Huaishui ferry outside Huainan Mansion, after this place, is the territory of Fengyin Mansion, there is a restaurant here, for merchants to stay and eat on weekdays, business is good.

It's just that the store is really not big, far inferior to the Taiping Inn, so the shopkeeper, buddy, and cook of the entire inn are all the shopkeepers, and they are busy on weekdays, and they have to stay up until late to close. But today is a little abnormal, before dusk, it has already closed early, collected the flag on the front pole, and went to the door panel.

But if you get closer, you can still faintly see the light in the store through the gap in the door panel.

At this time, an oil lamp was lit on the table in the center of the store, and the four of them sat around the table.

Among them, sitting in front of the door was a fat man, dressed plainly, with a businessman's smile on his face, most likely the shopkeeper here. However, at this time, the shopkeeper seemed to be very nervous, and there were constant beads of sweat rolling down his forehead and sideburns, so that he had to wipe his sweat with a handkerchief from time to time, which looked quite funny.

Sitting opposite him was a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, wearing a Tsing Yi official uniform, looking at the patterns and patterns, he was actually a member of the imperial court of the third grade, at this age, it was really a little terrifying. This person is quite handsome, but his face is gloomy at this time, faintly revealing a bit of iron and blue, it is Zhao Yong, the commander of Qingluanwei who escaped twice from Li Xuandu and Shen Changsheng in the Taiping Inn.

On the left hand side of Zhao Yong sat an elegant man, who looked about his age, dressed in a stone blue regular clothes, with three strands of long hair and long hair, and his black hair was tied up by a hosta. His expression was peaceful, his eyes were half-lowered, and he gently flicked a string of Taoist beads made of jade in his hand, which made people unable to see through what he was thinking.

On Zhao Yong's right hand side is an old man, wearing a coarse cloth clothes, like an old farmer in the countryside, who looks quite old, has white hair and hair, and has ravines and ravines on his face, but between his eyes opening and closing, he is full of light, making people realize that this old man who looks like he is about to rot is just looking. At this time, he was holding a slender iron needle and teasing the lamp grass in the oil lamp, and his expression was focused and serious, as if he didn't care about everything.

The middle-aged man surnamed Gu with an elegant temperament is named Gu Fengxian, and he is the commander of Luzhou Qingluanwei, but compared to Zhao Yong, a colleague, it is not the same, because he has made a lot of meritorious deeds in the past few years, although it is not enough to be promoted, but his rank has been raised from the second rank, plus he has deep qualifications, the Governor's Mansion has already revealed the rumors, and he will be promoted to the Governor Tongzhi from the second rank in two years.

The old man's surname is Bai, his name is Bai Chouqiu, he is the governor of Qingluan Weidu from the imperial capital, in the Qingluan Weidu Governor's Mansion, he is responsible for the Chuzhou Division, but after the Qian Xing who was in charge of the Luzhou Division died violently, he temporarily took over the affairs of the Luzhou Division, so strictly speaking, he is the principal of the four people present at this time.

As for the shopkeeper here, although he is also from Qingluan Weizhong, he is only a commander of the four products, and he has the lowest official position among the four.

It's the end of summer now, and after a heavy rain, the heat has cleared a little, but in such a room with closed doors and windows, it is still a little stuffy. It's just that the atmosphere in the store at this time is gloomy and frightening, especially the four Qingluan guards are all silent, which makes people a little breathless.

After a long time, Bai Chouqiu, the oldest old man, finally stopped playing with the lamp grass, and slowly spoke: "Qian Xing is dead, a dignified governor of the three grades, plus dozens of captains, two commanders and a commander, all died in battle. How many years has it been since such a loss occurred? When the news reached Kyori, even the Governor was shocked. ”

Now that the old man has spoken, the others have to speak, Zhao Yong's lips moved, and he said hatefully: "If I knew this, I should have gotten rid of the scourge of Zhou Tingchao when I was in Jiangzhou." ”

Gu Fengxian glanced at him, a touch of contempt for this young colleague flashed in his eyes, and said slowly: "Anyway, Zhou Tingchao is an official of the imperial court after all, a feudal official from the second grade, and the teacher is Sun Songchan, the first assistant of the current cabinet, in what name do we use to get rid of him?" Even if he writes disobedience, after shaking the government and the opposition, it is the Qin case, although we Qingluanwei have the right to handle the Qin case, but we have not yet had the power to execute the prisoner privately before the Qin case was approved, if you kill Zhou Tingchao when you were in Jiangzhou, this matter will be stabbed to the imperial court, and the Qingliu between the government and the opposition will make a big fuss about this matter, and even involve the queen mother, I am afraid that even the governor is very passive, and at that time, how many heads do you have to cut off?"

Zhao Yong was speechless for a moment.

Gu Fengxian continued: "The reason why Lord Qian chose to kill Zhou Tingchao in Huainan Mansion is because someone robbed the prisoner at this time, and when the court asked about it afterwards, there was also a cover to avoid the crime, and the blame could be put on those who robbed the prisoners, after all, our Qingluanwei also died a lot of people, and even we could take advantage of this incident to set off another big prison and wipe out Zhou Tingchao's comrades." ”

Gu Fengxian has a somewhat special status among these four people. Among the four, Bai Chouqiu is the leader, but Gu Fengxian is also a person who is expected to be promoted to the governor of Tongzhi, so in addition to facing Bai Chouqiu, he can still have some respect, but he is unapologetic to the other two.

After Zhao Yong heard this, his face turned red, and he didn't know whether he was ashamed or angry.

The old man said indifferently: "Things have already happened, and people are already dead, so there is no point in talking about these things." ”

Gu Fengxian no longer pulled the beads in his hand, and said softly: "Although Zhou Tingchao is dead, the loss this time is indeed appalling. The right governor who is in charge of the affairs of the Jiangbei Divisions is very angry about this, and strictly orders our local Qingluanwei to hold the murderer accountable, and even Zhou Tingchao's daughter, he can't let it go, but how to arrest the murderer, or ask the lord to make a charter. ”

The old man glanced at the three of them, pondered for a moment and said: "The identity of the gang of prisoners has been ascertained, the first two are the disciples of the Zhengyi Sect and the Cihang Sect, since the change of the emperor in the second year of Tianbao, the six sects headed by the Zhengyi Sect are proud of their achievements, and gradually centrifuge with the Queen Mother, but they are very closely connected with the King of Jin, this time the Zhengyi Sect and the Cihang Sect made a move, although they are only two outer disciples who do not enter the stream, but they can also see a few clues, but at this time, the two sects are powerful, and we are not good at touching them,"

"As for the inn, the official has also sent someone to check, it has been ten years at the foot of the Taiping Mountain, according to Zhao Yong, the inn's running hall teenagers can have the cultivation of the Dan realm, but anyone with a little brain, can understand one thing, this Taiping Inn may have a lot to do with the Taiping Sect on the Taiping Mountain, the Taiping Sect has a transcendent status in the twelve sects of the righteous path, and has never asked about the world, even the change of the imperial capital of the year, the Taiping Sect has not participated in it, so we are not good to rashly provoke the people of the Taiping Sect. ”

In this way, only the charlatan who does not know the root is left. And according to the aftermath, this person is indeed the culprit of this matter, that is, he killed Qian Xing and took away Zhou Tingchao's daughter Zhou Shuning. ”

Bai Chouqiu paused for a moment, and said lightly: "Just use this person's head to give an account to Lord Dudu." ”