Ji Qingzhou stood there exuding heat all over his body, feeling very complicated.

He felt that he had become stupid recently, and he didn't see such an obvious trick.

No wonder people say that being pregnant for three years is stupid...

When Ji Qingzhou thought of the word "pregnancy", she suddenly felt a little awkward, and her face, which was already flushed from the sun, became even more red.His complexion was originally very fair, and a slight redness on his face was very conspicuous, and it was impossible for anyone to ignore him standing there.

Li Zhan's gaze stayed on Ji Qingzhou's face for a moment, and seeing that the young man's red robe was already soaked with sweat, he whispered, "Go take a bath and change your clothes."

"Thank you, Lord, for your concern. Don't bother." Chi Zhou thought Li Zhan was talking to him, so he hurriedly said, "After kneeling for so long, if I change clothes when I go out later, wouldn't it be a waste of kneeling?"

Chizhou originally planned to kneel until the afternoon, but he didn't expect the prince to be so considerate. He let him in in less than an hour, and now he is still considerate to let him take a bath and change clothes... Cold and stern, he is actually very considerate of his subordinates.

Hearing this, Li Zhan glanced at Chizhou, his expression was very complicated, and he couldn't explain anything further.

"Let's all go down." Li Zhan said after a while.

Hearing this, Ji Qingzhou quickly bowed and bowed, and exited the study.

After coming out of the study, Ji Qingzhou saw Xiaoshan bring two bowls of mung bean soup.Xiao Shan gave another bowl to a waiter and asked the other party to send it to Chizhou, and the remaining bowl was given to Ji Qingzhou.

"I didn't think the weather was so hot before." Ji Qingzhou drank a bowl of mung bean soup, and the heat on her body eased a little, but her complexion was still a little pale.Xiao Shan was afraid that he would be hit, so he didn't dare to let him take a bath immediately, and only let go when the sweat on his body was almost gone.

"I see that your complexion is not very good recently, are you too tired?" Xiao Shan asked worriedly.

Hearing this, Ji Qingzhou's eyes flickered slightly, and he said: "I didn't realize it...don't give me any more tonic."

"Don't you have to make up for the loss?" Xiao Shan said as a matter of course.

But Ji Qingzhou frowned and said, "I'm afraid I'm getting fat...it's unsightly."

Xiaoshan chuckled when he heard the words, and didn't know that Ji Qingzhou was worried that he would look faster after eating fat, but he only thought that he really cherished his figure, and said: "Don't worry, I will get you more ingredients for beauty and beauty later, and I will guarantee You will look radiant after eating it, but you won’t grow a little bit more.”

Ji Qingzhou: ...

I feel that my image in Xiao Shan's heart is almost distorted...

In the study, Chizhou took out a document from his arms and handed it to Li Zhan.

Li Zhan took the document and looked at it. It was a long list, and there was a corresponding position behind each name.

"People from various channels outside the palace have figured it out, and these people in the palace will naturally come out after following the vine." Chizhou said: "But the lower officials don't dare to startle the snake, so they can only find out who the servants corresponding to each department of the Department of Internal Affairs are. Who, as for whether the quantity of the items they purchased matches the clues found outside the palace, I am afraid that the prince should send someone to check in the palace."

Chizhou is a member of Dali Temple, and it is not within his purview to interrogate the internal servants.

If he intervenes rashly, I'm afraid he will startle the snake.

"All the items purchased by the internal servants have account books. You only need to check whether the actual quantity of the items they purchased is the same as that recorded in the account books of the internal servants, and then you can find out the problem." Li Zhan said. .

Chizhou nodded and said, "Exactly."

The items purchased by the Department of Internal Affairs are very complicated, and the purchase and distribution are all carried out by their internal staff, so it is very easy to manipulate them.After all, after purchasing many items, they were broken up for distribution, and each palace only knew about how much they had received, and they would not pursue the specific details.

After a long time, this will become a bad debt, and there is no way to check it.

Only by starting with something that has just been purchased and has not yet been distributed can you find out what's tricky.

"Are you sure you didn't alert the Internal Service Department?" Li Zhan asked.

