The carriage rolled back to the Hou Mansion.

Ping'anhou's Mansion is located on Suiping Street, and the surrounding area is not very prosperous, but the advantage is that the land is precious, and it is not easy for ordinary people to come here.This garden was originally reserved by the late emperor for a certain prince to use as the palace, but Xie Yan snatched it first.

Xie Yan felt sleepy when he was full, and now he was leaning on Ah Yan and fell asleep.

Two old year's horn lamps were lit in front of the mansion, the gate of the mansion was opened a crack, and a young girl was sitting on the threshold.Seeing the sound of a wheel from a distance, she rubbed her hands together and hurriedly stood up to meet her.

Ah Yan jumped down and pulled out the horse stool, and she asked impatiently: "Housekeeper Xiaoyan! Why did you come back this evening? If I don't come back again, I plan to call some strong men and go to the Prince Regent's mansion to ask for someone!"

"Something went wrong." Ah Yan was evasive, putting Xie Yan's arm on his shoulder, "Isn't this back?"

"Aquarius, keep your voice down, the young master is sleepy."

Bao Ping snorted, raised his hand and moved Xie Yan onto his body, bent down, and picked him up with one hand: "What could have gone wrong... Could it be that the regent didn't go?! Is Sui Lu coming soon? "

Although I have seen it many times, Ah Yan was still shocked by the strength of Aquarius. She is such a tall girl, stronger than a butcher who kills pigs, and has a quick temper. I don’t know who will dare marry.

He didn't want to get involved with Sui Lu, but Bao Ping kept asking him.

Ah Yan was very depressed, he took out the silver from his sleeve and slapped it in her hand: "Nong!"

Aquarius looked at the two pieces of silver: "What is this, a reward from the regent?"

Thinking of the regent, Ah Yan couldn't help but get angry: "Oh, no way, this is the yearly salary that our master is going to come."

"..." Aquarius was confused, "What do you mean?"

Ah Yan told her everything that happened at the Lantern Festival Imperial Banquet, and finally took out the expensive bird cage from the car.Bao Ping was stunned for a while, and it took him a long time to regain his senses, and shouted: "This, ten taels! What is enough?!"

Ah Yan was taken aback. He glanced at Xie Yan who was lying on the back of the vase and whimpered twice, and said in a low voice, "Be quiet! You are arguing, young master."

Bao Ping closed his mouth sullenly, and after a while, he muttered again: "These ten taels are not enough to buy medicine for the master..."

"Besides, it's so cold this year, and you're not willing to change the charcoal for the master. The silver thread charcoal is good, and you don't know how expensive it is. All the pieces are burned with silver!"

"Oh, and this bird. People have to eat cold food. How can they care about birds? There is no one in our house who knows how to raise birds. It is a strange bird from the sea. If it is really raised to death, the regent really wants to die. Let the master pay for the life of a beast?!"

"..."

Ah Yan was already troubled, but hearing her keep talking about the predicament of the family, her brows became bald with worry: "Okay, stop talking! The regent didn't allow me to speak, so I asked the young master to say, what's the matter?" What can the young master understand? He can tell the number of twelve is already very good... At this time last year, the young master could only count to five."

The two were silent for a while.

Okay, ten taels is better than five taels.

Bao Ping knew that it was not easy for Ah Yan to be a housekeeper in the past few years, he was not very old, and the young master always treated him as half a younger brother.

Once the young master fell down, home was not home, and Ah Yan didn't understand anything, but was forced to stand up, and it was only by stumbling that he could maintain this status quo.

Bao Ping sighed, carried Xie Yan on the bed, and asked: "Then tonight's medicine is still boiled? I see the master sleeps so deeply, I may not be willing to get up to drink later, and then I will lose my temper It has to be sprinkled everywhere again. The medicine is precious, but after drinking it for so long, it doesn't seem to have any effect, or else don't..."

In fact, Aquarius has always felt that housekeeper Xiaoyan was cheated by a quack doctor.

