"Lady, I'm really sorry, now that the troubled times are coming, I can only leave my hometown and go to the holy capital.

You don't have to worry, we are doing well, Lord Li appreciates me, and allows me to use the future of the Demon Suppression Division, maybe in a few years, I can still get a five- or six-grade official to be a pawn, and I will glorify my ancestors.

You used to always chatter, saying that I was poor and sour and talented, and that I was blood mold for eight lifetimes.

But in fact, you still look forward to my development.

Now that I've figured it out, since God wants me to be a stranger, then I'll just join this trip and make a name for myself.

On top of that, it's safer for the two children to ......"

Outside the city, in the western suburbs.

Under a gloomy sky, in the newly established cemetery.

Most of the people who died in Yelu City were burned and buried in the cemetery here.

Originally, with the traditional concept of the Great Qian Dynasty, it was categorically unable to accept the treatment of cremation and centralized landfilling, but the government's sentence of "fear of breeding evil spirits" scared everyone into obediently carrying it out.

Now that everything is done, everything seems to be at peace again, but the poor inhabitants have no decent place to live.

Yan Yuandi's wife also died in this disaster, and before leaving, he specially told Li Yu to take a half-day vacation and came here to have a look.

Because it was quite difficult to distinguish the corpses and organize them, they could only be burned and buried together, and when Yan Yuandi came to pay respects, he could only hold on to a huge stone tablet and mumble to himself.

Unconsciously, it was drizzling in the sky, and Yan Yuandi's clothes and hair were moist, but he still refused to leave for a long time.

There were also some people nearby who refused to leave like him, the same people who lost their relatives and friends in the Cloth Demon Rebellion and the Goldsmith Incident, but they themselves survived.

Until the rain became heavier and heavier, even Yan Yuandi had to sigh secretly and turn his head away.

At this moment, on the opposite path, a young woman wearing a hood and a black veil held an umbrella and supported a white-haired old woman to come over, followed by several men who looked like domestic servants.

It must have been a big family in the city.

Yan Yuandi thought secretly in his heart, and hurriedly turned sideways to get out of the way.

Just when he passed by, the woman and the old woman wearing the hat seemed to notice it and turned their heads to look at him.

"That guy just now...... The smell on his body is familiar! ”

"There should be no mistake, it's the jewel of the 'stonemason'."

After Yan Yuandi's figure disappeared into the distance, the woman and the old woman glanced at each other and spoke one after another.

The old woman's face showed anger, and the dragon head crutch in her hand slammed into the ground, splashing a little muddy water.

"Damn the Imperial Court Eagle!"

The woman said: "Grandma, don't be impatient, the real culprit is Li Yu, the son of the Marquis of Wu'an, who came from the holy capital!"

But at the moment, we can't expose ourselves, we have to find a way to hide from the eyes and ears of the government and recover the strange treasure from the goldsmith. ”

The group turned around and walked away.

……

"Are they already on their way?"

"Master, it's already time to go."

"It's good to set off, it's good to set off!"

Just as Yan Yuandi was riding in a carriage to catch up with the large army that had already walked out for several miles, in Yelu City, among the Kong family, Master Kong was also discussing the follow-up matters with several clan elders.

Sending away the servants who came to report the news, Master Kong said to everyone: "Uncles, brothers, the reply from the third brother is to let us settle them with some blood first, and then seek another calculation."

Although Zhimao's actions before were to master the tricks, but if he acted rashly, he would incur failure, and there must be a price, this is no longer a simple money can be good, the third child means, be sure to clear this charge. ”

"So, how do you wash it off?"

"Of course, it is a preemptive strike, creating public opinion, and then participating in impeachment from the courtiers!"

Hearing this, everyone immediately understood the meaning of this lineage.

It turned out that the previous bribes were all smiling and hiding knives, and I never thought that this matter could be good!

"The other party is the son of Wu'an Hou, will it be over?"

"If you don't die, you will suffer from it, and we have offended them, so I'm afraid it's also troublesome."

There are still some people who look forward and worry about the future.

Master Kong glanced at those people, with some helplessness in his eyes.

But the more this happened, the more he strengthened his mind to be tough to the end.

"This time, we are provoking an alien, a demon suppressor, not the previous scholars, petty officials, nor ordinary businessmen and ordinary people.

Only by fighting can we survive!

If it weren't for the other party's strong force and inability to force it, I would have wanted to contact the bandits, horse bandits and other halfway robbers along the way, and completely solve them.

But it's not too late to make a force now, because they accepted the money beauties we sent, which shows that they are still paralyzed in their minds.

Do you say that the people of the Holy Capital are more willing to believe that the Jinyi guards sent by the Holy Capital are bullying and extorting money, or are they more willing to believe that the local gentry are emboldened to master strange treasures and kill innocent people? ”

"This ......"

"It's supposed to be the former, right?"

"Isn't it often mentioned in dramas and folklore?"

"What is the strange treasure, the people are not familiar with it."

"Unfamiliar? That's right! Since ancient times, the noble and the martial, the literati are high and self-clean, even if there are occasional scum, it is also some corruption and bending the law, and the martial arts, that is often killing the good and risking the merits, looting the people's wealth!

Jinyiwei oppresses the place, extorts money, rebels against people, and brutalizes Zhongliang, these are all easy to understand, but when it comes to buying the guards, stealing the corpses of criminals, we have to explain what is a stranger, what is a strange treasure, and leaks a lot of secrets......

You say, "Can the foolish people understand, can they understand?" ”

That's really not easy to understand, all kinds of details, it's troublesome to explain.

Moreover, since ancient times, public opinion has been in the hands of civil officials, and these gentry are the roots of civil officials, which also means that public opinion is in their hands.

With the sharp weapon of public opinion in hand, the black can be said to be white, and the white can be smeared into black.

In addition, the demonic goldsmith has been trapped in the western suburbs outside the city.

"However, the other party is a powerful person, since it is common for powerful people to harm Zhongliang, if it is really a 'cruelty to Zhongliang', then what should I do?"

Suddenly, a fatal question was asked.

Master Kong was dumbfounded for a while.

In fact, this is what he is faintly worried about in the bottom of his heart.

Those people are not civil officials, and they will care about their reputation.

But now, I can only bite the bullet and say: "The arrow is on the string, I have to send it, and I can't manage it so much."

It will take some time for them to return to Beijing, and this time is the only chance we have left.

In any case, first remove those human and physical evidence, all kinds of traces. ”