Chapter 236: Hengyuan: No. 3, in fact, I’ve known your true identity for a long time now

Chapter 236: Hengyuan: No. 3, in fact, I’ve known your true identity for a long time now

Emperor Yuan Jing choked, he hadn’t expected Xu Qi’an to reply like this.

Every time he was difficult, shouting “I beg for bones” is the style of the old man in the officialdom. Who would have guessed that this little gong is even more straightforward, and even begged for death.

Yuan Jingdi’s face brushed gloomy, the superior likes to say heavy words to show his majesty, from the emperor, down to the county magistrate, all like to say: give me (this official) how to how, or tell you how to how to how.

This would have been nothing, after all, there is a difference between the inferiority and the superiority, and the subjects and subordinates can only accept it and obediently take orders.

Unexpectedly, this gong was given back to the top, and the top of the Yuan Jing Emperor had a hard time.

Especially looking at the dramatically changed Xu Tongluo, Emperor Yuan Jing’s heart was even more unhappy, while at the same time lamenting that the Deliverance Pill was worthy of being a rare elixir of a hundred years.

The Supervisor has only been able to refine three grains in one armor.

Emperor Yuan Jing snapped, “Xu Qi’an, do you think I won’t kill you?”

Emperor Yuan Jing had reigned for thirty-six years, and his imperial majesty was so great that the air in the imperial study seemed to have lowered a little, and several eunuchs immediately bowed their heads, not daring to look up at the dragon’s face.

The only one who could be in front of the emperor and be calm and collected was Wei Yuan.

Xu Qi An of course will not continue to contradict, the heart does not panic, a change in the style of just punching and striking, turned coy, said:

“Your Majesty, forgive me, my humble servant was in Yunzhou to protect the governor and fought against the rebels, beheading two hundred of the enemy.

My humble servant has devoted his efforts in Yunzhou to solving the case of collusion with the Witch God Cult by Song Changfu, the Minister of Prefecture, and returning the innocence of Yang Chuannan, the Commander of the General Command.

“All of the above are insignificant, I will never take out to claim credit. As for the case of Sangpo and the case of Pingyang County, I have long since forgotten, and will never bring up old matters again.

“It’s just that my humble servant’s vitality has been greatly injured and his mind is failing, and after waking up he has had headaches from time to time, so I really can’t afford to share your majesty’s worries.”

Emperor Yuan Jing stared at him, unable to speak harsh words for a moment.

This little tongluo deliberately pulls a whole lot of cases to highlight his own merits, first consolidate his position as a meritorious minister, and then use his physical discomfort to put off and shirk, already well versed in the skills of the official language of the courtroom.

Wei Yuan immediately said, “Your Majesty, Xu Qi’an is nothing more than a gong, even though his ability is strong, his essence is severely depleted, his life and death is naturally not to be regretted, but delaying the case and making it impossible for Concubine Fu to be cleared of her wrongdoing is a big deal.”

After a pause, he looked at Xu Qi’an and said, “You should go back and recuperate at ease, His Majesty will not send out hungry soldiers.”

The emperor is not poor at starving soldiers.

Emperor Yuan Jing glanced at Wei Yuan, pondered a little, and said, “Xu Qi’an, the Si Tian Supervisor’s formula for nourishing the spirit is as much as you want. Spirit Treasure View is likewise not lacking in elixirs, and as you are not feeling well, I can reward you with a few pills.

“I remember your merits in Yunzhou in my heart and intend to make you a viscount. The imperial favor is great, do not fail.”

In the end, Xu Qi’an is just a small person, it is not worth the Yuan Jing Emperor to deliberately make things difficult, the cabinet proposed to revoke the feudal title, and the Yuan Jing Emperor went along with it.

But right now, he was going to use Xu Qi’an, and Emperor Yuan Jing didn’t mind giving some favors. But in his heart, he was upset, and he knew that he had been put on the spot.

“Thank you for Your Majesty’s great grace, Your Majesty is wise and mighty, an emperor for the ages.” Xu Qi’an said loudly.

Emperor Yuan Jing nodded slightly, “I want to get the truth of the case as soon as possible.”

“My humble servant bows and dies.”

