Most of the time, one-third of the work is done, one-third is watching, and one-third is making trouble. And often, the third of the troublemakers is the most chic, the most nourishing, and the most practical, and they don't have to take risks.

Every time I think about it, it always makes people angry!

Not only did I sigh that I was really one-third of what I really did, so whether it was in my previous life or in this life, I felt tired, very tired. Not only to face the pressure of work, but also to guard against the black knife behind the back. This distorted feeling of the mind made me feel indescribably tired.

Sometimes I really want to throw it all away, just walk away, but there are too many things I can't let go, and I don't want to give up halfway. So until the last moment when I tried my best, I still kept persevering, gritting my teeth tightly, and walking on the road that I kept walking.

Li Youhuan in this room didn't seem to be going to leave immediately, listening to the meaning, he re-set up the bed board, muttered a few complaints, why should he suffer this kind of sin, and then prepared to rest. Also, in the middle of the night, in the wilderness, there is no emergency, who wants to rush in the middle of the night?

After a while, the guy let out a slight snoring sound, and he should have fallen asleep! I gently pushed open the window and scurried into the house like a civet! Sneak towards Li Youhuan on the bed!

I'm not here to do anything else, but to make sure that this person is indeed Li Youhuan in the military department, is it the person I saw before! With all my strength, my body surface was almost free of temperature, and the effects of my body movement were minimized.

After a few steps, I floated to the side of the bed like a ghost, held my breath, and looked through the faint light of the window paper, yes, it was him! It's really him! It's Li Youhuan! My heart sank.

Once it is confirmed that it is him, it means that this matter is widely implicated, and it may be more complicated than imagined!

The people involved may at least include what he just said - Wu Yihuang, the left attendant of the military department, and Zhang Siwei, a scholar of the Middle Pole Temple, will be involved, but who is the real instigator? I really can't deduce, or rather, I really don't want to think about it.

Because as far as I know, Wu Yihuang is not exactly a person in Zhang Siwei's trenches, he belongs to the centrists, neither helping Zhang Juzheng nor Zhang Siwei, but he has always lived very well and his position is very stable.

Some say that these centrists are the most dangerous. Because usually, this kind of person often doesn't help each other, but when something happens, this kind of person will definitely be jointly dumped by two groups of people! These are the first people to be killed!

But this Wu Yihuang is still surviving very well! is living happily in the cracks, in front of his own officials, stable as a rock!

In today's imperial court, neither Zhang Juzheng's faction nor Zhang Siwei's gang can still live like this, it can only be said that there are very few, very rare, and only a handful. But Wu Yihuang still did it, which can only show that he has a backer! A bigger backer than Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Siwei!

Who's that!?

Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a chill rising from my vest!

Zhang Juzheng is in today's court, it can be said that there are no two, under one person, above ten thousand! So a backer who is more powerful than him......

It can only be .....

Li Youhuan fell asleep, suddenly sneezed, and seemed to turn over! I ghostly flashed to the window and waited for a long time. After making sure he hadn't woken up, he quietly opened the window and ran out.

It didn't take much effort, the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao and Mo came back, and they didn't bring the people I wanted them to bring, and the reason was very simple - those two saboteurs were ambushed not long after they ran out! It's not to follow those two people, because those two people are not the ones who operate the knife, they are just to spy on others and make sure that the tasks assigned above are completed.

And after seeing the results, they began to return to this room, probably to come back to Li Youhuan to return to his life.

We lurked quietly at the back of the house, on the edge of the room, sheltered from the wind. This wind really never stops for a moment!

After a short while, the two men in black returned here, and after entering, I heard Li Youhuan's voice waking up: "Hmm! You guys...... Are you back? How's it going? ”

A voice, apparently covered with a cloth, replied: "No one is alive, no corpse is dead!" ”

Li Youhuan smiled: "Very good! I will return to Beijing early tomorrow morning and report this matter to Lord Wu and Master Zhang! You two continue to stay here and watch what happens! ”

The two received the order, and without ambiguity, they went out. I looked at Mo, who understood, and quietly followed. And I, together with the nine ghosts and Masataka, quietly returned to the camp.

Early the next morning, I asked the Nine Ghosts to rush to the north gate of the Beijing Division and wait—waiting for Li Youhuan.

According to the report of the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao, at about ten o'clock, Li Youhuan rode a horse, swayed from the north gate into the city, walked through the streets and alleys, walked all the way to the remote places, and went around the corner to the military headquarters.

After entering the military compound, it took about twenty minutes to leave again. This time, instead of riding a horse, he went to a place on foot - Zhang Siwei's home.

After coming out again, as if nothing had happened, he returned to the military headquarters to go to work.

Standing at the head of the city, listening to the report of the nine ghosts and filial piety, my heart was clear. That's right, this is the same as I thought, and it is really a conspiracy between Wu Yihuang and Zhang Siwei! This illustrates...... It shows that the person behind Wu Yihuang can't wait?

