Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 44 Trust
At the beginning of Mao, the beginning of the day.

The sun rises later in winter, and the dawn has not yet broken, but the long night is finally over.

Xue Bai rushed from Daozhengfang to Pingkangfang, ready to face Li Linfu.

On the way, he also met You Xiaowei holding a right-handed hand order to call him back to return to his orders. He wondered if Li Linfu blamed him for giving orders in the name of the right-hand man's house, and felt a little uneasy.

Because Xin's twelfth festival has caused problems, he has done too much tonight, and he has done more and made more mistakes.

If you can't pass this hurdle next, it's useless to do well before; but as long as you can win Li Linfu's trust, even if there are some omissions, it doesn't matter.

In the power field of the Tang Dynasty, everything lies in "one person's heart".

Xue Bai wasn't very sure, he wasn't sure if the Longyou veterans could escape the heavy manhunt; he also couldn't guarantee that all the insiders would be silenced.

Although the gambling house was destroyed, the gambling game continued.

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Right Prime Minister's Mansion is right in front of you, the side door is open, and the front door is heavily guarded.

Xue Bai got off his horse, and suddenly Du Jin's worrying words rang in his ears.

"Li Linfu has many enemies. He worries about the assassin day and night. He moves his bed several times every night. He is like guarding against a big enemy. Although his family does not know where he lives. Such people, if they suspect that you have the slightest chance that you are the son of the enemy, they will die without burial. land."

He heard it before, and he thought that Donggong might have considered assassinating Li Linfu to know this, but now he gradually felt a tightness in his chest.

Seeing Li Linfu is dozens of times more dangerous than killing people under the arrest of the sixteen guards of Nanya.

……

The atmosphere was dignified, the porter had no expression on his face, he didn't talk much with Xue Bai, and behaved cautiously, leading everyone inside.

Xue Bai glanced at the concierge, thinking that Xin Twelve had nothing to do with saying that he was an official slave, but there were too many unknowns to be sure.

He, Wang Zhun, Li Xiu, Jia Chang and others were taken to the second courtyard, each entered a verandah room, and everyone waited alone.

Li Linfu actually summoned people one by one for questioning, and did not give them a chance to cover each other or help block the conversation.In this way, Xue Bai's ability to guide others to speak is useless.

From this point of view, there are two hurdles today. I met Li Linfu alone, and there will be a confrontation after that. Only after passing both hurdles can I be safe.

The purpose of meeting alone is to lay a foundation of trust, to see who can win more trust from Li Linfu, he or Ji Wen; confrontation is to criticize each other and make the other party lose Li Linfu's trust.

Xue Bai knows that he is more trustworthy in ability, but what is worse is loyalty.

After waiting for nearly a quarter of an hour, someone opened the door and came in.It wasn't the charming little maid from before, but the cold-faced maid in a bearded robe beside Li Linfu.

"Xue Bai, Ah Lang called you, let's go."

Xue Bai got up, followed without saying a word, and entered the meeting hall in the west courtyard.

There are no small windows on the wall, only the guards of Xiangfu stand on both sides with swords, with a murderous look.There is no screen in the hall, and a bamboo curtain hangs there. The candlelight outside the curtain is bright, and the candlelight inside the curtain is dark. Li Linfu doesn't even show his figure, but he can see the expressions of others through the gap beside the curtain.

This arrangement should be because Li Linfu became suspicious of his subordinates and was afraid of being assassinated. In short, it made people feel gloomy.

"I've seen the right side."

Xue Bai made a cross-hand salute, all kinds of sophistry choked in his throat, and finally showed his face full of indignation to the curtain, and complained angrily.

"Your Prime Minister, it took me a long time to find out, and it was all missed by Ji Wen!"

If you want to frame Ji Wen, in fact, it is only wise to remind a few words calmly and let the superiors think for themselves, which is too low.

But he thought about it, young people don't have to always be too old and angry tonight, it is more loyal to state their displeasure directly.

"Continue talking." Li Linfu said lightly.

Xue Baidun felt the pressure.

Li Linfu asked questions, so that he could judge what the other party knew, and then he saw the tricks.

