44. The source of everything
When I arrived at the Shousuke Mansion, it was already the night of the second day. We dismounted at the gate, and asked them to wait outside the city with the Nine Ghosts Masataka, and did some things to explain, while I went straight to the city and arrived at the Shoufu Mansion, and after the ceremony, I was quickly released.
All the way through the house, to the inner room where Zhang Juzheng met with personal relations. Lord Shousuke, dressed in civilian clothes, saw me come in and motioned for me to sit down.
"You rushed all the way from Jinan Mansion to Jingshi?" Zhang Juzheng asked in a loud voice, "Why are you in such a hurry?" Is it a matter of Qingzhang land? ”
I lowered my voice and said, "Yes!" Neither is it! ”
Zhang Juzhengqi said: "How do you say this?"
I'll start with the last incident of Xue Bian and Kong Shangxian. Hearing these two people, a smile appeared on Zhang Juzheng's tired face. He said: "These two families have been entrenched in Shandong for generations, and people can't help it. I didn't expect it to be solved by you flipping your hands! Congratulations! Worthy of commendation! ”
I thanked the compliment and continued, "Lord Shousuke, in the near future, he has been assassinated three times in a row!"
Zhang Juzheng raised his eyebrows and said in surprise: "Oh! Tell me more! ”
I nodded and reported: "The first time, when I returned to Beijing from the camp in Quang Ninh, I was assassinated on the way!" The gangsters used the poison feed*! ”
Zhang Juzheng nodded and said, "Qi Nantang told me, I know something."
I stretched out two fingers and continued: "The second time, before I went to Jiaozhou to liquidate the Xue family, a swordsman attacked me and was killed by me!" What he used was the standard weapon of the East Factory! ”
Zhang Juzheng frowned and said, "This is a false accusation." And what about the third time? ”
I nodded, stared into Zhang Juzheng's eyes and said, "The third time, it was the day before yesterday!" Qian Wuqing, the deputy envoy of the Shandong Rectification and Preparedness Department, teamed up with his concubine, a woman from the Centistry faction, who was said to be from the Centistry faction, the night before yesterday, and tried to poison me, but I wiped them all out! ”
Zhang Juzheng took a breath of cool air and exclaimed, "There are officials of the imperial court who are directly involved?"
I silently took out the piece of paper from my arms, handed it to Zhang Juzheng, and said in a low voice: "This is the confession obtained from the secret interrogation of Qian Wuqing...... My lord, please take a look! ”
Zhang Juzheng quickly took the paper, moved the oil lamp closer, and looked at it carefully. And his hands began to tremble slightly! I read it again, read it again, read it three times in a row, and I was so angry that I wanted to slap this paper on the table! When it is about to touch the desktop, it suddenly slows down and slowly rests on the desktop.
He pondered for a while, looked up at me and asked, "Qilan, you are on the front line, tell me what you think!"
I secretly admire it in my heart! When I first saw these confessions, I couldn't calm down for a long time, and I even rode a horse and whipped a horse more ruthlessly than usual! And Zhang Juzheng only took less than five seconds to calm his emotions as before! What a concentration!
I steadied myself and said, "Your Excellency." These confessions came from Qian Wuqing, and the means do not need to be detailed, but they should be eight or nine without leaving ten. And this fully shows that the other party has begun to act slowly! ”
Zhang Juzheng stared at me and didn't make a sound for a long time, but suddenly pressed his right hand heavily on the confession, and said in a deep voice: "You mean, you should kill them all?"
I shook my head and replied: "My lord, after all, it's just a Shandong, even if everyone on this piece ......of paper is caught, one by one" I looked at Zhang Juzheng and said in a deep voice: "It's just a Shandong!"
This sentence made Zhang Juzheng interested. He was testing my reaction, and my words were as he expected.
"Then what do you say, how to deal with it?" Zhang Juzheng looked at me with interest and said.
I don't know how to answer this sentence. I'd love to tell him that if you have ten years to live, it's not hard to clean up these people and build your bucket camp, but ...... I can't say that, and who can face the news of his death so calmly? I was speechless on the spot.
Zhang Juzheng saw that I was full of confidence and wisdom beads just now, but suddenly I looked unspeakable, and I couldn't help but feel a tightening in my heart. He has been up and down in the sea for a lifetime, and with a look from others, he can guess seven or eight points by asking himself. Seeing my expression, he was a little nervous. He clenched his fists, released them again, and said slowly: "If there is any consideration, it doesn't matter if you say it."
I nodded, and in that case, I'll find a way to make him believe, or at least not reject. So I said in a deep voice: "Lord Shoufu, my mentor sent me a message, saying that he has a close view of the Qianxiang, and the main position of Wenqu Xing is dim, which is very unfavorable to the phase!" So ......"
Zhang Juzheng suddenly laughed and interrupted me, he laughed exaggeratedly, and I could feel his lack of confidence. After laughing for a while, he still smiled to himself and said, "I also said what is the big thing, it turned out to be the speculation of the wild people!" Hahahaha! ”
He continued to laugh, but after a moment, he slowly retracted his smile as he read an emotion in my eyes...... Commiseration.
When he was completely calm, I continued to ask him without sadness or joy: "Shousuke-sama, who will be able to continue you in a hundred years?" I just stared into his eyes, unflinching and undaunted.
