The door of the Hoshe was pushed open, and Du Wulang was already shouting excitedly before he even entered.

"The top of the list! Do you know that you are the top of the list?"

However, when he looked around, Xue Bai was not in the house.

Du Wulang was surprised and was worried that Xue Banzhang would be imprisoned again. Suddenly, he saw a note on the case, with the words "I'm back to your home". The handwriting was quite beautiful, but it was actually written by Xue Bai.

"I didn't even read the results? Although it was just an annual test."

Du Wulang rushed to Xue's house in Changshoufang, first talked about the happy event that Xue Bai won the top spot, and discussed how to celebrate.

Suddenly, he found that Xue Bai was not here, and then he remembered that the note said that it was the Du family in Pingfang.

He blamed him for not paying attention, so he hurried over when he saw the note, so he had to rush back to the Du family.

"Well!"

When we arrived at the side door, we happened to meet Xue Bai. Du Youlin talked and walked side by side to the front yard.

"I'm going here."

While talking, Du Youlin turned around and saw Du Wulang, his face, which was originally a little happy, became stern.

"Grandma, we've tried it all over the year."

"I really think it's my ability?"

Du Youlin snorted coldly, turned over and went out from the door.

"Hey, you got the top spot." Du Wulang poked Xue Bai with his elbow and smiled, "Look at who will dare to say that we are stumbled in the Imperial College."

"No one has said that to me."

Xue Bai turned around and walked towards the study.

The manager in front of him, Quan Rui walked out with a gift box and said, "Xue Lang, you're ready."

"Thank you, Uncle Quan."

Xue Bai took the gift box and asked Du Wulang: "Would you like to go to Yang Zhao's house?"

"ah?"

Du Wulang was shocked.

In May, he and Xue Bai went to Yang's house to deliver Dragon Boat Festival gifts. After seeing Pei Rou's enthusiasm, his charming eyes seemed to want to eat them, the young man.

"I'm not suitable for going there, right? But if I have to go there, I'll go there."

"Okay." Xue Bai said: "You go, it's just to congratulate Yang Xuan on passing the New Year exam, and it may be the same year in the future."

Du Wulang smiled reluctantly and muttered, "If I were the same age as him, I am, alas."

After receiving the gift box, he opened it and took a look. It was a piece of characters written by his grandfather himself.

Although his grandfather's calligraphy is good, it is definitely not worth it. He traveled all the way and only gave away such a thing.

Seeing Quan Rui walking away, Du Wulang smiled.

"I'm not stupid. Tell me, what kind of words do you need to say to Yang Zhao?"

~~

Xue Bai pushed open the door, and the Du sisters were sitting in the room.

Since he went to Zhongnan Mountain in July and came back to take the New Year exam, he has not been with them for a month.

Xue Bai had not even told Du Jing that he had new ambitions. Although he was very excited to think about those things, it was actually better to reveal them slowly.

"Today I came out of the Imperial College and someone was already staring at me." Xue Bai said: "It is convenient to send someone to pass the message without being followed?"

"Yes." Du Jing said: "I asked Qushui to Fengweilou to send messages to many trustworthy guys."

"Help me find Lao Liang and Jiang Hai, and let them go to the Imperial College to see me; I have sent another sentence to Guo Qianli, and I have written it down; I am not convenient to go to the uncle's mansion and the lady of Guo State's mansion in the near future, so I need to bring a message; and we use our men to investigate Pei Mian..."

Under Du Jiang's management, although Fengweilou has not made much progress in the dishes, its scale is no longer comparable.

She opened branches in Pingkang, Xuanyang, Guangde, Changshou and Xingqing, not to make money, but to facilitate inquiries and convey information.

She was almost destroyed by family, and she cared about these things.

"This time, we will cooperate with Yang Hui and his wife?"

