Butcher Wang Peng

The dossier sent every day, Luo Shanhe will look through it carefully, and the yin and yang jade pendant handed over to him by the military department Shangshu before his death is also closely carried.

What does the old emperor want to do, the news from the palace in recent days is not good without exception.

On the night when the turmoil had just been quelled, the old emperor's toxin had completely exploded, and now he seemed to be dying, unable to get out of bed and move around every day.

Fortunately, under the leadership of the prime minister, the officials are still handling the affairs of the whole country in an orderly manner, but the discerning people have long been able to find out what is wrong.

Shu Niangniang has not stayed in the palace for more than ten days, and outside the imperial city, some people have seen the palace brocade guards.

The Imperial Forest Army was frequently moved, and there were now more than 100,000 Imperial Forest troops stationed in the Imperial City.

All the signs are developing in a bad direction, and what Luo Shanhe is most worried about is that when the coup began, he had not yet found the so-called dark chess.

The files in the treasury were handed over to the scholars to investigate overnight, but if there are relevant clues, it is worth trying.

"Found it, Uncle Luo, I found a clue!" The voice came from the bachelor who was on duty in the treasury, and when he was just flipping through the roster registered in the Lizhou Mansion more than 20 years ago, he found something related to the book of the military department.

It reads Li Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, a native of Lizhou, who worked in the city lord's mansion of Jiading City more than 20 years ago as a staff officer.

Later, because of his meritorious service several times, coupled with his clever mind and ability to speak, he was transferred to the mainland, and he was soon promoted, and he became the current secretary of the military department.

And what is related to him is that during the time he lived in Lizhou, he lived with a person named Wang Peng.

This person is now a butcher shop in Lizhou City, about fifty years old, and when the Luoshan River passed, he was busy unloading pork from the carriage.

Seeing the soldiers of the government, Wang Peng hurriedly threw the pork on the board and wiped his hands with the rag around his waist.

Dirty oil stains stained the rag black and shiny.

"From the government, what did you do when you came to me, Lao Wang?" said Wang Fu angrily.

He has always had no good impression of the people in the government, and many of the butchers involved in the butcher shop were thieves from outside the city, smuggling knives from him.

Otherwise, in the inner district of Lizhou, where there is a lot of money, how can it be possible to feed a family just by selling raw meat.

"Your name is Wang Peng, right?" Huang Siye took the file and compared his appearance.

"Yes, it's me. ”

"Do you know the person named Li Yu, who is now serving as the secretary of the Ministry of War?" The news of Li Yu's death should not have reached here yet, and the news was strictly blocked by the palace.

Usually at this time, ordinary people will hesitate, and when the government asks about this matter, most of them are due to the fact that something has happened to the secretary of the military department, and those who are familiar with it will be more or less implicated.

But Wang Peng didn't think much about it, and immediately agreed, "I know him very well, and he lived with me before he went to the Imperial City." ”

"That's going to be easy. Luoshanhe came out of the back and walked straight to the backyard.

The backyard was mostly pork being processed, and when he walked in, the guys around him looked a little nervous and began to look at each other.

"Don't worry, I'm not here to check your contraband today, I'll pretend I can't see it. ”

"Official, if you have something to say, please speak directly, don't embarrass me guys, today's business has been stirred up by you like this, I'm afraid I won't have to do it. Wang Peng said anxiously.

"Tell me everything you know about Li Yu. ”

The soldiers outside the door set up their spears and lined up in a neat line, attracting the sideways of the surrounding pedestrians.

Wang Peng seriously recalled the scene at that time, he and Li Yu were friends in distress, when he had just come to Lizhou City from the countryside, Li Yu at that time was just a pen who had just entered the government, and his income was meager, but fortunately, his brain was more active.

Soon became popular in the officialdom of Lizhou City, and had a good relationship with the generals who were in charge of the city defense army at that time, so they were accommodating and smuggled many prohibited items into the city.

Both of them live in the countryside outside the city, in the so-called slum that carries all their childhood.

For the smuggling industry, he was an insider, and he soon accumulated wealth, and if he had money in the officialdom, he would have a promotion channel, and soon Li Yu would be able to get a way to enter the imperial city.

