In the middle of summer, the sky suddenly became drowsy.

The wind suddenly made a noise, blowing a large dark cloud, which pressed low overhead, and made people's mood depressed all of a sudden.

Cao Sijin stood in the courtyard, his eyes slightly narrowed by the wind, and the tips of his hair flew, like a fierce beast that had been provoked to war.

He snorted coldly, turned back to the room, and threw down a sentence, "Prepare the horse!" ”

After a while, he changed his clothes and went out, riding his horse straight to the mansion of the fourth elder Han Changyan.

For the people of the Han Mansion, Cao Sijin has long been an old acquaintance, and even the porter even asked people to take the initiative to help lead the horse, and he personally led Cao Sijin directly into it without a notice.

Soon, Cao Sijin met the four elders who were listening to the music in the water pavilion in the back garden.

He walked straight over and sat down next to the four elders with a solemn face.

The fourth elder is a long, thin old man, at the moment with his left hand holding a teacup, his right hand on the lid of the cup, slightly closed eyes, shaking his head, looking faintly a little elegant, hearing the movement, he opened his eyes and turned his head to look at him, then waved his hand to let the woman who sang the song go away.

When there was no one else in the water pavilion, Cao Sijin said: "Something happened." ”

Han Changyan turned his head to look at him and asked.

Cao Sijin explained: "The group of people from Zhongjing City who contacted us before were all wiped out by Qincha. ”

Han Changyan's hand holding the tea cup shook, spilled a lot of tea soup, and said in shock: "Is it the gang of thieves captured by Qin Cha at the apprenticeship banquet the day before yesterday?" ”

Cao Sijin nodded with a calm face.

Syllable!

Han Changyan directly smashed the teacup in his hand and scolded angrily: "Waste! Rubbish! A bunch of rubbish! Waste with less success than failure! ”

Cao Sijin didn't persuade either, just quietly waited for the other party to slowly calm down.

After a while, when there was no movement, he looked at Han Changyan, "Do you want to find a woman to vent your anger?" ”

"That's what you love to do!" Han Changyan sat down angrily and slowly exhaled a few turbid breaths, "Are we deeply involved with that side?" ”

Cao Sijin pursed his lips, "The days are not long, not deep, but whether it is secretly helping to kill Long Ziwang, framing the son of the gang leader, or colluding with outsiders, inciting civil strife, and killing court officials, as long as it is poked out, it is an absolute capital crime." ”

Han Changyan was silent for a moment, his voice dry, "Let's talk about it, what are you going to do?" ”

Cao Sijin said: "You received the order from the helper, right?" ”

Han Changyan frowned and nodded, his face gloomy, "It seems that the helper feels that he has taken advantage of it, and plans to take the opportunity to solve us!" ”

"Where does he have that ability, and he's not the ghost of the Qin Cha!"

Cao Sijin snorted, "This person does have some ability, he has done so many things in the past few days, and now he thinks that if he catches this group of people, he will be able to find our handle, so he is naturally impatient to clean us up." ”

"Don't care if others are impatient, this waste is being caught by others."

Han Changyan's expression was full of solemnity, "People already have the power of life and death given by the emperor, and now that they have a human witness, can't they clean up the few of us?" ”

"He really can't take care of it!"

Cao Sijin snorted, and said fiercely: "He said that those people colluded with us, even if those people confessed to colluding with us, we can not admit it!" ”

He looked at Han Changyan, "Is there any evidence?" Are there any correspondences? My dealings with those people have always been in private, and I have never been seen by the gang, only a few henchmen in my house know. They say we are, and we can say that they are deliberately planting us to frame us! ”

He looked at Han Changyan, who was a little dumbfounded, and said in a low voice: "Think about it, where is our territory, and why the gang leader has not dared to do anything to us, isn't it because we have so much support from the gang?" Let's go and spread this in advance, and when the time comes, as long as they do something to us, the people who support us will be able to tear them apart! ”

