Winter days are short.

Mu Rui's cronies, when they arrived at the gate of the Third Prince's Mansion, it was almost dusk.

He did not linger long, but handed a letter with a wax seal to the guard guarding the door, and rode away in a hurry.

In the Qianguo Mansion, Mu Rui, who is obviously the eldest son, has a very embarrassing position, except for a few servants and guards sent by his mother and who grew up with him since childhood, there are almost few people, and they are willing to stand in a pair with him, who is not liked by Mu Changzuo.

Therefore, he has developed the habit of being cautious and low-key since he was a child, even in the face of others' overtures, he will have reservations, choose not to make himself fall into embarrassment, and in secret, he will try in every way.

Like, this letter sent to the Three Princes' Mansion, the wax seal he stamped was not his own private seal, but a plum blossom, and the handwriting in the letter was also deliberately distorted, so that people could not distinguish it by handwriting, accusing this letter of being from him.

"The one who sent the letter should be a subordinate of the Qianguo Mansion, the third master."

The letter was delivered to Ling Jun, and the guards detailed the words and deeds of the visitor to him according to the usual practice.

"He claimed to be the guard of Young Master Rui of the Qianguo Mansion, and he was ordered by Young Master Rui to send a thank you note to the third master."

Most famous families have the habit of sending thank you stickers.

In this way, you can reply to the other party that you have indeed received an invitation and are ready to participate in the feast, so that the other party can prepare early, or inform the other party as soon as possible that you have no time or inability to participate, regret and apologize, so that the other party will not be embarrassed by the empty seat, and show your humility and courtesy.

Second, you can "by the way" inquire about the origin of other invited people, and take this opportunity to prepare in advance, on what topic, and talk to the people you want to take the opportunity to befriend.

Like Mu Rui, who only asks his subordinates to send a post, doesn't ask anything, and leaves quickly, usually, there are only two situations, and they don't plan to participate or have other hidden secrets.

Mu Rui, who pinched his fingers all day long, how could he go further in his relationship with Ling Jun and make himself in the Qianguo Mansion to gain some right to speak, since it was impossible for him to send a thank you post to show that he would not participate in Ling Jun's wedding banquet, then, the only remaining possibility would be the latter.

"Got it."

Ling Jun said as he opened the thank you sticker, and pulled out a yellow grass flower note from inside.

"Are you back in September?"

Grass flower note.

This kind of paper that only women in the boudoir will use always makes him instinctively feel that it is used to tell lovesickness, so he resists.

The light of his eyes fell on the paper, and Ling Jun's sword eyebrows twisted slightly.

Then, as if at random, he followed the guards who were standing beside him, waiting for his orders, and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"Back to the third master's words, Shen Shimo."

Turning his head, he glanced at the leak, and made sure that there was no omission, and then the guard returned his gaze to Ling Jun, and replied respectfully, "September has been three quarters of an hour, counting the distance, it should have come back a long time ago, but when I came down to report, I haven't seen any trace of the carriage in the house." ”

"Go ahead."

"When I come back in September, let him come and get back to me."

Ling Jun nodded slightly, indicating that he knew.

The index finger of his right hand, for a moment, was tapping on the table, and his sword eyebrows were slightly twisted, as if he was thinking about something and needed to make a decision as soon as possible.

Mu Rui's letter, written on grass and flower paper, details Mu Defeng's whereabouts.

Among them, Mu Defeng's entanglement with Zhu Yaoyuan at the door of the listening workshop and his "dispute" with the owner of the listening workshop after Zhu Yaoyuan left are quite detailed.

Ling Jun knows that this is a kind of "selling well".

Although he did not say it directly, Zhu Yaoyuan may have "personal affairs" with the owner of the listening string workshop, but it is enough to remind Ling Jun of the seriousness of the matter.

As far as the prince is concerned, sisters are all convenient for seeking power.

If Ling Jun wants to take advantage of this matter to restrain Zhu Yaoyuan for his use, he can be a good person, and after saving the owner of the listening string workshop, he will keep him in the backyard of the mansion.

"Regardless of whether Yuan'er has personal interests with that person or not, I shouldn't let a civilian die for no reason for my plan."

Ling Jun's right index finger seemed to hit the table faster.

He always felt that this matter should not be as simple as what Mu Rui wrote in his letter.

On the land of Yanjing, Mu Defeng is known as the existence of the "four evils" with Zhu Shitong of the Chengguo Mansion, Xu Yuecheng of the Dingguo Mansion, and Xu Weikang of the Wei Mansion.

