Placid Chang'an

Uncle Cao frowned: "What does this mean?"

And Song Fan just sneered sullenly, without the consciousness of giving in to others at all, his expression seemed to be waiting for a good show.

Uncle Cao looked at Su Cen.

Su Cen was also frowning at this time, "The two children are in my room, and I have sent someone to take care of them. Nothing will happen."

Then he turned his head and told the guard behind him, "Go and bring the two children here."

Second Uncle Cao felt at ease, he was in trouble together that day, he cared about this young man, he was unruffled and methodical in times of crisis, he was still amazed that this man had such insight at such a young age, and after knowing Su Cen's identity, he let go of that detachment The courage and wisdom of ordinary people have found a reasonable affiliation.

So Su Cen was relieved to do things.

But looking at Song Fan's face, he couldn't help but feel flustered, and it's really worrying not to take a look with his own eyes.

While the guards were out looking for someone, Su Cen walked up to Li Shi, frowned and looked him up and down, "Are you not injured?"

Li Shi smiled lightly: "What do you think?"

"I'm still worried about you..." Su Cen lowered his head and let out a breath silently. His body was still wet, and his hair that had been wet by the rain just now was drooping wet. It's a bit fragile like the rest of the life after a catastrophe, which makes people want to hold it in their arms, but it hurts a lot.

The worry just now was real, and the fear of losing was also real. Li Shi saw it, raised his hand and rubbed his wet hair, "I'm fine, Zhong An has already reminded me to be careful of the people in Cao Village. , I am prepared. Besides, Second Uncle Cao came here to plead guilty, so he has no intention of doing anything."

Liang Fang had dealt with Song Fan and Second Uncle Cao, so he naturally knew that Song Fan and Uncle Cao were in the same group. On the contrary, he went to the doctor in a hurry and lost his sense of control.

Su Cen lowered his head to sort out his emotions, and when he raised his head again, he smiled at Liang Fang: "I offended you so much that day, I hope Mr. Liang will forgive me."

Liang Fang always regarded Su Cen as a little goblin who deceived the Lord, but he didn't expect this little goblin to be quite resourceful.In fact, they had already arrived early in the morning when Su Cen was just starting to reason. When they came to the door, Li Shi raised his hand and refused to let him in. They just stood outside the door and listened to the whole story of the case, so many intricate twists and turns. It's still under the control of this person that this person is able to string them together in an orderly manner.

Mr. Liang is not a person who will take revenge, and he is even more sympathetic to mediocre people. He smiled back at Su Cen: "It's all small things, don't worry about it."

Su Cen finished sorting out the grievances here, and started to settle the accounts with Li Shi: "But the lord knew that Mr. Liang was suspected at the beginning, but he hid him behind my back, and you already knew that Song Fan and Uncle Cao had a relationship." related, but don’t tell me!”

Li Shi laughed, at first he thought that this matter was just a fool, but he never thought that the suspect was caught, the truth came out, the little fox smacked again, and wanted to bite him again as if his whole body was fried.

Fortunately, Li Shi smoothed out the fox's fur with one sentence: "I don't trust him, I only trust you."

It's true that he took Liang Fang in, but he didn't fully trust him. He said he took him in, but it was a disguised form of imprisonment. If Liang Fang was really guilty, he wouldn't have to arrest him again.

Liang Fang frowned at the side, thinking: "Sure enough, she's still a little goblin."

Just as he was talking, the guard who went out to find someone came back, and the person who was on duty at the gate was behind him.The man's face was pale, his throat was a little tight, and he said tremblingly: "My lord, my lord, both of them are gone."

Su Cen gave a "thump" in his heart: "Aren't you guys watching from outside the door? Why did people disappear?!"

The man replied: "It was the two children who jumped out of the window by themselves. Children love to play, and they often jump out to play in the yard. We didn't pay attention to it for a while. We didn't find anyone there until it rained. We found I searched all over the palace, but couldn't find it."

Su Cen pursed her lips. Before she could move, she heard a sound behind her. It was the sound of metal hitting bones. Accompanied by a muffled groan, Song Fan fell to the ground.

"Where did you hide him?!" Second Uncle Cao's eyes were red, he swung his copper pipe with all his might, and sparing no effort to greet Song Fan's injured arm.

"Guess," Song Fan was still laughing, with pain mixed in his smile, which looked extraordinarily ferocious, "Guess... guess what they are doing now? Are they crying? Is it you or their elder?" elder brother?"

Uncle Cao was stunned for a moment, then became furious, kicked the person out and hit the antique rack, and all kinds of books and decorations were scattered all over the place.

Uncle Cao still didn't give up, he went up to mend a few more kicks, each kick was aimed at the man's mouth, and then he lifted the man by the collar, "Where is the man? Tell me!"

"Cough...cough cough..." Song Fan coughed a few times, the smile on his face didn't diminish, he tilted his head to look at the heavy rain outside the window, and raised his lips and said, "At this moment...he must be dead, right?"

With a punch to the head, Song Fan tilted his head and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Seeing that he would be killed if he hit again, Li Shi frowned, "Enough."

Uncle Cao was so angry that he couldn't listen to anything, so Qi Lin and Qu Ling'er stepped forward together and pressed down the general.

"I'll go talk to him." Su Cen looked up at Li Shi.

Li Shi looked at Song Fan, who was already dying, and nodded after making sure that this person was no longer a threat.

Su Cen walked slowly to Song Fan's side, knelt down | and said, "Tell me where the two children are, and I'll let you go."

Song Fan murmured indistinctly in his throat after coughing up blood, and Su Cen could hear that it was a mocking sound.A few months ago, this same person stood in the dungeon of Xingqing Palace and said to him, "Tell me where Huang Wan'er is, and I will let you go." Now the scene has changed, the bystanders have changed, but the words spoken have not changed. How to change.

