“…… As the saying goes, if people have no long-term concerns, they will have near-term worries. When I think back to the recent events, I am always uneasy. Of course, it could also be that there are too many things coming in and messing up my mind......"

Capital May 20. Nearly half a year has passed since the departure of the Jurchens, the trees on the side of the road are lush with leaves, pedestrians come and go, vendors are selling, and figures are weaving, above the restaurant, Tie Tianying is talking, and Zong Feixiao is sitting down at the table in the small private room.

As the chief arrester of the Criminal Department and a well-known master in the world, Zong Feixiao is burly, a head taller than Tie Tianying. Because of his outstanding external skills, he has no hair on his head, and he looks fierce and vicious, but in fact he is a person who is thick on the outside and fine on the inside. Tie Tianying has cooperated with him several times, including the time when he escorted Fang Qifo to Beijing, and the two of them also landed in Ning Yi's hands, so they communicated with each other, and they still had a common language.

There is not enough time, and the two of them each have a lot of official affairs to deal with, Tie Tianying poured wine while talking about the situation in Beijing related to Ning Yi in the recent period. In fact, since the Jurchens retreated, half a year has passed, and most of the situation in Beijing has revolved around the ups and downs of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, and Ning Yi is in it, tossing and turning, and still surviving in the cracks, even if it falls in the eyes of Tie Tianying, the situation is by no means a simple few words can be explained.

Now ten days have passed since Qin Siyuan's death. In the capital, there were occasional scholars who would talk about him when they made generous remarks, but in general, the matter had passed, the traitors had been punished, and most of them had begun to look forward. Turn back at this point. Many things are becoming clearer.

“…… Ning Yi is a person, and most of the princes in Beijing are despised because of his identity. However, under the right minister, this man is witty. Looking back at last year, when the Jurchens came, he went out of the city directly, and later the walls were cleared, and then the battle of Xia Village, he made great efforts. If it weren't for the sudden fall of the right minister, he would not have collapsed. In order to save Qin Siyuan, he even found a way to dispatch the Luliang cavalry. I saw the arrangement of his subordinates, and I originally wanted to leave. At this time, it seems that he has changed his mind again, whether it is for Lao Qin's death or for other things, if this person rises again, you and I will not be better......"

A headhunter who walks in the green forest all year round. On weekdays, there will be no shortage of enemies. But the grudge of the green forest is no better than that of the court, once such an opponent is left in the position, what the consequences will be, there is no need to say more about Tie Tianying. Zong Feixiao almost injured Su Tan'er in the process of taking over the Secret Investigation Division, and he was not unprepared for the matter in front of him.

"I also know the previous fight. Actually, before the Bozhou incident. I arranged for someone to go in and go into Zhuji. Zong Feixiao said, frowning. It's just that Zhuji previously relied on the Right Prime Minister's Mansion and the Secret Investigation Division, and some of these things are difficult for outsiders to know, and the manpower I arranged has never entered the core of Zhuji. It's just that in the past few days, I have seen the movement of Zhuji, and it seems that they are going to turn back to the capital, and there is a rumor above them, saying that the current big owner has become the prince of Tong Guantong, and Zhuji will either change its name or not, it will be fine. ”

"I think it's mostly foxes and fake tigers. Although Ning Yi has some dealings with Prince Tong, he has no status in the palace. ”

"He was originally from Qin Siyuan's lineage, even if he surrendered, how could Prince Tong trust him immediately. But with the power of Tong Wangye, this Ning Yi must be unimpeded if he wants to run a business. And ......" Zong Feixiao hesitated slightly, and finally said, "Brother Tie, you and I have seen the fall of a big official like Qin Siyuan many times." ”

"Hmm." Iron Sky Eagle nodded, "Quite a few." ”

Zong Feixiao, who was sitting there, smiled: "Yes, you and I are already familiar with the scene after the fall of the big man." It is true that the children of those great officials, the staff and the like, have been let go, or climbed other high branches, and have been in peace. However, when a person experiences such a thing once or twice in his life, his heart will be dissipated. There are a few of these people, there are you and I who are in prison and then released, and who come to you and me to seek revenge, at most, just show off in front of the cell boss who has scorned him, and then go up, it is often not good-looking. ”

"After all, in the final analysis, even if these people save their lives, they will always be suspicious of their identity. Now that the turmoil of the right phase case has just passed, even if Ning Yi is full of enthusiasm, the means he should have will be used up after he mobilizes the cavalry. He may have some benefits for the prince, could it be that the prince will not guard against him? Really reuse him? So, he's the one who doesn't dare to mess around and make trouble now......"

