Minister Gu Ming can't take care of himself

But Xu Guanchen stayed by the window of the ancestral hall for a while, and finally closed the window sash, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to go out.

Xiao Zhi was waiting for him in the yard, seeing him coming out with a sad expression, he grabbed his hand and shook it: "Have you finished talking?"

Xu Guanchen nodded: "Well, it's over."

Before going back, he ordered all the affairs in the mansion.

Let the housekeeper's third younger sister, Xu Yue, send Yuan Ce a post, saying that Xu Guanchen, in order to thank him for returning his brother's belongings, invited him to a banquet at Dingguo's mansion on the third day of April.

After Yuan Ce accepted the post, he sent someone to Duan Wang's mansion, told the young prince Xiao Jue, and told him to prepare and see how he could court Yuan Ce so that he could find out about the assassin Chen Zhou.

These days, Xu Yue has grown a lot taller and her face has become rounder. Sitting upright in front of him, she has the demeanor of a young lady from your family: "Brother, let's go back and rest, and come back on the third day of April."

"Okay." Xu Guanchen supported his head and said, "There is a lake on the west side of the mansion, and there is a small island in the middle of the lake. You can only get in and out by boat, and we will have a banquet there for Yuan Ce."

Xiao Zhi said, "Are you still afraid of him running away?"

"Since I promised Xiao Jue, I have to do everything well." Xu Guanchen smiled, "At that time, Xiaozhou and the others will not be able to leave. The next thing is to see how Xiao Jue wants someone from him."

He looked at Xu Yue and told him, "Stay in the room that day and don't come out. Yuan Ce is a weird person, so don't mess with him."

Xu Yue solemnly made a blessing: "Yue Niang knows."

It was just the afternoon when the family was chatting together, Xu Guanchen and Xiao Zhi were sitting on the couch facing each other, Xu Yue was sitting on the lantern stool in front of Xu Guanchen.The doors and windows are wide open, and the warm wind blows in, which is very comfortable.

Xu Guanchen asked again: "How is the mansion recently?"

"Everything is fine in the mansion." Xu Yue picked some interesting words to say, and suddenly remembered something, "During the few days when my brother was ill, it seemed that there was a robbery in the house, and Chai Bo sent all the people in the mansion to take care of him. I checked it again, but I don’t know what I’m looking for, and there’s a bit of a commotion.”

Xu Guanchen was stunned for a moment, and seemed to think to himself: "He never mentioned it to me."

Xiao Zhi said, "He told me about it."

Xu Guanchen turned to look at him: "What are you talking about?"

"You were talking to your elder brother in the ancestral hall just now, and he told me about it. It's not a serious matter. He didn't tell you because he was afraid that you would be troublesome."

Xu Guanchen became more and more skeptical: "It's not something important, what are you doing to worry about my troubles?"

Xiao Zhi waved his hand to let Xu Yue go down, grabbed Xu Guanchen's hand, and squeezed his fingers: "It's really nothing."

Xu Guanchen withdrew his hand: "Don't pinch it until you tell me."

"It's just..." Xiao Zhi casually made up nonsense to coax him, "Your family lost a silver plate."

"Nonsense." Xu Guanchen glared at him, "Uncle Chai has been away from home for a long time, and he lost a silver plate. It should be Yueniang's business."

Suddenly thinking about it, Uncle Chai has been guarding the ancestral hall these days, so something must have been lost in the ancestral hall. The most important thing in the ancestral hall is...

Xu Guanchen just went to the ancestral hall this morning, and after a cursory look, there are not many things in there.

Startled, he quickly got off the bed, put on his shoes, and went to the ancestral hall.

Xiao Zhi couldn't stop him, so he had to go with him.

At that time, Chai Bo was cleaning the confession in the ancestral hall, when he saw Xu Guanchen coming in, he was obviously startled, and almost dropped the fruit plate in his hand.

Xu Guanchen only asked him: "What did Uncle Chai look for in the mansion a few days ago?"

Chai Bo stood still with his head down, denying it all the time: "This old slave never looked for anything."