Seeing that the little gong was so sensible, Emperor Yuan Jing felt more comfortable in his heart and faintly said, “Stand down.”

Leaving the imperial study side by side with Wei Yuan and walking on the empty square, Wei Yuan squinted his eyes and looked ahead with a faint smile, “Have you learned yet?”

“Learned.” Xu Qi’an said.

He is really learning, not the old days of reading when the teacher stood at the podium and tapped the blackboard and asked, Have you all learned.

He replied loudly with his eyes wide open: it will be!

The reason Wei Yuan wants to hand him over is very simple, the emperor is also a human being, the emperor also has weaknesses and is bound by the rules, not at will and wantonly.

At the same time, the emperor is not omnipotent, the emperor also has needs, as long as you have what he “needs”, there is a lot of room for maneuver.

For example, this time, the three judicial departments are shirking their responsibilities and delaying the case, what can Emperor Yuan Jing do? At most, he can punish them, but it’s impossible to really remove them from office, or behead them.

Against this background, Xu Qi’an, who has solved several major cases in a row and offended many officials, is the perfect candidate to investigate the case.

Since the Emperor wants to use you, it’s a necessary maneuver to reasonably gain benefits for yourself.

Once he became a viscount, Xu Qi’an made some token efforts, but failed to solve the case because of his “lack of ability”, which is also reasonable.

After all, he wasn’t an immortal.

At that time, Emperor Yuan Jing’s anger was predictable, but Xu Qi’an, who was already a viscount at that time, would at most be punished, caned, fined, or even demoted.

But the title is not just deprived of, the title is the means of the court to enlist the people, it must be the people who have made great achievements can be awarded.

Accordingly, the conditions for deprivation of knighthood are also very strict, and it is never the case that the emperor can just say deprivation. Otherwise, the title would be too cheap, how to convince the public.

As for whether Emperor Yuan Jing would renege on his debt, Xu Qi’an and Wei Yuan had not thought about it, the king of a country was not so rogue. Even if Emperor Yuan Jing wanted to renege on his debt, Xu Qi’an could still drag out the case.

There is a plan at the top and a plan at the bottom.

“Lord Xu, please stay.”

A shrill yelp came from behind him.

Xu Qi’an and Wei Yuan stopped to look back, it was the old eunuch beside Emperor Yuan Jing, trotting to catch up, holding a gold medal in his hand.

“This is a gold medal given by His Majesty, Lord Xu can enter the palace at any time to investigate a case, but he must be accompanied by a palace duty officer.” The old eunuch presented the gold medal.

Xu Qi’an took it and weighed it, it was a good weight.

This gold medal is different from the gold medal he received before, the front of the gold medal has an additional word “inside”, it is a gold medal that can walk inside the palace, a higher level.

“I’m sorry for the trouble, Eunuch.” Xu Qi’an arched his hand.

The old eunuch nodded without saying anything more and turned around to return.

“Eunuch wait a moment.” Xu Qi’an called out to him again.

The old eunuch turned back to look.

“His Majesty’s grand grace is vast, this official is going to start investigating the case today, so I ask the eunuch to send a pawn to me.” Xu Qi’an said.

Dangdan is the lowest level of eunuchs with “eunuch” these two words are inaccurate, eunuch is a status, position.

Pawnbrokers are the lowest ranking decimators.

The old eunuch appreciated Xu Qi’an’s positive attitude towards his work, and the smile on his face suddenly grew a few points thicker as he asked, “I’ll ask one more time, where is Lord Xu going to start his investigation?”

Xu Qi’an grinned, “Check from Princess Lin’an.”

The old eunuch returned to the imperial study, and in a moment, a young eunuch ran out and saluted Wei Yuan and Xu Qi’an.

Xu Qi’an nodded and escorted Wei Yuan to the entrance of the palace city, then in the company of the pawns, he diverted to Princess Lin’an’s Shaoyin Court.

Shao Yin Yuan.

In the depressed back garden, Lin An sat in the pavilion, staring at the sinking pool.

The water in the pool froze last night, and now, under the warm sun, it gradually melted, with only a few ice floes remaining.

