The twelfth round: the calculation is the calculation

Cunyi thanked Zou County Ling for his kindness, promised to stay in his house for a few days, the next day he had breakfast, Zou County Ling called the little servant Agui, and ordered him to take Cunyi to walk around outside, appreciate the local beautiful landscapes, customs and customs.

The two went out of the house, and Agui told Cunyi that the most beautiful place in Nanping was Wuyi Mountain, where the trees were shady, the clear streams were murmuring, and there were many strange flowers and plants.

After listening to Agui's speech, Cunyi's heart was moved, and he walked quickly in front, constantly urging Agui to go faster.

After a period of trekking, they finally came to the foot of Wuyi Mountain, Cunyi looked up, saw the clouds and mist on the top of the mountain in the distance, the rui qi soared, and the mouth kept admiring.

Ah Gui smiled at Cunyi: "If you want to reach the top of the mountain, it is not easy, you need to spend a lot of effort. Cunyi knew that Ah Gui was testing his endurance, he had also herded sheep on the hillside since he was a child, and now it was a good opportunity to show his advantages, how could he miss it.

Then Cunyi said to Ah Gui: "Let's try our foot strength and see who gets to the top of the mountain first." ”

Agui replied: "Seeing that you are so thin and weak, and you are not as familiar with this mountain as me, do you really want to compete with me?"

Cunyi nodded, and Ah Gui said, "If you lose when the time comes, don't deny it." ”

Cunyi said: "Once the word is spoken, the horse is difficult to chase. ”

After the two finished speaking, they quickly climbed to the top of the mountain, although Cunyi was thin, but he was not inferior in foot strength, and ran all the way along the winding mountain road. Agui, who was long in this place, did not take any advantage in the mountaineering that he thought he had an advantage, and he lost in mentality, and his pace slowed down significantly. When Cunyi climbed to the top of the mountain, it took a long time to see Agui's figure.

Cunyi shouted loudly on the top of the mountain, but his face did not change, and Agui was convinced by this. He suddenly burst out laughing, and Cunyi asked him why he was laughing?

Agui replied: "The two of us climbed up desperately, but we didn't decide what the bet was, you said it's ridiculous." ”

As soon as these words came out, Cunyi was also happy. The two of them enjoyed the tour on the top of the mountain, and saw that in the crevices of the rocks, there was a kind of tree growing, the trunk was as thick as a bowl, and the branches and leaves were green like jade.

He said to Ah Gui, "This is a rock tea tree?"

Ah Gui nodded and said, "Childe is very knowledgeable, and this tree is indeed a rock tea tree." ”

"The strange tea by the stream crowns the world, and the Wuyi immortals have planted it since ancient times. ”

Cunyi recited Fan Zhongyan's poem, gently stroked the tea tree with his hand, born in such a harsh environment as a rock crevice, but also showed vigorous vitality, the tea tree gave Cunyi a lot of inspiration.

Seeing Cunyi standing by the tree in a daze, Agui thought that he was uncomfortable, so he walked up to him and asked. Cunyi only came to his senses at this time, and the two went to visit elsewhere. Gradually, the sun was setting, and the two were about to go down the mountain road, but they faintly saw a team of people rushing up the mountain halfway up the mountain.

The two of them hurriedly hid behind the rocks, and when the group reached the top of the mountain, it was already dark and sinking, and one of them was talking something that he didn't understand.

Cunyi asked Agui, who are these people? Ah Gui replied tremblingly, "Wako." ”

Why was Agui so scared when he heard the Japanese Kou? Cunyi was thinking in his heart,

Agui was frightened, but unconsciously shouted "ah".

The killers immediately became alert, and the leader ordered one person to rush to the side of the mountain rock, and as the footsteps got closer and closer, Cunyi could hear his heartbeat nervously.

What to do? At this time, Cunyi found a crow's nest in a tall tree on the edge of the cliff, and he picked up a stone and threw it at it. The crow crowed, flapped its wings and flew away. The killer looked up at the crow flying in the distance, turned and walked back.

"Hmph, it turned out to be a crow, and it made all the grass and trees. The killer said secretly in his heart.

The killers went down the mountain road, and Cunyi hurriedly asked Agui if he had brought a rope? Of course, Agui knew the role of ropes in the mountains, so he took out a thick hemp rope from his bosom, and Cunyi wrapped one end of the rope around the trunk of the tree on the edge of the cliff and tied it into a dead knot. Then he said to Ah Gui: "Time is pressing, let's quickly climb to the bottom of the cliff and inform Lord Zou of the situation here." ”

Cunyi wrapped his hands around several circles of thin vines to prevent his palms from being cut when his body fell. Cunyi went down first, and Agui followed to the bottom of the cliff, Cunyi explained a few words in Agui's ear, and Agui ran towards the coastal defense outpost.

Immediately afterwards, Cunyi ran all the way back to Zou Mansion. Seeing that Cunyi looked nervous, Lord Zou hurriedly asked what happened, and Cunyi told Lord Zou about the encounter with the killer in the mountain.

Zou Weilian listened to Cunyi's narration, his expression was calm, he knew that he had offended many people by being an official and upright in the past few years, and the traitors wanted to put him to death.

