As soon as he heard this, Cai Kuo was excited, and he immediately stuffed the reins to the butler and trotted towards the inner hall.

"Brother Gonghui! Brother Gonghui! I am back! Before Cai Kuo entered the door, he shouted loudly outside the door.

Gong Huangran was sitting in the guest seat, holding two rolls of bamboo slips and carefully inspecting them, and when he heard Cai Kuo's shout, he stood up and saluted Cai Kuo, who was trotting, "Lord Cai." ”

"Hey, Brother Gonghui, do you and my brother still need to be so polite in my house? Come on, come on, sit down! Sit down! ”

Gong Wanran sat down and asked, "Lord Cai, is it effective?" ”

Cai Kuo sighed, shook his head helplessly, and said: "Hey, it's useless, as Brother Gonghui expected, Wu Xiangguo didn't mean to see the king at all, he seemed to have given up completely, and he didn't care about anything that was about to happen." I just can't figure it out, why can't he fight for Xiangguo? It's a life-threatening matter! ”

"Xiangguo may have died of his heart, others are deliberately framing, and we have no conclusive evidence, Xiangguo knows that there is no point in pleading, and it is humiliating to wag his tail and beg for mercy."

Cai Kuo nodded and said: "However, on the way back, I thought about it carefully, before there is no new progress in the matter, it is better not to see the king, if there is really an important discovery, and then we will meet again, maybe there will be a turnaround." ”

"Well, there is not much time left for us now, within three days, we must find new evidence, otherwise once the crime is decided, Wu Xiangguo will be more than lucky."

Cai Kuo scratched his head and said depressedly: "Hey! It's really strange to say this, at first the king's mind was to attack the Qi country, and then General Zhang talked to the king once, and the king issued an edict, changing the decree to destroy the Yue country first, the decree was not a few days later, an assassination made the king change his mind, and now he wants to attack the Qi country. According to my years of experience in judging cases, I'm afraid this is a ghost done by the Vietnamese people! You know what? That Ding San! It turned out to be a Yue Guo! ”

Gong Wanran nodded and said, "I also checked his bottom, and it is indeed as you said." ”

"However, the fact that he is from the Yue country alone is not enough to explain the problem, I believe that the problem must be in that handwritten letter!"

At this time, Gong Wanran spread out the two rolls of bamboo slips in his hand and said, "That's why I came to you today." ”

"Oh? What did Brother Gong Wan find? ”

Gong Wanran pointed to the bamboo slips and said: "Of these two bamboo slips, one is the civil governance record I just wrote, and the other is a forgery, can you tell the difference?" ”

"One copy is a forgery? Let me see! ”

Cai Kuo said, sat on the ground, stared intently at the two rolls of bamboo slips, looked at it for a while, he almost put his eyes completely on the bamboo slips, but still found nothing, and finally, he shook his head helplessly and said: "I can't tell the difference, these two are almost exactly the same!" ”

Gong Wanran smiled, pointed to the bamboo slip on the left and said, "This one is a real volume, and the other one is a forgery." ”

Cai Kuo hurriedly aligned the forged bamboo slips with the real scroll again, and quickly compared them again, but still found nothing, he could only shake his head and say, "There is no difference." ”

Gong Wanran pointed to a column of characters in the real scroll and said: "Look at this word, 'civil things', when I was writing, the end of the word 'use' exceeded the left edge of the bamboo piece where it was located, leaving a little ink on the bamboo piece next to it, and this ink blot happened to connect the word "zhi" in "abundance of products". ”

Before Gong Wanran finished speaking, Cai Kuo shook his head violently and said, "Hey! Brother Gonghui! I thought you had made a big discovery! That's it! I'll definitely notice this when I look at the bamboo slips! The first thing that came to my mind was that the so-called Wu Xiangguo's handwritten letter was most likely pieced together! What is that Ding San doing? He is the miscellaneous housekeeper of Xiangguo's house, Wu Xiangguo's discarded bamboo slips are all destroyed and disposed of by him, so many years, Wu Xiangguo's bamboo slips are too many to count, if you take out a few words from it, and then find someone to imitate the handwriting to supplement one or two bamboo pieces, it is easy to make up a fake volume! So, I deliberately looked at all the words that were beyond the strokes, and each of them had the situation you mentioned, even if it was a fake, and the counterfeiter could still think of this, and they would definitely fill in the ink. ”

"Listen to me." Gong Hui Ran picked up the two bamboo slips and folded them outwards in the gap between "things for the people" and "abundance of products", revealing the sides of the two pieces of bamboo that were originally close together.

