Legend of the Knight

Chapter 95 Bai Jiuchi

Cheng Wangfu.

Bai Jiuchi hadn't slept since nightfall, and now instead of showing the slightest sleepiness on his face, he was full of energy.

There is a saying that makes sense, work is the best reward for workaholics.

In fact, there is no reason for this sentence. Is it the same thing for social animals to work overtime and father to work overtime?
But no matter what, Bai Jiuchi is now addicted, he has a refreshing feeling that the world is under his control without leaving the room.

Since last night, the spies who have already arranged have passed the information to Bai Jiuchi like snowflakes. Through these few words, Bai Jiuchi seems to have witnessed the tragic fighting between all parties.

Bai Jiuchi's tricky plan in Hangzhou City has been successfully completed, it can be said to have been completed very satisfactorily, the information from the sea has not yet returned in time, but it is expected that it will not be too bad.

The only thing that surprised Bai Jiuchi was the ex-prince son Huang Xiaoshi who met King Cheng yesterday.

This Huang Xiaoshi is actually a martial arts master.

To be honest, there was a huge change in yesterday's plan, and the change was Huang Xiaoshi.

Originally, Bai Jiuchi was about to go back to his room and force himself to sleep after receiving the information from Hangzhou City. He lay down and got up in the room, got up and lay down again, thinking about it, but couldn't fall asleep.

At this moment, Bai Jiuchi heard someone knocking on the door, and when he opened the door, he found that it was already bright outside.

Bai Jiuchi has a quirk. His room is airtight, and he needs to light up lights during the day, so there is no distinction between black and white.

In fact, it's not a quirk, it's because Bai Jiuchi stayed in the secret room for a long time and couldn't see the light.

He needs to get used to the sun for a while, so in order to make himself more comfortable, he directly made his bedroom the same as the secret room, without seeing the sun.

"What's the matter?" Bai Jiuchi couldn't help but yawned, and asked the butler.

It's strange to say that one doesn't feel drowsy without seeing the sun, but after seeing the sun, Bai Jiuchi felt a little drowsy instead.

"Mr. Bai, there is a scholar asking to see you." The steward said carefully to Bai Jiuchi.

Scholar?

Could it be that those scholars sent articles with famous posts again?
Bai Jiuchi asked casually: "What's the name of the scholar?"

The steward replied: "He is called a scholar."

Hearing this, Bai Jiuchi regained his energy immediately, and said quickly, "Please come in!"

The scholar and Danqing waited anxiously outside the door. They didn't know whether the concierge could get the message to Mr. Bai just by their own words.

There is an old saying that "a seven-rank official in front of the prime minister's gate", the concierge of the palace is probably only high but not low.

The scholar and Danqing were dressed in simple clothes, and they didn't have much ostentation. After hearing what they said, the porter politely replied "wait a moment" and closed the door. Who knows whether he went to report or went back to sleep. .

At this moment, the door opened with a creak, and a middle-aged man in white stepped out from the door, and said to the scholar and Danqing: "Please come inside, Mr. Bai is waiting for you."

It actually worked.

The people all call King Cheng a virtuous king, and the virtuous king of Cheng is not deceiving.

……

The scholar and Bai Jiuchi have met several times.

Bai Jiuchi also had a conversation with Shu Changchang once. They are both well-read poets and books. Although they took different paths in the end, they might as well regard each other as confidants.

Bai Jiuchi especially appreciates the calligraphy of the scholar. His calligraphy is not only ancient, but also flexible and unrestrained. There is also a free and easy meaning in the simplicity. With this good calligraphy alone, the scholar is enough to be called a master.

What Bai Jiuchi appreciates even more is that the scholar is not only good at calligraphy, but also really well-read poetry and books, and has a lot of knowledge.

Although the scholar seems to be out of shape all day long, Bai Jiuchi actually understands the distress in the scholar's heart very well: the more he reads, the more he feels that what he has learned is useless.

To obtain fame?

Pooh!
Bai Jiuchi, who also failed in the exams repeatedly, and even failed to pass the exam as a scholar, hated the imperial examinations.

Therefore, a truly learned man will either follow the current path of Bai Jiuchi, or he will take the refined path of traveling among mountains and rivers like a scholar.

The scholar and Danqing were brought into a small living room that was full of charcoal. After they entered the room, the steward left the guest room and closed the door.

Seeing that there is no fourth person here, the scholar hastily stepped forward, cupped his hands at Bai Jiuchi and said, "Mr. Bai, something serious happened last night!"

When Bai Jiuchi heard this, he couldn't hide the surprise on his face. He quickly asked the two to sit down, and pointed to the prepared cakes and tea on the seats.

After working all night and driving for dozens of miles, the scholar felt extremely thirsty, so he picked up a cup of tea and blew on it, and took a sip, the tea was just hot enough.So the scholar drank the tea in one gulp, and after taking a breath, he said to Bai Jiuchi.

"Mr. has a clever calculation, and it can be said that he has calculated every step accurately." The scholar opened the fan and fanned himself quickly.

