In the Yamen prison, it was as dark as ever, especially the death row.

Hongdou curled up there alone, since she knew that Zhou Xuanming was dead, she was in a panic all day long, she kept blaming herself, she tightly pinched the red rope tied to her wrist, if it wasn't for herself, how could he be exposed?

Although there is no way to know how Zhou Xuanming died, she clearly knows what the methods of those people are, after all, she is the one who also came out of there.

Zhou Xuanming's death is that they are showing off, threatening, and telling the person in the capital that he has not grown up to the extent that he can confront them.

"What should I do?" Azuki muttered, hugged herself, and buried her head in her slightly trembling knees.

And at this moment, the one sitting in the capital was half-squinting, reclining on the couch, frowning slightly. Sanyu stood below, hanging seven or eight buckets in his heart, seven up and eight down, nervous, the news from Fan County has been confirmed to be true, how can this not make him upset this on his head?

"Your Majesty......" Sanyu said tremblingly.

"Say." Li Hongzhi's eyes didn't open, the voice coming out of his throat was extremely hoarse, since he knew the news of Zhou Xuanming's tragic death, he hadn't slept well for many days, his news was much more detailed than Hongdou's, or the other party deliberately revealed Zhou Xuanming's death to him, a clear threat.

Although he was born in the royal family, he has seen many people who can't stand the cruel punishment and die in front of him, but no one has left him with the same death as Zhou Xuanming.

Zhou Xuanming's chess piece was laid before his father's death.

It's for him.

It is also for the sake of the country.

I don't know if it was because of guilt or in order to atone for his sins, his father handed Zhou Xuanming to him completely, but in the end, he failed to protect him, and thought that after the matter was over, he would let him go back to his hometown to retire, and since then he has been incognito and no longer cares about the affairs of the court.

Since he knew that Hongdou was exposed and designed to be imprisoned, Li Hongzhi had already written a letter asking Zhou Xuanming to find a way to leave Fan County, but it was still slow.

It was his fault that caused him to die a tragic death.

Eternal life is not at peace.

"The Si people have passed away, do you want to use the dark line of Fan County to bring the jade seal back to the capital as soon as possible?" Sanyu said cautiously.

Li Hongzhi still didn't open his eyes, and only sighed softly: "Why are you in a hurry?" I think it's a good thing that this jade seal is not by my side now, Zhang Ci can protect it, after all, this old thing is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and his two sons are also very powerful when they hear it, so let's put it there first. ”

"Your Majesty said yes."

"If we mess with ourselves first, won't they take advantage of us?" Li Hongzhi opened his eyes slightly, rested his fingers on the table, tapped lightly, and asked, "Send a letter to Fan County, don't move for the time being, and hide everything." ”

"Yes."

"Red Beans are in prison, they are the safest, don't worry. Now, I'm more worried about that girl, since I was a child, I know that she is more precocious than her peers, and her mind is also heavy, if Zhou Xuanming's identity is known to her, I'm afraid she will blame herself. ”

"With Zhang Ershao here, nothing will happen to that girl." Sanyu comforted.

"I hope." Li Hongzhi pondered for a moment, and then said: "Did you find the two booklets on Zhou Xuanming's body?" ”

"Never."

"Keep looking."

"Yes."

Li Hongzhi was about to close his eyes again, but he suddenly opened them as if he remembered something, thought for a moment, and the corners of his lips suddenly rose, and said: "Zhou Xuanming has been with his father for many years, and he can see a lot of things that he deceives, if we can't find the booklet, then the other party will definitely not find it." ”

"Yes, although Mr. Zhou doesn't know martial arts, but when it comes to using his brains, there is no one in the court who can compare to him."

This is the truth, the corners of Li Hongzhi's lips have a little more curvature, after all, he is the husband who taught him, even if Zhou Xuanming dies, he will believe that he can arrange all the back roads that can be arranged for him.

Originally, I thought that if the second young man of the Zhang family was really an embroidered pillow as rumored, he would find a way to take off his hat and replace it with someone who could use it. Unexpectedly, in Zhou Xuanming's case, he concealed the real cause of Zhou Xuanming's death from the outside world, and even told the people that Zhou Xuanming was still alive and just left Fan County.

It's a good ploy.

At least let those people know that Zhang Fu is the head snake of the land, and he Zhang Jiusheng is not a master who is easy to fool.

It turns out that he is not the only one who is playing pig.

Thousands of miles apart, two people who have never met in their lives are doing the same thing, this feeling is quite amazing, so wonderful that he wants to run to say goodbye to Zhang Jiusheng, and then talk all night.

"Zhang Jiusheng's county order is not in vain." When Li Hongzhi said, there was a faint smile.

Sanyu was keen, and his heart was slightly relieved, and he said, "It's a good seedling." ”

"Ahh Zhang Jiusheng, who was far away in Fan County, had just walked out of the dining room, it was autumn, and the weather was getting cooler, he rubbed his nose and muttered: "Damn, I don't know how many sneezes in the morning, which bastard is scolding me behind my back?" ”

Zhang Jiusheng wrapped his coat and planned to go to the county government to have a look.

