I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

At the gate of the Zhao family in the imperial capital.

"Damn it! I will make sure this guy dies without a burial place!" Zhao Ming said hatefully.

Liu Qingfeng is still shaking all over. He has lived a life of luxury since he was a child. When has he ever received a beating of this magnitude?

"Brother Zhao, can we let our family go? It would be bad if we get exposed."

Zhao Ming knocked on the door and responded, "Who said I was going to use my family? Doesn't he want five thousand taels of silver? Then use these five thousand taels of silver to buy his life!"

With a creak, the door was opened. The doorman looked outside and said fiercely, "Where did you come from, beggar? Get out of here!"

Zhao Ming was so angry that his nose was crooked. It was bad enough that he was bullied outside, but the servants at home actually dared to bully him.

"Zhao Si, you're so blind, can't I recognize it?"

Zhao Si was stunned for a moment, his face full of disbelief: "Sir? Who beat you into a pig's head? Not to mention me, even the master might not be able to recognize you."

"Get out!" Zhao Ming kicked him and walked into the house angrily.

After searching at home, Liu Qingfeng looked at the stack of banknotes in front of him and felt worried.

"All your private money is here, plus my one thousand taels, that's only two thousand five hundred taels."

"Only half, what should I do?"

"That's enough." Zhao Ming said with full confidence.

Liu Qingfeng felt a little restless. The other party wanted five thousand taels, but now he only had half of it. If the other party revealed the truth, they would not be able to continue their relationship in the future.

"It's still halfway. Why don't we go out and borrow some from someone and make up the total of 5,000 taels and give it to him first."

Zhao Ming shook his head and sneered, "Are you really planning to give it to him? If you give it to a person like this, he will definitely ask for more later."

"Could it be..." Liu Qingfeng widened his eyes.

Zhao Ming nodded grimly, "That's right, the best solution is to make him disappear quietly."

They stayed in the room until night fell, and then Zhao Ming and his companion took the silver bills and walked out.

"Brother Zhao, is the place you mentioned only open late at night?" Liu Qingfeng felt a little scared as he looked at the dim street.

Everyone in the imperial capital knew that when Duanmu Xiongtu led his troops to attack, he massacred 500,000 soldiers in one battle.

The killing was a sea of ​​blood and corpses, the blood flowed like rivers, and the corpses piled up like mountains, and finally all turned to ashes in a fire.

Liu Qingfeng still remembers the scene. He always felt a creepy feeling behind him when walking on the street.

Zhao Ming curled his lips in disdain: "They are open during the day, but you need to hold a token to enter."

Liu Qingfeng scratched his head: "Then why don't we go directly during the day?"

Zhao Ming really wanted to slap this stupid teammate twice, not to mention that there would be too many people watching during the day.

Just the injuries on the two of them, if they were seen by acquaintances, wouldn't it be really embarrassing?

Although it is unlikely that acquaintances would recognize him, after all, his doorman Zhao Si did not recognize him.

It was not until this moment that Zhao Ming finally understood that "beating you so hard that even your father wouldn't recognize you" was not just empty talk.

The two of them quickly walked to an ordinary funeral shop, and Zhao Ming walked up solemnly and knocked on the door four times.

A living person knocks on the door three times, while a dead person knocks four times, quickly and chaotically.

Soon, the door creaked open. Before Zhao Ming could say anything, Liu Qingfeng jumped three feet high.

"Ghost!"

Zhao Ming quickly covered Liu Qingfeng's mouth and signaled him not to speak.

"What are you two doing here so late at night?"

Inside the room, an old man who was skinny and looked like a mummy looked at the two of them with cloudy eyes.

Liu Qingfeng swallowed his saliva and his legs kept shaking.

"I want to order a coffin." Zhao Ming said in a deep voice.

This is a secret code used between the coffin shop and its customers, similar to underworld jargon.

The old man stared at Zhao Ming with his cloudy eyes for a moment, then said calmly: "How long should the coffin be, and what kind of wood should be used?"

"The coffin is four feet four inches long, made of locust wood." Zhao Ming said as he handed over a token.

The old man put away the token and took two steps back to open the door.

Zhao Ming walked in calmly. After hesitating for a while, Liu Qingfeng finally walked in.

The room was dark, without even a kerosene lamp, and Liu Qingfeng's heart began to beat faster and faster.

The old man fumbled back and forth on a table with his hands, finally found a tinder and blew it to light.

"You two, follow me."

The three of them passed through the outermost coffin shop used as a cover, followed the old man to the basement, pushed open the small wooden door, and were immediately surprised.

The underground space is extremely spacious, with hundreds of people gathered here. All of them are wearing masks, adding a sense of mystery to the place.

Zhao Ming took a deep breath, followed the old man to a counter, and took out a silver note with a face value of five hundred yuan.

"Tianxia Restaurant, there are three people, one of them is extremely burly, and the other two look..."

After describing it, the man at the counter glanced at the banknotes on the counter indifferently.

"The inner city of the imperial capital is extremely risky to sell, and the price is not enough."

Zhao Ming gritted his teeth and handed over another thousand taels. The man still didn't say anything, so he had to take out the remaining thousand taels.

The man was still not satisfied: "Our lowest price starts at five thousand taels. I'm afraid you won't assign any experienced killers. Is this a low price that you can accept?"

"Okay, as long as we can kill people." Zhao Ming whispered.

After a moment of silence, the man took the banknote and threw out a wooden sign with a number on it: 1006.

A young man carrying a long sword slowly approached: "You two, is it my turn?"

Zhao Ming handed over the token, and the man took it casually, put it back on his waist, and said excitedly: "Great, this will be my first order!"

A frown appeared on Zhao Ming's forehead. For the first time, he wondered whether this thing was reliable.

"Can I change?"

"Sorry, no, unless you pay more." The man at the counter said indifferently.

Zhao Ming shook his head helplessly, and the three of them walked out of the coffin shop and headed towards the Tianxia Restaurant.

Inside the Tianxia Restaurant, two figures swaggered to the door. Just as Chen Liu was about to step through the door, he suddenly turned around and looked at Wei Yong behind him.

"When we meet him later, I want Wei Yong..."

"Don't worry, sir. As soon as you call, I will take action immediately!" Wei Yong said heavily.

"Shut up. I mean, when you enter the room, my name is Wei Yong." Chen Liu explained patiently again.

Duanmu Xiongtu repeatedly instructed that his identity must not be revealed and the name Wei Yong must be used to the end.

"Understand?"

Wei Yong nodded again: "Don't worry, sir, as long as you call me, I will take action immediately."

Chen Liu was silent for a while, then withdrew the foot that was about to enter the restaurant.

"You don't understand what I'm saying, I've already told you my name is Wei Yong, my name is Wei Yong!"

Wei Yong blinked his eyes and said, "Sir, if you call me, I will do it. That's no problem."

"That's not what I meant. What I meant is that my name is Wei Yong, do you understand?" Chen Liu suppressed the urge to hit someone and explained patiently.

Wei Yong's eyes flashed with doubt: "Sir, what is my name? Why do you use my name?"

"Don't ask so many questions, I don't care what your name is!" Chen Liu said madly.

Just as the two were chattering, a man carrying a long sword walked into the Tianxia Restaurant.