That afternoon, Chen Xi stayed in Xie’s mansion for a family dinner and met Xie Qian’s concubine Jin for the first time.

When it comes to being beautiful, Chen Xi really didn't think Jin was so charming. After all, she was a woman in her forty years and had passed the most beautiful time in a woman's life. Jin was very sensible. Being able to eat at the dinner table was a "gift" of Xie Qiantianda. She lowered her head and didn't speak during the meal.

Xie Qian's younger brother Xie Di has been talking to Chen Xi.

Xie Di and Chen Xi were Jinshi of the same year, and are now the Wailang, the military election department of the Ministry of War. This time, the Ministry of War was extremely busy with military use in the northwest. During this period, Xie Qian occasionally talked to Xie Di about some military affairs, but he didn't have any deep knowledge.

Xie Qian did not intend to tell Xie Di about the upcoming news that the court would "stop the war".

At the dinner table, except for Xie Di and Shen Xijian who occasionally said a few words, everyone was silent... This is the basic etiquette at the dinner table, not talking about food or sleep.

Xie Pi was a little confused and looked at his wife Shi Xiaojing from time to time, for fear that Xie Qian would directly test his knowledge during the meal and make him lose his majesty in front of his wife.

Fortunately, Xie Qian did not take the exam for his son during the meal. After the meal, the female family returned to the inner courtyard. Xie Qian then called Xie Pi to the study and took the exam for the school. Only Chen Xi and Xie Di were listened to.

The contents that Xie Qian examined are not complicated, they are all basic meanings of the Four Books.

Chen Xi thought to himself, if Xie Pi didn’t even know these things, then don’t take the Jinshi exam, and there wouldn’t be such simple questions.

Finally, Xie Qian nodded with satisfaction and praised: "Very good, very good."

Chen Xi thought to himself, maybe Xie Laoer is really old, and it is difficult to waste knowledge and other things for too long, so it is difficult to pick it up again, but it is too difficult to let an old man in his fifties put down his official duties and study knowledge.

It was not until the beginning of the update that Chen Xi came out of Xie's house. He was so energetic that he had a good family dinner. He wanted to leave before, but due to his affection, he ended up.

Chen Xi took a carriage home. On the way, Yun Bo didn't say anything. Chen Xi lay on his back and was dozing in a daze. Suddenly, he heard Yun Bo's "whip" and the carriage suddenly stopped. Chen Xi almost fell head-on. He sat up straight, lifted the curtain and asked, "Yun Bo, what's wrong?"

"Master, there is someone at the door of the house."

Yun Bo said, looking nervous.

Chen Xi then realized that he was almost home. He got off the carriage and saw a person standing in front of the carriage, as if he suddenly jumped out of the road and blocked the carriage's way.

This person has a weak figure and seems to have not eaten enough, and he doesn't look energetic.

"who?"

Chen Xi looked at it carefully and Uncle Yun was a little nervous. After all, his master was an official and had just returned from the south to suppress bandits. If it were the remnants of the bandits, it would be better.

The man replied respectfully: "Mr. Shen, he is young."

In a word, Chen Xi vaguely remembered where he heard it. Maybe it was time to change, and the voice was not very real, and it was so dark that it was hard to see clearly. Chen Xi thought about it and asked, "Is it Peng Yu?"

“It’s just the small one.”

The man came over and kowtowed to Chen Xi respectfully.

The brothers of the carriage and horse gang guarding at the door of the house heard a sound on this side, and came over with lanterns and sticks. They were about to drive them away, but Chen Xi stopped him.

Chen Xidao: "It's okay, get up, go and talk to your house. Don't stick around, this is your own person."

Peng Yu suddenly visited the door, and it seemed to be very down and out. Chen Xi knew that Peng Yu must have suffered.

When he helped rescue Li Jin and Hui Niang from the Ministry of Justice, the person who was operating was Peng Yu. Peng Yu was the only person who knew the identity of the buyer and seller and threaded needles from it. Chen Xi thought to himself: "Is it because Peng Yu was in a bad mood and wanted to come to the door to threaten me, give him money or give him convenience?"

Peng Yu didn't know that he was suspected by Chen Xi, so he followed Shen Xi step by step, and did not dare to look up, and entered the yard with a hunched over.

Chen Xi arrived at the main hall and asked someone to light up the lamp. He told Yun Bo and others to wait outside. He wanted to talk to Peng Yu alone.

After only two people were left in the hall, they closed the door, Chen Xi returned to the Taishi chair and sat down, and asked, "Peng Yu, if you have anything to say, just say it."

Peng Yu is not Yi and he looks young, but he is a position of Yinxi. He deals with officials on weekdays. Now he knows that visiting people are suspicious. He kneels on the ground and kowtows:

"Mr. Shen is so worried. The young man is desperate... At the end of the first year, a population transaction was exposed. The court investigated it to the end. In the end, four people from the Ministry of Justice asked for the execution, more than twenty people were appointed as soldiers, and the villain managed to escape, and then he was lucky enough to escape, but his position in the Imperial Horse Supervisor was lost."

"The villain has never had a way out. In addition, most of the money in his family is used to bribe Shangguan. The only thing left is to spend money, so he wants to come and join the adults and make a living with him!"

"Sir, the young ones have old ones and younger ones. Just let the young ones... follow you, and you will never be vague."

Chen Xi didn't want to agree to this request because Peng Yu was involved in the major case of the Ministry of Justice. If he was left by his side and turned around and was investigated, even Li Jin and Hui Niang might be implicated.