Although ordinary people don't dare to publicly evaluate them on the scene, in private, everyone knows it.

In the past two years, it is because of the sudden death of the old shopkeeper, and the young owner of the shop is a piano master with outstanding skills, and it is quite sought after by the ladies from famous families.

Yu Li, such a shop should not be so reckless, and Mu Defeng is the enemy.

Unless...... is the owner of the listening string workshop, as Mu Rui said in the letter, he has a "personal relationship" with Zhu Yaoyuan......

No, I'm afraid it's not just because of "selfishness", I can't get used to the simplicity of Mu Defeng's style!

If he didn't guess wrong, that person should have heard what Mu Defeng said, and he would hurt Zhu Yaoyuan, so he couldn't help but move on him.

But is that man really just the owner of a musical instrument shop?

Although Mu Defeng is a gentleman who does not learn and has no skills, he is also from a martial arts family, and in addition, there is a sword and an evil servant with a whip.

And this, the owner of the musical instrument shop, only sent a servant who was waiting by his side, and he beat Mu Defeng's servant to the ground and vomited blood, which scared Mu Defeng into a sieve......

Ling Jun planned to go to the listening string workshop in person, sit down with the owner of the listening string workshop, and talk.

Of course, he needs to wait for September to come back first, and listen to September report to him, at that time, Zhu Yaoyuan and Mu Defeng said something.

……

The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the day of murder and arson.

Mu Defeng took a group of subordinates, carried the oil of keroserose, and after smashing the door of the listening string workshop, he suddenly found that the shop with an oil lamp on the second floor had already been empty.

Originally, the pipa and the sheng flute and Yuxiao placed on the first floor were all gone, and the staircase leading to the second floor was also hung on a white linen cloth to mock his portrait.

The painting is exactly what he is painting today, trembling with fear from falling snow, and he doesn't even dare to pull out his sword.

"Bastard!"

couldn't take revenge, and was humiliated again, Mu Defeng was suddenly angry and jumped three feet high.

He stepped forward quickly, tore off the portrait, stomped on his foot, picked it up in a state of confusion, and stabbed his sword into dozens of holes.

"Give me this, burn this unlucky shop for me!"

Picking up the white linen cloth that could no longer be seen, he stretched it out to the torch and ignited it, and Mu Defeng was like crazy, and rushed at his men who came with him, and roared loudly.

Like this, the matter of leading his subordinates to kill people and set fires was originally a young master like Mu Defeng, who was born in Wuxun's mansion, should also be extremely low-key, trying his best to make less noise and attract people's attention, but at this time, because of the anger he was deliberately drawn out, he became "grandiose".

Fire oil was splashed all over the ground.

The originally dark streets, in an instant, were filled with fire!

Click, click, click.

The heavy sound of metal touching the bluestone pavement suddenly came from a nearby alley.

Immediately afterwards, a bright armor shook everyone, including Mu Defeng, and instinctively blocked their eyes.

It's the Divine Machine Battalion.

"Arson and hurt people, arrest them!"

The one who took the lead was Jiang Rusong.

Born in the Jiang family, he has the same uprightness as General Jiang.

Hearing Jiang Rusong's order, among the generals, more than a dozen people spontaneously branched out, stepped forward with ropes in their hands, and the others raised their firearms in their hands and aimed at the arsonists, including Mu Defeng.

Jiang Rusong is a celebrity around Emperor Longqing, and everyone in Yanjing knows this.

Seeing that it was Jiang Rusong who led the people to come, even if Mu Defeng was a fool, it was impossible not to know that he was destined to be planted tonight.

However, it is one thing to confess and confess, but it is another thing to confess.

"Commander Jiang!"

"Commander Jiang misunderstood!"

At this time, Mu Defeng suddenly felt a little glad that this shop had been empty before he set fire to it.

He raised his hands and said to Jiang Rusong, who was standing in front of the team, that he had no intention of resisting, he had something to say, just, something to say.

Yanjing's notoriety of the "four evils" is not new.

Jiang Rusong, who has always been jealous and hateful, has no good impression of Mu Defeng, one of the "four evils".

"This commander has seen with his own eyes, you smashed people's shops, set fires and committed murder, what is the misunderstanding!"

glared at Mu Defeng fiercely, Jiang Rusong didn't plan to give him half a word.

was finally caught by him, this evidence of Mu Defeng's evil, hmph, this time, look at how he is clever and escapes from Ascension!

