Chapter 143 – Question and Answer (Added for ally “Brother Pei Qian”)

“This asshole kid, he’s getting bolder and bolder.” Jiang Lunzhong exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and said with “indignation”.

“Don’t have the guts to knife your superiors?” The golden gong with the sword laughed.

“It’s a pity that it’s cheaper for Yang Yan, you don’t know, that kid’s qualification is …..”

Wei Yuan glanced at Jiang Ruizhong and interrupted, “You’re the one who talks too much.”

Jiang Lizhong shut up instantly.

The golden gong with the sword raised an eyebrow and pursued, “What about qualifications, what rating, A?”

Kang Rul-jung deliberately laughed, but did not answer, with a “you’re too naive” expression, maliciously fishing.

Not A? Could it be on the armor? The golden gong with the sword jerked his head around and stared straight at Wei Yuan, “Wei Gong?”

Wei Yuan sipped his tea without saying anything.

This gesture made this gong more and more curious, which led to an association.

If it’s A-plus, it’s not so bad as to hide it from me …. Could it really be a top A? Impossible, the qualification of a top A hasn’t been passed for decades ….. But doesn’t their attitude just validate it ….. If that’s the case there’s no reason why I shouldn’t fight for Causeway Xu Qi An.

Look at Wei Gong s meaning, concealment, I am afraid that is to avoid strife between the Jin Gong because of robbing people ….. Well, I can secretly plan to get the person over. What young people value is silver and women.

The paralyzed Yang Yan took the initiative to speak and digressed, “Righteous Father, what is the attitude of His Majesty’s side?”

Wei Yuan rubbed his brow and sighed, “Find out Heng Hui’s whereabouts as soon as possible, during the Beijing Inspection, even I won’t be able to withstand the sea of impeachments.”

The four golden gongs revealed serious expressions, the fact that Wei Gong was forced to say these words indicated that the situation was very serious.

It seems normal, not to mention the fact that Wei Yuan was in charge of the night watchman as a eunuch and had a bad relationship with the entire court. Just the fact that the murderer was able to rampage through the inner city killing people and retreating gracefully was enough to cause panic among the hundred officials.

“We will do our best.”

Wei Yuan nodded: “Don’t just talk about it, recently the court rumors, said that the Yamen gold gong a top one is not useful, investigation and work all rely on a gong.”

Righteous father has become more and more important to Xu Qi An …. Yang Yan and Nangong Qianlou looked at each other and saw what was on each other’s minds.

This matter must be done well, as soon as possible to uncover Heng Hui. Fortunately, this kind of errand, Xu Qi’an is not able to do, but also do not worry about the small tongluo popped up again to steal the credit.

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Xu Qi’an arrived at the Ministry of War’s Shangshu Mansion with the Sang Po case team, flashed his gold medal, and after the underlings passed on the message, he entered the Shangshu Mansion with Chu Caiwei, Li Yuchun’s three silver gongs, and Department Six Fan’s Chief Constable Lu Qing.

The gates and surrounding walls of the Shangshu residence were all destroyed, as if they were in the middle of a demolition campaign, and it was shocking to see.

“The Shangshu Mansion is really grand.” Entering the mansion, Lu Qing lamented in a low voice.

“This set of mansions, how can it be ten thousand taels of silver ….” Li Yuchun guessed.

The leader of the subordinate, snickered, ten thousand taels of silver? Unseen country bumpkin, ten thousand taels of silver also want to buy our Shangshu House.

Crude martial artists.

Xu Qi’an kicked him in the ass and scolded, “Lead the way properly, dog slave.”

The underling bowed his head and hastily quickened his pace.

Speaking of the words “dog lackey”, Xu Qi’an thought of the nightclub queen Framed, and wondered if she had provoked Princess Huaiqing today and was then beaten up by the latter.

Xu Qi’an met Zhang Feng, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, in the parlor, a calm and serious man with white hair and a goatee.

