No matter how reluctant Huang Ruo was, she eventually had to pack up her belongings and be sent to live in a farm in the suburbs.
Huang Ruo left, just like a pebble thrown into the sea without causing any waves. Only Xu Ling knew that he had left and was surprised for a moment.
Clearly, this person had talked to him about the Taoist priest yesterday and wanted to cause trouble for him, but out of the blue, he suddenly left the capital.
Xu Ling noticed something was wrong, so he sent people to investigate, but they couldn't find out anything. He just thought that Huang Ruo had angered Huang Geshi, and was sent to the farm by Huang Geshi to temper his temper.
Afterwards, Xu Ling sent someone to deliver a visiting card to the Second Prince, and he also set off for Prince An's Mansion. When he arrived at Prince An's Mansion, a butler was at the door to lead him in.
"Cousin," Prince An stood up to greet him when he saw Xu Ling coming.
After Xu Ling greeted him, he sat down and said to Prince An, "I came to see you this time because I want you to do me a favor."
"Cousin, there's no need to be polite between you and me, just speak frankly," Prince An said with a faint smile.
Xu Ling was about to speak when he felt an itch in his throat. He turned his head and coughed twice to suppress the discomfort in his throat before saying, "I want the prince to help me find someone. He's a Taoist priest."
"Oh?" Prince An understood, and asked, "But Li Lezhi, the Taoist priest who works in the Ministry of Justice?"
"Yes," Xu Ling didn't expect that King An also knew Li Lezhi. He looked over in surprise.
Prince An said: "This is not difficult. The difficult part is that my cousin wants to deal with him."
He also knew about the grudge between Xu Ling and Gongsun Miaoran. If it were in the past, he would have helped an ordinary Taoist priest.
According to his observation, that Taoist Priest Li is not Ou Tong's Taoist priest, and he cannot be killed with one strike, which will cause endless troubles.
It would be best if they didn’t take action.
Prince An saw the dissatisfaction on Xu Ling's face and comforted him, "The time is not right yet."
Xu Ling understood that Prince An did not want to help him, and he also understood that what he said made some sense, but he did not want to return empty-handed, so he said to Prince An: "Your Highness, can you find a way to transfer him away from the Ministry of Justice?"
Prince An did not speak. After thinking for a while, he said, "We need to wait and see what happens to the Taoist priest. Don't worry, my cousin. There will always be people who are desperate enough to take action against him."
Xu Ling frowned, but seeing that Prince An had made up his mind, he didn't know what to say and could only take his leave.
Li Lezhi had just returned home from get off work at the Ministry of Justice when he heard his apprentice Qian Xidao's grandfather inviting them to dinner.
Although Li Lezhi suffers from social phobia, he had no choice but to accept the invitation from his apprentice's grandfather.
When they got off the carriage, Li Le just looked at the Cao Mansion which covered a large area in front of him. He was shocked in his heart but his face was calm.
There were already servants waiting at the door, leading them inside.
After arriving at the dining room, Li Le saw that there were people sitting at the table, but it was not full yet. He stood there somewhat awkwardly, and then, under the guidance of Qian Xi, sat in the seat facing east.
Gao Mingli and Qian Xi were sitting at another table. After seeing this scene, Li Le was in a trance for a moment.
He is now sitting at the table with the elders. Can he be moved to the table with the children? But this is impossible.
The Cao family held a banquet this time, in addition to entertaining Qian Xi, there was another reason. The Cao family was curious about Qian Xi's master, who was an official in the court. Although they were not in the same place, they had heard of each other.
The Cao family had previously wanted to invite Li Lezhi to their house for a chat, wanting to see what kind of Taoist priest could become Qian Xi's master.
But later, various things happened, which left them with no chance, but made them even more curious about Li Lezhi.
Originally, I thought that he was just a young Taoist priest with no special abilities, and the reason why he could become Qian Xi's master was purely because Qian Chao didn't care about Qian Xi. But later on, he turned out to be very good at fortune-telling.
Not long after, Cao family members arrived one by one. The younger ones saw Qian Xi at the table, and then saw the Taoist priest sitting there in a cold and lonely manner. The younger ones made eyes and sat down next to Qian Xi. They didn't dare to speak carelessly for fear of disturbing the Immortal Li, and just made eyes and asked Qian Xi: Is that your master?
Qian Xi saw it and nodded.
After getting the answer, the other party looked at Li Lezhi curiously, looking past Qian Xi, and then whispered to Qian Xi: "Are you going back tonight? Why don't you stay at my place?"
Qian Xi looked at him in confusion. Even in the Cao family, he had his own courtyard. But looking at his cousin's expression, he probably wanted to ask about his master's situation when they were alone.
Qian Xi said: "I will go back."
The other party was a little disappointed when he heard this. He still wanted to ask his cousin Xi about the Taoist priest, whether what was circulating outside was true, whether there really was such a magical power that nothing could escape his eyes.
As for Li Lezhi, he sat at the same table with the elders of the Cao family. He had no idea how to get along with these elders who were older than him. Even when the elders of the Cao family drank too much, they still called him brothers, and their seniority was inexplicably raised.
The other party said, "Brother Li, please talk to me. You are really as good as what people say. You can tell the fortune very accurately. Can you tell me if I can get promoted?"
