However, something happened that greatly embarrassed Chen Xiaomu. At this time, the servants in the court looked at me and I looked at you, but none of them obeyed the order. Speaking of which, these servants were all old people in the government office. , they all have their own little calculations. The Lord Taiwei in front of him is a high-ranking first-rank official in the court. You, a sixth-rank judge, are too insignificant in front of him. Don't look at the fun you are making now. , that’s because you have a soft mouth and don’t know how to deal with things. If we really listened to you and beat up the relatives of the Taiwei family, wouldn’t we be asking for trouble!
Seeing that none of the servants in the court listened to Chen Xiaomu's orders, Zhuge Cheng couldn't help but said proudly: "Chen Tongpan, look, this is called justice that prevails in people's hearts. Even these servants fought for Wu Guanglu and were unwilling to do anything." Start punishing him!"
Chen Xiaomu said angrily: "Okay, if that's the case, then I will personally enforce the law!" As he said this, he stroked his arms, rolled up the sleeves of his official robe, and walked out from behind the public case with an angry look, as if he was about to start a gang fight!
Seeing this, Zhuge Cheng hurriedly came to stop him and reprimanded him: "Chen Tongjian, how can you behave like this? Is there any judge who takes matters into his own hands to enforce the law?"
Chen Xiaomu sneered and said: "Master Zhuge, I have already done it once, and I don't care if I do it again. I also ask Master Zhuge to get out of the way. Otherwise, if I accidentally hurt you, please don't do it." Blame it on the lower official!”
"Crazy, crazy, simply crazy!" Zhuge Cheng said angrily: "Do you know who you are talking to? I will go to the emperor and read your copy right now!"
Chen Xiaomu made a gesture of invitation and said coldly: "Master Zhuge, please excuse me. I will not send you far away!"
"You, you!" Zhuge Cheng pointed his finger at Chen Xiaomu, trembling with anger but speechless.
Chen Xiao ignored him, ducked to the side, passed Zhuge Cheng nimbly, picked up the thick board that Huang Qide had just hit, and said to Wei Yu: "Wei Captou, give me Wu Guanglu Put it down."
"Yes" Wei Yu responded simply and moved quickly. He raised his foot and kicked Wu Guanglu in the back who was kneeling on the ground. He only heard a "plop". Before Wu Guanglu could react, he gnawed on the ground with his mouth and fell heavily on the ground. on the ground.
Chen Xiaomu immediately raised the board and hit him four times in a row. The pain was so painful that Wu Guanglu grinned and screamed at Zhuge Cheng: "Come and help me, Lord Taiwei! I'm about to be beaten to death!"
Helpless, Zhuge Cheng had no choice but to hurriedly walk to Chen Xiaomu again, put down his body, and said to Chen Xiaomu: "Chen Tongpan, wait a moment, I still have something to say!"
Hearing this, Chen Xiaomu hit Wu Guanglu twice again, then put down the board in his hand and gasped: "Oh, does Mr. Zhuge want to fight for me? I think it's better to forget it. You are old and can't fight." It definitely doesn’t hurt!”
Zhuge Cheng tried his best to put a smile on his face, and said with a forced smile: "Chen Tongpan is joking, I am old and frail, how can I compare to a young and strong young man like you!"
"Well, I wonder if Master Zhuge has anything else to say?" Chen Xiaomu casually picked up the board in his hand and looked at Zhuge Cheng and asked.
Zhuge Cheng raised two fingers: "Chen Tongxuan, I'm selling an old man. One million taels of silver goes to 200,000 taels. You can give him a lighter sentence! Can you?"
Chen Xiaomu pondered for a moment and said cheerfully: "Okay, since Master Zhuge has spoken, this honorable official will be given to me no matter what, so it will be 800,000 taels. I will ask Master Ye to rewrite the punishment book later! But! , Mr. Zhuge, I will give the Wu family at most three days, and within three days they must collect 800,000 taels of silver and send it to the government office!"
