"Enter."

The Red King cherishes words like gold.

Qing 13 tidied up his clothes and entered calmly. As soon as he entered, he saw the old man holding a familiar book, and he was stunned: "Ah this, master, you also read it?" ”

Zheng Xiu and Qing Pi stared at each other: "You too?" ”

Qing 13 silently took out the same book from his arms.

Zheng Xiu sighed: "You have changed. ”

Qing 13 smiled: "It's not, it's mainly because Ji Honglotus likes to read it, so I bought a copy by the way and take a look." ”

From this point of view, the writing of the great writer is very popular in the circle of deep resentful women, and it has become a school of its own.

Zheng Xiu calmly closed the book, pressed the heavy file like a mountain, was silent for a moment, and said indifferently: "Fengbei bought it." ”

Qing 13 was stunned: "I see." At the end, Qing 13 gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "The old man is really considerate." ”

"Okay, don't mess around, do you think I'm the one who eats this?"

Zheng Xiu lay lazily on the big backrest, his ten fingers crossed on his knees, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and he looked "not very happy", and asked, "Did you find out anything?" ”

"Live up to expectations." Qing 13 put away his cynical expression and said, "I found out." ”

He touched the cigarette stick on his waist and spoke eloquently.

"Master, do you know the 'Easy Place'?"

Zheng Xiu thought about it and nodded.

Xiaoyaofang is the name of a gambling house, opened in Xishi Street, the apparent boss is a nouveau riche, called "Dao Ye" on the road, about 50 years old, Qing 13 told Zheng Xiu earlier, this person was born as a thief when the world was chaotic 20 years ago, Qing 13 also saw his bounty order, but later asked someone to find a relationship, changed his name and surname, and became today's "Dao Ye".

Twenty years ago, there were a lot of bandits. Zheng Xiu remembered the experience of Baili Village, the bandits all over the mountains were like locusts, traveling on rainy nights, working diligently, which was very terrifying.

Dao Ye runs the "Xiaoyao Fang" in the capital, and he acts in a low-key manner on weekdays, and there was some friction with him when Zheng Xiu first opened a gambling house, but then Zheng Xiu asked Pei Gaoya to talk about it, and Dao Ye was convinced, and since then, the two families have not interfered with the river water, and there has been no contact over the years.

In addition, Zheng is involved in many industries, he doesn't look down on the casino business, and Zheng Xiu doesn't like to make poor people's money, so the gambling house is not big. On the contrary, Xiaoyaofang became a place for many wealthy merchants and sons in the city to play.

"What does it have to do with Escape?"

Zheng Xiu frowned and asked.

"Don't worry, sir, listen slowly." Qing 13 smiled and asked again: "Master, do you still remember, who is behind Xiaoyaofang, who is his backer?" ”

Zheng Xiu was stunned, he really didn't remember.

In the cannibal paintings, he has really experienced the washing of a hundred years, and these unimportant things have almost been forgotten and forgotten by him. But Zheng Xiu took a sip of tea and lifted the leaves, this unfathomable behavior made Qing Shisan take the initiative to say the answer:

"Naturally, the lord will not forget. The backer behind Xiaoyaofang is Zhou Ji. ”

Zhou Ji? Which Zhou Ji?

Zheng Xiu's action of skimming the tea leaves paused slightly, and he had an impression of this name.

Qing 13 shook his head: "But Zhou Ji, the Shangshu of the original Criminal Department, is dead, and Xiaoyaofang has no backer." Later, Dao Ye once asked someone to send a gift to Lord Jiang Gaoyi's house, but Jiang Gaoyi politely refused. ”

At first, Master Dao thought that Master Jiang had a big appetite, so he gritted his teeth and gave more. Later, Mr. Jiang was really annoyed, so he said that he always went to Mr. Zheng's house on weekdays to have a long talk and talk about family life. ”

"Master Jiang moved you out, Master, and Master Dao immediately understood, it turned out that it was not that he didn't give enough, but that Master Zheng gave too much."

"It's the third day of March, the ancestor worship ceremony is about to be established, and the above is taking care of the open and secret fighting, even if Xiaoyaofang has no backer, it is indeed free for a while."