At this time, Cai Kuan clearly saw that on the real scroll, the excess part of the word "use" left a little ink on the side of the word "zhi", while the side of the bamboo slip of the forged one was very clean, and there was almost no ink.

Cai Kuo hurriedly compared all the details that appeared beyond the strokes, and found that the cracks in the pseudo-scroll were clean.

Cai Kuo was excited and exclaimed, "Ah! I see! I get it! The counterfeiter will make up the strokes, but most likely he won't think about the ink on the side! ”

"Hmm!" Gong Wanran nodded.

"Brother Gonghui! Fast! Come with me to the prison! Let's verify it now! ”

"Okay."

Soon, the two came to the prison, Cai Kuo ordered the bamboo slips as evidence to be taken out of the locked iron cabinet, and the two folded the bamboo slips along the gap, only to see that all the places where the strokes exceeded were clean.

Cai Kuo smiled excitedly: "Sure enough! This so-called autograph letter Jane is a forgery! This is enough to prove Sangkook's innocence! ”

Unlike the sunny days of Gusu City, it was drizzling in Huiji City at this time.

King Yue crouched on the desk, as if awakened by the sound of rain hitting the green tile, he opened his confused eyes, looked at the bamboo slips that had not been approved on a few cases, and couldn't help but shake his head regretfully, he stood up, pinched the bitter gall hanging on the beams of the house, and took a sip, the bitter taste almost penetrated the bone marrow, dispelled the sleepiness, and made him subconsciously frown.

King Yue stretched his waist, sat down again and reviewed all the remaining bamboo slips, and when he had finished all these tasks, he slowly walked under the eaves with a sigh of relief, and looked at the splash in the mud puddle.

"Report! King! Lord Fan and General Ji ask to meet! The guards ran in to report.

"Please!"

Then Fan Li and Ji Zheng took off their hats outside the door, shook off the rain on their bodies, and then walked into the hall and sat down in front of the desk.

After the three of them saluted, King Yue couldn't wait to ask, "Master Fan, what's going on over there?" ”

Fan Li stroked his beard and said with a smile: "King, everything is as we expected, Fucha not only ordered the arrest of Wu Zixu and his party, but also changed his mind and prepared to attack the Qi State. ”

"Haha! Good! King Yue nodded with satisfaction: "So good!" I was very worried that the plan would not work, and that I would be attacked by my husband. ”

Fan Li smiled: "Hehe, the king doesn't have to worry about this, the estrangement between Fucha and Wu Zixu is very deep, he doesn't trust Wu Zixu at all, although he once ordered to attack us before, but it was just Zhang Xun with a three-inch incorruptible tongue that he was confused for a while, hehe, as long as we use a little strategy, Fucha will naturally be exposed." ”

"Well, this Zhang Xun is indeed difficult to deal with. By the way, did the husband catch Zhang Xun? ”

Fan Li looked at Ji Zheng with a smile and said, "General Ji, I heard that you and Zhang Xun have a very deep relationship, but is there such a thing?" ”

Ji Zheng replied without hesitation: "Indeed, Zhang Xun is my brother. ”

Fan Li narrowed his eyes, and an imperceptible smile appeared on his face, "Hehe, in this case, this should be good news for you." ”

Ji Zheng shook his head, saluted Fan Li, and said solemnly: "As Zhang Xun's brother, I naturally hope that he is safe and sound, but as the general of the Yue Kingdom, I hope that Zhang Xun will lose his official position and resign from his knighthood, and he will no longer be an enemy of my country." ”

"Haha, that's good!" Fan Li clapped his hands and laughed: "Then General Ji hopes that he is safe and sound?" Or do you want him to lose his official position and dismiss him? ”

Ji Zheng was expressionless, looked at Fan Li coldly, and said calmly: "If he is safe and sound at this time, he will inevitably continue to be an enemy of our country in the future, but when the Wu State is destroyed, I am afraid that he will encounter a greater disaster." If he loses his position at this time, the king should immediately take him under his command, and that is the situation I want to see the most. ”

"Haha, haha." Fan Li laughed out loud when he heard this.

King Yue raised his hand and waved it slightly at Fan Li, and then said to Ji Zheng: "General Ji, don't go to your heart, private feelings belong to private affairs, and official affairs belong to official affairs, I believe that the general can think clearly and distinguish clearly." Zhang Xun is a great talent, if he can be used by me, this king will naturally not be able to ask for it. ”

Fan Li then saluted Ji Zheng solemnly, and said with a hint of apology: "General Ji, Fan has no intention of provoking, and I hope the general will not mind." ”

Ji Zheng returned the salute, but didn't say anything.

