Last time, it was said that Cao Cao was preparing to visit Zhang Rang's mansion at night, and the sky was gloomy, as if he wanted to help him hide his figure, but even the air was weird, it seemed to be raining, and it was still a heavy rain.

Cao Cao easily sneaked to Zhang Rang's mansion, and the sky finally picked up the wind, and it was still a super strong wind, which swayed the lanterns in the corridor and under the eaves, and many of the lanterns were extinguished. In addition to the darkness, because the light source became unstable, everything in the night became flexible, which made it more convenient for Cao Cao to hide his figure. It only made his search more difficult, because he was dazzled by the lanterns.

Cao Cao despised Zhang Rang very much in his heart: this dead eunuch didn't know how much money he had lost from the treasury, and his house was full of lanterns. Looking at the lanterns fluttering in the wind, he estimated that they were lit with expensive yellow candles, not a somewhat heavy oil lamp.

This yellow candle is made of beeswax, smokeless and tasteless, nominally a tribute, but it is not explicitly forbidden for ordinary people not to use it, so in fact, it is used in the families of relatively powerful families. This is good at the top, but it must be very bad at the bottom, and the people of the big family can use the things used by the emperor, and they can also feel the feeling of being the emperor themselves.

Cao Cao had also seen this yellow candle at his father's house, but he himself was reluctant to use such an expensive thing. Cao Cao's family was very rich, and his father's position as a lieutenant was bought, but Cao Cao didn't like his father's method of collecting money, so he had a sense of resistance to his father's wealth, and he always insisted on living on his own dead salary.

Although Cao Song and his eldest son Cao Cao don't get along very well, he still likes his eldest son very much, and feels that the eldest son has the demeanor of his adoptive father Cao Teng. It may be because Cao Cao spent more time with Cao Teng than with his father when he was a child, so Cao Cao's relationship with his grandfather was better than that with his father, and he was more like his grandfather in terms of personality and value orientation.

So when Cao Cao was framed twice by rape and lost his position, Cao Song reached out in time to help him. Cao Song felt that his eldest son would definitely be able to break out of the world like his adoptive father and lead the Cao family to create more brilliance.

In fact, He Jin's house is also full of this kind of lanterns lit with yellow candles, but although he also has perverse behavior, but because he has not yet stood at the pinnacle of power, it is not dazzling. Moreover, Cao Cao has abandoned the ascendancy through the Ten Standing Attendants, and he can only enter the core of the court through He Jin, so the issue of He Jin also lighting candles and lanterns in the mansion was selectively ignored by Cao Cao.

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Cao Cao's eyes flickered with the candlelight of those lanterns, and he felt very desolate and angry in his heart. This mansion is really burning money. He felt that his monthly salary was definitely not enough to light a lantern for Zhang Rang for one night.

This kind of thought even stimulated Cao Cao's eagerness to overthrow the Ten Standing Attendants, and urged him to work harder to find that person's witness. But Zhang's Mansion is so big, where will this witness be?

Based on Cao Cao's suspicion of people like Zhang Rang, he felt that people like Zhang Rang should be very stingy, and it was estimated that even if the person ID card was arranged in the guest room, it was likely to be guarded by someone, and it would not be easy for the ID card to act at will, so as to avoid theft of things in his house.

Cao Cao took advantage of the cover of night to go around Zhang's mansion, and in the process, the downpour had also fallen, and it had become smaller, Cao Cao had not found a well-guarded wing, and now the courtyard where the master lived was left without looking. But how could the master's yard easily allow a stranger to live in?

Wasn't that person's card hidden in Zhang Rang's mansion? Cao Cao remembered that when he passed by the private prison of the mansion, there were a few people guarding outside.

This cell, which was common in the mansions of large families, was used to imprison and punish disobedient servants who had signed a deed of sale, and was usually built to the northwest of the house. Because these servants are considered the private property of the head of the household, the government will not interfere with the lynching of these servants. It's just that in reality, even if they are not long-term workers who have signed a deed of sale, they are often put in private prisons and lynched.

Is the witness being held there? Cao Cao was taken aback by his own thoughts, he felt that the person was too pitiful, locked in that kind of small place, not seeing the light of day, even if he was not punished, but if he was locked up for a long time, people would go crazy.

Cao Cao cautiously sneaked to Zhang's private prison, slightly moved his limbs, which had become a little hard from being soaked by the rain, and quietly waited for the opportunity to leave the two guards sitting at the door alone, so that he could kill them without knowing it. But after waiting for a long time, when his limbs began to stiffen again, the two guards were still motionless, without even blinking their eyelids.

At this time, a person came out of the door of the cell, patted the shoulders of the two people who were sitting, and said, "Don't sleep, it's time to change shifts, go in and sleep if you want." ”

The eyes of the two sitting guards who originally looked open actually opened again, and it turned out that the eyes that Cao Cao saw before that he didn't need to blink were fake. Because of the lack of light at night, Cao Cao was far away from them, so he hadn't noticed it before. At this time, Cao Cao was annoyed in his heart.

The two negligent guards looked at the man and bent down to pick up the prosthetic eyes that had fallen to the ground. One of them asked, "Why are you alone?" What about the piglets? ”

Later, the guard said helplessly: "You have a name, he is a pig, he sleeps like a dead pig, and he can't be called no matter how he screams." ”

The inquiring guard didn't say much, but stood up with his companion, patted the latecomer on the shoulder, and said, "That's hard for you." ”

The latecomer spread out his palms and said to the guard who had questioned him earlier, "Lend me your eyes." ”

The questioning guard asked, "You're not afraid of being discovered?" ”

The latecomer did not waver, and continued: "You are not afraid, what am I afraid of? ”

The inquiring guard reminded: "It was raining heavily just now, and no one would come to check on such a heavy rain." ”

The latecomers still insisted on borrowing the "eyes", and said: "It's the middle of the night now, and they have already gone to bed, who will come!" ”

Seeing that he was so insistent, the interrogating guard didn't bother with him, and he himself had to rush into the house to continue dating Zhou Gong's daughter, so he happily stuffed his "eyes" into the hands of the latecomer.

Cao Cao listened to their conversation from a distance, and silently added to them in his heart: "Aren't you afraid that people from outside will break in?" ”