"Two heads of the family, please sit down!" Li Chengjie sat on the side of the living room of the Xu Mansion and said, as if this was not the Xu Mansion, but his Li Chengjie's mansion.

"Hmph, you kid is really welcome!" Chen Shiping looked at Xu Changying's face, he didn't bother with Li Chengjie anymore, and sat back in his seat.

"Okay, let's sit down. Xu Changying is the head of the Xu family and the master of the Xu Mansion, he listened to Li Chengjie's words and still said very politely. He smiled and asked the subordinates in the house to serve tea to Li Chengjie and Chen Shiping, and then sat back on his "master" seat.

"Master Xu, I don't know what happened when you sent someone to invite the official to your mansion? He was polite to Xu Changying when he spoke, but he didn't have any good words for Chen Shiping at all, and even called Chen Shiping by his name, not taking him seriously at all!

How to say it, Li Chengjie is also a "unicorn" of His Majesty's entitlement, and he is also a member of the third grade of the imperial court, so there is really no reason to be polite to a "small" family master in Jincheng who has "no official or position"!

"Qilinzi is so powerful!" Chen Shiping snorted coldly and said.

"Master Xu, if you call this official to come, just to let this official listen to a brainless person talking nonsense, then this official will not be here to waste this time with you. Li Chengjie put the teacup on the table heavily, and his face became extremely unkind!

"Lord Li, although you are a member of the third rank of the imperial court, but as far as we know, your Dali Temple has not yet been built, and your Dali Temple is now in name only!

As the saying goes, giving face to others is not the same as that person can get an inch!

"Master Xu, this official advises you to be cautious! Threatening the officials of the three grades of the imperial court, even Xu Zaifu has to "kill his relatives in righteousness"!" Li Chengjie did not have any fear at all, and said-for-tat with the two heads of the three major families in Jincheng. And the tone is so light that it seems to have completely failed to take them into account.

"As far as Xu knows, Lord Li should have come to Jincheng for personal reasons! If Lord Li hadn't come for the stone binding, he would have gotten up and left now, Xu Mou dared to say that no one in the entire Jincheng would know more about the stone bindings than the head of the family!" Xu Changying looked at Li Chengjie's appearance of "oil and salt not entering", and he didn't want to get close to Li Chengjie anymore! He received a letter from his son "Xu Yan", and he was going to reveal some news to Li Chengjie, and also to see what Li Chengjie's attitude towards the Xu family was!

Now it seems that Li Chengjie's hostility towards Xu Yan does not come entirely from the "second prince", Li Chengjie does not have any good impression of the entire "Xu family", so I am afraid that Li Chengjie already knows about the development of "Tai Sui Dan" by their Xu family. Their Xu family is this "big enemy", how can their Xu family rest assured that he will develop like this!

"Oh, the head of the Xu family, but the official underestimated you! You actually know that the official is here to investigate the death of the stone binding! Yes, the official is indeed here to investigate the death of the stone binding, but there is one thing that Xu Zaifu may not know, that is, the official is not here for personal matters, the official came to Jincheng with the emperor's order, just to investigate the real cause of the death of the stone binding!" Li Chengjie listened to Xu Changying's words, sat down again, and said slowly.

"It is not false to say that he is carrying the emperor's order, after all, the matter of stone binding is related to the slaughter of Mu Youzhi's family, as long as it involves the "reverse case", he is the emperor's order. ”

"Lord Li is saying that Lord Li came to Jincheng to seal His Majesty's secret decree?" Xu Changying was stunned for a moment and asked rhetorically. If Li Chengjie really came by order, then the problem is a bit difficult to solve.

"Yes, why does the head of the Xu family want to see if that secret decree is not true?" Li Chengjie chuckled and asked rhetorically.

"Hehe, Xu knows that he has no official or no position, so he can't help Lord Li, but Lord Li don't forget, Xu's son is the emperor of the court, I can write a letter today to inform my son at this time, even if it is a secret decree, my son has the qualifications to ask in front of the emperor, if there is a will, it is nothing more than giving up my son's half a year's money, but if there is no will, Lord Li, what kind of crime are you?" Xu Changying said with a smile. Xu Yan wrote clearly in the letter that Li Chengjie went out of Beijing without permission, and His Majesty did not have any will, so that he could rest assured!

