Chapter 14: A Plan of Discord

Qin Xiong glanced at the tea-soaked verdict on the table with suspicion, and saw that the handwriting on it was blurry and he couldn't see anything at all if he didn't look closely, so he couldn't help but walk over and take it in his hand, twisting his brows and looking at it seriously, for fear of missing a little clue.

"Master Qin, how is this verdict written by Master Wang?" Wei Tingkui has a sound outside the strings.

"Master Wang's writing is excellent and the wording is rigorous, this verdict is naturally impeccably written, but it is a pity to ruin a cup of tea!"

Qin Xiong read it word for word, and after making sure that what he was holding in his hand was indeed a fake verdict, he replied to Wei Tingkui without being salty.

"Master Qin's praise! Although the verdict was destroyed, it was not difficult to redraft it. After Wang takes care of this matter, he will definitely deliver it to the adults in person! Wang Huizu said without pressure.

This sentence seems to be giving Wei Tingkui an explanation, but in fact, it is an eviction order. Qin Xiong is such a smart person, how could he not hear Wang Huizu's extraneous meaning?

He snorted dissatisfiedly and whispered a few words in Wei Tingkui's ear, and Wei Tingkui nodded thoughtfully.

Then, the two of them, who had found nothing, pretended to say a few words of greeting and turned away.

At the same time as the door closed, Xiao Zhuozi bent his knees and collapsed to the ground.

"My God, you can be considered fooled!" Xiao Zhuozi kept beating his chest as a way to express the fear in his heart.

"Do you think you're fooled when the adults leave?" Wang Huizu's face was pale, as if the verdict was really deliberately destroyed by Xiao Zhuozi.

"Master Wang, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Zhuozi couldn't see through the unfathomable and uncertain Master Wang in front of him. Didn't he promise to help himself? Why does it seem more like a problem now?

When Fang Cai fled in a hurry from the county commander's house, he was already sweating, and the strenuous exercise just now made him exhausted and paralyzed.

He sat on the cold floor and looked at the unpredictable Master Wang with empty and helpless eyes.

"You ruined my verdict, I can't swallow this breath! Get up and continue to squat for me, and you will not be allowed to leave this room for half a step until you have two thousand strokes! Although Wang Huizu was reprimanding Xiao Zhuozi, his eyes kept staring at the two shadows with completely different figures outside the window.

"Oh!" Xiao Zhuozi, who didn't know what was going on, reluctantly got up from the ground, patted the dirt on his body, and prepared to continue to be punished.

But the moment he bent down with his knees, Wang Huizu grabbed him, looked at the two shadows who turned around and left, and whispered, "I wronged you just now!" The danger is over, now it's safe, and there is no need to repeat it. ”

Xiao Zhuozi suddenly realized: "Master Wang, it turns out ...... I was acting just now! ”

Wang Huizu smiled: "What do you think? Deliberately fix you? ”

Xiao Zhuozi stuck out her tongue childishly, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

Seeing Xiao Zhuozi's relieved look, Wang Huizu couldn't help but sigh.

Although Xiao Zhuozi didn't have time to tell him the specific content of the conversation between Wei Tingkui and Qin Xiong, since he said that it was related to Pudongsheng's case, there was no need to guess that it must be Qin Xiong's eight lambs who wanted to rescue Pudongsheng again.

In front of his eyes again, the scene of Qin Xiong holding five hundred taels of silver tickets and looking forward to him letting go of Pudongsheng once again appeared, and it seemed that this time he was ready to attack Wei Tingkui directly.

Although he already knew it, he still couldn't help but ask Xiao Zhuozi about what happened, and when Xiao Zhuozi personally told the secret between the two, Wang Huizu's eyes drifted through a touch of imperceptible melancholy.

"It's none of your business, what should you do, why do you go!" He slowly sat down in his chair, silently closed his eyes, and leaned his back against the back of the chair.

The bone-chilling chill on the back of his chair made him shiver.

"Master Wang, are you okay?" Xiao Zhuozi was slightly worried.

"It's okay, go ahead with you!" He waved his hand and motioned for Xiao Zhuozi to leave. Xiao Zhuozi hesitated for a moment, and saw that although he had a dead knot at the center of his eyebrows, his tone of voice was still calm, and he knew that staying would only add to the chaos, so he left quietly.

With the slight sound of the door closing, the world in the room fell silent again.

This sudden change caught Wang Huizu off guard, and he took a deep breath, thinking about what to do next to deal with it calmly.

Little Zhuozi overhears the secret between them, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.

It's a good thing because I'm glad I wasn't kept in the dark and had the opportunity to take the initiative. said that it was a nostalgic affair because Wei Tingkui and Qin Xiong had to be on guard when they learned that someone was eavesdropping.

Since Xiao Zhuozi has already startled the snake, according to Qin Xiong's character, he will definitely start in advance.

Thinking of this, Wang Huizu's heart trembled slightly.

It is more difficult to get Qin Xiong to stop than to let him leave the palace, and if you want to stop this, the most direct way is to stop Wei Tingkui.

He quickly got up and pushed open the door, and rushed to Wei Tingkui, who was in a state of confusion and had nothing to do with his life: "My lord! I have 100,000 urgent things to discuss with you! ”

His forehead was dripping with fine beads of sweat, and his former reserve and decency had been completely ignored at this moment.

"Has Master Wang already found out who overheard the conversation between this official and Master Qin just now?" Wei Tingkui's thinking is really not active enough, and time has passed, but he is still stuck in the stage of trying his best to catch the eavesdropper.

