Chapter 138: Do not discuss academic issues with traitors
The mantis hunts the cicada while the oriole follows, but behind the oriole, there is still a silent hunter.
Zhang Shou felt that this was probably the best portrayal of his rare two-day break.
He and Wang Jie set up a trap and roped in Zhu Ying to act together. As a result, they fished out Zheng Huaien, a member of the clan who was hostile to him, and it was confirmed that the witness was the one who threatened him with the sword. However, when he and Zhu Ying seemed to just have a temporary idea,
When he came to Zhaoyuan for a temporary stay, the two remnants who had escaped from the Linhai Camp set their sights on him. Behind the two remnants, Master Hua Qi had already opened his trap.
Of course, the one who made the biggest sacrifice was Zhu Ying. For most of today's wealthy ladies, it would be wishful thinking to ask them out to enjoy the autumn outing before they were married. But for the girls of later generations, dating would still be impossible.
To mix it with other purposes would be even more unscrupulous! However, when Miss Zhu told him that he had other purposes after appreciating autumn, she wholeheartedly agreed.
So at this moment, facing Zhu Ying with a worried face, Zhang Shou couldn't help but laugh: "Of course I'm fine, I'm unscathed!"
"Really?" Zhu Ying had already come to the bed. The bed in the east room was not a bed like a small house, so she didn't have to bow her head and bend over because of her tall figure, but she still couldn't help but lean forward.
body.
As if she was afraid that Zhang Shou would lie to her with his nice words, she looked at Zhang Shou up and down, left and right for a long time, and finally confirmed that there was really no injury on his body, and she let out a long sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, you're okay. It really scared me to death! In addition to the two people that Uncle Hua and I caught, there were also people in Zhaoyuan who were struggling to climb up. They took advantage of the annual routine renovation to collude with outsiders and secretly hide the traitors.
Thief, I installed the copper pipes for evil purposes, and the soothing incense I gave you was also laced with ingredients! If I hadn’t captured the traitor alive this time, I would have jumped into the Yellow River and couldn’t clean it out!"
At this point, Zhu Ying lowered her head: "Although Uncle Hua has repeatedly promised that catching the person is a great achievement, all the credit belongs to you. If you want to get promoted and make a fortune, you can get it. He also said that Ah Liu is following you,
There will be no danger. But I really don’t want to agree. When I heard that it might be a traitor from the Linhai camp, I didn’t want you to take the risk. Ah Shou, I’m sorry for putting you in danger..."
"Didn't you just come here to tell me? Since I promised you myself, why are you sorry?"
Zhang Shou interrupted Zhu Ying's words, and glanced sideways at the moonlight outside the window, and then looked at the girl in front of him with a smile: "Besides, what Hua Qiye needs me to do, and what I do for Wang Dayin,
In essence, there is no difference. There are certain risks, but they are all within control. Besides, it is not bad to talk and use your brain in the Imperial College all day long, and occasionally change your brain."
"Tomorrow I will urge Ah Liu to practice our Zhu family's ancestral sword skills well and let him teach you well!" Zhu Ying took a deep breath and mustered up her courage to say, "If such a big thing happened, what else could I do?
, would you like to live somewhere else?"
Zhang Shou was about to say no, but when he saw the red color on Zhu Ying's face that could not be concealed, he was slightly startled, and then he smiled and said: "Why, you have to learn from the way Mrs. Tai let me live in the wing of Qing'an Hall.
Move to the east or west wing of Qiushuangzhai, and live next to you in the main hall? When I was at my house, there was no way, but now it's not to this point."
Seeing Zhu Ying glare at him angrily, with a look of annoyance on her face, he said gently: "Yingying, I have taken advantage of you a lot. Although you don't mind, I am indeed a once-in-a-lifetime person."
When someone is shot by an arrow, everyone looks like an assassin, but they are not so helpless that even after the matter is resolved, they still have lingering fears. Don’t worry, you can go back to sleep, Ah Liu is still here!"
"Since you said so, forget it." After Zhu Ying said that, she turned around and left. But when she reached the door, she stopped and said without looking back, "And, thank you!"
Thank you for what? Thank him for taking the risk of being the bait?
Or thanks to him for fishing out two traitors hiding in Zhao Yuan and successfully avoiding a big trouble that might have caused the Duke of Zhao's palace?
But no matter what, he should be grateful to Zhu Ying, because if it weren't for her, he would not have left the countryside, stepped into the capital, and truly seen the scenery of this era.
Zhang Shou coaxed Zhu Ying away with a few words, but in the end he had completely lost his sleepiness. After telling Ah Liu to make sure that Zhu Ying had returned to Qiu Shuangzhai, he quickly got up to change clothes, and then asked Ah Liu to follow, and the two of them walked together.
One after another, they walked out into the night. With Ah Liu, a boy whose nose and ears were sharper than a dog's, leading the way, he soon found Hua Qi in Hengwu Courtyard to the north.
But I saw this middle-aged man, who was probably a royal spy, sitting on the main seat in the middle of the main room with a big horse and a golden sword, and there were four people sitting on the ground tied with five flowers. Two of them were wearing the clothes of Zhaoyuan servants, looking downcast.
, the other two people all had bruises on their noses and faces, but one still showed a bit of resentment in his eyes, while the other looked timid.
"Hey, uncle, are you here to see the person who threatened you?" Hua Qi casually pointed at the frightened middle-aged man and said with a smile, "This is the guy, the one who committed suicide in shame and anger at Linhai Camp.
Lieutenant General Xiao's master, after all, has a great reputation, but he was stupid enough to follow the conspiracy. Even after the rebellion failed, he still didn't give up and wanted to deceive you into decrypting the secret."
