Rui Hegui

Chapter 67

When Bandit Chu arrived at the Household Office, it was already late at night, and the night was getting dark. Zhao Liangyue and Xiang Mian were lighting up the lamp to read the documents, and the eyelids of the little officials next to them were fighting.

Xiang Mian saw the crimson figure coming in from a distance, got up and led the others away.

Zhao Liangyue raised his head from a pile of paperwork. Chu Bandit entered the hall in two steps, put the food box in his hand on the table, and then picked up a cup of tea from Zhao Liangyue's hand. Zhao Liangyue was about to say that he drank it, but Chu The gangster had already finished drinking with his head up, and Zhao Liangyue swallowed the words again.

"I know you definitely didn't go to eat, so I used plum cakes to cover it." Bandit Chu brought a bowl of noodles in the food box to Zhao Liangyue, which was filled with fat and lean braised pork, and some chopped green onions for decoration. All of a sudden, it diffuses, attracting people's body fluids.

Zhao Liangyue has been hungry for a long time, and the plum blossom cake on the plate next to him was already empty, so he couldn't help swallowing, looked around, raised his head in doubt, and asked, "Senior brother, where are the chopsticks?"

Bandit Chu rolled his eyes, and took out chopsticks from behind, but he was not in a hurry to pass them to Zhao Liangyue, but made a deal: "Xilin, I still think you need to correct your strange habit of not eating. "

Zhao Liangyue glanced at the bowl of noodles, then at Chu Bandit, and said unconvincingly: "Brother, I will change it."

Bandit Chu didn't expect Zhao Liangyue to admit his mistake so quickly this time, although he knew that he was trying to put himself off again, but after all, there are not many good words to show weakness, and it can be regarded as a harvest.

Bandit Chu sighed softly, handed the chopsticks to Zhao Liangyue, and poured water for him from the cup he drank tea from.

Zhao Liangyue picked up half a bowl of noodles with three chopsticks, and his empty stomach was filled with hot food, and he felt a sense of satisfaction immediately.

Zhao Liangyue looked at the water handed over to Chu Bandit while eating, and reminded: "Brother, you drank this teacup before."

Chu bandit frowned: "Xi Lin dislikes me? Who would have thought of the relationship between life and death in Ningzhou before, but when I returned to Kyoto, I would be a stranger."

Zhao Liangyue: "..." This is not the same thing at all.

In order to prevent Chu Bandit from talking nonsense again, Zhao Liangyue took the teacup and drank it down in one gulp, showing that he didn't mean to dislike him at all.

The corner of Chu Bandit's lips curled up: "Actually, I know that you used this teacup before."

Zhao Liangyue didn't want to pay attention to it at all, and concentrated on eating his own noodles.

After Zhao Liangyue finished eating, Bandit Chu handed him the handkerchief to wipe his mouth as if to please him.

Zhao Liangyue didn't mean to be pretentious, he just took the handkerchief and wiped his mouth, then folded it and wiped his hands.

Bandit Chu called his attendants to take out the food box, and then asked with a smile, "Xi Lin, I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Zhao Liangyue: "The good news should come from Ningzhou, and the bad news is likely to be related to Ye Yuan. The former is worried, while the latter is worried. They are all the same, but let's listen to the good news first."

Chu bandit said: "Senior Xue and his party have already thrown off Ye Yuan's stalking, and left a message to go to Xiangyuan City. Xu Guangchuan is extremely talented. He was born as a tribute back then, and he was framed to end up in such a field. Now his fame has been restored. , and made great contributions to the Ningzhou case, and succeeded the seat of the magistrate of Tang County. In addition, Yan Chang and Xu Ming were promoted to the Tongzhi and the state judge of the Ningzhou government respectively, and transferred to Ningzhou City to work."

Zhao Liangyue nodded and said, "So, don't worry about Ningzhou for the time being, just wait for a few days to pick out a suitable person to serve as Zhizhou. What about the bad news?"

Bandit Chu paused, frowned, and said, "In the past month, Xuefangyuan, Jinluanwei, and the Ministry of Justice have been investigating, and Mingyan still hasn't found any clues, but some clues from Yeyuan have been found out, but they are more serious than I thought. Oops."

After the three cases were settled, Bandit Chu deliberately concealed all the confessions and clues about the old case and Ye Yuan from Emperor Ping Chong, and Emperor Ping Chong tacitly did not pursue it.

Zhao Liangyue thought about it and asked, "Is it related to the East Palace?"

"Yes." Chu bandit said, "The crown prince wants his own power too much. Sima Xiao and Meng Yu only respect the emperor, and it is impossible for us to completely obey him. He has cultivated a group of cronies in the palace with the help of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He also recruited officials from various ministries. It used to be the Ministry of Industry. Now after the downfall of the Ministry of War, the officials of the entire six ministries have changed a lot. Many of his people have entered the Ministry of War. There are people from Yeyuan, but they can’t find out who they are. The household officials you suspected suddenly resigned yesterday."

"That is to say, Ye Yuan's secret work has been mixed into the power of the prince." Zhao Liangyue recalled the scene when he met Ji Xuan for the first time, suddenly raised his head to look at Bandit Chu, and asked, "Among the princes, there is no one who is reliable. order?"

Bandit Chu was taken aback by Zhao Liangyue's sudden and unexpected question, he chuckled randomly, and said: "In the past, only our crown prince and fifth prince were qualified to be the crown prince and the fifth prince. In fact, no one is suitable, but there is no way, if he Both are dead, and the other concubine princes are not bad, let alone have no qualifications, and will only cause chaos in the court."

