Li Ling entered Xianyang City, followed the old man's instructions, and went straight to Baifu.

Now a big seal has been affixed on the door of the White Mansion, the lantern at the door has been torn off and thrown on the side of the road, and the street outside the door represents the honor of the Bai family - engraved with "The stone tablet of civil officials getting off the sedan chair and military attachés getting off the horse has also been smashed with heavy objects."

A few days ago, the White Mansion, which was still a beautiful place, was already a mess.

Passers-by whispered, pointed, regretted, gloated, saddened, sighed, and so on.

Li Ling stood at the door of the White Mansion, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, it seems that he has to find a way to save this Bai Sheng, after all, he promised the old guy to protect his descendants, and there is also the binding of the oath. ”

But for a moment, there was something to think of to save people.

When he first arrived, he was unfamiliar with the place, he had no connections at all, and he was like a tiger eating a hedgehog, so he couldn't eat.

But then again, even if he has a way, he is afraid that it is not possible to save people, after all, Bai Sheng committed a great crime of the Nine Clans and was locked up in the prison.

It's a worry.

"Boy, what are you doing here?" Two men on the corner of the street walked over, standing beside Li Ling on the left and right, their footsteps moving, silently blocking his way.

"What?" Li Ling couldn't help frowning when he saw that the two of them had bad intentions.

One of the shorter men said coldly: "My brother has been staring at you for a long time, you are standing here sneaky, I think you are trying to do wrong, I suspect that you are an accomplice of the white thief, collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, hey, boy, come with us!"

"What? Who are you, and what qualifications do you have to say that I am General Bai's accomplice?"

Li Ling sneered, took a step back, and in this step, he had already withdrawn from the encirclement of the two, and said coldly: "Everything must pay attention to evidence, the two of you are so empty and unsubstantiated, just give me a big crime of rebellion, this joke is a bit big, right?"

"What qualifications?" The other man sneered, quickly took out a token from his arms, and shook it in front of Li Ling, "See clearly, boy, we are the black-clothed guards of Daqin, are we qualified, do you want evidence?" ”

The other person took out a handful of iron cuffs and stepped forward to lock Li Ling.

The black-clothed guard is subordinate to the intelligence department of the Qin State, which is equivalent to the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, directly obeying the emperor's orders, responsible for espionage, assassination and other things.

In the past, the black-clothed guards could also be said to be on duty, but after being handed over to the eunuch Zhao Gao in the past two years, the upper beam was not right and the lower beam was crooked, making a miasma.

The capable were squeezed out, and all that was left behind were those who were sloppy and flattering, and they had long lost the original intention of establishing this department.

These two people are spies of the black-clothed guard, who have come to thoroughly investigate General Bai Sheng's collaboration with the enemy and betrayal of the country, and to check whether there are any suspicious characters.

However, in the past few days, the two of them have not found suspicious characters, but they have fished a lot of oil and water.

Today, he set his sights on Li Ling again and treated him as a fat sheep.

It seems that it is time to show real strength.

Li Ling reached into his arms and took out a silver ticket, and the eyes of the two black-clothed guards lit up.

"Little brother, I first arrived, there may be something inconsiderate between the words, offended the two, and asked the two adults not to remember the villain, this silver should be honored to the two. ”

"The kid is quite good!" The shorter black-clothed guard took the silver ticket and stuffed it into his arms, smiled and waved his hand impatiently, "Get out, get out, don't let Lao Tzu catch me again." ”

"Take a look at the whole picture, the officialdom corruption of this Qin State is really outrageous, such small officials will be so greedy, not to mention those big officials, it seems that the Qin State is already terminally ill. Li Ling sighed secretly, did not leave, but took out the token that Li Si gave him at the gate of the city, and said coldly: "Do you recognize this token?"

The two black-clothed guards had a good income today, and they were about to go to Baihualou to have a chic and happy life, when they heard the words and looked back.

"Ah, Prime Minister!"

