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Chapter 147 Family Banquet
Ding House.

It was said that it was a family banquet, but as expected, there were only descendants of the Ding family and three or two confidants.

Ding Daquan seems to be proud of not observing the rules of etiquette, so that his children and grandchildren can sit freely without regard to seniority.

Anyway, he himself must be sitting in the main seat.

Li Xia and him are separated by Ding Shouweng and Wu Yan, which is convenient for talking and not too close.

The dishes are very good, and the behavior of serving the wine and fanning the maids is also very comfortable.

The hall was carpeted and kept spotless.The lights are brightly lit, shining like daylight, and there are special people watching to prevent fires, and fanning the smoke from time to time...

Li Xia likes it here.

He seemed to take such living conditions for granted, and behaved calmly and naturally.

Ding Daquan has been observing him, and the appreciation in his eyes is getting stronger and stronger.

"Okay, okay." Ding Daquan put down his chopsticks, "You child, you look too much like an old man."

The old man had a small appetite, so he stopped eating if he didn't eat much, and his own maid came up to wash him with a basin.

"Not only do you look like the old man when you were young, but you also have the same temperament. This kind of... detached attitude is just because you and I know that we should be famous people in this world, and we should enjoy it so happily. Those moral gentlemen are still simple and hardworking , criticized the old man for his extravagance, but as soon as they entered the room and saw this luxurious door, their spirits immediately became inferior, which is ridiculous. Only you can understand the true meaning of the old man's heart."

Li Xia looked up at Ding Daquan's blue face, not knowing how he looked like him, but still said: "Xie Ding loves each other."

"If you like these dishes, you can eat more of them. The old man is very happy to see you can eat like this. Unlike these unworthy children and grandchildren, who are obsequious in front of you, dare not pick up the dishes, and are extravagant behind your back."

The children and grandchildren of Ding's family in the seat were terrified, and seemed to be very afraid of Ding Daquan.

Li Xia was indeed still eating, and after swallowing the food, he said calmly, "It's been a long time since I've eaten such delicious food, and it made Ding Xiang laugh."

Ding Daquan said: "My old man asks you, are those poems really from books?"

"Yes, they were made by Yang Shen, Ma Zhiyuan, Zhang Yanghao, Tang Yin, and Yu Qian."

"Who are they?"

"I only remember their names." Li Xia said: "Ding Xiang thinks there is something wrong?"

"Uncle Xie Fang made a name for you at the Gushan Wenhui today, saying that these five poems were written by you, with sinister intentions."

Wu Yan never dared to eat. He listened carefully to their conversation. He put down his chopsticks and said, "What's the matter? Then someone must be dissatisfied and ask Li Xia for advice. After a few times, I'm afraid Shilin will scold you." Li Xia deceived the world and stole his name, making him a common enemy in the literary world."

"It doesn't matter." Li Xia said: "I will go to Sichuan myself, and let them scold me."

"It's not that simple. Where are there no civil servants in this world? Such infamy... Even Jia Sidao never had it. What's more, your official position is low. If you go to any state capital, any state official or county official can handle it You, Uncle Xie Fang, forced you into a desperate situation."

When Wu Yan said this, he suddenly understood.

At first he thought it was strange that Li Xia had clearly failed Ding Xiang's kindness and insisted on becoming a county lieutenant, so why did Ding Xiang value him so much?
Only then did I understand what Ding Daquan meant.

"Li Xia." Wu Yan said solemnly: "Scholars don't use knives to kill people, but they can kill you without leaving your bones. Instead of going to Shu as a small county captain, you might as well go to the Imperial Academy to study in Shangshe, and then seek a Jinshi. Ding Xiang is planning for you, and wants to silence others."

"Wu Yushi don't worry, it's okay."

"You don't know how dangerous this is."

"It's okay."

Ding Daquan seemed to smile, but he didn't.

But he was clearly not happy.

With his city, if he doesn't want to be seen as unhappy, he can do it.

At this moment, the half-smiling glance clearly reminded Li Xia, "Don't be ignorant of good and bad."

From the attention just now to the beating at this time, it is only a few words.

Because, Ding Daquan doesn't like to be disobedient.

"Shouweng, don't you have something to say?" He said suddenly.

"Yes, father." Ding Shouweng didn't say much from the beginning to the end, and only then raised his head, looked at Li Xia, and forced a smile.

"Have you ever been married?"

"I booked a marriage." Li Xia said.

