If the "gift" harvested in the temple made Qi Yuanzhi have a breakthrough and shook the entire Shengjing, so that he regained He Zhe's trust, then the "gift" given to him by Zhang Lao is very intriguing.

It was a list of the names and deeds of many people who wished that the He family would die immediately for various reasons.

After Qi Yuanzhi saw the content on it clearly, he suddenly felt that what he was holding in his hand was not a list, but a life talisman.

There are many people on the list who have been sent to see He Luo by Qingtianwei during the clean-up operation of Qingtianfu a few years ago, so Qi Yuanzhi can basically determine the authenticity of this list.

But this gift is not directly used like the previous one, because except for the part of the people who have been disposed of by Qingtianfu, there is only the name of the former and the reason for the enmity with the He family, where they are now, what they are doing, not a word is mentioned.

Riding on the fast horse to Jinyang, Qi Yuanzhi's brain was full of that list.

He was wondering what his next path would be.

If he keeps this list for himself, and then secretly sends someone to slowly clean out the remaining people and hold them in his hands, within a few years, an anti-imperial force may gather in his hands.

For many powerful ministers, such a power is too tempting, after all, He Luo was too autocratic back then, and there was almost only his voice in the court, and He Zhe was not a good talker, in the matter of "dictatorship", everyone had little confidence in the He family, if there was such a force in their hands, they could speak with a little more confidence.

And if he modifies this list a little and submits it to He Zhe in batches, he will probably gain his unprecedented trust, and then the people on the list will be sent by him to meet his father, without so many unstable factors, the rule of the Li Dynasty will be much more stable.

However, although he had these two options, he knew that Zhang Lao and the others should wait for him to make a decision on whether to join forces with them.

Being able to find out so many people who have a grudge against the He family before the Qingtian Mansion, the power behind Elder Zhang cannot be underestimated, but he, the secretary of the Qingtian Mansion, has no idea that he has already accepted their gifts, is it too late for him to say no now?

Subconsciously touched the heart of the list, Qi Yuanzhi gritted his teeth.

The amulet is still blank, depending on whose name he wrote on it.

people on the list;

HE Zhe;

And himself.

Three options, three paths.

But can he really have a choice?

Thinking of the eyes that He Zhe looked at him before leaving, Qi Yuanzhi trembled for no reason, and almost fell off the galloping horse without sitting firmly, and when he finally grabbed the reins to stabilize his body, a layer of cold sweat appeared behind his back.

…… Where else does he have any other choice?!

Looking at the gate of Jinyang City not far away, Qi Yuanzhi pulled all his feelings away from his face, put on the face of Qingtianwei's signature dead man, and made a decision in his heart.

He can cooperate with Zhang Lao and them, but his future path will never be the only one!

……

"My lord! You're back! ”

"I received the summons a few days ago, what the hell is going on with you?"

"My lord, this Jinyang City will be really evil after you leave! One case after another appeared one after another, we won't talk about the level of Yamen investigation, but you know our ability, and the result is that every case is either a coincidence or an accident in the end, and now the people of the entire Jinyang City are rumoring that this is an evil spirit, and it makes people panic! ”

"Where's the case? Show it to me, and don't be idle, pick two representative cases and tell me about them. ”

"My lord, I've been ready for a long time, and I'm here."

While looking through the case file and listening to the work report of his subordinates, Qi Yuanzhi, who had just arrived in Jinyang City, didn't even have time to drink saliva, only felt a headache.

When will such a trivial matter be under the control of their Qingtian Mansion?!

The satin that the Li family lady had just embroidered, I don't know why, it was scratched twice, and it was all wasted.

The three chickens raised in the yard of the Zhang family were inexplicably missing two, and the remaining one was beheaded and thrown at the gate of the courtyard, and the chicken blood was spilled everywhere.

The window of Fang's house was smashed with a large stone in the middle of the night, leaving a string of suspicious footprints in the yard, but the dog on a leash in the yard didn't make a sound before the window was smashed.

The axe that the Wang family put outside the courtyard gate was stolen, leaving only a wooden axe handle stuck in place, no matter how you pull it out, you can't pull it out, and finally use a shovel to lift up a piece of soil only to find that the buried part has been glued firmly with raw rubber.

……

If this kind of trivial matter only happens occasionally, probably the people will only talk about it and pass it, but it can't stand the large number of occurrences, basically the people in Jinyang City who can say their names have more or less all kinds of strange things in the past two months.

Although none of the incidents caused any fatalities, many people fell and bruised for various reasons, and there were so many livestock and poultry that died in Jinyang City, which had little food, in the past two months that it was distressing.

So gradually, the people began to guess, guess and finally directly characterized as the evil spirit that died unjustly some time ago, many people moved out of their homes, and those who were reluctant to go out of their homes less and less, for fear that they would encounter bad things as soon as they went out.

