"Strange!" In a wide public house in the temple of Handan County, the lights were already lit at this time because the sky was dark, and under the lights, Wang Xuan, who was acting as the general secretary of the county, frowned at the official document in his hand. "The official document is indeed correct, and I have already sent someone to inform my family...... But why was the document signed four days ago? If you set out from Xiangcheng County four days ago, why didn't you mention you in the official document of your county magistrate Zhen three days ago? ”

"Wang Xiancheng forgive me," a tall official led by him hurriedly leaned over and explained. "This kind of thing is not something that we subordinates can know, and it is possible that my county magistrate made a mistake for a while...... Don't hide it from the county, I vaguely remember that the two official letters were sent by the front and back feet, and I didn't find this person before, so I sent the Kuaima official letter first. Later, this person was found, and my county lord did not dare to delay the important event without worry, so he hurriedly wrote this official document and asked us to send this person over overnight. ”

"Perhaps." Wang Xiu also agreed with this statement. "It's normal to make mistakes and omissions in a hurry. Wait a minute, my county magistrate should summon you soon...... This person is drenched in the rain and cold, do you want to drink a bowl of hot soup first? ”

As he spoke, Wang Shuzhi pointed to a person who was crawling on the ground, which should be on the paperwork.

"Shangguan is too worried." It was still the tall official who bowed his hand proudly. "He was actually fine, but he was a little frightened when he met the bandits that day...... A ranger guest raised by the Zhang family in the manor, relying on the power of the main family on weekdays, is brave and ruthless, and is quite famous in our county, and has always been indispensable, but when he encounters a real sword, he can't help but show his deeds. ”

Wang Xiu raised his eyebrows, and was about to ask a few more words, but the official who reported the news outside the door had already returned, saying that Jun Hou was going to summon people from Xiangguo County in the backyard of the official temple, so he had to give up.

And since it was a backyard meeting, it was not easy to go to so many people, so the tall official dragged the stiff Zhang guest and went directly to the backyard with the visitors, while the remaining two or three entourages had to stay here.

After a few turns, the two finally came to the backyard, and as soon as the tall official entered, he just raised his eyes and saw four or five people waiting here.

However, it was only two of them that caught his eye the most.

The first one sat cross-legged next to a few cases under the corridor, dressed in white clothes, with an extraordinary bearing, and a family style, looking at himself curiously. However, what made the tall officials pay special attention was that this person was young and wore a purple ribbon gold seal that was rare in the world, and behind him stood three people dressed as county officials holding knives...... Don't think about it, this should be the careless pavilion marquis!

As for the other man, he was standing very forward, but he stood in the drizzle outside the porch, a tall man. It's drizzling, and I can't see my face clearly, and the clothes on my body are not particularly gorgeous, so I should be a guard from the standing...... The reason why the tall officials noticed him was only because the warrior knew that this person was the most courageous among these sword-wielding men.

"Are you the official sent by County Magistrate Zhen?" When the tall officials were looking around, the careless waiter with extraordinary bearing had already asked softly. "Come forward, the person in your hand is the person who knows what the official document says?"

"Returning to the prince," the tall official stepped directly into the corridor and came to the other party a few steps under the nervous gaze of the two or three county officials opposite, but he suddenly knocked the person in his hand unconscious and threw it to the ground, and then calmly bowed his hand. "It's good that this person is an informed person, but he is not a clerk in Xiangguo County."

Na Wuhou was stunned when he heard this, and then asked curiously, "Then who are you?" ”

"Returning to the prince," the tall official bowed again, and then calmly responded. "There is an assassin below, and the people of this earth and I have a hundred gold, please ask me to come here to assassinate the king, so I can make this trip."

The corridor was silent for a while, and after a few breaths, the county officials who were standing behind Wuwu suddenly pulled out their waist knives and confronted this person, and one of them hurriedly stepped forward to grab the unconscious person on the ground and search and bind him.

Wu Tinghou, who was sitting cross-legged in the corridor, was also stunned for a moment, but after all, he was extraordinary, and after reacting, he was not in a hurry, "Look at this situation, is the strong man ready to kill me?" And he got lost and returned to capture this person? ”

"Not necessarily." The tall assassin calmly confronted. "It's just that this person is captured and presented first, as for whether I have 'lost my way back', in fact, there is still a question, if I can't figure it out, I will always be unwilling."

