Rui Hegui

Since entering the Ministry of Household Affairs, there have been more officials visiting Zhao Liangyue's courtyard at the beginning. Gifts were delivered by carriage by carriage, but Zhao Liangyue rejected them and dragged them back in a desperate manner. After a long time, everyone stopped talking to each other In Zhao Liangyue's private contacts, some people think that he does not form party members, but is self-sufficient and noble, which is admirable, while others think that he is ignorant of flattery and current affairs, and the two sides have endless disputes.

Until, everyone found that Zhao Liangyue went up and down with Chu Bandit every day, riding in the same carriage together, and they were very close. It is embarrassing to become a treacherous and rebellious minister!

Regarding the many rumors, Youbai was still anxious for Zhao Liangyue, and he couldn't find out those gossips one by one. Zhao Liangyue himself didn't care. He blew his nose and stared at the court, then went to the household department and Xiang Mian to deal with errands, and then saw the ministers of the household department blew their noses and stared at each other, and finally helped Wei Xing Linshun, and when he returned in the afternoon, Chu Bandit would inevitably drag him around for a walk After a while, send him back.

However, Bandit Chu was always outside the courtyard gate and never came in.

"When Xilin opens up to me, it won't be too late for me to go in."

Zhao Liangyue just felt baffled, so he didn't mention it again.

Occasionally, Han Ting and Xiang Mian would come to find him, but the two of them tacitly did not mention the affairs of the court, and they also tacitly never appeared together, as if the enmity they formed when they were young has not yet melted away.

All the superficial peace was broken when a secret letter was sent to Chu's mansion. Chu bandit notified Xing Shuo overnight and sent someone to pick up Lu Yong, the son of the housekeeper of the Hua family, in the southern suburbs of the city.

Zhao Liangyue got the news on the next day that Bandit Chu had a secret relationship with him when he went to court, and then dragged him directly to the Jinluan Guard Office without waiting for him to go to the household department.

"You are finally here!"

When Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue arrived at the Jinluan Guardhouse, they could see Xing Shuo squatting there with a root in his mouth from a distance, his expression was very irritated, he looked up and saw him, as if he had seen a savior, he quickly got up and took them to a separate small hospital to go.

This small courtyard is different from the dirty and smelly dungeon last time. Although it is simple and dilapidated, it is very clean. After entering, there are full of weapon racks and several wine jars. ——It turned out to be Xing Shuo's resting place.

"Why did you lock him up here?" Bandit Chu poured a cup of tea for Zhao Liangyue and himself, looked up at the yard, and said, "Wouldn't it be better if you put him in the dungeon over there? Threats and scares, everything has been explained."

Xing Shuo snorted, and said, "See for yourself, if you can extract a confession through torture." Saying this, Xing Shuo called his subordinates and unlocked a room on the east side of the small courtyard.

Afterwards, there was only a coquettish cry of men and women, as if boneless: "Oh, Mr. Xing, you are back? I am bored here, and I have no one to accompany me."

Both Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue were taken aback, and saw a beautiful "woman" walking out of the room, wearing a peach pink shirt and face smeared with makeup, it was Lu Yong.

Seeing Chu Biao and Zhao Liangyue, Lu Yong's eyes lit up, and he quickly covered half of his face with a veil, as if he was shy, but his eyes stared straight at the two of them, which made people feel uncomfortable, especially when he was quite presumptuous. Keep looking at Zhao Liangyue.

Bandit Chu felt displeased with his gaze, and blocked Zhao Liangyue.

Seeing Chu bandit's actions, Lu Yong couldn't help smiling, and said deliberately: "Oh, the two gentlemen are so handsome, especially the young gentleman in the green robe at the back is really like the white-faced man in the storybook. Like a scholar, the heart and soul will be hooked away."

Bandit Chu half-closed his eyes to warn, and Lu Yong closed his mouth, but his face showed no trace of fear.

"You see, that's it." Xing Shuo looked up to the sky with a long sigh, and began to complain, "I put him in the dungeon at first, and before he did anything, he started screaming, hating dirty and smelly, so I used torture tools If you scare him, he might as well just start committing suicide without changing to a clean place, like a lunatic, can I not lock him up here?"

