After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

The two of them were talking, when a young man ran up and whispered something in the emperor's ear.Seeing the emperor frowning and waving his hands, Zhou Xun asked him after Xiao Er left, "What's wrong?"

"Someone wanted to go up to the third floor to eat, but he came out with a 100 tael bank note, and I sent him away." The emperor said.

"Come up to eat together?" Zhou Xun said.

The emperor nodded: "I guess he was overwhelmed by my heroic appearance, so he wants to come up and have lunch with me."

Zhou Xun: "?? Ah?"

Seeing Zhou Xun's mouth twitch, the emperor said seriously, "Don't believe me, this is the conclusion I came to through careful judgment."

Zhou Xun said, "Tell me about it?"

"I just asked the waiter. There are clearly seats on the first and second floors, but those people want to come to the third floor. They would rather spend money than sit near me. This is one of them."

"Secondly, this person clearly knows that the third floor is reserved, and the people who can reserve the third floor of the Huiyi Building are either rich or expensive, and they are definitely beyond the reach of ordinary people, but they still want to come up to add stuff. If it's just for a meal Fan, it's really unreasonable... It can't be because there are shady people in it, and I'm embarrassed to show up in front of the public, right?"

The "shameful" Zhou Cai downstairs sneezed.

……

"Therefore, I judge that these people have other plans. Rather than simply coming up to eat, they must have noticed my domineering aura of the traverser, and want to make friends with me." The emperor confidently gave the judgment, "However, eating with Buffett costs several million dollars, and eating with me, you want to spend 100 taels of silver?"

Zhou Xun: ...I don't know why, although the reasoning process is correct, it feels like you have come up with a completely wrong answer.

"And the two of us were finally able to come out to eat together, how can we let idlers pass it away." The emperor said boldly, "A mere 100 taels of silver wants to ruin our perfect date, although 100 taels of silver is money, but I refuse! Heh heh !"

Zhou Xun: ...

Emperor: "This kind of close routine is too old-fashioned, come on? Would you like to eat more?"

… Zhou Cai and others downstairs did not expect that their actions would be led to wrong conclusions by the emperor through correct reasoning.The diners upstairs refused to budge, so they had to share this condescending meal with others downstairs.After paying the bill, Li Miao comforted Zhou Cai.Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered to him: "Don't worry, I have dealt with the people in the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Even if they don't give you face, they should give me some face..."

Zhou Cai bit her lip and said gratefully, "I really don't know how to be grateful..."

Seeing his appearance, Li Miao felt hot in his heart.He whispered: "Actually, I know about you and that Zhou Xun... and the stories between you and Rong Fen."

He saw Zhou Cai tremble all over, as if he was taken aback.He continued: "Don't worry, I don't think you are at fault in this matter."

Listening to him, Zhou Cai wondered if Li Miao suddenly mentioned these things, was he trying to use this as an excuse to blackmail him.Unexpectedly, Li Miao continued: "Although I don't know how he got out of the palace and hooked up with the emperor, these concubines and concubines are originally from lowly backgrounds—even if they die for the sons and daughters, they should die. Yes He didn't keep his duty first, no wonder you."

Zhou Cai's eyelashes moved, and he whispered, "A Miao, I really don't know how to repay you."

"I am the heir of the Duke Protector's Mansion, do I still need your repayment?" Li Miao patted him on the shoulder.

Zhou Cai knows that gifts without a price tag are the most difficult to get: "I don't like to owe favors to others, you must let me repay this favor, otherwise I will have trouble sleeping and eating..."

"If you want to talk about something, there is indeed one thing." Li Miao thought for a while, "My grandfather's [-]th birthday this year, ordered me to come and invite Shen Shoufu first, but unfortunately I prepared many gifts and invited many times, but I was rejected .”

"Maybe the gift is not what he likes." Zhou Cai comforted him, "My master and Shen Shoufu have old friends, maybe it can help you..."

"By the way, your master!" Li Miao's eyes lit up, "Your master was also a famous Confucian in the capital,—"

——It’s just that he lost to Shen Huanju at the symposium, and resigned in a rage and returned home.

——It was rumored that Shen Huanju felt ashamed because of this.

Zhou Cai nodded and said, "Leave this matter to me."

Hearing these words, Li Miao felt even more fond of Zhou Cai's character of never wanting to owe anyone.Before he could express his gratitude, he heard his friend surnamed Zhu gasp: "Look at that person next to him, does he look a bit like... Ah Cai?"

"Looks like Ah Cai?" Wei Yuanzhou was stunned as soon as he looked over.

Zhou Xun also looked over at this time.

He didn't expect that he would meet Zhou Cai here.

The last time I met Zhou Cai was the last time he went to Zhou Mansion.He saw that the last remnants of himself and his mother's life in Zhou's mansion were also razed to the ground, and he finally let go of the last part of his heart that was hard to express for the Zhou family.

The emperor has not come down yet.

Now that Zhou Xun and Zhou Cai and their party are meeting each other as enemies, they are extremely jealous.Seeing that he seemed to have just come out of Huiyi Building, Wei Yuanzhou sneered and said, "My brother is in prison, but my brother is still interested in eating here. You are really a filial son of the Zhou family."

