....... Emperor Yuan Jing choked, he didn't expect Xu Qi'an to reply like this.

Every time he was troubled by him, he shouted "the bones of the beggars" is the style of the old fritters in the officialdom. Unexpectedly, this little gong was even more straightforward, and he actually begged for death.

Emperor Yuan Jing's face was gloomy, and the superiors liked to say heavy words to show their majesty, from the emperor to the county order, they all liked to say: Give me (the official) how to do it, otherwise let you do it.

This is nothing, after all, there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and the courtiers and subordinates can only bear it and obediently accept the order.

Unexpectedly, this gong was actually brought back to the top, and Emperor Yuan Jing, who was at the top, was uncomfortable for a while.

Especially looking at Xu Tongluo, who had changed greatly, Emperor Yuan Jing was even more unhappy in his heart, and at the same time sighed that the rebirth pill was worthy of being a rare panacea for a hundred years.

The prison was only able to refine three grains.

Emperor Yuan Jing said sharply: "Xu Qi'an, do you think I won't kill you?"

Emperor Yuanjing reigned for thirty-six years, the emperor was extremely majestic, and the air in the imperial study seemed to have dropped a little, and several eunuchs immediately bowed their heads, not daring to look up at Long Yan.

In front of the emperor, only Wei Yuan was calm.

Of course, Xu Qi'an would not continue to collide, he didn't panic, he changed his style of punching just now, and changed to a submissive one, and said:

"Your Majesty forgives the sins, and he is humble in Yunzhou to protect the governor, fight the rebels, and behead two enemies.

He worked hard in Yunzhou to solve the case of Song Changfu, the political envoy, colluding with the Wushen Sect, and also commanded Yang Chuannan to be innocent.

"All of the above is insignificant, and the humble position will never be used to ask for credit. As for the Sangbo case and the Pingyang County chief case, he has long forgotten his humble duties and will never bring up the old things again.

"It's just that my humble spirit is greatly damaged, my mind is exhausted, and I often have a headache after waking up, and I really can't afford to share your majesty's worries. ”

Emperor Yuan Jing stared at him, and he couldn't say anything cruel for a while.

This little gong deliberately pulled a lot of cases to highlight his own merits, first consolidated his position as a hero, and then prevaricated with physical discomfort, and he was already well versed in the skills of court officials.

Wei Yuan immediately said: "Your Majesty, Xu Qi'an is just a gong, no matter how strong his ability is, but his spirit and spirit are seriously depleted, his life and death are naturally not to be regretted, but if the case is delayed, so that Concubine Fu can't settle his grievances, that's the big deal." ”

After a pause, he looked at Xu Qi'an and said, "You go back to recuperate with peace of mind, Your Majesty will not send hungry soldiers." ”

The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers......

Emperor Yuan Jing glanced at Wei Yuan, groaned slightly, and said, "Xu Qi'an, Si Tian has as many prescriptions as he wants to raise the gods." There is also no shortage of elixirs in Lingbaoguan, if you are unwell, I can reward you with a few elixirs.

"I remember your merits in Yunzhou in my heart, and I intend to make you a viscount. The emperor's grace is vast, don't let it down. ”

In the final analysis, Xu Qi'an is just a small person, and it is not worth Emperor Yuan Jing's deliberate trouble, the cabinet proposed to revoke the knighthood, and Emperor Yuan Jing pushed the boat down.

But for now, if Xu Qi'an is to be used, Emperor Yuan Jing doesn't mind giving some benefits. But his heart was very happy, he knew that he was being put on the table.

"Thank you, Your Majesty Longen, Your Majesty is wise and martial, an emperor through the ages. Xu Qi'an said loudly.

Emperor Yuan Jing bowed slightly: "I want to get the truth of the case as soon as possible." ”

"I did my best to do my best, and then I died. ”

Seeing that the little gong was so knowledgeable, Emperor Yuan Jing felt a little more comfortable, and said lightly: "Stand down." ”

........

