"It's too far-fetched to put the charge on the head of the lower officials just by talking, right? Sect Master Wei, do you really think that you are the only one in this court? Is it black or white, just by your mouth? It's ridiculous. Zhou Yu bowed proudly and said coldly: "Although Sect Master Wei is the top boss of the lower officials, the lower officials are not afraid to tell you that the lower officials are not soft persimmons, if you insist on pouring dirty water on the lower officials, the lower officials will fight with you even if they use their mantis arms as a car." ”

Zhou Yu and Li De lit the * used for mining, and saw with their own eyes that the mine cave and the building where the imperial doctor was waiting collapsed, so they dared to go down the mountain to report the news. Knowing that the accounts of the mine were dead and unproven, Zhou Yu naturally straightened his waist when he spoke, and he was confident.

Yuan Xi saw that he was talking strangely and hard, and a lot of disgust sprouted in his heart. In the imperial court, in addition to the prince's party, only Xiao Rongshen's and the prince's party remained. He, Zhou Yu, used to be the governor of Donglin Prefecture, so he naturally belonged to the old faction.

Yuan Xi snorted disappreciably: "Lord Zhou is really bold." Yuan Xi glanced at him awe-inspiringly: "Why are you fighting with this sect master?"

"The lower official relied on a rational word. Zhou Yu sneered: "Sect Master Wei opened a mansion in Donglin, it is nothing more than to imagine that he is as majestic as the Shangguan Mansion in the past, but now there are still lower officials in Donglin Prefecture, and the sect master feels that my government has taken away your power, and his heart will naturally be unhappy, this is human nature." The sect master looks at the lower official unpleasantly, and the lower official is hiding from you, but the sect is mainly insisting on planting, even if the lower official has no hole cards, and this cheap life, he will definitely accompany him to the end. ”

These words were quite harsh, and even Mother Zhong couldn't listen to them anymore, so she said sharply: "You are bold! slander the sect master, do you know what the crime is?"

Zhou Yu's face turned pale: "You are bold!"

Mother Zhong was stunned, and Zhou Yu continued: "You are just a slave in the Sect Master's Mansion, what qualifications do you have to show off your power here? You are just relying on the power of the Sect Master Wei, hmph, ride the princely grade ochre chariot and horse with the master, and swagger through the market." Don't mention this, this official is an official of the imperial court, what qualifications do you have to scold? This official wants to ask the sect master, what crime should this arrogant slave and maid be guilty of?"

"You!" Mother Zhong glared at Zhou Yu, unable to say a word.

"Master Zhou, you are really getting more and more presumptuous. Yuan Xi pulled Mother Zhong to his side, and said with a needle hidden in the middle: "As the saying goes, if you don't look at the face of the monk, you can see the face of the Buddha, this Mother Zhong has served the prince for many years, and it can be said that she grew up watching the prince." If this sect master is not mistaken, a maid with combed hair in the palace of the Queen Mother went out of the palace and returned home, but you, Lord Zhou, personally purchased the mansion and respectfully invited the maid into the courtyard. Why, this attitude is different from the past? Could it be that in the heart of Lord Zhou, the prince is not as good as the queen mother, and he is not worthy of your respectful treatment?"

The corners of Zhou Yu's lips twitched: "Xia Guan is an official of the imperial court, how can he please welcome a maid who combs his hair? That must be someone deliberately ruining my reputation, how can the sect master believe this kind of market rumor?"

"Rumors in the market?" Yuan Xi shook his head three times slowly: "This is what the sixth master said, what's the matter? Lord Zhou means that the sixth master is framing you?"

Zhou Yu's face gradually turned pale, and he couldn't see any blood at all. His master Xiao Rongshen is a prince, and the sixth master is also a prince, and he is the prince of the queen's concubine, so his identity is naturally much more noble than his master. Zhou Yu didn't dare to speak too presumptuously, so he could only hold back his anger in his heart.

When Mother Zhong saw that he had become a soft persimmon, she also turned around and snorted disdainfully.

"Bullying the weak and fearing the hard. After she muttered, she raised her eyes to look up the mountain, and she didn't know how Tu Bo'an had dug and whether she could save a few alive.

Tu Boan led his troops to dig outside the mine for two hours, but the mountain collapsed too badly, and the boulders blocked the entrance to the mine. Tu Bo'an felt that his scalp was numb, the cave was so palm-sized space, how much qi could there be in it? More than a hundred or so people were trapped in it, even if they were not stoned to death, they would be suffocated to death in a short time.

"My lord, the brick house over there has been dug up. "A soldier ran to report.

Tu Bo'an rushed to the ruins of the tiled house in three steps and two steps: "Can you find the bones of Imperial Doctor Wang?"

The soldiers shook their heads: "There is no one in this room. ”

Tu Boan snorted: "How come?"

The soldiers replied in a non-chalant manner: "Captain Huitu, there is indeed no one, although this house has collapsed, it will not smash people into powder, right?" The subordinates have turned over twice, and there is not even a single figure. ”

Tu Boan was in a trance, he rubbed his temples, and the great sorrows and joys of life came unexpectedly, Tu Boan grinned. So, Imperial Physician Wang is still alive?

Tu Boan stretched out his hand and nodded: "Send fifty people to search the mountain, no matter what, we must also find the imperial doctor!"