"Okay, Master Xu, since everything has been said about this, it seems that this official will be bored to sit here again! Let's find out another day, I hope Xu Zaifu's sacred heart will always be there!" Li Chengjie also snorted coldly, he was not afraid at all.

"The emperor asked if the emperor had a secret decree, even Xu Yan, the zaifu, was not so easy to accept. Li Chengjie's last sentence can be regarded as putting pressure on the Xu family.

"The reason why the secret decree is called a secret decree is that His Majesty does not want people to know about it, and if someone wants to force the secret decree into a clear decree, it is true that Zaifu has this status! But the consequences can be imagined by everyone, if the Sacred Heart understands you for the sake of national security, maybe it is only a fine for half a year to set an example, after all, it is extremely inappropriate to suspect the monarch with a minister! However, if the Sacred Heart is no longer there, it is very likely that he will be charged with the crime of "disrespecting the king" and "provoking the emperor's authority", which is completely "granting the monarch a handle" In the past, His Majesty may have considered the merits of the ministers or many influences and could not do anything, but now he "pinched the handle", the size of this crime is completely arbitrary, and there is no need to care about the impact, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty are on this

No one dares to say anything about it! Those who intercede for "rebel ministers" will be punished according to the same crime, and everyone will be like Spiegel in their hearts! In fact, Li Chengjie is also gambling!

"After all, Xu Yan does not have a sacred heart, and perhaps he may have been suspicious for a long time! This is Li Chengjie's perception of going to the court in the past few days! If Xu Yan really listened to Xu Changying's words and went to the palace to question, there were several possibilities. First, His Majesty truthfully said that he did not have a secret decree and declared that he would return to Beijing to condemn the crime, but this is the worst-case scenario, and Li Chengjie has his own part, so the problem should not be big! As long as he is hooked up with the "reverse case" mentioned by Mu Youzhi, it is nothing more than a crime of "negligence and unauthorized conduct", and His Majesty should not do so, after all, he still has a relationship with Renshan, and he once cooperated with His Majesty to perform a big show, this is possible at worst, but this possibility is the smallest. ”

"The second possibility is that His Majesty will make a big fuss about this matter, Li Chengjie can see from the new policy of "Dali Temple" proposed by His Majesty, His Majesty's ambition is to never allow such a "family" as the Xu family to wander outside the law of the country, and if the trend of favoritism and fraud wants to be extinguished, then those clans are the best targets!"

The third possibility is the most probable possibility, that is, in order to pinch a handle of "Xu Yan," His Majesty specially gave himself a secret decree! As for what the content of the decree is, it does not matter, as long as Xu Yan dares to take this step, then it will be difficult for Xu Yan to set off any storms in the future. ”

"Therefore, Li Chengjie thought, Xu Yan should also be a smart person, he should not be so reckless, the impact of the imperial inquiry is not small, and he is not sure! Especially the unpredictable Your Majesty, Li Chengjie calculated that Xu Yan should not dare to take this risk!"

"As for the matter of not having a secret decree, according to the normal procedure, there should be an official to report it, and the Imperial Historical Observatory will be retained, and after Li Chengjie returns to Beijing, Xu Yan will pass on the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory and go to the Imperial Front with Li Chengjie, and at that time, if there is really a secret decree, as long as the matter is completed, the Imperial Historical Observatory will interrogate, and His Majesty should also allow Li Chengjie to publish the secret decree to clarify the rumors, so that the crime of false accusation of the "whistleblower" person can be cured! However, if there is no secret decree and Li Chengjie is summoned to the Imperial Palace, then he will have to wait for the criminal department to interrogate and convict and punish him..."

When Li Chengjie was talking, he was already thinking very clearly about the consequences, how could he dig a hole for himself!

