The person who knows you the most is often not your friends, but your enemies.

This sentence is undoubtedly very applicable to the old enemies of Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

Lu Xiao guessed his identity just because of the unusual actions of those yamen runners to the He surnamed Fanzi, and even guessed the general plan of Dongchang.

The fan of He surnamed He also insisted on leaving Yao Town because of Lu Xiao's act of being arrogant. He guessed that Lu Xiao had already seen through his identity and went out at this time to prepare for dealing with the East Factory.

But what the surname Fanzi, surnamed He, didn't know that Lu Xiao thought of was not to ask for help from the boss of the Jinyiwei, but to take the opportunity to get rid of the firewood and directly ask Zhou Guan trouble of providing them with shelter.

Although Zhou Guan concealed the existence of Dongchang from Lu Xiao and even provided help in secret, Lu Xiao did not think that Zhou Guan would really turn to Dongchang completely.

He knew Zhou Guan and knew that Zhou Guan was just a coward who had no big ambitions and just hoped to make some money, live a wealthy life after resignation, and leave some wealth for his descendants.

Therefore, he believed that as long as he found Zhou Guan, explained the relationship between him and the East Factory, and at the same time described the attitudes of the civil servants in the Beijing court towards eunuchs to him, it would be enough to retract the timid Xin'an County Magistrate to his county government and dare not get involved with the East Factory again.

As long as the layer of Xin'an County government cloak outside the Dongchang was stripped of the outer layer of Xin'an County government, he did not believe that Dongchang would dare to compete with him, the Jinyiwei, who had the emperor's will. If they really dared to take such a big fuss, then he would not mind reporting the news to see if the emperor was willing to protect them.

...

As the Jinyiwei and the East Factory were fighting openly and secretly, Bai Shier was chatting with Zhu Jinxuan in a mess.

Dongchang used the skin of the Xin'an County government to block the entire town. In the Dongsheng Inn, which had not many customers, Bai Shier, as a guest, naturally became even more idle.

If he had been so leisurely in the past, he would have been very happy to see it.

But now, looking at Zhu Jinxuan, who was wearing men's clothes in front of him, no matter how he looked at him, Bai Shier would rather be twice as busy as usual at this time. He had already sent the person away, and Zhu Jinxuan said goodbye, why did this happen suddenly?

"The magistrate here must be a good official, right? Even if a theft occurred in such a remote town, he would come to investigate the case in person." Zhu Jinxuan naturally didn't know what Bai Shier was thinking. She was in a surprisingly good mood at this time.

Although she made up her mind to leave and had already taken action, theft would not happen sooner or later. But when she decided to leave, she didn't know how many twists and turns were there, she could only regard it as God's will. She felt that God would not let her leave.

At the same time, she secretly regretted her stupidity before.

Why didn’t I think about reporting to an official when I lost my wallet?

"Hehe." Bai Shier was too lazy to say anything except "hehe" twice.

It seems that I have said so much before. This silly girl is useful but I don’t remember it, but I have remembered a lot of useless things.

Bai Shier deeply felt the failure of his teaching.

Hearing Bai Shier's two unidentified laughters, Zhu Jinxuan couldn't help but look at him with a strange look, not understanding what he meant, and then her face darkened, thinking that maybe it was because Bai Shier had not forgiven her, so she didn't want to talk to her.

"Haha, Zhu, young master, don't be confused by this matter," Bai Shier was too lazy to say, but Sun Ji, who was also bored, was very interested. "Just go outside and ask for a little, you will know the true face of Zhou Bapi."

"Zhou Bapi?" Zhu Jinxuan's attention was attracted.

"Yes, Zhou Papi," Sun Ji walked out of the counter and stood beside the two of them, trying to keep his voice as low as possible, and whispered, "Who doesn't know the name of Zhou Papi in the county government in this entire Xin'an County." Sun Ji tsk out, "In my opinion, this time, 300 taels of silver will be stolen. After it is retrieved, it would be nice to have 100 taels left in the hands of the owner."

"One, one hundred taels?" Zhu Jinxuan was startled and looked at Sun Ji with disbelief.

"Hey, otherwise you would think that he, a seventh-rank magistrate, would be willing to go to our small town to deal with such trivial matters?" Sun Ji sneered twice with disdain.

"Okay, let's say a few less words," Bai Shier saw that Sun Ji's voice became louder and louder, so he could only speak helplessly and stop him, "Don't the yamen runners outside come when they will come. Are you afraid that this will reach the magistrate's ears?"

"I'm afraid of him." Although he was hard, Sun Ji's voice was obviously lowered by octaves, obviously not as tough as what he said.

"It's too much. As a court official, isn't it right for him to make decisions for the people? How dare he, how dare..." Sun Ji's voice became weaker, but Zhu Jinxuan's voice suddenly became louder, and her little face turned red again, but this time she was angry.

"Hey, lighter, lighter." This time, Sun Ji finally couldn't hold back. He stood up with a worried look to stop Zhu Jinxuan's "nonsense". He quickly walked to the door and looked out. After seeing that there was no one outside the door, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked back to the table again.

"Actually, Zhou Ba, Zhou Magistrate, Zhou Magistrate," Sun Ji quickly changed his words as Bai Shier glanced over, "Although Zhou Magistrate is a little greedy, he is a kind of person. He will do things after taking money and will never refuse. He is much better than other officials."

"But," Zhu Jinxuan was still indignant, "But it's too much to take away three hundred taels of silver at once."

"Hey, the world is like this, what can I do?" Sun Ji sighed.

"Actually, you can think about it from a different angle, so you don't have to be so angry." Bai Shier looked at Zhu Jinxuan, who was still angry, and explained with a smile.

“What angle?”

"If you think so, if you change to a useless official and don't care about this matter at all, wouldn't the three hundred taels be lost in vain? Now, as long as you find it, although two hundred taels will be taken away, isn't there still one hundred taels left? It's better than being lost in vain, right?"

"Hmph! False truth, nonsense." Zhu Jinxuan was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and cursed, but the corners of her mouth were slightly raised on her face.

"How can you live calmly without such misunderstandings in this world?" Bai Shier looked disconcerted, and his tender face was full of maturity and even vicissitudes that were not in line with his age.

"Little bastard." Just when Zhu Jinxuan felt a little distressed, Sun Ji's hand was already sucking down Bai Shier's head. "At a young age, he is pretending to be an adult here. If you have this time, why don't you hurry up and bring a pot of good tea to Mr. Zhu."
Chapter completed!