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Xu Hong's mansion is in the area where Liu Chengfeng was assassinated, after all, the Xu family used to be a prominent family, although Xu Hong is not too prominent, he only entered the cabinet as a person to listen to the dispatch, but the family background is not bad. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The huge mansion is sandwiched between countless high-walled deep courtyards, which is extraordinarily quiet.

The big stone lions in front of the door stand on the left and right sides respectively, these days, the Xu family is very calm, calm is a little unlikely, only on this street, suddenly there are many more merchants or pedestrians, but the concierge of the Xu family is quite taboo against these strange uninvited guests, and there is nothing abnormal in the entire Xu Mansion except for normal entry and exit.

In fact, on the day of Lian Guogong's assassination, the lord ordered him to come down and let everyone in this mansion live in peace, and anyone who dared to make any noise at this time had to be killed.

Of course, the people in the mansion did not dare not listen to the master's words, and many people found that around this house, I don't know how many eyes were quietly staring, which was terrifying.

At this time, it was already afternoon, and suddenly, horses' hooves and chaotic footsteps disturbed the peace in this area, and then, a team of people appeared, flying fish suits, embroidered spring knives, one by one murderous, and soon surrounded the Xu family's house.

Liu Chengfeng got down from the carriage, glanced at the house, put his hands behind his back, and just coldly spit out two words: "Slam the door!" ”

A lieutenant, led by a military attaché, began to bang on the door. Such a big movement, of course, the porter inside could hear it, and suddenly his face was as frightened as earth, and he trembled, opening the door is not, not opening it and not opening it, and if it is not opened, sooner or later the door will be knocked open, but if it is opened, I don't know what the situation is inside.

The sound of slamming the door outside became more and more urgent, and the Xu Mansion was already in chaos, and the porter had to pull the door bolt, and as soon as the door opened, the gatehouse was knocked away by the huge force outside, and then dozens of lieutenants poured in.

Liu Chengfeng glanced at the house with his hands behind his back, there were still several doors inside, and there was no end in sight, Liu Chengfeng glanced at the porter who had fallen into a mess, and asked, "Is your master Xu Hongke?" ”

The porter was obviously frightened, and the whole person looked depressed, and hurriedly said to Ai Ai: "I am on an errand in the cabinet, and I am on duty in the cabinet at this time." ”

Liu Chengfeng didn't say anything anymore, and ordered left and right: "Come on, search for me, dig three feet into the ground and find out those assassins." ”

"Assassins? What assassin? "The porter understood that these people were wearing the clothes of the brocade guards, and they claimed to be taking some assassins, which ...... The lieutenants had already rushed into the mansion without hesitation.

The steward of this mansion came over, looked for Liu Chengfeng with a pale face, and said, "My lord...... Adult, I don't know what's going on, villain...... Don't disturb your family. ”

Liu Chengfeng pointed to the side of the courtyard and asked, "What's going on with that courtyard?" Is anyone there? ”

When the steward heard the word "Courtyard", he was immediately frightened, and said expectantly: "This ...... This...... There's nothing in the courtyard, sir...... My lord, my lord is not at home now, can you wait for my lord to come back......"

Liu Chengfeng knew that this steward seemed to know something, smiled coldly, and said, "I'm afraid it's too late, Gao Qiang, go, follow me to the other courtyard to have a look." ”

The steward was even more frightened, and he sat down on the ground all of a sudden.

When you get to the other courtyard, you have to go out of the middle gate first and bypass an alley to enter, it seems to be very quiet, quiet and silent, a cadre captain rushed in and began to search, they are all good hands, after a while, someone inquired about the news, saying that there are only two people in this courtyard, except for a woman, and then an old woman, Liu Chengfeng listened to the confusion, a woman? An old woman? He originally imagined that there must be something hidden in this courtyard, even if those assassins had been transferred, they should at least stay here, Liu Chengfeng ordered: "Search carefully again." ”

Liu Chengfeng's suspicion was not wrong, and soon, someone noticed something unusual in the flower garden in this courtyard.

Liu Chengfeng followed the captain to the flower garden, it was the hot summer, and the orchids planted here were in full bloom, it was the season of blooming, when someone picked up these blooming flowers, after careful inspection, Liu Chengfeng obviously found that after the flower was blocked, there were many disorganized footprints.

Someone deliberately took a ruler to measure, the footprints are mostly more than five inches, most of the women in this era are bound to their feet, so the feet are particularly small, and the footprints above five inches can only be men. But if you say that there will never be so many male servants here, it will not be so messy, after all, the servants do not dare to make times, looking at these orchids, Liu Chengfeng knows that the master must have carefully adjusted them, a master's favorite flower garden, which servant dares to step on it at will?

