Chapter 32: The Scapegoat

For the disciples of the Qi Control Hall, the whole thing is over, and all that remains is the grievances between the Liu family and the Duan family, and as for who will win this battle in the end, everyone doesn't care.

However, Duan Tiande's status in the hearts of everyone has been shaken unprecedentedly, and the city lord who originally loved the people like a son and was respected actually went along with the emperor for his own interests, and did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of the people.

What's more, Duan Tiande actually protected his son before this, which aggravated people's dissatisfaction with Duan Tiande, and the public opinion in the entire Phoenix City suddenly favored the Liu family, which Liu Nanchun never expected.

Duan Feng also had doubts about the death of the Imperial Forest Guard, but he just didn't know how his father did it.

"Han Qing!" a thought flashed through Duan Feng's mind, "It must be him!"

Duan Feng once again focused his attention on Han Qing, the reason why he lost the election was because Han Qing shot a royal guard, but Han Qing was killed by mistake.

"Is it really manslaughter?" Duan Feng couldn't help but shudder.

Before Han Qing told himself to go to his father to ask for the answer, how could he know that his father knew the answer, and was there any connection between them?

"Han Qing is his father's person!" Duan Feng confirmed in his heart, but he didn't know how to deal with this matter, so Han Qing and himself should be in the same boat.

Duan Feng began to feel a kind of worry about Han Qi in his heart, even pitiful, he knew his father, Han Qing was sent to the Qi Control Division as an undercover agent, according to his understanding of his father, Han Qing's final fate would not be too good.

But at this time, Duan Feng had to put aside the matter of Han Qing's identity for the time being, because there was a more important thing waiting for him, and he needed to find a way to save Liu Wenfei, which was his promise to Liu Wenfei.

Half a month has passed, and the envoy sent by Ouyang Zhen has returned from the imperial capital and brought back another will of the emperor.

According to the emperor's will, Liu Wenfei was sentenced to death for leaking royal secrets and disturbing the morale of the army, and Ouyang Zhen chose the opportunity to execute.

Although there was no specific punishment for Duan Tiande in the holy decree, he was still recalled to the imperial capital, Duan Tiande knew in his heart that Ouyang Zhen must have added some other things to the secret recital for the emperor, and this time he was afraid that he would be more auspicious than good luck when he entered Beijing.

Before leaving, Duan Tiande handed over the affairs of the mansion and the defense of the city to his eldest sons Duan Yun and Sima Ran, and called the two into the study to plot for a long time.

After the arrangement, Duan Tiande led more than a dozen personal guards and Wen Bo to set off towards the imperial capital, and at the same time, three days later, Ouyang Zhen also went to the imperial capital, leaving Ouyang Xuan to sit in Phoenix.

However, he said that since the emperor's decree came down, Duan Feng was anxious all day long, and the tea and rice were tasteless, on the one hand, for his father, and on the other hand, because of Liu Wenfei.

Father Duan Feng is not very worried, with the Duan family's operation in the imperial capital over the years, as well as the Duan family's power in Nanhai County, the emperor will not dare to touch him for a while, but Liu Wenfei is different, Liu Wenxing is obviously unable to save his younger brother, and Liu Nanchun is willing to sacrifice this cousin in exchange for Ouyang Zhen's support.

Duan Feng didn't expect that due to his momentary negligence, he would have ruined Liu Wenfei's life, if he hadn't been nosy at the beginning, or if he hadn't tried to use Yun Tianlong, he wouldn't have had this incident today.

The more I thought about it, the more guilty I felt, no matter what, Liu Wenfei was guilty because of himself, and he couldn't ignore it.

Duan Feng found Han Qing, and the two prepared to go to the prison together to visit Liu Wenfei.

Since the prison had been taken over by the Imperial Forest Guards, it took a lot of trouble for the two to enter the prison, and seeing the scene in the prison, Duan Feng was even more distressed.

I saw Liu Wenfei lying on the filthy wet mud ground with scales and wounds all over his body. Hearing Duan Feng's call, Liu Wenfei forced his body to crawl to the door of the cell with his elbow, unable to speak.

Han Qing felt that something was wrong, and held Liu Wenfei's chin with his hand, only to see Liu Wenfei's mouth slightly open, as if he had something to say, but he could only hear the sound of muttering, his throat was ulcerated, and pus flowed.

Han Qing was taken aback and said, "He was poisoned and dumbfounded. ”

Duan Feng's eyes widened when he heard this, his eyebrows were cold, and he was furious: "How can this be! Who would do such a thing?"

