Chapter 146: Who Is He?
At this moment, the smoke that overflowed from the cave was finally stopped. But after a short while, the room was already filled with smoke coming out of the hole, and Qing'er smelled a choking smell from the smoke.
"That's it!" Gu Bei shook his wet hands, pointed to Yi Yan who was still in a coma on the recliner and said, "Send her to the yard so as not to choke to death." β
After speaking, Gu Bei walked quickly to the outside of the house.
"Uncle, what is this, how can it burn such a big smoke?" Qing'er picked Yi Yan up and asked as she walked out.
"Red phosphorus." Gu Bei walked into the courtyard in three steps and two steps, took out a cylinder from his arms, placed it in the sky, and lit the twist.
Immediately, Qing'er heard a "tom" sound from the cylinder, and a firelight flew into the air, and then snapped! A bang exploded in the air!
"In this back garden, each small courtyard is a separate courtyard, so the person who eavesdropped is not next door." Gu Bei turned his head to Qing'er with a smile and said, "That guy who eavesdropped should be underground." β
"The smoke from the burning of this red phosphorus can smoke that big fish out of the tunnel." Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of Gu Bei's mouth: "No matter how many exits there are in the courtyard of this Hundred Flowers Pavilion, they should all be emitting white smoke now."
As for the fireworks that were released just now, they were to notify the generals and soldiers of the Fifth Military Mansion who were hiding nearby, so that they could act.
When the time comes, as long as the Baihua Pavilion smokes, it will be guarded. This big fish can't run!"
"I see." When Qing'er heard this, she nodded clearly and said, "Isn't this the path of the smoked rabbit?" Uncle, how can you be sure that there is a big fish hidden in this Hundred Flowers Pavilion? And how can you be sure that someone is eavesdropping? β
"It's all up to Zhang Changren's account book to provide clues, and the rest are speculated by Uncle Ben, Baihua Pavilion, as one of the best Qingguan in the number of days, is one of the strongholds of the White Flower Sect, and its role is nothing more than to find out the news, it just so happens that Uncle Ben knows that the dignitaries and nobles of Ying Tianfu especially like to come to Baihua Pavilion, and there are only two kinds of news to probe the news, one is to install a copper pipe to eavesdrop, and the other is to train a girl to inquire about the news, and there are many people who know, so there is a danger of exposure, so a certain conjecture should be installed with a copper pipe to eavesdrop."
Qing'er nodded, then glared at Gu Bei and asked, "Then why does my uncle have to call the slave and maid to come, can't you just find a woman!" β
"What can Uncle Ben do?" Gu Bei smiled and glanced back at Qing'er, "Among the women that Uncle Ben knows, there seems to be only one little girl who is both trusted and strong in martial arts!" As for whether the sound is like or not, it can only be broken and broken, but I didn't expect my little Qing'er to learn this sound quite similarly, hahaha! β
"Uncle......" Qing'er was angry and annoyed by Gu Bei's words, and stomped her feet coquettishly.
At this time, another firework rushed into the sky in the distance.
Gu Bei identified the direction, and after discovering the location of this firework, he took Qing'er Fei and rushed towards the direction where the fireworks were lit.
Fifty or sixty zhang northwest of Baihua Pavilion, there is a dilapidated land temple on the shore of Da'an Lake.
At this time, a plainly dressed woman was hurriedly walking out of the temple and walking briskly towards the shore of Da'an Lake.
Judging from this woman's clothes, she is just an ordinary middle-aged woman, no different from the countless daughters-in-law in Yingtianfu.
I saw that the woman wrapped her head in a green cloth and carried an old basket in her hand, and came to the lake in three steps and two steps.
At this time, she saw a small boat moored on the shore of Da'an Lake. A boatman lies on the bow of his boat, with a hat over his face, as if sleeping, and a flask next to him.
The woman jumped into the boat in one step, and immediately the rickety planks staggered, and she quickly crouched down and sat down on the board.
At this time, the boatman found that his boat was shaking, and he took off the hat in a daze, looked at the woman in front of him sleepily, and habitually took the flask and poured it into his mouth, and poured it for a long time, but did not pour out the wine.