Leaving the imperial study side by side with Wei Yuan and walking in the empty square, Wei Yuan squinted, looked ahead, and smiled faintly: "Have you learned?"

"Learned. Xu Qi'an said.

He really learned, not in the past, when he was studying, the teacher stood on the podium and tapped on the blackboard and asked, "Have you all learned?"

He opened his eyes and replied loudly: Yes!

Wei Yuan's reason for handing him over is very simple, the emperor is also a human being, and the emperor also has weaknesses and is also bound by rules, not to do whatever he wants, and to act recklessly.

At the same time, the emperor is not omnipotent, the emperor also has needs, as long as you have what he "needs", there is a lot of room for maneuver.

For example, this time, the three law divisions passed the buck and delayed the case, what could Emperor Yuan Jing do? At most, it was a punishment, but it was impossible to really dismiss the official or behead him.

In this context, Xu Qi'an, who has cracked several major cases in a row and offended many officials, is an excellent candidate for investigation.

Since the emperor wants to use you, it is necessary to reasonably fight for his own interests.

And once he became a viscount, Xu Qi'an symbolically made some efforts, but he failed to solve the case because of his "lack of ability", which is also reasonable.

After all, he is not an immortal.

At that time, Emperor Yuan Jing's anger was predictable, but Xu Qi'an, who was already a viscount at that time, was at most punished with some punishment, cane reprimand, punishment, and even demotion.

But the title is not to be deprived of it, the title is a means for the court to win people's hearts, and it must be awarded to those who have made great contributions.

Correspondingly, the conditions for depriving the title are also very strict, and it is by no means that the emperor will deprive him if he says deprivation. Otherwise, the knighthood is too cheap, how to convince the public.

As for whether Emperor Yuan Jing would repay his debts, Xu Qi'an and Wei Yuan never thought that the king of a country would not be such a scoundrel. Even if Emperor Yuan Jing wanted to repay the debt, Xu Qi'an could still drag the case.

There is a strategy and a countermeasure.

"Lord Xu, please stay. ”

A shrill cry came from behind him.

Xu Qi'an and Wei Yuan stopped to look back, it was the old eunuch beside Emperor Yuan Jing, trotting to catch up, holding a gold medal in his hand.

"This is a gold medal given by His Majesty, Lord Xu can enter the palace at any time to investigate the case, but he must be accompanied by an errand in the palace. The old eunuch presented the gold medal.

Xu Qi'an took it and weighed it, it was very sufficient.

This gold medal is different from the gold medal he received before, there is an additional word "inside" on the front of the gold medal, which is a gold medal that can walk in the palace, and the level is higher.

"I'm tired of my father-in-law. Xu Qi'an gave up.

The old eunuch nodded, didn't say anything, and turned back.

"Father-in-law, wait a minute. Xu Qi'an called out to him again.

The old eunuch looked back.

"Your Majesty, this official is going to start investigating the case today, please send a messenger to me. Xu Qi'an said.

Pawn is the lowest-ranking eunuch...... It is inaccurate to use the word "eunuch", eunuch is a kind of identity, a position.

Pawn is the lowest level...... The one who cuts the grass and eradicates the roots.

The old eunuch admired Xu Qi'an's positive work attitude, and the smile on his face suddenly became a little thicker, and asked, "Let's ask a little more, where is Lord Xu going to start?"

Xu Qi'an grinned and said, "Check it out from Princess Lin'an." ”

The old eunuch returned to the imperial study, and a young eunuch rushed out and saluted Wei Yuan and Xu Qi'an.

Xu Qi'an nodded, sent Wei Yuan to the gate of the palace, and then, accompanied by the errand, he went to Princess Lin'an's Shaoyin Garden.

.........

Shaoyin Garden.

In the depressed back garden, Lin'an sat in the pavilion, looking at the condensed pool water in a daze.

The water in the pool froze last night, and now it gradually melted under the warm sun, and only a few pieces of ice floe remained.

In half a decade, Lin'an Qing lost a lot, his round goose egg face looked a little thin, and his peach blossom eyes were originally watery and slightly misty, and everyone was as charming as silk.

