(Ask for collection and recommendation)

It was only a moment to jump into the river, but it took a lot of time to catch people, and it was not until dawn that a boat found the body downstream, sent it to the inn, and received a silver reward.

The Zhu family was crying, Hu Guiyang and others stood outside the store, listening to the onlookers, and most people thought that this official was either in debt or had a case.

Yuan Mao's face never returned to normal, motioned for the two to step aside, and whispered, "Didn't we force him to death?" ”

Fan Dajian shook his head, "Of course not, we still have to save him, but he is not good at water, so he can only find someone to help." ”

Yuan Mao looked at Hu Guiyang.

Hu Guiyang shrugged, "The person who waited didn't come, he was going to jump into the river, it has nothing to do with us." ”

"I'm wondering, is that person seeing us, so he refuses to see Zhu Zhenfu?" Yuan Mao once watched Zhu Heng jump into the river, and he couldn't be indifferent.

"It's hard to say." Hu Guiyang couldn't comfort Yuan Mao.

"It's just a petty official, aren't you so cowardly? In the imperial city before, there were corpses all over the ground, but I didn't see you scared like this. Fan Dajian said suspiciously.

"It's different, it's different," Yuan Mao muttered...... "What kind of person can force a person to commit suicide?" ”

"The man we're looking for. Let's go, let's go back to the capital first, there seems to be no clue here. Hu Guiyang looked into the distance, ready to hire a mule cart to return to the city.

"I'm going to see his family." Yuan Mao still couldn't think about it.

"Wait." Hu Guiyang took out a piece of silver and handed it to Yuan Mao.

Yuan Mao was stunned for a moment and took it into his hand.

Fan Dajian had no choice but to take out a small piece of silver, watched Yuan Mao walk away, and said helplessly: "It's good, don't say anything about running for nothing, and give away a few taels of silver, next time there is such a thing, don't call me." ”

"It's not a wasted trip." Hu Guiyang laughed, took Fan Dajian to hire a car, and then sat and waited for Yuan Mao.

Yuan Mao quickly ran back, his face was a little red, and he didn't say a word after getting into the car.

After walking for a while, Hu Guiyang asked, "What's the difference?" ”

Yuan Mao raised his head in confusion, "Huh? ”

"What is the difference between Zhu Heng jumping into the river and committing suicide with the righteous son of the Zhao family killing each other in the imperial city?"

"Uh...... I don't mean anything else. ”

"It's okay, I'm the one who survived anyway."

"We are all minions, so naturally there will be life and death, Lord Zhu...... He is an official of the imperial court, although he is not a big official, he should not end up like this. ”

Before Hu Guiyang could speak, Fan Dajian said: "The world is vast, people are like ants, what kind of minions and officials are there?" It's all the same mortal, Yuan Mao, you think too much. Like cattle and sheep, mortals eat their flesh, drink their milk, and knock their bones, and the gods above their heads do the same to mortals. ”

Hu Guiyang smiled and said, "Even take mortals into medicine." ”

"Yes." Fan Dajian stretched out his hands, "This is not a rule I set, what do you think I do?" ”

It was already afternoon when he entered the city, and Hu Guiyang didn't want to go to Nansi, so he separated from Yuan Mao and Fan Dajian and returned to his home in Shijia Hutong, intending to make up for his sleep.

As a result, I still didn't sleep well, and just fell asleep, I was awakened by a knock on the door outside.

Yuan Mao, Fan Dajian, and Lai Wangxi all came, and as soon as they saw Hu Guiyang, they asked in unison, "Have you heard?" ”

"Huh?" Hu Guiyang has not fully woken up.

After entering the house, Yuan Mao spoke: "The news just now, the eunuch Huang Ci and others were relegated to Nanjing and Fengyang, this is the reason why Zhu Heng didn't wait for anyone last night, right?" ”

"So it seems."

Yuan Mao let out a sigh of relief, and finally believed that he had nothing to do with Zhu Heng's death at all, and he just happened to meet him.

