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It was already nightfall, and the surroundings had long since lost their vitality and became silent, except for one study, where the lights were still on, and two figures cast from the flickering candlelight on the curtains, which looked distorted and eerie.

Jimo County Ling Cheng Bi is forty this year, his white face has three beards and long beards that sway without wind, and he looks quite heroic with his tall figure, but it is a pity that a pair of overly slender eyes destroy this sense of heroism, but it makes people feel gloomy. At this time, he was talking to a person dressed as a master:

"Mr. Yizhen, what you ordered has been completed, and the Xiahou family is no longer able to make up the difference and make up enough remuneration, so tomorrow I will order the arrest of the Xiahou family, and the family property and servants will be confiscated. Get rid of Xiahou Ying's worries, and the requirements have been achieved. What Mr. Ze promised me ......"

The person dressed as the master shook his head: "This matter should have been settled three days ago, but you have delayed it until tomorrow." You need to know that there are many dreams at night, and if you don't solve the problem as soon as possible. As for what I promised you, when I solve the Xiahou family, I will naturally honor it. ”

Cheng Bi's face was a little confused: "The neighboring villagers pleaded, after all, Cheng Mou is a local official, so it's not good to give no face at all." In three days, there was no one in the Xiahou family who had nothing to say, how could there be any accidents! ”

The master sighed, "I heard that the fourth prince Zhao Min returned to Jimo to visit relatives, and he will be there soon." ”

Cheng Bi sneered: "Mr. is talking about the 'Prince of Mo'?" What if he comes? What this official does is out of public intentions, and he enforces the law impartially, so what is there to fear? ”

The master sighed again, said no more, and left.

Cheng Bi was about to go back to the bedroom to rest, but when he opened the door, he saw the housekeeper waiting at the door, saw Cheng Bi, presented a letter with both hands, and lowered his head and said: "Master, there is a letter from the south!" ”

Cheng Bi responded, took the letter, saw that there was no one left and right, and reprimanded: "Didn't you ask him not to take the initiative to contact?" If someone catches us, we will all die and have no place to be buried! ”

Cheng Bi opened the envelope and browsed, frowned, and said, "Meet at the Shili Pavilion in the south of the city tonight?" Didn't you say that you wouldn't meet easily? ”

The housekeeper replied: "Or maybe my uncle has something urgent, and I don't know if I have to meet and talk in detail?" ”

Cheng Bi frowned and thought for a while, and finally stomped his feet: "Prepare the horse!" You walk with me personally! ”

"Whoa."

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At the time of the third watch, that is, the ten miles south of Mocheng.

The Xia Dynasty followed the old system of the Qin period, with one pavilion in ten miles and one township in ten pavilions. The li is the most basic administrative unit, but the li kui is usually held by a respected scholar elected by the people, and the real court appoints the pavilion chief. Generally speaking, a pavilion close to the city is the nearest rest point, and the people think that the more important reception or send-off is carried out in this pavilion, that is, the ten-mile pavilion, which is often said to be the ten-mile send-off. However, tonight's Shili Pavilion is obviously not among them.

At this moment, a man in black was standing on the railing in the pavilion, and an old man in a black suit was standing and waiting behind him. These two people are Jimo County Ling Cheng Bi and the housekeeper. At this moment, Cheng Bizheng frowned, and said impatiently: "It's already the third watch, why is it so slow?" ”

The butler behind him didn't answer, just listened. Less leaning, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves in the distance. "It should be my uncle's arrival, the old slave will go and take a look." After speaking, he turned around and walked out of the post gate.

After a few moments, the butler led a bearded man in his thirties and two equally well-dressed retinues into the pavilion. When Dahan saw Cheng Bi, he arched his hand with a big grin: "Brother-in-law! ”

"Don't call me brother-in-law! No matter how many times I've said it, I can't change your vulgar habits! ”

"Hehe, hey, mixed with pirates every day, where can you be gentle! A certain family is not like a brother-in-law, you are a big official, how can you be so particular! Dahan waved his hand nonchalantly, and then said: "Brother-in-law, you only sent someone to send a letter last night to make arrangements, why did you send a letter again today to inform you of the meeting, isn't there something wrong?" ”

Cheng Bi's face changed drastically when he heard this, and he looked at the housekeeper: "Didn't today's letter be handed over to you by someone from the village?" ”

The housekeeper also looked dead: "No, I got it from the crack in the door, I thought it was inconvenient to cover people's eyes and ears and send it directly!" ”

The big man also felt that something was wrong, and shouted: "I got the letter from my brother-in-law from outside the village!" ”

"Not good! Fooled! Come on!! ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a gong, and countless torches suddenly lit up all around, and countless figures slowly emerged from the darkness.

