Rui Hegui

As night fell, the rain outside the stone pavilion did not know when it started to rain heavily, but now it became torrential, and suddenly the wind picked up, making the bead curtains flutter, and the rain fell into the pavilion.

"It's really weird. There is no trace of such a big conspiracy."

Xue Ran sighed and remained silent for a long time before continuing: "Afterwards, General Chi fled north to Cangqing Mountain, where he was taken in by the Lord Lei Zhai, and he rescued me after a while. After many twists and turns, we only found five There are thousands of surviving Fan family soldiers, but there is no place for us in the world at that time, so we have to hide in Tibet." Xue Ran took a mouthful of Lu Fangqiu, like a fire entering his throat, and said, "Brother Wang has never heard from us. We all thought he was dead, and it wasn't until two years later that the three of us met as promised and started to find the truth of the old case together."

Xue Ran said, looked at Zhao Liangyue, and said: "When the incident happened, Mrs. Marquis Wu'an was sent out of the capital by the prince and concubine, that is, the former empress. At that time, she was pregnant in August and was assassinated later. His life and death are unknown. But just five years ago, there was a hidden pile in Maozhou who found a clue, and Brother Wang went there alone."

"Unexpectedly, after a farewell, we will never see each other again."

Bandit Chu asked: "Have you found the son of Marquis Wu'an?"

Zhao Liangyue was about to tell Youbai's life experience, but Xue Ran gave him a look with his eyes. Zhao Liangyue caught a glimpse of the ashamed look on Chu Bandit's face from the corner of his eyes, thought for a moment, and then clearly did not speak.

Bandit Chu saw Xue Ran shaking his head, and the little hope that had ignited was instantly extinguished, and his heart sank.

Ping Peng, who had been watching from the sidelines, glanced at Bandit Chu, clicked his tongue and said: "In the end, you never thought that the Wang and Han families would dare to cooperate with Tu Yuan and commit acts of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country."

"Exactly." Xue Ran said, "After six years of investigation, we discovered an organization called 'Yeyuan' among the Tuyuan people. For this reason, they all have unique skills, especially good at disguising, and they were specially established to deal with Da Xu back then."

Zhao Liangyue frowned, and asked: "Back then, Ye Yuan infiltrated into the Fan family army without knowing it, and cooperated with the inside and the outside?"

Xue Ran nodded heavily.

Everyone couldn't help but feel that the strange feeling of coldness climbed up their spines.

Fan Jiajun, the most elite army in Daxu 13 years ago, was invincible and invincible, but was infiltrated by such a shady organization like a ghost.They can be a certain general, some humble soldier, or anyone who eats and sleeps with you. They are like an ant nest on a thousand miles away, slowly devouring your flesh and blood until finally you collapse. At the next moment, they quietly left like ghosts.

Bandit Chu said: "It's not just back then, Xi Lin and I suspected that Ye Yuan was still staying in Daxu, and the situation wasn't over yet."

Xue Ran wondered: "Back then, Yeyuan was built by Kriti, the illegitimate son of the former King Tuyuan. Later, the eldest prince Kerry Qiu succeeded to the throne. He was afraid of his power, so he managed to get rid of this younger brother. Disband Ye Yuan, unless..."

Zhao Liangyue said: "Unless Kerry Qiu was reluctant to part with this powerful force when he attacked, so he didn't kill the grass, and Kerry didn't die."

Xue Ran thought for a while, then frowned and said, "If that's the case, it's probably not Keliqiu who cooperated with Cang Qingshan."

Zhao Liangyue asked: "How did Senior Xue say that?"

"One year after the old case happened, when my whereabouts were revealed, I was ready to die. It was Tu Yuan's people who rescued us." Xue Ran recalled, "At that time, those Tu Yuan people claimed to be the eldest prince. People from Kerry, told us that Tu Yuan was divided into the main war faction and the main peace faction. It was Kriti who joined Wang Han to annihilate Fan's army, and belonged to the main war faction; I want to discuss a cooperation with us."