Since then, the two have no longer lived together, Li Yu became a high-ranking official in the imperial city, and he made great progress in his official career, and Wang Peng also became one of the biggest smugglers in Lizhou as he wished.

After he became the secretary of the military department, he rarely contacted each other, and it was only during the New Year's holidays that letters and gifts were sent. ”

After becoming the secretary of the military department, he also had contact with pork sellers on the border, which in itself was somewhat unusual.

You must know that many of the high-ranking officials and officials who have been pampered in the Imperial City all the year round have even stopped interacting with their own brothers.

It was because of the word profit that Luo Shanhe took out a jade pendant from his arms, "Do you know this thing?"

The moment Wang Peng saw the jade pendant, his nose twitched involuntarily, it seemed that he must know this jade pendant.

"Who are you?" the pork seller changed his previous casual attitude and became vigilant.

"The military department Shangshu died in the imperial city accident, and before he died, he asked me to bring the jade pendant here. ”

"I thought it would take some time for you to come with me. Wang Peng instructed the men in the store to open the store normally, and he walked towards the outside of the city with Luoshanhe, "You soldiers are not allowed to follow." ”

Don't look at the bustling streets of Lizhou City, but the scene outside the city is bleak, Luoshanhe has long known that there are many homeless people in Lizhou, but now it is even more shocking to see with his own eyes.

Outside the city gate, Wang Peng came to the crooked neck tree and blew the whistle hidden inside.

"Please be wronged. It seems that the place he went to didn't want Luo Shanhe to remember the location, so he covered his eyes with a black cloth and was pulled into a carriage.

After almost an hour of turbulence, I arrived at my destination, took off my blindfold, and the bright light entered my eyes and I couldn't see the surrounding scene clearly.

"Brother Wang, did you bring an errand here?" There was an old man guarding the door half-lying outside the door, and when he saw a carriage coming, he hurriedly stood up, and when he found Luoshanhe, his body was obviously a little stiff.

"He was sent by Li Yu to take me to Zhongyi Hall. ”

When Luo Shanhe saw the entrance made of mud, he couldn't even find what was called a door.

Inside, there were low, dilapidated wooden houses, the windows were broken, and many children and old people in tattered clothes were leaning around, wanting to see what the officials wanted to do.

This is not only a gathering place for the poor, but also contains all things that are not legal in Lizhou City.

There are smuggled medicines, weapons, and many important criminals wanted by the government.

The children who live here have been exposed to their surroundings since childhood, and when they grow up, most of them have become the scum of the government, filling the dark side of this society.

I didn't expect that the dignified military department Shangshu was actually born in such an unbearable environment, and he could maintain a positive mood towards Liang Guo, I really can't imagine how Li Yu did it.

As Wang Peng walked into the depths, there were already many people who had come over to see the excitement behind him, and they were all crowded in front of the door of Zhongyi Hall.

On both walls of this room, there were locked wooden cabinets, and from the top drawer, Wang took out an oiled paper bag.

The oil paper wrap is spread out on the table, and a piece of jade pendant is taken out, and the yin and yang hook jade are combined to completely spell out a piece of jade pendant.

"It's done, this is the key to the dark chess, you can take the dark chess away right now. ”

The people watching outside the door saw the jade pendant that was put together on the table at this time, and the complex feelings revealed in their eyes were all in view of the Luoshan River.

"What is a dark chess? Can I see it?"

"Come with me. ”

People outside could not have imagined that in the poor area where the poor lived, there was actually a flat martial arts arena, and at this time, in the venue, dozens of shirtless men were training with equipment in their hands.

Sensing that Wang Peng walked in here, he didn't stop training.

"Li Yu came back once shortly after leaving Lizhou and asked me to help recruit and build this facility, saying that it would be useful in the future. ”

The so-called dark chess, which is the team hidden in Lizhou, has never been mentioned, because no one wants to stay in the slums for too long.

There were daily fights, and every night, the corpses were carried and thrown into the nearby river, and the peasants downstream often fished up the floating corpses.