When Chu Xuanchen heard this, he didn't make a sound. His finger tapped lightly on the table.
Based on Su Cheng's words, he immediately deduced that he was in cahoots with Chen Xi.
When he was in the imperial city, he often sent people to investigate the backgrounds of these officials.
His people had already told him about Jiang Zhou's officials, so he knew most of them like the back of his hand.
This Chen Xi was clearly a greedy person, but he pretended to be an honest official.
His so-called love of vegetables, and the common people often gave him vegetables, was actually a mystery.
For example, if someone gave him a basket of cabbages, it was just cabbages on the surface, but underneath, there were gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, jade, and other treasures.
Those who bribed him were just giving him vegetables as gifts.
The common people who didn't know the truth often saw people giving him vegetables and really thought he was an honest official. They didn't know that this was one of his tricks to secretly accept bribes.
He and Su Cheng were in cahoots, conspiring together to embezzle, and had long formed an interest group.
They could fool the common people, but they couldn't fool him.
He pretended to believe Su Cheng's words and said, "Official Chen empathizes with the common people's hardships and is dedicated to the people. Everyone here should learn from him."
"Yes, Your Highness," everyone answered.
At this time, Su Cheng pointed at the official in green and said, "Your Highness, this is Judge Yang Shixun."
The official in green immediately walked out, trembling as he stammered, "This official … Yang … Yang Shixun greets Your Highness."
As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd burst into laughter.
Seeing this, Yang Shixun's face turned red. He angrily glared at the crowd. "You … why are you laughing … laughing at me?"
Su Cheng immediately glared at him with disgust. "Enough, Official Yang, you can't even speak clearly. Don't dirty Your Highness's ears. You can leave."
After speaking, he said to Chu Xuanchen, "I'm sorry, Your Highness. Official Yang is always like this. He always stutters and stumbles. Please don't be angry."
"It's fine. Wang thinks Official Yang is quite interesting," Chu Xuanchen said.
At this moment, Su Cheng pointed at a short and thin official who was napping on a chair and said, "Your Highness, this is Warden Yu Wenxian. He is in charge of the affairs of the Jiangzhou Penal Prison."
Yu Wenxian was originally taking a nap, but when he heard his name, he jumped up in fright. "Who, who called this official?"
When Su Cheng saw him like this, he was immediately enraged and said, "Lord Yu, your body reeks of alcohol. Did you drink too much again today? Do you know what kind of situation this is? On such an important occasion, you actually dared to come to see His Highness drunk. You simply don't put His Highness in your eyes. "
Upon hearing Su Cheng's words, Chu Xuanchen sniffed lightly. Sure enough, he smelled a strong scent of alcohol coming from Yu Wenxian's direction.
His face instantly darkened.
Seeing that Yu Wenxian's complexion wasn't too good, Su Cheng stared at Yu Wenxian gleefully.
Yu Wenxian was startled by Su Cheng and hurriedly stood up straight. Unfortunately, because he had been drunk for a long time, his waist and legs were sore, and he almost couldn't stand.
Fortunately, Yang Shixun, who was beside him, helped him stand up.
Once he stood up, he yawned, then shook his head and said drunkenly, "This official, Yu Wenxian, greets Your Highness."
Chu Xuanchen stared coldly at him. "That's enough, Official Yu. If you haven't sobered up yet, Wang feels that you should go back and sober up before coming again."
"Did you hear that? Yu Wenxian, why aren't you leaving? Men, drag Official Yu away. Don't let him dirty His Highness's eyes! "As Su Cheng spoke, he immediately pushed Yu Wenxian away in disgust.
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