Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 37 Exogenous Branches
Seeing the yamen servants blocking Xue Bai at the door of the yamen office, Xin Twelve subconsciously turned around and walked towards the back door.

It wasn't until he heard someone say "Ji Facao has gone to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion" that he reacted and hurried to lead the horse.

These actions were only in a split second, but a shout came from the government office.

"Xin Twelve, what are you hiding from when you see me?"

"What are you doing hiding from you?" Xin Twelve was stunned at first, and then replied: "I have something urgent to report to Ah Lang."

He got on his horse and drove away, secretly thinking that it was too sudden just now, so what if he ran into him?Still afraid that a dying person will fail?
"You continue to stop him."

After Xin Twelve finished speaking, he rode away.

Xue Bai was still stopped in the yamen.

Ji Wen obviously told him so, so even Jiao Nu could not reassure those yamen servants when he took out the token from the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

Originally Xue Bai could stay at ease, but now he has some bad premonitions.

He turned around and was about to go to the government office, when he heard the sound of horseshoes again, and it was Du Jin who came wearing a long gown.

"Xue Bai!"

"Who trespassed on the Jingzhao Mansion, don't you know that the curfew will be imposed immediately? Go!"

The yamen servants shouted and drove away Du Jin with sticks, and began to close the door with the sound of evening drums.

"Xue Bai, something happened!"

"wait for me."

Du Jin saw the gate of Jingzhao Mansion closing slowly, while Mu Gu was still urging him, so she couldn't help feeling anxious.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, she saw the two doors slowly opened again, and an old man in a purple official robe led Xue Bai and others out of the government office.

She hurriedly went up to greet him, saluted, and said, "I've seen Mr. Han."

Jing Zhaoyin Han Chaozong sighed, shook his head, and went straight past the reins brought by his servants.

"This way."

Xue Bai hurriedly walked past Du Jin and rushed to the direction of the square gate. At the same time, he said quickly: "I told Han Jingyin that Ji Wen was going to persecute Zhongliang, and he agreed to take me out."

He actually met Han Chaozong alone, and took out the jade pendant that Du hoped to give, and said that he was not simply doing things for Li Linfu.

In addition, he only confirmed today that people like Han Chaozong and Yan Zhenqing are not from the Eastern Palace family, but they act out of publicity, so they often stand opposite Li Linfu.Presumably many people are regarded as close to the East Palace in this way.

It's a pity that Han Chaozong claimed that he had been impeached by Yushitai for a serious crime, and he would be demoted soon. His prestige in Jingzhao Mansion was not even as good as that of Ji Wen, so he managed to show his respect with his old face and some favors. Xue Bai.

And if Xue Bai didn't hold back, and really regarded himself as a celebrity in the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, he didn't know how long he would be trapped today.

At this time, Du Jin didn't care about these things, and said anxiously: "Something went wrong, Eldest Sister went to see Nu Yalang in Dongshi today, and happened to meet Ji Wen's son and servants, for some reason they took Eldest Sister away."

"what happened?"

"At that time, Quan Fu was driving the carriage, and Qing Lan was waiting outside the gate of the house. When they saw the Ji family's carriage, they arrived later. After those people entered, Qing Lan felt something was wrong, and followed them in, just as they saw that they had arrested the elder sister. She also held down Nu Yalang, she hurried back to report to me, and Quan Fu followed."

Although Du Jin was in a hurry, she still had a way of speaking. At the end, she analyzed: "Dare to kidnap the daughters of Jingzhao Du's family in broad daylight. This matter is probably not easy."

Xue Bai said: "You mean..."

The two turned their heads and saw Jiaonu and the Tian family brothers following behind, they said in unison: "The case of Liu Ji."

"Jiaonu." Xue Bai ordered: "Ji Wen wants to take our credit, so hurry back to the right minister's mansion, stop Xin Twelve, and prevent him from seeing Ji Wen. Also, tell the right minister, Longyou Veterans are tough, you can send someone to take Jiang Mao as a hostage, forcing them to throw themselves into the trap."

Jiao Nu asked back, "What about you?"

Xue Bai said: "The case has been clarified, the only thing left is to report it to the Prime Minister, you go. I have to save Eldest Sister, do you think I still have the mind to do other things?"

Jiaonu's mind was in a mess.

There are too many things that have happened recently, she can't see them all, so she can't understand them.

