The two carriages, one in front and one behind, sped towards Zhao Sima's mansion, Wu Jin and Su Hanzhen sat in the front carriage, and Chen Zhi sat in the latter carriage under the escort of another shadow warrior.

In the carriage, Su Hanzhen closed her eyes and said nothing, while Wu Jin sat in front of the window and looked into the distance worriedly.

"Wu Jin!"

Su Hanzhen spoke slowly, "Did you hurt Tianxing?" ”

He stared at Wu Jin, catching the slightest change in expression from his face, Wu Jin smiled, "How could Lord Su think that it was me?" ”

"Because it's your style!"

Su Hanzhen smiled faintly, "I know you won't go to Danyang, when you tell Chen Zhi that you are turning back halfway, I will know that you are lying, and I will deduce the reason why you are lying, that is, you injured Tianxing, am I right?" ”

Wu Jin was silent for a moment, sighed and said, "Do you know that Tianxing is actually going to kill my eldest brother?" ”

"I found out later, so I'm sorry and I'm sorry!"

"Your Excellency!"

Wu Jin turned his head to look at Su Hanzhen, and it was a little difficult to suppress the emotion in his heart, "Actually, I can already rescue my eldest brother today, but do you know why I failed in the end?" ”

"I know, it's your eldest brother who doesn't want to leave, I'm not wrong!"

Wu Jin nodded silently, his heart was full of frustration and helplessness, Su Hanzhen's bright eyes looked at Wu Jin, he could feel the self-blame and anxiety in this young man's heart, he patted Wu Jin's hand gently, and said to him gently: "You should understand your eldest brother, every scholar has the ambition of governing the country, peace and peace in the heart, if he is poor, he will be good alone, and if he is good, he will help the world, he would rather die, he will not give up his beliefs, give up his ideals, you let him flee with the crime, incognito, he can't do it, I just can't do it. ”

Wu Jin sighed, "I only hope that the eldest brother will not become an official like Chen Zhi in the future, the officialdom is too dark, I hope he will not be dyed too dark, just like the adults said, if you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world, but no matter what, now I hope he can get out of prison safely and survive this catastrophe." ”

Su Hanzhen didn't quite agree with Wu Jin's words, he shook his head gently, "Your thinking is still a bit extreme, you only see the dark side, yes, I admit that officialdom is very dark and deceitful, but not every official is so dark in his heart, no, many officials are open in their hearts, don't worry, I will do my best to rescue your eldest brother safely and restore his reputation, I will not let him lose his future because of me." ”

Wu Jin also had a touch of emotion in his heart, he smiled and said: "I can feel that the adult is an upright official, I have never known why the eldest brother followed the adult closely, but now I know, because you are a kind of person, like gathers like things, and people divide into groups, so you can come together." ”

Su Hanzhen smiled meaningfully: "Wu Jin, in fact, I think we are the same kind of people. ”

Wu Jin was stunned, he felt that his personality was too far from Su Hanzhen, Su Hanzhen smiled slightly, "People don't have to look at the surface, although you like to cast cold arrows behind your back, but our essence is the same, do you understand?" ”

"I get it, just like the essence of charcoal and diamond is the same."

"Wu Jin, your analogy is not good, how can charcoal and diamond be the same? What do you think I'll get a piece of charcoal for a diamond for you later? ”

"It's like an adult who refuses to give me the position of the assassin."

The two laughed together, and the carriage galloped in the dark night, speeding towards Sima Mansion.

．．．．．．．．．． Sima Zhao Jiehao's official residence is located near Shanmu Bridge, near the West Gate, is a mansion covering an area of thirteen or fourteen acres, which can only be regarded as medium among several high-ranking officials in Donghai County, not as luxurious as Huangfu Qu, nor as special as Su Hanzhen, only slightly better than Xu Yuan's ten-acre mansion, but his family population is larger than Xu Yuan.

Zhao Jiehao has many wives and concubines, he has six concubines, seven children, his wife Yang gave birth to two sons and one daughter, and six concubines gave birth to four children, two sons and two daughters, all of whom are still young.