"Boatman, please send me to the mouth of the Qinhuai River." The woman hurriedly said: "The child is suddenly ill, and he wants to invite Langzhong, you hurry up, the slave family will give more money to the boat!"
"Okay!" Hearing the words "give more money to the boat", the boatman immediately came to his senses, dropped the empty wine jug, picked up the boat with his hands and feet, and shook the boat away from the shore in a few strokes.
When the boatman looked to the shore, he saw a faint puff of white smoke coming out of the small earth temple not far away.
Seeing the ship gradually drifting offshore, the woman on board seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, lifted her sleeves, and wiped the sweat stains from her forehead.
At this moment, I saw a few figures on the shore rushing out from the direction of the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, and rushed straight to the side of the boat!
Just as the woman was looking at the people who were running from afar, she heard the boatman behind her suddenly say:
"This eldest sister, do you want to eat wontons, or do you want to eat knife-cut noodles?"
When Gu Bei rushed to the shore, the boat had already been more than three or four zhang away from the shore.
Gu Beicai rushed to the side of the lake shore and saw a woman on the boat, struggling to throw the basket in her hand towards the lake in the distance.
I saw that this basket drew an arc in the air, and it looked like it was about to fall into the West Lake.
At this moment, at the moment when the basket entered the water, a rope wrapped up the handle of the basket and rolled it back towards the shore quickly!
Qing'er raised the basket in her hand and looked at Gu Bei with a smug expression.
The boatman on the boat was Xiao Ran, and I saw him pull the boat and swing the boat back to the shore in two strokes.
"Uncle, this girl has taken poison, she should have put wax pills in her mouth a long time ago." Xiao Ran said as he jumped onto the shore of the lake and turned around to signal to the woman sitting on the boat.
Gu Bei took the basket in Qing'er's hand, patted Xiao Ran's shoulder approvingly, and jumped onto the boat with his foot on the bow.
"Wang Jiuniang?" Gu Bei sat down in front of the woman and asked.
The woman on the boat had turned pale by this moment, and she slowly raised her hand and took off the green cloth turban that covered her head.
This person is really the old bustard Wang Jiuniang of the Hundred Flowers Pavilion!
"Big fish? Wang Jiuniang is the big fish? Qing'er looked at the woman on the boat with a dead face, and her eyes widened in surprise!
"I didn't expect a Zhang Changren to expose his slaves!" At this time, Wang Jiuniang's face was gray, and when she opened her mouth to speak, a trace of black blood had oozed from between her teeth.
"This can only be blamed on your lack of care, knowing that it is already dangerous, but still holding on to luck!" Gu Bei sat opposite her and said with a smile.
"Hmph, if it's not a holy ...... If I don't let you touch you, you'll be dead a long time ago. Wang Jiuniang glanced at it contemptuously and said disdainfully.
"Just say this to you, you are not qualified as an intelligence officer." Gu Bei shook his head and said helplessly.
"How are you sure it's mine? Why not someone else? β
"Your question is too stupid, the clues provided by Zhang Changren are so obvious, it is Baihua Pavilion who provides him with funds, who else in Baihua Pavilion can mobilize funds except for you? So when I saw the word 'Baihua Pavilion', the first thing that came to mind was to inquire about the news. β
"That's why you came alone to paralyze me, and found the brass pipe I used to eavesdrop in the yard, and then you used that smoking thing to smoke me out of here." When she heard Gu Bei say this, Wang Jiuniang said with a pale face.
After finishing speaking, Wang Jiuniang's eyes were dilated, and she slowly shrank towards the board, muttering to herself: "Someone will avenge me, and one day you will die at her hands!"
On the shore of the lake, just a few feet away from Gu Bei, Qing'er and Xiao Ran clearly heard the conversation between the two of them.
Who is he?
At this time, I saw Gu Bei lift the cover on the basket, take out the contents inside, and look at it.
Inside was a large stack of paper, more than two inches thick.
Gu Bei flipped through them one by one, and found that the handwriting on them was messy and hasty, all of which were listening records written by Wang Jiuniang.
