In the following days, Chen Xin still sent everyone out to inquire about the news, and he himself went to the courtyard where he bought, and carefully observed the environment, and indeed as Qin Lufang said, there were hutongs in front and back, and most of the residents in the hutongs were outsiders, and many of them were doing business near Chongwenmen, mostly in Zhejiang (Note 1). According to Qin Lufang, the neighborhood relationship is relatively estranged, there is not much interaction with each other, and the street outside Chongwenmen is densely populated, and Chen Xin is very satisfied with the surrounding environment of this courtyard. He made two turns around the neighborhood and made notes on the road.

At other times, he took Lu Donkey around the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the military headquarters, and also looked at some shops around Chongwenmen. Hai Gouzi and Zhang Dahui inquired about the news near Qipan Street. Song Wenxian waited for a few days, and was already a little impatient, urging Chen Xin to hurry up and handle the matter.

In this way, until October 15, Chen Xin had not yet gone out in the inn, Zhang Dahui hurriedly ran back and said to Chen Xin: "Chen, Brother Chen, yesterday there was a man named Yang Weiyuan, who impeached Cui Chengxiu. ”

"Where did you inquire about it?"

"The twenty taels of silver you gave me, I gave it all to a little eunuch who went out of the palace to buy, listen to what he said."

Chen Xin groaned: "Is what he said accurate? What did he send in the palace? ”

Zhang Dahui said: "It should be accurate." I only met him yesterday, he was originally a cook under Wang Tiqian, and several big eunuchs used to take turns to provide food to Emperor Xizong, and now after the new emperor entered the palace, he changed to Shangshan Supervisor to provide food, what the new emperor wants to do, everyone still doesn't quite understand, he said that everyone is afraid of following the wrong person, and they are inquiring about the movement all day long, so it is not difficult to know what news there is. ”

Chen Xin praised: "This matter is well done, but can you ask about the content of the impeachment?" ”

Zhang Dawei said, "This is not true, he doesn't know, he just knows about it, and Yang Weiyuan is imperial history." ”

Chen Xin wanted to say "explore again", and then his subordinates hurried out. But he knew no, and with the current resources, it was difficult to know exactly what those pieces were about. But as long as it's impeachment.

"In what name did you ask, and did he have any suspicions?"

Zhang Dahui said with a smile: "I said that I also want to enter the palace as a eunuch, and ask him to inquire about it and be better with that husband." Then slowly asked Cui Chengxiu. ”

Chen Xin also smiled: "It's good for you to enter the palace, there are a lot of white chests in there, feel free to touch it." ”

After that, he thought for a while, and said to Zhang Dahui: "Let's not wait, no matter what he impeaches, just find him to do it, you go to the vicinity of the Metropolitan Procuratorate first, follow this Yang Weiyuan, and come to inform me immediately after finding his house." ”

"Understood."

－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－

On the afternoon of October 17, in the Fangjia Hutong in the north of the inner city, two sedan chair men carried a small sedan chair and walked slowly, a housekeeper followed the sedan chair, Yunnan Provincial Inspector Yang Weiyuan had a deep face in the sedan chair, he impeached Cui Chengxiu (Note 2) on the 14th, and was reprimanded by the emperor, as one of Wei Zhongxian's thugs, he was very aware of the delicate situation at the moment, if Cui Chengxiu had been in the position of his own soldier, the emperor would not really be at ease with Wei Zhongxian, so when Wei Zhongxian told him to impeach Cui Chengxiu, he also understood Wei Zhongxian's intentions.

The emperor dismissed his own recital, perhaps to appease the heart of the minister, or to suspect that it was just a temptation of the minister, and now the minister has decided to sacrifice Cui Chengxiu, informing himself that he will go to the recital again, and let Cui Chengxiu bear the responsibility.

He rubbed his forehead, since Chongzhen came to power for more than a month, only Yang Suoxiu has played a book, and the impeachment of Cui Chengxiu is not painful, and the most important article of Yang Weiyuan's recital on the 14th is that Cui Chengxiu is appointed as his own soldier, and his younger brother is appointed as the chief soldier of Zhejiang.

Today, the second impeachment of Cui Chengxiu was submitted again, and Yang Weiyuan was very willing to do this, and if either side wins, this matter will be beneficial to him. Thinking of this, a wicked smile appeared on his face. "Our head is safe." Yang Weiyuan sighed with satisfaction in his heart.

"Kill!" Suddenly, there was a loud shout.

Yang Weiyuan was excited, the housekeeper outside the sedan chair screamed, and then there was the sound of falling to the ground, Yang Weiyuan was about to open the sedan curtain in a panic, and the two sedan chair drivers also let out two screams, and the sedan chair fell to the ground with a snap.