"Don't worry, my lord, I'm very sure, only the lord in the palace knows about this matter." Chi Zhou hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The last time I was in the teahouse, Young Master Ji was also there... He also knows part of it. Bar."

Li Zhan nodded when he heard the words, frowned and thought for a moment.

Chizhou asked: "What is the prince planning to do?"

Seeing that Li Zhan didn't answer, Chi Zhou seemed to realize something, and said, "Your lord is planning to let Young Master Ji go to investigate the internal servant?"

"Do you think it's wrong?" Li Zhan looked at Chizhou and asked.

Chi Zhou pondered for a moment, then said: "My lord, I'm sorry for your blunt words, this matter is no small matter... In terms of talent and learning ability, Mr. Ji is naturally not inferior to others, even better than many people who have official positions in the court. but……"

Li Zhan looked up at Chizhou for a moment, and said, "It's okay to be straightforward."

"Although the lower official has never had a close relationship with Young Master Ji, with Taifu Ji's talents and learning, it is natural that the son of his Ji family will not be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he will not...lose the dignity of the Ji family just for the sake of surviving. " Chizhou said: "Your lord never doubted that Young Master Ji endured the humiliation and gave up exile and chose to enter the palace because of ulterior motives?"

Li Zhan frowned, and said in a deep voice after a long while, "It's not that this king hasn't thought about it."

"Since the lord suspects him... why did he bring him with him?" Chizhou asked puzzled.

Li Zhan fell into deep thought and did not answer this question for a long time.

Chizhou is a transparent person, knowing that he has said everything he should say, Li Zhan also listened to it, and said: "The lower official has overstepped. Ji Xiaogong is extremely intelligent, and he was the most beloved young son of the Tai Tuo during his lifetime. It would be a blessing if he could assist the prince without distraction. What the officer said is nothing but unfounded worries, I believe the prince has his own plans."

Li Zhan nodded, changed the subject, and asked, "How is Miss Ji's family doing at your house?"

"Miss Ji is a straightforward person, but she behaves quite like Taifu Ji's free and easy spirit. As a man, a subordinate official must be willing to bow down." When Chizhou mentioned Ji Qinglan, he couldn't help smiling, and after a while, he said regretfully: "It's a pity ...According to the law, you cannot redeem yourself if you enter the Jiaofang Secretary, otherwise..."

Li Zhan's eyes fell on Chizhou's face and looked at him for a moment, then asked: "You have been working hard these days to take care of you, and we will talk about the future."

Chi Zhou hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Chi will definitely live up to his trust."

The two chatted a few more gossips, Qin Zheng came back and asked to see him outside.

Chizhou had finished what he had to say, and he still wanted to continue acting, so he calmed down and left Yinghui Pavilion with an "angry" expression on his face.When he made such a fuss today, rumors spread inside and outside the palace that Chizhou had a quarrel with the Prince Regent.

This young minister of the Dali Temple was too sharp, and when he met the decisive king regent, he could only be deflated.

Qin Zheng took Chizhou's roster and read it carefully, with a very surprised expression on his face.

"Wouldn't you think that the servants have such a big appetite?" Qin Zheng said.

"Of course the internal servants can't eat it. It's the people behind them who have a big appetite." Li Zhan said flatly.

Qin Zheng closed the roster and said, "Shall I bring someone to investigate?"

"You may not be able to find out if you are going to check the internal servant," Li Zhan said.

Qin Zheng took a look at him and reacted, and said, "Are you going to ask Ji Qingzhou to investigate?"

Li Zhan looked at Qin Zheng without responding, but his expression was tantamount to acquiescing.

"Tsk!" Qin Zheng sighed, after thinking for a while, he didn't refute Li Zhan, but suggested: "Otherwise, I will make a new copy of this roster, but only give him half a copy, and ask him to check the warehouse. The number stored in the store, but the actual purchase directory is not to let him know, after he finishes checking the results of our pair, do you think it is okay?"

"You want to test him?" Li Zhan said calmly.

"If he has no selfish intentions, everyone will be happy with the result." Qin Zheng said, "It can be regarded as giving him a chance to prove himself!"

Li Zhan chuckled lightly, noncommittal.

