For Zhu Houzhao, as long as Chen Xi allowed him to continue out of the palace to play, he could agree to any conditions.

Chen Xi was speechless and kept comforting himself, "This is also a helpless act. I know that Your Majesty is addicted to wine and sex, but he does not know how to make good use of it. He only advises and does not make any changes, and waits for those flattering villains to maliciously slander and distracts the relationship between the king and the ministers. Isn't it the wise man who does it?"

When Chen Xi met a strange man like Zhu Houzhao, he did not dare to joke about his future. He could only take advantage of the situation and get along with the emperor first, and then find a way to correct it.

After getting the promise of meeting Su Tong and Zheng Qian tomorrow, Zhu Houzhao reluctantly left. Even if he wanted to stay outside the palace to drink with ordinary scholars, he realized that he always told the truth after being drunk, which could easily cause resistance from others, so he had to wait for Chen Xi to arrange everything for him.

After Zhu Houzhao left, Chen Xi wrote a letter of letter, asking Su Tong and Zheng Qian to talk about it tomorrow, which is to summarize the previous events.

As for Zhu Houzhao's future desire to meet Su Tong and Zheng Qian, Chen Xi's idea is very simple. At least until the exam is over, Zhu Houzhao will not succeed again. Otherwise, let him talk to Su Tong and Zheng Qian himself. All he can help is to make a move and communicate in the middle.

Zhu Houzhao returned to the leopard room in a disappointed mood and sat in a daze in the empty dormitory. After hearing this, Qian Ning came to see him with a look.

"Your Majesty, you seem to be unintentional to the things in the leopard room these days. We have specially prepared a new program for you. I hope you like it."

Qian Ning has always been worried that he would lose favor. He saw Zhu Houzhao elusively in the past few days and disappeared after leaving the leopard room. He didn't even know what to do. It was rare that he came here today, so he took the initiative to show his loyalty.

Zhu Houzhao was not very interested and waved her hand: "What new program? Are delicious or fun?"

“Everything, all.”

Qian Ning smiled and said, "Your Majesty might as well take a look?"

Zhu Houzhao sat there, full of listlessness, covered her mouth and yawned, waved her hand and said, "I am a little tired, just tell me what it is. If it is not suitable, I will not be able to pass."

Qian Ning was very puzzled: "In the past, His Majesty heard that there was something new and fun, and he would be very energetic and went there excitedly. Why do he look like he is indifferent today? Could it be that I was not able to save the car before, and His Majesty still refuses to forgive me?"

But he didn't know that Zhu Houzhao had no intention of caring about what he had done before, but was just feeling depressed because he encountered a wallet when he went out to find a drinker.

Qian Ning said: "I have prepared wonderful programs from the folk, such as shadow puppetry, which are controlled by trained beauties, and in the end, the beauties will come to the stage to perform."

What Qian Ning thought was very interesting was in Zhu Houzhao's eyes... He watched shadow puppetry under the influence of Shen Xi when he was a child. At that time, he was young and had little knowledge, so he naturally liked it very much. But now, as the emperor who owns the world, shadow puppetry is not attractive to him at all. As for letting beautiful women come to perform on stage, Zhu Houzhao felt even more vulgar.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it, I won't go. Qian Qing's family will retreat. I'm too tired today, so I'll go and rest first... Little Twist, prepare the fragrant soup for me to bathe, and I'll rest later."

"Yes, your Majesty."

Xiao Twist was very relieved and agreed obediently.

Qian Ning glanced at Xiao Tiaozi, was very curious, and he thought to himself: "Your Majesty has taken Tiao Majesty out of the leopard room these days. Others said they were going to meet Lord Shen, but what new and fun things can make Your Majesty happy for a while? It would be great if Tiao Majesty could tell me."

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After Qian Ning went out, he did not walk far away and waited for the people in the emperor's bedroom to come out.

Now the only one who can solve his doubts is Xiao Tiaozi. Qian Ning thinks that Xiao Tiaozi may tell the truth. After all, everyone has the same goal and wants to overthrow Zhang Yuan.

Now Zhang Yuan is in charge of the Sili Supervisor and basically controls the inner court, but he is still unpopular in the Leopard Room. Now a alliance of Zhang Yuan has been formed in the palace, and Xiao Taozi and Qian Ning are both members.

After waiting for half an hour, the little twister came out, and Qian Ning shivered in the cold wind.

"Duang Daughter, you have calculated it. I thought you would stay in here for Your Majesty today." Seeing Xiao Daozi, Qian Ning hurried forward to greet him in a respectful tone.

Xiao Taozi looked at Qian Ning in surprise. Although Qian Ning is now the commander of the Jinyiwei, everyone will do their own jobs. Xiao Taozi is unwilling to admit that he is inferior. Although he has no intention of making things difficult and arrogant, he still seems a little distant: "Is there anything wrong with Lord Qian?"

Qian Ning leaned over and said, "Dude-in-law, you also know that on the night of the Lantern Festival, I... I did something wrong, and then Your Majesty changed his attitude and did not give me any chance to be loyal. Is Your Majesty still concerned about it?"

