Gu Shaoyu said, "The case of Dali Temple is not complicated at all. It's just a case of a few very boring people making a bet."
Xie Zhaozhao thought to herself: It's good that it's not that kind of thing.
"This group of people used to walk around with each other every day and got along quite well. But one day, someone took a glass bottle that they used to play with when they were kids."
That bottle was something they used to play with when they were kids, peeing in it.
When we were kids, we used to bet on who could pee the most, and whoever didn't leak any would win.
This time, they plan to play the games they played when they were kids, but now they'll be betting.
When Gu Shaoyu said this, Xie Zhaozhao found it both funny and unbelievable.
How did the officials of the Dali Temple manage to suppress their laughter?
"They took the bottles and urinated into them one after another. The first few didn't leak, and they urinated all the way in. But the last one was a tragedy."
Gu Shaoyu glanced at Xie Zhaozhao as he spoke. Xie Zhaozhao was still quite bewildered. She really didn't want to hear this kind of thing, as it was completely contrary to the etiquette she had been taught.
"He stuffed the bird into the bottle, but before he could pee, it got stuck!"
Gu Shaoyu still tried to remain serious as he spoke, but Xie Zhaozhao was already blushing with embarrassment: "Stop talking."
"He was stuck so tightly that the more he tried to pull it out, the less he could. They had to drip oil on it to finally get it out, and then everyone said he lost."
Xie Zhaozhao covered her ears, not wanting to hear anymore.
Gu Shaoyu pulled her little hand off her ear.
"I'm telling you about the case!"
"Hurry up and finish speaking." Xie Zhaozhao looked around the house and saw that there was no one there, and Bei Chen was not there either.
"Stop looking, it's just the two of us."
Gu Shaoyu found it particularly amusing to watch her act like a thief.
“All the other kids won, and he gave all the money in his pocket to those people.”
The matter should have ended there, but when that man's wife heard about it, she was furious. He actually had to pay several hundred taels of silver in compensation, which was simply outrageous.
So the woman went to the Dali Temple to file a complaint.
The Dali Temple received such a bizarre case that more people attended the hearing than ever before.
"Guess what happened in the end? That woman actually won." Gu Shaoyu said, "She angrily said that it was a skill to not leak urine from a bottle when you were a child, but to be able to easily go in without any problems when you grow up means that this man is no good. That's the real loss."
"The whole lobby was buzzing with discussion: did they win or lose? The final conclusion was that the one who got stuck was the real winner!"
Gu Shaoyu was still speaking in a serious tone when Xie Zhaozhao took a feather duster and started hitting him.
She flung the curtain aside and went into the inner room, leaving him outside.
Gu Shaoyu quickly stuck one leg in to block the door. Xie Zhaozhao didn't dare to use force, so he squeezed in and hugged her for a while to comfort her.
Finally, he found a bottle and said that he had only ever studied hard since he was a child and had never urinated in a bottle before. He wanted to experience the pleasure of being a man for himself.
Let's see if the bottle can actually trap the bird...
Sure enough, it got stuck!
Xie Zhaozhao looked at him, unable to express her feelings in words. Who would have thought that the top scholar in the imperial examination at the age of sixteen, who entered officialdom at seventeen, and became the most powerful minister in the cabinet at twenty-five, was so naive at heart!
Seeing that he couldn't pull it out, Xie Zhaozhao laughed so hard that she lay on the bed and pounded the bed.
She covered her head with the sheet, afraid that she would laugh out loud and be heard.
When Gu Shaoyu smashed the glass bottle with a mallet and came out, Xie Zhaozhao was already laughing so hard her hair was all messed up.
Gu Shaoyu was worried that the card might be broken, so he insisted on testing whether all the functions were still complete, and the two of them began to conduct experiments.
After much fuss, Gu Shaoyu finally said in a serious tone, "I understand. I definitely can't use glass when I test it in the future."
Xie Zhaozhao's arms were limp, and she punched him with a pillow for a while.
Gu Shaoyu dodged while begging for mercy: "I just want to be the most authentic and unpretentious person in front of you."
Xie Zhaozhao stopped.
Gu Shaoyu quickly tidied himself up, put on his usual thin silk shirt to be more comfortable at home, and gave Emperor Hui's box to Xie Zhaozhao.
"What's this?"
Gu Shaoyu didn't hide anything and told her about Emperor Hui's desire to invest with her.
"Your Majesty wants to control my flight path?"
"He wants to support you in building the trade route, but he can't do it openly, because he's afraid it will attract attention and be extremely detrimental to you. He probably also wants the court to get a share of the profits after your trade route succeeds."
Gu Shaoyu said, "I did not accept either of his intentions. If he wants to invest, he should simply invest and make a profit. Or, even if he lends the money to us, we can pay him back later with interest or some rare items."
In short, Xie Zhaozhao's trade routes were discovered by Xie Zhaozhao herself and were not under anyone's control.
Gu Shaoyu earned his position as Grand Secretary through his own abilities, and there was no need for him to relinquish his wife's interests to maintain the relationship between ruler and subject.
Xie Zhaozhao looked at Gu Shaoyu, feeling deeply moved.
He was a high-ranking official with immense power, yet he acted methodically and logically, always laying things out in the open and never resorting to underhanded tactics; his strategies were always transparent and aboveboard.
He was calculating in every aspect, yet always upright and honest.
Even Emperor Hui, and even Xie Zhaozhao herself, couldn't find a single fault with him.
Xie Zhaozhao looked at the silver. His Majesty was indeed wealthy, with a total of two million taels.
"His Majesty trusts you so much that he gave you so much at once," Xie Zhaozhao sighed. "If you hadn't refused so decisively, he would have bought out my entire trade route with just this amount of silver."
She, Yin Jin'an, Li Yunmu, and Zhou Lingyin, through their various efforts, already felt incredibly wealthy. With Gu Shaoyu's 300,000 taels, they had over 500,000 taels to play with.
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