Chapter 1413 Untitled!

"Master Liu, this is my wife Wang and my daughter Yaya!"

"Madam, this is my benefactor, Lord Liu, whom I mentioned to you before!"

After Zhang Erniu's introduction, Wang said to Liu Baichuan apologetically:
"I'm sorry, Master Liu! I didn't know it was you!"

Liu Baichuan waved his hand and said with a smile:

"It's okay! Ignorance is not a crime! Besides, as a woman with a child at home alone, you should be more cautious!"

After the greetings, Zhang Erniu took out two taels of loose silver and handed it to his wife, saying:

"Madam! Take the child and buy some wine and cooked food! I want to entertain Master Liu!"

"it is good!"

Wang didn't think much about it, and took the money and the child out to buy things. Seeing this, Zhang Erniu took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Liu Baichuan, saying:
"Sir, this is the letter I received a few days ago! I thought you would be here the next day or the day after tomorrow, but I didn't expect you to be here a day earlier!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Baichuan immediately opened the envelope and began to read the letter inside. As he read, a strange look flashed across his eyes. He then put the letter away and said to Zhang Erniu:
“Zide, I didn’t expect you to give yourself a name like Erniu!”

Zhang Erniu scratched his head awkwardly and said:
“Sir Liu, actually Zhang Erniu is my real name. When I was traveling around the world, people laughed at me for being unsophisticated when they heard me call myself Zhang Erniu, so I found a storyteller and gave myself a name called Zhang Zide…”

"Back then, you let me go and let me hide my identity, so I came here and used my original name, Zhang Erniu!"

Liu Baichuan laughed and shook his head when he heard this, then asked again:
"You have been hiding your identity for several years. Have you ever thought about returning to the unified mediation office?"

Zhang Erniu smiled bitterly and said:

"Sir, please stop teasing me!"

"With my weight, if you hadn't protected me back then, I would have been killed by someone in the Coordination Office. I'm lucky enough to be alive until now!"

"I am quite content now. I have a few acres of land in the town, two houses, a wife and a daughter. I am not satisfied with what you said, sir. When my daughter is in college, I plan to have another son with my wife to carry on the Zhang family's lineage!"

"My current life is the life I dreamed of. I don't want to go back to the past where I lived on the edge of a knife, fighting and killing every day and never knew what would happen tomorrow!"

Listening to Zhang Erniu's words, Liu Baichuan looked at him deeply, then his face changed and he said very seriously:

"Zide! Remember what you said and don't come back for the rest of your life, or I will kill you!"

Zhang Erniu, who used the alias Zhang Zide, was recruited into the General Coordination Office by Liu Baichuan himself. Zhang Erniu had been working with Liu Baichuan for several years. However, during a manhunt for an important criminal, Zhang Erniu let a criminal go for three hundred taels of silver. However, the criminal did not escape in the end and was eventually caught by Liu Baichuan.

Liu Baichuan therefore also knew about Zhang Erniu's bribery. According to the rules of the Coordination Office, Zhang Erniu would be sentenced to death for doing so.

However, under Zhang Erniu's pleading, Liu Baichuan, thinking of their years of brotherhood, could not bear to kill his younger brother who had followed him for many years.
Therefore, they released Zhang Erniu privately, and then reported to their superiors that Zhang Erniu had fallen off a cliff and died, and the matter was left unresolved.
Zhang Erniu, who managed to escape with his life, restored his real name, hid in Chisong Town, married, had children, and lived on.

Hearing the threat from his old boss, Zhang Erniu also realized that his existence was a great risk to his old boss. Once the incident was exposed, not only would he die, but his old boss would also suffer. He then said solemnly:

"Don't worry, sir! Zhang Erniu understands this truth. I will die of old age in Chisong Town in this life!"

Liu Baichuan nodded with satisfaction when he heard that. At this time, Wang also brought her daughter Yaya back with some wine and food, and the four of them had a delicious meal with good wine and food.

Liu Baichuan, who was sleeping in the side room at night, took out the letter from his arms and checked the contents of the letter again in the bright moonlight.

All I saw on the letter was that the killer had been sent out and everything was going well, come back quickly!

Although he had read it for a while before dinner, Liu Baichuan was still very excited when he saw this short line of words.