"Arson, arson, I admit it, commit murder, but Commander Jiang is wronged!"

"Moreover, arson is not for nothing!"

Seeing Jiang Rusongken talking to him, Mu Defeng hurriedly took another half a step forward, and hurriedly explained to him, "The owner of this shop once made people beat up the servants under and below for no reason today, and he wanted to bring someone to arrest him and take him to the yafu for questioning, but he never thought that he absconded in fear of crime, and also painted a portrait of insulting him, and hung it in the shop. ”

"Oh?"

"Arrest someone in the middle of the night and send it to the government for questioning?"

"I don't know, the yafu that Young Master Mu said is the yafu of the Ming Dynasty?"

In the evening, he received news that Mu Defeng had failed to bully civilians and was afraid of committing murder tonight.

In order to avoid a mistake in the message, he specially summoned the guys from the shops around Tingxian Fang to "interrogate", and after confirming that the news was correct, he reported to Emperor Longqing and asked for a military talisman.

Emperor Longqing hated power for personal gain, after listening to his report, Long Yan was furious, and without hesitation, he waved his pen and allocated a hundred brocade guards and two hundred Shenji battalion soldiers to him, and ordered him to eliminate the evil.

"There are drums of injustice in the yafu."

"Even in the middle of the night, there are diligent adults who uphold justice for the good."

"The reason why I came here in the middle of the night was because I was afraid that during the day, when people would walk on this street, wouldn't it be cruel if the wicked were ruthless and caused innocent people to suffer?"

In terms of sophistry, looking at the entire Yanjing, I can't find a few that can compare with the "four evils" of Yanjing.

After all, they have done a lot of evil, and some sophistry tricks have long been mastered, and they don't even need to blink an eyelid to compile them.

"If you think that you have set fire to the shop owner due to anger and destroyed the shopkeeper's shop, you will be compensated ten times according to the law!"

As long as there is no life, he will not be imprisoned and convicted.

As long as he is not imprisoned and convicted, his father, Mu Changzuo, the Duke of Qianguo, will have a way to settle this matter completely!

However, before Mu Defeng could be proud, a soldier's report smashed him from the clouds to Huangquan.

"Revenge Commander."

"In the bedroom on the second floor, four male bodies were found, all of which had been burned to the point that they could not be identified."

"Around the corpse, there is blood on the ground, distinguished by color, it should be, it is not an old trace, and the hands and feet of the four male corpses have been bound by people with things suspected of ropes."

"After the subordinates extinguished the fire with sand, they found this at the wrist of one of them."

As the soldier spoke, he handed a piece of the whip handle that had been burned out to Jiang Rusong.

All famous families like to engrave the emblem of the house in things, so as to show all of them.

And the end of the unburned whip handle...... The symbol that symbolizes its belonging, the silver falcon, is exactly, and belongs exclusively to the Qianguo Mansion!

"Murder and arson, the evidence is conclusive, send all these guys to the government to be detained pending trial!"

When he said this, Jiang Rusong's voice was a little hoarse, and his hand holding the firearm was also bruised because he was too hard.

He thought that he had come at the right time, just enough to protect the innocent from Mu Defeng's poisonous hands, but unexpectedly, after all, it was still a step too late.

Four lives.

Four men are gone.

This is equivalent to the collapse of the sky of four ordinary people!

stepped forward quickly, raised his hand, and slapped Mu Defeng's face hard, Jiang Rusong's eyes seemed to be able to spew fire in the next moment.

"I will report this matter to Your Majesty for personal reading."

"When the morning dawns, you go to the West Market, buy four coffins and come back, first load their bodies, and send them to Yizhuang for burial."

"If any of their relatives come to confess, let them be sent home, and give them twenty taels of silver, for their burial."

After slapping Mu Defeng, Jiang Rusong's anger seemed to have subsided a little, took a deep breath, turned around, and commanded the adjutant standing behind him.

"They, because I didn't think well."

"The funeral money shall be deducted from my money."

"Write down their dwellings and report them to me, so that in the future, I will go and help them in their homes."

When ordinary people die, they can bury the dead with only three or five taels of silver, and now, Jiang Rusong has asked people to buy coffins for these dead people, and the cost will only be less.

He sent twenty taels of silver to the deceased's house, but in fact he gave them a sustenance.

However, Rao is like this, he still feels guilty in his heart, and he can't hate, so it's good to beat himself with a military stick to punish himself.