Having said this, Chu bandit paused, looked at Zhao Liangyue, and said: "Xi Lin means that Ye Yuan may want to use the prince to kill the fifth prince first, and then find an opportunity to kill the prince. Tu Yuan took the opportunity."

Zhao Liangyue nodded, and said: "I'm thinking, can we build a bigger spy network that can spread all over the world, and it's no longer like what it is now, where many things are known later."

Bandit Chu thought for a while, got up and went to get Zhang Daxu's map and came over, and turned up the lights on the side.

Then the two discussed about the espionage network. They had different opinions, and kept making choices while reserving differences.

The two of them left the mansion, a bright full moon was in the middle of the sky, and the surrounding stars shone faintly, and three bangs were heard in the distance.

Jing Mo pulled the car and waited outside, You Bai still sat cross-legged on the roof of the carriage, dragging his cheeks to look at the moon.

Zhao Liangyue walked over, Youbai heard the sound and looked down.

As soon as Zhao Liangyue raised his head, he met Youbai's eyes, and saw the confusion and sorrow in the young man's eyes, which were entangled with each other, and the feeling of being unable to let go was something Youbai had never experienced before.

Youbai said in a low voice, "My lord, I saw Wang Yunming's beheading with my own eyes today, but I was not as happy as I imagined."

Zhao Liangyue's heart twitched when he heard the sound, his lips twitched a few times and was about to say something when Chu Bandit beside him spoke first: "Killing is always an unhappy thing, maybe it's not what makes you sad."

Youbai fell silent when he heard the words, and looked up at the moon again.

Chu Bandit: "Give him some time, he will figure it out."

Zhao Liangyue looked away, nodded, and boarded the carriage with Bandit Chu.

Jing Mo hung up the signboard of Minister of Justice, swung his whip, and the cart rolled out smoothly.

Inside the carriage, Zhao Liangyue raised his hand and yawned, suddenly remembered something, and looked at Bandit Chu vigilantly.

Chu Bandit smiled, pretending to be stupid, and said, "Why is Xilin looking at me like this? Is there something on my face? Or..." Chu Bandit deliberately moved closer to Zhao Liangyue, "Wipe Xilin for me?"

Zhao Liangyue raised his hand to push Chu bandit away.

But Chu bandit quickly came up again, and took out a clean handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Liangyue, saying: "Xi Lin, I can't see anything on my face, so you can wipe it off for my senior brother." Wipe it."

Zhao Liangyue glared at Bandit Chu, and took out the handkerchief from his hand, thinking, if you get sick, you will get sick, just wipe it off casually.

Bandit Chu closed his eyes and moved his face closer.

The two were very close, and a dim light on the inner wall of the carriage reflected Chu Bandit's face just right.

It was the first time for Zhao Liangyue to watch Chu Bandit at such a close distance. He felt that Chu Bandit was indeed handsome, but he was not the kind of handsome man who is as elegant as a banished immortal in Kyoto. It gives people a sense of oppression, and on such a face, there is a pair of peach blossom eyes, which are dyed with a bit of unknown meaning, hiding the unpredictable depth in it, making people always unpredictable, as if wearing a mask. a mask.

This time, Chu Bandit closed his eyes, as if taking off the mask, quietly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, a little owed, but he didn't find it annoying.

Zhao Liangyue originally planned to put the veil on Chu Bandit's face, and rub it hard, but in the end he didn't do anything, he watched quietly for a while, and didn't do anything.

Bandit Chu waited for a long time, finally opened his eyes helplessly, sighed softly, and said, "Xilin, you—"

Before he could finish talking, the carriage was hit by something suddenly, and the whole carriage shook violently. Bandit Chu immediately protected Zhao Liangyue, and the two of them were directly thrown heavily against the wall of the carriage.

Outside the carriage, two long knives were unsheathed.

"My lord, it's a crazy horse!"

Jingmo and Youbai had quickly dealt with Crazy Horse, while Bandit Chu stayed in the carriage protecting Zhao Liangyue and did not show up in the carriage.

For a while, there were only the gasps of Crazy Horse dying and the whistling night wind.

Dead silence, eerie and dangerous.

"Hahaha, do the two adults still like the gift I gave you?"

There was a burst of ghostly laughter in mid-air, and the tone of the voice was relaxed, but it seemed a little creepy at the moment.

Youbai quickly found out that the visitor was in the private room on the second floor of the opposite restaurant, and he clenched the handle of the knife tightly.

"Continue to go."

Zhao Liangyue's clear voice came from the carriage, speaking slowly and without any sign of surprise.

The wheel of the car rolled out smoothly again, Youbai kept staring at the private room, and the people inside didn't make any moves.

In the carriage, Bandit Chu used himself to make Zhao Liangyue's flesh pad, so he injured his shoulder and back, which was not a big deal in the first place.

But what is strange is that just now, a strong strange fragrance suddenly filled the carriage, and then Chu Bandit's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and his face showed pain.

Chu Bandit: "The poison is in the incense, it should be bleeding from an injury, and then the poison seeps in."

Zhao Liangyue patted the car wall, telling Jing Mo to go faster.

Seeing that he was in a hurry, Chu bandit laughed heartlessly, gritted his teeth and said, "Xilin, if I die, don't forget me soon, remember to visit my grave every year." .”

Zhao Liangyue didn't speak, his brows were deeply furrowed, and he let Chu Bandit rest on his leg, and kept wiping the cold sweat on Chu Bandit's forehead with a handkerchief.