Kong Shangxian sat in the hut of the Governor's Courtyard in a daze, still at a loss. In his mind, the two "I's" are slowly overlapping.

One is the "me" who was high and commanding in the past, and no one could help himself;

The other was "I" who deliberately injured people and fed poison on the sword, causing Xue Bian, the "Iron Scroll Golden Book", to die of poison. ”

These two of me had a violent conflict in Kong Sang-hyun's mind! He scattered his hair, like a wounded leopard, and jumped to his feet! Grasping the iron railing on the window, he shouted loudly outside: "I didn't feed poison on the sword!" I didn't feed the poison! I didn't! Nope! ”

The voice echoed in the courtyard, but the guards at the door were unmoved. Kong Shangxian woke up suddenly, he shook the iron railing desperately, and shouted to the guards: "I am Yan Shenggong!" I am Yan Shenggong! You will take me with the Holy Lord's approval! You have no power! Let me out! I want to see the governor! You have no power! No! ”

He roared, but everything seemed so pale. Because the people who can enter this annex to be on duty are all cronies of the governor!

After shouting for a long time, Kong Shangxian saw that there was no feedback, and his heart slowly began to despair. Don't...... Do you really confess here? I always feel that something is wrong, but ...... But I can't say the specifics. Kong Shangxian's mind was stuffy, he seemed to have grasped something, but in an instant, it slipped away from his fingertips.

Kong Shangxian was unwilling to give up like this, he threw himself in front of the iron window again, and shouted: "Yang Ben'an! Yang Ben'an! You come out for me! I didn't kill anyone! I didn't do that! I want to see the emperor! Yang Ben'an! ”

Maybe Cang Tian heard his cry from the soul, but at the door of the backyard, someone really came. A man, he paced slowly, to his window!

Is that the ...... What a cha of that! That kid who wears a pair of pants and a four-grade official uniform with Xue Bian! He came the same!

Kong Shangxian suddenly came to his senses, and shouted through the window: "Brother Xian! No, Lord Chincha! I was wronged! I didn't kill anyone! Xue Bian...... Xue Bian, I didn't kill him! I didn't! I've never fed poison on a sword! ”

I stood outside the window and watched Kong Shangxian scream miserably. When he saw me, he seemed to be a drowning man grasping at the last straw, and almost exerted all his strength to justify, but what was the use?

I just looked at him quietly, and when he stopped screaming and paused slightly, I spoke: "The evidence of this matter is conclusive, and the governor Yang Ben'an has ordered someone to report to the Jingshi immediately!" Aren't you going to see the Holy One? ”

I smiled, and seeing Kong Shangxian's sluggish face, I continued: "Early tomorrow morning, your recital will be placed on the royal table of the Holy One. Shousuke will see it tomorrow afternoon at the latest. ”

Of course, I won't tell him that the first assistant received this letter earlier than the Holy Lord. Because the letter has been sent to Shoufu for 800 miles today--this is what I agreed with Yang Ben'an, and Shoufu will be able to see it tonight at the latest. However, it was two hours late. The Holy One saw that it would be tomorrow morning at the earliest. And this time difference is enough for Shousuke to read my secret letter and make the most perfect decision.

So I looked at him lightly and added: "So, don't be anxious, right and wrong, the saint has his own judgment!"

Kong Shangxian listened to me say this, and seemed to feel a little at ease, and he muttered in his mouth: "I didn't kill anyone!" The Holy One knows! He'll do it for me! Thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong, and shouted at me: "I want to face the holy retribution!" I'm going out! You don't have the right to arrest me! I am Yan Shenggong! You have no power! ”

I moved closer to his face, almost against his face, and said slowly, "I know that you are the Holy Father of Yan, and the Governor also knows. But you killed someone you shouldn't have killed! ”

Watching him slowly release his hand from the iron railing, I continued, "It is also for your own good that you have been arranged to meditate here. You see, the drinks and snacks are all prepared, Master Kong! We are also afraid that you will be emotional and hurt yourself or others! ”

Kong Shangxian didn't know how to refute for a while, but he knew that he couldn't stay here, absolutely not! He pulled the window bar and shouted, "Let me out!" Someone is trying to hurt me! I didn't feed the poison! ”

I smiled and said to the guards, "Master Kong's emotions are violently moving, and I am afraid that it will be harmful to the body. If he screams again, he will be cut off from his diet! Well, if he loses his diet, then Gong Bucket will be useless, and if he shouts again, he will withdraw Gong Bucket with him! ”

The two sergeants forced a smile and bowed their hands to me: "Yes! My lord! ”

When Kong Shangxian heard me say this, he immediately said angrily: "Boy! How dare you do this to me! I'm going to play you! You wait! I'm not done with you! ”

The two sergeants glanced back at Kong Shangxian, turned their heads and asked me with a smile: "My lord, Lord Kong is so loud, does it count as a shout!"

I looked at the sergeant who asked me and smiled, "As long as you can hear it, it's counted!"

The two of them laughed "poof" and arched their hands: "Order!"

turned around and unlocked the door, and Kong Shangxian saw someone passing through the window, and estimated that he was going to open the door, so he wanted to take the opportunity to come out, so he squeezed out along the crack in the door! The sergeant who opened the door was already on guard, and he kicked through the crack in the door and handed it in!

only heard Kong Shangxian's "oops" call, he was already lying down on his back, and shouted to himself: "You dare to beat me!" I'm going to sue you! Sue you! ”

But the two sergeants were unmoved, and when they entered the house, they took the plates and buckets, and locked them when they went out.

