The person holding the sign in his hand suddenly felt the pressure increase, and after a while, no one stepped forward to vote.

Lu Man looked around, suddenly understood, and walked to the hall to hug his fists and said: "The junior is a disciple of the Nanhai faction, so if it doesn't work, I'm afraid that no one will come to vote for another hour, because the big guys don't want others to know what kind of choice their gang has made." ”

This sentence is talking to the hearts of everyone present, they hesitated because they were afraid of offending the gang that held his opinion, and they would hurt the harmony if they didn't make trouble, seeing that Lu Man pointed this point directly, and his face was quite confident, it was estimated that this woman must have some ideas, and immediately someone said: "What do you have in mind?"

Lu Man pursed his lips and smiled, turned back to Yuan Xingjian and said, "Is there a curtain or a banner in the army?"

Yuan Xingjian didn't know what she was going to do, nodded and ordered the person next to him to take a large scroll immediately, Lu Man nodded, and explained to the two minions twice, and the two minions immediately opened the curtain that was about one person high, covering the red and blue barrels, Lu Manfang clapped his hands and said: "Everyone go in from here, and see the people who vote over there come out before they can enter again, and go in to vote in turn, so that no one will know where they are thrown." ”

Everyone nodded their heads one after another, and just as they were about to step forward, Lu Man waved his hand again and said: "Wait, it's not okay yet, seniors think, you all have unique skills, if someone moves the lot in one bucket to another behind the curtain, I'm afraid it's not difficult." I see that this boy does not hold the lot, and he himself has no sect, so it must have nothing to do with him, so it is better to set up a seat behind the curtain and let him stand on it and watch, so that the person who cast the sign cannot change the number of lots. And we can look at this son, he naturally can't get off the high chair to change the result, how about this?"

This arrangement is really appropriate, everyone has known Li Meijiang and Li Meihai in the past, and it is inevitable that they will praise Lu Man, Lu Man glanced at Lin Jianlan lightly, and his face was proud. Seeing that everyone did not object to his supervision, Lin Jianlan had to stand on the high chair with his head down, but his heart beat violently with the first person who came in to vote, thinking that he would be the first to know the final decision-making result, he was a little dizzy, and hurriedly lowered his body slightly, held on to the handrail, and looked at the two buckets fixedly.

Some of the people who came in were extremely happy, and they went straight to the goal and left, and some were afraid that they came alone, and there was no one to discuss, and they hesitated for a long time before throwing in, Lin Jianlan thought that most of the people who were discussing here were probably advocating a hard fight, but he didn't expect that there were still some gangs in the middle who finally threw the sign into the blue bucket, whether it was selfish or righteous, Lin Jianlan was extremely grateful to these people.

After a while, Lu Man's senior brother walked in, but he didn't look at Lin Jianlan, hesitated in front of the bucket for a while, and then put the skewer into the blue bucket, Lin Jianlan sighed, and lifted his spirit to look out, a few more people came in and threw it away, the figure outside the curtain flashed, Wei Suxin walked in slowly, naturally threw it into the red bucket without hesitation, but did not leave immediately, but looked at Lin Jianlan for a long time, he felt extremely guilty when he saw it, and after a while, Wei Suxin showed a smile in his eyes, and walked out slowly.

Lin Jianlan didn't know what he meant, since he had sent his family to prevent him from leaving the Huawang Mansion, he was not surprised at all to see him at this moment, maybe he didn't know that he and Xie Zhongju had already become acquainted, and what he wanted was not a big fight in the sea and the sky? Just thinking about it, he saw Cao Yinyin walk in, holding a skewer with his slender fingers, and glanced at Lin Jianlan deeply, Fang threw it into the blue bucket, judging from the huge expenses of the Kuangyi Gang, it was the sect that should not be given up, and I don't know if this is the result of deliberation or Cao Yinyin's arbitrariness, Lin Jianlan is inconvenient to thank him, so he can only whisper his gratitude in his heart.

In the blink of an eye, the number of signatures in the two barrels was exactly the same, if there was a huge disparity, Lin Jianlan could calm down, but at this moment he could no longer be calm, seeing that Cao Shupeng had walked in, his face was gloomy, and he reluctantly threw himself into the blue barrel, seeing the blue overtake, his heart was ecstatic, and he was about to look out, but he heard the outside: "It seems that all the votes are finished." Suddenly, he felt weak and almost collapsed in his chair.