But if it were a visitor, it seemed impossible to enter the flower garden, and the only explanation was that there had been a gathering here before, quite a few people, as many as a dozen, and that the Assassins had indeed come in from the rooftops here, evading the captains and detectives who had arrived from all over the world, and had hidden here for a while before quietly leaving.

In other words, whether these assassins are instigated by this Xu Hong or not, at least they must have an inseparable relationship, and it is even very likely that all of this is Xu Hong's plan.

These footprints were a few days ago, but they were later covered by blooming flowers, and if it weren't for this focused search, I am afraid that they would not have been able to find out. Liu Chengfeng said coldly: "Continue to search and see if there are cellars and secret doors, these assassins are very likely to be in this courtyard." ”

With the harvest, everyone couldn't help but cheer up and began to look around again.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Cabinet duty.

Xu Hong came in with a stack of books, his face was very bad, he just handed over the news outside, saying that Jinyiwei had surrounded his house, and he had a little bad premonition early in the morning, because the uninvited guests outside the house were getting bigger and bigger, and even when he went to the office on duty, there seemed to be someone watching, and his eyelids have been jumping recently, who knows that something is still wrong.

Putting down a stack of books, Xu Hong immediately saluted the three cabinet elders sitting in the cabinet, and said to Liu Jian: "Duke Liu." ”

Liu Jian, who was preparing the ticket, was called by Xu Hong, then raised his head, glanced at Xu Hong, and said, "Jingzhi, is there something wrong?" Could it be that something is out of nowhere? ”

Xu Hong said with a bitter face: "No, the lower official is here to take leave." ”

"Leave?" Liu Jian frowned, now the emperor's health is obviously much worse, so many things have to be done by the cabinet, the cabinet is already busy with feet that don't touch the ground, to say something ugly, everyone feels in no mood to eat refreshments at noon, and now they still feel that they are lacking in skills, who knows that this Xu Hong has come to take leave, there are so many people in the cabinet, the cabinet ministers have something to do, and the people below are also performing their duties, and one less person is equivalent to making others increase their burden. So for the matter of taking leave, Liu Jian seemed very disgusted, and he said slowly: "What is the matter of taking leave?" ”

Xu Hong said: "Xiaguan's house is surrounded by brocade guards. ”

When this sentence came out, even Xie Qian and Li Dongyang raised their eyes from the recital that was waiting for the vote, and Xie Qian said coldly: "Surrounded? What does that mean? Xu Hong, what did you do? ”

Although Liu Jian didn't speak, his face was clearly full of anger, Xu Hong is just an eight-grade official, according to the grade, it can only be regarded as a dispensable role, although in the cabinet, in fact, there is basically not much power, just responsible for assisting the cabinet ministers, but that being said, no matter what, this Xu Hong is also on business in the cabinet, to say it ugly, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, Jin Yiwei said to take it, to fight to kill, run to disturb other people's families, what is the reason?

Xu Hong listened to Xie Qian's question, and said busily: "No, no, the subordinate officials have always been careful to abide by their duties, and every time they enter the cabinet office on time, what can they do?" Probably...... Most of the time, the mansion of the lower officials happened to be closer to the place where the Duke of Lian Guo was assassinated, plus ...... In addition, Xiaguan's brother had some enmity with Lian Guogong, so ......"

Syllable...... When he said this, Xie Qian couldn't help but smile coldly and said, "Your brother made a mistake, what does it have to do with you?" Moreover, the emperor also said that although Yuan Yi was wrong, he was also a meritorious minister, and His Majesty made it very clear after he committed suicide, this person has made great contributions to the court, worked hard, and was diligent in the king's order, if it were not for him, the water conservancy of Songjiang would not know how much erosion it would have been. What is this willow riding the wind and killing them all? ”

Xu Hong played a cautious eye, and deliberately lifted his brother out, giving people the image that Liu Chengfeng was actually announcing a personal vendetta in the name of catching assassins, and the three major bachelors of the cabinet were also angry at this time, in fact, although Xu Guan was dead, but the official reputation has always been good, and Shilinli has always given him an evaluation that although he has done it, his merits outweigh his faults, and now Jinyiwei is doing this, which is inevitably too deceitful.

Liu Jian looked at Li Dongyang and said, "Binzhi, what do you think, do you want the cabinet to come forward directly in this matter?" ”

Li Dongyang was silent for a moment, and then said: "That's it, if the cabinet comes forward now, it will inevitably be a bit of a fuss, it's better to let Xu Hong go back first, and see what Jinyiwei wants to do, if it's really to take the assassin, then that's it, but if it's a personal vendetta, this Shilin Qing will not agree, and the cabinet will definitely not be able to agree." ”

(To be continued)