Xue Bai said: "As long as Yang Hui and his wife stand on our side, it will be difficult for their opponents to prove that I am Xue Pingzhao, and then involve me in the case of the Three Commoners. So, how could a Xue Bai, who has no identity, be the mastermind behind the scenes of Chang'an?"

"So, they will definitely find ways to expose us working with the couple."

"We have to be careful of this first thing, I have made arrangements for the annual exam."

Du Xiao was careful and reminded softly: "Although you have arranged it properly, you still have to beware of any mistakes in the princess's mansion."

"Um."

Xue Bai was reminded and turned to look at her. Instead, she glanced at Du Jing and lowered her head.

They discussed the details of dealing with the matter and then talked about the situation.

"The case of the Three Commoners is over, and no one wants to mention it too much. Now someone is willing to bring up this case just to deal with me?"

"It was the salt tax that threatened Genu very much, so he would not hesitate to use this killing move?"

"An Lushan is about to enter Beijing. Brother Nu should be preparing to attack Pei Kuan, why bother with trouble?"

"I think the case of Zheng Qian is more like... someone throws a piece of meat among the beasts and causes them to fight."

"It seems to be a bit tempting."

Xue Bai had a premonition, but he couldn't describe his intuition like they did.

"So, some people want to use this matter to cause the East Palace to fight with the right prime minister in advance, and also want to lead to the statement that 'Li Heng instructed Li Yu to falsely accuse Li Ying'."

"No one has ever said what Li Heng ordered, right?"

"I was randomly speculating. But I didn't want to participate in the dispute too early. If it weren't for Zheng Qian, I would only plan to join the government and accumulate strength..."

Speaking of this, Xue Bai thought about it and vaguely guessed who might have sued Zheng Qian.

He only reminded Li Cong not long ago that, so soon, two of Zheng Qian's manuscripts were taken out, and both manuscripts mentioned Li Yu.

Zheng Qian clearly has many more serious manuscripts of "reproaching Chengyu", so why are they these two copies? It can be seen that the other party did not kill Zheng Qian.

Now guess the other party’s purpose.

First, an official close to the Eastern Palace was imprisoned, and the Right Prime Minister's Office instinctively wanted to snatch the Eastern Palace. Since Xue Bai played Li Linfu last time, those who are interested have learned to take advantage of this; secondly, they have brought up the old things from that time, observe the reactions of various forces to the case of the Three Commoners, and test Li Longji's bottom line.

But Li Cong shouldn't have such great ability. How can he get Zheng Qian's manuscripts when he is locked in the house of Ten Kings? Moreover, even though he knew that Li Linfu would use this matter to attack the salt officer, he shouldn't have done so.

Xue Bai still couldn't figure it out completely.

The most important thing at the moment is self-protection.

...

Du Jing went to arrange the matter and returned to Xue Bai's house, but saw that Du Fei was no longer there.

"It's done."

"good."

"Will there be danger again this time?"

"To be good, we were like Li Shizhi and Pei Kuan, which were about to be killed, but now we are still growing tenaciously in the cracks."

Du Jing smiled.

The two of them stood beside the bed.

"I'll come here tonight?"

"I'm afraid I'll be able to investigate my fraud at any time and catch me."

"Hmm? Are you bleeding?"

Xue Bai smiled bitterly. He had been practicing since he went to Zhongnan Mountain. He only saw Yang Yuyao in the middle. He was so dry that he even drank a lot of Danshen soup.

“It’s too self-respecting.”

"So self-respecting? I'll reward you well." Du Jing bit his ear and whispered: "Then wait for this disaster... come again."

Xue Bai vaguely heard what she said, "Let's come again", but was not sure.

Maybe I drank too much Salvia soup and had auditory hallucinations.

“…”

"Have you heard someone calling me?"

“Is there any?”

The two of them listened in a slight manner.

There was indeed a voice coming from the front yard, getting closer and closer.

"Where is Xue Bai?! I was involved in the fraud case of the Imperial College Entrance Examination for the Year, and immediately took him to Dali Temple for a question!"
To be continued...