Chapter Eighty-Seven: The First Clues
Liao Lingping approached Wei Qing at this time and said in a low voice: "The night is long and there are many dreams, don't delay here for too long, anyway, the person and the file have been found, go out first."
Wei Qing nodded, and then said to Piwan: "Okay, I'll let you go, but you have to follow us all the way, and then tell you everything you know, if you dare to play tricks, then don't blame me for being ruthless."
"No, no, Wei Daxia just rest assured", Pi Wan hurriedly agreed, and suddenly realized that his voice was a little high under his joy, and he hurriedly lowered his voice and continued, "It's really good that the heroes of the beggar gang are willing to help, and now the big officials will definitely be saved."
Wei Qing saw that the joy on his face did not seem to be fake, and he really wanted to save Pei Jun from the bottom of his heart, so he nodded to Cao Lu and signaled to let go of Pi Wan, and then Liao Lingping opened the way first, Wei Qing and Cao Lu sandwiched Pi Wan in the middle and then followed, slipped out of the yamen and went straight back to the inn where he lived.
Li Rui had been waiting in the inn room without sleeping, and was quite surprised to see Wei Qing and Pi Wan appear together, Liao Lingping pulled her to the side and told her what happened, Wei Qing and Cao Lu couldn't wait to ask Pi Wan to tell the inside story of the matter, but Pi Wan didn't reply first, but asked Wei Qing to take out the stolen file, and then said: "There are some things in the meantime I just speculate, after reading the file, I will explain the original story in detail."
Wei Qing was also eager to understand the ins and outs of this matter, and when he took out the file from his arms and handed it to Cao Lu and Pi Wan to watch together, but after reading a few pages, Wei Qing and Cao Lu couldn't help but look at each other.
"You won't read it yourself", Cao Lu handed the file to Piwan and said, "Can't you see this, it's really weird and tight."
Pivan scratched his head in some embarrassment and replied, "I ...... I can't read".
"You can't read and steal files?" Cao Lu said in surprise, "Then how can you tell which of the so many files is this case?"
Pi Wan smiled, and said a little proudly: "I recognize the word Pei, there is a huge plaque hanging at the door of the mansion of the big official, I have been in and out a lot, this word is still known, I want to bring a file with the word Pei, this is what I am looking for."
Wei Qing secretly said in his heart, "That's not necessarily", but in order to draw out Pi Wan's later words, he immediately pointed to the documents in the file and said: "You see, the letter accusing Pei Guanren of collaborating with the enemy is neither from Chuzhou nor from Haozhou itself, but from the Privy Council from Lin'an.
Pi Wan was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly reached out to pick up the file to look at it, and then remembered that he was illiterate, and put it down with a little annoyance: "As far as I know, although the Pei family is a local family in Haozhou, it does not use poetry and books to pass on the family, and there are no scholars in the clan who are officials, and they will never get involved in the party struggle in the court.
"It's not necessarily because he was framed because he was involved in party disputes", Wei Qing pointed to the file and said, "The document makes it clear that someone from Lin'an wrote a letter to the Privy Council to report Pei Guanren, and the letter listed in detail the specific plan of Pei Guanren and Jin Ren to lure the officials and soldiers into ambush, and the Privy Council was not sure whether the letter was true or false, so it was routinely forwarded to the Zhizhou Yamen in Haozhou, reminding Haozhou to be careful."
"Not only that, but the content of this report letter is exactly the same as the later defeat, the person who reported must have something to do with the Jin people, otherwise they would not know the arrangement of the Jin people so clearly", Li Rui didn't know when he had finished talking to Liao Lingping, and approached, "It seems that the Zhizhou Yamen didn't believe that Pei Guanren collaborated with the enemy, so they didn't pay much attention to this letter, and they didn't think about it until after the defeat, they were afraid that they would be investigated by the imperial court for the crime of not detecting, so they quickly arrested Pei Guanren and sentenced him to prison, so as to wash away his own mistakes."
"That's not right, some joints still don't make sense," Wei Qing thought about it for a while, and then said, "This letter also clearly states the deployment of Pei Guanren's side, how did Jin Ren know about it? It seems that Pei Guanren must have hidden spies around him."
Everyone fell into deep thought for a while, each recalling the suspicious person around Pei Jun, and after a long time, Pi Wan suddenly muttered in a low voice: "Maybe...... I think maybe there are no spies, and the Jin people may have learned about Pei Guanren's plan through some other means."
"What are you talking about", Pivan's voice was very low when he said this, and everyone didn't understand it, and after he repeated it again, Wei Qing couldn't help asking, "Why can you be sure that this matter is not the work of a spy?"
"Because...... Because ......" Pivan stuttered for some reason, he bit his lip hard, and after a while, he said as if he had made up his mind, "I think this news probably came out of my mouth, and other Zhuang Ding didn't know about it, it was all discussed and decided by the officials and me, and the others didn't know about it."
"What the hell is going on, you can tell me the details in detail", Wei Qing urged, "If you still want to clear up the grievances of Pei Guanren, don't hide it anymore."
Piwan hesitated for a moment, and finally told the origin of it, it turned out that every time Piwan went to Chuzhou and Zhuergen joint, the other party would set up a banquet in the city to entertain him, he in order to relieve the other party's suspicions, every time he also went calmly, the banquet was indispensable to be accompanied by a female singer, one of which was called "Lan Jie" The prostitute is the Oiran of Chuzhou Fengyue Field, and she accompanies Pi Wan at every banquet, and the two have feelings for each other, and Pi Wan stays overnight in Chuzhou, and the two will naturally say some intimate private words.
"I once drank too much, and I didn't have much defense against Miss Lan's daughter's family, so I told her about the plan with the big officials", Pivan lowered his head and said apologetically, "I didn't care too much about it afterwards, I don't care if she is a girl, I don't care if I know it, now that I think about it, I have never mentioned it to anyone else, most likely...... Most of the time it was the blue girl who didn't bother to say it, and this reached the ears of the golden dog."
"Hmph, why don't you say it with care, this woman is clearly sent by the Jin people to visit you", Liao Lingping said angrily, "Such a big thing is related to hundreds of lives, what do you tell a prostitute."
"No, no, Miss Lan won't be the spies of the Golden Dog", Pivan himself was a little hesitant, but still argued strongly, "Miss Lan said that her father and brother were killed by the Golden Dog, and she hated the Golden Dog to death, and she also told me that after waiting for this matter, she would follow me to Haozhou."