Yang Weiyuan's head hit the wooden square, there was a burst of exclamations from roadside pedestrians outside, Yang Weiyuan crawled out of the sedan chair dizzily, the corner of his eyes swept away, the sedan chair driver in front of him was falling to the ground and moaning, and the backs of fleeing passers-by were around.

"Kill!" A lean figure flashed next to him, waved a flat pole and smashed it on Yang Weiyuan's hand holding the sedan pole, with a click, Yang Weiyuan's phalanx was broken, he screamed, and suddenly out of nowhere came the strength, jumped up violently, and ran towards the door,

As soon as he ran out of ten steps, the sound of footsteps behind him sounded, and another flat shoulder hit his back, Yang Weiyuan was unsteady under his feet, and fell to the ground, he turned around and looked at the three people who came behind him in fear. The three of them covered their faces with black cloths, revealing only their eyes, and the two people on both sides were holding flat poles, and the middle one was holding a snowy short knife, and they forced over with a murderous aura.

"You, what do you want to do, I am an official of the imperial court, and I am the capital procuratorate...... Ahh

Before Yang Weiyuan finished speaking, a man with a flat shoulder next to him smashed on his leg again, and immediately broke the leg bone, and Yang Weiyuan's painful words were not clear, "Don't, don't kill me, uncles."

The knife-wielding man in the middle squatted down and looked at him and said, "If you don't want to die, just answer honestly, who instructed you to impeach Master Cui a few days ago?" ”

"No, no, I didn't impeach...... Ah......h

The knife bearer kicked him in the broken leg, and Yang Weiyuan burst into tears.

"I said, it's the factory, the factory is ......"

The knife wielder sneered and said: "Factory minister, who are you fooling, Master Cui is the righteous son of the factory minister, and the factory minister will cut off his arm?" Lies are repeated. ”

A man with a flat shoulder next to him looked at the fleeing crowd around him and reminded: "Big brother, hurry up and cut him off, the people of the Soldiers and Horses Division should come after a long time." ”

The knife bearer nodded slightly, and in Yang Weiyuan's frightened state, he suddenly raised the blade in his hand and roared: "The traitor is ...... to death."

"Damn!!" Yang Weiyuan screamed in surprise and closed his eyes.

At the end of the day, only a bang was heard, and the knife wielder snorted. There was a few clicks in his footsteps, and then he asked, "Who are you?" ”

Yang Weiyuan escaped death, opened his eyes a slit, saw a pair of black tartar boots beside him, and then looked up to see a person wearing a hundred official uniforms standing there proudly.

I only heard him say lightly: "In broad daylight, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, how can you wait for a small murder." ”

The three people on the opposite side glanced at each other and rushed up with a shout.

Yang Weiyuan's heart mentioned his throat again, for fear that these hundred households were not opponents, so he hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, adults." ”

"Oops!" "Ahh

Who knew that the hundred households gently swung their fists, and beat the first knife-wielding murderer back three steps in a row, and the figure of the hundred households shook continuously, which was able to dodge two flat burdens, and then suddenly came to the murderer with a flat shoulder, and fought in close combat, with fierce fists, and beat the three of them to defeat and retreat again and again.

"Tiger General!" Yang Weiyuan sighed. The hundred households did not stop, chased the three of them and beat them violently, and the three masked men crawled in a row, lost the flat shoulder wolf Bèi and fled.

"My lord, catch a live mouth." Yang Weiyuan saw that it was advantageous and put forward new requirements.

"Okay." The hundred households agreed loudly and chased after the three of them. Yang Weiyuan broke his leg and couldn't move in place, and the housekeeper and the two palanquin drivers slowly got up at this time and came over to help Yang Weiyuan up.

"Get out, useless waste, master, I was almost killed, you know, if it weren't for the hundred households just there, the lord would have been fighting five steps by now. Roll, roll. Yang Weiyuan cursed a few people loudly, but the housekeeper was submissive, not daring to defend himself, nor daring to come over to help him.

When Yang Weiyuan finished scolding, the hundred households had already returned, and they had been slashed in their hands and dyed their sleeves red. Yang Weiyuan held back the pain at this time, and looked at the hundred households carefully, only to see that he was tall, with handsome eyes and eyebrows, and was wearing the official uniform of the hundred households, which was quite powerful.

The hundred households came to Yang Weiyuan and said to Yang Weiyuan: "This lord, those murderers still have people to answer, and they have not been able to catch a single person." Thank you for your understanding. ”

Yang Weiyuan saw that he was injured, so he was embarrassed to blame, and hurriedly said: "This lord, thank you for saving your life, I am still tired of your injury, how can I forgive me, I haven't asked for my surname yet."

