Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Today is the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. According to past practice, tonight is the real climax of the Lantern Festival.

However, due to a series of explosions that occurred last night and the city-wide ban that has not yet been lifted, the streets returned to their usual deserted state at night.

Even the officers and soldiers who were searching everywhere temporarily put aside their tasks and went home for the holidays.

The people of Chang'an, who thought they would have a good holiday tonight, heard the familiar explosion sound again when the lanterns were first lit.

Then, there was a burst of gongs and drums, and shouts to put out the fire.

Li Shimin, who was entertaining the officials in the palace, heard Qian Niuwei's report and immediately lost his mood for the festival. He immediately left the concubines and courtiers behind and returned directly to the imperial study. Then he ordered all officials who were resting at home to return to their rooms. We must find out those who are secretly sabotaging our positions.

Just when Li Shimin was jumping anxiously, Chu Mo's residence welcomed two guests.

No, three to be precise, because the remaining one had been beaten into a pig's head. Not only that, his whole body was also tied into a rice dumpling with iron chains.

If Huiming hadn't told Chu Mo that the pig head in front of him was Wan Shitong whom he was looking for by name, Chu Mo would have mistaken him for a pig demon.

Looking at Wan Shitong, who had no human appearance in front of him, Chu Mo clicked his tongue twice, and then learned what happened from Huiming and Huise.

It turned out that since Chu Mo handed over the task of arresting Wan Shitong to the two of them, the two of them had racked their brains to find him.

Even at the risk of exposing his identity, he went to Chu's Trading Company to arrest some people and torture them for interrogation.

I don’t know if they were unlucky or something, but they arrested a large group of people, but no one knew that Wan Shitong existed.

This made the two brothers wonder if Chu Mo was playing tricks on him, or if the person he was looking for was not in Chang'an at all.

In the end, Huise strengthened her belief and believed that there was no need for Chu Mo to play tricks on them. If there really was no such person as Wan Shitong, then there was no point in him fabricating this lie.

Then, the two brothers changed their targets and started directly targeting the senior executives of Chu's Trading Company.

However, Chu Mo's series of actions caused the court to conduct a thorough investigation of Chu's Trading Company, which made all the top executives of Chu's Trading Company go into hiding, and the two men's actions made little progress.

Just when the two of them were frowning, they unexpectedly discovered several people with suspicious identities near the ruins of Shiweitian.

At first, Huiming thought of arresting these people for interrogation, but Huise sternly refused, saying that if he wanted to follow the clues, he might be able to find Wan Shitong.

Sure enough, after those sneaky people wandered around Shiweitian for a few times, they went directly to a gathering place of three religions and nine streams in the south of the city.

There, the two discovered a secret underground stronghold of Chu's Trading Company.

With almost no effort, the two men directly captured the stronghold and captured Wan Shitong, who was pretending to be a chef and trying to get away with it.

After hearing Huiming and Huise describe their arduous arrest process, Chu Mo looked at Wan Shi Comrade with great interest:

"Lao Wan, why are you disguising yourself as a chef? Besides, according to your intelligence, since you're disguising, you won't be seen through so easily, right?"

After hearing Chu Mo's question, before Wan Shitong could speak, Huiming complained angrily:

"Sir, you don't know that at the beginning, we were almost deceived by him. If it weren't for a few timid people in the stronghold who heard us saying Wan Shitong's name, they would use their eyes from time to time. If you glance at him, you might miss it."

Hearing Huiming's answer, Wan Shi was so ashamed and angry that he never expected that his identity would be exposed just because of a few glances.

When Chu Mo heard Huiming's words, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up:

"That's good, that's good. You did a great job today. From now on, let's forget all the unhappiness we had before."

"Starting from tomorrow, you will follow me. Now, go down and rest."

Hearing Chu Mo driving people away, Huiming and Huise said goodbye and left very discerningly.

After the two of them left, Chu Mo looked at Wanshi Tongdao coldly:

"Lao Wan, you didn't expect that Chu Mo would still be alive and come back alive, right?"

Hearing Chu Mo's words, Wan Shitong raised his head, looked at Chu Mo for two seconds, then stretched his neck and said:

"I am just a king and a loser. Now I have fallen into your hands. Kill or behead me as you wish."

"Okay, very good, Lao Han, drag this guy who dares to betray me to the Suzaku Gate, and ask Li Shimin to help me find someone with good skills, and kill him for me."

"Tell Li Shimin that at least 3300 cuts must be made. If one cut is missing, I will make up for it from the executioner."

After Hanshan layman heard Chu Mo's words, he immediately stretched out his remaining left hand with a grin and walked towards Wan Shitong step by step.

The reason why Wan Shitong had such a tough attitude was that he had originally made up his mind that Chu Mo should need him somewhere, so he did not hesitate to spend a lot of effort to send two grandmasters to arrest him.

But what he didn't expect was that after Chu Mo caught him, he directly sentenced him to Lingchi without saying a word, which made him not panic.

"Wait a minute, eldest son, I am a loyal servant of the eldest lady, you can't do this to me."

"Oh, really, it's true that you are my sister's loyal servant, but you are also a traitor to me."

"Besides, based on your ability, wouldn't you know about my relationship with Chu Xin? Now you dare to move out of Chu Xin. I really don't know whether you should be called stupid or too naive."

After hearing Chu Mo's words, Wan Shitong seemed to be a different person in an instant. He rolled and crawled to Chu Mo's feet and begged:

"Young Master, please give me another chance. I promise that this time I will be loyal to you to the death, be your loyal lackey, and never betray."

Chu Mo kicked Wan Shitong away with disgust, and then said coldly:

"I can have as many dogs as I want, but I don't need a wolf that can carry its owner."

"I gave you a chance before, but you didn't know how to cherish it. You actually dared to betray me secretly."

"You know, one of the main purposes of my return to Chang'an this time is to punish those of you who have betrayed me."

After finishing speaking, he said to layman Hanshan:

"You and Huiming Huise will take him to see Li Shimin together, inform him of his identity, and then pass on my message."

Hanshan layman was stunned for a moment. He was about to think that he just wanted to send a pig over. Wouldn't it require three masters to take action?