Han Qing sighed: "It should be that someone doesn't want him to speak." ”

"Yun Tianlong!" Duan Feng shouted, "It must be him!"

Duan Feng angrily kicked and banged on the prison door, he couldn't imagine that Yun Tianlong would be so vicious and would do such a terrible thing.

Liu Wenfei shook his head angrily, screaming with a whimper, and couldn't tell whether it was sweat or tears on his face.

"Fei'er, tell me what happened?" Duan Feng shouted excitedly, completely forgetting that Liu Wenfei was no longer able to speak.

Duan Feng looked at Liu Wenfei's pitiful eyes and said, "Then you write it, I will definitely get justice for you!"

At this time, Liu Wenfei slowly raised his arms, only to see two bloody hands hanging in front of Duan Feng, it turned out that Liu Wenfei's hands had also been broken.

Now Liu Wenfei, his martial arts have been wasted, his hands are disabled, people are not ghosts, it can be said that life is worse than death, which pierced Duan Feng's heart even more, Duan Feng secretly vowed in his heart that he must find Yun Tianlong to seek justice.

It just so happened that at this time, Liu Yuwei also came to visit Liu Wenfei, seeing this scene in front of her, Liu Yuwei couldn't help but shed tears, and at the same time began to complain about her eldest brother Liu Nanchun, after all, Liu Wenfei is his cousin, even if he is put in prison, he should not be tortured like this, how to explain to his uncle in the future.

Liu Yuwei looked at Liu Wenfei with pity, "Fei'er, I will definitely find a way to save you, don't blame the eldest brother, he can't help himself." ”

Liu Wenfei let out a roar from his mouth, and slammed the cell door hard, and Liu Yuwei, who saw the miserable scene, felt a sour feeling in his heart.

The anger that Duan Feng had suppressed for a long time finally broke out, Duan Feng drew the Ice Sword from behind him with his right hand, and rushed out of the prison door angrily.

Han Qing and Liu Yu were slightly afraid that he would do something out of the ordinary, so they immediately chased him out.

Duan Feng kicked open the door of Yun Tianlong's room, Yun Tianlong was sleeping on the bed, heard the sound of the door opening, reached out to touch the sword at the head of the bed, and before the sword was in his hand, he was pulled off the bed by Duan Feng and put the sword against his neck.

Yun Tianlong looked at Duan Feng with a confused expression and asked, "Duan Feng, what are you going to do?"

Duan Feng shouted loudly, "Why! Why did you treat Liu Wenfei like that! You brute!" he said and threw Yun Tianlong to the ground.

Yun Tianlong got up from the ground, walked around to the other side of the table, and said with a wicked laugh: "What do I think is the matter? It turned out to be Liu Wenfei's business?"

Yun Tianlong's indifferent tone angered Duan Feng even more, Duan Feng angrily swung his sword and slashed at Yun Tianlong, only to hear a "click", the purple wood table in front of him was split in half, Yun Tianlong flew up, dodged the attacking sword qi, and easily pulled out the sword at the head of the bed and held it across his chest.

"Are you crazy?Duan Feng! If you are so unreasonable, don't blame me for being polite!" Yun Tianlong roared angrily.

Duan Feng said angrily: "You are a madman." Liu Wenfei has already been sentenced to death, why are you still torturing him so much?"

Yun Tianlong said with an innocent face: "I hurt him?" Duan Feng, you have to have evidence for what you said. When did I torture him? I don't believe you came to confront him. ”

"You know that he can't speak now, how can you confront him?" Liu Yuwei next to him accused.

"Dumb?" Yun Tianlong said, "How can this be?"

"I didn't let them make him dumb, did I? I just didn't let him talk. Yun Tianlong thought to himself, "Could it be that they are making their own decisions?"

Although Yun Tianlong was worried that Liu Wenfei would confess himself, he was relieved after thinking about it, one was that Liu Wenfei had no evidence that he instructed him, and secondly, when Liu Wenfei stole the Baihua Pill and was bumped into by himself, he hid it for him, and this matter has always been held in his hands as Liu Wenfei's handle.

But for the sake of insurance, he still sent someone to intimidate Liu Wenfei in prison, and Liu Wenfei was worried that Yun Tianlong would tell his past, so he didn't confess to him, but Liu Wenfei didn't expect that he would be sentenced to death, and when he regretted taking the blame for Yun Tianlong, he couldn't speak.

"In any case, it is a good thing for me that Liu Wenfei can't speak. Yun Tianlong was secretly happy in his heart.

