Delong

Chapter 68

That day's direct remonstrance by Yan Yan seemed to have had a little effect—on the afternoon of the second day, Cao Zhongcheng, who had returned from Nanya, issued a new order, ordering the three elite patrol teams in Jing'an Tower to target Luoshui, The east and the south of the city carried out key surveillance and inspections to prevent the self-stealing of official materials, severely crack down on smuggling, and maintain the order of Mingtang construction.

Among them, the inspection team in charge of the most important Luoshui channel fell on the inspection team of Bai Yousibai, the eldest daughter of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, without any accident.

But these have little impact on Zhang Xing, because he still does not go out to work.

If you have to talk about the influence... I don't know if it's an illusion, but after returning that day, Bai Yousi, who didn't mention the aftermath of that day, seemed to be more alienated from Zhang Xing, and the communication between the two became less Some.But even so, Zhang Sanlang didn't react too much, instead he worked more diligently and seriously.

In fact, under Zhang Baishou's suggestion, through Bai Yousi's channel, the three inspection groups that accepted the special task specially merged the copywriters, and all the special case closing reports were collected in a unified way, and he polished and reviewed it before sending it to the black tower .

To be honest, it's a bit over the top.

After all, although everyone knows that Zhang Sanlang has a close relationship with the black ribbons of the Black Tower, and his copywriting is superb, which can save his brothers a lot of trouble.However, when handling cases in the field, especially this kind of thing, there will definitely be oil and water, and the oil and water are generally divided by the patrol team as a unit. It is very embarrassing for everyone to show the oil and water to other patrol teams.

But still the same sentence, who made this special activity obviously involved with the Ministry of Industry?The daughter-in-law of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Industry took the most difficult job and asked for a unified summary. Why didn't Cao Zhongcheng allow it?Zhu Shou of the other two groups didn't even have a chance to speak up against it.

"Have you finished filling out the form? Let's deal with the key information of yesterday's case." Gradually, with the official arrival of winter, Zhang Baishou, who was concentrating on health preservation, actually had some dark circles under his eyes. "The Nancheng copper material case... finally fell on the Changsheng Gang?"

"Yes." The other two groups did not say that Bai Shou was doing the copywriting, and the one who spoke was a disabled patrol rider, who had been shot in the left knee by an arrow during the battle. "Wei Dingbian, the leader of the Longevity Clan, the master of Tongmai Dzogchen, was captured by our Lu Zhushou today. The whole gang of more than seventy people either died or fled or were captured, basically scattered."

"What did the Longevity Gang come from?" Zhang Xing thought for a moment, then continued to ask. "Will there be repetitions?"

"No." The opposite copywriter replied simply. "It's a new gang at all. We cleaned up Nancheng in the middle of the year, and Jiajingfang, their stronghold, became vacant. Then in autumn, there was a storm of recruitment and announcement. Wei Dingbian only entered Dongdu at this time, but came to Dongdu. Later, after seeing the prosperity of the local area, he disdained to join the army according to his father's order, so he hung out... I am a capable person, and when I came to Nancheng Copper Workshop with the gang, it also set up. Woke up."

"How much oil and water did you roll back?"

Inside the room, Zhang Xing suddenly lowered his voice.

"It's hard to say, many of them are copper materials and bronze utensils..." The copywriter replied with a dry smile.

"He also knows how to cast bronze at home?" The other group of copywriters next to him was surprised. This is an old patrol rider with a white ribbon, but he is still different from a promising white ribbon like Zhang Xing. And language. "Then your group can make a fortune."

"As soon as you change hands, you get half of the profit. Where do you get so much copper?" The copywriter kept shaking his head, as if he hadn't heard the second half of the sentence. "Business is unique."

"Han Jiulang." At this moment, Zhang Xing suddenly put down the paperwork and answered seriously. "I'm talking to you. I'm not trying to delay your group from getting rich. I just want to ask clearly. I have a score in my heart so that I can save you some trouble in copywriting... Tell me the truth now, the scrap copper you lost How much was the material, how much was confiscated... If you really don't understand the market price, I will call a shopkeeper from Beishi to come over and tell you!"

"Why should the third brother have an attack?" The copywriter was embarrassed for a moment, and smiled apologetically. "Isn't it difficult to calculate for a while...Let's put it this way, only copper materials are used for calculation, regardless of copper wares, there are always [-] guan missing in the accounts, and [-] guan was copied from the gang. We really didn't dare to take much. About There are three or four thousand guan in the public, and there are parts and wholes."

"Then where did the remaining [-] strings go?"

Zhang Xing frowned in response. "I'm not going to investigate the case, I'm asking you the truth, so I have a solid foundation in my heart."

"Where can I go? The local street cleaners and city wall managers all want to share their profits..." The clerk kept shaking his head. "Even the brothers in the group guessed that Yuanwailang, who was in charge of the waste smelting, turned a blind eye, so he should have shared a lot...that is, the amount was too large, too much oil and water. , it’s not easy to make fire consumption, otherwise you can eat it if you can.”

"alright."

Zhang Xing nodded again and again, and sure enough he didn't pay any attention to it, but went to look at another Baishou copywriter. "How was the third group in the east of the city yesterday? I think they arrested an official from the Ministry of Industry, and then smashed up a gang?"

"Yes, it's these two things." The elder Baishou's copywriter immediately responded. "The official of the Ministry of Industry is a typical guard and self-stealer. He is responsible for assigning the escorted materials. He actually asked the servant to deliver the new copper material directly to the square wall next to the courtyard wall of his house at night, and then asked his own son to carry it. The case is not worth it. More, a total of one or two thousand guan. As for the gang, it is composed of a group of Guanluo local servants, who specialize in collecting protection fees in the slave camp..."

