[75] Zhao Yan falls into a dream

In the capital, the study of Duke Anguo's mansion.An Guozheng received the messenger from Chuzhou, rubbed off the wax seal on the secret letter, unfolded the letter paper, and frowned instantly.After reading the whole article, An Guogong Zhao Jin's anger reached its peak.Sweeping with arms, there was a "crash", and the ground was in a mess, and Zhao Jin slumped on the chair as if he had lost his strength and remained silent.

After a long time, he raised his head, his face swept away, and a stern look appeared on his face. "Come here" The people outside the door hurriedly opened the door and entered the house when they heard the order, and knelt down to wait for the order regardless of the mess on the ground.

"Now that Bao Heizi has entered Chuzhou, he has also checked the bank of the official warehouse, and the account books have already fallen into the hands of Zhan Zhao and others. Now you go and take care of Chen Chang and the others. Keep your hands and feet clean. Be sure to do it before the Kaifeng mansion finds them, and if you fail to complete the task this time, you don’t have to come back.” The kneeling man nodded repeatedly and hurriedly took his orders and left.

"My lord, it's all about that Zhan Zhao's fault. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have lost so many people, and the account books wouldn't have been lost." A white-faced, fine-eyed scholar-like person beside him said to Zhao Jin. "That's because they are not as skilled as others. Why do you have a good idea? Tell me?" Zhao Jin squinted at his adviser, Mr. Cheng.

"No matter how powerful Zhan Zhao is, he is still an individual, and he also has weaknesses. I heard that he and his wife have a very good relationship, and his wife gave him two sons. We might as well tie up his family, are we afraid that he won't listen to us?" As he said that, Mr. Cheng laughed.

Zhao Jin thought for a long time before slowly nodding her head: "It's not a disaster for my wife and children. It's inevitable that I'll lose my reputation by doing things like this. I didn't hear that." After speaking, she got up and walked out of the room. "However, who made them Zhan Zhao's wife and children? Hahahaha" he laughed and left.

At night, the courtyard of the Zhan family was quiet.The two little ones were tired from playing, and they slept soundly with the company of the nanny. Mu Yan was half lying down holding a book and reading page after page, feeling that her eyelids were involuntarily drooping down like lead weights. Lose.Put away the books, get out of bed and drink half a glass of water, and get ready to rest.Lie on the fluffy pillow, close your eyes and feel sleepy.Mu Yan counted the days, Zhan Zhao had been gone for nearly a month, and no news came back, and there was no special change in the capital, everything was as usual.Thinking about sleepiness, Mu Yan fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, a few men in black outside the courtyard quietly jumped up to the wall of Zhan's house, then turned into the courtyard gently, and sneaked into the inner house.The moonlight was bright and silvery, and they found Kuayuaner where Mu Yan was without any difficulty, and when they were about to insert Mixiang into the window paper, they heard a sneer from above, and all the killers looked up in surprise. When I went there, I saw a person lying on the roof looking at the moon as if nothing had happened.

"When did this person lie on it? Could it be that there is still an ambush?" The killers were puzzled, and saw the man sitting up slowly, and under the moonlight, he actually had a grimace.Several people turned pale with shock, and took a closer look. It turned out that the man was wearing a mask on his face, but the mask was exquisitely made. It was made of some unknown material and stuck tightly to his face. Suddenly, it seemed to be a long mask. That's it.

The gangsters hadn't recovered from the fright when suddenly there was a sound of wind breaking behind their heads, and two of them fell down before they could turn their heads.Only then did the rest of the people realize that there was actually a person on the roof of the main house, who was also standing silently on the roof, wearing night clothes that blended into the night.

All of a sudden, there was a loud shout for killing.The people on the roofs on both sides rushed down like two sharp arrows and shot straight into the group of killers. One of them wielded a broad-backed golden-ringed sword, and the other wielded two brass hammers. The wind caught several killers off guard and several others were knocked to the ground.The rest of the people rushed back to fight back, and after a fight, all the killers were captured alive.

Originally, it's okay to be inferior to others and lose, but what surprised these people is that such a loud voice didn't wake up the sleeping people in the house. Could it be that Zhan Zhao's wife couldn't hear it?

Of course Mu Yan couldn't hear, but it wasn't a problem with her ears. It's just that since Zhan Zhao left, she always felt that it was not safe to live in the Zhan Zhai. Besides, Si Shu also received a message from Bai Yutang to come to the capital and live at home. It was convenient, so everyone discussed it, and Mu Yan opened the small door that originally led to Kaifeng Mansion. During the day, she took the child in the exhibition house as usual, and at night, she took the nanny and child back to the original courtyard of Kaifeng Mansion Zhanzhao for the night. .