The minion next to him didn't notice his abnormal face, and when he heard that the cast had been completed, he rolled up the curtain again, and it was still Cao Yinyin who walked to the bucket and said: "Since the vote is finished, I will say it in front, no matter what the result is, since the people present have formed an alliance and helped each other, they must act according to the result, and there must be no more objections and private disputes. ”

Her voice was cold, although she was not very old, she was quite majestic, and her status was high, but no one was dissatisfied with her lofty tone, and after waiting for a while to see that no one refuted, Cao Yin Yin invited Leader Li and Wei Suxin to count them together. Above the lobby, everyone watched, and the fairness was done to the extreme, and everyone stopped making noise at the moment, paying attention to the results quietly.

The expressions of the three of them became more and more solemn, and after a while, Cao Yin Yinfang sighed and said softly: "Leader Li, this senior, which of you will inform everyone of the results." ”

Leader Li was also stunned, not knowing how to speak, Wei Suxin said indifferently: "The two of you are not easy to speak, so I will say it below." Fang slowly turned around and faced everyone: "I just hope that you will do it yourself, Yuan Xianggong, you don't regret it, and say goodbye." After saying that, his body flew out flat, with a long roar, and went out, Lin Jianlan and the others hurriedly chased out, and saw the figure out of the gate, only flashing a few times in the reeds and then missing.

Yuan Xingjian said: "This senior is dedicated to justice, but he can let go and receive, so free and easy, he is really superior." ”

Everyone nodded one after another, but they couldn't help but doubt each other in their hearts: "I don't know who threw the blue bucket, it turned out that they were just impassioned on their faces, and if they really want to oppose the imperial court, some people will shrink back." ”

Cao Yinyin said: "Now that there is a result, I hope you will follow it, but this vote only means that the various sects in the rivers and lakes that have funded Taihu Lake agree to the dispersal of the Taihu Righteous Army, and the alliance is still there. Speaking of this, he said goodbye to Leader Li: "The matter has come to this point, we have no intention of staying, and we are about to leave, I hope that Leader Li and Yuan Xianggong can arrange the things later, if there is no place to stay, Kuang Yi Gang can be used to settle down at any time." ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone had already gotten up to say goodbye, and Leader Li stood at the door and said, "No one can leave!" The circles in his eyes were a little red, and he said: "I have arranged for people to prepare a feast, and I also invite all the righteous people of the rivers and lakes to finally have a drink in this Taihu Lake Water Village!"

Everyone was sad in their hearts, they already felt that they were no longer interesting, at this moment he was guarding the door, but he couldn't force himself through, and when he was hesitating, Yuan Xingjian walked to the side of Leader Li and bowed to everyone: "Taihu Lake was originally a place where Brother Li and the people around him were taken in, at the beginning it was only a hundred, and he was slandered as a bandit by the imperial court, and he was repeatedly encircled and suppressed, relying on you, only to have today's scale, once dispersed, Yuan Mou has nothing to be afraid that he will not be able to repay him in this life, so he can only talk about preparing thin wine, and enjoy the night, I hope you don't shirk." Saying that, he bowed and gave way, and it was not good to wait for anyone to excuse himself, so he had to nod his head and follow the guidance of his minions.

Seeing that everyone walked away in a blink of an eye, Yuan Xingjian hurriedly said to Leader Li: "You accompany the heroes first, I and Lin Gongzi still have urgent matters, so we will go later." ”

Leader Li nodded, now there is a bit of a posture that the general trend has gone, and he can't care about Yuan Xingjian's other "private affairs", so he raised his feet and went out, Lin Jianlan didn't care about the etiquette, and directly withdrew Yuan Xingjian's sleeve and said, "Brother Yuan, why aren't you by Xie Xun's side?"

Yuan Xingjian said apologetically: "I expected that everything could be arranged before the Taihu Lake Festival, but I didn't expect that these people in the rivers and lakes who had been funded would go to the door early. ”

Lin Jianlan was so anxious that he couldn't tell him Wei Suxin's identity, so he had to say: "Brother Yuan quickly went to Suzhou Mansion with me, I heard that Master Xie went to Suzhou Mansion to meet the new officials, but only Su Wenwen was with him, I heard that King Liang came to Jiangnan, and I was very uneasy......

Yuan Xingjian's face changed abruptly and said: "I have told him not to leave Taihu Lake when I am not there, why don't you listen?" After that, he stomped his feet and said: "Brother Lin is waiting for me at the gate of the village for a while, and I will come when I go." ”

Lin Jianlan knew that he was going to confess, and after waiting for a short time, he saw Yuan Xingjian flying away, and said briefly: "Let's go!" He had already swept onto the boat, Lin Jianlan hurriedly jumped up, and he was still the boatman who rowed just now, and he sailed out extremely slippery and fast.

