At some point, the north wind outside started to rage.
Waves of dust squeezed in through the food delivery port under the iron door.
The room with the fire wall is warm and pleasant.
Xiao Chen stood up from the bed with a wry smile on his face.
Walking up to Duan Shixiong, he stretched out his right hand and patted his shoulder: "You can eat the meals delivered in the future with confidence."
"When will you let me out?" Duan Shixiong raised his head.
"What are you going out for? Are you going to die? When I investigate the case and arrest all the people involved, you can go out with peace of mind."
When I walked out of the door, a cold wind hit me, running down my neck and blowing in.
Xiao Chen couldn't help but shudder, hurriedly turned up his collar, and closed the iron door behind him.
The guarding captain with sharp eyes and quick hands had already hung a huge iron lock on the iron door the moment Xiao Chen released it.
With both hands, the big lock was locked on the iron door with a "bang" sound.
Duan Tianming, the sergeant who had been waiting outside, came over.
"How's it going? Have you hired me?"
"Yeah." Xiao Chen nodded, "However, it's no different from not doing anything. He doesn't know anything about the inside story. He's just a confused person who was used as a cover-up."
"That's it, all your hard work is in vain." Duan Tianming stretched out his hand and patted the dust on Xiao Chen's back and on the wall of the room as he walked.
"It's not like all the hard work was in vain." Xiao Chen rubbed his hands, opened his mouth and breathed into his hands a few times, "At least, it can be concluded that Yanqing Guard Commander Huang Anliang was involved in this matter."
"Do you want to arrest Huang Anliang?"
Duan Tianming looked at Xiao Chen and asked in a low voice. It was as if the other person was the captain of the Thirteenth Army and he was just a captain running errands.
"Don't worry, I'm just inferring Huang Anliang's crime now. If you want to arrest him and get him to talk, someone must come forward to testify against him."
"Correction? Are you saying that Shixiong didn't know anything at that time? How can he prove it?"
"Duan Shixiong doesn't know, but his wife Huang knows, and she knows a lot."
Duan Tianming was shocked: "Is this woman so powerful? Could it be that Huang Anliang deliberately arranged it to lurk in the Changping Prefectural Government Office?"
"I don't know about this. You will interrogate her tomorrow and see if you can get her to confess."
"Why me? Don't you have a way of interrogating prisoners?"
"This is a woman. I have no experience. If you don't interrogate, who will interrogate her? Remember when you were still in Jin Yiwei, dealing with women was your strength."
Xiao Chen grinned and laughed out loud.
"Let's take a walk and go back first. It's freezing on the street. Go back and make a pot of hot wine to warm yourself up."
He punched Xiao Chen on the shoulder from behind, and the two of them walked towards the location of the Thirteenth Battle.
Walking into Duan Tianming's "luxury" single room in the Thirteenth Army, a wave of hot air hit his face.
The fiery red stove radiates bursts of heat.
"These idiots put so much charcoal in the stove to roast me to death." As he spoke, Duan Tianming took off his Dongchang uniform and threw it on the bed.
Wearing close-fitting and thin clothes, he pulled out a wooden box behind the bed.
He took out a bottle of shochu and sealed the bottle mouth with mud, turned around and opened the lid of the hot water kettle next to the stove, and put the kettle of shochu in.
"Although there are some expensive things at the factory today, I can't get used to it, and I'm not full." He muttered, and then opened a rice bowl on the table, and underneath was a large plate of food.
Fragrant lean meat.
He put the plate of lean meat next to the road, then pulled over the bench next to him and sat down.
Xiao Chen was already wearing thin clothes, so he didn't feel too hot after entering. While Duan Tianming was busy working, he just lay down on the recliner that could rock back and forth, closed his eyes and rested.
The two arms were placed casually on the armrests, letting the two hands hang down at will.
"They call it savoring life. What we want is to fill our stomachs. Can it be the same?" Xiao Chen closed his eyes and replied.
"What do you mean, are you full?" He stretched out his hand and tore off a piece of lean meat, intending to hand it to Xiao Chen.
After hearing what he said, he stuffed it into his mouth and started chewing it. He also deliberately made loud "chirping" sounds.
"Hey, what you are doing is unethical." Xiao Chen exerted force on his waist and sat up suddenly, "We promised to share the hardships and share the blessings, but it's better for you to sit here and eat alone.
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He reached out and grabbed the piece of lean meat on the plate, tore off a large piece from it, lay down again, closed his eyes, and ate slowly.
"Hehe, I thought you were full." Duan Tianming put his oily fingers into his mouth, took a sip, and then reached out to the plate.
"Oh, how can I be full with those things? I can't even eat them at all. If I hadn't followed a corrupt official to a hotel while handling a case, I wouldn't have known that the king crab meat was hidden under the shell.
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"We have the same virtues, but you are better than me. I also watched how you ate and learned on the spot." Duan Tianming laughed, and a piece of chewed cooked meat powder spilled out of the corner of his mouth.
"So, people like us are not suitable for being officials. It looks like a lavish banquet, but after a meal, we spend a lot of money, but our stomachs are not full. I feel sorry for you, but my stomach is not allowed." Xiao Chen shook his head.
He sat on the rocking chair and said with his eyes closed.
When he heard the word "official", Duan Tianming stopped what he was doing and looked at the rocking chair that creaked as Xiao Chen rocked it.
"You said that today the factory owner promised that if the case is solved, we will be promoted to a thousand households or a hundred households. Is this just casual talk, or does he really think so?"
"What do you think?" Xiao Chen asked back.