When Zong Feixiao said this, he paused slightly: "You and I, both of us, are already the chief arrests, and if you take a step forward and enter the officialdom from recklessness, you can only be regarded as an unspeakable little official, but in today's position, there are no fewer people who want you and me to do things." This Ning Yi, one step up, is the person of the palace, he is in the prime minister's mansion, he has not looked at us and others, and he has arrived at the palace...... Hey, let's be honest, now he's shoeed, I'm barefoot. What if I move his woman, if I go out and fight with me, I may not be spared, and he can please him? I don't believe it. ”

He smiled coldly on his face full of horizontal meat, and threw a rice cake into his mouth: "Since ancient times, Heng has been afraid of being stunned, and when I came to Beijing, I was prepared." If he really wants to make trouble, I don't need him to come to me, I will go to him first, and the big deal will end up, his family has a big business and many women, I think I am afraid of him or he is afraid of me. Brother Tie, do you say that's the truth? ”

Tie Tianying also laughed and toasted with the other party: "Actually, Tie Mou is not really afraid of many things, it's just that since he has married Liangzi, now is his weakest time, and he has to find a chance to get rid of him." In fact, in my mind, after this major event, Ning Yi either really settled down, or, if he wants to take revenge, the first thing to bear the brunt of it must not be you and me. If he wants to be big, maybe the goal is to join the family. ”

"Qi Yan." Zong Feixiao nodded.

Tie Tianying said: "The Qi family has a big force in the north, to put it mildly, the Great Bright Sect is actually sheltered here, in Beijing, Qi Yan and Liang Shi Cheng Liang, Li Bangyan Li, and even Cai Taishi, all have friendships. The Great Bright Sect suffered such a big loss, if it weren't for this Ning Yi who turned to Tong Wangye, maybe he would have been retaliated against by the Qi family. But for now, it's just tensions. Ning Yi has just joined the first line of the royal palace, and Prince Tong will not allow anyone to touch him, once the time has passed. He has no status in Tong Wangye's heart, the Qi family will not suffer this dumb loss, I look at Ning Yi's actions in the past, and he will never sit still. ”

Zong Feixiao nodded, thought about it and laughed again: "Great Bright Sect...... Listening to the rumors of the green forest, Lin Zongwu wanted to go north to fight the demons, but was directly chased by the cavalry to the grain river outside Zhuxian Town. The master of the sect went to seven, seven, eight, eight. He found the Qi family and lost his temper, but he didn't expect that he would gather people to go north, but he was killed by the army. The Qi family was also dumbfounded. Hehe......"

"Ning Yi spent a lot of money to save Qin Siyuan, but it's a pity that he was a step late, otherwise I wouldn't have been busy like this. But then again. Lin Zongwu would not let him go easily. "There's something about the cavalry sortie that day. The top is considered to be handled lightly, but for Qin Siyuan's death, although the emperor is not concerned, there are still many actions below, including the fall of several middle-level officials, the arrest of people in the green forest, the understatement above, and the below. It set off a small stream of bloody rain.

The two of them said this, on the treetops outside the window. There were birds chirping, looking out of the window, not far from the door of a cloth shop on the side of the street, Ning Yi and his party were getting out of the carriage and entering from there. Tie and Zong both glanced at it, and Tie Tianying raised his chin.

"After Qin Siyuan went, it is said that he left evidence of the crimes of many people, as well as the privacy of various families, which was originally planned to be the foundation for recovery. Now it should be in the hands of Tong Wangye, driving tigers and wolves, and killing people with knives, so he has the protection of Tong Wangye, but fortunately, the army has always been domineering, and if you really want to quarrel, you may not need these things. Tong Wangye may not be unable to see through his scheming. ”

"Take advantage of his illness to kill him." Zong Feixiao nodded, "I'm too lazy to prevent thieves for a thousand days, if those people who have entered the bamboo record really find out any news, I will know what to do." ”

"These things, that is, to say hello to the sect brother, the sect brother naturally understands how to deal with it. On this side, although I have a lot of things, I am still staring at him, do you know the reason? ”

Zong Feixiao thought for a while: "I heard that Liu Watermelon, Chen Fan and others have entered Beijing. Fan Zhong met with them. ”

"Hmm. Ning Yi is a person with sharp means and many grudges, when he personally beheaded the head of Fang Qifo, Liang Zi on both sides was endless. Now that the sword has entered Beijing, although he doesn't know what he is plotting, if he has the opportunity, he will definitely kill him. I'm watching from the side, if Liu Xigua and the others behead him, I can also find these people out again. ”

"Hehe, that's a good result." Zong Feixiao laughed, "Actually, this person has a grudge against the Qi family, a grudge against the Great Bright Sect, a grudge against the remnants of the bandits, and a grudge against countless families and green forest figures, it is really not easy to live until now." At this time, the right phase has fallen, and I really want to see how he survives in this crack. ”

The two then continued to talk and laugh a few more words, ate something, and left.