Now it's missing some of its brilliance.

Since she was a child, except for being beaten by Huaiqing, she has always been carefree and smooth.

Because Emperor Yuanjing cultivated early, although there are many children, they are not many, and the intrigue between the prince and the princess is not so powerful.

In addition, my brother is the prince, and he is coquettish, and he is a who understands how to be likable, so it has been smooth sailing.

But the continuous bad news in the past few days made her depressed and devastated.

I just cried at my mother's place today, and the mother and daughter were worried about the prince's future, and when they came back, Lin'an sat in the pavilion thinking about things.

If it was Huaiqing, she would definitely be extremely strong, she was the kind of woman who would not be defeated by anything....... The prince's brother would definitely not do such a thing, but who would frame him....... The fourth prince, Huaiqing's brother?

This thought suddenly flashed through Lin An's heart.

She is not as smart as Huaiqing, she is poor at reading, and she has to be threatened by Taifu with a bamboo stick on the board to memorize the scriptures, so she is willing to recite a few articles with tears in her eyes.

But she is not stupid, on the premise that the prince's brother is wronged, as long as she uses her brains and thinks about the prince's brother's abolition, who will benefit the most.

Suspicious characters immediately surfaced.

As soon as he thought of this, Lin'an's eyes moved slightly, and he actively used his brain and thought of a lot of questions.

For example, how did the fourth prince secretly kill Concubine Fu and blame the prince's brother. For example, who is his comrade, the queen?

Wait a minute.

Then, the more I thought about it, the more confused I became, the more confused I became, and I patted my head in frustration.

"It would be nice if he was still here, and he would definitely be able to solve the case with a "instigation". Lin'an stomped his feet and said angrily.

But the next moment, her face suddenly fell, her eyebrows shrunk, and she lost her spirit.

But..... He's gone.

"Your Highness, Your Highness. ”

A saber guard, hurrying in his footsteps, paused in the pavilion, hugged his fists and said: "Gong Xu Qi'an asks to see...... Wait in the front yard. ”

Lin'an's reaction was like being knocked on by someone, and she was stunned, about three or four seconds, she got up and walked quickly to the guard, her beautiful eyes staring:

"What did you say?"

"Gong Xu Qi'an asked to see. The guard repeated.

The blood qi rushed to the door at once, and Lin'an was unprecedentedly furious, struggling to pull out the guard's saber, gritting his teeth and saying:

"Dog, even you dare to play tricks on this palace? ”

The real reason for her anger was that the guards took Xu Qi'an.

The guard hurriedly retreated, if this was cut, it would be too wronged, and explained while retreating: "It's really Xu Gongzi, Xu Gongzi is here, it's in the front yard, Your Highness will know it at a glance." ”

Lin An didn't lose the knife in his hand, and hurried to the front yard.

From a distance, Xu Qi'an first discovered the red-clothed framing, and was startled when he saw her carrying a knife into battle, and her menacing posture.

The heart said that I finally broke out of the ghost gate, auntie, are you going to send me back?

He immediately put away the gadgets to please Lin'an and hid behind the rockery.

"Where is Xu Qi'an, where is Xu Qi'an?"

Lin An carried the knife and looked left and right in the front yard, but she didn't see the familiar figure at all, and her bright eyes gradually dimmed.

"Your Highness, Lord Xu, behind the rockery. The errand eunuch whispered.

Lin'an's peach blossom eyes lit up instantly, and he walked to the back of the rockery in anticipation, and sure enough, he saw the ...... Xu Qi'an?

She was stunned for a moment, the person in front of her was masculine and handsome, with flying eyebrows, bright eyes, a high nose, and lip lines.

Immediately afterwards, Lin An was attracted by the two wire dolls in Xu Qi'an's hands.

It was a man and a woman, the woman was dressed beautifully, and the man was a heroic general in armor.