At this moment, Lin Jianlan knew that Yuan Xingjian was more anxious and worried than himself, and it was also because the Taihu Rebels had dispersed one after another at this moment, if something happened to Xie Zhongju at this time, I don't know what it would become, but it was inevitable that Jiangnan would fall back into the hands of people like Wu Hong. Seeing Yuan Xingjian rushing away with the wind, Lin Jianlan couldn't help frowning, and his luck followed and said: "Brother Yuan, it's better to exert your strength slowly, running like you, I'm afraid that my strength will be exhausted when I get to Suzhou Mansion, don't say that Lord Xie is fine, if something happens, how can we save him at the end of our crossbow?"

Yuan Xingjian slowed down his pace, and together with Lin Jianlan, he continued to exert his strength slowly, which was several times faster than ordinary people riding horses and running, and the corners of his mouth barely squeezed out a smile and said: "Since it is a meeting with the new government office, it will be fine." ”

Lin Jianlan didn't know if it was because of the wind in his ears, he only felt that Yuan Xingjian's voice trembled slightly, and comforted: "Brother Yuan, don't worry too much, even if you meet the officials of Suzhou Mansion, you must go with a guard of honor, and in front of everyone, even if it is King Liang, you can't dispose of important ministers of the court at will." ”

Yuan Xingjian nodded, didn't speak again, looked straight ahead with his eyes, and ran silently, Lin Jianlan could be said to have suffered a lot in his heart along the way, and the empty feeling of not being able to grasp or even know his fate appeared from time to time in his heart.

Just ran all night, the sky just revealed a glimmer of brightness, the outline of the government in the dim dawn slowly revealed in front of the eyes, the two of them have not taken care of much, rushed up the steps, but saw the door of the house opened, there is a guard next to the door has already fallen aside, do not know life and death, obviously someone came here first, the two glanced at each other, jumped into the hall softly, the hall is also a silence, there is a dark blue gold word hanging in the sky "Mirror hanging" plaque, the desk is in chaos, the sign holder is crooked, the sign is scattered on the ground, and the letter is also missing.

After searching around the main hall for a long time but not a single living person was found, even the watchman was not spared, Lin Jianlan and Yuan Xingjian had to run to the back hall, and each house was searched one by one, and it was like no one had lived in it, but the doors of the houses were open, as if someone had just come and gone in a hurry before them.

After looking around but still finding nothing, Lin Jianlan looked at the window and saw that the rocky paths on the lake were all the same as before, green and green, and the two listened to the conversation between Mrs. Xie and the maid here. At this time, the scenery is still the same, but people are nowhere to be found, looking at the chill in the morning, the sparkling waves on the lake, a gust of morning wind blowing, the tulip frame next to it rattling, looking up, the flowers and leaves have withered.

At this time, he felt that there was a trace of blood in the wind, Lin Jianlan sniffed lightly a few times, looked back at Yuan Xingjian, and saw that his face had become extremely ugly, the two flew out of the house, and chased all the way along with the extremely imperceptible bloody gas, but saw an extremely remote corner door on the side of the main hall, old and dilapidated, Lin Jianlan had just come, and did not pay too much attention to it, the corner door was facing a wall, which seemed to be a dead end, but the breath did spread from here, Lin Jianlan looked down, Fang suddenly realized, and hurriedly opened a secret door on the ground on the inside of the corner door, and suddenly a staircase appeared in front of him, and he walked in, and suddenly a rotten breath with the smell of blood came to the face, which was disgusting.

Walking in this long tunnel, there are people like errand officers falling aside every few steps next to him, he has long lost his vitality, Lin Jianlan didn't know what to say, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he silently followed behind Yuan Xingjian, seeing that he was walking faster and faster, only the footsteps of two people overlapped in the road, and Lin Jianlan, who was oppressed by this atmosphere, almost couldn't breathe, and after walking for a short time, his eyes suddenly opened up, the walls were filthy, embedded with various iron rings and other things, and all kinds of shackles and leather whips were hung on the pillars around him, and he knew what this was without asking.

Looking around again, there are a dazzling array of various torture instruments, which can not be called famous at all, and the slippery smooth water with wood lacquer is slick and carved, as if it is a delicate wood carving.

Yuan Xingjian stopped at the door, Lin Jianlan looked through his back, and saw a figure standing on his back, and a person next to him was paralyzed on the ground, making a choked sound, but there was a person in front of them, and his white shirt was stained with layers of blood, of different shades.

Lin Jianlan suddenly felt that his heart was in his throat, but Yuan Xingjian had already walked over step by step.