Chapter 262 Windfall
Chapter 262: Unexpected Reap
The night quietly enveloped the sky above Chang'an City, and the night sky was still clear, as if blue velvet was spread flat in the endless sky, covered with gems, but the temperature at night suddenly dropped, and the cold was cold. This cold that penetrated into the bones seemed to solidify blood.
Pingkangfang, the streets in the night are still crowded and very lively. The New Year is approaching. Most people are not affected by the temperature and are busy preparing for the New Year. Especially the major hotels are extremely hot. The booked banquets are scheduled to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. The "Li Du Restaurant" is no exception. The Pei family's spy camp is also booming. The gate is full of carriages of diners, and guests are still coming from all directions. The guys are so busy that they welcome and see off guests at the door.
A shop clerk sent away a carriage with a smile on his face. He pinched his cheeks that were already sore and looked around quickly, trying to find a place to rest for a while. A wide carriage fell into his eyes. He remembered that the car seemed to have stopped since morning. Perhaps it was the carriage in the Hedong Restaurant next door. He had just thought of slipping back to rest, but suddenly a sound behind him, "Tangbalang, are you trying to shrink your neck again? Why don't you come and help!"
The guy sighed helplessly, "Here! Here! Here we don't want to live anymore. The old cow still needs to eat grass and drink water!" He muttered a few words and dragged his tired body to the store.
Just as he walked away, his eyes quietly appeared behind the window of the wide carriage, staring at the door of the restaurant with a sharp look. He was helped out at the door. He was about thirty years old, strong and drunk, shouting and laughing. It was Cui Qinggong's son Cui Xiong, and the person who supported him looked handsome and slim. At first glance, he looked like a woman, but his clothes were clearly a man, and this person was Cui Xiong's confidant Liu Xiaer.
Liu Xia'er covered her nose with a handkerchief and frowned, "You have drunk too much, and your wife will blame you again when you go back. Didn't she ask you to go back for dinner today?"
"What does that yellow-faced woman do? Just be happy." Cui Xiong laughed to the sky, but didn't pay attention to his feet. He stepped on the air and almost fell off the steps. Several friends quickly put him on the car. At this time, the restaurant shopkeeper winked at Liu Xia'er and ordered him to send Cui Xiong back.
Liu Xia'er said in a difficult face: "Since his wife is getting more and more fierce, she threatened to see me hit me once and once, so I'd better not go!"
"You can do it yourself!" The shopkeeper sneered, turned around and returned to the restaurant. Liu Xia'er had no choice but to bite the bullet and help Cui Xiong onto the carriage. The carriage started, and soon disappeared into the heavy night and sent Cui Xiong away. Almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The guy looked at it again and wanted to go and rest, but when he looked up, he was stunned. The wide carriage had disappeared without a trace just now.
"It's really a ghost!" The guy scratched the back of his head, and was extremely surprised.
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Cui Xiong's carriage was passing through the night. There were many carriages on the street, and there were constant pedestrians coming and going. The carriage snored like thunder. Cui Xiong was already sleeping like a dead pig. Liu Xia'er was already charming at this time, and his eyes were full of manly cold. He sat in a corner of the carriage with a gloomy face, looking coldly at this man who made him disgusted. It has been several years since the above seemed to have confirmed his life and will accompany this stinky man to walk through his
Sheng, at this moment, there was a sharp dagger on his waist. He could be completely relieved by just a gentle stroke on Cui Xiong's neck. Liu Xia'er pulled out the dagger and stared at Cui Xiong's thick neck with hatred. The blade flashed a faint cold light in the darkness. After a long time, he still took the knife back. If he killed this person, could he really be relieved? Liu Xia'er sighed helplessly. Since he had eaten this bowl of rice, he was already in control.
Just when Liu Xia'er was in a state of chaos, he did not notice that a wide carriage was quietly following him dozens of steps away.
