Cheng Huang, nicknamed Lord Cheng, is a eunuch veteran who entered the palace during the Shun Emperor period, and because of his qualifications, he was ranked at the top of the eunuchs very early and became a regular servant.

And although he is old, he is a typical long-sleeved dancer, two-faced and three-swords, and is very good at welcoming the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven after the new emperor ascends the throne, so he is not considered to be the so-called old-school eunuch...... Even on the contrary, in this wave of counterattack against the old eunuchs, the Yang Qiu of the main knife is his son-in-law!

Of course, from the nickname of Lord Cheng, you can probably guess that Cheng Huang should have a lot of beautiful daughters, so there should also be a lot of powerful sons-in-law, but there may not be a lot of powerful guards......

"Hula!"

As the wooden door of the bedroom was opened, Master Cheng Huangcheng, who was still asleep, was dragged out of the room directly by the two Cao guests with knives...... Master Cheng also immediately sobered up!

"Master Cheng." Cao Jie sneered, then paced forward.

"I'm an old waste, how dare I call an adult in front of Gong Cao?" There is no need to look at people at all, after Cheng Huang heard the voice, he immediately knelt down and pleaded for mercy despite being soaked. "Cao Gong, don't torture the villain."

"Hey." Cao Jie stood with his hands in his hands and shook his head again and again. "I have a request for Cheng Changshi now, if I don't shout an adult, according to your old rules, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it."

"Gong Cao has something to say, why do you want to visit in person in the middle of the night?" Cheng Huang became more and more frightened.

"I said it all, I'm here to ask Master Cheng to do something." As he spoke, Cao Jie also raised his foot and kicked the other party. Master Cheng quickly got up.

Cheng Huang became more and more frightened, but he still managed to get up, and then, his eyes straightened...... Because right in front of him, behind Cao Jie, and under the torches, there was a box of treasures, full of gold and jade!

"How?" Cao Jie leaned forward and asked with a smile. "My lord also called, and the goods were delivered...... Then Lord Cheng, should you do something for me Cao Hanfeng. ”

Cheng Huang immediately shuddered, and then reacted suddenly-the person in front of him has been in charge of the government for more than ten years, and now he is also the first person in the dynasty of Da Changqiu and Shang Shuling, the dignified Cao Festival Cao Hanfeng!

Not to mention, his family and servants are not moving now, as if they are all restrained, and the dozen or so Cao guests in front of him are also staring at him with knives!

Of course, there is such a box of treasures in the courtyard...... It's so pretty!

"Cao Gong, just say it!" As soon as he thought of this, Cheng Huang immediately bowed and saluted despite being soaked, and his tone was much firmer. "But if you have orders, the villain will do his best."

"That's right." Cao Jie couldn't help but laugh dryly. "I want to ask Master Cheng about something, your two sons-in-law, Wei Wei Yangqiu and Situ Liu He, have been in close contact recently, I don't know what they are planning in private?"

Rao is Cheng Huang has been pinched before, and he can't help but look bitter at this time...... You must know that this Liu He and Yang Qiu are both his reliance on the pension in the future, how can he say that he will sell them?

"Cao Gong!" Cheng Huang immediately knelt down and said earnestly. "It's not that I don't want to answer, it's just that ...... Although these two are my sons-in-law, they are only 'little sons-in-law', and they are all ministers and dignitaries, so they have a plan in private, so they won't tell my father-in-law, right? ”

"That's right." Cao Jie immediately bowed his head. "That's good...... Zixian! ”

Luo Mu, who was standing in the shadows behind, immediately waved his hand when he heard this, and immediately, Cheng Huang's gaze couldn't move again...... It turned out that at the beckoning of the bearded scribe, another box full of goods was lifted up with an open lid. And this time, although it is not as dazzling as the last box of gold and jade, Lord Cheng, who knows the goods, knows that this Liaodong ginseng and Xuansu river pearls are rare treasures in the world today, and they are more real than the previous box of gold and jade.

It's not over yet, just when Cheng Huang couldn't help swallowing his saliva, he suddenly heard a scream in the side yard, which frightened him and immediately collapsed to the ground. After a while, a young woman's bloody head was carried by a guest of the Cao family...... Lord Cheng looked at it and almost fainted, this turned out to be his newly adopted daughter.

Cao Jie seemed to be smiling, and directly took the head and threw it at the other party's feet: "Master Cheng, do you think I don't know what you are doing with such a adopted daughter?" Teach them how to serve men, teach them how to listen to news, and tell them that as a little wife, if you want to be petted, you have to rely on you, and then pass on the news to you...... What's new in the world? Back then, the Empress Dowager Dou gave the ministers and palace maids the old methods. ”

Cheng Huang trembled like chaff, he didn't want to turn his face away and not look at his adopted daughter's head...... But under Cao Jie's obscenity, he didn't dare to move his head at all.