Zhuge Cheng frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly blinked his eyes slyly, and then laughed and said: "Chen Tongpan, I heard that Prime Minister Wei said that in terms of poetry, you have the potential to catch up with the four great sages in the world. Now I have a proposal. As long as you can write a poem that makes the whole audience laugh and applaud, I will ask the Wu family to send the 800,000 taels of silver over within one day. What do you think?"
Chen Xiaomu laughed when he heard this and said, "Master Zhuge, what if I can't write such a poem?"
Zhuge Cheng seemed to have thought of the conditions in advance, and said without blinking: "Then please ask Chen Tongpan to extend the time for paying the bank to ten days. How about that?"
"No" Chen Xiaomu immediately shook his head and said: "It's only three days, there is no room for bargaining."
"Haha!" Zhuge Cheng laughed loudly and said to Wei Wen: "Prime Minister Wei, it seems that you have also listened to the rumors. There are so many sages in this world! If our Zheng State can produce someone as good as the four great men in the world today, A genius can compete with a wise man, so the emperor doesn’t have to worry about the invitation letter he received this morning from the Qi court to hold a civil and military conference!”
Wei Wen smiled at Zhuge Cheng and said, "Sir Taiwei, I am preparing to recommend Chen Tongxuan to lead the talented men of Zheng in front of the emperor to attend the civil and military conference. I hope you will not stop me from doing so!"
"That's right, that's right!" Zhuge Cheng twirled his beard and nodded: "The people recommended by your Prime Minister Wei must be well-educated people, and I will give my full support, but this time I sent people to Qi State to participate in the civil and military conference. The reputation of our country, Zheng, is not as important as whether we get the silver medal, but we must not be screened out in the first round. Then our face of Zheng will be completely lost, so we still hope that Prime Minister Wei will recommend him. Be careful when doing this!”
Chen Xiaomu was wondering to death at this moment, and thought to himself: "I'm trying the case now! What do you two old guys mean by singing a harmony in this courtroom? It's easy to understand Zhuge Cheng. After all, Wu Guanglu is his younger wife's uncle. It’s not surprising that he’s messing around here, but that’s what Old Man Wei is singing, and he’s following Zhuge Cheng in making noises, after all, I’m still your daughter’s teacher! Who are you on that end now?”
Unexpectedly, Wu Guanglu, who was lying on the ground, spoke at this time! He thought that Zhuge Cheng was creating an opportunity for him to escape guilt, and he had to seize the opportunity quickly to get into trouble again. In addition, he was originally a gambler who ran a casino, and he had a very strong gambling habit, so he temporarily decided to go with him. Chen Xiaomu took a big gamble.
Of course, whether Chen Xiaomu is willing to gamble with him is another matter, but in the eyes of gamblers, as long as the inducement is big enough, there will be no one in the world who doesn't gamble. At that moment, Wu Guanglu endured the pain in his buttocks and raised his head. With a serious look on his face, Lai said to Chen Xiaomu sincerely: "Sir, Xiao Ke is willing to give you two hundred thousand taels of silver to buy you a poem that can make people laugh and applaud, just like what Taiwei Zhuge himself said."
Hearing this, Chen Xiaomu almost laughed out loud. He knelt down and teased Wu Guanglu, "Oh! Does Wu Yuanwai also know poetry?"
Wu Guanglu shook his head: "I don't understand, but Mr. Taiwei understands!"
"Yeah." Chen Xiaomu nodded and said, "If no one applauds or laughs at the poem I write, what do you think?"
Wu Guanglu gritted his teeth and said, "Then please forgive Xiao Ke all the fines!"
"Haha, you have a bad idea!" Chen Xiaomu said scornfully: "You bet 200,000 taels just to win my 800,000 taels of fined silver. Do you think I'm stupid?"
Wu Guanglu paused for a moment and said hesitantly: "What do you mean by the eldest master?"
Chen Xiaomu said: "If you don't bet, your Wu family must pay 800,000 taels of silver within three days!"
"Four hundred thousand taels!" Wu Guanglu gritted his teeth and doubled the bet.
"This..." To be honest, Chen Xiaomu was a little excited at this time.
At this time, Zhuge Cheng came over and held out a finger and said: "Chen Tongpan, if you think you are too young, the one hundred thousand taels of silver that I gave my little wife as a dowry will also be counted!"