"Now this situation ......" Wu Hou, who was sitting there cross-legged, looked back at several knife-wielding county officials behind him, and couldn't help but laugh for a while. Anyway, you ask, I wonder why you changed your mind on the spur of the moment! ”

"It's not a temporary change of mind." The tall assassin shook his head again and again, but he was awe-inspiring, and even had a feeling of being sexual. "Do you know who this person I knocked unconscious is?"

Wu Hou glanced at the unconscious man who had been tied up beside him, and shook his head slightly.

"This person is called Shen Hu, it is the son of the Shen family of Zhao Guo, he is brave and ruthless on weekdays, he is a ranger style person, and he is somewhat famous in Zhao State, Wei County, Julu, and Changshan...... On the same day, the three brothers of the Shen family were first executed, and then they were exterminated by the monarch, and this person happened to be wandering outside as a guest, so he hid in a friend's house and survived. ”

"I see," the Hou Ye was not in a hurry. "It makes sense, if a mortal wants to do something, there must always be a reason...... Whether it is revenge for friends or revenge for the family, it is all reasonable. What about you, the strong man, why did you mingle with this man? ”

"Me? I was originally from Changshan, first I was a ranger, and then my family fell into the middle of the road, and I had to enter the Taihang Mountains...... Of course, it is not the Taihang Mountain in Handan, but in the north Xiangguo, Bairen and even Changshan...... In short, the previous reputation is still there, so I often go down the mountain to do some business. ”

"It seems that your business is good, and the commission of 100 gold is not a small amount."

"But I was also forced to be helpless." The assassin was a little moved at this point. "I have been famous in Changshan since I was a teenager, and I got a little mixed number, and after entering Taihang Mountain, this name is getting bigger and bigger, so that many people help the old and the young to go to the mountains to join me, and finally accumulate more and more, it is also difficult to feed, so I have to do this kind of business, so after getting this person's thousand stone grain and 100 gold invitation, I united my friends in the Taihang Mountains in Xiangguo County, and came down to help together......"

"I see...... "The careless waiter with the purple ribbon gold seal was stunned when he heard this, and he also had some awakening meaning." Since you are the leader of the Taihang Mountain bandits, I think you want to ask us about the extermination of the bandits in the mountains here in Handan? Do you want to intercede for them? ”

"No," the assassin shook his head. "I have been in the city for two days, and I have learned some information...... With all due respect, since those people in the mountains have made up their minds to resist, it is up to them to succeed or fail, so why bother asking? I just want to ask your nobles, although the displaced people who were appeased by you before have been resettled, but over time, how can you ensure that these people will no longer be forced to go up the mountain? As I said before, I am in the mountains, but I see more and more people going up the mountain! ”

Hou Ye, who was sitting there cross-legged, was speechless for a while.

"For one term, perform one position, do one responsibility, do one thing, can only be said to do your best." At this moment, in the gradually dense drizzle next to him, a person suddenly raised his voice to answer. "I can't control others, but since my Gongsun Xun is in charge of the ruling side, there is a time for a while, how can I let this world go on and relax?"

The assassin was stunned for a moment, and then he looked back blankly, only to find that it was actually the tall guard standing outside the eaves of the porch who was speaking, and he couldn't help but be shocked and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"This is my prince." At this time, the 'unworried' sitting on the wooden board in the corridor got up with a smile, and then directly untied the seal ribbon from his waist, and calmly stepped forward to hand it over to the 'guard'. "I am the Guangping Frustration Sect of Wei County, and when the prince of my family heard you coming, he guessed that there was a fraud in the matter, and he wanted to use this to set up a situation to capture him on the spot, but he didn't want to meet a righteous man."

The Assassin was stunned...... He usually thinks very highly of himself, and he has always taken the initiative to control the situation since he came in, but at this time, he was suddenly overturned, and he couldn't help but lose his temper.

"This is my answer, what do the righteous think?" Gongsun Xun stepped out of the rain under the porch, calmly took the seal, and then turned around to look at the tall assassin again.

"Return to the nobles." The Assassin came to his senses and sighed helplessly. "Your nobleman's reply was not satisfactory to me, but it was enough to leave me speechless...... After all, if it weren't for the fact that the city had known what the noble man had done in the past two days, and that the noble man was a capable official, how could I have offered this person to the battle? ”

"I think so." Gongsun Xun stomped on the water stains on his feet, and he did not shy away from it. "Since ancient times, the Assassins put righteousness first, and my father-in-law Sun Xun asked himself that everything he did in Handan was selfless, and if this remnant of the Shen clan wanted to take revenge, I naturally had nothing to say. But today, what is it that you claim to be a benevolent and righteous person, but you want to kill me for a hundred gold? ”

The Assassin stopped talking.