How can there be any medicine to refresh the brain and open the mind to try Bailing? If there is, those who have not improved for many years will take a few doses, wouldn't everyone be able to be admitted to the number one scholar?

Xie Yan turned over and curled himself up, as if he was a little cold.

Ah Yan pulled the quilt up, tucked it in, and stretched out his hand to test the temperature on Xie Yan's forehead. Fortunately, it didn't burn.He gritted his teeth: "Fry it, bring it over when it's fried, and I'll feed it."

Aquarius couldn't say anything, so he turned around and picked up the bird from the outside of the house, lifted the covering and looked at it. The two birds huddled together, and asked again: "Where is the bird? Look at it trembling, Are you intolerable to the cold?"

"...a bird from the sea from the south." Ah Yan was depressed, "Let's put it in the son's house, what can I do?"

In order to save money, Xie Yan had to burn enough silver charcoal in his bedroom and put it somewhere else, maybe he would freeze to death early tomorrow morning.

When the bird froze to death, Xie Yan had to be a canary for the regent.

Thinking of this, Ah Yan was so angry that his teeth hurt, and he looked at the ten taels of silver with even more ferocious eyes, wishing to tear up these two pieces of silver as Pei Jun and eat them!

But the silver is silver after all, and it can't be really lost. Ah Yan's eyes were red with anger, and he said angrily: "I've never seen such a small-hearted man. Fortunately, the son was so close to him before, but he, he... ...He bullies the young master and is ignorant!"

……

"Did he say that?"

Pei Jun had already bathed, and his plain pajamas were tied up to his waist, revealing a line of vigorous chest, with a cloak over his shoulders, and he was leaning against the bedside to read books.

Ji Shuxian winked at the Yanlingwei spy who followed secretly.

But the spies didn't dare to look up in front of the regent, so they didn't see it at all.He thought about the regent's tone, and he sounded very displeased, so he nodded solemnly: "The little butler later said that when the regent fell into his hands, he would pluck all the hair on the top of the regent's head." Now, I will weave jade tapes for Ping'anhou, and ask Ping'anhou to kick you with one step, and kick you with two steps—"

"..."

Pei Jun's subordinate remarked: "Yes, good words, you are very good."

The folder in his hand cracked into two pieces, and the spy who was kneeling on the ground trembled and fell to his knees, as if the one that cracked was his own neck.

Pei Jun smiled: "Is there any more?"

This laugh was so frightening that the spy almost knelt into a ball, swallowed, and continued in a low voice: "This subordinate walked around the Ping'an Hou's mansion, and it was like entering a land without a ghost. .Most of the garden is in the dark, and the eaves are covered with weeds and leaks. The subordinates have a hole in their feet, and a hole in each foot. They almost planted from the roof..."

Pei Jun looked at him with a sullen face, wondering if this spy could be General Yang Wu's hidden stake, otherwise why would he be as noisy as him?

"Apart from the little butler, there are only four servants in the house, a tall and strong girl, an old nanny and her husband who are over fifty years old, and a deaf servant." He took out something, "My subordinate turned around, but didn't see any hidden doors, but I flipped through two books, which may be evidence of a plot to bribe in peace! Have you looked it over?"

The regent looked serious when he ordered him. Yan Lingwei had been with him for many years, and they were all good people, so he thought it was another time to ask him to search for evidence of treason and bribery in the Marquis of Ping'an's mansion.

It doesn't matter if you check this, it's really checked!

This account book is hidden in a very tight place, and there are other sundries on it as a cover, so it must not be a good thing.The spies were afraid that people would find out, so they glanced at the cover and immediately picked it up.

The regent hates forming cliques for personal gain the most. He beheaded an unknown number of people during the purges two years ago, but this time he hit the knife's edge.

Pei Jun took the account book and flipped through a few pages, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Pei Jun had never shown such an expression when the corrupt minister of the household department who shocked the government and the public was sacked the year before last.Seeing his expression like this, the spies couldn't help but feel secretly happy, even after being promoted and promoted, what kind of daughter-in-law would he marry--

Pei Jun repeated it coldly: "It turns out to be evidence of Marquis Ping An's conspiracy to bribe."

