[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, the fifteenth day of April, the sixth quarter of the unitary hour, the Great Qianhu Department]

Nangong sat silently in his official room for a while, seeing that the time was rushing, and a moment of light had passed by suddenly, he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he immediately got up and went out alone......

He didn't go to the governor's office of Tsing Yiwei to find Shen Huan, nor did he go to Qin Tianjian to find Yuan Tiangang, let alone go to the general office of the commander of the forbidden army to find Cheng Wanli, and naturally, he didn't go home to see his sister Nangong Wuhua.

The first place Nangong went out without saying a word was the household department of Daqian.

When he came to the yamen of the household department, it was already six o'clock in the unitary hour, and most of the household officials had already gone home from duty.

Nangong asked the concierge of the Ministry of Household Affairs without saying a word, can you be in your family, and as he expected, the concierge returned, and the shangshu has not yet been on duty.

So, Nangong silently walked in immediately, and walked into Qiu Mingli's official room, and after the two exchanged pleasantries slightly, Nangong said his intention without saying anything.

Nangong sat silently in front of Qiu Mingli and whispered:

"Lord Qiu, I won't tell you anything, the Holy Lord sent my inner servants to pass on my secret decree today, asking me to lead troops to immediately surround the Xu Mansion, and the decree clearly states that all the people in the Xu Mansion must be arrested in front of the emperor, now, Lord Qiu can have a good plan to teach me?"

Unexpectedly, Qiu Mingli groaned for a while, but he still shook his head and sighed gloomily:

"Hey, even if the Holy One asked you to go and catch demons, you can only do what you are told!"

Nangong couldn't help but feel surprised in his heart, and immediately asked:

"Lord Qiu, do you also know that there is a big demon hidden in the Xu Mansion?"

Qiu Mingli smiled bitterly:

"Don't hide it from you Nangong Qianhu, the old man just found out that the two people in the disease-free mansion turned out to be demons!"

Nangong blurted out silently, "Yes...... What did the Holy One tell you?"

Tyumen nodded.

Immediately, Qiu Mingli talked to Nangong about his experience of entering the palace and facing the saint.

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It turned out that just two hours ago, Qiu Mingli was disposing of official documents in his own official room of the household department, and the emperor sent an attendant to summon him to the palace urgently.

Qiu Mingli didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed the waiter into the carriage, and the two walked into the Daming Palace together.

In less than seven minutes, the emperor summoned Qiuming in a side hall next to the Taiye Pool.

The two of them sat on the top of the tall building, looking at the sparkling clouds and shadows on the Taiye Pool, the sun swaying on the water, and the warm breeze slightly drunk on the side of the building.

As if inadvertently, and as if the Son of Heaven was intended, Li Chongsheng suddenly asked about Xu Ke's family affairs.

The emperor asked, "Mr. Qiu, I heard that Xiao Ke is your student?"

Qiu Mingli hesitated slightly, and said in his heart, the emperor asked, how should I answer? I am not sick, I am just a friend of the year, and I have never been commensurate with my master and apprentice who is not sick. Wait a while, if the emperor praises him for being innocent, and I call him a teacher, I will inevitably be suspected of relying on the old and selling the old; if the emperor wants to blame him for his crimes, I will be humbled at this time, and I will inevitably be suspected of shirking my duties......

"Count...... Yes!" Qiu Mingli nodded.

"Then do you know who else is in Xiao Ke's family?" Li Chongsheng then asked.

Without thinking, Tyumen immediately replied:

"Back to Your Majesty, I have no parents since I was a child, and I am just an orphan. ”

Li Chongsheng said: "Then has he ever married a wife?"

Qiu Mingli said: "I haven't been married yet!"

Li Chongsheng said: "Mr. Qiu, if you say, Xiao Ke has always lived alone?...... I heard that Xiao Ke also has a big mansion in Liquanfang, and that mansion is very spacious! Could it be that he is the only one living in his huge Xu Mansion?"

Qiu Mingli immediately said: "Your Majesty, in the house where there is no disease now, in addition to some subordinates, there is still a ...... His 'godsister', and an old brother. Oh...... In addition, two months ago, another young man came to his house, saying that he was his second brother......"

"Godsister, old brother......" Li Chongsheng looked at the surface of the Taiye Pool, a sneer appeared on his face, and then asked Qiu Mingli:

"What do these two people look like, what are their names, how old are they? Do you know? And who is his second brother?"

At this time, Qiu Mingli understood the intention of the Son of Heaven to summon him into the palace, and this dare was to inquire about Xu Ke's family affairs. He didn't know why the Son of Heaven suddenly became so interested in Xu Ke's family, but since he saw the Son of Heaven inquiring, at the moment, he didn't dare to hide it, and hurriedly reported to the Son of Heaven the general appearance, age, name, etc., of the two of them, as well as Xu Ke's second brother Zhu Wuneng......

Li Chongsheng was eating candied fruit while listening to what Qiu Mingli said, and after listening to it, he asked:

"Mr. Qiu, I have a question, you must answer it truthfully!"