Xu Qi'an coughed, manipulated the heroic general, and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, I have returned from Korean plastic surgery. ”

Then, he changed to a shrill voice and manipulated the woman: "Where is Korea?" ”

General Yingwu: "Oh, it's Yunzhou, it's wrong." ”

Woman: "Didn't you die in Yunzhou?" ”

General Yingwu: "Originally, he was dead, but he thought of Her Royal Highness the princess in his heart, and moved the prince of Yama, so he came back." ”

Woman: "Oh, you hate it. ”

Lin'an thought it was funny, sneered, and suddenly felt cold on his face, and unconsciously, tears flowed silently down his cheeks.

Feeling embarrassed, she hurriedly turned around and explained angrily: "Today's wind is a little strong, and I lost my eyes with the sand. ”

As a lively, squeamish, and coquettish girl, she actually eats this set very much. And because of the lack of emotional experience, the level of identifying scumbags is poor, so there is a scumbag atmosphere all over the body.

Of course, Xu Qian is definitely not a scumbag.

Xu Qi'an smiled: "It's strange, why does the sand only fascinate the princess's eyes, is it because the princess is beautiful?"

Lin'an, who was exposed, said angrily: "Dog minion." ”

"Despicability is not a dog minion. ”

"You are the dog slave, the dog slave Xu Qi'an. ”

"Dog's Day Lin'an. ”

"Dog, what is a dog?" Princess Lin'an didn't know that "day" was a verb.

"Nothing. Xu Qi'an bullied her for not understanding her hometown.

"You just scolded Bengong, right?" Lin'an grimaced.

"No, that's what I want most from the princess. Xu Qi'an replied seriously.

........

came out from behind the rockery, framed the knife back to the guards, and took Xu Qi'an into the hall, and the errand man followed behind, looking at the second princess with strange eyes.

The second princess's beautiful and smart eyes were red and swollen, obviously she had just cried.

Taking a seat, the palace maid offered tea and snacks, Xu Qi'an waved his hand and said, "Little father-in-law, you step down first, the official and the princess have secret matters to discuss." ”

"This .....," the little eunuch hesitated.

"!" framed willow eyebrows, coquettishly reprimanded: "This palace and Lord Xu have something to say, and it is your turn to listen? Believe it or not, drag you out and scold you with a hundred rods." ”

The little eunuch had no choice but to retire.

"How did he follow you? How did you come back alive, didn't Huaiqing say that you died. ”

Framed watched the back of the little eunuch step out of the threshold and disappear, shifting his gaze to Xu Qi'an, and his beautiful little face smiled.

"He's here to spy on the lowly office. Xu Qi'an took a sip of hot tea, ate pastries, waited in the imperial study for more than an hour, and missed lunch.

"As for how you lived, that's a long story.....

He told Princess Lin'an about the Yunzhou case, and made a slight adaptation, of course, the adaptation was not a random fabrication, so Xu Qi'an just beautified and highlighted his own role, reducing the presence of other people.

Lin'an likes to listen to books the most, and began to relish it, gradually immersive, and heard Xu Qi'an solve the puzzle left by the dark son Zhou Min all night, she slapped the table with her little hand and applauded loudly.

She leaned forward, cupped her cheeks, and listened intently.

Xu Qi'an quietly glanced at Her Royal Highness the Princess's chest, and was inevitably a little disappointed, compared with her eldest sister, there was still a little gap.

A woman who can't put pressure on the table is not a good woman.

Hearing that a female ghost came to confuse Xu Qi'an and others, the two colleagues were miserably confused, and Xu Qi'an, with his own firm will, was unmoved, framed and expressed his appreciation, and praised and said: You are worthy of being the person valued by this palace, when this palace saw you, I knew that you were not a thing in the pool.

Xu Qi'an expressed his gratitude to Her Royal Highness the princess for her insight, and complained in her heart, didn't you forcibly recruit me just to be jealous of Huaiqing.

In the end, Xu Qi'an began to tell that he faced thousands of troops and horses alone, was besieged by thousands of people, faced with the dilemma of arrows like rain and guns like a forest, did not retreat half a step, killed two hundred enemies, and finally held out until the reinforcements arrived.

