"What do you mean by what you said to the emperor before?" Ji Ran held back the words for a long time, and seeing that he was out of the palace, he finally asked it as a chat topic, "You deliberately mentioned the identity of the queen mother , Could it mean that the Queen Mother colluded with foreign enemies? But he colluded with foreign enemies just to deal with us, wouldn't it be too much of a fuss?"

After thinking about it, he felt wrong, and before Lu Zhen could respond, Ji Ran shook his head and denied his guess.

"No, this doesn't really make sense." Ji Ran pondered, "If that's the case, the Queen Mother will definitely know your existence, but today's reaction, she didn't recognize you." You know, the Hun wizard But the spearhead was directed at Lu Zhen. If that was the case, it was impossible for the queen mother to be ignorant of all kinds of secrets, and Lu Zhen's existence would not be a secret.

Ji Ran analyzed and pondered for a long time, but did not get a response from Lu Zhen, he turned his head and was about to ask questions in wonder, when he saw the smirk on the corner of the other's mouth, he was stunned for a moment.

"you……"

Lu Zhen covered Ji Ran's head with his palm and rubbed it twice. Although his facial expression didn't change much, it clearly conveyed his good mood at the moment.

"The Queen Mother's identity as a Hun has always been sensitive. In order to support the emperor, she used a lot of means, both openly and secretly. Among them, a force was borrowed from the Hun. Keep your eyes closed." Lu Zhen said as he walked, "So, today, my plausible reminder, whether the emperor believes it or not, will be a thorn buried in his heart and wake him up. Empress Dowager It's his biological mother, so he can't do anything, but in order to prevent future troubles, he must be very suspicious and strictly guard against death, so that even if the Queen Mother wants to continue to trouble us, she will have more than she can do."

As soon as Lu Zhen finished speaking, he saw Zhang Qizhong, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, walking towards this side with a smile on his face. The two looked at each other and stopped immediately.

"Master Ji, it's a pleasure to meet you." Zhang Qizhong has an upright face, but his eyes are dark and cunning, "Master Ji is in such a hurry, I don't know where to go?"

This is the second time Ji Ran has seen this person since the first morning court. The reason why he recognized him at a glance is not because Ji Ran has a good memory and never forgets, but because he was deeply impressed by the disputes in the court. It's hard to remember.

Ji Ran looked at Zhang Qizhong coldly, then twitched the corners of his mouth with a half-smile, "Master Zhang."

For such cunning villains, Ji Ran has always been able to avoid meeting them, and wanted to leave after saying hello, but was blocked by the other party's calm and wrong steps.

Ji Ran frowned, "Master Zhang, what do you mean?"

"I heard that the Agricultural Education Department's seeds are sold out, and the benefits are very good?" Zhang Qizhong also raised his eyebrows.

"So what?" Ji Ran tilted his head, laughing rather wickedly.

"Didn't Mr. Ji forget that your Agricultural Education Department actually belongs to the Ministry of Household Affairs, right?" Zhang Qizhong saw that Ji Ran was pretending to be stupid, so he didn't bother to continue to detour, and went straight to the point, "It means that it belongs to the Ministry of Household Affairs, so should the accounts of the sale of seeds be correct?" Hand it over to the Ministry of Accounts, and I haven't seen Mr. Ji take any action for a long time, could it be that he wants to fill his own pocket?"

Ji Ran looked at him amusedly, "The Department of Agricultural Education is a nominal household department, but Mr. Zhang, don't forget that it was specially set up by the emperor against all opinions. The emperor is also directly responsible for all affairs, and the accounts are handed over to the account holders. Department, I dare to hand it in, Master Zhang, do you dare to accept it?"

"You!" Zhang Qizhong's hypocritical smirk was broken immediately, and his eyes were full of vigor, "Master Ji has such a big tone, a mere fifth-rank official dares to challenge this official, huh, throughout the ages, the one who is servile and flattering Seniors, but they didn’t end well.”

"Oh?" Ji Ran's eyes narrowed slightly, the corners of his mouth were still curled up, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, "What a servile and charming master, Mr. Zhang means that the loyal ministers who have been loyal to the emperor through the ages will die a good death, right? It's no wonder that the mere minister dares to be arrogant, so he didn't pay attention to the current emperor, Master Zhang's neck, isn't it made of diamond?"

