"Who is the guest who came?"

"It's His Royal Highness the Prince's personal guard, Lord Arashikage"

On the way to the court, Peng Shun told Wu Zhi the name of the visitor, and after hearing the name of this person, Wu Zhi couldn't help but open his mouth, and said in his heart that he was really a distinguished guest

Lan Ying is a guard with a knife in front of the fourth rank, responsible for protecting the prince for many years, and has already become the prince's henchman, and the prince is the prince, and he has a close relationship with the prince, and he will inevitably soar in the future. And the previous dynasties were very taboo about the ministers of the court befriending the prince, but the guards did not have to worry about these.

After the crown prince ascends the throne in the future, it is inevitable that Lan Ying will be promoted to the rank of official, and he may be in charge of the power of the Imperial Forest Army, so now the officials of the court and the central government will deliberately curry favor when they see Lord Lan.

However, the first time Wu Zhi heard of Lan Ying, this person was not in the court, but in the people, to be exact, in the rivers and lakes.

When Wu Zhi was still in Qingzhou, he heard about this person from Wu Yong's mouth, this Lan Ying was born in a family of guards, and the above generations were all imperial guards, it is said that his grandfather also used to be a guard for Bao Zheng, and after Lan Ying learned to be a leader when he was young, he began to wander the rivers and lakes, acting chivalrous and righteous everywhere, fighting grievances, and also made a name for himself in the rivers and lakes.

Later, after Lan Ying became the imperial guard, he did not withdraw from the rivers and lakes, and he would appear at any grand event party on the rivers and lakes, because of his own strong martial arts and the title of the imperial guard, the gangs in the rivers and lakes did not dare to snub him, and Lan Ying was a righteous person, with a clear distinction between public and private, and gradually became known as "Imperial Hero" on the rivers and lakes, taking the meaning of the imperial guard and the hero.

The reason why Wu Yong talked about this person with Wu Zhi at the beginning was mainly because of Li Kui. At the beginning, the prince was responsible for investigating the extermination case of Gao Yu's family, and after it was finally found out that it was Li Kui, Lan Ying was responsible for the arrest and arrest.

Lan Ying He also traced Li Kui hiding in Shuibo Liangshan after a little inquiry, but Liangshan is a den of thieves, and there are basically criminals on it, according to the usual practice, as long as the official who handles the case has been wanted, the nature of the case has changed, and it will fall to the state capital, as long as the state government takes off the thief's nest, the case will naturally be closed.

Although Liangshan did not engage in the transportation industry at that time, it was very low-key, except that the organizational nature was the underworld, and the others did not disturb the government for the sake of the people, and the governor of the state government sought stability, and generally sent troops to suppress bandits when they were just for show.

Therefore, Lan Ying originally arranged to ambush on the periphery of Liangshan while arranging to capture Kuai, and once Li Kui left Liangshan, he would be arrested immediately; On the other hand, according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, Lan Ying went to Liangshan alone to challenge the dignitaries.

According to the rules of the rivers and lakes, if Lan Ying succeeds in the challenge, Liang Shan must be willing to gamble and surrender Li Kui. If the challenge fails, then Arashi doesn't bother with it.

But after all, this is an era of heroes, if Lan Ying challenges the white-clothed Xiushi Wang Lun on Liangshan before, then Lan Ying alone can overturn the entire Liangshan, but at that time, Liangshan was the Tota Heavenly King Chao Gai Ruan Sanxiong and other heroes, all of whom were strong in martial arts.

But Lan Ying has been famous in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and Liang Shan did not dare to despise it, and finally Chao Gai personally came forward to take over Lan Ying's challenge.

As a result, Chao Gai and Lan Ying fought against each other for three hundred rounds without a win, and in the end they could only end in a draw, Liang Shan treated Lan Ying with good wine and meat, and Lan Ying failed to get Li Kui.

Although he didn't ask for anyone, he didn't lose either, so Lan Ying continued to block Li Kui on the periphery of Liangshan, but Li Kui didn't dare to go out of Liangshan for nearly a year.