Zhao Jiehao is a family of warriors in Zhongzhou, all five brothers were admitted to the samurai, he ranked third, at the age of twenty-four he was admitted to the third-level samurai, just when the king of Qi opened the mansion, he went to apply, he became the guard of the palace of the king of Qi, step by step became one of the personal guards of the king of Qi, and later was sent by the king of Qi to lead the army, from the captain to the captain, at the age of forty he was impeached for personal greed for military salaries, according to the law should be beheaded, but because of the protection of the king of Qi, he was only dismissed from the army and demoted to the county lieutenant of Weiyang County, but only a year later, He was promoted to Sima of Donghai County, and it has been four years.

Zhao Jiehao belongs to the kind of person who is rough on the outside, but very delicate in his heart, he knows very well that his real task in Donghai County is not to be the so-called Sima, in fact, to protect the business of King Qi in Donghai County, King Qi's business in Donghai County is big, money village, overseas trade, salt and iron, etc. are involved, Zhao Jiehao himself calculated, he has been in Donghai County for five years, and King Qi has earned millions of taels of silver peacefully.

But this is also Zhao Jiehao's sad place, will King Qi die of old age in Donghai County because of his strength in Donghai County? Thinking that Gao Heng had been promoted to the squire of the Criminal Department in just five years, he felt an indescribable loss in his heart.

Zhao Jiehao has read books for a few years, and he can only be said to be coarse and ink, unlike Gao Heng who is still a lifter, and he has also mixed with the county baron, although he is only a nine-grade junior lord, but it is this title that makes Gao Heng break through the upper limit of non-jinshi and cannot be promoted to five grades, and become a fourth-grade squire.

Zhao Jiehao also knew that he might not be promoted to a big surname, unless he could also get the title, but the title of the Daning Dynasty was even more difficult to get than his mother's Jinshi, and the King of Qi only had a total of five titles, so many people under him were competing for it, could it be his turn?

Gao Heng's arrival made Zhao Jiehao not feel very good, and he was busy with the marriage of his eldest son, so he had no intention of accompanying Gao Heng to inspect today, and he was at home under the pretext of being sick, but an assassination case occurred in the morning.

Zhao Jiehao's mood was not very good, but his wife Zhu didn't consider his mood, and chattered on the side, "Master, Da Lang is about to get married, we should consider Erlang next, last time I met Su Tingshi's niece, it's really very good, she looks like a fairy, not to mention, her surname is also very gentle, if Hao'er can marry her, it will really be his blessing, I have inquired, she has not allowed anyone yet, master, you go and talk to Su Tingshi, see if there is no such possibility?" ”

Zhao Jiehao was not in the mood, but he had to reply, "You stupid mother-in-law, your grandfather is the son of the country who supervises the sacrificial wine, is a high-ranking official of the third grade, a scholarly family, Hao'er doesn't know a basket of words, he doesn't deserve it, don't be delusional." ”

"But ....."

Zhu was blocked by her husband's words, she suddenly remembered her daughter Shengnan again, and felt the need to tell her husband again, "And Shengnan, haven't you noticed that she has changed a little?" started to wear long skirts, men should get married, women should get married, she will be seventeen years old at the end of the year, we should also pay attention to her, and stop treating her like a child, always raise her as a child, she will not be able to get married. ”

"That's it! All right! Are you finished? ”

Zhao Jiehao was upset and waved his hand, "Don't bother me, I have something to do today, Gao Shilang was assassinated today, do you know, I won't lose my official position!" ”

Zhu heard that her husband was going to lose his position, she was so frightened that she didn't dare to say any more, and quietly retreated, Zhao Jiehao paced back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, pondering how to deal with today's assassination case, he was Sima in charge of public security in Donghai County, and the squire of the Criminal Department was assassinated in Donghai County, he could not escape the blame, he also understood that this matter was Gao Heng's attack on Su Hanzhen, this power struggle had nothing to do with him, he pondered for a long time, the best way is to report to King Qi and let King Qi exonerate himself.

