Chapter 336: If I had known this, why should I be there?

After saying a few words to Zhou Pin, Qin Lei took out a paper bag from his sleeve and gently placed it on the table and said, "My aunt is different now. I don't know how many more palace servants I serve, and it's not enough to rely on that little monthly money alone." As he said that, he stood up and dusted the corners of his clothes and said, "Save this little money to serve his servants." Zhou Pin pushed him a few times, but when he saw Qin Lei's firm attitude, he had to thank him and accept it.

He went into the inner room and looked at it. Wen Yan comforted Qin Zhan for a few words. He teased his younger brother a few times. Qin Lei said goodbye to Zhou Concubine and left the inner palace.

As soon as he left Chengtian Gate, the black guards surrounded him and protected him to his carriage. Qin Lei saw Shi Gan, who had not returned for a night, also appeared in the team, and couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Can you go and have a good relationship? Why didn't you see anyone overnight?"

Shi Gan said with shame: "I have a humiliating mission, please punish me." As he said that, he knelt down on one knee, holding a thorn whip in both hands.

Qin Lei laughed and said, "This guy has a water in his head." He kicked him gently and whispered, "Get on the car before talking." After that, he got on the car first.

The black-clothed guards next to him didn't dare to laugh at the captain, so they had to pretend that they didn't see them and returned to their posts. Almost in the blink of an eye, Shi Gan, who was kneeling on the ground with a whip on the ground, looked quite funny.

‘I can’t understand other people’s mood at all.’ He muttered in his heart, and Shi Gan had to get up reluctantly, and caught up with the team in three steps at a time, and also got on the king’s car.

Qin Lei was drinking his breasts in small sips. When he saw him coming in, he asked softly: "Have you seen Qin Shouzhuo? He gave you ugly?"

Shi Gan nodded in shame and waited for a night before seeing Qin Shouzhuo, but was humiliated by him. He knew the original story with Qin Lei. As he told him, Qin Lei's face became increasingly ugly. When he heard Qin Shouzhuo chased Shi Dan and left, he finally couldn't help but have an attack.

With a "bang", he suddenly threw the porcelain bowl in his hand towards the corner of the wall. With the crisp sound of porcelain breaking, the milky white juice soaked half of the wall of the car. The smell of milk and wine mixed together suddenly filled the entire carriage.

The car door was opened with a loud noise, and the black guards looked inward with a nervous look on their faces. Shi Gan turned around and whispered: "It's okay." After that, he closed the car door again and looked carefully at the angry prince.

Throwing a porcelain bowl is not enough to relieve Qin Lei's hatred. He swept all the pens and inkstones on the table to the ground, then hit the table twice, then leaned back on the back of the chair, and cursed angrily: "This dog Qin Shouzhuo! Is it so fucked to live?" But it was exactly the same as his scolding.

After a little calmed down, Qin Lei wanted to hold his arms and close his eyes to adjust, but felt his chest was hard. He reached out and took out the imperial edict, threw it on the ground without looking at it, and stepped on it again. Then he hummed, "Go and settle the score with that bastard!"

Seeing Qin Lei's reaction, Shi Gan couldn't help but wonder: 'Why is the prince so angry?' But at this time the prince was angry. Even if he had 100,000 whys in his heart, he had to hold it in his mind. After tidying up his mind, he quickly opened the front window and whispered: "Go to the Kyoto Government Office."

The carriage drove slowly, and the smell in the carriage became stronger and stronger. Seeing that the prince frowned slightly, Shi Gan opened a crack in the side window. The cold wind blew in, Qin Lei couldn't help but shiver, and his porridge-like mind finally calmed down.

These days have been really bad, and things have been pressed against his chest one by one, making him breathless. After venting just now, he felt relieved all over. He laughed and said, "I'm so upset, let's solve it one by one." As he said that, he grinned at Shi Gan and said, "Actually, I'm quite gentle and don't get angry."

Shi Gan forced a smile and nodded quickly, "The prince is approachable, calm, and almost never gets angry." But he added in his heart: "I just like to blow my beard and stare at me."

Qin Lei was in a state of peace, and his mind finally began to turn around. He bent down and picked up the trampled and defiled imperial edict, looked at the footprints and milk stains on it, and couldn't help but laugh: "If I use this to pass the edict, what would Qin Shouzhuo think?" Shi Gan shook his head and said he didn't know.

Despised this guy who lacked a sense of humor, Qin Lei sneered: "He will be scared to death." After saying that, he stopped talking.

When the sun was far west, the team arrived at Tongsuo Street where the Kyoto Prefecture was located, but did not stop in front of the prefecture, but turned to Siheju opposite.

Although it was a year later, how could the fat boss of Siheju forget a noble man like Qin Lei? He smiled like a chrysanthemum, nodded and bowed, and invited him to the private room upstairs, and ran up and down to serve tea and water.

Looking at the private room I had been in last year with some emotion, Qin Lei asked with a smile: "Is the boss' business good last year?"

The fat boss laughed and said, "Hongfu, who is entrusted with the noble man, is quite acceptable."

Qin Lei took the fragrant tea he presented, smiled faintly, "This year is a good time."