Half a decade time, Lin An Qing reduced a lot, round goose egg face are looking a little thin, peach blossom eyes were originally watery, slightly misty, look at who are winks like silk.

There’s some godliness missing now.

Ever since she was a child, except for being beaten up by Huaiqing, she had been carefree and smooth.

Because Emperor Yuan Jing’s early monasticism, although there are a lot of children, but it is not too much, and the collusion between the royal sons and daughters is not so strong.

Coupled with the cell brother is the crown prince, itself and will be pampered, bitchy know how to please people, so has been smooth sailing.

But the succession of bad news in the past few days had left her heart pent up and devastated.

Having just cried at his mother’s consort today, mother and daughter were worried about the crown prince’s future, and Lin An sat in the pavilion after returning to think about things.

If it was Huaiqing, she must have been incredibly strong, she was the kind of woman who wouldn’t be defeated by anything Crown Prince’s brother certainly wouldn’t do such a thing, but who would frame him Fourth Prince, Huaiqing’s sibling?

The thought suddenly flashed through Lin An’s mind.

She is not as smart as Huaiqing, poor reading, memorizing the scriptures but also too Fu with bamboo strips beating the board threat, only to be willing to condescend to tears to memorize a few.

But she is not stupid, in the certainty that the crown prince brother is wrongly accused of the premise, as long as the brain, think about the crown prince brother was abolished, who gained the most benefits.

Suspicious characters then surface immediately.

At this thought, Lin An’s eyes slightly animated, actively opened his mind and thought of many questions.

For example, how the Fourth Prince secretly killed Princess Fu and framed the Crown Prince’s brother. For example, who was his accomplice, the Empress? Huaiqing?

And so on.

Then, the more I thought about it, the more confused and disorganized I became, and the more I tapped my head in deflation.

“If only he was still around, surely he would have “instigated” the case.” Prosper stomped his foot angrily.

But the next moment, her face suddenly fell, her eyebrows shrugged, and she lost her essence.

But he’s not there anymore.

“Your Highness, Your Highness.”

A sword-wielding guard, with hurried footsteps, came running, paused at the pavilion, clasped his fists, and said, “Tongluo Xu Qi’an seeks an audience waiting in the front yard.”

Lin An’s reaction was like being knocked on the head, dumbfounded, there was about a three or four seconds, she got up in a huff and walked briskly to the guards, her beautiful eyes glaring deathly:

“You, say what?”

“Tongluo Xu Qi’an seeks an audience.” The guard repeated.

Blood rushed to his face at once, Lin An was furious like never before, and fought to draw his guard’s saber, gritting his teeth:

“Dog, even you dare to tease this palace? The crown prince hasn’t been deposed yet.”

The real reason for her rage was that the guards had swished Xu Qi’an.    The guards hastily backed away, it would be too wrongful if they were cut, explaining as they backed away, “It’s really Mr. Xu, Mr. Xu is here, he’s in the front yard, your highness will know it when you take a look.”

Lin An didn’t even lose the sword in his hand and hurriedly ran to the front yard.

From afar, Xu Qi’an spotted the red-clothed, fire-like framed first, and was startled when he took a look at her sword-carrying, aggressive stance.

I’ve come out of the ghost gate with great difficulty, and you’re going to send me back?

He immediately put away the gadgets that pleased Prosperity and hid behind the wigwam.

“Where is Xu Qi’an, where is Xu Qi’an?”

Lin An carried the knife, looking left and right in the front yard, not seeing that familiar figure at all, her bright eyes, gradually dimming.

“Your Highness, Lord Xu, is behind the wigwam.” The eunuch on duty whispered.

Lin An’s peach blossom eyes instantly lit up, earnestly walking towards the back of the wigwam, and sure enough, he saw that Xu Qi An?

She froze for a moment, the man in front of her, masculine and handsome, his eyebrows flying, his eyes brilliantly alive, his nose high and straight, the line of his lips like a carving.

Immediately afterward, Lin An was attracted to the two stringed dolls in Xu Qi An’s hands.

It was a man and a woman, the woman was dressed as a lady of the house and the man was a great, valiant general in armor.

