Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Beautiful Woman Visits
Li Longji said this sincerely, when he promoted Pei Min to serve the imperial history, the purpose was naturally to help him stabilize the political situation with the help of Pei Min's hand. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
As the emperor, Li Longji is still very capable in employing people. Pei Min can't rub sand in the eyes of people, his martial arts are outstanding, he has no foundation in the court, and he is not afraid of offending people, so he is the most suitable for working in the Yushitai.
Facts have also proved that Pei Min's exploits in Yushitai are extremely outstanding, and even Li Longji himself can't think of it.
Now that the DPRK is in good shape, Pei Min has made a great contribution.
Li Longji also knew that the Yushitai was indeed easy to offend people, and the benchmark figure of the Yushitai back then, Lai Junchen, was so amazing that he could not avoid echoing back and forth when he went in and out, and even had the emperor's pomp and circumstance, arranging people to try it when eating, just for fear of being harmed by people in secret.
Pei Min is alone, and he can't help but say that he is an outlier among the previous members of the Yushitai.
So far, there have been no accidents, and Li Longji has not cared. Today's incident made him break out in a cold sweat. In order to achieve the goal, the other party did not hesitate to burn the Jade True Temple, which was simply lawless, and the means could not be prevented. In addition to worrying about Pei Min, he was even more angry. If even the most important person can't protect him, who will be willing to give him his life in the future?
Li Longji had already made up his mind that even if he mobilized the people, he would take down the assassin who dared to hold the tiger's beard.
Pei Min pleaded: "There is nothing important about Yushitai recently, so it is better to let me assist Changshi to investigate together." It just so happens that I know some friends who may be able to come in handy. ”
Li Longji agreed: "I have authorized the Yushitai and the Yongzhou Mansion to work together to investigate this matter. As for...... Those friends in the rivers and lakes, Jingyuan is better to have less contact with them. A group of martial artists who don't do business, don't serve the country, and are lawless, I have a headache when I think about them. ”
Since ancient times, heroes have been forbidden by martial arts, and Li Longji has no good impression of people in the rivers and lakes.
Pei Min said with a smile: "The minister originally had no contact with the people in the rivers and lakes, but His Majesty gave the minister a plaque of 'unparalleled in the world', somehow, it seems that he has committed the taboo of the people in the rivers and lakes, and he comes to the ministers every now and then to challenge and learn." ”
"All that?" Li Longji frowned, and he was even more unhappy with the people in the rivers and lakes.
Pei Min continued: "The minister thinks that this 'unparalleled in the world' is a gift from His Majesty, and if he refuses to fight, won't he lose His Majesty's face?" So they took it one by one, and taught one minister a lesson. came and went, but the minister's fame went out. The people of the rivers and lakes speak with their strength, they can't beat the ministers, and they can only sell the minister's face in everything. ”
Li Longji laughed when he heard it: "Jingyuan is really a wonderful person!" He was disgusted that the ministers of the DPRK and China had too much contact with the people in the rivers and lakes, but Pei Min did not object to this way of interacting.
The assassination of Pei Min and Princess Yuzhen soon spread all over the streets and alleys, and Li Longji also specially ordered a strict inspection of all entrances and exits in Chang'an. Ordered all the Wuhou Fangding in the neighborhood to pay attention to strangers in the neighborhood, especially the man with the wound in his right arm, and not let them go, and strictly and thoroughly investigated. Although Chang'an is large and has a large population, the sages had already thought of this when they built Chang'an City. In order to facilitate control, they divided Chang'an into more than 100 neighborhoods, each of which was like a small town, with Wuhou shops similar to the Public Security Bureau, similar to those of the police. It is not easy for all the Wuhou Fangding to find a stranger in the huge Chang'an City, but it is not difficult to find a stranger with a shoulder injury.
The emperor was furious, and the whole Chang'an was busy.
Pei Min also inspected the scene with Yongzhou Governor Shi Fanyu.
Fan Yu was very grateful to Pei Min for interceding for him, and he was extremely active in handling the case. There is a posture that the assassin will not give up and take revenge for Pei Min.
However, in the middle of the night, many clues have disappeared, and it is not easy to check.
"Zhongcheng fought with that thief, I don't know if you remember the thief's specific appearance and height characteristics?" Fan Yu didn't know anything about it, so he could only start from scratch.
Pei Min shook his head and said: "I don't know more than Chang Shi, I only know that he is about six feet two tall, very cunning, his face is smeared with a layer of black smoke, and I can't see his true appearance clearly at night." ”
Fan Yu said sadly: "It would be good if he took advantage of the situation to investigate last night, he was injured and identified with bloodstains, so he would definitely not be able to run far." Now the bloodstains have stopped, and the clues have been broken. ”
Pei Min said indifferently: "There is no need to have pressure in Changshi, the thief can be caught, and if he can't catch me, he will carry it." Last night's pursuit by the laborers may have an effect. But wouldn't the house-to-house search disturb the people? For the sake of a small night, disturbing the people can't sleep well, it's not worth it. Can I be sure that the Assassin is an outsider, wounded, and worried that he will not make it to heaven? Now the whole of Chang'an is eyeing him, where is he going. ”
Fan Yu couldn't help but look at Pei Min twice when he heard this, and was a little awe-inspiring, it was really rare for a superior person to care so much about the people.
