Jiang Qizhi wanted to get this money, to seek an easy money, but he never thought of putting his life on the line.

    The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

    He wanted to go back, would he really back home dead in the end?

    Jiang Qizhi, with his face covered, was supported by the two guards and walked in an unfamiliar corridor. He became more and more flustered, even losing his steps.

    The surrounding area was so quiet that only the footsteps of the three of them remained.

    Jiang Qizhi was so flustered that he didn't even count how long he walked.

    Suddenly, they asked Jiang Qizhi to step over the steps, and after a few more steps, they stopped.

    One of the guard who was dragging him kicked the hollow behind his knee, and the black cloth tied around his eyes was taken off, and Jiang Qizhi knelt down on the ground.

    "Kneel down."

    "Hey, take it easy, I'm getting old, and my waist and legs are uncomfortable."

    After getting used to the light in the room, Jiang Qizhi raised his head to see who was sitting in front of him.

    The first thing that caught his eye was a pair of satin boots, and then he looked up to see the clothes that he might not be able to afford a single corner of in his life.

    Who was the man in front of him?

    Jiang Qizhi didn't dare to say more after he took the money from others. This person must have respected status, and he didn't dare to guess further. He was so nervous that his palms were sweating, and the clothes on his back were soaked wet. He was both nervous and scared.

    Why did this person look for him, and what exactly did he want to do?

    Jiang Qizhi was thinking about what he had done to be brought here. At this moment, the person who was sitting on the master chair said, "You are Jiang Qizhi?"

    Jiang Qizhi stood up and said, "The humble servant is Jiang Qizhi." He found that the person in front of him was relatively fair-looking, and he looked only in his early forties. He lived like a prince, and his words were full of dignity, which should be the aura of a person who had been in a high position all year round.
[养尊处优 yǎng zūn chǔ yōu: to live like a prince (idiom) to live in a rich and well-off life .]

    The other party was looking at his face, and Jiang Qizhi felt very uncomfortable. Who was this person? What did he want to do?

    Although it was just a sentence, Jiang Qizhi was really confused and really afraid that he would die here today.

    "Okay, do you know why I called you here?"

    "I don't know, I don't know how to call this gentleman."

    "My surname is Huang, I just to have a look at your appearance, to verify something."

    "My appearance?" Jiang Qizhi touched his face, he was still a little confident in himself. He hadn't gained weight all these years, so he was sure that his appearance was still passable.

     However after these few days, what kind of appearance did he talk about when he was nearly fifty? It was not just a joke, he still had to rely on his appearance to please the guests.

    Master Huang asked him: "Yeah, aren't you curious about the reason why you came to the capital for?"

    Jiang Qizhi: "I don't have any old friends in the capital, so I don't know what this master is referring to." He also had no enemies with anyone.

    Mr. Huang: "You don't have to pretend to be confused with me. You are the distant relative of the Yan family. Twenty six years ago, you came to the capital to take the exam and stayed in the Yan family's mansion. You will not forget all of this, right?"

    Jiang Qizhi: " I did live in the Yan family's mansion for a while. Later I fell ill because I couldn’t get used to the winter in the capital. I failed to take the imperial examination and left the capital in despair. Later, I had nothing to do with the Yan family anymore and lived my own life. "

    Mr. Huang: "Then why don't you take the imperial examination anymore? After suffering cold window and studying hard for decades, you were also the local Jieyuan back then, and you said you didn’t want to take the imperial examination anymore, isn’t it too sloppy? Even if you missed it once, why didn’t you continue to take the imperial examination after three years? "
[解元 jiè yuán: first-placed candidate in the provincial imperial examinations]

    Jiang Qizhi couldn't answer.

    It was not that he didn't want to take the imperial examination, but because he promised to the Yan family, he couldn't take the imperial examination anymore.

    Jiang Qizhi changed the subject and said, "I don't know why Mr. Huang suddenly asked me about this matter. It's all an ordinary past, and I don't even remember it myself."

    But Mr. Huang said, "You secretly had relationship with Prime Minister Yan's daughter back then. Both of you also spent the night together."

    Jiang Qizhi's legs softened, and he knelt back on the ground again. Even if he still couldn't guess who the person in front of him was, he was blind if he still didn't know his purpose. This was the reason why he spent his life to live incognito all these years!

    What he was worried about the most for many years was finally dug out!