Sitting there in silence, he exuded the majesty of a man who had been in a high position for a long time.

“Greetings, Lord Shangshu.” Xu Qi’an clasped his fists.

Zhang Feng nodded gently, “I heard the eunuchs in the palace say that Lord Xu was quick and capable of handling the case, not only did the Sang Po case progress rapidly, but he also found out the real culprit in the Ping Yuan Bo extermination case.”

“Lord Shangshu is too kind.” Xu Qi’an felt that there was something in the other party’s words.

“Are you asking what connection this official has with that murderer that the other party seeks revenge on his doorstep in the middle of the night?” Zhang Shangshu said.

“Exactly.” Xu Qi’an didn’t expect how the other party would cooperate.

Zhang Shangshu without emotion looked at Xu Qi’an, suddenly snapped, slamming the table angrily: ”This official also want to know, this official even more want to know Ping Yuan Bo murder case has been days from now, why beat the night watchman has not yet caught the murderer.

“This officer would also like to know why the night watchman repeatedly lets the thugs commit murder.”

As soon as I came up, I gave me a dismounted …. Xu Qi’an had no choice but to clasp his fists again and say, “Lord Shangshu rest his anger.”

Zhang Shangshu gathered his expression and sighed, ”Although I did not attend the court today, I am aware of the aftermath of last night’s situation. I didn’t expect that the five high-grade martial artists would make a concerted effort, but they still didn’t take down the other party, and instead, the four golden gongs were injured.

“The watchman is loyal to the court, this official naturally sees it, but it is a pity that the Supervisor is too ill to make a move, causing us to be frightened, causing you to be exhausted.”

His expression had the seriousness of a superior, but his tone was quite gentle and sympathetic to his subordinates, which made people feel good for no reason.

Xu Qi An actually generated some good feelings for the Minister of War, but soon he came back to his taste …. Opened the mouth first to give me a downward spiral to knock some, the next moment attitude reversal, to win sympathy and empathy, and let a person unconsciously produce being recognized like gratitude.

Anyone who can play politics to the second rank is indeed not simple.

Xu Qi’an coughed, cleared his throat, and tried, ”The real culprit in the Ping Yuan Bo extermination case is the same person as the thugs who attacked the Shangshu Mansion last night.

“He’s a monk from the Green Dragon Temple, Dharma name Heng Hui.”

“Heng Hui?” The Secretary of the Ministry of War frowned: “This official does not recognize this person, why did he attack this official’s residence at night, since he is a monk from the Qinglong Temple, why didn’t Lord Xu go to the Qinglong Temple’s people and come to this official’s residence.”

“Heng Hui is a mere monk, naturally not worthy of Lord Shangshu’s acquaintance. However, more than a year ago he eloped with a female incense burner and has not been heard from since, and that female incense burner is the Pingyang County Princess.”

“County Lord Pingyang?” Zhang Feng showed a shocked look on his face, as if he couldn’t believe it, “County Lord Pingyang actually eloped with someone.”

Xu Qi’an had been watching him, trying to parse the other party’s true thoughts through micro-expressions, but failed.

No breaks at all.

After asking a few more questions, Xu Qi’an planned to shift his target, “Is Mr. Zhang Yi Zhang available?”

Zhang Feng sent his subordinates to invite them, and not long after, Zhang Yi, who was wearing dark circles under his eyes and looking extremely poor, came to the reception hall.

…. You can compete with Song Qing with this black eye. Xu Qi’an asked, “Mr. Zhang, do you know a monk named Heng Hui?”

“Don’t recognize.” Zhang Yi shook his head.

“Then do you know Heng Qing?”

“Don’t recognize it.”

“Do you recognize Hengyuan?”

“Don’t recognize it.”

“Do you know Ping Yang?”

“Don’t recognize ….” After Zhang Yi finished speaking, he suddenly reacted, “County Princess Pingyang? Naturally, I know her.”