Xu Qi’an coughed, maneuvered around Great General Yingwu, and said in a deep voice, “Your Highness, my humble servant has returned from Korean plastic surgery.”

Then he switched to a shrill voice and maneuvered the woman, “Where is Korea.”

Great General Yingwu: “Oh, it’s Yunzhou, my humble servant was wrong.”

Woman: “Didn’t you die in Yunzhou.”

Great General Yingwu: “Originally, he was dead, but my humble servant’s heart was filled with thoughts of Her Highness the Princess, and moved the King of Hell to return.”

Woman: “Geez you’re annoying.”

Lin An thought it was funny and snorted a laugh, suddenly feeling cold on her face, without realizing it, tears roamed silently across her cheeks.

Feeling humiliated, she hurriedly turned away, explaining in shame and anger, “The wind is a bit strong today, and it rolled the sand and mesmerized her eyes.”

As a girl with a vivacious, petulant and pampered personality, she actually eats it up. And because of the lack of relationship experience, the level of recognition of scum is poor, so all over the body is permeated with the scum inviting smell.

Of course, Xu Qi’an is definitely not a scum.

Xu Qi’an laughed, “Strange, how come the sand only fascinates the princess’s eyes, could it be because the princess was born beautiful?”

Revealed, Lin An said angrily, “Dog slave.”

“My humble servant is not a dog slave.”

“You are the dog lackey, the dog lackey Xu Qi’an.”

“Doggone Advent.”

“Dog, dog what?” Princess Linian didn’t know that “day” was a verb.

“Nothing.” Xu Qi’an bullied her into not understanding the hometown language.

“You just scolded the Palace, didn’t you?” Lin An boarded his face.

“No, that is my deepest wish for the princess.” Xu Qi’an replied in a serious manner.

Coming out from behind the wigwam, the framed returned the sword to the guards and led Xu Qi’an into the hall, with the errand boy following behind, surveying the Second Princess with strange eyes.

The Second Princess’s beautiful and soulful eyes were red and swollen, obviously having just cried.

Taking his seat, the palace maid served tea and snacks, Xu Qi’an waved his hand and said, “Little eunuch, you should step back first, this official and the princess have confidential matters to discuss.”

“This,” the little eunuch hesitated.

“Scram!” The framed willow eyebrow rose up, reprimanding, “This palace and Lord Xu have something to say, it’s your turn to listen in? Believe it or not, you will be dragged out and caned for a hundred.”

The little eunuch had no choice but to retire.

“How did he follow you? How did you get back alive, didn’t Huaiqing say you were dead.”

The framed watched the little eunuch’s back cross the threshold and disappear, shifting his gaze to Xu Qi’an, his pretty little face revealing a smile.

“He’s here to spy on humble servant.” Xu Qi’an took a sip of hot tea and ate pastries, missing lunch after waiting in the imperial study for more than an hour.

“As for how to stay alive, that’s a long story …”

He told Princess Lin’an about the Yunzhou case, slightly adapting it, but of course, adapting wasn’t making things up, so Xu Qi’an only glorified and accentuated his own role, lowering the presence of the others.

Lin An loved listening to the book the most, at first enjoying it, gradually becoming immersed in it, hearing Xu Qi An stay up all night solving the riddle left behind by the dark son Zhou Min, her small hand slammed the desktop and shouted her praises.

She leaned forward, resting her cheeks and listening intently.

Xu Qi’an unmovingly glanced at Her Highness’s breasts, inevitably a little disappointed, Lin’an was still a bit of a gap compared to her eldest sister.

Any woman who can’t put the table under pressure is not a good woman.

Hearing that a female ghost came to confuse Xu Qi’an and others, two colleagues were miserably confused, and Xu Qi’an, with his own strong will, was not moved, the framed expressed appreciation, praised: worthy of the palace valued people na, the palace saw you at first, I know you are not a pool of things.

Xu Qi’an expressed his thanks to Her Highness for her discerning eye, and in his heart he spat, Didn’t you forcefully recruit me just to compete with Huaiqing for jealousy?