Qin Zheng observed his complexion, and said: "This is not like your style? Even if I follow you, I have to have a chance to show my loyalty. Why is it that Prince Ji Qingzhou is so talkative... It makes me jealous !"

"Or...the lord has so little confidence in him, is it certain that he won't pass this test?" Qin Zheng asked.

Li Zhan pondered for a while, then said, "Just do as you say."

Qin Zheng's worries coincided with Chizhou's. In fact, he had mentioned this matter in front of Li Zhan before, but Li Zhan's attitude was always ambiguous, and he couldn't say too much.

If other things were changed, Qin Zheng might not get involved, but this matter is too important, Qin Zheng dare not take risks.

If Ji Qingzhou really proves that he has no selfishness, Qin Zheng can breathe a sigh of relief...

After all, he still likes Young Master Ji very much.

Qin Zheng copied half of the roster that day.

Before nightfall, Li Zhan called Ji Qingzhou over and handed him the half of the roster.

Ji Qingzhou had heard the conversation between Li Zhan and Chizhou in the teahouse before, and later Li Zhan also asked him to investigate this matter, so when Ji Qingzhou looked at the list, he immediately understood what Li Zhan meant.

"Although you haven't been with the internal servants for a long time, Director Yao is your master, and Tu Dayou has a good relationship with you, so it should be smoother for you to handle this matter." Li Zhan said to Ji Qingzhou.

Ji Qingzhou looked at the half of the list, and said: "There are too many details involved, and it may take some time to check the inventory in the warehouse."

"How long?" Li Zhan asked.

"Ten days." Ji Qingzhou said.

"It's been too long, if you let them realize what you're doing, they'll probably take advantage of this time to do something wrong." Li Zhan said: "This king only gives you three days, and the Secretary of Internal Affairs and everyone in Yinghui Pavilion are at your disposal. "

Ji Qingzhou was startled when he heard the words, so he had to cup his hands and say, "Yes."

Seeing that Li Zhan had no other orders, Ji Qingzhou was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Zhan.

"My lord?" Ji Qingzhou looked at Li Zhan blankly, waiting for him to speak, but Li Zhan got up and walked to Ji Qingzhou from the desk.

Li Zhan stared at Ji Qingzhou for a while, and saw that there was still a little redness on the young man's neck that had not faded. It must have been sunburned for too long during the day.

"You..." Li Zhan hesitated for a while before saying, "Do your job well."

Ji Qingzhou was a little dazed when he heard the words, and always felt that Li Zhan seemed to have something to say, but since the other party didn't say anything, he didn't ask, just nodded and then backed away.

Early the next morning, Ji Qingzhou ordered several people in Yinghui Pavilion, and then went to find Tu Dayou in person.

There are several departments of the Internal Service Department that he is sure can figure out, but some of them are more complicated, and he dare not trust them, so he can only ask Tuda for help.When it comes to the stakes among the various departments of the Department of Internal Affairs, no one knows better than Tu Dayou.

"Show me your list." Tu Dayou said.

Hearing this, Ji Qingzhou handed him the list. After reading it, Tu Dayou pointed to a few people who were checked off by Ji Qingzhou, and said: "These people have been in the palace longer than me. Let me do it, and I will help you through the rest, and you should be able to handle it yourself."

Ji Qingzhou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and said: "My lord entrusted me with this job, but I actually felt a little upset."

"What are you afraid of? I'm here to protect you." Tu Dayou said.

It took the two of them an hour to sort out the people of the internal servants, plus those selected by Ji Qingzhou in the Yinghui Pavilion, and assigned them one by one the errands for counting.Ji Qingzhou didn't dare to be sloppy, basically he walked every place in person, for fear of making mistakes.

That night, Ji Qingzhou personally sorted out the contents of the warehouses re-counted by various departments, and then copied a copy.

Previously, he heard from Chizhou that there were a lot of tricks in the purchase of items by the internal servant. Surprisingly large.

If things continued like this, how much money in the palace would have flowed into other people's pockets in such a muddle over the past few years.It's no wonder that Li Zhan intends to liquidate the matter thoroughly, even Ji Qingzhou feels pain when thinking about the money.

