Mr. Guo came to find Jia Xu and said that there was a mechanism under the house connected to the tunnel of the Prince of Shu's palace. Jia Xu said: "We must invite our third master to come out to discuss this matter. Mr. Guo's identity seems to be concealed from the King of Shu." "
Mr. Guo said: "I came here specifically to find him."
Jia Xu then went inside and called Jia Cong. Jia Cong came out with a smile and cupped his hands to Mr. Guo: "Mr. Guo has finally figured it out. What's the point of hiding your son in someone else's house? Even if you gave birth to a hundred sons, you didn't How frustrating it is for someone who calls you dad to take care of others in their old age and give birth to grandchildren. If anyone wants to kill you, kill him first. This is what a man is!"
Mr. Guo sighed: "I would not take this step unless I had to. People who do what we do will eventually be wiped out."
"Understood, understood!" Jia Cong clapped his hands and said, "I didn't tell the King of Shu, Mr. Guo, his surname. I only said that he was a craftsman who was good at making tunnel mechanisms. Now he is dead. Everything is in vain after death, so there is no need to pursue it. Because the old man doesn't want his son. Taking up this trade, he was specially raised to be an incompetent idle man. He was also afraid of being exterminated, so he had already raised his own grandson in exchange for other people's children in his early years. Your group of illegitimate children didn't even mention it."
Mr. Guo thanked me with a gift and thought: "In this case, after all, Guo Shu has a grudge against the King of Shu, so now he only says that my surname is Yuan."
Jia Cong suddenly felt a chill and immediately said: "That's not right. If someone recognizes you, wouldn't they mistakenly think that you and Uncle Yuan have changed? Their family has never had anything to do with yours, so why bother to hold him back?" , I have raised your son for nine years in vain. Since Mr. Guo wants to kill his opponent first, why should he be afraid of him? You can just pick any surname among hundreds of families."
Mr. Guo had no choice but to choose "Zhao". He added: "The children of the Yuan family are in the hands of the Fang family."
"I guessed it. Your family actually wants to give them hostages?"
Mr. Guo smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid my father will leave the drawings or tell others."
"Oh." Jia Cong didn't dare to push him too hard. He still had to rely on him to check the tunnels. He sat down and said, "I think after this matter is over, Mr. Yuan doesn't want to rely on his ancestral skills to serve the princes anymore, right? .”
Mr. Guo said: "Our family's craftsmanship is only for self-defense. Using it to serve nobles is seeking death."
Jia Cong said: "Mr. Guo is a sensible person. Then I will just say that you are my helper friend whom I tricked from elsewhere, okay?" Mr. Guo nodded lightly.
Asking him again about those disgusting corpses, Mr. Guo was stunned for a moment and said, "This matter has nothing to do with my Guo family. My father only cares about the tunnels and institutions." Jia Cong and Jia Xu looked at each other.
That night, Jia Cong led Master Guo to Qiu Liang's house. Chen Ruijin also put on a beard and some makeup for Master Guo so that no one would recognize him.
Qiu Liang was discussing with a group of people where to start digging tomorrow. Hearing that Jia Cong had tricked a knowledgeable friend into the dig, he was overjoyed and said, "Mr. Jia, it's really timely." He also asked Master Guo what his name was.
Mr. Guo deliberately drooped his face and said angrily: "My surname is Zhao. Anyway, I only do this one thing for Mr. Jia, so there is no need to mention my name." He gave Jia Cong a dirty look; Jia Cong had no choice but to laugh with him. For half a day.
Qiu Liang only said that Jia Cong had great supernatural powers and knew all kinds of friends. He nodded and called him "Mr. Zhao".
"Mr. Zhao" is indeed a capable man. The next day, after only walking around a few times in the house connected to the Prince of Shu's Mansion, he roughly knew where the various agencies were. There were more than a dozen agencies inside and outside the house. That day Qiu Liang and the others If there had been someone familiar with the organization in the house when we found this place, Qiu Liang and others would have been dead long ago if there had been a slight movement. There is another tunnel connected underground, and it is indeed the property of Fang Xiong's family.