"Say, I've added another box of treasures, you can't just collect money and do nothing, right?" Cao Jie continued to be impatient. "What are Yang Qiu and Liu He discussing?"

"Don't dare to deceive Cao Gong." Cheng Huang took the opportunity to raise his head, and under the light of the torch, he saw that his face was full of water droplets, and he didn't know whether it was the previous well water, tears, or sweat. "Yang Qiu and Liu He, those two idiots, are indeed plotting against Cao Gong. Moreover, Liu He didn't agree at first, but later Chen Qiu of Yongle Shaofu wrote a letter to Liu He, and invited Liu Ne, an infantry captain, to advise him in person, and Liu He agreed......"

Cao Jie couldn't help but turn around and glance at his henchman Luo Mu...... That's right, Luo Mu's guess is not wrong at all!

"And they are also self-aware, what they are asking for now is to push Yangqiu to the position of captain of Si Li." At this point, Cheng Huang avoided the head of his adopted daughter and kowtowed to the ground again and again. "Other than that, I don't know anything."

When Cao Jie heard this, he couldn't help laughing with Luo Mu at first, and then turned around, looked at Cheng Huang condescendingly and said:

"Master Cheng, you can't 'not know anything else'. Na Yang Qiu, Chen Qiu, Liu Ne, Liu He...... Well, there is also Gongsun Xun, these people are connected with each other and plotting against each other, intending to kill Da Changqiu and Shangshu Ling Cao Jie first, and then lead the infantry battalion soldiers to mutiny and force the palace, and finally to promote Liu He as the Son of Heaven, you still need to come out and denounce! ”

As soon as these words came out, not to mention that Cheng Huang's face was shocked, even Luo Mu, who was originally smiling, was also disgraced for a while.

"Cao Gong!" Cheng Huang immediately screamed. "It's a joke!"

"Your Excellency." Luo Mu was also a little frightened. "Removing the first evil is, why do you want to destroy the human race? Behind these families are all big families, all of them are related to each other......"

"Zixian thinks too much." Cao Jie ignored Cheng Huang, but turned back to explain patiently to his henchmen. "Where am I going to destroy the human race? You also said that these people are all famous families behind them, all of them are related to each other, and they are entrenched in one side...... To deal with these people, if you want to get rid of the first evil, you must deal with it as the crime of exterminating the clan, and if you only want to get rid of the first evil at the beginning, I am afraid that it will be the result of demotion and dismissal. ”

Luo Mu was immediately stunned.

"At the end of the day." Cao Jiefu smiled proudly under the torch again. "It was also they who killed themselves, and Yang Qiu had already made the Son of Heaven angry when he hit the Son of Heaven in front of him before. And Chen Qiu is the leader of the Xuzhou clan, Liu Ne is an infantry captain, and Liu He is an important minister of the clan...... What if such a group of people are unfounded? As long as the matter of rebellion is handed over, the Son of Heaven will be as unbearable as a thorn in his heart, and these people will definitely die! ”

Cheng Huang, who was kneeling on the ground, kowtowed again: "In that case, why does Cao Gong have to be this wicked man?" Just find someone to take the lead ......"

"Where is Master Cheng, you are suitable?" Cao Jie immediately disdained. "You are the father-in-law of Yang Qiu and Liu He, you go out to sue ...... The Son of Heaven can also believe more, right? ”

Cheng Huang wanted to cry without tears: "Why should Cao Gong be embarrassed by me? If I sue my two sons-in-law, don't say anything about the world, and I'm an old eunuch who is qualified to say anything about the world...... Just say that in this palace and Luozhong, so many people call me Lord, if I really sue my son-in-law, how many of them will look up to me again? I'm afraid that everyone will regard me as a villain, and everyone will turn against me, right? The connections I've built up over the years are going to be gone. ”

Cao Jie looked unimpressed, but waved his hand again...... Oh, another box of Shu brocade was carried up.

It's just that at this time, instead of being happy, Cheng Huang was frightened: "What else is going to happen to Cao Gong?" Isn't it enough to kill my adopted daughter? ”

"What is an adopted daughter?" Cao Jie couldn't help but put his hands together and smiled. "Do you take this kind of adopted daughter seriously? I heard that you have taken a righteous son from your clan......"

Cheng Huang's complexion changed greatly.