As Zong Feixiao said, as soon as the right phase fell, the problem exposed was that Ning Yi had a lot of grievances, even if there was Tong Guan to take care of him during this time, it was also the time when Zhu Ji had to be a man and do things with his tail between his legs. Zong Feixiao had already decided to crucify the other party if he had the opportunity, but he was not worried about the whole situation.

He returned to Beijing this time in order to share some cases involving the Green Forest, the assassination of Qin Siyuan, and the Great Light Sect during this period - of course, the Great Light Sect did not enter Beijing, but because Qin Siyuan was killed in the land of Gyeonggi and had a bad impact, several officials related to the Qi family were affected, which was deliberately suppressed by the emperor in order to show his authority.

Of course, this is also because of the consequences of losing the upper hand in this encounter. If Lin Zongwu killed Qin Siyuan, and later killed the demons, or got the legacy left by Qin Siyuan, Lin Zongwu may still be wanted in the next period of time, but the Great Light Sect will take advantage of the situation to enter Beijing, and several officials related to the Qi family will not be too miserable, because this means that they will be bullish in the future. But now Tong Guan has taken advantage, the Qi family, Liang Shicheng, and Li Bangyan have been deflated, and several officials have also taken advantage of the situation to go to prison.

This is officialdom, and when power is alternated, the struggle is also the most intense. In the green forest, the criminal department has taken a lot of people decently, this night, Zong Feixiao interrogated the prisoners all night, and in the afternoon of the next day, he took his men out of the criminal department and went to the homes or footholds of several prisoners to investigate. At noon, he went to the home of a green forest man, which was located in Sanhuai Lane on the west side of Bianliang, and the green forest family was simple and dilapidated. After the husband was arrested, only one woman remained, and the crowd surveyed for a while. After interrogating the woman a few more words, she left, and soon after leaving, Zong Feixiao sent her entourage away and turned back.

The reason why the Green Forest Man was arrested was because he suspected that he secretly believed in Manichaeism and the Great Light Sect. Zong Feixiao called the woman back into the room, closed the door with his backhand, and the woman's cry was briefly heard in the room. But after a moment of slapping and beating, all that remained was the begging for mercy, after which the begging also stopped. Zong Feixiao raged in the room and vented. Holding the woman and calming her for a moment, she left a few pieces of silver before she came out satisfied.

That afternoon, he went to contact two informants who had penetrated into Zhuji's interior to find out what was going on. Sorted out the movements of the bamboo record. I didn't find anything out of the ordinary. In the evening, he went to the Qinglou for half the night, and in the early hours of the morning, he went to the prison of the Criminal Department to bring the woman's husband to be tortured, and he was killed silently.

Half a year after the Jurchens raged in Beijing, many ills have been revealed, such as the shortage of manpower, the variety of things, and the continuous entry of people from three religions and nine streams into Beijing. It has always been the private reserve of a few chief arresters, and the top will not care too much: anyway, these people are also fighting and killing and lawlessness on weekdays. Since they eat the lawlessness, they will die and die. Zong Feixiao has been in the Criminal Department for many years, and he is most familiar with these things, and he would not do this in the past, but for a period of time, there is no problem.

After this pastime, he slept for a while, continued to try the case in the morning, and in the afternoon, he went to Sanhuai Lane, called the woman to the room, and abused her. Although the woman was poor and did not dress well, she felt good after stripped naked. Zong Feixiao loved the way she cried, and in the next few days, she went a few more times, and even moved her mind to take her into a prison and find a place to raise her.

There are many major events in Beijing, for the power of the Yellow River defense line, there are many battles for the upper echelons, and there are officials who have accidents every two days, and at this time it is only half a month before Qin Siyuan's death, but not many people remember him. The things of the Criminal Department are different every day, but after doing it for a long time, the nature is actually almost the same, Zong Feixiao is in charge of the case and beating the forces of all parties, and he also pays attention to Zhu Ji, but there is still no new movement, but the goods are more frequent, but Zhu Ji wants to drive back to the capital again, which is also necessary.

