[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, April 19, Hai Shi, Wei Wangfu Study]

"Fourth brother, the eighth brother knows that he is wrong! I beg the fourth brother to let Kang Youren go for the sake of our own brothers!"

Li Ci sat at the bottom of Li Jin, his face was full of shame, and his eyes didn't dare to look at Li Jin, he didn't have time to drink a sip of the hot tea served by Ma Huacheng, just sat down in the study of King Wei's mansion, and immediately bowed to Li Jin, and said earnestly.

"Oh......" Li Zhen held the celadon tea cup in his hand, slowly bleached the foam with the lid of the bowl, took a sip of warm tea slightly, his expression was calm and comfortable, and he asked slowly:

"What's wrong with the eighth brother?"

"Fourth brother, the younger brother shouldn't be, you shouldn't tell your father about your subordinates' fornicating demons', and ask the fourth brother to read the younger brother's young and ignorant ......"

"Stop!" Li Zhen waved his hand, interrupted Li Xi's words, and asked:

"Which of my men?"

"Fourth brother, isn't Xu Ke in Tsing Yi Wei your subordinate?"

"He is a dignified four-grade inspector of thousands of households, a serious court official, and an official appointed by his father, when did he become my Li Jin's subordinate?"

"That little brother said the wrong thing!" Li Ci was so angry in his heart that he said in his heart, Fourth Brother, Fourth Brother, you are really thoughtful enough, in your own study, you still speak so well!

"The younger brother shouldn't play to his father and impeach Xu Ke for the crime of 'fornicating with demons' in Tsing Yiwei! The younger brother will go to the Daming Palace early tomorrow morning, and in front of his father, he will personally intercede for Xu Qianhu, fourth brother, do you think this is okay?"

At this moment, Li Jin's face was still expressionless, as if he was not interested in what Li Ci said, he still asked lightly:

"Eighth brother, since you said that Xu Qianhu was guilty of 'fornicating with demons', you must have ironclad evidence that he was hiding a big demon. This crime of 'fornicating with monsters and vainly attempting to abuse the capital' is not a small crime! If it is true, Xu Qianhu will not only be seized of his post and imprisoned, but I am afraid that it will not be too much to sentence him to raid his family and exterminate his clan! How can you change yourself within ten days? You have just said that he is guilty, and in the blink of an eye you have interceded for him! If you do this, you are not afraid that your father will accuse you of being 'rash and absurd'?"

"Oh, fourth brother!" Li Ci had no choice but to bow his hand to Li Zhen again, and said sincerely:

"The younger brother was blinded by the lard before! Only when he was full of food and support! Only then would he embarrass Xu Qianhu! This is all the little brother's uncompetitive subordinates! The fourth brother can rest assured, the younger brother does not have ironclad evidence that the Xu Mansion is hiding a big demon, tomorrow, as long as the younger brother explains the reason to his father in detail, the father will definitely release Xu Qianhu! If the father blames the younger brother, then I deserve it!"

Li Zhen picked up the teacup and tasted the tea by himself, but did not speak.

Li Ci had to ask cautiously again: "That...... Fourth brother, can you ...... I'll release Kang Youren tomorrow?"

Li Zhen glanced at Li Xi indifferently, and asked casually:

"Eighth brother, fourth brother heard that you have been very busy these days! Except for entering the palace to see your father, how are you busy?"

"What are you busy with, I've been in a panic these days......" Li Ci said halfway, and immediately understood the meaning of Li Jin's words, it turned out that in addition to ensuring that he would enter the palace to intercede for Xu Ke, he also needed to do something else in order to satisfy his fourth brother. At the moment, Li Ci didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly replied:

"Fourth brother, before, my unlucky subordinates once gave me a strange pill, saying that it was a strange use. However, the fourth brother can rest assured, this pill, the younger brother will never use it on Xu Qianhu's body! From now on, no matter where Xu Qianhu is, when the younger brother sees him, he will definitely retreat, it is too late to protect him, and he will never cause harm, okay?"

"What else?" Li Zhen nodded, and then drank tea.

"Hmm...... And that ...... Pei Caibao, now that he has been arrested by my people, the junior brother will also let them release him immediately! Moreover, no matter what Pei Caibao wants to say or say, the junior brother will not ask anything, he just doesn't know!"

