Rui Hegui

The rain will stop, and late spring will come to an end.

It has only been three days since Bandit Chu took over the Ningzhou Disaster Relief Corruption Case, and the top and bottom are thinking of ways to urge him to speed up the trial and close the case as soon as possible.Bandit Chu knew what this group of people were thinking, and he was full of words that the common people and the people were the most important thing, but in fact he wanted to quickly suppress the affairs of Ningzhou so that he could free up his hands to solve the internal affairs of Ningzhou.

Speaking of which, Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue were more anxious than they were in their hearts. This time Ningzhou was in dire straits, and the situation must be far more serious and complicated than they imagined.

But they can only wait.

Five days later, the weather in Kyoto has been clear for a long time, and the sky has been dry and dry lately—so, the time has come.

It's night, the hour of Hai is about to pass, and the lights of Feixia Tower are dimmed early.

Ruan Yue took the accountant upstairs, covered her face with a handkerchief and yawned long, then turned her head slightly and asked, "Apart from the accounts just now, are there any other problems?"

"Go back to the shopkeeper, it's gone."

"That's good." Ruan Yue sighed, and said, "Last time Bandit Chu seemed to have gone crazy, and suddenly checked our place, and found a lot of things. Fortunately, Prime Minister Han solved it. , otherwise you may have to find out something else, then you and I will not be able to escape the punishment of the young master."

"Yes, yes, my subordinates must be more cautious in handling affairs in the future, and this situation will not happen again."

Ruan Yue nodded, waved her hands, and said, "Then you step back, you haven't closed your eyes for a long time, don't call me tomorrow morning if there is nothing important."

The accountant then retreated, Ruan Yue returned to her room, the maids stepped forward to wait for her to take a bath, and after she fell asleep, she turned off the lights and left.

But Ruan Yue didn't know what happened to her today, she was very tired, but she couldn't fall asleep.

The surroundings of the room are as quiet as water, and occasionally there is a slight wind sound outside the window.

Ruan Yue tossed and turned, still unable to fall asleep, and felt inexplicably flustered, so she simply got up to approve the clothes, and called the maid to come in.

"Could it be that the shopkeeper can't sleep again, and wants the servant to order some soothing incense?"

Ruan Yue waved her hands, frowned, pressed her hands on her heart, and said, "I always feel that something is going to happen, and I feel uneasy for no reason."

"The shopkeeper has been worrying too much recently, why don't you go to bed earlier and wake up tomorrow."

Ruan Yue shook her head: "No, I don't feel relieved. In this case, you go and call the account manager."

The servant girl took the order to retreat, and after a while, she hurried back.

"Why are you in such a panic?"

"Go back to the shopkeeper, sir, he is gone."

"Missing?" Ruan Yue asked, "Did you find the warehouse and other places?"

"……No."

"You are so careless in doing things! You just came back in a hurry, and I thought something serious happened." Ruan Yue reprimanded, "Follow me to the warehouse and take care of you when I come back."

As Ruan Yue spoke, her heart became more and more flustered, she hurriedly put on her clothes and led the people to the warehouse.

On the way, she met two figures whose faces could not be seen clearly through the night, so Ruan Yue hurriedly asked someone to go over to have a look.

"Back to the shopkeeper, it's Yang Yaozong, Master Yang, and beside him is a servant who waits on him."

"Why is he still in the building?"

"Shopkeeper, you forgot, Mr. Wang Yuncheng hosted a banquet here today, and Mr. Yang was the one who invited him."

Ruan Yue snorted, and said, "Wasn't this drunkard so drunk that he passed out? Today he's still playing tricks and staying here with me."

"Beauty, it's a beauty!"

Hearing the sound, Yang Yaozong looked over, then smiled wretchedly, and was about to come this way staggeringly, the servant beside him was struggling to help him, it seemed that Master Yang had been making a fuss for a while.

Ruan Yue took a few steps back in disgust, frowned and told the people around: "Choose a room and help Master Yang to rest."

So a servant girl led the way and asked the servant to help Yang Yaozong away.

"It's really unlucky, I get annoyed every time I see him." Ruan Yue looked at Yang Yaozong who was smiling back at her, and frowned displeasedly.

