Chapter 688: Official collapse

Mr. Zhou was stunned for a moment and thought to himself, is the King of Pingxi coming to find Lord Yang? Why did he hear that Lord Yang is not here but seems to have picked up gold ingots?

However, in front of Shen Ao, he did not dare to neglect at all and said carefully: "Secretary Zhou Che."

Chen Aoru saw a friend he had not met for many years and held his hand and said, "Brother Zhou is old, so I should call him brother. Although you don't know each other, when I see you, I feel close to you. Oh, I'm talking far away." He held bacon in one hand and held Zhou Che with the other hand. Zhou Che was so embarrassed that he coughed, but he didn't dare to say anything. Chen Aoru continued, "I came here this time and I have something to ask for."

Chen Ao smiled and showed his attentiveness for nothing. The fox's tail was very fast. Then he said, "Brother Zhou, I have been studying recently and suddenly have a little interest in the congratulations. You have many congratulations in your Ministry of Rites, right? Why not pick a few of them and give me some advice to you. Haha, only when you learn from each other can you make room for improvement. It is also a good thing for scholars to borrow articles, right?" He suddenly said, "Brother Zhou must not think that I have any bad intentions. I am upright and sit upright. Brother Zhou must know that I have borrowed this congratulations and will ask someone to return them tomorrow. Is this congratulations in my family? Do you want some congratulations in your Ministry of Rites?"

Zhou Che wanted to speak, but Chen Ao was afraid that he would not agree, so he immediately turned his mind: "I have always been kind to others, and Brother Zhou must have heard of it, but if scholars borrow articles, if Brother Zhou doesn't give it to me, I will be angry." His face changed as soon as he said: "I am angry, even I am afraid of myself. Sometimes I am unconscious and cannot even control what I have done. Haha, looking at Brother Zhou's appearance, I must have agreed. Alas, I said that they are all scholars and are both subordinates of saints. Besides, my father-in-law Qiguo Gong, may not be sure to be a family with Brother Zhou five hundred years ago..."

Zhou Che was stunned. Seeing what he meant, he would turn his back on the spot if he didn't. He glanced at the ear room and said with a thorn in his mouth, "Your Majesty, please wait for the King of Pingxi, I'll let a clerk go to the warehouse to see it."

There was a congratulations. King Pingxi reached out to ask. He didn't have the courage to refuse to give them, but he just wanted to immediately take a few old congratulations and send him off, regardless of what he wanted to do.

Chen Ao said happily: "Brother Zhou is indeed in trouble. I don't tell him to suffer any losses. These two pieces of bacon are pickled inside. I don't know how much effort it has been spent. Just treat it as giving it to me to replenish my body."

Then without saying anything, Chen Ao stuffed the two stinky bacon into Zhou Che's hand. Zhou Che was an official at least, how could he get drunk? He was far away from the kitchen and could not stand this thing. He immediately blocked it with his hands and said, "Your Majesty, you will be spared. It's just a little effort. If the lower official accepts this, wouldn't it mean that the lower official has become corrupt of the prince's bacon? This matter for the prince is just a trivial matter, and this thing is definitely not acceptable."

"So that's it." Chen Ao's face showed a hint of regret, as if it was regretful that the thing was not delivered. He hesitated: "But I came over with it. If I propose it again, it would not look good in terms of appearance. It would be better to do this. Brother Zhou has a clear and honest look. It would be better to just help me and buy the bacon, so as not to let me take it back. The weather is hot, I am afraid that it will smell bad if I take it back."

Zhou Che wanted to immediately scent the stench under his nose, and said in his heart that it had been smelling for a long time, and God knew where it was harvested. He had to say, "As the prince said this, the official had to buy the bacon, but he didn't know how much the bacon was worth?"

Chen Ao said generously: "Just give me a piece of paper or two. Can I kill you? Besides, I have never bought bacon, so I don't know what the value is."

When Zhou Che heard Chen Ao's tone, it seemed that it was a great kindness to sell him one or two in a quota. He did not dare to accept the favor of King Pingxi, and immediately said seriously: "Prince, you dare not ask for one or two in a quota. The prince must report a rough amount to avoid outsiders saying that the official takes advantage of the prince."

Chen Ao was very surprised. Who are these people? The people of the Ministry of Rites are indeed nerds. So he scratched his head and said honestly: "Since Brother Zhou said that, I will tell the truth. This meat is the best pork meat, and it was pickled by Neizi himself. It is salt and wine used. It is all tributes from the palace. One pound is about a hundred guan, and two guan is only 200 guan."

Two hundred jins, but still two pounds of stinky meat. Zhou Che did not fall from the chair at once. Seeing Chen Ao’s honest look, he pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, “The emperor didn’t bring the money, so the prince still…”

"It's okay!" Chen Ao smiled honestly and said, "I can't believe Brother Zhou? Take this meat first, when will I remember it, and then return the money to my palace. If Brother Zhou is really sorry, at most, I can write a piece of money. Of course, my relationship cannot be calculated based on the profits of the gambling house, and it will be settled according to the market, with a three-point profit every day, and you won't be able to roll around."

Zhou Che was stunned.