Zhang Qizhong's face was so red that his neck was thick, his face was gloomy and he didn't fart for a long time, but his eyes were so fierce that he seemed to want to eat people.However, as soon as he released half of his fierce aura, he was stunned by a cold stare. When he met Lu Zhen's sharp gaze in a blink of an eye, his scalp felt numb, his knees suddenly softened, and he almost fell to the ground. On the ground, fortunately, he finally gritted his teeth and held back, but he didn't dare to look at him again, he hurriedly turned his gaze away and gave Ji Ran a look, then snorted coldly, and walked away.

Ji Ran turned his head to watch the person walk away, then turned his head and twitched his mouth, "I'm sick."

"Yeah." Lu Zhen nodded expressionlessly.

Ji Ran was amused by him.

"To the Department of Agricultural Education?" Lu Zhen asked with a smile.

"Don't go." Thinking of being forced to 'run away' early in the morning, Ji Ran was filled with displeasure. It is rare to have such a good reason for skipping work. If he didn't skip work, he would be sorry for rushing around in such a hurry in the morning. "There seems to be a theater ahead. , why don't we go to the theater."

"Okay." Lu Zhen is actually not interested in watching a movie, but Ji Ran likes it, so he naturally has to obey.

There were not many people watching the theater in the morning, and there were only a few people sitting here and there in the huge theater. The whole lobby looked very empty, but even so, the hard-working singing and dancing on the stage was not at all watery , Occasionally a wonderful performance can also attract two faint applause. The voice came from the private room on the west side of the attic, and it was very airy and penetrating.

Almost as soon as they heard the voice, the two looked up reflexively.It was originally an inadvertent movement, but when I didn't want to, I suddenly stopped when I saw the outlines of the opponent's group of three people who were different from ordinary people.

Even Ji Ran can clearly see that these few are not from the Southern Dynasty.

"These three..."

"The Huns." Lu Zhen interrupted Ji Ran's question, "The one who sits at the front and obviously dominates is the Huns national teacher, Yeluzhen. The remaining two are highly skilled in martial arts, and they should be his followers."

"National teacher of the Xiongnu?" Ji Ran looked at the three of them, frowning slightly, "The national teacher is here, so the wizard will also come, right?"

"The Xiongnu national teacher and the wizard have always been polarized and fighting constantly, and they have always been incompatible existences." Lu Zhen said, "But it's not certain if they come in two ways."

To avoid attracting attention, the two stopped staring at the three people upstairs, but turned their eyes away, asked for a private room on the east side with the guy who came forward, and then walked upstairs together.

The guy brought the two of them to the room, and Ten Thousand almost left.

The beating of gongs and singing on the stage downstairs was wonderful, but the two of them lost interest in admiring it. They secretly looked at the direction of the three people from an L angle.

"If that bullshit wizard comes, will it affect you?" No matter whether he is a Hun or a good man, Yeluzhen or Yelvjia, Ji Ran only cares about Lu Zhen.

Lu Zhen's eyes fell on the stage downstairs. Hearing this, he didn't answer directly, but just patted the back of Ji Ran's hand reassuringly, "Don't worry."

Ji Ran looked at him, wondering for a moment whether he meant confidence or pure appeasement, it can be seen that Lu Zhen seemed to be staring at the stage, but in fact he was all focused on Yeluzhen and others who were diagonally opposite, so he swallowed the question that came to his mouth go back.Thinking about it again, I think it should be fine. The wizard caught Lu Zhen to refine ghost puppets, because Lu Zhen was a ghost at the time, but now he has changed from a ghost to a sickle spirit (?), so it should be useless Bar?

Aside from the matter of the wizard, Ji Ran suddenly thought of another matter, and couldn't help abducting Lu Zhen with his elbow.

"What?" Lu Zhen turned to look at Ji Ran.

Ji Ran winked, "You just reminded the emperor that the queen mother might collude with the Huns, and you saw San'er when you turned around. You said that if you let the emperor know the existence of these people, even if you didn't believe it before, you should be suspicious." Well, does this count as a crooked attack?"

