laughing soul

Liancheng was exhausted from investigating the case. Just being around a group of wealthy father-in-laws who twisted their waists and stepped on stunts was enough to make him aesthetically tired, not to mention flying over the roof and walls to avoid Wei Qing's little eyes flying around. Turning into a big gecko with four legs, he suddenly had the illusion of being as light as a swallow.

These days, it is almost impossible to sleep on the shoddy beds, and can only be a little cicada that eats wind and drinks dew, lying on the tree to catch up on sleep, and responds to any troubles more than the Western Tong alarm warning device on the ancient Silk Road. All fast.Those old eunuchs with liver and kidney problems woke up endlessly in the middle of the night and stared at them. After watching for a long time, they felt that they had a faint urge to urinate after not drinking a sip of water for most of the day.

He lowered his head to look at a bug resting on the back of Fu Hui's hand that was lighting the night lamp, his eyes accustomed to the darkness would be filled with a thin layer of tears when the light was strong, he yawned extremely restrained, and closed his eyes slightly out of sight.

Why was he so obsessed with going to the Zhenfu Division to work as a Jinyiwei at that time?It is much better to be a rebellious general who has been in the army for a lifetime in the South Daying Camp than to be a dog at the foot of the emperor.

He turned his stiff wrist and smiled helplessly.

A lackey is a lackey, sooner or later, someone will do it?

Some kind of disharmonious sound was suddenly mixed into the cold night wind. Liancheng instantly turned over and stood up with a knife in his hand. He narrowed his eyes and searched around in the night. At a glance, he saw a short shrub upside down in the imperial garden. It moved slightly in the direction of the wind.

He looked back, and the group of five unlucky people turned into a gangster. He frowned and asked in a low voice, "Where is Zhong Han?"

"Just now I went to Xiaojie, and it's time to come back now."

The bushes that swayed very slightly suddenly stopped moving. The night wind was so strong that the surrounding tall trees danced with the wind uncontrollably. The brother lying on the tree made a gesture: I will go and have a look, and you continue to watch.

The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop. It's strange that the tree is quiet, and there must be someone behind it.

Liancheng's eyes widened and he held his breath as he brushed the bushes. The blade under his right palm had already seen its cold light. He was about to lift the knife out of its sheath when he saw it suddenly, and suddenly came to a sudden stop: "Zhong Han?"

The person who fell on the ground and lost the ability to move was none other than Zhong Han himself, Lord Qianhu of Jinyiwei. At this time, he was paralyzed on the ground with a paralyzed appearance, trying his best to suppress the half-exited cock, and his slender body shrank into a crooked shrimp. , In a daze, he still knew how to hold on to the roots of the bush, and silently reported to his commander.

He had sudden emergencies without any warning, and Liancheng, who had no medical skills at all, seemed to be used to it. First, he retracted his arms to wrap the whole person in his arms, stretched out his fingers and lightly pressed the middle part of the person, and more or less called it back. With a little sanity, he took out a small glass bottle and poured out a small pill for him to take.

"Commander..."

The hand was forced to stop, and Zhong Han, who had finally regained consciousness, grasped his right arm abruptly.

Liancheng's heart ached when he saw those eyes that were trying to suppress the pain. He turned his eyes away and tried to break free from Zhong Han's shackles with trembling fingers: "What are you doing?"

Zhong Han lost all strength and couldn't hold him back, so he turned his head away from the hand that was holding the pill, tried his best to stabilize his mind and said, "How many pills are there?"

Inside the translucent glass bottle, the outlines of four small round pills were vaguely revealed.Before Zhong Han could see clearly, Lian Cheng opened his big hand to wrap the bottle, and said in a low voice, "There are still many...don't worry about it, just take the medicine first."

He stretched out his hand to feed the pill into Zhong Han's mouth, but the other party turned his head away again. He was about to explode in exasperation, but he heard his trembling voice and said, "Drinking poison to quench your thirst...you keep it...It's just that even your lord, belongs to you. The next thing is unknown..."

Liancheng withdrew his hand as if in compromise: "Say it."

"It doesn't matter if you don't tell His Majesty that Jin Yiwei has a stubborn illness, but behind the sharp weapon of the country is a nest of lazy young men who are eating the blood of Da Yue. Do you want to hide this?" The blue veins were throbbing violently, but only spit out some bile and acidic water. Zhong Han pulled his sleeves and wiped his mouth, calmed down for a moment and continued, "I know, although the situation in the north and south is relatively peaceful, there are dangers everywhere, and your majesty can't sleep all night. ...It's really not a good time to fight internally, but if you and I can't support the foreign enemy..." He held on to his strength and twisted Liancheng's sleeves, "What should I do? Is it okay to watch him sit and eat? "

"As long as I live, I will protect him for as long as possible," Lian Cheng lowered his eyebrows and said, "When the last pill is used up, I will hand over the booklet."