Li Lezhi: “…”
Being called Brother Li by the other party, Li Le felt very stressed and quickly said, "Just call me by my name."
After he said that, except for the old man, the other members of the Cao family dared not say anything. First of all, not to mention the other party's ability, secondly, although Taoist Li was young, he was Qian Xi's master, and as a teacher is a father for life, he was of the same generation as them. In addition, out of respect for him, he called him Brother Li and changed the title back to Taoist Li.
Li Le heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the other party call him Taoist Li, and said to them: "Most rumors are false, don't take them seriously."
He didn't know what rumors were circulating about him. Thinking that Wang Ren thought he was the incarnation of Di Ting, Li Le didn't need to think about it, he knew that the rumor had long been distorted. It spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, even the rumor that he was a god who had descended to the earth was spread. But he knew in his heart how powerful he was.
As for the other party's question about whether he could get a promotion, Li Lezhi understood it very well. Who doesn't want to get rich quickly and get promoted? But can the result of such a thing be announced in front of everyone?
Li Le only calculated secretly. If the result was good, he would tell everyone. If the result was not good, he would not tell everyone.
Li Le only figured out that he could get promoted, so he said to him, "You will get promoted."
"I would like to borrow the good words from Taoist Li."
Everyone thought it was just a polite remark from Taoist Priest Li. After all, Taoist Priest Li had not used the tortoise shell and had not started calculating yet.
Only Qian Xi and Gao Mingli present knew that their master did not need tortoise shells when fortune-telling, and the master would not say those polite words to deceive people, which meant that the other party would really get promoted.
"Uncle is drunk, how can he get promoted in front of others?" The young man sitting next to Qian Xi muttered softly, then looked at Qian Xi and asked in a low voice: "Cousin Xi, I heard someone say that whatever Taoist Li says will come true. Is this true?"
He just heard Taoist Li say that his uncle would be promoted.
Qian Xi had never expected that his master's ability to make his words come true had been rumored outside. People who didn't know might think his master was a monster, but they all knew that this was his master's fortune-telling ability and there was nothing supernatural about it.
Qian Xi said: "Rumors should not be taken seriously."
If the rumor continues, one day it will be said that his master will soon ascend to heaven. Qian Xi suddenly thought, could it be that someone wants to praise his master to death, or to prove that his master is a monster and not human, and use this as an excuse to take his master's life.
If he is a Taoist priest, everyone will naturally respect him. But if he is a demon, everyone will naturally kill him. He is not of our race, so his heart must be different.
Was Censor Qiu a driving force behind this?
After arriving in Beijing, the person who introduced the other party asked the master to do the fortune telling. It turned out to be a trap to push the master into the abyss step by step.
If he and his senior brother had not come to their grandfather's house for a banquet today, how would they have known about this since they did not like to go out.
It could even be that the other party did not want them to know and covered their ears. Otherwise, how could they, who lived in Xuanping Lane, not hear any rumors when the news was being spread in the streets and alleys?
Qian Xi looked at his younger cousin Cao Rui who was sitting next to him and asked, "How do people outside spread the story of my master? Do you know when the story started?"
When asked, Cao Rui really couldn't remember it for a moment.
Cao Ran, who heard them talking, said, "This has been around for a while, probably since the Su Pingshi case. But at that time, some people said it was a trick set up by your master and Minister Zhou, and it should not be taken seriously."
Cao Ran glanced at the elders who hadn't noticed them, lowered her voice and said carefully, "The latter is all due to your master's real ability to figure out that your master is a person of real ability. A few days ago at the Qianqiu Banquet, your master was sitting at Gongsun Miaoran's table. You also know who can sit at his table, and he is also on good terms with the Dali Temple Minister. The wind direction outside has changed instantly."
A Dali Temple, a Ministry of Justice, plus a Censorate, which means that Taoist Li has his own connections in all three departments, and their status is not low. Although Qiu Yushi is just a small supervisory censor, he is a supervisory censor, and he will file a memorial to accuse them if he doesn't like them.
Therefore, no one wants to offend Taoist Li.
Even though they did not believe that Li Le only had ability and had doubts in their hearts, under the pressure of the Three Divisions, these people could only say openly that Taoist Li was accurate in his calculations.
Everyone knew that this was a conspiracy of the Ministry of Justice, but what they didn't expect was that in the end the entire three courts were in collusion with each other.
This was also what Cao Ran heard when he went out to eat. Liu Ming, who was at odds with him, was talking about this with his lackeys.
Cao Ran guessed that Liu Ming could say these things because his father must have told him.
Liu Ming's father, Doctor Sili, must have been dissatisfied with the Three Departments. He was dissatisfied with the fact that the Three Departments, for their own selfish reasons, had caused such a thing in order to intimidate all officials, and had elevated Master Qian Xi and created momentum for him, so that when others spoke of Master Qian Xi, they only dared to praise him and did not dare to make any disparagement.
As for other things, Cao Ran didn't know.
This was the first time Qian Xi knew about these things. There were undercurrents surging in places they were unaware of.
Cao Ran: "Now everyone says that your master is very capable and can know everything. They also say that your master can calculate the result without the help of tortoise shells. Such a skill is not possessed by ordinary Taoists. Even the Taoists in Xuanyang Palace are not even one tenth as good as your master."