"What else do you have to say?" Gongsun Xun asked disapprovingly.

"There is nothing else to say...... the Assassin reluctantly.

"Even so, I won't ask your name, nor do I inquire about other information, you break the covenant of 100 gold, and I will also give you 100 gold to repay the favor, the rivers and lakes are far away, don't pass by, the next time we meet, the official and the thief will not stand apart!" Gongsun Xun waved his hand again and again, actually trying to drive this person out.

And this person was stunned for a long time, but after all, he was helpless, so he had to give up.

When he was frustrated, he also wanted to speak and stopped.

"Drag this Shenhu down and torture him," Gongsun Xun continued to command. "Ask ...... reason for this"

Several county officials immediately dragged the unconscious man to the front of the official temple.

A moment later, just as Gongsun Xun was damp and thinking about the rain line outside the corridor, Fu Zong finally mustered up the courage to speak again...... But at this time, there was another commotion outside, as if Wang Xiu, who was loyal to his duties, hurriedly arrived after hearing the news.

"Dereliction of duty on the part of subordinates!" As soon as Wang Xiufu came to him, he directly leaned over and pleaded guilty. "Let the assassins get in front of the prince."

"Shuzhi doesn't have to be like this," Gongsun Xun hurriedly helped up this powerful subordinate who was getting heavier and heavier in his heart. "I just saw through this person's whereabouts and wanted to take the opportunity to capture it, but it was not in the way...... I don't want to meet someone interesting. ”

"But why didn't the prince directly order people to take down these people in the front yard of the official temple?" Wang Xiu still found it difficult to accept. "Why bring in a backyard?"

"Brother Shuzhi, this is inconsiderate of the prince's painstaking efforts." Frustrated Zong finally opened his mouth. "Junhou is afraid that he will be scared of the grass and snakes, so that his uncle and brother will be in danger, so he introduced it in the backyard...... In the words of the prince, if the people are separated in the future and introduced into the backyard, it is only one or two people, and if they are prepared, then they can naturally deal with it calmly, not to mention that we have also set a strategy for phantom transformation. ”

"That's good," Gongsun Xun also smiled wryly. "There aren't many powerful samurai around, but I'm a rare good player in the temple...... It's really a lack of people when they use it! ”

This time it was Wang Xiu's turn to stop talking.

"I was about to ask the prince." Hearing this, Fu Zong raised his eyebrows, and finally couldn't help but ask. "When the assassin heard that the prince had a good way of administration, he defected to the battle, and he was also a rare righteous man, and he was also a rare warrior...... Why didn't the prince take the opportunity to keep him, but refused to be thousands of miles away? ”

"Because he'll be back." Gongsun Xun immediately turned around and sneered.

"What does that mean?" Fu Zong was also stunned. "How did the prince know?"

"Just guessed from two things." Gongsun Xun saw that the floor was soaked, so he still stood there and explained. "The princess saw that he was righteous, but didn't he think that he was a restless lord? The young heroes are well-known, and later they went to Taihang Mountain to be a coward, and it is estimated that they are also ordinary and lawless; And after going up the mountain for Kou, his people are even more to recruit displaced people, invite people to buy people's hearts, according to his own words, Taihang Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, he actually has a lot of fame from Changshan to Zhao State...... What does he want to do?! ”

Frustrated, he was speechless.

"If you are stupid, you want to rebel and replace the Han family; If you are smart, you must be like most rangers, and you want to find a background...... It's just that he took a fork in the road and accidentally became a thief. Wang Xiu on the side said coldly, breaking this person's mind. And then I was still unwilling. ”

"It must be the latter." Frustrated Zong also reacted. "Otherwise, I will never pay attention to the matter of the prince and the prince appeasing Taihang Mountain, and I will not specifically ask those people about the things that they dealt with later......"