There was no one in the lobby of the county office, no one in the study, and no one in the kitchen, so it must be in the autopsy room, and before he stepped in, he rushed over to his face, but Zhang Jiusheng knew that it was not human blood, but he didn't want to see it, so he just stood outside and shouted: "Yunsheng!" What for?! ”

Unexpectedly, the person who came out of it was Zhang Tong: "My lord, Yunsheng is not here." ”

Zhang Jiusheng was stunned: "Where did she go?" ”

"Did you go to Zeng's house?" Zhang Tong hesitated.

"The Zeng family? Which Zeng family? Zhang Jiusheng suddenly couldn't turn around.

"There was a home." Zhang Tong reminded.

As soon as Zhang Jiusheng heard that it was Zeng, he couldn't help but be full of irritability, and scratched his head: "It's been more than two months since the case, why are you still going to Zeng's house?" Does she have to break the casserole? ”

Zhang Tong was silent, after all, he didn't know what he could say now, this one couldn't be persuaded, that couldn't be persuaded, there was no case recently, he could only kill rabbits when he was idle.

Zhang Jiusheng didn't stay long before he went to Yunsheng, for fear that something would happen to her alone, so he walked very fast and hurriedly, and he couldn't see anyone in a blink of an eye.

Zhang Tong watched quietly for a while, and didn't know what to think, went into the house and put down the knife, wiped his hands, wrote something on the desk, walked into the yard again, whistled to the sky, and soon flew a snow-white pigeon, obediently landed in front of him, and a delicate little letter was tied to his little pink feet. Zhang Tong rolled up and rolled the things he had written, stuffed them into the letterbox, and patted the pigeon on the back, and the pigeon flew out and disappeared.

Zhang Tong looked at the sky where there were only a few lazy clouds, and sighed: "I don't know, it's still too late?" ”

In just the past two months, Yun Sheng didn't know how many times she had run to Zhou Xuanming's house, she knew that she had been discovered, but since the other party hadn't attacked her, it proved that the other party had other purposes to stay in Fan County in addition to herself so far.

Zhou Xuanming is the teacher of many officials in the capital, people like him, even if they have no grade, they can enjoy glory and wealth in the capital, and they will not worry about eating and drinking all their lives, but he lives alone in Fan County. And according to his neighbors, almost no one in his house comes and goes, that is, his students never come to see him in Fan County.

Why?

If just one student doesn't come, she can understand that the student is ungrateful, but why don't all of them come?

That was Zhou Xuanming's instruction, not allowing them to come to Fan County.

She had just come out of Zhou Xuanming's house, and she still found nothing like several times before, and those neighbors were about to become familiar with her, and some even persuaded her not to come, telling her that Mr. Zhou had gone to the capital.

Yunsheng stood at the mouth of Liujia Lane, she walked all the way from Zeng's house to Zhou Xuanming's house, almost half of Fan County, spent a lot of time, only bought two buns to eat on the way, and Zhang Jiusheng went to Zeng's house, perfect miss.

At this time, her head was filled with the words "capital", and the rest was blank.

Suddenly, a person was in a hurry, passing by her, and the direction turned out to be Zhou Xuanming's house, seeing that the figure was a young man, he stood at the door of Zhou Xuanming's house, looked up, and looked to both sides, as if to confirm whether this was the family he was looking for.

The man stood at the door, raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door, but no one answered, he knocked again, but still no one answered, Yun Sheng saw him leaning sideways and putting his ear to the door and listening carefully to the room.

Yun Sheng laughed inadvertently, and he didn't know where Mr. Zhou's relatives were, so he came to him at this time.

"Hey, brother." Yun Sheng shouted.

The young man turned around when he heard the voice, and found that it was Yun Sheng, with a trace of astonishment on his face: "Call me?" Can I help you? ”

Yun Sheng nodded, gestured to Zhou Xuanming's house, and said, "Look at you like this, are you looking for Mr. Zhou?" Are you his relative? ”

The young man shook his head: "I'm just a messenger. ”

This time it was Yun Sheng's turn to be surprised, and frowned slightly: "I know Mr. Zhou, he is out, and what he tells me is the same." ”

The young man took a step back, looked Yun Sheng up and down, and said, "Then when will he come back?" The sender said that he had to deliver the letter himself. ”

So cautious? Yun Sheng thought to himself.

"I don't know when he'll be back, you can wait yourself, I'm in the house." Yun Sheng shrugged his shoulders and pushed the young man away, while he pushed open the door of Mr. Zhou's house and walked in.

"Huh! Eh, who are you? How can you casually enter someone else's house? The young man was also a little reluctant, and followed Yun Sheng into the house.

"Do you believe me when I say I'm a thief? Why so many words? Yun Sheng rolled his eyes, completely ignoring his birdsong behind him.

On the other side, Zhang Jiusheng, who had just arrived at Zeng You's house, found that Yun Sheng was not there at all after almost turning Zeng You's house upside down, so he scolded Zhang Tong and turned around and ran towards Zhou Xuanming's house.