124. Resignation

A turmoil was forcibly suppressed by Pei Nianyu.Now that he has made a statement, characterizing it as "the apprentice made a mistake while cooking", and has already warned "be careful next time", it is impossible for the person behind the trouble to force the trouble.

After Pei Nianyu taught the special dishes to the top three students in the first school examination, the days returned to the ordinary and calm.

Anyway, the shadow guards have already been deployed, and the defense is loose on the outside and tight on the inside.Although He Qi and Lou Yefeng were waiting for the next attack from the person behind them, they were always on guard against their master eating something messy again.

However, on the surface, they didn't show any tension in front of the master.

——Just kidding, if you can't even solve this problem, then these shadow guards really ate so many good things from the master for nothing.

Moreover, Lou Yefeng and He Qi also had confidence in the shadow guards in the mansion.The well-trained shadow guards are certainly not comparable to these eunuchs who only use some dirty tricks.

After Pei Nianyu left the bad things to the shadow guards to deal with, he stopped paying attention to them, and only continued to concentrate on practicing martial arts and making food every day.Occasionally take those apprentices and give pointers.

The talented little eunuch Xiang Ping'en also aroused Pei Nianyu's interest.This Xiang Pingen is quite transparent about cooking. After the systematic explanation and training by Yun Shao and the others in the past few days, he quickly got acquainted with the serious principles of cooking, and sometimes he can even draw inferences about other cases from one instance.

It's just that what makes Pei Nianyu a little speechless is that Xiang Pingen is unaware of some worldly ways.He has not yet realized that someone is behind the fishbone, and he always thinks that he fell into it by mistake.As a result, every time Pei Nianyu went to mention something, he would always get a frightened little eunuch.

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Ten days later, the second round of school examinations came as scheduled.

Before the dishes were served, every process was closely watched by the shadow guards, and the people behind the tricks had already been mastered by the shadow guards.

Lou Yefeng turned over the dishes eight hundred and sixty times, and as expected, he took out a new fish bone spur from the braised fish.

He checked for a while, and suddenly his face turned cold:

"Hmph! How courageous!"

Pei Nianyu leaned over to look:

"What's wrong? Make you so angry?"

"This time they actually put in two hidden fish bone weapons. If you really eat it...the consequences will be disastrous."

Pei Nianyu didn't take it seriously, and smiled in his ear:

"How is it possible? You are here. With Ye Feng by my side, how could such a trick succeed."

Lou Yefeng pursed his lips, his expression was serious, he wanted to remind the master not to be careless, but to take precautions himself.However, after hesitating for a while, he swallowed the words again—the master was right, and he would not let the master have any problems anyway.

And Pei Nianyu's eyes lit up imperceptibly when he saw that his family, Ye Feng, did not refute him.

Although Lou Yefeng reacted subconsciously, he didn't notice it.But Pei Nianyu could see clearly that when Ye Feng just lost his martial arts, he always worriedly persuaded him to practice martial arts to protect himself, and always subconsciously felt inferior to his powerlessness.

But now don't mention it.

This means... Ye Feng's martial arts recovery speed should be much faster than he imagined?His Ye Feng seemed to gradually return to the mentality of a protector.

Lou Yefeng himself was not aware of this, but Pei Nianyu guessed his thoughts clearly.He was delighted with this change in his heart, and couldn't help but kiss Lou Yefeng lightly on the cheek.

Lou Yefeng was stunned for a moment, he was really at a loss as to why his master suddenly remembered to kiss him at this moment:

"Owner……"

Pei Nianyu pursed his smile, didn't explain anything, turned around and called the shadow guard beside him:

"Okay, let's go and inform the big kitchen."

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The few shadow guards guarding the big kitchen had been waiting for the news, seeing that the master had sent several shadow guards to surround the yard in unison, all of them secretly tightened their nerves and stared at the field.

Those apprentices saw a dozen or so black-clothed shadow guards suddenly surrounded them without any explanation, and they didn't know what happened, and they were instantly silent when they were whispering to each other.

They are often in the palace, so they recognize that they are dressed as shadow guards, and they lower their heads and dare not say a word.

The messenger shadow guard stood on the steps and glanced coldly, then suddenly said:

"Who is number thirty-four?"

Xiang Pingen came out in a daze.

The shadow guard commanded the subordinates behind him to directly detain him:

"How dare you intend to murder the prince, take him away!"