"Go, cut off an ear first, if Lord Cheng is still unwilling to take the head, then bring the head directly." Luo Mu suddenly stepped out of the shadows. "Master Cheng, let me tell you bluntly, my lord has already sent you three boxes of goods, and then he also deigned to call you a few times...... So today's business, you have to do it, and you have to do it if you don't do it! ”

Cheng Huang stammered and was almost speechless.

"Cut off your ears!" Luo Mu couldn't help but urge.

"Don't go!" Master Cheng finally sat on the ground and cried. "I'm the first to ...... You say, "I'll write it, don't touch my son!" ”

Luo Mu immediately laughed and beckoned the guest who had just left to return.

"Nope." Cao Jie also laughed along. "It's better to cut off your ears and come back and write again......"

"Cao Gong!" Cheng Huang sobbed sideways. "Why did you do this to me?"

"What can you do?" Cao Jie said disapprerovitically. "You Lord Cheng betrayed his son-in-law and is ashamed of the world, but our Cao family has always been true to his word, so Zixian's words must be counted...... Since he said that he would cut off one ear, he must cut one ear first and then talk about the rest. ”

Luo Mu immediately bowed his head, and Cheng Huang burst into tears.

And after a while, with a scream and a human ear being thrown next to the woman's head, under the faint light of the east, Cheng Huang completely lost his intention to resist.

Seeing this situation, Luo Mu also hurriedly saluted Cao Jie at this time: "My lord, you still have to enter the palace after dawn to deal with the Son of Heaven, it is better to cultivate a thing or two, I will teach the adult here to write a first message." ”

Cao Jie nodded with satisfaction, then turned around and walked out.

As soon as his adult turned around, Luo Mu pricked up his eyes and scolded Cheng Huang sharply: "Get up and wash now, and then I say you write, and finally use the seal of your two thousand stones...... Not a word can be changed! ”

Hearing this, Cao Jie, who was about to step out of the backyard, became more and more proud.

In this way, after a night of tossing, seeing that the sky was about to dawn, Luo Mu finally walked out of the door with a piece of paper, but he almost tripped over something.

Seeing this, several guests around hurriedly supported each other, but at the same time, they couldn't help but accuse each other: "Why did you forget to take the head?" Almost tripped Luo Jun! ”

"Isn't it Brother Zhang, did you say that you want to leave this thing here to intimidate the other party?" 、

"Did I say that?"

"Brother Zhang, didn't I say you, the head of a righteous daughter, where can you intimidate this Cheng Huang? Look at his behavior at night, when did he treat the righteous girl as a person? Sooner or later, this righteous girl will be another family, so the head of this righteous girl is not as good as one of the ears of the righteous son. ”

"That is, the other generation can bow down to the ear, all relying on the prestige of our Cao Gong and Luo Jun......"

"Alright." When Luo Mu heard this, he couldn't help but feel irritable, so he immediately stopped drinking. Cao ...... Where are you now? ”

"I was sleeping soundly in the bedroom in the front yard, but half an hour ago, the second master suddenly came over, so I talked with the second master in the bedroom in the front yard."

"I'm going to see my lord." Luo Mu frowned and ordered. "And after a while, my lord and I are afraid that we will go out to do things, you will take care of the people of the Cheng family here, remember, unless Cheng Huang is summoned by the palace, no one is allowed to be released!"

"Whoa!" The guests hurriedly agreed.

Only then did Luo Mu take the paper and walk quickly to see Cao Jie.

"Excellent!" After Cao Jie took the paper and hurriedly swept a few lines, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. And so it was done! As soon as the morning dawns, I will go directly to the palace...... Broken stones! ”

"Big brother!" Cao Poshi on the side hurriedly leaned over to listen to the order.

"Didn't you tell me for a long time that you wanted to go to the house?" Cao Jie pointed to the names on the paper, and his eyebrows flew and danced. "And just go home and wait, after I make a decision from the palace and send the forbidden army to take down Chen Qiu, Liu He, Yang Qiu, and Liu Ne, you can go to Luoyang Ling Sima Fang under the pretext of searching for evidence in my name, and then you can openly copy the four people's homes in turn, which can be regarded as making up for some household ......"

Cao Poshi couldn't help but laugh proudly.

"Your Excellency!" Luo Mu suddenly interjected. "You can't let the second master go to the house!"

"Why?" Cao Poshi was furious. "When did our brother speak, when did you point fingers?"