After a while, the scholar put away the fan in his hand, and said with a sad expression: "I am ashamed of Mr. Bai. General Qi, General Qi was killed."

When the scholar said this, there was an uncontrollable sob in his tone.

After running around for a month, trying my best to contact people in the rivers and lakes, fighting desperately in the middle of the night, all the efforts failed.

The opponent used a tactic of diverting the tiger away from the mountain and attacking the west, evacuating the martial arts manpower in Hangzhou City, and then arranged a kill, directly went to the prison to assassinate General Qi.

The poor scholar claims to be rich in learning, and his calculations are only between Yu Liang, but he finds that when he really comes to work, he is actually a man of paper.

They won the battle against the Japanese pirates, but their core mission failed.

The scholar was both sad and guilty, he briefly told Bai Jiuchi what happened last night with a choked voice, and when he said that General Qi was poisoned and killed by thieves, he was sobbing.

After Bai Jiuchi accompanied him with a long sigh, he said, "Do your best, and follow the destiny. How can everything in the world be determined by people."

Seeing that the scholar's emotions were a little out of control, Danqing cupped his hands and said to the scholar: "Danqing, I am a close friend with the scholar. Hangzhou city is in chaos today, and the leader of the beggar gang, Li Hao, was arrested by the government. Mr. Bai has to find a way to arrest him. Help me."

Li Hao was arrested by the government?
When Bai Jiuchi heard this, he frowned.

Although Li Hao didn't meet Bai Jiuchi directly, he also knew that the information on the actions of the Japanese came from the palace.

Although the prince looked down on this group of beggars, Bai Jiuchi keenly discovered that as spies, beggars were the best.

The first advantage of beggars is that they are many, and it can be said that they are all over the street.Every beggar has a pair of eyes, and they can see everything in the city.

The second advantage of beggars is that they are cheap.The advantage of lowliness is that it doesn't attract attention. As long as you don't enter some places where beggars shouldn't go, most people don't pay much attention to beggars.

Another benefit of being cheap is saving money.It's funny to say that Bai Jiuchi only gave Li Hao ten taels of silver as a pension, and he actually recruited hundreds of desperadoes to intercept the Japanese. If he replaced them with other thugs, he might not be able to recruit ten people.

The third advantage of beggars is that they are ignorant.

Many people may disagree. It’s good to be a spy without knowledge, and you can’t understand any confidential information you get.

Well, here it is, Bai Jiuchi just wants the spy not to understand the information.

The more a spy knows, the more he will know, and the more a spy knows, the greater the danger of leaking secrets.

This is a difficult problem that has not been solved since ancient times, but it was solved by Bai Jiuchi.

According to Bai Jiuchi's request, each spy is responsible for different things, and the spies of different things can't talk indiscriminately, otherwise it will be important.

Then, a spy reported back: "This is a pillar."

The spy returns: "It's a wall."

The spy returned: "This is a boa constrictor."

And the spy reported: "This is a big cattail fan."

The information was collected in Bai Jiuchi's mind, and Bai Jiuchi knew that they had found an elephant.

The predecessors satirized others by using the blind man to feel the elephant, but Bai Jiuchi learned how to split and aggregate the intelligence network. In this regard, Bai Jiuchi's reputation as the number one counselor of King Cheng is worthy of the name.

The first test object of Bai Jiuchi's intelligence method is the beggar gang. Now that Li Hao, the leader of the Hangzhou beggar gang, has been arrested by the government, Bai Jiuchi will naturally rescue him.

In a word of praise, it's really hard to find a beggar leader like Li Hao who doesn't talk about money and puts loyalty first.

Hearing that Li Hao was arrested, Bai Jiuchi's mind turned rapidly.

According to the latest piece of information, the governor of Hangzhou issued a wanted document to arrest three "Jiangyang robbers", one is a beggar, one is a monk, and the other is a bloody scholar.

Now Bai Jiuchi knew why Huang Xiaoshi was considered a scholar. It turned out that he was wearing the clothes of a scholar.

Li Hao's two beggars were arrested, so Bai Jiuchi naturally had to quickly judge whether to fish them out or shut them up forever.

In short, Li Hao and Xiao Yao must not be interrogated, otherwise there are some things that will be difficult to deal with.

Bai Jiuchi circled around the house.

……

The governor of Hangzhou really wanted to find someone to cry, this matter had nothing to do with him.

The criminal who was beyond the jurisdiction of the prefect was killed in the prison last night. Not only that, but also Zhang Gonggong of Dongchang was killed here.

Although Li Bing of the General Banner of the Jinyiwei stripped his clothes, loosened his hair and added heavy shackles to his body, this fact is too big, and a small Jinyiwei General Banner cannot bear it.

Regardless of whether this matter is considered to be under the jurisdiction of Fu Yin, if he is to be blamed, he must be indispensable.

The governor of Hangzhou, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, interrogated all night, and asked the ins and outs of the incident from the mouths of the seven survivors.

