"It is unbearable. Besides, our prince is so noble. How can he be subjected to such a shame and humiliation? Why don't you hand him over immediately?" The Qianhu Ji pointed at Zhou Yong and shouted: "Otherwise, don't blame our brothers for being ruthless with their swords."
"Hahahaha..." Zhou Yong responded angrily and laughed: "I would like to ask this gentleman, could it be that I made up the story that the concubine of my imperial envoy was captured by the King of Jin, so that I could lead troops to search the King of Jin's palace?
"
"Of course, don't even think about how the prince's reputation will be tarnished and the palace's important land will not be allowed to trespass," Qianhu said flatly.
"Well said." Zhou Yongyong sank into his Dantian and said loudly: "How can the honor of the Imperial Envoy be tarnished if I return this sentence to you? How can the Imperial Envoy's residence be trespassed?" He said in a voice that could be heard in half of Taiyuan City.
He said: "The imperial minister represents the emperor to patrol the four directions. If you dare to intrude, you are deceiving the emperor." He waved his hand, and the sapphire blue royal flag was erected behind him.
The Qianhu's arrogance was stagnant, and he sneered repeatedly: "You don't have to bluff, the emperor will never let someone who robs the royal concubine and tarnishes the word imperial envoy. Our prince will clean up the emperor today.
The door, behead it first and then play it once.”
"How dare you slander someone?" Zhou Yong was almost out of breath and yelled: "Which eye saw my master robbing the royal concubine?"
"Of course there are eyes to see it, otherwise who would dare to suspect the imperial envoy?" The Qianhu clapped their hands, and a middle-aged man with a shrewd appearance and wearing a blue straight jacket walked out from behind the crowd.
"Steward Zhou?" Zhou Yong looked at the other party in disbelief. Although he and old Zhou had not known each other for a long time, they had a good relationship and the two of them even recognized each other. He never expected that the other party would actually stand up and frame the imperial envoy.
"It's me." The middle-aged man was the housekeeper Zhou in the house. He didn't dare to look at Zhou Yong, his eyes wandered and said: "Last night I saw Miss Yan'er in the house with my own eyes. She was tortured very miserably.
, please ask me to report to the prince and save her from the sea of suffering..."
"Miss Yan'er?" Zhou Yong's scalp exploded. No matter how slow he was, he understood that this was a conspiracy against adults.
"Look, you really know each other." The Qianhu immediately became energetic, pointed at Zhou Yong and said: "Hand over Miss Yan'er quickly, and then ask your family members to follow me to plead guilty to the prince. Maybe the matter can be resolved slowly.
"Leave room" he said with a ferocious smile: "Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude."
"You're welcome to give it a try." Zhou Yong naturally couldn't show weakness, and he couldn't let anyone put a shit basin on his head. He pointed at Butler Zhou and cursed: "Tell me again what Miss Yan'er is? It's obviously you who arranged this.
One of the many maids in the palace, and my lord is very strict with himself. He has never laid a finger on those women. He has asked you to send the maids out several times, but you have pushed back and refused. But in my lord,
After insisting again and again, I even sent Miss Yan'er away. I dare to swear that if I tell a lie, I will have no descendants. Do you dare?"
"..." Zhou Yong's words unintentionally touched the other party's sore spot. Butler Zhou's mouth twitched a few times, but he still said bravely: "There is nothing I dare not do. I also dare to swear to God that what you said is a lie."
, Miss Yan'er is a concubine of the palace, and she was captured by you and imprisoned."
The fierce quarrel at the gate was reported by the guards to Wang Xian in the front hall.
At this time, Wang Xianzheng and Wu Wei were having dinner. Listening to the urgent report from their subordinates, they should have been so shocked that they couldn't eat. However, the elders who were used to seeing life and death scenes remained unmoved and remained calm and calm.
Or he ate and drank heartily. Until he was full, Wang Xian took the white handkerchief from Gu Xiaolian, gently wiped his lips and said, "It's really disappointing."
"Yes." Wu Wei sighed and said, "His Majesty, the King of Jin, actually used such dirty tricks. I thought he could come up with some clever tricks."
"It doesn't matter how many times it is used, as long as it works." Erhei said: "They are very cruel with this move. We are in a lot of trouble." As he said this, he let out a sound and couldn't help laughing: "Sir, what do you think about this hand?"
Does it look familiar?"
"How can we not be familiar with each other?" Wang Xian also smiled and said with a nostalgic look on his face: "Which of the gangsters on the streets of Fuyang has never done such a nasty thing?"
"Yeah, back then we..." Erhei also recalled the glorious deeds of the three of them back then, but thinking that Long Yao was also present, he felt embarrassed to mention the bad things that happened when he was down and out, and quickly changed his words: "It's not uncommon."
"What does not mean is not rare? It means not less." Wang Xian said, but he was not ashamed of the past at all.
"What would you usually do when encountering this kind of situation?" Miss Long Yao asked curiously.
"If you fall into someone else's trap, there are usually three strategies to get out of it." Seeing that Long Yao was asking about himself, Erhei immediately became excited: "Let me talk about the next strategy first, which is to fight with them. You can tell me a thousand words and ten thousand.
, a hard fist is the last word.”