But the credit this time is extremely important to her, and whether she can get rid of her humble status is a matter of one action, so she gritted her teeth and got on the horse.

"Give me the token from the right minister." Xue Bai suddenly stretched out his hand, his tone uncompromising.

Jiao Nu pulled the rein, still hesitating.

"quick."

Xue Bai drank again, and finally, a wooden sign was handed over to him, the wood was red sandalwood with small leaves, very heavy to handle, beautifully carved, and engraved with the scenery of Yanyue Hall.

"This is not an official fish talisman, only Ah Lang's confidantes will recognize it." Jiao Nu said, and hurried to the direction of the right minister's mansion.

Xue Bai turned his head and asked Tian Shengong again: "Did you bring the paperwork for the curfew?"

"Bring it."

"Let's talk about something."

Xue Bai pulled Du Jin past him and entered the alley.

The two glanced at the Tian brothers guarding the alley, moved closer, and said something in unison.

"Your background is very troublesome."

"I have a problem with my life experience."

They all knew very well that it was definitely not because of the Liu Ji case that the Ji family arrested Du Mi.

The most worrying thing still happened, Xue Bai's family might be persecuted by Li Linfu.

They have analyzed that a son of a noble family who has the brand of official slave on his body is likely to have been ransacked. In recent years, Li Linfu has copied too many families.

I thought it would not be such a coincidence, but when I thought about it now, I realized that this result had a very high probability.

Thinking about it again, Li Linfu wants to go quiet when he goes out, because he knows that he has a lot of enemies, so how could he not think of this?Therefore, while promising to recruit Xue Bai as his son-in-law and lure him to bite Donggong to death, he ordered Ji Wen to investigate in case he was really an enemy.

"Sure enough, even the game cock is unreliable."

Du Jin used the word "yes". Although she knew this earlier, she was still a little desperate.

It was clearly Tianbao's prosperous age, but she didn't know why she fell into this desperate situation, and was forced to the point where her family was ruined time and time again.If someone had told her this would happen a month ago, she would never have believed it.

"Don't panic." Xue Bai said: "We haven't reached the last step yet, let's take a look."

"Well, stroke."

"As I said last night, the East Palace is unreliable, and we have to rely on Li Linfu for the time being."

"But if we only rely on Li Linfu, we will still die sooner or later. Sure enough, the words are true."

One of the two was buried alive and the other was abandoned. They had already reached a consensus that they could never trust Dong Gong again.But they also gradually realized that it was very difficult to abolish Li Heng at this stage.

The difficulty is that every time Li Heng only needs to abandon his son, the saint will think that he is weak and will not abandon him on purpose.Unless Li Heng was confused and personally led troops into the palace like Prince Li Ying who was killed before.

But before Li Heng got confused, these little people were already finished.

Because Li Linfu is also unreliable, Li Linfu is more vicious and ruthless than Li Heng abandoning the people around him out of helplessness.

For example, Xue Bai found out that the dead man in the East Palace was in Wang Jian's other house. It seemed that as long as he handed over the evidence to Li Linfu, he would be able to complete an errand and become the son-in-law of the prime minister's mansion.

But if he did so, he would die worse than being buried alive.

Why did the East Palace hide the Longyou veterans in the other house of the Wang Ji brothers?

Dong Gong had already thought about it, Wang Chi had squeezed money from the Bian Jun's family, and once someone put Wang Chi and Bian Jun together, this case would inevitably be drawn.

Once the trial is over, as long as there is a veteran from Longyou who says, "I sold myself to Wang Zhuo to compose a song to avenge my brother, because Wang Hao killed my brother's family for greed!"

So, where is the money?
in the hands of the saint.

Who is so bold to slander the saint and fail to seek rebellion?
At that time, Xue Bai will be the first to be hacked into pieces, and Li Linfu ordered it.

Even if there is no such confession by the Longyou veterans, let alone whether the prince can be brought down, if he dares to investigate the Wang family's other house, Wang Chi will still not let Xue Bai go.

Therefore, if Xue Bai dares to investigate further, he must die.But if they don't investigate, the reason why Xue Bai can persuade Li Linfu to let go of the Du family is to help bring down the prince. If he can't do it now, how can he survive?How could Ji Wen allow others to save Du's family from his torture?

There are dead ends on all sides, and there is only one way, which is "check and don't check".

Xue Bai pointed out the truth in front of Li Linfu, which is an investigation, and at the same time finds someone to do bad things, this is not an investigation.

