When Yu Pingfeng went out to Dusi Yamen early this morning, he felt that something was wrong, and both eyes jumped violently. 2. As the saying goes, the left eye jumps wealth and the right eye jumps disaster, but this is the first time he has encountered the situation of these two eyes jumping together, and he doesn't know whether this is a good omen or a bad omen. After arriving at the Yamen, the situation did not improve, but jumped harder. Although Yu Pingfeng is not a very superstitious person, he is also a little guilty when he encounters such a situation, and he thinks that he has hit the evil and can't do it.

Near noon, after Yu Pingfeng finished handling an official business, he was about to go to lunch, when his subordinates suddenly came to report, saying that Jinyi Wei had come to ask to see him. Yu Pingfeng has also been waiting for Liao Xun's progress report for the past few days, and asked his subordinates to bring the guests right now.

The person who came did not wear the official uniform of the brocade guard, but only claimed to be Liao Xun's personal entourage, and showed his identity waist card and Liao Xun's warrant. After arriving at the court, he presented a letter to Yu Pingfeng. Yu Pingfeng saw that the words on the envelope were indeed Liao Xun's handwriting, and he did not suspect him at the moment, so he opened it and read it. didn't read a few lines, and Yu Pingfeng couldn't help but get excited.

Liao Xun mentioned in the letter that he had followed the clue of Chengfengxing to find out the person in charge of Haihan in Hangzhou, and through the cooperation provided by Chengfengxing, he had secretly arrested this person last night and was currently detained in Chengfengxing outside the city. Under Liao Xun's persuasion, this person has abandoned the secret and surrendered to the light, and is willing to serve the imperial court to deal with the Haihan people, but this person still lacks trust in Liao Xun's identity, so Liao Xun hopes that Yu Pingfeng can come forward to appease, and with his official position as a four-grade official in command of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, it should be enough to make the other party let go of his last defense.

However, Liao Xun specifically pointed out in the letter that according to this person's confession, Haihan had installed eyes and ears in important departments such as the Zhejiang Metropolitan Department and the Criminal Investigation and Prosecution Department, so Yu Pingfeng should not reveal his whereabouts to his colleagues when he traveled, and he should not use official pomp and circumstance, so as not to expose his deeds and lead to the loss of his previous achievements. The messenger had already prepared a special carriage and horse outside the yamen, and Yu Pingfeng would escort him to meet outside the city as long as he changed into civilian clothes and obeyed the messenger's arrangement.

The letterhead is Liao Xun's signature, Yu Pingfeng has had an official correspondence with him, and this trace is also familiar, and he knows that it is not a forgery when he looks at the signature. It's just that Liao Xun made such an arrangement, which is a bit unreasonable, and he still needs to ask clearly, so he slowly folded the letterhead and said to the messenger: "Lord Liao is very good, and he took someone quietly." I don't know how many men Lord Liao dispatched during yesterday's operation, and were there any casualties during this period?"

The messenger clasped his fists and replied: "Your Excellency, yesterday Lord Liao only brought a dozen brothers and set up an ambush in the merchant inn, and the shopkeeper of the merchant inn led the opponent to come alone on the grounds of immigration, and it didn't take much effort to take it." That person was also a coward, the knife was on the neck, and it immediately softened, and Lord Liao had prepared several sets of torture methods in advance, but they didn't use it at all. ”

Yu Pingfeng heard that he was decent, so he didn't suspect that there was any article in the middle, and continued to ask: "Since Lord Liao has already taken the other party, why don't you escort him back to the city, but invite this official out of the city to deal with this matter?"

The messenger replied: "This person bears a lot of secrets, and according to his confession, all the yamen in the Hangzhou government have their accomplices stationed, even the Jinyi Guard is not insured, Lord Liao is worried that after he is taken into the city, his accomplices will appear, and there is a risk of extinction, so he stayed outside the city and temporarily requisitioned the merchant inn as a base for investigating the case. Lord Liao said that it would be better not to let him show up for the time being until he was hiding in Hangzhou City and his accomplices were all wiped out. ”

Yu Pingfeng couldn't help frowning again and again when he heard this, this Haihan actually planted and bought a lot of people in the Hangzhou government, and it is no wonder that in the past year, seven or eight out of ten of the means to deal with Haihan have fallen into the void, I am afraid that the decree of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division has not yet left Hangzhou, and the Haihan people have already received the news. If we do not try to get rid of these Haihan ears and eyes lurking in various yamen, it will be difficult to spread the decree to other state capitals in the future. In this way, Liao Xun did this for a good reason.

