In the Yabian Hall of Cangzhou Mansion, the prefect Du Ji was pacing anxiously. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Today, it is the fifth day since the incident, but the most critical person still has no news, and he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.

Whether it's life or death, as long as it's determined, it's all easy to do, and it can be executed according to the established strategy.

This situation of complete lack of news is precisely the most worrying.

Sometimes, Du Ji would even have a frightening thought in his heart: "Could it be that those guys from the main battle of the military department have secretly sent someone to find Yang Li and found a series of evidence, and are now secretly rushing to Shangjing City?"

If that were the case, it would be a disaster for the entire Lord and the faction!

Zhao Ze must be dead, and even if he Du Ji didn't know in advance, he would inevitably be dismissed from his official position!

Thinking of this, Du Ji continued to say to the master on the side: "Pass my order, continue to expand the scope of the search, every road from Chonghe County to Cangzhou Mansion must be guarded, and Yang Li must be found!"

"Yes, I'll go. ”

After hearing this, the master trotted and was about to go out to give orders, but he collided with a servant who was about to knock on the door.

When Du Ji saw this scene, he was even more angry, and opened his mouth to reprimand: "What do you say in a panic, do you still understand the rules?"

When the servant heard this, he was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, kowtowed, and said, "Little damn it, it's Xue Tao from the Elemental University Hall who came over, saying that there is an urgent matter that needs to be reported to you, my lord." ”

"Xue Tao!?"

Du Ji's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Expand the search range in advance, wait, let that Xue Tao come to see me quickly!"

After a while, Xue Tao was led in.

It was the first time that Xue Tao was able to enter the yamen of the state capital, and his expression was quite nervous. After everyone else had withdrawn, he told Du Ji that Yang Li had come to the university hall.

Of course, some details were deliberately "ignored" by him.

"Bold!"

Unexpectedly, after listening to this, Du Ji shouted directly, which frightened Xue Tao and quickly knelt on the ground again.

As a member of the party, Du Ji could see at a glance the unnaturalness in Xue Tao's expression when he spoke, so he expected that the other party must have something to hide, so he said leisurely again: "According to the truth, not a word can be made up or omitted!"

This time, Xue Tao didn't dare to hide it anymore, and told the details of his misunderstanding with Yang Li one by one.

After listening to it again, Du Ji didn't say anything and got up directly.

But when he walked to the door, he commanded the servant beside him, "Drag the man inside, and give him forty taels of silver, and then give his family twenty taels of silver." ”

When the official heard this, he immediately understood the implication: give him money to his family, then it means that Xue Tao himself is not blessed.

So the result of this cane can only be one, death.

According to the order, the two mighty and strong officials immediately entered the house and dragged the frightened Xue Tao somewhere.

As for Du Ji, there was a faint sense of regret on his face.

Of course, this regret is not for Xue Tao, but for Yang Li as he said.

This Yang Li's ability to evade the layers of searches of the Silver Jiao Army and successfully arrived at Cangzhou Mansion alone shows that his wisdom is extraordinary. In addition, he is a quasi-special candidate, which is really a rare talent.

If this person is willing to join the Lord's faction on his side, how much help will it be?

It's a pity that according to the information given by Zhao Ze, Yang Li not only rejected his overtures, but instead got very close to those guys from Qin Tianya's military department and accepted the gift from their side.

The factional strife is the same as fire and water, either you die or I die.

That's why the above will give a hint that if there is a chance to solve this trouble as soon as possible, take action decisively.

It's just that Zhao Ze's attack seems to have failed at the moment.

In order to prevent the main battle faction from grabbing this pigtail, he had to try his best to resolve the matter in front of him first.

Du Ji walked out of the side hall and ordered: "Prepare the sedan chair, prepare to go to the Elemental University Hall." ”

About half an hour later.

The house where Yang Li lived, as expected, sounded a knock on the door.

"Who are you?"

Yang Li got up and opened the door, and when he saw that the person who came was an elder over fifty years old, he couldn't help but ask with a confused face.

"The old man is Du Ji, the prefect of Cangzhou, I wonder if I can come in and talk to Xiaoyou?"

Although Du Ji used a question, he didn't wait for Yang Li to answer, and he had already walked in on his own.

"Master Du, please come in quickly! The students have not been far away, please forgive me. ”

Yang Li hurriedly bent sideways and made a gesture of invitation.

He knew that this was the other party's deliberate desire to show a strong side, and he had to try to be polite to weaken the other party's momentum as much as possible.