When Wu Yong told Wu Zhi about this, Wu Zhi also broke out in a cold sweat in fear, in case Chao Gai lost to Lan Ying by mistake, then with the character of Liangshan and Li Kui, he would definitely obediently obey Lan Ying, this Lan Ying is not simple, if he catches Li Kui, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not say anything from Li Kui's mouth, and it will be troublesome to find out Wu Zhi when the time comes

After thinking about it, Wu Zhi and his party had already walked outside the official hall of the mansion, Wu Zhi looked inside, and could faintly see a few figures, for some reason, Wu Zhi suddenly had a chill down his spine, nervous, and a little scared.

"Your Excellency, please."

Peng Shun didn't know why Wu Zhi stopped, so he respectfully asked.

"I know what clue Arashi-sama wants to give me."

Wu Zhi asked casually, in order to calm down his emotions a little, the reason why he was nervous and scared just now is because Wu Zhi has also done high-risk things such as assassinating important ministers of the imperial court, as the saying goes, if you don't do bad things, you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, although Wu Zhi killed Gao Yu's family is not a bad thing, but it is not a fair and honest thing after all, and it is inevitable that he will be uneasy in his heart.

"Lord Lan only said that it was about the clues of the Sun family's case, and the rest did not say much to the lower officials." Peng Shun said.

Wu Zhi naturally knew that Lord Lan would not tell him in advance, saying that Lord Lan did not follow the prince to the Northwest Army, but came to find him, and it is estimated that the prince sent Lord Lan to assist him after knowing that there was such a shocking case in Bianjing.

"Let's go inside."

Wu Zhi packed up his appearance and walked into the court.

There is a side hall with tables, chairs, and coffee tables in the side hall, where there are two people, one sitting in the guest seat and the other standing next to it.

The seated person was wearing a red dragon official uniform, with a black white jade belt around his waist, pointed official boots on his feet, a blue jade hat on his head, and a gold rope hanging on his head, which looked majestic and majestic, which was the official uniform of the royal guards. Looking at the appearance of the person who was sitting, he was about thirty years old, with a square face, sword eyebrows, starry eyes, dignified appearance, lofty spirit, sitting still, and there seemed to be essence shooting out of his eyes.

And the person standing next to him was dressed as a small servant, half-bowed, and his demeanor was respectful.

"This is Lord Lan in Xia Wuzhi, looking up for a long time"

When Wu Zhi saw Lan Ying's face, he clasped his hands into fists and politely bowed.

"Lord Wu is polite and polite"

Lan Ying got up and clenched his fists, meeting Wu Zhi's eyes.

Wu Zhi Lan Ying's eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts were very uneasy, and he immediately laughed dryly, and after quickly introducing Qin Hui and Song Gong beside him, he invited Lan Ying to sit down, and he himself took the opportunity to avoid Lan Ying's vicious eyes, sat down in the guest seat next to him, and sat side by side with Lan Ying.

Qin Hui and Song Gong did not sit, but stood behind Wu Zhi, and as for Peng Shun, he retreated very interestingly.

Although Lan Ying is the same as Wu Zhi, the fourth-rank guards are definitely not as high as the fourth-rank judges, but Wu Zhi is not as big as the big support.

"After hearing that such a tragic murder occurred in Bianjing, the prince sent me back to Beijing from the northwest to assist Kaifeng Mansion in investigating this case. Lan Ying smiled, his eyes became normal, and continued: "I will assist Master Wu in handling the case in the future, and I hope that the Lord will not dislike him." ”

"How dare you"

Wu Zhi bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Lord Lan has been famous for a long time, and it is a blessing that Wu Zhi can have the help of adults. It's just that Lord Fang Cai Lan praised it falsely, and he didn't hide it, Wu Zhi was also the first time to take on this important responsibility, and he actually didn't know anything about investigating cases."

