[Da Qiankang Yuan 71, April 23, Youshi, Tsing Yi Wei Bei Anping Division]

"Pei Caibao, what you said, but is it true?" Qiu Mingli couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

"It's true!" replied Pei Caibao.

"Where is this 10 million taels now? Is it hidden in your Pei Mansion?"

"Lord Qiu, I'm just a former Tsing Yi Wei Qianhu, and I may be able to find a thousand taels in the house, where did I get ten million taels!"

"Then where is the 10 million taels you said?"

"This 10 million taels of silver is ...... in Cuiyun Building"

"Cuiyun Tower, you mean, King Han buried 10 million taels of silver under Cuiyun Tower?" Qiu Mingli said curiously.

"Lord Qiu, what Pei means is, if you can move King Wei Chitose and let Pei regain control of Cuiyun Tower, after Cuiyun Building opens again, Pei will pay tribute to the household department every month for 10,000 taels of silver! In this way, Pei Mou will hand over at least 1 million taels of silver to the household department every year, then, ten years later, won't there be 10 million taels?"

It turned out that Pei Caibao said for a long time, just to get King Wei to agree, not only to spare his life, but also to put Cuiyun Tower back into his hands. The reason why Pei Caibao relied to save his life was that with his outstanding ability to run a brothel, he would hand over at least 100,000 taels of silver to the Ministry of Cadres and Households every month.

After hearing this, Qiu Mingli couldn't help but cry and laugh. He reprimanded Pei Caibao on the spot:

"Not to mention that Cuiyun Mansion has been sealed, even if Cuiyun Mansion is handed over to you again, where did the 100,000 taels of silver come from for this brothel? Pei Caibao, you called the old man to this Tsing Yi Wei today, are you here to entertain the old man?!"

Pei Caibao said unhurriedly:

"Lord Qiu, don't be in a hurry! If Pei Mou is not quite sure, how dare he talk nonsense in front of adults? If Lord Qiu doesn't believe it, you might as well give Pei a certain month to try first. Pei Mou, if he can't pay 100,000 taels of silver within a certain month, Pei Mou is willing to come to see him!"

Qiu Mingli couldn't help but believe a little when he saw Pei Caibao speaking so calmly, so he agreed to Pei Caibao and was willing to discuss this with King Wei in advance.

At that moment, Qiu Mingli and Xu Ke left the secret room together, and he asked Xu Ke to take care of Pei Cai in the past few days, and everything would wait for him to understand King Wei.

That night, Qiu Mingli came to the palace of King Wei and reported to Li Zhen the 100,000 taels promised by Pei Caibao. After Li Zhen heard this, he pondered for a long time, and then transferred another sentence to Pei Caibao:

"If you want to survive, the 100,000 taels handed over to the household department every month must be doubled to 200,000 taels of silver!"

At noon the next day, Qiu Mingli came to Tsing Yiwei again with great interest, and he brought Pei Caibao the latest instructions of King Wei:

As long as you Pei Caibao can hand over 200,000 taels of silver to the household department every month, everything is easy to say, otherwise, don't want to live!

As soon as Pei Caibao gritted his teeth, he agreed to the amount of 200,000 taels, but Pei Caibao attached another condition.

He begged the King of Wei to send a letter to the Son of Heaven to postpone the time of the night's curfew from one hour to six minutes. In other words, Pei Caibao hopes that the curfew time at night in Chang'an City can be postponed for nearly two hours.

Qiu Mingli naturally understood the truth in Pei Caibao's heart, if he didn't relax the ban on men at night, where would his Cuiyun Tower go to earn the silver taels of white flowers?

Naturally, after Qiu Mingli listened to Pei Caibao's opinion, he still had to go back to discuss with King Wei.

So, on the night of April 24, Li Jin, the king of Wei, held a rare banquet in his palace, and among the invited guests, in addition to the master and apprentice of the Hubu Shangshu Qiu Mingli and Tsing Yi Wei Xu Ke, there was also his third brother Zhao Wang Li Yi.

In addition to the four of them greeting each other and exchanging family thoughts, naturally, it didn't take long for Li Zhen to tell everyone about Pei Caibao's suggestion, he wanted to listen to the opinions of the audience, what happened to the cat demon who was only for others?