"Master Xing, you have a bodhisattva heart." Lu Yong said that he was about to lean towards Xing Shuo, but Xing Shuo dodged away.

Bandit Chu asked Zhao Liangyue, "Xi Lin, what do you think?"

Zhao Liangyue frowned slightly, and said: "I'm afraid it's difficult to deal with, let's try it first."

Afterwards, bandit Chu had someone tie Lu Yong up and down, and he was still sitting in the middle of the yard, sitting next to Zhao Liangyue, while taking care to block Lu Yong's view of Zhao Liangyue.

Lu Yong twisted his body to change himself into a comfortable position, looked up at the sky, and smiled at Bandit Chu, saying: "Master Chu, the sun is mild today, but it won't kill you."

Bandit Chu took a sip of tea unhurriedly, and said, "You know me."

"Who has never seen Master Chu's elegant demeanor, the scenery in the Imperial College back then, how can ordinary people compare to it?" Lu Yong said with a frown, "As for the young man in green robe, he must be this year's No. [-] scholar, Zhao Liangyue. "

Zhao Liangyue corrected: "It's a promotion, it's the second place."

Lu Yong chuckled and said, "I'm not blind, but the imperial court is indeed blind."

"Okay." Bandit Chu waved his hand, crossed his fingers on his chin, looked at Lu Yong, and asked straightforwardly, "What do you know? Tell me everything."

Lu Yong smiled: "Master Chu, if I tell you everything now, will you still protect me?"

"It will be a matter of time before I find out the truth, but if you don't have our protection now, you will probably be cut across the board when you leave the Jinluan Guard, so it's better to cooperate honestly."

Lu Yong didn't answer, he lowered his head and struggled vigorously. Chu Bandit thought that he was tied up with a rope and was uncomfortable, and he was about to make a fuss, but Lu Yong just moved to the grass, lay down, and closed his eyes quietly.

"It seems that you don't spare your life very much." Bandit Chu walked up to Lu Yong and asked, "You're not afraid of death, so what else do you want?"

Hearing the sound, Lu Yong slowly opened his eyes, first he gave Chu Bandit a provocative look, then looked at Zhao Liangyue who was drinking tea with his head bowed, and said to Chu Bandit in a low voice: "Master Chu, if you really want to know, why don't you use your sweetheart Let’s change it, he’s much better than those young men in the Chu Pavilion, if I can..."

Before Lu Yong finished speaking, Chu Bandit strangled him by the neck and lifted half of him up. The feeling of suffocation and oppression were the same. Lu Yong's face turned ugly instantly, but he didn't struggle, and still used provocative He looked at Bandit Chu.

Zhao Liangyue raised his head when he heard the restlessness, and saw that Chu Bandit had a sullen expression on his face, not knowing what happened in just such a short period of time.

"Calm down!" Xing Shuo rushed over and snatched Lu Yong from Chu Bandit, threw him behind him, and signaled Zhao Liangyue to stop Chu Bandit quickly.

Lu Yong was relieved from suffocation, coughing and breathing heavily.

Xing Shuo rolled his eyes at Lu Yong, and couldn't help saying: "You said why did you provoke him?"

Lu Yong laughed twice, went crazy as if he was rushing to reincarnate, and said to Zhao Liangyue: "Master Zhao, do you know what kind of dirty things Chu Shangshu next to you has done to you..."

Xing Shuo quickly covered Lu Yong's mouth with his hand, and dragged him back to the room.

In the courtyard, Bandit Chu turned to look at Zhao Liangyue, for a moment he didn't know how to speak, after all Lu Yong's words were too straightforward.

But Zhao Liangyue didn't show surprise, just sighed lightly, and said: "I always feel that you are trying to make up for the guilt towards the teacher on me. In fact, some things have to be let go when the time comes. Lu Yong is just a lunatic. , I don’t care what he says crazy.”

Bandit Chu was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhao Liangyue who looked calm, and asked, "You don't care?"

"It's just irritating us, if you really care about it, you lose."

Chu Bandit laughed, thinking that he was worrying too much, but suddenly he felt mixed, and he was at a loss.

