Chapter 251: Inner Ghost

Several people were sitting together in the backyard of Bai Yutang, although the room was brightly lit, and the burning charcoal fire baked the room warm.

But several people sat in place without saying a word, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

"Lord Han, I still think we should hurry up and get out of here now, and as for the rest, we can talk about it later." Finally, after a long silence, the young Chu Tianming took the lead in breaking the silence.

"No, if we really leave like this now, I'm afraid we won't have a chance to explain things clearly in the future!" Han Yehong rejected Chu Tianming's proposal in one bite.

"But my lord, even if we stay in the city now, I'm afraid it will be difficult to have a chance to explain the matter!" Although Feng Du had the lowest status among the others, he was the oldest, so the opinions he put forward on weekdays, Chu Tianming and the people in the Prosecutor's Office would also refer to them carefully.

At this time, Chu Tianming and Feng Du had already proposed that they should hurry up and escape from Shouzhou City at this time, but Han Yehong insisted on staying.

Now it's all two to one, so the three of them all set their eyes on Grandpa Zhou. At this time, Father-in-law Zhou leaned on the back of the Hu chair, staring at the oil lamp on the table.

Seeing that the three of them shifted their eyes to themselves, Gonggong Zhou slowly sat up straight and opened his mouth quietly.

"Don't you three think it's too early for us to discuss escaping from Shouzhou City?"

"Father-in-law is not discussing escape now, do you have to wait until the other party seals all the city gates before discussing it?" Young Chu Tianming couldn't hold back the anger in his heart at this moment.

In the afternoon, he deployed the prosecutor's office in Shouzhou City, and in order to investigate the situation of the Huainan Palace, he directly lost more than half.

This made him feel very distressed. I knew that these subordinates of his had worked hard to be placed in various places in Shouzhou City.

Some of these people are ostensibly street vendors, some of them are shopkeepers of major inns, and some of them are government officials in Shouzhou City.

It can be said that these people have infiltrated all walks of life in Shouzhou City. But in just one afternoon, half of them were lost.

And their disappearance was basically on the way to the Huainan Mansion to find out the news. According to a few who escaped by chance, they encountered a group of rebels pretending to be robbing on the way.

And when they said that they were just passing through the place and had no malicious intent, the rebels went straight to the action.

Even if they were willing to come up with money, it wouldn't help.

"I don't blame you for being young and vigorous, but you, as the head of the Prosecutor's Office, manage many hidden in Shouzhou City, so you should not be surprised." Father-in-law Zhou was not angry at Chu Tianming's rudeness, he just said lightly.

"Father-in-law means that there is something more important than running away now?" Han Yehong looked at Gonggong Zhou suspiciously and asked.

"Didn't you think about why the fans you sent out in the afternoon were so easily identified by the bandits?" Gonggong Zhou said coldly.

And his words were like a thunderbolt that shook all three of them to the ground.

"This ......" Chu Tianming, who was still angry, calmed down suddenly. He was in a momentary confusion because of the great losses of his subordinates before, and now the situation in Shouzhou City is extremely chaotic, so he didn't even think too much about this.

"Father-in-law means that there are internal ghosts among us?" Feng Du looked at Gonggong Zhou in disbelief, while Han Yehong and Chu Tianming also showed surprised looks.

"If you think about it carefully, which of the inspectors is not specially trained, let alone ordinary people, even well-trained spies may not be able to distinguish it, but they are showing a lot of horses and feet when facing a group of rebels, is this reasonable?" Father-in-law Zhou's words made the other three immediately fall into deep thought.

In fact, the actual situation is indeed as Gonggong Zhou said, their prosecutor's office will go through strict training after recruiting fans, which includes a lot of training in words and deeds and demeanor.

Only those who have passed the training assessment will be sent to various places, and it stands to reason that they should not be so easy to recognize.

Even if the rebels were to capture indiscriminately, the proportion of their losses would be too high.

"Gonggong Zhou is right, this is very unreasonable, I think there may indeed be internal ghosts among us." Han Yehong's triangular eyes couldn't help but show a fierce light.

