Chapter 91: Falling short
As the sunset sprinkled the last wisp of afterglow gradually swallowed by the darkness, about to enter the darkness of Lin'an City, 10,000 lights seem to compete with the countless stars in the sky, in the darkness just ready to cover the earth, the stars began to light up.
In the empty alleyway, a cyan four-person sedan chair creaked leisurely, and finally stopped in front of a small house at the end of the alley.
"The master has returned home."
The old bull head of the sedan chair driver on the left side of the head carried this sedan chair and walked this road many times, even he himself couldn't remember clearly. Seeing that he was about to reach the ground, he shouted skillfully.
"What the hell is it today, I haven't seen a single figure all the way."
After snorting, the old bull turned to look at the cowering strong man on his right, and muttered in a low voice.
In fact, in his heart, there was still a sentence in his heart that he slandered but did not say.
"What the hell is a fucking life today, those three turtle grandchildren are all fucking sick, sick when they are sick, the people they find are strong and strong, but they are all fucking goods that can't make a fart for half a day, it's really fucking unlucky."
Of course, he can only scold this sentence in his heart, but he will not say it on his lips. Anyway, the other three old guys who didn't come also promised to give him all the rewards given by the steward of the Li Mansion, didn't they.
Sure enough, he didn't get the expected response, and the old bull took two steps towards the gate of the Li Mansion sullenly, squatting on the ground and staring at the closed gate.
Today, the reward given by Steward Li is all his own, where should he go to refresh himself. What about Yihongyuan or Ruyifang?
Half-loud, the gate of the Li Mansion, which would open in response to a shout in the past, was still closed and there was no response.
"What the hell is going on today." The old bull scolded in a low voice, glanced at the small sedan chair that also did not have any movement, and helplessly walked to the closed gate of the Li Mansion, stretched out his hand and knocked lightly on the door.
"Master Li returns to ......"
"Crunch...... Crunch ......"
With the light knock of the old bull head, the closed door of the Li Mansion opened with a familiar voice that made the roots of the teeth sour, and the old cow head's next words were scared back.
The old bull head hurriedly took a few steps back with a smile on his face, nodded and waited for the familiar generous master to appear.
Now that the money is in hand, let's go to Yihong Courtyard today.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, the three men standing by the small sedan chair all shook and quietly glanced at each other, and the man on the right carefully tilted the sedan chair: "Master Li, I'm home." ”
"Ahh
Hearing this voice, there was a short soft cry from the car.
The sedan curtain was lifted, and Li Antong, whose face was a little pale, bowed down and walked out of the sedan chair. Seeing the arm handed over by the sedan chair man beside him, Li Antong dodged for a moment as if he had been pricked by a needle, and then put his hand on the arm a little stiffly and walked out of the sedan chair.
How awkward is that action?
The vermilion gate of the Li Mansion opened with a small crack, but it was still the same small crack, and no one came out to greet it. The old bull head naturally didn't wait for the generous master he thought about for a long time.
Hesitantly glanced at Li Antong who walked out of the sedan chair, the old bull scratched his head suspiciously, muttered in a low voice, walked up to the door with courage, stretched out his hand and gently pushed on the open door.
"Crunch ......"
The vermilion gate slowly opened with a long trill.
As far as the eye can see, the patio of the Li Mansion is dark, and no one can see clearly.
"This ...... Master Lee......"
The old bull head was a little confused, and looked back at Li Antong, who also looked puzzled, and bowed down.
Looking at the dark mansion that seemed to have no life in the open gate, it was like a gate of hell at this moment, with a bloody mouth open, waiting for people to throw themselves into the net.
Li Antong's cold sweat that he had managed to suppress in the sedan chair instantly gushed out.
The situation is so wrong.
If in the past, often the old bull head only needed to shout, the fake butler who made Li Antong want to eat his flesh and drink his blood, but was also afraid of the bone marrow, would have appeared and greeted him.
However, there was no movement today. Even the whole house is pitch black, which is really abnormal.
"A few big ......"
"Things have changed, Liu Fang will go to Uncle Zhiguo, Tian Tong will come with me."
Before Li Antong finished speaking, the strong man who had been working as a dumb sedan chair man had already rushed out from the stunned old bull head with a gust of wind. Short voices drifted in the distance.
……
At the same time, in three other places in the north of Lin'an City, suddenly the lights were loud and the sound of gold and iron resonating. However, most of the shouts lasted for less than a cup of tea, and then they quickly died down, and then they regained their calm.
……
Looking at the trembling room of old and young, Jia Rudao finally felt a little comfort in his heart. Although Sun Kui and the others had no trace, they did not kill Li Antong's family.
It's kind of a bit of a conscience.
"Xia Guan doesn't know anything. Uncle Guo! Uncle Guo, save the lower official! ”
Li Antong knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Jia Rudao and cried.
"Okay, Master Li, you can stay in the mansion to appease the family, as for the matter of collaborating with the enemy, this official will have a judgment after investigating it!"