Zhou Xun just raised his eyelids, and looked at Zhou Cai next to him meaningfully.

He didn't say "bounce back" like a child quarreling, but the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.

Only then did Wei Yuanzhou realize that what he said just now was not just scolding Zhou Xun, but Zhou Cai was also scolded.He was about to get angry when Li Miao patted him on the shoulder and said in a low voice, "Why talk to this little mother."

As the grandson of the eldest son, Li Miao's dislike for these bastards was deeply rooted.Not to mention the concubine, even if it is from a folk prescription, he should be inferior to the concubine by nature.They are only qualified to use the leftovers from the son-in-law.The friend surnamed Zhu also echoed: "Yes, the ones raised by my little mother are raised by my little mother after all. They are all humble in their blood, and their natural knowledge is there. It seems that they have become prosperous and can't get on the stage. Why should we be as knowledgeable as these inferior people? , without the Zhou Mansion, this person is just a grasshopper after autumn, and he won't be able to jump for a few years—"

"Hey, who do you think is the grasshopper after the autumn?" An old man's voice sounded behind them, "You guys seem to be our sons too, how can you talk without reason?"

Several people turned their heads, and after seeing the person who came, they couldn't help showing a little more contempt in their eyes.This person's hair is gray and his clothes are gray. He looks very old. He is nothing more than the most common old man in the streets and alleys.Only when Zhou Xun saw him, his eyes lit up and he opened his mouth: "Master——"

The old man shook his fingers and made a quiet gesture.

Zhou Xun was amused.

The old man was carrying the wine jug—obviously, he ran back to Yilou to get wine again.In addition, he played his favorite little trick - pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

——Yes, after learning from the old man for the past few months, Zhou Xun discovered the little evil hidden under the inscrutable appearance of the old man.Hiding his identity, slapping his face in the street, and then walking away - it is said that this is the old man's favorite thing to do when he was young.

"The few of us are talking, what are you meddling in here?" One person said.

Seeing the corner of the black clothes fluttering on the other side, the old man said unhurriedly: "This is the capital city, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, how dare you yellow-mouthed children utter wild words to offend the Holy Majesty? Let's do something like this."

"Business?" Wei Yuanzhou sneered, "You—"

Just as he was about to speak, he saw a black figure walking behind Zhou Xun, and his face turned pale.

That is……

emperor!

"Since the establishment of the Jing Dynasty, only one emperor came from the Central Palace." The old man tutted, "Your words 'raised by a young lady' are really..."

That's right, today's sage is not from the middle palace.After the death of Zhonggong, although his mother and concubine became the empress dowager, she was always worried about her being a concubine at the beginning, so she worked hard for several years.Although the Holy Majesty is absurd, he is also famously filial.At the beginning, the Empress Dowager said that she was not in a hurry to accept a concubine. In his palace, there was not even a single woman...

What he said just now was a violation of the emperor's taboo!

Wei Yuanzhou and Zhu's faces turned pale, but Li Miao quickly confessed to the emperor: "I didn't..."

But the emperor ignored him.

"This is," the emperor whispered to Zhou Xun, "your master?"

Zhou Xun nodded.

Zhou Cai looked at the gray old man strangely.

This gray old man is Zhou Xun's master?It seems that it is nothing more than that.

But there are some reasons, Zhou Xun has no family background, and the other is that he has been in the palace for so many years, and his studies have been neglected.But any respected Confucian would be ashamed to be with him after knowing his experience.

So it's no wonder that this so-called master seems to be just a person in the market.

But what he didn't expect was that the emperor would be respectful to that old man: "Here, Mr. Shen, where did the wind come from to bring you here today?"

"Come out for a drink." The old man shook the flagon, "By the way, the weather is fine, so come out for a walk."

As he spoke, he looked at the emperor and Zhou Xun, and suddenly squeezed his eyes: "Young Master Rong seems to be out to play with my apprentice today? Just right, two people are playing together, three are playing together, let's go play together? "

"We, we are not going to play today." The emperor coughed, "We are going to the Ministry of Punishment."

The old man smiled: "It's just right, I was a minister there more than 30 years ago, let's go there together today?"

emperor:……

The old man looked at Zhou Xun: "What do you think?"

The emperor also looked at Zhou Xun.

Zhou Xun: ...Don't all look at me.

This strange atmosphere, the play of these three people...

In the end, the three of them went together, and before leaving, the old man lightly said, "That old thing, Duke Hu, can't be taught by his grandson."The emperor, however, left a sentence, asking Duke Hu to discipline his son well, and by the way, let the Wei family and Zhu family take good care of their children.

These two people didn't take Zhou Cai seriously at all, and they didn't even mention a single word, which undoubtedly frustrated Zhou Cai's heart.As for Zhou Xun, he didn't care about him the whole time. He was left, right, old, and young, and he had a headache.

It was Li Miao who was hit the hardest here. He looked at the old man in disbelief.

"That old man... no, that old gentleman, Mr. Shen Huanju?"

"Why...he has something to do with Zhou Xun?"

The author has something to say: the next chapter (OOC speaks)

Emperor: Old man, your code is the most useless!

Old Man Shen: Your vocabulary is poor!poor!