Xu Guanchen asked again: "Is there anything missing in the ancestral hall?"

Chai Burton paused, and replied, "Never."

Xu Guanchen didn't ask him any more, and approached, picked up the wooden box on the confession case with both hands, it was really light, without opening it, he knew that there was nothing inside.

Seeing that he already knew, Uncle Chai quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty: "This old slave has neglected his duties, please punish me, my young master."

Xu Guanchen didn't give up, and opened it again to see that there was only a piece of light red cloth in the box, and the iron coupon of the alchemy wrapped in it had long since disappeared.

Losing the alchemy book is a serious crime to punish the nine clans.

Xu Guanchen felt a headache for a moment, leaned back and was hugged by Xiao Zhi.

Xiao Zhi patted him on the back and gave him a good look: "Why are you panicking? Just make another one. If someone makes a fuss about the original one and insists that it is fake, then he will be punished. It was originally It's nothing important, so I won't tell you."

Xu Guanchen sighed, put down the box, and said to Chai Bo: "Get up first, and explain the matter clearly."

Unwilling to get up, Chai Bo knelt down on the ground and said, "Young Master has been recuperating in the palace since the sixteenth day of March. On the nineteenth day, the old servant patrolled the night and did not see any abnormalities, so he went to rest on his own. The next morning, when I wiped the confession case, I picked up the box and felt that the weight was wrong. When I opened it, the alchemy book inside was replaced by stones."

"The rock?"

"Just an ordinary stone in the yard."

Xu Guanchen thought to himself: "The mansion is not a deserted place, that person can hide from the guards all over the yard, but also from Uncle Chai, he is probably a thief in the mansion."

"The old slave thought the same way, so when he found out about this, he said something was missing in the warehouse, and checked all the people in the mansion, but found nothing. In the past few days, people in and out of the mansion have also been interrogated , if someone in the house steals it, they won’t be able to take it out.”

"The alchemy book is useless to others, what do you do with it?" Xu Guanchen rubbed his brows, "Everyone in the house has checked it?"

"I have checked everything, and..." Chai Bo paused, "The masters have never checked."

"What does Chai Bo mean?"

"Third Miss, and Daoist Priest Yuqingzi."

"No." Xu Guanchen shook his head, "Master and Third Sister would not do such a thing."

Chai Bo kowtowed: "This old slave guessed randomly."

"Let's check again. Others don't often mention the Danshu iron coupon. No one will pay attention to this thing. Let's keep it a secret for a while."

There was no other way but to let Chai Bo continue to investigate.

Xiao Zhi walked out of the ancestral hall with him, Xu Guanchen said: "I have been negligent in housekeeping these years, and the people I can use are all brought from Yanbei in the early years. I still want to borrow someone from you to investigate this matter."

"Who do you want?"

Xu Guanchen smiled: "I want Xiaocheng to be a father-in-law."

"You're good at picking people."

"That's right." Xu Guanchen suddenly remembered something, "I asked Mr. Cheng what he did before, but he didn't say anything, but said that he was the son of Mr. Cheng, so he was called Mr. Cheng. I Seeing him doing things, he doesn't look like an ordinary person. So what did he do before entering the palace?"

"He said he was the godson of Eunuch Cheng?"

Xu Guanchen nodded: "Yes."

"He lied to you." Xiao Zhi put his arms around his waist, "He was originally surnamed Cheng, but he collided with the former father-in-law, so the palace added the word 'Xiao' to him."

The surname is named De, and the character is known.

Cheng Zhijie took the imperial examination at the age of 15, won the Jinshi, and worked in Yushitai.Mr. Lao Cheng was also working at Yushitai, and it became a good story for a while.

And he and Xu Guanchen's elder brother Xu Wen are not at all unmasked as he said.

The two of them met in the hazy curtain of Fengyue Tower.Officials from the DPRK and China were not allowed to enter or leave the music hall, and those who were caught were fined money.