Pei Min proposed: "Changshi is better to start from two places, one is the Yuzhen Temple, and the other is the nearby Fang Wall. The thief was able to quietly light the fire of the Jade True Temple, and after a long time of stepping on the point to investigate, he asked the Taoist priest in the Taoist Temple, and there were familiar outsiders recently. Maybe you can know what he looks like...... When he fled, there was a curfew in all the squares, and the only way to escape was by climbing over the walls. The wall was six feet high, and his arm was so badly injured that it was impossible for him to climb over it without showing a trace. ”
Fan Yu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Zhongcheng's analysis is very reasonable, Yu will order it!" ”
Pei Min held his identity and did not investigate in person.
He believed that with the Yongzhou Mansion pressing forward step by step, and Li Longji's comprehensive search, the assassin would be arrested within three days.
All he had to do was wait for news, and then go out in person to arrest the thief and let him try the taste of the Imperial Prison.
Sure enough, as Pei Min expected, the two points he raised were rewarding.
In the past half a month, there is indeed a person who frequently goes in and out to seek Taoism and worship God. No Taoist temple will reject devout believers, so they don't care. The South Gate of Fuxing Fang, the Zhengfang, Buzheng Fang, and Yanshou Fang all have traces of climbing, among which the South Gate of Yanshou Fang collapsed because of disrepair, which attracted the attention of Wuhou.
"So, the thieves ran south?" Pei Min was thoughtful.
Fan Yu said: "It's a trick, I went to see the truth in person." The way the wall collapsed was wrong, it was really in disrepair and couldn't stand the power of one person and collapsed should be a small-scale thing, but the wall not far away also cracked. The thieves were so dense that he couldn't see clearly in the dark night, and he showed his flaws. He wanted to lure us to the sparsely populated South. ”
"Hidden in the city!" Pei Min glanced at Fan Yu in admiration, being able to become the governor of Yongzhou and be responsible for the security of millions of people in Chang'an, he was really not an idle person: "Let's guess where the thieves will hide?" ”
"Xingdaofang, Chongyifang, Pingkangfang!" Fan Yu did not hesitate to lock on to the three neighborhoods. Xingdaofang and Chongyifang are the places where Taoism gathers, and the other is where Buddhism gathers. The ancients were superstitious and had a deep reverence for the gods and Buddhas, and they did not dare to be too presumptuous in their scrutiny of these two places. And Pingkangfang is a place where the three religions and nine streams gather, and each Qinglou brothel has a certain background, and it is impossible to see the detailed inspection of the house at first sight. After all, it is possible to push the door and see the unbearable appearance of such and such a big person, no matter whether it is Wuhou or Fangding, he can't eat and walk around.
Pei Min smiled: "It's all for you to say, then I'll lock Pingkangfang!" ”
"Yu, let's arrange it!"
Looking at Fan Yu's distant figure, Pei Min felt that if it wasn't three days, the thief would have nothing to hide.
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"Childe, there is a scholar outside the house who asks to see her, saying that she knows the whereabouts of the thief!"
Pei Min never expected that in the afternoon of the same day, he would get news of the assassin.
"Invite him in!" Pei Min was overjoyed.
Ning Ze invited into the hall a very ordinary scholar, with average height and average appearance, a very ordinary character, belonging to the type of grabbing a handful on the street. The only desirable thing is the eyes, which are particularly bright and agile. Against the backdrop of that ordinary appearance, it is particularly eye-catching.
Pei Min looked at him and frowned slightly.
is such an ordinary scholar, but inexplicably gives him a very familiar feeling, as if he has seen it somewhere.
As a martial artist, Pei Min had blind confidence in his intuition, and couldn't help but stare at the scholar's eyes without blinking, especially the scholar's eyes.
The scholar seemed to be staring at him very uncomfortably, and quietly lowered his eyes.
Pei Min asked Ning Ze to go down and looked at him for a while. "Haha!" Suddenly laughed and said, "Who did you think it was, it turned out to be Miss Jiao Chen!" ”
The scholar raised his head and said angrily: "Lord Zhongcheng, this is humiliation!" I'm a dignified seven-foot man, and I call me a girl! His face was angry, delicate, and his voice was a deep male voice.
For a moment, Pei Min really thought that he was wrong, but thinking of their locking on the assassin's position, the familiar feeling and the pair of charming eyes, he must have said: "Skillful, Miss Jiao Chen's disguise technique is really ingenious." It's you, you can't be wrong. ”
"Pei Gongzi, how can you see this!" The scholar sighed in frustration, and his voice turned into a pleasant female voice, which was Jiao Chen's voice.
Jiao Chen looked at Pei Min with a little unwillingness, since she had achieved a great disguise technique, she disguised herself as a variety of characters many times and played in Chang'an. Never showed a flaw, let people discover. But I didn't want to show Pei Min through it today.
"The so-called heart is a little clear, I think it's you!" Pei Min said with a little teasing, looked at Jiao Chen's disguise again, and couldn't help but admire in his heart, if he hadn't known in advance that Jiao Chen had a disguise stunt, he would never have imagined that a delicate beauty could disguise herself as such an ordinary person and change her voice.
Pei Min's ridicule made Jiao Chen a little shy, and there was a bit of resentment in his eyes.
It's just that Jiao Chen's current appearance is really a bit of a good thing, and it's miserable.
Pei Min coughed and said, "Miss Jiao Chen, let's catch the thief." ”