While Meier was advising the saint in the palace, the Prime Minister Xiahou Yuanzhen led Xiahoujie out of the palace.

After leaving the palace, the guards of the Prime Minister's Office took Xia Houjie's stretcher from the Dragon Scale Guards and carried him into the carriage.

The carriage of the Prime Minister was naturally unusual. It was a four-horse carriage with a spacious and luxurious carriage. The guards carefully lifted Xia Houjie onto the soft couch in the carriage before retreating.

After Xiahou Yuanzhen got on the car, he sat down opposite Ruantan and stared at Huaiyang Hou coldly.

Xia Houjie lay on the soft couch, not daring to look at his father, but cold sweat was already dripping on his forehead.

"You have walked away from the gate of hell." When the carriage started to move forward, Xiahou Yuanzhen said coldly: "If you are not a descendant of the Xiahou family, this head will definitely be chopped off."

Xia Houjie hurriedly said: "Father, aunt...!"

"Shut up!" Xiahou Yuanzhen said coldly: "The person in the palace is a saint, not your aunt. From now on, if I hear you say "aunt" again, I will break your legs."

Xia Houjie showed fear, but still said softly: "My child has recorded it." He thought of something and hurriedly said: "Father, my child... My child cannot go to the north. There was a feud between the Taishi family and our Xiahou family. At the beginning,

The eldest brother cut off the arm of Taishi Cunxu's cousin in the school field competition...!" Seeing Xiahou Yuanzhen's stern expression, he did not dare to say anything, so he changed his words and said: "My child is going north, if he falls into Taishi Cunxu's hands...

Here, Taishi Cunxu will definitely try every means to torture the child."

"You don't have to go." Xiahou Yuanzhen said calmly.

Xia Houjie showed joy and said hurriedly: "Thank you very much, father, then...!"

"If you don't want to go to the north, I won't force you." Xiahou Yuanzhen said in a cold voice: "After returning home, I will personally prepare poisonous wine for you. If you drink the poisonous wine, I will tell the saint tomorrow that you have done something wrong.

Feeling guilty, he committed suicide by taking poison, so there would be no need to go north again."

Xia Houjie said in shock: "Father, you want me to commit suicide by taking poison?"

"The fact that you can save a life is already a virtue accumulated by the ancestors of the Xiahou family." Xiahou Yuanzhen sneered: "Actually, I really hope you can die."

Xia Houjie was startled, and there was a trace of fear in his eyes, but more of it was anger.

"Do you hate me in your heart?" Xiahou Yuanzhen said slowly: "I have always doted on your eldest brother these years, but I have been very, very cold to you. Your eldest brother is a dragon scale captain, but you are just a member of the household department.

Since you are idle, you naturally think that I don't want to support you."

Xia Houjie couldn't help but said: "I don't dare, but... my father does prefer the eldest brother."

Xiahou Yuanzhen snorted coldly and said: "Fortunately, I made the right choice. I have been training your brother for many years and have placed my trust in him for the future of the Xiahou family. If I really hand over the Xiahou family to your hands, the Xiahou family will definitely be destroyed."

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"I know my father has always looked down upon me." Xia Houjie said angrily: "When I go to the north this time, my father can be out of sight and out of mind."

"Do you feel that you are wronged?" Xiahou Yuanzhen sneered: "Let me ask you, who taught you to connect the chief officers of the three divisions and use ordnance to embezzle military expenditures?"

Xia Houjie was startled, his eyes averted, he didn't dare to look at Xia Hou Yuanzhen, and said sarcastically: "The child was confused for a moment...!"

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Until now, you still haven't told the truth?" Xiahou Yuanzhen sneered: "Someone is using you as a tool to manipulate you, and you still don't know it. How did I give birth to such a fool like you." A pair of eyes looked at Xiahou Jie coldly, and he said in a deep voice.

Said: "What kind of ulterior motives are there between you and She Yue? Why don't you just bring it up?"

Xia Houjie changed color slightly and lost his voice: "Father, you...you know everything?"

"What did she do to trick you?" Xiahou Yuanzhen asked calmly.

Xia Houjie hesitated for a moment and finally said: "Three years ago, she told me that ordnance could be used to make a fuss. She said that the world was at peace, and the ordnance in the armory was piled there all year round, and the imperial court would pull out a large number of weapons every year.

Silver forges weapons...!" He glanced at Xiahou Yuanzhen timidly, and saw Xiahou Yuanzhen staring at him with his eyes, not daring to hide it, and continued: "She Yue said that as long as the chief officers of the three divisions can be connected together,

, I can pass it off as good, save a lot of military expenses, and the money can fall into my pocket."

"So you secretly hooked up with the chief officer of the Third Division?"

Xia Houjie hummed lightly and said: "I found them one by one in private, but they didn't dare to disobey. She Yue taught me how to operate. Later, I brought the three people together and planned this matter according to the method She Yue said.

That’s it!”

"With your brain, you can't come up with such a plan." Xiahou Yuanzhen said calmly: "Did She Yue ever get a tael of silver from Tanmo's shipping fee?"

"No." Xia Houjie said hurriedly: "She saw that I was always short of money, so she came up with this idea for me. It's not a bad intention."