At this time, a clerk who used to tie horses for customers at the door in Feixia Building came in and said that he had something to report.

"what happened?"

The clerk handed over a purse and said, "Shopkeeper, Miss A Luo said she wanted to see you."

Ruan Yue took the purse and looked at it, then looked in the direction of the warehouse, and said to the servant girl, "Forget it, what can you do today? Go out with me, I want to relax with Aluo."

The maid hurriedly went down to prepare the carriage, and after a while, Ruan Yue put on her cloak and went out.

On the third floor, a maid brought him and left. The servant helped Yang Yaozong in, closed the door, and threw Yang Yaozong, who was lying on his shoulder like a pig, on the ground at will.

"Hey, who dares to throw me like this!"

"It was you who fell." The boy said it as a matter of course, leaning over against the faint light, Yang Yaozong vaguely saw a scar on his forehead, and then half-closed his eyes to take a closer look, and found that it was a completely unfamiliar face—— This is not the person around him!

Yang Yaozong was half sober at once, but before he could call out, a dagger was out of its sheath and directly sealed his throat.

Yang Yaozong stared at the person in front of him with wide eyes, terrified and unbelievable, then his body trembled and he lost his breath.

Nan Xing took off a jade pendant from Yang Yaozong's waist, then got up and looked at him with disgust, and said, "It will be cheaper if you don't peel your skin."

There is a small house in the west of the city, only two hundred steps away from Feixia Tower.

Ruan Yue and the woman named A Luo sat opposite each other in the small pavilion in the courtyard, each of them held a glass of sake and sipped lightly, although they were looking at the bright moon in the sky, one was really preoccupied, the other had just been awakened from sleep, Not in the mood to appreciate the moon.

Aluo smiled and said: "You still seem not very happy, why, Feixialou is the number one restaurant in Kyoto, can't it fulfill your vision?"

"Don't make fun of me. Ever since Bandit Chu came to Feixia Tower last time and found out about those things, the young master was very angry. None of our subordinates are safe."

A Luo sighed, and said: "Your master, although I have never met him, I know how difficult it is to serve you. You didn't come here this time with a sad face. Why don't you open a small wine shop to ask for a favor like me?" Life, although not rich, but free and casual."

Ruan Yue shook her head with a smile, and said, "Some things cannot be turned back."

"Forget it, you came to relax with me, so don't mention those troublesome things." Aluo went to get the jar of wine again and said, "Try this, I recently brewed it."

"it is good."

The two drank a few cups of fine wine and relaxed their minds. A Luo yawned and said, "Speaking of which, it's getting late today. Why did you suddenly think of looking for me?"

Ruan Yue was taken aback, and said, "Didn't you invite me here?" Then she took out the purse and handed it to A Luo.

"I lost this purse two days ago, and I haven't had time to tell you." A Luo took a look at the purse, frowned and sighed, "Oh no, you were tricked, but the other party lured you out of Feixia in the middle of the night. What is Lou doing?"

Ruan Yue was thinking a lot, but before she got an answer, there was a deafening sound from a distance, and then the ground shook, and the cup in her hand fell to pieces in shock.

The two looked along the prestige in horror, it was the direction of Feixia Tower!

This night is destined to be uneven.

A loud noise in the west of the city shook half of the capital. The Jingzhao Yamen and the Ministry of War set off almost instantly, but when they arrived at the Feixia Tower, they could only see a sea of ​​flames. It is so big that it is difficult to extinguish, and the only way to prevent the fire from spreading to other blocks is first.

On the west wall of the city, Zhao Liangyue looked at the flames shining in the direction of Feixia Tower, and couldn't help frowning: "Who would have thought that a large amount of gunpowder would be piled up in the underground secret room of Feixia Tower, and the result of summoning until today is the result."

Bandit Chu stood beside him with his hands behind his back, and sighed, "The last time I was ordered to conduct a thorough investigation of Feixia Tower, I discovered the existence of gunpowder, but I took a gamble and pretended not to know. I thought Han Wenyun would be careful and transfer Unexpectedly, that old thing is too confident in himself."