After hearing the news, the King of Shu immediately mobilized his troops to surround Fang's mansion, but did not attack the mansion. That night, Fang Xiong led his confidants and four sons to escape from the tunnel, and asked Qiu Liang's people to block an urn to catch turtles. Fang Xiong
He hurriedly turned the mechanism, but there was no movement - all of them were broken by "Mr. Zhao". Their female family members and young children and grandchildren fled from another tunnel and were also caught. Jia Cong sighed inwardly, no wonder
That old man Guo Sanshui was afraid of being silenced - he helped the powerful do so many secrets, and their eloquence would be ruined if they didn't!
When the Fang family was escorted into the Prince of Shu's palace, Jia Cong pretended to be a commoner and stood in the crowd to watch the excitement. Suddenly he saw a familiar face, and his eyes widened in shock. He stared at the person all the way. When the person had seen it,
After he disappeared, he stayed where he was for half a day, and then went to see the King of Shu.
The King of Shu was exchanging words with Fang Xiong. When he heard that he was coming, he immediately left Fang Xiong behind and greeted him with a smile on his face: "Mr. Jia came just in time! This old thief is very harsh even though he is a prisoner."
Jia Cong saluted the King of Shu and stared at Fang Xiong for a long time. Fang Xiong just didn't see him at first, but he stared at him for half a cup of tea, and couldn't help but feel the hair on his back. Jia Cong
Suddenly he shouted: "Master Fang, it's polite to be born late."
Fang Xiong also looked at him for a long time and said, "It's a pity that you weren't there when I went to the capital. Otherwise, even if you angered all the princes, they would kill you."
"Thank you for being a late student, late students are very dignified." Jia Cong bowed again, "I was actually in the capital at that time. If Mr. Fang wanted to kill me, why didn't he go to our house to look for him?" Fang Xiongyi
choke.
Jia Cong said seriously: "Wan Sheng wants to make a deal with Mr. Fang." Fang Xiong couldn't help but look up at the King of Shu, who also looked suspicious. Jia Cong smiled and said, "Your Highness doesn't know, I just came up with it at the last minute."
Fang Xiong asked: "What deal."
Jia Cong said: "Mr. Fang knows very well that you can't survive the crime of rebellion. However, the Fang family is definitely not a rebellion of the whole family. The women and underage children in the house cannot be involved in this matter. I have always believed that innocent people are not guilty.
.No matter what heinous crimes you committed outside, it has nothing to do with women and children. Wan Sheng will advise the prince to spare these innocent people."
Fang Xiong was immediately moved: "Do you have this ability?"
Jia Cong smiled and said, "Yes." The King of Shu was stunned.
Fang Xiong immediately asked: "What business?"
Jia Cong said coldly: "Who are those corpses in the tunnel of Prince Shu's Mansion, and who caused them." Fang Xiong slowly turned back and looked at one person.
Jia Cong took a look and saw that although this man was wearing the clothes of a servant, his hair was pulled up a bit awkwardly and he was wearing Shifang shoes. He stepped forward and said, "This Taoist friend is here to invite you."
The man also said: "Tao is friendly." This was regarded as admitting that he was also a Taoist.
Jia Cong asked: "Were those forty-nine bodies of young men, women and children the work of fellow Taoists?"
The Taoist priest sighed: "That's the Seven Yin Formation. The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. A poor Taoist has nothing to say."
"Who are they and where is their home?"
"They are all bought from everywhere, according to the yin and yang time of birth." The Taoist priest said, "If my Taoist friends want to learn, I will save the poor Taoist, and I will teach you with all my money."
Jia Cong asked: "What does the Seven Yin Formation do?"
"Because the King of Shu is ultimately the Son of Heaven, if he acts rashly, he will be counterattacked. He must first consume his Yang Qi with his Yin Soul."
"Why did you use teenagers and boys?"
"Teenagers and boys born on a yin day in a yin time are the most yin and yang people, and can be used to relax and guide the Qi pulse." The Taoist priest gestured, "When yang ends, yin will be born, and when yin ends, yang will be connected..."