The expressions of some people in the field changed slightly, but they were clearly seen by the shadow guards who had been monitoring here, and they looked at each other in the shadows under the eaves.

The shadow guard who sent the message said again:

"Everyone, go back to your room from now on, don't go out, don't talk to others!"

After they rushed back to their own room in a mess, the shadow guard waved his hand, and a dozen people fell down with ease.Patrolling with swords in hand, guarding the door of their residence.

It was very quiet in the yard.

At the same time, the few people who had been stared at for several days failed to return to the house, but were secretly picked out by the shadow guards in the dark on the way back to the house in a hurry.

A shadow guard came over and asked:

"What does master mean?"

The messenger shadow guard shook his head:

"We just need to keep an eye on them here. If there are still accomplices who haven't been found, don't let them escape."

After all, they only monitored some movements in the past few days, and did not interrogate them. It is very possible that there are still undiscovered accomplices.

"As for the ones caught... the master means to hand them over directly to the palace. You guys go for a walk, remember to use the emergency report when you enter the palace, saying that the master was intentionally arrested by the people in the imperial dining room.Murder."

"Yes, this subordinate takes orders."

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Let's talk about Pei Nianyu's side, let the shadow guard directly hand over the person to Pei Niancheng, and he will just wait for the melon to be eaten.While waiting for a reply from the palace, he studied the works of these apprentices.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a gray shadow suddenly floated in.

Pei Nianyu looked at the person and said in surprise:

"Old He, why are you here? It's not time for you to change shifts. Didn't you lose a lot of sleep? The shadow guards can take care of small things, so just keep sleeping."

He Qi coughed twice, with a slightly unnatural expression on his face:

"Subordinates come over to watch the excitement..."

Pei Nianyu:???

As soon as the words fell, several shadow guards dragged the unlucky Xiang Pingen to Hanqiu Pavilion.

Before Pei Nianyu could speak, He Qi suddenly stepped forward and said with a cold snort:

"Bold thief, dare to secretly use means to murder the prince, honestly, what is your purpose?"

Pei Nianyu: ...

Lou Yefeng on the side was surprised at first, then shook his head and laughed secretly.And Jiang Xue covered her eyes with her palms, as if she couldn't bear to look directly at her.

Old He came here specially to watch the fun just because of...

Hey…….

That Xiang Ping'en was so frightened that he was dumbfounded, he knelt down on the ground without even daring to lift his head, his body kept shaking:

"Your Majesty Mingjian, this servant really... really doesn't know anything!"

Xiang Ping'en didn't know what happened at all, and naturally he couldn't explain it, he just kept repeating the whole thing.

However, he knew in his heart that the prince and him were neither relatives nor relatives, so he would not listen to him.If this is thrown into the hands of the shadow guard for a trial, there is no life left.

Thinking of him entering the palace as a young man, he has struggled in this filthy place for many years, so it's not a big deal if he is a little bit tired.But after he finally saw a little hope of getting ahead, he got into trouble one after another.

He Qi folded his arms and ate melons to watch the show, but he didn't stop talking, and continued to scare him:

"There are all the witnesses and material evidence, but you dare to deny it. It seems that you will not be punished. You will not say it. Hmph, do you know that murdering the prince is a crime against the nine clans?"

Pei Nianyu, Lou Yefeng, and Jiang Xue turned their heads to look at He Qi in unison.This time even Pei Nianyu couldn't bear to look directly at him, Old He's problem is really...

When Xiang Pingen saw this grey-clothed, cold-looking Lord Shadow Guard who wanted to arrest him for questioning if he disagreed with him, he couldn't help feeling sad:

"...My lord, it is only my fault that this slave offended the prince. Also, please don't implicate your family..."

As soon as the voice fell, a person came in from the corridor and said angrily:

"Commander He, why are you scaring him?"

Liu Mei on Yun Shao's side was almost raised to the corner of his eyes, looking at He Qi, very annoyed:

"It's not that you don't know that you have nothing to do with him, so why bother to deliberately scare him? It's not that you don't know that he is cowardly."

Pei Nianyu and Lou Yefeng laughed inwardly, watching He Qi suffer and have no intention of helping.

He Qi knew that he was wrong, so his momentum weakened, but he couldn't help muttering:

"You're protecting him."

Seeing that they were playing tricks on him, Xiang Ping couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.However, the prince was sitting upright, but he still didn't dare to get up.Seeing this, Pei Nianyu said:

"Just get up. You wait in the side room for a while, there will probably be a shadow guard from the palace to ask you something later."