"You don't have to let him go!"

"What does the fourth brother mean?"

"This kind of 'turtle man' in a brothel is redundant to stay in the world!"

"Okay, good, the younger brother will ask his subordinates to 'dispose of' this person as soon as possible, and there will be no trace!"

Li Ci's heart was full of coldness again, and he said in his heart, Fourth brother, fourth brother, you are so ruthless! It seems that this Pei Caibao is really at your command, so he will not hesitate to risk his life and personally go to Hanyuan Hall to testify. It's just that this Pei Caibao probably never dreamed that you, the master, would be so ruthless to him! He has just finished testifying for you on the front foot, and the back foot is at the end of his death!

"Hmm......" Li Zhen picked up the lid of the bowl, then floated away the foam and sipped slowly.

"Fourth brother, what about you...... Promised to release Kang Youren?"

Li Jin's body did not move, he glanced at Li Xi coldly, and asked:

"Eighth brother, what is the relationship between you and that Kang Youren, why do you want to intercede for him like this?"

Li Ci sighed and said, "Hey, this well-off, he is one of the younger brothers...... A friend. This person usually obeys the law and acts in his duties, and he can be regarded as an honest and honest person, and he has never heard of any illegal things. I don't know why Nangong in the Tsing Yi guard was silent, why he was suddenly arrested and put in prison? The younger brother thought that he was also an old friend, so he wanted to beg the fourth brother to speak, so that Nangong would raise his noble hand silently and let this well-off go!"

"Honest and kind?" Li Zhen sneered: "If such a person is also honest and kind, then there will be no good people in the world! Eighth brother, fourth brother might as well tell you the truth, just two months ago, Zhao Yong, the former squire of the military department, was killed for no reason in the 'Denggu Pavilion' in the north of Chang'an City on the way to the border, and even the two officials who escorted Zhao Yong were also killed, and the murderer was this 'honest and kind' Kang Youren!"

"There is such a thing?!" Li Ci couldn't help but be surprised.

Kang Youren took refuge halfway, for his previous things, Li Ci only asked a rough question, Li Ci only knew that before he came to Chang'an, he was the eldest young master of Kangmen in Shuzhong, and the hall master of Kangmen White Tiger Hall. Kang Youren once boasted a lot about his experience in the rivers and lakes in front of Li Xi, but how could he dare to tell King Jin about the poisoning of Zhao Yong that day?

However, Nangong was silent with a nail in his hand, and under the constant intimidation, Kang Youren was so frightened that the six gods had no owner and talked nonsense. He was afraid that Nangong would give him a few "green character nine dozen" without saying anything, so that he confessed all the things he had committed before, no matter how big or small, and even the poisoning of Zhao Yong, the former soldier of the military department, on the side of Bashan in the north of Chang'an City that day, was also revealed.

Before Li Xi came to the Wei Palace, Li Zhen had already read Kang Youren's confession, and talked with Nangong for a lot of time. Naturally, Li Zhen knows more about Kang Youren's many illegal activities before and after than Li Ci.

Li Jin's face was flat, facing Li Ci, and he said in a tone of admonition:

"This person has a ruthless heart and vicious methods! Just for the sake of resentment, he poisoned Zhao Yong and the escort tolerance. Eighth brother, how can you be so ignorant of the severity and casually associate with such a demonic and witch person? Like this kind of 'Jianghu demon', the fourth brother advises you to stay away!"

Li Ci said in his heart, isn't this "ruthless and vicious means" talking about yourself, fourth brother? You borrowed Nangong's silent hand to arrest Kang Youren, verbally intimidated me, and pretended to care, is there anyone in this world who is more ruthless and vicious than your fourth brother?

Li Xi hurriedly laughed and said curtly:

"Fourth brother, the younger brother knows that he is wrong, after the fourth brother releases Kang Youren, the younger brother will definitely punish him, so that from now on, he will change his mind, be a new person, be a law-abiding person, and be a good person...... Can the fourth brother let the well-off go first?"

Li Jin's face was still frosty, and he said:

"It was the Tsing Yi Wei Bei Anping Division who arrested Kang Youren. I heard that Nangong Qianhu arrested him also to investigate the case, and they did things in the Bei'an Ping Division, doing things reasonably, and arresting people to try the case was also to maintain public order in the capital! The fourth brother is not easy to interfere without authorization! Or, eighth brother, you go to the Daming Palace and beg your father?"