"Your Excellency!" Luo Mu hurriedly said anxiously to Cao Jie. "We also said before that Chen Qiu, Yang Qiu, Liu He, Liu Ne and others are all from wealthy families...... Although this move is aimed at rebellion, it is only to kill the first evil, and you don't know the second master's character. If you fall in love with that woman in the Chen Mansion and the Liu Mansion again, maybe it will cause a big disaster! ”

Cao Poshi couldn't bear it at all, and his ferocious anger immediately surged, so he actually touched his waist, and when he reached out and touched it, he suddenly remembered that he was in a hurry, and before he could saber, he picked up a small table in the bedroom of this Cheng Mansion again, and smashed his head and face on the other party's head.

Between the lightning and flint, before Cao Jie could stop it, Luo Mu was smashed and broke his blood!

"Bastard!" Cao Jie reacted and was furious, and hurriedly grabbed the small one. "Get down on my knees!"

Cao Poshi also suddenly woke up, and hurriedly put down a few to make amends, and Cao Jie also hurriedly went to check Luo Mu's injury.

"It doesn't matter." Luo Mu wiped a handful of blood from his face, but found that the blood had soaked into his hair, and it was difficult to remove it for a while, so he simply ignored it, and just leaned over to Cao Jie again. "Your Excellency...... Please think twice about this! If the second master's temperament is not restrained, sooner or later he will bring disaster to the Cao family. We are doing thunderous deeds today just to live in peace in the future! ”

"I see." Cao Jie was distressed and helped the other party up. "I see."

"Big brother." Cao Poshi saw that Luo Mu was fine, and he was still alarmist, so he couldn't help but interject angrily. "I just want to preside over a raid and make a small fortune, how can I invite the disaster of annihilation? It's a big deal, I don't move women...... How is it?! ”

Cao Jie was irritable in his heart, on the one hand, he felt that Luo Mu was loyal, but on the other hand, he finally felt that his brother's request was difficult to veto, so he had to reluctantly reconcile the mud: "Zixian don't worry, you see that Poshi also promised not to touch women......"

Luo Mu's heart was depressed, and he was about to persuade again, but as soon as he saw the slightly impatient eyes of his adults, for some reason, he actually kept silent again...... I don't know what I'm thinking.

Cao Jie didn't have time to think about it, but he just smoothed out another housework that gave him a headache, so he couldn't help but get up with the paper and wanted to escape from here.

However, as soon as they came together, Cao Poshi suddenly shouted: "Big brother...... You just said four people, why is there one less Gongsun Xun? This kid came to the door that day, and let our brother be humiliated...... Luo Mu didn't write it, did he remember the kindness of a few meals in the righteous house that day and wait to repay the kindness? ”

Luo Mu was silent, blood running down his forehead but seeping into his beard.

"Can you shut up?" Cao Jie didn't have the strength to get angry. "Gongsun Xun's wife is Zhao Zhong's niece, and he himself is also Liu Kuan's student, if you really write this name, but because of this, you can't take down the other four, then it's a mistake!"

"Is that all there is to it?" Cao Poshi did not forgive.

"What's not counted?" Cao Jie couldn't help but get up and asked. "A kid who is just jumping around with the power of others, where does it matter? I, Cao Hanfeng, really haven't taken him seriously! ”

"The humiliation of that day was really embarrassing." Cao Poshi couldn't help but say urgently.

"Then I have to wait until I go to meet the Son of Heaven before making a decision." Cao Jie replied casually as he walked out. "If Zhao Zhong is here, I won't mention his name. But if Zhao Zhong is not there, I will mention it in passing. At that time, we will not punish him for capital crimes, but only find an implicated crime and send him to prison for a few days, and when Liu Kuan rescues him, maybe he will be crippled by us...... I want to see, at that time, he couldn't even ride a horse, where else could he do anything white horse Zhonglang? ”

Cao Poshi was immediately overjoyed, but when he turned around again, he found that Naluo's beard was staring at him, so he couldn't help but secretly scream bad luck, and then got up and chased his eldest brother out regardless of it, as if he was about to go home and wait for good news.

In other words, Cao Jie went straight into the palace and prepared to finish his work in one battle without mentioning it...... And until noon, after the Son of Heaven finally made up his mind to issue an edict to capture the four people involved in the case, whether it was Chen Qiu or Yang Qiu, almost all of them were captured by the forbidden army who had been prepared one by one.

However, when the people of Shangshutai learned the vague news that Yangqiu had been captured, and then asked Wang Lang to rush to Gongsun Xun's residence to report the news, the latter was surprised to find out...... Gongsun Xun was no longer here, but Mrs. Gongsun calmly came forward to greet her.

"Sister-in-law!" Wang Lang hurried to salute. "Lang was ordered by Lu and Liu Ershangshu to tell him something important, I don't know where Brother Wenqi is?"