On May 27, when the time came, Zong Feixiao had a few more cases on hand, one was a case of two groups of green forest high-rollers duel on the street and injured passers-by, and Zong Feixiao needed to beat it. The other is a duel between two green forest heroes, who chose the courtyard of Lu Yuanwai, a wealthy family in the capital, and wanted to fight on the roof of the other party's mansion, on the one hand, to distinguish the winner and lose, on the other hand, to avoid the arrest of Lu Yuanwai's family, these two people are really good at hand, and as a result, Lu Yuanwai reported the case, Zong Feixiao passed this afternoon, and it took a lot of effort to arrest the two.

Escorting the two out-of-town knights back to the Criminal Department, Zong Feixiao saw that there was nothing to do, and went to Sanhuai Lane again, forcing the woman to make a meal, and in the evening, he led seven more arresters out of Beijing and turned to a small hill in the west of the capital.

Not far from the capital, the place was called Hugang, which originally prospered because of the nearby post station, forming a settlement with more than a dozen shops, which was destroyed when the Jurchens came, and now it has been rebuilt. A large compound in Zhuji is also located here, which has been initially rebuilt and used at this time.

When he came to the post, Zong Feixiao asked the other seven catchers to go and eat something first, and made an appointment to come back to meet, he walked out of the post, turned a corner, and turned to a house about a hundred zhang away.

Because of the destruction of the Jurchens before, this house was made of bamboo and wood at this time, and the room was darkened, and it didn't seem that there was anyone. This was a routine meeting, but when the person in the room spoke, Zong Feixiao's whole person had become terrifying.

His burly figure came out of the room, there was no starlight in the sky, far away, a little higher was the lights on the Hugang Market, Zong Feixiao looked around, then took a deep breath, and walked quickly but silently towards the guard.

After walking more than ten zhang, a small sound suddenly came from behind, and from a distance, I don't know if it was an animal running or someone being knocked to the ground. Zong Feixiao didn't look back, his teeth tightened, his eyes were furious, and he ran with his feet before he took the first step, in the surrounding darkness, a figure came through the wind, in this pitch black, the figure was churning like a dragon and a snake rising from the land, and the waves were surging!

Zong Feixiao's right hand suddenly pulled out a steel whip and hit it on top of the rushing figure, poof. The grass stalks are flying, and he is actually a scarecrow pierced by a spear, but he is a strong martial artist. There is even a "whip" on the rivers and lakes, at the same time as the scarecrow bursts, the steel whip also swept the spear that stabbed it, and at the same time, someone pounced! A long whip swept and entangled Zong Feixiao's left hand, and the knife light rushed out silently!

The long whip smacked it. The black shadow in the distance on the left was pulled to the ground, and the person who pounced on the right was also knocked away, and Zong Feixiao's body passed by a hunchbacked swordsman. His head was still spinning in the air, and his muscular body stomped five steps like a chariot, and fell to the ground without moving.

The camel in the darkness picked up the man's head and took a bag in his pocket. There were also figures all around. They gathered around the headless corpse and looked at it, Zong Feixiao made a double whip, but just now he only drew a single whip, only to see that he was holding a fireworks arrow in his left hand, and he still maintained the gesture of wanting to release it.

Not far away, the lights on a street on the other side of the guard were still on, and seven catchers were eating and drinking in it, waiting for their boss to return, in the dark. There were figures one after another, and they passed silently over there.

These catchers never returned to Bianliang City.

At the same time. On the banks of the Yellow River to the north, torches are burning, and men and soldiers are carrying earth and stones up the embankment. On the one hand, the summer flood season has arrived, and people must begin to strengthen the embankment, on the other hand, this is the next preliminary project to strengthen the Yellow River defense line.

A little further north, in the old mansion of the Qi family, the Confucian named Qi Yan had already lost his temper, and in the dark night, he was still writing letters, and then asked credible family guards and staff to go to Beijing to do errands.

In the capital, Li Gang walked out of the room, sat for a while, and looked at the courtyard of the staff that was still lit up, his eyes had a grief and tragic light, but he clenched his hands into fists, and after a while, he thought of something, and went back to the room to deal with official business.

Qin Hui was entertaining guests, and in the light of the night, he had a good conversation with the two people who came over. In the court, there have been more and more rumors that he will succeed him as the right minister, but he knows that Li Gang is about to step down, and in his heart, he is considering whether it is possible to directly take the position of left minister.