In the room, Xing Shuo leaned against the wall with his arms around his chest, watching Lu Yong's face flushed and tears streaming down his face because his mouth and nose were blocked by a handkerchief, and his hands and feet were tied up. Also squirming and struggling, sweating all over his head.

Xing Shuo saw that it was almost done, and pulled out the veil mercifully. Lu Yong immediately began to breathe suddenly, and after a while, he began to speak meanly: "Is this how you treat me? But I really guessed Hit, Bandit Chu really has such nasty thoughts about Zhao Liangyue, but would Zhao Liangyue be willing to succumb to a man?"

Xing Shuo frowned, stepped forward and slapped Lu Yong's chin, which directly dislocated him, and said with difficulty, "Don't talk dirty, people like you don't deserve to be called him."

Lu Yong held back the pain in his jaw and let out a strange smile, and said with difficulty: "When you deal with Prime Minister Han, isn't it just to replace him?"

"You don't need to continue to try, take care of your own life.", said, "You are very smart, but at the same time you are also very stupid."

Hearing this, Lu Yong snorted disdainfully as if he had heard some joke.

"You are in Puyang, and you can take out the gifts from the Hua family for gambling. You don't know that you will be targeted afterwards, but you still choose to enjoy yourself in time, and you are unscrupulous. It can be seen that you are a desperado who indulges in lust. You repeated today. To be provocative is just to go crazy, and to enjoy the pleasure of other people's anger." Xing Shuo said, looking at the figure in the scarlet robe outside the door, and said, "But do you think that a person who can go from a person in white to a third-rank official can really do whatever he wants?" Have you touched his bottom line?"

"But you guys really need my confession."

"Yes, but there are other ways."

"Impossible, knowing what the Hua family did in the past, now I am the only one left."

Xing Shuo smiled, and patted Lu Yong on the shoulder, "I'll prepare some good wine and food for you tonight, and get ready to go."

Lu Yong's expression began to loosen.

But Xing Shuo was wrong, because Chu Bandit's patience was worse than his. As soon as Zhao Liangyue left, Chu Bandit turned back and took Lu Yong out of the Jinluan Guardhouse.

Lu Yong looked at Bandit Chu who was indifferent, but still endured the pain in his jaw and smiled with difficulty, and said tentatively, "Master Chu, you really don't want to know what the Hua family is doing for the Han family, do you?"

Bandit Chu ignored him, and led him directly to the river in the west of the city, raised his eyes to signal Jing Mo, and Jing Mo dragged Lu Yong knowingly, and took him directly to a small boat under the bridge.

Lu Yong asked: "What tricks are you adults playing?"

Jing Mo snorted, and said: "Of course I'm playing with your life. We adults hate others to touch his things the most in our lives. It's better for you, just break the ground on Tai Sui's head." Jing Mo tied Lu Yong's five flowers and fixed them on the boat , and then dug a hole for the boat, and did not forget to hang the Jinluanwei banner on the boat.

It was only then that Lu Yong fully realized that Xing Shuo was playing for real, and immediately shouted at the figure on the shore: "Master Chu! Give me another chance, and I will tell you everything you want to know."

Jing Mo chuckled and said, "It's late."

Jing Mo swung the boat into the river with one foot, and the Chenshui River was so fast in the spring that he took Lu Yong around half a circle, shaking his head directly against the wall of the boat, and at the bottom of his feet, the river water was rising from the hole , but he couldn't do anything, and fear was directly on his forehead.

Jing Mo: "Tsk tsk tsk, if you go on a boat, ordinary people will not dare to save you when they see the Jinluanwei flag. When the time comes, it depends on whether the boat sank first or the Wang Han family discovered you first."

"Help me! I dare not dare, Mr. Chu..."

Seeing Lu Yong drift away crying and howling, Jing Mo felt very comfortable.

"I'm very happy." Chu bandit was expressionless.

Jing Mo turned back and ran back, saying: "That's right, it's so satisfying. If I had been there and heard him insult Mr. Zhao, I would have been the first to kill him for Mr. Zhao!"

Bandit Chu took out a special token with cloud patterns from his sleeve and handed it to Jingmo.

"Rui He Ling?" Jing Mo was startled, "What are you doing with it?"

