Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 145 Eunuch Zhang, who do you say is not a man?
When Yang Yuan woke up again, he found himself in a quiet room.

He was lying in a brocade tent with a bandage wrapped around his ribs. The wound felt a little cool, probably because of the high-quality medicine mixed with borneol.

Li Shishi sat on the edge of the couch with her back bent, the light shining obliquely on her, like a blooming ephemeral flower, brighter than the moon.

She was feeding him ginseng chicken soup with a small jade bowl. When she saw him open his eyes, she couldn't help but show joy on her face.

"Is Jiro awake?"

Yang Yuan was in a trance for a moment, and asked weakly: "Madam, what time is it now?"

"It's not even daybreak yet!"

Yang Yuan felt somewhat relieved. If he had been unconscious for three or five days, he might have missed out on important things.

"Madam, have you informed Brother Ya?"

"I didn't go."

"how……"

"Does Erlang still remember Liu Mo?"

Yang Yuan thought again of the face he had seen before he fell into a coma. He had no time to care about it at the time, nor did he ask why he appeared there.

Yang Yuan said: "Remember, how?"

Li Shishi said: "He harbored a grudge against me and tracked me down to the pavilion, trying to commit a crime, but I beat him to death."

Yang Yuan let out a light "ah". He didn't expect that the boy would eventually die under her skirt. He got what he wanted.

However, what he didn't expect was that before he asked Li Shishi to help him create the illusion of death, Liu Mo was still alive.

He was smashed to death by Miss Shishi.

This guy threatened Li Shishi's innocence and life again and again.

With the temper and decisiveness of "Flying General" Li Shishi, when she was still a young girl, she dared to assassinate the Taiwei who held the military power of a country and the pseudo-emperor who ascended the throne. Even if there was no Yang Yuan incident, she would never let Liu Mo live this time.

Now, it is nothing more than recycling.

Li Shishi said, "It just so happened that Erlang had something to ask of him, so I exchanged his clothes with him, used the iron bone flower of the golden man to destroy his face, and pushed him onto the boat. Now I don't know where he has drifted to."

Yang Yuan was speechless after hearing this. He had never thought of asking Madam Li to help him with this matter at the beginning, but wanted to ask Brother Ya for help.

After all, for a woman, not only is it difficult to find a corpse, but she also does not have the courage to destroy the appearance of the corpse.

But Mrs. Li... was really beyond his expectations.

Suddenly, Yang Yuan's mind flashed with thoughts, his face changed, and he said in a lost voice: "Not good!"

Li Shishi frowned slightly and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yang Yuan said in despair: "I have a wound through my ribs. The person who hurt me knew that he hurt me, but Liu Mo's body..."

Li Shishi smiled and said, "So that's how it is. When I was taking off your clothes, I saw the wound under your ribs. I didn't know what caused the wound, so I compared the wounds and used my gold hairpin to poke a hole under his ribs."

Yang Yuan: "...I was injured by a golden hairpin."

Li Shishi raised her eyebrows and said, "Among your enemies, there are women?"

Yang Yuan thought of that Madam Wan and said with lingering fear: "That's right! I didn't expect that among the four of them, the one with the highest martial arts skills was not the three men, but... I was careless."

Then, he laughed at himself again: "However, given the situation at that time, even if I was not careless, I could not avoid this hidden weapon."

Li Shishi was very curious about his experience, but considering his identity, it would be inconvenient for him to tell her.

Li Shishi said, "I know a little bit about medicine, and I have some excellent medicine for wounds, so I bandaged you myself. I don't know what you are doing now, so it's not convenient to ask a doctor."

Yang Yuan already knew that what Mrs. Li said about knowing a little and understanding a little were all humble words used to describe her proficiency.

Therefore, Yang Yuan said: "Don't ask for a doctor. My current identity cannot be revealed to others."

Li Shishi nodded. Fortunately, she had already thought of this.

At that time, she had set up the illusion of "mutual destruction" on the boat, pushed the boat away, threw the wooden stick into the river, and waited there for Chen Erniang.

Finally, Chen Erniang carried Yang Yuan back home.

Chen Erniang was a maid she bought, and they had a master-slave relationship, so naturally she would not betray her master.

Even so, Li Shishi only told Chen Erniang that while she was waiting here, an old friend was injured by a villain, and she did not tell the truth.