"Is there two missing?" Ji Qingzhou asked after sorting out a stack of records.

"Back to Eunuch Ji, it's all here." A servant replied.

Ji Qingzhou looked up at him for a moment, and asked: "I remember nineteen departments, and I counted seven in total today. Why are there only five here?"

"Oh...Brother Dayou said that the warehouses of the two departments are quite messy, and it took a lot of effort to tidy up today, and the list may be sorted out tomorrow." The servant said.

"Okay, I see." Ji Qingzhou smiled lightly and didn't ask any more questions.

After sorting out all the lists, Ji Qingzhou walked to the window and opened the window to look at the night outside, and couldn't help but sigh heavily.The little waiter next to him thought there was something wrong with the list, so he asked a few questions, but Ji Qingzhou smiled bitterly and said nothing.

The cool summer night wind blowing outside caused the leaves to rustle, but the deep night shrouded everything in darkness.

But no matter how deep the night is, there will be an end, and the sun will always rise...

In the next two days, Ji Qingzhou was so busy that he hardly touched the ground, but fortunately, the people in Tuda were very helpful. They finally managed to count the warehouses of all the departments of the Department of Internal Affairs before nightfall on the third day .

Ji Qingzhou handed over the transcribed list to Li Zhan that night.

Li Zhan took the list and glanced at it, and let Ji Qingzhou go down without saying anything.

After Ji Qingzhou left, Qin Zheng took the list and compared it with the one Chizhou gave him at first.Half an hour later, Qin Zheng put a list with several red circles in front of Li Zhan.

Li Zhan's eyes fell on those red circles, but his expression didn't change.

"The other numbers are all right, but these few problems are big." Qin Zheng said: "The number of purchases by the internal servant found out in Chizhou is far lower than the record in the account book, but in the list that Ji Qingzhou asked someone to check, But it's almost the same as the account book. So much extra...where did it come from?"

Li Zhan didn't make a sound when he heard the words, but his eyes fell on the red circles, his expression was unpredictable.

In the small courtyard, Ji Qingzhou brought a food box in. Tu Dayou had already planned to rest, and was very happy when he saw him come.

"Finally, the prince's errand has been done, and I came here to thank you." Ji Qingzhou smiled.

Tu Dayou hurriedly dragged him into the house, opened the food box and saw that there was wine in it, and couldn't help being stunned.

"You have... body, don't drink alcohol." Tu Dayou said.

"It's okay, if there is no tomorrow today, one more drink is one." Ji Qingzhou poured wine for the two with a smile on his face.

Tu Da's complexion changed slightly, and he reached out and pressed the wine glass in Ji Qingzhou's hand.

"What's wrong?" Ji Qingzhou looked at him and asked.

"Qingzhou..." Tu Dayou suppressed his smile and said, "You don't need to drink the wine, you... see it?"

Ji Qingzhou put down the wine glass in his hand, laughed and said: "It's too obvious, not only I can see it, but everyone can see it."

In the past three days, they have checked the warehouses of [-] divisions of the Internal Service Department, and most of them have large discrepancies between the inventory and the account books. Only four of them seem to be in good condition, and these four happen to be big and influential people. counted.

"You can see it because you know what I have done. How can others see it without evidence?" Tu Dayou said.

"My lord sent me to investigate this matter. How could I only have account books and lists in my hands?" Ji Qingzhou said, "I told you earlier that the lord's methods are far more sophisticated than you imagined. Since he decided to investigate the internal servant, It is only when he has a full handle that he will act... Do you guess what the handle is in his hand?"

Tudayou's expression changed when he heard the words, and he asked, "What is it?"

"The list of items supplied by the court servant outside the palace." Ji Qingzhou said.

In other words, both buyers and sellers have two copies of data. Li Zhan has already taken the seller's list and verified the buyer's inventory just to collect evidence.But Tu Dayou did something wrong in this link, and the result was that the buyer's data exceeded the seller's data. As long as Li Zhan is not blind, he can easily see the problem here.

"How is it possible?" Tu Dayou said, "He has no one in the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple. Who has the ability to help him find out so clearly?"

"How do you know he's nobody in Dali Temple?" Ji Qingzhou said.