According to Li Jin's words, firstly, now that the treasury of our great cadres is empty, if Pei Caibao can really hand over 200,000 taels of silver every month, he will undoubtedly be able to solve the urgent needs of the household department; second, I have recently heard that the people in Chang'an City have complained a lot, and they are all dissatisfied with the excessively strict curfew in private, and they look forward to lifting the ban on men as soon as possible.

Li Yi was the first to express his position, he opposed the premature lifting of the curfew, according to Li Yi's opinion, one, the cat demon has not been captured so far, I really don't know where she is hiding at this time, if the cat demon suddenly harms people, once the curfew is opened, it is inevitable that the dead will be many;

However, Xu Ke's attitude is different from his senior brother, in Xu Ke's eyes, the cat demon is not a giant evil demon, in the past, she was willing to harm people, in the future, she should be able to restrain herself, at least, this Chang'an City for more than a month, there have been no new corpses, according to which it can be concluded that the case of the monster disaster in the capital has almost reached the end of the case. As for what the senior brother said, whether the culprit in this case is still a monster, at least the current evidence cannot be presumed to be so.

Li Zhen nodded frequently when he heard this, and then looked up again to ask Qiu Mingli's opinion.

Qiu Mingli thought for a moment, but still agreed with Xu Ke's opinion. According to Qiu Mingli's worries, the order of the midnight grounding of Chang'an men is really too strict. It's May, early summer is coming, the sun is getting longer and longer, Chang'an City at the end of the hour, the sky is still bright, many merchants and shopkeepers, if they want them to do business at the right time, they have to close their doors and return home early, which is obviously unreasonable.

The most important thing is that if Pei Caibao can really increase the monthly income of 200,000 taels of silver for the cadres and households by reopening the Cuiyun Building, this is undoubtedly a great good thing for Qiu Mingli! For this good thing, even if he has to take some risks, in the eyes of Qiu Mingli, it is worth it! Love me e-book

Next, in order to decide whether to reopen Cuiyun Tower, the four of them discussed in the front hall of the palace for a long time, and in the end, even Li Yi, who had opposed it before, was moved by the rest of the people, and they couldn't help but nod their heads. After all, at a time when the country is in such a crisis and the treasury is close to exhaustion, there is such a lucrative income, which is a "temptation" that no one can resist......

The dinner was over, and after everyone dispersed, Li Zhen finally reminded Xu Ke that within two days, the bright moon girl who temporarily lived in the courtyard of his palace, you Xu Ke had to pick her up quickly!

......

......

At noon the next day, Li Zhen personally went to Daming Palace, in the Zichen Palace, and played with his father Emperor Chen about relaxing the curfew.

Li Chongsheng asked about the reason for the sudden relaxation of the curfew, and Li Zhen explained to the emperor the reasons he had prepared in advance. When Li Chongsheng heard that Pei Caibao, who was almost killed by him in the Hanyuan Palace, was able to take the opportunity of reopening Cuiyun Tower to generate 200,000 taels of silver per month for the treasury of Daqian, the old emperor couldn't help but bow his head frequently, and couldn't help but express deep expectations for Li Jin's "unique" way of collecting money.

What Li Chongsheng thought in his heart was that if the brothel opened by Ruo Zuo'er could still "serve the country" after his death and generate monthly income for the treasury of Daqian, no matter how much silver Cuiyunlou could hand over, Zuo'er's life would be a great contribution.

And what Li Zhen suddenly thought of was that the sixth brother was known as the "King of Fun", and he almost achieved nothing in this life, but he finally accomplished the same thing, that is, in the Fengyue Field of Chang'an City, he created the well-known name of "Cuiyun Building". Before the sixth brother was killed, it was reported that this Cuiyun Building was known as "the largest brothel in Chang'an City", and it is conceivable that the business of this Cuiyun Building would not be bad. Wouldn't it be a pity if such a well-known name of a brothel would be wiped out with the death of the sixth brother? No wonder Pei Caibao dared to boast about Haikou, it seems that the scale of this Cuiyunlou business cannot be underestimated!

As a result, a reunification was quickly reached between the monarch and the minister, father and son, and the emperor did not refuse to Li Jin's request.

In the end, Li Chongsheng once again apologized for his unreasonable suspicion that Li Zhen had detained Li Ci without reason. Naturally, Li Zhen did not wait for the emperor to finish speaking, but he hurriedly bowed down and saluted, saying, "Father and emperor must not blame themselves, since ancient times, there are no parents in the world!" Father and emperor were also in a hurry that day, and everything was not good for his sons......

