Chapter 436: Let the line out
Shao Xi had just walked to the door of Dali Temple, when he saw a person walking out of the door and was taking a look at Shao Xi.
Shao Xi took a closer look, isn't this a coincidence? This person is Xiao Liuzi, he looks in a hurry, and he doesn't know what is going on?
Xiao Liuzi saw that it was Shao Xi, so he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted Shao Xi.
"Lord Shao hasn't been to our Dali Temple for a long time, I heard that Lord Shao has been an envoy to Nanzhao for the Holy in the past six months, it seems that he has returned to Kyoto now, Lord Shao is here to find Brother Long, right? I'll take you to him. Shao Xi knew that he was a false politeness, but he smiled quietly and said, "Yes! I just returned to Beijing yesterday, so why don't I come to see you today? The Lao brothers led the way. The two of them talked and laughed all the way into the Dali Temple, and after the little sixth son invited Shao Xi to sit down in the main hall, he ran to find Long Qitai.
Shao Xi looked at the back of Xiao Liuzi and thought about it again. It seems that Long Qitai has concealed it very well in the past six months, and he has not let Xiao Liuzi notice anything, but I don't know what clues he has found from this kid in the past six months?
However, since he is a hidden stake planted in Dali Temple by another force, he can use it this time.
Thinking of this, Shao Xi began to think about what nonsense to make up to dig a hole for the other party. Just after a while, I saw Long Qitai trotting all the way from the back hall to the main hall with Xiao Liuzi, and as soon as he saw Shao Xi, he gave him a big hug, which made Shao Xi a little overwhelmed all of a sudden.
The two big men hugged each other, and he felt a little awkward. Long Qitai seemed to notice that Shao Xi's expression was a little unnatural, so he also smiled awkwardly, and the two exchanged a few words after sitting down, which were generally some words that others often asked.
For example, is the road to the mission smooth? How about getting to Nanzhao? What have you seen and heard along the way? After gossiping, Long Qitai turned his head to look at Xiao Liuzi, and said casually: "Little Liuzi, go and soak a pot of the good Biluochun I brought back a few days ago for Lord Shao to taste." Xiao Liuzi answered, turned around and went to the back hall to make tea, and seeing that Xiao Liuzi was gone, Long Qitai said to Shao Xi in a low voice: "Brother, I have been staring at this kid for half a year since you left, and I didn't find anything suspicious on weekdays, and it looks quite normal."
"However, as soon as we mentioned that we wanted to investigate the case of the assassination of the envoy of the White Night Kingdom half a year ago, he would run to the Xinjing teahouse in the east of the city, although the teahouse did not find anything abnormal, but when I went to monitor it myself, I found that something was wrong." Shao Xi came to his senses when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "But did you find anything wrong with Xiao Liuzi?" Did you find out who he was in contact with, or did he do something special? Long Qitai shook his head and replied: "I didn't find that he was wrong, but I found another person, this person is very special, so I was very impressed." ”
"Oh? It turns out that there is an unexpected discovery, I don't know who this person is in your mouth? ”
"This man looks not young, but he has not grown a beard, and he speaks in a shrill voice like a eunuch, and this person has a gloomy face and sharp eyes, although he does not often appear in the Xinjing Teahouse, he seems to be a regular customer.
"Every time I go, the shopkeeper of the teahouse is respectful to him, and always lets him go to the back hall of the teahouse, I have always wondered what kind of guests are qualified to enter the back hall of the teahouse to drink tea? This person's identity does not look ordinary. Eunuch, gloomy face, sharp eyes, these words made Shao Xi immediately think of a person - Gao Cai!
Judging from the current analysis, Xinjing Teahouse should be the place where they exchanged news, but the question is why did Gao Cai appear there?
According to Shao Xi's previous analysis, the black-robed man is Xiao Yuzhi, and Gao Cai should be under Xiao Yuzhi's orders.
Judging from the previous assassination of the envoys of the White Night Kingdom by Wuriyati, he and Xiao Liuzi should both belong to the other force, which means that Xiao Liuzi and Gao Cai should belong to the two hostile forces.
But why are they in the same teahouse now? Is there any connection between the two of them?
This made Shao Xi feel a little confused. After repeated inquiries and investigations about the glass beads, he could basically determine that Xiao Yuzhi bought the two glass beads from Taihe Commercial Bank and handed them over to the envoys of the White Night Kingdom, and the other forces sent Wu Riyeti to kill the envoys of the White Night Kingdom and steal the two glass beads of the envoys.
After being exposed, Wuriyeti was captured by himself and Long Qitai, and was forced to commit suicide by taking poison in Dali Temple, so that Xiao Liuzi was exposed, and now Xiao Liuzi appeared in the same teahouse as Gao Cai, Shao Xi absolutely did not believe that this was just a coincidence.
But no matter from Lao Wu's narration or the clues he searched from Feng Yuyan's memory, it proves that there was Gao Cai among the people who appeared at the scene of the Fengjiazhuang massacre ten years ago, and the black-robed man at that time was Xiao Yuzhi.