Xiao Zhuozi sneered: "Mr. Qian wants to ask, does Your Majesty want to abandon you, right?"

Qian Ning said with a bitter face: "It's probably what it means, but I'm too straightforward to say that, right? They're all doing things for His Majesty, but I just didn't react at that time."

Xiao Taozi thought about it and decided to maintain a peaceful coexistence with Qian Ning. To be honest, "Don't worry, Your Majesty hasn't mentioned your name these days... But are you still blaming me? I'm afraid that only Your Majesty himself will know how to reply to us?"

Qian Ning felt a hang in his heart when he heard this. Seeing that Xiao Twist Zi was about to leave, he hurriedly blocked the way and asked again: "Dude Twist has been working hard these days, right? He has been with His Majesty, serving tea and water, busy, but he doesn't know what His Majesty is doing outside the leopard room..."

"Can you ask about this?" Xiao Guozi's tone began to become stronger.

In the leopard room and the palace, the relationship between people increases and decreases. Qian Ning shows weakness, and Xiao Guozi's aura immediately arises. After all, Xiao Guozi is the attendant of Zhu Houzhao, while Qian Ning is an "outsider". Although he is now the commander of the Jinyiwei, it is only Zhu Houzhao's words to be removed.

Qian Ning said with a bitter face: "We are all trying to serve Your Majesty well. You might as well reveal some... This is a little bit of thought..."

Qian Ning knew that if he just moved him with emotion and reason, he obviously lacked sincerity. The best way was to give Xiao Tiaozi a real benefit fee. Xiao Tiaozi wanted Zhu Houzhao to live in daily life and had no time to cultivate power and gangsters, so naturally he would not be able to make money.

Xiao Guozi took the things Qian Ning handed in his hand and weighed them, and asked, "Is that just that?"

Qian Ning took a ingot of gold at one time, about ten or twenty taels of gold, worth hundreds of taels of silver. It was undoubtedly a huge sum of money in the eyes of ordinary people, but it seemed too perfunctory to Xiao Tiaozi. After all, he had seen a big scene of copying Liu Jin's mansion, and thousands of ingots of gold almost dazzled him.

Qian Ning smiled and said, "There are still a few ingots. Because they are not portable, they will send them to Mr. Teng before they are on their bodies... We have to unite. Now Eunuch Zhang is so arrogant. He has taken over all the affairs of Leopard and has to report everything to him. I heard that he also sent His Majesty a coupon of beauties to His Majesty... Isn't this to steal our job?"

"That's your job, not ours." Xiao Zhuozi said angrily, "Our job is to serve His Majesty well."

Qian Ning said: "Everything is the same. Since we are in the same group, if you see Jinding..., do you always reveal a little information?"

Xiao Taozi was a little moved. After several ups and downs in his life, he also began to focus on making money and thought to himself: "I was suppressed so much when Liu Jin was in power. If Lord Shen had not taken action in time, I might have been killed by Liu Jin; now Zhang Yuan is in power and is suppressing me..."

"If I lose favor in the future and get expelled from the palace by His Majesty, I must have money to keep it with me. Otherwise, even if I put down my face and ask others for help, I will not look at me directly..."

"Besides, it's not a good thing for Your Majesty to leave the leopard room many times. The Master Su and Mr. Zheng had a plan at a glance. It would be better to find a way to keep Your Majesty in the leopard room."

Xiao Guozi repeatedly measured gains and losses, and saw that Qian Ning was so "sincere". A ingot of gold alone was worth one or two hundred taels of silver. If Qian Ning gave him a few more ingots as Qian Ning said, he could buy a good house in the capital and give him a chance to have a settlement for the rest of his life. He immediately said:

"Your Majesty left the palace to meet with outsiders... Your Majesty likes to interact with folk scholars, drink and have fun, and talk about the romantic and romantic at the dinner. The outsider also sent His Majesty a few maids... Maybe that's all. If you want to arrange it, do this."

When he spoke, Xiao Twist couldn't help but look around, for fear that Emperor Zhengde would know about the leaked wind. You must know that Zhu Houzhao had told him to keep it confidential.

Xiao Tiaozi was short of people, but he was afraid of taking responsibility, so he took the opportunity to leave after just a few words, but did not tell the details of Zhu Houzhao getting along with Su Tong, Zheng Qian and others.

But even so, knowing Zhu Houzhao’s preferences is a great reward for Qian Ning.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, I will definitely give you a generous gift next time!"

Qian Ning got the answer he wanted. He ignored his previous promise and stopped mentioning the subsequent gift of gold. After making a short promise, he ran away, his pace was even more urgent than a small twist.

"This Qian Ning doesn't talk about morality at all. Is the feelings fooling me?"

Xiao Guozi looked at Qian Ning's back quickly away in surprise, feeling very annoyed. However, he weighed the gold in his hand, and then thought about it, and felt that it would be rewarding for his secret disclosure.

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The place Qian Ning was in a hurry to go was the courtyard of Concubine Li.