"Fourth brother, you ......"

Li Ci was so angry in his heart that he wanted to scold his mother, he thought to himself, I licked my face and begged you for a long time, but you still refused to let go!

Li Ci couldn't help but feel annoyed, he was about to put the teacup in his hand down, Huo Ran got up, arched his hand slightly towards Li Jin, and said coldly:

"Fourth brother, you're boring like this, isn't it? Is it so difficult to let you let go of someone?!" In the middle of the night, I ran to your Wei Wang's mansion in person against the cold wind, and begged you for a long time, even if the fourth brother didn't miss the brotherhood of our brothers, for the sake of my promise just now, I should have agreed to release him a long time ago......

Seeing that Li Zhen was still indifferent, Li Xi was so angry that he turned around and left, and when he arrived at the door, he said angrily:

"Fourth brother, as the saying goes, 'The mountains don't turn around!' Although you are the prince of Jiuzhu, the younger brother also has seven royal pearls on his head! The younger brother didn't want to fight with the fourth brother and lose both! But if the fourth brother has always been so aggressive, in the future, don't blame the younger brother for not being affectionate to the fourth brother!"

With that, Li Ci opened the door of the study, and with a look of anger on his face, he was about to stride out of the door in a blink of an eye.

"Eighth Brother ......"

At this time, Li Zhen finally spoke and called out.

Li Ci faced the door, stopped, and was happy, he said in his heart, Fourth brother, you also have a time to be soft! It seems that if I don't yell at you, you really treat me as a grandson!

I only heard Li Jin's leisurely and quiet voice coming slowly:

"The 50,000 taels of silver that Princess Han gave you, how has the eighth brother spent it in the past few days?"

"How could the fourth brother know about this?" Li Ci hurriedly turned around and asked in fear.

"If people don't know, they can't do it unless they do!" Li Zhen raised his eyebrows and replied lightly.

"Fourth brother, this ...... The 50,000 taels of silver were given to me by Princess Han! She said that she would let her younger brother give the funeral of the sixth brother to be as beautiful as possible, and said that my sixth brother died miserably, and if the funeral was held in a cold manner, I would be sorry for the spirit of the sixth brother...... The fourth brother, the younger brother, was also forced to accept it at that time!"

Li Ci was shocked and anxious, so he had to find excuses to explain to himself.

Li Zhen picked up the teacup and took a few sips leisurely, his face was still expressionless, and he said lightly:

"The fourth brother heard that his father took out 20,000 taels of silver from his inner pocket, and only gave 5,000 taels to Princess Han, but rewarded you with 15,000 taels! Now, the sixth brother has passed away, leaving behind Princess Han's mother and son, who can be described as a pair of orphans and widows, and they can be regarded as poor people in this world! Such poor people, the father and emperor only gave them 5,000 taels of silver! My great Qian's treasury is already stretched thin at the moment, and my father has allocated 15,000 taels of silver to you in a fit of anger! It can be seen that in the eyes of my father, how much he loves you and how much he trusts you! If my father knew that one of your dignified princes of Qizhu, taking advantage of a funeral of his sixth brother, did not remember the love of brotherhood and brotherhood, and shamelessly extorted 50,000 taels of silver from their orphans and widows, I wonder what my father would think of you, the 'Eight Sage King'? If the Manchu Dynasty civil and military officials learned about this, would they still praise you as the 'Eight Sage King'?"

At this moment, Li Ci, after listening to Li Jin's words, felt like being poured down by a basin of ice water, and the biting coldness was cold from the "Baihui" above his head to the "spring" at the bottom of his feet......

He couldn't help but stand on the spot, frightened and depressed in his heart!

It wasn't until this moment that he really realized how frightened and desperate Li Zuo, the king of Han, was in front of his fourth brother!

"Fourth brother, the little brother knows it's wrong!"

Li Ci had no other choice but to face Li Jin, his knees weakened, he knelt on the ground with a "poof", and begged Li Jin:

"For the sake of our brothers, don't tell your father about this!"

"Fourth brother, from now on, the younger brother is willing to be a cow and a horse for you, let the fourth brother drive!

......