Then the relationship between Gao Cai and Xiao Yuzhi can also be determined. But now there is such a strange scene, Gao Cai actually has some kind of connection with the other party, which makes the whole thing a little difficult to explain.
Could it be that Gao Cai is also a person from the other side? If this is the case, how can he explain that he and Xiao Yuzhi appeared in Fengjiazhuang at the same time ten years ago?
Now it seems that Gao Cai's identity is not as simple as imagined, maybe what can be found from Gao Cai's body next?
The question is how do you get close to Gao Cai? This person doesn't seem to be as easy to talk to as Gonggong Cao, and it's not so easy to get close to him!
When Shao Xi was pondering this matter, Xiao Liuzi came to the main hall again with the brewed Biluochun, and after pouring tea for Shao Xi, Xiao Liuzi turned around and stood behind Long Qitai.
Long Qitai glanced at Shao Xi, his brows furrowed slightly, that meant that he didn't want to be too deliberate to separate Xiao Liuzi, after all, Xiao Liuzi had been following him as his confidant and right-hand man on weekdays, and if the two deliberately separated him when they were talking, it would arouse his suspicions.
Shao Xi smiled slightly when he saw this, and deliberately said to Long Qitai: "I went to Nanzhao this time, and a lot of things happened along the way, and it was precisely because of these things that I had a lot of unexpected gains. Long Qitai seemed to understand what Shao Xi meant, and deliberately talked about these things in front of Xiao Liuzi, presumably intentionally letting him hear it.
Shao Xi once told him that since he knew that there were spies around him, instead of arresting him and forcing him to ask for information, it was better to deliberately provide some false information for him to bring to the mastermind behind him, and make full use of him to mislead the other party.
So at this time, Shao Xi deliberately mentioned to himself what happened along the way, it must have a deeper intention, it seems that Shao Xi wants Xiao Liuzi to bring something out.
Now that he understood Shao Xi's intentions, Long Qitai naturally cooperated with Shao Xi and deliberately asked, "What terrible things have Brother Shao encountered along the way?" What's the catch? Tell Brother Long about it, and let Big Brother be happy for you. So Shao Xi roughly told him about the matter of Yujiang County, not so much for Long Qitai, but for Xiao Liuzi.
Long Qitai was also shocked when he heard this, he couldn't imagine that Shao Xi had done such a big thing this time, not only found out the affairs of the Zhao family in Yujiang County, but also used the soldiers and horses of the three counties to wipe out all the private troops raised and hidden in Yujiang County.
The whole process sounded really thrilling, but it was exciting, which made him admire Shao Xi again.
However, such a big thing happened in Yujiang County, and everyone can figure it out, this is definitely not something that the Zhao family can do on their own, there must be someone behind the mastermind, and it seems that Shao Xi's point in mentioning this matter is also this.
So Long Qitai asked Shao Xi: "There must be a master behind this matter, and the harvest that Brother Shao said should not only be to exterminate the private army, but to find out the person behind it, right?" ”
"Brother Long is right, the biggest gain of this matter is that after the extermination of the private army, a large amount of evidence was found when the Zhao family was raided, proving that some people in the court plotted to rebel and usurp power.
"Today, I entered the palace to face the saint and have submitted this matter to the saint, and submitted the relevant evidence together, I believe that it will not be long before a result of this matter will come out, but it is inconvenient to reveal more at the moment." Long Qitai slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Brother, you have made a great contribution this time!" Find out the rebellious ministers and thieves, and the traitors of the rebels, the saint will definitely reward you heavily, it seems that the brother will be prosperous in the future, and the marquis is just around the corner! Shao Xi waved his hand towards Long Qitai, and said with an indifferent face: "This is not the point, the point is that this matter reminds me of the assassination of the envoy of the White Night Kingdom half a year ago, there seems to be some kind of connection between these two things, although I don't know if I think right, but it always feels like there is a connection." Long Qitai casually glanced at the little six sons standing behind him with the corners of his eyes, at this time this kid seemed to be listening carefully to the conversation between the two of them with his ears pricked up, and seemed to be very concerned about Shao Xi just mentioning the assassination of the envoy of the White Night Kingdom half a year ago.
In fact, Shao Xi could see Xiao Liuzi's expression most clearly at this time, and when he said that the mastermind behind Yujiang County's private army was related to the incident half a year ago, he obviously saw the corners of Xiao Liuzi's mouth twitch slightly.
This shows that the thing he mentioned touched a sensitive nerve in Xiao Liuzi's heart, which proves that there is indeed some connection between these two things, as for which kind of connection Shao Xi is not very clear now.
However, since Xiao Liuzi has this kind of performance at the moment, it proves that the direction of his temptation is right, and the next thing to see is how Xiao Liuzi will react to his words?
Whatever his reaction will be, let's get the line out first. Long Qitai deliberately asked again: "I wonder what the connection between these two things will be?" ”