A courtyard that is not luxurious.

The autumn wind rustles outside, and the hall inside is brightly lit.

"Lei Fang, what do you want us to tell us about the big night?" Seven burly-looking men sat upright on stools, and one of them spoke impatiently. "After sitting for so long, there's no point in drinking bird tea."

"Big things, of course there are big things." A glimmer of light flashed in Lei Fang's eyes, and he said in a somewhat panicked tone, his figure was also very strong, but standing among the seven people, he seemed to be the kind that couldn't help but be weak.

"What's the matter?" A sentence aroused the interest of several other people, and they couldn't help but ask.

"The new prefect has kidnapped Feng Lei." Lei Fang said solemnly

"Lei Fang, you kid is not playing with us, you called us over at night and talked nonsense." The big man who spoke before reacted and snorted coldly, everyone knows that Feng Lei was held by the new prefect with a knife on his neck, no, the whole city knows about it, just tell us this?

"What does it matter to us whether that kid Feng Lei lives or dies? Looking for death by himself, can he still blame us when he comes back? ”

Lei Fang listened to everyone's words, and his face became a little heavy, "You guys, don't you feel that something is wrong?" ”

"You mean," someone answered instantly, "Mr. He didn't come back?" ”

Lei Fang nodded heavily, and suddenly shouted to the outside, "Come in." ”

The door opened, and a man dressed as a soldier came in.

"Are you, Mr. He's personal guard?" Someone exclaimed, seemingly uncertain.

"It's the villain." The soldier replied.

Just when everyone was puzzled, Lei Fang ordered, "You tell everything that happened in Ningxiawei again." ”

The soldier nodded, "The day after the prefect took office, General He went to his house at the invitation of Yuan Tongzhi, and then he never came back, along with several brothers with him. ”

"You mean, Mr. He was also killed by the thieves?" Someone asked, but there was no too sad expression on his face.

Lei Fang saw it in his eyes.

"The villain doesn't know." The guard shook his head, "However, on the day the prefect took office, the chief soldier sent us and others to send 100,000 taels of silver. ”

There was silence for a while, and Lei Fang waved his hand to tell the soldier to step back.

"That being the case, then why hasn't there been any news, not to mention General He, not even the news of Yuan Shao's death."

Lei Fang shook his head and sighed, "I only know that the Ning Governor's Mansion is in the Yuan Mansion now. ”

He himself is He Huchen's confidant, He Huchen single-handedly promoted him from the bottom, otherwise the guards would not have to report the situation to him alone, after hearing the situation, his heart seemed to sink to the bottom.

In the past few days, there has been no news, until today, when the prefect landed in the city, and He Huchen did not come back, he decided that He Huchen was dead.

He Huchen's behavior in recent years is not only indescribable, the soldiers have not received their salaries in full for a long time, so for this general soldier, there may not be many people loyal to him, but by no means including him Lei Fang.

The soldier died for his confidant, and he mixed up from a small soldier to the present, which is interesting enough.

To say that He Huchen was killed by thieves, he will never believe it, in the past two years, the peasant rebels have continued, and they can hear that they have killed the county and the prefect, but they have never killed the military position, not to mention that it is Ningxia Wei, the wave of thieves has always only grabbed some rations and left, even Yuan Shao could not have been killed by him, and it was even more impossible to kill He Huchen.

But the more this is the case, the more uneasy he is in his heart, who else can it be if it is not a thief, only the prefect, who is the prefect, that represents the court.

Squinting his eyes and leaning back in his chair, observing the reactions of the crowd, Lei Fang said slowly, "Maybe the prefect is raiding his house now." ”

Everyone's faces really changed, and someone forced a smile and said, "What kind of house are you copying?" ”

No one answered, because everyone knows that there are a few officials who are clean under their buttocks, and the same is true for soldiers.

"Yuan Shao is already dead, just copy it, after all, the law doesn't blame the public, right?" The man who shouted before was a little weak-hearted.

"Wu Tong, what do you think of the eunuch case back then?" Lei Fang asked a little sarcastically, everyone's expressions were exactly what he wanted, the more scared, the better.

In the eunuch case, half of the ministers in the DPRK were missing, and they were all important ministers. Everyone knows that Lei Fang is giving everyone a hint, maybe you will be the next one to be copied.

Lei Fang knew Ning Zhiyuan's background, He Huchen inadvertently told him that if he saw him in the future, he would be more respectful, but now that he thinks about it, He Huchen is afraid that he will inadvertently bump into the prefect, and every time he thinks of this, he feels uncomfortable.

"Yuan Shao is a subordinate of the prefect, and he can control it. We are not his subordinates, so why should we be in charge? Someone is still sober and said.

Lei Fang gritted his teeth with hatred, and glanced at the man, it was a thousand households named Wei Chang, but his face still did not change, and said, "What do you think is happening to our General He now?" ”

"I guess I was killed by thieves." Wu Tong sighed a little, "After all, Yuan Shao was also killed by the thieves. ”

"Then if the thieves of Ningxiawei dare to kill like this, will they wait until today?" Lei Fang sneered, "When Ningxia Wei first withdrew the defense, the thieves deliberately waited for us to leave before robbing it, and there has never been an accident for so long, otherwise General He can only bring more than a hundred personal guards?" ”

"And what do you mean?" Wu Tong was a little weak-hearted by Lei Fang.

"General He was killed, and he was killed by the new prefect." Ray said with a trembling look in his eyes, he tried his best to stay calm, but found that he couldn't.

There was silence again.

If He Huchen was really killed by the prefect as Lei Fang said, would he and the others be spared?

"Then you can't go and kill the new prefect, right?" After a long time, Wu Tong said with some indignation, who is not greedy when he is an official now, even the soldiers who can't be greedy will rob it.

"Killed?" Wei Chang disagreed, "Since the prefect of Ning dares to kill the general soldiers, it must be instructed by the imperial court, which can be compared to the previous few weak scholars." Are you trying to rebel? ”

Lei Fang was stunned in his heart, why does this Wei Chang always dismantle his own platform, "Rebellion?" Now that the northwest is in chaos like this, General He has not listened to the edict to suppress bandits several times before, what is the difference between it and rebellion? The imperial court can't control this anymore. ”

Everyone's faces changed, what was done before was dereliction of duty, how can it be considered a rebellion? Lei Fang is like this now, it can't be

"Lei Qianhu." Wei Chang waved his hand and said, "I know that you are General He's henchman, if you are like this now, if we don't agree to deal with the prefect with you, we will be arrested, right?" ”

"So what?" Lei Fang continued, he really had the idea.

"So you'd better not do it." Wei Chang smiled and just said.

"Because I promised to do it with you, but I can't be forced by you."

The faces of the other five people all changed, only Lei Fang was a little surprised, "Why should I believe you, there seems to be no reason." ”

"Because I'm smart people." Wei Chang showed a confident smile on his face, "And Governor Ning has looked for me, and he also thinks I'm a smart person." ”

Lei Fang's face changed

The night was like water, exuding a solemn atmosphere. Ning Zhiyuan looked at the dark sky in the room and thought.

This autumn has been really eventful.

ps: Pay attention to the chapter name cough cough