Chapter 6: The Clueless Second Uncle
"Hey!" The yellow-skirted girl named Caiwei fluttered her beautiful eyes, "Why can salt turn into silver?"
After she finished, she hesitated for a moment and drew out a sugar cane and handed it to Xu Qi'an, "Here, this is for you to eat."
Is this buying me off ....
The two lords were already out of sight, Xu Qi'an withdrew his gaze, thought for a moment, and replied, "The grasshopper had seen the alchemy secret of turning salt into silver in an ancient book."
The yellow-skirted girl's eyes widened, "Which ancient book where? Who is the author?"
It's called High School Chemistry, and as for the author .... Uh, People's Education Publishing House? Xu Qi'an said, "The ancient book was destroyed a long time ago, however, I still remember its contents."
The yellow-skirted girl breathed in sharply, "Quickly, quickly tell me."
Xu Qi'an sighed, "The grasshopper is in danger, and is really not in the mood to be a teacher."
The yellow-skirted maiden gave him a blank stare and said without a trace of humor:
"You are a slippery person. We, the Heavenly Monitors, do not interfere in dynastic politics, how to dispose of you is still up to His Majesty, and it is pointless to wait for a price with me."
"Wouldn't it be fine for you guys to take me in, with Lord Supervisor's position in the dynasty, asking for a guilt-by-association offender is thought to be no problem." Xu Qi'an said.
He had to add an insurance policy for himself, in case he couldn't recover the tax silver.
The yellow-skirted girl's bright eyes flowed, scrutinizing up and down, "You're obviously a martial artist, why do you want to be a warlock."
Cultivation should be done before it's too late, and most cultivators had built their foundation since childhood. It was too late for a martial artist to turn into a warlock.
"It doesn't matter if I hug the thigh or not, I mainly admire Lord Supervisor Zheng's style." Xu Qi'an's tone was pious, his expression serious.
"Then you first tell me the contents of the Alchemy Ancient Book." She deliberated, the young girl's eyes were clear and bright, large almond eyes, dark pupils, black and white.
Xu Qi'an had only seen such clean and beautiful eyes on children in her previous life.
"The content is somewhat difficult and esoteric, just oral, I'm afraid you can't understand it. It needs to be taught in depth before it can be ingrained." Xu Qi'an fished.
Chu Caiwei rolled her eyes, unconvinced: "Looking at the world of the nine states, on alchemy, my Sitian Supervisory Warlock is the leader."
"Hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorus ....." Xu Qi'an recited backwards.
"???"
What the hell is he talking about? The young girl was confused for half a day, her willow eyebrows rising, "You tricked me. We, the Si Tian Supervisor, accept disciples, only children."
She snatched the sugar cane back from Xu Qi'an's hand.
With light footsteps, she walked away, her skirt flying.
I am also a child ah .... Xu Qi'an opened his mouth, then realized that the Sitian Supervisors collected disciples from dolls.
Get, this road has no way to go.
......
Two days passed by, Xu Qi'an spent two days in the cell in fear.
He was afraid that the tax money would not be recovered in time, and if it was after he had been exiled, recovering it would not change the outcome.
Then, if Minister Chen was a black-hearted maggot and took the credit, it would still be a dead end.
But there was no way, he could only go so far, a prisoner, what could he do?
Xu Qi'an once again felt the horror of feudal society.
"Just listen to the fate of heaven ....." Xu Qi'an lamented.
'Clang!'
The iron door at the end of the corridor opened, and a jailer came in holding a fire stick, pulling out a key to open the door, "Xu Qi'an, you can go now!"
Xu Qi'an was ecstatic, clenching his fists hard, "The tax silver was recovered?"
"Follow me to sign and draw the pledge, and you can leave." The jailer scrutinized him, "You kid has a great life."
"What about my second uncle?" Xu Qi'an eagerly pursued.
"Cut the crap and just follow." The jailer was grumpy, and with a knock on Xu Qi'an's buttocks with his fire stick, he rushed him out of the cell.
Under the arrangement of a magistrate, he signed a pledge and then received from the jailer the clothes he had pulled off when he was sent to the brig.
A magistrate led him out of the government office of Jingzhaofu and out the back door.
At this time, the east was slightly bright, and the streets were clear and cold.
......
Clang!
Xu Zhiping was awakened by the sound of the iron door opening, he opened his eyes, his eyes were covered with blood.
The unkempt Xu Pingzhi's face was somewhat similar to Xu Qi'an's, but on the contrary, the biological son's Xu New Year's, whose features were too handsome, was very different from the two of them.
Inside the opposite cell across the corridor, the sleeping Li Ru shuddered and woke up, her face haggard, an expression of extreme horror on her face.
The couple looked at each other across a corridor, and Li Ru sadly said, "Master, even if I die, I won't enter the Department of Education."
She is thirty-five years old this year, well-maintained, is a beautiful woman with excellent charm, even after five days of fear in prison, emaciated description, still hard to hide the style between the eyes.
What kind of place is the Department of Correctional Services?
It is the purgatory of women.
Bruised Xu Pingzhi opened his mouth, unable to speak, suddenly burst into tears: "Mrs., it is I am not right for you. We went to the Yellow Springs together as husband and wife, and in my next life, I will work as an ox for you to make it up to you. Just pity the child, and my nephew."