Thinking of this, he spread out the letter and prepared to write a letter to the King of Qi, at this moment, a rush of footsteps came, and the housekeeper reported outside: "Master, Master Cheng Chen in the history of Su Thorn and the imperial history are here." ”

Zhao Jiehao was startled, and hurriedly got up and ordered, "Please!" ”

Su Hanzhen he didn't want to see it, but he didn't dare not see Chen Zhi in the imperial history, Zhao Jiehao hurriedly greeted the door, only to see that Su Hanzhen and Chen Zhi had been led in, Zhao Jiehao knew in his heart that they must be for the sake of Ming.

He hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "The two adults came to the cold house, and the younger brother was sluggish!" ”

Su Hanzhen hurriedly returned the salute, "I shouldn't have disturbed Zhao Sima to rest, but if there is an emergency, please forgive Zhao Sima." ”

"Since there is an emergency, then we don't have to be polite, please sit down!"

Zhao Jiehao waved his hand, "Please!" ”

He led the two to the guest hall, the two sides sat down, a maid served two cups of tea, but Su Hanzhen had no intention of drinking tea, the time was urgent, and it would be too late if the road was not closed, he hurriedly bowed and said: "Zhao Sima, I have something I want to ask Sima for help." ”

"Lord Thorn Shi is polite, if there is anything, please feel free to say it."

Su Hanzhen was a little embarrassed to speak, but Chen Zhi said slowly: "Wei Ming has been sent to Beijing overnight, what Lord Su means is that many things have not been investigated clearly, and there is not even evidence, Gao Shilang is in a hurry to send people to Beijing, we think it is very inappropriate, and I hope that Zhao Sima can mobilize the regiment to train troops to stop them." ”

Chen Zhi said very frankly, that is, he asked Zhao Jiehao to transfer the regiment to train troops to intercept Gao Heng's people, the regimental training is a local militia group, it is supposed to make the assassin Shi order, Sima Lai to carry it out, if it is an action such as exterminating the bandits, it doesn't matter, but tonight's situation is special, Su Hanzhen is the order, and Zhao Jiehao may not be able to carry it out, only come to the door to negotiate.

Originally, they didn't want to say it explicitly, they only said that Weiming was robbed of prison, but they were worried that if they said that, Zhao Jiehao would push it to the county government or the county government's officials, so they said it directly, anyway, Zhao Jiehao also knew it, and it was not easy for him to excuse himself if he said the matter.

Zhao Jiehao didn't speak for a long time, letting him go out of the regiment to train and intercept was just a favor, anyway, Su Hanzhen was responsible for what happened, he was thinking about what interests he had, especially Chen Zhi had more right to speak, he wanted Chen Zhi to be a favor.

Chen Zhi has also been in the officialdom for many years, and when he saw Zhao Jiehao hesitate, he knew his thoughts, and said lightly: "I am also writing a report on what I have seen and heard along the way, and I want to submit it to the emperor, I will specifically mention the people's official comments on Donghai County in the report, among which I will have more ink on Zhao Sima's part, what about Zhao Sima?" ”

Zhao Jiehao laughed, "Then thank you for your kind words." ”

He said to Su Hanzhen again: "My lord, I just said that someone robbed the prison, and the lowly position also thinks that the matter is very important, and it is necessary to send out the regiment to train the troops to intercept and search, but the lowly duty needs to get the order of the adult, please officially issue the assassination order!" ”

He can sell this favor, but he doesn't take the responsibility, Su Hanzhen also understood, so he nodded and said: "Since this is the case, then without further ado, please Sima and I go back to the county office immediately." ”

．．．．．．．．．． Half an hour later, the 1,000th regiment of Donghai County was dispatched, he guarded the various checkpoints and wharves in Weiyang County, waterways, land routes, all roads and county borders were blocked, and all carriages and ships leaving Weiyang had to be searched, in terms of time, from Weiming being taken out of prison to the regimental training blockade, there was an hour in between, if it was a normal official road, it would be too late to leave Weiyang County in an hour, but if it was a small road, it would be difficult to say.

After a night of searching, there was no news about Wei Ming's whereabouts, but at the end of the first watch, Wu Jin got an important piece of information sent by Heimi.

(To be continued)