Chapter 20: The Joke Manager
[The third day of the third month of March in the seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, Mao Shi, Tsing Yi Wei Hall]
At this moment, everyone in the hall was still listening to Li Yi, the king of Zhao, talking about catching demons with great joy, but Shen Huan, who was sitting on the left side, was thinking about the scene when Li Yi rescued Zhang Bo last night:
Zhang Bo was snorted by Shen Huan, and couldn't help but tilt his head to look at Li Yi, his face was still a little dazed: "King Zhao, which King Zhao is?"
Come to think of it, this chapter Bo Wu indulged in the lingering charm of last night, perhaps that fragrant and ecstatic scene was really moving, because after he was rescued and woken up, he still didn't want to return to reality.
"You are bold!" Shen Huan saw that Zhang Bo still didn't know etiquette at this time, and pretended to be confused on the bed, so he stepped forward and reprimanded him. Li Yi waved his hand and said:
"Forget it, he just woke up, don't embarrass him!"
However, at this time, Li Yi shook his head when he saw Zhang Bo's intoxicated appearance, and then instructed Shen Huan: "You come and ask him, what did you experience last night?"
Shen Huan stepped forward and shouted at Zhang Bo: "Zhang Bo, open your dog eyes wide, can you recognize Bendu?"
"...... are you?" Zhang Bo asked in a low voice as he looked at Shen Huan in a purple official robe, with a look of fear on his face.
Shen Huan sneered and said, "To tell you the truth, my official's surname is Shen Minghuan, and he is the governor of Tsing Yiwei!"
"It turned out to be Shen Dudu!" When Zhang Bo was on duty in the household department, he had heard the name of Shen Huan, the governor of Tsing Yi Wei, for a long time, and when he saw Shen Dudu coming to Pan's mansion in person, he was immediately frightened in his heart, and he wanted to get up and salute.
Shen Huan continued to ask: "You don't have to get up, today this official is to accompany His Royal Highness King Zhao to come and see you." The official asked you, who did you meet after you left Cuiyun Tower last night? What was she like, and what did you do with her?"
Zhang Bo thought back to the scene last night, and couldn't help but blush, but he didn't know how to talk about it for a while.
Shen Huan coughed dryly, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't recruit from the truth, this official will bring you into my Tsing Yi Guard, there are no other things there, there are all kinds of torture instruments, do you want to taste the torture tools in my Tsing Yi Guard......
When Zhang Bowen heard this, his face, which had gradually become a little ruddy, suddenly turned pale with fright, and he replied with a shudder:
"Back to Shen Dudu, after the little one left Cuiyun Tower last night, he was going to get in the car and go home, but a woman walked out of the middle of the road. The woman was about twenty years old, and she was born...... She kept waving to the little one, and let out a cry in her mouth, letting the little one walk over and into her arms...... At that time...... At that time, for some reason, I slowly walked to her side...... Later, the little one followed the woman all the way south until he left Chang'an City. Then the woman took the little one to the edge of a wood, in the wilderness, and the woman and the little one ...... With a small ......"
After all, Zhang Bo is also a person who has read poetry and books, and he has read no less than a basket of sage books, and at this time, in front of King Zhao and Shen Huan, he really can't say anything about the next words.
"Where did you and that woman get along, in that barren wilderness?" asked Shen Huan with a sneer.
Zhang Bo lowered his head speechlessly, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence.
"What happened later?" Shen Huan then asked.
"What happened later...... I can't remember the little one!" Zhang Bo thought hard for a while, and then replied: "When the little one woke up, he was already in his bedroom, and he saw Shen Dudu and Zhao Wangye standing in front of the little one. As for what happened last night, little one...... I can't remember the little one!"
Shen Huan couldn't help but snort coldly when he heard this: "Hmph! It's ridiculous! This official might as well tell you the truth! The beautiful woman you met last night was actually not a human being, but just a goblin. She took the initiative to approach you and lured you to the wilderness to meet on the spot, not for the purpose of taking a fancy to your beauty, but in fact to take away the Yuanyang essence from you! It's ridiculous that you had a night with that banshee last night, and you almost died, and you even said that you can't remember!"
