When night fell, the lights in the Thorn Mansion were scarce, and the east courtyard where the guest room was located was even darker, and only one room had lights shining through.

In the room, Cheng Chen was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, thinking about his next move, and next to him stood the Shadow Warrior Celestial Star, waiting for his orders.

This time he came out of Kyori without any entourage, only two shadow warrior guards sent by the prince, one was the Celestial Star who did things for him, and the other was his personal guard, who generally lurked around his residence, protecting him in the shadows, and basically did not show up.

For a long time, Chen Zhi seemed to say to himself, "No, you must not let him enter Beijing, the only way is to kill him!" ”

Tianxing next to him was startled, and as soon as he thought about it, he asked tentatively: "Is my lord saying that the arrested Hu Cao is in charge?" ”

Chen Zhi nodded, "It's him, with my understanding of Gao Heng, he will definitely not be able to withstand the interrogation, they will have all kinds of ways to make him obediently obey orders, and in the end, Su Tingshi will become the main messenger behind the scenes, and only killing him as soon as possible is the best way to keep Su Tingshi." ”

Tianxing hesitated, "But... I'm afraid Master Su won't agree. ”

"I know he doesn't agree, so I didn't mention the matter of this Hu Cao master in the morning, and his brother is also here, not to mention, just the two of us now, I tell you, we must kill this Hu Cao master as soon as possible, the sooner the better!"

Chen Zhi's sinister gaze stared at Tianxing, and said word by word, "Don't you still understand what I mean? ”

"The lowly duty understands, the lowly duty will go to the prison to do it!"

Tianxing flashed and went out, Chen Zhi walked to the window with his hands behind his back, he stared at the shadows of the trees outside the window, and sighed softly, "Su Hanzhen, you are good at everything, but you are too kind of a woman." ”

．．．．．．．．． In a dark corner under the steps of the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, two beggars were huddled together, talking about the day's harvest, one said that he went to the big wine and food to eat a full meal, but the other was disdainful, he said that he followed the carriage of a young lady from a large family all the way, and picked up a golden hairpin, and the one who ate a full meal said that he had no share of the golden hairpin, and it was better to eat a good meal, but the one who picked up the golden hairpin said that he had to be rewarded with at least two silver horns, and he could eat twenty large meat buns.

The two beggars were arguing, and suddenly a carriage drove out of the Thorn Mansion, and the two immediately stopped arguing, staring at the carriage tightly.

"It's not this, this seems to be Su Thorn's carriage!"

"That's not it, wait."

In a moment, another slender man came out, with a long sword at his waist, and his gait was vigorous, just when a passenger carriage came, the man beckoned, the carriage stopped, and the man jumped into the carriage.

"Go to the county jail!"

In the darkness of the night, the voice came a few steps away, and was heard by two beggars at the bottom of the steps.

"That's him!"

Two beggars jumped to their feet, one of them ran with the carriage, and the other quickly ran in the direction of Beishi...... Su Hanzhen's carriage went in the same direction, the difference was that he did not go to the county jail, but to the county magistrate's mansion, the carriage slowly stopped behind the county magistrate, this is the county magistrate's residence Zhang Rong, and the same as the county magistrate, the backyard of the county magistrate is the county magistrate's mansion.

The county commander Zhang Rong was married five years ago, married the daughter of Liang Taishi, gave birth to two daughters to him, and now has children in the capital, and Zhang Rong in addition to his wife, he married two concubines, one is his wife's dowry maid, the other is a singer, quite talented, and Zhang Rong is in love, both concubines live with him in Weiyang County, one serves him, and the other serves and monitors him.

Zhang Rong is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, born in the Ming Economic Branch, and has been a county magistrate in Weiyang County for more than four years, and according to the five-year upper limit for magistrates in the imperial court, he will leave office at the beginning of next year.

Four years ago, Zhang Rong was the county commander of Xuchang County, and it stands to reason that he should be directly promoted to the history of the small county assassin, and should no longer come to Weiyang to serve as the county commander, but his father Zhang Xiangguo tried his best to let him come to Weiyang County, the reason is very simple, Zhang Rong is not from Jinshi, and he can only achieve five grades at most, and there are only two ways to break through the upper limit of five grades, one is to obtain a knighthood, and the other is to serve as the county commander of the five major male counties in the world.

It should be said that he succeeded, he has completed a term of office as a county magistrate in Xiongxian County, and his next official position has also been set, the official position of the Ministry of Meritorious Service Lang, is the fifth rank of official, five years later, he will either serve as the Shangzhou Assassin Shi, or serve as a waiter, and then the chief official of Jiuqing, and finally serve as Xiangguo between the ages of forty-five and fifty, his life trajectory has been set, the life path of the son of a typical high-ranking official.

Seeing that his term of office is about to expire in half a year, but at this time, he was involved in the dispute between the head of the Donghai County Hucao, will he fall short in the end?

In this dispute between Hu Cao's chiefs, he stood in the middle, but he was not completely neutral, he also participated in it, and slightly favored Su Hanzhen, it was his subtle support that enabled Su Hanzhen to defeat Xu Yuan and take away the post of Hu Cao's chief minister.