Yang Yuan thought about it. Although he was not very specific, Mrs. Li's handling of the matter was perfect and should be able to deceive his enemies.

Thinking of the secrets he heard in the meeting hall, Yang Yuan felt excited.

He thought that his revenge would come to an end tonight.

But I didn't expect to hear such a big secret.

As long as they can be sure that they are dead and the secret has not been leaked, they will continue with the execution.

What they want to deal with are the current generals of the Three Ya Imperial Guards.

Yang Cunzhong, Zhao Mi, Cheng Min...

Although I don't have any evidence, the matter is so serious, they would rather believe it, right?

Then, with their help, I can catch all the killers of "Qiyun Jinbiao Society" in one fell swoop!

Recalling the conversation between Eunuch Li and them at that time, Yang Yuan felt relieved that the several military leaders and ten generals they bribed would have to adjust their duty schedules, so the action would not take place within one or two days.

As he relaxed, he suddenly felt tired. Yang Yuan couldn't help but close his eyes and murmured, "Madam, please forgive me. I am very tired. I will take a rest for a while."

He slowly moved his body, trying to change to the most comfortable sleeping position and have a good sleep.

Although he was injured, his strongest feeling now was sleepiness.

Unexpectedly, when I moved, I felt that there was no hindrance on my body. This...

Yang Yuan was so frightened that he opened his eyes again. This action scared Li Shishi who was about to tuck in the quilt for him.

Li Shishi said angrily, "Are you injured too lightly? Why are you so startled?"

Yang Yuan said hesitantly: "Madam, I...my clothes..."

"Oh!"

Li Shishi's face slightly heated up, but her expression was calm and calm: "I helped you take it off and check the wound. I am so old, and you are just a little kid, what do you have to be afraid of?"

"Oh, yes, yes..."

No one cares about it anymore, so if he makes a fuss about it, it would seem pretentious.

Yang Yuan laughed dryly twice and closed his eyes.

Li Shishi turned her waist and put the bowl of soup on the small table beside the bed, but she thought in her heart, this child is quite delicate, but that part looks a bit fierce. Are all men... born to look like this?
……

Its daybreak.

In the Imperial City Division, Liu Shangqiu was excitedly telling Mu En, Cao Min, Kou Heiyi who was recuperating from his injuries and more than a dozen other Imperial City Division officers about his magnificent battle achievements last night.

His biological father, mother and all the concubines had been driven away by him.

Seeing that his son was fine, the old man felt relieved and naturally would not make his son lose his temper.

In front of outsiders, I have to save face for my son.

So the old man left happily with his wives and concubines.

Liu Shangqiu was talking excitedly when he heard a call from outside: "Zhang Quwei, the envoy of the Ande Army, the commander of the imperial army and the supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is here~~~"

Mu En and Cao Min looked at each other and slowly stood up.

Da Yang Zhang Quwei walked in with his sleeves fluttering, looking very angry.

As soon as he entered the hall, he shouted in a shrill voice: "The Imperial City Division attacked the Qiyun Society at night, openly armed and slaughtered countless people. Is this a rebellion?"

Liu Shangqiu was unhappy, his face drooped, and he said in a sarcastic tone: "The Imperial City Department is directly under the emperor. How can you, Zhang Quwei, come here and shout? Are you going to rebel?"

Zhang Quwei was extremely angry. He looked at Liu Shangqiu and then turned to Mu En.

"Mu Tiju, how are you going to explain to the Zajia family about your Imperial City Division's night raid on the Qiyun Society?"

Mu En smiled faintly: "Zhang Dayong, if Qiyun Society is a civilian, we have Lin'an Prefecture. If it is a military, we have the three yamen. I don't know why you, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are so prominent."

"I……"

Zhang Quwei was stunned for a moment, then said, "Li Rong died in Qiyun Society. He was a member of our Ministry of Internal Affairs. Can't we take care of him?"

Kou Heiyi said: "Li Rong was killed by an assassin, and my Imperial City Division was..."

He glanced at Liu Shangqiu, who raised his chin proudly: "The emperor has granted special permission to execute first and report later!"

Zhang Quwei said angrily, "Who are you going to kill first? Who are you going to kill first?"

Kou Heiyi gritted his teeth and followed the excuse Liu Shangqiu made up, saying, "My Imperial City Division received news that a Jin spy was lurking near the Qiyun Society. The Imperial City Division went to search for him, but the Qiyun Society attacked and injured people without asking any questions. We had no choice but to protect ourselves." Liu Shangqiu nodded happily. The reason he came up with was really good.