Zhang Shou saw the unruly man glaring at him fiercely, and thought that this other person was probably the general that Hua Qi had mentioned. However, he was not interested in this kind of military figure, but he looked at the Juren master mentioned by Hua Qi with great interest.
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Although Zhang Shou's gaze did not seem to be aggressive, Master Ma, who was sitting on the ground, felt that Zhang Shou's gaze was like a butcher weighing how many kilograms a pig weighs, where to kill it, and where to cut first.
A piece of meat. Even though he had never seen a pig being killed, he couldn't help but have such a creepy feeling.
Therefore, thinking of his current situation, he immediately shouted without thinking: "Mr. Shou, among the thirteen letters, the decryption method of twelve of them was leaked by the junior officials in the Ministry of War. So,
I followed Liu Shen to rob you, not for this, but for the remaining weird letter..."
Before Master Ma finished speaking, General Liu Shen with stern eyes became furious. Even though his hands and feet were tied, he hit Master Ma with a headbutt as fiercely as he could. It was too late to speak, and then to be, Zhang
Shou saw Hua Qi, who had just been sitting on a chair with her eyes closed and concentrating, suddenly appeared in front of General Liu Shen. With a high kick, the burly and majestic man on the ground was kicked away.
Not to mention, Ah Liu suddenly appeared near the door. Before Liu Shen could fall down, he, who was obviously much thinner than a human, actually kicked him back. Fortunately, Hua Qi was obviously not playing with Ah Liu.
What did he mean by Cuju? He ducked back to his seat, and the willow ginseng was hit to the ground like a huge boulder.
Master Ma, who had just nearly received a hammer, saw the always fierce General Liu Shen bleeding from the corners of his mouth in the military camp, and immediately fell to the ground and fainted. He took a breath of cold air and dared not pretend to be wrong. He hurriedly said like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.
came out.
"The person who received the secret message at Linhai Camp is Deputy General Xiao, and the person who usually translates the secret message is me. I helped him calculate the secret message." Master Ma did not notice Hua Qi's sudden expression.
Yi Ning, and Zhang Shou was greatly surprised, because he did not dare to raise his head at all, for fear that he would be frightened to death if he looked up and saw the fierce expression on his face.
"The most important letter involving days happened not to be calculated by me. I was suffering from diarrhea and collapse that day and couldn't get out of bed at all, so Deputy General Xiao, who had seen how I calculated on weekdays, had to do it himself. He had also read books and calculated it.
Afterwards, he took a look at me, and I generally thought he was right, so he went to translate the secret text according to the Thousand-Character script, but he didn’t expect that he ended up counting one character wrong..."
When he mentioned the wrong word, even though many days had passed since that unforgettable day, Master Ma still couldn't help but feel sad: "I was deceived by Vice Admiral Xiao into boarding the pirate ship. I was just a judge, and I didn't want to be his."
Master, the article about selecting people in my hometown examination was copied. He didn’t know where he found it, so he used it to blackmail me..."
Before he could continue to explain the reasons for his rebellion, Zhang Shou, who was obviously very sleepy but had to continue listening, interrupted impatiently: "Don't interrupt, did you come up with that cipher text?
And what’s with that weird letter?”
Master Ma finally recovered from his self-pity, but his face was still full of misery.
"The secret of the cipher text was told to me by Lieutenant General Xiao. I don't know where he learned it from. And that weird letter is different from the previous letters. I can't decipher it at all! But the things in the letter are like being hoodwinked.
The words that look like children's graffiti are all in the thousand-character article. If I hadn't stayed up late and calculated for three days with no results, and then got a bad stomach, the most important letter wouldn't have been wrong."
Zhang Shou couldn't help but be a little surprised. He really didn't expect that the secret letter that he and the students believed to be a forgery, and that Wang Datou later believed to be a secret letter, actually appeared on the desk of the rebel party in Linhai Camp.
, people even thought that their eyes were dazzled... He pondered for a moment, and then laughed.
"But I heard that Wang Dayin deciphered these secret letters at the court meeting that day, which attracted a lot of attention. Shouldn't the content of that letter have been made public? Even if it did not spread to the public, it would have been
It shouldn't be difficult to ask, why are you looking for me? Besides, the rebellion in Linhai camp has been put down, don't you think it's stupid for you to still pursue that letter, even at your own risk?"
"Because the content of the secret letter we found out, we feel that it is not right at all! Moreover, who made Liu Shenjiang, an idiot, think that Vice Admiral Xiao has been in Linhai camp for many years and has done countless things, so there must be a secret about the relationship in that letter, maybe there is a relationship
The person he connected with is related to the gold and silver treasure that Deputy General Xiao was greedy for but failed to find. If we find out, there may be a chance to make a comeback!"
Master Ma said and looked at Zhang Shou, struggling to get up. However, because his hands and feet were tied, he lost his balance and fell forward heavily. But even though he broke a tooth and was bleeding profusely,
He still couldn't help shouting.
"Dr. Zhang, I'm half dead now. Please tell me what's in that letter, otherwise I won't be willing to go to hell!"
Zhang Shou was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said lightly: "I don't discuss academic issues with dying traitors. You are not willing to go to Jiuyou Huangquan, so go to Jiuyou Huangquan and continue to settle the matter!"
"
Why should I satisfy your curiosity when you put me at risk all night long?
Seeing Zhang Shou and Ah Liu turning around and walking away, Hua Qi glanced down at the ashen-faced Master Ma and suddenly laughed.
This answer... is really good!
Even for the dying traitor, there is no need to have any sympathy!