But Zhang Rong was scolded by his father in a letter, scolding him for not staying out of the matter, it is related to the battle for the prince's financial resources and lifeline, how can it be so simple to distinguish the winner and loser, and sure enough, his father said that he was right, Huangfu Weiming served as the head of Hucao for less than ten days, and the assassination case broke out, and Huangfu Weiming was arrested.

"Master, Lord Su is here!"

Just when Zhang Rong was pondering, the housekeeper's report came from the door, Zhang Rong was slightly stunned, he thought about it, and then instructed the housekeeper, "Please come to my study!" ”

With another wave of his hand, he called the concubine forward and instructed her, "Go and prepare a basin of hot water and put some medicinal powder for soaking your feet." ”

Zhang Rong didn't go to the gate to greet Su Hanzhen, at this most delicate moment, he didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, he had already decided to stay out of the matter, he wouldn't get too close to Su Hanzhen, and would rather look like he was a little rude.

After a while, Su Hanzhen came to the door of Zhang Rong's study under the guidance of the housekeeper, Su Hanzhen couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart, Assassin Shi came to visit the county order, but the county order didn't go out to greet him, in the eyes of others, this is rude, but in Su Hanzhen's opinion, this is Zhang Rong hinting at him, and he doesn't want to ask about the emperor's only thing.

Although he already had some understanding in his heart, Su Hanzhen still didn't want to give up easily, Zhang Rong was the county magistrate of Weiyang County, and he had to ask Zhang Rong for many things.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Zhang Rong sitting in the study and soaking his feet, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly apologized: "It seems that I came unfortunate and disturbed Zhang Xianling's rest." ”

"Where! Where! I was supposed to go out to greet the adults, but I was soaking my feet in potion because of rheumatic pain, which was really rude. ”

There was a strong smell of medicine in the room, showing that Zhang Rong was soaking his feet to heal his illness, Zhang Rong waved his hand enthusiastically, "My lord, please feel free to sit, you're welcome." ”

"Huh! Then I'll be as you please, you're welcome. ”

Su Hanzhen sat down, he let out a long sigh, "It's been less than ten days since the battle between Hu Cao's main affairs ended, but there were waves again, but Ming was in prison, which was embarrassing, is it so difficult for me Su Hanzhen to be a Donghai County assassin?" ”

Zhang Rong smiled slightly, "I heard that Chen Zhongcheng and the adults are the same science and technology, and the relationship is extraordinary, and this time I went to Huaibei to investigate the case, I also had to go through Donghai County on purpose, and I made a good friend, which is amazing!" ”

Zhang Rong's answer was not right, but in fact, his implication was to tell Su Hanzhen, you can go to Yu Shi Zhongcheng to come forward, not to me.

Su Hanzhen understood what he meant, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Without the emperor's will, how dare Zhongcheng in the imperial history be involved in the case without authorization, and this matter may have to be helped by Zhang County's order." ”

Su Hanzhen said very directly, so that Zhang Rong couldn't avoid it, he was silent for a moment, smiled and said, "That's it!" Would it be nice for me to write a letter to my father right away, asking him to help him in this matter. ”

Zhang Rong still avoided the truth, he was only willing to help Su Hanzhen in his private capacity, he didn't talk about official affairs at all, and he didn't have a margin, if he waited for the matter to go to the court, it would be too late to help.

Su Hanzhen heard that Zhang Rongyan was insincere, and her heart was full of disappointment, so she got up and said goodbye, "Since the county commander is unwell, then I won't bother, farewell!" ”

"I'm sorry, I can't send it to adults, please forgive me!"

Maybe Zhang Rong was also a little ashamed in his heart, just when Su Hanzhen was about to go out, he suddenly said: "Your Excellency, you might as well pay attention to County Lieutenant Wang, he and Gao Shilang are a little too close." ”

Su Hanzhen glanced at Zhang Rong deeply and lightly arched her hand, "Thank you!" ”

He turned around and left, Zhang Rong kept listening to his footsteps and walked away, then he waved to the concubine hiding outside the door, and said with a smile: "You can't let me soak my feet in cold water all the time!" ”

．．．．．．．．． In the prison, Huangfu Weiming lay naked in the grass, silently shedding tears, and the hundreds of whips made his whole body scarred and shocking, and his heart hurt when he moved, and his whole body was as hot as fire.

These hundreds of whips smashed his dignity and the kindness in his heart, and he silently swore that one day he would return it to Xu Yuan and Gao Heng a hundredfold and a thousand times, and he made three vows in a row, starting today, the past Huangfu Weiming is dead.

At this moment, footsteps sounded softly, and a jailer walked quickly, he opened the iron door, and walked to Wei Ming with some healing ointment, Wei Ming seemed to have heard nothing, and his eyes were still looking straight at the corner.

The jailer sighed secretly, squatted down and carefully wiped the wound medicine on his body, a cool feeling replaced the previous hot like a fire, Wei Ming slowly turned his head and said gratefully, "Thank you!" ”

After the official evenly applied the medicine to him, he whispered to him in his ear: "The main body is full of flesh and skin wounds, and there is no injury to the muscles and bones, tonight grit your teeth and hold on, you can climb out of the tunnel, we have arranged it over there, and we will give the chief a change of appearance when the time comes." ”

Wei Ming shook his head lightly and said in a tone that could not be objected to: "Thank you for your kindness, but I won't leave, I will stay here." ”

(To be continued)