After sitting in front of the desk for a long time, Zhu Houzhao wiped his face and forced out a little smile.

"Proposed purpose, Lu Shiguan will be reinstated...... Oh no! Lu Shiyu has made meritorious contributions, and he should be promoted. It just so happened that Wang Qiong was dismissed, so let's read the position of this Ministry of Rites to Lu Shi! ”

Lu Qi was not happy, and he didn't even take his hand out of his sleeve: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your appreciation, I'm ashamed, so please choose another master." ”

Zhu Houzhao's smile flickered for a moment: "Uh...... Is it because the suspect is not big enough? Okay, I'll get you into the cabinet! Make you a university scholar! ”

"Your Majesty, don't say it, I'll take it seriously." Lu Qi turned around indifferently.

"Lu Shiyu, don't you go? Where are you going? Zhu Houzhao snatched Huang Juan from the eunuch's hand, sneered and chased after him: "What official position do you want?" You write! ”

Lu Qi walked faster and faster: "I want to go back to Yu County!" ”

Zhu Houzhao's smiling face collapsed suddenly, and he stood in place crying with a sad face: "You want to leave too?" Am I really a faint king? ”

"yes." Lu Qi replied without hesitation.

The young son of heaven had suffered this blow, and when he heard this, he thought he hadn't heard it clearly, and when Lu Qi solemnly repeated it to him: "Yes, you are a faint king." ”

Huang Juan in Zhu Houzhao's hand fell to the ground, tears fell from his eyes unconsciously, and he wanted to refute but didn't know where to start, his lips trembled, and he was stunned in place for a long time.

"You don't follow the rules, don't know right from wrong, don't know relatives, don't know treachery, if you want to be an emperor, you are far worse than the previous emperor!" The more Lu Qi spoke, the more energetic he became, and he scolded him before he felt a bad breath in his chest.

Zhu Houzhao listened silently, lowered his eyes, with tears on his chin, and didn't know what to think.

Liu Jin went to deal with the injuries on his body that were stepped on by the people, and the rest of the little eunuchs didn't dare to squeak at all, only silence was left in the hall, and the atmosphere was heavy, and no one knew if Zhu Houzhao would break out in the next moment, jumping up and throwing Lu Qi into prison.

At this moment, Qian Ning, who was in charge of the torture, returned to the hall with a bad breath, breaking the heavy atmosphere: "Your Majesty, Liu Wentai has recruited!" ”

Zhu Houzhao's red eyes turned to him: "What did you recruit?" ”

"Liu Wentai was in collusion with a dart master named Guan Shifei, who helped him escape." Channing lowered his head.

Jinyiwei's intelligence network quickly found out that this pass was an outlaw, who opened a dart game in his early years, and recently somehow entered the capital and lived in a restaurant called "Qinglan".

But somehow, when Jinyiwei rushed to the scene, this Guan was nowhere to be found, and the shopkeeper, buddy and others of Qinglan Restaurant were found dead in the kitchen of the restaurant.

When Mu Bin entered, he saw the shopkeeper lying on the ground, splashed with blood everywhere, and the scene was like purgatory on earth.

Dragged the corpses out and examined them carefully, all of them had stabs on their necks that were inclined from the bottom to the top, and the depth of the wounds was very even, and it could be seen that the killer must be a master.

Lu Qi soon followed Qian Ning to arrive.

"Huh?" After seeing the wounds of the corpse, Lu Qiqi said: "This is similar to Tong Zimo's injury. ”

Mu Bin immediately raised his head: "Carry these corpses to the yamen!" ”

……

In the yamen, Zhu Houzhao was still sitting there, just slumping his shoulders and looking quite depressed.

The officials and brocade guards carried the corpse in, and compared it with the scar on Tong Zimo's corpse: "It's really the same!" It seems that this murderer is the one who killed Tong Zimo! ”

Another autopsy, the shopkeeper and the guys died for only two hours, and the murderer must not have gone far at this time.

Mu Bin stepped forward: "Your Majesty! Guan Shifei fled in advance, and asked for an order to send officers and soldiers and Jinyi guards to close the city gate, and hold the portrait of this person in Dasuo Jingcheng, and arrest him! ”

"Not bad." Lu Qi nodded: "I'm just afraid that he has left the capital, so I might as well send his portrait to the provinces and set up a card on the official road to pursue it." ”

Hearing Lu Qi's voice, Zhu Houzhao raised his head: "What did you say?" ”

Lu Qi blinked in confusion: "I said, I might as well send his portrait to the provinces and ...... on the official road."

"You said you wanted to be an official?" Zhu Houzhao straightened his waist.

"Huh?"

"No problem! Officials reinstated, officials reinstated! Zhu Houzhao stood up suddenly: "Come on, draft the purpose!" ”

"Huh?"

The little eunuch next to him had already written: "Long live the lord, the will is here!" ”

"Wait a minute!"

Zhu Houzhao snatched it and read aloud with a roar: "Fengtian carries something, Lu Yunguan is reinstated, admire this!" Come on, come on, get the order! ”

Lu Qi took half a step back: "What tricks are you doing as a faint gentleman?" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao suddenly jumped down from the steps: "Yes, yes, I am the faint king!" Today, I, a faint king, have to be an official! If you don't...... If you don't do it, you have to do it! ”

While shouting, he pressed the black gauze hat on Lu Qi's face.