"I've seen the long history of Shangshu." Zhao Yun is still calm. "Dare to ask Wang Changshi, but you came here for Cao Jie to frame Yang Gong for rebellion?"

Wang Lang couldn't help but be shocked, and immediately relieved: "Since Brother Wen Qi already knows about this, it's best, think that he has already gone out of the city to hide?" ”

"That's just what I knew." Zhao Yun continued to answer. "Just now, two groups of people came to my house to report, and my family Langjun heard the first batch of news and hurried out of the city."

"It doesn't matter." Wang Lang was shocked in his heart, but he could only nod again and again. "In that case, I'll go and reply to Lu Gong......"

"No need." Zhao Yun continued to answer calmly. "I have already sent my family to report to Master Lu. Moreover, the second messenger just now brought new news, and I need to let my family know about it, and I am a weak woman...... Wang Changshi was sent by Lu Shi, so it must be credible, I don't know ......? ”

"Sister-in-law, just come." Of course, Wang Lang will not refuse. "I'll go after Brother Wenqi."

"That's good." Zhao Yun hurriedly spoke. "The person who just came was sent by my uncle, and he said that when Cao Jie met the Son of Heaven today, he saw him in front of him, so he did not mention my family Langjun...... He also asked Wang Changshi to chase in the direction of the Qi clan after leaving the city and inform him of the matter. ”

Of course, Wang Lang agreed, but Wang Jingxing is Wang Jingxing after all, and when he agreed, he also reacted...... Isn't this Mrs. Gongsun's uncle Zhao Zhong? And since Zhao Zhong is in front of the emperor, it is natural that Gongsun Xun is not implicated in this matter.

Of course, now Yang Qiu, Chen Qiu, Liu He, Liu Ne and others have become Qin criminals, after this incident, Cao Jie's power has been completely restored, and this Luozhong is not a place where Gongsun Xun can stay for a long time.

So thinking about it carefully, this Mrs. Gongsun sent a letter to Lu Shangshu, and at the same time asked herself to chase her Langjun...... It seems that he wants his own Langjun to stay in the Shu clan, and then ask Lu Shangshu to quickly issue an appointment, so that the former can escape calmly under the banner of going to work!

To tell the truth, this is much better than fleeing back to his hometown in western Liaoxi in a panic.

No matter what he thought in private, Wang Lang did not hesitate at all, just bowed his hand slightly, and then rode directly out of the city and went to the southeast. Moreover, it was only a few miles to the southeast of the city that I was pleasantly surprised...... It turned out that Gongsun Xun was actually sitting on the side of the road waiting for news!

"Brother Wenqi!" Wang Lang looked at it slightly, and then hurriedly stepped forward, conveyed the news to the other party, and tried his best to persuade here. "Although this matter does not involve Brother Wen Qi, but the matter is already very urgent, Brother Xian might as well go to the Shu clan to live temporarily, and wait for Lu Gong to do the paperwork for you in Shangshutai, and then I will replace the seal letter for you, and leave Beijing directly to take up the post, isn't it appropriate?"

Gongsun Xun listened attentively, and when he heard that he was not directly implicated because Zhao Zhong was on his side, he couldn't help but relax; But when he heard Wang Lang's advice later, he shook his head slightly: "When I fled in a hurry, I didn't know if I was wanted by the same case...... If you are really wanted, it is okay, just turn around and flee back to your hometown; But now that it's still stable, where can you abandon people? ”

"Brother Wenqi." Wang Lang hurriedly explained. "Yang Qiu, Chen Qiu, Liu He, Liu Ne and other princes have all been captured now...... What's the use of you going back? Can you save the four of them? How can it be regarded as an abandonment? ”

"What about the children of his family?" Gongsun Xun's face was awe-inspiring, and then he suddenly got up and raised his eyebrows. "Isn't it going to be implicated? I don't actually know about the collusion of the four dukes, but no matter what, since I was a comrade, if I abandon their family and leave alone at this time, what will the people of the world think of my Gongsun Xun?! ”

————————I'm the dividing line in a hurry————————

"Luo Mu Zixian, Jiangxia Xiling people's clan, Shishi County, generation has 600 stones. Youfu's literary name, known in the township, studied in Luoyang, for the Gyeonggi wealthy family, sleepy, but attached to the power of the eunuch Cao Festival, the festival to the son to wait, Mu also called 'adult'. After repeatedly seeing the Cao family as a disaster, he finally regretted it. In the first year of Guanghe, the festival falsely accused Taizu anyway, and the curtain rushed to Taizu to sue. —The Book of Old Swallows. Solo Ranks

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