After about four or five miles, the carriage came to Cui Qinggong's mansion located in the same yard. At present, Cui Qinggong had not entered Beijing. Only Cui Xiong, his wife and a few concubines lived in the mansion. The carriage slowly stopped in front of the mansion. The door was deserted, and the lanterns hung were dead, without any light. Liu Xia'er jumped off the carriage and dragged Cui Xiong up the stairs with difficulty, throwing it at the door. He hesitated for a long time but did not dare to knock on the door. As soon as he walked down the stairs, dozens of black shadows suddenly appeared around him, surrounding Liu Xia'er and the entire carriage.
"I didn't expect it! You finally fell into my hands." In the darkness, a young woman slowly walked out, and saw her eyebrows standing up, with murderous eyes full of murderous intent. She was Cui Xiong's wife Wang Tian and the daughter of Wang Ang, the Minister of Works. Today, Wang Ang made a special trip to visit the couple. Wang Tian had greeted Cui Xiong early in the morning and told him to go home early. She also endured Cui Xiong's usual debauchery, at least she had to give her this face in front of her father. However, until Wang Ang left, Cui Xiong did not even see her shadow. Wang Tian was angry and ordered someone to look for him, but he learned that he was drinking with the man who was neither male nor female again.
The new and old hatred finally broke out in her heart. Wang Tian pointed his sword at Liu Xia'er and shouted angrily: "Bare him to death!"
Liu Xia'er's years of training played a role at this time. He jumped into the carriage with a backflip, pulled out his dagger and stabbed it at the horse's buttocks. He pulled the horse and neighed for a long time, rushed forward like crazy, and instantly hit the two of them, rushing ten feet away from the slant. Liu Xia'er grabbed the long whip and whipped two whips. The carriage accelerated and disappeared into the night in a moment.
"Liu Xia'er, let me catch you again and I will definitely peel you off!" The silent night echoed with vicious roar of King Tian.
A carriage was parked fifty steps away, and the people in the carriage were watching all this coldly.
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Yonglefang, Zhang Huan's mansion, Zhang Huan stood in front of Cui Ning's couch, silently watching the imperial physician coming from the palace to take Cui Ning's pulse. At noon, not long after Cui Ning came back, he became feverish all over and slept until dusk. Not only did he not recover, but his body became hot and he finally fell ill.
"Doctor Liu, how is Neizi's illness?" Zhang Huan saw that the doctor's face was gloomy, and he was really worried.
The imperial physician named Liu, who has been in the palace for nearly 30 years. Although he hasn't seen a few serious illnesses, he is an expert at least. After he finished his pulse, he gently stroked his long beard and shook his head and said, "The cause of the disease is very simple. I have been treating my wife in various prefectures in the afternoon. They are the same. I have been dressed too little and caught a cold. However, my wife's connections are weaker than others, which means that she lacks energy and is a sign of weak foundation. Therefore, her illness is a little heavier than others, and there is no good idea. Just rest for a few more days and then take some care of her body."
After saying that, Doctor Liu came to the table, wrote a prescription with a wave of his pen, and handed it to Zhang Huan and said, "In fact, it's just a minor illness. Take medicine according to the prescription and keep it in three or five days."
Zhang Huan was overjoyed and quickly gave Yang Chunshui a wink. Yang Chunshui immediately received a red envelope. Zhang Huan stuffed the red envelope into his hand and said, "A little bit of heart will not be respectful. Please accept it by Doctor Liu Yu."
"No! No! No!" Doctor Liu felt the red envelope was heavy, and he was so scared that he quickly pushed it away, "If the empress dowager knows, I must be beaten to death. The palace rules are strict, please forgive me."
Seeing that his attitude was firm, Zhang Huan was not hypocritical and polite, so he had to put down the red envelope and said, "Then I will send Doctor Liu Yu out."
He was sent to the door, and Doctor Liu bowed repeatedly and said, "I really don't dare to be the one, so please stay."
"Then I'll trouble the imperial physician today." He watched him get on the carriage and was about to go back. At this time, a few fast horses suddenly ran from afar, rushing straight towards this side.
Zhang Huan was slightly surprised. The horse knight was clearly in Longyou's cavalry outfits. Did something happen to Longyou?