Qian Xi asked, "Is that really what is being spread outside?"
Cao Ran nodded.
Qian Xi pondered. Although his master was indeed very skilled and the Taoists in Xuanyang Palace could not compare with him, if this matter were to spread widely and the Taoists in Xuanyang Palace heard it, wouldn't that make enemies for his master?
Furthermore, his master did not need to use the tortoise shell, but now when his master goes out, he will use the tortoise shell as a disguise, so ordinary people will not know that his master can calculate with his bare hands.
The person who spread such rumors wanted to use it to praise his master and kill him. In addition, he wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife, using the Taoist priest of Xuanyang Palace to prove that his master was not an expert, but was just put forward by the Three Departments to slander other officials?
So, who could be behind this secret move?
Are they those who have been truly greedy, or those who do not want the Master to exist? As long as the Master exists, he will be like a sword hanging over everyone's head, making it impossible for them to sleep or eat.
Qian Xi couldn't figure it out.
This kind of thing still requires the master to take action and pull out the people in the dark one by one.
Qian Xi was absent-minded during the meal. After the meal, Qian Xi followed Li Lezhi home.
When he got home, he said to Li Le: "Master."
"Hmm?" Li Le just turned around and looked at Qian Xi.
Qian Xi said, "I heard some bad things about Master today. People say that the Taoist priests in Xuanyang Palace are not even one-tenth as good as Master. I guess someone wants the Taoist priests in Xuanyang Palace to cause trouble for Master."
Li Lezhi: “…”
Just say that there are rumors about him outside, saying that other Taoist priests are not as good as him, and it is better to say that he is a deity who has descended to the earth. Others may not believe such exaggerated things, but using other Taoist priests in other temples to highlight him is purely to cause trouble for him.
Who on earth wants to harm him?
Who would have thought that, having just gotten through one ordeal, he now knew another one. Li Le could only wipe away his tears with a sad heart. He asked calmly, "How long has this been going on?"
"It's been ten days and half a month."
Li Lezhi: “…”
Really, I was heartbroken. The news had been circulating for so long, and even though we were both in the capital, the Taoists from Xuanyang Palace hadn't caused him any trouble. It must be that the other party was really kind-hearted.
Li Le just said: "I will take care of this matter."
After knowing this, Li Le just held the box where he kept his money, looking at the broken silver inside. He was just about to take out some of the silver. He was just an ordinary little Taoist priest, without such great ability, and not as good as the Taoist priest of Xuanyang Palace.
But he thought again, he hadn't heard anyone talk about this matter on the road, and everyone seemed to be unaware of it, so this rumor might be circulating among officials.
In other words, it is not okay for him to hire people to spread rumors about him on the streets; this matter must be resolved among the officials themselves.
At this time, Li Le could only think of Shi Pingshi inexplicably. This person was certified by Minister Zhou as a gossip. If Shi Pingshi went to say it, then it would not take long for the rumors about him among officials to be broken. At least, there would be no rumors that other Taoists were not as good as him.
It is not difficult to find Shi Pingshi for help. First of all, he has to meet with Shi Pingshi. Thanks to Wang Ren's help, it is easy for Li Le to meet Shi Pingshi.
On the contrary, Shi Pingshi was frightened when he saw Li Lezhi. It was widely rumored that this Taoist priest was good at fortune-telling and could even know what you were thinking with just one glance. And when he was in Yangzhou, he often gave this Taoist priest a cold shoulder. After returning to the capital, he even said that his abilities were all fake and that he was just working with Minister Zhou and should not be taken seriously. But later, the other party figured out Su Pingshi's affairs and became friends with Gongsun Miaoran. There must have been something that happened here that a small official like him was not aware of, otherwise everyone's opinion of him would not have changed so drastically.
How could Shi Pingshi not be afraid?
But since an elder called him, Shi Pingshi dared not not come. Seeing Li Lezhi sitting there with a cold face, Shi Pingshi's heart trembled. He immediately bowed to Li Lezhi and said, "Master Li, I wonder what you want to see me about."
Although Li Lezhi wanted Shi Pingshi to tell him the truth, he would not say it directly. He said, "I want to tell you a fortune."
When Shi Pingshi heard this, his legs almost went limp. Everyone knows that if Taoist Li told fortunes, it was no different from being summoned by the King of Hell. It was just a matter of dying early or late. Shi Pingshi said with a pale face, "Master Li, I was wrong to offend you before, but I really didn't break the law, and I didn't do anything bad. Can you spare my life?"
Li Lezhi: “…” Is this how his reputation is now outside?
Li Le was puzzled, but the purpose of his visit to Shi Pingshi was to dispel the rumors, so he said, "I just want to tell you a fortune."
Shi Pingshi's face turned pale and he asked, "Can I refuse?"
"cannot."
Li Lezhi didn't want this to happen, but he didn't want to hold on to Shi Pingshi's only gossip. Where could he find someone else? He couldn't just meet one and explain that the rumor was false.
Seeing that the other party was still pale, as if he was the King of Hell, Li Le just said: "Do you want to be promoted?"
Commentator Shi: I don’t want to.
Although he thought so in his heart, he did not dare to show it on his face. He just looked at Li Lezhi with a wooden face, waiting for the trial to come.
