He looked up at the sky and thought for a while: "It's been about thirty years now! A young lady saved me. The young lady's name was Cui Yanyu, and her father, Cui Hang, was the Minister of Revenue at the time. Cui Hang was very timid. At that time, stealing silver from the Ministry of Revenue had become a common practice, and every Minister of Revenue would receive a large sum of silver after taking office. I remember that I gave him five thousand taels at that time."

There was a sudden sound in the room, as if a teacup had landed on its tray.

Yan Shiyue didn't look back.

Chen En pretended not to hear and continued, "Cui Hang wanted silver, but he was timid and afraid of getting into trouble, so he came up with a way to make fake silver out of tin. Then I took on the job."

He smiled at her and said, "So, this fake ingot was actually made by a court official in the beginning. Isn't that interesting?"

Yan Shiyue nodded: "It's quite interesting."

Chen En continued, "Then I traveled half the world and found this place, and started making fake silver for him... At that time, the Ministry of Revenue was short of two or three million silver coins, right? Then Cui Hang got fake ingots, and he kept going in and out, and always got hundreds of thousands of them, until he left office four years later."

"Not long after he left office, Cui Xiaoniang died, and I left. But two years later, someone asked me to make counterfeit silver again. It was like this. Sometimes no one asked me for several years, and sometimes I had people every year, until now."

Yan Shiyue said: "Aren't you lying? You shouldn't be together all the time. If someone comes to you, how can you respond in time?"

"Why should I respond immediately?" Chen En said with a smile, "I will respond when I see it."

...

...

Yan Shiyue didn't ask about the contact method at that time, he just looked at the shadow guard, and the shadow guard nodded, meaning that this was possible and could be achieved.

Then she gossiped, "Thirty years ago? How old were you then?"

Chen En smiled but said nothing, "Isn't it my turn to ask?"

She spread her hands and motioned for him to ask.

Chen En thought for a moment and said, "I don't have anything else to ask."

She said, "So you are giving up this right?"

Chen En smiled and said, "I feel unwilling to give up. Then, let me ask you, how do you plan to deal with me?"

"I don't know!" Yan Shiyue said, "I'm not responsible for forcing a confession by torture, but as the saying goes, under the three trees, you can ask for anything. Why do you have to go to this extent? Why don't you just say it directly? Anyway, you can't play this trick again in the future, so what's the point of hiding it?"

Chen En smiled and said, "If someone finds the silver I hid a few years after I die, they will think they have made a fortune, but it turns out to be nothing. The emotions from heaven to earth will be so intense... I would find it interesting to watch if I became a ghost."

No, that's not right.

He shouldn't be this kind of person.

If this feeling would make him feel interesting, then his entire performance in this story should not be like this. He should leave some small tails, deliberately let people see them, and maliciously enjoy this feeling of "internal strife".

But he is not. He seems to be a gentleman throughout the whole process.

Whenever she plays a character, she is used to putting her entire emotions into the character, and the same is true when she wants to know what he is thinking.

So she felt something was wrong.

Seeing that she suddenly fell silent, Chen En couldn't help but look her up and down with great interest.

Then Yan Shiyue suddenly raised her eyes and asked him, "Do you have any friends?"

Originally, this question was very easy to answer, but he hesitated for a moment, which was rare, before he smiled and said, "Of course, there are a lot."

She also smiled, and then she said to him gently: "Do you know something?"

"What?"

She said: "When people lie, they will emphasize it, and then look at the other person... to see if 'I' believe it."

Chen En raised an eyebrow.

Then Yan Shiyue said directly: "Someone come!"

The shadow guard stepped forward in response, and Yan Shiyue said, "Go to the tin painting shop in the north of the city, arrest the shopkeeper and search carefully, the silver is hidden there!"

This order came too suddenly. Even though the shadow guard had doubts in his heart, he would not lose face for her. He responded and quickly retreated.

Chen En's smile disappeared from his face, which was rare.

Then she just looked at him, their eyes locked. After a long while, Chen En smiled and said, "I didn't expect it... You can't judge a person by his appearance."

She sat back down and asked him leisurely, "What's your name?"

"My name..." He smiled and said, "If you hadn't asked, I would have forgotten it. My surname is Jiang, my given name is Li, and my courtesy name is Henbie."

"Jiang Henbie," Yan Shiyue nodded: "Oh, it's quite tasty."

Jiang Henbie smiled but said nothing.

This guy's appearance is really good, and his calmness, as if he doesn't care about life or death at all, is quite charming. No wonder he can deceive so many people.

Then Jiang Henbie smiled and said, "Your Highness, can I ask why you think it was that tin painting shop?"

Yan Shiyue said: "I can answer you this way, because you said that you made a total of six million fake gold ingots before. Such a large project must not be done in a day, and it cannot be done hiding in the house, so you must have a place."

"And you also said that the hollow ingots have been destroyed. So, whether you make them as you need them, or make a batch first and wait for the capital to come and ask for them... you have to have such a place, so isn't this inevitable? You must find a local tin workshop!"

Jiang Henbie asked, "Then why is it that tin painting shop?"

"Because I am the Goddess of Fortune!" Yan Shiyue said, "Whatever I want, God will give it to me. Although I have been in Hedao Town for a few days, the only place I visited was that tin painting shop, so I thought it was that one! And your reaction told me that I was right."

Jiang Henbie looked at her. After a while, he smiled and said, "If I had known this earlier, I shouldn't have saved you."

Although it was a smile, the hatred was obvious.

Yan Shiyue said: "It seems that your friend is quite important to you. How about this, if you tell me where the fake ingot is hidden, I will spare his life."

Jiang Henbie smiled, shook his head and closed his eyes.

Yan Shiyue said: "You don't believe me? I won't break my promise if I say so!"

He still didn't answer, so she said, "How about we talk about your Wuxin Sect?"

Jiang Henbie stopped talking.

Yan Shiyue also said that he was tired, and seeing that he really didn't intend to speak, he handed the man to the shadow guard and went into the room to see Emperor Ming Yan.

Emperor Ming Yan and Prince Chun had been playing chess by the window, but had stopped long ago. The three of them sat quietly listening to the noise outside.

Then Yan Shiyue asked: "Aye?"

Emperor Ming Yan shook his head to indicate that everything was fine.

Prince Chun sighed, "Cui Hang, during the time of the late emperor, was a well-known upright official in the court! After his death, the late emperor bestowed upon him the posthumous title of 'loyal and honest'!"

Loyalty and integrity, how ironic.

Corruption has been going on for generations and has been repeatedly banned. In the past, Emperor Yongzheng hated corruption so much that he set up money to maintain integrity, and he also had the policy of "returning all the fire losses to the public", the infamous "blood dropper", and the secret memorial system, but none of them could eradicate it.

Yan Shiyue glanced at Emperor Ming Yan, so, should he release this Huo Hao Gui Gong Butterfly to distract his father's attention?