Li Ling held the token and said lightly: "I was ordered by the prime minister to secretly investigate the cause of Bai Sheng's rebellion, but you two used the name of the black-clothed guard to loot money to fill your pockets, so that even if Bai Sheng had a fellow party, he had already hidden, I said that your credit is not small, I doubt that you have other intentions? Maybe you and Bai Sheng are in the same group, and notify the accomplices in this way." ”

"Ah, my lord, wronged. ”

Now the government of the Qin State is controlled by Li Si and Zhao Gao, and the power is monopolized.

The strength of the two is all over the government and the opposition, and they are in full swing.

However, Zhao Gao is a eunuch, and his influence is naturally not as good as Li Si, the head of the hundred officials, and he is controlled by Li Si.

Although the black-clothed guard has the right to spy on hundreds of officials, compared to Li Si's power, it is a bit of a trivial.

They are not afraid of others, but they are afraid of Li Si.

If the news of their blackmailing of the Prime Minister's Mansion reached Zhao Gao's ears, the leader of the black-clothed guard would definitely kill two of them to appease Li Si's anger.

Thinking of this and listening to Li Ling's words again, the two of them were shocked, and they suddenly sweated like rain.

"Let's go, I'll follow you to the prison, meet your leader, tell him what you two have done, and see how he can explain it to me. Li Ling said with a smile.

"Your Excellency, spare your life. The two black-clothed guards knelt on the ground, "The villain has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai, he has eyes without beads, he has offended adults, and please don't know like the two of us, just let us go as a fart!"

"My lord, there are eighty old mothers in the villain's house, and there are children waiting to be fed, and I am all dependent on me to support the family, so please have mercy on the adults. ”

The two kowtowed, desperately begging for mercy.

Li Ling didn't want to look at the ugliness of the two, and said, "Okay, you guys get up first." ”

The two black-clothed guards stood up tremblingly, took out a stack of silver tickets and stuffed them into Li Ling's hand, "This is a little bit of the villain's heart, and please accept it with a smile." ”

Li Ling stretched out his hand to take it, his heart moved, and he said lightly: "Seeing that you are so good, I don't embarrass you, Bai Sheng is in the black guard, take me to see, I want to interrogate him with some questions."

"This?" The shorter black-clad guard hesitated.

"Don't worry, I said that if I don't pursue it, I won't embarrass you again, why? You don't believe me?" Li Ling looked at him coldly.

"Don't dare, don't dare, please. ”

Li Ling followed the two to the prison guarded by the black-clothed guards, and because there were two people leading the way, the road was unimpeded, and no one dared to come out to embarrass them.

The prison is heavily guarded, with three steps and a sentry, and five steps and a post,

The soldiers are also one in a hundred, and their strength is extraordinary, Li Ling is confident that if he does not have a token and two black-clothed guards to lead, he is afraid that it will be difficult to come in.

The prison was divided into eighteen floors, and the more important the prisoners were and the more heavily guarded they were, but when they went down to the twelfth floor, there was not a single guard guarding them.

"Why is there no soldier guarding this twelve-layer prison?"

Li Ling asked the question in his heart.

The black-clothed guard Tao Ran, that is, the taller man who brought Li Ling here, flattered and said: "My lord doesn't know, the more prisoners are imprisoned in this prison, the more extraordinary they are, those who have the ability and dare to come down here to rob prisoners are masters, ordinary soldiers are no longer their opponents, in order to keep these ordinary soldiers from making senseless sacrifices, they will not send people to guard them." ”

The shorter black-clothed guard said: "But don't think it's easy to get in here, since the twelfth floor, each layer has been guarded by an extremely powerful master, these masters are all selected from all over the world, and a few martial arts masters have volunteered to come in to seek challenges, in the past ten years, no one has successfully descended to the seventeenth floor." ”

"Oh, I see. Li Ling sighed secretly and asked, "I don't know what layer that Bai Sheng is on?"

"Although Bai Sheng is guilty of treason, he is not qualified to enter the eighteenth-floor prison, and is only locked up on the fourteenth floor. Tao Ran said.