Placid Chang'an

A bolt of lightning flashed through the window outside the window, illuminating the gloomy face in front of him. He was obviously smiling, but it made people chill for no reason, and he couldn't help but want to back away.

Su Cen's fingertips were deeply buried in the flesh to suppress his body's instinctive reaction. He always knew that Song Fan was near the palace, but he never thought that this person would dare to enter the palace so blatantly and appear in front of him like this .

"Long time no see, Master Su," Song Fan raised his lips and smiled at Su Cen, "Did you miss me?"

Su Cen squeezed his fingers tightly, and forcibly collected himself. Based on the experience summed up in several confrontations, the more you are afraid of Song Fan, the more proud he is, so he must put on a fearless posture—at least not on the surface. be seen.

After some rest, Su Cen raised his cold eyes, glanced at Song Fan, then squatted down, and continued to deal with the matter at hand calmly.

Song Fan gave a soft "tsk", but the person's reaction was somewhat unexpected, he leaned on the door frame with his arms folded in front of his chest and said, "When old friends meet, Master Su treats guests like this. ?”

Su Cen lightly transferred the tissue paper on the floor to the desk, raised her head and said to the servants beside her, "Give me the candle."

Ah Chun's gaze was still on this mysterious person who came uninvited, and he was stunned for a moment before realizing that Su Cen was calling him, and hurriedly sent the candle up.

Song Fan curled his lips, his expression was quite frustrated, originally he wanted to see the face of this cold and aloof Master Su turn pale, but there was a little surprised expression on his face for a moment, and then he Converged.

Really boring.

Song Fan straightened up and stepped forward, casually sat down on the desk, then leaned down in front of Su Cen, "What is this?"

Su Cen gave a rare response: "Your evidence."

Song Fan lowered his head and chuckled, raised a pair of peach blossom eyes that were slightly narrowed, and looked at Su Cen innocently: "What am I doing?"

Su Cen ignored him again, handed the dried paper to Ah Chun, and said, "Take it back to my room."

After explaining all this, Su Cen raised his head and looked directly at Song Fan, "Then we might as well deal with your crimes."

Ah Chun took the paper and was about to leave when he noticed that a hand under the table gently tugged at his clothes. Ah Chun looked down and saw that the knuckles were pale, and it lightly tugged four times on his clothes. .

Prince Ning is ranked fourth, this is to let him go out to call someone.

Ah Chun hurriedly looked up at Song Fan, saw that he was having a good conversation with his adults, and didn't notice their small movements, so he lowered his head and hurried out.

Approaching the door, the chatter hadn't stopped yet, Ah Chun breathed a sigh of relief, just as he put his hand on the door, he suddenly felt a chill on his chest, looked down, and saw a sword unsheathed at some point in front of him. Pass through the chest.

The sound of piercing the flesh|body was real and cruel, and the person fell to the ground before even seeing blood.

Su Cen stood up abruptly, looking at Ah Chun, who was still panting, his gaze became a little loose, twitching and twitching, and gradually stopped moving.

The appearance of maintenance finally collapsed, and Su Cen hysterically said, "Why did you kill him?!"

"Why did you kill him?" Song Fan frowned and thought about it seriously, then raised his lips and smiled, "He told you what to do behind my back, shouldn't he die?"

He saw it!Su Cen bit her lower lip fiercely. He clearly saw it, but kept his expression on. He waited for someone to walk to the door before doing anything, just to see the moment when he showed his timidity!

Song Fan stretched out his hand to hold Su Cen's hand that was trembling slightly due to excessive force, and smiled softly: "You are still cute like this."

Half of Su Cen's body went numb, and he tugged a few times, but Song Fan looked weak, but his arm strength was amazing. One hand stuck to his wrist like a branding iron, pulling his flesh, not moving at all.

"Let go!" Su Cen looked up and glared.

Seeing that Song Fan was unmoved, Su Cen picked up a lake pen on the table and stabbed down with all his might.