"According to the report, Zhang Xun, Yu Suming and others escaped from the city on the same day, and there is still no whereabouts, I think, with Zhang Xun's skills, there will definitely be no danger, so the general does not have to worry."

"Thank you, Lord Fan, for telling me."

"No thanks, this is originally a military aircraft state affair, and the general should have known about it."

At this time, King Yue seemed to think of something, and said with some anxiety: "Master Fan, although the husband caught Wu Zixu, but after all, Wu Zixu is a famous man in the world, and he is the benefactor who helped him to the throne, what can he really do to Wu Zixu?" ”

"Hehe, don't worry, Fan still has a fatal move."

"Oh? How? ”

"Even if the husband can't be ruthless, someone will definitely put him to death."

"Who?"

"Bo Ya."

At this time, the breeze blew away the clouds and mist, the sunlight sprinkled the earth again through the fresh water vapor, the rain in Huiji City stopped, the sound of the rain disappeared, and the rain and dew dripped from the green tiles, making a crisp sound on the edge of the water tank.

"Bo Yao......" King Yue held his chin in one hand and whispered the name.

"Hehe, five hundred taels of gold to buy Wu Zixu's death, this transaction is quite cost-effective." Fan Li said with a smile.

"Well, don't say five hundred taels, as long as you can kill Wu Zixu, even if Bo Yao asks for five thousand taels of gold, give it to him immediately!"

"Haha! Don't worry, king, five hundred taels is enough! ”

Ji Zheng looked at King Yue and Fan Li in silence, a trace of imperceptible disgust appeared on his face, if he had been placed before, he would not have disdained to be in the company of such people, and he might even denounce this despicable and despicable behavior to his face.

But now, after all the pain he had endured, he had come to terms with it, and in the depths of his heart there was even a fierce struggle of his mind, in which he tried to restrain his last remaining disgust, and at the same time forced himself to learn these vile methods under the restraint of this disgust.

Because he knew that the road ahead would be even more sinister, and that the integrity and gentlemanly way he was proud of would only become a burden to his life, and now he seemed to understand that perhaps sometimes the noblest ideals must be realized by the most despicable means.

He barely squeezed out some smiles, and unnaturally echoed: "One Bo Ya has already caught up with three brigades." ”

Hearing Ji Zheng's words, Fan Li and King Yue laughed.

At this moment, a white pigeon suddenly flew in from outside, circled around the house, and then landed on Fan Li's shoulder.

Fan Li gently stroked the back of the pigeon's neck, then carefully pinched the pigeon and held it in front of him, and removed a small silk roll from its left foot.

Then, Fan Li stood up, walked under the eaves, gently stroked the back of the pigeon's neck a few times, and then opened his hands and threw it upward, and the pigeon flew away freely.

"What's the matter?" King Yue asked curiously.

"Hehe, there's news from General Xiao's side." Fan Li said as he unfolded the silk scroll.

I saw that although the silk scroll was not big, it was as thin as a cicada's wings, and it was densely filled with words, and after Fan Li read it carefully, he said to the two with a smile: "Haha, Fucha must not have imagined that it was us who first knew Zhang Xun's whereabouts." ”

So, Fan Li explained to King Yue and Ji Zheng about Xiao She's encounter with Zhang Xun and others in Yue Nu Mountain.

After hearing this, King Yue asked with some doubts: "It's really interesting to say this, Zhang Xun and a few people actually went to Yuenu Mountain, didn't it mean that this Yuenu Mountain is not known to outsiders?" But why did everyone get stuck in the past? ”

Fan Li shook his head and said: "Hehe, nothing will be just a coincidence, since there is this opportunity now, the past is indispensable for the past." ”

"Well, that makes sense." King Yue nodded, and then asked, "Can General Xiao invite a master to come out of the mountain?" ”

"General Xiao said that he had planned to return in vain, but after seeing Zhang Xun and others, he had a plan to kill two birds with one stone."

"Oh? What is General Xiao going to do? ”

"Hehe, we just need a little help."

Hearing this, Ji Zheng chuckled in his heart, only to see Fan Li squinting his eyes, and there seemed to be a sinister killing intent hidden in his smile, he began to worry about Zhang Xun's safety, but he was a little bit expectant, perhaps, the situation he hoped for the most was coming.