"Later, the emperor became a prince, and the above was idle, and some people began to focus on Xiaoyaofang, a piece of fat that no one looked at."

Qing 13 used a few words to tell a paragraph of cause and effect.

But Zheng Xiu still didn't hear what this matter had to do with Erniang's troubles.

Qing 13 pulled out the cigarette stick, playing back and forth in his hand, and was reluctant to smoke.

"Later, Dou Jiuyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, met with Master Dao in private, hehe, I want to divide eighty-two points."

Zheng Xiu couldn't help but smile, a little uncertain: "The eighth Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, the second sword master?" ”

"Hee-hee, the master really understands."

Zheng Xiu closed his eyes and nodded and hummed, casually winding the bends around the deep and shallow water, and said leisurely: "The Ministry of Rites has been an official for many years, how can you not know the truth that 'it is better to cut the flesh of the rich than to earn the hair of the poor'?" How much can you make by making money from the poor? Wei Yangzun is not a vegetarian either, in the past, there was a secret ministry to inquire about the news for him, where could he hide the big and small things in the city? is much more greedy, the leeks are ripe, Wei Yangzun issued a holy decree, and cut them all, so that he can not only punish corrupt officials to win the hearts of the people, but also enrich the treasury, isn't it just for these to raise corrupt officials? was cut off a leek and lost his life, an official who can sit in the position of Shangshu, people are not stupid, how can they be greedy. The gambling house is different, the origin of the money is not very clean, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu to charge a copy of the treasury, keep a little for himself, Wei Yangzun will also turn a blind eye to this, Zhou Jiding did the same in the past, so, everyone is happy. Eighty-two is divided, hehe, but the master of Xiaoyaofang suffers. But the guy who calls himself the sword master can agree to this loss-making deal? ”

Although Xiaoyaofang is small, it is also a piece of meat, and the surface looks shallow, and the Ministry of Rites dares to come forward to talk to the sword master, and there must be a surge on it.

"Naturally, I didn't talk about it." Seeing that Zheng Xiu could understand the officialdom, Qing Shisan secretly admired it in his heart, shrugged his shoulders and said: "But Dou Jiuyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is not a kind person, and the sword master is humble and wronged, and he has caused a lot of trouble to the sword master in the past two months, openly and secretly. ”

"At this moment, hehe, it's a coincidence, there is an old couple, and the dust enters the city."

"There are three kinds of bureaus in Xiaoyaofang, 'heaven, earth, and people', from top to bottom, corresponding to the rich and the poor, as long as there are acquaintances taking the lead, ordinary people can also enter to play both hands."

"The husband and wife, the man is a gambler, spent some money, found a relationship, entered the Xiaoyaofang, thinking of using the last entanglement, turning over there, and gaining a foothold in the imperial city in one fell swoop."

"There are 'thousands of generals' in the Xiaoyao Fang, and ordinary people have money in their arms, how can they take it away safely? The man tasted the sweetness at first, but he stupidly didn't see the clue, but he had to hit it in, and he lost a few hundred taels of silver in a few days. ”

"The knife master of Xiaoyaofang...... Well, although I am acting in a low-key manner under the light of your obscenity, these days because of the pressure from above, I have gradually brought out some of the shady means in the past. Cleverly defrauding gambling debts, selling land, and forcing good people to become prostitutes are all indiscriminate methods. ”

"But the couple was so poor that they didn't have any money, they wanted two lives, and they were so angry that they did a loss-making business."

Qing 13 was a little unable to hold back at this time, and bit the cigarette stick in his mouth, and smoked it, but there was no fire in the chimney, and Qing 13 was not smoking cigarettes, but lonely.

He was silent for a moment, breathed a long sigh of relief, and sighed: "At this moment, the woman couldn't help but say that many years ago, they sold their own daughter into the city and sold it into ...... Zheng family. ”

Call~

In an instant, the oil lamp on the table flickered and almost went out, leaving only a faint spark, and the room was dark. The air in the study was heavy as if it had been filled with lead. Qing Shisan looked at Zheng Xiu with a calm expression in surprise, and the scene behind him was actually distorted to a degree that was visible to the naked eye, as if something had been opened.

Qing 13 was so frightened that he took a few steps back, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he subconsciously held the cigarette stick in his palm, and when he came back to his senses, his palms were full of sweat.