Welcoming Du Ji into the house, Yang Li first served tea and poured water diligently, and waited for him to sit on the top. Then he stood aside respectfully, and did not sit down, as if he was listening to the teachings of his elders.

Du Ji saw this scene in his eyes, and he couldn't help but be secretly frightened: How does this look like a 16-year-old boy? He is simply like a sinister and cunning veteran of officialdom! Even if he came to negotiate in person this time, I am afraid that the process may not go very smoothly.

"How is it, are you still used to living here?" asked Duggie with a kind smile.

If you answer "habit", Du Ji can teach Yang Li a lesson with "from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift"; if you answer "not used to it", it is even simpler: even the room with the best environmental facilities is not used to, is it to learn, or to play?

And the "kind smile" on the surface can achieve the effect of reducing the vigilance of the other party, which makes people unguardable.

Duggie believed that a boy who was only sixteen years old would never see through his trap.

However, the next result was a big surprise for Dugi.

When Yang Li heard this, he immediately held his head high and replied in a sonorous tone: "Students come to the university hall to cultivate the power of the elements, strive to become elemental masters, and serve the country as soon as possible to grow into useful talents, so it is the same wherever they live, and there is no habit or unaccustomedness." ”

This answer is flawless, but it will appear that the questioner is a little inferior.

Du Ji suddenly only felt a toothache: no wonder the above attached so much importance to it, it turned out that the young man sitting in front of him was such a demon!

After personally experiencing that Yang Li could not be fooled as an ordinary teenager, Du Ji didn't bother to go around in circles anymore, and asked directly: "I heard that your Yuanyuan control convoy from Muyuan County seems to have encountered some accident on the way to Cangzhou, can you tell me in detail?"

"I encountered something, otherwise I wouldn't have rushed to Cangzhou today. Yang Li replied calmly.

"Oh?"

Du Ji's heart tightened, but on the surface, he seemed to be confused and asked, "What is the matter?"

"It was so dark that I didn't see it clearly, but I vaguely remembered that it seemed to have been attacked by a group of people. Yang Li said ambiguously.

"What are the people?" asked Duggie.

Yang Li did not answer immediately this time, but was silent for a moment, and then said: "When we are attacked this time, if we are united, we have a great hope of winning. ”

"But there is a student named Wang Chengde among us, who, as the person who has achieved the top three results, shouted loudly for everyone to flee at the first time! It is precisely because of this that our military spirit is shaken, we are completely defeated, and many innocent servants and subordinates are brutally killed!"

"So I hope that tomorrow the University Hall will announce this in front of all the students and severely criticize this person!"

Du Ji was stunned again, he had already expected that Yang Li might ask for money, resources, fame, or even nothing, just blindly announcing the facts to the public.

He has thought of ways to deal with these things.

But what he never expected was that Yang Li put forward such a condition, which seemed to be just revenge on a student from the same county who usually had a holiday.

Du Ji has done a detailed background check on the list of all the accusers in Muyuan County this year, and he is also very clear about Wang Chengde's family background, and there is nothing to pay special attention to.

Once such a public criticism is made, it means that Wang Chengde will always bear a political stain, and it will be difficult to make progress on the road of official career in the future.

It is indeed a pity that a top three candidate has such a punishment on his back.

But no matter what, this is not worth mentioning in terms of Yang Li's importance.

And to a certain extent, Yang Li made such a request, and Du Ji welcomed it very much in his heart: because of this punishment, Zhao Ze, who was hiding from himself, would have to suffer a small and small secret loss.

Wang Chengde is a top three candidate from Muyuan County, and when this kind of thing happens, Zhao Ze, as the county commander, is naturally disgraced.

So after only a moment of consideration, Du Ji replied: "This request is reasonable, and I believe that the university hall will seriously deal with this kind of student who is greedy for life and afraid of death and shakes the morale of the military." ”

Yang Li finally smiled at this time and praised, "Master Du is really fair and selfless, and his eyes are like a torch. ”

Du Ji also smiled and said, "Then can you answer now, what is the identity of those people you met that night?"

"It doesn't matter, it's just a bunch of bandits who don't care. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, as if they couldn't go against their hearts at this moment.

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Sending away Du Ji, who was satisfied, Yang Li's eyes instantly turned cold, and then he secretly said in his heart: Muyuan County Wang family, this is just a little interest I charged in advance, and when I become an elemental master, all the things you have done will be repaid a hundred times!