The next day, the Yamen of Jizhou Prefecture.

Jie Du made Zeng Ling take a lot of people directly into the yamen of the state capital, and the officials such as the temporary governor of the government all leaned down to greet them, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to come out.

The yamen, the state capital of the dignified Jizhou capital, was actually killed in a prison by several thieves, not only robbed a felon, but also killed many people.

What's even more infuriating is that none of the thieves who robbed the repeat offenders stopped them and swaggered away, if this matter spreads, what will the people say?

"A bunch of wine bags and rice bags!"

Zeng Ling lost his temper rarely, and his face turned pale.

"The prince let you people take charge of the yamen of Jizhou Mansion, but you let the prince be so disappointed, what face do you have to stand here and call yourself a subordinate official?"

There was a bang, and a group of people knelt down.

When the Great Chu was prosperous, there was no particular attention to kneeling, even when it was the last dynasty, the civil and military officials did not have to bow to His Majesty the Emperor every time, only when the Great Dynasty would have such a special event.

Lower-level officials don't have to kneel when they see higher-level officials, and they don't have to kneel when they see the royal family, even if it's a weight like Prince Yu.

But in this troubled world, knees are worthless.

"Whoever I call, whoever rolls over first and explains."

Zeng Ling waved his hand: "Jizhou Mansion always arrests Jiang Ran and stays, and everyone else will roll outside for me to wait!" ”

A group of people were silent, hula hula retreated to the outside of the hall and stood, Zeng Ling sat down on the main seat, took a look, and shouted angrily: "Get away!" ”

A group of adults from the state capital hurriedly retreated into the distance, looking a little funny and a little pitiful with their heads and tails between them.

Zeng Ling looked at Jiang Ran, glared at him, glared at him fiercely, Jiang Ran looked at the expression of the Jiedu Envoy, and said in his heart that the Jie Du Envoy This scene is really good, if I didn't know the inside story, I would have believed it, and I would have been frightened.

Fortunately, I know the inside story, and I know that the festival makes adults just pretend.

"Jiang Ran!"

Zeng Ling snorted.

"The lower official is here."

Jiang Ranxin said that I also have to accompany this play, when I was in the teahouse before, the people in Tsing Yi all said that the festival envoy would personally inquire about this matter at that time, and go through the motions to make a show.

"You're so daring!"

Zeng Ling said angrily: "As the chief arrester of the Yamen of Jizhou Mansion, I actually watched the prisoners being robbed, right in front of you, watching!" ”

Jiang Ran knelt there and said: "The lower official is guilty, the lower official is derelict in his duties, please punish the lord, the lower official was indeed present at the time, but the lower official also did his best, in the final analysis, this matter is actually resentful of those people, they drove away the jailer and the official, and the people who did not allow the lower official to guard, and the lower official could only be fortified outside the prison, and if they got close, they would be beaten and scolded." ”

Jiang Ran said sadly and angrily: "Several jailers on duty in the prison were all humiliated by Jing Yaner, one of them was kicked and injured, and now he can't move, he can only rest in bed.....

Zeng Lingqi's face changed color, and he looked at the officials outside who were far enough away, he got up and walked in front of Jiang Ran, he couldn't help it, and kicked Jiang Ran.

"Now Jing Yan'er sued you in front of the prince, how do you explain it? Your men shot and killed many of his men, how can you explain it! ”

Jiang Ran kowtowed and said: "My lord, the lowly duty is wronged, I heard the sound of shouting and killing, the lowly duty rushed in with people, those thieves covered their faces, and the people who were well-behaved also covered their faces, and they couldn't distinguish at all, and the lower officials could only order the thieves to release arrows to prevent the thieves from escaping, and it was inevitable that there would be accidental injuries." ”

Zeng Ling let out a long breath: "What about you?" Jing Yaner said in front of the prince that you pretended to be injured, but in fact you didn't want to stop those bandits, but there was such a thing?! ”

Jiang Ran knelt there and said, "My lord, I haven't returned home since the accident, and I haven't changed it

Clothes, look, my lord, the footprints on the lower official's body and the tears on his clothes are still there. ”

He carefully kept the evidence, just to show Zeng Ling, the footprints on his body were actually really difficult to preserve, but if he slept a few more times, he would be gone, and if he accidentally slapped it twice, he wouldn't even find a dust mark.