"I'm not asking you this. I can't figure out which part of what Mr. Factory Master said is true and which part is just talk."
"What he said today is all from his heart. You can completely believe it." Xiao Chen didn't even open his eyes as he stuffed a piece of lean meat into his mouth.
"Oops." Duan Tianming took a deep breath, sat up straight, raised his head and looked at the roof.
"If we really become one of the thousands or hundreds of households in Dongchang, then those people in Jinyiwei who once excluded us will look at us with admiration from now on."
Shaking his head, Duan Tianming seemed to have begun to enjoy this feeling.
Xiao Chen sat up and smashed the lean meat residue in his hand.
"This is your only success. Have you forgotten what Mr. Factory Master said: What is the purpose of the Emperor establishing this East Police Factory?"
"What is it? I felt guilty when I met the factory owner and didn't pay attention." Duan Tianming smiled awkwardly.
"Supervise and check the Jin Yiwei, and at the same time, eliminate all individuals or forces with ulterior motives towards the imperial court." Xiao Chen gave him a fierce look.
"You mean, the power of Dongchang is greater than that of Jinyiwei?"
"It's not my intention, it's the emperor's."
"Oh, the emperor is so kind to our Dongchang. If I could punish hundreds of households, even if Qianhu of Jinyiwei greeted me, I would not pay attention to him." Duan Tianming raised his head proudly.
It seemed as if at this moment, he was Dongchang, the powerful Li Xinghui.
"You say you have no future, but you really have no future. Look at your arrogant attitude. You deserve to only eat beef."
Duan Tianming was stunned. Did he say something wrong again?
"Then tell me, what will you do if such a day comes?" Duan Tianming said unconvinced.
Picking up the rag on the table next to him, Xiao Chen wiped his hands quickly, then lay back on the rocking chair and said lazily: "I don't want to be an official, so I don't have that day."
"You say I'm worthless, but you are just as worthless." Duan Tianming glared at Xiao Chen and said angrily: "I said, if there is such a day, what will you do? If you just talk, you will die.
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Xiao Chen turned over and slowly opened his eyes.
"One day, I will operate from Jinyiwei."
"What do you mean by this?" Duan Tianming was surprised.
"Think about the Jin Yiwei's torture to extract confessions, think about the Jin Yiwei's imprisonment. Although they have restrained themselves now, they have changed from being arrogant and domineering on the surface to being secretly destructive. It's not that you don't understand that under the emperor's connivance
Now, how many people in Jinyiwei have clean butts?"
"If I really can decide Dongchang's actions, I will definitely dig out the moths in Jinyiwei one by one."
Duan Tianming had some enlightenment. Compared with Xiao Chen's thoughts, he was really a useless country bumpkin.
"This time, isn't Jin Yiwei already involved?"
"Yes." The villain nodded, "The Jinyiwei participating this time should have reached the level of a thousand households. Otherwise, the arrangements would not be so thorough. If Jinyiwei and Yanqingwei are involved, they must have real power in the imperial court.
Send senior officials."
Duan Tianming looked forward, feeling a faint pressure.
If this case really involves too many forces, will the emperor issue an order to shelve the case?
"Xiao Chen, have you ever thought about whether we should stop immediately if a relative of the emperor is involved?" Duan Tianming said with a worried look on his face.
"I will not stop until this matter is investigated to the bottom of the matter. I will never stop."
"But what if the emperor asks us to stop?"
Xiao Chen smiled lightly: "The emperor will never do this, he is just afraid that we won't find out."
"how do I say this?"
"How old is the Emperor this year?"
"She must be sixty-one years old. Why do you suddenly ask this topic? What does this age have to do with the emperor's decision-making?" Duan Tianming was very puzzled.
"Of course! The ancients said that one's ears become clear at sixty. It means that after a person is over sixty, he can listen to all different opinions and be able to clearly distinguish the right and wrong. But this is about ordinary people.
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"Our emperor is not that simple. Judging from the action of killing Jianwen, the emperor is not very confident in his throne. He does not allow others to make irresponsible remarks behind his back, let alone someone secretly
He has ulterior motives towards him. Even if a relative of the emperor is found, not only will the emperor not stop him, he may even personally issue an order to get to the bottom of it."
Duan Tianming stood up, took out the soju from the hot water bottle, broke off the mud seal on it, filled two fist-sized wine bowls on the table, picked up one bowl, and handed it to Xiao Chen.
"This warm wine tastes great. Have a bowl of it."
Xiao Chen reached out to catch it, but he didn't drink it, he just held it quietly in his hand.
Duan Tianming didn't care, picked up another bowl, raised his head and drank it all.
He filled it up again and then sat back on the bench on the ground.
"If the emperor can support it to the end, it seems that my dream of punishing hundreds of households in Dongchang can be realized." Duan Tianming wiped his mouth with his palm and smiled.
"It will definitely be realized, but when it will be realized is unknown. At present, our breakthrough point is Huang Anliang, the commander of the Yanqing Guards. But he is a military general and has been on the battlefield for a long time. Even if he has a little bit of leverage, we still want him
How difficult it is to open your mouth."
"Then let's start with Mrs. Huang first. After she confesses, we will go straight to Yanqing Guard and capture Huang Anliang. As long as he enters our prison cell in Dongchang, let him be a man made of iron, and I will turn his bones into water.
." Duan Shixiong grinned and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, his face full of confidence.
Xiao Chen chuckled and looked at Duan Tianming strangely: "Let's not talk about Yanqing Wei. Let Huang speak first tomorrow. This important task must be done by you. No one else can complete it!"
