Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 166

[166. Chapter One Sixty Five]

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because there is no blood on her lips, Liu Chaoming glanced at her again, and silently poured a cup of tea and handed it to her.

The tea taste spreads on the tongue, with a hint of bitterness, it is actually a medicinal tea made from white peony.

The wind was a bit cold, Liu Chaoming closed the corner window, turned around and saw Su Jin still sitting upright, thinking that she was still not at ease, he said: “Half an hour ago, the cabinet will plan another speech, and write to Mr. Qiu Ge and Yan Ziyan ten For a major crime, the sentence will be raised to two days later, and all ministries will be ordered to investigate themselves, and those involved will be punished severely.” The

implication is that nowadays everyone is in danger, no one will think of you, and rest in peace.

Emperor Jing Yuan was slaughter in his early years. Since this matter has been considered a crime, the dust should be settled.

Su Jin heard this, but asked, “Master Liu, is there really no room for turning this case around?” Liu Chaoming

glanced at her and said, “What?”

If you want to take care of the business that the emperor and Laozi don’t care about, you are not afraid to explain your life.

The white-haired man is only a low-ranking official. He has no official position and no parental grace. Even if there are a few northern ministers behind him, most of them are of low rank, why do you say that even the emperor doesn’t care about this?

Who is the Emperor Laozi?

Su Jin said: “Xiaguan felt very strange when he heard this sentence. He felt that there must be someone hiding behind him, otherwise he would not be so dignified.”

Liu Chaoming also remembered what Zhao Yan said earlier – Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple. A title of the fifth grade, right?

Different people sing different plays, and they have the same effect.

This must be no coincidence.

He couldn’t help but glance at Su Jin again, it was a pity that the pearl was dusty and wasted for years.

No wonder the old imperial censor had to keep her whatever he said back then.

Liu Chaoming’s tone was as calm as water: “Do you know why your injury has not healed?”

Su Jinnahan.

“Worrying too much, this is one of them; the other is that it will cause trouble.”

Su Jin was stunned for a moment, realizing what he meant, and the vastness between his brows dissipated a lot in an instant.

“Xiaguan has caused more than one or two troubles to the adults. The able-bodied adults have worked hard, and Xiaguan pointed at the adults and laughed at them.”

Liu Chaoming did not say good or bad, turned his head to look at the sky, Stand up and leave.

Su Jin added: “Sir, Xieguan thinks that the word Xie is too much to say, so I would like to ask the Lord to keep an account book for Xiaguan. If there is any trouble, the Lord will add a few strokes, and Xieguan is also in his heart. Remember, it will be doubled in the future.”

Liu Chaoming knew that she was accustomed to flattery and condescension, which was not serious, but when he turned around, he saw a serious matter in Su Jin’s brows.

He was silent for a while, but after a while, there was a faint smile on his lips: “I’m afraid you can’t afford it.”

Before Su Jin had rested for a while, there was a knock on the door outside the house.

It was a fresh servant with a tray in his hand, and said to Su Jin: “Lord Governor, Lord Liu just said that you were injured, and ordered the miscellaneous family to boil a bowl of medicine and send it.”

Su Jin said: “It’s work.” Put it on the table over the tray.

The waiter paused and said, “Lord Governor, don’t blame Zajia for being sloppy, this medicine should be eaten while it’s hot, it won’t work when it’s cold.”

Su Jin nodded and picked up the medicine bowl, suddenly feeling that it was not big. Right.

It is said that she came to the Supreme Court in two hours. Few people knew the news. Liu Chaoming wanted to order someone to make medicine for her, so why not find someone from the Supreme Court, but a servant?

It was the first time I saw this servant. This servant should have asked, “Is Your Excellency the Governor Su of the Capital Yamen?”, but he not only didn’t ask, but seemed to recognize her.

Su Jin said: “Just now I mentioned to Master Liu that my chest was stuffy, and I felt that I had contracted a fever. Master Liu said that I wanted to use Huanglian to solve it, but I boiled it in this bowl of medicine?