Cunyi told Lord Zou that these killers were widows.

Lord Zou pondered for a while, and then said to Cunyi: "I have just struck them not long ago, and these thieves are so frightened that they will not dare to act rashly, and besides, I have set up patrol posts on the coast, and there are dark bells under the water, and when I touch them, I can sound an alarm, and when the sentry hears the enemy's news, they will send out arrows to notify me." ”

Cunyi said to Zou Weilian: "After listening to the adult's story, I have answered the mystery in my heart, since the Japanese have come to harm the adult, they should first solve the coastal defense soldiers, change into their clothes, or hide nearby, it is unreasonable to sneak into the mountains, the mountain road is dangerous and difficult to walk at night, and there is a danger of falling if you are not careful." What's more, the march of the brigade needs torches, and these bright fires are too eye-catching on the mountain at night. ”

Lord Zou patted Cunyi's shoulder and said, "The virtuous nephew's analysis is very reasonable, it seems that someone is pretending to be a widow and wants to harm Zou." ”

Cunyi said to Zou Weilian: "Lord Zou, since we have insight into the conspiracy of the thieves, let's give him a plan." ”

Lord Zou asked Cunyi how to arrange it? Cunyi whispered in Lord Zou's ear, and the adult nodded again and again.

The night is getting more and more solemn, everyone in the house has gone to bed, only Lord Zou is still reading at night in the study. Taking advantage of the dark night, more than a dozen killers climbed over the wall and infiltrated the mansion, and they approached the study with steel knives in their hands.

The killers had just passed through the porch, and the family members who had been in ambush for a long time pulled the ropes, and several killers' feet were tripped by the ropes and hung upside down on the porch one by one.

The rest of the killers were about to turn around and run away, but Cunyi led the trappers to cast their nets on them, and then tightened them hard. The killers in the net wielded their knives to fight the trapped beasts, and Cunyi ordered the family members to knock these killers out with sticks.

The plan went very smoothly, and none of the Assassins who infiltrated were caught. Cunyi suggested that Zou County order strike while the iron was hot, arrange a night trial, and find out the mastermind behind the scenes.

Although these killers were arrested, they knew that Zou Weilian's true intention was to find out the culprit, and as long as they didn't confide a word to him, they could save their lives. Moreover, Zou County's order is a clean official, and he will not torture to extract confessions.

The thieves were extremely slippery, and secretly set up an offensive and defensive alliance, and Zou Xian ordered the interrogation of several people to nothing. Seeing that Lord Zou couldn't pry open the mouth of the villain, Cunyi said to Zou County: "Lord Zou, these assassins were captured in your mansion, and I am a witness, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, I am guilty of murdering the court officials and full of people." Please Lord Zou play the Holy Grace and punish these thieves to death to correct the law of the country. ”

Zou Weilian nodded when he heard this, these killers heard that they were going to be full of trouble, so they confessed one after another, and Lord Zou ordered them to sign confessions and lock them in prison.

After obtaining the incriminating evidence, Zou Weilian wrote a notebook and sent it to Beijing on a starry night gallop.

The killer who attacked the coastal defense outpost was also taken down by Cunyi's design, and the thieves saw that the matter was exposed, and pushed the boat into the sea in an attempt to escape. But the ship had already been pierced, and it sank rapidly in the middle of the sea, and some of the killers who abandoned the ship and fled for their lives were buried in the sea, and some were captured by the patrol and waterproof soldiers.

After the cabinet presented Zou Weilian's recital to Xizong, Xizong was furious when he knew that Tian Ergeng and Wu Chunfu were going to murder the imperial court officials, and ordered the two to be removed from their posts, and ordered Jinyiwei to arrest the two quickly, and execute them on the spot if they resisted.

After Wei Zhongxian heard the news, he persuaded Xizong to temporarily calm the anger of the thunder, he told Xizong that everything was a private gambling house set up by Wu Chunfu's nephew, which was seized by Zou County, Wu Si held a grudge and instructed Sun Ermao and others to pretend to be Japanese criminals, intending to kill people with a knife and murder Zou County.

Xizong listened to Wei Zhongxian's account and said to him, "Aiqing can investigate this matter clearly?"

Wei Zhongxian said: "The minister has long heard that Wu Si is harming the local people under the banner of his uncle, so he specially sent Tian Ergeng to secretly investigate this matter. It has now been verified that everything is Wu Si's idea and has nothing to do with others. ”

Xizong ordered Wu Si Lingchi to be executed, Tian Ergeng was rewarded for his meritorious investigation, Wu Chunfu did not know about his nephew's crime and remained in his original post, and Zou County ordered to be disturbed by this and gave him 500 taels of gold to show comfort.

Wei Zhongxian tried his best to protect the two eagle dogs and was spared punishment. Wu Si's death made Wu Chunfu not feel sad, he thought that this nephew was innocent of his death, and leaving him in the world would sooner or later ruin his own big things.

Zou Xianling saw that the imperial court had killed an innocuous scoundrel, but left behind a traitorous thief, he was disheartened and had the idea of resigning and going into hiding.