Some of the paper on it is still brand new, and the further down it goes, the more old it becomes, and it seems that this is the result of Wang Jiuniang's work over the past few years.
Most of them are in the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, and those officials are talking about secretly. Baihua Pavilion is one of the most high-end youth halls in Yingtianfu, and it is also the most frequent place for Yingtian officials to gather and talk secretly. When they thought they had retreated from the left and right, they sent the maids out of the courtyard.
When I started the secret conversation, I didn't expect that the content of their secret conversation was still clearly heard by Wang Jiuniang at the end of the brass pipe.
Gu Bei turned the large stack of papers in his hand one by one.
This involves evidence that dozens of officials have corrupted the law and formed parties for personal gain. Up to the five-grade officials, down to the small officials. There are those who bribe and buy officials, those who form cliques for personal gain, and those who have internal and external connections. Gu Bei even saw some familiar names in them, which could be described as dirty as mud one by one! This is still a prefecture, what if Kyoto? How many will there be in the entire Xia Parliament?
With so many private secrets of Yingtian officials, it is really difficult for Wang Jiuniang to write them down so painstakingly.
In the end, Gu Bei picked out more than a dozen pages from it, and the dozen or so guys on the paper were all selling military intelligence to enemy countries, and there were even many officials who sold embargoed materials such as salt and iron to the White Flower Sect for profit.
"Give these to the lady, it will be of great use in the future." Gu Bei handed the remaining thick stack of paper to Qing'er.
"Uncle, don't deal with these people?" Qing'er raised a stack of papers in her hand, a little curious.
"Do you want to say that these people should be arrested and brought to justice?" Gu Bei smiled and shook his head gently, "These papers in your hand, just take out one of them, it is enough to ruin some officials and ruin their families."
If all of them are arrested and convicted, the officials of the entire Ying Tianfu will have to be replaced all over again. β
"It's not good! As long as all these people are brought to justice, the situation in Yingtian's officialdom will be clear, and then it will be a new atmosphere. β
"That's right! When the time comes, replace a pack of well-fed wolves with a pack of hungry wolves. Gu Bei said with a smile: "Little girl, you are too naΓ―ve to think. β
Gu Bei sent more than a dozen pieces of paper to Wu De, and the inventory work of Baihua Pavilion would be handled by the government office, and it was none of his business whether he killed or arrested.
As for Gu Bei, he took the Baifu family general to the small land temple by Da'an Lake.
I saw four people carrying a heavy large box, quickly transported to a carriage, more than a dozen family members to and fro, a total of seventeen or eighteen heavy large boxes, loaded into three carriages.
When the transportation was over, the black cloth was covered, and the three carriages drove leisurely in the direction of Baifu.
"Good fellows! This White Flower Sect has actually accumulated so many resources, and I don't know what they want to do? In the courtyard, Xiao Ran kicked the heavy wooden box under his feet and sat on it.
Gu Bei sat steadily in the rocking chair, with a hint of a smile on his face, "It is estimated that some of these assets collected by Baihua Pavilion in the past few years have become materials such as salt and iron, and I don't know where to ship them." The rest of them are estimated to be used to buy officials at all levels, and some are used as activity funds, and they are all cheaper today!"
"These things are so heavy, they make me tired and half dead. It's better not to be a box of copper coins, otherwise, so-and-so will ......"
Xiao Ran said as she kicked the copper lock on a box, and then she lifted the lid of the box.
In an instant, the courtyard was filled with golden light! Put a yard of people, and everyone's faces are reflected in a golden yellow.
When they looked into the wooden box in surprise, they saw that there was a whole box of gold ingots neatly stacked!
When the government searched the Baihua Pavilion, Gu Beida arrogantly declared that the cigarettes he put in the tunnel were poisonous, so everyone should not approach. You can't wait until the poison gas is gone before you can enter the tunnels and search them.
However, at this time, he sent the generals of the Bai Mansion to search the tunnels with simple gas masks made of wet towels and glass sheets.
As expected, the generals found the stronghold of the White Flower Sect and the huge wealth secretly hidden in the cellar in that tunnel.
These things naturally belong to Gu Bei himself. Don't give money in vain.