Seeing that the other party did not reply, Li Le could only bite the bullet and continue to calculate: "I will tell you a fortune." For this reason, when he was about to calculate, he withdrew his hand, took out his tortoise shell, and calculated for him in front of Shi Pingshi: "Your fortune has been low recently, and bad things may happen."
Shi Pingshi: Can being arrested by your Ministry of Justice be a good thing?
Shi Pingshi said, "Thank you for telling me, Taoist Li. If there is nothing else, I will take my leave."
Li Le just watched the other party wave his sleeves and leave. He had just calculated that good things would happen to Shi Pingshi recently, and he might even get promoted. In that case, according to the comparison he made, he was wrong.
When Shi Pingshi gets promoted, he will remember what he calculated wrong today, and then use Shi Pingshi's mouth to make public what he calculated incorrectly, so that no one will compare him with the Taoist priests of Xuanyang Palace.
However, Li Lezhi was not 100% sure about this matter. In order to prevent his idea from failing and not being successfully implemented, he had himself told to have his fortune told. In the end, he got a good result, which made him feel more at ease.
As for Shi Pingshi, he became unhappy after learning from Li Lezhi that something bad was going to happen. The other Pingshi saw him like this and asked, "What's the matter with you that the master asked just now? Why do you look so unhappy?"
"It wasn't the master who came to me. It was Taoist Li who came to me," Shi Pingshi was very depressed. He said, "You also know that Taoist Li told fortunes for others. Taoist Li also asked me if I wanted to be promoted?"
"And then what?" Speaking of promotion, people around pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what the outcome would be.
"Master Li said that something bad will happen. You all know the current situation in the Ministry of Justice. It is not a good thing for Master Li to tell my fortune. It is obvious that the people in the Ministry of Justice want to use me as a scapegoat," Shi Pingshi said without any scruples as he was going to die anyway.
"No way, you haven't committed any crime, how can the Ministry of Justice be so rude and unreasonable to arrest you?"
"Master Li has taken action now. What do you think?" Shi Pingshi said dimly.
"Even you are about to be arrested by the Ministry of Justice. I don't think that Taoist Li has any ability. He is just promoted by the Ministry of Justice to create momentum, so that others will think he is good at fortune-telling. When others believe in his ability, the Ministry of Justice will use this as an opportunity to attack us. You must think of a solution. We can't let them become so powerful. In the future, will the world still need our Dali Temple? Our Dali Temple will be just a decoration."
These words touched everyone's heart, but they wanted to stop this from happening, but they didn't know how to do it.
Finally, someone came up with an idea. He said, "Let's spread the word that the Taoist priest's predictions were inaccurate. Although the situation is unstoppable, as long as it leaves a mark in other people's minds, they will definitely be suspicious. Besides, the Taoist priest said that something bad would happen to Shi Pingshi. So let's try to turn things around and make it good. When this matter is over, we can then spread the word that the Taoist priest's predictions were inaccurate and that his reputation was in vain. Only then can our Dali Temple be saved. You don't want to be inferior to the people from the Ministry of Justice when you see them in the future, do you?"
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
Originally, some people did not want to see Shi Pingshi promoted, and also wanted to do something for themselves. They did not expect that this would happen to the other party. Under such circumstances, he could not speak out his objection, and could only agree with frustration.
After waiting so long for the position of chief clerk to become vacant, they, the judges, had been trying their best to get it. However, due to the Taoist's calculation, Shi, the judge, got the upper hand.
Even though he was unwilling, he had no choice but to go along with everyone and let Shi Pingshi be promoted to the chief clerk.
Fung On Building
At this time, many officials were having meals in Feng'an Tower. After Shi Pingshi and others had chosen their seats, there were still many people waiting when the meal was halfway served.
They started talking slowly and talked about Li Lezhi. As soon as they mentioned Li Lezhi, everyone around them pricked up their ears, because it was related to the Taoist priest, and no one wanted to miss the news.
"Didn't Taoist Li tell you your fortune last time? He said something bad would happen to you. I think what he said was all lies. You've been promoted now, so how could anything bad happen to you? I guess that Taoist was just trying to create hype for the Ministry of Justice. What he said was accurate, but it was all just a scam."
"Yes, if he really predicted accurately, how could he say that something bad would happen to you? It's not like the case of Su Pingshi. But we all know that Shi Pingshi is definitely not a person like Su Pingshi. Did Taoist Master Li make a mistake in his prediction?"
They kept their voices low, but Feng'an Tower was not a noisy place. The person sitting next to them looked at them in surprise and asked, "Which Taoist Priest Li are you talking about?"
"Who else could it be? Of course it's Taoist Li who works in the Ministry of Justice. Why, do you also believe the rumor that Taoist Li can tell fortunes?"
"Did that Taoist really tell fortunes for him?" The other party looked at Shi Pingshi in confusion, and then said, "Why don't you send him to the Dali Temple? Since that Taoist Li can tell fortunes for him, then he..."
Several judges' faces turned black. They knew, of course, that some of the people who had been calculated by Li Lezhi were not good people, but Judge Shi was their means to fight back against Li Lezhi and the Ministry of Justice.
We must never admit that there is anything wrong with Shi Pingshi. The only one with a problem is Li Lezhi.
"It's obvious that he didn't calculate correctly, what are you talking about?"