"It's really hateful, if I know who betrayed the Prosecutor's Office, Lao Tzu must have skinned him!" Chu Tianming also slapped the table angrily and said.

"Guys, what are we going to do next?" Feng Du also said angrily.

"Then you don't need to ask, I'll go and gather the rest of the fans immediately, and I must find out this ghost today." Chu Tianming immediately got up and was about to go out.

"But what if the inner ghost has fled to the rebels under the guise of being captured?" Seeing that Chu Tianming was so impatient, Feng Du hurriedly grabbed him and said.

"Even if he escapes to the rebels, Lao Tzu will definitely find an opportunity to kill him in the future." Chu Tianming gritted his teeth and said.

"But if this person has really fled to the rebels, how are we going to find out?" Feng Du asked with a frown.

"Don't worry, I have a way to find that person!" Gonggong Zhou said suddenly. The three of them shifted their attention to him again, but this time Grandpa Zhou didn't intend to tell them his own method.

"It's getting late now, if we call Fanzi here at this time, it is likely to attract the attention of the rebels, so we might as well move again tomorrow." Seeing that Gonggong Zhou did not say his method of finding the rebels, the other three could only get up and prepare to rest.

Today, during the day, everyone was nervous for a day because of the affairs of the Huainan Palace, and they all felt sleepy at this time.

When the other three returned to their rooms, Grandpa Zhou still didn't move, his eyes stared at his door through the candlelight on the table, as if he was waiting for something.

A few moments later, there was a sudden knock on his door. At this moment, Zhou Gonggong's pupils suddenly focused together, and a gleam appeared in his eyes.

"Father-in-law, little old man will bring you some tea!" At this time, Feng Du's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"The door is unlocked, come in!" Father-in-law Zhou stared at the door deadly, but his tone was the same as usual. When the door was opened, he saw Feng Duzheng walking in with a kettle and a teacup.

And there was a flattering smile on his old face.

"Old Feng, it's so late, and I'm bothering you to bring me tea, it's hard work!" Gonggong Zhou immediately got up and took the teapot and water cup from Feng Du's hands.

"My father-in-law said that there are some things that the little old man can't do well now that he is older, so he can only do some things such as serving tea and delivering water." Feng Du immediately bent down and said respectfully.

"Lao Feng, don't be humble, although you are old, your loyalty and patriotism have not diminished at all, not only have you joined the Prosecutor's Hall, but even your own son has been sent to the Prosecutor's Hall." Father-in-law Zhou helped Lao Feng to sit on the Hu chair, and then said as if he were homely.

"My father-in-law is really a mistake, the little old man joined the prosecutor's office too late, so he knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to do much for the prosecutor's office and His Majesty in his life, so he sent the dog to the prosecutor's office, hoping that he could take over the little old man's ambition to be loyal to the country." Feng Du's face was like a chrysanthemum on his face when Zhou Gonggong smiled like this.

"Zhou Mou entered the palace since he was a child, and he had a loyal and patriotic heart as a young man, and he always wanted to serve the country and clear the world for His Majesty, and then fortunately the Beisi Qiao Gonggong appreciated and was sent into the army by his old man to become the eunuch of the Pengzhou Army, originally thought that he could accompany the army to break the grassland barbarians and sweep the frontier for my Dayu Dynasty, but I never thought that I would stay in the Pengzhou Army for ten years, and in the end, the years went by, after all, it was nothing, and then the Pengzhou Army and the grassland tribe fought to the death, and I was punished for this, and almost lost my life." Father-in-law Zhou began to talk to Feng Du about his past experiences as if he had met a bosom friend.

"Later, I was fortunate to be appreciated by Gonggong Song of Nansi again, and thanks to his refusal to abandon me, I had the opportunity to join Nansi to continue to serve His Majesty, and at the same time atone for my own past sins." Zhou Gonggong continued.

