With Lu Sansi's rapid retreat and Gu Hao's imminent departure, the pattern of Youzhou officialdom has undergone earth-shaking changes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Zhong, the king of Yan, and An Dajiedu, made these two transcendent existences, and they still stood at the top, one replaced the Tang Emperor to monitor the hundred officials, and the other was the real overlord of Liaodong. Under the two, it is Gu Hao, Lu Sansi, Luo Hou and General Li Changlin Quartet, Gu Hao, who is the assassin of Youzhou, is a close minister favored by the saint, and there is no actual party henchman, but he is a check and balance role, effectively maintaining the stability of the political situation in Youzhou.

Longmen Dragon captures Luo Hou, his status is transcendent, but for various reasons, he has to obey Gu Hao, who is of the same level as him, and he is fed up with this kind of day, and what he expects most is naturally to press the new assassin Shi Nie Fengdi in turn. As for the general Li Changlin, he is the most embarrassing one of the Quartet forces, backed by the Wuyou Palace, which has no remaining prestige, and relying on the support of the envoy of An Dajie and the deputy general of Youzhou, Guo Lin'an, he can barely talk to those leading figures.

As for Lu Sansi, he responded to the sentence that someone in the palace is good at doing things, as a relative of the emperor, except for not provoking Li Zhong, the king of Yan, and An Dajiedu, the other three are not in his eyes, and the four major urban districts of Youzhou are stunned to divide Xicheng as their own territory, and even Gu Hao has no way to intervene in it, so he can only let him act arbitrarily, and lead the people under his hands to treat Xicheng as a place to squeeze money, making it almost difficult for the people to make a living.

Due to Duan Pingsheng's strong intervention, he took the territory of the Viper Gang with lightning speed, and then in the confrontation with Lu Sansi, he had the idea of retreating, and chose to get out of the quagmire of Youzhou before the arrival of the cold-faced judge. Lu Sansi patted his ass and slipped away to Songzhou with Wanguan's family wealth, continuing to be his imperial relative, but this made the officials who followed him before worry.

The news of Nie Fengdi's appearance outside the North City Gate had already reached their ears at the first time, and everyone couldn't help but shudder when they thought of the prestige of the cold-faced judge. Not to mention Nie Fengdi's resolute and iron-blooded style, the martial arts strength of the Seven Pillars alone was not something they could withstand.

Although there is no truth in the officialdom that whoever has the biggest fist is the boss, but the problem is that they don't have a boss on their heads now, and they all have a lot of stains on their bodies, so if Nie Fengdi really wants to use force to judge the case unreasonably, I'm afraid that the other people will really not speak for them.

The officials of Xicheng, who were driven to a dead end, couldn't help but miss the days when they made money under Lu Sansi's hands, although they were restricted everywhere and couldn't live that kind of day by day, but at least they slept comfortably every day! Not only does the scenery dominate the boundaries of Xicheng, but it can also invite the little lady who is drunk with the moon from time to time to have a good time.

It's good now, I have nightmares every day when I sleep, and as soon as I close my eyes, I see Nie Fengdi holding the judge's pen with a cold face, writing the three big characters of beheading the prisoner Hou after their names, and throwing them into prison, waiting for the autumn to be beheaded. Every day is so boring that he doesn't even want to touch his wife and concubine, let alone worry about the girls in the Moon Tower.

The officials who asked Lu Sansi why they didn't dare to make money in a big way are now repentant, because they have long been victims of the transaction between Lu Sansi and Gu Hao and were taken to prison, but more people did not say bad things in front of Lu Sansi, but commented on them behind their backs, and all the words of these people were recorded in the account book of the Drunken Moon Building, although Lu Sansi went to Songzhou with this account book, but these people were extremely worried and followed in the footsteps of their predecessors.

One of the generals, who was in charge of guarding the gates of the West City, was in this deep sorrow and could not extricate himself.

Cao An, the guard general of Xicheng, nominally belonged to Guo Lin'an, the deputy general of Youzhou, but he had already fallen into the arms of Lu Sansi, and used his power to control the gate of Xicheng, and quietly smuggled a lot of good things in the dead of night. But the kickback after the matter was completed could not satisfy his appetite, so under the service of Yuelou Meijiaoniang, he often couldn't help but count Lu Sansi as timid as a mouse.

At that time, the Viper Gang was wiped out, and he was one of the many officials who denounced Duan Pingsheng, and when he saw Lu Sansi choosing to compromise, he was extremely disappointed, but he still maintained his last determination, and did not follow the gang of up-and-coming guys, and directly jumped out to denounce Lu Sansi.