Xiahou Yuanzhen laughed strangely and said: "My son is really pure-hearted. He still thinks that woman has good intentions. She is in charge of the inner treasury, and Baofenglong will have a large amount of money sent to her every year. If

She really wants to treat you well, so why not just give you some money instead of going through all the trouble to get you to go to the armory? Giving you tens of thousands taels a year is just a drop in the bucket to her."

Xia Houjie's lips moved slightly, but he could not speak.

"I know you have evil thoughts about her." Xiahou Yuanzhen said coldly: "You think of her as a cousin, but she only thinks of you as a stupid pig. She doesn't get a single benefit from using the armory to embezzle military funds.

No, why should I help you with advice? You covet her and are fascinated by her beauty. How could you know that she is a real poisonous snake." He raised his hand to stroke his beard and said coldly: "He knew you were stupid, so he had already

Planting trouble on you, you became the handle in her hand, just to deal with your father."

Xia Houjie was surprised and said: "She...she wants to deal with dad?"

"I was confused and didn't know that you and her were having such an affair in private." Xiahou Yuanzhen said lightly: "But since she wanted to use this as an excuse, she naturally tried every means to hide this matter from me and you.

There has been no revelation, so naturally she is covering up for you behind the scenes." Staring at Xia Houjie, he asked: "She taught you to do this, can you provide evidence that she was instigating it behind the scenes?"

Xia Houjie thought for a moment and shook his head in embarrassment.

"You have no evidence to prove that she was the instigator, so she is clean in this matter." Xiahou Yuanzhen looked at Xia Houjie, with a trace of pity in his eyes: "She is only one year older than you, but you

In front of her, even a three-year-old child is inferior."

Xia Houjie seemed to come to his senses at this time and said angrily: "That bitch, she...she dared to play tricks on me."

"If Qin Xiao hadn't suddenly revealed this, who is your cousin?

You must take advantage of this moment to take action at any time, and you will definitely catch me off guard." Xiahou Yuanzhen's eyes twitched slightly: "The exposure of the weapons case this time caught your cousin off guard and she was unable to recover immediately.

, we can take the lead tonight and take the initiative to apologize to the saint. If it is a little later, your cousin will not be polite to us." He stared at Xiahou Jie and said: "Not only will your life be in danger, but also my Xiahou family's.

The company’s reputation will also be severely damaged.”

"He wants to kill me?" Xia Houjie said in horror.

"Your life or death is not important to him. What is important is that she needs to use you to attack the Xiahou family." Xiahou Yuanzhen was really helpless about Xiahou Jie's hindsight and asked: "Three chief officials were murdered in Dali Temple.

Is it also her instigation?"

Xia Houjie glanced at Xiahou Yuanzhen, feeling guilty, and said honestly: "She Yue didn't ask me to kill anyone, but I was worried that those three people would really confess. If they were handed over to the Ministry of Punishment by Dali Temple, it would be too late to do anything.

So Hai'er thought that they should be silenced before they were handed over. Sinong Feng of Dali Temple happened to be on good terms with Hai'er, so... Hai'er sent someone to send a secret letter to Sinong Feng, ordering him to

Kill those three people."

"I don't blame you for this matter." Xiahou Yuanzhen said calmly: "After the incident, you were able to think of resolutely suppressing the news and being non-toxic and husbandless. This is one of your rare strengths."

After being praised by his father, Xia Houjie showed a hint of joy and said as if he was taking credit: "The secret letter my son sent to Si Nongfeng was not signed, so even if he keeps the secret letter in his hand, it cannot prove that it is me."

Send someone to deliver it."

"It's enough to kill the three chief officials to silence them. Why did you kill Qin Xiao?" Xiahou Yuanzhen looked ugly.

Xia Houjie said: "Qin Xiao exposed this matter. Ha'er...Hai'er naturally can't let him go. Ha'er found out that after he came to Beijing, he took over the grudge with Qingyi Hall, so...

.So the child wants to use Qingyi Hall to kill him."

"Have you already colluded with Qingyi Hall?" Xiahou Yuanzhen's face became increasingly grim.

Xia Houjie said bravely: "Yes...She Yue once told me that Jiang Qianxing from Qingyi Hall is hers. If you want to do something that is not easy for others to know, you can ask Jiang Qianxing for help."

Jiang Qianxing came to me a year ago and said that he wanted to do some small business in Kyoto. As long as I invested 5,000 taels of silver, I could earn 20,000 taels of silver every year. The child was confused for a while and thought that he did not dare to cheat.

I just... gave him 10,000 taels of silver, and at the end of the year he actually gave the child 20,000 taels of silver."

"Good business." Xiahou Yuanzhen said calmly and calmly: "Why would he bring you with him for such a good thing? Qingyi Hall is short of your five thousand taels of silver?"

Xia Houjie hurriedly said: "Father, you...don't worry, my business with him is a secret deal, no one knows that I do business with him, and...and the child has always been wary of him.

, I never talked to him about the Taiping Society. My child knew that he was approaching me, maybe he wanted to find out some things about the Taiping Society from me, but my child was very tight-lipped and never said a word about anything about the Taiping Society.

.....The kid just wants to get some money from him...!"

"Li Ling is stupid!" Xiahou Yuanzhen sneered: "The backer behind Qingyi Hall is She Yue, who gives you twenty thousand taels of silver every year. Do you really think She Yue is as stupid as you? He set a trap to get rid of Qin Xiao.
Chapter completed!