The framed listener burst into tears, and his nose turned red from crying.

"Your Highness, didn't you see the scene at that time, and with a humble roar, the more than a thousand rebels were frightened, and they fought with me hard. If I hadn't been in the right state at the time, none of them would have lived. ”

He nodded vigorously, convinced.

After all, Xu Qi'an's deeds, she had heard the emperor's brother say before, and everyone said that Xu Qi'an died heroically and saved the governor and the golden gong of the yamen.

After bragging, Xu Qi'an remembered what was going on and said, "By the way, I entered the palace this time on the orders of His Majesty to thoroughly investigate the case of Concubine Fu." ”

Framed's eyes suddenly brightened, and he said happily: "This palace knows, it's good if you come back, and you can wash away the grievances of the prince's brother when you come back." ”

"I will always serve the princess, be a cow and a horse. Xu Qi'an said sincerely.

brushed a wave of Lin'an's favorability.

"There are a few questions I want to ask the princess, how does Concubine Fu look?"

"Nature is extremely beautiful. ”

Emperor Yuan Jing is really a tyrannical thing..... Xu Qi'an sighed in his heart, and asked again: "Prince, are you lustful?"

"Of course it's not. Lin'an vetoed it and said: "In addition to the crown princess, the prince's brother's side concubines, concubines, concubines, etc., add up to sixteen people." ”

“......”

Xu Qi'an said, I am really a good man, a good man is me, I am Xu Qi'an!

"Is there a precedent for drunken trouble?"

"Nope. ”

"What kind of wine are you drinking?"

"Hundred days of spring, the wine that nourishes the kidneys and aphrodisiacs. It was sent to my mother by the queen, do you think she framed her?"

Xu Qi'an pondered for a moment and said, "I understand." ”

Lin An was overjoyed, and said in a coquettish voice: "What do you understand? Xu Ningyan, have you solved the case?" ”

.........

Hsu Mansion.

Xu Erlang, who was exhausted, did not return to the academy immediately, today is February 10, and it will be spring in five days, so there is no need to return to the academy at all.

These days, I stayed at home with peace of mind, waiting for the imperial examination to come.

After lunch, he helped his father Xu Pingzhi send off the Xu clan, and the exhausted Xu Erlang didn't want to study at all, he just wanted to go back to his room and take a good sleep.

But the porter Lao Zhang hurriedly ran in and said, "Erlang, there is a monk outside the door, claiming to be Hengyuan, and wants to see you." ”

"Hengyuan?" Xu Erlang frowned, feeling a little familiar, but he couldn't remember it.

He was a Confucian disciple who did not believe in Buddhism and had no intersection with Buddhism.

He also said that he was an acquaintance with you. The porter Lao Zhang added.

Xu Erlang let out a "heh" and looked at Xu Pingzhi: "Dad, Xu saw that our family had a white matter, so he came to do things." Prepare some copper coins to send away, I'm going back to my room to rest. ”

The porter Lao Zhang took a penny of silver, walked out of the house, handed the silver to the burly middle-aged monk, and said:

"Master, there is no need to do things in the house, please go back. ”

Master Hengyuan waved his hand: "The poor monk is not here to change fate. ”

While honestly taking the silver, he said, "The second son of the house, really don't you see the poor monk?"

What's going on with Number Three?

Although they have never met, but the grace of repeated help, as well as the affection of his cousin Xu Qi'an, no matter what, he should see himself and let himself go in to see Lord Xu for the last time.

Well, he may feel that his identity is still a secret, and that the poor monk has not realized his true identity, so he pretends not to know?

Oh, I really underestimate the wisdom of the poor monks.

Monk Hengyuan clasped his hands together, bowed, and then walked to the side, took out a fragment of the book from his arms, referred to the pen, and said: "Daoist Jinlian, can you shield the rest of the people for me, I have something to say to No. 3." ”

.........

PS: Ask for a monthly pass, boom.

Change first, then change.