Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 98

[98. Ninety-seven chapters]

This is the anti-theft chapter,

Suzaku Lane, which is full of turmoil.

Su Jince was standing not far away, and the situation was far worse than she expected.

The bustling alleys are like a giant beast with a bloody mouth, involving the people who come and go and the officers and soldiers who maintain order. Occasionally, there are troublemakers rushing in, some crying and shouting, some resenting them, some wanting to rise up, some trying their best to squeeze out the crowd, but they can’t tell which end is the way out, pushing and shoving. , I don’t know if it’s stepping on people.

The troublemakers were mixed with the people, and they were all boiled into a mess in the streets and alleys, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

The commander of the soldiers and horses in Nancheng shouted angrily: “Block the road! Block the road for Lao Tzu!”

But Zhuque Lane was shaped like a “well”, extending in all directions. The safety of several high-ranking officials in the imperial court, where will the extra people block the road. Su Jin got off his horse, stepped forward and cupped

his hands: “Master Tan, why is there only one division here? What about the soldiers and horses in the east and west cities?”

It’s gone!” Qin Zhaolin scolded.

Su Jin had already heard a little on the way.

Right now, the capital is all in chaos, and there are people making trouble everywhere. I heard that there are several officials holding the banner of “Qiu cheating, the north and the south are different” outside the Chengtianmen.

Su Jin thought for a while, and then asked, “How many people do you have on hand?

” Suddenly, he gave a “tsk” with a headache, and muttered, “Why is there a dead man here?” Then he pointed to the teahouse behind him, and said impatiently, “Put it in and take it with you, don’t be an eyesore!”

The teahouse was heavily guarded outside, and there was no need to think about it, and a few high-ranking officials of the court were hiding inside.

At that time, a school captain stumbled out of the crowd, kneeling in front of Tan Zhaolin with a sad face: “Master Commander, I can’t find it…”

Tan Zhaolin grabbed his collar, his eyes were splitting: “I didn’t find it You?!” The captain was so breathless that he blushed, Qin Zhaolin pushed him away, spat and scolded, “A bunch of trashy snacks!

” After two breaths, he said, “Sir, why don’t you use a knife to kill?”

“A knife to kill?” Tan Zhaolin was so stubborn that when he raised his arm, a gust of wind blew up, and the school captain who just got up was slapped to the ground again, “Your brain Got into the water? Not to mention whether you can tell who is making trouble here and who are ordinary people, that is, you can tell these troublemakers, even if they are bastards, you dare to kill them casually? If you kill one, you won’t have enough pig brains!”

Su Jin stepped forward to pick up the captain, picked up the key and asked, “You just said you were looking for someone, but who else is trapped in the crowd?”

The captain of the school saw that although the scholar in front of him was a scholar of literary quality, he was still calm compared to Tan Zhaolin, who was already angry, so he honestly explained: “Go back to this official, it’s not that we didn’t look carefully. It’s just that who has seen this new Xu Tanhua? A portrait alone is not enough. In the eyes of our old and rude, you scholars all look like you have a beautiful nose and a beautiful mouth.”

Su Jin was stunned for a long time before asking. “The full name of Xu Tanhua you said is Xu Ying, Xu Yuanzhe?”

She had seen the list of tributes, and there were only one named Xu among the eighty-nine officials.

Sure enough, the captain nodded again and again: “Yes, yes, that’s the name!”

At noon, the sun was shining in the sky, and the sky in late spring was not too hot, but Su Jin suddenly sweated on his forehead.

She bowed her hands to Qin Zhaolin again: “Lord Tan, please divide your hundred people into eighty people, guard the two south exits of Zhuque Lane, and evacuate the crowd from there, as long as the troublemakers are not allowed to leave the city through Zhengyang Gate in the south of the city , the rest can be discussed in the long run.”

“You know a stick!” Tan Zhaolin said: “If everyone is instructed to go away, who the hell is going to catch the troublemaker for Lao Tzu? Who the hell is going to catch the troublemaker for Lao Tzu?!”

” You already don’t have enough manpower, are you still delusional that you can cure one hundred and turn corruption into a miracle?” Su Jin stood with his hands behind his back, looked at Tan Zhaolin’s eyes, and scolded: “If you can’t choose, you will only care about one thing and lose another, and you will lose more than you gain!”

Tan Zhaolin For a moment he was speechless.

For a moment, he seemed to see the aura of a sword in the depths of Su Jin’s eyes.

This pair of Qing Jun’s eyes, which should belong to a scholar, hides the sparks of fire, and they can start a prairie at the touch of a finger.

“Old Master Ge!” He spat again, pointed at the captain, and said, “Listen to this little idiot first, and send eighty people to squat at the entrance of the two alleys in the south of the city, waiting for the bastards from the East and West City soldiers and Ma Si to come. Now, let them pick someone to send away those weak chickens in the teahouse.” The

captain asked with a bitter face, “Then what are you doing, sir?”

Tan Zhaolin gritted his teeth: “I’m a motherfucker!” After saying that, he strode into the crowd with great strides.

“Come back!” Su Jin shouted immediately, turned around and walked to the school captain, and said, “Give me the knife.” The

school captain blinked: “What?”

Su Jin didn’t talk nonsense to him, and raised his hand to hold the knife around his waist. Handle, pull out.

The long knife is unsheathed, and the light of the knife is like water.