Unexpectedly, Chen Ao immediately took paper and pen from Yang Zhen’s desk just now, put it on the small table next to Zhou Che, and said seriously: “Brother Zhou is here, let me see Brother Zhou’s running script.”

Zhou Che wrote a note in a daze according to Chen Ao's words. Before his mind turned around, he heard Chen Ao shout: "The pen is like a dragon and a snake, and Brother Zhou has a great pen power."

After receiving the loan note, the clerk also took a few congratulatory forms. Chen Ao took the congratulatory form and said goodbye: "When Brother Zhou comes home, you must instruct the chef to add more ginger to remove the fishy smell. I have said goodbye, haha, I will talk to Brother Zhou next time. It would be great to meet a congratulatory person like Brother Zhou today." He said it was so happy, and he left even more happily. He hugged the congratulatory form and disappeared.

Zhou Che stayed still and hadn't recovered. He saw the bacon on the table and was really amused and crying. If this thing was brought back, he would have to be scolded to death by the mother Yasha at home.

It was at this time that Yang Zhen brought a few chief clerks out in the ear room. Everyone looked at each other, their eyes falling on the bacon, and they all stinked the stench under the tip of their noses.

Yang Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Zhou's Day is mourning to change!"

Several chief clerks also said blankly: "Just think it's because the family has lost fire or lost stolen money, just think about it."

Zhou Che shook his head laughed and cried, and said nothing. He carried the stinky bacon, and felt a pity when he threw it away. When he walked to the hall, he happened to bump into a clerk and said to him with a smile: "Do you want the bacon from the King of Pingxi? I ​​lost it and sold it to you."

The clerk was so scared that his face was pale and dull. Then he knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, "Master Zhou, please spare me, the villain has old people and young people, and the whole family has to eat the northwest wind."

Hey! Zhou Che was shocked and suspicious; he thought: Why can’t I think of this method just now?

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Chen Ao received the congratulations and loan notes and did not go home. He directly found the nearby branch of Suiya Tea House, called a wing room, and took a few congratulations and excerpted them directly. It was indeed an extraordinary speed. He wrote it in one stick of incense. He left the tea house and went straight to the palace.

This time no one stopped him. He first handed over the congratulations. After a while, he was allowed to meet him.

Chen Ao stepped into Wenjing Pavilion, and Zhao Ji smiled faintly. Chen Ao was too familiar with this smile. Once Zhao Ji succeeded in some kind of trick, this would be like this.

"Come on, sit down and talk." Zhao Ji was obviously not in a hurry to talk about peace, but just said, "What's going on Fujian Road?"

Chen Ao said the content of his interrogation accordingly and finally said: "Your Majesty, the Cai family bullies the people and complains. Please punish him."

Zhao Ji gritted his teeth and said coldly: "Since I am deceiving the king, I will not tolerate it." A cold look flashed in his eyes: "Search the house and let Dali Temple go to Fujian Road. If you should be asked for the death, you should be exiled, you should be exiled, and you should be exiled. There is no need to move in Bianjing."

Chen Aohe nodded, knowing that Cai Jing had finished his mind. If this decree continues, at least a group of Cai family on the other side of Fujian Road will die. Once Zhao Ji issues this decree, Cai Jing will have the ability to be in heaven, and there is no possibility of recovery. There has never been a emperor in the world who can rest assured to recover a minister after the house is confiscated.

Chen Ao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The matter of the Cai family finally settled. It took him three or four months to finally see the dawn of victory. What he thought most at this time was to take a good rest.

Zhao Ji suddenly said seriously: "The King of Xixia's Political Consultative Affairs sent a letter to congratulate him." He deliberately clicked on the congratulations on the imperial case, and continued: "I am so relieved that I am sending the order. Xixia Kingdom took the lead in congratulating him, giving him five hundred gold and a thousand pieces of silk."

Chen Ao was too lazy to care about this with him. Although he knew what Zhao Ji was thinking, in his opinion, the palm of his hand was flesh and the back of his hand was flesh. Zhao Ji and Li Ganshun were intrigue and asked them to fight for it. At that time, these rewards were sent to Xixia. With Li Ganshun's shrewdness, I don't know what measures would be taken.

Chen Ao said: "Your Majesty, I want to go to the harem to see peace."

Zhao Ji nodded: "Go, I'll give you my goodbye to the Queen Mother. Wait a minute, I'll issue an order first and take you there."

Zhao Ji nodded to Yang Jian, and most of the time he asked Yang Jian to pass on news to his subordinates and implement his orders.

Yang Jian nodded like a chicken pecking at the rice, then smiled and said, "This is what a slave." He looked at Zhao Ji, and the two of them were probably thinking about something ulterior motives.

Chen Ao saw it, ignored anything, and went to the harem with Zhao Ji excitedly, only to find that King Jin was there. King Jin pulled Chen Ao aside sourly: "What are you going to do about Ziheng?"

Chen Ao said: "The King of Jin will do whatever he wants!"

Zhao Zong continued to say sourly: "An Ning has to give birth to a child. In the future, my Ziheng will give birth to a child..." After that, he shook his head and looked at the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager looked at Zhao Zong inadvertently, which was full of profound meaning.
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