However, Qiu Gao didn't look up and didn't see everyone's expressions; he was secretly a little smug.
"Your Majesty, this is what I usually eat."
Yes, yes, I am such an honest and upright official, so poor that I can't even afford good food. Your Majesty, you must praise me highly, hehehe...
The emperor was not only itching to praise, but also to have his hands itch. He didn't want to praise, he just wanted to behead someone!
Huang Wang was extremely anxious behind the emperor. When Qiu Gao finally raised his head, he tried his best to wink at him.
Qiu Gao didn't understand. He looked at it, then asked in a daze, "Lord Huang, are your eyes twitching?"
Noticing Qiu Gao's gaze, the emperor also looked over. Huang Wang quickly stopped blinking, looked up at the sky, and gave an expression that said, "It's none of my business."
Forget it, it's beyond saving. Let his distant cousin from his second uncle's family destroy it!
The emperor saw nothing unusual, but turned around suspiciously to look at Qiu Gao, who was equally suspicious. He almost gritted his teeth and said, "My dear minister, you are truly incorruptible."
The emperor's smile was forced and insincere; his words were meant to be complimentary, but the smile at the corner of his mouth was strangely unsettling.
Qiu was suspicious. He had been wondering where the emperor was going and why he was passing by his residence. And why did the emperor's tone of voice and his smile give him goosebumps?
[You're not being honest, you little bald guy!]
Chuanwen squinted at Qiu Gao, who was even balder than the emperor, and thought to himself.
Qiu Gao's heart immediately skipped a beat.
You eat delicacies from land and sea, yet you feed the emperor vegetarian food. Does the emperor look like a giraffe to you?
[It's a lion! A lion! Even though it's bald, you can't dismiss a bald lion as not being a lion! It still needs to eat meat, it needs to eat meat!]
Chuanwen shouted in his heart, his mind already filled with images of steaming hot, imagined steamed bear paws.
Chuan Hai almost died on the spot!
Shedding, shedding fur...
He could accept that the Minister of War, Qiu, was a bald man, and he had no objection to the Emperor being called a lion, but why add an adjective?
Crack, crack, Chuan Hai and the others seemed to hear something shattering. They cautiously glanced at the Emperor's face and noticed that the cold smile on his lips had frozen, shattered, frozen again, shattered again...
I am a wise ruler, I am a wise ruler, I am a wise ruler...
Last time it was a scruffy chicken, but at least this time it's a lion...
Don't be angry, don't be angry, don't be angry...
The emperor had to brainwash himself, otherwise he feared his two-zhang-long cleaver would not allow it!
Huang Wang's legs went weak. Although he could enjoy watching the drama unfold with Chuan Wen, these occasional shocks were too much for his heart to handle.
Chuanwen had no idea that the officials were trembling with fear, the emperor was radiating a dark aura, the bald-headed Qiu Gao was sweating profusely, and the current tense atmosphere was all her doing. She was even complaining to herself.
[They hauled out ten truckloads of waste, and they think they can only make a few dishes? Even if you were the emperor, would your brain be full of nothing but waste?!]
[Let me see how this bald guy gets so rich... Goodness, he's selling official positions! Selling government positions to make money, and making a fortune at that! This bald guy has quite the business sense.]
Selling official positions!
Everyone was shocked again. The emperor was already itching for a fight, and they actually dared to make money off him!
Wow, they can actually do it like this! If someone has connections, they actually get an official position; if they don't, they just take the money and don't care about anything else. If anyone causes trouble, they're immediately thrown in jail. That rich man from Lijiazhuang, that small landlord from Guozhuang, and... that's how he killed them all.
That's outrageous!
That's outrageous!
The emperor slammed his fist on the table and stood up, startling Chuanwen and causing Qiu Gao and the others to kneel down in fright.
Suddenly, the little princess's loud cries filled the room.
The emperor hurriedly tried to appease her, he was so angry that he forgot he was still holding his youngest daughter.
"Sweetie, little Tuantuan, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry. Father will take you to see how heads are chopped off, okay?"
The group was shocked. Who would use beheading as a way to appease a child?
The key point is that the little princess really stopped crying and reached out her joyful little hand to grab the emperor's finger.
Chuan Hai and the others felt a chill run down their spines. They were thinking of Princess Bao Hui and hoped that their little princess wouldn't be raised by the emperor to be a second Princess Bao Hui.
Qiu Gao was trembling like a leaf, crying out, "Your Majesty, spare my life! Your Majesty, spare my life..."
Chuanwen never got to eat the steamed bear paw, because the emperor was so angry that he got angry just looking at the 108 dishes and had them given to the disaster victims in the dilapidated temple.
Qiu was imprisoned, and whether he would be exiled or beheaded after the trial was over is to be discussed later. In any case, his house was confiscated first.
The post reads: "[Another day of envying the disaster victims in the dilapidated temple...]"
Chuan Hai, Huang Wang, and others secretly wiped their sweat: My goodness, another one exploded!
Zhang Hui: Bah! Serves them right! Corrupt officials who plunder the people's wealth deserve to die!
Holding the little princess, the emperor smiled with satisfaction: "My national treasury is finally full."
Among the group, only Zhao Dajia, amidst a mix of emotions, seemed a little melancholy. Where would he go to collect trash in the future?
Qiu Gao, who had been imprisoned, stared blankly at the flickering flames on the torches in the dark corridor, completely baffled as to why the emperor would pass by his residence.
This question had been bothering him for several days, and he finally asked it when Huang Wang came to see him after the case was investigated.
Looking at the even balder Lord Qiu before him, Huang Wang recalled the scene of Zhao Dajia and the beggar fighting over the duck intestines and stomachs thrown out by the Qiu family, and his expression was indescribable.
Seeing Qiu Gao's eager eyes, Huang Wang sighed and told him anyway. Qiu Gao was stunned for a moment.
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