At this moment, in a small village in the city, there was a dead silence in the westernmost courtyard, but a heavy gasp kept coming from the dead silence. The boy's body sat limp behind the door, his neck drooping, and his pale lips indicated that the boy had been dead for a long time.
In the inner room, Chang Wang was lying quietly on the bed, her clothes were in tatters, her fair skin was full of scars, her eyes were open, and her whole person had long been lifeless.
Those eyes seemed to tell her own pain, she seemed to be calling her son's name, and she seemed to sigh her chastity, but she was just a weak woman, she never dreamed that Gu Bei would let her go, but ushered in a more ruthless person.
There was a third person in the room, a burly and sturdy man, who looked to be in his thirties, with long hair and a scarf, no mess, and a white brocade robe, which looked even more extraordinary. It's just that there is always an evil smile on the white bearded face, which looks so incongruous.
In his eyes, there has never been good or evil, there is only love and dislove, want and don't want to. Licking his scarlet tongue, he smiled, laughing so cruelly.
He pushed the door open and walked out, the shadows in the night becoming more and more blurred, and he never cared about the eyes of the world. Because he is Bu Zaiyi.
Soon after, Bu Zai Yi went straight to a house in the city, and just after entering the hall, a man dressed in black turned his back to him, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's here!" β
"Here we are."
Bu Zai Yi found a place to sit down in the corner, took a sip of the teacup, and closed his eyes to savor it.
"There is a big event in the Holy Sect, and the Holy Son has sent you here, so I hope you don't run around during this time."
Bu Zai Yi still closed his eyes, as if he didn't care what the man in black said, "Holy Sect? Don't forget, Bu is just a killer, although he hangs under the White Flower Sect, it doesn't mean that someone wants to listen to the White Flower Sect in everything. Man in the Iron Mask, that's your Holy Sect, not my Bu Zaiyi's Holy Sect, some only care about money and women, and the others have nothing to do with me. β
The man in the iron mask was a little angry in his heart, but he was helpless. Bu Zai Yi is a famous killer in the rivers and lakes, he was snare by the White Flower Sect, although he is in the Holy Sect, but only for money.
"Bu Zaiyi, what you want, the Holy Sect is clear, as long as you take over the task of the Holy Sect, the Holy Sect will definitely satisfy you." How effective the man's assurances will be is for the devil to know.
"What is the so-and-so thing that will be found this time?" Seeing that it was not early, Bu Zai Yi felt a little impatient in his heart, he was still waiting to experience Qin Huai Fengyue!
Hey......
"Uncle Baifu Gu Bei!" The man in the iron mask replied dryly.
The iron-masked man's answer made Bu Zai Yi frown, and then stretched out, "No problem, how much does it cost?" β
It seems that this mission is quite difficult, but he likes it.
The task is difficult, the more you are paid, and the more silver you have, the more women you have, hehe......
"Five thousand taels!"
Five thousand taels? Bu Zai Yi was stunned, and then sneered: "The surname is Tie, do you bully someone who doesn't know Yingtian's situation?" Zhenguo's aunt Gu Bei, that's the master who made your White Flower Sect deflated, five thousand taels? If you want someone to make a move, you will take out 50,000 taels. β
Fifty thousand taels of silver? The man in the iron mask really couldn't take it out, if it wasn't for the news that Baihua Pavilion had been served just now, this money would not be difficult for him.
He thought about sending his men to do it, but there were people around Gu Bei who were secretly protecting, and no matter how many people he sent, it was also meat buns and dogs, and there was no return. Otherwise, he would not ask the Holy Sect to send Bu Zai Yi to help, "If there are no 50,000 taels, just 20,000 taels of silver, and after the matter is completed, find someone to get the silver." β
Looking at Bu Zaiyi's distant back, the iron-masked man had to sigh, in terms of killing, Bu Zaiyi has a unique advantage, as long as he is willing to make a move, there is no one who can't be solved, but the price is a bit big!
However, these iron-masked men can't take care of it, with so many people lost in Gu Bei's hands, the Holy Son has already begun to be dissatisfied with him, I hope Bu Zai Yi can solve him as soon as possible!