Even people with evil intentions would never have imagined that Mu Yan didn't live at home at all, and only four of the prestigious Five Rats of Hanging Island lived at home.Originally, Sishu didn't think it was necessary, but after this night, Sishu couldn't help admiring Mu Yan's foresight.

When the rooster crowed, An Guogong got up to prepare for the morning morning. When he was about to go out, he saw the master hurried over and whispered something in his ear.An Guogong's originally rosy face suddenly turned pale, and even his body trembled slightly involuntarily. He stretched out his trembling fingers and tapped the tip of the master's nose for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: "They're all a bunch of idiots? This time It killed the old man." After speaking, he went straight to the sedan chair and lowered his head into the sedan chair.

The sedan chair walked halfway, Duke An suddenly kicked the sedan door to let the bearer go home.Not long after returning to the gate of the Duke's Mansion, he told someone to go to the household department to ask for leave, and he stepped into the study with heavy steps.There was the sound of crackling and falling things in the study, and the servants outside the house were silent, not even daring to breathe, for fear of accidentally touching something bad and losing their lives.

After a while, Master Cheng walked into the study with a submissive woman behind him.The three stayed in the study for half an hour, and the woman followed Mr. Cheng out with a happy face, and left the Duke's mansion without a trace.

Mu Yan came back early in the morning and saw the nine men in black locked in the firewood room. She couldn't help but sincerely thank the scriptwriter of the TV series. If she hadn't watched many TV series, she wouldn't have been so defensive. If she hadn't arranged it like this I'm afraid I don't know where to reunite with my child today.

Together, Mu Yan and Si Shu thought that the people behind the scenes would not let go, so they simply sent the nine people to the prison in Kaifeng Mansion overnight.And I and the four mice should continue to be careful.

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of bad things, you are afraid of bad people.At dinner that day, a few people were sitting around and were about to move their chopsticks. Jiang Ping, the fanjiang mouse, just put his favorite chicken feet to his mouth, and a strange smell entered his nose. He put the chopsticks down again. "Everyone, don't eat, there is something wrong with the dishes on this table." After finishing speaking, he picked up the chopsticks and smelled them one by one. After a circle, only two dishes had no peculiar smell, and the rest had a slight strange smell. He took a small piece of broken silver and pressed it into the fried pork ribs in front of him. Suddenly, the side where the silver touched the ribs became pitch black, and everyone was shocked.

Seeing this change, Mu Yan said: "It seems that that person has lost his composure, or maybe Zhan Zhao and the others have succeeded, and the party here wants to fight a trapped beast." The four of them agreed deeply.Mu Yan thought about it carefully, and felt that it would be better to find out the mastermind behind the scenes.Lu Fang's elder Xu Qing is cautious, the two feel that this plan is too risky and they should deal with it carefully and make a long-term plan.But Mu Yan and Han Zhang and Jiang Ping didn't think so. Mu Yan said: "If there is a thousand days to be a thief, there is no reason to be a thousand days to guard against thieves. It's better to catch that person by tricks, so as not to sleep in peace."

The result of the discussion was three to two, the minority obeyed the majority, and Lu Fang and Xu Qing could only obey.The three of Mu Yan discussed it, and they all felt that they should pretend to be poisoned and catch the poisoner first.That night the exhibition house was in chaos, the maids were crying, and the doctors came one after another, shaking their heads and leaving.Within three or two days, everyone in Kaifeng knew that Zhan Zhao's wife and child were poisoned and were about to die. Even the imperial physicians were helpless.

In the Duke's mansion, Zhao Jin and Master Cheng celebrated each other, excited that they could finally hit Zhan Zhao hard, and even thought of Zhan Zhao's pain when he learned that his wife and child were killed because of his relationship after returning to Beijing, and then lost his fighting spirit.While being excited, Mr. Cheng thought that he should go to find out the truth, so he planned to bring the poisoner into the mansion tomorrow for interrogation.

The next day, Mr. Cheng sneaked to the corner door at the back of the exhibition house, and waited for a long time before seeing the woman who brought him into the mansion that day.The woman looked panic-stricken, and when she saw Mr. Cheng, she kept asking: "Didn't you say that you are not? Now that I have killed the mistress, Lord Zhan will not let me go when he comes back. You agreed to give me a sum of money for my son." After paying off the gambling debts, he sent us to hide from the limelight. When are we leaving?" Seeing that he really got it, Mr. Cheng calmly took out a money bag from his bosom, and confessed that he would meet at the North City Gate at Haishi tonight. See you, arrange for the two of them to leave.The woman entered the house gratefully, but she didn't see the sinister smile on Master Cheng's mouth behind her.

