Chapter II. 166
Shen Gui carried the Spring Rain Sword with his backhand, and with Wan Changning's belt in the other hand, he returned to Prime Minister Li Cheng's mansion in full view of everyone in Fengjing.
The front foot had just stepped into the threshold, and Liu Banxian's voice came from behind him:
"It's done...... But I still owe three hundred taels of silver to the donkey rolling (usury) of the Shuangtian Gambling House. Does this make people think that I don't want to pay back the money because I don't want to pay back, so I did this murderous and arsonous act? ”
Shen Gui knew that there were two kinds of silver that people who ran on the rivers and lakes and never owed them on credit: the first was the gambling account, and the second was the spending account. Now that Liu Banxian has mentioned it, of course he has to help him settle this account:
"Got it, three hundred taels of silver, I'll help you pay it back directly to the owner when you find an opportunity."
Liu Banxian's figure flashed after hearing this, and the fairy trace was hard to find.
At this time, the sky was already dark, but the prime minister's mansion was brightly lit as usual. The courtyard is surrounded by braziers, and the main gate of the main pavilion is divided into two sides, revealing a huge portrait hanging in the main hall, which depicts the ancestor of the Li family, Li Sanyuan, who is known as 'Mancang Li'.
It can be seen from this battle that this is the contemporary head of the family, Li Deng, who personally opened the ancestral incense hall.
Shen Gui walked in front of Li Deng, stood still five steps away, threw Wang Changning, who was like a prey in his hand, to the ground, arched his hand at Li Deng and said:
"Xiangye, this is someone from your Li family, Shen Gui has helped you come back."
Li Deng looked at Wan Changning, who was lying on the ground, his face pale and speechless, he just nodded, and said to Shen Gui:
"This Wan Changning is a person from my prime minister's house, and he should follow the rules of the Li Mansion for rewards and punishments. Shen Gongzi's favor, Li wrote it down; But everything has a priority, people, since it was taken back by Shen Gongzi, then the first thing to solve is the grievance between you and Wan Changning. Li is waiting to listen! ”
In a word, Li Deng closed the door of the main hall with his backhand, and then stood sideways with his hands tied.
Shen Gui nodded, and then kicked Wan Changning, who was lying on the ground, over with his toes, turning him into a posture of lying on the ground on his back facing the sky. Immediately, Shen Gui pulled up the Chunyu sword hanging upside down behind him, and the tip of the sword pointed obliquely at Wan Changning's expressionless face:
"Wan Changning, Wan Shi'an, Lord Wan, the left servant of the household...... If it weren't for the war between the two norths, you and I would be a family now......"
When Wan Changning heard this, he let out a cold snort with his nose, which was full of disdain. Shen Gui was not annoyed by it, and continued:
"But now that Shen Gui is an outsider after all, then we have nothing to do with it, so let's carefully sort out the grievances between you and me according to the rules of the rivers and lakes!"
"First, I don't care about your betrayal, and I don't care about the personal relationship between you and the thief Yan Day; Today, I will ask you only one thing - the heavenly fire in Beilan Palace has something to do with you, Wan Chang? ”
When Wan Changning heard Shen Gui's question, he straightened up half of his body in surprise, sat on the ground and looked at Shen Gui and said:
"You said it so beautifully, aren't you asking about someone else's business? Even if the fire in Beilan Palace was committed by Wan, a powerless scholar, it should be the second prince or Princess Fengyang who came to Xingshi to ask for the guilt; Otherwise, if you Shen Gui have any conclusive evidence, you should also send me to the Fengjing Mansion or the Clan Mansion for trial. You are just a flat-headed commoner, what qualifications do you have to interrogate a fourth-grade master like Wan! ”
After hearing this, Shen Gui sneered at the corner of his mouth, and picked Wan Changning's chin with the tip of his sword, forcing him to stand up. Then he led his eyes outward, and said with a chill in his mouth:
"Wan Changning, Wan Changning, it seems that you still don't understand the current situation clearly. You showed me carefully, the newly painted and renovated Shuangtian Gambling House does not look like the Beilan Palace that night at this time? ”
Wan Changning followed Shen Gui's eyes to look in the direction of Fengjing City, and saw that Fengjing City, which was originally supposed to be pitch black, was now half of the night sky in the east of the city had been completely stained with a layer of warm yellow......
"You, you...... You dare to burn down the Shuangtian Gambling House, you are not afraid of the prince......"
In fact, after Wan Changning was caught in the Shuangtian Gambling House, he had already heard the words of Shen Gui and Liu Banxian. However, in his opinion, it is not a big deal that the Double Sky Casino is clean from top to bottom. Because there is a shortage of everything in Fengjing City at the moment, the only thing that is not lacking is people who can work! Except for a slight obstacle on his face, the death of a few hundred people really has no impact on the current prince.
But if a fire burns down the entire gambling house, it's not just a matter of face and manpower!
Shen Gui's guess was right, since he was appreciated by Li Deng, Wan Changning had secretly fallen to the prince's side. Of course, after all, Wan Changning is Li Deng's 'hardcore disciple,' and his defection is by no means an overnight thing. It can also be said that to this day, Wan Changning still has not completely betrayed Li Deng, at most he can only be regarded as one servant serving two masters. In other words, now he Wan Changning is not only the prime minister's confidant, but also the prince's brainchild.