"Stop!" More than a dozen personal guards rushed up, stopped the fast horse, and immediately jumped off the ground and reported to Zhang Huan from a distance: "The road is frozen and it is very difficult to walk. The wife and the young master temporarily suspended Wugong County tonight and will arrive in Beijing tomorrow. We will report first. "Mrs.
Zhang Huan nodded, and then said to the personal commander Li Dingfang: "Zhu Li has also entered Beijing these days. Don't meet him on the road. You can take 500 brothers to Wugong County overnight."
"Yes!" Li Dingfang saluted and quickly ran to the next military camp to order troops.
Zhang Huan walked into the mansion and was about to go and see Cui Ning again when a personal soldier suddenly stepped forward and whispered to report: "Shopkeeper Hu has urgent information to report to the governor!"
Manager Hu is the shopkeeper of Wu Zhuyue Baoxing, and Zhang Huan'an's intelligence leader in Chang'an.
Since he had emergency information, something must have happened, Zhang Huan immediately ordered: "Take him to my study!"
He temporarily suppressed the idea of visiting Cui Ning and walked quickly to the study. After a moment, Zhang Guan Hu was taken into Zhang Huan's study by his personal soldiers. Since Zhang Huan went to Dong City to inspect the intelligence center, Zhang Guan Hu rushed back to Jincheng County. With Du Mei's strong support, his career began to undergo a huge change. He opened a restaurant, bought a brothel, and built an inn. In just one month, a new intelligence center protected by the industrial group was formed, and more than 200 people were brought from Longyou, with unprecedented strength.
Manager Hu took a step forward and bowed deeply and said, "Sir, please see the governor!"
Zhang Huan waved his hand, "No need to be polite, tell me quickly, what emergency information?"
"It's not emergency information, it's just an accidental discovery. My subordinates thought it was important, so they rushed to report to the governor."
Manager Hu stopped, he sorted out his thoughts and continued: "When he bought a restaurant in Pingkangfang, he found that the 'Li Du Restaurant' next door was quite strange. There were always people coming in and out in the middle of the night and casting pigeons. He didn't take it seriously at first. It was not until a few days ago that someone finally recognized that one of the visitors in the middle of the night was actually the son of the Pei family, named Pei Danming. Last night, his subordinate ordered people to shoot a pigeon from afar. Then he realized that this 'Li Du Restaurant' was actually Pei Jun's intelligence base."
Speaking of this, he took out a pigeon letter and handed it to Zhang Huan and said, "This is discovered from the pigeon that was shot down. Please check it out."
Zhang Huan took the pigeon letter and unfolded it. There was only one sentence on the note: 'Li Zhengji killed his deputy general Sang Ping with the loss of food yesterday and appointed his confidant Liu Wenxi as his deputy.'
After seeing this, Zhang Huan couldn't help but smile, "Yes, it's indeed Pei Jun's intelligence base, it's actually next to you. It's really interesting."
Zhang Huan put away the note. When he saw that Manager Hu wanted to say something, he said, "You can just say anything, don't hide it."
"Yes!" Manager Hu hurriedly reported: "Just half an hour ago, my subordinates discovered something suspicious."
"What a suspicious thing?"
"This afternoon, I found Cui Qinggong's son Cui Xiong drinking in Li Du Restaurant. I finally got drunk. A rabbit man... No! No! A man with a female behavior sent him back. My subordinate followed him all the way. In front of Cui Qinggong's mansion, Cui Xiong's wife set up an ambush to kill the man, just like jealousy. In the end, the man escaped in a carriage."
Zhang Huan smiled. Cui Xiong had a habit of breaking his sleeves, and he also heard about it. If it was normal, it would be nothing strange. However, Li Du Restaurant is actually Pei Jun's intelligence base, which is a bit intriguing. "Then where is the suspicious thing you said?"
