Chapter 645: The Emperor's Secret (I)

By the time Chen Guanxi's body was found, he was already swollen with seawater.

Zhang Xiaowu also mistakenly thought that Chen Guanxi was killed by someone, and even drowned and threw him into the sea, but in the end he found out that he had indeed committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea. If he could have found out a few days earlier, he would have known that Chen Guanxi had a disease, and if modern medicine explains it, this disease has a special name, called depression. If explained in layman's terms, this disease is called inability to think.

Zhang Xiaowu is not an immortal, and he doesn't know the cause of Chen Guanxi's death, but he knows that Chen Guanxi is his good brother. He sat in front of Chen Guanxi's grave and cried, scolding him for why he committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea, and for committing suicide if he couldn't figure out something. Hu Sanwan said: "The woman in Kansai is pregnant. ”

Chen Guanxi had two women in his life, one was a woman from a tribe in West Tartara who was married in Mucheng, but the woman died in childbirth, which also made Chen Guanxi depressed for a while. The second woman is this Qinglou woman named Yan Ling, everyone is not actually a Qinglou woman, after all, Qinglou prostitutes are different from Sister Yao'er, people eat by their skills, not by their bodies to please men.

Zhang Xiaowu asked people to send some silver to Yan Ling, and asked the local yamen to take care of the woman who lost her man, but he really didn't know how to help him. Fortunately, Gu Ruoxi understood him and came to Chen's house to visit Yanling several times, and the two became friends. Through conversation, Gu Ruoxi also learned about Chen Guanxi's recent state from Yan Ling's dictation, and told Zhang Xiaowu.

"It's — depression." After hearing this, Zhang Xiaowu sighed.

Gu Ruoxi asked, "Husband, what is depression?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu didn't know how to explain it, so he could only smile bitterly, it seems that the more dull a person is, the more likely he is to get sick. Even in later generations, people did not have much to do about how to treat depression, so Zhang Xiaowu could only ask someone to take care of the Chen family more, so as not to happen like this again.

In October of the fifth year of Dade, a strange thing happened in Longdu City, and a boy disappeared for several days. Yin Zou Zheng of Longdu Mansion was ordered to supervise the case, and a head catcher named Cheng Lun under his command found clues, and led the same few people who were not afraid of death to track down the Maitreya Temple. Subsequently, Zou Zheng personally led troops to encircle and suppress Maitreya Temple, arrested more than a dozen witch doctors disguised as monks, and rescued several boys, but unfortunately five boys had died, and the five dead boys were all gouged out of their eyes and hearts to refine pills.

Zou Zheng was furious and ordered Cheng Lun to torture the witch doctor, and under Cheng Lun's torture equipment, the witch doctors could only confess, saying that a noble man spent a lot of money to ask them to refine a pill to revive male virility. Zou Zheng deduced from this that this person must be an old man or a child of a thin scholar, and a child of a family.

"Cheng Lun, check it out immediately, who in the family is not strong but is lustful." Zou Zheng ordered.

Cheng Lun said: "Why don't you find Jin Yiwei to inquire?" ”

Zou Zhengdao: "If you don't want to find the golden guards, don't look for the golden guards, these golden guards are not a good thing." ”

"Whoa."

Although the case of the disappearance of the boy in Longdu has been solved, there are many doubts, although the inspectorate told Zou Zheng not to continue the investigation, but Zou Zheng is a hard bone and must be investigated. A few days later, Cheng Lun found clues again, the group of witch doctors were poisoned in the prison, and the person who poisoned them was a lonely old man in the fire room.

The gangster thought that he had killed the lonely old man, but he didn't know that the lonely old man was an old spirit and an old ghost, so he first tracked down and found the address of the gangster, and wrote it on the cowhide, and tied it under his armpit. After the lonely old man was killed, Cheng Lun also found the cowhide, and found the villain's residence.

Cheng Lun immediately took the officials to surround the villain's residence and kill them, and after killing a few people, he captured the rest, but found that these people turned out to be the famous Jinyi Guard's secret agents. Cheng Lun didn't dare to slack off, secretly took all the people and corpses outside the city, and invited Zou Zheng to interrogate them together.

After some interrogation, these little spies who had just joined the Golden Guards confessed that they were the secret orders of the Golden Guards, and they didn't know why.

"Those who can command the Jinyi Guard, unless Wang Jingzhi." Cheng Lun Dao.

Zou Zheng frowned for a long time before he said: "I heard that Wang Jingzhi has never been close to women, and he definitely won't take this medicine, so he is entrusted by others, and who is he entrusted by?" ”

The two exclaimed in unison: "Your Majesty!? ”

After that, the two laughed bitterly together, it seems that they have stabbed the hornet's nest, and even with more than a dozen catchers, they also looked at each other, but they never expected that the person who killed the boy's alchemy finally speculated on the emperor. How this should be good, and how to close the case, everyone is at a loss.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of killing outside the house, it turned out that Wang Jingzhi led the Jinyi Guard to kill, Zou Zheng said: "The Jinyi Guard will definitely kill us, everyone escape, run as far as you can, and run as long as you can." ”

"What about you, sir?"

"I'm a literati, I can't escape."

Cheng Lun didn't have a friendship, and clasped his fists and said: "In the future, I will redress the adult's grievances." ”

Zou Zheng shook his head and said: "The king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die." ”

The crowd quickly drew their knives and killed them, and then scattered and fled, even though the Jinyi Guards had great ability, but they did not completely kill the dozen or so trappers, Cheng Lun ran out of Longdu Mansion and came to the boundary of Youzhou. It was winter in Longdu at this time, and the sky was snowing, and he sensed danger, so he hid in a firewood pile in a house. The Goldenguard agent soon pursues him, but soon encounters the Night's Watchman.

Seeing this, the night watchman drew his sword and asked, "Who?" ”

The agents looked at each other, turned and ran. Unexpectedly, the night watchmen were all retired soldiers of the Qinglong Army, and after a whistle, dozens of post guards, changfu, and village soldiers appeared around, surrounding the Jinyi Guard's secret agents. Seeing this situation, the Jinyiwei spy could only take out the token and say: "Jinyiwei is ordered to hunt down the traitorous and rebel party, and the rest of the people must cooperate." ”

The night watchman said: "The golden guards are acting in the north, and they must be notified to the government, and you will go to the official with us." "The Jinyi Guard's secret agent was angry enough, and seeing that the other party was so powerful, he could only do what they wanted.

After the Jinyi Wei secret agent left, Cheng Cai slowly walked out, but just after walking a few steps, he was surrounded by people again, Cheng Lun said helplessly: "Isn't it enough for you to kill Lord Zou?" ”

"Who are you, and how did you offend the Golden Guard?"

"You are ......"

"We are the Silver Guards."

"Huh?" Cheng Lun became excited, "You are the silver guards?" You--Hejian Hou's men? ”

"Yes."

"I want to see the Marquis of Hejian, I want to see the Generalissimo of Soldiers and Horses."

"What's your business?"

"Secrets about the Emperor."

The silver-clothed guards looked at each other, nodded, and led him to Yanjing Mansion.