Chapter 660: A Guest at Night
From the northern border of Goguryeo wanting to restart the war with the Eastern Turkic coalition forces, until the meeting reached the point where he was going to send someone to Xinzhou to arrest Zhang Zhongjian, Zhang Heng felt that although Yang Guang's thinking was a bit wild and boundless, he could suddenly shift from the speculation of chasing the wind and shadows to the judgment of real evidence.
He has heard that in the first few years of leaving the town and merging the state, Yang Guang was not less influenced by An Ruoxi, and he often did not stick to the momentary things in front of him, from turning defense to attack, recovering Baidaozhou in one fell swoop, to re-advocating Buddhism in Hebei and gathering the hearts of the people, there is no doubt that An Ruoxi has imprinted a deep imprint of her in Yang Guang's mind. And although he considers himself a wise man, if he wants to serve such a lord in the future, he must also open his mind and keep up with Yang Guang's footsteps in time.
Thinking of this, Zhang Heng decided not to disturb Yang Guang anymore, but to arrange for himself and Qu Tutong to closely monitor the movement of his mind in the past two days, so as to leave enough time for Yang Guang to think about how to play this big game of chess with Guan Zizai.
Yang Guang deduced that Guan Zizai's next chess meeting would be settled in Xinzhou, which was in the upper reaches of the river, so he discussed with Zhang Heng, and sent Xue Shixiong to Xinzhou with his own handwritten letter on a fast horse, and together with Xian Yuluo, who was at the post station near Xinzhou to answer Xiao Xiao, reported to Yang Su, and immediately arrested Zhang Zhongjian. After that, he ignored Zhang Heng and leaned over in front of Yutu alone, concentrating on how to deal with Guan Zizi next.
Zhang Heng had made up his mind, so he said goodbye to Yang Guang, went out of the Jin Palace, found Qu Tutong, and carefully discussed with him the various arrangements for closely monitoring all the "Wild Goose's Nest" suspects in Chang'an City in the past two days.
Unconsciously, the two of them had already discussed the meeting in the Jingzhao Yamen, and Zhang Heng ordered someone to prepare some wine and food at will, and left Qu Tutong to eat in his own yamen before sending him out of the door.
Back in the government office, Zhang Heng still felt relieved, so he called more than a dozen officials on duty, and in the name of leading a team to patrol the night, he personally went to the Qinxian Li in Xicheng, Chang'an, where Mei Er lived, to check the movement.
Since Zhang Heng decided to keep Sima Luo and Lichen in Jiangling, blocking the news of Jiangling and Chang'an, in order to force his heart to take the initiative to contact the people in the "Wild Goose's Nest", including the "Mei's Tomb Ceremony" in the West Market during the day and the Mei Brothers' Mansion at night, Zhang Heng has sent corresponding additional manpower, and he has watched closely without leakage.
Despite this, Xinyi's act of sending Gu Sheng to Xishi to explore the road during the day still made Zhang Heng feel a little uneasy and nervous, and according to Xinyi's usual style of acting, she must have made a major move next. At this juncture, we must not allow ourselves to be sloppy.
When he was in Jiangling, he and Yang Jun carefully planned and carefully designed, but they had not been able to catch Xiao Rushui, and this time in Chang'an City, which he was in charge of, he couldn't say anything to make a weak nun take advantage of his own hands again.
Zhang Heng took the officials around in Qinxian, and found that there were people on duty on several secret posts on the left and right of the Mei Mansion, so he relieved his heart slightly, came out of Qinxian, and took the officials to the Wanshanni Temple in the old city of Chang'an, wanting to see the situation of the hussar battalion sergeants under Li Hun monitoring Xinyi at night.
When Zhang Heng and more than a dozen officials had just passed through the west gate of the new capital of Chang'an and entered the boundary of the old city of Chang'an, he was suddenly stopped by a sergeant who hurriedly ran from behind: "Don't drive Zhang, there are guests in the Mei Mansion." ”
Zhang Heng stared at the sergeant and asked vigilantly, "What kind of guest is it?" ”
"Look at the figure, he should be a weak scholar, but he is wearing a hood on his head, and he can't see what he looks like." The sergeant replied truthfully.
"Go back." Zhang Hengchong commanded the attendants, turned around and walked back.
As a result, before Zhang Heng could lead a group of officials to follow the sergeant into the neighborhood of Qinxianli, he heard a quarrel from the neighborhood from a distance. The sergeant who had been monitoring the Mei Mansion in Qinxian had already greeted Zhang Heng outside the gate and asked Zhang Heng for instructions: "There is an uninvited guest in the Mei Mansion tonight, and there was a fierce quarrel with Mei Er soon after the front door, do you want to enter the house immediately to get someone?" ”
Zhang Heng kept his face calm and said nothing, and ordered the accompanying officials to stay outside the gate to hide their figures, and he ordered the sergeant who came out of the gate to lead the way, walked into Qinxian alone, came to the door of the Mei Mansion and stopped, and listened to the content of the quarrel between Mei Er and the visitor in the courtyard.
I vaguely heard a clear voice coming from the courtyard wall: "If you can't give me a clear answer tonight, don't blame me for turning my face and ruthless, and I'm going to expose that person's old bottom." ”
Next, Mei Er seemed to be persuading the visitor in a low voice, his voice was much lower, and Zhang Heng couldn't hear what Mei Er said outside the door.
"No, tomorrow at the latest, not one more day." The clear voice sounded again, followed by the sound of the door opening in the courtyard.
Zhang Heng hurriedly turned around and hid with the sergeant in the shadow of the doorway of the house next to him.
After a while, I saw Mei Er send a person out of the house, stood in front of the door and watched the person walk away, before turning around and entering the courtyard and closing the door of the house.
"Send someone to keep an eye on him and find out the identity of this person as soon as possible." Zhang Heng ordered the sergeant in a low voice.
Because from the words he heard Mei Er and the man arguing, Zhang Heng keenly deduced that Mei Er would most likely find the mysterious person who was threatened by the good visitor to reveal the old bottom tonight, so after sending someone to follow the visitor who looked like a weak scholar left, Zhang Heng urgently convened a meeting of all the sergeants who were ambushed around Mei's house and made corresponding arrangements.
He himself didn't dare to leave Qinxianli for half a step, and personally hid in a dark sentry to pay attention to the movements in the Mei Mansion.
However, Zhang Heng has been standing in the neighborhood of Qinxianli for nearly an hour, and until the third watch of Tianjiao, he has never seen any movement from Mei Er.
At this time, the sergeant who went to follow the mysterious visitor returned to Qinxianli to report to Zhang Heng: "The mysterious visitor has returned to the Wanshanni Temple in the old city of Chang'an, and rested in the Xiangwei circulation room not far from the mountain gate, and has now been handed over to the sergeant who is monitoring the movement of his mind outside the temple to continue to monitor him." ”
"Could it be that it was Gu Sheng who came to Mei Er just now? The mind moved so fast, he actually sent Gu Sheng to the West Market to shake a shot first, and then he didn't even spend the night, so he sent Gu Sheng to visit the Mei Mansion overnight? Zhang Heng recalled that he had just heard the sound of quarrels in the courtyard outside the door of the Mei Mansion, and immediately shook his head, "The person who visited the Mei Mansion will never be Gu Sheng, it is likely to be Xin Yi himself who is dressed as Gu Sheng." And, from the quarrel between the visitor and Mei Er, it is not difficult to hear that this person seems to have a secret about Mei Er, and he thinks that he is enough to coerce Mei Er to meet his request. ”