Cheng Zhijie, who was visiting in plain clothes, led a surprise inspection of Fengyuelou to verify the identities of those present.When it was Xu Wen's turn, Xu Wen picked up the sweet steamed buns on the case, explained with a smile, "I'm here to eat the steamed buns." Then he escaped from the window on the second floor.

The next day, Xu Wen went to the expedition and did not see each other again.Cheng Zhijie memorized this man's appearance and size, as well as the money to be fined, until he came back the next year.

After Xu Wen paid off the fine, the two of them had a good personal relationship.

But later Yanbei was defeated in successive battles, and the court discussed the crimes, either saying that the general was unfavorable, or that the food and grass were inconvenient.The old censor held the wat board in his hand, and paid out money, neither humble nor overbearing, listing ten faults in the court and palace in recent years, and urged the emperor to issue his own edict.

What the old emperor meant was that Yanbei had been taken back after all, the general or food and grass were not important, the important thing was to find a target to complain to the common people.

Now that the old censor said so, it was to keep him from stepping down.On this day, the court issued an edict, and the old man became a censor, and his family was confiscated and exiled.

At the time of the court, the old eunuch couldn't bear it, and asked Lao Cheng Yushi three times: "What is the reason for Yanbei's defeat?"

The old censor refused to change his words, vomited blood, could not speak, so he wrote blood in hand, and was finally beaten to death.

Cheng Zhijie had been an official for less than three years, and before he was eighteen, he entered the palace as an eunuch.

Xu Guanchen suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Eunuch Xiao Cheng took care of him like that. It turned out that he and his elder brother were old friends.

I don't want to mention it with him, maybe it's because I don't want to mention the past again.

It just so happened that Eunuch Xiao Cheng came to the Duke's Mansion with him, Xu Guanchen told him about the matter, and asked him to investigate the matter, Eunuch Xiao Cheng took the order to go out, Xu Guanchen sighed, and lay down on the case, wilting.

He suddenly remembered something, sat up abruptly, and said to Xiao Zhi: "I know again."

"Ok?"

"Perhaps the person who took the alchemy book didn't want the alchemy book, but the gold plate hidden inside." Xu Guanchen said firmly, "that person doesn't know that we have found the gold plate, and he doesn't know that there is a treasure in the ancestral hall. The written alchemy is recast, he wants the things in there, he wants the treasure map engraved on the gold plate."

"Who would know about this?" Xiao Zhi's appearance, he clearly knew it in his heart, asked him instead.

"This matter should be the secret of the royal family. Grandpa knows that there is also the former emperor, but the two of them have already gone, so it should be the two of them who told someone before they died. Grandpa didn't even have time to tell me. It was the first emperor who told others, it was..."

When Xu Guanchen came to his senses, he stopped talking.

Xiao Zhi was jealous, and pinched his fingers: "It was the late emperor who told Xiao Qi, who was going to be the emperor, about this matter. Your Seventh Highness, he is back."

"What's 'My Seventh Highness'?" Xu Guanchen withdrew his hand with a serious expression, "Don't pinch."

"After you lost your memory, the first thing you did was get up and do a fortune-telling for him. Do you remember what you calculated?"

"'Stay true to the people of old times.'"

"Who is the 'Old Time Man'?"

"It's not me anyway." Xu Guanchen kicked his feet angrily, stretched out his feet from under the desk and kicked him, "There is something that needs to be explained."

Xiao Zhi remained motionless, and he kicked him: "Say it."

Xu Guanchen raised his eyes and glanced at him, suddenly a little embarrassed, looked away, and said softly: "The first hexagram I calculated at that time was for you."

Xiao Zhi raised his eyebrows and reached out to hold his ankle: "What's the matter?"

"The hexagram says you are shameless, don't smell bad—" Before Xu Guanchen finished speaking, Xiao Zhi grabbed his ankle and led him forward, "What are you doing?"

Xiao Zhi asked him seriously: "What are you talking about?"

"Say you have a heavy heart."

After a while, Xu Guanchen poked him: "I see, Xiao Qi's 'never leave the old man' is a line of poetry, and the previous line is 'change your face'."