"Okay, okay!" Jia Cong waved his hand and said, "I know these better than you. In order to let fellow Taoists die more clearly, Pindao regrets to inform you - the method you learned is wrong, and I don't know who did it blindly with his eyes closed.
Come out. Not only is your Seven Yin Formation useless to the prince, but the evil spirit has also attracted Pindao."
The King of Shu just heard the Taoist priest say "Seven Yin Formation", and his face turned pale with fright. Now his eyes lit up: "Is it useless?!"
Jia Cong said: "It's strange for poor Taoists. Why are some people always deceived by such a simple truth? As this fellow Taoist said, when yang ends, yin is born, and when yin ends, yang is connected. Everyone who can live is like this.
Yin and yang are balanced. If the balance is unbalanced, disease will occur. If the balance is further unbalanced, death will occur. The soul is empty and cannot enter the yin and yang. When a person dies, the soul flies away, and the body is an empty bag. The same dead cow and a tea cup are the same. If the body can
With Yin Qi, how come the night watchmen in Yizhuang are all jumping up and down and full of Yang Qi?"
The Taoist priest was stunned when he heard this.
Jia Cong shook his head and said: "I, a Taoist, have always cultivated my moral character and kept pure and inactive. I didn't expect to have a fellow disciple like you. Not only are you not good at studying, but you are also superstitious about deception and used deception to kill so many innocent lives. I'm really ashamed." Then he turned to look at Fang Xiong.
, "Lord Fang is also a momentary hero, how can he believe such nonsense? Instead of leaving those under the Prince of Shu's palace, it is better to choose a few beauties to imitate Gou Jian and send Xi Shi. If you don't keep them all, there is still some use."
Fang Xiong said angrily: "Everyone has mistakenly believed in this demonic nonsense."
One of his sons also shouted: "I told my father that this demon is a liar!" Fang Xiong closed his eyes and said nothing.
Jia Cong then turned back to the King of Shu and said: "Zhuangzi said, the way of the inner sage and the outer king is dark but not clear, depressed but not developed. Everyone in the world has his own way and his own way. Looking at the later life, the inner sage and the outer king are different.
There is an explanation."
The King of Shu hurriedly handed over his hands: "Please give me your advice, sir."
Jia Cong said with a smile: "Treat your own people as saints, and treat foreigners as kings." The King of Shu frowned. Jia Cong continued, "Of course, this is an excuse. Wan Sheng wanted to use this as an excuse to persuade the prince to let the Fang family go without guilt.
person."
The King of Shu asked: "May I ask, sir, what is the real reason?"
Jia Cong said: "Since we have to find an excuse, it is not convenient to tell the real reason in public."
The King of Shu hurriedly withdrew his troops, and everyone in the hall disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Jia Congnai leaned forward and whispered: "There is someone in the Fang family who looks like Liu Yifei. They are exactly the same. I recognized him at a glance."
The King of Shu quickly asked: "Who is Liu Yifei?"
"It's inconvenient to tell the prince," Jia Cong said, "It's better that the prince just doesn't know. Since the Fang family has lost its backbone, there are still people under Fang Xiong. Leaving some innocent people behind can calm the hearts of those people.
Secondly, even if they are dissatisfied, they don't dare to act rashly, and they can just calm down slowly. Fang Xiong killed so many innocent young men, women and children in order to practice witchcraft and harm others. This matter can be widely publicized. Who doesn't have children?
People are always afraid of these things."
The King of Shu nodded: "These things are easy to handle. However, if we cut the grass without eradicating the root, I am afraid it will cause trouble in the future."
Jia Cong said: "Anyone who is determined to rebel must hide one or two children and grandchildren outside, lest everything goes wrong and the whole family has no way to survive. When it comes to future troubles, only those who are not under the nose will become troubles. Moreover, the Fang family committee is really inconvenient for the prince.
Kill the person. Thirdly, the Fang family has been abolished, and the remaining ones are just orphans and widowed mothers. Prince, as long as you are strong enough, no one can do anything to you. If you are not strong, even if you have no hatred, others will still miss you."