Zhang Bo was so frightened that his face was as white as paper, and he trembled even more and said, "She...... She's a ...... Banshee?!No!Shen Dudu...... Small...... The little one could see it clearly last night, she ...... She's just an ordinary woman!"
Shen Huan said impatiently: "What did this official do to lie to you! If it weren't for His Royal Highness King Zhao personally treating you today, I'm afraid that even if you Zhang Bo had ten lives, he would have seen the king of Hades a long time ago!"
"Lord Zhao personally ...... Personally heal the little one?" Zhang Bo looked at Li Yi with a puzzled face. This time, even Zhang Bo himself didn't believe that with the respect of Prince Zhao's prince, he would condescend to his dignity and treat him personally.
In fact, Li Yi not only treated Zhang Bo, but also treated him at the expense of his true yuan, which gave Zhang Bo a lot of vitality. If Zhang Bo knew that the world-famous Prince of Seven Beads had paid so much to treat him, I am afraid that Zhang Bo's eyes would be shocked.
At this time, Li Yi had already walked to the door and sat down, Zhang Bo saw only a back of Li Yi, Zhang Bo had the heart to get out of bed to thank Li Yi, but his body moved, and he immediately felt weak, so he had to lean back on the edge of the bed.
Shen Huan thought for a while, and then asked, "Think about it carefully, what did she say to you on the way from the city to the southern suburbs of the city with the banshee last night?...... Does she speak with some Northland Xiao accent?"
Zhang Bo thought for a while again and replied, "She took me out of the city last night, and she ...... She is both a demon and a small one...... I was probably fascinated by her spell casting, but I was confused all the way, and I don't know what she said. As for the accent in which she speaks...... That's right! Her senior official is very awkward, and she does have a very strong Xiao Guo accent!"
Before Shen Huan could ask for other details, Li Yi, who was sitting by the door, suddenly got up and said, "It's almost, let's go!"
Seeing that Li Yi had strode out of the bedroom, Shen Huan hurriedly bowed down and followed, leaving Zhang Bo behind him, looking at Li Yi and Shen Huan striding away in a daze, I don't know if he was savoring the feeling of escaping death this time, or was he still thinking about why Prince Zhao would personally treat such a small person as him?
"Why did Prince Zhao want to treat me? How could he personally help me diagnose and treat me......?" Ren Zhangbo thought hard, but still couldn't find an answer.
Li Yi and Shen Huan hurriedly walked outside the gate of Pan's Mansion in a blink of an eye, when they suddenly heard a loud shout:
"Xiaguan greets His Royal Highness King Zhao! Xiaguan doesn't know that His Highness is here in person, and he has missed the welcome, His Highness forgives his sin!" At this time, Pan Wenjuan, the household servant, was sitting in his own carriage and had arrived in a hurry. He saw Li Yi and Shen Huan walking out of Pan's mansion from afar, got out of the carriage, knelt down on the side of the road from a distance, and gave Li Yi a big salute.
"Get up, Master Pan, this king is not coming to see you, you don't have to go far to greet you, and you are not guilty!" Li Yi said casually.
After Pan Wen got up, he immediately said, "Is Your Highness here to visit your son-in-law......?" How is he?"
At this time, Pan Wenjuan was terrified in his heart, and he said in his heart, Could it be that my unsuccessful son-in-law was prostituting late at night, and this incident actually alarmed King Zhao! Hey! Blame me for not being strict in control, and my god-in-law has no way! If this matter spreads, it doesn't matter if it ruins the face of my Pan family, if it affects the reputation of King Qing of Jin, then I will really die a hundred deaths!
At this time, Li Mochou, the head of the Pan Mansion, hurriedly ran to Pan Wenjuan and whispered to his lord a few times, to the effect that Zhao Wangye came to visit his uncle, but instead of blaming his uncle, he personally cured his uncle's illness, and now his uncle has recovered his consciousness, and his uncle's illness has been cured!