"How do you deal with these eunuchs?" Hu Guiyang "exposed" the big conspiracy in the imperial city half a month ago, and he had already been rewarded, but he had not heard of any moves in the palace until now.

Lai Wangxi seemed a little overexcited, "This is the case in the palace, no matter how big the matter is, you have to take it slowly, step by step, so as to uproot it and leave no trouble." This time, there were more than a dozen eunuchs who were demoted, and their status was not low. Also, the West Factory officially reopened, and the factory asked Mr. Hu to take the time to go today, and he was there before dark. ”

"Then go ahead." Hu Guiyang walked to the door, "Just degraded out of the capital?" ”

The three of them bowed their heads together.

Hu Guiyang felt that such a punishment seemed too light, and was about to lock the door, but saw that the cake was drilling the dog hole in the corner of the courtyard wall, and his head had already come in.

"I thought you ran away...... When did you get this dog hole? ”

The big cake was small, and he quickly got in and ran to Hu Guiyang to wag his tail.

"If you don't go out again, you won't be wanted when you go out." Hu Guiyang said, then pointed to the big basin under the porch, "The food is there, why are you running out?" ”

The tail of the flatbread waged even more happily.

Hu Guiyang walked out of the door, locked the door and said, "If I didn't believe in ghosts and gods, I would have thought this was a dog traitor." ”

Fan Dajian immediately said: "I have a way to find out if it has demonic energy." ”

"Hehe, forget it."

The four of them went to the West Factory together, and Yuan Mao's mood was obviously much better, "Captain Hu, we have to step up, as soon as Huang Ci falls, the East and West Factories and the South Division will step up the investigation of the case, whoever catches He Million first will be able to make a contribution first." ”

When he arrived at the West Factory, it was already dark, and Wang Zhi was still there, so he immediately summoned four people.

Wang Zhi stood in front of the public case and raised his left foot, "Look, this is the new boots that Your Majesty gave me, I said to collect them, Your Majesty said that the boots are for wearing, wouldn't it be a pity to put them away, I was right when I thought about it, so I put them on." Let me tell you, these boots are indeed different, light and fluttering, no weight at all, how do you say a word? ”

"Light as a swallow?" Lai Wangxi prompted.

"Yes, I'm as light as a swallow now, I'll jump twice to show you."

Wang Zhizhen jumped twice, and the four of them inevitably had to praise a few times, especially Lai Wangxi, as if he had seen a martial arts master who was about to be born, and searched his stomach to find beautiful words.

Wang Zhi was in a very good mood, listened for a while, and then waved his hand, indicating that he was going to get down to business.

"I think you have heard that there have been great changes in the palace, Huang Ci's gang is completely finished, and Huai En has become a celebrant eunuch, he ...... It's not bad. Then there is the reopening of the West Factory, and I get more fees, and people like you can recruit a thousand! ”

After listening to the flattery with satisfaction for a while, Wang Zhi continued: "But I don't want to recruit so many people? Why? If you want to save the silver, whoever makes meritorious service will give more to whom, and whoever doesn't do things will naturally have to deduct some of it, and the rewards and punishments are clear, right? ”

Hu Guiyang kept laughing and rarely spoke, and then said: "Since there are rewards and punishments, and the silver can be freed up, then there is no need to recruit fewer people, let's come by a thousand." ”

Wang pointed directly at Hu Guiyang, "I just said that there seems to be something missing this day, it turns out that you are missing this broken mouth." Say, what did you go for? Did you find a clue? ”

"I went to Zhangjiawan and saw the former Zhenfu Zhu Heng commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, went home to sleep, was woken up by the three of them, came to the West Factory, and it was over."

Wang Zhi frowned, "That's all?" ”

"That's all."

"Where's the clue?" Wang Zhi lowered his face coldly.

"Not yet."

Fan Dajian couldn't help but interject: "Didn't Zhu Heng reveal some secrets?" ”

Hu Guiyang smiled: "What kind of secret is that? The factory must have known about it a long time ago. ”

"He told the Demon Book Collection again?" Wang Zhi guessed.