Tu Boan's fifty people walked down the mountain along some inconspicuous paths, and coldly bumped into the ambush set by Zhou Yu. The officials sent by Zhou Yu to ambush did not receive any orders to retreat, and they all squatted stupidly in the grass on the side of the road. The mountain was shaking just now, and these people did not know where they were, but in a moment they saw about fifty people in armor coming down from the mountain. Seeing this, the officials naturally thought that something had happened to Lord Zhou, so they jumped out one after another and drew their swords at each other.

Tu Bo'an's soldiers were not vegetarians, so they handed over these waste snacks in three or two clicks and pressed them to the ground.

"What about the bandits?"

"Forget it, what's the use of keeping him for the things that robbed the house?"

"It's fine. ”

After saying "It's okay", more than a dozen soldiers raised their sabers one after another, and were startled by the officials pressed on the ground, and hurriedly revealed their identities: "Who are the bandits! We are all officials of the Donglin Mansion, do you dare to do it?"

"Official, nonsense, how can the official dress like this?"

The servants who were pressed to the ground refused to accept and took out their respective waist cards from their arms.

"Is it really the official of the Donglin Mansion?" Tu Boan's subordinates were a little confused, but after all, they had followed Tu Boan for a long time and knew the temper of the captain. Captain Tu couldn't rub the slightest sand in his eyes, if he knew that the officials of the Donglin Mansion had set up robbers to ambush them halfway, he would definitely lose his temper. Captain Tu despises this kind of fly camp dog thing the most, and he also takes eradicating clutter as a joy in life. In any case, just take the people back to the mountain and hand them over to Captain Tu for disposal.

The fifty men were divided into two groups, thirty of whom continued to search for the whereabouts of the imperial physician, and twenty of whom were responsible for escorting the servants to Tu Bo'an.

Sure enough, when Tu Boan saw these fake bandits, he was angry and didn't fight anywhere. I didn't feel like it was fun to kick one down, so I scolded: "A group of inferior things, the court has raised you for you, not to make you a bandit and a common man!"

After Tu Boan finished scolding, he suddenly remembered that they were Zhou Yu's subordinates. Removing the anger, a little joy emerged. The servants rubbed their shoulders that were kicked painfully, looked at Tu Boan inexplicably, and thought to themselves that this Captain Tu was not a nervous disorder?

"Lord Captain, what should you do with these people?"

Tu Boan snorted: "Escort them to the sect master, the sect master has his own discretion." ”

I just climbed up from the halfway up the mountain, and now I have to climb down again, and several government soldiers are so tired that their legs are wooden, but Captain Tu spoke, and they naturally didn't dare to complain. Tu Boan hooked his hand and threw a gold ingot of five taels over: "You have a meritorious service today, take it to drink, and after you return home, you will have a heavy reward." ”

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Zhou Yu looked at the officials of his own mansion and couldn't help but shudder, how could he make such a mistake of being careless and disregarding his own officials? Isn't his own official rushing into the suzerain's mansion tantamount to saying that he Zhou Yu raised troops to rebel against the imperial court?

This crime is not light, Zhou Yu coughed: "How dare you dare to pretend to be bandits and harass the people?"

Several officials were stunned: "My lord, didn't you want us?"

"Shut up!" Li De shouted, "How many of you have done such a rebellious thing, and you dare to slander adults?"

Zhou Yu had a gloomy face, thinking that his servants could have a tacit understanding with him, confessing their guilt and prevaricating on the other, this matter could be deceived in the past. Who would have thought that they would be so open-mouthed that they almost confessed themselves.

When several officials heard this, their hearts became even more flustered, and they kowtowed to Zhou Yu again and again for help: "My lord, my lord, we are all under your orders, the villain still has wives and children in his family, and the villain is wronged!"

Mother Zhong covered her mouth and smiled, it was really impossible to steal chickens and rice.

Zhou Yu glanced at Yuan Xi, and saw that she didn't have any expression, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Sect Master, the lower officials really don't know, these officials don't do things in a proper way, they used to be used to it, and the lower officials used to be confused, and they covered it up for them, but now that they have collided with the people of the Sect Master's Mansion, they are guilty of the following crimes, disobey the court, and the lower officials will no longer dare to deceive." These people are handed over to the suzerain, and the suzerain is left to decide. ”

Yuan Xi didn't look at Zhou Yu, just waved his hand and motioned to his own soldiers to take these officials down.

"Lord Zhou, do you also know that this is a rebellion against the imperial court?"

The air seemed to freeze, and Zhou Yu swallowed his saliva: "Sect Master, what do you mean by this?

"Why can't you believe it?" Yuan Xi turned around and looked at him sharply: "Donglin Mansion is dozens of miles away from the mine, and the people here are poor. Even if the officials oppress the people, they won't go far and come to this place, right? If it's not your Lord Zhou's instructions, who will believe it?"

Li De saw that Zhou Yu's momentum was weakening more and more, and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Sect Master, Lord Zhou has always been loyal to the country and the people, you can't just serve Lord Zhou's pot of good porridge because of these few mouse droppings, right? If the Sect Master doesn't believe it, he can call all the people in the mine and listen to what kind of person Lord Zhou is in their mouths." ”

Yuan Xi gave Li De a cold look: "What kind of person Lord Zhou is, this sect master can't be clearer, why do you need to listen to others? Besides, the words of the officials are one-sided, aren't the words of the people one-sided?"