Lu Zhen was taken aback for a moment, then the corner of her mouth twitched, "Forget it."

The two immediately looked at each other and smiled, exchanging a tacit look.

At this moment, the three people over there suddenly moved.Yeluzhen, who was lazily leaning on the railing to watch the play, suddenly stood up, and by the looks of it, he should be about to leave.

Seeing this, Lu Zhen immediately stood up, turned her head and told Ji Ran, "I'll go and have a look, you wait here for me to come back."

Before Ji Ran could respond, Lu Zhen turned around and left.

Ji Ran was slow to react, cursed inwardly, and hurriedly got up to chase after him, but after such a pause, Lu Zhen had already disappeared.On the contrary, when he rushed out like this, he collided with the three of Yeluzhen who were coming towards him.

Ji Ran and the three of them looked away as soon as they touched each other, and turned around as if nothing had happened, and walked downstairs.He was in a hurry to find Lu Zhen, and he didn't have time to pay attention to these three people. Besides, why the three Huns came had nothing to do with him.

"This boy..."

Ji Ran rolled his eyes, pretending not to know that the other party was calling him, and kept walking, but in the next moment, the back collar was pulled by a strong force.It was one of Yeluzhen's attendants who did it.

"Aman, don't be rude." Before Ji Ran was caught and got angry, Yeluzhen yelled at the followers who did the work, walked down the wooden stairs a few steps, bypassed Ji Ran, and apologized, "Your subordinate is reckless. , please forgive me if I offend you."

Ji Ran tried his shoulders to break away from the man's grab, and looked at Yeluzhen expressionlessly, "What's the matter?"

"Dare to ask, how does the Agricultural Education Department go?" Ye Luzhen didn't mind Ji Ran's bad face at all, his smile was gentle and courteous, and against that exotic and deep handsome face, people couldn't help but hate him.

"Agricultural education department?" Already knowing the other party's details, Ji Ran certainly wouldn't be fooled by the other party's pretended friendship, so he raised his eyebrows pretending to be dazed.

"Yes, young master, do you know?" Yeluzhen smiled sincerely.

"You don't look like locals?" Ji Ran didn't answer the question, but his eyes fumbled around where Lu Zhen might be hiding.

Lu Zhen came out because of these three people. Since these three people haven't left, he must be still here. It's just that Ji Ran fumbled around, not to mention Lu Zhen's people, but he didn't even see a piece of clothing. .

"We are horse merchants from other places, and we came here specially for the seeds," Yeluzhen said.

"Seeds." Seeing no one, Ji Ran withdrew his awkward gaze and looked at Yeluzhen with a smile, "That's really unfortunate, it's true that the Agricultural Education Department did sell seeds before, but it was only two days. It’s sold out, even if you go there now, it’s a waste of time.”

"That's it..." Yeluzhen really showed disappointment, but he still insisted, "But I still want to go and have a look, my lord is willing..."

"The Secretary of Agricultural Education is far away. I have other matters here. You should find someone else to lead the way." Before the other party finished speaking, Ji Ran politely refused.

Yeluzhen looked at Ji Ranxu quietly for a while, then smiled gently, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry to bother you." After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked downstairs first without forcing him.

As soon as Yeluzhen left, his two followers glared at Ji Ran, and hurriedly followed.

Ji Ran curled his lips, ignored the indifferent stare, and continued to look around to find Lu Zhen's trace, but when he turned around and saw the sickle hanging on the buttocks of the entourage named Ah Man, he was stunned.

When he came back to his senses, Ji Ran hurriedly ran downstairs to catch up, "Hey wait!"

Yeluzhen who was about to go out really stopped and turned around.

Ji Ran glanced at Ah Man's butt, and coughed dryly, "Suddenly remembered that I happened to be going there on the way, so let me take you there."

"Really?" Yeluzhen laughed when he heard the words, "That's really hard work."

"It's easy to talk about." Ji Ran and Yelu Zhenxu were negotiating, but the corner of his eye was staring at Mr. Sickle and twitched fiercely.

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