What is hidden behind the master?

Qing Thirteen is Zheng Xiu's henchman, but he doesn't go to find out Zheng Xiu's little secrets when he has nothing to do, except for the four golden flowers becoming aliens, the cat is wrong, and the master often secretly practices with the four golden flowers, the rest of Qing Thirteen don't know at all.

This sudden feeling of oppression made Qing Shisan feel like he was being pinched by the neck, making him feel that it was difficult to breathe, and he opened his mouth and gasped. After a few breaths, in addition to feeling suffocated, Qing Shisan's limbs seemed to be locked by heavy shackles, and he had the illusion that he couldn't move.

This strange "illusion" didn't last long, until Zheng Xiu silently took a sip of tea, and the spark that was almost extinguished rekindled and bulged, repeating the light in the study.

Qing 13 wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and was a little unsure: "Master, are you angry?" ”

"It's a little." Zheng Xiu put down the teacup and looked at Qing Shisan: "It seems that after this king became the Red Queen, in the eyes of outsiders, he seemed too easy-going. ”

Qing 13 put the cigarette stick back into his waist and coughed lightly: "Actually, master, you may have misunderstood one thing." ”

"Oh?"

"That person is shrewd like a ghost, how dare he blatantly deal with you? It's too late! When Dao Ye learned that the couple was actually Erniang's biological parents, he was treated as guests, allowing men to gamble and change ways to send money. ”

"After sending it for a few days, the man went to another place to be chic, and then turned back to the poor barehead, and then ran back to Xiaoyaofang to gamble, and this time and again, he took away a few hundred taels of silver from the knife master."

"The couple originally promised to give the master you and the knife master to take the lead and make friends, but they just went to Xiaoyao Fang to get the money. Later, the knife master couldn't help it, so he made this decision, gritted his teeth and gave the woman a hundred taels of silver, and the woman saw that the money was open, so she wrote a letter and secretly sent it to Erniang, staging this drama of 'recognizing relatives'. ”

Yes?

Huh?

At this point, Zheng Xiu's anger turned into crying and laughing.

To put it simply, the owner of a small gambling house was anxious and wanted to find a new backer because his backer had fallen; Because the lion of the Ministry of Rites opened his mouth and didn't talk, the sword master wanted to lick the red king; happened to be at this time Zheng Erniang's biological parents appeared, so that Dao Ye saw the hope of licking; Unexpectedly, this couple is not good at stubble, they don't do anything with wool, they forced the knife master to be anxious, and forcibly asked Zheng Erniang's biological parents to send a letter to recognize their relatives, and finally made Zheng Erniang unhappy.

Why is Zheng Erniang unhappy? The reason is very simple, it was her parents who ruthlessly left her behind, if it weren't for Zheng Haoran and his wife taking Erniang away, treating them as their own, and having a deep relationship with Zheng Xiu's sister and brother, it is unimaginable where Erniang is now, or what fate she will end. Now after more than 20 years, her biological parents came out to recognize her relatives without a little precaution, which instantly disrupted Erniang's mind and made her not know how to face it.

Over the years, she has long regarded herself as the bloodline of the Zheng family, and although the Zheng couple are not blood relatives, they are better than blood relatives; But Zheng Erniang was kind-hearted, and the appearance of blood relatives made Erniang confused and sad.

After getting along with Zheng Erniang for more than 20 years, Zheng Xiu has never heard Erniang mention her parents, and obviously when she was a child, her blood relatives did not leave her with good memories.

Twenty years ago, it was not surprising that the people were living in poverty.

Dao Ye wanted to use this as a lead, so that he could tie up with the Red King, but he didn't lick the right place.

In short, it is a slap on the back, a slap on the egg, and a slap on the Red King.

Qing Thirteen frowned bitterly: "This matter is not easy to fix." ”

Zheng Xiu also understood what he meant, if it was someone else, he would do it. But after all, the couple are Zheng Erniang's blood parents, so it's not easy to do.

"It's not neat." Zheng Xiu patted the dust on his body, covered the tea lid firmly, stood up, and walked out of the house.

Qing Thirteen was stunned and followed: "Do you want to?" ”

He made a motion to wipe his neck, his hands trembling slightly.

