Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 177

[177. Chapter One Seventy Six]

This is the bustling alley of the anti-theft chapter, 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 of 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 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 soldiers and horses of 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 a few high-ranking officials in the imperial court, where will the extra people block the road.

Su Jin dismounted from his horse, stepped forward and cupped his hands: “Lord 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 troublemakers 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 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 there and take it with you, don’t get in the way!”

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 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 and his eyes were splitting: “Didn’t find it?!” The captain was so breathless that he was so suffocated that his face was flushed. Tan Zhaolin pushed him away and scolded. “A bunch of rubbish snacks!” The

captain threw a dog and gnawed at the mud, got up and took two breaths: “Sir, why don’t you use a knife to kill?”

“A knife to kill?” A gust of wind slammed the captain who just got up to the ground again, “Your brain is flooded? Not to mention whether you can tell who is making trouble here and who are ordinary people, that is, you can tell, even if these troublemakers are bastards. Eggs, how dare you kill them casually? They are high-ranking officials, and they are not ordered by the emperor. If you kill one, it will not be enough to pay you 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?” The

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

Su Jin was stunned for a long time before asking: “The Xu Tanhua you said is called Xu Ying, Xu Yuanzhe?”

, there is only one surnamed 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 trouble for Lao Tzu? Who the hell is going to catch the troublemaker for Lao Tzu?!”

“You don’t have enough manpower, do you still dream of being able to cure a hundred people 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 the other, and the gain will outweigh the loss!”

Qin Zhaolin was speechless for a while.

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 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.

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 on the top of 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?

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

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 indifferently: “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. got him!”

However, as soon as the words fell, Su Jin mixed with Xu Yuanzhe’s hand and released a dagger from his boot.

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, “Then where is he now?”

Tan Zhaolin sighed, “This is Lao Tzu… I am most worried now that Governor Su went into Suzaku Alley to look for someone, and it was almost time for him. It’s been two hours, and I haven’t come out yet.”

Mr. Jiang was startled: “I haven’t come out yet?” He walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, and murmured, “It’s broken, it’s broken.”

Tan Zhaolin looked at him like this, and it was almost astonishing. Unbelievable: “Why, is there something wrong with this Governor Su?”

At that time, the end of the long street suddenly 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, 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

without making a sound. Instead, he turned around and ordered: “All officers and men obey orders! Form an array!”

There was the sound of hoofs.

The person on the horse flew in purple clothes, and his eyes were like stars and moon, extremely bright. When he reached the crowd, he reined in his horse and closed his whip, and the horse raised its front hooves, raising a cloud of dust.

Zuo Qian knelt down on one knee and shouted: “See your Thirteenth Highness!”

For a while, all the officers and soldiers knelt down together, and said, “See Your Thirteenth Highness!”

Su Jin respectfully returned a salute. : “Exactly.” He asked for the name of the person who came.

It turned out that this short and fat dunzi surnamed Lu, who was then a member of the penal department, was the one who sent Su Jin to death row on the order of Liu Chaoming that day.

Hearing that Su Jin was here to speak to Shen Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, Lu Yuanwai thought for a while and said, “In this way, Governor Su, you don’t have to wait, I’ll go to invite Lord Shangshu.” He

said, without waiting for Su Jin to be polite, Went away in a hurry.

Shen Tuo was reviewing the list of the yamen and personnel involved in the troubled officials. Someone outside reported that Governor Su of the capital yamen was coming. Shen Tuo made a slap in his pen and glanced at Liu Chaoming, then replied, “Please.”

Liu Chaoming Duan was calm and calm, as if he didn’t hear anything, Shen Tuo couldn’t help it, and then asked: “This Governor Su, but the old imperial censor took a fancy to him and told you to take care of him again and again, you drove to chase but didn’t catch up. , the one who messed things up?”

Liu Chaoming looked unmoved by foreign objects, picked up the tea and said leisurely: “Why, Master Shang Shu still remembers this?”

Shen Tuo laughed “hey”: “Why can’t I remember? I mentioned the imperial court in those years. Later generations, the old imperial censor praised you all the time, saying that you were calm and decisive, but this one was not done quickly enough, so angry that the censor and his old man couldn’t eat for a few days.”

[End of This Chapter]