"My father-in-law's patriotism really made Feng admire, and at the same time, my father-in-law's ups and downs in his life also made Feng admire." For this week's father-in-law's life, Feng Du really admires it from the bottom of his heart.

You must know that as a eunuch, if you put it in the era of Emperor Shengcheng and Emperor Shengyin, you may be very happy, as long as you have ambition and means, you may be able to become a powerful eunuch, and even have the opportunity to wrestle with the envoys and vassal kings in various places.

But it's a pity that he was born in the wrong era, since Emperor Shengwu succeeded to the throne, he slaughtered the eunuchs, and the originally powerful eunuchs were basically slaughtered by him.

With his bloody massacre of eunuchs, the power of the eunuchs also plummeted, and they were once again reduced to royal slaves, and the infinite scenery of the past has become the prudence of today.

And now the eunuch institutions that still have some rights in the Dayu Dynasty are only the South Division and the North Division. Ordinary eunuchs are proud to be able to enter these two divisions, and even some eunuchs have never had the opportunity to enter the South Division or the North Division after working hard all their lives.

But the father-in-law of Zhou in front of him has gone through ups and downs, first serving in the North Division for more than ten years, and also serving as the eunuch of the First Army in Biansai for a long time.

This can be described as a high-ranking person, and he can be regarded as a successful person among eunuchs. Although later, because of the annihilation of the Pengzhou Army, he became the scapegoat of the North Division and the Military Department, but he still relied on his ability to be favored by Song Shunming, Song Gonggong of the Southern Division, and joined the Southern Division.

In Feng Du's opinion, such a legendary life can completely leave a mark in the history books. Compared to my own life, this is simply a heaven and an earth.

"My father-in-law said that he was not afraid of your jokes, the little old man has a dull life, if he can have half of your life, the little old man will die without regrets." Saying that, Feng Du took the cup, poured the water full, and then held it in both hands and handed it to Gonggong Zhou.

Zhou Gonggong took the cup and was about to drink it, but suddenly stopped again. And Feng Du on the side couldn't help frowning slightly when he saw this.

But Father-in-law Zhou put down the quilt in his hand and continued with great interest again.

"If you want to live a wonderful life, but you have a knack, Lao Feng, do you want to know?"

"Of course, please give me advice!" Lao Feng's face immediately showed joy, and then said expectantly.

Seeing this, Gonggong Zhou couldn't help but slightly upturn the corners of his mouth, and then said mysteriously.

"My trick is that I never drink tea from other traitors!" The expression on Feng Du's face, which was still looking forward to it, instantly froze.

I saw that he still maintained a slight leaning posture after hearing Zhou's father-in-law's words. After finishing speaking, Gonggong Zhou sat back on the chair and looked at the stiff Feng Du with a smile.

"How did you know I was the inner ghost?" It took a while for Feng Du to recover from his shock.

Although Feng Du's identity had been revealed, he still didn't panic at all, and saw him slowly sit back on the chair as if nothing had happened.

"It was the moment you knocked on my door that I knew you were the inner ghost." Father-in-law Zhou didn't have the slightest mood swing, as if he was chatting with an old friend.

"I see, it turns out that you just said that you already have a way to find out the inner ghost and deliberately said it to me!" Feng couldn't help but say with a wry smile.

"That's right, in fact, I don't have a good way to find out the inner ghost as soon as possible, but I think that the only thing you can trust in this world is yourself, although the three of you are the head of the Prosecutor's Office in Shouzhou City, but it doesn't mean that you can't rebel." Gonggong Zhou picked up the teacup on the table and said while playing with it in his hand.

"So you're going to take this opportunity to give it a try?"

"That's right, as the old saying goes: if you have dates, you can try a shot without dates." Gonggong Zhou said with a smug smile on his face.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that the caution that I, Feng Du, had lived all my life, would finally be placed on top of this random temptation of yours, and I can only say that this is the will of heaven!" Feng Du laughed loudly.