Li Xi knelt on the ground and kept begging Li Jin, however, this time, Li Jin did not immediately get up from the chair and went to support Li Jin.

Li Zhen is still sitting on his Taishi chair, still holding the teacup in his left hand, picking up the lid of the bowl with his right hand, floating the tea powder that has sunk to the bottom of the bowl, and still sipping the warm tea in the teacup slowly and shallowly.

Even though Li Ci kept kneeling on the ground, begging bitterly, Li Jinwu was expressionless and didn't say a word.

"Fourth brother, if you ascend the throne in the future, the younger brother will definitely be the first to support it! From now on, the younger brother will never covet the big position, and the position of 'prince' in the younger brother's heart is none other than the fourth brother!"

"Fourth brother, if you still can't relieve your anger, little brother...... Little brother will give you a knock!"

"Eighth brother, no!"

only heard the sound of "bang", Li Ci had already turned his forehead to the ground, and kowtowed heavily to Li Jin, just because he was a little too strong, this knock made Li Ci almost faint......

Li Zhen hurriedly left his Taishi chair, walked to Li Ci, and stretched out his hand to help Li Ci up.

At this time, Li Jin, seeing that Li Ci's forehead had been broken and bleeding, he couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly took out a piece of his sweat towel and wiped it gently for Li Ci.

It can also be seen from the expression on Li Jin's face at this time that he also felt a little guilty of Li Ci in his heart at this time.

Li Zhen thought about it, after all, he was a brother, although he was deliberately beating today, the threat between his words was indeed a little too much!

"Eighth brother, there is no need to be like this! You and I are brothers. Don't worry, the 50,000 taels of silver, the fourth brother just doesn't know it! Your 'well-off' will return to your Jin Wangfu early tomorrow morning!"

Li Xi hurriedly bowed down to Li Zhen again, and thanked him earnestly:

"Thank you, Fourth Brother!"

......

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After Li Ci got out of the Wei Palace, he got into his own carriage. Wang Jianling, the head of the Jin Palace, personally drove the car, holding the whip "Drive!", the two healthy horses galloped on all four hooves, and the gorgeous and spacious double-wheeled carriage of the Jin Palace, suddenly hurried to the Jin Palace.

Li Ci sat in the carriage, holding a square handkerchief of his own, constantly wiping his forehead. He didn't wipe the bloodstain, but his forehead, until now, he was still in a cold sweat!

The fourth brother's power, he finally understood it today.

Before coming to the Wei Palace, he still didn't agree with the two sentences of the "old thing" in his heart: "Don't fight with the fourth child!" According to the emperor's intentions, this big world will still be given to the fourth child in the future!" He still didn't agree with it, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

Li Ci originally thought that as long as he was a little soft in front of his fourth brother, the fourth brother would definitely give him the "Eight Sages King" a face and promise to release him for him. After all, he is not the same as in the past, not only with seven royal beads on his head, but also with three real powers, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and most of the party's subordinates attached to him. He didn't believe that he had such a valuable identity and did not hesitate to come to the door in the middle of the night to personally apologize to his fourth brother, would the fourth brother still buy his account?

However, the truth still ruthlessly swollen his face!

The eloquent words he had prepared a long time ago, and there were no intimidating words in his eloquent speech, but in front of his fourth brother, there was no use for it! Under the momentum of his fourth brother, he suddenly felt flustered, and after only a few rounds of fighting, he was already defeated in a panic......

At this moment, Li Xi couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

It seems that what the "old thing" said is really right!

......

Li Ci was in remorse, uneasy, and frightened, when suddenly, for some reason, the carriage stopped.

Li Ci suddenly felt unhappy in his heart, and said in his heart, don't those forbidden soldiers have long eyes? Can't you recognize this as the frame of my Jin Palace?!

Sure enough, Wang Jianling, who was driving, shouted angrily:

"Who is so bold! Even the frame of King Jin dares to stop it!"

Li Ci was proud in his heart, thinking to himself, this must be a newly appointed general of the forbidden army, and when he checked the curfew, he didn't even know the frame of my King Jin. Forget it, I'm in a good mood today, and I don't care about you, I'll let Wang Jianling teach him a few words later......