The messenger continued: "Lord Liao's meaning, as long as Lord Yu shows up in the past to reveal his identity, let that person know that there are government dignitaries who are concerned about this matter, and will not delay Lord Yu to deal with official business in the afternoon." ”

If you just go to show your face and appease the Haihan captives captured by Liao Xun, it won't take much effort. It just so happened that Yu Pingfeng had nothing else to do at hand, so it didn't hurt to take advantage of the lunch break to go over and see what was going on. Yu Pingfeng paid attention, so he asked the messenger to wait in front of the hall, and went out in civilian clothes by himself, only bringing an entourage, and then went out of the yamen with the messenger. Sure enough, a black-covered carriage stopped at the corner of the street, and after Yu Pingfeng and his entourage got into the car, the carriage soon started to go south.

With the warrant of the Jinyi guard, the carriage was successfully cleared out of the city at the city gate, and not even a symbolic inspection was carried out. When the carriage arrived outside Chengfeng, someone opened the gate and let the carriage in, and then quickly closed the gate. If it weren't for staring at Cheng Fengxing all the time, it would have been really hard to notice that such a carriage had entered it in an instant.

The carriage stopped in the courtyard of Chengfengxing, and after Yu Pingfeng and his entourage got off, the messenger led them inside. Yu Pingfeng saw that the merchant was full of young men in civilian clothes, although they were not wearing weapons, they all looked extremely capable, and they should all be Liao Xun's subordinates. It's just that after he arrived, this Liao Xun actually didn't come out to greet him, and the little hundred households took a stand in front of the four-grade officials, which was inevitably a little inflated, and he was usually called "Lord Liao", which was just a kind word for officialdom communication, and he really thought that it would be great if Jinyiwei had a little privilege? Although Yu Pingfeng's face was silent, he was already thinking in his heart that he would try to knock Liao Xun after the meeting, lest he forget how many catties and taels he had.

When he came to the last courtyard, Yu Pingfeng saw a person sitting in the hall facing the patio, and it was Liao Xun who had recruited himself here. There was a big table of eight immortals in this hall, and Liao Xun sat behind the table, seeing that Yu Pingfeng was coming, he didn't mean to get up to greet him. Yu Pingfeng snorted in his nose, asked his entourage to wait outside, and walked straight into the hall.

"Lord Liao is such a big shelf!" Yu Pingfeng arched his hand, his tone was very unhappy. He really couldn't figure it out, this Liao Xun used to be quite good at being a person, why he hadn't seen him for a few days, and he actually played tricks with himself.

Liao Xun replied with a wry smile: "Lord Yu, please forgive Liao's inconvenience and loss of welcome!"

Yu Pingfeng exclaimed: "Could it be that Lord Liao injured his legs and feet when he caught the thief yesterday?"

"That's not ......" Liao Xun raised his hand and pointed to the seat next to him, motioning for Yu Pingfeng to sit down and say.

Yu Pingfeng went to sit down next to Liao Xun, his butt had just touched the chair, and he caught a glimpse of Liao Xun's hands and feet covered by the tablecloth of the Eight Immortals Table with iron shackles, so frightened that he almost sat on the ground.

"Master Yu doesn't need to panic, since he has already come, let's stay as a guest. ”

With a teasing, Yu Pingfeng saw a masked man appear at the door, and the entourage he brought from the city had disappeared silently for some time.

"Who are you? Dare to detain the imperial court officials, do you want to rebel?" Yu Pingfeng stretched out his hand and pulled the shackles on Liao Xun's body, it was impossible to help him untie it now, so he decisively gave up the useless attempt at the moment and focused his attention on the masked man.

"In Xia Gong 17, Yu Da came to visit, but I couldn't welcome you from afar, and I hope to forgive me. Gong Qiqi unabashedly reported his identity: "I am one of the Haihan people whom Lord Yu hates." ”

Yu Pingfeng's heart sank suddenly, and he said to Liao Xun: "Then it seems that the letter you sent to this official is all fake news?"

Liao Xun smiled bitterly: "The lives of the next family are in the hands of the Haihan thieves, Lord Yu, I'm sorry!"

Yu Pingfeng reacted almost immediately, this Liao Xun somehow fell into the hands of the Haihan people, and he couldn't bear the coercion of the other party and had already surrendered to the enemy, so according to the other party's arrangement, he deliberately wrote a letter and handed it to himself, using his eagerness to seek merit and lure himself out of the city. The most terrible thing is that Yu Pingfeng also believed Liao Xun's words, he didn't tell his colleagues and family about his whereabouts before he left, and now no one in the Dusi Yamen knows his specific movements, even if someone is missing, it is impossible to find this place in a short time. Yu Pingfeng wanted to fight back, but unfortunately he didn't have any weapons on him, and it seemed that it would be a little difficult to kill this business inn.