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No matter how reluctant Huang Ruo was, she eventually had to pack up her belongings and be sent to live in a farm in the suburbs.
Huang Ruo left, just like a pebble thrown into the sea without causing any waves. Only Xu Ling knew that he had left and was surprised for a moment.
Clearly, this person had talked to him about the Taoist priest yesterday and wanted to cause trouble for him, but out of the blue, he suddenly left the capital.
Xu Ling noticed something was wrong, so he sent people to investigate, but they couldn't find out anything. He just thought that Huang Ruo had angered Huang Geshi, and was sent to the farm by Huang Geshi to temper his temper.
Afterwards, Xu Ling sent someone to deliver a visiting card to the Second Prince, and he also set off for Prince An's Mansion. When he arrived at Prince An's Mansion, a butler was at the door to lead him in.
"Cousin," Prince An stood up to greet him when he saw Xu Ling coming.
After Xu Ling greeted him, he sat down and said to Prince An, "I came to see you this time because I want you to do me a favor."
"Cousin, there's no need to be polite between you and me, just speak frankly," Prince An said with a faint smile.
Xu Ling was about to speak when he felt an itch in his throat. He turned his head and coughed twice to suppress the discomfort in his throat before saying, "I want the prince to help me find someone. He's a Taoist priest."
"Oh?" Prince An understood, and asked, "But Li Lezhi, the Taoist priest who works in the Ministry of Justice?"
"Yes," Xu Ling didn't expect that King An also knew Li Lezhi. He looked over in surprise.
Prince An said: "This is not difficult. The difficult part is that my cousin wants to deal with him."
He also knew about the grudge between Xu Ling and Gongsun Miaoran. If it were in the past, he would have helped an ordinary Taoist priest.
According to his observation, that Taoist Priest Li is not Ou Tong's Taoist priest, and he cannot be killed with one strike, which will cause endless troubles.
It would be best if they didn’t take action.
Prince An saw the dissatisfaction on Xu Ling's face and comforted him, "The time is not right yet."
Xu Ling understood that Prince An did not want to help him, and he also understood that what he said made some sense, but he did not want to return empty-handed, so he said to Prince An: "Your Highness, can you find a way to transfer him away from the Ministry of Justice?"
Prince An did not speak. After thinking for a while, he said, "We need to wait and see what happens to the Taoist priest. Don't worry, my cousin. There will always be people who are desperate enough to take action against him."
Xu Ling frowned, but seeing that Prince An had made up his mind, he didn't know what to say and could only take his leave.
Li Lezhi had just returned home from get off work at the Ministry of Justice when he heard his apprentice Qian Xidao's grandfather inviting them to dinner.
Although Li Lezhi suffers from social phobia, he had no choice but to accept the invitation from his apprentice's grandfather.
When they got off the carriage, Li Le just looked at the Cao Mansion which covered a large area in front of him. He was shocked in his heart but his face was calm.
There were already servants waiting at the door, leading them inside.
After arriving at the dining room, Li Le saw that there were people sitting at the table, but it was not full yet. He stood there somewhat awkwardly, and then, under the guidance of Qian Xi, sat in the seat facing east.
Gao Mingli and Qian Xi were sitting at another table. After seeing this scene, Li Le was in a trance for a moment.
He is now sitting at the table with the elders. Can he be moved to the table with the children? But this is impossible.
The Cao family held a banquet this time, in addition to entertaining Qian Xi, there was another reason. The Cao family was curious about Qian Xi's master, who was an official in the court. Although they were not in the same place, they had heard of each other.
The Cao family had previously wanted to invite Li Lezhi to their house for a chat, wanting to see what kind of Taoist priest could become Qian Xi's master.
But later, various things happened, which left them with no chance, but made them even more curious about Li Lezhi.
Originally, I thought that he was just a young Taoist priest with no special abilities, and the reason why he could become Qian Xi's master was purely because Qian Chao didn't care about Qian Xi. But later on, he turned out to be very good at fortune-telling.
Not long after, Cao family members arrived one by one. The younger ones saw Qian Xi at the table, and then saw the Taoist priest sitting there in a cold and lonely manner. The younger ones made eyes and sat down next to Qian Xi. They didn't dare to speak carelessly for fear of disturbing the Immortal Li, and just made eyes and asked Qian Xi: Is that your master?
Qian Xi saw it and nodded.
After getting the answer, the other party looked at Li Lezhi curiously, looking past Qian Xi, and then whispered to Qian Xi: "Are you going back tonight? Why don't you stay at my place?"
Qian Xi looked at him in confusion. Even in the Cao family, he had his own courtyard. But looking at his cousin's expression, he probably wanted to ask about his master's situation when they were alone.
Qian Xi said: "I will go back."
The other party was a little disappointed when he heard this. He still wanted to ask his cousin Xi about the Taoist priest, whether what was circulating outside was true, whether there really was such a magical power that nothing could escape his eyes.
As for Li Lezhi, he sat at the same table with the elders of the Cao family. He had no idea how to get along with these elders who were older than him. Even when the elders of the Cao family drank too much, they still called him brothers, and their seniority was inexplicably raised.
The other party said, "Brother Li, please talk to me. You are really as good as what people say. You can tell the fortune very accurately. Can you tell me if I can get promoted?"
