then did the soldiers react and tried to rush up to capture Chu Zhixia.

"Don't be presumptuous!" Changshi roared angrily, and his throat was split.

Chu Zhixia walked straight to Yu Senjun with a bow and arrow, and Cheng Yuan walked beside her with a knife, coldly scanning the people who came over. Everywhere the two went, the soldiers avoided them like ant colonies in water.

"Let them kill me, why, don't you dare?" Chu Zhixia stood still in front of joining the army, smiled sweetly, and laughed so hard that people's hearts were furious, "Don't dare to kill, what kind of soldiers are you transferring?" ”

"You-"

No one could see who made the first move.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Zhixia raised his leg and kicked on the knee raised by the army, and his forearm quickly and accurately blocked his eagle claws. Chu Zhixia's hand slipped out against his forearm, straight to his throat, and Yu joined the army in a panic to block his hand, and his feet were caught off guard for a while, and he was swept over by Chu Shixia and fell to the ground.

Chu Zhixia raised his foot and stepped on his chest, almost breaking his ribs. Yu joined the army and took two breaths, and he couldn't lie flat on the ground. Chu Zhixia narrowed one eye and drew his bow at him, the arrow cluster flashing with cold light.

"Fight, why don't you fight?" Chu Zhixia sneered.

"Kill or chop, whatever you want!" Yu joined the army and his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, he punched the ground with a fist, and roared angrily, "Yushi will impeach you!" ”

Changshi saw the miasma here, and wanted to sneak away, but Chu Zhixia took care of the assassination history and joined the army, presumably he would be next, so why bother to move the grave. It happened that Cheng Yuan glanced up at him, and Changshi came over to persuade him in an orderly manner.

"Miss, forget it." Changshi said bitterly.

Chu Zhixia suddenly loosened the strings.

Changshi's heart tightened, and the arrow cluster stuck to Yu Join's head three inches deep into the ground, and the arrow feathers trembled.

"Do you still think that you are quite upright, mighty and unyielding, rich and noble?" Chu Zhixia slapped Yu Xianjun's swollen cheek with his bow lightly, and said with contempt, "I have seen many bad people, some are very bad, and some are stupid. You're that self-righteous idiot, piece of shit. ”

Yu joined the army and gritted his teeth and blushed.

"Since you are dedicated to the country and the people, why do you turn a blind eye to the soaring food prices in Yangzhou in a short period of time? As a member of the army, he couldn't put down the rebellion, and he didn't even know whether the people could eat or not, and he dared to talk to me here. Chu Zhixia said condescendingly, "Let me ask you when you joined the army, do you know how many fields Li Tingshi embezzled, and collaborated with the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce to spread false court decrees to collect money?" ”

Yu joined the army under her pity and impatience, and she couldn't even say a word of "nonsense".

"I'll just treat you as innocent and don't know anything." Chu Zhixia smiled and said, "What is the history of Yangzhou Thorn, and what kind of life is it in the Assassin Mansion, can't you see or understand it?" You really thought he was a good and innocent person, and you took my breath away in front of him. ”

Chu Zhixia turned his head to look at Changshi, whose scalp was numb, "What about you, Lord Changshi, how much do you know?" ”

Changshi muttered "Xiaguan, Xiaguan" twice, and Cheng Yuan warned: "If it is a lie, it will be punished by one degree." ”

Changshi knelt on the ground with a "plop", "The lower official is guilty." ”

Chu Zhixia looked back at Yu joining the army and said, "You have cleaned up and down your body, and those two taels of 'integrity' are worth a little money." But this is the most worthless thing in the world, and it is also the 'integrity' of stupid people. As an official of the imperial court, you cannot advise your colleagues at the top, and you cannot be sympathetic to the people at the bottom. If it weren't for this integrity, I would have abolished you a long time ago. Still leaving you to this day, yelling at me? ”

Chu Zhixia threw the bow to Cheng Yuan, patted the dust on his hands, and said, "Take your colleagues and your soldiers, and give me a roll." ”

——

Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce.

The round table was full of delicacies, but the people at the table looked at each other with sad faces. The people sitting at the table are all well-known grain merchants or pharmaceutical merchants in the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and they are all gathered here today because of the changes in last night.

"This Li Thorn Shi shouldn't be—right?" The number one grain merchant stood with a chopstick and made a falling motion.

"According to the news from the imperial capital, the young master of the Pei family was once a lecturer of the King of Qi, and the new policy was drafted by Pei Cifu. Could this King Qi be tired of discovering Li Tingshi's work on the New Deal? "The No. 2 grain merchant's face is also not good-looking.

"Did the imperial capital say that this Li Thorn History is reliable?" The number one medicine merchant slapped the table irritably, "He is the one who wants us to raise the price and make a lot of money, and he is the one who can't find the north after being slapped by Qincha!" What if that Chin cha gets angry and copies us too? ”

The No. 2 pharmacist took a worried sip of tea, "During the day, Yu Linwei came to the shop to ask the price, and they were all medicinal materials for ordinary plagues. ”

All eyes were on him.

"I sold it, and I sold it at two-thirds of the usual price, as long as it was the medicinal materials they wanted, and what they had in the warehouse, they were all emptied." No. 2 pharmacist took a deep breath and said.

"You traitor, softbones! You've made this head, but how can we be good? The number one grain merchant was furious, pointed at his nose and cursed.

"Don't you see it yet? Although the king of Qi and the daughter of the Chu family are young, they are not easy to fool and are not easy to handle. ”

The No. 2 pharmacist raised his hand and arched towards the sky, "You have figured it out, no matter how big Li Tingshi's backer is, can he be bigger than the sky and His Majesty?" The king of Qi provided disaster relief and the daughter of the Chu family quelled the rebellion, but it was an errand appointed by His Majesty. ”

There was silence in the room.

"Your arms can't twist your thighs, Li Tingshi himself can't protect himself, do you still believe his words?"

The No. 2 pharmacist shook his head and said helplessly, "You have been doing business in Jiangnan for many years, and your family is rich. For these goods, let alone two-thirds of the price, even if they are given away for free, they will not hurt their muscles and bones. ”

The number one pharmacist took a deep breath, nodded approvingly, and said, "If it makes sense, it should be regarded as accumulating good deeds." Our family is not short of these dollars, and it is the cheapest business to spend money to buy Taiping. That's it. ”