Ever since he completed the mission of assassinating Song Weijie and caused the Sichuan-Shu internal division, Liu Baichuan had thought that with this great achievement he could enter the upper echelons of the Coordination Office and become the deputy director of the Coordination Office, second only to the emperor!
However, to his disappointment, he was not promoted to deputy director of the Coordination Office for his great contribution as he had expected. Instead, they nitpicked and found some minor faults in him, and finally just rewarded him with some money and that was it!
Not only that, Liu Baichuan was also exiled to Sichuan and became a thousand-householder stationed in Sichuan by the General Coordination Office...

As for why this happened, Liu Baichuan knew what was going on without asking!

He is the confidant of Huo San, the former director of the Coordination Office, and it is no secret within the Coordination Office that Huo San and Wang Xuecheng are not on good terms!
Therefore, after Huo San died suddenly and Wang Xuecheng took over as the director of the Coordination Office, the Coordination Office could be said to be a one-off affair, and he would definitely not be treated well. So he knew without much thought that the treatment he received was caused by Wang Xuecheng!
Although Liu Baichuan knew what was going on and wanted to change his situation, unfortunately he had no way to change it. He could only accept this situation helplessly and serve as a captain of the General Coordination Office in Sichuan! Originally, Liu Baichuan had already accepted the arrangement of his fate, but just two months ago, he suddenly received an order from the Imperial Guards to return to Yijing to report on his work!
Liu Baichuan was very confused about this order. Although the General Coordination Office was an intelligence department directly under Ye Mingsheng, generally speaking, His Majesty's orders were passed down through the director of the General Coordination Office and then issued to the various captains of the General Coordination Office. In Liu Baichuan's memory, His Majesty rarely gave orders directly to the captains of the General Coordination Office.

What he is facing now is such an extremely rare situation. Although Liu Baichuan doesn't know why this happened, since the order has been issued, he has to execute it. Just when he left Sichuan and entered Jingchu, he received another message and realized what was going on.

Liu Baichuan could only say that Wang Xuecheng or the Coordination Office had offended too many people on weekdays, and no one wanted to see a continued strong Coordination Office···············

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The Imperial Palace, the Queen's Courtyard

An Miaoyi leaned on the sofa with her eyes closed, and her mind kept recalling the scene of Ye Mingsheng holding a harem meeting an hour ago.

Although she knew very well that it would be difficult for her to shake Pei Zhixiu's position in Ye Mingsheng's heart in this incident, Pei Zhixiu would definitely be punished in order to maintain the laws in the palace!

Therefore, Ye Mingsheng was not surprised that Pei Zhixiu was locked up for three months and deprived of the authority to assist in managing palace affairs. In the eyes of the queen, Ye Mingsheng's actions were just a small punishment to end the matter as soon as possible and prevent it from continuing to ferment. All this was within An Miaoyi's expectations.

However, what An Miaoyi did not expect was that although Ye Mingsheng deprived Pei Zhixiu of the authority to assist in managing palace affairs, he did not cancel this authority. Instead, he used the excuse that he was worried that it would be too tiring for him to manage the harem alone, so he wanted to find someone from the many concubines in the palace to assist him in managing the harem.

Although An Miaoyi really wanted to tell Ye Mingsheng that she had no problem managing the harem alone, seeing Ye Mingsheng's unquestionable look, the Queen Daqian had no choice but to accept her husband's kindness.

After Ye Mingsheng announced this decision, the atmosphere of the meeting became heated. Many concubines participating in the meeting were also eager to try, and they were eyeing this authority covetously. After all, with this authority they would have greater power in the harem!
After realizing that Ye Mingsheng's decision was irreversible, An Miaoyi was also silently calculating in her heart who would take over this power in the best interests of her.

Something even more unexpected happened to An Miaoyi. Before she reflected on her mistakes in seclusion, Pei Zhixiu actually recommended Bai Yuanyuan to Ye Mingsheng to take over the power and assist her in managing the affairs of the palace.

When all the concubines present, including An Miaoyi, heard this from Ye Mingsheng, they were all very surprised.

Even Bai Yuanyuan herself was very surprised by this. Although Bai Yuanyuan was dependent on Queen An Miaoyi in the palace, she had always had her own ideas. Especially after her son Jingheng was born, her desires became even stronger!