Han Changyan was shocked by this idea and stammered a little, "What if the other party insists on going his own way?" ”

"Then we'll break the net with them!" Cao Sijin's expression was full of hideousness like a trapped beast, "Even if there is only half of the Cao Gang, we can still eat and drink spicy food, why don't we catch it better than tying our hands!" ”

After saying this, he suddenly put away his expression again, and smiled lightly again, "Of course, that's just our last talisman, as long as we put this posture out, no matter what Na Qincha wants, the helper will help us stop him." ”

He said in a deep voice: "As long as we pass this level, we have to reorganize the people under our hands and speed up our movements." ”

Han Changyan sighed lightly, "I hope I can pass this level." ”

"Not hope! Yes, I can definitely pass! Cao Sijin said firmly, and then slapped his thigh, "Then the matter is settled, I'll contact those hall masters under my hands, those people under you, you have to go and talk to them." Let's let the wind out first, let everyone fight the same enemy, when the time comes, they really dare to do it, and there are people who support us under their hands, and we are not afraid! ”

Han Changyan nodded slowly, did not speak, Cao Sijin was also used to his posture, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, then turned around and strode away.

Cao Sijin left, but in the water pavilion, Han Changyan still sat quietly like a sculpture.

The housekeeper watched from afar, worried about whether his master had been quietly picked up by the fifth elder just now, so he walked over cautiously, trembling and reaching out to his nose.

As soon as his hand was halfway out, Han Changyan silently turned his head, opened his eyes and looked at him, so frightened that the housekeeper almost jumped up.

"Get out!"

The butler, who almost popped out of his mouth, hurriedly fled.

Being interrupted like this, Han Changyan also came back to his senses from his daze and remembered what happened yesterday.

Yesterday evening, when he was still busy working in the rudder of the Cao Gang, he was unexpectedly called by the gang leader.

This is also a common thing on weekdays, they just rebel on weekdays, and they are not directly against the rule of the gang leader, or they haven't had time to rebel directly, so the normal work on the surface is still as usual, so no one cares, who knows that when he sat down in the room, the gang leader directly gave him a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

"The gang of thieves arrested by Qin Cha is the one who colluded with you that day, killed the son of the third elder, and framed my son, the leader surnamed Yuan."

The words that the gang leader suddenly threw out frightened him to look left and right, for fear that a few knives and axes would rush out from inside and chop him into meat sauce.

"Don't panic, since I told you so, I didn't want to deal with you."

The gang leader seems to be as gentle as usual, but at this moment, in Han Changyan's feelings, he has a little more confidence and confidence, which makes people subconsciously dare not resist.

"Now on my side, there is the emperor's order, the county order, your ironclad evidence, and the army that Lord Qincha can mobilize at any time, your affairs have been exposed, and it can be said that you are at the end of the road. But you are different from the fifth child, you are not the first evil, and you have not done much evil, I will kill the fifth child, but I can give you a way out. If you agree, I can still let you continue to be an elder of the Cao Gang, and you will enjoy endless glory and wealth, and you can be stable in your old age. But if you don't agree, it will be the end of the body in a different place and the corpse in the wilderness! ”

Han Changyan wasn't too frightened, he just followed Ye Wenhe's words and asked, "What does the helper want me to do?" ”

In a short time, he left the gang leader's room calmly, as he had done many times before, but a huge wave had already stirred up in his heart.

He pondered over and over again, was what the helper said true? Is it true that your side has lost the game? Can the helper do that? If he had said yes, would he have kept his promise?

And today's arrival of Cao Sijin, a remark that he thought had stabilized the morale of the army, gave Han Changyan the answer he wanted.

He thought about it for a long time, and quietly made up his mind a plan.

——

As the core of the Cao Gang, the wharf in Chuning County has countless ships.

The river is bursting, the lights are dim, and these boats in the night are natural places to do things.

On one of the big ships, Cao Sijin sat in the middle of the cabin, his eyes swept over, and in front of him were more than a dozen young and strong men, most of whom were in their twenties and thirties, and they were the most aggressive and impulsive, and they were also the people who were most easily bewitched by him.