Kong Shangxian got up from the ground, rushed to the window and shouted, "I'm going to sue you!" Sue you! ”

I glanced back at him and said aloud, "Of course! It's your power! ”

After that, he turned around and left, but whispered to himself: "But at least, I have to wait for you to get out of here!"

Looking up, looking at the heavy twilight, I sighed, people like Kong Shangxian, leading the imperial court, digging the corners of finance, smashing the signboards of the Ming Dynasty, and enjoying themselves. How can such a dynasty, a decaying dynasty, not die? I helped Zhang Juzheng this time, it is an obligation to do what the Han people can, next time...... There's no next time!

Shaking his head, he glanced back at the direction Kong Shangxian's voice came from, sighed again, and slowly left the backyard.

Yang Ben'an's mood is very good, and the good ones can be called excited! With his hands behind his back, he walked around the room, walking around that circle, as if he wanted to shout happily to express his heart, and as if shouting like this was not enjoyable. He didn't know what he wanted or what he wanted to do at this moment, but he knew that he was going to see someone right now.

At this moment, the door rang, Yang Ben'an looked up, haha smiled, it was the sleepiness that met the pillow, the person he wanted to see was standing at the door, but it was just me!

"Qilan, you're here!" Yang Ben'an came over and pulled me, walked back to the table, and motioned for me to sit and sit on the other side. He sat down, turned his head and smiled and asked me, "How is he?"

I picked up the tea bowl, blew and took a sip, looked at Yang Ben'an with a smile and said, "Suddenly suffered a catastrophe, inexplicable, my lord, what do you say he should do at this time?"

Yang Ben'an laughed hahaha Fang looked up at me for a while and said, "Shoufu's eyes are like torches, and choosing and employing people is really like a god!" Xiaguan Yang Ben'an really admires! I really admire it! ”

I arched my hand and said with a smile: "Lord Yang, you won't praise me on your face, but in your heart you say that I don't follow the rules, don't follow common sense, and be ruthless!"

Yang Ben'an was stunned for a moment, then pointed at me and said with a smile: "I have long heard that Sun Qilan of Guangning Daying played cards out of common sense, and I never thought it would be so difficult to resist!"

I sipped my tea and smiled without saying a word.

Yang Ben'an restrained his smile and said: "Brother Xian, although you and I are more than twenty years apart, but my brother and I seem to be old acquaintances with you, since you ask, I will say it directly!" After speaking, he looked at me fixedly.

I put down the tea bowl, nodded and said, "Brother, please speak!"

Yang Ben'an moved closer and lowered his voice: "Shoufu Zhang Jiangling (Zhang Juzheng's number), people say that he is a powerful minister, covering the sky with one hand; Your previous commander, Qi Nantang, why don't people say that he blindly clings to Shoufu and is complicit? But I look at that ......."

He brought his two hands to his chest, clenched his fists and said, "In this Ming world, if you don't hold power tightly in your hands, how can you show your ambitions?"

He looked at me, slowly let go of a hand, palm up, as if picking a bowl, he said in a low voice: "If not, and don't say anything else, can Zhang Jiangling promote this Qingzhang land?" I'm afraid that he won't be able to pass the high arch level! ”

Humming and laughing, he said again: "Even if Gao Gong returns to his hometown, who knows if there is Li Gong?" Wang Gong? Zhang Gong? In short, if you don't grasp the authority, you can't move an inch! Do you say yes and no? ”

I smiled and nodded, "Yes!" ”

So he let go of his other hand and continued: "Your original coach, Qi Jiguang Qi Nantang, people say that he is blindly attached to Shoufu, but if it is not so, hum, it is not my intention to be a marquis, but I hope that Hai Bo is peaceful." These two sentences, I'm afraid that he won't be able to achieve a single sentence, and he will have already become a grain of sand in the sea! ”

Hearing this, I already knew what he was going to say, so I said, "So ......"

He interrupted: "So, it doesn't matter if the knife is right or wrong, the key depends on the person who uses the knife!" ”

This sentence echoed in my heart for a long time! The one who uses the knife, I am the one who uses the knife, in the previous life as a cleaner, my heart and my subordinates never distinguished between right and wrong, and in this life, I am for the sake of ...... For the sake of the homeland, for the sake of the people, and let the hands be stained with blood, Lu Zeping, Yan Chongsi, Tatars, and now Xue Bian and Kong Shangxian, am I really doing the right thing?

Yang Ben'an saw that I was thinking endlessly, and after waiting for a while, Fang smiled and said: "If you blindly obsess about right and wrong, you won't be able to do great things, and you will have an uneasy conscience!" So Brother Xian, you don't have to! You don't have to! ”

I was silent and nodded. After a while, Fang said: "What my brother said is true! Qilan has been taught! ”

Yang Ben'an smiled and continued: "This time, Kong Shangxian killed Xue Bian by mistake, for us, the opportunity has come!" Next, we will completely remove these two nails in one go according to our previous expectations! ”

When I heard this, I immediately lifted my spirits. Indeed, so much foreshadowing has been done before, for the harvest after this! How can you influence big things for the sake of problems that you can't figure out? So I nodded and said, "There is no problem with Shousuke, so there is no problem with the Holy One." What we need to do is to cut through the mess quickly, and never give the Xue family and the Kong family a chance to reflexively fight back! ”

Yang Ben'an said: "Exactly! All the paperwork methods have been completed, as soon as we receive the approval of the imperial court, we will start immediately! ”

I laughed and said, "Let them have no words!" ”

Yang Ben'an also smiled: "I can't argue!" ”

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, followed by thunder, a strong wind, and a torrential rain.