It's not very clear to see this, the clearest footprint is the one that Zeng Ling kicked just now.

"You!"

The festival made Zeng Ling look at those footprints, and his scalp was about to explode.

He pointed at Jiang Ran and said, ""The size is different, all kinds of footprints, there are only a few robbers who broke in, but you have suffered so many feet, do those robbers have three feet or four feet each?" One person kicks you with three feet, and no more than five people can't kick so much! ”

Jiang Ran looked down, and then smiled at Zeng Ling and said, "Careless." ”

Zeng Ling was furious: "You bastard......"

Jiang Ran hurriedly said: "Adults dissipate their anger......"

Zeng Ling let out a long breath, returned to the main seat and sat down, and said after a while: "I told you not to act indiscriminately, but you just don't listen, or you don't do it, and if you do it, you will do it cleanly, if you even killed Jing Yaner last night, I will definitely not scold you like this, but you are not clean!" ”

Jiang Ranxin said that I can still do this? You didn't say anything in advance, my lord.

I knew that I would have been more ruthless.

He didn't dare to ask directly, didn't you arrange it, my lord?

Of course Zeng Ling wouldn't say it, because this was not arranged by him at all, and of course he wouldn't ask Jiang Ran directly, why did you arrange this.

He felt that Jiang Ran did it, and Jiang Ran felt that he did it.

"Alas......"

After a long time, Zeng Ling sighed again and said, "The prince asked me to ask you, that is, the prince thinks that this matter is related to me, even if I explain, the prince is afraid that he will not listen to my explanation......"

He looked at Jiang Ran and said: "It's still the same sentence, if Jing Yaner and his people were all eliminated by you last night, there is no proof of this matter, but it is easy to say, now he insists that you put the robbers in, how can you explain it to the prince?" ”

Jiang Ran thought he was very smart and replied: "What the adults say when they go back, I will cooperate with what the adults say." ”

Zeng Ling was silent again, and he didn't know how long it took before Zeng Ling spoke: "I have made a promise to the prince to find out about this matter, and this time ...... You go home and rest first, I will send someone to ask you if there is anything, and when there is nothing to do, I will arrange for you to come back." ”

Jiang Ranxin said that this is okay, it is all arranged, it is all a cutscene, and it is all for show.

So he leaned over and said, "Listen to your lords." ”

Zeng Ling thought that Jiang Ran would be a little dissatisfied, but he didn't expect Jiang Ran to agree so happily, he was a little unbearable, after all, Jiang Ran was his old department, he was single-handedly raised, he was originally a dignified general of the military general's mansion, but now he has been reduced to being bullied by a few barbarians in the Western Regions.

"You can go back in peace, it won't be long before I transfer you back."

Zeng Ling waved his hand and said, "You go back first." ”

Jiang Ran thought that there was still something wrong, so he asked: "My lord, where is Yue Huanian now, do you know?" ”

If Zeng Ling didn't know, then this matter might not be right, the key is that Zeng Ling really knew.

"Last night, the people in Tsing Yi came to report to me, when they were patrolling the city, they found a place where they saw fire, and then found a corpse in that place, which had been burned, but judging from the lack of an ear and broken limbs, it should be Yue Huanian's body."

Jiang Ran thought, sure enough, Jiang Ran is still old and spicy, this death has no proof of this trick, the adult is really old ginger, and he Jiang Ran is tender ginger.

He really admired the Lord of the Festival, and was exempted

Far from having no grievances, he happily went home to rest, thinking that I would do things for the adults of the festival, and it would not be long before the adults would still promote me.