The spy was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't want to understand, "Snap!" The account book came towards him and hit him in the face.

The spy pulled the account book from his face and opened it for a look.

"On the sixth day of March, I bought [-] eggs and spent [-] Wen. Why are eggs so expensive this year?"

"...This, this must be a cover-up!" The spy flipped back, "This subordinate heard with his own ears that little butler uttered wild words to the regent, and felt disrespectful in his heart. The real account will be settled later!"

"May [-]st, which bastard who kills thousands of knives even steals the ginseng beard from the son's medicine? Don't let me catch him, or he will smash his head!"

Spy: "..."

"On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the cabbage in Tianshui Lane is [-] cents cheaper than the one in Dongshi. Wuwu buddy is really a good guy, and he helped us carry it back."

The spy slowly closed the booklet in his hand, and after a moment of silence, he finally realized that he had taken it by mistake. This was Ben Rice Noodle Roudan's diary book.No, whose diary is so well hidden!

With a bang, he knocked at the regent's feet: "Subordinate, this subordinate is ineffective!"

"What's the use of you?" Pei Jun bent his knees on the couch, propped his arms, and seemed to be talking to himself, "He's old, weak, sick..."

Ji Shuxian's ears were sharp, and he heard it, and said, "Yes, how can these old, weak, sick and disabled in Ping An Hou form a clique for personal gain?" He kicked the spies, "What else did you see? How does Ping An Hou go back? of?"

The spy no longer knew what he wanted to hear, so he said with a blank face: "I'm going back safely... I fell asleep all the time, maybe I caught the wind and coughed a little. The housekeeper and the girl kept coming in and out. The subordinates After waiting on the roof for an hour, they didn't stop, and then the little butler poured medicine into Ping An Hou, but Ping An Hou refused to drink it, and vomited all over the butler, and the whole room was noisy..."

After he finished speaking, seeing that the regent was still frowning, he felt terrified, and asked cautiously: "Maybe I missed something, or should I go back and take a look?"

Pei Jun didn't answer, picked up another booklet, read it for a while, and put it on a wooden tray on the right.

Ji Shuxian's eyes jumped. Putting it in the tray means... this person is useless, and he will be disposed of in a few days.But this person, the regent used it smoothly two days ago, and I don't know where he committed a taboo.Ji Shuxian has been with Pei Jun for many years, he is his confidant, and he is often not sure what he is thinking, especially tonight.

He only hoped that his name would never appear on this plate.

The spy kneeled sorely, and asked softly, "...Your Highness?"

"I want to go back and have a look..." Pei Jun was in a daze for a while, then whispered.The spy was about to leave when he got the order, but Pei Jun stopped him abruptly, "Bring his prescription to Gu."

"Medicine, prescription?" The spy was at a loss.

Pei Jun rubbed the center of his brows, the spies didn't dare to ask further questions, and left inexplicably.

Ji Shuxian collected the miscellaneous notebooks spread out on the couch, and carefully asked: "Does Your Highness still want to wait in peace...Are you pretending to be stupid?"

Pei Jun really didn't believe it, even the royal family and nobles who were originally close to Xie Yan rumored that he had burned out his brain, Pei Jun also felt that there was a fraud in it.

That's Xie Yan, such a person with exquisite seven orifices, a person who can count seventeen or eight moves down after a move made by someone else, who can turn around like an old emperor, will die because of a simple fall into the water... ...crazy?

More than a month before the palace examination, the first emperor had already shown signs of illness, but the East Palace was empty, and the princes were not much different in age, and they were all competing secretly.

Pei Jun was born in the northern region, and his mother and concubine were the sons of a good family who were favored by the emperor during his conquest. Later, she became pregnant, but the fetus was unstable at first, and she missed a few times, so she stayed in the palace to recuperate.

That imperial conquest cost a lot of money, but the fight was not glorious, but no one could say that the emperor was not good enough, and some people said that it was because a woman appeared in the army, pregnant and bleeding, which was unlucky.