"What thing?" Zhang Xing, who was recording, was dumbfounded. "Where is the protection fee collected?"

"Yuding camp..."

"Is the servant rich?"

"When I came here, whoever had some money at home wouldn't give some to their husbands and sons? Besides, there were winter clothes issued by the court, not to mention, they could force these servants to steal materials." The elder Bai Shou was not surprised. , Speaking of which, he even mentioned an old thing in reverse. "Zhang Sanlang, others are surprised, why are you surprised? On the way home when you were carrying the corpse of your partner on your back, didn't you encounter a bandit who wanted your boots? This angered you, killed four or five people, and then led out The two groups of you go to see..."

Zhang Xing nodded slowly, and then couldn't help asking: "Is this gang gone?"

"No more." Elder Bai Shou said with a smile. "No one is used to such dirty things. Our inspector personally took action and directly disturbed the leader of the gang in public, and returned the money."

"How can you still be clear?" Zhang Xing shook his head again and again, then lowered his head to fill out his own form. "Forget it, do you two have anything else to explain?"

"Our Zhu Shou asked me to ask Zhang Sanlang in private, why do I ask in such detail every time? Is it..."

"No." Zhang Xing didn't raise his head. "From a business point of view, it is to prevent a series of major cases from being discovered. From a personal point of view, it is because some people gossip and ruin Bai Gong's reputation."

"I see."

"now it's right……"

The relief of the two can be clearly sensed.

Involving the other two groups, everything is so hard and difficult, but there is no profit. After Zhang Xing finished the copy, he had to let the other two review it. The clerk got up and went home by himself.

The copywriters of the other two groups also felt that Zhang Xing was pitiful. He was clearly Bai Yousi's public and private leader, but he was required to suffer in vain. Thinking of Zhang Xing's previous visit to the Ji'an Houfu Baifu, he didn't have many smiling faces after returning. There is also a lot of speculation around.

Go home, eat, meditate and pulse, but there is an extra night of martial arts training, life at home has not changed much.

"The price of firewood has risen again."

Yueniang sat on the threshold of the kitchen with her chin resting on her back, watching Zhang Xingwu wield a knife and a gun, chatting some gossip from time to time.

"Oh?"

"It's winter, and too much wood is consumed outside the city. It is said that firewood is hard to find."

"Oh."

"But I don't know why, but the firewood delivered by the old man is quite stable. I said it's winter, and every time I add four bundles of firewood, he directly agrees."

"pretty good."

"I asked him why he didn't feel tired, and he said that his nephew had gone home and he didn't need him to collect firewood."

"Better."

"Second Brother Qin, will you go home for the Chinese New Year this year?"

"Why do you ask?"

"I saw that he received his mother's letter, and cried for a long time. The next day, he got up and found a businessman in Nanshi, asking him to send things and money to his family..."

"Well... If this is the case, it will be difficult to go home."

"why?"

"His mother's letter is probably to tell him to make progress, get ahead, and revive the prestige of the Qin family."

"But don't all mothers want their own children?"

"Go back to sleep!" Zhang Xing suddenly withdrew his knife and turned his head to warn.

Yueniang didn't say a word, and got into her own room next to the kitchen.

While Zhang Xing watched the other party close the door, Fu went into the other courtyard and knocked on Qin Bao's door: "Erlang, it's good to look after the house, but don't delay getting up early tomorrow and working hard... I'll go out for a while."

"I know." Qin Bao, who entered the room early, seemed a little surprised. "Don't you need my help?"

"No, it's just a small matter."

"Then the third brother will go back early."

"Understood." Zhang Xing nodded, turned around, entered the courtyard where he lived opposite, changed into a Jinwuwei standard saber, took a dagger, put on a set of black clothes, and vacated directly , Disappeared in the night without much light.

Three quarters of an hour later, he was lying at the home of Wang Zongqi who was in charge of the practice workshop, specifically, by the skylight above the bedroom in Wang Zongqi's home.

This Wang Zongqi was the one who arrested Niu Da in the previous Niu Da case.

And it's been a month and a half.

Zhang Xing has already found out the details, reputation, and daily activities of this person, and he has also thought about what he will do today while Wang Zongqi's wife returns to her natal home—for the sake of the overall situation, he can't take his own hands. Are the unevenness at the bottom leveled?

Can't be a high official, can't he be a hero?

In the middle of the night, the skylight was cut open, and then the eternal life energy was transported out, carefully drilled in, easily cut off with a knife, and then climbed up the wall, wrote a line of poems, and left a signature.

Immediately, he took some more broken silver, pushed the door open and left.

The whole process is crisp and smooth, without any sloppiness.

After Zhang Xing left, he escaped from the courtyard for a while, and just arrived at the square wall, suddenly a white figure appeared out of thin air, and directly flashed into Wang Zongqi's bedroom.

His eyes turned to the corpse on the bed, his fingertips overflowed with light, but he looked at the wall again, and then froze in place.

After a while, this person recited those few lines of new poems, jumped up, and disappeared into the night sky of Dongdu again.

There are only a few lines of poems left on the wall:

It is not ashamed to be a hero in the world.

Who can write the first "Taixuan Jing" before the copy?
It was Li Taibai, the hero of Zhongzhou, who signed the name.

PS: good night everyone

(End of this chapter)