Li Lezhi: “…”
Being called Brother Li by the other party, Li Le felt very stressed and quickly said, "Just call me by my name."
After he said that, except for the old man, the other members of the Cao family dared not say anything. First of all, not to mention the other party's ability, secondly, although Taoist Li was young, he was Qian Xi's master, and as a teacher is a father for life, he was of the same generation as them. In addition, out of respect for him, he called him Brother Li and changed the title back to Taoist Li.
Li Le heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the other party call him Taoist Li, and said to them: "Most rumors are false, don't take them seriously."
He didn't know what rumors were circulating about him. Thinking that Wang Ren thought he was the incarnation of Di Ting, Li Le didn't need to think about it, he knew that the rumor had long been distorted. It spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, even the rumor that he was a god who had descended to the earth was spread. But he knew in his heart how powerful he was.
As for the other party's question about whether he could get a promotion, Li Lezhi understood it very well. Who doesn't want to get rich quickly and get promoted? But can the result of such a thing be announced in front of everyone?
Li Le only calculated secretly. If the result was good, he would tell everyone. If the result was not good, he would not tell everyone.
Li Le only figured out that he could get promoted, so he said to him, "You will get promoted."
"I would like to borrow the good words from Taoist Li."
Everyone thought it was just a polite remark from Taoist Priest Li. After all, Taoist Priest Li had not used the tortoise shell and had not started calculating yet.
Only Qian Xi and Gao Mingli present knew that their master did not need tortoise shells when fortune-telling, and the master would not say those polite words to deceive people, which meant that the other party would really get promoted.
"Uncle is drunk, how can he get promoted in front of others?" The young man sitting next to Qian Xi muttered softly, then looked at Qian Xi and asked in a low voice: "Cousin Xi, I heard someone say that whatever Taoist Li says will come true. Is this true?"
He just heard Taoist Li say that his uncle would be promoted.
Qian Xi had never expected that his master's ability to make his words come true had been rumored outside. People who didn't know might think his master was a monster, but they all knew that this was his master's fortune-telling ability and there was nothing supernatural about it.
Qian Xi said: "Rumors should not be taken seriously."
If the rumor continues, one day it will be said that his master will soon ascend to heaven. Qian Xi suddenly thought, could it be that someone wants to praise his master to death, or to prove that his master is a monster and not human, and use this as an excuse to take his master's life.
If he is a Taoist priest, everyone will naturally respect him. But if he is a demon, everyone will naturally kill him. He is not of our race, so his heart must be different.
Was Censor Qiu a driving force behind this?
After arriving in Beijing, the person who introduced the other party asked the master to do the fortune telling. It turned out to be a trap to push the master into the abyss step by step.
If he and his senior brother had not come to their grandfather's house for a banquet today, how would they have known about this since they did not like to go out.
It could even be that the other party did not want them to know and covered their ears. Otherwise, how could they, who lived in Xuanping Lane, not hear any rumors when the news was being spread in the streets and alleys?
Qian Xi looked at his younger cousin Cao Rui who was sitting next to him and asked, "How do people outside spread the story of my master? Do you know when the story started?"
When asked, Cao Rui really couldn't remember it for a moment.
Cao Ran, who heard them talking, said, "This has been around for a while, probably since the Su Pingshi case. But at that time, some people said it was a trick set up by your master and Minister Zhou, and it should not be taken seriously."
Cao Ran glanced at the elders who hadn't noticed them, lowered her voice and said carefully, "The latter is all due to your master's real ability to figure out that your master is a person of real ability. A few days ago at the Qianqiu Banquet, your master was sitting at Gongsun Miaoran's table. You also know who can sit at his table, and he is also on good terms with the Dali Temple Minister. The wind direction outside has changed instantly."
A Dali Temple, a Ministry of Justice, plus a Censorate, which means that Taoist Li has his own connections in all three departments, and their status is not low. Although Qiu Yushi is just a small supervisory censor, he is a supervisory censor, and he will file a memorial to accuse them if he doesn't like them.
Therefore, no one wants to offend Taoist Li.
Even though they did not believe that Li Le only had ability and had doubts in their hearts, under the pressure of the Three Divisions, these people could only say openly that Taoist Li was accurate in his calculations.
Everyone knew that this was a conspiracy of the Ministry of Justice, but what they didn't expect was that in the end the entire three courts were in collusion with each other.
This was also what Cao Ran heard when he went out to eat. Liu Ming, who was at odds with him, was talking about this with his lackeys.
Cao Ran guessed that Liu Ming could say these things because his father must have told him.
Liu Ming's father, Doctor Sili, must have been dissatisfied with the Three Departments. He was dissatisfied with the fact that the Three Departments, for their own selfish reasons, had caused such a thing in order to intimidate all officials, and had elevated Master Qian Xi and created momentum for him, so that when others spoke of Master Qian Xi, they only dared to praise him and did not dare to make any disparagement.
As for other things, Cao Ran didn't know.
This was the first time Qian Xi knew about these things. There were undercurrents surging in places they were unaware of.
Cao Ran: "Now everyone says that your master is very capable and can know everything. They also say that your master can calculate the result without the help of tortoise shells. Such a skill is not possessed by ordinary Taoists. Even the Taoists in Xuanyang Palace are not even one tenth as good as your master."