In the leopard room, Concubine Li and Concubine Hua are both separate courtyards, just like palaces in the Forbidden City. They have a large house with four or five entrances as their daily life and Zhu Houzhao's place to visit.

Zhu Houzhao was not careful of Sima Zhenren, Qian Ning and others. These people were basically unobstructed in the courtyard of the leopard room, especially Qian Ning, who was the commander of the Jinyiwei, and was responsible for the adjustment of defense of the guards in the leopard room, and went wherever they wanted.

However, when we met, in order to avoid gossiping from others, Qian Ning still talked to Concubine Li through the shoan.

After Qian Ning briefly said the matter, Concubine Li nodded and said, "Mr. Shen is indeed extraordinary. His strategy and vision are incomparable to others. He can always be unique in his mind to cater to Your Majesty... Since you already know that Your Majesty has such a preference, what are you waiting for? Just do it according to your example."

Qian Ning has no education. Although he is good at eating, drinking and having fun, he does not understand the preferences of literati. Concubine Li's explanation not only allows him to see opportunities but also confuses him.

Concubine Li was not a scholar, and she knew very little about the preferences of literati and scholars. As for what Zhu Houzhao said and played with those scholars, she knew nothing, so she entrusted her errands to Qian Ning to let her do her freely.

Qian Ning had a little brain and thought to himself: "I don't know what Your Majesty likes to meet with others, but I can ask the scholars... I am the commander of the Jinyiwei. Isn't it easy to find a few scholars to support the scene? Then let them tell me what to prepare, and let them drink and chat with His Majesty, and then find women to cheer up... In this way, His Majesty will definitely be happy!"

Qian Ning thought that finding the key to the problem was not delayed at all, so he immediately asked his men to find scholars.

"... Mr. Qian, you asked us to find scholars, where to go? It would be easy to find sisters or actors, or should we catch a few nerds nearby?"

Seeing his subordinates all dazed, Qian Ning said annoyedly: "Why are you talking so badly? What is the purpose of catching people is to invite them back to drink with His Majesty. You must find the kind who is fun and playful, and it is better to be lustful... No matter what method is used, I will give you an hour and bring four scholars to me."

Qian Ning is not a question for his subordinates. He is looking for people, no matter how profound his knowledge is, as long as he has studied, there are not many other people in the capital, but he has been able to catch a lot of scholars, especially after a while, he will be able to test the exams and gather scholars, so it is not difficult to complete the task.

Under Qian Ning's order, the Jinyiwei of the Leopard Room went everywhere to search for scholars, saying that he was invited, but in the middle of the night, there seemed to be no other way except to grab them.

These people are usually arrogant and domineering. They do not follow the rules in their work. They go directly to the houses around the Leopard House and ask who is studying. After an hour, they find the scholars Qian Ning needs.

The youngest of four scholars is only fifteen or sixteen, the oldest of them is over sixty, and the other two look around thirty years old, which is just right just to look at their age.

Qian Ning asked with a dark face: "What does it mean? I asked you to go out and find someone, and I just deal with it in a hurry?"

"But we have tried our best, Mr. Qian." His subordinates seemed very embarrassed. "Scholars are already precious and they still go to find them at night. Is it that easy? It doesn't take much effort to bring people to... If we give more time, we might be able to find more people, and there must be some suitable ones."

Qian Ning waved his hand: "One and young, send it back first, you two, come here."

Two scholars in their thirties came over. Although they had read books, they could not withstand the big scene in front of them. The one in them asked in a slight manner: "This official, why did you call us here in the middle of the night?"

Qian Ning asked, "Let's not talk about this for now, how much do you two usually drink?"

The two looked at each other, nodded, and said a shorter person: "The alcohol tolerance is OK, I wonder why the official asked us this question?"

"You are here to drink with someone... Are you sure you can drink the other party?" Qian Ning continued to ask. In his opinion, whether it is OK or not, first, if you can drink the emperor, the emperor will naturally enjoy his whole life. Although all he can only drink, it is considered to be a chore.

The slapped man smiled and said, "You called us here this night to drink with people? Who are you drinking with?"

Qian Ning raised his hand and interrupted the other party's question, saying, "Apart from drinking, have you been to the kilns? What's your experience of seeking flowers and willows?"

"this……"

The two looked at each other again, and seemed to know each other. Qian Ning suddenly realized that his subordinates would go door to door in order to make simplicity. These two scholars may live very close, and they are of the same age and should have a good relationship.

"If you ask you, you have been there, and if you haven't, you can tell the truth. If you don't understand women, I can teach you now." Qian Ning said angrily.

The slander man knew that the high-ranking official in front of him was not easy to mess with, and said, "Official, please calm down. I have been to the kiln before. As for women... I am old and I have already started a family and started a business. How could I not understand?"

Qian Ning frowned: "Then are you very proficient in playing women?"

Qian Ning's question was too tricky and weird, which made the two scholars dumbfounded... He slept at home with his wife in his arms at night, but was dragged here and asked some strange questions, which was too incredible.

These two people have performed well. If they were the unsavvy civilians, they would have kowtowed like pounding garlic and could not ask anything.
To be continued...