Suddenly, Li Ci heard "Ah...... Ahh......h Bang!" There were several chaotic sounds, like the sound of several guards in his palace falling to the ground and struggling. Li Ci couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, and said in his heart, could it be that at this time, someone still dares to rob the frame of my Jin King Chitose?!

Tonight, when Li Ci, the king of Jin, went out, it was already the time of the year. Wang Jianling, the head of the palace, was not at ease, so he not only drove himself, but also carefully selected twelve guards from the palace to accompany him.

Li Ci didn't believe that someone would be so bold as to rob his carriage late at night. You must know that these twelve of your guards are all first-class experts in the palace!

"Hey, what day is today, this king is really carrying home!"

Li Ci couldn't help but curse God secretly, lifted the curtain of the carriage, and walked down.

Li Ci just stepped out of the carriage, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he was immediately frightened on the spot!

I saw that the twelve guards in his palace fell in a pool of blood one by one, obviously exhausted. None of them had a sword in their hand, and it was clear that they had no chance to draw their blades until they were dying.

Who would have such a powerful kung fu that could take the lives of these twelve masters in the blink of an eye?!

Wang Jianling, the head of the Jin Palace, did not die, lying in front of the carriage at this time, his legs were sifting chaff and trembling, as if he was stupid.

Li Xi hurriedly walked up to Wang Jianling, kicked Wang Jianling, and asked loudly:

"Lao Wang, what's going on?"

Wang Jianling pointed at Li Ci's back, his eyes widened, and his pupils constricted, as if he had seen an extremely terrifying person!

To be precise, Wang Jianling's eyes at this moment seemed to have seen a ghost!

Li Xi saw Wang Jianling so frightened, and he was also terrified. At this moment, there was not the slightest sound behind him, but Wang Jianling's expression was by no means fake, he couldn't help but "poof" and "poof" in his heart, but he still didn't dare to look back.

Could it be that there really are ghosts here?!

......

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Almost at the same time, in Meixuezhai in the south of Chang'an City, Hu Yiyi was sitting with Shu Haotian, and in front of the two, two cups of warm tea were placed, as well as some fruits and snacks.

At this moment, Yao Zibei, Yiqing, and Zhu Wuneng had all fallen asleep, but Hu Yiyi still couldn't sleep, so she came to Mei Xuezhai's front yard, walked into the twelfth brother's room, and talked to him about the current situation.

Shu Hattian was originally cultivated by a white mouse, and at night, it was when his mind was healthy, and he had not rested, and when he saw his old sister coming, he was naturally happy.

So, Shu Haotian brewed two cups of hot tea and took some supper, and the two drank tea and ate fruit while chatting freely in the middle of the night.

Speaking of the passage of April 16, both of them couldn't help but be a little afraid, on that day, the opponent was not strong, under the shroud of the white-haired Taoist's powerful magic weapon, both of them almost showed their original form.

It seems that there is one thing in the world, and this is indeed the case. Their two sisters and brothers, a fox and a mouse, have been cultivating for nearly a thousand years, although they each have good cultivation, but in front of the powerful Taoist magic weapon, there is no way at all!

On that day, if it weren't for Hu Yiyi's ninth sister and second brother rushing to the rescue, I really don't know what their final outcome would be, if they were arrested by Nangong silently and entered Tsing Yiwei, not only did they confirm Xu Ke's crime of "fornicating with demons", but the two of them were the big demons in the world, and the ending would not be much better!

Of course, at the most critical moment, it has to be Yiqing's halfway shot, even if Lu Huoli is high in martial arts, he will not be Yuan Tiangang's enemy, if it weren't for Yiqing's flying sword rescue, perhaps, the four of them in the world have become prisoners of Tsing Yiwei!

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As the two sisters and brothers talked, they talked about a big battle between Lu Huoli and Cheng Wanli. Although Hu Yiyi and Shu Hetian are great demons who have practiced for thousands of years, they are also people who practice martial arts, and they are also fascinated by the sword fighting of the two martial arts masters that day!

Speaking of later, Shu Hatian couldn't help but admire:

"Old sister, I walked around the rivers and lakes, and I had long heard the words in the rivers and lakes, saying, 'Flying clouds in the south, frost in the north, and a yellow leaf in the lonely wind for thousands ......of miles!' That day, I saw Cheng Wanli fighting with his second brother, and the killing was so dark that the sun and the moon were gone!