Later, when the emperor returned to the court, she was pregnant with Liujia, so it was not easy to travel around.All the officials said that the court cannot be without a king for a day, so the emperor left behind a few imperial doctors, a group of eunuchs to serve the maids, and went back.

Pei Jun was born in the palace like this, and was taken back to Yu Jing when he was almost three years old.

Although the mother and concubine returned to the palace, she was depressed all the time. In addition, she fell ill in the northern border during childbirth, and died of illness within a few years.

Therefore, Pei Jun has no close feelings towards the emperor or Yu Jing.It doesn't matter to Pei Jun who will be the emperor in the future, anyway, this seat is not the turn of the most unfavored Pei Jun.So he asked for an order early on to return to the northern border, go to his mother's hometown, leave the center of Yujing, and not get involved in their affairs.

The emperor didn't know if he was afraid that others would say that he favored one person over another, so he kept holding back until he was amused by Xie Yan's colorful essay on the day of the palace examination, and when he was happy at night, he approved Pei Jun's invitation.

In this way, he was able to escape smoothly, thanks to Xie Yan.

After the palace examination, there was an upsurge of various forces vying for new Jinshi, and the situation in Beijing was even more treacherous.At that time, rumors came from unknown sources, saying that the Nanye royal family was not dead, and those who survived by chance were plotting to restore the country.

Xie Yan was very close to the several princes, and just after the Tanhua was picked, such rumors spread.Even though the first emperor didn't believe it, it was inevitable that he would feel a little nervous in his heart.

As soon as Pei Jun thought about it, he knew that someone was deliberately mixing things up, insisting on bringing in the very sensitive and embarrassing identity of "the grandson of Nanye".

Xie Yan is a rare kind of person who is naturally intelligent. He has a clear mind, sharp eyesight, and is good at making people happy with sweet words. He is much better than those older princes.If Xie Yan was really released back then and returned to Nanye to take the throne, it would be hard to say who would be stronger or weaker between Dayu and Nanye in the future.

So people from several factions wanted to recruit him to join the gang as a counselor, and naturally some people wanted to destroy Xie Yan.

If the young Xie Yan wanted to avoid the vortex of seizing his heir, he pretended to be an idiot by falling into the water and pretending to be sick, so that he could stay behind closed doors.

It's just that in the end, no one expected that after several princes fought back and forth, in the end it was Pei Jun, who no one cared about, who benefited.But now that the late emperor passed away and Vientiane was renewed, Xie Yan didn't take the opportunity to regain his sobriety, and was still "pretending to be crazy"—

Is it because he is afraid that he, the regent, will be against him?

When he came to power, if he really wanted to do something to Xie Yan, the first thing he would do would be to throw them, Nan Ye's master and servant, out of the mansion and tell them to go beg for food on the street!Is it their turn to occupy such a good garden? !

Ji Shuxian saw that there was a hint of hostility in his eyebrows, and was afraid that he would not know what was going to happen in the middle of the night, so he said softly: "But didn't the spies see Ping Anhou taking medicine with his own eyes? Someone pretending to be stupid can really take medicine of?"

As far as Ping Anhou's behavior at the banquet today, it is hard to believe that he is playing stupid.

If someone can pretend to be like this, and still not leak any flaws for five years in a row, this scheming is really unfathomable!

Pei Jun: "He...heh!"

With a sarcastic laugh.

"..." Ji Shuxian listened anxiously, what do you mean by that, but you said it.

Pei Jun fell into deep thought again for no reason, his eyes drifted, his expression was half-believing, obviously he still had some concerns.

The regent was decisive, and he never hesitated to cut off the heads of ministers by more than three figures. The little emperor was so scared that he cried every day. Now, a mere peace minister with no official and no power is worthy of him.

It can be seen that Ping An Hou is here with the Prince Regent, so he probably has no reputation at all.

Ji Shuxian couldn't help being even more curious, what kind of despicable deeds did Ping Anhou do before to force the regent into such a situation? !

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