Ding Shouweng was taken aback.

He has three or five daughters of the right age. Of course, he hasn't touched his first wife for many years, and his children are all concubines... It doesn't matter, what matters is that Ding Daquan asked him to betroth a daughter to Li Xia.

But she didn't expect Li Xia to respond like this before she opened her mouth.

Ding Daquan's face suddenly turned cold.

He doesn't care which career Li Xia chooses, he can pave the way no matter whether he is a Jinshi or entering Shu, but the premise is that Li Xia must obey.

You can have posture, you can be proud, you can even be a little arrogant, but you must respect him like your children and grandchildren.

What he supported was a son and grandson with strength of character and ability, not a self-righteous outsider.

After Ding Shouweng was stunned for a while, he noticed the change in Ding Daquan's attitude, and there was some coldness in his eyes, so he asked with a smile.

"Then... the family you were betrothed to, is it dead?"

Li Xia put down his chopsticks without even looking at Ding Shouweng.

At that time, I agreed with Ding Daquan that it was a deal, and I traded an official position by handing over intelligence and defeating Uncle Xie Fang.

Now Ding Daquan insists on showing "good intentions" to arrange his future and marriage.

Self-righteous, thinking that everyone likes to be a grandson.

In the final analysis, Ding Daquan never regarded this matter as a transaction in his heart, but only as a gift to Li Xia.

"Ding Xiang, what Ya Nei said is too inappropriate, it's just provoking contempt."

Ding Shouweng was furious.

Li Xia didn't care whether he was angry or not, and said to Ding Daquan: "Jia Xianggong made an agreement with me. When he defeats you, he will betroth his youngest daughter to me."

"Li Xia, do you want to die?" Ding Shouweng shouted.

Li Xia said: "Has Ding Xiang forgotten? It was Jia Xianggong who sent me to Ding Xiang."

Ding Daquan gave Ding Shouweng a cold look.

This glance made Ding Shouweng tremble with fright, and quickly lowered his head.

Ding Daquan just smiled, and said: "The old man said that he likes you very much. You don't have to pay attention to Jia Shixian, and you can be the grandson-in-law of this old man at ease."

"If Xianggong Jia knows that I betrayed him... what can he do? I said at the beginning that I sincerely rely on Dingxiang, but I don't dare to mix between the two Xianggongs. I'd better go to Shu." Bar."

"The reason, the reason for insisting on going to Shu."

Li Xia suddenly said: "The information I submitted is incomplete, why hasn't anyone asked me for these two days?"

Ding Daquan said: "What's the rush? The Privy Council has checked it and will ask you for it."

"If the Privy Council has read the information, it should know that there was a mistake in Wuliang's joint strategy, and there is an opportunity to make contributions in the Southwest War." Li Xia said: "As long as Prime Minister Ding recommends me, I am willing to make contributions for Prime Minister Ding."

Ding Daquan didn't seem to care much about these things, he only cared about whether Li Xia defied him.

"You're thinking too complicated, don't worry about it, just get married."

Li Xia knew that Ding Daquan didn't have much patience, and if he refused, he would turn his face immediately.

If a villain is far away, there will be resentment, let alone a villain who kills and seizes life.

Li Xia slowly picked up a glass of wine, hesitantly, but looked outside the hall.

In time, the news should come.

He never wanted to marry a Ding family daughter.

Finally, a young servant came and said, "Ah Lang, Chief Guan is here."

Li Xia thought it was the news of Sun Yingzhi's assassination, and was a little worried when he heard the news.

Not long after, a middle-aged man with white face and beardless turned into him.

"Oh, Ding Xiang! I was scared to death. I just walked to Qingwazi, and I saw someone stabbed Sun Yingzhi to death! A dignified young minister of Taichang Temple, if you say no, you will be gone..."

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After taking two sips of wine, Guan De finally regained his composure.

He first thought of the business, and handed a piece of news to Ding Daquan, and the two discussed how to deal with those people from Taixue.

After talking about this, the topic turned back to the assassination of Sun Yingzhi...

"So he came to see Prime Minister Ding? What a coincidence, I saw the murderer. A young man, good-looking, but a tuberculosis man. The Lin'an Mansion is arresting him, and the city is searching... "

After hearing this, Li Xia's face remained unchanged.

After chatting for a while, Ding Daquan asked, "Li Xia, what do you think of this matter?"