"Even if Xu Yan is patient, when he returns to Beijing, he will use it as Xu Changying's letter to pass on to Yushitai, as long as he has some "gains" in Jincheng at that time, he will also have his own way to let His Majesty give him a secret decree!" Li Chengjie is not facing ordinary "ordinary people", he naturally has to use some "extreme" methods!

"Master Li, it's really a heroic boy! It's really a pity!" Xu Changying looked at Li Chengjie and sighed with "pity" and said.

"Oh, is the head of the Xu family sorry for the official that he didn't arrest and convict those who did evil earlier?" Li Chengjie stood up, looked at Xu Changying and said with a smile.

"Hahaha! Seeing Lord Li so arrogant and arrogant, he really looks like the late Keqing of my Xu family! I remember that I also told him this, and he replied to me with a smile. However, it's not that "God has eyes" and sent his "living immortal" in Jincheng into the reincarnation path!" Xu Yan watched Li Chengjie stand up, and he also got up and wanted Li Chengjie to walk away as he spoke.

"Oh, is it? Among the guests of your Xu family, it can be regarded as the creation of your Xu family! That is really a pity, because when he dies, your Xu family will no longer have the root of the world! There is no need for existence. Li Chengjie watched Xu Changying walk in front of him, and Li Chengjie also whispered.

And Xu Changying just shook his head with a smile and chuckled, as if this kind of thing was the first time he had heard of it, "It's really an ignorant child!" Xu Changying sneered in his heart, then leaned forward again, he said softly, and said in a voice that only Li Chengjie could hear, "Ignorant child, the head of the family wants to ask you, do you know that it is easy to break if it is too rigid, and it is easy to die if it is too wise." ”

"Heh! This official is the top student in this department, if you want to talk about knowledge, you have nine more heads, and it is not enough!" Li Chengjie broke a light sound, and then turned around and walked out of the hall!

Li Chengjie turned his back, glanced at Chen Shiping coldly, and then put his hands behind his back very contrivedly, and walked out of the hall with a swagger, he said loudly as he walked.

"The iron law of the land is there, and it is difficult to tolerate adulterers. The children are ignorant, and the grasshoppers shake the trees.

Your name is gone, and you will not waste the eternal stream. Return to the waterfront of Wen, look up and see the sky!"

After Li Chengjie finished speaking, many children of the Xu family surrounded him, each holding a sword, a gun, a sword, and a halberd, it seemed that as long as Xu Changying gave an order, they would rush up!

This is completely a sarcasm that the descendants of the Xu family will be ashamed of the ancestors of the Xu family in the future! This is a "provocation" to the Xu family, and it is also an absolute insult to the Xu family! "How can they endure being the children of the Xu family!"

Li Chengjie is still walking out step by step, especially surrounded by everyone, he walks more leisurely, but also chic, like a leisurely walk, he also smiled and looked at the scenery "around", nodding from time to time, as if "appreciation", but also like "mockery"!

"Master Xu, that kid kicked his nose in the face, can you still bear it?" Chen Shiping was surprisingly calm now, not at all as irritable as he was just now, his tone was very light, and he asked slowly. And he was very comfortable tasting the product

Tea in Xu's house!

"Hmph! What a unicorn! It's really extraordinary, go and disperse all the children of the Xu family, call a few people and servants, and respectfully send Li Chengjie out of the gate of the Xu Mansion!" Xu Changying looked at a person beside him and ordered.

Then, Xu Changying sat back in his seat, he looked at Chen Shiping and said, "Master Chen, this is not like you! I was about to stop you just now, I don't know when the head of the Chen family changed his temperament, and he didn't make a move in that situation just now!" Xu Changying also picked up a cup of tea, and gently plucked the light cigarette of the tea noodles with the tea lid and said.

"Master Xu, Chen doesn't have as much thought as you! If you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly, our two families have cooperated so many times, this tacit understanding should still exist!" Chen Shiping snorted coldly, his tone was flat!

If Li Chengjie is here, he will definitely analyze something from Chen Shiping's current tone, especially looking at Chen Shiping's current posture, he will definitely be able to find that Chen Shiping is not so simple, at least two people, who is the "red flower" and who is the "green leaf" is still unknown!