Pan Wenjuan was skeptical when he heard this, but at this time he didn't have time to think about it, and immediately knelt down on the ground again, and thanked Li Yi earnestly: "Your Highness's golden body, for my son-in-law, I actually personally treated him, Your Highness is very gracious, even if my Pan Wenjuan is broken, I can't repay it!"
Li Yi helped Pan Wenjuan up from the ground and said with a smile: "You don't have to thank me, you have to thank you...... Thank you for being the manager!"
After speaking, Li Yi pointed at Li Mochou behind Pan Wenjuan, suddenly laughed, turned around and walked away.
"Your Highness......" Pan Wenjuan looked at Li Yi's back from afar, and was really a little confused for a while.
"Let me thank my manager? This Li Mochou has stayed in the Pan family for more than 20 years, and I have never heard of his background? Could it be that he is actually a subordinate of King Zhao? No, this Li Mochou is just a civilian from the disaster area that I brought back from eastern Shaanxi, and when I saw that he was articulate and clever, I left him in the mansion. Later, he was made the governor of my Pan house...... If he is a subordinate of King Zhao, then he has hidden too much in the past 20 years......" Pan Wenjuan looked at Li Mochou beside him, and really felt a little unbelievable......
Don't talk about Pan Wenjuan, even Shen Huan, who was following behind Li Yi, didn't know what Li Yi meant at this time. At that time, he only cared about following closely behind Li Yi, and he was also confused about what this Zhao prince said and did.
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Shen Huan was thinking back to what he had seen and heard in Pan Mansion with Li Yi yesterday, when he suddenly heard Li Yi, the king of Zhao in the hall, suddenly raised his voice and said loudly:
"Everyone, catching demons and eliminating demons is not trivial! If this cat demon is not eliminated for a day, the people of Chang'an will not be able to rest for a day! Next, how to catch the cat demon will be troublesome to you! General Cheng, please tell everyone about this king's strategy for catching demons yesterday!"
Cheng Wanli, the general manager of the forbidden army, who was sitting in the second place on the right, immediately got up when he heard the words, clasped his fists to everyone present one by one, and said angrily:
"Ladies and gentlemen, since the sudden incident in the capital of Chang'an, four men have died for no reason, and two men have been seriously injured. Because of this matter, the Son of Heaven was worried, and appointed His Royal Highness King Zhao to personally blame the commander, and gather the strength of Tsing Yiwei, Jingzhao Mansion, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and our forbidden army, in order to catch the culprit of this case and return the people of Chang'an to a safe and blessed land! Now, the emperor has handed over this burden to us, if we don't do things well, are you worthy of this official hat on your head?!"
Cheng Wanli's words were generous and fierce, and Cheng Kezhong, Dai Zhou and others couldn't help but bow their heads. After a pause, Cheng Wanli took out a piece of silk silk from his arms, unfolded it and said:
"By the order of the deputy pavilion master of the Great Qianshen King Pavilion and His Royal Highness the King of Zhao, Yin Zhong Xingming of Jingzhao Mansion listens to the order!"
Hearing that Cheng Wanli suddenly read out King Zhao's edict, all the officials in the hall, except for Xu Ke, were slightly stunned. Yin Zhong Xingming of Jingzhao Mansion hurriedly got up, leaned over and said, "Humble duty!"
Cheng Wanli read out the warrant: "I order you to lead the county governor of Chang'an to lead a cadre of officials to arrest quickly, inspect all parts of the city day and night, and report it immediately once you find any changes!"
Zhong Xingming bowed down and said, "Obey the order!"
Cheng Wanli added: "Lord Zhong, remember that your subordinates can only secretly investigate, and they must not harass and disturb the people for no reason!"
"I know it, I know it!" Zhong Xingming nodded hurriedly.
Cheng Wanli read out to Cheng Kezhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department: "Cheng Kezhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, listen to the order!"
Seeing this, Shangshu Chengke of the Criminal Department did not dare to slack off, he got up from his seat and leaned over and said, "The old minister is here!"
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