"The suspicious thing lies with that man." Manager Hu recalled Liu Xiaer's extremely beautiful tumbling over the air, shook his head gently, "He is definitely not an ordinary person. He reacts very quickly, has a very skilled light skills, and is decisive and quick to take action. Obviously, he is a trained master, governor, I am sure that this man has a lot to do with Li Du Restaurant."
Zhang Huan nodded. He understood what Manager Hu meant, that is, the man was an undercover agent sent by Pei Jun to Cui Xiong. He pondered for a moment and said, "You go and find out the details of that man. Once there is a result, report it to me immediately."
"Yes! I'll go now." As soon as the shopkeeper Hu was about to leave, Zhang Huan stopped him again, "You don't come to my mansion in the future. I will send someone to contact you specifically."
Manager Hu agreed and left in a hurry, while Zhang Huan paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back and found Pei Jun's intelligence base. Although it was an unexpected gain, Pei Jun sent someone to keep an eye on Cui Xiong, which is something worth pondering. If he guessed correctly, Pei Jun must have used Cui Xiong to do a lot of things. Even Cui Qinggong rebelled from the Cui family, it was very likely that Pei Jun used Cui Xiong to do what Cui Xiong did. After all, Cui Yuan completely fell in this matter.
Cui Xiong is an absolute idiot. He knew when he took his credit back then. Since that's the case, can he use this person once?
"Fang Wuqing."
"I'm here!" A very majestic man appeared in front of Zhang Huan like a ghost.
Zhang Huan stared at the heavy night sky with his hands behind his back, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"You go and kill someone for me."
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The next morning, Cui Xiong hurried to find Liu Xiaer after he woke up. He learned about what happened last night early in the morning and immediately gave his wife two loud slaps in the face in public, which made Wang Tian cry loudly. He issued a strict order again that anyone who dared to make trouble with his wife would be beaten to death.
Cui Xiong is no longer in vain now, because in a sense he was a hostage placed by Cui Qinggong in Chang'an, and the court appointed him as the Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple.
A co-official officer refers to a false position. Regardless of the facts, it is exactly the same as Cui Xiong's appetite. With this brand, he regards himself as an important official in the court, seeking trouble everywhere, and his reputation is even greater than before.
"Where is Liu Xia'er?" Cui Xiong rushed into Li Du's restaurant, his fist pounding on the counter with a 'bang boom'!'. The guys were frightened by his evil appearance and did not dare to come forward to respond. Finally, the shopkeeper had to step forward and bow, saying, "Cui Shaoqing, please calm down. Liu Xia'er went out to avoid disaster and returned in two days."
"Avoid disaster?" Cui Xiong was furious and kicked over the counter. With a loud bang, the dust flew. Cui Xiong roared in the dust: "Damn it! It's the good thing that the stinky woman did. I went back to kill her."
He turned around and rushed out. Seeing that the matter was a bit serious, the shopkeeper did not dare to delay it, so he immediately ran to Pei Danming to report the matter.
At this moment, Liu Xia'er was standing in front of a window on the third floor. He looked at Cui Xiong with a cold face and walked away in anger.
‘Enough!’ He cried in his heart, ‘He has had enough of this kind of life, sooner or later he will die on Cui Xiong.’
He touched his arms and found that there were 30,000 yuan of flying tickets from Wang Baoji, which were the money he had accumulated bit by bit over the years. Some were rewarded by Pei Jun, and some were Cui Xiong who pleased him. This money was enough for him to spend the second half of his life comfortably.
At this time, he suddenly saw the shopkeeper walking out hurriedly, knowing that he was going to report to Pei Danming. If he didn't leave, he would have no chance. Liu Xia'er felt a little confused. He packed a package in a few seconds and did not dare to walk through the main entrance. Instead, he turned out from the back window, hooked his feet on the eaves on the second floor, and jumped gently, landing quietly like a raccoon cat. He identified the direction and quickly ran towards the alley behind the restaurant.
But as soon as he turned a corner, his neck suddenly tightened suddenly, and he was hanging up in the air by a man's arm, kicking his legs, without any effort, and then he knew nothing about it when his eyes turned black.
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Chapter completed!