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  Lü Yi Jian turned his head and said: "I wonder if Ouyang Xiu and the others come to find us, will you help them?"

  "Help! Of course I'll help!" Chen Yuan replied resolutely.

  Lü Yi Jian was very satisfied: "Mm, this is good."

  Chen Yuan's heart skipped a beat as soon as he heard this: "Does the Prime Minister mean that he can help me?"

  Lü Yi Jian shook his head: "I didn't mean that, I just want to be successful. Remember, the more you make a name for yourself, the safer you'll be. It's best if it reaches the emperor, so the emperor remembers your name, and then even Peng Taishi won't dare to move."

  Chen Yuan's eyes rolled around and he tentatively asked: "If this humble one fails, can the Duke of Xiang give this humble one another path to take?"

  Lü Yi Jian shook his head: "How can there be no way out? This time, the collaborators are all decent people. Decent people are used to facing the wind, and when the wind is strong, just hide behind them."

  "This man is absolutely an old fox!"

  He understood that Lü Yi Jian and himself said so much, just to see how Chen Yuan would behave in this vortex. If he performed satisfactorily, there might be unexpected gains.

  In the past, Chen Yuan never wanted to get involved in officialdom because he thought it was unnecessary. He thought that as long as he did his business steadily and safely, everything would be fine. However, after the wine shop was smashed, Chen Yuan clearly understood that while he himself could have taken down a three-star hotel with his bare hands in his previous life, Chen Shimei couldn't!

  In the Song Dynasty where the legal system was relatively backward, wanting to leave the rivers and lakes, leave the officialdom and do business safely? There is a model - Yang Zhanggui's.

  Maybe someday, for some unknown reason, I'll be crushed by someone's casual hand.

  The officialdom and the underworld are both unavoidable. Since they can't be avoided, let's just play along!

  There's nothing to be afraid of, at worst, if the emperor asks later if you're married or not, just say you are.

  Lü Yi Jian is a good choice.

  Lü Yi Jian still hadn't caught a single fish by this point, but the old man had come to such a remote place not for fishing, but rather so that no one would see him and Chen Yuan together.

  Everything that needs to be said has been said, and what's left is something a clever person wouldn't need to say out loud. Chen Yuan stood up to take his leave: "I won't disturb the noble Prime Minister's refined pursuits any longer; there are still accounts to settle at the shop, please forgive me then."

  Lü Yi nodded: "Mm, go."

  Chen Yuan left, and butler Lü Fu flashed out from a distance: "Master, are we going back now?"

  Lv Yi Jian thought for a moment, then got up and left, didn't even take the fishing rod, and said to Lv Fu: "Keep an eye on this Chen Shi Mei."

  Lv Fu was somewhat puzzled: "Master, if you want to use him, just tell him directly, why bother with this trouble?"

  Lü Yi let out a sigh and said, "When selecting people, we must choose the good ones, especially those who will be used in the north. They must have ability, unlike the last one, who was killed by a group of bandits, which was really embarrassing. Let's go, go back and see how this kid is doing."

  When Chen Yuan returned to the inn, Ouyang Xiu was already here. Everything was just as Lv Yi said, and Ouyang Xiu might have been afraid that he and Chen Yuan's group were not familiar with each other, so he specially brought Chai Yang and Hu Jing to act as mediators.

  As soon as he walked into the inn, he saw that in the small room where Yang was nursing his wounds, Ouyang Xiu and two others were persuading Lianhua with great effort, while Yang's emotions were extremely agitated, if not for his difficulty getting up, he would have jumped up to fight.

  "Honorable sirs! We are just ordinary commoners, how could we possibly offend the Tai Shi Fu? I beg of you to spare my daughter's life. Tomorrow, I will find her a good family to marry into, and she can be someone else's nineteenth concubine." The shopkeeper's voice was filled with sorrow and desperation, mixed with the pain and helplessness of an ordinary person.