"Your Majesty, excuse me!"

"According to Mr. Qiu, Xiao Ke has been an orphan since he was a child, and he has no relatives in the capital, and his current silver is less than seven hundred taels a year, and he is an official for only a few months. However, Xiao Ke's mansion in Liquanfang is spacious and gorgeous, comparable to a prince's mansion! Such a mansion does not have 10,000 taels of silver, I'm afraid it can't be bought, right?

"This ......" Qiu Mingli couldn't help but be speechless for a while, in fact, he himself had long been suspicious of this question, but he had always been embarrassed to ask Xu Ke.

"Isn't it just a magnificent Xu Mansion? I heard that this Xu Ke is all extravagant and luxurious for food and clothing on weekdays, just like the endless silver taels in his mansion! Mr. Qiu knows where Xu Ke's silver taels come from?!"

"This ......" Qiu Mingli couldn't answer, his face was even more embarrassed, the emperor's questions today, since he met Xu Ke, has been haunting his mind, it's just that the emperor asked him today, who should he ask?!

Li Chongsheng couldn't help but sneer again and again:

"Mr. Qiu, you don't know this, you don't know that, how did you become a master?!"

Qiu Mingli hurriedly left the table and got up, knelt down to the emperor, and said in fear:

"Your Majesty, Wechen is ashamed to be a teacher, Wechen is ashamed to be disease-free, and Wechen is ashamed to be landless!"

"Get up and speak!" Li Chongsheng's face softened, and he glanced at Gao Liangshi, who was standing solemnly behind him, and Gao Liangshi hurriedly bowed forward, helped Qiu Mingli up, and let him slowly return to his seat.

Li Chongsheng said: "I'll tell you the answer!"

Qiu Mingli had just sat down, and then looked up at the Son of Heaven.

Li Chongsheng took a sip of warm tea, and then said:

"That 'Hu Yiyi' in Xu Ke's mansion is not a person at all!

"Fox demon?" Qiu Mingli immediately remembered that he had been convicted of words last year, and was sent to prison by the Son of Heaven. Fortunately, this "Hu Yiyi" in Xu's mansion came to diagnose and treat him, and now his legs are not only walking as usual, but even walking like flying!

Qiu Mingli's heart suddenly awakened like an initiation, if it weren't for the fact that "Hu Yiyi" was the great demon of the world, just ask him about the lifelong disability of his right leg, even the best imperial doctor in the palace can't think of it, how can a mortal woman be cured?!

Li Chongsheng said again: "The fox in this world is originally good at the illusion technique, if the fox becomes a demon, this illusion is bound to be even more amazing! After Xu Ke came to Chang'an, the silver in his hand seems to be inexhaustible, and I think it is because of this fox demon illusion! Sigh this Xiao Ke ...... I have always had high expectations for him, but I never thought that he would be in the company of fox demons all day long, and these two people were grinding in the same mansion every day, and I don't know what other 'famous' they have made!"

"Your Majesty......" Qiu Mingli hurriedly spoke, he wanted to argue for Xu Ke, in his eyes, even if Hu Yiyi was a thousand-year-old fox demon, the other party didn't seem to be a bad person, and, with his understanding of Xu Ke, although Xu Ke and Hu Yiyi were in the same mansion every day, the two of them would never do anything unscrupulous!

"Okay!" Li Chongsheng waved his hand, the emperor had already asked everything he wanted to ask today, and the emperor obviously didn't want to listen to the words that Qiu Mingli wanted to argue about.

"I don't know the truth about you, and I don't blame you for the fact that the Xu Mansion is hiding a big demon, but in the future, you, as a teacher, will have to discipline your students well!" Li Chongsheng said impatiently.

"Your Majesty, Weichen understands!"

Seeing that the emperor waved his hand to see off the guests, Qiu Mingli did not dare to say more, so he had to bow down and leave. After he left the Daming Palace, he returned to his own household.

However, he sat in the official room of his household, his heart fluctuated, but where could he be calm?

Until the sixth o'clock of the unitary hour, most of the households have returned home, but he, the scholar, is still in the yamen, thinking hard.

At this time, Nangong Bu had already come to the door.

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Nangong was silent and heard what Qiu Mingli said, and he thought about it for a long time in his heart.

Although he came to the household department this time, although he was looking for Qiu Mingli, his original intention was to ask Li Jin, the king of Wei, for help.

The emperor secretly ordered him to go to Nangong to arrest the demons of Xufu, what can Qiu Mingli do? At this moment, if you ask who else can save Xu Ke, besides Li Jin, the king of Wei, who else can be more suitable in this world?

However, after Nangong was silent and listened to Qiu Mingli's words, he knew that this Lord Shangshu was probably unable to help.

However, Nangong was silent and still did not give up, and still pleaded:

"Lord Qiu, the matter has come to this, we still have to save the disease! Your Excellency, can you bring a message to His Royal Highness the King of Wei and let His Highness ......?"