"Although I have speculated that you are an internal ghost, I have never figured it out, but I still don't understand that in order for you to get involved with those rebels, I also did not hesitate to leak all the information of the prosecutor's office in Shouzhou City to the rebels this time, don't forget that those are your and your son's comrades!" Zhou Gonggong said with a little regret in his tone.

"Mixed up with the rebels? Father-in-law Zhou, you also underestimate me Feng Du. Feng Du shook his head with a smile and said.

"Oh? It seems that the assassination of King Huainan this time is not as simple as he thinks! Father-in-law Zhou guessed from Feng Du's tone that the reason why Feng Du betrayed the Prosecutor's Office was because there might be a bigger secret behind it.

"Father-in-law Zhou has been getting along with you quite well these days, you don't have the feeling of being superior in the Prosecutor's Office or other people in Nansi, you are still good to Xiao Lao'er and Chu Tianming's kid, so I don't want you to end up being a fool." Feng Du sighed, then slowly took the cup of tea on the table, and drank it all.

"Actually, I didn't drugged this tea!" Feng Du's originally calm face couldn't help but bring a sly smile.

At this time, he seemed to be a child who had won a game. Seeing this, Gonggong Zhou couldn't help but turn pale, he didn't expect that Feng Du's tea was not poisoned.

"But today you still can't escape death, just now I have released the news, and now Lord Pan should have sent a large number of people to rush here." Feng Du couldn't help but feel happy when he saw the embarrassed expression on Gonggong Zhou's face.

"In that case, can I know why you betrayed the Prosecutor's Office? Don't forget, your son is also a member of the Prosecutor's Office, and he is the head of the Prosecutor's Office. Zhou Gonggong never understood this.

"The reason is very simple, because I am from Vietnam!" Feng Du's answer was very simple, so simple that Gonggong Zhou never thought of this reason.

"So, you joined the Prosecutor's Office for another purpose?" Father-in-law Zhou can be regarded as understanding now.

"That's right, in fact, before I joined the Prosecutor's Office, I was a spy of the school superintendent." When Feng Du said the three words of school supervisor, the momentum of his whole body changed.

The original submissive appearance disappeared without a trace, but was replaced by majesty and self-confidence.

"In this way, the real culprit who assassinated the king of Huainan this time is you Yueguo." Gonggong Zhou was already frowning at this time, and slowly stood up.

"You guessed it right, this incident is indeed that we received instructions from His Majesty King Yue."

"Why is King Yue so bold, he actually defies the disapproval of the world and secretly attacks the King of Huainan, do you know what consequences you will have in your eyes if you do this?" Gonggong Zhou had already asked angrily at this time.

His loud questioning also attracted the attention of Chu Tianming and Han Yehong in the next room. So they ran out of the room one after another and came to Zhou's father-in-law's room.

When they saw Gonggong Zhou standing in the room angrily, while Feng Du was sitting on the chair with a smug face, the two of them understood in an instant, that the ghost inside should be Feng Du.

"Lao Feng didn't expect it to be you?" Although Chu Tianming had confirmed that Feng Du was the inner ghost, he still didn't want to believe it.

Han Yehong, on the other hand, was staring at Feng Du with his eyes, and his hand had quietly touched the saber on his waist.

"Why? Lao Feng, tell me, why is it you? Chu Tianming held back for a long time, and finally broke out, and he asked angrily.

"There is no reason why I am just for the ideals of my youth, when my daughter-in-law died of famine, so at that time I hoped that there would be no more famine in the world, I hoped that the world would be clear, I hoped that the officialdom in the world would be clear, and I hoped that the emperor would be wise and martial." Feng Du stood up suddenly, then opened his arms and said loudly.

"However, in the end, I found out that these ideals of mine were all unrealistic dreams, and then the dream was shattered and people woke up." Feng Du's mood suddenly became low.

"So do you think that King Yue can become the Ming Jun you expect, and he will be able to make the world peaceful and the Yan River clear in the future?" Gonggong Zhou said coldly.

"Hahaha, none of this matters, even if he can't become a generation of Ming Jun, at least he won't be worse than Emperor Shengheng!" Feng Du said excitedly.