Jia Rudao broke free from Li Antong, turned around and walked out of the lobby. Behind him was the mute sedan chair man who carried the sedan chair for Li Antong before.
"What about the other three prisoners?"
"Back to my lord's words, the other three thieves in the official's house killed four people on the spot and captured six people." Zhao Yi followed Jia Rudao and bowed in response.
Zhao Yi was the battalion commander of the Inner Temple Direct Forbidden Army that Jia Rudao borrowed from Zhao Yun. He will become a palanquin man because of Jia Yidao's order.
What is Sun Kui's skills, Jia Rudao has seen it with his own eyes. If it weren't for Liu Ru's sudden abandonment of wandering away and the rupture of Sun Kui's weapon in exchange for defeat, I am afraid it would be really hard to say what the final result would be.
Although Sun Kui was not lightly injured, but in the past half a month of hiding, although he ordered to strictly control the sale of wound medicine in various pharmacies in Lin'an City, especially the sale of Jinchuang medicine, but Li Antong and these people still got a lot of medicine for Sun Kui through channels.
In this case, if he took a strong attack, although he arranged two hundred Inner Temple Direct Forbidden Army near Li Antong's house, he was still very uncertain about whether he could leave Sun Kui.
Even if Sun Kui can be left behind, if there are too many casualties among the forbidden army in the inner hall, Zhao Yun's face is not good-looking.
The more he knows, the more Jia Rudao understands the Great Song Dynasty, which seems to be Zhao Yun's words. Although Zhao Yun has not reached the point of being completely overlooked, he can really command more than 1,000 miles near Lin'an.
Like Cui He, Zhao Yun insisted on giving orders one after another to let Cui He return to the dynasty to take over the post of right prime minister, but Cui He insisted on not accepting it, and staying in the position of the pacification envoy of Guangdong Jinglu did not move.
So much so that now the two phases of the Great Song Dynasty have always been empty.
Zhao Yun's life was not as good as he imagined.
Therefore, Jia Rudao also knows that there are some things that he can do, but he must not go too far. Not to mention that Zheng Qingzhi, Shi Songzhi and others have temporarily given some face for some special reasons, and they really treat those old guys who have been up and down in the court for decades to be pinched in the mud. If you really want to talk about political wisdom, Jia Rudao knows very well that although he has experienced a lot in the shopping mall, he is still too much worse than those old guys.
Just look at Qiao Xingjian, who has been sitting firmly in Diaoyutai until now. Nowadays, the officials of the first school of science and the first line of Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang) have appeared in the past few years when Qiao Xingjian was the prime minister of Zuo, and it has become a decisive force in the court of the Great Song Dynasty.
In contrast, although Shi Songzhi inherited Shi Miyuan's Siming (now Ningbo, Zhejiang) lineage, but after Shi Miyuan's death, after Zheng Qingzhi's Xiao Yuanyou, then Shi Songzhi's gloomy downfall, and then to Qiao Xingjian's worship, although the power of the Siming line in the court cannot be said to be precarious, at least it can no longer compete with Qiao Xingjian's faction.
Not to mention, Zheng Qingzhi and Shi Songzhi have always kept an appropriate distance, harmonious but different.
Therefore, with Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi eating like this, Jia Yidao didn't feel too surprised.
In general, the more beautiful the assassin is done, the more Zhao Yun can take the initiative in some of the later things. Zhao Yun knows this in his heart, and Jia Rudao also knows it.
Let Zhao Yi pretend to be the sedan chair man, and lead the other two masters of the inner temple to pretend to be Li Antong's sedan chair man, and not let the old bull head know the inside story, Jia Rudao can be regarded as well-intentioned.
It's a pity that it seems that Sun Kui and the others have a much more sensitive sense of smell or news than they imagined, and they actually ran away in advance.
Could it be that there is still Sun Kui's internal response in the government?
As soon as this idea arose, it was vetoed by Jia Yidao. Today, after seeing Du Shuixian, Jia Rudao has already sealed the Lin'an Mansion. No official in a room can leave the government without his order. This also includes the various officials in the government and their entourage, who are also allowed to enter but not leave.
Although the officials can leave the house, the people who should have sent Lu have already sent them, and they will never know the specific situation of Lu Dao.
So what could have gone wrong?
ran away Sun Kui and the woman, although catching a few small fish and shrimp can be regarded as the mastermind, but this is different from the result expected by Jia Yidao.
Where can Sun Kui go?
For no reason, Jia Rudao felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.
"General Zhao, the order is to let the generals of all walks of life escort the captured assassins to Lin'an Mansion, and this official will be interrogated overnight."
Jia Rudao shook his head, as if he wanted to shake off the uneasiness in his heart, and said coldly.
"The last general obeys!"
When Zhao Yi heard Jia Yidao's words, his heart sank, and he hurriedly responded.
At this moment, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, Jia seemed to turn around in surprise.