These people are all the young Zhuang faction in the gang that he has trained and cultivated over the years, and they all admire and respect them very much, and they are also the foundation of his power in the Cao Gang.

"Are you all there?"

A man sitting first on his left hand spoke respectfully, "Elder! Except for five or six who were still on the water and didn't come back, they all arrived! ”

Cao Sijin snorted, "That's good!" It's a big deal to suddenly call you over today and disturb your fun and rest! ”

Although everyone had expected it, when they heard this, their expressions were all awe-inspiring.

"Elder! What's the matter with him, you command, whoever dares to stop in front, we will run him over! ”

"Yes!"

Before he could open his mouth, a few people shouted in a hurry.

This kind of unorderly scene actually annoyed Cao Sijin, but if he wanted to use these young people, he could only tolerate them temporarily, so he reached out and pressed it, slowly calming down the atmosphere of the crowd, "Here's the thing. ”

"Previously, we killed a few corrupt officials who had been bullying our Cao Gang for a long time and committed heinous crimes, which made the brothers speak out fiercely, and also shocked those officials and bullies along the way who had always oppressed us, in exchange for peace on the way. However, this matter attracted the dog officials of the imperial court, who wanted to verify the matter, arrest the righteous people, and accompany those dog officials to the funeral! ”

"Fuck it! He dares! ”

"You want me to say! Just kill the dog official too! ”

"That is, if Lao Tzu dares to kill one, he will dare to kill the second! Directly kill the sky, the emperor, let's do it for the elders! ”

Listening to the shouting again, Cao Sijin, who was interrupted from casting spells, was very helpless, so he hurriedly said: "Don't talk about that yet, listen to me!" ”

When the cabin was quiet again, Cao Sijin continued: "Everyone also knows that the gang leader has always had a great opinion of me, and he wants to get rid of me as soon as possible. But we are on the side of justice, and we are united in the same boat, and there is nothing we can do to help the leader, so we can only sit and watch us grow stronger. But now it's different, Qin is here, and he has confidence! ”

"The Qin mission wants to investigate the cases of the death of those dog officials, and to arrest the murderers; The gang wants to seize power and clean us up, they are like adulterers and adulteresses, they hit it off, and they are embarrassed! ”

He looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "Now, they have arrested a group of thieves, and they want to frame us through their confessions!" In this way, I and all of you here can be arrested, and I will use the blood all over the ground and the heads of people to consolidate his position as the leader of the gang, and use that dog official as a ladder for promotion and fortune! ”

"The gang leader is so confused that he actually does such a fratricidal thing!"

"Yes, no matter how we say it, they are all helpers, they are all brothers who have drunk blood wine together, how can he, as the leader of the gang, be like this!"

"Fuck! How could there be such a thing? Elder, is this true? ”

"Of course!" Cao Sijin snorted coldly, "Didn't you receive the news that the all-gang meeting would be held in three days?" Think about it, what kind of gang meeting is there for no reason now? ”

"It's not okay to help the master do this! I'll go talk to him! ”

"Let's go!"

"Save it! Do you think that the things that the helper and the Qincha have decided together can be changed with your words? ”

"What then? Do you just watch? ”

"What's the hurry? The elders have called us, can we still have no idea? ”

Cao Sijin looked at the person who spoke lastly, and even felt a little grateful in his heart, there are not many people with such brains under his hands, and he has to reuse it when he goes back.

He said in a deep voice: "The matter is actually not complicated, whether the helper is bewitched, persecuted, or simply active, in short, we must not let them succeed!" ”

He looked at everyone, "We have spent so much effort, so much effort, and even the lives of many brothers in exchange for the consciousness of so many people in the gang today, are we going to watch our efforts be ruined like this?" ”

"It was not easy for us to gather so many like-minded people, everyone worked hard together, struggled together, and only then did we have the momentum of the current prosperity, do we want to kill the neck, let those cowardly and incompetent people who are in the position of vegetarian food, regain power?"