Let him say it himself, but it is easy to make mistakes.

"In the afternoon, Prime Minister Right and I reported that the deceased in the East Palace might be in Wang Jian's or Yang Shenjin's other residence. I needed to swindle Wu Kangcheng, so I went to Jingzhao Mansion."

Xue Bai sorted out his thoughts, and started with a nonsense to make sure there were no mistakes.

Afterwards, feeling Li Linfu's aura, he continued to speak.

"I defrauded Wu Kangcheng, and I was [-]% sure that the dead man in the East Palace was hiding in Wang Jian's other house. But for some reason, Ji Facao sent people to trap me in Jingzhao Mansion. Also refused to let go, so bold.”

He has calmed down, using the words "I don't know why", deliberately betraying some small thoughts, waiting for Li Linfu to ask him, "Don't you really know?"

But there was no sound from behind the curtain.

Xue Bai felt as if his punch was empty.

He hesitated, thinking for the last time that he could not hide the matter of going to Xuanyangfang to save Du Yu, and at the same time realized the first mistake he made - using Han Chaozong to leave Jingzhao Mansion in advance.

According to the original plan, he only needs to wait in Jingzhao Mansion until Li Linfu is summoned.But at this time, I can only believe in Han Chaozong's character, and I only hope that Li Bai's words "I don't need to be a ten thousand householder in life, but I hope to know Han Jingzhou once" are true.

During the moment of silence, Xue Bai was about to speak, when someone outside the hall spoke loudly and relieved him.

"Reporting to the right minister, we found out that the murderer went from Xuanyangfang to Pingkangfang, then from Pingkangfang to Dongshi Jiekou, and then to Daozhengfang!"

Xue Bai thought to himself, it seems that there are no slaves in the other house of Ji's house in Xuanyangfang to identify him.

There was only a trace of luck in his heart, but his nerves froze, and he admitted directly: "My lord, I broke into Ji Wen's house in Xuanyangfang."

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly stagnated.

"You dare to go to the official house to kill people?" Li Linfu finally spoke, his tone serious.

"Murder?" Xue Bai was stunned, and said anxiously: "No murder. At that time, Ji Wen trapped me and tied up the eldest sister. Presumably he wanted to threaten me afterwards so that he could take the credit smoothly. I just went to his Don't snatch the eldest sister back from the house!"

Li Linfu remained silent.

Xue Bai said anxiously: "Your Prime Minister Mingjian, I just heard Du Erniang say that the eldest sister was kidnapped, so I quickly took people to snatch it back. At that time, the servants in the other house of Ji's house were very surprised when they saw me come here. I scolded them angrily. Working for the Right Prime Minister with Ji Wen, it is too much to strive for merit, so I took the eldest sister away. Without the Right Prime Minister's order, how dare I touch the Right Prime Minister's servants? I still understand the truth."

The reason why he let the Tian brothers kill him was because Xin Twelve and others identified him as Xue Ru's son and believed that he was destined to die, so they acted recklessly.At that time, Du Yan could not be saved without a knife.

Xue Bai must jump out of this frame of thinking, he is not the son of the mortal Xue Ru, and he has never heard of this matter, he is a loyal right-hand disciple!

Why did Ji Wen take Du Yan away?I don't know, that's Jiwen's problem, maybe he wants to fight for credit, maybe he's sick.Not to be outdone, Xue Bai went to snatch it back, working under the right minister's door, and seeing no blood is the most normal situation.

Li Linfu remained silent, motioning his maid to question: "Nine servants died in the other house in Xuanyangfang. They were killed by a young man and a woman with two armored guards. If it wasn't you, who else?"

The tone of the first half of the sentence was blunt, and she obviously read it while watching the news.

"This testimony!" Xue Bai was surprised and confused, "It really sounds like what I did. I took Du Erniang and the Tian brothers to snatch people back. But we didn't kill nine people. Why did they say that? Why? ?”

He waited for a while before drawing conclusions, giving Li Linfu time to guess.