Song Fan pulled the corner of his lips, the pain was severe, so he could only give up, and asked Su Cen, "What you said...does it count?"

"I was able to release you this time, and I will definitely be able to catch you back in the future," Su Cen looked down at him with a cold expression on his face - he has always treated him like this, in Chang'an City , also in Xuzhou.

"Li Shi agrees?"

Su Cen looked back at Li Shi, "I will let him agree."

Song Fan chuckled, he was burdened with several murder cases, and took away 60 taels of government money from Xuzhou. He couldn't believe that Li Shi could let him go just because of Su Cen.

But Su Cen looked at him with certainty, and didn't allow him to doubt it.

"Interesting, really interesting..." Song Fan seemed to have discovered something interesting, and laughed with his head buried in his head. Because of the sharp pain in his chest, he could only giggle. Against the lightning and thunder outside the window, he looked extraordinarily eerie. "He was able to keep you until now..."

"Back then, Princess Ning was killed by him himself, but he has retained your weakness until now..."

Su Cen's body froze as far as his eyes could see, as if he was frozen, every word he uttered was accompanied by a crackling sound in his bones: "What did you say?"

Song Fan straightened his body and stepped forward, leaning close to Su Cen's ear, but what he said had nothing to do with what he said before: "You are at Hutiao Cliff, go find it."

Su Cen was stunned for a few moments, then slowly got up, turned around and said, "At Hutiaoya."

"Hutiaoya is in the back mountain," Liang Fang, as the governor of Xuzhou, knew the terrain quite well, looked at the heavy rain outside the window with some worry, and frowned, "But I'm afraid..."

Uncle Cao turned his head to look at him: "What's wrong?"

"Alas," Liang Fang flicked his sleeves, "You should go and have a look and you'll know."

The crowd went to the back mountain under the leadership of Liang Fang. Su Cen was at the end and said something to Li Shi. Li Shi waved his hand and told his subordinates to leave.

The so-called Hutiao Cliff is actually a stone platform that grows horizontally on the cliff. It can only accommodate a few people standing side by side, facing the Yellow River meandering through the back mountain. For overlooking.But it was obvious that Song Fan and the others destroyed the rattan ladder after sending the two children down, forming a desperate situation hanging on the cliff and not relying on top or bottom.

Seeing the situation clearly, Su Cen finally understood Song Fan's intention of watching the rain frequently.With the help of the heavy rain, the river swelled and emptied, and the stormy waves crashed on the shore, and the waves could almost reach the stone platform.And the two small figures curled up on the stone platform, sitting side by side tightly against the stone wall.

"Huzi! Erya!" Su Cen shouted down the cliff.

"Big brother!" It took a while to hear Huzi's response, with tremors and obvious joy in his voice.

Hearing the echo, Su Cen felt a little relieved, at least he is still alive now.

"How's Er Ya?" Su Cen then asked.

"Erya is crying," Huzi said with a tear in his voice, "Big brother, what should we do?"

"Don't be afraid, take care of Erya, we will find a way to save you!" Su Cen turned around, "Think of a way to save people."

Liang Fang frowned, "The question is how to save it?"

It would be fine if the cliff went straight up and down, but the stone platform was recessed, that is to say, even if the rope was lowered, it would not be able to reach the stone platform, and there was still a large piece hanging in the middle.

Seeing the situation clearly, Su Cen couldn't help but also frowned, Qu Ling'er was puzzled, "Isn't it enough to go down and bring the two children here?"

"The distance is too far, the rope is not long enough, so it can only be connected, and it can only bear one person at a time." Su Cen pursed her lips, "If you go down alone, another child can come up, the problem is the one who was replaced How do people come up?"

"Two children are light, one person can replace two children." Qi Lin said.

Su Cen nodded, then turned to ask: "It's still the same question, how will the replaced person come up?"

Qu Ling'er asked: "Then what if I go down alone and bring a child up, then go down again and bring another child up?"

Su Cen pondered for a while, "I don't know if the knotted rope can bear the weight of an adult and a child." After a pause, he continued: "But this is the only way at present."

Time waits for no one, and the rain is still falling. Every wave hits everyone, and everyone is terrified. Once the river water does not pass the stone platform, and there is no handhold on it, the two children may be washed off the stone platform at any time.

"I'll go," Second Uncle Cao put the pipe back on his back, "I'll go and bring the two dolls up."

"You can't." Su Cen reached out to block Uncle Cao's hand holding the rope, "I know what you think, there is no way to exchange two children for one person."

"The old man is dying, and he is dying," Second Uncle Cao sighed, "You should let me pay for it."

"Your crime will be judged by the "Great Zhou Law". Others have no right to interfere, and neither can you." Su Cen grabbed the rope on the ground with his backhand, "I'll go."

A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and there was an instant fluctuation in the crowd, and almost everyone said in unison: "No!"

"I'll go," Liang Fang said, "I'm the parent officer of Xuzhou, and I have the responsibility. If I lose you, the prince can't be counted as me."

Su Cen shook her head: "I'm afraid this rope can't support you and a child."

Mr. Liang is strong and strong, and he is the biggest guy here, so it is really not suitable.

"The two children saved my life, and I promised to take care of them. Besides, I am an imperial envoy appointed by the emperor. I will bear the brunt of the accident." Su Cen picked up the rope and tied it around his waist. Did not follow, this is his highest official position, and sometimes a word of speech can have an immediate effect.

It didn't take long for him to be proud, only to feel that someone knocked him from behind, his body froze, and he couldn't move.

Qu Ling'er came out from behind him, untied the rope calmly and tied it on her body, raised her head and smiled at others: "Brother Su, when I come up, please ask the prince for mercy, don't let me eat it anymore, okay?"