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"Are the three royal brothers waiting for me here?" Han Xiao looked at the cold expression on Han Zhao's face and asked with a smile.

"Imperial Father wanted us to decide on the questions for the examinations. When we left for the next assembly, Scholar Zheng had already handed me the questions. If you have nothing to do, then come with me to my Three Sovereign Palace to discuss the questions." Han Zhao coldly looked at Han Xiao and said.

After all, this is the first time I'm in charge of the Autumn Hall Competition, so I'm not very familiar with it. Furthermore, the fewer people who know about this kind of secret question, the safer it would be for the Third Emperor to know about it. Han Xiao said with a faint smile, the sincerity in his tone was unquestionable.

Originally, he had wanted to use this opportunity to decide the topic together with Han Xiao to secretly reveal the topic to Han Xiao, and then blame him for revealing that the Autumn Hall's question was a big crime. He didn't believe that he could do nothing about this crime, but now, he actually directly refused to go along with Han Xiao in deciding the topic, which once again foiled his plan. Furthermore, what Han Xiao said made sense, and gave him no room to refute it.

Han Zhao knew he couldn't do anything this time. Although he was unwilling, on the surface, he still said gently, "Since Seventh Emperor said that, then I will go back first." With that, Han Zhao immediately turned around and left. Only his tightly clenched fist revealed the gloominess in his heart.

Seeing the depressed look on Han Zhao's face, Han Xiao glanced at the golden flame on the arm of the crown prince's uniform and instantly turned it into ashes and disappeared into the air.

Returning to the Hall of Phoenix Virtue, Xiao Jianfeng and Xiao Lei Zi hurried over, both of them heaved a sigh of relief when they saw that Han Xiao was alright.

"Seventh Prince, you scared me to death today. I'm really worried that the Emperor will punish you for not wearing your court uniform." Little Lei Zi patted his chest and said.

"Han Xiangtian wouldn't want to deal with me right now. Otherwise, he wouldn't have let me and Han Zhao support the Autumn Hall Competition. Right, cousin Jianfeng, the Autumn Hall Competition is very important, right?" Han Xiao turned his head and asked.

"Yes, the most important factor for each dynasty is not only the emperor's brilliance but also the talents of the imperial court. The more talents there are in the imperial court, the more advantageous it is for the development of the dynasty, and the Autumn Hall Competition is to select the talents needed in the imperial court. It is related to the foundation of the entire country." Xiao Jianfeng said seriously.

"If the questions for the Autumn Hall Competition were to be revealed, what would be the outcome?" Han Xiao asked.

"Whether intentional or not, it's a capital offense." After Xiao Jianfeng finished speaking, he curiously asked: "Seventh Prince, why are you asking this?"

"It's nothing. Cousin Jianfeng, Lil 'Lei-zi, why don't you change into your uniform and come out with me?" When he came out again, he was already dressed in white, with a fan in his hand. There was a faint smile on his face, and under his refined temperament, a tinge of evil could be seen.

At the same time, Xiao Jianfeng and Little Lei Zi also changed into their usual clothes and walked by Han Xiao's side.

As soon as he left the palace, Little Lei Zi became much more lively, looking around the streets and not looking at all like she was being respectful in the palace.

"Little Lei Zi, now that you're out of the Palace door, your true nature has finally been revealed. I think it's time to send you to the Inner Attendance Hall and have a good reformation." Han Xiao said as he hit Little Lei Zi's head with the fan.

"Seventh Prince, you only know how to use this to talk to me. Where did all these rules come from?" Little Lei Zi touched his head in dissatisfaction.

"You still dare to talk back? I think you're spoiled by the academy. If you don't behave yourself soon, you can forget about coming back with me to the academy." Han Xiao said.

"Ah! Don't want it, Seventh Prince. Letting me stay in the palace is asking for my life. In addition, Zhao Xiang and I have an appointment to go to the Lin City and eat all the snacks together." Little Lei Zi held Han Xiao's hand and said.

"Eat, eat, eat. I don't think you know anything else besides eating." Han Xiao said in disappointment.

Seeing Han Xiao gritting his teeth, Little Lei Zi lowered his head in dissatisfaction and said: "You're still talking about me. When Miss Gu Xuan'er left, Seventh Prince, you only ate and slept everyday. Zhao Xiang, Prince Xi and the others thought that you had suddenly changed your gender."

Hearing Gu Xuan'er's name, Han Xiao's breathing became sluggish. He thought that Gu Xuan'er would be able to keep his emotions in check, but he never expected that he would still be unable to calmly face the fact that Gu Xuan'er was not by his side.