"Your Excellency, I really didn't kill anyone. This matter must have been done by a dead man from the Eastern Palace...No, he just wanted to frame me. Could it be that Ji Wen did it on purpose? Why did he do this?"

"presumptuous!"

Li Linfu scolded.

Xue Bai hurriedly performed the ceremony, but his heartstrings relaxed a little.

If he can't make up for this first big omission, then he won't make it up.What he wants to prove is not ability, but loyalty.Only loyalty is the key, everything else is trivial.

Then tell the truth, it doesn't take much to win Li Linfu's trust with sincerity and openness, as long as Bi Jiwen is trustworthy, he can transfer that suspicion.

Therefore, there must be a living Ji Wen to bear this burden. Only if he is alive, can he arrange for Ji's servants to give false testimony, which will then lead to various conjectures.

"go on."

"After I snatched out the eldest sister, I rushed to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion. I heard that Ji Wen took people to the Yang family's other house in Changlefang to catch the thief. I hesitated for a moment if I made a mistake, so I went to have a look. The heart of merit..."

Xue Baisui only hid the matter of contacting the dead man in the East Palace, and described in detail how he ran all night and how he tried to recover the big basket that Ji Wen poked.

Compared with the death of a few servants in the other house of Ji's house, Ji Wen's most critical and serious mistake was letting the dead men in the East Palace kill and escape. He wanted Li Linfu to focus on the business at all times.

After he detailed what he saw and heard in Daozhengfang Dark Gambling Workshop, he made a final summary.

"Your Excellency, I think the East Palace sent two groups of dead soldiers to intercept and kill Ji Wen, Ji Xiang and his son respectively, or to take revenge on Ji Wen."

He buried a lot of words and let Li Linfu think for himself.

For example, he said that Donggong took revenge on Ji Wen.The investigation was wrong, so why retaliate?
Then why do you still have to kill if you make a mistake?

Kill it?
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Xue Bai's solo speech is over.

If the original plan had not left so many flaws, perhaps Li Linfu had encouraged him a few words, promised to marry a daughter, and then blamed Ji Wen to settle the matter, and he would settle down in Datang from now on.

But it was quiet behind the curtain.

Just when Xue Bai began to suspect that he could not even pass the first test, Li Linfu finally spoke.

"Go down and wait."

"Here."

Xue Bai returned to the verandah and sat alone, unable to ask for news or talk to others.

The Sixteen Guards of Nanya are still searching for those Longyou veterans, but the result is unknown.

Xue Bai could only deduce in his mind how Li Linfu asked everyone separately.

What Yang Zhao would say, what Wang Zhun would say, and Ji Wen would definitely stick to the matter of the Xuanyangfang villa and pass the responsibility on to him.

What is even more disturbing is that if a certain insider is missed and Ji Wen gets a notification, or Ji Wen can guess through Xin Twelve's death that it is related to his life experience, then the situation can be understood suddenly.

Regardless of the likelihood of such a thing, he hated the feeling that his fate was determined by others.

Xue Bai had to tell himself to be calm, as long as Li Linfu believed in his loyalty, he would not have to be afraid of Ji Wen in the next confrontation.

Thinking back to the one-on-one meeting just now, he felt that he performed well.However, Ji Wen has been passive and has no time to sort out the whole situation. It is difficult to do better than him.

……

Time passed very slowly and it was painful.

Birds sang first outside the window, and then the morning light gradually appeared on the window paper.

at last.

The door of the room was pushed open, and someone was standing in the morning light. It was still the female envoy, not the guard with the knife. It can be seen that Ji Wen failed to bite him to death when he reported alone.

Xue Bai walked towards the lobby.

He suddenly recalled that when he was in charge of a case for the first time in his previous life, he was so angry with a villain that he couldn't sleep, and he was determined to send him in.

At that time, he used the law as a weapon to be upright.

Now, what he studies is dirty power and people's hearts, struggling to survive.

But in this life-and-death game, he just wanted to beat that cruel official and survive.

"Boom."

The morning drum of Chang'an sounded in the distance.

Xue Bai's waist was straight, his steps were calm and calm.Confrontation in court used to be the battlefield he was most familiar with.

(End of this chapter)