"This matter is aimed at me." Li Xia said: "I accidentally killed Sun Silang, and I only wanted to apologize to Sun Shaoqing tonight, and Sun Shaoqing was assassinated. This is too coincidental."

Guan De was surprised: "It's so?"

"The people who returned to the north with me were all wounded. The murderer pretended to be a sick tuberculosis, obviously trying to frame me. After the face-to-face the day before yesterday, it was both flattering and framing. I don't know who is dealing with me."

Ding Daquan waved his hand and said, "To deal with you? Why do you need to kill Tai Changqing? This matter is for this old man."

"Yes." Wu Yan said: "We all know that Li Xia and Sun Shaoqing had a feud. Li Xia was in Ding Xiang's mansion, and Sun Shaoqing died on the way to the meeting. No matter who the murderer is, all officials in the Manchu Dynasty will insist that Ding Xiang is reckless and murders ministers .”

After he finished speaking, he added a sentence, saying: "It's like Dong Huai's case."

"Yeah, I almost killed Dong Huai last year, and the people I invite tonight, those people will not miss this opportunity to attack this old man."

Li Xia said: "I was the one who brought trouble on Prime Minister Ding."

Guan De said: "What's the trouble? The hypocrisy has always been such a broken morality. Whenever there is dirty water, it will be poured on our heads. It's annoying to death."

When he said this, he let out another "ouch" and said: "I was there at the time, do you still want to say that I personally led people to kill them? These old flowers are shameless! Ding Xiang, you should have killed Dong Huai at that time It's too polite to drive him away, we should kill Uncle Xie Fang and poison him to death! Originally, I could poison Uncle Xie Fang today..."

Ding Daquan said: "Don't worry, Chief Guan, I will deal with this matter, you should go back to the palace first."

Guan De was still in high spirits, and said in a thin voice that he would kill Uncle Xie Fang Yunyun, and stood up after a few more words.

"Then I'm going back to the palace. Xiang Ding can send more people to protect me. I'm really scared to death today."

The man finally left, and the hall fell silent.

Ding Daquan got up and took a few steps, then suddenly put his blue face in front of Li Xia, staring at him deeply.

"Didn't you send someone to do it?"

"I sent someone to do it?" Li Xia was taken aback.

He thought of the many reasons Han Chengxu said against the assassination, pondered, and slowly said: "If I assassinate Sun Shaoqing... all harm but no benefit."

Ding Daquan nodded, straightened up and said: "You are quite smart, you know that it is not wise to assassinate high-ranking officials."

"Yes. When I met the saint, I said that assassination methods are often used in the north. If you assassinate rashly, it will be easy to find me."

"Aren't you and who else?"

"I don't know." Li Xia said: "What I'm worried about is that there will be more evidence pointing to me in the future to deal with Ding Xiang."

Ding Daquan pondered for a while, then suddenly said: "The three vacancies, which county are you considering going to?"

Li Xia said, "Qingfu County in Xuzhou."

"Wu Yan, tell the Ministry of Officials to expedite it."

"Yes."

"Xie Dingxiang."

"Let's go away..."

He left his own small chariot outside the hall to take Ding Daquan back to the backyard.

A confidant, Mu Liao, followed him step by step and asked, "Did Prime Minister Ding want to keep Li Xia as his grandson-in-law?"

Ding Daquan muttered to himself: "No matter who did Sun Yingzhi's death, Li Xia and the old man will definitely be blamed... This kid has already become a target of public criticism in Lin'an, so it's good to let him go outside for two years. Let him suffer a little bit." Frustrations, rough edges, will come back and beg to be the grandson of the old man."

"So what if Li Xia sent someone to kill Sun Yingzhi?"

"So what? Are you still going to expose him? What's the difference between saying he did it and saying that the old man did it? It's exactly what happened, and the old man should clear his suspicions. Before paying homage to the prime minister, there must be no evidence !"

"But if he really killed him, it's too..."

"This old man is neither Lin'an Mansion, nor a prison officer. He cares who killed Sun? What? How many times have I said this? The key is aspect, aspect!"

"Yes, yes, the key is aspect, it's because the villain talks too much."

However, when the words came to this point, someone suddenly came to report: "Ah Lang, Li Xia just left the mansion and has been taken away..."

　Thanks to the leader "Xiao Zongzi xx" for the reward. It is the leader who gave the reward in "I am not" today. Because the old book has been written, let’s add it here. It seems that the leader has not read the new book. I don’t know if I can See, thank you~~
　　
　
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