” The good medicine is bitter, and the adults will not feel bored after taking the medicine.”

Su Jin’s heart sank, and he slowly brought the medicine to his mouth, and suddenly he wondered: “Excuse me, father-in-law, I have had a different tongue coating since I was a child. If there is no bitterness, please help me find two candied fruits.” The

servant hesitated for a moment, and said, “It’s done, the miscellaneous family will come.”

Su Jin quietly came to the door, and when the servant disappeared at the end of the porch, she immediately Dodged out and hurriedly walked in the other direction.

Su Jin didn’t know who wanted to harm her.

But she knew that with a small servant alone, she couldn’t come and go freely in this heavily guarded courthouse.

Behind this servant, someone must have instructed him, and he should be a person with considerable power who can put people in the Supreme Court.

It is impossible to stay in this palace. Since “that person” can send an internal servant to the Imperial Court, then he can send people into every corner of the palace to find her.

Why don’t you run into the hands of the patrolling guards and seek safety?

No way, Su Jin thought, maybe which guard is a hidden stake, if you hit it by yourself, wouldn’t you just throw yourself into the net?

The only thing that is fortunate is that the person who wants to kill her is probably also afraid of the Supreme Court, otherwise he will send someone to do it on the spot instead of poisoning.

Since you are afraid of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, why did you choose to poison the Metropolitan Procuratorate?

She is only a governor of the capital’s yamen. If you want to kill her, wouldn’t it be better while she is outside the palace?

Is there something that makes him have to do it at this moment?

The overdrawn body has begun to refuse to obey, every step is like stepping on the cloud, and the tiredness will pull out the pain hidden in the bones like a thread, infiltrating every inch of bone and blood.

But Su Jin couldn’t care about it. She carefully recalled what happened from yesterday to this morning.

Yesterday morning, Ren Xuan first came to visit her, and then she asked Zhou Ping to get a hand letter from the Ministry of Punishment to enter the palace; after seeing the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, she went to Zhan Shifu, where Liu Chaoming burned the policy and saved her life. Afterwards, he went to Zhu Nanxian’s palace to meet Shen Kui, a prisoner on death row, returned to the capital’s yamen, and was taken back to the Imperial Court by Zhao Yan. And the last person she saw was Liu Chaoming.

Just half an hour ago, she told Liu Chaoming that there might be someone behind the troubles.

Could it be that “that person” wanted to kill her because she noticed the clue that the official was making trouble?

This is also not right.

Su Jin recalled the day of the trouble, when she asked the white shirt, “I don’t care about the emperor, what do you mean”, the white shirt was already murderous.

If this is the most important thing, then after the trouble, she was in the capital Yamen for many days to recover, why didn’t the person behind her send someone to get rid of her at that time?

There must be something more important that she missed.

A thought popped out of his mind in an instant – yes, it’s Chao Qing’s case!

If she said what she said, what she did, and what she should not have blocked these days, it would only be Chao Qing’s case.

And from yesterday to this morning, after she inquired about Chao Qing’s disappearance from Zhu Nanxian’s mansion, the only moment she was alone was when Liu Chaoming left the duty room.

And Liu Chaoming left less than half a moment, the servant who delivered the medicine came.

This shows that there may be someone who has been staring at her since she went to Zhu Nanxian’s mansion. No, maybe earlier, from the time she started investigating Chao’s case, she started staring at her.

Since the case of Shizi’s trouble, there is someone hiding behind it; and the case of Chao Qing’s disappearance, there is also a powerful person behind it. So, are these two cases related?

Su Jin felt that all the clues had finally become a thread today. Although there were many speculations to be confirmed, she finally knew where to start.

There are many palaces and pavilions, and every rockery seems to be hiding behind a person. Su Jin can even hear the footsteps chasing behind him.