Zhao Liangyue thought for a while, looked at Bandit Chu, and said: "Tu Yuan's cooperation with the wronged Fan family army can be said to kill two birds with one stone. One is to use this to contain the family of Wang Han and let it be used by him, and the other is to use Fan's army's dissatisfaction with the court. Help yourself to get things done at critical times."

Chu Pi said: "But as far as Tu Yuan is concerned, the destruction of Fan's army is only good for Kerry, but Ye Yuan is different. He has already shown terrifying power in front of Kerry. Kerry will not be able to tolerate it. Ye Yuan Only by keeping Keliqiu in need of it all the time and firmly grasping the bargaining chip in his hand can he survive. And this bargaining chip is the old case of Fan Jiajun. As long as Fan Jiajun is still alive, Tu Yuan will be afraid, and Wang Han will be afraid. Therefore, The one who can kill two birds with one stone in Tu Yuan should be Ye Yuan."

"It seems that Yeyuan really still exists in Daxu." Xue Ran frowned deeply, "I just don't know if Kriti is still alive."

Zhao Liangyue said: "Whether Kriti is alive or not, as long as Yeyuan exists in Daxu, Daxu will not be at peace."

"And Ye Yuan's current strength is probably even more terrifying than back then." Chu bandit said, "It seems that the gunpowder dropped by the Feixia Tower in Jingdu is probably Ye Yuan planning something, and Han Wenyun is just borrowing from us After all, if Tu Yuan really becomes the lord of the world, Han Wenyun's life will not be easy. The only thing Han Wenyun didn't expect is that we want to use this to uncover the big case in Ningzhou."

Zhao Liangyue nodded, and said: "Eunuch Cao is going to Xiangyuan City alone, and the clues left by Jiang Canjun before his death are also Xiangyuan City. It seems that the answers to many things should be there."

Xue Ran suddenly thought of something, and said, "The direction General Chi is heading south seems to be Xiangyuan City."

Bandit Chu got up and slid his fingers back and forth between Ningzhou and Xiangyuan City, finally heaved a sigh and said: "It's a pity that we are short on time for this trip, we can't go to Xiangyuan City to investigate, we can only solve the Ningzhou issue first Return to order, and then go south to find out the old case."

Zhao Liangyue also said: "It's been more than a month since we left Beijing, and we don't have much time left."

Hearing this, Pingpeng smiled, stood up and raised his chin three meters away, and said, "Go and get it."

Soon, Sanmi brought a box, Zhao Liangyue took it and opened it, and found that it was a secret letter between the Ministry of War and officials in Ningzhou and nearby counties, both old and new, even for five years, all of which were serious crimes similar to selling officials and selling titles , It is even a capital crime to bribe the Ministry of War to privately recruit government soldiers.

Ping Peng said: "Although we can't do anything about the iron mine, these secret letters are enough for you to take them back and ponder over them, and then follow the vines to tear down the man from the Ministry of War."

Zhao Liangyue and Chu bandit bowed their hands to Pingpeng to express their gratitude, Pingpeng smiled: "Okay, you two are bowing back and forth, just like worshiping Gaotang."

After saying that, Ping Peng got up and went to the map, rubbed his chin to look at it, and turned to Xue Ran: "I said, Mr. Xue, as soon as the news of his two visits to Ningzhou came, you started to look at it every day." Map of Ningzhou has been thinking hard, let me tell you about your results."

Xue Ran also got up and came over, and said: "Yeyuan's people want to use the hands of Cang Qingshan to get rid of Chu bandits and his party, while Han Zhou wants to catch mantises, cicadas and orioles behind them, and when they die, they will be killed as important officials of the court." Taking Cangqing Mountain for the sake of completely erasing the Fan family army. Presumably Ye Yuan also saw this, so he let General Chi go south with the remaining [-] Fan family soldiers." Xue Ran pointed to Tang County and Cang County. A small town in the mountains.

"Shui County?" Ping Peng thought for a while, nodded his head uniquely, turned to Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue and said, "Although Shui County is small, it has fog barriers all the year round, especially in the rainy summer season."

Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue looked at each other and understood Xue Ran's meaning.

Do whatever you can, and cross the sea with the sky.

Whether it was Ye Yuan or Han Zhou, they wanted Chu Bandit and his party to be buried in Ningzhou. If that was the case, then they should create a false impression and let the other party think that they had been killed.