Since he is the prince's brainstorm, he has to help him give advice, so he naturally knows the prince's current situation very well. That's right, in the past hundred years in Fengjing, there have never been so many killers and dead, but in the past year, these disgraceful people have been scattered in every corner of Fengjing.
Nankang's Diting has lost a contact, so naturally a new person will be sent to replace him. And this newcomer and Yan Tian have a similar temper, and the two don't know what kind of deal they have reached, and the final result is to deepen the scope of cooperation between them.
But no matter how the two of them fall in love, it still costs a lot of money to hire so many killers and dead soldiers!
Therefore, the renovation of this Shuangtian gambling house, and the prince's artificial panic, are all to accumulate money! And the stolen silver that the prince earned by relying on 'pornography, gambling, and drugs' naturally flowed into Nan Kang's pocket.
But now I don't know that Shen Gui is still trying to help his friend Yan Qinghong avenge the murder of his mother for the death of a woman in a Qinglou, so after slaughtering the gambling house, he ignited a monstrous flame and burned the newly renovated Shuangtian Gambling House.
is the so-called cutting off people's financial routes, such as killing their parents, could it be that Shen Gui was angry, and he was ready to completely turn his face with the prince? It doesn't matter if only one Shen returns, but whether it is the Zhongshan Governor's Army or the shamanism that is in hibernation, there is a possibility of resurgence; In addition, nearly a year has passed, and the attitude of the Enxiang, who can fully represent the Dongyou Li family, has begun to be ambiguous......
From this point of view, Shen Gui's move seems to be beyond his strength to hit a stone with an egg, but after thinking about it, it doesn't seem to be a fool's dream! If everything is really as he thinks, and Shen Gui plans to start a war with the prince completely, then his own grass on the wall really has no value at all...... Could it be that he really dared to kill me?
Thinking of this, Wan Changning suddenly shivered. After waking up, his first reaction was to look into his own eyes. In his heart, the reason why Shen Gui didn't kill himself on the spot in the gambling house was nothing more than looking at Li Deng's face; If he wants to get a way out of his hands, then only Eun Xiang can open his mouth......
"Eun Xiang...... It is true that Shi An once offered advice to the crown prince, but Shi An can swear in the name of his father, I never thought of betraying my grace! And doing things for the crown prince is all because he is your nephew! This is for the sake of the family, can it also be regarded as an apostasy? ”
Shi An looked at Li Deng expectantly, and everything he said was true. In his opinion, he was raised by Li Deng since he was a child, and he naturally knew that although Li Deng seemed to be cold and mean, he was actually very soft-hearted.
Unexpectedly, when Li Deng heard his words, he just slowly opened his closed eyes and said in an indifferent tone:
"Now it's about you and Shen Gui, and it's not my Li Mansion's family law yet, so the old man is naturally inconvenient to discuss. Shen Gui, you continue to ask! ”
After speaking, he closed his eyes again, just like in the past, and the whole person wandered away from the world.
Shen Gui took a closer look at Li Deng's slightly trembling hands, and then looked at the slight snow white on his sideburns, and suddenly felt a pain in his heart. Therefore, he hated the sharp-toothed Wan Changning in front of him even more.
"Just now, you pleaded with Xiangye, and you figured it out! Then Shen won't say much. Whether you are an instigator or an accomplice; No matter how much innocent blood you have on your hands, this human life is priceless, and you can't calculate it with a pen. I'll have something to do in a moment, so we'll just estimate the total price......"
After saying that, the tip of Shen Gui's sword moved, and with a wave of his hand, he broke the two Achilles tendons on Wan Changning's heels. Wan Changning, who was born as a scholar, only felt a chill behind his legs, and then his whole body loosened as if he had been pulled out of his soul, and the whole person knelt on the ground with a 'poof'.
Shen Gui didn't look at this mess of mud, but clasped his hands into fists and said to Li Deng:
"Xiangye, it is said that this is a person from your family, and Shen should not make a mistake. But this person has a lot of blood debts, including the revenge of his old friend for killing his mother, so Shen Gui has to recover this blood debt on behalf of his friend......"
After speaking, I saw that Li Deng's body stiffened, his eyes were opened and his mouth was open, and he tried to speak several times but did not say anything. In the end, he sighed, turned around and waved his hand:
"Fang just said very clearly, this is a matter between the two of you, and it has nothing to do with the old man."
Shen Gui nodded, stretched out a foot, kicked Wan Changning over again, looked at his clenched teeth, and the slightly pleading look in his eyes, and also turned his heart sideways, holding the sword in his hand:
"Wan Changning, I remember that you have served Xiangye for many years and have done your best, today Shen will only take two patellas from you, I hope you can make a good life in the future and don't go the wrong way again."
As soon as Shen Gui's words fell, the Spring Rain Sword turned into a bolt of lightning in the brightly lit courtyard, like an agile osprey, and swept to Wan Changning's knees in the blink of an eye......
Wan Changning, who was lying on the ground, suddenly widened his eyes and stiffened, his throat didn't even make a sound, and in the next moment, he completely fainted.
Li Deng turned his head when he heard the sound, looked at the two flat patellas that were still covered with white stubble on the ground, nodded to Shen Gui with tears in his eyes, and waved his hand to let his subordinates drag Wan Changning back to the room.