"We can't use this trick," Long Yao shook his head and said, "A strong dragon can't defeat a local snake, not to mention that King Jin is still a real dragon. Our fists can't beat him."
"Then there is a middle strategy. General Nao will go to see the officials and let the officials comment." Erhei smiled and said, "But this will only work if you have a strong relationship with the officials."
"Then we can't use this trick." Long Yao shook his head and said: "How can there be an official in Shanxi who can control the king of Jin? Even if there is, it is useless. If there is a nest of snakes and rats, they will definitely not turn their elbows outward."
"Don't worry, there is still a better way." Erhei said with a smile: "Just use the trick to trap them."
"This trick is good, but it's too difficult." Long Yao sighed.
"It all depends on people." Wang Xian said with a smile and ordered the guards: "Go and bring a message to Zhou Yong.
The guard took the order and hurried to the front, whispered a few words in Zhou Yong's ear, and Zhou Yong said loudly: "My Lord is an upright man. To show respect to the prince, I agree to let you go in and search."
"It should have been like this a long time ago." All the royal guards were about to rush forward.
"Slow down," Zhou Yong shouted loudly: "But there is an ugly saying ahead. What if we can't find the person?"
"No," Qianhu said confidently, "If we can't find Miss Yan'er, I'll give you my head as a ball."
"I don't want your head either, I just want you to have a pair of ears." Zhou Yong sneered: "But it's not just you, everyone who goes into the palace has to do this." After a pause, he pointed his halberd at Housekeeper Zhou and said, "But this
Those who caused the instigation must die."
"Do you dare to swear?" Zhou Yong shouted again, and all the men behind him responded in unison: "Swear, swear!"
The Qianhu and his men all looked at Butler Zhou, and when they saw him nodding hesitantly, they gritted their teeth and said, "I will swear when I swear."
The Qianhu household and the soldiers who were going to search made a solemn oath in public. Zhou Yong asked the king's flag to be taken away and ordered his men to get out of the way. The Qianhu household led the crowd to rush to the camp and began to dig three feet into the ground. The search started in a blink of an eye.
, the silence of the imperial envoys' carriage suddenly became noisy and chaotic.
Wang Xian ordered his people to pack up the documents and account books, and after taking a look at the officials who were guests in the mansion today, he and Gu Xiaolian waited in the pavilion for the search to end.
It was already the winter moon, and the night wind was cold, making the torches tremble. Wang Xian put on his fur robe and cloak, while Gu Xiaolian curled up in his arms and said with a puzzled look on his face: "Official
Why should people let them in? Aren’t they afraid that it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away?”
"The troops surrounding the camp are just the vanguard." Wang Xian said softly: "Zhu Jiyin has led his troops back to Taiyuan this afternoon. Why is he coming back in such a hurry?"
"The officials are saying that they want to attack Xingyuan?" Gu Xiaolian said in surprise.
"You can't jump over the wall unless you are in a hurry." Wang Xian shook his head and smiled: "If you want to kill me, you have to kill all a thousand of my brothers first. This is in Taiyuan City, not in the wilderness. Openly attacking the imperial envoy's camp, By massacring thousands of people and killing imperial envoys, is Prince Jin going to rebel?"
"Then why did Zhu Jiyin come back?" Gu Xiaolian asked.
"It's a shock." Wang Xian said softly: "With Zhu Jiyin's pressure, Butler Zhou dared to frame me boldly. If I don't open the door and prove my innocence, I can't explain clearly. They can smear me as much as they want. How can I go to trial?" other people"
"But this seems a bit weak. I'm afraid they will intensify their efforts and make the officials uneasy."
"So I also want to shock you," Wang Xian said calmly, "Let's watch the show."
In that room, the palace guards searched everyone but could not find the girl Yan'er. However, Qianhu was still there because he knew that the girl Yan'er had been killed by Butler Zhou and thrown into the well in the back garden. went.
The focus of the second round of searches was on places where people could hide people. The palace guards dug through all the places where people could hide people inside and outside the house, and finally came to the well.
"Sir, this dark hole in the well seems to be able to hide people?" the subordinate reported.
"Then let's go down and have a look." Qianhu came prepared. Immediately, someone brought ropes and torches, and put down two guards who were thin and good at climbing. The two went down to the bottom of the well with poles and began to fish. There are people... I fished out a handful, but there was nothing; two handfuls, nothing; three handfuls, still nothing... I kept fishing for half an hour and searched the bottom of the well, but I couldn't find a single human hair.
"Did you remember the wrong place?" Qianhu asked them to come up first, then called Butler Zhou aside and said sternly in a low voice.
"How could it be possible? There is only one well in the whole backyard of the Zhensi Yamen..." Housekeeper Zhou was even more unbelievable and whispered: "I tied her to a stone with my own hands last night and threw her down."
"Then how come we can't find it?" Qianhu had no choice but to send people down again. This time he sent two more people, a total of four people, to search underground. However, Qianhu's confidence had already dropped to freezing point and said: "You can do it Were you discovered when that happened?"
"No," Housekeeper Zhou shook his head and said, "If they found me, they would have arrested me long ago. How could they let me walk out of the prison easily?"
"That's true..." Qianhu thought about it, but when he thought about it, his face turned green and he said: "There is also a possibility that they didn't say anything at the time just to dig a hole for us to jump into now. Bar?"