Killing and silencing is the best choice, but Chen Xi is not such a person. After all, Peng Yu has to be kind to him. It is not a thing to repay kindness to revenge. Moreover, he promised Peng Yu that he would open a mansion in the future and guarantee that Peng Yu has a future and that he cannot speak without trust.

Chen Xi nodded: "Get up."

"Sir, you won't agree, you won't get up."

Peng Yu said with tears and tears, even his wife, children, and children were almost unable to care about them. The money at home had been sold out two months ago. During this period, the whole family was hungry. If the young man had not been forced to disturb Mr. Shen, but the young man had no idea who else could be found except Mr. Shen. Woo, Mr. Shen, you will give the poor little man the poor..."

Chen Xidao: "It's okay, my friend has the right to be rich, so it's time to come to me. Although I have no official vacancies for the time being, it's okay to support a few people. I have said before, if you help me, if I have a meal, I will never let you be hungry. Get up and talk!"

Hearing Chen Xi's promise, Peng Yu stood up with gratitude and tears, but he still did not dare to stand up and bent down to show respect.

Chen Xi walked to the door, opened the door, and asked Uncle Yun to prepare some simple food. Soon the food was brought in exactly the food prepared for him at night. Chen Xi had a banquet at Xie Mansion and was not hungry, so he let Peng Yu enjoy it.

Peng Yu went to the table and ate the food in big mouthfuls. He looked obviously very hungry, and Chen Xi was roughly asking about the situation.

"...Sir, don't worry, your affairs are small, and it's not a single benefit to the villain, right? Even if something happens to me in the future, I won't say a word that is not a bad thing for the adult."

Peng Yu gave Chen Xi a promise.

Chen Xi knew how valuable the so-called principle was when a person encountered a desperate situation. He did not ask Peng Yu to be held on his neck without saying that, but only asked Peng Yu to think about his interests and his family, keep secrets and make some exchanges of interests.

Chen Xidao: "If you walk by the river often, how can you not get your shoes wet? It's okay to do this kind of business once or twice. If you do too much, something will happen. What are you going to do in the future?"

"As long as you can give me some food, you can do anything." Although Peng Yu was anxious, he did not finish all the food. He planned to pack most of the food in oil paper and take it back for his wife and children to eat.

Peng Yu suffered a huge change. His family was not a wealthy family. In order to save him, he basically lost all his money. Now he is living a miserable life.

Chen Xi asked Yun Bo to bring ten taels of silver and put it in front of Peng Yu: "Take it first, this is for you to settle your family. What should you do? Let's make arrangements later. You can settle your family and come and act accordingly!"

"Sir Xie, Sir Xie!"

Peng Yu knelt down and kowtowed to Chen Xi again.

Chen Xi didn't want to arrange Peng Yu around him, and no one wanted to know the secret in his heart. However, whether Peng Yu was in the same mind as him was still doubtful. In addition, even if the secret was not revealed to outsiders, if his family found out by chance, he would have no face to deal with it.

From the very beginning, Chen Xi knew that there was a sinister relationship between him and Hui Niang. If he hadn't come with Tiancong, he would have been unforgettable from the first sight of Hui Niang and would never have come to this point today.

At this point, Hui Niang, just like him, wanted the original Sun Hui Niang to die completely, and to have no worries from now on, and to accept her new identity now.

"Peng Yu, I believe you, but others will not reveal this matter, right?" Chen Xi asked.

"Sir, no one knows that it was made by you by the adult. If you are worried and cut off the villain's tongue, as long as the adult can give the young wife and children a bite of food, even if the young one dies, he will keep the secret for the adult."

Peng Yu cried while expressing his loyalty to Chen Xi. He knew that this was a necessary attitude, otherwise Chen Xi would not be able to keep him by his side. You should know that his actions of seeking Chen Xi in trouble were in a coercive way.

Of course, Chen Xi would not cut Peng Yu's tongue, so he comforted him and sent Peng Yu out of the house himself.

When the people left, Chen Xi was still worried, and the case was finally leaked. However, the court did not know who died and who was rescued. But if someone exposed Hui Niang's incident on the fire that day, it was actually not necessary to prove that it was Chen Xi who did it, and others could guess it.

It is obvious that others have not had any relationship with Hui Niang, so who would rescue an irrelevant widow?

Seeing Chen Xi depressed, Yun Bo walked over and asked, "Master, who is that person? I'll give him ten taels at a time... Could it be that bad guy?"

"It's not a bad person. This person is honest and has helped me with things before. Now my family is in trouble, which means I lend him money first to respond to the emergency."

Chen Xi did not say anything owed Peng Yu, mainly because he was afraid that Peng Yuzhen would stay in Shen’s house to do things in the future and others would make money on this matter.

Usually Peng Yu would naturally keep his mouth shut, but it wouldn't be certain if he drank too much. So Chen Xi first blocked this road: "Don't mention this matter to others in the future. I will arrange for him to do things, but I will not stay in the Shen Mansion."

"Yes, master." Although Yun Bo didn't understand why, this was Chen Xi's explanation. As a servant, he didn't need to dig into the bottom line.

Chen Xi asked Yun Bo to go home early, and soon only two brothers from the carriage and horse gang were left to watch at night in the entire residence.

When entering the study, Chen Xi felt lonely and lonely. This was different from when he was in the military. Although he had no family to accompany him in marching and fighting, he always had something to do and all kinds of people were wandering around him.
Chapter completed!