The fat boss nodded deeply and said, "The noble man said it well at all. The villain went out of the city to visit relatives a few days ago. He saw that there were many dead refugees on the side of the road. Compared with them, what else do I have to worry about?"

Qin Lei pointed to the seat at the head and said warmly: "Sit down and let's talk." The fat boss quickly thanked him, and then sat down next to the chair, but his expression was very cramped.

"Don't worry, I'm not an official, just chat." Qin Lei comforted her with a smile. The fat boss smiled and said with difficulty: "The villain has never seen any market, please forgive me."

"What do you think of those refugees who are blocked outside the city?" Qin Lei asked softly after the fat boss's nervousness passed.

"Well..." The fat boss thought for a long time before he said carefully: "I think they are too pitiful. It's no wonder that life is worse than death."

Qin Leidao nodded and asked again: "Would you like the people in your city to let those refugees go to the city to ask for food?" He asked this, but he said in his heart that he probably wouldn't.

But the fat boss smiled and said, "What are you unwilling to do? When they were not around, the people in our capital felt that something was missing."

Qin Lei asked strangely: "Aren't you afraid that they will steal your job?"

The fat boss smiled and said, "The nobles don't know that our capital is different from other places. The large families alone have more populations than ordinary capitals. As for various work and livelihoods, there are even more. As long as you put in your efforts, anyone can eat."

He was embarrassed to laugh and said, "There are still some things that locals are not willing to do, such as digging up manure and carrying corpses." He didn't say anything about it, that is, Zhongdu's food, rice, oil and salt are much cheaper than other places. The same amount of money can be used in Zhongdu, but not in other places. As for deeper issues such as land and land tax, one cannot expect a store owner to analyze it.

After thinking for a while, Qin Lei took a sip of tea and laughed at himself: "I haven't seen the world before."

The fat boss quickly flattered: "The nobles care about national affairs, how can they worry about the trivial things in the city and villages?"

Qin Lei laughed and said, "I'm really good at speaking, boss, can I buy this third floor for a month?"

The store owner immediately smiled and said, "That's great, you always want to pack it for as long as you want." The cost of this pack is higher than the average income of six or seven days. Qin Lei packs a month at a time, which can even match his half-year harvest, so he can't help but be unhappy.

At this time, Shen Bing came up from downstairs and handed a color to Qin Lei. Qin Lei nodded understandingly and said to the fat boss: "You go and do it first, I have a customer here."

The fat boss smiled and said, "If you have something to do, you can talk." Then he nodded and bowed.

When the boss stepped down, Shen Bing approached Qin Lei and bowed and said softly: "Prince, Qin Shouzhuo did not return to the Kyoto Prefecture after leaving Sangong Street."

"Oh? Where did he go?" Qin Lei asked softly.

Shen Bing said incrediblely: "Qinghe Garden."

In the past, Qin Shouzhuo once claimed to be the "three barrel officials" of "the sound tube, the punching tube, the water bucket". Naturally, he experienced many moments of heart-warming and bitterness in his mouth, and was even more unhappy than a widow, but he never had a banquet that was as uncomfortable as noon this year.

Originally, he told himself: Since he came, he would be at ease. Anyway, he had offended the one in the palace. He couldn't even disobey the one in front of him, right? But his heart was always in a state of turmoil and he couldn't put his butt on the chair. Don't look at him and Wen Mingli's chatting with him with a smile, he actually didn't know what he said, let alone what Wen Mingli said nonsense.

The reason why the Qin Prefecture Prime Minister was so disobedient was very simple - he figured it out at once. To be more precise, from the moment he was about to accept his fate and followed Wen Yanbo to the dark, he finally figured it out.

Although the Wen family is powerful, it is based on the equal confrontation between the two families of Qin and Li. Now that the eldest son of the Li family is killed by the royal family, the two sides are in a state of dying. A battle of the country may occur at any time, and the living soil of the Wen family will naturally disappear at any time. Just like the rootless floating duckweed, although it is green today, maybe one day when it wakes up, it will be blown away by the east wind.

It's ridiculous that he always claims to be extremely smart, but he is like a frog in the well. He has to go to the well platform to know how big the sky is, how wide the earth is, and how ridiculous his ideas are. Even if he gives him another hundred chances, he must not choose a literary master, this boss who will definitely lose.

Thinking about the whole story of the matter clearly, Qin Shouzhuo suddenly felt like a pot of cold water pouring his head, holding ice in his arms, and whine in his heart: "The ancients said that a leaf obstructed his eyes and could not see Mount Tai. I am really not bullying me! In order to make a small profit, I forgot about the honor and disgrace of life for a hundred years, and my vision still needs to be long-term! I am about to die..."

After figuring this joint, he made up his mind that even if he went back and resigned from office, he would not be able to accompany the Wen family to blow up the lantern and remove wax. Naturally, he did not catch a cold with Wen Mingli and Wen Yanbo who finally returned. Even Wen Xiang hinted that he would take over as the Minister of Personnel, he could not be interested in it.

