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"That Mr. Yu, Huaifang will introduce me sometime." Zhao Yan only said sincerely.

Xie Qing readily agreed.Yu Changqing is a rare talent with both civil and military skills, Xie Qing felt that it was really aggrieved for him to follow him all the time.

This little episode is over soon.The topic returned to the stone that almost killed Xie Qing.

Regarding Xie Qing's matter, Zhao Yanzhi was always prone to overheating and losing his ability to judge.Of course it’s good to find out the truth, and it doesn’t matter if you can’t; Zhao Yan didn’t really care whether it was a real accident or someone did it on purpose. Qing is bothering here, but he wants to kill the suspect who killed him even more.

Even if it is to vent anger, it is time to get it.

Xie Qing felt that he had never done anything immoral, so naturally no one would be mad enough to kill him; if he had to find a reason, it would probably be the Zhou family's field.Seeing the flash of killing intent in Zhao Yan's eyes, he quickly reminded him: "Your Majesty, don't act rashly, the Zhou family is most likely behind that person."

Regardless of who is innocent, saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda.

Once Zhao Yan was reminded by Xie Qing, he naturally had to pay more attention to the "big fish".He nodded, giving up the simple and crude assassination for the time being, and turned to think about the events at that time.

The more Xie Qing talked that day, the more energetic he became, until Zhao Yan couldn't bear it anymore and tricked him into drinking calming soup before falling into a deep sleep.Zhao Yan only heaved a sigh of relief, and sweat appeared on his temples.Looking at the peaceful and soft sleeping face of his beloved, he was filled with an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

The next day Xie Qing personally invited Yu Changqing to come.When Yu Changqing followed Xie Qing back to Chang'an, he didn't even have a place to stay.Xie Qing had to go see Zhao Yanzhi immediately, so he found a posthouse for Yu Changqing first.Now Xie Qing thought about Mr. Yu's residence, and found it quite difficult.

It's not appropriate for him to live in Xie Qing's house.Xie Qing said that he lived in Guangming Palace for at least 20 days a month, which caused his wife to live alone for a long time. This situation made Yu Changqing living in it couldn't be more ugly.So Xie Qing thought about it, and thought of the small house that he lived in before he got married.Although the courtyard was a bit small, it was more elegant, unique, quiet and comfortable, and there were three or two servants serving it. It was obviously too suitable for Yu Changqing to live alone.

It was a great honor to be personally interviewed by the emperor, but Yu Changqing was obviously not interested, and there was an air of "I went to see him just to save face" all over his body.Wearing an old suit and a white cloth crown, he followed Xie Qing into the Guangming Palace in a listless manner—at first he wanted to wear the brown jacket he wore for daily hunting.

Zhao Yan only summoned him first to express his gratitude, second to satisfy his curiosity, and finally to use this person.Both of them were not stupid, Zhao Yan only found out that Yu Changqing had no intention of becoming an official after talking for a few words, so he didn't touch that nail at all.

However, unwilling to become an official but willing to follow Xie Qing, coupled with Yu Changqing's handsome and handsome appearance, out of the instinct of protecting food, His Majesty's thoughts have obviously been galloping on a crooked road.

"...In any case, thank you sir for saving Huai Fang's life." Zhao Yanzhi suddenly changed the topic back to thank you.

This level of jumping obviously made Yu Changqing a little uncomfortable.The emperor had already thanked him as soon as he entered the door. Yu Changqing didn't think he had a great contribution to make the emperor thank him non-stop, but after a brief moment of daze, he quickly replied politely: "I dare not , It's nothing to do with a little effort."

Xie Qing simply knew Zhao Yan too well.He thought whether to laugh or cry, if the emperor likes what he likes, he will think that everyone in the world likes it, and he won't allow others to take a second look; but if others really don't care, he will feel unfair again.Xie Qing felt that His Majesty's thinking and behavior needed to be corrected, but the top priority was to strictly control the direction of the topic.

Fortunately, Zhao Yanzhi was still sane and understood the principle of pointing to the end. After the cryptic demonstration, Zhao Yanzhi began to talk about Pingyuan County with Yu Changqing.

Of course, the focus is on the Yellow River Embankment.

Yu Changqing's description only provided Zhao Yan with new clues.For example, Zhao Yanzhi can now conclude that this matter is definitely man-made.As for the stones swept away by the Yellow River, the evidence washed away by the heavy rain, and the signs of damage to the artificially repaired dams, these were not within the scope of Zhao Yanzhi's consideration at all.

Zhao Yanzhi's thoughts were exactly the same as Xin Wan's: Xie Qing was involved, so he wouldn't care about those details.

The decisive evidence does not belong to the common sense of the details, but is still one of the details.

Zhao Yan only felt that Xie Chengjun who gave the stone to Xie Qing was obviously more suspicious, but his behavior was reasonable.In public, Xie Qing is the one he should please; in private, Xie Qing is his elder.So it is understandable that he gave up a good place for Xie Qing to stand.