Tong Mansion, Tong Guan is discussing various things with Tan Zhi and others, Li Bingwen is also below, and now the most important thing in Guangyang County Wangfu is two things, the first is that Li Bingwen and others really control the Wurui Battalion, and the second is that the Yellow River defense line is done to prevent the Jurchens, and it should be directly controlled by the army. The last time in Taiyuan, Tong Guan understood the combat strength of the army and abandoned the city and left, this time, he hoped to be able to do a good job really and unrestrained.

"After Lao Qin left, these things left behind are still useful, I hope I can use him well, if the Yellow River falls, Bianliang will not be lucky."

"That Ning Liheng has a bad heart, but he wants to use this knife to kill people, and the prince must not be unguarded."

"I naturally know that Ning Yi has nothing else to think about, he wants me to use this to target other people, and I want to use it to do good things. The important thing is that this is the king's intention, so why care about his little wishes. Tomorrow I will ask someone to go to Li Bangyan's mansion to say hello, and if he doesn't give in, I won't put up with him anymore. ”

As the general of the Wu Dynasty, he is used to seeing pig teammates, and he has had enough of pig teammates, this time the Wu Dynasty is in danger, he hopes to turn the tide, which will also be his last glory.

Everyone has something to do, and thousands of people are gathering in the capital for various reasons between the various roads and waterways that radiate from the capital. During this period, there were thirteen teams, they sent out from the same place, and then gathered in different ways to the capital, at this time, these people were either dart masters, or caravans, or craftsmen who went together, the fastest one, at this time had passed Xuchang, one hundred and fifty miles away from Bianliang.

It was a large caravan of more than two hundred people, and at this time it was camped in the mountains, and on the grass at one end of the camp, two young men were talking in a low voice.

"Brother Xiao Feng, you say, what does the capital look like?"

"How do I know?" With a short beard under his chin, the young man named Zhuo Xiaofeng replied.

"Brother Xiaofeng, haven't you been to Hangzhou?"

"Hangzhou is not the capital."

"I've been in the mountains since I was a child, and I've never seen any big places, I heard you say those things, I wanted to see it, but fortunately I took it with me this time, but unfortunately I passed by those big cities on the way, and I didn't stop to take a closer look......"

"If you talk any more, I won't take you with me."

"Well, don't talk about it." The simple young man from the mountains shut up, and the two sat for a while. Zhuo Xiaofeng only looked at the sparse stars in the sky on the grass, he knew a lot of things, he spoke reasonably, and his martial arts were good, the young people in the mountains admired him more, and after a while, the other party spoke in a low voice again.

"Brother Xiaofeng, let me just ask, this time in Beijing, we can meet the teacher who taught you skills, right?"

Zhuo Xiaofeng's eyes froze: "Who told you this?" ”

"Someone in the team, someone in the team is saying, I ...... I heard it privately. ”

"Who said that!?" Zhuo Xiaofeng stood up, "After the gag order, are you all talking nonsense?" Take me to find the people right away! ”

"Little, little Brother Feng...... Actually......" The young man was frightened, stammered a few sentences to justify, Zhuo Xiaofeng frowned: "This matter is no joke!" Right away! Immediately! ”

The sky was dim with stars, and the two of them walked into the camp one after the other, causing a small commotion before calming down.

The warm breeze of summer carries a reassuring feeling, on this land, the lights are sparse or extended, and after the Jurchens go, they can finally calm down. In the capital, Tie Tianying was in the alum tower, chatting happily with a staff member of Liang Shicheng's mansion.

In the Ning Mansion, where not many people cared about it anymore, in the same warm yellow light in the study, Ning Yi was sitting at the table and tapping his fingers on the table regularly, calculating many things that had been calculated since the news of Su Tan'er's fall into the water came, as well as many loopholes and plans that needed to be checked.

Zhu Biao came in from outside the door.

"It's just outside the city...... Kill Zong Feixiao. ”

Ning Yi looked at him, slightly confused, and then looked at it squarely and frowned.

"Why do you want to kill him, you have many things to do......"

Zhu Biao came over and whispered in his ear the reason for the incident. Ning Yi didn't say anything more, in the light, but his brows frowned a little tighter, and he banged on the table for a while.

"It's a branch, you ......"

He instructed something, and Zhu Biao listened, nodded and went out. The lights of the night are still quiet, stretching through the city, waiting for a new day and more things to happen.

The next day, Tie Tianying would know about Zong Feixiao's disappearance, and at the same time, hundreds of people were still closing the distance between them and the capital day by moment and silently, waiting for the moment of convergence...... (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter is 6,905 crosses, it's too long to write, I thought it would take four chapters for this topic, but it ended up running out here. Well, change the title of the next chapter.