Song Fan stopped at the very moment, and when the pen stopped, it was only a hair's breadth away from Su Cen's own hand.

"It's so fierce." Song Fan rubbed his hands with lingering fear, and squinted his eyes to look at the person in front of him. Just now, Su Cen's expression was the same as that day when he held a dagger to his heart in Ding'an Hou's mansion, and stopped every word. Said: "Whoever loses again, I will wedge an inch in the heart" with exactly the same expression.

Now the man had lost his expression, lowered his head and rubbed his wrist, his pale wrist was blushing.

He and him, it's really hard to say who is the lunatic.

Thunder and lightning flashed outside the window, and the violent wind slapped the precarious window with the torrential rain. For a moment, Su Cen wished that the wind and rain would be stronger, blow open the window, and even blow away the roof, and stay with Song Fan. Together, he can't breathe.

Fortunately, Song Fan didn't push him any further, and raised his eyebrows to look at Su Cen: "Master Su wants to convict me, I'm all ears," pointing at Ah Chun behind his back, "This is courting death, it doesn't count."

Su Cen looked at Ah Chun's staring eyes, and had already written this down to Song Fan in his heart.

Song Fan looked at Su Cen with a playful smile: "So, who lied?"

Su Cen looked up at Song Fan, and said calmly, "No one is lying."

Song Fan sneered and disagreed.

Su Cen didn't care, and continued: "Huang Ting did allocate funds for the river repair, Liang Fang did not receive the 50 taels, and the 10 taels allocated by Liang Fang did not reach the people of Cao Village. A total of 60 taels Ten thousand taels, actually they all went into your pocket." Su Cen paused, "You are from the secret door, right?"

"Oh?" Song Fan raised his eyebrows with interest. Su Cen's words were a question, but his tone was unquestionable. He couldn't help laughing and said, "Where do you start?"

"Pretending to be the prince of the Marquis, kidnapping Huang Wan'er, tricking Hui Kong to host, threatening Huang Ting to allocate funds, and cooperating with Cao Ershu to intercept the river repair funds, causing floods in Xuzhou to burst, and tens of thousands of people homeless, these are not things you can do alone , there must be a strong organizational support behind it, I can't think of anything other than a secret door."

"And how did you know that I was with Second Uncle Cao?" Song Fan's peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a fierce look, "Those two kids told you?"

Su Cen shook his head: "They just said that Liang Fang killed someone."

"Since Liang Fang killed someone, why do you doubt Second Uncle Cao?"

"Liang Fang killed someone," Su Cen paused, "but the one with you was Second Uncle Cao. Apart from you, Liang Fang, and that official errand, there was Second Uncle Cao, right?"

Song Fan didn't make a sound, it was a tacit agreement.

Su Cen continued: "I don't know how you tricked Mr. Liang into the woods, but if you guess correctly, you should have bought that official and used him to threaten Liang Fang to help you. But you didn't expect that, Liang My lord was so strong in martial arts, he killed the official with one palm, but Huzi and Erya saw the process."

"I just said that those two little things should be killed," Song Fan said viciously, "Second Uncle Cao doesn't understand the truth of endless troubles, and they deserve to fall into your hands."

"You only know what it means to cut weeds and roots, but you don't know what it means to lick a calf." Su Cen sneered, "Huzi and Erya have never betrayed Cao Ershu from the beginning to the end, and Cao Ershu has never committed suicide for fear of revealing his identity." Heart. I suspect that Second Uncle Cao is the one behind the secret door, not because of the two children, but because of something else."

Song Fan raised his eyes: "What's the matter?"

"First, the Ministry of Households refused to allocate funds. The 10 taels that Liang Fang used to divert the Nanqing River were lost, and the 50 taels allocated by Huang Ting were lost at the border of Xuzhou. No matter how you look at it, it seems that Liang Fang is inseparable. But it seems that A one-way relationship is actually not always the case, for example, if the imperial court’s river repair funds are to be transported to Xuzhou, Cao Village must pass through!”