Hearing the words "shadow guard in the palace", Xiang Ping'en couldn't help but feel cold and shivered a few times.

"...Well, you don't have to be so afraid. They dare not do anything to you in front of me."

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Sure enough, not long after, more than a dozen black-clothed shadow guards landed neatly in the courtyard of Hanqiu Pavilion.

The first person came forward to greet Pei Nianyu:

"Subordinate Li Han, please refer to His Royal Highness King Yu."

Pei Nianyu couldn't help being surprised:

"Get up quickly, it's just a trivial matter, Li Han, you are so busy, why did you come here in person?"

Li Han's face is really frosty now, so let's ask Pei Nianyu first:

"Is there any damage, my lord?"

"Not at all, you..."

"Master got the news that someone in the mansion intends to assassinate the prince, Long Yan was furious, and sent his subordinates to lead the Chaos Response Department to thoroughly investigate the matter."

When Lou Yefeng heard this, he couldn't help but quietly raised his eyes and glanced at Li Han.

"Chamber of Chaos"... is not a vegetarian place, it can be said to be the elite of the elite shadow guards in the palace.

The word quelling chaos, pointed at by the sword's edge, quells all rebellions.It is an ace shadow guard team used by the royal shadow guards to wipe out the enemy in times of crisis and maintain the regime.

As for cleaning up "enemies", what "enemies" need to be dispatched to deal with the chaos, of course, the emperor has the final say.

So for many years, the CCP has almost become a means of striking political opponents with a thunderbolt.As the emperor, you even sent out to suppress the shadow guards, which means that you intend to rebel. Since you intend to rebel, then directly destroy humanity.

Twelve points are unreasonable.

Naturally, Pei Nianyu also knew the reason, so he guessed right away——Pei Niancheng made such a big fuss, nothing more than wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of these moths who have been entrenched in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for many years and have not found a good reason to do it before.Do it.

Pei Nianyu is of course the door of convenience:

"My king is heartbroken when this happened. These people are from the palace, and I said that His Majesty is dissatisfied with me... Tsk tsk. Then I will trouble Commander Lin to work hard to find out this matter."

"That's the case."

So Li Han's shadow guards inspected a few eunuchs of the House of Internal Affairs symbolically in the King Yu Palace, mainly pretending to make a big noise, so that the outside of the palace can see that something happened.

Then they went back to the palace alone - the few people who were caught before were the ones they wanted to work hard on.

Murdering the prince... not only that they will have to take the consequences, Li Han has already begun to secretly plan on the way back to the palace, who would be best for them to bite.

Li Han knew in his heart that his master had been displeased with them for a long time, and he had already thought about the reform of the selection of officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.He, Li Han, of course has to take the initiative to share the master's worries.

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Pei Nianyu sent away the unsightly nails. He thought he could finally calm down and concentrate on teaching these apprentices.

Unexpectedly, after three days, Yun Shao suddenly led Xiang Ping'en to him angrily.

Pei Nianyu saw the unlucky Xiang Ping'en with a defeated face at a glance, and asked subconsciously:

"Who did he provoke again?"

Yun Shao frowned and said:

"It's time to practice fire kung fu today, so the subordinate asked them to start with vegetarian soup. Xiang Ping lifted his casserole and just about to put it on the stove, it fell to the ground in an instant and shattered completely."

"My subordinates went over and saw that the casserole that should have been empty was somehow filled with a pot of boiling hot water. The casserole was always used to keep the heat...Master, you also know what happened to the scalding.have to?"

After that, she directly grabbed Xiang Ping'en's hands, rolled up her sleeves, and showed Pei Nianyu:

"The palms of these hands were all burned, and they couldn't practice cooking for many days. I think that's what they thought."

Pei Nianyu saw that the palm was so hot that it turned red, and even swelled up with some blisters, so he couldn't help but swear, and said angrily:

"Why are they so blatant? Did you see who did it?"

"No. After the previous matter was resolved, most of the shadow guards who were in charge of monitoring them were withdrawn. I can't see so many people from the remaining two shadow guards. But..."

Yun Shao's face darkened:

"Their casserole has been kept in the big yard, and those who kill them must move in an extremely open place, and they can't hide their bodies at all. In other words, everyone in their eunuchs can see who did it.”

"...But no one took the initiative to remind him."