This Ming Dynasty is under one person, above ten thousand people, in fact, the first assistant who holds the power of the world, was stunned by my seemingly hidden and sharp momentum, he suddenly felt annoyed, he is showing his ambitions, why listen to this hairy child who has not grown all here, and say that some of these are not obtained?
So when he spoke again, he said in a very unceremonious tone: "Sun Qilan, what do you mean by these implicit curse words?"
There was already sharpness in his eyes.
But I met his gaze directly, and said without sadness or joy: "What I mean is that if Shousuke-sama has no long-term plans, then I will leave now!"
After speaking, I stood up, arched my hand and said, "Shousuke-sama cherishes"!
This sentence made Zhang Juzheng completely angry, he slapped the table, and the halberd pointed at me and said: "You have merit, come to me to say these disloyal, unrighteous and unkind words, come when you say it, and leave when you say it!" Aren't you afraid that I will punish you and kill your head? "And the two guards outside the house have already rushed in and stood behind me, which means that if you don't agree with you, you will take someone!
I stood still, glanced back at the two of them with disdain, and smiled contemptuously: "It's not difficult for adults to kill me, but please allow me to settle an account for adults first."
Zhang Juzheng was angry and silent, I stretched out a finger and said with a smile: "Kill me, the adults are nothing more than helping the enemy, and they have made several efforts but failed to achieve the goal, so that the adults are missing a vanguard who only seeks profit and unscrupulous means, just this one thing, it is enough to be stupid enough to make the enemy wake up laughing in the middle of the night!"
When Zhang Juzheng heard this, the green tendons in the corners of his forehead jumped slightly. The naked aggression and disdain in my tone made the guards behind me furious, and one of the guards shouted, "Bold!"
I glanced at him with a smile, stretched out my second finger, turned my head to look at Zhang Juzheng and said, "Second, Lord Shoufu, you must have investigated me before you used me." All my relatives have long been away from the Ming Dynasty, leaving only a group of dead soldiers who are good at strange tricks, and there are even more sniper masters on the side, my lord, you killed me, out of thin air there are a group of more enemies lurking in the shadows and not dying, this is not worth it"!
After speaking, as soon as I turned around, the frost in my hand was already on the neck of the guard who was shouting just now, as long as I moved slightly, I could naturally kill him! This is nothing but the method of the dagger of Juhe! I chuckled and said, "Adults don't think that these two pieces of waste can restrain me!"
The air in the room froze for a while, and it was so thick that it couldn't be dissolved. Seeing that the goal had been achieved, I withdrew the frost, turned around and continued to turn my back to the two guards, which was *naked and dismissive! I could even feel the anger of the two guards in their heavy breathing. So, I decided to give them the last straw that broke their backbone!
I smiled lightly and said to Zhang Juzheng: "My lord, why don't you let these two wastes go to the room to see, all the breakfast prepared by the Shoufu Mansion tomorrow has some more things, enough for everyone, including Shoufu you, to walk very peacefully in a stick of incense!" How is it? ”
Zhang Juzheng's eyes swept a glance at a guard, the man went quietly, and returned to the house after a while, I didn't look back, but I knew that he nodded at Zhang Juzheng, because the momentum that this Shoufu Lord had been holding on to suddenly disappeared without a trace!
"So, Shousuke-sama, you see, if I think that I have a thousand ways to destroy you, it's really not that difficult, isn't it? And the fact that I'm standing here talking to you shows that I have no ill intentions. ”
After a pause, I continued: "It's not hard to choose whether to work together sincerely or to break the net." There are only a thousand days to catch thieves, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves, what is the intention, Lord Shoufu decides! ”
As he spoke, I raised my right hand, and I came out of my frost, and with a "grab" sound, it was nailed to the desktop less than half a foot in front of Zhang Juzheng, buzzing!
The two-life guards are in a hurry, and they have to do it when they come up! Zhang Juzheng opened his mouth first and shouted: "Stand down!"
I stood still, while the two guards hurriedly said, "My lord!"
Zhang Juzheng's face was gloomy, he let out a long breath, and said in a low voice: "You two retreat!" No summons, no entry! ”
The two guards hesitated for a moment, and finally withdrew.
The door closed again, and Zhang Juzheng said to me lightly, "Sit down."
I arched my hands and sat down silently.
Zhang Juzheng held the handle of Lishuang's knife in his right hand and used a few forces to pull it out of the table. He raised his eyes to look at me for a while, then lowered his head to play with Lishuang, and after a moment asked, "What's the name of this knife?"
I said lightly: "Frost."
He gently scraped the blade with his fingers and groaned softly: "Leaving sorrow for a thousand nights and tears of bitterness, there is no word on the other side to draw mirror cream." Frost off! Seeing a knife is like seeing a person! After saying that, he let out a long sigh, but he didn't know what he remembered.
I didn't answer. He continued to ask, intentionally or unintentionally, "Who taught you your martial arts?"
I replied, "It's the Anonymous Master."
Zhang Juzheng smiled bitterly, reversed Lishuang, and handed me the handle of the knife: "Then did your nameless teacher ever say that how long will my yang life last?"
I took Lishuang with one hand, inserted it back into the scabbard, and replied lightly: "The teacher once asserted that if Shoufu is still like this, he will work hard day and night, and sing songs night and night, but I am afraid that he will not survive the first ten years of Wanli!"
Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, the air in the room solidified again, and it was almost audible when a pin dropped, only the heavy breathing of Shoufu Zhang Juzheng remained......