"Why did Cheng County Ling just come and leave? If you are gone, will not so many people who have been disturbed by their dreams regret? A childish voice full of banter sounded, couldn't it be Zhao Min?

Another calm voice beside Zhao Min sounded: "Fuzheng, I thought that the King of Beihai said that you colluded with thieves and Kou was a joke, but I didn't expect you to be so ignorant of self-love, how can you be worthy of the imperial court and the tens of thousands of people in Jimo?" ”

The person who spoke was named Hu Zhen, and he was a county magistrate of Jimo. Because Cheng Bi has been an official in Jimo for many years, he is a strong person, and he has spoken out in the county, which has caused many people to dare to be angry and dare not speak, and Hu Zhen is one of them. At noon today, Zhao Min infiltrated Jimo City in disguise, secretly found this unwilling county man, briefly described what happened, and promised to take him to watch a good show tonight. In addition to Hu Zhen, in the afternoon, I also found seven or eight official gentry and village elders in the city who were unwilling under Cheng Bi's high pressure, and everyone gathered to wait outside the Shili Pavilion in advance, so there was that scene.

It turned out that everything was a plan set by Meng Hou, first of all, Xiahou Jie secretly returned to the family, stabilized the family, and sent someone to Cheng Bi to express his intention to be soft, so as to stabilize Cheng Bi's heart; then forged letters, sent them to Cheng Bi and the pirate village respectively, and asked each other to meet with each other, and then took all the squires and a hundred guards to lurk in the secret place outside the Shili Pavilion in advance, waiting for the two to take the bait. As long as the two meet, it will be a big thing.

Cheng Bi breathed heavily, but still forced himself to speak: "Why are you doing this?" What's wrong with me meeting people at night? How dare you say that you are a thief? ”

Zhao Min pretended to sigh: "You want evidence, right?" ”

As he spoke, he took out a few letters from his bosom, "This is the letter of your conspiracy with the Thief Chief, all here!" ”

Seeing that Cheng Bi seemed to be arguing strongly, he waved his hand to indicate that he had not finished speaking: "The letter is just physical evidence; I've arranged for my troops to attack the pirate camp overnight, and I think I'll be almost taken by this time. Just wait until tomorrow morning for the captured thieves to identify you, presumably this little brother next to you shouldn't admit his mistake, right? ”

After speaking, he sighed his teeth, "Master Cheng, now that the human and material evidence is there, you can admit it!" ”

Before Cheng Bi could speak, the ruthless look in the butler's eyes flashed, and he grabbed himself in front of Cheng Bi, gritted his teeth and said: "Master, the old slave is escorting you away, today's situation can't end well, it's just desperate!" ”

After speaking, he pulled out his stabbing sword from his waist, beckoned the entourage of the big man, lined up in a simple charging formation, and rushed straight out of the post gate!

Zhao Min really sighed this time, he didn't want to see this bloody scene the most, but he couldn't avoid it. A move backwards: "Shoot the arrows, and don't ruin the lives of Lord Cheng and the thief chief." ”

In the sound of response, a hundred guards stepped forward, and more than 100 crossbows with one stone arm aimed at a group of people who rushed out, only to hear a string sound, and more than 100 crossbow arrows crossed the air. In just an instant, the butler and entourage at the front turned into hedgehogs, only Cheng Bi was still standing, and the bearded man was hit by an arrow in his leg and was wailing on the ground holding his leg.

Cheng Bi saw that the general trend had gone, and finally slowly knelt down, closed his eyes, there seemed to be tears on his face, and sighed: "Everything is over!" ”

Zhao Min slowly walked in front of Cheng Bi and looked condescendingly at the county magistrate who almost made the Xiahou family doomed, "Lord Cheng, do you have anything else to tell me?" ”