Several young men who had a good relationship with Xue Pan and often drank together could only use good words to bully him and forced Xue Pan to agree to invite everyone to drink wine, and then gave up.

But Xue Pan didn't care about the expense of several hundred taels of silver.

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Unknowingly, it came to the third quarter of Hai hour, which was just over half an hour after Ion hour. In order to avoid trouble, it was time for the Deer Ming Banquet to end.

At the end, the 200 candidates served drinks to toast the master and deputy examiners. Some went home directly, while others made an appointment to go to a friend's or their own home to continue having fun.

Shi Zhongkui pulled Xue Pan and sent the chief, deputy examiner and others away with a smile.

Then he said to Jia Lian and Jia Rong, "Thank you very much, Brother Lian and Brother Rong, for coming to celebrate XX today, but it's already late at night. In three to five days, XX will hold a banquet for Brother 2, and Brother Zhen and Brother Rong will come to my home."

Eat wine."

Jia Lian and Jia Rong were very discerning. As soon as they saw Shi Zhongkui holding Xue Pan's hand firmly, they knew that he had something to say to Xue Pan.

He smiled and bowed his hands, and by the way told Xue Pan that he would ask the maid to go to Lixiang Garden to tell Aunt Xue that he would stay at Shi Zhongkui's place tonight.

After everyone left, Xue Pan quickly asked, "Brother, what do you want to explain?"

Shi Zhongkui shook his head, "Let's wait until we get home."

Accompanied by the servants and servants, he finally returned home without any danger, and saw the golden-haired rat nodding to him on the wall of the courtyard, and then pointed at the three people's big house, indicating that it was safe inside. Shi Zhongkui

Only then did I really feel at ease.

When I came to the study, I waited for Shun'er to serve tea and cakes, and then ordered him to lead someone to guard ten meters away from the study, and then I stared at Xue Pan sitting on the chair.

Being stared at, Xue Pan couldn't help but asked eagerly, "Big brother, just say it if you have anything to say, and I ask myself, I haven't been doing anything random lately."

Shi Zhongkui sighed and shook his head, "Let me ask you, is it true that your servant Calmly injured Feng Yuan back then?"

Xue Pan was stunned and wanted to find an excuse to excuse him. After all, he was his brother-in-law in front of him. He knew about the stupid things he did back then and it didn't look good on his face.

Unexpectedly, Shi Zhongkui put the tea bowl on the desk violently, making a "clang" sound, which scared Xue Pan and nodded subconsciously.

"You bastard, you still want to hide it from me at this moment."

Xue Pan hurriedly explained, "No, brother, I asked my servants to beat Feng Yuan. Who knew that he was too inexperienced and passed out after three or five punches?

I was sent home three days later and told that I was dead. I still feel that I was wronged."

"Huh," Shi Zhongkui sneered, "It doesn't matter whether you think you were wronged or not. The problem now is that Jia Yucun has sentenced you to death, and someone is eyeing your family's millions of wealth and intends to find a reason to retry the case.

At that time, you will not be able to escape the crime of being exiled to the army. If Jia Yucun sells you, you can wait until next autumn to be executed."

With a 'pop' sound, Shi Zhongkui never expected that just these few words would make Xue Pan pale in fright, tremble all over and fall to his knees directly.

After a while, Xue Pan finally became more rational and knelt down and prostrated on the ground, "Brother, please save me."

Shi Zhongkui understood immediately after seeing it. It seemed that the three members of the Xue family were in a hurry to go to the capital, and they must have had the intention of being forced to do so.

Moreover, when Xue Pan first came to the capital, he was actually quite honest. It wasn't until he entered the turbulent Jia family that he started to be wild again, even worse than in the past.

But even so, he only dared to fool around with people in the Jia Family School in the past two years.

It wasn't until his uncle Wang Ziteng was promoted from the position of Jiedu Envoy in the Beijing Camp to the Commander-in-Chief of the Nine Provinces, where he was ordered to inspect borders, and then to the Commander-in-Chief of the Nine Provinces, that he became somewhat lawless.

Shi Zhongkui laughed and said, "You don't go to your uncle, but you go to me, a man who can help others, what's the point?"

Seeing Shi Zhongkui smile, Xue Pan felt relieved a little.

He licked his face and said with a smile, "No matter what I say, the eldest brother will get engaged to my sister. From now on, we will not only be a family, but the younger brother can also truly feel the care and guidance of the eldest brother in the past six months."

As for my uncle, to put it bluntly, he just likes my family's properties.

When my father was in the hospital bed, he reminded his younger brother more than once that he should not be too close to the Wang family, but he should not be too far either."

Shi Zhongkui nodded with a frown, and Xue Pan continued, "I didn't understand this back then, but after entering Beijing, the attitude of my uncle's family towards my younger brother made me understand that his family has long looked down on my Xue family.

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"Get up."

Shi Zhongkui picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, and then asked Xue Pan, who was sitting on the chair and wiping sweat with his sleeves, "I heard that you called your cousin Xue Pan. Do you think this person is trustworthy?"

"I can believe it, I definitely can believe it," Xue Pan nodded hurriedly, "Big brother doesn't know something. If it hadn't been for my father, my second uncle wouldn't have had the capital to start a business, and he would have been arranged by my grandmother to guard his ancestor's tomb."

Shi Zhongkui was not surprised by this. The eldest son inherited the family business and took care of foreign affairs. The second son stayed at the family temple and farmed and studied to inherit the family.

Even if the eldest son commits a crime, he can still preserve the property of his ancestors and the bloodline of the Xue family, and there will be no need for anyone to offer sacrifices to his ancestors.

It can be said that it is completely normal for Grandma Xue Pan to think so.

After all, it's not easy to be an imperial merchant. If you're not careful, your whole family may be exiled or the whole family may be executed.

"Since Xue Biao is trustworthy, you can write to him tomorrow morning and ask him to write in the Jinling Xue family tree that your mother gave birth to twins.

The eldest son Xue Pan, the second son Xue Qiu.

And this second son has been in poor health since childhood, and the fortune teller said that although the names of your two brothers are both good, one is Pan and the other is Qiu. When they grow up together, disputes and fights will inevitably arise.

Therefore, the second son Xue Qiu was raised in the ancestral tomb, hoping to rely on the blessings of his ancestors to grow up safely.

Second, he was asked to guard the tomb of his ancestors and fulfill his filial piety for his family. It was not until Xue Pan died unexpectedly of illness the year before last that the second son appeared in front of the world.

And because of the accidental early death of the head of the family and the eldest son of the head of the family, in order to stabilize the Xue family, I had no choice but to change your name to Xue Pan, do you understand?"

"I understand, of course I understand." Xue Pan laughed, "Big brother is thinking of the right thing. Since they are twins who look exactly the same, it makes sense.

Moreover, if a beetle dragon and a horned dragon are together, they will definitely fight."

After saying this, Xue Pan bowed deeply and said, "Thank you for protecting me, brother. I will remember it."

Shi Zhongkui nodded noncommittally, and then said sadly, "Brother Pan still thinks that Jia Hua Jia Yu Village is sincerely helping you?"

Xue Pan immediately scolded him, "Nang Qiu is a cunning villain. My uncle even gave him three thousand taels of silver as a thank you back then. In recent years, I have received constant gifts during the New Year.
Chapter completed!