Knowing that Lan Ying was really here to help him, Wu Zhi was really overjoyed.

"My lord, this is humble, my lord helped Uncle Murong Guo to solve the theft of the Liu family's vault in Qingzhou, and exterminated the usury forces in Qingzhou in one fell swoop, even Lan Mou admires this kind of thinking and means."

Hearing this, Wu Zhi was secretly shocked in his heart, outsiders only knew that he had helped solve the case of the theft of the Liu family's treasury, but for the fact that he had exterminated the loan sharks in Qingzhou by the way, except for the people involved, outsiders didn't know at all, and Lan Ying was not in Qingzhou at the beginning, so he could know about it, which shows how great his energy is.

"Everywhere is just a few small means, and the ones dealing with are just small characters."

Wu Zhi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Hehe, Master Wu's means are not small, the big forces that are famous in the rivers and lakes can be willing to act as an errand for you, how can this be done by ordinary means" Lan Ying didn't look at Wu Zhi either, just said while drinking tea.

"Haha, it's all about making a living, Wu Mou should take action himself." Wu Zhi sneered.

Wu Zhi knew that Lan Ying was alluding to Wu Zhi helping Liang Shan to do a dart game, but Wu Zhi didn't know what Lan Ying meant, so he could only hint at him with words that he was actually helping Liang Shan to help the Great Song Dynasty "maintain stability", after all, everyone was busy making money and doing business, which was better than killing people and rebelling

"Haha, Lord Wu doesn't have to be careful, in fact, Lan has admired Lord Wu's methods for a long time, Shandong can now be so stable and prosperous, and Lord Wu has made a lot of contributions" After speaking, he changed his words and suddenly said: "It's just that Lord Wu, you are innocent and ambitious, so you still have to remember to be cautious in making friends, and don't make friends that you shouldn't make, so as not to cause trouble." ”

"That's that, that's."

Wu Zhi didn't say much, he knew that Lan Ying was referring to Li Kui, Wu Zhi helping Liang Shan was equivalent to helping Li Kui, and it was normal for Lan Ying to have this reminder.

Wu Zhi and Lan Ying were sharp, which made Qin Hui and Song Gong behind them confused, but Wu Zhi was also a little relieved, it seemed that Lan Ying didn't know about Li Kui's relationship with him.

"I heard that Lord Lan has traced the clues of the Sun family's extermination case," Wu Zhi began to get to the point.

"The murder case has confirmed that the fire in the Sun family is a murder," Lan Ying said keenly.

"Yes, this has been preliminarily determined, and I will talk to Lord Lan in detail later, but there are no clues in the case at present, I don't know what clues Lord Lan brought" Wu Zhi Zhengse said.

"This was discovered by my men."

Lan Ying pointed to the little guy in front of Wu Zhi and said: "This is the little guy outside the city, he said that before Lord Sun's house suffered a fire, someone said that the Sun family would have a fire, I just arrived in Bianjing today, and after getting the news, I immediately came here to find Lord Wu to deal with it." ”

When Wu Zhi heard this, he first took a deep look at Lan Ying, and Lan Ying came to him as soon as he got the clue, which showed that he really trusted himself to handle this case, and it was also out of respect for himself, the host official.

Thinking of him reminding himself like that just now, Wu Zhi couldn't help but smile bitterly, it seems that the rumors are true, Lord Lan is indeed a figure with a clear distinction between public and private, and the reputation of the royal hero is well deserved

"Who said before the fire that the Sun family would catch fire," Wu Zhi asked the little guy in front of him.

This clue is too important, it can be predicted in advance that the Sun family will catch fire, even if it is not the murderer, he must know who the murderer is, as long as he touches the melon, the case will be solved just around the corner

Qin Hui and Song Gong also looked at the little guy nervously.

The little guy looked at Wu Zhi weakly, hesitated for a while, and only then did he become famous in a trembling voice under Lan Ying's vicious eyes.

"It's Xie Yu, who is clear and empty, and Xie Dao Chang."

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