Qian Xi asked, "Is that really what is being spread outside?"
Cao Ran nodded.
Qian Xi pondered. Although his master was indeed very skilled and the Taoists in Xuanyang Palace could not compare with him, if this matter were to spread widely and the Taoists in Xuanyang Palace heard it, wouldn't that make enemies for his master?
Furthermore, his master did not need to use the tortoise shell, but now when his master goes out, he will use the tortoise shell as a disguise, so ordinary people will not know that his master can calculate with his bare hands.
The person who spread such rumors wanted to use it to praise his master and kill him. In addition, he wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife, using the Taoist priest of Xuanyang Palace to prove that his master was not an expert, but was just put forward by the Three Departments to slander other officials?
So, who could be behind this secret move?
Are they those who have been truly greedy, or those who do not want the Master to exist? As long as the Master exists, he will be like a sword hanging over everyone's head, making it impossible for them to sleep or eat.
Qian Xi couldn't figure it out.
This kind of thing still requires the master to take action and pull out the people in the dark one by one.
Qian Xi was absent-minded during the meal. After the meal, Qian Xi followed Li Lezhi home.
When he got home, he said to Li Le: "Master."
"Hmm?" Li Le just turned around and looked at Qian Xi.
Qian Xi said, "I heard some bad things about Master today. People say that the Taoist priests in Xuanyang Palace are not even one-tenth as good as Master. I guess someone wants the Taoist priests in Xuanyang Palace to cause trouble for Master."
Li Lezhi: “…”
Just say that there are rumors about him outside, saying that other Taoist priests are not as good as him, and it is better to say that he is a deity who has descended to the earth. Others may not believe such exaggerated things, but using other Taoist priests in other temples to highlight him is purely to cause trouble for him.
Who on earth wants to harm him?
Who would have thought that, having just gotten through one ordeal, he now knew another one. Li Le could only wipe away his tears with a sad heart. He asked calmly, "How long has this been going on?"
"It's been ten days and half a month."
Li Lezhi: “…”
Really, I was heartbroken. The news had been circulating for so long, and even though we were both in the capital, the Taoists from Xuanyang Palace hadn't caused him any trouble. It must be that the other party was really kind-hearted.
Li Le just said: "I will take care of this matter."
After knowing this, Li Le just held the box where he kept his money, looking at the broken silver inside. He was just about to take out some of the silver. He was just an ordinary little Taoist priest, without such great ability, and not as good as the Taoist priest of Xuanyang Palace.
But he thought again, he hadn't heard anyone talk about this matter on the road, and everyone seemed to be unaware of it, so this rumor might be circulating among officials.
In other words, it is not okay for him to hire people to spread rumors about him on the streets; this matter must be resolved among the officials themselves.
At this time, Li Le could only think of Shi Pingshi inexplicably. This person was certified by Minister Zhou as a gossip. If Shi Pingshi went to say it, then it would not take long for the rumors about him among officials to be broken. At least, there would be no rumors that other Taoists were not as good as him.
It is not difficult to find Shi Pingshi for help. First of all, he has to meet with Shi Pingshi. Thanks to Wang Ren's help, it is easy for Li Le to meet Shi Pingshi.
On the contrary, Shi Pingshi was frightened when he saw Li Lezhi. It was widely rumored that this Taoist priest was good at fortune-telling and could even know what you were thinking with just one glance. And when he was in Yangzhou, he often gave this Taoist priest a cold shoulder. After returning to the capital, he even said that his abilities were all fake and that he was just working with Minister Zhou and should not be taken seriously. But later, the other party figured out Su Pingshi's affairs and became friends with Gongsun Miaoran. There must have been something that happened here that a small official like him was not aware of, otherwise everyone's opinion of him would not have changed so drastically.
How could Shi Pingshi not be afraid?
But since an elder called him, Shi Pingshi dared not not come. Seeing Li Lezhi sitting there with a cold face, Shi Pingshi's heart trembled. He immediately bowed to Li Lezhi and said, "Master Li, I wonder what you want to see me about."
Although Li Lezhi wanted Shi Pingshi to tell him the truth, he would not say it directly. He said, "I want to tell you a fortune."
When Shi Pingshi heard this, his legs almost went limp. Everyone knows that if Taoist Li told fortunes, it was no different from being summoned by the King of Hell. It was just a matter of dying early or late. Shi Pingshi said with a pale face, "Master Li, I was wrong to offend you before, but I really didn't break the law, and I didn't do anything bad. Can you spare my life?"
Li Lezhi: “…” Is this how his reputation is now outside?
Li Le was puzzled, but the purpose of his visit to Shi Pingshi was to dispel the rumors, so he said, "I just want to tell you a fortune."
Shi Pingshi's face turned pale and he asked, "Can I refuse?"
"cannot."
Li Lezhi didn't want this to happen, but he didn't want to hold on to Shi Pingshi's only gossip. Where could he find someone else? He couldn't just meet one and explain that the rumor was false.
Seeing that the other party was still pale, as if he was the King of Hell, Li Le just said: "Do you want to be promoted?"
Commentator Shi: I don’t want to.
Although he thought so in his heart, he did not dare to show it on his face. He just looked at Li Lezhi with a wooden face, waiting for the trial to come.