"Now that the world is so bad, we have finally swept out a pure land, so that our wives and children and parents can start to live a stable and worry-free life. Will you agree to such an ending? ”

"No!"

"Never!"

Everyone was successfully incited to be enthusiastic, shouting, to support the five elders, to set things right, and to revive the world!

Cao Sijin's heart was settled, and he slapped the table with a resolute face, "Okay!" It's good that everyone has this heart! For the next three days, we will gather the rest of the brothers together, and when the time comes, let them see our unity and strength! ”

"Good!"

Everyone stomped their feet in unison, the hull of the ship rippled slightly, and the low roar gradually dissipated after spreading like ripples in the night, until there was no trace.

——

At this moment, in the county jail, all the former prisoners have been transferred to the other side, and the gang of outlaws in the prime minister's mansion are scattered in four or five adjacent cells.

In this rancid and filthy prison, wearing heavy shackles, many men who followed Mr. Yuan couldn't help but feel remorse.

felt that he shouldn't have been tempted to come to Longshou Prefecture in the first place, and he hid in the east, but he didn't do anything, but he was wiped out.

This day is too far from following Childe at the beginning.

At this time, they also remembered that the eight horses directly under Gongzi had died and there were still six left.

Mr. Yuan, as one of the Eight Horses, if Gongzi's arrangements were really in Longshou Prefecture, why didn't the other five adults follow?

Just when they were thinking about it, Mr. Yuan, who had been sitting still, said lightly: "Everyone, don't think about it now, our first priority right now is to get out of trouble." ”

Someone couldn't help but mutter: "It's all like this, what kind of sleepiness are you still getting!" ”

Mr. Yuan knew that his "rule" was in a precarious situation, and he didn't dare to get angry, so he could only patiently explain: "At present, the situation of the Cao Gang and Xia Jingyun is unstable, the Cao Gang has the opposition led by the five elders, and there is Xiao Zhoumu in Longshou Prefecture. Don't think about confessing to the crime, once we confess, we will be useless, that is our real death period. ”

Everyone is not stupid, and so is the thought of it.

A man asked, "But we've all been locked up for two days, and we haven't been interrogated, so what if they forget about us?" Or do people simply don't know how important we are? ”

Everyone was stunned, this is also true!

But before they could discuss, the door outside the prison was opened, and several jailers walked in and said coldly: "Lord Qincha personally interrogated, you gang of chaotic ministers and thieves, one by one, be honest with Lao Tzu!" ”

As he spoke, he casually ordered someone, "You, come out!" ”

The man glanced coldly at the little jailer, who had once been nothing more than an ant to him, motionless.

"Hey! You fuck you! ”

The jailer picked up the stick directly.

Mr. Yuan, who was in the next cell, spoke at this time, "Go ahead, remember what we just said." ”

When the man heard this, he slowly got up and walked out of the prison door hunched.

The jailer was furious and smashed a stick on his back.

The man glared angrily, and the fierce eyes that had killed many people made the jailer who was a fox and a tiger frightened in an instant.

In the interrogation room at this moment, Xia Jingyun and Bai Yunbian sat at the table together.

Bai Yunbian was a little worried, "I sent someone to secretly watch, this group of thieves has been coming in for two days, they don't shout or make trouble, they don't seem to be panicking at all, it's not easy to dig out the inside story from them, can you do it?" ”

Xia Jingyun smiled and said, "If it's okay, you will only know if you try it!" If that's what I guessed, they're not scared by idle means. ”

Bai Yunbian said in a low voice: "You want to use the previous method to deal with those Baihualou guards?" ”

"That doesn't really work for them." Xia Jingyun shook his head, "I thought of another way." ”

Immediately, he heard the movement outside, "Okay, don't say anything, just look at it." ”

Soon, a prisoner was brought over, looking up at forty-five degrees with a stubborn face. Roof.