Fan Dajian's face turned red and shrank behind Yuan Mao.

Wang Zhi's face became colder and colder, "Hu Guiyang, I was quite optimistic about you at the beginning, what do you want, what about you?" After all these days, you should give me something. ”

"The one-year deadline is only half a month." The smile on Hu Guiyang's face was more out of place than usual.

"Others report the progress to me every day, and it's good for you not to call, not to come, not to say when you come, and to say it is the same as not to say it."

"Hehe, I'm laying the net, there's really nothing to say."

"How you laid the net, I want to hear it." Wang Zhi had to ask for some progress today, "Yun Dan has been beheaded, what clues did he give you, can you say it?" ”

Hu Guiyang once claimed that Yun Dan's words were "very helpful", but he refused to explain at the time, but Wang Zhi did not forget.

"Okay, I said, after that, please do me a favor."

"You're telling me the conditions?"

"It's not a condition, it's just that two things happen to come together."

"You speak first."

Hu Guiyang thought for a while, "Yun Dan said that people who have come into contact with He Million are willing to believe him, and the He Million in everyone's eyes is different. ”

"Well, Yun Dan said that to everyone, what did you hear?"

"Twenty years ago, Liang Tiegong killed my father-in-law's son, but he didn't run away, and he was still swaggering and deceiving in Tongzhou, why is this?"

"Twenty years ago, who cares? Well, you say why. ”

"Because I don't care."

"Don't care?"

"Liang Tiegong believes in 'heaven and earth are furnaces and all things are copper', and he didn't regard killing children as a big deal at all, and he had no guilt or fear in his heart, so he didn't run away, and he couldn't think of running away at all."

Fan Dajian, who was behind Yuan Mao, coughed twice, wanting to justify "Heaven and earth are furnaces and all things are copper", but the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, he was not afraid of Hu Guiyang, but afraid of Wang Zhi.

"You mean, He Million won't run away this time? Still hidden in the capital? Wang Zhi did not fully accept this inference.

"He Million is a person who takes the truth he believes in very seriously, and if he fails to assassinate him, he will not admit that the spell is fake, but will cast more spells to punish those involved."

"You confused me, just say where He Million might be hiding."

"He is not in the capital, because there are not many of his people in the city, but he will not be too far from the capital, it will be within a hundred miles. The most important thing is that he is not called He Million or Liang Tiegong now, as Yun Dan said, he has many identities, and it is time to use a new identity. ”

Wang Zhi seemed to realize something, and nodded, "What is his new identity?" ”

"If I had to guess, it's either a martial arts master, or a Taoist who is good at spells."

"How?"

"The factory won't tell anyone else about my solution, right?" Hu Guiyang asked with a smile.

"Of course not, what's yours is yours, even if someone uses your method, you will have a share of the credit."

"Huang Ci and others are a clue, Zhu Heng was so frightened that he committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and Huang Ci may also be assassinated."

"I've already sent someone to spy on me all the way, it doesn't matter if Huang Ci dies or not, as long as he can catch the assassin, he can find out what a million." Wang Zhi will not attribute this credit to Hu Guiyang.

"The bandits and local heroes within a hundred miles have to inquire, are there any strange people who suddenly appeared?"

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away...... If you find a clue, you will be credited. ”

"There are also the sisters and brothers of the He family, the third sister of He and the five madmen of He ......"

Wang Zhi smiled and asked, "Don't you know?" ”

"What?"

"The He sister and brother killed a person outside the city, it is likely to be one of the Wen family's disciples, what is the name of the Wen."

Hu Guiyang was taken aback, in his memory, Third Sister He was far from an unheard opponent.

"The He sisters and brothers fled to the wilderness, and the captain of the Xichang factory has found a trace, and within three days, he will be able to take it."

"If it is really the He sisters and brothers who killed Wen Wu, then the captain sent out by the factory is afraid that it will be more than lucky." Hu Guiyang said.