"Much more important than that!" Like a survivor who had escaped suffocation, Wang Huizu opened his mouth as wide as he could, inhaling greedily.

Wei Tingkui had never seen him lose his temper in such a hurry, and his brows couldn't help frowning slightly: It seems that this matter is not trivial to make a master who is methodical, unhurried, calm and experienced in doing things so panicked.

He habitually glanced at Qin Xiong, trying to ask for his opinion with his gaze.

Wang Huizu knew all this, and forcibly cut off Wei Tingkui's non-divisive thoughts in one sentence: "My lord, the stakes are very high, the fewer people who know, the better, so as not to implicate Master Qin in the future." ”

Wei Tingkui was silent for a moment, then turned his head and said to Qin Xiong: "I have something important to discuss with Master Qin, you go back first, and I'll be looking for you later." ”

Qin Xiong snorted lightly from his nose in displeasure, which was regarded as a response. Before leaving, he glared at Wang Huizu fiercely, oh no, it was several glances, as a sign of threat, warning and protest.

Wang Huizu turned a blind eye to his dissatisfaction.

Seeing that Qin Xiong was standing in place and had no intention of leaving, Wang Huizu, who had already calmed down his breath, smiled and stretched his right arm forward: "Master Qin, please." ”

"Humph!" Qin Xiong retracted his gaze, shook the sleeves of his reddish-brown brocade robe with a fine texture and natural color, and left angrily under Wang Huizu's eyes.

"Master Wang, what kind of big thing has happened?" As soon as Qin Xiong took a few steps, Wei Tingkui, who had always been unable to hold his breath, couldn't wait to start asking.

As soon as the words fell, Qin Xiong's slightly emotional footsteps stopped abruptly in his ears.

"This matter is extremely unfavorable to you, my lord, and it is not appropriate to publicize it. Let's go back to our room! Wang Huizu borrowed the afterglow of his eyes to glance at Qin Xiong's thin shadow five or six steps behind him, and forced himself to resist the urge to vomit.

"Listen to Master Wang, go back to the room!" After Wei Tingkui finished speaking, he hurriedly walked and guided Wang Huizu back to the room where he had talked to Qin Xiong secretly.

As soon as he entered the door, Wang Huizu quickly covered the door with his hands and feet, sat down, and only after assessing his breath did he lower his voice and said, "My lord, Pudong Sheng is ready to pull you off the horse!" ”

"What do you say? Pudong Sheng, he wants to pull this official off the horse? Is the news true? Who do you listen to? Wei Tingkui was smashed by this sudden bad news, and his tone went up uncontrollably.

"Exactly, when I asked Xiao Zhuozi to go to the prison to pass the word to Pudongchen and Wu Niang, Xiao Zhuozi heard it with my own ears. There will never be a fake. Wang Huizu said impatiently.

"Why would he do that?" Wei Tingkui was still a little confused. He looked at Wang Huizu in a daze, feeling a little dizzy.

Just now, Qin Xiong told him that Pudong Sheng was going to spend a lot of money to bribe him, the county magistrate, and let him find a way to save him from his crime. It's less than a bag of cigarettes, how did the great news suddenly turn into the bad news that the other party wants to kill him?

One is a genuine master who has followed him for many years, and the other is a temporary master who has just arrived at the house for only two or three days and has not even passed the probationary period.

The two masters who claim to assist themselves have different statements on the same case.

Since they are different, one of them must be lying.

One said that the suspect Pudongsheng wanted to go bankrupt and take money to buy his life, and the other said that Pudongsheng wanted to pull himself off.

Who should he believe?

Wei Tingkui couldn't help but sigh, expressing his helplessness at this moment.

Although Wei Tingkui did not reveal the doubts and true thoughts in his heart, Wang Huizu, who had already understood the general situation, saw his heart clearly.

In order to make Wei Tingkui completely convinced, he began to analyze matter-of-factly: "According to Wang, this Pudong Sheng probably wants to take revenge on you before sentencing!" ”

Wei Tingkui's eyes widened: "Revenge on this official? ”

Wang Huizu nodded slightly and said, "The adult shouldn't have accepted his exquisite cup in the first place." From the very beginning, he was ready to ask you to go into the water when things were revealed. ”

Wei Tingkui couldn't help but feel a chill in his back, he instinctively straightened his stiff back, lowered his voice and asked, "You mean, that exquisite jade cup is a trap he set in advance?" ”

Wang Huizu sighed and said, "That's right. He just wants to tie you up, and if the matter is revealed, he threatens you to excuse him. But he never expected that your lordship was a good official who was honest and upright, and directly smashed his bribes to pieces, so that he was completely out of control. However, I'm worried that he will play more poisonous tricks in the future, so don't be fooled! ”

Wei Tingkui slowly exhaled and said, "I see. ”

At this moment, he was convinced of every word Wang Huizu said.

Because, Pudong Sheng really started to play tricks again, this time he was even more ruthless, and he didn't hesitate to bankrupt his family to kill him, this guy is too vicious!

Does Qin Xiong know about this?

If he was also in the know, then this person would be terrible.

However, after thinking about it, Master Qin relied on himself to eat, no matter how unhappy he was, there was no reason to be angry with his future, thinking about it, his heart suddenly felt a lot more comfortable.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency?" Just when Wei Tingkui was thinking about himself, Wang Huizu's soft call came from his ears.

"Oh, Master Wang, what should we do for now?" He used the word "we", obviously pulling Wang Huizu into his camp.

"Respond to change with the same." Wang Huizu smiled confidently, revealing a row of white and neat glutinous rice teeth.

"What do you mean?" Wei Tingkui didn't seem to understand.