After being read by the tyrant, the character of the little cannon fodder completely collapsed

Chapter 16 Seems to be Calculated
"Then what should we do now? Is it a dead end again?" Ling Xi fell on the chair, hugging his knees with a frown on his face, burying his face in his clothes: "With so many people, where can we get food?"

"Luxiang, borrow it!"

"Borrow? Borrow from whom?" Ling Xi said wiltedly, "That's a lot of food. You've never seen a granary that big."

[You, the supreme being in the world, probably can’t even tell the difference between a pound and a hundred pounds. Do you know the concept of astronomical numbers? 】

"Gu is not as stupid as you think," Chen Qianzhe knocked on the corner of the table: "Gu has already thought of a way, I just need your help."

He asked Mr. An to get a wooden box from the bookshelf and open it.

Inside was a pile of letters sealed with the royal seal and dozens of official seals, large and small.

Ling Xi was confused: "What is this?"

"Official position."

"..."

"Gu Xukong has set up some official positions, but they are all empty positions and have no real power. But for those merchants in the world, what they lack is such a false name without real power to consolidate their family status."

Ling Xi suddenly realized: "You want to sell your position!"

"Don't say it so harshly," Chen Qianzhe's eyes darkened obviously: "Gu and them are just trying to get what they need!"

"Smart!!" Ling Xi raised his hands and praised: "Agricultural, industrial, commercial, academic, and military! The status of merchants is not high. They have money but no power. They can only improve their status by studying and pursuing an official career."

Chen Qianzhe nodded: "But studying is too hard and requires talent. Even if a merchant's family is as rich as the country, it may not be able to produce an official in a hundred years. Therefore, buying an official is the simplest and most effective way to change the family. .”

Ling Xi perked up: "What do you want me to do?"

"I can't leave this palace, and there's no one I can trust. Only you can help me and go out of the city to borrow food for me."

Chen Qianzhe opened the drawer and took out a cyan token inlaid with turquoise, with a black gold dragon coiled on the back.

"This is the identity token of the royal censor. Holding it, you feel like a lonely relative!"

"Oh, this is what Shang Fang's sword means, right?" Ling Xi held up the token excitedly: "With it, can you kill first and then show off?"

"You can understand that."

"so cool!"

[This thing looks like it’s made of jade, and it’s a royal item. It should be worth a lot of money. If it’s sold...]

Suddenly, she raised her head in embarrassment.

"I just thought about it and didn't really want to sell it."

He put down the token in a embarrassed manner, his toes almost digging out of the Fairy Castle.

[Damn it, why am I starting to have random thoughts again? 】

[It’s over, still thinking! 】

[But my head is beyond my control! 】

[I’m not an idiot, I always want to write something in my head]

[No matter what, let’s do it! 】

【…】

Glancing at Jun Suzhe, I found that he didn't seem to hear her complaints, but was looking for something in a stack of files.

In order to avoid embarrassment and stop herself from thinking wildly, Ling Xi rubbed her stomach exaggeratedly: "Aweng, do you have anything to eat here? I'm hungry."

Mr. An was startled.

Aweng has always been the name His Majesty calls him, and it is also the emotional sustenance between them. Unexpectedly, Ling Xi also calls him that.

But he quickly smiled calmly and said: "Here are some rose candy cakes. I don't know if they suit the girl's taste."

Ling Xi has become immune to the pastries in the palace. As long as she can eat them, she doesn't care about the taste.

She tasted a piece and was predictably disappointed: "It looks good, but tastes boring. Bad review!"

Chen Qianzhe handed her a file: "You have to find this person and find a way to get him to accompany you to borrow food. With this person's protection, you should be safe along the way."

Ling Xi bit the rose candy cake, opened the file, and asked vaguely: "Who is he?" "He is a prisoner of the imperial court, a death row prisoner, and is imprisoned in Tianzi Prison."

Ling Xi's whole body felt bad.

【Death row? 】

[You want me to use a death row prisoner? 】

[Did he protect me or kill me? 】

Chen Qianzhe pointed to the file: "Since I chose him for you, I naturally have a reason to choose him. His wife and children are in the exile. Using his wife and children, we can suppress him for our use."

[A death row inmate in Tianzi Prison? 】

【Wife and children exiled? 】

【No way? 】

Ling Xi stumbled and asked, "Is his surname Qian?"

Chen Qianzhe was slightly stunned: "His name is Qian Shizhong...how did you know it was him?"

The sugar cake fell to the ground.

"Of course I know……"

[Because the person who chopped off our heads... was him! ! 】

Chen Qianzhe: "..."

Ling Xi suddenly thought of something and raised his voice: "It's over, it's over... Qian Shizhong killed us because his wife and children died in the exile. He felt resentful, so he killed us..."

In the original author's setting, Qian Shizhong's force value can be said to be the ceiling of the entire story.

He studied at the age of three, practiced martial arts at the age of five, and became the top martial arts scholar at the age of 16. At the age of 27, he was imprisoned for life by the tyrant because of an unjust, false, and wrongful conviction, and his wife and children were exiled until their death.

However, Qian Shizhong used the Turtle Breathing Technique to fake death and escape, and searched for the whereabouts of his wife and children incognito. When he found them, he happened to see his wife and children dying of illness, so he turned black and went on a rampage to kill the tyrant and her.

Thinking of this, Ling Xi felt something was wrong again: "If we calculate the timeline, he should have escaped from Tianzi Prison by now and will see his wife and children soon. Are you sure he is still in Tianzi Prison?"

"Aon!"

"His Majesty!"

"Go to Tianzi Prison yourself to check whether Qian Shizhong is alive or dead."

Eunuch An came back soon, bringing back results that made the tyrant and Ling Xi's scalp numb.

"Miss Ling is right. About half a year ago, Qian Shizhong died of illness and was buried. This matter was reported to the prison secretary at the time, but I don't know whether it was reported or not."

Ling Xi opened the file: "Where are his wife and children? If we can find them before Qian Shizhong, save them, and resolve Qian Shizhong's hatred and resentment, there may be room for maneuver."

Qian Shizhong's files were collected in the library by the tyrant himself. No one except him knew where Qian Shizhong's wife and children were.

When Ling Xi saw the address, she couldn't help but be startled: "Is this...exile?"

The exile she understood was a barbaric land fifteen hundred miles away, if not three thousand miles away.

But Qian Shizhong's wife and children were all in the capital.

She suddenly understood something: "Your Majesty, you have been cultivating Qian Shizhong as a potential stock, right? That's why you kept his wife and children for future use?"

Chen Qianzhe did not explain, but said calmly: "I cannot show up for this matter, but I will send someone who knows the palace and the court to accompany you. Ling Xi, we will leave our heads to you."

I don't know why, but at this moment, Ling Xi felt like she was being plotted by the tyrant.

This is an indescribable intuition.

It seems that all the things he did and said before were just to trick her into helping him sell his official position and borrow food! !
[This tyrant is a fox, right?I always feel that I am cunning and cunning, with eight hundred tricks. 】

"The solitary dragon, the true dragon and the emperor's dragon!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)