Brocade tears

At around noon on June [-], Meng Kuang and Guo Dayou were arrested and temporarily detained in Jiashan County Government Prison.At the same time, Zhu Qingpei, the princess, rushed back to Hangzhou alone, and notified Mencius Xiu, Meng Yan and others of the matter.Sui'er and Qiu Bai, who stayed in Jiashan, have been standing still in the inn opposite the county government, observing the movement in the county government.

That day and night, at about two o'clock, another large group of people came to Jiashan County.Standing at the window on the second floor of the inn opposite the county government office, Qiu Bai recognized the flags carried by this group of people, which were the officers and soldiers they met in Jiulong Bay.They escorted a lot of prison cars, because the county government office is too small, they can only be stationed in a relatively spacious waterfront area on the east side of the county government office for the time being.

Qiu Bai speculated that they might have received an order to escort Shen Zhe and Shimadzu Suijiu, who they captured in Jiulong Bay, to Jiashan, where they would probably meet up here and head north together.

It is difficult for Qiu Bai and Sui Er to understand the specific situation, but Meng Kuang and Guo Dayou, who are in the prison of the county government, are very clear.Because someone came to see them, and the person who came was Zhang Dongwei from Qianhu of Beisi Inspection Office. He came to Jiashan with the troops escorting Shen Zhe and Shimadzu Suijiu.Previously, in Hangzhou, he had asked Meng Kuang and Guo Dayou to tell Lu Wang what kind of relationship he had with Wang Daoming.During the routine, Lu Wang gave the clue that Wang Daoming is the grandson of Wang Zhi.After this incident, Zhang Dongwei left Hangzhou, and Guo Dayou and Meng Kuang could not know where he went. They only thought that he was going to follow Wang Daoming.After Meng Kuang and Guo Dayou received the investigation news from Qiu Bai, they went to Jiulong Bay, Pinghu, and encountered Japanese pirates.

I didn't expect to see him here today after a few days.

"Oh, old eight, little thirteen, I haven't seen each other for a few days. Why are you all in prison suddenly? I'm not used to it." Zhang Laosi really deserves the title of "Smiling Hades", standing In front of Meng Kuang and Guo Dayou's cell, they opened their mouths to make a joke.

Not to be outdone, Guo Dayou replied: "It's so comfortable in this prison, I can finally catch up on sleep, and no one is urging you to do things, and there are people delivering meals, so happy." He didn't know how many nights he stayed up these days, There are already very thick dark circles under the eyes.

"Hey, you kid." Zhang Dongwei raised his hand and nodded at him, "You really don't panic at all, it seems that you can see that Commander Luo is setting someone up."

"Heh!" Guo Dayou smiled contemptuously and did not answer.

Zhang Dongwei straightened his face, and entered the topic: "I'm here to tell you a piece of news. I have brought Shimadzu Suijiu and Shen Zhe to Jiashan. They will go to Beijing with you. After entering Beijing, they will return to Jinyiwei Imperial Prison for interrogation." In addition, Wang Daoming has already escaped from Kowloon Bay. You may not have noticed him. He disguised himself as a Japanese pirate and hid in Kowloon Bay. It came out of Zhe's mouth."

"It turns out that the troops stationed in ambush outside Jiulong Mountain were really your work. You should have said it earlier. It caused Shisan and I to go deep into the dragon's lake and tiger's lair, and we were going through life and death. We didn't ask for anything." Guo Dayou was very dissatisfied.

"How did I know that you would be so bold as to break into the caves of Longtan and Tiger? You didn't even say hello to me, and went to deal with the Japanese pirates alone. This is too reckless, and my plan was almost destroyed by you. Originally, I planned to Enclosing the bay to make a catch in a urn, you are good, disturbed the muddy water, and let go of several important traitors and Japanese pirates, the most important thing is to let the thief Wang Daoming escape, what do you want me to say about you?" Zhang Dongwei said dissatisfiedly, "I saw that the movement in the bay was not good, so I immediately got out of the boat and ran to the sea to intercept it, but I still didn't stop them, and let those Japanese pirates escape. I really want to come back and settle accounts with you!"

