How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Upon learning that Xie Chengze was going to Liaozhou, Hu Lai hurried to the main hall. Taking advantage of the unmelted snow and ice on the soles of his boots and the slippery ground under his feet, he slid and knelt at Xie Chengze's feet.

He shouted, his expression sincere, "Your Highness! Your Highness! Please take me with you to Liaozhou!"

Xie Chengze didn't want to take him with him, so he made up an excuse, "My fourth brother and I will rush to Liaozhou first. Can you handle it?"

"Of course I can handle it! Before I came to Your Highness, I had traveled all over the world, riding a horse to and from various places at full speed. People called me Jian'an's Little Iron Butt! It's just a short distance from the capital to Liaozhou, nothing to be afraid of!" Hu Lai patted his old buttocks and said proudly, "Your Highness, you don't know, but my highest record when riding a horse before was..."

Xie Chengze didn't want to listen to his strange records, so he interrupted him and said, "Why don't you just take a leave with your salary like those retainers and stay in Chenghuan Palace to eat, drink and enjoy yourself? Why do you have to follow me to Liaozhou to suffer?"

Hu Lai immediately raised his head to the sky and said bitterly, "Your Highness, winter is approaching, it is time to add more clothes and firewood. My twenty-eight concubines..."

"Stop!" Xie Chengze raised his hand, not believing his excuse for the dish being ruined. "Speak human language."

"Okay..." Hu Lai rubbed his hands and told the truth, "I have a concubine in Liaozhou. I haven't seen her for a long time. I miss her very much... I am also a man. I haven't done that for a long time. I don't want to go to a brothel to make do..."

"Don't you have a favorite concubine in the capital?" Xie Chengze asked in confusion.

"It is so dangerous to work for the Second Prince! How dare I leave any evidence in the capital? Especially a responsible man like me, how can I put my wife and children in danger..." Hu Lai said shyly with his head down.

Xie Chengze: ... "Could it be that the person who gave you the gold before came to find you and asked you to go to Liaozhou to monitor me?"

mess:……

Hu Lai twirled his beard and said, "If your Highness thinks so, then I have nothing to say..."

Xie Chengze: "..." Ha! Scumbag! Sure enough, he just took the money!

"Give it here." Xie Chengze waved his fingers and said mercilessly, "Give me half."

"Your Highness..." Hu Lai blinked, "The other party didn't give much, it's really not enough to share..."

"You're too old, stop being cute." Xie Chengze stretched out his hand again and threatened, "If you don't give it to me, don't go!"

Hu Lai had no choice but to take out two gold cakes and hand them to Xie Chengze.

Xie Chengze extended his hand again.

Hu Lai gritted his teeth and handed over two more gold cakes.

Xie Chengze stretched out his hand again and again.

Hu Lai took out the last gold cake with tears in his eyes and wailed, "There are only ten pieces left! Your Highness, there are really no more!"

Xie Chengze threw the gold cake to Zhu Xiaobiao with satisfaction, "Xiaobiao, take this money and bribe those confiscated family soldiers, and then hire some experienced escorts to help General Dingyuan escort these family soldiers to Liaozhou!"

"Yes, Your Highness~" Zhu Xiaobiao took the gold cake and turned around to do his work.

Hu Lai looked at Zhu Xiaobiao's departing back reluctantly, and said to him from behind, "Your Highness, this man is unreliable at first glance, why not let me handle it."

Xie Chengze gave him a cold look and said, "I'll do it for you. This gold cake will be reduced by at least half."

"Your Highness, this is unfair!" Hu Lai cried out, "I can definitely reduce the price by 99.9%! And I am also saving money for you, Your Highness. You should understand my painstaking efforts!"

Xie Chengze chuckled. He was not afraid that Hu Lai would save money. He was afraid that Hu Lai would treat these family soldiers as slaves and abuse them. He would not give them food or clothes along the way. When they arrived in Liaozhou, he would lie to these family soldiers that there was food in the mountains, and let them fight to the death with the bandits, and both sides would suffer losses...

After all, this is something that only Hu Lai could do.

In the original book, most of the Second Prince's fierce assassins were trained by Hu Lai.

He is loyal indeed, but he is also cruel indeed!

"Just stay by my side obediently." Xie Chengze patted Hu Lai's shoulder and said earnestly, "You will not be short of benefits."

This person cannot be used, but he definitely cannot let anyone else use it either!

-

Yufu Palace.

"Mother, where is my life-saving pill? Why can't I find it?"

Xie Zimiao stuffed one hundred-year-old ginseng after another into the package. After searching through all the boxes and drawers, he still couldn't find his life-saving pill, so he couldn't help but ask Concubine Rou.

Concubine Rou sat on the tea couch sipping her tea, rolling her eyes in anger, "What do you want the life-saving pill for? Are you planning to give it to Cheng Huan Palace?"

They even took away so many century-old ginsengs. Why didn’t they just bring a hundred old hens with them to kill that ungrateful bastard together!

"It's freezing cold, my second brother is weak, and it's difficult to suppress the bandits, he might need it." Xie Zimiao rummaged through the box again, but couldn't find the life-saving pill. He couldn't help but look at Concubine Rou, frowning and said, "Mother, that was given to me by my uncle! We agreed to give each of us one pill, why did you covet mine!"

"Do you know how precious this life-saving pill is?" Concubine Rou slapped the tea table and said dissatisfiedly, "I didn't even give it to Your Majesty!"

"But you gave them all to Aunt Hua." Xie Zimiao pouted and muttered, "Then what's wrong with me giving them to my second brother?"

Concubine Rou: ???

"How can your Aunt Hua be the same as him? That little thing is just an ungrateful wolf..." Concubine Rou said, "He even blackmailed me for three thousand taels of silver before!"

"That was the money that my second brother used to donate silver, and didn't he give you the Yunduanjin and Canghaizhu?" Xie Zimiao argued, "Mother! Where did you hide my life-saving pill? My second brother must have been waiting for me outside the palace for a long time! Please take it out! Even if my second brother can't use it, what if I can use it?"

"You little brat, you're really turning your elbow outward!" Unable to persuade her son, Concubine Rou ordered someone to take out the life-saving pill, and then heard Xie Zimiao say, "Mother, has your uncle sent you any banknotes recently? Can you give me some?"

Concubine Rou: ...

Concubine Rou threw the small box containing the life-saving pill at him: Get out!

Outside the palace gate, Xie Chengze looked at the bruise on Xie Zimiao's forehead and asked in confusion, "What happened?"

Xie Zimiao touched his head and smiled, "I just bumped into it accidentally."

Xie Chengze took a closer look and saw that the bruise was swollen and painful. He couldn't help but blow on it and taught him, "Why don't you ask the doctor to apply some medicine for you? It won't cost you any more time."

Xie Zimiao blushed, lowered his head and said obediently, "It's okay, second brother, it will be fine in a while, let's go quickly."

Shaking his head helplessly, Xie Chengze climbed onto the horse.

In his previous life, he was a rich young man. When he had nothing to do during holidays, he became a VVIP client of major clubs. He would occasionally go to the equestrian club to ride horses, so his horse riding skills were not a problem.

I just don’t know if my butt can bear it.

General Dingyuan and the one hundred cavalrymen were left behind to escort the family soldiers to Liaozhou, while Xie Chengze, along with Xie Zimiao, Hu Lai and Wuhen Wuzhi, rode ahead on horseback.