I thought about all kinds of possibilities in my heart, but I didn't say anything, until noon, when I saw Ye Sizhong who came back from patrolling the city, I told him, and said that there was something to go back to Beijing, and he might not be able to return until tomorrow, and asked him to pay more attention here-I had already told him about someone breaking the rope last night, but the damaged rope was not removed—but privately reminded the foreman that there might be something wrong with those ropes.

The foreman was also very vigilant, and when he saw that we knew that there was something wrong with the rope, but still let him use it, his eyes rolled and he understood that we wanted to beat the snake with the stick and pull out the deepest black hand in one fell swoop! So he pretended that nothing had happened, but asked his men to pay extra attention.

Sure enough, when I pulled the second long stone, the front and back feet of several long stones that had been passive broke off!

The stone gets out of control and rolls down! But because the workers had already prepared, they easily escaped! Of course, such things did happen often during the construction of the Great Wall, so they did not cause too much turmoil, and they were revealed.

And the reason why I reminded Ye Sizhong was that I was afraid that the two black-clothed people who were monitoring saw that the accident did not happen, and then found other ways to make trouble.

Ye Sizhong responded. I took the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao and Unrepentant, as well as Mo, who had just rushed back, out of the gate city on foot, walked to no one's land, and then got on the horse that had been waiting here for a long time and was led by two shinobi, and went straight to the direction of Jingshi.

When I arrived in Beijing, I did not enter the north gate, but made a big circle and entered the city through the west gate. I went around again and quietly came to my destination, the home of Shoufu Zhang Juzheng.

Seeing Zhang Juzheng, he was still in the side study where he reads, writes, and approves documents on weekdays, and the smell of Chinese medicine in the room has become stronger and stronger.

From a pessimistic point of view, Zhang Juzheng's body is really getting worse day by day, and he can now be said to be hanging on to his life by taking medicine!

I had no sorrow or joy in my heart, and even though I knew that the old man in front of me was going to die soon, I still had no sorrow, for a simple reason - this was something I knew early on and tried to change, but I still couldn't change. I don't feel bitter about such things, just as I can't change the change of day and night, spring and autumn.

Zhang Juzheng seemed surprised by my arrival, and he didn't seem so surprised. He motioned for me to sit down, sat down on the small chair under his head, smiled and asked me, "What are the difficulties?" Tell me about it! ”

I pondered for a long time before I told me what had happened to me, what I had found, and some of my conjectures.

As I spoke, Zhang Juzheng smiled slightly at first, gradually became serious, and finally his brows were tightly wrung together.

His hand holding the hand warmer was trembling slightly. I could see that he was not afraid, but angry!

That anger of being betrayed!

After a long time, Zhang Juzheng raised his eyes to look at me and asked calmly, "Qilan, what do you think of this matter?" ”

I always felt that the words were on my lips, but I could not say them, because I felt that the facts I was about to say were too cruel to the old man in front of me, who had devoted his whole life to it—and even though I knew from later events in history, the truth was more cruel than he had imagined, but I could not bear to say what was in my heart!

Zhang Juzheng smiled, held the hand warmer in front of him and looked at it, and seemed to be very interested in admiring it for a long time, before he smiled and whispered: "Are you afraid that I won't be able to bear it?" That's why you don't say it? ”

The posture of his body remained the same, but his eyes swept to me fixedly, and he smiled, "Child, I can do it." Actually, if you don't say it, I know it. ”

With that, he put down the hand warmer, stood up, walked to the window, and gently pushed it open.

The cold wind outside blew in, and it made him almost shiver! And he quickly persevered.

Looking at the pine tree in the corner of the yard, Zhang Juzheng smiled, lowered the window again, walked in front of me step by step, and said with a smile: "Since the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, I have experienced many ups and downs since I joined the company, but I have always maintained an original intention, that is, everything is for Daming!" ”

Saying that, he looked at me, smiled again, and said slowly: "Until today, until you finish saying this, my original intention has not changed - all for Daming!" ”

With that, he returned to his seat, sat down, and straightened his official uniform. looked at me with a calm heart-palpitating look and said, "Qilan, you and I are both people who stand at the forefront of the times and are on the cusp. People like us face both the mountains in front of us and the coldness behind us, this is the fate of you and me! ”

As he spoke, he brought a cup of tea to the empty cup next to him, handed it to me, and said, "The only difference is that you still have a choice!" And I'm ...... There is no choice left! ”

After saying that, he poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it all!

I wanted to say something, but I couldn't say it!

His tone suddenly became vicious, and he said in a voice that seemed to come from the Nine Hells: "Since I have chosen to embark on the path of this powerful minister, I have never thought of getting a good death!" If fate has been so kind to me that I can at least do what I want to do before me, why should I care about more behind me? ”

After saying this, he seemed to regain his composure, turned his head and looked at me with a smile and said, "Qilan, I have dedicated my life to Daming!" I can't betray him at the last moment of my life! ”

As he spoke, he smiled miserably and said in a low voice: "Even if I know that my biggest enemy and the one who hates me the most is not Zhang Siwei, not Wu Yihuang, or anyone else, but precisely ...... What I have wholeheartedly assisted - the Holy One today! ”