Guo Dayou curled his lips and said, "It's no wonder we two. The task of investigating Japanese pirates was assigned to me and Shisan by the superiors. Why are you interfering? You always keep your information secret and don't share it with your brothers. You are mysterious." Mysterious, you're still complaining when the missions collide with each other."

"Fart! How long has I been investigating this arms case, how can I give it up to you two?" Zhang Dongwei was angry.

"Okay, stop arguing!" At this moment, a majestic voice suddenly sounded in the prison. It turned out that Luo Sigong, the commander of Jin Yiwei, came down to the prison in person, "It's my ineffective command and improper arrangement. It's done badly, we can't explain it to the Holy One. Plus you..."

He looked at Meng Kuang, a little annoyed, but then restrained his emotions, and said coldly: "Meng Shisan, you can do it yourself, it's hard to say whether I can keep you this time, and it took me a lot of effort to speak up and plead for you. It's really bad luck!"

Meng Kuang looked a little guilty, and bowed his head to salute Commander Luo to express his gratitude.Guo Dayou on the side smiled and said:

"Commander, you are also excellent at protecting the calf."

Luo Sigong was like a firecracker being lit, pointing at Guo Dayou and said angrily: "You! Guo Ba, I haven't talked about you yet. You are so smart and confused for a while, tell me how long you and Meng Shisan have been together ? Why can’t you tell that she is a woman? Huh?”

Guo Dayou's face suddenly turned red, and he couldn't hold back.Meng Kuang rolled his eyes and looked aside, pretending that he was not here.But Guo Dayou is thick-skinned after all, and still faces the boss's scolding with a smile.

Luo Sigong continued: "I asked you to take this mission, one of the purposes is to allow you to escape outside, you have an uneasy woman with you, and you can't stay in Beijing. It can lead the snake out of the hole and separate the needle and thread from the intricate situation. The second is to let you go outside to check the picture related to Li Sui'er. When I assigned you the task, I repeated these two Several times, you should have heard it very clearly. It is just a disguise for you to go to Yuhang to investigate the Japanese pirates. Don’t even think about it. Your fourth brother was involved in the case of arms and Japanese pirates. Why did you rob him? After the riots in Hangzhou, Lu Wang and others, you should stop. I didn’t expect you to be so persistent. You insisted on going to Kowloon Bay to intervene in this matter. Do you not trust your fourth brother? Or the first day you entered Jinyiwei? ?”

Seeing that the commander was backing him up, Zhang Dongwei was beside him smiling so hard that he couldn't see his teeth.

"Didn't anyone think that Wang Daoming and Li Sui'er were involved? We wanted to investigate Li Sui'er, and naturally we found out about Wang Daoming. The Japanese pirates case, so it collided with the fourth brother's case. I insisted on going to Kowloon Bay, and I didn't intend to take credit for it, but I was afraid that Shen Zhe and Wang Daoming would run away. Commander, you need to know that the situation is stronger than others , We just went up the mountain to check the situation that day, how could we know that the situation took a turn for the worse, and in the end we had no choice but to protect ourselves, we stabbed a hornet's nest." Guo Dayou said with a wry smile.

Heh, she knew that Guo Dayou had concealed the real purpose of the mission from her when she came out this time, Meng Kuang snorted coldly in his heart.She knew that the reason why Lao Guo concealed her real purpose from her was that she didn't want her to affect the task with emotion, and also to prevent her from revealing her real purpose to Sui Er, which would cause Sui Er to have unwanted thoughts in her heart.It's just that she was somewhat upset that something she knew well was brought to the surface.