"That's not all," Gongsun Xun sneered more and more. "After he entered, he obviously saw that I was extraordinary, but as soon as his eyes fell on the scarf mark on your body, he couldn't take his eyes off it, and he didn't doubt anything else, just stared at you, the 'prince', and spoke, as if he was intentional...... Or that he didn't directly take down that Shenhu and enter it, or directly killed Shenhu to see me, I was afraid that he wanted to take the opportunity to show himself in front of me. The mind is too heavy! ”

Fu Zong was completely speechless...... Now that I think about it, the other party's words and deeds seem to be taking the initiative to explain their abilities, as if they are ...... It's like when a big family invites guests, some people go up and boast about it.

"The prince said that he guessed from two things that he would inevitably come back, one is that his mind is not pure, and the other thing is what to say?" Wang Xiu frowned and asked.

"Another thing......" Gongsun Xun's expression was no longer mocking, but cold. Let me ask you, how many thieves can burn down a manor? ”

"According to the patriarch of the Zhang clan, the scale of his family's manor is at least two or three hundred, and it's hard to say more." Wang Xiu easily came up with the answer with a little calculation.

"What about people now?" Gongsun Xun asked abruptly. "So many thieves, where are the people now?!"

Wang Xiu and Fu Zong were not talents in military strategy, so neither reacted...... Of course, Wang Xiu followed Gongsun Xun to participate in the whole battle of Goguryeo, and may have understood the meaning of his own prince, but at this time, Gongsun Xun was obviously a little angry, but it was not good to say much.

"On the day the Shen clan was wiped out, this Shen Hu happened to go out, and then was hidden by his friends...... Who is this friend? ”

"This thief will not come sooner or later, and he will not do it until the brave men around me have been sent out to suppress the bandits, and he will be forced to transfer out the last powerful people around me, and then he will strike a dangerous blow...... What a broad vision and what a keen eye? Can a son of a heroic man with a heroic name think of it? ”

"Thousands of stones of grain, plus 100 gold for an appointment, please ask the assassin who was very famous in Zhao and Changshan just now to lead so many Taihang Mountain bandits to make a move...... Can this be done by a powerful son of a ruined family?! ”

"The reason why that thief disappeared is that he was deliberately hidden by this friend." After a series of questions, Gongsun Xun asserted. "And this 'friend' is so powerful...... Tell me, what kind of person should it be? ”

"I'm afraid it's just one of the few families in Zhao Kingdom." Frustrated Zong said in a gaffe. "It's really hateful to be afraid of the prince on the surface, but to do such things behind the scenes!"

"That's not all I hate." Gongsun Xun stretched out his hand and continued to speak with the rain line outside the corridor. "Think about it again, since that Taihang Mountain bandit is all in the hands of that 'friend', why does this assassin dare to give Shen Hu so easily?!"

Wang Xiu and Fu Zong glanced at each other, and their bodies were also cold...... A figure like the assassin just now seemed to live on fame, so it was absolutely impossible for him to ignore the lives of those bandits! However, this person still offered Shen Hu directly, who gave him the guts?!

And on second thought, in fact, whether it is a hundred gold or a thousand stones of grain, it must have been from that 'friend', so before the assassin came, it was as if he was directly discussing 'business' with his 'friend'.

In other words, this assassin had received the exact information, so he dared to offer Shen Hu easily.

In other words, that 'friend' had the intention of killing Shen Hu because of the discord in the matter.

"But ......it's a hundred secrets," Wang Xiu said suddenly. That 'friend' must have asked the assassin to present it with the head of Shenhu instead of sending it to the prince as a living person, but he could never have imagined that the assassin was just a bandit in the mountains, and he actually had his own thoughts, and this person actually acted on his own in order to face the prince. And when the assassin comes to his senses, he will inevitably come back to ask the lord for help! ”

"I don't know when this Shenhu confessed?" The Frustrated Sect has repeatedly lost his temper today. "I also know this 'friend' of Zhao Guo, who is warm-hearted in the ancient way!"

"It's just ......," Wang said again in confusion. I still don't know something...... If this 'friend' had a bad heart for Shenhu in the first place, why did he take him in in the first place? Do you have to go through so much trouble? What about reporting it at the time, or simply rejecting it? ”

"I've roughly guessed it." Gongsun Xun, who had been staring at the rain line on the eaves for a long time, spoke again. "But there's no hurry...... Or Shenhu confessed or that 'righteous man' came to pour beans with my bamboo tube, anyway, the truth will be revealed today! ”

………………

It was getting late, but the rain was slowing down.