"I said, why did you come here with your family all the way but don't look like refugees......" Qi Yuanzhi threw the case file to the side, leaned back on the chair and rubbed his temples, "What about Jinyang Taishou?" ”

"Asking a Taoist priest to exorcise ghosts in Taishou Mansion is said to be done for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and today is already the twenty-eighth day."

"Has he stayed in the house for twenty-eight days and hasn't come out?"

"Yes."

"Ridiculous!"

“……”

"What about Mrs. Roewe?"

"We should be on the outskirts of the city by noon tomorrow."

"Send someone to keep an eye on it."

“…… Be. ”

"Why spit? If you have something to say, say it! ”

"That's right, my lord, because there has long been news that Mrs. Rongwei came to Jinyang with a group of high-ranking monks and Taoist masters with advanced Taoism, and they all know that they will arrive in the next few days, so the people of Jinyang City have long been looking forward to their arrival, and the scene at the gate of the city tomorrow ...... It might be a big fuss. ”

Qi Yuanzhi was about to reach out for the teacup when he paused.

"Huh?"

The Qing Tianwei hurriedly added: "My subordinates also suspected that these things were done by the people of the General's Mansion in order to build momentum for Mrs. Rongwei and her party, but no matter how you check, you can't find the connection, and the speculation has not been confirmed." ”

"Idiot!"

“…… The adults scolded. ”

Qi Yuanzhi wordlessly picked up the teacup and drank it all, and glanced at the subordinate: "Tomorrow morning, you will take people out of the city, intercept Mrs. Rongwei and her party in the suburbs, and then take them around the road and enter Jinyang from the east gate." ”

"But the dwelling prepared for them by the Taishou is on the west side, and if they enter through the east gate, the convoy will pass through the city, and if the people will be watching......"

"Let Taishou arrange a new residence in the east before it gets dark tonight."

"My lord, the sun has already set, and Taishou Ke is still in Taishou's mansion, where is the time?"

"You're complaining to me?"

"Don't dare! My lord! I'll do it now! ”

After driving all his subordinates out of the room and locking the door, Qi Yuanzhi leaned back in his chair and opened the list he got from Zhang Lao again.

He looked very carefully, but his focus was not on the identities of those people, but on their experiences word by word.

When he was born, the Li Dynasty had already been established, and the era when He Luo led the He family army to fight in all directions seemed to him an extremely distant story that he could never experience in person.

But in the experience of these people, he felt that he could touch a little bit of the temperature of that period.

It is said that one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, and it is still so difficult to become a general, and the sacrifice required to create a dynasty can be imagined.

He Luo is the winner, what he is stepping on is the blood of the losers, looking at these words, Qi Yuanzhi deeply feels that it is a miracle that He Luo can live peacefully until he dies of illness.

After the entire list was over, Qi Yuanzhi set his sights on the last person.

The last county lord of the Zhang Dynasty - Zhuo Yuner.

The reason why he noticed her was because in the entire list, she was the only one who was a former royal family with the blood of the Zhuo family, and some other people may be related to her, but they are not royalty.

As the secretary of Qingtian Mansion, Qi Yuanzhi has seen many tragic murder scenes, and he has also seen the bloody scene when Qingtianwei attacked, but it is still difficult for him to imagine what an 11-year-old girl will feel when she sees a dead person in an entire palace.

He imagined for a moment that he returned to the Qi family only to find that the Qi family was all dead, and the corpses were still beheaded and stacked together, and a wave of anger from the bottom of his heart instantly occupied his mind.

When he came back to his senses, the blue and white porcelain teacup had been pinched into blue and white porcelain fragments by him.

Looking at the fragments in his hand, Qi Yuanzhi suddenly remembered that he was a knife in He Zhe's hand, and more than thirty percent of the people on the list who had written the ending were cases he handled, and two of them were even hacked to death directly in front of him.

The anger that was full of anger just now was poured with a basin of ice water on his head, Qi Yuanzhi sat there motionless, and it took a long time before he suddenly gasped for breath, pulled his collar like a drowning person, and then stood up suddenly, re-packed the list, pushed the door and walked out.

***

In order to ensure that she was conscious when she entered the city the next day, Yang Qinglan specially told Liu En to prick herself with a few stitches before entering the city to forcibly wake her up from her slumber, but before he could use this trick, she woke up by herself.

“…… Old lady? Liu En pinched the needle and asked tentatively.

"It's not."

Yang Qinglan moved his body and found that the situation was not bad, at least there was no problem with taking two steps on the ground, so he raised his hand and asked Liu En to help him up.

"Where have we been?"

"I can already see the walls from afar."

"No one came out to 'greet'?"

"It seems that there is, but it's not clear whether it's the Taishou or Qingtianwei."

"Hmmm......"

Yang Qinglan was about to say something, but Cherry lifted the curtain and came in.

"Old lady, Qi Yuanzhi is here in person!"