Moonlight and wind

"Someone come!" The escort leader shouted to the escorts behind him, "Tie up these two people! Take them to the dock and hang them up!" As soon as the words fell, two burly men took thick ropes, tied up the man and woman, took them back to the shore, and hung them up on a wooden rack where lanterns were placed on the shore.

Shan Zimo frowned upon seeing this, "Isn't it necessary?" Shan Zimo walked over, "There is no definite evidence yet, you can't treat them like this!" "Hmph!" The escort leader glanced at Shan Zimo with disdain, "You have none of your business here, don't get in my way!" "Hey!" Shan Boyu was about to go up to argue, but was stopped by Shan Zimo, shook his head, and the group came to a small tea stall on the shore to drink tea, waiting for the merchant ship to set off again.

"It's all because of them that our trip was delayed." In addition to Shan Zimo and his companions, there were other passengers who were forced to stay on the merchant ship, complaining quietly at the tea stall. "Keep your voice down!" A passenger beside him quickly made a shushing gesture, "Don't let the escort leader hear it, or he will hang you up too!" As he said that, he pointed at the two people who were hung up. "Who are these escorts? At that time, I saw people from the government office in Lingyu Town coming up, and they were all very respectful." "You don't know yet? This team of escorts is the people of the right prime minister. I heard that the right prime minister found a treasure in southern Xinjiang and was escorting it back to Wudu to present it to Emperor Wu."

"Right Prime Minister?" Shan Zimo muttered softly, "Could there be a Left Prime Minister?" As a student of science and engineering, history is very weak for him. "Yes!" Yi-Yi Hui took a sip of tea, "Yes, the young master is obsessed with martial arts and doesn't know much about the affairs of the Wu Kingdom." "Yes, yes, you are absolutely right!" Shan Zimo just followed the topic. "The Wu Kingdom has a left prime minister and a right prime minister. The left prime minister Duan Wende assists Emperor Wu in managing the internal affairs of the court. His influence spreads throughout the Wu capital, including Jinxiufang." "In other words, the real owner behind Jinxiufang is the left prime minister?" Shan Zimo only then knew who the big man behind Jinxiufang was. He was indeed a big man who could not be provoked.

"Besides, the Right Prime Minister Tai Shi Tong assists Emperor Wu in handling foreign affairs. Although his influence is spread all over Wu State, it is too dispersed." Yi Yanhui took another sip of tea. "The two of them are very unfriendly and often quarrel in Xuanji Palace." "Isn't that in line with Emperor Wu's wishes?" Shan Zimo felt the subtlety of it. "The two of them check and balance each other, so that Emperor Wu can better control the imperial power." "That's right!"

While they were chatting, a woman's miserable cry came from the other side. Shan Zimo looked in the direction of the sound and saw the escort leader sitting on a chair, and two escorts were whipping the two people hanging up with whips! "Isn't this considered lynching?" Shan Zimo frowned in disgust. "So what?" Yi Yihui took a look and treated it as a common thing, "We can't do anything about it." Before Yi Yihui finished speaking, Shan Zimo had already rushed out.

Shan Zimo came to the escort quickly. The whip was about to fall, but Shan Zimo grabbed it. The tip of the whip circled his arm several times. "What do you want?" The escort leader lowered his eyelids and looked at Shan Zimo with contempt, "Don't try to be a hero here!" "It's fine to hang them up, but why do you have to beat them?" Shan Zimo forced a fake smile in dissatisfaction. "If we don't beat them, can their accomplices come back to save them?" The escort leader said disdainfully, "Not only will I beat them, I will beat them to death!" The escort leader stared at Shan Zimo viciously, gritting his teeth and speaking word by word.

At this time, several escorts came from behind and surrounded Shan Zimo. "I'm sorry, everyone!" Shan Boyu hurriedly squeezed in, "I'm sorry! My young master has never seen the world, and he slipped out when I wasn't watching him. I'm sorry!" As he said that, he was about to pull Shan Zimo away. "You look so dressed that you are not an ordinary person. I will spare you this time! Get out of here!" As he said that, the escort leader took the whip from the escort next to him and whipped Shan Zimo and the other man, hitting the stone slab in front of them with a snap.

Shan Boyu dragged Shan Zimo out of the dock, "Young Master, we can't be impulsive!" Shan Boyu pressed Shan Zimo to sit down at the tea table, "This is not our Meixi Town. The hall master said that we should be more cautious when we go out!" "But they are too irritating!" Shan Zimo felt that it was because he handed the man and woman over to the escort leader that they suffered this, and he felt a little guilty. "Since things have come to this, let's wait and see!" Shan Boyu saw Shan Zimo's worries and had to comfort him.

In this way, the man and the woman were hung and beaten for half a day. When it was dark, lanterns were lit above their heads. Under the light, the two figures were stretched out and swayed. It was past midnight, and a slight sound came from the river. Shan Zimo was always worried about the man and the woman, and he couldn't sleep peacefully in the cabin. When he heard the sound, he quietly slipped out of the cabin.

Three heads suddenly appeared on the water and jumped onto the dock. One of them threw a hidden weapon, attracting the attention of the guards, who immediately became alert. The three quickly dispersed, found cover, and surrounded the guards. The guards checked and found nothing unusual, so they gathered under a man and a woman. The three gave a secret signal and moved together, so fast that Shan Zimo could hardly see how they approached the guards. There was a flash of cold light, and the two guards fell to the ground and died.

Then one of them jumped onto the wooden frame like a monkey, cut the rope on his body, and then cut the rope. The man jumped down holding the woman. The five people gathered together and were about to leave when suddenly the lights came on and the escort leader walked out from the darkness, "I've been waiting for you all day!"

The escorts and yamen runners rushed out and surrounded the five people. Shan Zimo was still watching everything quietly. "Hand over what you stole! How dare you steal the things of the Right Prime Minister? How many heads do you have!" The escort leader shouted fiercely. "The Right Prime Minister's things?" One of the boatmen who used to row the boat for Shan Zimo and his men sneered, "I didn't even know when the things of my clan became the Right Prime Minister's! We are here to take back our own things!"

"In Wu State, everything belongs to Emperor Wu. What's wrong with the Right Prime Minister taking things back for Emperor Wu?" The escort leader looked at them with contempt. "Besides, isn't it a good deal to exchange these things for the lives of your people?" "My Ayijin tribe originally had 3,000 people. In order to protect our treasures, more than half of them died or were injured!" The man was very angry. "You actually said that you wanted to exchange the lives of my people!" "More than half of them died or were injured?" The escort leader sneered, "Aren't there still half of them alive?"

"What a bastard!" Qu Xuanyue, who was standing behind Shan Zimo and heard the previous conversation, couldn't help but curse. Shan Zimo nodded in agreement.

"Hand over the things quickly. You five won't be able to leave alive!" The escort leader gave the order, and the escorts and runners took out their weapons and prepared for battle.

"Okay!" The man sneered, "Even if we die, you won't be able to find the things!" After saying that, he pulled out a dagger and raised his hand to commit suicide!

"Not good!" Shan Zimo shouted, "Stop them quickly!"