Finally, Xu Qi’an began to tell the story of himself facing thousands of troops, surrounded by thousands of people, facing the plight of arrows raining down on him and spears like forests, not retreating for half a step, beheading two hundred of the enemy, and finally holding out until the reinforcements arrived.

Mounted wept as he listened, his nose red with tears.

“Your Highness, you didn’t see the scene at that time, with a roar from my humble servant, the more than 1,000 rebels were scared out of their wits and were hardened to tangle with me. If it wasn’t for the fact that I wasn’t in the right state at the time, none of them would have survived.”

Framed nodded vigorously, quite convinced.

After all, she had heard of Xu Qi’an’s deeds from her royal brother before, and everyone said that Xu Qi’an had died heroically in the line of duty, saving the gongs of the governor and the night watchman’s yamen.

After bragging, Xu Qi’an remembered the main matter and said, “By the way, I’ve come to the palace this time by His Majesty’s decree to thoroughly investigate the case of Concubine Fu.”

Framed eyes suddenly released bright, joyful: “The Palace knew, you come back on good, you come back for the Prince brother to clear the wrong.”

“I will always serve the princess as an ox and a horse.” Xu Qi’an said sincerely.

Brushed off a wave of goodwill from Linn.

“There are a few questions I would like to ask Princess, how does Princess Fu look?”

“Naturally, it’s extremely beautiful.”

Emperor Yuan Jing is really a waste Xu Qi’an lamented in his heart and asked again, “Crown Prince, is he horny?”

“Of course it’s not lustful.” Lin An flatly denied it and said, “Besides the Crown Princess, the Crown Prince’s brother’s side consorts, concubine consorts, concubines, and so on, add up to only sixteen people.”

“.”

Xu Qi An said, “I really am a good man, a good man is me, I am Xu Qi An!

“Is there a precedent for drunkenness?”

“No.”

“What was the drink?”

“Hundred Days Spring, a kidney tonic and aphrodisiac wine. It was sent by the Empress to my mother’s consort, do you think she set it up?” Lin An whispered.

Xu Qi’an pondered for a moment and said, “I see.”

Lin An was overjoyed and delicately said, “What did you understand? Xu Ning Banquet have you solved the case.”

Hsu Mansion.

Heartbroken Xu Erlang did not immediately return to the academy, today is February 10th, in five days is the spring exam, there is absolutely no need to return to the academy.

Stay at home for a few days and wait for the science fair to come.

After lunch, helping his father Xu Pingzhi to send off the Xu Clan members, the exhausted Xu Erlang didn’t want to study at all, he just wanted to go back to his room and have a big sleep.

But Old Zhang, the concierge, ran in hurriedly and said, “Erlang, a monk has come to the door, claiming to be Heng Yuan, and wishing to see you.”

“Hengyuan?” Erlang Xu frowned, feeling that something sounded familiar, but couldn’t recall.

He, a Confucian disciple, did not believe in Buddhism and had no dealings with the Buddhist sect.

“He also said that he is an acquaintance with you.” Old Zhang, the concierge, added.

Xu Erlang let out a “heh” and looked at Xu Pingzhi: “Father, perhaps they’re here to perform the rituals because they’ve seen a white incident in our house. Prepare some coins and send them off, I’m going back to my room to rest.”

Old Zhang, the concierge, took a penny of silver, walked out of the door of the mansion, handed the silver to the stout middle-aged monk, and said:

“Master, there is no need for pujas in the house, please return.”

Master Hengyuan waved his hand as he did so, “Poor monks are not here to make fortunes.”

While honestly accepting the silver, he said, “The second son of the house, do you really not see the poor monk?”

What happened to number three?

Although we have never met, but the grace of repeated help, as well as the affection of his cousin Xu Qi’an, no matter what, should see their own side, so that they go in to see the last side of Lord Xu.

Well, he may feel that his identity remains a secret and think that the poor monk has not realized his true identity, so he pretends not to know?

Heh, truly underestimating the wisdom of the poor monk.

Monk Hengyuan clasped his hands together and bowed, then stepped to the side, fished out the fragment of the earth book from his bosom, used his finger as a pen, and transmitted a letter, “Daoist Golden Lotus, can you shield the rest of the people for me, I have something I want to say to Number Three.”

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