Chapter 73: Clearing Grievances and Exploring the Palace
"Thank you for your help, I will make you another pot of fine new tea, just as a reward. ”
Hearing what the shopkeeper said, Liu Erji was naturally very happy, but there should still be politeness, just as the two pushed and gave way, the shopkeeper of the tea shed turned out from behind.
"Alas, you, you!"
The look on his face seemed to be troubled, and after repatriating the guy, he moved a chair and sat in front of Lu Qian and the others.
"Two young heroes, I saw what happened just now, I'm afraid you will get into trouble this time. Before the official army arrives, hurry out of the city and flee for your life!"
"Oh, how do you say that? Could it be that this tyrannical scoundrel is still protected by the imperial court?"
After Liu Erji listened to the shopkeeper's words, his face immediately changed color, not because he was afraid, but because he didn't like to listen to it from the bottom of his heart. It was a good thing to help when Lu saw injustice, but how did he do it, as if he had committed a big sin.
How could a shrewd person like the shopkeeper of the tea shed, who has been in business all year round, fail to see the changes in his heart? He immediately explained: "I don't mean anything else by this, it's all for the sake of you young heroes. Thinking about the person who made trouble just now, I felt familiar at first, but I was old and my brain was not bright, so I didn't remember who it was. ”
Speaking of this, the shopkeeper paused because he was too nervous, took a cup of herbal tea on the table and drank it all, and continued: "Just now when you made a righteous move, Shaoxia, I suddenly thought that this kid turned out to be from Yue Wangfu. Looking at the direction in which he hurriedly ran out, it was also where the Yue Wangfu was located. I'm afraid it's in your hands, and I don't know if I go back to transfer troops. ”
"Ahh......h
Liu Erji listened to the shopkeeper and told him the ins and outs of that person, and he just regarded him as an ordinary minion of the palace. But even so, if the army is really transferred as the shopkeeper said, and as Lu Qian's arrest of key criminals, I am afraid that no one will be able to get out of it at that time.
"It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and we need to leave for the sake of today. ”
Lu Qian listened to it on the sidelines, and got up to take Liu Erji away. What's more, the purpose of this trip was to find clues about Liu Erji's double hammer, but now that they had found nothing and caused trouble, they had to take one step at a time.
Not long after the two of them left, Gongsun Yan led the guards of the fifty princes to enclose a good tea shed.
"The palace will handle the case, arrest and reward repeat offenders, and if anyone knows about it and does not report it, it should be punished as the same crime!"
After some official explanations, Gongsun Yan took the lead in with four saber guards, and the rest of the people stayed in place to guard, not even a single fly was allowed to be spared.
"Where are the two people sitting at that table just now?"
Gongsun Yan raised his eyebrows and asked the shopkeeper of the tea shed in a loud voice. Those hideous eyes, as if they would be killing at any time, made people shudder.
"I ...... I wasn't paying attention. ”
The shopkeeper seemed to be frightened, and his whole body trembled like chaff, and even the words that came out of his mouth were not as smooth as before.
"Nonsense! If you dare not recruit from the truth, beware that I will send you back to this felony of the Nine Clans!"
As soon as he heard that Gongsun Yan began to threaten his family, he had planned to repay the favor, but the tight-lipped shopkeeper's attitude immediately eased.
There is a seventy-year-old mother, a virtuous and filial wife and children, and it is precisely because of these methods that he has achieved the motivation to live in this life. If it is because of his own momentary righteousness that he will cause a catastrophe, it will be something that he will not allow to happen outside of his bottom line.
"This ......"
"Hmm, come on, take this guy down, and then hand it over to the prince when he returns to the house. ”
Seeing that they are going to move seriously, if they don't say something again, I'm afraid the end will be even more miserable. Thinking of this, the shopkeeper shouted, "Wait! They went out of the city." ”
"Hmph! What a pariah who doesn't shed tears when he doesn't see the coffin, and he is innocent of death. ”
In order to vent the anger in his chest, two loud slaps hit the shopkeeper in the face. This Gongsun Yan is a person who practices martial arts, and he has a lot of strength in his hands, and these few times he fanned down, and suddenly a blood stain gushed out of the shopkeeper's ears.
The shopkeeper and the young man, who have been with him for many years, saw that the owner was injured and was in the emotions of all these years, so they ran over to help and comfort him.
But no matter what they said, the shopkeeper looked at them with wide eyes and a puzzled look as if he hadn't heard them. Looking at this state, most of them were deaf by the wicked person in front of them.
Although he was not angry in his heart, after all, his identities were different, and with the soldiers outside the tea shed, the people like them could never be provoked.
"Destroy this shed for me, and bring the rest back, and the fornication and thieves shall be punished with the same crime. ”
After Gongsun Yan finished speaking, he waved his hand, and two guards led a few soldiers to tie up the shopkeeper of the tea shed and escort him back to the palace.
On the other hand, the rest of the people were led by Gongsun Yan, and they followed the road out of the city, strictly searched and investigated along the way, and even did not let go of the firewood house from house to house.
It is also the will of heaven, originally Lu Qian and the others listened to the advice of the shopkeeper to temporarily go out of the city to avoid the limelight, but suddenly Liu Erji began to have stomach troubles not long after leaving.
There was no way, so I had to follow him to a restaurant to solve the problem first, and after they were done, they happened to stagger the direction with Gongsun Yan's search team.
The people were discussing the matter of the palace leading the crowd to arrest people, and Lu Qian and Liu Erji naturally knew what was going on when they heard the news. In today's situation, if you go outside the city, you are afraid that you will be caught in the net, and you have to find a place to hide for the time being and then find other ways.
The huge city of Yuzhou, where officers and soldiers come and go very closely, it seems that the palace is particularly concerned about the arrest of the two of them. suffered such a grievance in such an unexplained way, and even took the life of his brother Cui Shiyuan, the more he thought about it, the more unpleasant Lu Qian suddenly had an idea in his heart.
"Brother Liu, now that you and I have become the key criminals arrested by the palace, instead of suffering this injustice, it is better to go to the palace tonight to find out these things, what do you think?"
"Uh...... It's good, but I don't have the weapon in my hand, and I always feel like I don't know the bottom of my heart. This is uncertain, but I'm afraid that it will drag you down when the time comes. ”
"It's okay, our trip is to find out the situation, not to go to war. Once we find out the ins and outs of the matter and give us justice, all misunderstandings will naturally be resolved at that time. ”
After discussing for a while, Liu Erji and Lu Qian reached a consensus and agreed to visit the palace tonight to clear their grievances. But they didn't know that in the well-guarded palace, there were many murderous opportunities in ambush.