Qing 13 is on fire.

Zheng Xiu shook his head and said as a matter of course: "How can that be?" This king has always been benevolent, law-abiding, and strict with himself, but now that you are the red king, can you do things that violate the law and discipline? ”

Qing 13 was a little disappointed.

But in the next second, a sharp whistle sounded from Zheng Xiu's mouth, echoing loudly in the Red King's Mansion.

Qing 13 was completely stunned, this is the ...... of the Brotherhood Rally the whistle!

The Red King is shaking people!

On the high wall of the Red King's Mansion, there were many figures, wearing hooded black clothes, and the clever sword in his sleeve roared softly.

"Good guys!" Qing 13 flicked his sleeve, his middle finger was erected, and the sleeve arrow popped out from between his fingers. It turned out that he had prepared it a long time ago.

The Red King swaggered out of the palace, got into the carriage, and drove towards the West Market.

"The Red King travels, and the harm is eliminated for the people!"

……

Night.

Jiang Gaoyi, who had just returned from the Disaster Prevention Bureau with his tired body, rejected his wife's plan to shake it, washed up, and fell asleep on the bed.

Who asked King Chi to leave him a note and ask him to sort out the cases of the Disaster Prevention Bureau in recent months.

Thinking of this, Jiang Gaoyi wanted to cry without tears, and even had the urge to resign from the post of secretary of the Criminal Department, and be the little secretary of King Chi's side with peace of mind. But when he became the secretary of the Criminal Department, he didn't resign if he wanted to. In court, if he dares to reveal the slightest idea of resignation, he will face the risk of being beheaded.

In the above words: It's not that you have a ghost in your heart, why do you have to take off your hat and return to the field for no reason? There must be something strange, take it down and take it to prison, and wait for it to be released!

Jiang Gaoyi was honest before he was imprisoned, and he was imprisoned. was awakened by Zheng Xiu's actions in prison, and now he has risen all the way, rising steadily, becoming the secretary of the Criminal Department, and he can see the curves and straight roads in the officialdom clearly.

People are in officialdom, and they can't help themselves.

was closing his eyes and sighing, Zheng Xiu's "Changshi Painting" for him flickered on and off at this moment, lighting up like a light bulb.

[The Red King called, did you receive it? ] 】

[See?] 】

[See?] 】

On the permanent painting, there is no option for the call of the Red King.

Jiang Gaoyi hurriedly washed his face, lifted his spirit, and connected the call. was about to say that the case was almost sorted out, but in the picture, Zheng Xiu said with a smile that he had inadvertently discovered a fugitive criminal, and asked Jiang Gaoyi to issue an arrest warrant overnight.

"What?"

Jiang Gaoyi was dumbfounded.

What time has it been, and he was actually asked to issue an arrest warrant overnight?

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the middle of the night, the city was strangely lively.

The god of the six doors arrested Guo Zifei and received a secret order overnight, saying that there was a fugitive criminal hiding in the city, and he was burdened with a lot of bloody cases.

In less than half an hour, the notice boards of the city gates in the east, west, south, south, and central cities were plastered with the same "arrest warrant."

This arrest warrant is very strange, each face is drawn differently, and some even have only one circle and two nostrils, barely looking like a face, it seems to have been drawn by temporary workers overnight, and it is not professional.

But the focus is obviously not on the portrait, there is a drunken probe boy passing by with his pants, squinting his eyes, drunkenly reading the words on the arrest warrant:

"Hiccup~"

"What's that?"

"The criminal Zhang San, alias Dao Ye, robbed the house, killed people and oversold goods, was heinous, and offered a reward of 1,000 taels of silver for six doors, and was wanted in the whole city......"

……

When the whole city was overwhelmed with arrest warrants, Zheng Xiucai sat in a carriage and arrived at Xishi slowly.

For a short period of time, even the wanted person didn't know he was wanted.

Zheng Xiu stepped out of the carriage, hung the Red King Mirror back on his waist, and smiled at Qing Shisan:

"Look, isn't that legal?"

Qing 13 admired.

Ask for a commuter pass! Ask for follow-up! PS: Madam, you don't want to see the finale in advance, do you?

(End of chapter)