The confessions of the seven people are generally consistent, and the other two are locals. There should be no possibility of collusion. The facts are very clear: last night, a strong man robbed the prison, Zhang Gonggong died in the line of duty, and the prisoner Qi died in a scuffle.

The facts are very clear, but how to determine the nature of the incident is another headache.

Did the four strong men who came to rob the prison come to rescue Qi, or did they assassinate Qi under the guise of robbing the prison?

This is an extremely important matter of principle. If you are not careful, my mother, it will not be as simple as affecting your official career.

The governor of Hangzhou stood in the yard looking up to the sky and sighed, God, you'd better strike me dead with lightning!
He was really envious of Eunuch Zhang, who could lie there peacefully and rest. Not only was there no fault in this matter, it could also be said to be a little meritorious service.

Hangzhou Governor Han Chuang studied hard for more than ten years, and when he got the title on the gold list, he turned his face and ruthlessly kicked his poor wife, married a noble woman, and lived tremblingly under the power of women for more than ten years. The position of governor.

I don't know what kind of bad luck has gone. In this kind of Hangzhou governor's power, he can't get involved at all, and things that are not within the jurisdiction have turned over, but he has to be jointly and severally liable.

When it comes to being wronged, he considers himself the second, and Dou E dare not admit that he is the first.

By the way, the governor of Hangzhou suddenly thought, isn't there three more people?Those three people who beat off the prison robbers must know something inside.

Therefore, the Hangzhou governor asked the master painters in Hangzhou overnight, and based on the confessions given by everyone, he drew a picture of the intentions of the three people.

As soon as the picture was drawn, the wanted document from the Hangzhou government was issued, and the three "Jiangyang robbers" were wanted.

As a result, the Jiangyang robbers were not caught, but the stinky beggars caught a bunch.

The huge city of Hangzhou, aside from other things, is really open to arrest, beggars are enough.

The governor of Hangzhou had no idea that he actually caught the rightful owner of last night through his blind manipulation after the fact.

Here.

In a small alley, the scholar handed a note written by Bai Jiuchi to Qian Butou. After Qian Butou took a look, he turned around and left without saying anything.

Qian Butou came to Hangzhou Prison alone. He entered the dungeon after passing through the three gates and two courtyards, and shouted to the equally overwhelmed policeman, "Is there any place to pretend? I've arrested another hundred or so stinky beggars." of."

"Qian Butou, the jail is full." The catcher replied to Qian Butou while wiping his sweat.

"It stinks to death!" Qian Butou asked the policeman with an almost uncontrollable irritability, "Has the first batch of arrests passed the inspection?"

"The trial..., the trial has passed."

The interrogation turned out to be a mess, and it was nothing more than asking each of them their surname, name, and where they were last night.

The police thought it was a complete waste of time.

The person who did such a big thing last night can still be caught by people like himself?
Want to fart.

"Go, release all those who have been interrogated, and make room for new ones." Qian Butou said to the policeman, "These stinky beggars, give me a few sticks each, and beat me out of Hangzhou City, so that I don't have to wait." Grab hard."

"Yes."

……

Outside Hangzhou.

The scholar and Dan Qing managed to find the unremarkable Li Hao and Xiao Yao among the hundreds of beggars who had been beaten out of the city with random sticks.

The best way to hide a drop of water is to drop it into the sea.

Similarly, the best way to hide the real identities of Li Hao and Xiao Yao is to mix them with a bunch of beggars.

The four found a secluded place, and the scholar began to tell Li Hao the ins and outs of the matter.

The scholar had already read the wanted documents from the imperial court. He told Li Hao that the three of Huang Xiaoshi went to the prison to save people yesterday, but they were mistaken by the government as the bandits' accomplices. Be careful yourself.

The scholar has informed Wudian and Xuzhen that Xuzhen broke his long stick, and the two reincarnated as wandering monks and sneaked back to Shaolin.

Li Hao looked up to the sky and sighed, but the matter has come to an end, and he really can't blame others.

This battle not only failed Mr. Bai's love, but also failed the expectations of the heroes in the world. Li Hao really had the urge to slap himself to death at the moment.

"Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, Hall Master Li should blame himself too much." The scholar comforted Li Hao.

But Xiao Yao felt wronged and angry at this time. He thought he was loyal and righteous, but in the end he had no credit for his hard work, and he was arrested and blamed.

Traitors are in power, traitors are in power!
When will we be able to clear the clouds and see the sun, and restore the world to a bright future!

Xiao Yao, who has suffered a strange injustice since he was a child, was once again angered by the injustice in the world.

Afterwards, Li Hao and Xiao Yao took off their rags and threw them away. The scholar handed them two newly bought old clothes, and gave them two pieces of cloth, which were wrapped around their heads to cover their dirty hair.

Now, Li Hao and Xiao Yao are more like two poor people. Although they are not up-to-date, at least they are not like beggars.

The land of Hangzhou is not suitable for staying for a long time, so the four of them bid farewell.

(End of this chapter)