Author: Yun Ni

Zhao Luoyang felt relieved when his third uncle said that everyone was fine.

The people sent by Little Mute have entered the city, and the remaining people of the Feng family will no longer be able to cause any trouble. There is only one thing to solve next.

Zhao Luoyang looked at Huai Zheng beside him: "Have you found Zou Guangda?"

Huai Zhengdao: "Everyone in the Zou family has been arrested. Zou Guangda took some money and hid in a small yard. We chased him several times, but he had nowhere to go. If we chased him again, he would be gone."

It’s time to fight hard.”

Huaiguang has been arranging manpower secretly and has not shown his face in front of others, because he is the person next to the little mute, and many people in the Feng family know him.

Huaiguang also wanted to protect Wangjiazhuangzi. If Xue Ding failed to arrive, Huaiguang would lead his men to capture Zhu Youqing.

Even if Xue Ding is here now, Huaiguang still has to deal with these people in the city, which ones should be sent for interrogation and which ones should be dealt with on the spot. He cannot arrest everyone and send them to prison. That will waste too much manpower and material resources. Tao

The state government office does not have enough energy to do this.

Huaizheng had been waiting to listen to orders, and his respectful manner made Shi Jiu very satisfied. He had given orders to treat Zhao Luoyang just like he did to him, and everyone around him had done so.

Zhao Luoyang said: "Send Zou Guangda to see Mr. Cao!"

Huai Zheng understood and said without hesitation: "I will do it immediately."

Zhao Luoyang and Shi Jiu said: "Everyone is so busy, we can't just let Mr. Cao get away with it like this. He has traveled thousands of miles from the capital to Taozhou, so he can still do something."

Shi Jiu didn't say much, just laughed. Watching Xiao Huanhui order his people to do things, he felt inexplicably happy, just like when he was a child, when Xiao Huanhua broke half of the wild vegetable cake in his hand and gave it to him.

Zhao Luoyang said: "Shi Jiu, is there anything I didn't do well or forgot about?"

"No," Shi Jiu said, "They were all handled very well, especially the two Beijing officials."

The two capital officials, Zhao Luoyang, made clear arrangements. From the first time he saw them to test them, to later he left a useful thank you and sent Cao Ben to the dung cart, and now he asked Zou Guangda to see Cao Ben.

Well thought out.

"It's not that I have a bad heart," Zhao Luoyang said. "Those people in the capital sent Cao Ben here just to keep his life in Taozhou."

Cao Ben sent someone to send a message to look for reinforcements, but his followers hid after leaving the city and had no intention of sending the message. It was obvious that they had been bribed long ago.

Zhao Luoyang believed that Cao Ben wanted the reinforcements to come later, not not at all, but the people behind Cao Ben didn't think so. They never wanted to show up from the beginning.

This matter has been clear to the Taifu and his party from the beginning. If Zhao Jingyun wins, they will take the opportunity to suppress the Feng family. If Zhao Jingyun loses, the Feng family may kill Cao Ben and put the blame on Zhao Jingyun.

The Taifu could take advantage of the Feng family's actions and complain to the officials in private, so as to attract more officials to join the Taifu's party.

In this way, he would not conflict with the Feng family, but could secretly strengthen himself and instigate civil and military officials to be dissatisfied with his relatives, the Feng family. What a good deal.

Zhao Luoyang said: "Since the Tutor has sent people here, we can't waste it. They don't want to openly conflict with the Feng family, so we have to do the opposite."

Shi Jiu said: "It's the best arrangement." This was his true words. Little Huanhui was so smart and thought better than anyone else.

…

What Huai Zheng wanted to do was to drive Zou Guangda out of the yard, chase him, and deliberately open a hole leading directly to the dung truck where Cao Ben was hiding.

Cao originally thought that this trip to Taozhou would not be easy, but he did not expect that he would end up hiding in a dung cart. After he became an official, he defected to the Taifu. His official career has always been smooth. Although he is not an important minister in the capital, he

He is very young, and he will definitely have a place in the court in the future.