Zhong Han let go, collapsed on the ground and sneered a few times: "Are you afraid that he doesn't want to take care of this case at all? After all, his surname is Qiu... Who wants to expose the old story of the ancestors by himself?"

Liancheng frowned and was about to speak, but the wind above his head changed.

"Take a break first." He turned around and was about to leave. After thinking about it, he finally saved a pill. "If you're really uncomfortable, take it first. Don't hold back."

He jumped up with the strength of the stone platform beside him, and landed lightly and firmly on the tree trunk.Liancheng pulled out a strip of black cloth to cover half of his face, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"Master Commander, listen carefully."

It was naturally quiet in the middle of the night, and Liancheng listened quietly for a while. With his ability to listen to Yingying and swallows with the wind, he didn't notice anything wrong. He was about to turn around and ask again, but he heard it in the silence A little confused.

It was so quiet that there was no sound of breathing.

He gestured quickly, signaling one of them to stay and take care of Zhong Han, and the other two followed, the Xiuchun knife was unsheathed, and the three jumped down the old tree.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has loose supervision, and the patrols in the middle of the night are only some old, weak, sick and disabled second-class imperial guards. The brothers were stunned because they didn't have the slightest popularity. The entire House of Internal Affairs was like a ghost building that grew out of nowhere in the palace, and there were faint ghosts in the door wall baring their teeth and claws to jump out.

Liancheng stopped outside the door and listened for a while, holding his breath, and finally made up his mind to kick him out: "Jin Yiwei handles the case!"

His aura is extremely good, and he can be regarded as one of the models of Fusi in the whole town. Unfortunately, there is not even a ghost in the room, but there is a strong smell of blood coming from the inner room, which is fragrant for thousands of miles Liancheng raised his left hand and pinched his nose almost as soon as he smelled it.

He looked back at the brothers who were following behind, and saw the same message from the eyes of the two: there was indeed no one in the House of Internal Affairs.

Pulling the knife out of its sheath, Lian Cheng waved his hand, the three of them surrounded and checked from three directions, only following the closer and stronger bloody smell gradually approached the inner room, there was no sense of chaos in the places they passed along the way, and they were in order In addition, there is a little extravagance and gorgeousness, but it is strangely quiet and unoccupied.

The soldiers were divided into three groups and eventually joined a team. Half an hour later, the three gathered at the door of the inner room, and only then did they see the culprit who was emitting a stench.

Those were five dead bodies that had been disembowelled. It seemed that they hadn't been dead for a long time. The weather was very cold in the twelfth lunar month, so there shouldn't be such an earth-shattering stench.I'm afraid that the murderer was flustered when he committed the crime, so he knocked down the fish tank by mistake and spilled the dirty water all over these people. In addition, the murderer's method was really vicious, and the five viscera were left naked for everyone to watch , If there is no smell, there will be ghosts.

These five people should have had a good relationship before they were alive, and they all died in groups. One's intestines slumped to the other's face, and the heart and lungs that were broken into pieces were spread on the top of the person below. The old eunuch died with a bit of vigor and chivalry.

Liancheng picked up the tip of the knife and pushed aside the corpses, finally discovering that the reason these people were united was to hide a secret tunnel entrance beneath them.

The moment the last person moved away from the entrance of the cave, a gust of gunpowder smoke rushed towards his face. Liancheng stretched out his hand to disperse the brown smoke and looked in, only to see the tragic dead bodies in the tunnel, the flesh and blood flying all over the tunnel. In the process, I couldn't figure out what to do for a while.

The two were about to go forward, when Lian Cheng hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him: "It's all meat slag, nothing to look at. It is reported to the outside world that there has been a bloody case, first send people to lock up and down the House of Internal Affairs, and don't even let a bird fly in. Wait When the gunpowder smoke clears, you go in and count the number of people, and match everyone on the roster. If your face is so blown up that you can’t recognize it, leave it alone and wait for the number to be counted. I will report to His Majesty after the court tomorrow morning."

Qiu Sheng's dream-like few days of annual leave have come to nothing, without waiting for Liancheng to come to him, a bunch of branches have been born out of thin air since the early morning, Long live God can't wait for one head and two big ones, dangling legs on the dragon chair is as uncomfortable as sitting on pins and needles After listening to one thing after another, he wanted to grow a pair of wings on the spot, and fly to the sky by himself to end his life, so as not to worry.