"Come on, don't talk about it." Luo Sigong waved his hand, and then said, "Guo Ba, the two people you arrested before are Lao Liu and the Jurchen, and now they are being questioned in the torture room. , I have to go to Beijing with you. That Jurchen is indeed, as you said, a subordinate of Shu Erhaqi. And the sixth... alas... I didn't expect that my Beisi was also infiltrated. This sixth, he knows the Jinyiwei well. Interrogation routines, an iron mouth, it is too difficult to get any valuable information from him."

Sixth?Meng Kuang was at a loss, could it be said that he was Feng Cheng, the "Life and Death Official" who was the Sixth of the Thirteenth Taibao?He is one of the thousand households of the Beizhen Fusi Management Office, which is responsible for managing the archives and various supervision records of all princes, nobles, civil and military officials in the imperial court.She looked at Guo Dayou with some doubts, and Guo Dayou just caught her gaze and explained:

"It's the fake scholar that Miss Sui'er said was following Zhang Wu." Guo Dayou had never had a chance to tell Meng Kuang about this before.

Meng Kuang suddenly realized that it was him!So the fake scholar is Feng Liu?Not to mention Sui'er, even Meng Kuang had never met Feng Chengfeng's sixth son. He was the only [-]th Taibao who did not attend the ceremony of Meng Kuang's [-]th Taibao. Besides him, he was Wang Daoming.This person was extremely mysterious. Meng Kuang had never seen him when he went to the Jinyiwei archives to search for information, and he didn't know where he was all day long.Unexpectedly, he became the same as Wang Daoming, and helped Wang Daoming track Zhang Yunxiu and deliver information.

At this moment, Luo Sigong turned his head to look at Meng Kuang and said, "You don't have to worry about the safety of Li Sui'er and Zhang Yunxiu. I have already arranged people to protect them secretly, and they will go to Beijing with us safely. Well, I can't be here either. Stay for a long time, I still have to deal with Chen Ju. You guys, keep your mouths shut, the show is over, go to Beijing honestly, don’t make me any trouble, do you hear me?"

"Yes." Guo Dayou, Meng Kuang and Zhang Dongwei clapped their hands together and answered.

Luo Sigong left with Zhang Dongwei, and only Meng Kuang and Guo Dayou were left in the cell. Meng Kuang couldn't help asking:

"Why did Feng Cheng become accomplices with Wang Daoming? The archives office... Could it be that he saw some confidential information?"

Guo Dayou replied: "It's hard to say now, I met our mysterious and low-key sixth brother last night. Actually, I have a very good relationship with him, and we are chess friends. To be honest, in terms of intelligence, he may not be as good as him." I, but in terms of how much I know, I am far inferior to him. He knows astronomy and geography, and he knows very well about the famous people in the entire Ming Dynasty. Over the years, he has managed I don't know how much information he has read and memorized in the archives office. It is difficult for us to guess what he knows and what prompted him to cooperate with Wang Daoming. The title of "life and death official" is not random, he knows How many shady secrets, but if he speaks out, he will send people to hell, just like the life and death officials in hell, in charge of the book of life and death, and control the length of life."

He paused, then continued: "Do you still remember that I once told you about Li Sui'er's biological mother? I said that Jinyiwei North Town Fusi was in charge of all the court secret records of that year. As early as seven years ago, That is, when I first joined Beizhen Fusi, Lao Liu once showed me the secret files of the Longqing period. This secret file was secretly left by his master back then. Looking back now, I always feel that there is something wrong with this matter. Strange, maybe he was testing me at the time to see if I was interested in this matter, maybe he wanted to form a cooperative relationship with me and investigate this matter in depth. Maybe he already knew something about Zhang Juzheng and Li Sui'er at that time But then, he didn’t choose to work with me.”

"Could it be that...in the Jinyiwei who went to Shanxi to intercept the Yaerqiang mission back then, did someone have any relationship with Feng Cheng?" Meng Kuang suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked.

Guo Dayou twirled his beard, sighed, and didn't answer.