Chen Xin pretended to be a martial artist, and said with a grin: "Xiaguan Chen Xin, Weihaiwei Zuo Thousand Households and Hundred Households, this is here to come to Beijing to accept the level." ”

Yang Weiyuan listened, it turned out that this person was from Shandong, although he didn't look down on martial arts, but the bad guy had just saved his life, he was still grateful, and invited at the moment: "This official is Yang Weiyuan, the governor of Yunnan Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the cold house is not far from here, Chen Baihu is willing to go with this official, and it is good to invite a doctor to treat Chen Baihu's injuries." ”

Chen Xin looked at his legs, and said with a grin: "I am not afraid of the wounds of the flesh and skin, I am a martial artist, but the lower officials are worried that these bad people will go and return, so I still escort the adults back to the house first." ”

Yang Weiyuan couldn't ask for it, he was lying on the street, the pain in the broken hands and feet was unbearable, the housekeeper and the sedan chair man were unreliable, he was also afraid of the murderer and other accomplices, and agreed at the moment, Chen Xin and the housekeeper together, helped Yang Weiyuan up, and carefully put it in the sedan chair.

The sedan chair swayed all the way, and Lord Yang was humming and moaning inside, all the way to Yang Weiyuan's house. To say that the salary of this imperial history is not high, but the mansion is still good, and the gate looks very bright.

The housekeeper shouted from afar, and two people ran out of the door inside, and after seeing this situation, another person immediately went back to call someone, and after a while, two or three servants came out, and everyone carried Yang Weiyuan in.

Chen Xin was left behind, and the housekeeper hurriedly went out to ask for a doctor, grabbed the housekeeper, and said to him: "You go to the Beicheng Soldiers and Horses Division to report, just say that someone wants to kill your family, let them protect the adults." The butler said yes and went out.

When Chen Xin caught up, Yang Weiyuan was loudly reminding several servants not to touch his wounds.

"Tap, ah, tell you not to touch your legs, you dog, don't touch your fingers...... Yes. Slow down, slow down. ”

In Yang Weiyuan's scolding, it was easy to put him on the bed, Chen Xin followed all the way in, the patios of the three entrances are very wide, it is no longer a courtyard, it can be regarded as a mansion, the rockery fish pond in the garden of the three entrances, the flowers and trees are uneven, it can be seen that Yang Weiyuan has made a lot of extra money with the eunuchs, otherwise where can he afford such a good mansion with his salary as a royal history.

As soon as Yang Weiyuan was put away, several wives and concubines ran in and wiped their tears around Yang Weiyuan.

"Get out, I didn't see the guests here, if it weren't for Chen Baihu, you would have cried and mourned." Several wives and concubines hurriedly thanked Chen Xin.

Waiting for Yang Weiyuan to lie down and breathe for a while, he instructed his subordinates: "Hurry up and sit down for Chen Baihu, thanks to Chen Baihu today, Chen Baihu said that he was here to accept the level, and this officer still has some feelings in the military department, if there is any difficulty, just tell this official." Oops......"

His leg hurt so badly that he was about to moan again.

Chen Xindao: "Adults can recuperate with peace of mind, how dare you trouble adults with some trivial things from the lower officials." He looked at the matter, this Yang Weiyuan's role was just that, he only needed to pass on his name.

Chen Xin said to Yang Weiyuan again: "Lord Fang Cai said that you are Lord Yang Weiyuan of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Procuratorate?" ”

Yang Weiyuan nodded with difficulty, Chen Xin suddenly stood up excitedly and said loudly: "It turns out that you are Yang Weiyuan's imperial history who impeached Cui Chengxiu, how fortunate the younger generation is to be able to contribute to the adult." ”

"Huh?" Yang Weiyuan looked at the excited Baihu a little blankly.

"Lord Yang is not afraid of power and treachery, impeached Cui Chengxiu, and everyone in Beijing said that adults are comparable to the six gentlemen of Donglin."

Yang Weiyuan heard that it was wrong, and hurriedly stopped Chen Xindao: "Chen Baihu, this is how ...... this"

Chen Xin said resolutely: "Lord Yang doesn't need to say it, today it must be Cui Chengxiu who took revenge for personal gain, looking for someone to assassinate the adult, although the lower official is a martial artist, he also knows the righteousness of the world, and he will definitely help the adult to seek justice." ”

After that, he didn't wait for Yang Weiyuan to speak, and stepped out of the door in a few big steps.

Yang Weiyuan was stunned for a moment, but unfortunately he couldn't stand up, so he had to shout: "Chen Baihu, it's not like that, don't be reckless." ”

Chen Xin's voice came back from afar: "Don't worry, don't worry, wait for my news......"

－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－

Note 1: During the Wanli period, Yu Shenxing wrote "Gushan Bichen", describing the composition of the residents of Beijing: the people of the Quartet, six or seven out of ten. Among the four directions, the people of Huiji will get four or five out of ten. It can be seen that among the outsiders in Beijing at that time, Zhejiang accounted for most of them.