At Haishi, dark clouds cover the moon.The rear corner door of the exhibition house was quietly opened, and a woman came out with a big bag on her shoulders.A young man was waiting for her under a tree not far away.Seeing her coming forward, he took the burden in her hand and dragged her towards the north city gate.Neither of them noticed that there was a black shadow following behind them.

In the woods outside the north gate, Mr. Cheng stood in the backlight waiting for the two to appear. Seeing the two coming in a hurry, the sneer on his lips became even more divine.He muttered a word of courting death and turned around to show his figure.Those two people were obviously very happy to see Master Cheng. When they were catching up, they might as well suddenly kill a few masked men and surround her.

"Master Cheng, what are you doing here?" The young man looked at the people around him warily, while waiting for an opportunity to escape.

"What are you doing, of course I'm sending you away." Master Cheng didn't talk nonsense, he turned and left after making a gesture.The masked man surrounded her mother and son closer and closer, until then they knew that Mr. Cheng was going to kill them to silence them. They were shocked and turned their heads to run away, but the masked man was surrounded like an iron bucket, how could they escape? .

Just when the two were lamenting that blood was going to be splashed on the spot today, four people in night clothes suddenly came out from the periphery, one of them threw a bag of powder with his hand, and all the masked people lost their fighting power on the spot and were paralyzed and unable to move. .A few men in black tied up the masked men like zongzi, leaving the two to guard.The other two returned to the exhibition house with the mother and son.

Two flowers bloomed, one for each, Mu Yan was singing a big show, Chuzhou was not at peace, ever since Chen Chang and Qian Kelun were taken into custody, someone robbed the prisoner every now and then, and someone even bribed the jailer to drug the two of them and death.Everyone in Kaifeng Mansion was disturbed, and the jailers in Chuzhou were changed all over the place. Due to the lack of manpower, Mr. Bao took the emperor's decree and asked the army to take over the custody of the prisoners. The letter and the secret order came with five hundred soldiers overnight.

As soon as the officers and soldiers arrived, Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and all the subordinates of Kaifeng Mansion breathed a sigh of relief.The nerves that had been tense over the past few days relaxed a little. After everyone discussed, they decided to bring a group of prisoners back to Beijing for trial. Now that there are all witnesses and material evidence, the ink corruption case in Chuzhou should be solved smoothly.After a two-day rest, five hundred officers and a group of officials from Kaifeng government escorted seventeen criminals headed by Chuzhou prefect Qian Kelun and Chuzhou general judge Chen Chang back to Beijing for trial.

The return journey was smooth sailing. It seems that the intervention of the government and the army represented the attitude of the emperor, and those who started the attack were also watching the situation.But they didn't know that Mu Yan and Sishu had already cooperated with Prime Minister Wang to catch a bunch of killers, and they obtained the exact evidence of the mastermind behind the scenes through the prime minister's secret interrogation.Now it's time for them to bring the criminals back to Beijing for trial.

Half a month later, the largest ink corruption case in recent years was tried at the Ministry of Criminal Justice in the capital. Qian Kelun, the former governor of Chuzhou, and Chen Chang, the former judge, both confessed to the corruption of ink, and pointed out that the person instigated by the capital was An Guogong Zhao Jin.All of a sudden, the streets and alleys were full of discussions, and everyone in the once prosperous Anguo Mansion became street rats.

After the three trials, An Guogong Zhao Jin was sentenced to guillotine punishment, his family members were sentenced to exile in Lingnan, and all the property in the family was confiscated; Qian Kelun and Chen Chang were both executed in court, and all the men in the family were sent as slaves, and the female family members served as official prostitutes The person who poisoned was Zhu Shi, a kitchen helper. Because her son owed gambling debts, the master of the Duke's Mansion found out, and used this as a pretext to trick her into poisoning Mu Yan and Four Rats. After trial, she served ten years in prison.So far, the ink corruption case in Chuzhou has come to an end.

At that time, Zhan Zhao was lying on the bed with a wound that hadn't healed for more than a month, listening to Mu Yan's soft words and scolding, and seeing the children lying beside him, he felt infinitely satisfied.There was a commotion outside the door, and Bai Yutang's voice came: "Smelly cat, pretend to be dead as soon as you come back, where did the promised wine and meat reward go..."