The three major families of Jincheng, each extraordinary, and the three masters of Jincheng are also unfathomable!

If Li Chengjie could know what industry each of the three major families in Jincheng was running, he would not look down on "Chen Shiping" so much!

"Brother Chen, do you remember how Shi Zishu died?" Xu Changying's face also turned cold, and he said lightly.

"Master Xu, this matter, except for those who died, no one should know better than the three of us. Chen Shiping also said lightly. And his "three of us" is "the three heads of the three major families of Jincheng".

"Li Chengjie's junior said that he came to investigate the real cause of Shi Zibin's death on the secret order of His Majesty, what does Brother Chen think?" asked Xu Changying very usually.

"Master of the Xu family, our Chen family knows very little about this matter in the court, and my Chen family is not blessed by the Xu family, the Xu family has many talents and has a deep foundation in the court. I, Chen, are not as good as you, I don't have a good son who is Zaifu, and my Chen family is not as good as you, I am not as decent as you in the officialdom!" Chen Shiping said with some self-deprecation.

However, Xu Changying knows very well that if Chen Shiping does not have any "power" in the court, he will not believe it, Chen Shiping seems to be rude and reckless and does not set up a city government, but he has been able to sit firmly in the Chen family for so many years, and he also has a certain skill! You must know that the struggle in the family is no less than that in the palace, and Chen Shiping has been able to firmly control the Chen family for many years, which shows that his means are very good, and Chen Shiping has not had a "child" who can "handle it" until now , their Chen family can't afford to make a disturbance, which makes Xu Changying a little pecked, "Could it be that those elders of the Chen family are really not interested in this position of the head of the Chen family?"

Xu Changying wouldn't believe it, if it weren't for his son Xu Yan who won the champion early, Xu Changying might have been killed by several people "conspired" to death, of course, with his current situation, his son Dan Fan was "deposed" in Beijing or there was some "bad news" coming, Xu Changying's position as the head of the family would very likely be lost...

"What's more, if Xu Yan loses power, the lives of their father and son are in danger..."

Xu Changying is actually very worried every day, there are too many people "underneath"! So when Li Chengjie said those words, Xu Changying's current "psychological pressure is very" huge!

"If Xu Yan is wrong, he may still have a chance to make a comeback, but if he Xu Changying may not be able to wait for Xu Yan to "make a comeback", he may have been "divided and eaten" by several elders in the family!

"Brother Chen, if the Ming people don't say secret words, we can't let Li Chengjie return to Beijing like this!

However, Chen Shiping spoke at this time, "Master Xu, this matter is with me! I just don't know if the Xu family wants to discuss it with that guy from the Su family!" Chen Shiping's eyes were cold, and he looked at Xu Changying. Chen Shiping and Su Pianran have many disagreements, mainly because the power and business of the two of them in the underworld have many overlaps, since it is the underworld, there are no rules, and "black eats black" is inevitable, so Chen Shiping does not like the Su family very much! Especially he doesn't like Su Pianran's "urine"! The Chen and Su families have also been fighting in private in recent years!

If it weren't for the "big brother" of the Xu family, who was in the town on the bright side, the Chen and Su families would probably have turned Jincheng upside down!

"What does Brother Chen mean?" Xu Changying listened to Chen Shiping's words, and still asked very cautiously. In fact, the three of them are doing things in Jincheng together, and they also have unwritten "rules", obviously the two of them are now going to murder and kill the unicorn of "Li Chengjie", if they succeed, their Su family will also be implicated, this is not to "say hello" in advance to communicate, "obviously" some do not conform to the rules...

"Master Xu, what is your purpose in calling me here today, Chen will not pursue it! This is the sincerity of the cooperation between Chen and the Xu family! If Li Chengjie, the "unicorn", really died in Jincheng, presumably the head of the Xu family also knows the impact and consequences of this incident, if there is a more suitable "scapegoat" who carries this pot afterwards, my Chen family's knife should be a little sharper!" Chen Shiping looked at Xu Changying and said with a smile.

Xu Changying's eyes rolled, he pondered, and nodded, he didn't say anything, some things, too clear, but not beautiful!