Zhao Liangyue turned around and saw Bandit Chu's solemn expression, showing shame, and said, "You chose to do it at night, you have minimized the loss, and this is what they deserve."

Chu Gui didn't speak for a while, but just watched the sea of ​​flames silently. The memory of the old events overlapped with the flames in front of him, burning blazingly, as if he was going to burn something.

I don't know how long it has passed, but the fire in Feixia Building is still burning, and most of the whole building has collapsed.

Jingmo came from downstairs and reported: "My lord, the surrounding residents have all evacuated safely, and Nanxing's side is also proceeding smoothly."

Bandit Chu nodded, and explained to Zhao Liangyue: "Nan Xing is my valet just like Jing Mo, but Nan Xing has been working outside all the year round, and now he is half a Jianghu man. He was the one who escorted the 11 people from Ningzhou last time."

Zhao Liangyue nodded, thought for a moment, and asked, "It's just that you said that Yang Shaohe will be involved in this matter, how can we do it?"

"Because I killed his only son, that bastard Yang Yaozong, and his body was in this fire."

Bandit Chu sneered at the corner of his mouth as he spoke, looked at Feixialou, his eyes sharpened, and said, "For one thing, if Yang Shaohe wants to investigate his son's death, he can only thoroughly investigate the cause of the fire in Feixialou. But the underground of Feixia Tower is gunpowder, which is banned under the foot of the capital. If this serious crime is found out, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Officials will not agree to it, even if it is Wang Han. Therefore, Han Wenyun does not want anyone to delve into it, and will definitely let the Jingzhao Yamen come up with a dry excuse to dismiss the emperor and all the officials. But if this is the case, Yang Shaohe will not be able to dismiss it."

"Secondly, I suspect that Ruan Yue, the treasurer of Ming Feixia Building, has a big problem. Although she seems to belong to Han Wenyun, Xuefangyuan and Xing Shuo have recently found out that some news networks of Feixia Building and Han Wenyun's are deliberately staggered. , and Han Wenyun accidentally acquiesced to this approach. I find this very strange, so tonight I designed someone to lead out Ruan Yue. This can not only test Han Wenyun's attitude, and then infer Ruan Yue's identity, but also let Han Wenyun who has been keeping this matter Yang Shao, who was kept in the dark, became suspicious. After all, his darling son died, but a poor family merchant woman he despised was alive, and she had some past with his son, which is very intriguing."

Zhao Liangyue looked at Chu Bandit's back, his robes fluttering against the wind, standing between the sky and the earth with his hands behind his back, strategizing, and laying out the layout under the still water, he couldn't help but think of the innocent woman who never forgot that Chu Bandit died tragically under the hand of Yang Yaozong under the cliff of Heng'en Temple. Thinking of how in the 13 years since the teacher's death, Chu Bandit has been doing his best every step of the way, hiding himself in the dark, and playing this game of chess with Wang Han with a weak chance of winning.

"Actually, if there is a better candidate, Han Wenyun will not support Yang Shao and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry." Zhao Liangyue took two steps forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with Chu Bandit in the night wind, and said, "Only from the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry From the messy accounts, it is known that Yang Shaohe is a person who is accustomed to using his official position to overwhelm others, and only seeks temporary benefits, leaving many loopholes."

"You're right. For Han Wenyun, Yang Shaohe's biggest advantage is obedience. Now that this dog is old and bereaved, he must be in great grief, but he still has to pay for Han Wenyun. He can't really live in peace."

"Presumably, Prime Minister Han himself knows this truth. Yang Shaohe will soon become an abandoned son. We have to make Yang Shaohe worthwhile in advance." Zhao Liangyue looked sideways at Chu Bandit and said, "They have already Bring out the ink corruption case in Ningzhou disaster relief, then use the messy accounts of the Ministry of Industry to make this fire bigger."

"Then I'll be in charge of fanning the flames in the Sanju Department and bringing the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry into the mix. Then other matters will be up to you, Xilin." Bandit Chu said, smilingly cupping his hands at Zhao Liangyue.

Zhao Liangyue also smiled and bowed his hands to Chu Bandit, saying: "I have already prepared everything with Mr. Wei, just waiting for this east wind."