If it were any other time, Bai Yuanyuan would definitely participate in the competition for the power to assist in managing the affairs of the palace, but some time ago she was confined to reflect on her mistakes because of the incident of hiring a killer to injure someone. Although she just finished reflecting on her mistakes a few days ago, the bad influence of this incident still exists.

So Bai Yuanyuan felt regretful and thought that she had no chance. With this thought in mind, Bai Yuanyuan did not plan to participate in the competition!
However, Bai Yuanyuan also did not expect that Pei Zhixiu would actually recommend her to take over. Although Bai Yuanyuan had intended to have a good relationship with Pei Zhixiu and gave Pei Zhixiu some medicinal herbs, Pei Zhixiu's reaction was very cold, so Bai Yuanyuan did not continue to try to please Pei Zhixiu.

But she didn't expect Pei Zhixiu to return the favor at this time, which made Bai Yuanyuan feel pleasantly surprised, and at the same time, a glimmer of hope appeared in her regretful heart...

In her opinion, although she was still affected by the incident of hiring a killer to injure someone, with Pei Zhixiu's recommendation and if An Miaoyi supported her, then it would be entirely possible for her to have the authority to assist in managing the affairs of the palace!

Just when Bai Yuanyuan was looking forward to An Miaoyi's support, An Miaoyi was also wondering why Pei Zhixiu suddenly chose to support Bai Yuanyuan!
An Miaoyi knew that Bai Yuanyuan had given Pei Zhixiu some gifts in an attempt to improve the relationship between the two, but according to An Miaoyi's observation, Pei Zhixiu was still very cold towards Bai Yuanyuan, and did not give Bai Yuanyuan any good face just because she accepted Bai Yuanyuan's gifts!

So An Miaoyi really couldn't understand why Pei Zhixiu suddenly did this and what her purpose was!
Because she couldn't figure out this matter, and An Miaoyi had some doubts about Bai Yuanyuan's assistance in managing her harem, so even though An Miaoyi felt Bai Yuanyuan's expectant eyes, she said nothing and did not express her support as Bai Yuanyuan expected!

At that time, Shen Yutong jumped out and expressed her doubts about Bai Yuanyuan's assistance in managing the affairs of the palace. In her opinion, although Bai Yuanyuan was a noble concubine and gave birth to a son and a daughter for His Majesty.

But this person is petty and vindictive. Not long ago, he even hired someone to hurt someone. No matter how you look at it, he doesn't seem like someone who can help the Queen manage the harem...

Seeing that Shen Yutong opposed her, Bai Yuanyuan became furious and immediately retorted, repeating the old tune about Shen Yutong's humble background and past as an actor.

Shen Yutong didn't spoil Bai Yuanyuan either. You brought up the fact that I used to be an actor, so I'll bring up the fact that you were married!

As these two women exposed each other's secrets, a good meeting immediately turned into a chaotic one. Ye Mingsheng ended the meeting after announcing that the candidates would be announced in the next few days!
Although it had been more than an hour since the meeting ended, An Miaoyi was still thinking about what Pei Zhixiu wanted to do. She really couldn't understand why Pei Zhixiu wanted to recommend Bai Yuanyuan!
If Pei Zhixiu recommended Murong Qingwu, An Miaoyi could understand that this was Pei Zhixiu's revenge on her, trying to get Murong Qingwu to check and balance her!

But the problem is that even if Bai Yuanyuan has ulterior motives, she is still not fully grown at this stage. Even if you let her get this authority, she can only depend on you. Pei Zhixiu's efforts are completely in vain!

Could it be that Pei Zhixiu did this just to repay Bai Yuanyuan for the gift she gave her last time?

But in An Miaoyi's opinion, Pei Zhixiu would not do that, and since she recommended Bai Yuanyuan, there must be a deep meaning behind her doing so!
But what is the deep meaning of her doing this?

Just when An Miaoyi was thinking hard and could not figure it out, Qiqige came over and reported to her master with a smile:

"Your Majesty! Just now, after the meeting, another good show was staged. Bai Yuanyuan and Shen Yutong both went to the Imperial Study to ask for an audience with His Majesty in private!"

“As a result, His Majesty didn’t see them, and they started cursing again! Two dignified imperial concubines actually cursed like village women. I think it’s really embarrassing. They have brought shame to the royal family…”

(I've been having some writer's block recently, so if you have any ideas, please feel free to let me know. I'll be all ears!)