"Oh..." Gong Shouli suddenly realized, "But those brats were all selected by me personally. They are indeed blind and illiterate. Even if they saw the emperor reading a book, they wouldn't recognize it."
"Eunuch Gong, what do you think this is?" Xiao Chen dipped his finger into a little tea and drew a circle on the table.
"A circle? That's not it." Gong Shouli said.
"Oh, that's amazing. You can even recognize circles, so what do you think this is?" Xiao Chen drew the gourd again.
"Stop talking to me such nonsense...isn't this a gourd?" Gong Shouli said.
"Can you look at the gourd and draw a gourd for me?" Xiao Chen said with a smile, "If it's a portrait, I'll treat you to it."
"Haha, this is what you said so proudly. Did everyone hear it?" Gong Shouli also drank some tea, and sure enough he drew a gourd on the table, exactly like Xiao Chen's one. What's so difficult about this? As long as it's a person, please give me this meal...
Fatty, Zhao Yu, and Yuan Ren all laughed and said nothing.
"What the hell!" Gong Shouli suddenly understood, "You mean they might copy the books the emperor read and the words he wrote and spread them out?"
"Whether there is such a possibility or not, you have to investigate it in detail. If there is a problem, you can correct it or encourage it... Otherwise, why do you think the emperor asked your kid to participate in this case?" Xiao Chen said, "Really You’ve been with the Emperor for so long, you’re so stupid that you can’t figure out any of the Holy Will!”
"You are so stupid!" Gong Shouli slapped his forehead, extremely annoyed.
"You don't need us to teach you how to check specifically, right?" Xiao Chen said, "You are better than us when it comes to Yin people."
"Who the hell is plotting against whom?" Gong Shouli said, "If there really is a situation like what you said, then I, old Gong, will die! If you hadn't reminded me, I would have been plotted to death by them without even knowing what happened. dead!"
"It's best if you don't, but if you, Eunuch Gong, really find out something is going on, you can't..." The matter was so important that Xiao Chen had to remind him.
"You can't say it, I know." Gong Shouli said, "I'm not that stupid!"
"The Emperor trusted us and asked us to run this errand. We must be very careful! We must strictly keep confidentiality, otherwise as long as a little bit of news leaks out, the matter will be considered a failure. We will not only let down the Emperor, but also offend the emperor." Others may lose their official positions at worst, or lose their lives at worst!" Xiao Chen said.
"You don't need to say this. Everyone knows it, so it's better to be more specific." Gong Shouli said, "Now you are considered the principal imperial envoy appointed by the emperor, and we are all deputy imperial envoys. We will listen to you in everything, but we will do it in the future. If it gets smashed or struck by lightning, you'll be the one to bear it."
"What Eunuch Gong said makes sense." Yuan Ren said with a smile, "But you are all the emperor's capable ministers, but I am just an indifferent official. I don't know how to investigate cases, and I have never done anything for the emperor. I have been on such an errand, and I still don’t know why the emperor wants me to participate... Mr. Xiao, you need to give me some advice."
"I don't dare to give you advice." Xiao Chen also smiled, "I just ventured to figure out what the emperor meant. I don't seem to want you to follow the investigation. It's just that when the case is closed in the future, I need you to say something. After all, sometimes what the emperor does, We must also follow God’s will.”
"Oh, Mr. Xiao, your words didn't relieve me, but they made me feel heavy in my heart?" Yuan Ren grinned after hearing this.
"Hahaha, so you, Yuan Ren, are also a smart man, so I won't say much more. You just have to know it in your mind." Xiao Chen said with a smile, "Although I don't need to bother you with the investigation, after all, this is what we are doing. It’s an errand, so no matter what happens, it still needs to be discussed and handled, and you have to participate, and you can’t just hide and relax the whole time.”
"At present, let's conduct a preliminary investigation in the periphery and formulate the next plan based on the situation. There is no need to rush this matter. Anyway, the emperor has not given a time limit. Let's just take it slowly... By the way, Dean Shangguan was in Fengyang just now. I bought a house, if Mr. Yuan has nothing to do today, you can go and check the feng shui, and he will be very grateful."
"Oh, if Mr. Yuan Ren is willing to see it with his own eyes, then the price of my house will be doubled!" The fat man said with a smile.
"Whether it is a lucky house or not, we have to see it first." Yuan Ren said with a smile.
"Yes, yes, yes, let's read it and then talk about it!" Fatty said, "If it's not good, you have to help me solve it. If it's good, you have to try to maintain it for me, so no matter what, I will be very grateful. "
"I can't bear to hear such words of gratitude." Yuan Ren said with a smile, "When everyone invited me to go, they all said it politely, but after seeing the thank you, it's not heavy at all."
"We are not talking in vain." The fat man said, "How about I give you a thousand taels of silver as a thank you gift in front of everyone?"
"One thousand taels of silver is just a thank you gift, and I also want to drink wine to thank you!" Yuan Ren said with a smile, "I heard that you have a very delicious beer in Yanyun County, but I haven't tasted it yet."
"We'll all have a few drinks then." Gong Shouli said with a smile.
"Then I'll bother you too." Zhao Yu said with a smile.
While talking and laughing, the relationship with Yuan Ren became closer. Since Yuan Ren helped Fatty look at the house, and Xiao Chen and Fatty are good friends, it is appropriate to thank Yuan Ren for this, so that we can get closer in the future. It won't attract anyone's attention.
And Xiao Chen will take the blame for the emperor and be the murderer of the downtown murder, so Zhao Yu will definitely have interactions with him in the future, so everything will be logical.
As for Gong Shouli, it didn't matter. He and Xiao Chen had a well-known love-and-kill relationship. They had quarreled, had fights, killed people together, took risks together, and even did business together...
It took a month for the murder case in the downtown area to finally be solved. A notice was posted at the door of Fengyang Mansion, and everyone realized that it was Mr. Xiao Chenxiao who saw injustice on the street, drew his sword to help, and bravely killed the bullies in the street, thereby eliminating harm for the people!
Although he acted bravely, the emperor was still very angry and ordered him to be reprimanded and fined him a year's salary...
The people didn't doubt it, and they all defended him. Mr. Xiao was clearly doing harm to the people, so why did you punish him, Your Majesty? That doesn't make sense.
The owner of the hotel and the nearby neighbors voluntarily pooled some money, found a group of musicians, carried a plaque honoring the brave act of justice, beat gongs and drums, swaggered through the market, and set off firecrackers for a long time in front of Xiao Chen's house...
Xiao Chen was dumbfounded. You guys are so unreasonable. Are you thanking me or torturing me? Good guy, these firecrackers and gongs and drums are so noisy that you can’t even hear them when they’re talking to each other in the room!
After some good talk and a large sum of money, they were all driven away. As soon as they left, the people in charge of the street came to please them again.
You say you want to please, but you just want money, otherwise we will sweep the streets for you, Mr. Xiao, for free?
Look at the firecracker skins outside. They are piled half a foot thick. Even two large trucks can't pull them away...