Looking at Yun Tianlong's indifferent look, Duan Feng was even more annoyed, and said, "Don't you stop pretending, aren't you doing all this?"

When Yun Tianlong heard this, he sneered a few times and said, "What if it's me? Do you have evidence? Besides, you should thank me." ”

Seeing Duan Feng's depraved appearance, Yun Tianlong felt a little proud, and continued: "Who spread this news, you know in your hearts, if you track it down, who will be chased in the end, you should know better than me in your hearts." So, you should thank me, if I hadn't pushed out this substitute, you would be in prison right now. ”

Looking at Yun Tianlong's smug expression, and thinking about Yun Tianlong's words, Duan Feng's heart was even more uncomfortable.

"You don't have to worry about my business!" Duan Feng shouted: "I'll go to the envoy to confess, but Yun Tianlong, you can't escape this matter!"

As he spoke, Duan Feng rushed out, but was chased out by Han Qing and grabbed him, and dragged him back to the Qi Control Hall.

After some persuasion from Han Qing and others, Duan Feng gradually calmed down, even if he went to the envoy to admit his mistake, he would not be able to save Liu Wenfei, and it was very likely that he would eventually implicate the Duan family. But thinking of Liu Wenfei's fate because of himself, a sense of guilt will come to his heart.

After thinking about it again, Duan Feng was determined to rescue Liu Wenfei, but he didn't tell Han Qing his thoughts, first, he was afraid that Han Qing would not agree to stop him, but he was unwilling to drag Han Qing into the water.

On the way back, Han Qing happened to meet Su Yanjun who was just about to enter the door, and Han Qing told him about visiting Liu Wenfei and asking Yun Tianlong at night.

When Su Yanjun heard what happened to Liu Wenfei, his nose was sour, and tears immediately flowed down, which made Han Qing feel a little guilty in his heart.

Han Qing said: "Duan Feng's face was a little wrong just now, he seemed to have something to hide from me. ”

"What's the matter?" asked Su Yanjun as he gently wiped his tears.

"I always felt that something was wrong, I was too anxious to see it just now, but now that I think about it, I always feel that something is wrong. Han Qing said.

"He wouldn't want to rob the prison, would he?"

Su Yanjun's words woke up Han Qing, and Han Qing shouted, "No!" and hurriedly returned to Duan Feng's residence.

Su Yanjun also followed, and when he entered the door, Duan Feng was packing his luggage.

Seeing Han Qing running in, Duan Feng did not panic, but continued to pack his luggage.

"What do you want to do?" Han Qing asked.

Duan Feng paused, continued to pack his luggage, and said, "This matter started because of me, it must be ended by me, I don't want to affect you." ”

"You want to rob the prison?" Han Qing said.

Duan Feng stopped and said, "I can't watch Liu Wenfei die because of me. ”

Han Qing said: "Stupid! You can rob a heavily guarded prison with just you? Aren't you going to die?"

Duan Feng said coldly: "I have made up my mind, you don't need to persuade anymore." ”

Han Qing had never seen Duan Feng so serious, the Duan Feng he knew before was just a man who came to stretch out his hand to eat and open his mouth, an irresponsible Kuo family, today's Duan Feng seems to have changed a person.

Knowing that he couldn't dissuade Duan Feng, Han Qing said, "If you really want to save him, you can't save him in prison." The prison is heavily guarded, and before Liu Wenfei is rescued, it is very likely that he will die. ”

"What then?" Duan Feng asked.

"If you want to save it, you have to save it outside the prison. Han Qing said.

Duan Feng looked at Han Qing suspiciously, and said, "You mean robbing the law field?"

"Nope. Han Qing said: "The law field is also bound to be heavily guarded, and if you want to rob it, you can only do it on the way to the law field." ”

Duan Feng thought for a while and said, "Brother Han, in fact, you don't need to be involved in this matter. ”

Han Qing said: "What are you talking about, how can you say that I also have part of the responsibility, besides, we are friends, aren't we?"

In fact, even Han Qing himself wondered why he would say such a thing, since he was a child, he had never made friends, and he had never trusted anyone, but these days, he suddenly found that he began to trust these people around him, and he was willing to take risks for them, "Is this a friend?", Han Qing was not sure in his heart, but he was willing to take risks for them.

Looking at Han Qing's serious face, although Duan Feng knew that Han Qing was instructed by his father, although he didn't know his specific task, but he was willing to help him take risks, Duan Feng was grateful in his heart.

The three of them discussed the rescue measures in detail in the room.