When the other party started to take the next step, Ye Yuan's people confronted Han Zhou's people, and Chu bandit and others took the opportunity to go to Tang County to find evidence of the iron ore case.

Bandit Chu said: "The military strategists set up the formation, with the mountains on the right and the water on the left. They pay attention to local conditions. Now, there is a fog barrier in Shui County to camouflage and hide. It is an excellent location and a good opportunity."

Xue Ran nodded: "The old man has already thought about it. Using himself as a bait, he designed to attract people from Han Zhou and Yeyuan to fight in Shui County, creating a battle that is fake and real, and we can fish in troubled waters."

"It's indeed a good strategy, but," Zhao Liangyue frowned slightly, and said, "The key to the Tang County Iron Mine case lies in the accounts, but there is no clue yet, and I'm afraid there is not enough time."

Xue Ran smiled: "Although the old man is indeed incapable of breaking Han Zhou's bones, I have lived in Ningzhou for 13 years. Do you still remember the two officials in Tang County? They hibernated for five years. Years, among other things, they still know who is in charge of the accounts in Tang County, it's just..."

Xue Ran looked at Zhao Liangyue, frowned and said, "The two of them tried to look through some of the accounts, but Han Zhou's accounting method is as deceitful as his own, mixed with true and false, indistinguishable from true and false, extremely complicated. It is really difficult for others to see the problem. Now that Bandit Chu came to Ningzhou, he brought you a person from the household department, do you have the ability to see the problem in a short time, and then explain the intricate relationship behind it?"

Zhao Liangyue smiled lightly, cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry Senior Xue, as long as I can take a look at it, it's enough to get a glimpse of what's going on."

There is no hesitation, no lies, but a kind of calmness with a well-thought-out plan, calm as still water, and hidden turbulence.

Xue Ran seemed to see Wang Taboo who entered the court at the beginning of the year again.

20 years ago, Daxu had internal and external troubles, and there was no one worthy of great responsibility in the court. Emperor Jianning went to Cangji Mountain five times in person, trying to invite the current "Cangji Double Walls" to come down to help the world, but returned in vain.

Cangji has two bibi, one bibi is senior brother Yun Hezi, who is good at swordsmanship, his martial arts are so profound that no one in the world can match him, and the other bibi is junior brother Rui Hezi, who likes to play games, knows ancient and modern times and is unparalleled in talent, which is rare in the world Great talent.

Finally, for the sixth time, Emperor Jianning invited Rui Hezi, one of the "Double Walls of Cangji", to come down the mountain.

Rui Hezi was expelled from Cangji Mountain because he violated Cangji Mountain's ban on not being involved in the court, and returned to his status as a common man. The son of the Wang family, named Yizi, taboo.

On the day when Wang Taboo first entered the Changtai Hall, Emperor Jianning personally led a hundred officials to meet him in Danchi, and even the veterans who were usually sick were supported by others, wanting to see his splendor.

At that time, Xue Ran was still an inconspicuous head of the Ministry of War. He stood at the end with a bow, all his thoughts were on the errands assigned to him by his superiors, and he was afraid that if he could not do well, he would tell him to leave. interest.

He is nothing more than a small official with the size of a sesame seed. It is enough to settle down and support a family. He has no great ambitions. He is not interested in whoever is the emperor or whoever is a high-ranking official.

Suddenly the new wind blew up, making the copper bells of Changtai Hall clang, and the robes of all officials fluttered.

After a while, there was a chirping sound. It was actually a crane landed on the top of the Danchi, full and full, strolling in the garden, as if a fairy came by chance. When he came, he looked as if he was a god, and he only glanced at him.

As humble as Xue Ran, he has always been muddling along, but he immediately had the desire to pursue him.

Wang Yu bowed his hands to Emperor Jianning and bowed his head as a minister.

Xue Ran often thought later that such a person who is like a banished fairy should stay on Cangji Mountain all the time, untouched by the world for a lifetime, and live a free and happy life.

But in the end, in the end, he failed to match the heart of caring for the common people, and broke the pride of the filthy court.