In this way, Li Linfu couldn't blame him and the Du family for framing Ji Wen again, making him unable to persecute them any more.

Also, since it turned out that there was no investigation, it was exactly what Donggong asked for, so the benefits given by Donggong must be taken.With the help of Donggong, Xue Bai's life experience and the future of the Du family are determined, so as not to have nowhere to go when Li Linfu is unreliable.

To sum it up - Donggong wanted to abandon them, so they took advantage of the power of the Right Prime Minister to force Donggong to protect them.Youxiangfu wanted them to die with Donggong, so they asked Youxiangfu's eagle dog to spoil the matter, and let the eagle dog go out.

Last night, Xue Bai and the Du family siblings sorted out this train of thought before formulating the next series of plans.

"I already told Mr. Uncle Bo today that he will convey our conditions to Donggong. In the afternoon, he will send someone to say that Donggong has agreed. Have you received the half jade pendant from Wulang?"

"Received. I also agreed with the people in the East Palace that I will lead the search away and help them transfer. In the afternoon, I will go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion first, and remind Li Linfu alone that the dead in the East Palace may be hiding in Wang Jian's other house or Yang Shenjin."

"Everything went well?"

"Ah."

Xue Bai closed his eyes, recalling the experience of the day.

He saw Li Linfu early in the morning, went to Daozhengfang to investigate in the morning and knocked on the mountain, and waited for Du Wulang to meet at Qingmen Restaurant at noon. Kang Cheng.

Ji Wen met Li Linfu in the morning, went to arrest Wu Kangcheng in the morning, and stayed in Jingzhao Mansion since then.When I rushed to the right minister's mansion in the evening, I was sure that I hadn't seen Xin Twelve yet.

As for the Eastern Palace, they originally planned to abandon the son again, but they agreed to his conditions in the morning. After noon, the two sides discussed at the Qingmen Restaurant, and they should be preparing to transfer tonight...

"The whole plan went well."

Du Jin said, "In other words, the eldest sister's matter has nothing to do with the plan?"

"It should only be related to my life experience."

Du Jin said: "There is another possibility, that Ji Wen ordered someone to find Nu Yalang to fake your life experience, and bumped into Eldest Sister?"

"It's all the same."

Xue Bai was also a little anxious. After discussing with their sisters last night that he would accept the identity of Xue Ling's son, Du Yu said that she had already found clues to his life experience, and she should go to confirm it as soon as possible. If there is any enmity with the Right Prime Minister's House, the traces can also be erased; of course, it is more likely to get nothing, at least let him do his best before recognizing someone else as his father.

She helped him so much, but something happened because of it.

Xue Bai took two deep breaths, forced himself to calm down, and asked, "Is Nu Yalang in Dongshi?"

"Correct."

"When was eldest sister taken into captivity?"

"At noon." Du Jin said, "I only got the news in the afternoon. I went to see Mr. Uncle first, and then went back to Du's house to see that the elder sister hadn't come back, so I hurried to look for you. Also, Wu Lang didn't come back, he Where did you go?"

"I don't know." Xue Bai said, "We need to know where the eldest sister is being held. You just said, who else did you meet besides Xin Twelve?"

"Auspicious, son of Jiwen."

"Walk."

"Do you know where to go?"

"Ji Wen's house is in Guangde House, which is very close to Jingzhao Mansion. And if he wants to meet the prime minister, go to Dongshi, and go to Qingmen to drink, he must have another house in that area."

"where?"

"check."

Xue Bai's face was stern, and he had already walked a few steps while speaking.

He went straight to the Tian brothers and asked, "Ji Wen and I work under the right minister's door. Do you trust me, or him?"

"Of course I believe in you!" Tian Shenyu did not hesitate.

Tian Shengong's expression became serious.

He was born in a poor family, he was used to the cold eyes of the rich and powerful in his life, recently he saw that Xue Bai treated him kindly, and he was also resourceful, so he had long wanted to follow Xue Bai for a future.

Clasping his fists, Tian Shengong said: "Xin Langjun."

"Okay. Ji Wen framed us in order to compete with us. If you want to earn a future, how about fighting with me tonight?"

"It's all according to your arrangement!"

"Boom."

After the last sound of the evening drum, Chang'an fell into curfew again.

The four of them led the horses without torches and drove them into the darkness.

(End of this chapter)