The little silver that Hu Tiandu sold in exchange for it is not a big sum at all, but the court has been used to running out of money in the past two years. Seeing some silver is like a hungry dog ​​seeing meat and bones. I thought I could save the north and the south, and by the way, get an army of dead soldiers.However, the ideal is full and the reality is skinny. The money is just a drop in the bucket to save Da Viet from the crisis. This small amount of money has to be divided in half. It is conceivable how stretched it is.

He cheerfully took the money to ask for credit, Fang Jiu had a good temper, so he sneered a few words, Yihu Tiandu's temper could hardly be recognized, but there was still a thorny brother Wang Deng standing on the other side of the Northwest Army. Xing Xing hoped for money like the moon, but in the end he gave Dou Da a little bit, and almost killed people without even picking up a long knife. Thanks to Gao Li's kind words, he persuaded him to come down.

The heavy armor is durable, and if it is not facing the red blood head-on, it will probably not be damaged by a few points, and it will be fine with minor changes and repairs.The light armor is very delicate, and it is basically useless after being beaten a few times near the blasting point. There are quite a lot of light armor soldiers in the barracks. It is not bad to make up for the loss of the light armor with this handful of money.

Hu Tian had never been on a battlefield, and he didn't know how expensive military equipment was. He went there with a smiling face in his hands, but his nose was ashamed. Seeing the scorching hot smell of flesh and blood, he walked back slowly with such a feeling of aggrievedness. As soon as he came back, he was busy complaining to Qiu Sheng, and even pushed the blame on the so-called Master Jingsheng in his words. suspected.After a stick of incense passed, none of the ministers next to him could get in their mouths.

Qiu Sheng listened calmly as much as possible, and sighed silently several times during the process.

Chu Yu said at the time that this move was for him to use urgently. Loulan and Guijue are both small countries. No matter how you say it, it is impossible to raise the treasury and destroy this virtuous Da Yue. To stabilize the morale of the army, I believe that the court still has money to offer.

Most of them are in the hands of wealthy businessmen and wealthy families, and diverting disasters to the east is not a long-term solution after all.

Lou Lan felt that the explosion failed once or twice, maybe he thought it was because he lacked skills and did not know the recipe, and after three or four times, it was a fool who bought back such unscrupulous products.

Qiu Sheng didn't want to wrong a loyal minister, and he didn't want to go along with the situation and give the blame to Chu Yu, who had been wronged. He had no choice but to act as a peacemaker and plead guilty: "Master Hu has worked hard, it's because of my negligence. Please rest first, Master Dong?"

It’s a western lighter that has been warmed up for so long, Hu Tian screamed out his grievances for a long time, his throat became dry and smoked, and even his voice changed. Putting it down and raising it again, the whole old face was a capitalized "I want to speak". Qiu Sheng intended to let Dong Qi make a rescue for him. Hu Tiandu than Dou E.

"Your Majesty, the old minister led a group of troops from the Ministry of War to go to various places to gather soldiers and horses. He tried all the methods that His Majesty told Yuchen, and it turned out to be very effective. He has now recruited 20 soldiers and 500 million taels of silver. The troops have been arranged in the Arsenal Waiting for deployment, the silver has been charged to the national treasury, if Master Hu needs it, you can ask His Majesty to show you a transfer order to use it."

Qiu Sheng was surprised, 500 million taels?It seems that the silver is in the hands of the rich merchants. It’s not a bragging. At that time, the 200 million taels of peace was taken away and the entire court wished that they could not pay the salary directly. There is no need to worry about the national treasury for three to five years.

This is obviously good news, but Dong Qi said it with a gritted expression. Qiu Sheng thought it was because he got sick from eating too much, so he hurriedly comforted him: "Master Dong has made a great contribution. I will hold a banquet for love in a few days." Qing Qinggong. There are always some unreasonable people who don't understand the priorities, love Qing, please rest assured."

This careless consolation obviously had no effect, Dong Qi pulled his face longer than a donkey, and suddenly knelt down: "Old minister, please forgive me."

This action alarmed all civil and military officials, and everyone started whispering, criticizing this old man with no eyes for embarrassing Long Live Lord, regardless of the fact that the deity is still kneeling in the center of the hall.

"What's wrong with Aiqing?" Qiu Sheng himself would show the faces of these ministers when he had nothing to do, so he naturally didn't care about such a trivial matter, "But what happened during the operation? Get up and talk first."