Tu Dayou was startled when he heard the words, and asked, "Is it Chizhou?"

"Yes..." Ji Qingzhou said: "When the prince gave me the list, I guessed that he only gave half of it."

Tu Dayou finally understood, and asked, "Is he trying to test you?"

"It's not important. If it were me, I would have concealed something." Ji Qingzhou said: "Otherwise, I wouldn't have given you the opportunity to do such tricks for your master."

Tu Dayou's face was very ugly, and he was speechless after looking at Ji Qingzhou for a long time.

Ji Qingzhou took up the glass of wine and drank it down, with a somewhat sad expression on his face.

"What are you going to do?" Tu Dayou asked.

"I choose the person, and I will take care of the problem." Ji Qingzhou said: "Brother Dayou, don't worry, I won't let you have trouble."

Tu Dayou was completely confused, and said blankly: "Qing Zhou, I don't understand what you mean by that?"

"When I was looking for you three days ago, I thought about today." Ji Qingzhou said: "I have advised you before, don't continue to work for the person behind you...Although you promised me, I know you don't Didn't pull away."

Tu Dayou said: "So you take this opportunity to test me?"

"I don't want you to die, the prince has already started to do it, once things involve you, it will be too late." Ji Qingzhou said: "I don't know what your reasons are, but I don't think it is more important than your life. "

Tu Dayou said dejectedly: "He promised me that he would find a way to send you out of the palace, so that you don't have to kill the child and give birth to him."

"Why are you obsessed with this child's life and death?" Ji Qingzhou said angrily, "I said, I won't keep him."

"But he is also the blood of the Ji family... I can't bear it." Tu Dayou said.

Ji Qingzhou was almost pissed off by him, poured another glass of wine for himself and drank it all, and said: "I have given the list to the prince, he already knows that someone has tampered with it."

"You..." Tuda's complexion changed, but he soon realized that he had done something wrong in the final analysis, swallowed back the words he was about to question, and said, "I'll go and ask the prince myself, and I won't implicate you. "

Ji Qingzhou smiled, and said: "I said, I did this to keep you alive. If today's matter is successful, you will follow me to serve the prince in the future. If you lose, the two of us... ...together with the blood of the Ji family in my belly, let's go on the road together."

Ji Qingzhou had always kept the matter of Tu Dayou in his heart before, and always wanted to find some chance to have a complete showdown with him, otherwise Tu Dayou would only get deeper and deeper.He is Ji Qingzhou's closest person in this palace, and Ji Qingzhou can't sit idly by.

So he hesitated for a long time that day, but decided not to let go of this rare opportunity.

He wanted to gamble once, and if he made the right bet, Tu Da's heart trouble would be relieved...

"Qingzhou..." Tu Da grabbed him tightly and asked, "Do you really have another way?"

"There is no way, I just dare to bet a little luck." Ji Qingzhou said.

"What's the bet?" Tu Dayou asked.

"The gambling prince won't kill us." Ji Qingzhou said.

Yinghui Pavilion.

Li Zhan put down the list, without the slightest hint of annoyance at being betrayed.

"Where's Ji Qingzhou?" Li Zhan asked lightly.

Qin Zheng said angrily, "Most likely he ran away."

As soon as he finished speaking, a servant came to report that Ji Qingzhou and Tu Dayou were seeking to see him outside the hall.

"How dare he come back?" Qin Zheng's expression was very surprised.

However, Li Zhan seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Qin Zheng caught a glimpse of the smile on the corner of his mouth, and asked a little brokenly: "At this time, can you still laugh?"

"Are you crying if you don't laugh?" Li Zhan glanced at Qin Zheng, seemingly in a good mood, and asked, "Do you want to make a bet?"

"I never won a bet with you." Qin Zheng said angrily, but still couldn't stand the temptation, and asked, "What bet?"

"Gamble for a while when Ji Qingzhou's sophistry is over, what will your reaction be?" Li Zhan said.

When Li Zhan said this, his tone was very relaxed, and he didn't look like he had just been betrayed at all, and he even had a bit of joy.

Qin Zheng: ...

I'm afraid this person has gone mad with anger and lost his mind!

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