Chu bandit sighed lightly, and said: "Although Lu Yong is hateful, he is a smart man. Without him, it would be very difficult for us to find out what business the Hua family did for Han Wenyun between Puyang and Jingdu in a short time."

"So the young master wants to borrow the Ruihe Token?"

"Yes"

Jing Mo frowned, struggled for a while, and said, "My lord, you are obviously outraged this time, and the Lord will know that you are impulsive when you ask me. How should I answer then? In the end , I’m not the one who gets scolded.”

Bandit Chu handed Jing Mo a sharp eye, Jing Mo immediately shut up, and set off with Ruihe Order.

In just seven days, Jing Mo came back with a bundle, which contained two books of the Hua family's account books and a confidential letter.Bandit Chu found Xing Shuo overnight, but the two of them searched all night but couldn't figure it out.

Xing Shuo couldn't help sighing, complaining: "Zhao Liangyue is from the Ministry of Household Affairs, so isn't he better than us?"

Bandit Chu didn't even raise his head, and said as a matter of course: "At this point, Xilin has already rested."

"Then I don't need to rest?" Xing Shuo snorted, "As for Han Wenyun's assassination, he still clings to Jin Luanwei, looking for a chance to trick me. Taking care of the security in the city, I don't even have the time to drink my saliva."

"So?" Bandit Chu looked up at him, his tone indifferent.

"Chu Bandit, do you still remember that we were brothers who lived and died together?"

"Remember, you don't need to remind me again." Bandit Chu said, and marked some parts of the account with notes so that he could show it to Zhao Liangyue tomorrow.

"Remember what a fart." Xing Shuo snorted, but he also imitated Chu Bandit and marked down the accounts that might have problems.

"It's actually related to Luming?"

On the next day, Bandit Chu brought the accounts and secret letters of the Hua family to Zhao Liangyue. Zhao Liangyue quickly looked through the marked accounts, and after a while, he saw the connection.

"Why Luming?"

"Before I asked Youbai to investigate, he couldn't go deep, and he didn't find any big discoveries, but he noticed that Lu Ming always prepared servant Yang meals, but there was no servant Yang in Lu Ming, they could only be used for food. Entertaining guests, and now it is recorded in the accounts of the Hua family that Puyang iron ore merchants have come to Beijing many times, and both of them are inseparable from the Wang and Han families, so I suspect that Luming is the place where they meet, and now It's going on."

"In other words, this thread is important to them?"

"Well, it is estimated that Yang Shaohe, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, participated directly."

Chu bandit leaned on the soft pillow on the carriage, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Okay, I'll go to Luming to arrest people another day."

Isn't this a warning?

But Bandit Chu is definitely not so stupid, Zhao Liangyue thought for a while, and asked: "Do you have other things to do, so you just use these things to cover up? Whether it's the assassination of the current prime minister at Dali Temple, Or is it the clue that Luming is showing now?"

Bandit Chu smiled knowingly, and said, "Xi Lin still understands me."

Zhao Liangyue saw that his peach-blossom eyes were becoming tainted with indecency, and fearing that he would talk nonsense again, he immediately spoke first: "As for the secret letter, it was Han Wenyun who asked the Hua family to use a batch of things secretly. It didn't say what it was, but It should be very important.”

Bandit Chu thought for a while, and said, "I suspect that Puyang is still related to the Zhennan Army."

Zhao Liangyue nodded: "There is indeed such a suspicion. After all, the Ministry of Industry does not need such a large amount of iron ore. Most of them are privately forged weapons and armaments by people with military power."

"It should be, but I can't find any clues, so I can only break the deadlock first." Chu bandit said, raising his hand and rubbing the center of his brow.

Zhao Liangyue looked at the tired look on Chu Bandit's face, and cared a little with the friendship of a friend: "Did you not rest well yesterday?"

Bandit Chu smiled when he heard the words, then sighed intentionally, and said, "Isn't it? There was news from Puyang last night. I watched the account book alone until midnight. How dare I rest?"

"Just let me know next time."

"How can I make Xi Lin tired? There are enough things in the household department during the day, and I will feel distressed if I am too tired."

"..." Sure enough, it's better not to speak, isn't this making him sick?