The reason why I am so lonely now is because of the Feng family.

Cao Ben felt resentful in his heart. After escaping this time, he would definitely find an opportunity to take revenge on the Feng family. Now he had to find ways to keep his dignity. After the outside was stable, he would quickly get out of the dung truck while others were not paying attention.

, in short, no one can see him in such a mess.

Cao Ben covered his nose and waited tremblingly. Finally, the movement outside became smaller and smaller. Cao Ben couldn't bear it anymore and carefully opened the lid of the dung bucket to get out of it.

The fresh wind blew in, and Cao Ben took a deep breath, as if he suddenly came to life.

It's finally over.

Cao Ben leaned out little by little, and finally stood up straight in the dung bucket. Then he slowly stepped out with one leg. Just as he pulled his other leg out, he stepped out from behind a dung truck.

A figure appeared.

The two people looked at each other, with a look of surprise on their faces.

Zou Guangda almost dropped the baggage in his hand on the ground, but soon he came to his senses and recognized who the person in front of him was.

It was the Beijing official they had always wanted to kill.

Zou Guangda's eyes changed from surprise to joy, like a man walking in the dark who found a ray of light and immediately grabbed it.

The outside was full of government officials and emigrants, and they were looking for traces of him. Although he was hiding here, he knew that it would be a matter of time before he was discovered. Just now he was squatting there holding a large bag of belongings.

Almost all thoughts were lost, he might die here. Everything he had carefully managed in Taozhou would now be in vain.

Just when Zou Guang was feeling sad, he heard a noise coming from a dung truck not far away. He thought people from the government office were chasing him, but he didn't expect that it was Cao Ben who he saw.

What a twist.

His last chance came. Zou Guangda dropped the baggage in his hand, pulled out the short blade from his arms, took a few steps forward to hold Cao Ben's shoulders, and then pressed the sharp blade against Cao Ben's neck.

"Master Cao," Zou Guangda said viciously, "swords don't have eyes, so you'd better not move them."

Cao Ben regretted that if he had known there were bad guys waiting for him outside, he would rather have been hiding in the dung bucket, but it was already too late.

"As long as you can protect me out of the city," Zou Guangdao said, "I will not harm your life."

Cao Ben wanted to struggle, but found that his whole body was trembling, especially when the man's dagger cut open his flesh, and his heart seemed to jump out of his chest.

"Are you from the Feng family?" Cao Ben trembled, "Do you know what will happen if you kill me?"

"I know," Zou Guangda gritted his teeth, "Everyone in my family has been arrested by the government. If I go out, I will die. No matter what you say, I won't be afraid. So, you might as well take a rest."

Cao Ben understood: "You want to kidnap me out of Taozhou? Where can you escape to?"

Zou Guangdao: "As long as we leave Taozhou City, I will naturally have a way. Your Excellency is a Shangguan from Beijing, and Zhao Jingyun will not disregard your life."

Cao Ben almost fainted. He thought that having feces and urine on his body was already miserable enough, but he didn't know that the worst was yet to come.

"In broad daylight..."

Cao Ben was about to reprimand, but the person in front of him was obviously crazy: "Master, don't believe me?"

As soon as Zou Guangda finished speaking, the dagger suddenly turned around and stabbed Cao Ben hard on the shoulder.

Severe pain came, and Cao Ben's eyes widened, but Zou Guangda's hand tightly covered his mouth. The smell of feces and blood immediately came, and Cao Ben curled up like a quail in the rain.

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Cao Ben believed that if he struggled, this man would definitely kill him.

"Let's go out now," Zou Guangdao said, "Do you know what to say, sir?"

Cao Ben nodded hastily, he knew.

"Then," Zou Guangdaodao, "remember to do a good job, sir."

Zou Guangda hugged Cao Ben tightly, and the two of them slowly walked out. As he expected, they soon encountered the officials who were hunting him outside.
Chapter completed!