Afterwards, when he heard that those people had been raided one by one, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, rejoicing that he had made the right choice, but also worried about the East Window incident.

"I knew that Nie Fengdi was going to take office so soon, and I had to ask Lu Sansi to take us away at that time!" Cao An's face was as earth-colored, and he wanted to crash to death on the city wall, "Why was Lao Tzu so stupid in the first place?" ”

Cao An, who has no spirit, even if he is wearing armor, has no heroic posture, and sits on the top of the city tower very lazily, but his mind has already drifted elsewhere, he feels that he can't continue to wait, and he must find a new backer before Nie Fengdi officially takes office!

It's easier said than done!

Not to mention the current head of Xicheng, he can't speak in Youzhou officialdom, even if he finds it, can he help him resist Nie Fengdi's anger?

Why don't you go directly to the cold-faced judge?

Cao Anxin had this thought, but he shook his head in the next moment, everyone knew that Nie Fengdi's eyes couldn't contain sand, if he directly pasted it, it would be tantamount to throwing himself into a net! He wanted to turn back and stand in the camp of Youzhou General Li Changlin and Deputy General Guo Lin'an, but in recent years, he has offended these two a lot, and the former is still at the border, and the latter made a lot of mistakes last night, and he is destined to have no hope.

The remaining bigwigs, Cao An couldn't speak, so he had to give up, and looked at the people in Youzhou City from the head.

And at this moment, suddenly a herald rushed to report and shouted: "General, we see the person you want to keep an eye on!" ”

"What?"

Cao Anxin shuddered and asked calmly, "Are you sure you read it right?" ”

"Of course, the portrait given to us by the general is so clear, how can it be possible to recognize the wrong person? And that person is also accompanied by a dragon gate copper hook, which can't be kept wrong! ”

The herald had the intention of inviting merit, and said very proudly, but Cao An, who was in turmoil, was extremely tired of his affirmation, and waved his hand in great annoyance, driving out the herald with a stunned face, and then calmed down, sorted out his armor, left the city tower, and personally stood in front of the gate of the West City.

It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided!

Cao An ordered all his subordinates to cheer up, and there must be no problems at this juncture, and he himself stood up strongly, and the hesitation on his face was all gone.

It didn't take long for two people to slip along the official road from the city to the West City Gate, and the Longmen copper hook introduced the pattern of the West City to the cold-faced man, as well as some things that have happened recently.

Nie Fengdi didn't say anything about the hints in Yu Deshui's words, but found Cao An, who was personally guarding the door, from a distance, and couldn't help but take a second look.

In the information he had before, the Lu Sansi group used the Guangjin gambling house as an underground money laundering location, which was to use the Xicheng gate of Cao An's handle to transport illegal benefits at night, so he had long known Cao An's face, of course, other officials in the Lu Sansi group were no exception.

It's just that along the way, Nie Fengdi didn't deliberately hide his figure, and those Xicheng officials were like hiding from the plague god, and they didn't come out, but the city gate guard appeared in front of him with his chest held high.

The cold-faced judge remained silent, continued to listen to the introduction of the fish, and the two of them followed the flow of people and walked out of the gate of Xicheng, only as if Cao An did not exist, they stayed outside Xicheng for a long time, looked at the villages outside the city, and looked at the wide city wall, and then returned to the city and saw Cao An's figure again.

This time, Cao An did not continue to be on duty by the door, but was dealing with an emergency.

A crazy old man from nowhere, as he was lining up into the city, suddenly jumped to the side and crashed into an oncoming carriage. Because there was a wealthy merchant in Xicheng who was good friends with Cao An in the carriage, his eyes were always focused on the carriage and he witnessed the scene of the old man blocking the horse's hooves.

Cao An thought that the sloppy-looking old man wanted to extort a sum of money with the immortal jump, but the result surprised him, and the old man who collided with the horse head-on was unscathed, but the carriage fell to the side directly with the suddenly dead horse.

This scene made Cao An extremely stunned, he only felt that the old man with martial arts suddenly made a nervous offense, but what made him even more stunned was still behind, the old man muttered in his mouth: "There is horse meat to eat!" ”

He frantically threw himself down on the horse that had already fallen down, and with a wave of his hand, he directly tore off a horse leg, and regardless of whether it was raw or cooked, it was bloody and stuffed into his mouth, but he ate it with relish and gave it a thumbs up, but others were extremely disgusted when they saw it, and some of them couldn't help but vomit directly.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Cao An immediately commanded his subordinates to rush forward and rescue the rich businessman who had fallen into a rut.

