Li Yu, who had already realized that his limit was approaching, looked at Yao Guangqi and begged: "Please take care of my daughter, I believe that King Yan will not embarrass a girl." After speaking, Li Yu suddenly burst into a burst of laughter, laughing heartbreakingly, laughing without anyone else, and couldn't tell whether he was laughing or crying, laughing so miserably, crying so sadly, he pointed at everyone one by one with his hand: "Okay, good." I have unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, crossed the river and demolished the bridge, the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and if I die, will you all be clean? The surname Zhao, you are..."Before Li Yu's words fell, his head had already landed, and it was none other than the black-clothed man surnamed Zhao with a long knife who killed him.

The long swordman turned around and smiled at the deputy sect master: "You won't mind if you make a rash move." ”

The deputy sect master snorted coldly: "I haven't seen your sword skills before, but today's sword still has some skills." After speaking, he didn't say hello to everyone, turned over the wall and disappeared into the night.

Yao Guangqi looked at the direction in which the deputy sect master disappeared, and glanced at Zhou Gongjin, the Tang family father and son and the long swordsman, tonight's scene made him more aware of the subtlety and confusion of the relationship between all parties, and he felt even more confused, but fortunately, the deaths of Li Yu and Jin Ruyi gave all parties an acceptable result, and Beiping could be calm for a while. Yao Guangqi shook his head and left.

Yao Guangqi did not go back to the Yanwang Mansion, but went straight to the judge, he did not look for Chen Yueru, but went straight to Chen Shu's courtyard. For some reason, although the judicial department is the yamen in charge of criminal lawsuits, Yao Guangqi feels that the air here is more refreshing and transparent than that of the chief executive, and it is much more relaxed and pleasant to come here than to go to the chief secretary.

At this time, the sky was already bright, some people in the house had already gotten up to work, and Chen Shu also had the habit of getting up early, and was taking a walk in the courtyard at this time. Yao Guangqi fell in the courtyard and coughed lightly. Chen Shu turned around, frowned, and then smiled: "It looks like you haven't slept all night?" Something important come to me? ”

Yao Guangqi nodded, "Please speak in the room." ”

"Li Yu is dead!" After coming in, Yao Guangqi told Chen Shu the first sentence.

"What? He's dead? When was this? How did he die? Chen Shu couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

"Just last night, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the criminal Li Yu committed suicide in fear of crime!" Yao Guangqi replied calmly.

Chen Shu was not stupid, he immediately sensed that something was wrong: "No, how do you know that he is dead?" How do you know if it's a suicide? ”

Yao Guangqi smiled: "None of this is important, the important thing is that Li Yu's death can give an explanation to the imperial court, which can make this matter temporarily come to an end, so that everyone can be relieved." ”

"What do you mean? What does it mean to have a temporary settlement? Everyone is relieved, who are you? Chen Shu felt that this matter was not simple.

Yao Guangqi closed his eyes, leaned on the back of the chair and pretended to sleep, he felt very tired, and it was even more difficult to explain Chen Shu's problem, so he simply didn't speak.

Seeing this, Chen Shu became even more skeptical, and then asked: "Is it involved in a big shot?" Is there anything you can't say? Could it be King Yan? ”

Yao Guangqi opened his eyes, and he looked at Chen Shu with a stern gaze that he had never seen before: "There is no matter of King Yan here, but if this matter is fully revealed, I am afraid that it will not only set off waves in the court, but will definitely shake the world, cause uncontrollable changes, and even provoke civil uprisings." ”

Chen Shu stared at Yao Guangqi with incredulous eyes: "You mean there is a bigger conspiracy behind this case?" ”

Yao Guangqi nodded: "I can't be completely sure now, I just found the clues, but just from the clues in front of me, once it is completely opened, I can't bear it, you can't bear it, and even King Yan can't bear it." ”

Chen Shu seemed to understand: "So I need to pretend to be confused and close this case, right?" ”

Yao Guangqi nodded: "Li Yu is corrupt, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a giant beetle who steals the country, and it is over, and he has an explanation for the court and the people." ”

Chen Shu walked up to Yao Guangqi with a serious face: "I am optimistic about you, it is your integrity, not that you are cowering for some goals, since you are so cowardly, then it is up to me to uncover this shocking case and give the people of the world an explanation." ”

Yao Guangqi stood up like lightning and held Chen Shu's hand tightly: "My lord, I don't advocate investigation, it's not that I am cowering, the forces and backgrounds involved behind Li Yu are too huge, and I will reveal it rashly, you and I are personally worth a small life, and the other party is really desperate, how many innocent people will be in different places, and how many innocent people will be put in the state of misery." For the sake of today's plan, our side is weak, and we don't know the details of the other party's forces and purposes, if we can temporarily appease them and avoid their edge, we will definitely have the opportunity to bring this group of people to justice in the future, and the forbearance of the moment is precisely for the future outbreak. ”

Yao Guangqi left, he left without even saying hello, he didn't want to persecute Chen Shu, he didn't want to argue with this upright elder anymore, he understood Chen Shu, for a person who always takes the teachings of the saint as the code of conduct, for a good person who is dedicated to benefiting the people, his words or strategies seem too dark.