Completely perfunctory …. Xu Qi’an nodded and smiled, “I’m done with my questioning, thanks to Minister Zhang and Mr. Zhang for cooperating.”

Leaving the Shangshu Mansion, Xu Qi’an twisted his head and said, “During the questioning just now, which words were true and which words were false?”

The googly-eyed Chu Caiwei rolled her eyes, “Not a word of truth.”

Xu Qi’an froze, “Who are you talking about.”

Chu Caiwei bristled, “Father and son are both …. Oh, the last sentence is true, the one where that kidney-deficient guy said he knew County Princess Pingyang.”

I can understand Zhang Feng lying with his eyes open ….. But why is Zhang Yi also lying? Then there’s only one possibility, Zhang Yi was involved in the elopement of Heng Hui and Princess Ping Yang.

Imagine, if Zhang Yi is the uninformed person, then Zhang Feng has no reason to disclose this kind of confidential matter to his son, there are times when not knowing is the best protection, and with Zhang Yi’s image as a master of time management, it’s obvious that he is not very trustworthy, if I were Zhang Shangshu I would never mention a case of possible extermination to an untrustworthy person, even if he is my son.

Interestingly, when Heng Hui killed the first son of Ping Yuan Bo that night, he said: I’ll take revenge.

“This case is getting more and more confusing and interesting, and I feel that it is approaching the truth …. Well, the truth of the elopement case of Heng Hui and Princess Ping Yang. After figuring out what happened to the two of them, the Sang Po case can continue to be investigated.” Xu Qi’an instantly perked up.

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After a busy day, when the duty was dispersed, Xu Qi’an bid farewell to Chu Caiwei and Lu Qing, and when the two of them left, Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao tacitly walked out from the side hall, and the three of them tacitly mounted their horses and tacitly entered the Department of Education.

After many days of running around with high intensity investigating cases, Xu Qi’an felt the need to relax and ease the mental pressure.

Anyway, it was all about sleeping, and there was not much difference between sleeping at home and sleeping in Floating Fragrance’s bed. In addition, Floating Fragrance had sent letters many times, saying that she missed him and wanted to invite him to Shadow Plum Little Pavilion for tea.

In that case, Xu Qi’an thought, let’s make an appointment.

At this time the sky is not yet dark, the Yamen is the peak of the casual duty, the guests of the Church Department, on the contrary, there are not many guests, there are not a few people in the hutong.

“I’m going to sleep with the purser.” Song Tingfeng said.

“It’s not cost-effective to sleep with a cleaner, coaxed …. somewhat high.” Xu Qi’an suggested sincerely.

The pursers of the Dafeng were not really selling their art, the pursers were more like a kind of hype. There are not only adult females in the Church Department, but also many girls, who are taught the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting from an early age, and are trained to be versatile in their skills.

Slowly cultivate and grow up, the posture and skills of the general, as a low-level dancers and singers. Good posture and good talent, is the purser.

Once the purser’s fame had built up to a certain level, there were auctions that invigorated men’s hearts.

“It’s not cost-effective.” Xu Qi’an advised.

“I’ve said that men like me aren’t fit to marry and have children, and there’s no point in saving the silver.” Song Tingfeng was frank.

Xu Qi’an suspected that this one was marriage-phobic.

“I’m getting a daughter-in-law.” Zhu Guangxiao said succinctly.

However, the Floating Fragrance Courtyard is overpriced to beat the tea surroundings, and the Flower Head is Xu Qi’an’s date, so he stays in the Plum Shadow Small Pavilion and can only sleep with the maids.

Hirotaka-san is a rich man now and wants to sleep with prettier women.

The three of them parted ways, and Xu Qi’an entered the Shadow Plum Little Pavilion.

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PS: I still don’t have time to update tomorrow morning, this situation will happen from time to time in the future, so I’d like to revise the update time, and leave the chapter after noon until 5pm. If I’m free at noon one day, I’ll update earlier. If I don’t update at noon, it’ll definitely be at 5pm.