Su Jin cut off a section of her sleeve, wrapped the hilt around her wrist, and said to Qin Zhaolin, who was staring at him blankly: “Do you recognize someone, so you go to find someone?” Then she clenched the hilt of the knife tightly Without looking back, he walked towards the chaotic crowd and left a sentence: “You stay, I’ll go.”

Tan Zhaolin stared at Su Jin’s back in a daze, and a sentence broke out from his teeth: “Master, I have seen someone who is courting death, but I have never seen someone who can court death so much!” Turning around, he ordered the captain: “I haven’t found two people with you. Go up?” The

crowd was like a swamp and quagmire, sinking in and losing direction.

In a trance, Su Jin felt as if she was in the catastrophe of twelve years ago. The sound of beatings and killings around her was like the sound of changing signs. She held a blood-stained dagger in her hand and hid it in a place with a strong smell of corpse. In the haystack, alone and helpless.

Su Jin stabilized his body and thought to himself, since these troublemakers are coming for the officials who are in the office, then Xu Yuanzhe, who is the third flower, must be blocked in the innermost crowd.

Ordinary people would shy away from seeing trouble. As long as they go against the crowd, they will definitely find Xu Yuanzhe.

Going further inside, there are really fewer people crowding out.

The people in front of them formed a semicircle behind their backs, and across the gap, Xu Yuanzhe, who was lying against the wall, was vaguely aware of his life and death.

Su Jin took a deep breath.

The tip of the knife stomped on the ground, making a sharp stinging sound. Su Jin kept silent, pushed aside the crowd and walked to Xu Yuanzhe, patted his face, and called out, “Yuanzhe, wake up.”

Xu Yuanzhe still had a trace left . Consciously, he opened his eyes in a daze, and when he saw Su Jin, his eyes filled with tears, and he said hoarsely: “Sir, I… hurt…”

Su Jin nodded and said softly: “I know, Endure it.” He raised his arm with one hand and put it on his shoulder to help him get up.

Xu Yuanzhe only took two steps, when a strong wind came from behind, and a sap hit her calf.

Su Jin suffered from pain for a while, her knees softened, she threw herself forward and knelt on the ground, and two sticks swept her back. , actually choked out a mouthful of blood.

A pair of black-headed soap boots appeared in front of him, and a voice above his head sneered: “Who am I, but I’m only an eighth-rank clerk. You want to take care of the business that the emperor doesn’t care about, and you’re not afraid to explain your life?”

Saying that, he raised his foot and stepped on Su Jin’s knife-wielding hand, and there was a burst of laughter around him.

Su Jin only felt that the bones of his hand were about to break, but under this severe pain, his mind became unusually clear.

She raised her head and asked lightly: “I don’t care about the emperor? What do you mean?” The

person in front of her was wearing a shirt with white teeth. When she heard this question, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, and she gritted her teeth and said, “Kill me. Kill him!”

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Su Jin mixed with Xu Yuanzhe’s hand and pulled out a dagger from his boots, stabbing it into Yabaishanzi’s left leg.

The white shirt was in pain, and the strength of his legs disappeared completely. Su Jin ignored the pain in his hands, and immediately picked up the long knife and waved it forward desperately.

She heard the sound of skin cracking, and warm blood splattered on her face.

I don’t know if this white shirt is dead or not.

There was a blur of blood in the field of vision, and in a trance, Su Jin actually remembered something irrelevant. Didn’t the Ministry of Punishment send a death row prisoner to kill her as an example? Now that she is self-taught, what about death row prisoners?

Su Jin stumbled to his feet, his eyes were bloody, like a desperado: “Didn’t you say you’re going to kill me? Either go up or get out, otherwise, whoever takes a step forward, this officer will cut whoever!”

Zhi Shen From time to time, the soldiers and horses of the east and west cities finally gathered in Suzaku Lane.

The teahouse behind Tan Zhaolin opened in response, and Director Jiang from the Ministry of Rites came forward and gave Qin Zhaolin a big gift, saying, “Thanks to Commander Tan for sheltering him today, I will never forget my great kindness and virtue.”

Tan Zhaolin said, “Jiang The boss is polite, this is exactly what you are doing.”

Chief Jiang said again: “I dare to ask the commander, but the governor of the capital’s yamen has been here earlier?”

Tan Zhaolin said yes.

Director Jiang looked around and asked, “Where is he now?”

Tan Zhaolin sighed: “This is what Lao Tzu… I am most worried about, Governor Su went into the Suzaku Alley to find someone, and it has been nearly two hours, and he has not come out.”

Director Jiang jumped in surprise: “I still have n’t come out.” Didn’t you come out?” He took a few steps back and forth with his hands behind his back, and muttered, “It’s broken, it’s broken.”

Tan Zhaolin looked at him like this, and it was incredible: “Why, is there something else wrong with this Governor Su?”

At that time, At the end of the long street, I heard the sound of golden horns, and the hoofs of horses shook the sky. A group of soldiers and officials came on horseback, followed by thousands of soldiers and guards, all wearing phoenix-winged helmets and chain mail.

It was actually Jin Wuwei’s costume.

Tan Zhaolin was a little confused about the situation for a while, but it was Mr. Jiang, who recognized the top two, and immediately dragged Tan Zhaolin to his knees, lying on the ground and salute loudly: “Meet Mr. Liu and General Zuo.”

Liu Chaoming sneered . face, not words.

Zuo Qian raised his hand to help the two of them humbly, but did not make a sound, but turned around and ordered: “All officers and men obey orders! Form an array!”

[End of This Chapter]