Just as he hesitated, several masked men had already poured into the door, all holding a wooden stick the thickness of an egg and more than two feet long in their hands. But instead of rushing forward to make a move on him, the men stopped five feet away. But at this time, if Yu Pingfeng still tried to resist by force, he was afraid that before he could stand up, the wooden sticks around him would be smashed down with his head and face. Yu Pingfeng saw that the opponent's advantage was difficult to shake, so he didn't try to resist uselessly at the moment, just stared at Gong Qiqi, to see what this Haihan leader could do.

Gong Qiqi walked to the table, also pulled out a chair and sat down: "Lord Yu, this year has been chasing after my Haihan, and it has been hard to expel us from Zhejiang by all means!"

Yu Pingfeng said: "For a person like you who has no king's law, the government naturally has to punish him." Do you know how much of a sin it is to detain an official of the imperial court?"

Gong XVII nodded and said, "Regarding the detention of the imperial court officials, Lord Liao has already said it before. However, since you have any doubts, I will explain it again. No matter how big an official you are in the Ming Court, you can't control the Haihan, and the Ming law can't cure the sins of the Haihan people, I set up a bureau to arrest you, that's because you have been using the power in your hands to oppose the Haihan. You think that you can use this official position of the Ming Dynasty to overpower Haihan, but today I want to tell you that this kind of thinking is really wrong!"

Yu Pingfeng said: "If you want to kill, you will kill, what is your intention to detain us here?"

Gong Seventeen said: "Lord Yu doesn't need to be in such a hurry, there is still a place where you can come in handy." Come on, put pen and paper!"

At that moment, someone presented paper, pen, inkstone and other stationery supplies, Gong Qiqi said: "Lord Yu don't have to be confused, I took such a lot of trouble to invite you over, but it was not to ask for your ink treasure." Now I need you to write a letter to your companion, and copy the letter you saw earlier. ”

"Are you going to bring Master Guo here?" Although Gong Qiqi did not mention Guo Zheng's name, Yu Pingfeng had already thought of his true purpose.

"Haven't the three of you always advanced and retreated together, how nice it would be to be able to gather here, and by the way, you can also see the Haihan people you have always wanted to meet, which can be regarded as a wish. Gong Qiqi said sarcastically.

Yu Pingfeng said angrily: "How could this official be coerced by you to do such a dirty thing!"

Gong Qiqi said: "It's okay if you don't write, but there will be a nameless fire in your house tonight, and no one may be able to escape at that time." ”

"Despicable!" Yu Pingfeng scolded angrily: "Barbarian Fanbang, it is really a villain's act!"

Gong Qiqi was not annoyed, and still said in a calm tone: "I am just a subordinate who does dirty work for Haihan, no matter how insulting you are, it is useless to complete the task in Hangzhou, as for what means to use to achieve the goal...... No one cares about the fate of the loser, and what you should do now is not to lose too completely. At the very least, do your best to keep your family's lives safe. ”

Yu Pingfeng looked at Liao Xun beside him, and suddenly understood the other party's feelings, presumably when Liao Xun was forced to write a letter to himself this morning, he should have been very embarrassed. The Haihan people actually came up with such a poisonous plan to lure the three of them into the net one by one, which is really unguardable.

Gong Qiqi added: "In the letter, I remember that the two of you are together now, and after writing it, Lord Liao will also sign a signature, which should be more convincing." ”

Yu Pingfeng thought that this was indeed the truth, with him and Liao Xun as a guarantor, Guo Zheng, who received the letter, naturally did not doubt him, and I was afraid that he would come to meet soon. In this way, in one day, there will probably be three high-ranking officials who will disappear inexplicably. But in his current situation, there is no way to change the trend of the situation, and he is powerless to resist Gong XVII's arrangement.

About an hour later, the messenger who had brought Yu Pingfeng here before carried another letter that had just been baked, and entered the city again in a carriage. His destination was the Punishment and Prosecution Department in the city, and delivered the letter to Guo Zheng. If Guo Zheng moves fast enough, he will be able to take the carriage provided by the action team out of the city to Chengfeng Xing before the city gate closes, and join his two brothers and sisters.

Gong Seventeen ordered Pingfeng and Liao Xun to be escorted to different rooms to take care of them, and now wait for Guo Zheng to take the bait, and this mission will be considered alive. Recalling the mission he came to Hangzhou this time, being able to turn the peak to the current situation is indeed a situation that he and Takahashi Minami did not expect beforehand.