Chen Shu sat alone and quietly, his mind was muddy, he felt confused, the creed and the teachings of the saints that he had always adhered to, but now he had to succumb to power and worldliness, could this be the beginning of his own depravity?

For a whole day, Chen Shu did not eat water and rice, as if he had a serious illness, whether it was the housekeeper's persuasion or his daughter's comfort, they could not pull him out of the quagmire of pain. There is no greater loss in a person than in his faith.

At night, when Chen Shu was still in confusion and couldn't extricate himself, the following urgent report: King Yan summoned him. Chen Shu smiled bitterly, if he really came, presumably King Yan was just impassioned with emotion, and then he appeased himself with the words of the overall situation and the world, and in the end, he might give himself a little benefit to comfort him.

Chen Shu didn't want to go, he didn't want to pretend to be righteous against his will, and he didn't want to let himself become a person who pretended to be a good person, so how different was he from a hypocrite? But he had to go again, King Yan couldn't be offended no matter what, so Chen Shu came to King Yan's Mansion very reluctantly, but as soon as he arrived at the palace, Chen Shu immediately felt strange, the door of the palace obviously increased guards, looking into the palace from outside the door, countless lanterns were lit in the courtyard, and the whole courtyard was brightly lit, which was a bit unusual, just to summon himself, it was worth such a big battle?

When I arrived at the main hall of the palace, the unusual was even more obvious, the political envoy had already arrived, seeing Chen Shu come in, Zhu Di waved his hand to signal that he did not have to salute, and then said: "Lord Chen has arrived, this king repeats again, the political envoy of Beiping is vacant, the imperial court has not yet been appointed, but the military situation is urgent, this king is arranged from the power, and Lord Chen temporarily serves as the political envoy, responsible for all the defense of Beiping City, but there is a Mongolian who enters the city, this king should apologize, but this king should punish your crime before apologizing." ”

When Chen Shu heard this, he was nervous for a while, could it be that the Mongolian army was calling? It was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, and the Mongols had always gone south after autumn or in winter, and they had just been repelled by the general Li Wenzhong last year, so why did they come again this year?

Zhu Di said loudly: "What can be determined now is that the person who led the Mongolian troops this time was Taishi Kutie Timur, who was a general on the battlefield, commanding 30,000 men and horses to go south, in order to avenge the defeat of the army last year. Before you come, this king has written a chapter, and asks the Son of Heaven to give me full authority to command the army, and this king will lead the army to fight with this old man. Let him never dare to peep into my Ming border in the future. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Di turned his head, looked at a second-grade military attache and said: "When you go back, you will order, and all the guards under the command of the Beiping Metropolitan Division will immediately reorganize their armaments and send troops to resist the incoming enemy at any time." ”

Chen Shu recognized the name of this second-grade military attaché, this person's name was Zhang Jing, and he was the commander of the Beiping capital, but because this person was a military position, Chen Shu rarely interacted with him on weekdays, so he didn't know much about it. I saw Zhang Jing owe slightly and sat down again, and then said nonchalantly: "The foreign enemy is coming, the prince is enthusiastic, and the heart of serving the country with his fists will be sympathetic, but the prince has neither a talisman at the moment, nor a transfer of troops, forgive the officials for not obeying their orders, although the three guards directly under Yanshan are not under the control of the capital division, but the last general will also persuade the prince, it is best to wait for the imperial court's will to transfer troops before taking action, otherwise the power of the sky is unpredictable, and the impeachment of the imperial history is also unreasonable." ”

Zhang Jing's words are clearly disobedient, but what he said is reasonable, people keep saying that they must follow the imperial court's troop transfer system, in fact, they are using the imperial court to suppress Zhu Di, and the righteousness of disobedience is justified, as the vassal king of the imperial court, Zhu Di can't always go against the rules of the imperial court.

Zhu Di naturally understands this truth, but what a proud person he is, as a vassal king, how can he allow someone to disobey his orders, not to mention that if he can lead the troops independently this time, it is an excellent opportunity to show his talents to the emperor's father, he is eager to lead the troops to the expedition, and you are a commander who dares to openly question his own royal order, Zhu Di's heart was provoked, he stood up, came to Zhang Jing, and said coldly: "Then you are not obeying the king's order?" ”

Zhang Jing was a little uneasy, he heard Zhu Di's anger, and felt Zhu Di's murderous aura, but he relied on himself to command the two products, and expected that Zhu Di would not dare to do anything with himself, so he said calmly: "The prince is not angry, the last general is not disobedient, but the court has a system, and the last general will be controlled by the governor's mansion. ”

Zhu Di gritted his teeth with a cruel smile, the hilt of the sword in his right hand was tight, ready to draw his sword and kill Zhang Jing at any time, the room was filled with a murderous aura, and the surrounding officials also noticed Zhu Di's strangeness, and they were all nervously concerned about the changes in the situation, and some even fidgeted and twisted around in the chair unconsciously.

Just when Zhu Di was about to draw his sword and the atmosphere in the room was tense to the extreme, the door suddenly opened, and a low-level officer ran to Zhu Di and whispered: "Lord Wang, there is an urgent military intelligence report, please move Lord Wang." ”

This sentence saved Zhang Jing, but it did not ease the atmosphere in the room, everyone stared at Zhu Di nervously, looking at his back as he walked out, and some even swallowed saliva unconsciously.