After finishing the Hongmen banquet with wax, Prime Minister Wen pulled him to listen to Duan "Mawei Slope". Listening to the squeaking lyrics on the stage, Qin Shouzhuo sneered in his heart: "This old guy is clearly using the past to mock the present. The foolish emperor refers to Emperor Zhaowu. His Wen family is a loyal minister who forced the palace. As for the Yang Yuhuan who was sentenced to death... he is naturally the fifth prince."

'It's so clear to you! But Qin Yutian, who is like a wolf and a tiger, isn't he comparable to the soft and weak Yang Guifei?" When he thought of Qin Lei, Qin Shouzhuo couldn't help but shiver and bowed to Wen Yanbo: "Thank you for your kindness and lenient treatment. I've been out for a long time and it's time to go back to do things."

Wen Yanbo saw that it was getting late and knew that he could not go to the palace to meet him. He pretended to be keeping him. Seeing that he was really persisting, he reluctantly sent him out. When he was about to finish, he laughed and said, "Brother Shouzhuo, come again."

"It must be." Qin Shouzhuo responded enthusiastically, and he stuck his head out and waved his hand frequently after getting into the sedan chair.

Wen Yanbo kept watching Qin Shouzhuo leave until he could not see the official sedan chair, and then slowly turned back home.

"Father, this guy is in a bad mood." Wen Mingli, who had been with him, whispered.

Wen Yanbo snorted coldly and said, "I don't know the things I'm proud of, and I haven't given up on the old Qin family yet."

Wen Mingli giggled when she heard this, "What if you don't give up? Qin Yutian's subordinates chased him away, and the imperial edict was disobeyed. Our family's banquet was eaten. Even if the emperor could spare him, Qin Yutian would have to eat him."

Wen Yanbo's expression was slightly cleared when he heard this, nodded and said, "Yes, Emperor Zhaowu is narrow-minded, Qin Yutian is simple and rough. Although both of them are yin and yang, they cannot tolerate others' rebellion. Qin Shouzhuo has no other way out except to follow his father honestly."

The father and son were a little proud, and Wen Yanbo said again: "Don't go out these days, so as not to avoid Qin Yutian being forced to bite people like a mad dog." Wen Mingli agreed deeply and quickly responded honestly. After the boss became obsessed, he became a parent of Wen's parents. With his status soaring, he spoke very boldly: "Father, just give the remaining eight places to your child."

When Wen Yanbo heard about this, he suddenly looked ugly and said slightly annoyed: "I have given my father many instructions, and finally left more than a dozen or twenty places, which is enough to cover up the eyes." He said that, glaring at him fiercely and said: "You are so good! I sold it all over. What are you asking for your father to use to block the world's mouths?"

Seeing the old man getting angry, Wen Mingli lost his temper and quickly smiled and said, "Don't you still have eight places? It's enough!"

Wen Yanbo snorted coldly and said, "You must stop at the right time, do you know?" The majesty of the parents was undoubtedly revealed, which made Wen Mingli shiver from the bottom of his heart, nodded with difficulty, and whispered: "I understand." Where can I be so arrogant as before?

Let’s talk about Qin Shouzhuo leaving Sangong Street and sitting in the trembling official sedan chair, his mind was also thinking about it. What should I do next - go to the palace to apologize? It is definitely not possible. Your Majesty did not issue an official order, just to cover up his ears. If I rashly go to Chengtian Gate to apologize, I will definitely make the anti-order matter known to all women and children. If Your Majesty is disgraced, I also confirmed that the crime of anti-order is not correct. There is no benefit.

When you go home, you think nothing has happened? Obviously not, otherwise your Majesty's anger will definitely burn. You will take two days off or even take the sick and take a break. You cannot do this unless you have to, otherwise more than 20 years of struggle will be in vain.

I thought about it and looked around, but I had no idea. While I was thinking about it, I suddenly remembered the key figure of this storm - Qin Lei and Qin Yutian. I slapped my thigh hard and laughed: "I am so stupid. Whoever needs me the most will naturally ask for anyone." As I said that, I slapped the window and said in a deep voice: "Go to Qinghe Garden."

The master who was following outside heard this, reached into his head and whispered in surprise: "Master, you have just driven away the fifth prince's subordinates. You are going to visit again in less than half a day. Isn't it a bit too much..."

Qin Shouzhuo wanted to twist off the master's head and groaned: "I can't come to the door to apologize?" As he said that, he closed the small window and did not look at the very trivial face.

"Qinghe Garden?" After hearing Shen Bing's report, Qin Lei repeated inexplicably: "Is this guy's mind so he's not afraid that I will put him in the form of eighteen?"

Shen Bing shook his head and said in a plain tone: "According to his subordinates' analysis, he expected that we need him very much. As long as he can show enough sincerity, you will probably forgive him."

Rubbing his furry chin, Qin Lei said with a gloomy face: "If this old guy had known this, why would he have to be like this? Wouldn't he be particularly happy to fix the sheep in the dead?"

Shen Bing whispered: "Qin Shouzhuo was about to die by Wen Yanbo and he was desperate. If he did not seek help from the prince, he would go home to farm, and at worst he would corpse on the street."
Chapter completed!