That corpse was not Yue Huanian.

After Yue Huanian died last night, Li Qi thought that he couldn't let the corpse of such a hero fall to the point of being humiliated by those traitorous villains, so he and Yu Jiuling left the carriage and horse shop again.

They knew that the government would definitely deal with the corpse, and while they were all searching, Yu Jiuling quietly returned to the government office and stole the body of a person from the Western Regions, disposed of it according to Yue Huanian's injuries, and then burned a fire, so that it was difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

And this is also inseparable from the help of another person.

At this moment, Yue Huanian's body had been transported out of the city.

By a river outside the city, Li Qi and the others used their identity as a chariot and horse dealer to hide the body in a cart and transport it out of the city, and chose a good place to bury it.

Li Qi knelt there with Qiu Qingche in tow, put incense, burned paper money, and then everyone returned to the city.

In the backyard of the carriage and horse shop, Li Qi helped Qiu Qingche to lie down, sat beside him and said: "You can recuperate here with peace of mind, and then make other plans after your injuries are healed, go where you want to go." ”

"I don't have anywhere I want to go."

Qiu Qingche looked at Li Qi and said: "But after the injury is healed, I will go to Xinzhou Pass, the lord said, resisting the invasion of foreign enemies in Xinzhou Pass is a big deal, and it is what a big Chu man should do, and I want to obey the last wish of the adult." ”

Li Qi nodded: "Heal the injury first." ”

He got up to leave, Qiu Qingche looked at Li Qi and said, "Thank you for burying your lord." ”

Li Qi said: "I don't want to bury him, I wanted to save him." ”

After finishing speaking, he stepped out of the door, arrived outside the house, looked up at the blue sky, and Li Qi let out a long sigh.

He stood at the door for a while, then looked back at Qiu Qingche and said, "Don't think too much, take care of your injuries, if you give up on yourself, how can Lord Yue's revenge be avenged?" This hatred can't be endured after all. ”

Qiu Qingche nodded vigorously and said, "It must be killed." ”

An hour later, Yunzhai Teahouse.

In the private room, Li Qi hugged his fist and bowed to the middle-aged man sitting there drinking tea: "Thank you Mr. Ye for your help." ”

Ye Zhuzhu took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "This tea is good, I asked just now, this pot of tea costs two taels of silver, you settle the account in a while, say thank you seems insincere, please let me drink tea, you and I are clear." ”

Li Qi opened his mouth, and finally squeezed out a sentence: "This way, it's too cheap for me." ”

"It's not cheap."

Ye Zhuzhu said: "If it is our Central Plains people who help you fight, it is naturally not this price, but it is the barbarians of the Western Regions, two or two...... They're worth it, and I don't lose it. ”

Li Qi was amused.

Ye Zhuzhu looked at Li Qi and said, "You are Xiahou's brother, coincidentally, so am I." ”

He pointed to the seat opposite: "What, these two taels of silver and a pot of good tea, don't you plan to drink it together?" If I drink it all of you, you'll lose even more. ”

Li Qi sat down and said a little crampedly: "Otherwise, I want some more snacks and dried fruits?" ”

Ye Zhuzhu said: "You just realized that you were slamming the door?" ”

Li Qi's face flushed slightly.

Ye Zhuzhu sighed: "It's worth it, Xiahou said that you will never be ashamed, nor will you blush, it is not easy for me to see that you are ashamed, Xiahou has never seen it." ”

Li Qi's face turned red again, and he nodded and said, "I really haven't seen it." ”

Ye Zhuzhu was silent for a moment and then looked at Li Qi and said, "Do you know why I am willing to be brothers with Xiahou?" ”

Li Qi didn't answer, he didn't know how to answer.

Ye Zhuzhu said: "Because Xiahou is a man who stands up to the sky, Li Qi ...... You too. ”