"I said I wouldn't do it, you still have to ask me to do it!" Lu Qi ran around Mu Bin and refused to let him put his hat on his head.

The two of them chased and tore up like three-year-old children, and Mu Bin was so dizzy that his eyes were dizzy: "Two of you, why don't you stop and drink tea first and catch your breath for a while?" ”

Lu Qi panted: "You let him stop first!" ”

"You stop first!" Zhu Houzhao was sweating profusely.

Mu Bin grabbed the two of them: "You two might as well go and look in the mirror today and ask yourself how old you are?" Where does this look like a saint and a virtuous minister? ”

Zhu Houzhao raised his chin proudly: "I'm faint!" ”

Lu Qi was not far behind: "I'm a minister!" ”

Choked Mu Bin to the point that he had nothing to say.

The two of them, who were finally tired, sat side by side on the steps under the strange eyes of the brocade guards, officials, and eunuchs.

"Ah, yes, yes, go and catch that pass, Da Suo Jingshi, distribute portraits, and set up official roads." Zhu Houzhao supported his chin and called, "Do it." ”

Mu Bin took the order and went out, and before leaving, he glanced at Lu Qi and Zhu Houzhao with a constipated face and a speechless face, as if shaking his head funny.

Zhu Houzhao casually threw the black gauze hat aside and waved away the eunuchs and officials.

Looking at Lu Qi, the smile on Zhu Houzhao's face became more and more vigorous: "Well, sure enough, it is still a match between Yu Chen and me, a faint king." ”

Lu Qi couldn't hold it back, and laughed out loud: "If you want to realize my ideals, you have to be a faint gentleman." ”

looked at each other and smiled, and the enmity was exhausted.

……

Da Suo Jingshi for three days, but in the end he still failed to catch Guan Zhengfei, Liu Wentai committed suicide by taking poison in the edict prison, I don't know if Dr. Cui and Gao Tinghe, who were under Jiuquan, could turn a blind eye.

Lu Qiguan was reinstated and recuperated in the imperial village, and the mansion was expanded into a beautiful palace, and Chen Yin'er was busy with flowers every day, although busy but very fulfilling.

Yun Qing recuperated for Lu Qi, Gao Tinghe's medical book helped him a lot, his medical skills improved rapidly, and Fu Lu Qi, who dragged him, also recovered well.

There was news from the palace that Liu Jin took over Miao Kui's class, cleaned up many eunuchs in the palace, replaced them with newly promoted people, and immediately cut off many news networks inside and outside the palace, and cut off most of the connections between the inner palace and the imperial court.

Good news came from the Lei family's firearms battalion, the artillery has been successfully developed, and the manufacture of flintlock guns is very smooth, and the next step is to greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the army by only expanding production.

The cultivation of sweet potatoes is still exploring, but after all, potatoes are talented, just planted casually in the newly reclaimed wasteland, and the yield is actually quite a lot.

Although Gao Lichang has not read any books, he is an insightful old man, after all, the planting method of sweet potatoes still needs to be tried more, so he took the initiative to give them the sweet potatoes for free, just ask them to share the planting method after trying to plant.

With such high righteousness, the villagers and people of several surrounding Huangzhuang praised one after another, and the next round of trial planting was in full swing in such an environment.

"Lord Lu, this newly built garden has an excellent view, I don't know what the name is?" Wei Cheng didn't go to Yan Song's study today, so he came to visit the imperial village.

This garden is newly built, and there are 100 flowers and trees of various colors planted in it, and there are considerable beautiful scenery in all seasons, and Wei Cheng is reluctant to leave when he sees it.

Lu Qi had just tried the fire gun in Lei's house, and he was quite interested: "What do you think is the best name?" ”

Wei Cheng touched his chin and thought for a moment: "Hmm...... Fangfei Garden? Spring Breeze Garden? Not good, not good. Lord Lu, what do you think is the best name? ”

Lu Qi's eyes seemed to be looking at the garden, as if he was looking through the garden, looking at somewhere: "I already have a name." ”

"It's called...... Chess Garden. ”

Wei Cheng blinked, unable to hide his disappointment: "Is this what it's called?" ”

There was a carpenter in the village, and the plaque was soon made and hung on the gate of the garden, Wei Cheng was still sighing that the name was not poetic, and Lu Qi had already picked up a box of the world's richest people.

Spread out the bamboo mat under the flower tree and set up the chessboard, Lu Qi poured himself a glass of wine.

The petals fluttered down on the chessboard, and Wei Cheng calmed down a little: "The game under the flowers is not interesting." ”

"Haha, huh?" Lu Qi took a sip of wine: "It's just that I have a saying, I'm tired of bringing you the imperial brother for me." ”

"Don't bother, Lord Lu, please speak."

"You and I, see you in the chess garden."

Zhu Houzhao, who received the words, thought about it carefully, and suddenly laughed unconsciously.

"What is the royal brother laughing at? Is there anything wrong with this statement? Wei Cheng wondered.

Zhu Houzhao laughed with tears in his eyes, and only stopped for a while: "There is no mistake." Let's go, go to the chess garden! ”

(End of book)