Zhang Quwei sneered and said, "I was just about to say, the one who sneaked into the Qiyun Society's meeting hall and committed the crime was someone from your Imperial City Division, wasn't he?"

Liu Shangqiu immediately extended his hand to him.

Zhang Quwei glared and asked, "What for?"

Kou Heiyi said calmly: "Evidence!"

Zhang Quwei was furious: "Are you two playing a double game? Earlier, the 'Zhiweitang' of Zajia was burned to the ground. There were several plainclothes armed criminals at the scene. They escaped with the connivance of your Imperial City Division.

"Now, an assassin appeared in the Qiyun Society's meeting hall, and you showed up right after that, creating an opportunity for him to escape. Doesn't this prove that you are in the same group?"

Mu Tiju said unhappily, "Zhang Dayong, if you can at least produce one of the witnesses, confessions, documentary evidence, physical evidence, and inspections that can point to my Imperial City Division doing something illegal, then I will go before the emperor to listen to your accusation. Now, just based on your one-sided statement, are you going to accuse my Imperial City Division of a crime?"

Zhang Quwei said, "Things that are out of the ordinary are demons! The fire at Zhiwei Hall was caused by you just by chance. But when an assassin appeared in Qiyun Society, you showed up again. You should explain a reason to me."

Liu Shangqiu jumped out and said, "If Zhang Dayang wants to be reasonable, that's fine. In the Longshan Warehouse bloodbath, my Imperial City Division was going to track down the spies of the Jin Kingdom. Why did the people from the National Trust Agency happen to be there?"

"I am drinking at Chunfenglou, and several hundred people from Guoxin Institute are gathering at Zhiweitang. What do they want to do?"

"Last night, I appeared in that densely forested and sparsely populated place to capture the Jin spies. What was Li Yaban of the National Information Office doing in rushing to the Qiyun Society's meeting hall late at night?"

"Oh, I get it! So your people are the ones colluding with the Jin people. You went to Longshan Warehouse just to contact the Jin people! You went to Zhiwei Hall to gather and discuss how to deal with my Imperial City Division! Did Eunuch Li go to Qiyun Hall because the people of Qiyun Society are actually his followers?"

Zhang Quwei was so angry at being blamed that he felt dizzy and his lips were trembling.

Liu Shangqiu suddenly clapped his hands in realization: "I understand, you killed Eunuch Li!"

"You, you, you... what did you say?"

"You must have discovered that Eunuch Li was exposed, so you killed him to silence him, and then framed my Imperial City Division."

"I am not a spy for the Jin people! You are the spy for the Jin people!"

Zhang Quwei was so angry that he was shaking with anger. He pointed at Liu Shangqiu with his index finger raised and started cursing.

He really had no dealings with the Jin people.

He was Qin Hui's ally in officialdom, but that does not mean that he knew about and was involved in Qin Hui's affairs.

At this time, Zhang Quwei was naturally furious at Liu Shangqiu's unreasonable demands.

"I am a spy for the Jin people? I am suing you for defamation, you know that? I am suing you for defamation! He is slandering me, he is slandering me..."

Liu Shangqiu finally found the truth and immediately grabbed Zhang to make a fuss about a few words he said in anger.

Zhang Quwei was so angry that he was shaking all over: "Uncle Liu, can you please speak nicely? Can you stop making trouble? Are you not a man?"

Eunuch Zhang was so angry that he became incoherent. Not only did he use inverted sentences, but even normal words were reversed.

Unexpectedly, this sentence made Liu Shangqiu angry.

This is the Imperial City Division, and he is the deputy commander of the next command post.

Even if you point at Liu Shangqiu's nose and call him by his full name here, it would be worse than calling him the king's uncle and make him angry.

what do you mean?
Is that innuendo and veiled criticism?
What he hates most is people saying that he has no ability, that he relies on his family for everything, or that he got to his position through nepotism, so he is particularly sensitive on this point.

Zhang Quwei was just a eunuch in the palace, serving the emperor, empress and concubines. Naturally, he was more accustomed to addressing some people based on their relationships in the inner court.

But his address touched Liu Shangqiu's sore spot.

Liu Shangqiu had two major taboos in his life. One was being ridiculed for relying on nepotism, and the other was being said to be neither male nor female.

