"Wait!" Master Zhou stopped the jailer and glared at the green-robed official:
"This man committed a crime in the street and wanted to kill me. I am the victim."
He narrowed his eyes and said meaningfully: "Sir, please don't meddle in other people's business."
The other party was a fifth-rank official, and he could not be compared with his father. But he was an official of the Ministry of Justice after all, and had nothing to do with the Ministry of Revenue.
Master Zhou didn't want to be too decisive, but only hoped that the other party could understand that it was extremely unwise to offend a son of a minister no matter what.
The most taboo in the officialdom is to establish unnecessary enemies.
Unexpectedly, the green-robed official was not afraid at all, but sneered: "Master Zhou, go out and tell the minister what you said."
Master Zhou frowned and made eye contact with the old man. Uncle Chen whispered: "Minister Sun and the master have always been friends..."
The second half of the sentence meant that if there was no unexpected thing, he would not ask.
Otherwise, there is a problem.
Unwilling to let the cooked duck fly away, Master Zhou followed closely behind. As long as the problem was not serious, he would immediately catch Xu Qi'an and torture him to death.
Walking out of the prison of the Ministry of Justice, Xu Qi'an squinted his eyes under the bright sunshine to relieve the discomfort of his pupils.
He followed the green-robed official to the courtyard of the Ministry of Justice. There were many people in the courtyard, including officials of the Ministry of Justice wearing official robes of various colors; more than a dozen young people in white clothes; two carriages and dead horses; and two old men in Confucian robes with a unique style.
Master Zhou, who also saw everyone, was a little confused and didn't know what happened.
Master Zhou stopped when he heard the sound of shackles. The damn Xu Qi'an stopped, turned around, and said word by word:
"You should be glad that you didn't torture me. Let me introduce myself again. I am the new disciple of the Supervisor."
The old man's face changed drastically.
Mr. Zhou's expression instantly lost control.
This is impossible, he can't be the disciple of the chief.
But seeing the white-clothed people in the Si Tian Jian in the courtyard, Mr. Zhou and the old man remained silent.
Xu Qiyan ignored the two people and went straight forward. He glanced at the white-clothed people and unexpectedly didn't see Miss Caiwei.
That oval-faced beauty is not here?
Captain Wang delivered the alchemy secret book, but Miss Caiwei was not there... But the alchemists of the Si Tian Jian saw the contents of the book, so they came to save me?
Or maybe Miss Caiwei was busy with something and asked her fellow disciples to save me!
Xu Qiyan took a deep breath, and amid the clattering of shackles, "Xu Qiyan meets several senior brothers."
Senior brothers? Song Qing was stunned for a moment, and looked at Xu Qiyan: "Did you write the book?"
His eyes were a little unfriendly... Xu Qiyan nodded: "This is not the place to talk about things. After leaving the Ministry of Justice, whatever you want to ask, Ning Yan will tell you everything."
Seeing Xu Qiyan talking to the white-clothed man from the Imperial Observatory, Mr. Zhou's expression was a little dull. He turned his eyes away stiffly, unwilling to believe it from the bottom of his heart. He walked quickly to the side of Minister Sun and whispered:
"Sir Sun, someone from the Imperial Observatory..."
Minister Sun glanced at him: "Looking for someone from me."
Mr. Zhou's body shook.
The thin old man's breathing suddenly became rapid.
Is he really a disciple of the Imperial Observatory? ! This is impossible, and if he is a disciple of the Imperial Observatory, the tax and silver case would never have affected the Xu family.
Tax and silver case!!
The thin old man thought of a possibility, what if he was accepted as a disciple by the Imperial Observatory after the tax and silver case.
He did solve the secret of tax silver and made fake silver. It is possible that the Supervisor would make an exception and accept him as a disciple, even very likely.
Besides, if he is not the Supervisor's disciple, why would this group of white-clothed people gather here?
At this time, the thin old man noticed the two silent scholars and the horses with strange deaths.
He stared at them for a moment, and suddenly his body shook, recognizing the two scholars from Yunlu Academy.
