"Mr. Xu, I didn't even think of this myself, but you actually thought of it for me." Li Qian said with a surprised look on his face.
"Okay, you don't have to pretend anymore. I know our Majesty better than you." Mr. Xu put down the wine jar and said, "He is mean and ungrateful. He is greedy for power. He likes to play with power but ignores people's livelihood. If If the third prince hadn't gone around trying to appease the people these past few years, Dacheng might have led to chaos."
Li Qian looked at Mr. Xu in even more surprise, "Mr. Xu, that's the emperor. Do you dare to evaluate him like this?"
"Humph, why don't you dare? Back then, I pointed out the fault of His Majesty in the court and angrily resigned from the position of bachelor." Xu Lao said.
Li Qian glanced at Mr. Xu and asked curiously, "You dare to scold the emperor, how do you survive until now?"
Mr. Xu rolled his eyes and said with some pride, "Who said you must die if you curse the emperor? Of course, that was me. If it had been anyone else, their bones would have been turned to ashes."
"Mr. Xu, you are awesome!" After a long time, Li Qian said with a thumbs up.
Of course, what he said was true. This old man is really awesome.
…
After the birthday banquet in the palace.
The officials walked out of the palace one after another.
Dou Fu stared at the palace door anxiously.
After a long time, he saw the Marquis coming out chatting and laughing with some officials.
He also hurried forward to greet her.
After Dou Huaishan separated from the officials, he didn't ask or say anything, he just got into the official sedan.
On the way, Dou Fu wanted to speak several times.
Dou Huaishan's voice also came at this time, "Call everyone who is outside the Dou family back. From today on, the doors of the Dou family will be closed tightly, and no one in the family is allowed to go out."
Dou Fu was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly apologized, "Sir, I am guilty of running away a Xiqiang envoy."
"Stop chasing, call everyone back." Dou Huaishan said.
"Sir, why don't you chase him? If the Xiqiang man runs back to Xiqiang, it will be very detrimental to the master because the slave is not doing things well." Dou Fu said with his head lowered.
"The emperor is already protecting Prince Hemusi. Even if he catches up with the Xiqiang man, killing him will not help. Besides, has smallpox begun to appear in the mansion?" Dou Huaishan said.
Dou Fu was startled again, "Sir, do you know?"
After all, the master was attending the emperor's birthday banquet. It was a bit difficult for him to spread the news. Besides, he didn't dare to tell the palace about this kind of thing. How did the master know about it.
"I guessed it!" Dou Huaishan said and sighed, "I, Dou Huaishan, have never suffered from anyone. I didn't expect that this time I was tricked by a country boy."
"Soon, everyone will know that smallpox has appeared in our Dou family, which is why I asked you to call everyone in the family back." Dou Huaishan continued, "Because, soon, our Dou family will be the target of public criticism! "
Dou Fu trembled. If he wasn't walking, he would have knelt down directly, "Master, it was the slave's incompetence in doing things that caused the Dou family to suffer."
"I can't blame you. I can only say that my opponent was indeed a bit unexpected. With the help of a fake smallpox, he not only alienated the relationship between our Dou family and the Xiqiang people, but also made our Dou family fly into pieces. It's amazing. Ah!" Dou Huaishan sighed.
"Fake smallpox?" Dou Fu was stunned.
"Why, do you really believe that it was smallpox?" Dou Huaishan said, "I may still believe that smallpox appeared among the Xiqiang people, but we, the Dou family, have not been in contact with them for less than a day, so smallpox appeared so quickly. Symptoms, do you think it could really be smallpox?”
Dou Fu was stunned again. Yes, even if he was infected with smallpox, it would not break out within a day.
But before, he instinctively thought it was smallpox, so he didn't think much about it.
But those people in the mansion had never drank the wine that the Xiqiang people drank, nor had they been in contact with anyone, so how did they get the rash?
"Master, if it's not smallpox, why do people in the house have rashes like the young master's?" He couldn't help but ask in confusion.
"Did Gao Jun run away?" Dou Huaishan just asked.
Dou Fu was even more surprised that the master even guessed that Gao Jun had run away.
But then, he also thought of something.
"It turned out that he had tampered with the house."
"He probably doesn't have this ability yet. Someone in the mansion should be taking care of him. In other words, before Gao Jun came to Dou's mansion, someone had already sneaked into Dou's mansion."
"In all these years, I have never admired anyone, but I have to admire this Li Qian. Although this is not smallpox, it is better than smallpox!" Dou Huaishan sighed again.
"Master, no matter what, Li Qian has been burned to death, and you have one less enemy." Dou Fu said.
"Do you really think a person like this can be burned to death so easily?" Dou Huaishan said.
"Is he still alive? But I saw with my own eyes that no one escaped." Dou Fu couldn't help but wonder.
"No one escaped, which means there was no one inside at all. We will know soon whether he is still alive!" Dou Huaishan said.