As expected, the kind of torture to extract confessions did not come as expected.

The minister, who was too handsome and too young, simply asked calmly, "Where did you come from?" ”

He didn't care, and his forty-five degree looking up posture was still stubborn.

"If you don't even want to cooperate with this kind of thing, you don't plan to recruit at all?"

He still didn't pay attention, still looking up, but felt his neck stiffen a little.

Xia Jingyun sighed, "Okay, then take it down!" ”

"Huh? No? "That man is stunned, is it so easy?

The two guards brought by Xia Jingyun personally took the man down, but instead of returning to the prison, he walked out from the other direction.

Then, Xia Jingyun nodded at Chen Fugui, who scooped out a spoonful of hot pig blood from the bucket that had been prepared long ago next to him and sprinkled it on the ground in a very professional shape.

Although Xia Jingyun didn't know why it was like this, he knew that with Chen Fugui's experience, others would not be able to see the flaws.

Then he called two jailers, "Do you remember what I told you?" ”

The jailer nodded, and Xia Jingyun asked one of his guards to follow them.

Hearing the cell door open again, the men in the prison were also stunned.

A man couldn't help but speak: "So fast? ”

"Lord Qincha has a lot of opportunities, where is there so much spare time to spend with you! If you want to recruit, you can recruit it, and if you don't recruit it, you can cut it directly, do you still keep it for you to grind slowly? How important do you think you are? You come out! ”

He pointed at one casually, and the man who was pointed at suddenly felt a little afraid to get up, and was forcibly dragged out by the jailer.

When he came to the interrogation room, he smelled a thick smell of blood when he entered the room, and he saw that the shape had really been beheaded on the spot.

He swallowed his saliva and sat down in his chair, not daring to put on a forty-five degree stubbornness like the previous one.

Xia Jingyun opened his mouth and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

He thought about it, and finally chose to bow his head and remain silent.

After all, they are all men who lick blood from the knife edge, and they are not so easily intimidated.

Xia Jingyun was also straightforward, and he didn't even want to ask the second question, "Don't recruit it, let's go down!" ”

The man trembled, and was about to die generously, but found that he had been stuffed with rags in his mouth and taken down.

Seeing Chen Fugui spilling pig blood again, Bai Yunbian frowned, "Can you do this?" ”

Xia Jingyun shrugged his shoulders, "I can only try, I don't believe that these dozen or so people are so tough." ”

Then the jailer brought two more men in quick succession.

It's almost the same situation, the other party didn't recruit, but the difference is that for the fourth person, Xia Jingyun deliberately talked for a long time, and then asked the jailer to call the fifth.

The jailer came to the cell, "Do you know why that one lasted so long?" People recruited, Lord Qincha directly released people, what should you do, think about it yourself, whether you are in a different place, or from now on, don't think that Lord Qincha is easy to provoke! You! Come out! ”

When another person was taken away, Mr. Yuan looked at the few remaining companions and said in a deep voice: "Don't listen to his nonsense, Xia Jingyun will never dare to kill so indiscriminately, they must be intimidating us." ”

Everyone was silent, already in the midst of the departure and non-return of their companions, and they were extremely nervous.

As soon as he finished speaking, the jailer actually came again, shaking his head as he spoke, "It seems that it is another head cutoff, come, it's your turn!" ”

The guard, who had been following the jailer, pointed to a man who was huddled in the far corner, and the jailer shouted, and escorted him to the interrogation room.

As soon as the man entered, he saw that on the night they were captured, a man overturned several of their killing gods, and with a large knife in his hand, cut off the heads of his acquaintances.

The headless corpse fell to the ground, blood gushing out.

The head of the man who had drunk with him yesterday fell lonely in a pool of blood and spun around a few times.

He looked at the blood stains under his feet that were so thick that they were a little sticky, and instantly his heart collapsed, and he knelt on his knees, "Don't kill me!" I'm recruiting! I'm recruiting! ”

(End of chapter)