Seeing that the other party did not reply, Li Le could only bite the bullet and continue to calculate: "I will tell you a fortune." For this reason, when he was about to calculate, he withdrew his hand, took out his tortoise shell, and calculated for him in front of Shi Pingshi: "Your fortune has been low recently, and bad things may happen."
Shi Pingshi: Can being arrested by your Ministry of Justice be a good thing?
Shi Pingshi said, "Thank you for telling me, Taoist Li. If there is nothing else, I will take my leave."
Li Le just watched the other party wave his sleeves and leave. He had just calculated that good things would happen to Shi Pingshi recently, and he might even get promoted. In that case, according to the comparison he made, he was wrong.
When Shi Pingshi gets promoted, he will remember what he calculated wrong today, and then use Shi Pingshi's mouth to make public what he calculated incorrectly, so that no one will compare him with the Taoist priests of Xuanyang Palace.
However, Li Lezhi was not 100% sure about this matter. In order to prevent his idea from failing and not being successfully implemented, he had himself told to have his fortune told. In the end, he got a good result, which made him feel more at ease.
As for Shi Pingshi, he became unhappy after learning from Li Lezhi that something bad was going to happen. The other Pingshi saw him like this and asked, "What's the matter with you that the master asked just now? Why do you look so unhappy?"
"It wasn't the master who came to me. It was Taoist Li who came to me," Shi Pingshi was very depressed. He said, "You also know that Taoist Li told fortunes for others. Taoist Li also asked me if I wanted to be promoted?"
"And then what?" Speaking of promotion, people around pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what the outcome would be.
"Master Li said that something bad will happen. You all know the current situation in the Ministry of Justice. It is not a good thing for Master Li to tell my fortune. It is obvious that the people in the Ministry of Justice want to use me as a scapegoat," Shi Pingshi said without any scruples as he was going to die anyway.
"No way, you haven't committed any crime, how can the Ministry of Justice be so rude and unreasonable to arrest you?"
"Master Li has taken action now. What do you think?" Shi Pingshi said dimly.
"Even you are about to be arrested by the Ministry of Justice. I don't think that Taoist Li has any ability. He is just promoted by the Ministry of Justice to create momentum, so that others will think he is good at fortune-telling. When others believe in his ability, the Ministry of Justice will use this as an opportunity to attack us. You must think of a solution. We can't let them become so powerful. In the future, will the world still need our Dali Temple? Our Dali Temple will be just a decoration."
These words touched everyone's heart, but they wanted to stop this from happening, but they didn't know how to do it.
Finally, someone came up with an idea. He said, "Let's spread the word that the Taoist priest's predictions were inaccurate. Although the situation is unstoppable, as long as it leaves a mark in other people's minds, they will definitely be suspicious. Besides, the Taoist priest said that something bad would happen to Shi Pingshi. So let's try to turn things around and make it good. When this matter is over, we can then spread the word that the Taoist priest's predictions were inaccurate and that his reputation was in vain. Only then can our Dali Temple be saved. You don't want to be inferior to the people from the Ministry of Justice when you see them in the future, do you?"
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
Originally, some people did not want to see Shi Pingshi promoted, and also wanted to do something for themselves. They did not expect that this would happen to the other party. Under such circumstances, he could not speak out his objection, and could only agree with frustration.
After waiting so long for the position of chief clerk to become vacant, they, the judges, had been trying their best to get it. However, due to the Taoist's calculation, Shi, the judge, got the upper hand.
Even though he was unwilling, he had no choice but to go along with everyone and let Shi Pingshi be promoted to the chief clerk.
Fung On Building
At this time, many officials were having meals in Feng'an Tower. After Shi Pingshi and others had chosen their seats, there were still many people waiting when the meal was halfway served.
They started talking slowly and talked about Li Lezhi. As soon as they mentioned Li Lezhi, everyone around them pricked up their ears, because it was related to the Taoist priest, and no one wanted to miss the news.
"Didn't Taoist Li tell you your fortune last time? He said something bad would happen to you. I think what he said was all lies. You've been promoted now, so how could anything bad happen to you? I guess that Taoist was just trying to create hype for the Ministry of Justice. What he said was accurate, but it was all just a scam."
"Yes, if he really predicted accurately, how could he say that something bad would happen to you? It's not like the case of Su Pingshi. But we all know that Shi Pingshi is definitely not a person like Su Pingshi. Did Taoist Master Li make a mistake in his prediction?"
They kept their voices low, but Feng'an Tower was not a noisy place. The person sitting next to them looked at them in surprise and asked, "Which Taoist Priest Li are you talking about?"
"Who else could it be? Of course it's Taoist Li who works in the Ministry of Justice. Why, do you also believe the rumor that Taoist Li can tell fortunes?"
"Did that Taoist really tell fortunes for him?" The other party looked at Shi Pingshi in confusion, and then said, "Why don't you send him to the Dali Temple? Since that Taoist Li can tell fortunes for him, then he..."
Several judges' faces turned black. They knew, of course, that some of the people who had been calculated by Li Lezhi were not good people, but Judge Shi was their means to fight back against Li Lezhi and the Ministry of Justice.
We must never admit that there is anything wrong with Shi Pingshi. The only one with a problem is Li Lezhi.
"It's obvious that he didn't calculate correctly, what are you talking about?"
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