Su Cen continued slowly: "I didn't suspect it before because I didn't connect Cao Village with the secret door, thinking that they were incapable of intercepting the imperial team, but once I contacted the secret door, everything made sense."

"The magistrate of Chanzhou is also yours, right? First Liang Fang's 10 taels, Cao Cun successfully obtained the document with Liang Fang's official seal, and then used means to rub off the surface of the words, and replaced it with the 50 taels The handover document between the two. Huang Ting has a ghost in his heart, so naturally he didn't think carefully about the key points, and Mr. Liang was kept in the dark from the beginning to the end."

"The 60 taels that disappeared out of thin air belonged to you, to the secret door, the Nanqing River burst, and the Xuzhou embankment burst. You exchanged the lives of tens of thousands of people for the 10 taels. On average, one life is less than five taels silver!"

Su Cen closed his voice, his chest heaved several times before it gradually calmed down, the room became quiet for a while, and after a few snaps, Song Fan clapped his hands and praised: "As expected of Mr. Su."

"I can figure out the connection between them," Su Cen looked at Song Fan with those cold eyes, and frowned slightly: "But I can't figure it out, who are you?"

After hearing this, Song Fan leaned back and laughed heartily, like a child who succeeded in playing a prank, he laughed for a long time before he stopped, looking at Su Cen from the corner of his eyes: "You will know later."

"In the future?" Su Cen frowned slightly, "Didn't you come to kill me?"

"Master Su is so interesting, why am I willing to kill you? I just came here to talk to Master Su to catch up on the old days."

"However—" Thunder and lightning flashed outside the window, illuminating Song Fan's treacherous face, "If you can guess that Cao Village belongs to us, then can you guess where Li Shi is now?"

Su Cen's heart tightened suddenly. Li Shi was still outside, staying with the people of Xuzhou City. Although Qi Lin and the others were by his side, what if someone pretended to be a disaster victim and came forward to assassinate him? !

Su Cen got up to leave, but was grabbed by Song Fan, who tied his hands behind his back and pressed him against the window.

As soon as the window was opened, heavy rain poured in, covering Su Cen's head and face, but Su Cen didn't seem to notice it. His sharp eyes passed through the heavy rain curtain, and he leaned out half of his body and looked into the distance.The study room is located on the attic of the main hall, so you can clearly see the whole palace. Su Cen searched again and again, but there was no sign of Li Shi anywhere.

Song Fan chuckled: "Have you already succeeded?"

"Impossible!" Su Cen tried his best to break away from Song Fan, his arms were almost broken, and his trembling voice was drowned in the rainstorm, without any response.

But when she turned around, Su Cen suddenly calmed down.

Song Fan frowned, but before he realized what happened, his body instinctively moved sideways, and with a "clang", the metal collided with the wooden window frame, and the window frame shattered instantly.

Song Fan turned around hastily, seeing the situation outside the door, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Prince Ning, who was supposed to be assassinated, stood at the door, followed by Qi Lin and Liang Fang, and the one who attacked him just now was Uncle Cao's cigarette stick.

Second Uncle Cao normally holds the pipe and looks like it doesn't weigh a few pounds, but when he wields it with great force, before Song Fan can react, the heavy copper pipe slams down on his head, creating a fierce wind.

Song Fan had no other choice, his sword was still stuck in Ah Chun's body, and he had no choice but to raise his hand to block it. The sound of the radius bone breaking reached everyone's ears. Song Fan gritted his teeth, but didn't make a sound. One sound.

The predicament had come to an end, Song Fan didn't make any unnecessary struggles, and he just gave Uncle Cao a cold look: "You betrayed me, you betrayed the secret door!"

Second Uncle Cao put away his pipe and shook his head, "I helped you at the beginning, but I didn't expect that it would harm the whole Xuzhou. Cao Village has committed a lot of crimes, and we will pay the debts ourselves."

"You pay it back, what do you give it back?" Song Fan suddenly lowered his head and laughed sullenly, "Do you want to take those two children you gave your life to protect?"