She rounded a corner, and there were two paths in front of her. One led to Chengtian Gate, and after passing through Chengtian Gate, she could leave the palace, but in front of Chengtian Gate was the endless Xuanyuan Terrace. The second road leads to Gongqianyuan, where flowers, trees and vegetation are overgrown. If you hide in it, although it is not easy to be discovered, it will take time and effort to deal with it.

Her physical strength was running out, and the severe pain from the old injury was like a big hand, stirring her internal organs upside down.

Su Jin thought about it, and immediately walked in the direction of Chengtianmen.

As soon as she was an eighth-rank junior official, the other party might not think that she could escape from the palace, and she might not necessarily set up an ambush outside the palace, so as long as she could pass through Xuanyuantai smoothly, she would be temporarily safe.

Su Jin shook hands into fists, that’s all, and fought for his own life.

Zhu Nanxian had just returned to the palace, and was unloading his horse from Chengtianmen. From a distance, he saw a figure walking towards him on Xuanyuan Terrace, and someone was chasing her behind him. It seemed that the intention was not good.

The man seemed to be very tired, and seemed to be injured. He staggered, but was very firm. He supported the stone pillars of Yunji Bridge and walked forward step by step. Even with the sound of swords killing him, he never turned back timidly.

Zhu Nanxian was stunned for a while, but suddenly, he found that this firm appearance seemed familiar.

He took a step forward and called out, “Su Shiyu?” But

Su Jin didn’t hear it.

Zhu Nanxian shouted again: “Su Shiyu—”

Su Jin felt that she could no longer walk. She tried her last strength to support the stone pillar of Yunji Bridge, trying her best not to let herself fall.

In a trance, she seemed to hear someone calling her, but when she turned her head, it was dark and she couldn’t see anything clearly.

There was finally a hint of bitter helplessness in my heart.

Su Jin thought, so be it.

Zhu Nanxian ran over desperately, but a corner of Su Jin’s clothes was rubbing the back of his hand by an inch.

He watched helplessly as she fell back into the Yunji River and jumped down without a moment’s pause.

As soon as dawn broke, the cold Yunji River flooded Zhu Nanxian’s mouth and nose, and the night was finally over.

He hooked Su Jin’s wrist and pulled her into his arms with all his strength. His clothes were already messy by the river, and Su Jin’s shirt fell off his shoulders, revealing his thin collarbone.

Zhu Nanxian pushed her ashore, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a slight strangeness in his palm.

He moved his hands away in a daze, landed on the shore in a daze, and then fell down beside Su Jin, staring blankly at the faintly visible straps on the chest of her shirt.

The predicament that had been lingering in Zhu Nanxian’s mind for several years finally exploded at this moment.

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, and some trying their best to squeeze out the crowd, but they can’t tell which end is the way out. , I don’t know if it’s stepping on someone’s feet.

The troublemakers were mixed with the common people, and they were all boiled into a mess in this chaotic street and alley, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

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

But Suzaku Lane was shaped like a “well”, extending in all directions. Most of the people under his control were caught in the crowd and couldn’t help themselves, and the rest had to protect the safety of a few high-ranking court officials. 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 who have made trouble outside Chengtianmen with the banner of “Qiu cheating, the north and the south are different”.

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

” Suddenly, he gave a “tsk” with a headache, and muttered, “Why is there such a terrible person 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 die, kill one, you won’t be enough to lose ten pig brains!”

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

” Qin Zhaolin, who has seven meat and eight elements, is calm at all, so he honestly explained: “Back to this official, it’s not that we didn’t look carefully, but who has seen this new Xu Tanhua? Just a picture can tell you No way, in the eyes of our elders, you scholars all look like you have beautiful noses and beautiful mouths.”

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

She had seen the list of tributes, and there were eighty-nine officials, but only one with the surname Xu.

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

Tan Zhaolin gritted his teeth: “I’m a motherfucker!” After saying this, 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 turning 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 between his teeth: “Master, see you. I’ve been courting death, I’ve never seen one who can court death so well!” He turned around and instructed the captain, “Why don’t you find two people to follow?” The

crowd was like a swamp and quagmire.

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.

[End of This Chapter]