Li Jin's imperial performance has been completed, and after leaving the Daming Palace, he immediately asked Qiu Mingli to arrange the reopening of Cuiyun Tower.

Therefore, the emperor issued an edict, and three days later, that is, from April 28, the night curfew in Chang'an City was changed to from 6 to 1 o'clock in the middle of the year.

Jingzhao Mansion, Tsing Yi Wei, and the Forbidden Army all received orders, so the chief officers of each ministry understood that from then on, the order of banning men every night in Chang'an City was not as strict as before......

Until this moment, Nangong was silent and finally breathed a sigh of relief, he finally didn't have to do it himself, to understand the life of this former colleague.

According to Qiu Mingli's instructions, Nangong was silent and waited for Pei Caibao to recover slightly, and then sent someone to escort him to Pei's house to recuperate.

Nangong was silent here, and a matter was over, but Xu Ke's side was troubled by Mingyue's matter.

On the twenty-sixth day of April, Xu Ke had no choice but to follow Xue Tao to a secret mansion in the south of the city of King Wei's mansion and pick up Mingyue from it.

When Mingyue saw Xu Ke, she was naturally full of joy. She saw Xu Ke at this time, dressed in a new indigo blue official robe, standing outstanding, with a lofty instrument, a cheerful complexion, smiling without saying a word, knowing that this Lord Xu must have been out of prison at this moment, the catastrophe has passed, and the official position has been restored, and he has really become an "adult".

In Mingyue's heart, she sighed with emotion again: It seems that this Lord Xu in front of him is really an extremely lucky person!

After saying goodbye to Xue Tao, Xu Ke took Mingyue all the way to the north. He really couldn't think of Mingyue's whereabouts for the time being, so he had to take her to the "Yunqi Inn" in Changle Fang first.

Just before, Xu Ke had already gone to Meixuezhai to visit Yiqing. He told Yiqing about Mingyue's miserable past, and wanted to put Mingyue here to live here for the time being.

However, although Yiqing sympathized with Mingyue's difficult situation, when she heard that Xu Ke wanted to settle Mingyue by her side, she immediately shook her head again and again, and her appearance was even more resolute than Qiu Mingli. She too, saying that she would not take Mingyue in anything.

Speaking of which, Yiqing has been living alone in this big mansion since her senior sister Yichen left Chang'an in the south. Xu Ke originally thought that if there was a woman like Mingyue who was the same age and had a gentle temperament to accompany Yiqing, Yiqing should be happy. However, when Yiqing heard that she was going to live with a former top prostitute, she suddenly resisted and refused to agree no matter what.

In Xu Ke's heart, he couldn't help but sigh for the fate of Mingyue: The world is so big, it seems that there is really no place for Mingyue!

King Wei treats Mingyue as a "hot potato" and can't wait to get rid of it as soon as possible. Righteous and benevolent people like Qiu Mingli and Yiqing, although they sympathized with Mingyue's suffering, they still couldn't do it, and they ate and lived with Mingyue as a family. Even he, Xu Ke himself, thought about it, even if Hu Yiyi had already suggested it before, he still couldn't do it, and he would connect Mingyue to his Xu Mansion to live in peace.

People in this world, once they have a deep preconception about a certain phenomenon, no matter who you are, you can't easily change it......

There was no way, Xu Ke had to take Mingyue and go straight to the inn.

Mingyue followed Xu Ke all the way, and when she saw that Xu Ke had nothing to say, she didn't have much to say.

It's just that in Mingyue's heart, she can see Xu Ke, see that she can stay by Xu Ke's side all the time, and see that this Lord Xu has always been so lucky...... She was satisfied.

After arriving at the Yunqi Inn, Mingyue already knew Xu Ke's intentions. She smiled at Xu Ke, and said that it was good to live in the inn, so that Xu Ke didn't have to worry about her.

Seeing that noon had just arrived, Mingyue invited Xu Ke to have dinner with him in the inn, saying that even if they were separated from now on, they would have a parting feast.

Xu Ke nodded, and at that moment, he and Mingyue picked a square table by the window in the front hall of the inn to sit opposite each other, Xu Ke asked the shopkeeper to send a table of good dishes, in addition, Mingyue also called two pots of good wine for Xu Ke......