The rich merchant's head was hit hard in a big bag, if it weren't for the luxurious decoration in the carriage, maybe he would have fainted this time, and he was full of anger, but no matter how horrible the scene in front of him was, he pointed to the old man's nose and asked, "You old man is tired of being crooked?" ”

Hearing this, Cao Anxin said that it was bad, this unattractive old man can kill your horse immediately, who do you say is tired and crooked? He immediately assigned men and horses to guard in front of the rich merchants, but the old man did not mean to be angry at all, but pointed to the dead horses, and said generously: "The horse meat is delicious, if you want to have some, take it as you like, don't be polite to the old man!" ”

Hey!

Cao Anxin laughed secretly, horses belong to other people, so naturally there is no need to be polite to you, but you killed other people's horses and ate them, so you never thought that people didn't want to be polite to you?

The rich merchant was so angry that he said directly to Cao An: "The general wants to give me justice!" This old fellow didn't realize that he was dead, and he ran into me and ate my horse! Everyone present has seen it, and I implore the general to take him down immediately! ”

Seeing that the ball was kicked to his feet, Cao An had to hold on even if he didn't want to, because it was a coincidence that Nie Fengdi actually came back at this time. He didn't want to curry favor with the cold-faced judge, but he didn't plan to stiffen the relationship, so in the spirit of impartial law enforcement, he stubbornly asked: "Ben will be here to guard, and I will witness the whole process of you crashing and killing the horse, old man, Ben will think that you are nervous and unwilling to use force, if you can take out the money to compensate for the loss of Qian Yuan, then there is no need to take you to the yamen." ”

The angry Qian clerk naturally did not lack that money, but what he cared about was face, so he immediately shouted: "No! This old guy suddenly got in the way, intending to commit murder, but fortunately, he had a great life, otherwise he would have met the king of Hades just now, this is clearly a big case of attempted murder, and it can't be closed with money! ”

Cao An knew that Qian Yuanwai was trying to put pressure on himself, but the kung fu that the crazy old man had shown before also brought him a lot of pressure, but according to his judgment, the reason why the crazy old man did it was really to eat horse meat, just for a short while, a horse leg had already eaten half of it, and everyone else was about to vomit disgustingly, but the crazy old man ate even more vigorously.

Thinking that Nie Fengdi was still watching from the side, he couldn't make a scandal of collusion between officials and businessmen, so he temporarily put aside the old friendship between the two, and asked in a deep voice: "Dare to ask Qian Yuan, you said that he deliberately murdered, is there any evidence?" ”

"Do you still need proof?" The money clerk blew his beard and glared, pointing to the dead horse, the fallen car, and the bag on his head, "Look at the big guys, this is the evidence!" ”

"But he always needs a motive to kill, right?" Cao Anke didn't think he had seen such a strange old man, "Qian Yuanwai has a grudge against this person?" ”

"Of course...... There is no ......"

Qian Yuanwai had the intention of lying, but he was afraid that he would not be able to make it round, so he changed his words and said: "You also know how big my business is, I went out of the city this time to negotiate a big deal, there are several competitors, what if he is bought by someone?" So the general still took him down directly and interrogated him well! ”

Cao An secretly said that you just told me that you were going to live a few days of leisure and happiness in the manor outside the city, why did you suddenly change your words and talk about business? He knew that the mouths of these merchants were the most unreliable, so he didn't use this as a rhetoric to refute it, but the old man who ate and had a mouth full of blood suddenly spoke: "When I killed the horse, I heard you muttering that you want to accompany the robbed girl to roll your belly, why did you talk about business again?" ”

The color of the money clerk changed outside, he really said that, his subordinates had just grabbed a good product, and he couldn't wait to see the color, but this was actually heard by the strange old man! He immediately reprimanded: "You old man spews blood! General, catch him quickly, lest he go crazy and continue to plague Youzhou City. ”

But the problem is that Cao An believed the words of the crazy old man, because Qian Yuanwai had already revealed some meaning in his previous conversation. With Nie Fengdi watching from the side, he would have no way to favor Qian Yuanwai, but if he really relied on the old man's words, he would let people go to Qian Yuanwai's manor to investigate, which would be a bit child's play.

For a moment, Cao An fell into hesitation.