  Ouyang Xiu immediately said, "Sir, your words are different. Think about how many evils the villainous Pang has committed, and everyone wants to execute him. If you can help us eliminate this scourge from the world, I will surely record your name in history!"

  Yang said bitterly: "How dare I think of leaving a name in history, offending the Grand Master, after my death, I can leave one bone intact and be satisfied!"

  Two people are fundamentally not in the same class and can't get along. Hu Jing is persuading Lian Hua, while Chai Yang sits on one side silently.

  Chen Yuan pushed the door open and came in. The shopkeeper seemed to have grasped a lifesaving straw: "Shi Mei, quickly tell them that we won't go to court or marry Lian Hua! I know you two have feelings for each other, so let's just get married!"

  Lianhua's face suddenly turned red, and when Hu Jing saw Chen Yuan, she was actually slightly stunned. After hearing the shopkeeper's words, a hint of loss appeared on Hu Jing's face.

  Chen Yuan smiled slightly: "Boss, let's listen to Mr. Ouyang and tell him about the matter of Pang An, then we can agree with Master Pang."

  This sentence obviously made Yang Zhang angry, he looked at Chen Yuan as if looking at a murderer of his father: "Chen Shimei! I was wrong about you!"

  Hua's expression also became dull, looking at Chen Yuan's eyes which were unknowingly filled with tears. Chen Yuan took out a handkerchief and gently wiped away the falling teardrops from Hua's face, with a confident smile saying: "Believe me, this is our best choice now, I won't abandon you."

  Chen Yuan said this because he knew that hiding was impossible. Ouyang Xiu and the others' hope of overthrowing Grand Master Pang was extremely slim, but if they cooperated with them, at least a few big shots would be pulled out, and when the sky fell, it would crush them first.

  If they don't cooperate, Ouyang Xi and the others won't jump out to fight with Pang Ji, then Yue Lai Inn will directly face Tai Shi Fu, this situation is even more unfavorable.

  Ouyang Xiu stood up happily: "Brother Chen is so deeply aware of the great righteousness, if he can eliminate the evil Peng, Brother Chen will be the first to achieve merit, Ouyang Xiu here offers his apologies!"

  He finished speaking with a bow.

  As he watched Ouyang Xiu bow to himself, a sense of accomplishment rose from Chen Yuan's heart. He was eager to ask Ouyang Xiu who the poem "The moon is above the willow branch, and the appointment is after sunset" was written for.

  Ouyang Xi probably just made a polite gesture, and before Chen Yuan could help him up, he got up by himself. Then, with his fists clenched, he said to Chai Yang: "Brother Chai, I'll leave the rest of this matter to you. Now I'm going back to discuss with Lord Fan what we should do next to inform that old traitor."

  Ouyang Xiu said and left, leaving Zhai Yang and Hu Jing behind. Zhai Yang's expression was somewhat awkward: "Brother Chen, are you really going to let this young lady go?"

  Chen Yuan gently stroked the head of the lotus flower: "Master Pang has already said that we must bring her into the Master's mansion, and our Yue Lai Inn doesn't have Dan Shu Tie Juan, what can we do?"

  Upon hearing this, Yang the shopkeeper burst into tears on his bed, pounding the bedside with his fists in frustration and regret for being useless. Lianghua also rushed over and hugged her father tightly, both of them wailing loudly together.

  A woman's emotions are fragile, Hu Jing's eyes began to redden, staring at Chen Yuan: "Chen Shimei, if you're a man, take Lianghua away now. We'll escort her out of Bianjing City!"

  Chen Yuan smiled freely: "Leave now? If we leave now, the Taishi Mansion will have enough ability to track our whereabouts. Besides, with the shopkeeper's appearance, how fast can he walk?"

  Hu Jing knew what Chen Yuan said was true, and after a sigh, she remained silent.

  Chen Yuan looked at her and asked, "Is your injury healed?"

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