He smiled softly and said, "Not to mention the whole country, there are probably a lot of people in Shu who want to kill the prince. Which of them will succeed?"
The King of Shu thought for a moment after hearing this and said, "I will think about it again."
Jia Cong nodded and said: "The rest of the Fang family and the Taoist priest are interrogating. Fang Xiong should be killed immediately to avoid long nights and nightmares. There are also several important sons of his."
"What you said is absolutely true."
Jia Cong bowed deeply and said goodbye. When he reached the door, he suddenly came back and said: "Your Majesty, the grandson of the craftsman who built the tunnel - is not his real grandson, but the fake grandson who was exchanged and was held hostage at Fang Xiong's house. .Can you trouble the prince to rescue him? The child is innocent, he has nothing to do with the Fang family, his biological parents are ordinary farmers, and they are also the prince's subjects."
The King of Shu hurriedly said: "This matter is easy to handle. I ordered Qiu Liang to go and investigate."
Jia Cong said: "Just go with whoever you want. Mr. Qiu is probably the busiest now."
The King of Shu smiled and said: "You two have just known each other for a few days, but you have a good relationship."
Jia Cong said: "Sometimes a small thing can reveal a person's character. That day when I went to the tunnel, Mr. Qiu only said to Wan Sheng to follow him carefully, and Wan Sheng felt that this person was reliable. Mr. Qiu is a person who is willing to take responsibility, and the prince can Reuse.”
The King of Shu smiled and said, "I even trust Qiu Liang more than I do."
Jia Cong left again, walked to the door and came back. He bowed deeply to the King of Shu and said, "Your Majesty, you can call yourself 'Gu' instead." Without waiting for the King of Shu to speak, he turned around and left.
The King of Shu stayed for a moment and laughed for a long time. He ordered Fang Xiong's confidants to be imprisoned for interrogation first, and his family members were sent elsewhere, so he was not to be neglected. He also ordered someone to write a notice and post it, detailing Fang Xiong's story. What he did was to ask Haosheng to write about the Taoist priest's harm to others. Fang Xiong and his four sons were not imprisoned, but were killed in the hall.
Jia Cong returned to the inn and told Jia Xu and others what he had just done. Jia Xu frowned and asked, "What are you meddling with? Do you expect the children of the Fang family to come to disrupt Shu? It's better to rely on others."
Jia Cong said: "It was really impromptu. It's not a bad thing to kill a few innocent women and children." Jia Xu looked at him for a long time.
At that time, Chen Ruijin was practicing in the yard, and Jia Cong moved a coffee table and chairs to eat snacks next to him. After Chen Ruijin finished practicing, Jia Cong threw a piece of dragon beard cake over. Chen Ruijin took it in his hand and came over to drink tea, and casually asked: "Three Have you fallen in love with that young lady from the Fang family? My eyes are straight."
Jia Cong shrugged and said, "I'm surprised. They look so similar. Oh~~~" In the previous life, the fairy sister was definitely deeply rooted in Zhou Ji's generation of otakus. "They are so exactly the same that I was confused. Such ancient memories. …”
Chen Ruijin twirled the dragon's beard on his fingertips: "Liu Yifei?"
"Hmm. I can't explain it clearly. Anyway, she is a beauty that I have envied a long time ago, but I can't see her anymore." Jia Cong held his cheek and said, "The world has changed, and the past cannot be pursued. Besides, the past has changed. , that Miss Fang is not a fairy sister after all, no matter how much Ren Tanghui looks like Yang Yanzhao, she is not him."
Chen Ruijin was silent for a moment and said: "Even if the King of Shu does not kill the women and children of the Fang family, he will not let them go free. But he wants to rescue the woman?"
Jia Cong looked up at her for a long time, while Chen Ruijin just ate tea. Jia Cong pursed his lips and said: "Miss Chen Ruijin, your attitude can easily make me think that I have unrequited love."
Chen Ruijin glanced at him: "You didn't misunderstand." (..)