"Okay, let's do it!" Chen Xiaomu agreed without hesitation.
"Okay, happy!" Zhuge Cheng clapped his hands and praised, as if he and Wu Guanglu had won the gamble. He walked up to Ye Duzheng: "Master Ye, help us write a document to let everyone People sign and put their fingerprints on it!”
Ye Duzheng glanced at Chen Xiaomu upon hearing this, and seeing that he had no objection, he quickly nodded in agreement. Next, Ye Duzheng was very familiar with it, and quickly wrote a piece of paper according to what everyone expressed. After reading it separately, everyone had no doubts. , he signed and pressed his fingerprints on it. Zhuge Cheng came up with another idea at this moment and wanted to recruit Wei Wen to be the middleman. As the prime minister of a country, Wei Wen actually wanted him to be the middle man in a gambling game in public. This If the news spread, he would be laughed to death, so he tried to evade it in every possible way and was unwilling to give in. As a result, the two of them argued in the court for a long time. In the end, Wei Wen saw that Su Xingran did not show up to stop the bet in the court. In addition, He also wanted to see what Chen Xiaomu's literary talent was like. Zhuge Cheng then whispered in his ear and promised to give him 10,000 taels of silver from the Prime Minister's Mansion as a reward. Wei Wen only half-heartedly accepted it, and he was convinced that he was the winner on the document. He signed his name below the words.
After everyone signed the documents, it was time for the official start of gambling. Hundreds of people in the courtroom were instantly silent. Everyone was so nervous that they didn't even dare to take a breath! At this time, you could probably hear a pin drop on the ground. Zhuge Cheng stared at Chen Xiaomu's mouth intently. Originally, he wanted to show off his general demeanor and try to make the expression on his face as natural as possible, preferably with a smile on his face. , showing an air of sure victory! But unfortunately, he couldn't control the panic in his heart. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't squeeze out a smile on his stiff face.
To say that someone with some general demeanor at this time has to be Wu Guanglu. After all, he has been playing in casinos for most of his life. Although it is the first time in his life to bet such a big bet, the mentality of a gambler is not comparable to that of ordinary people. At this moment With the support of his granddaughter, he slowly stood up from the ground with no trouble in his face. He didn't look nervous at all! Probably because Chen Xiaomu had just hit his buttocks with a board, he would quietly twist his buttocks from time to time, while grinning and taking a breath!
Looking at the people around him, all of them were watching him calmly and nervously, Chen Xiaomu smiled, turned to Zhuge Cheng and joked: "Master Zhuge, when you and your wife held a wedding ceremony, your subordinate was still in the enemy country. I was fighting on the battlefield and missed the time to come back to give gifts. Now I give you this poem to make up for the gift. If you think it's okay later and want to make up for my wedding, I will definitely be there! "
Now that Zhuge Cheng still had time to listen to his ridicule, he thought Chen Xiaomu was deliberately delaying time to think of words! He quickly answered: "If this is the case, I understand. Chen Tongpanruo has done a really good job. I should offer you a drink to thank you!"
Chen Xiaomu walked two steps in the court with his hands behind his back and lowered his head. Suddenly he raised his head and said with a smile: "Master Zhuge, the title of my poem is "Wish Lieutenant Zhuge a Happy Wedding", what do you think?"
"What?" Zhuge Cheng blushed when he heard this, and was dumbfounded by the name of Chen Xiaomu's poem. Everyone in the court heard the pun in the poem's title, and everyone was overjoyed. They were so quiet just now. In the courtroom where you could hear a pin drop, the laughter was endless!
When everyone's laughter subsided, Chen Xiaomu continued slowly: "The eighteenth bride is eighty-year-old, with pale hair and red makeup. The mandarin ducks are twined under the quilt at night, and a pear tree weighs the begonia."
After Chen Xiaomu finished reciting the entire poem in one breath, there was silence at first, and then someone in the crowd shouted: "Good poem, definitely a good poem!" As soon as this person finished speaking, everyone in the hall The crowd suddenly burst into continuous applause.