Pei Nianyu sighed for a long time, closed his eyes and said nothing.

Apparently, he saw that the person who attacked him before could not frame him, so Xiang Ping'en got the prince's favor instead.Those who have never done anything before will definitely not help him this time.

The position in the palace... is a small chef, Shangshan steward, behind it represents a lot of oil and water, and... the power to trample others under their feet.Although this power is small, everyone does not want others to step on their head.

Xiang Ping'en, a person with outstanding culinary skills, really let him get rewards and promotions after returning to the palace, so what if he soars into the sky?

Lou Yefeng quietly walked to the side of the master, and said softly:

"...This situation is not unpredictable. This subordinate has told you before, those people in the palace...you know it too."

Pei Nianyu knew that Lou Yefeng was trying to comfort him, saying that his thoughts were not pure, and he knew this kind of thing would happen early on.But it didn't make him feel any better.

He opened his eyes, and raised his sleeve lightly:

"Since everyone has seen it and don't say anything, then let them all do it. Yun Shao, let's make a notice and let them all pack up and go back to the palace. The king will not serve them anymore!"

Yun Shao obviously endured their mess for a long time, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief:

"To order~"

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After Yun Shao left, Na Xiang Ping En looked at Pei Nianyu, and suddenly knelt down:

"My lord, slave... I have something to ask, I don't know if I should say it or not?"

"Just say what you want. But you change your name first."

"My lord, can you, can you send a message to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so that the lower official can be transferred to work in your house? The lower official... can do any dirty work! You can be a helper, or you can do it.Any other work. As long as the family can give me a little salary..."

Pei Nianyu paused:

"Of course this is possible. If you come to the mansion to be a cook, I can take you in as an apprentice. It's just that the palace is free, so being a cook may be a cook for a lifetime."

"If you save money and go out of the mansion to find a living, it's okay, but... like in the palace, the second-rank chief steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, high-ranking officials and rich salary will never be there."

Xiang Ping shook his head:

"My mother has been ill for many years, and I only entered the palace to earn more money for medicine. But now that I am like this, I really dare not stay in the palace any longer. Someday someone will do something else, Gods can't know, ghosts can't see die in the deep prison interrogated by the shadow guards, how can they still save money for the family."

Pei Nianyu: "..."

He sighed, looked at Pingen's unlucky look, and it was really up to him whether he could go on in the palace afterward.

Although Pei Niancheng would not sit back and watch this kind of thing happen, it was very reasonable for people not to want to live in such fearful days, so Pei Nianyu agreed to his request.

"Everyone else has been sent away by me, so from tomorrow onwards, you can learn from Yun Shao first. Now there is no need to rush, let her take you personally, and start practicing from the basic skills again."

Overjoyed to Ping En:

"Thank you, my lord, for your kindness."

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On the second day, Pei Nianyu received a letter from his brother early in the morning.

"Brother, you have done a good job. In fact, I already knew that sooner or later they would make you dislike them, and half of them would have to be kicked out. I didn't expect you to cooperate with me so much, and you would get so angry and throw them all out."gone."

"I quickly took this opportunity to have a good attack yesterday, and withdrew a lot of people... Hey, it's really cool."

Pei Nianyu pinched the letter, his face darkened.

Are you still cool?

No, you already knew that none of these people could learn well, and I would drive them out of the house sooner or later?

Then you still seriously send them over to do something, to eat dry food?

Still cooperate with you?Whoever wants to cooperate with you, you can clean up the Ministry of Internal Affairs, don't waste my feelings, okay, I really taught them for half a month in vain.

This Pei Niancheng actually used himself as a gunman and deserved to be beaten.

He continued to look down:

"However, the Imperial Dining Room will definitely undergo a big change. I have already prepared a group of talented culinary talent selected from the private sector. These people must be different from the previous ones. I hope that my brother will teach me with all my heart!"

Pei Nianyu: "Bah—!"

"There is also Xiang Ping'en, I think he is a talent, and I hope that my brother will focus on training. I plan to let him gradually rise to the position and gradually take charge of the imperial dining room..."

Pei Nianyu sneered, and wrote back with a pen:

"I'm sorry, Xiang Ping thinks that your officialdom in the palace is too dark, which makes people seriously uncomfortable. I don't plan to work in the palace anymore. Now he is the direct disciple of my Highness King Yu!"

Pei Niancheng who received the reply:

"........."

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