Qiu Mingli then waved his hand and said:

"Nangong Qianhu, at this time, even if the old man goes to His Royal Highness King Wei, I'm afraid it will be useless!"

Nangong said hurriedly: "Lord Qiu, but at this time, if His Royal Highness King Wei doesn't make a move, who else can save the disease?"

Qiu Mingli stood up and paced around his office a few times, as if he had thought about it, but he suddenly changed his tone and asked Nangong silently:

"Nangong Qianhu, do you know...... Why is there obviously two big demons in the Xu Mansion, but the emperor only mentions one fox demon?"

"My lord is saying, that 'Shu Zhangqi', he is also a demon?"

"Hehehe, I'm afraid, you Nangong Qianhu already know it in your heart, right?"

Nangong was silent, so he nodded slowly. In fact, from the first time he saw Shu Haotian, he guessed that this long-haired old man who looked like a dwarf and had a strange appearance must not be a mortal in the world. However, he hindered Xu Ke's face, and saw that Shu Hattian had a proclamation from the ministry in his hand, and the person who recommended him was still the fourth prince of the dynasty, so he kept pretending not to know.

"Ahem......" Qiu Mingli stroked his long beard and couldn't help sighing:

"This 'book fairy brother', the old man also heard that he was not sick, saying that he has a nickname in the rivers and lakes, called 'half-understanding book fairy', and also said that he is good at fighting unevenness, hoeing the strong to help the weak. At that time, the old man thought that he was just a strange-looking chivalrous warrior, but he would have thought that he was actually a big demon lurking in my Divine Continent! I had known that this was the case, and the old man should not have gone to King Wei that day to ask for a letter from the Ministry of Justice!"

Nangong said silently: "Lord Qiu thinks that the emperor does not mention Shu Hatian, and his intention is to protect King Wei?"

Qiu Mingli nodded, and then admonished:

"When you are ordered to catch the demon, you can only mention the fox demon, and you must not talk about the hatred of the sky!"

Nangong was silent, hurriedly clenched his fists and arched his hand: "Nangong understands!"

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Seeing that Nangong was silent and had no intention of leaving, Qiu Mingli had to say earnestly again:

"Nangong Qianhu, the old man is very relieved to have your brother without illness! However, the matter has come to this point, I am afraid that it cannot be changed by manpower! According to the old man's opinion......"

Qiu Mingli turned around and sat down, and whispered to Nangong:

"It's not a good thing to be in the company of those two demons all day long! Since the emperor ordered you to go to Xu's Mansion to arrest the demons, you will try your best to arrest them! As for other things, you don't need to worry too much......

"But......" Nangong was silent and wanted to say more, but saw that Qiu Mingli had already gotten up and walked towards the door of the official room:

"Nangong Qianhu, it's not too early, it's time for the old man to go back to the cottage!"

At this point, Nangong was silent, so he had no choice but to get up, and after saluting Qiu Mingli, he went out of the gate.

Leaving Qiu Mingli alone, he watched Nangong's silent figure go away, and sighed to the sky again.

In fact, he didn't have the same mood as Nangong Buyu in his heart!

In fact, there is one thing that Qiu Mingli did not tell Nangong to be silent, that is, after he left the Daming Palace, he did not go back to the household first, but went directly to the Wei Palace.

Qiu Mingli immediately told him how he entered the palace to face the saint and the Wei King Li Jinbei again, and then he made it clear that Xu Ke's current critical situation, the Son of Heaven has found out that there is a big demon hidden in the Xu Mansion, and Xu Ke is in prison at this time, if the Son of Heaven sends someone to surround the Xu Mansion overnight, once the two demons in the Xu Mansion are captured, then Xu Ke is even if he has a hundred mouths, it is difficult to argue that he is innocent!

However, after Li Zhen listened, his face did not change, but he just waved his hand, asking Qiu Mingli not to worry about this matter anymore.

At that time, Qiu Mingli said eagerly: "Your Highness, if the emperor really catches the demon from the disease-free mansion, wouldn't the disease-free person be guilty of 'fornicating with demons', which is a serious crime!"

"Don't worry! What the father wants to deal with is only a demon, as for the absence of disease, the father will not do anything to him!"

"Your Highness, how can you be so sure?"

"Sir, my father has a sentence today, hasn't he already made it very clear?"

Qiu Mingli thought about it for a long time, and still said blankly: "Your Highness, which sentence is it?"

"The Emperor said, 'In the future, you, who will be a teacher, will have to discipline your students well!'"

"How can you see this sentence?" Qiu Mingli said incomprehensibly.

Li Zhen smiled slightly and said:

"Sir, think about it, if my father really wants to cure the sin of being disease-free, can there be a future without disease?"

"I see!" Qiu Mingli stroked his long beard and couldn't help but nod.

Next, Li Jin's last sentence was exactly what Qiu Mingli had just said with Nangong:

"It's not a good thing to be in the company of those two demons all day long! My father has always hated demons and evil things, and if I can get rid of all the demons in Xufu this time, it will not be a good thing for me to be sick! As for other things, Mr. doesn't need to worry too much......

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