Because not only does he have a pretty face and look like a girl, but he has also lived among a large group of women since he was a child, and his behavior and habits are indeed somewhat effeminate.

With just one sentence, Zhang Quwei offended Liu Shangqiu's two major taboos.

Liu Shangqiu's face immediately turned red, veins on his forehead throbbed, and his handsome appearance that was difficult to tell whether he was male or female was completely gone. He looked very scary.

"I'm not a man? I'm not a fucking man?"

Liu Shangqiu stepped onto the official hat chair with one foot, and then with another foot... he climbed onto the desk.

Then he began to undress.

"Come on, Zhang, let's take off our clothes together and see who is not a man! Come here, take off your clothes quickly, you have no balls, how can you be called a man..."

These words were like a knife stabbing Zhang Quwei's heart.

Originally, he was a little scared when he saw Liu Shangqiu getting angry. As soon as Liu Shangqiu said this, he also became furious.

Zhang Quwei jumped up and down and cursed: "Mu En, Mr. Mu, are you just going to indulge your subordinates and humiliate my family? It's useless to be unreasonable. You must give me an explanation for what happened today..."

Mu En, Cao Min, Kou Heiyi and others had no time to pay attention to him. They were busy trying to pull Liu Shangqiu off the desk.

If he were really asked to stand in the lobby of the Imperial City, naked and exposed, would that be appropriate?
At this time, a eunuch rushed in from outside, hurried to Zhang Quwei, and whispered: "Daguan, the Lin'an Prefecture officials found a small boat on the river in the inner city, and there were two dead bodies on the boat."

Zhang Quwei said unhappily, "So what?"

The eunuch whispered, "One of the bodies was dressed very similarly to the assassin the Qiyun Society mentioned."

Zhang Quwei's expression changed: "What about the other one?"

The eunuch was a little nervous: "It's a golden man."

"what?"

Zhang Quwei felt a little panicked for no reason. Why did the Jin people appear here?

Just now, Liu Guojiu said that he was a spy of the Jin people. If a Jin person really appeared...

"The body is in Lin'an Prefecture?"

"Yes!"

"Let's go to Lin'an Prefecture!"

Zhang Quwei looked up and saw five or six officials from the Imperial City Department, dragging Liu Shangqiu, who was struggling to take off his clothes, off the desk, using his arms and legs.

Zhang Quwei was too lazy to pay attention to him. He flicked his sleeves and turned away!

……

In the coroner's room of Lin'an Prefecture, the eunuch Zhang Quwei, the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture Cao Yong, the judge Chen Fan, and the judicial military officer Liu Yiguan were looking at the two bodies on the chopping board.

The coroner stood respectfully in the corner.

Zhang Quwei turned around and asked, "Have you checked? Have you confirmed?"

The coroner didn't even dare to raise his head and said hurriedly, "Yes, I checked it. The identities of these two people are very suspicious."

"Tell me carefully."

"One of them seems to be... a eunuch who has not been castrated completely."

As a eunuch, Zhang Quwei was shocked: "There are eunuchs in the Jisufang and the Imperial City Department. Could it be that..."

He asked hurriedly: "What about the other one?"

“It’s a golden man.”

"you sure?"

"I can be sure of that."

Of course, they could also be disguised Jin people. After all, the facial features of the Jin people are not much different from those of the Song people.

However, hairstyle, clothing, etc. can change the disguise.

However, some traces of living habits and whether the hairstyle and other features have changed recently cannot be hidden from experienced coroners.

Zhang Quwei waved his hand and the coroner hurriedly retreated.

Zhang Quwei looked at the blurred corpse and asked, "Have you found out who this person is?"

Judge Chen Fan said hurriedly: "This person doesn't have any tokens on him, so it's hard to check it out right now."

Zhang Quwei said, "If anyone from Qiyun Society comes, bring them here immediately."

Liu Canjun said, "Grand Eunuch, they are already here. Without your instructions or the prefect's orders, they are temporarily placed in the second hall. I will bring them here right away!"

Liu Yiguan hurried out and brought back Madam Wan and Di Jiuzhou soon.

Madam Wan had changed into mourning clothes, which clearly showed that Bashetou was dead.

Although she was dressed in mourning, Madam Wan's bright and charming appearance was not diminished at all.

Zhang Quwei asked, "Do you recognize this golden man?"

(End of this chapter)