Five days have passed, to meet him is the open sword beheading, to meet the aggravation of the female family is the Department of Education. In addition to Li Ru, the Xu family had two other daughters, an elder daughter who was two-eight years old, and an infant daughter who was five years old.
They were curled up in the corner of the cell, and were also awakened at this time.
The five year old girl rubbed her eyes and murmured "Mother", unaware of her orders.
The sixteen year old girl sat up, her disheveled hair lined a fair melon face, her small mouth was thin and red, her eyes were large and expressive, her nose was not as small as the average woman's, but rather straight. So it appeared that the five features were especially three-dimensional, especially delicate and beautiful.
There was a kind of still-carved beauty.
She subconsciously leaned towards her mother's side, her thick eyelashes gently trembling from fear.
A few jailers with plain swords on their hips, striding in.
Li Ru's eyes flashed with despair and determination.
Xu Pingzhi hands gripped the fence, pale bones, steel teeth clenched, lost tax silver, dereliction of duty, he thought he deserved to die, but even the family's wives and daughters, death does not rest in peace.
Especially the youngest daughter, only five years old, will be sent to the Department of Education to raise, life is dark.
As a parent, how can be willing.
"Xu Pingzhi, come out with us, sign the pledge and then you can leave." The jailer opened the cell door without shackling them, standing in the corridor, the end of his sword knocked on the fence, signaling them to come out on their own.
"Xu Pingzhi has been patriotic and loyal to the king all his life, and his family is full of loyalty ..... Eh, what did you say?" Second Uncle Xu suspected that he had misheard.
How many meanings did it mean?
"It's possible to leave? You just said it's possible to leave." Xu Pingzhi was incredulous for a moment, "What's going on, didn't you guys take me out to be beheaded."
"No." The jailer didn't have the good sense to say, "This is an order from the top, if you want to know go out and ask yourself."
Li Ru was bewildered and apprehensive, holding her two daughters, the family silently followed behind the jailer and walked towards the end of the corridor.
"Old, old master .... Wouldn't be lying to us, right?"
"Wouldn't it be such child's play." Xu Pingzhi was wounded, walking with a pout, he was also confused, with the joy of not dying in a great disaster and the bewilderment of not being able to figure out the situation.
Li Ru's heart moved: "It's New Year, it must be New Year who has been running around for the past few days, helping us to make some connections, so that the court can be lenient."
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was possible, and she excitedly said, "Master, don't forget that New Year's teacher, is the Minister of Justice of Yuanjing 18."
Yuanjing 18 years .... It was more than twenty years ago .... Xu Pingzhi felt that it was not right, and could not think of who else he could count on without a big backer in the officialdom.
"Maybe."
"I told you that our family's New Year is a dragon among men, back then when I asked him to practice martial arts, you didn't agree and had to let Xu Qi'an's little bunny practice martial arts."
"Mother, the rabbit is so cute, I want to eat the rabbit." The young girl tilted her little face up and nibbled on her little finger, the word "craving" written in her eyes.
"All day long you know how to eat ...." The short-tempered Li Ru subconsciously scolded, looked at the little face dirty young girl, face then softened, "Good girl, immediately have rabbit to eat."
Xu Pingzhi was too lazy to explain to her the matter of 'your son has no talent for practicing martial arts'. Anyway, no matter how many times he said it, his married wife would automatically ignore it.
In the eyes of a mother, her son was always the best.
When it came to the place of signing and pledging, Xu Pingzhi took the pen from the hands of the government official, his fingers trembling slightly, after signing his name and pressing his handprint, Xu Pingzhi felt that he had been sublimated in some way.
It was like a seed buried deep in the ground drilling out a seedling and seeing the sunlight.
The world suddenly became so beautiful, obviously not a copper plate more.
Wife and daughter, on the other hand, do not need to sign their names, only pressed the handprint.
Xu Pingzhi couldn't hold back his inner curiosity and arched his hand, "This lord, I don't know, I don't know why we were exonerated."
Li Ru immediately looked at the official.
"The case was solved, and the tax silver has been recovered." The official replied.
"The tax silver has been recovered? Haha, good, good! Damn demons, how dare they rob my Da Feng tax silver."
Uncle Xu was quite energized, and after laughing, he felt that, according to the law of Da Dung, the tax silver was certainly recovered, but it was also true that he was derelict in his duty.
It is not his credit to recover the tax money, so how would the court spare him from the death penalty?
Even if he was leniently sentenced, he would still be exiled to the borderlands.
"Lord Xu, this is your official robe, put it away." The official presented the green robe of the eighth ranked military official that he had plucked down earlier.
Surprisingly, he was reinstated to his official position .... Xu Pingzhi realized that something was wrong, and while receiving the official robe, he said in a deep voice, "This adult, can you solve the confusion for this official?"
Official robe in hand, this sound of this official said out have a few points of bottom.
According to reason, even if he was exempted from the death penalty, he should not be reinstated to his official position.
"The Da Feng Law stipulates that if an elder in the family triggers the law, the son or daughter can pay for the father's offense." The official said.
"It's really Nian'er, Master, Nian'er helped the court recover the tax silver." Li Ru cried with joy.
"Nian'er ...." Xu Pingzhi's eyes were moist, "My good son."
The official glanced at the excited couple, "It's your nephew Xu Qi'an, he helped Lord Prefect to solve the tax silver case, the person just left."