Du Yu, the county magistrate of Pingyuan, was different. Looking at all his actions, at least on the surface, he was neither humble nor overbearing, honest and upright.She doesn't try to please Xie Qing, and she doesn't feel embarrassed at all in business affairs. If she wants to find fault, it can only be said that she is not capable enough.But sometimes no flaw is the biggest flaw.

Zhao Yan only felt that it was really difficult for him to choose between suspect A and suspect B.

Xie Qing frowned and didn't know what he was thinking. Zhao Yan only realized that Xie Qing hadn't interjected for a long time after hearing Yu Changqing say some nonsense that was obviously perfunctory.

"What is Huaifang thinking? Are you tired?" Zhao Yan only asked with concern.

Yu Changqing somehow felt a gust of cold wind blowing by.He thought, the emperor is really sympathetic and caring for his subjects.

"Ah? Your Majesty forgive me, I'm terrified." Yu Changqing felt that Xie Qing's words were as natural as saying "I'm hungry", and there was no sense of panic at all, so I heard Xie Qing, who was pretending to be terrified, continue to say: "I just said I feel that something is not reasonable, but I can’t think of it for a while.”

Zhao Yan only felt relieved: "If you can't think of it, think about it slowly, don't keep frowning. Oh, yes, I asked someone to get you a few magnolia trees, and it was so easy to plant them. You look back, you are not love Do you use that to spice it up?"

Yu Changqing is a fool, and this will also show that this is obviously not the category of caring for courtiers.He suddenly understood all kinds of strange behaviors of the emperor.It can be seen from this that His Majesty the Emperor really spares no effort to show off his love all the time, regardless of whether he loses his status by doing this.

"Pine tree!" Zhao Yanzhi and Yu Changqing, who had their own ghosts, were awakened by Xie Qing's voice.

"You want pine trees again? That's easy, turn around and I..." Zhao Yan only reacted first, and continued following Xie Qing's words.As a result, Xie Qing interrupted him before he finished speaking.

"I don't want pine trees. I just thought of one thing." Yu Changqing actually wanted to quickly withdraw from this dialogue that obviously surpassed the relationship between the monarch and his ministers.He saw that Xie Qing was very humble and courteous one by one, but which humble and courteous courtier would really interrupt the emperor's words so naturally?

But Zhao Yan still had a normal expression, as if they had always come here like this.Zhao Yan just nodded and said, "Oh, then tell me, what happened to the pine tree?"

"I recall that in the Pingyuan Posthouse where I live, there are two pine trees that I have always liked before the window, and they were planted in front of my window in the wind." Xie Qing recalled the things in Pingyuan County, and finally remembered what was wrong.

"Well, Du Yu did a good job." Zhao Yan just didn't quite understand what Xie Qing's sudden praise of County Magistrate Du meant, but in line with the principle of "everything goes according to Huaifang's happiness", Zhao Yan only perfunctorily I praised magistrate Du.

"But those two pine trees were born thousands of miles away. They were my favorite, so I recognized them. At that time, I felt that something was wrong." Xie Qing seemed to be talking to himself.

It's a pity that Zhao Yanzhi didn't think it was important to please people with a rare object, he couldn't do more about it.Seeing his ignorant expression, Xie Qing knew what he was thinking of.Xie Qing couldn't laugh or cry and said to Zhao Yan: "But Du Yu is only a county magistrate of [-] shi, and he doesn't come from a big family. He bought such two trees, where did the money come from?"

Only then did Zhao Yan suddenly realize.At the same time, he realized for the first time that being rich in the world turned out to be such a wonderful thing.

With the incident of the pine tree, all of Du Yu's actions became unreasonable.In order to please Xie Qing, he was willing to spend a lot of money to plant two precious trees for him, but he couldn't find any trace of corruption, so where did his money come from?No one would think that he would spend several years of savings on two trees just to let Xie Qing smell the rosin occasionally; don't say that he is just a close minister of the emperor, even the emperor himself would never be so flattering.Besides, the county magistrate of Pingyuan had the money to plant two trees for Xie Qing, but he didn't have the money to entertain them with better food?

The truth came out.So all of Du Yu's actions were fake, Xie Qing couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.This is the real ingenuity of concealment. If Xie Qing's hobbies were not so unusual, the county magistrate Du really didn't know how he would show his feet.

Such a person from the city government has been playing a small role with mediocre abilities for several years, willingly telling his little magistrate in front of him that he has no plans, even a fool would not believe it.

Zhao Yan just wanted to arrest the County Magistrate Du and bring him to justice immediately; now he felt that this person was probably the mastermind behind Xie Qing's entrapment.With Xie Chengjun's stalwart wisdom that can easily be discovered by dropping a bag of food, isn't it too common for the wily Du Yu to count the money for him when he sells it?