Chapter 228 Old Fox
Zhong Yu's eyes shrank slightly, stared at Cao Miao for a long time, and sneered: "It's a good excuse for the villagers to push it to a dead person. Do you think I will believe it?"
Cao Miao smiled. "You are asked by the edict, and I am answering it. Do you believe it or not? " He looked at Zhong Yu with a smile. "For example, I don't believe it either."
Zhong Yu took a deep breath and then slowly vomited it out again. He nodded. "Thank you for your answer. I will send someone to Yanzhou for questioning. If someone comes to confront the township master, please don't change your words and shirke others." He turned around and looked at Cui Lin. "Please give Sili a testimony."
Cui Lin looked at Cao Miao and nodded hesitantly.
Cao Miao smiled. "You don't have to worry. I dare to take it. I will admit what I said. No matter who comes to confront me, I will not change my words. What, do you have to ask? If not, I will go back and reflect on myself."
Zhong Yu was so angry that he couldn't speak. Cui Lin was a little calmer and nodded. "The hometown man was willing to take care of himself."
Cao Miao raised his sleeves, turned around and left, leaving Cui Lin, Zhong Yu and others in the yard.
Cao Zhao stepped forward to receive the reception. Although he was enthusiastic about keeping him, Cui Lin and Zhong Yu refused to stay for a while and left. Cao Zhao took them out of the village, watched them get on the car, and walked down the mountain. He sighed quietly and returned to the backyard.
Cao Miao stood upstairs, looking at the ant-like figures of Cui Lin and others in the distance, and his lips curled slightly. Cao Zhuan stood aside, so happy that he couldn't stop. He heard Cao Zhao's footsteps going upstairs, and he restrained a little. Cao Zhao glared at Cao Zhuan and walked to Cao Miao.
"Yunliang, is this... really what Wang Ji said?"
Cao Miao said nothing, and after a while, he suddenly said, "Where do you think they will go now?"
Cao Zhao thought for a while. "It should be that he went to Zhong's villa and met Zhong's Grand Tutor."
"What will Master Zhong do?"
Cao Zhao opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say. How did he know what Zhong Yao would do? But he couldn't ignore this question. Even if he didn't answer Cao Miao now, he would still answer the emperor in the future. As the emperor's confidant, he knew best that Cao Miao was just a knife in the hands of the emperor, and all this was the emperor who was behind the scenes.
It can even be said that Cao Miao was safe. He was about to go to Yangzhou soon, and Taifu Zhong's anger could not burn him at all.
Thinking of this, Cao Zhao felt a headache. Cao Miao was too capable of causing trouble. He was not satisfied with the Zhong family, and he also involved the Wang family in Taiyuan. Wang Ji was killed, but Wang Chang had never responded. This was definitely not a good phenomenon. Logically speaking, if Wang Chang surrendered, at least he would write a letter to apologize for his crime. If he did not respond, he could only explain one thing: he did not admit this result, and he would fight back.
Wang Chang was not alone, he stood behind the Taiyuan Wang family, and even the entire Bingzhou. Once they decided to join forces with Ruying, even the emperor could not fight head-on.
"Yunliang, you are..." Cao Zhao smacked his lips, not knowing what to say about Cao Miao.
"Don't worry about me." Cao Miao glanced at Cao Zhao. "You may not have three days."
Cao Zhao nodded helplessly when he thought of Zhong Tai. He did not have so much time, and the emperor might call him back to Luoyang at any time. He immediately wrote a memorial explaining the meeting between Cui Lin and Cao Miao, sent someone to Luoyang, and then joined Cao Hun to conduct an interrogation of Zhong Tai.
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Zhong Yao leaned against the penis and sat on the thick brocade bed, basking in the winter sun, and looked at his son Zhong Hui who was memorizing the book with a smile.
Zhong Hui was just five years old, but he already knew a lot of words, read a lot of books, and had a great memory. It is not considered bragging to say that he had read it through the exam.
Cui Lin sat aside and faced with Zhong Yu. He half-closed his eyes, and from time to time he was slightly slight, as if he was savoring Zhong Hui's voice, deliberately not looking at Zhong Yu's expression opposite him. Zhong Yu had just hit a wall in front of Cao Miao, and when he came back, he was criticized by Zhong Yao for being polite and serious, and he was in a very bad mood.
Cui Liang stood behind Cui Lin, looking at the Zhong father and son brother who were very different in age, he inexplicably remembered Cao Miao's words and felt that Cao Miao's rumor was well-known and sounded very credible, which made people naturally associate it in that direction.
"Deru, do you think that child is really crazy or pretending to be crazy?" Zhong Yao said suddenly, his gray eyebrows raised and his expression calmly.
Cui Lin quickly opened his eyes and sat down. Taking the opportunity of tidying up his clothes, he adjusted his emotions. When he decided to meet Zhong Yao, he had already considered relevant issues. Cao Miaogang had a quarrel with Sima Yi, and in a blink of an eye he focused on the Ruying clan and the Wang clan of Taiyuan. It was obviously not a wise move. Since Cao Miao did not care about family affection, there was no need for Cui clan of Qinghe to bury him.
"What's the difference between being young and crazy, self-righteous, really crazy or pretending to be crazy?"
"Yes, young and crazy." Zhong Yao nodded gently while stroking his thick white beard. "Who has never been frivolous when he was young? If you don't fall a few times and suffer some setbacks, you won't grow up."
"Some people still can't grow up even if they fall."
"Such people should be locked up and take good care of their illnesses. They should not come out to cause trouble or harm others or themselves."
Cui Lin shivered and then said, "What the Grand Tutor said is very much."
Zhong Yao didn't say anything else and started talking to Cui Lin. Before he knew it, he talked about the Battle of Hedong that year.
Cui Lin became more and more frightened and even restless as he heard it. There were storms hidden under Zhong Yao's calm face. When this important official took action, it was not only Cao Miao who was overturned. Cao Zhi, who had returned soon, would inevitably be implicated and might even become a prisoner again. Even the emperor may be affected.
The young people he mentioned were not only Cao Miao, but also Emperor Cao Rui.
Although ten years have passed since the 24th year of Jian'an, those who know the inside story are still creepy whenever they think of it.
What should I do with Cui Family in Qinghe? They seemed to have no other choice but to follow Zhong Yao. If the emperor succeeded and the tragedy of Cui Yan being killed repeated, Cui Family in Qinghe would never have the chance to rise again.
The emperor was determined to modify the system of Emperor Wen and recontinue the system of Emperor Wu, and his intention to suppress the aristocratic families was very obvious.
"If you have an old family, you are a treasure. It is also a blessing for you to have an old minister like the Taifu in the Great Wei Dynasty." Cui Lin stroked his beard and chuckled softly: "In the past, Emperor Wu regarded the Taifu as Xiao He, but it was not entirely true. Xiao He could defend but not attack, but Taifu was both offensive and defensive. The battle in Hedong is enough to prove that the Taifu can not only be Xiao He, but also Zhou Bo."
Zhong Yao glanced at Cui Lin and laughed loudly. He pointed at Cui Lin. "Deru and Confucian, I can't bear it if you say that." He frowned and said, "Besides, Liu Ziyang is right. Today is a heroic lord like Qin Emperor Wu, Han Dynasty, and not an emperor of unknown origin like Shao Emperor."
Cui Lin took a breath of air conditioning and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He looked at Zhong Yao, and his scalp was numb. He read the history and knew the meaning behind this sentence.
Chapter completed!