Gongsun Xun changed his clothes, and did not let Wang Xiu go, but re-established a few cases, plus a frustrated sect, the three of them played the four seasons animal card, and then quietly waited for the news to come.

"Return to the prince!" After leaning for a while, the jailer came several times in the afternoon, and the jailer turned back again, and his face was full of water droplets, and I don't know if it was rain or what. "That Shenhu still didn't recruit, we told him directly according to the meaning of the frustrated son, it was his 'friend' who sold him, and now as long as he knows the life of that 'friend', he will be let live. But he bluntly begged for death, and claimed that although he was sold by others, he did not want to be a traitor! ”

Gongsun Xun smiled dumbly, "It doesn't matter, since he is so affectionate...... Three Monkeys...... Since he was so affectionate, he killed him in prison, and his mind was full. ”

The jailer immediately took his leave...... Pity a Shen Yu Gu, who worked hard to see the enemy, but he didn't have time to say the first half of the sentence, and now he hurriedly gave his life.

"I just don't know when that Chu Tongdu) Feiyan will come?" Wang Xiu seemed to be absent-minded about the game. "It can't be someone who killed you, right?"

"Not really." Gongsun Xun shook his head again and again. "After hearing that Shenhu said that this person was called Chu Yan and called Feiyan, I felt that this person had some luck...... Of course, if I don't come again, I'm going to be angry...... Although Hebei is really a person, but I don't believe Zhao, why should I give him face?! ”

As soon as the words fell, a bloodstained person came out from behind the pond, "Chu Yan visited the prince, please forgive the prince for the rude crime before going down, and ask the prince to save my subordinates, I know that they are thieves, I dare not ask for forgiveness, I just want to live......"

Saying that, this Chu Yan actually knelt down and pleaded directly by the pond.

"Sure enough, it's Feiyan." Fu Zong couldn't help but mutter. "When did you turn in?"

"Why are they all so affectionate?" Gongsun Xun sneered, and then suddenly got up. "It's like I'm the only one who doesn't understand...... Chu Yan! ”

"In!"

"I'll only ask you one thing!"

"Prince, please speak."

"Is that the 'friend' who took in Shen Hu before and now holds your subordinates Zhen Du, the county magistrate of Xiangguo?"

Wang Xiu and Fu Zong were stunned, and then they all looked at the 'Feiyan' by the pond.

I don't know when it started, the sky has gradually cleared, and at this time, the sunset is exhausted, reflected on the edge of the pond, the water droplets and grass, it is very beautiful!

Chu Yan was also stunned when she heard this, but after all, she sighed, and then kowtowed on the grass to plead guilty, "The prince is civil and martial, but Chu Yan is ridiculous, but he is self-righteous, it is really an axe...... Please save my subordinates, but if you can live their lives, I am willing to repay the great kindness of the prince and marquis. ”

"You say the place, I'll write a letter and let the three hundred cars cruising in Xiangguo County ride to find someone." Gongsun Xun's face was still a little unsightly. "But say it in advance, this may not be useful, and if you find them, you must deal with them according to the law!"

"It's a matter of whether it's useful or not, and it's also a matter of dealing with it according to law, but the prince is willing to save it, and he has already made Zai Xia grateful!" Chu Yan hurriedly said. "My people were taken by the county magistrate of Nazhen and hid in a manor under the Su Ren Pavilion."

At this time, Wang Xiu and Fu Zong had already pushed away the wooden card, presented paper and pen, and Gongsun Xun raised his hand to write a note. However, as soon as he wrote a line, a county official suddenly came to report outside the door.

"What's the matter?" Gongsun Xun's heart moved, and his face was even more ugly. "Don't tell me it's Xiangguo that has a message!"

The other three people in the backyard looked at the people who came, and the people who came were at a loss for a while, but they still laughed, "The prince is really clever...... An official document came from Xiangguo County, saying that the magistrate of Xiangguo Zhen had obtained the thief's affection, and then captured a Zhuangzi under the rule of Su Renting in Xiangguo County, and wiped out the thieves! However, this official document also said that it is strange that this manor is actually the private property of the Handan clan! ”

Gongsun Xun suddenly got up and kicked away the several cases in front of him.

——————I am the dividing line between the many true feelings in the world————

"Living deep in the city, spring goes to summer.

Providence is merciful to the grass, and the world is sunny at night. - "Evening Sunshine" Li Shangyin