The thin old man rolled his throat, "Shangshu, those two scholars..."
"They are also here to ask for someone." Shangshu Sun said expressionlessly.
Mr. Zhou's face was stiff, and he turned his head little by little and looked at the old man.
....
"Are you Xu Qiyan?"
Xu Qiyan turned his head and saw an old man in a gray robe and a goatee. He thought to himself, who are you, old man?
"I am the teacher who is bidding farewell to the old man." Another old man in blue robe said, he looked at Xu Qian'an with a gentle smile: "Don't worry about having no friends in the future, everyone in the world knows you. But you wrote it?"
"I am sorry to make you laugh at me, my senior." Xu Qian'an said: "My name is Ningyan."
Introducing your "name" to strangers is the most basic etiquette, because it is taboo to call someone by their name. If you don't introduce your "name", it means that you don't want to make friends with others.
The smile on the face of the old man in blue robe became deeper.
"This matter is over, let's leave the Ministry of Justice first." Over there, Song Qing couldn't help but urge.
Immediately, a jailer came forward and untied Xu Qian'an's shackles and shackles.
"Okay!" Xu Qian'an nodded.
The people of the Sitianjian smiled. Their purpose was achieved, and the person was coming back. They were looking forward to the next meeting.
Li Mubai and Zhang Shen, two great scholars, were unwilling to stay any longer, because they would be greeted by a fierce battle.
"Huh!"
Seeing Xu Qiyan leave with the others, Master Zhou felt relieved, and he had a fear and trepidation that he was unwilling to admit.
"Wait a minute!" Xu Qiyan suddenly stopped.
The Imperial Observatory and the two great scholars looked at him.
"I have something else to deal with." Xu Qiyan bowed, turned and walked towards Master Zhou, and when he passed by the jailer, he snatched the wooden shackles.
"You, what do you want to do?" Master Zhou retreated in shock.
"Xu Qiyan, my father is the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, you dare to touch me? You dare to do it in the Ministry of Justice? Lord Sun, Minister Sun, quickly take down this thief... Uncle Chen, save me..."
Bang!
Xu Qiyan swung the shackles and smashed them fiercely on Zhou Li's head, and the broken wood flew across.
Master Zhou's eyes rolled back, and he fell straight back, with bright red blood flowing from his hair.
Xu Qiyan looked at the thin old man expressionlessly: "Slap me to death."
The whole place was silent!
"In front of my senior brothers and the adults of the Ministry of Justice, in front of the two great scholars, slap me, this ant, to death, quickly."
The anger on his face receded like a tide, and the thin old man froze there, not daring to move.
...
I have walked through the gates of hell... It turns out that only the second generation of officials can deal with the second generation of officials, and the fairness and justice of the law is limited to small people... Xu Qiyan bathed in the sunshine of early winter and felt that he had been reborn.
Just after leaving the Ministry of Justice, Xu Qiyan saw two fast horses galloping at the end of the long street. They were Xu Erlang and Xu Ershu.
The father and son also saw Xu Qiyan surrounded by the white clothes of the Si Tianjian, and Xu Ershu's tense face obviously relaxed.
Why are the people of the Si Tianjian here... Xu Ershu's eyes flashed with confusion. He himself is a master at the peak of Qi training and participated in the Battle of Shanhaiguan. He will not worship the sorcerers of the Sitianjian as gods like ordinary people.
Xu Xinnian pulled the reins of the horse, examined his cousin without leaving any trace, breathed a sigh of relief, and bowed deeply: "Thank you, teacher, thank you, Mr. Mu Bai."
Xu Qi'an had to bow to the people of the Sitianjian first, and then bowed to the two great scholars again with his cousin.
Li Mubai said regretfully: "With such a talent for poetry, how can you become a yamen runner, Ning Yan, are you interested in coming to Yunlu Academy to practice Confucianism?"
Less than two quarters of an hour after knowing each other, Ning Yan called him... Zhang Shen added: "It's just right that you can become my disciple."
Xu Qi'an: "???"