Clarification Workshop, Feng Mansion.

Feng Bao sat on the chair with a gloomy face, playing with an amber snuff box in his hand, but he didn't smoke it, just quietly listened to Xu Jue.

"Hmph, Zhang Taiyue said that our family can't hold their breath?" It was easy to wait for Xu Jue to finish speaking, Feng Bao immediately sneered, "He is quite calm, but where is he now?" was beaten to Tianshou Mountain to dig the soil! ”

Xu Jue was silent, he knew that his master was just an angry sentence, it was nothing more than Zhang Juzheng's words were too polite, and the old man couldn't hold his face. It's like two splashes having a dispute, one of them knows that he can't do the other party, but he can't be too cowardly, so he has to retreat and leave a few cruel words.

Sure enough, not long after Feng Bao said cruel words, he sighed again, "However, what he said is not unreasonable, our family lacks nothing, just a person like him who can calm down at any time to help him." ”

Xu Jue's face was worried, and he asked, "Master, I heard that Fahua Temple was taken by the Jing Army?" Those people"

Feng Bao was furious when he heard this, and said hatefully, "Chu Zhiyuan, this waste, our family spent so much effort to disguise a Fahua Temple as a secret pile stronghold of the East Factory, and deliberately left it empty to prevent the East Factory from being activated, and handed it over to him to hide this group of people." I don't know how he did it, but he didn't make it for a day, so he was checked and dismissed, and he was directly served in a pot! Now everyone has been arrested and put in the Dongchang prison, causing trouble to our family! ”

Xu Jue looked melancholy, "Master, it's useless to scold Chu Zhiyuan now, the problem now is that they have been arrested, but what should I do?" In case they climb Chu Zhiyuan out, then wouldn't we too?"

Feng Bao glanced at him coldly, "What should I do?" Didn't Zhang Taiyue say that whoever is involved will be killed first! ”

Xu Jue hesitated and said, "Although Chu Zhiyuan messed things up this time, he still has some ability."

Feng Bao sneered and said, "Are you reluctant to kill you?" Or do you remember that you committed a crime and were rescued by him back then? ”

Xu Jue hurriedly knelt down, slammed his head on the ground, and said loudly, "Master, since the villain has followed you, the master has only one thought in his heart!" Although Chu Zhiyuan was kind to the villain back then, the villain had already repaid his kindness over the years, and he didn't owe him anything! ”

He paused, and when he saw that Feng Bao didn't make a sound, he whispered again, "It's just that Chu Zhiyuan has been in charge of those things on the rivers and lakes for many years, and there are still a lot of threads on hand outside, if you kill him, these threads will be broken." ”

Feng Bao's face moved slightly, but he quickly shook his head, "No, I can't protect him now." Zhang Taiyue is right, the key now is that our family can't have anything, as long as our family is good, no matter how big other things are, we are not afraid, but if our family is finished, then everything is over. ”

Seeing that Feng Bao had already made up his mind, Xu Jue sighed in his heart, and had no choice but to say, "Since the master has made up his mind, the villain doesn't dare to persuade him anymore, but if Chu Zhiyuan dies now, will it also be a suspicious point?" ”

Feng Bao said disdainfully: "Suspicious? What about the doubts? Can this suspicion be used as evidence to find out our family? Or is it that Chu Zhiyuan can still speak when he is dead and confess to our family? ”

Xu Jue didn't dare to say any more, and took the order to leave.

At night, it was almost close to the curfew, but the summer was hot, and there were still many people outside to enjoy the coolness, after all, there were more dignitaries and nobles in the northern city, and the rules were stricter.

Near Liulichang, outside a tavern next to the moat, there are several tables along the river for guests to enjoy a little river breeze.

Xu Jue sat alone at a table with two cups of wine on the table, and was pouring himself a drink.

As the curfew drew nearer and nearer, he sat still as the drinkers had dispersed. The shopkeeper of the tavern saw that it was not the road and ran to remind him, but he saw Xu Jue calmly take out a waist card and shake it, and said, "Do you know?" ”

For the owner of a tavern, he didn't know the words, but he knew the patterns on them. This is a waist card of the Jinyi Guard's command.

"Know, know." Seeing that it was a big man in Jinyiwei, the shopkeeper naturally didn't dare to urge it anymore, so he had to say, "This lord, you always forgive me, with your identity, it's naturally okay to continue to sit here, but the villain's shop can't help but close, otherwise, regardless of whether it is Shuntianfu or the Five Cities Terracotta Division, the villain can't afford to be held accountable."

"Just leave the table and the wine." Xu Jue took out half a tael of silver and threw it to the store, "If it's more, you are lucky tonight." ”

The shopkeeper was overjoyed, took the silver, went with a thousand thanks, and immediately closed the store when he turned around, leaving Xu Jue alone to sit in the night.

After another while, the curfew was completely closed, and there was not even a figure on the road. Xu Jue was still drinking wine in a hurry, but he drank very slowly, and he didn't know if he drank a drink or two for so long?

At this time, a figure walked out of the darkness, slowly walked to Xu Jue's table, and sat down silently.

"A little thing, scared you so carefully?" Xu Jue suddenly smiled and opened his mouth.

The person who came raised his head, it was Chu Zhiyuan. However, at this moment, he did not wear Dongchang's clothes, but wore black civilian clothes.

"Lao Xu, what the hell are you doing, you should know about today's events, right? The situation is so serious, you still ask me out? ”

Xu Jue smiled bitterly, "If the situation is not serious, I don't want to ask you out." Now that those idiots have been caught in the East Factory, are you sure that they won't open their mouths, or they won't be able to open their mouths? ”

Chu Zhiyuan glanced at him and said, "The big stalls in the East Factory are all Feng Gong's cronies, of course it is easy to kill a few people, but the question now is not whether they can be killed, but how to explain after they are killed!" ”

Xu Jue nodded, "Yes, the key is how to explain to you, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Chu Zhiyuan frowned, groaned for a while, and said, "Generally speaking, there are only two ways, one is to find someone to rob the prison, but the East Factory prison is tightly guarded, and they are not locked up in the Outer East Factory, but the Inner East Factory." Robbing the prison of Dongchang in the Imperial City, this difficulty is no different from ascending to the sky. ”

"Another way?" Xu Jue asked.

"The other way is to walk through the water." Chu Zhiyuan's eyes flashed, "In the East Factory, there are many cronies of Duke Feng, and now the surname Huang has not had time to win over and place him, as long as Duke Feng orders and arranges it, it will not be difficult to cause a water accident, and when the time comes, these people will all be burned to death, and there will be no proof of death." ”

Xu Jue nodded, showing a hint of a smile, "That's a good idea, but I have a better idea." ”

Chu Zhiyuan was slightly stunned, and hesitated, "What method?" ”

"You're going to die."

Xu Jue said, his right hand raised from under the table, revealing a short crossbow.

The crossbow arrows that have been wound up, the arrows are glowing faintly blue in the moonlight.