Listening to the conversation between Han Xiao and Little Lei Zi, Xiao Jianfeng felt as if he was being separated from the world. Those unfamiliar names, as well as the things he did not know made him panic a little, he did not know if he could still work for Han Xiao, and if one day he became useless to Han Xiao, what would his fate be like? Xiao Jianfeng suddenly did not dare to think any further.

As for Han Xiao, he also noticed that Xiao Jianfeng was depressed, but he did not care about it. There were many things that Xiao Jianfeng had to think about himself, so no matter what others said, it would be useless.

After strolling for a while, Han Xiao arrived at one of the cities and saw that it was well managed, but when he checked his accounts, he discovered that there were a few things wrong with it.

"Whap." Han Xiao slammed the account book onto the table, looking at the face of the accountant sitting across him with a faint smile: "What's your name?"

"My name is Wang En." Wang En said carefully.

"Wang En, don't you have another nickname?" Han Xiao squinted his eyes.

"No, no, master, villain." Before Wang En could finish, he was interrupted by Han Xiao.

"If you don't have any, then can you explain to me where the seven hundred thousand Spirit Stones are?" Han Xiao lazily leaned on the chair behind him and knocked on the table.

Hearing Han Xiao ask about the seven hundred thousand Spirit Stones, not only Wang En, but even Xiao Jianfeng's expression changed. He never thought that there would be a problem with the accounts of Zhu Jing in Yi City.

"It's fine, you can say it as you like, as long as you think that reason can make me believe it." Han Xiao said with a faint smile, but in Wang En's eyes, that smile was extremely terrifying.

"Little me, I really don't know." Before Wang En could even finish his sentence, he felt his neck tighten, he looked up and saw that the Han Xiao who was sitting on the chair just now had appeared in front of him, grabbing onto his neck tightly, a suffocating pain assaulted him, and Wang En vaguely felt as if he saw his dead family members waving to him.

"Bam." Casually throwing Wang En onto the ground, Han Xiao lowered his head to look at Wang En and asked: "Are you still not willing to tell me?"

Feeling that he had narrowly escaped death, Wang En once again raised his head and looked at Han Xiao with eyes filled with fear, nodding his head, he said, "I said that because Manager Xu had lost a lot of gambling money, and also because he took a fancy to Miss Yu Qiao, in order to curry favor with Miss Yu Qiao and the gambling debt, he took away six hundred thousand Soul Stones and even made me settle the debt. I thought that since Xu Chi had already taken six hundred thousand, I might as well take some, so I also took a hundred thousand." The more Wang En spoke, the weaker his voice became until it was almost inaudible.

"Good, very good. If I don't come back and see the problem on the account, then I see that this entire city's bamboo view will be emptied by you. Cousin Jianfeng, right now, there is no one gathering all the people from this city's bamboo view in the backyard." Han Xiao said with a cold expression.

Hearing the cold intent in Han Xiao's words, Xiao Jianfeng did not dare hesitate and immediately gathered everyone in the backyard, while Han Xiao directly picked up Wang En and brought Little Lei Zi to the backyard.

Han Xiao directly threw Wang En onto the ground and said coldly, "I remember that when you guys first came here, I said that as long as you guys do everything well, I will give you all what you want. But if you betray me or do something that would harm Zhu Jing, I will give you all the most severe punishment, probably because I wasn't here for the past two years, so you guys forgot what I said before and decided to move Zhu Jing here. Manager Xu? "

Hearing Han Xiao call him Manager Xu, he wanted to run backwards, but Xiao Jianfeng had already taken the initiative to throw him in front of Han Xiao.

"I heard that Manager Xu also has a lady named Yuqiao who has a good relationship with her. May I know which one she is?" Han Xiao coldly looked at the crowd and asked.

"The main clan is none of my business. I have nothing to do with Manager Xu." A woman dressed in a bright red dress suddenly ran out crying and said. Her makeup had been used up quite a bit because of her tears.

She took a look of disgust at Yuqiao, waved her hand and summoned the three Dark Guard guards in front of her, pointed at Xu Zun and the two others, and said, "Cut off the three of them, then peel off their skin and dry it on the tree in the backyard. Just watch them from here, and you'll know what you shouldn't do. With that, Han Xiao swung his sleeves and turned around, leaving behind only a few miserable screams.

Little Lei Zi did not dare to say anything more until he came out from the first city's bamboo view, and Xiao Jianfeng was also nervously looking at Han Xiao, afraid that Han Xiao would vent his anger on him again.

Cousin Jianfeng, go buy a few more slaves to train them. During the training, let them look at the three human skins every day, and give them a reminder. As for the others, give them 10,000 spirit stones, tell them that I have always given them these spirit stones as rewards, and if they can do it well enough in the future, I'll give them even more. After Han Xiao said that, he took Little Lei Zi and left, leaving behind Xiao Jianfeng who looked at Han Xiao's back with a complicated expression.