Dong Qi was not only offended when he heard the words, but kowtowed to Qiu Sheng with a low eyebrow: "When passing through Tiancheng, I met the local luxury Mr. Deng Qiye, and the old minister handled everything as usual. This man threw out his paralyzed eldest son and shut the door Yes, half of the silver is not willing to hand over the confiscation. The old minister was reckless and sent troops to threaten to open the door on his own initiative. Mingbi came out to fool people. Then the situation changed, this person actually secretly united with various local rich families in Tiancheng, and instigated the generals to raise their troops to rebel. It should be pacified in the city."

As soon as he finished his sentence, he bent down and rang his head again: "The minister made the decision without His Majesty's permission and caused civil disorder. I plead guilty."

The chattering civil and military officials fell silent in an instant.

Qiu Sheng looked at this old official who was doing nothing to put shit on his body, and felt mixed feelings for a moment, and raised his hand slightly to support his forehead.

The military orders abroad are not accepted, the reality should be to adapt to the situation, and Dong Qi can't find fault in the first place.What's more, if he is really idle and asks for an order before he can do it, some young and frivolous Long Live Lords might get angry and directly reward him with a cannon to blast the gate of the house open.

At that time, I am afraid that the luxury of the whole Central Plains will start an uprising.

Qiu Sheng calmly wiped off a drop of cold sweat that was slowly rolling down his forehead, and tried to keep his voice steady: "□□...how is the scale?"

Dong Qi knelt and straightened up: "Almost all the rich and powerful households in the city participated. These households are usually most willing to buy some strong people to look after their homes, so the number of people is not unimaginable, and they can probably be on the same level as the head of the Imperial Forest Army." The combined numbers of the inferior ones are comparable. With only a team of Imperial Forest Army and the local garrison troops in Tiancheng, I am afraid they will not be able to settle down."

"After eating and drinking, I forgot to eat and drink, and who provided for it, and eat the dog's stuff." Qiu Sheng scolded in a low voice, "Whose pocket did the money get out of? Everyone's eyes open when they see money." Seeing profit and forgetting righteousness, all you can do is make money, right?"

His voice was so low that only Li Ci could hear him clearly, but this father-in-law didn't dare to speak in front of Qiu Sheng on weekdays, and he didn't know what to do when he encountered Lord Long Live swearing at the street, so he could only bow his head Put your head on Qiu Sheng, pretending to be a deaf and blind mute.

Qiu Sheng scolded people just to vent his anger, and didn't expect anyone to scold him for him. He closed his eyes and calmed down for a moment, and said, "Master Dong, when we went to Huadu earlier, was there anyone who disagreed with my order?"

Dong Qi: "It's just a few people, and they're all unknown juniors. They don't have a reputation. Most of the rich and famous families are well aware of the stakes. Among the states and counties, the only one that has gone wrong is Tiancheng."

All states and counties have soldiers and horses, and the Huadu soldiers are particularly brave and good at fighting. The probably reason is that King Nanxiao stayed in Huadu for too long and brought a team of soldiers from the Southern Camp. The customs and customs of Huadu were distorted, and the poetic and picturesque small town of Yiyanliuhuaqiao was transformed into a meeting place for rough men who ate meat and drank in big bowls. Unexpectedly, it came in handy at this time.

Qiu Sheng immediately spread out a pen and paper to write the dispatch order, and at the same time took off the soldier talisman from his belt: "Take the soldiers from Huadu, Mr. Dong, you first take the soldier talisman and transfer the soldiers here."

Dong Qi was keenly aware of Qiu Sheng's voice, and couldn't help being taken aback: "Could it be that His Majesty wants to personally?"

"Naturally, I have to go there with my own hands and feet to know what kind of virtues those grandsons are. Waiting to close the door and beat dogs, I will know who is more appropriate to beat up. Besides, Huadu's soldiers are my Nan ..." Realizing that he was going to make a mistake, Qiu Sheng hurriedly braked in time, "But when I was in command and led the army to fight bandits, I came out personally. If I don't take it, who will take it?"

Dong Qi stopped talking, he really didn't know any marshal from ancient times to the present who saw Tian'er running into the woods to fight bandits, and took it as if it was a real thing.

"I have to go to the Huadu station first, you first send troops to Tiancheng to rush, and I will catch up with you when I'm done," Qiu Sheng said, "Remember to tell my brothers, I'm waiting to lead the troops myself. "

The phrase "to make the cubs happy" was stuck in his throat, and he looked around at the sad old man who was full of the room, but he didn't have the nerve to say it.

"The old minister leads the order."

Qiu Sheng finished drawing the troop dispatch order in two or two strokes, paused his pen smartly, raised his head and smiled at the disheveled Dong Qi: "Then let's go... While the New Year's festival is still here, let's kill the big fat pig first—"